The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 140, Ed. 1 Monday, June 13, 1938 Page: 1 of 4
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A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
VOL. 44.—NO. 140.
CUERO, TEXAS, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1938
FOUR PAGES TODAY
f^oaiHalK STOKES CASE
TO BE CALLED
ON JUNE 27TH
Army Bomber In Which Eight Fliers Died
It is seldom that we devote
this column to other than a
comment on local subjects.
However, in offering the fol-
lowing comment made by a -
brilliant writer,. peter Moiy- Special Venire Of Fifty
neaux, on the wage hours leg-
islation in which every Cuero j
business man and every De-
Witt county farmer is vitally
interested, we see a chance to i
kill two birds with one stone—
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Men Summoned In
Murder Case
■m
A
ed For His Own
Life
SHOT RICE MAXEY, JR.
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namely to afford our readers ... , .. T, u C
relief from our feeble efforts, UfllfflBCl At IIIT16 116 163!""
end at the same time present j
comment on this important
subject which is forceful and-
interesting. Molyneaux says,
in regard to the Wages-Hour
Bill as it has come from
House and Senate /conferees in
the form of a so-called com-
promise measure.
JThe South’s outlook under)
lb
forernment’s policies affect-
ing commerce generally and
agriculture in particular is
very dark indeed. The total
income from cotton during
the current year, including , this city shortly after the .shoot-
all the so-called “benefits” j ing he told officers that he feared
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British And American
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Forces Remain Firm
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BODIES EARLY
SETTLERS WILL
BE REINTERRED
Daughters Of Republic To
[Honor Early Settlers
I Of This Section
i Record Given Man
Sized Job Monday
6y Subscriber
Robert Stokes, Cuero laundryman,
charged with the murder of Rice [
Maxey, Jr., is scheduled to go' to
trial In district court here Mon-
day, June 27th.
Judge J. P. Pool Monday morn-
BURIED AT WEESATCHE
ing set the case for the 27th and
legislation and under the ordered a special venire of 50 men j
called In the case. Summoning of
veniremen was underway Monday
afternoon.
Stokes is alleged to have shot and ,
killed Maxey on the afternoon of
August 8th on West Main street in ;
Will Be Removed To Slate
Cemetery AT
Austin
The Cuero Record Monday
was faced with a No. 1 man
si/cd job.
An ultimatum delivered by
a subscriber in Long Beach.
California was the source of the
worry.
‘Tf you don’t bring in some
worth-while oil wells in DeWltt
county sftortly. I’ll have to quit
you’’ the suoscriber wrote In
renewing his subscription for
another six months.
The editor was hoping Mon-
day that developments during
the next six months would In-
sure continuation of the sub-
scriber’s semi-annual remittance.
EVACUATION
OFYANl
TO BE
Japan Demand R<
By Both Goverm
As Ships Move In;
troops Ire
£
.Two Thousand Meft
■it Landed Just Below!
TO SIMPLIFY
.
m-
from the Government, cannot
possibly be much more than
tbe equivalent of half the av-
erage annual income from
cotton during the years prior
to 1930. Estimates of the cot-
ton acreage planted this year
range from twenty-six million
mum to less than twenty-
nine million, and estimates of
tdto probable crop range from
ten million- to lass than thir-
teen million bales. The lowest
(Miniates of ./ acreage are
smaller than. that, for any
year since 1901, and the high- hendaye, June 13.—(ins)—ynder |
eat are smaller than that Of orange and olive trees, Spanish in-
any year since 1906, except surgent and Italian troops today
the acreage of 1934 and 1935. Slowly fought their way into Castel-
Maxev was going to kill him be-
cause of a family argument involv-
ing the two men. The shooting oc-
curred in front , of the Powell
market on West Main street. As
far as officers were able to learn im-
mediately after the shooting, Maxey
was not armed at the time.
Stokes has been at liberty on bond
since August 10th.
He will be represented by Crain
Sc Hartman of this city, while Dis-
trict Attorney Howard P. Green will
be in charge of the prosecution.
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The remains of Mr. and Mrs.
Dartiel Shipman, prominent Texas
citizens in the days before state- !
will be reinterred in the state i
tery at Austin Wednesday, i
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They have been buried in a ceme- |
terjj at Weesatche. I -
Daughters of the Republic j Legislation Dratted
Meeting Held In
Shipman came with his parents j
K
Nanking
Texks will be in charge of reinter- j
merit ceremonies.
SHANGHAI, June
(INS)—Great Britain
joined with the United
GAME LAWSiEHtF"
_ : lltiver to permit un
A i Nipponese naval ope
^ j 4 British gunboats ’ art
Wunu and Kiukiang were
Insurgents Fight
Way Into Port City
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Before Illinois crash, top;
These pictures show the huge U. S. army bomber
before and after it crashed in flames on a farm north
of Delevan, 111., carrying eight army fliers to death.
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The average price of mid-
dling spot cotton at present is
lea than eight cents a
pound, or about forty dollars
a bale. A thirteen-million-bale
erop at present prices would
taring $520,000,000, and ven if
the average price should go
to nine cents a pound with
•nch a relatively large crop,
the total value of the crop
would be less than six hun-
dred million dollars. On the
other hand a ten-million-bale
crop at twelve cents a pound
would bring six hundred mil-
hone dollars and at thirteen
oents it would bring six hun-
dred and fifty million dollars.
Well, the average annual
value of the cotton crop dur-
ing the five years ending with
1929 was $1,247,255,000 (bil-
lions), and during the five
years ending with 1924 it was
$1,170,427,000 (billions), from
this it will be seen that it is
conservative to say that the
total income from cotton, in-
cluding all the so-called
“benefits” from the govern-
ment, cannot possibly be
much more than the equiva-
lent of half the average an-
nual Income from cotton dur-
ing the years prior to 1930.
But this Is not all. There is no
outlook whatever, under pres-
ent Government policies, that
this level of income can be
materially increased next
year, or the next, or at any
time during the present gen-
eration. And now. in addition
to this situation with respect
to the South's leading crop,
the South’s relatively small
industrial activity is to be
put in a Federal strait-jacket.
What the country needs
right now—the whole country
—le the restoration of condi-
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Ion De La Plana, picturesque Med- j
iterranean port, against a stubborn-
ly resisting government army.
Heavy artillery battered the city,
which has a peace-time population
of 36.000, as bitter hand-to-hand (
fighting went on in the suburbs and
farms west and north of Castellon.
Capture of the city, removing the
last major obstacle bn the road to
Valencia, 40 miles southward, ap-
peared imminent.
after crash, bottom
The plane, struck by lightning during a severe electric-
al storm, was on a routine flight from Chanute field,
Rantoul, 111., to Denver. —(Central Press)
froiji North Carolina to what is now
Fort Bend county, Texas, in 1822.
Ten! years later he went to the as-
sistance of Travis and companions
who! were imprisoned in a Mexican
fortj at Anahuac.
Hjp was with Benjamin R. Milam
~hi the storming and capture of San
Antonio in !S33 ~aJui~served in Gap-
tain Johh Bird’s company in the
Texks army the following year.
Shipman died in 1881 at the age
(of SO.
Galveston
Probe Death Of
Mexican Woman
Legislation calling for
fishing and hunting license ami
more simplified game laws, was
drafted at the Texas Wildlife Con-
vention which closed in Galveston
Saturday according to Game
Warden Menke who returned from
the convention Saturday- evening.
The new laws would simplify the
enforcement of game laws and
would provide for the restoring and
preservation of wild life, Menke de-
clared. *
Some five hundred persons were
; t)> remain at their posts as
{sjjxty Japanese warships
j n ream and landed a force
universal nearly 2 000 troops above <
l«w Nanking.
Inauguration of the
operations found
under command of
Ymell standing
naval authorities
j comply with
dB&a&Ie.'
AGAIN
__APOLOGY
! JONG fcCNG. June 13,
Aii expression of regret
boj^bing of American-owne^J
CHARGED IN
BOY’S DEATH
Recommend Name Of
V. 0. Thompson Be
Stricken From Ballot
Examining Trial For San
Antonio Couple Sched-
uled Today
Czech Troops Guard
Western Borders
ALPINE, June 13.—(INS)—Exam-
ining trial was scheduled for today
for a San Antonio couple, Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Black, charged in con-
nection with the death of Marvin | ^a*ne^-
Dale Nobbitt, 13, who tumbled to his
AUSTIN. June 13.—(INS)—A sub-
committee of the state executive
committee today recommended that death from atop a mountain prcci-
the name of V. O. Thompson, candi- pice'near here.
PRAGUE, June 13.—(INS.) —
Three hundred thousand Czech
troops today remained on guard
along the western frontiers, await-
ing the first triumphant reaction of
the Sudeten Germans over their
election gains.
While the supporters of Konrad
Henlein brought their balloting
strength up to about 90% in the
last of three municipal elections,
their apparent victory was tempered
somewhat by the fact that the Czech
minority in the Sudeten region also
Communists lost.
DIRS. KRUSE IS
BURIED SUNDAY
Had Been In III Health
For Several.
Weeks
date for governor, be stricken from
the ballot.
The committee likely will follow
the sub-committees recommenda-
tion. Thompson failed to appear to
answer protests.
Likewise stricken, at their own re-
quests. were the names of Will Mar-
tin, candidate for railroad commis-
sioner. and Norris Smith, candidate
for agricultural commissioner.
Black held under murder charg-
es, confessed to throwing the body
from the cliff, according to district
attorney Alan Fraser.
Mrs. Bobbie F. Smith, 41, Harlin-
gen, grief-stricken mother of the
lad. Said that the bov went to live
with the Black’s for six months, with
; a promise of employment and a
home lor him.
LIAS STEEN
TO MAKE RACE
Asks Election As Constable
Of Precinct Num-
ber One
MORE BASS FOR
LAKE AT PARK I'"1"
Publication Law
To Protect Tax-payer
TarkinglonTo Put 3,000
Fingerlings In Lake
Wednesday
Postmaster Shelly Tarkington. the
committee of one appointed by the
city council to secure more fish for
the Cuero Municipal Park lake,
Wednesday will stock the lake with
an additional 3.000 bass
The tiny bass will be brought to
Cuero from San Marcos by Tqrkmg-'"
ton.
Application for the fish was filed
by the postmaster through Con-
gressman Richard Kleberg who gave
immediate attention to the matter
Tarkington said that officials of the
San Marcos hatcherv had also be< ■>
most courteous and cooperative
Passage oi a law that would re-
quite all tax money spending I
agencies to publish at regular inter- ^
vals an understandable accounting
of then receipt - and expenditures,
was urged bv Texas newspaper pub-
lishers and editors at the 59th annu-
al convention of the Texas Press As-
sociation in Port Arthur last week
end Such a statute would serve as
a rurh on reckless expenditures and
would result in a gieai saving of tax
monies, it was pointed out
The editors held business meet-
ings ior Dim nays a) the Goodhue
Hotel and were royally <-nter*ajneri
by lh<* Port Arthur Daily News and
tiie oil refineries at Port Arfiihr.
Desk ms Well, of the Wellington
Leader—was elected president of the:
association and Walter Buckner of
> H:,i Mr p, ,, ; vv-»s 11V >>' 1
a< vice president.
Lias Steen. DeWitt county deputy
sheriff and local agent for the Red
Arrow Freight Lines. Monday au-
thorized The Cuero Record to an- ■
nounce his candidacy for Constable
of Precinct 1. subject to the action
of voters in the July Primaries.
Steen, a native of DeWitt county,
has- made Cuero his home for the
past five years, and since 1936 has
acted as a deputy sheriff. He is mar-
ried and tlie father pf three chil-
dren
Supporters of Steen declare him
to be a conscientious law enforce-
men officer, and one who has no fa-
vors or prejudices in his duties as
a deputv sheriff. In addition to his
work with the sheriff’s department
he has also assisted city officers on
numerous occasions, he declares.
“T “am asking election be- I
feel that my experience has quali-
fied me for the work, and all that T
ask is a chance to srrve Die voters
ot my precinct and my county.
.Steen declared “I will sincerely ap-
preciate your support." lie conclud-
eo ;r addressing voters of tfio ■■'"in
tv.
Funeral services were held from
the Freund Funeral Chapel at 4
p. m. Sunday for Mrs. Antonio
Kruse', 60 year old Cuero woman, j
who died Saturday at 6 p. m. follow- j
ing a. long illness.
Interment was in Hillside ceme-
tery with Rev. A. A. Hahn, Lutheran *
minister, officiating.
Mrs. Kruse was barn March 27th
1878. ^nd was married 42 years
in Shiner where she lived for 32
years, then moved to Cheapside.
Since that time she had also lived
in El Campo, coming to Quero three
years ago from that city to make
her home.
Nine children survive. They are
in attendance at the convention. An n;(h University, near Cai
| address by Carl Schumacher, secre- j jq** gt today was added
i tary of the National Wildlife Feder- series of apolq
j ation, proved the outstanding fea- to [Washington
Court Bench Is
CHICAGO, June 13—(INS)—While J ture of the session Manke said
her brother-in-law rushed here by j
! plane from Mexico City, the coro- (dfl(liddf6 FOf
ner b office today.probed deeper in- j
to (he mysterious death here of a <
i Met ican woman of high station and | £ygfQ VIsitOT
wealth. _
Tie woman, found dead in a ho- j, Judge charles G
tel room last Saturday, was identi- j 0f the 56th Judicial District, was d ' swdien Yangte river as a
fied as Mrs. Marie Del Pilar Alonzo j visitor in Cuero Monday in interest Jap)n today carried
De Fierro. 35. j of his candidacy for Chief Justice va* F*rf*re deep into the
l^ie Japanese consul
assured the American
Niijponese airmen were
to > fXerciae the utmost care
tifjjng objectives in the
1 TROOPS LAND
W NANKING
OHAI. June 13. —C
Dibrell. Judge i Usiijg the turbid waters
(rarfa
II a.
Oti Friday, iL was learned, Mrs. De • of the Court of Civil Appeals for the Chiii
Fieiro called on Rodo’lo Salazar, the First Supreme Judicial District. Yj^ty or sixty warships'
Mexican consul, and asked him to Judge Dibrell has served as Dis- aP®j«eamla®ded a force
look after her belongings in case [ trict Judge at Galveston for the past ncaM’ *.000 tropos above
sor lething happened” to her. j 12 years.
SERVICES FOR
ESTHOFF MAN
LATE WIRE
FLASHES
J low jNanking.
Bijtisji advices said that
city pf 110,000 and capital
midi Jay between Nanking
thow. was occupied by the _
^ with little resistance. • vna
aeo Rice Maxey Is Buried
Westhoff Sunday
Afternoon
LYNN. Mass., June 13.—(IMS)— ,
< Questioned about two suspicious
| | fires in her home, a 16 year old girl.)
whose name was withheld, today
had admitted setting the fires and
boasted to staging 100 robberies with
her nine-year old brother as an aide.
Fjjneral services were held
Westhoff Sunday afternoon at
Mrs. Freda HuWi of Yoakum. Alex
Kruse of El Campo. _ Mrs. Isabel
Schaffner of Cuero. George of El
Campo, Edwin and Leon of Cueroj.
Twelve grand children, three sisteri
and three brothers also survive.
Airline Officials
Converge On Scene
Of Plane (rash
YOSFMTTE. Cal . June 13 (INS)4
Airline officials and department of
commerce air inspector:- today com
verged upon snowclad Buena Vista
Peak, in southernmost Yosemite
National Park.where the shattered
wreckage nt a Tea Airliner jnissini
more than three month's with nine
persons aboard was found.
HaH-hidricn in ■milling snows but
n few hn.nrhi T tee 1 lr>i'i 1 bo -unif
mit of Die 9.777 loot peak, the sky j
liner vps found by a Fresno youth.
H O Coi' ■ ’ ac’.-'V .1 .
, "hunch.
MOSCOW. June 13 —(INS)—Forty- j
nine persons comprising a “church !
monarchist group” have been Bqui-
o’clock for Rice Maxey, 66-year-old ^ated at Kuibyshev, according to
resident of that community. who t^e newspaper Bezboshnik today,
diet Saturday after a short illness. number included 20 priests, two
mv. A A Hahn officiated at last deacons Mven 5*,^ and 20 per.
riten and burial was in the Westhoff , ^ described as ..ciericak ”
cemiptery under the direction of the ;
Freund funeral home.
R|ce MaxeV was'born March 1st.
1871L and was married 37 yfcars ago __
nado was identified today from
AUSTIN. June 13—(IMS)—'The
unidentified victim of the Ctyde tor-
M CURDY TEST
ISDELA'
It _ - -
Broken Water PumptMjfe
Up Spudding In Of- -
Well '’*•*
tiding in of the McCur
lar-Jo Oil cocnpag
Spu tiding in of the McCurdy No.
1 by *.he Mar-jo Oil compogg vital
delayrtri Saturday night w!j
water 1 pump which was to'4
boilen- with water, failed to
tion. (The Record was
Monc
It vjas understood a new
public safety as Ben Allen Reynolds was bring installed Monday,
of Ranger. Texas. that pudding In of the test woolft
be exiSected early this week.
of the department of
to Hiss Janie, Anne Schlussner at .
Ylatke. He had made Westhoff his c,vllian
hon e all his life.
T) the union nine children were
horn, eight of whom survvie with
their mother. They are: Mesdames HANKOW. June Ei.-dNSH-Jkpa-! is beijjg pumped from Uie
Jan e Stokes. Georgia Spinks. Mil- nese troops have been halted by ‘
drerl Fulenchek. Corinne Sloan. Yellow river floods east of Cheng-
Mis es Mamie Dell and Gladys, and chow and have begun a general
Chdrtrr and Dave Maxey. all of ’ withdrawal. a Chinese military
DeWitt county One brother, one
sistijr and thirteen grand-children
also;survive.
B kLLEFONTE Pa June 13 —(INS)
Siiolid and silent Wendell Forrest
Bowlers. 20 year old slayer of Mrs
Vilrp V Carpenter, pretty widow,
mat Mailed his boast today that "my
< hn | is iib; I can take it" as he went
to ijis death in Pennsylvania’s 27
yea:[ old -W’rif chm it’s 267th
vict h1
sjxikesman asserted today.
lupe ryer.
Several thousand acres of
is unci^r lease in the vicinity of tftk
well, gpd actviity is being wmiefeSfCM
with kben interest.
WASHINGTON. June 13—(INS)—
The state department today was in-
formed of the slaying of the Rev.
Roger Craig Cumberland. American
Yafs bomb canton • 4^
CANTON. June 13 —(INS)—A flM*
of Japanese bombing planes flMr
over cjinton in five separate refcn<
Presbyterian Missionary, at Dohuk. 1 tonighij releasing thirty bomba
Traz. by two natives. j the city’s outskirts. The .
--j Power ijtation was destroyed. •
Albert Alex of Route 2 Yorktown Earlijr raid alarms had baati
was in Cuero for jur> service andjsoundeij here when word rnanhbrt
cill^i at the Record office to renew ■ Canton»that Japanese plaoea
his Weekh- Record for another year I active (1
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Jsewhere in Kw&ngtunc.
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