The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 134, Ed. 1 Monday, June 6, 1938 Page: 1 of 4
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A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
VOL. 44.—NO. 134.
CUERO, TEXAS, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938
FOUR PAGES
JLtfCfflfnm STUNTER WHO
SHOWED HERE
DIES IN CRASH
CONVICTED MEN PROVED INNOCENT
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There’s no doubt about the
fact that Members of .the
State* Highway Commission
and other distinguished visit-
ors, here for Saturday’s dedi-
cation of the Guadalupe river
bridge and the chicken barbe-
cue which followed, enjoyed
the .affair to the fullest. Their
praise of Cuero’s hospitality
was lavish, and to those who
had a part in the affair, busi-
ness men whose generous con-
tributions made - the affair
possible and the actual work-
ers, credit is due. The little |
party should go a long way
toward binding friendship of
DeWitt, county and the State
Highway department.
* * *
The Texas Highway Depart- j
meat. In an effort to lower
summer traffic casualties, is
asking newspapers of the state
to pass on to motorists a code
of traffic rules which may pre-
vent highway tragedies. In
outlining the rules, officials of
Elmer Madden Killed As
Airplane Falls Near
San Antonio
THRILLED (UERO CROWD
Was Member Of Hell Di-
vers As Motor-cycle
Stunt Man
Elmer Madden, the daredev- ;
il who thrilled Cuero crowds a
few months ago with a motor- j
cycle crash through a blazing
l wall and other death-defying
stunts, was dead today, the i
victim of an airplane crash
near San Antonio.
While Madden's wife stood by
horror-stricken, the stunt pilot and
Prank R. Perez, 36, a student flier,
crashed to their death Sunday af-
ternoon in a cornfield about six
Judge J. P. Pool)Flays
SCHOOLS WILL
fractice Of Forgqry
GRANDJURO
TOLD TO STA
OOTPRA
$167,178 Will Be Paid !o
Public Schools Of
This County
HAVE 7599 SCHOLASTICS
GRANDDAD’S LUCK IS THEIRS. TOO
the safety department warned mite n<)rthwest o( San AMonlo
that many vacation trips de- the cuiebra Road,
mand hurried runs which Of- Death came to Madden as a cli-
ten end in disaster. Here are rmx a career of daring stunting
,. f . ... . , . in an airplane and on a motor-
the rules that motorists are cycl(,. whUe Perez was Ulted „ he
asked to observe. Get plenty was learning to fly. Both di<*d with-
ot sleep and travel only rea-
sonable distances each day.
Check your car for mechani-
cal defects and use tires that
are in good condition. Never
f park on highways where your
6ar will interfere with traffic
movements. Drive slowly
yjW.car is al-
ways under control, as speed
increases the severity of acci-
dents. Pass other vehicles on-
ly when there is plenty of
clearance and when not pass-
ing, keep to the right. Keep
your drivers license with you.
Do not pick up hitchhikers.
out regaining consciousness.
Perez, on being pulled from the
open rear cockpit, died as he was
laid on the ground. Madden died 10
minutes later.
Palled From Wreck
First to arrive on the scene were
Mrs. Grace Madden, the aviator’s I
wife, and two repairmen for the
Southwestern BS71 Telephone Com- j
pany. Fred McElvy, 275 West Her- '
mine ^Boulevard, and Buddy York,
1503 West Avenue, San Antonio.
They pulled Perez from the rear
cockpit and' found Madden lying
face-downward under the right
wing of the ship, a monoplane. Mad-
den was still clutching the control
stick frbm his front cockpit.
McElvy and York said , that the
plane plummeted to earth from an
’ Lester Persinger, Melvin Ledbetter and Pete Rafferty
Convicted of bank robberies in the midwest and sentenced to long
terms in prison, three inmates of the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing
have been proved innocent and soon will walk out of prison free
men. Two others, Ernest McCarthy and Harry Korter, arrested
foflowlng the robbery of an Imogene, Kas., bank, have confeaeed
( they committed the crimes for which the three men, left to right,
Lester Persinger, Melvin Ledbetter and Pete Rafferty, are serving
prison terms. A.fourth innocent man, Joseph Murray, serving a
bank robbery term in the Nebraska state penitentiary, already has
been freed as a result of the confessions of McCarthy and Korter.
In Kansas, freedom cannot be obtained immediately because of a
statute which requires that prisoners seeking executive clemency
must advertise the fact for five weeks before the governor may
grant a pardon.
—Central Free $
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M’CRAW FLAYS !“**■*«*«
VACANCY LAWS
Apportionment Expected
To Remain At
$22.00
DeWitt county public schools, in-
cluding both independent and rural
school districts, will receive a total
of $167,178.00 in state funds this
year in the event the per capita ap-
portionment remains at $22.00 it
was estimated by County Superin-*
tendent of Schools W. F. Hancock.
There are a total of 7509 students
in rural and independent district
schools of the county at this time.
Rural schools with 3540 scholastics
will receive $87,880.00.
The Cuero Independent School
District with 1463 scholastics will
receive $32,296.00.
Yoakum schools with 1588 schol-
astics will receive $34 936.00.
Yorktown schools with 657 schol-
astics will receive $14,454.00.
Nordheim schools with 346 stu-
dents will receive $7,612.00.
Hancock declared that there was
every possibility that the per capita
apportionment would remain at $22.
LATE WIR* !
FLASHES
Jimmy Schamadan and brother Billy
Thorough Investi
All Charges Is
quested
COURT 15 SHORT
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j First Time In Hi,
• Pool’s Tenure
Short
Flaying the forger
| j check artist. Judge J.
| i in opening the June
!24th Judicial District
•here Monday, instru.
i! bers of the Grand
make special ini
Their grandfather won $150,000 in the English Derby, thus Jimmy j. .. .
Schamadan, 10, and his brother Billy, 8, both of Cleveland, win a If!"1 lorgerv and
[good education. For the granddad, William Schoenbeck, 69-year-old .
~ “'use some af tha
grandchildren.
Warmer living near West Richfield, O., says he will use some of the
money to educate his
Leo Strauss, publisher of the*
Hallettsville New Era-Herald, died i
Injured in
AUTO CRASH
—Control Preu
_ tiaiiettsviue New Era-Herald, died i WASHINGTON. June 6.—(IINS.) i -
Abuses-Of taws BlamedJ. N.-McDonald Sat
For Racketeering By
Candidate
Mrs. Strauss.
Funeral services 'are set for
o’clock Wednesday morning.
Special to The Record.
WHARTON. Tex., June 6.-
-Abuse
of the land vacancy laws brought a ;
aJre^the^rute* aTid if we alUtude of about 300 feet They said i Saw ^^e 'Monday ?hanteri1 7ov- i
are the rules and if we|it apparentiy stalled and then fell jernor he wlll seek legislation to pre-'
RELEASE PAIR
IN KIDNAPING
fers Minor Hurts Mon-
day Morning
Senate and House conferees said to-
day they are considering a compro-
mise wage-hour bill that embodies
the principle carried by the old NRA
invalidated by the Supreme Court.
J. N. McDonald suffered
CANTON. June 6.—><INS)—More painful bruises and possibly a brok-
than 1500 persons were killed and ; en rib and her car was badly dam-
wounded in today’s New Japanese OR^d when struck bjt ah automobile
charges brought
“I have no special
to your attention
crime which
; j increase in this
• I refer to the forger,'
( declared. “Securing
Hi such false pretenses
’' h bad as taking money
TOKYO, June 6.—(INS.)— Cov-- a pistol” the distrfc
ered by a heavy ortillery barrage.i tiryjed T especially
Japanese troops completely occupied', ^ Eremin* such
Kaffeng important city oir ]
Japanese Occupy
City Of Kaifeng
Lunghai railroad, according to re-j| ^
ports received here tonight
the laws and rules
The Chinese defenders were re-
4 ways, and charged
Iapparently
obey them we may have a part ■ to the ground in a flat spin.
in reducing the automobile ac-
cident toll this summer.
* * *
Cuero is to be host to county
-agents and home demonstra-
tion agents from forty five
gouth Texas counties on June
#th, at which time a represen-
tative of the Rural Electrifica-
tion division office at Wash-
ington will bring a message on
rural electrification. Let’s
open the doors of the city to
thebe, visitors, and make their
Stay here a pleasant one.
* * *
District court swung under-
way here Monday morning
Wtth every Indication that the j ^ June 6._A wam.
session will be a busy one. As ing to nations “whose governments
An ambulance was called over the
repairmen’s emergency telephone.
The bodies were taken to a funer-
al home.
Mrs. Madden said that she did not
believe the plane stalled. Since her
husband was still holding the con-
trol stick after the crash, she ad-
vanced the theory that he had tried
to gain control of the ship when
Perez “froze” at the,stick.
Madden was seen in Cuero as a
member of the Hell Divers, an ag-
gregation of daredevils who per-
formed at Cuero’s Air Circus.
| vent vacancy racketeering. [gjj |w0 perSOnS If) CUS* i
air raids on Canton, official
mates stated tonight. Over
dwellings were destroyed.
I
1000 i
The attorney general, who brought
his campaign for governor here in
the heart of the section where va-
cancies have caused such an outcry,
declared: “I shall have two objectives'
and will seek legislation to put them
into effect: First, to make vacancy I
hunting unpopular; second, to give | M. F. Braxton and his son, Pedro,
the bonaftde occupant of the land . the two last persons known to have
tody Freed Of
Suspicion
MIAMI. Fla., June 6.—(INS.*
esti- , owjned by Tom Moorman near the j
Crescent Valley Creamery Monday j
miming. Moorman’s car was also i
damaged.
Mrs. McDonald was cresting the
i AUSTIN, June 6.—(INS)—Surprise
entry in the Lieutenant Governors highway going toward the creamery
race. Rep George A. Davidson of an(d_Moorman’s car was coming in-
Eastland today .tela h:s $100 fee for
a place on the primary ballot.
to Cuero off the old Victoria high-
way at the time of the crash. Blame
for this accident was not fixed.
FRENCH IRED
I OVER ATTACK
WASHINGTON. June 6.—(INS)—
Great Britain has informally invit-
the first and best chance to nnrrhau I * **"*'" ed the United States to send repre-
acLar^ancTes ’’ P I been in custody in T"****™ with sentatives on a joint commission to
Noting that the tremendous value ! *"he Jimmy Casb kidnaping, were re- Spain to investigate air raids on the
of minerals has drawn widespread ileased by Federal agents here this civilian populace, it was learned at
attention and search for vacant; afternoon.
Annual Meeting Of
Christian Scientists
Opens Today In Boston
Special to The Record.
| lands, McCraw pointed out that in
many instances, this earth has be-
come a racket which amounted to
disturbing the title to lands that
have been held for generations and
on which full taxes have been paid:
The subdividing of large tracts into
small ones has made the vacancy
search affect more homes..
Cheers greeted McCraw’s declara-
Release of the two followed closely
upon the threat of Mrs. M. F. Brax-
ton. wife and mother respectively of
the two men, to take legal action
against the F. B. I.
The two, flatly refused to talk to
any newspapermen.
the state department today.
ported fleeing tontt. Che^chov. | (TdrtSwlSSlJJl
4 For the first time In the
Judge Pool’s tenure of
‘ county. he was forced.
"mon an additional
ter five of the
moned had either
• disqualified < ^
Edgar Davidson a
Four Year Old Boy falls
I Horry TTrdele Jr., Li
ft Henry Fawcett, Jr.,
NEGRO YOUTH
DROWNS HERE
L
In Drainage Ditch
Monday
) son, C. T. Matthews. E
j T. Teller, Henry Barth,
BELTON. Mo.. June 6.—(INS)—Es-
caping with an undetermined
amount of money, a single bandit
held up the Citizens State Bank
about noon today.
Artificial respiration applied bf (f^*tott2S?Jasea.
i members of the Cuero Fire Depart- on the appearance list <
| ment and Central Power <Si Light j*knd divorce dockets: s ,
j Company employees proved futile !.» Cirtl Docked.
i 77 77* to *n 7* *° -* I
; the life of a four year old negro by. , w E n EJU
Charles Brown, who drowned in the ! §ter, partition suit.
Pilnfc DrrioroW Tn Durcim 1 drainage ditch just at the edge of!, Brown Securities
riiois uraerea io rursue j Cuero on the San Antonio mghway. j w-M non on pa.
All Planes Over jThe was *» °f chartey'jJ2t
Brown, employe of the Weber Mo- | w
French Soil
Yoakum Tom-Tom
Industrial Edition
I
tion that “the vacancy seeker has
has been Judge Pool’s custom have been conceived largely in ^bonafidc
o noHt selfish ambition and brought forth , ^cu^nul of the land- Thls set-uP Crefllf 10 LltV
for a number Of years, no petit by human force» was issued here to- shodId be reversed and I am going I ■" Vllf
Jury Was called for the initial j day at the Annual Meeting of The
week Of court. Judge Pool First Church of Christ, Scientist,
tound that little work could be i 7' “°th" S’ur'h-,bi'. 7' chrt„s-
i tian Science Board of Directors who
accomplished during the first declared the lessons of history show
few days Of court as far as a . such governing bodies to be “of few
Jury was concerned and there- d®ys a"d *ul\ of trouble.”
1 Reports disclosed continued growth
fore discarded the idea of the Christian Science movement,
calling a_jury during the first increasingly higher standards for
should be reversed and I am going
to do all I can to reverse it.”
Predicts Acceptance
Of Amendment To
Recovery Bill
i The Yoakum Herald's attractive
1 Tom Tom Industrial Section is probate here today,
i just off the press and a credit not
only to the editorial and mechanical
; staff of The Herald, but also to the
city of Yoakum. #
The forty-four page edition is
crammed with Tom Tom news, and
PATTERSON. N. J.. June 6—INS. -
—Thirty men. women and institu- PERPIGNAN. France. June
tions share in $1.6»0.000 left by the (nis>—French anti-aircraft batteries! the highway bridge, while
late Erskine Hewitt. But his pret-
ty. dark-haired niece. Anne Cooper
Hewitt, receives not a cent.
The central figure of the celebrat-
ed “Hewitt sterilization case” is en-
tirely ignored in the will filed for
San Antonio Highway.
’' E. E Placke vs
on note.
i tt. E. Green^et al vo.
I tor company. ‘ Anderson et vir, partition
. The lad apparently fell into the ; Eugene Tucker et al vz
6.— ! deep hole less than fifty yards from | Bailey et al, suit for
playing } |*nds. monies and other
Roscoe Smith vs H. G.
ions. The body was in the water for for damages. > ’
several minutes before a passerby e. A. Tully vs. Allen
jumped into the hole and brought
the boy to the bank. The hole is
v
oik the Spanish frontier opened with his sister and other compan-
fiie today on nine unidentified war
planes whicn crossed the border and
flew dVer French territory. The
cfaft gained altitude, wheeled and j D.cre than five feet deep.
The boy was1 the second DeWitt
returned to Spain.
_ ____ WASHINGTON. June 6.—(INS)— a comPleto history df past Yoakum
woak IrTorder that thJ countv authorized'periodi^ls.' and” a larger , SPeaker Bankhead today predicted Tom-Tom celebrations Merchants
we«k in order that the county nuinber of requests from of! House acceptance of a Senate !of .the "ty co-operated loyally in
might be saved the expense.
We are hoping that other
county and district officials
adopt the same principal and
do their bit to save the county
money by cutting the corners.
PWA FUNDS TO
BE AVAILABLE
VALENCIA. June 6.—(INS)—Twen-
ty persons, including three mem-
bers of the crew of an unidentified
British cargo vessel, were killed in
an insurgent air raid on Alicante to-
victim of drowning this year.
Japan Rejects
American Plea
t^y title and possession
Divorce Docket
Arthur Stollels vs. Mrs.
Ruth Stollels.
! Ysabel Gusman DeLeon
tonio DeLeon.
Lomette Kraemer vs C.
j4 -
Margarita Gusman os.
Gasman.
i F- A- Walicek vs. Mrs.
Publisher Master., Editor Cena
non-Scientists for - representative amendment to the $3,700,000,000 re- makin^ the edition a success a re
Christian Scientists to address them, bet-recovery bill for payment of;
Election of Ralph Hastings Knapp, subsidies to farmers. ..
C. S.. of Needham. Mass., as Presi- The proposed fund, which would and ak others connected
dent of The Mother Church was an- be paid out to wheat, cotton and W,th lhc. Yoakum Hprald are to be
nounced. He succeeds Judge Clif- j eorn farmers, would supplement .soil|COnRla U ate<3'
ford
Seek To Heal The Wounds
Of Business Re-
cession
The British steamer was reported; CANTON, June 6.—(INS.*—Japan i ^
ijit several times. j today rejected a fervent American u^ir nie Raley vs Ra>
appeal for merc^ to civil!aits in i (j ... ,, ,
HENDAYE. June 6.—GNS.) —j combat areas and emphasized her1 jfctL|i^ t C **~***^
premier Edouard Daladirr today or- | stand with a devastating new aerial ! -^7/°
“ered further precautions against at^ck< ?,n this .crowded m€tr0P0^ fcouts Elinora Beasley ,
I
Eruption Of Mount
Mnyon Threatens
Several Towns
MANILA. June 6.—(INS.) With
the first eruption of Mount Mayno
since 1928 hourly increasing in vio-
lence today, natives fled for safety
from four towns at the base of the
world’s most perfect volcano cone.
An immense column of smoke was
pouring into the sky. Eruptions at
20-minute intervals bombarded thp
heavens.
P. Smith of Newton, Mass, conservation payments made under
Edward L^ Ripled of Brookline and the $500,000,000 farm act.
Ezra W. Palmer of Marshfield *were--
re-elected Treasurer and Clerk of
the Church respectively. The Presi-
dent is elected by The Christian Sci-s
ence Board of Directors to serve for
one year. His duty is to be presiding
office at the Annual Meeting.
Will Sound Warning
To Communists
National Labor
Board Charged
BABY BOY
Cuero friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert E. Sames of Safi Angelo will
be interested in reading that they
are the proud parents of a 7 pound-
15 3-4 ounce boy. born Sunday
morning. Mrs Sames will be re-
membered as Miss Dorothy Cook
this city.
JERSEY CITY. N. J. June 6 —
(INS*—More than ino.OOn citizens will
WASHINGTON. June 6.—GNS*
—The PWA and WPA—the tdminis-
tration's first line or recovery—col-
lectively worth $2,790,000,000 in Pres-
-1 ident Roosevelt's spend-lend bill
COVINGTON. Ky.. June 6.— The now in conference, today prepared
National Labor Relations Board was channels for ouick distribution of
1 accused today by counsel for Henry- vast funds in an effort to heal the
frontier vocations and launched an
j For the eighth successive
total
day.
Japanese war planes roared over
investigation into the origin of the Canton, dropping scores of huge
pine airplanes which dropped bombs bombs which brought the
jnear Ax-Les-Thermcs ' death toll well ov^r 2.000.
Indignation is France rose high
over the incident.
Weather conditions had made it!
impossible to tell whether the bomb-
ers came from the government or j
Attend Encampment
At Kerrville
Beftsley.
Katie-E. Thomas vs.
i Thomas.
J J|>hn Herrena vs. Isabel
leda Weece vs. Robert
la Neighbors vs. Finley
Ford of having "fixed and biased wounds of the business recession.
prejudice against employers in gA- unemployment and the farm prob- [the insurgent side. A group of Presbyterian young
mooinw m Joiu-na 1 Square tonight Pral- and of in favor ]env Government sympathizers blamed people, chaperoned by Miss Lila
of unions and union activities, law- Betwoen them. PWA and WPA Ithe insurgents, pointing to the in- i Brown, will leave Tuesday for the
ful or unlawful ” have on their hoovzs almo-t 5.000 ap- (Mirgent attack on Cerbere. just Westminister Encampment at Kerr- j
The charge was made in one of^ proved public works projects calling [north of the Spanish frontier, on ville They expect to be gone about!
.j.,,. . -....... for inn eased federal employment. [May 26. , ten days.
expenditure of huge sums of money [ Daladier ordered the French air Included in the group will be
in industry, for materials and im- forces to “pursue all planes, what- Misses Annie McCurdy. Wanda
proveireo* rc •)■<« m—*’—s c°nen»t fever their nationality, which Phillips hrp Tuflv and Lillie Bell i
condition. Jen French territory.” (Young.
in a monster rally designed as a
warning to Communists to get out
and stay out of Jersey City.
The rally follows closely the egg
and vegetable barrage hurled at So-
cialist Norman Thomas when he at-
tempted to 'peak in "Newark Satur-
day night.
two additional motions filed with the
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals by
Frederick H. Wood, counsel for the
Ford Motor Car do in litigation
with the Labor Relations Board,
Henry Brown vs. Selma
Norella Asbom vs. Varney
Lois Mayne vs. LeRoy
Ajtma Freund vs. Emil J.
Edith Hill vs. Ervin Hi!L
E O. Huth vs. Adella 1
Mp. Lou Day vs J. H.
John Willie Jackson i
Jackson
Anna Rehling vs Otto
Sajlie Mae White vs. C. W.
Claud Gonzales vs. PabM
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