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THE CTERO. RECORD, CTERO. TEXAS
THTRSDAT. APRIL 25,1940
THE CUERO RECORD
Established In 1894
Published Each Afternoon, Except Saturday, and Sunday Morning
by THE CUERO PUBLISHING CO, Inc.
aitond m the poet office at Cuero. Texas, as second class matter
, Under Act of Congress, March S, 1897.
MRS. J. C. HOWERTON
JACK HOWERTON .........
HARRY C. PUTMAN -----
President
Publisher
Editor
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(The following Interesting J
items we clipped from an Is-
sue of The Record of the year
1903:
APRIL 25. 1903.
J. W. Woodson returned from
Flatonia this evening. Mrs. Wood on
is still there visiting ner parents, j
He estimates the cattlemen's oil well
j loss at between $3500 and $4000 in
[Wednesday's big fire. The loss in
sales will be greater.
Sabvcrtption Rates:
By Mall or Carrier—Daily and Sunday, one year $6.00, six months
$2.50, three months $1.25, one month 50c.
Vfeekly Edition by mall only, one year $2.00; six months $1.00 in DeWttt
and adjoining counties. Elsewhere, 1 year $2.25. 6 months $1.25
Official Organ of the City of Cuero and DeWitt Oounty.
Mrs. A. R. Gott is at the Klippel
nursery spending a few days with
Mrs. Klippel
TELEPHONE NO. L
Involuntary War Profit
Mrs. J. D. Terry left this morning
for Yorktown on a visit to her
daughter. Mrs. B. Hausman.
* * *
Mrs. Johanna Hiller, who went to
Victoria to visit her sister.
Vogt, returned yesterday.
Mrs. C.
Crockett Pridgen was in the city!
from Thomaston yesterday. He re-
Ftrst, this is not our war. We don’t feel that we had any- (ported no boil weevil observed yet in
thing to do with its causes and development. Such influence
as we have tried to apply, ever since the end of the last war,
has been meant to prevent another such tragedy by eliminat-
ing Its causes. v
Second, we as a nation are not making money out of the
war, and have not tried to, and are not expecting to. Some mu-
nition makers and owners of goods needed as war supplies
may be profiting; but as a whole, we believe our country
would be prospering more if peace had been preserved.
Third, the test of our sincerity is that, from the Presi-
dent down, we would gladly do anything we could to end the
his locality.
6ridiron Democracy
Those Gridiron Dinners at Washington are grand lessons
in democracy. There is nothing like them anywhere else in the
world. It was perhaps a more striking situation than ever be-
fore when, last Saturday, night, the President and Vice-
President and heads of both houses of Congress and Justices
of the 8upfeme Court and the leading candidates for the
presidency sill sat and took it, while the newspaper men raked
them fore and aft with wit and irony.
It must have been especially impressive to the foreign
diplomats present. Many of them must have wondered how
many of the correspondents would have been shot at sunrise,
in their own countries, for taking such liberties with the
mighty. Also how many of the presidential candidates, “tak-
ing it” with such sportsmanship, would have been organizing
armed insurrections if they were citizens of various other
countries that might be named.
IV# a grand thing to continue giving the Old World, and
also some of our Pan-American neighbors, such lessons in ap-
plied democracy.
FACTOGRAPHS
In 1873 the New England Hos-
pital for Women and Children,
Boston, graduated the first
train* 1 nurse in America.
• • •
St Anne de Beaupre, Quebec,
the world-famous shrine of mir-
acles and cures, was founded by
grateful sai'ors In thanks to St.
Anne who had saved them from
shipwreck.
• • •
Direct sunshine, falling on the
average adult body during a 30-
minute sunbath, gives heat
enough to boil a gallon of water.
• • *
High tension living may result
in such fatigue that one becomes
temporarily blind. This is due
to the fact that the muscles of
the eyes have been thrown out
of balance so that a person looks
out of the outer corner of the
•yes, where there is a Hind spot.
Quarrels With Japs
Greenland For Whom
Some of our American jingoes have started sounding off
unnecessarily about grabbing Greenland under the Monroe
Doctrine. Some plain facts call for consideration before that
movement goes very far.
It is no time for any democracy, especially one that is
inclined to brag of its disinterestedness, to start grabbing
territory without very good reason.
All that the United States need be interested in at; pres-
ent is to make sure that Hitler doesn’t take Greenland as a
stepping stone to America. The same observation applies to
Iceland.
If Nazi Germany should be defeated and Denmark liber-
ated, it would be natural for Greenland to revert to Denmark
again, if the latter wants it.
If Greenland is to have a new owner, the natural candi-
date for ownership is Canada, which owns about all the oth-
er land between us and the North Pole, and to which Green-
land naturally belongs geographically*
Greenland is large, but is worth little except for two pur-
poses. First, it has a nuisance value—we don’t want any un-
congenial foreign power in possession. Second, the southern
tip of Greenland, like its neighbor Iceland, is on the Great
Circle air route from the United States to Europe, and there-
fore should not be in control of any country that might pre-
vent our use of it.
Carpet Bag Express
Speaking of new businesses and small beginnings, how
about noting that the huge express business of the present day
began with a carpet bag and a wheelbarrow? The original car-
pet bag that was the chief depository when the express busi-
ness was started in America 101 years ago is still in existence
and has recently been on view in an express exhibition. The
wheelbarrow, in the same show, was the first equipment of
Weils, Fargo & Co., in 1844, when it began to pick up and de-
liver packages in Syracuse.
Such humble beginnings for an ultimately great busi-
ness should inspire and encourage young people of imagina-
tion and enterprise today.
Father James F. Kearney
Father James F. Kearney, Kansas
City Jesuit, is disputing ownership
of mission property in Nanking.
China, with the Japanese army and
ihe puppet ruler of China, Wang
Ghing-Wei. When the Japs tried to
turn the property over to the new
'Tovemment, the priest and three
Franciscan nuns moved in and re-
fused to budge.
Seeking Alimony
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A listener-inner can’t tell which is worse—the war or the
radio orators yelling their wares.
Mussolini, the little tag-along. Is now looking for a few
territorial crumbs to pick up.
Happy is the nation whose chief problem Is reducing
excess weight.
"For Every Child a Tooth"
If Molars Don’t Get Care
"HIGH PRESSURE STUFF"
Bv LOG AN CLENDENING, M. D.
How much attention should
the expectant mother give to
her teeth f
She should give a little more
thought to her teeth than usual.
The old adage “For every child, a
tooth’’ is an exaggeration, by no
means necessarily true; it applies
almost always to infected teeth or
teeth that were in a suspicious con-
dition before pregnancy began.
Certainly the expectant mother
should consult the dentist fre-
quently. This is part of regular
modern pre-natal care. Foci of in-
fection about the mouth should be
but that it is simply a normal physi-
ologic process.
Pre-natal care is the'greatest
safeguard, not only to the safe de-
livery of a healthy child and to the
safety of the mother at that time,
but also to the health of her whole
future life. If mothers lost a. tooth
for every child they bore in the old
days, it was because they did not
call the doctor until the last minute.
And what is true of the teeth is true
of all the rest of the body.
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Julius Simon while playing yester- j
We are beginning to hear again, occasionally, from our day evening had the misfortune to
flriends in the fighting democracies, «that we Americans arejcut his foot with a piece of tin
“making money out of the war.” It may be said, as it was of- j ^ FreUn7^7nt to Lindenau
ten said 25 years ago, in a tone of rebuke or contempt. There j yesterday on business,
is an imputation, actual or implied, that we are shirking our
duty and seeking bo profit at the expense of our fellow-democ-
racies.
It is well, for our own self-respect and for the accuracy of
the record, to make it quite clear, now as we go along, what
the actual situation is.
Disguising the Taste ,
of Unpleasant Medicine
How can one disguise the
taste of disagreeable medicine?
Some medicines are disagreeable
because the doctor wants them to be,
and that is part of their property,
treated, although severe operative J*ad medicine as everyone knows,
procedures had best be left until I hada f°d e.ffect.of lts own. The
later.
Dr. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Wm. Hardt of Goliad county was j
here visiting his brother. Val Hardt, j
Wednesday. He left on the 3 o'clock
train for Yorktown.
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Under diet, for the good of the
child and the mother both, it is well
to see that there is plenty of vitamin
D and vitamin C in the diet of the
expectant mother. A diet built up
around the five main articles—
meat, eggs, milk, vegetables and
fruite—will supply these essential
elements. One or two eggs daily
will correct a deficiency of vitamin
D. A quart of milk supplies 1.2
old doctor’s idea of a good medicine
is set down in the classic definition
that it should be “dark broWn in
color and bitter as gall.”
The medicines that need to be dis-
guised are the cathartics—the salts
and castor oil. >
The best way to disguise the salts
is to make them effervescent. Effer-
vescent salts of magnesium sulphate
(epsom salts) or sodium phosphate,
which are the common forms of
grams of calcium, which is adequate saitS) are obtainable from any
for normal demands. If the ex- pharmacist. They can be best taken-
pectant mdther is unable to drink | in ice coid lemonade,
milk and eat proper amounts of
green vegetables, it becomes neces-
sary to add calcium powder to the
diet. In months when there is little
I
sunshine, same form of cod-liver oil
should be added to the mother’s diet*
Art of Brushing
Oral hygiene is doubly important.
A clean mouth contributes to the
comfort and health of the mother at
this time. In many cases where it is
evident that the mother has not
learned the proper way to brush
her teeth, this should be carefully
taught her.
There is nothing different in this
from ordinary personal hygiene.
Proper pre-natal care should make
an expectant mother feel not that
pregnancy is some terrible disease,
The most successful way, I think,
to take castor oil so as to disguise
the taste is to make a sandwich of
the oil betwreen two layers of very
cold liquid. Take a small glass and
pour one or two teaspoonsful of ice
cold water in the bottom. Then al-
low the oil to run in on top of this.
The cold will coagulate it. Put a
teaspoonful of ice cold orange juice
on top and swallow in one gulp.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Clendenin* has
seven pamphlets which can be obtained by
readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents.
For any one pamphlet desired, send 10
cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope
stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr.
Logan Clendening. in care of this paper.
The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks’ Reduc-
ing Diet”, “Indigestion and Constipation”,
“Reducing and Gaining", “Infant Feed-
ing”. "Instructions for the Treatment of
Diabetes", "Feminine Hygiene" and “The
Care of the Hair and Skin”.
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13. Title of
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31. Body of,
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34. Reserve
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39. Distance
measure
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42. Kind of duck
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44. Tilt
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
Marianne Bernadsky
Seeking to have annulment of her
marriage set aside and to obtain ali-
mony is Marianne Bemadsky, for-
^mer German actress and part owner
of a Union, N. J., animal hospital.
Her Russian ex-husband, Gregory
C, Bernadsky, seeks to wed Maria
Hasputin Solovieff, who claims to be
the daughter of Russia’s mad monk.
He wta stopped by immigration of-
ficials who said she entered country
illegally,___
RECOGNIZE PROSPERITY V
SOME OF us don’t know when
we are well off, especially at the
bridge table. In fact, it is true
of all bridge players at one time
or another. You find yourself in
what proves to have been a very
lucky spot, perhaps with your
sure-thing contract doubled by
the opponents, and then you get
overambitious. You redouble, with
visions of a lot of extra points,
whereupon the opponents are
scared into bidding again in their
suit. In place of doubling them, to
seek a few points for consolation,
you bid one more in your suit and
get doubled again. But this time
you are too high and are set.
A K Q 10 7 6 5
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+ 7 6 5 M "
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♦ 5 « N. V K 10 6
♦ Q 9 8 7 I |*i ♦ J 3
+ 4 3 2 Sm +AKJ10
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♦ None
♦ AQ J 9 8 7 3 2
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(Dealer: North. ^ North-South
vulnerable.) - ,
North J ' East
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Pass ( * Dbl , Rdble , Pass
Pass] * 5 + : Sy J Pass
Pass * _ Dbl k. ‘ ’(I
If he had merely passed the
double of 4-Hearts. South would
have collected a nice present from
South , ’ West
4 A • Pass
Rdble
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+ 9 6
A K 6 3
A K Q J 9
+ 10 0 3
RECORD WANT ADS BRING RESULTS!
tuc wu»J£m«s
WRITTEN FOR AND R&EAflED BY CENTRAL PRESS ASSPOAnOW
Eas^g high appraisal of his own
defensive strength. The greed that
led him to seek still more, with a
redouble, not only beat him out
of any gift at all, but resulted in
his presenting 200 points to East.
West answered his partner's
bidding with a lead of the club
4 to the K. and the 8 was then
ruffed by South, who struggled in
vain to make his contract. He led
to the diamond A, led the spade
K and ruffed East's A. went to
the diamond K. discarded a dia-
mond on the spade Q, led the
spade 10, East ruffing and South
over-ruffing, then lost a diamond
to West, who returned a club for
South to ruff Now locked in his
own hand, he had to give the set-
ting trick to East's still guarded
heart K. /
• * •
Tomorrow’s Problem
A 8 5 4 2
A 8 4
A 5 2
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S ♦ 10 7 6
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A K 10
A A Q J 10 7 2
A A 8 4
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vulnerable.) •
What defense will beat South’s
4-Heart contract on this deal, re-
gardless of what he may try
jo do 7^1 Xl “
UHAriKK fUKfn-TWU
GEORGE MARKHAM was in a
daze as we left the police station.
“Lets not return home,” he
begged. “I can’t go back and face
Louise.”
I reminded him that in another
fifteen minutes Jerry would be
brought into the justice court for
his preliminary hearing and that
we ought to be there.
“But I couldn’t stand it!” ob-
jected Markham. “If they started
talking about my brother and
his . . . You don’t understand
what it means to us, Strickland!”
I put a hand reassuringly on his
shoulder. “It won’t come out. Why
should it? They won’t even bring
the dope peddler to the hearing.
He won’t have anything to do with
the case until it actually comes to
triaL We’U be able to stop it be-
fore then.” _
Markham shuddered. “I don’t
see . . . when I’m willing to with-
draw my charges ... I visited
Jerry Montcalm in jail this morn-
ing. He’s not the kind of man who
would commit murder. I see that
now. And that sweetheart of his,
Muriel, her heart is broken. I’m
afraid I made a mistake—a terri-
ble mistake!”
“So she’s been working on you,
too?”
“Came to see me before break-
fast It was she who induced me
to go to the jail.”
I nodded. “I wondered for a
while if she was going to stick
with him. There’s no doubt of it
now. Tm glad, for both their
sakes.”
“But suppose he is convicted!”
“He won’t be. I promise you
that.”
“How can you promise? Do you
know something the police don’t
know ?”
“I believe I do.”
“Then for God's sake tell me
what it is!”
“Not yet. Our job now is to
think of some way to prevent this
case from going to trial. What evi-
dence can we present at the hear-
ing to prove Jerry’s innocence, be-
yond a doubt?”
“There isn’t any evidence. What
do you mean, Strickland? No one
saw what Jerry actually did in the
garden.”
“That’s what the police believe.
I’ve already told Jerry's attorney,
Harvey McGuire, differently.”
George looked at me with a sud-
den light of hope in his eyes. “You
meanr there was someone on the
river? Why didn’t I think of that
before? That lx>at you were on
last night, did someone—”
"No." I shook my head. “No one
on a boat could have s^en what
went on in the ga.den. There are
tejo many willow trees.”
“That's true. Then, what evi-
dence is there?”
| “Your brother was killed by ,
man who is left-handed.”
George halted in surprise. “Left
handed? How do you know that?1
“It was obvious to me—from the
angle at which the blow was
struck I don’t know \yhy the cor-
o:|er didn’t think of it.”
“And Jerry—is not left-hand-
ed?”
. 1-No.”
We were walking toward the
Jerry’s voice as be pleaded “not guilty”
be heard.
courthouse. Perhaps we had turned
toward it unthinkingly. George
Markham quickened his pace.
“Bill! John St. Clair is left-
handed!”
I grasped George by an arm and
halted him again. “Now, look
here!” I said. "Don't go jumping
to any more conclusions. St. Clair
was in the clubhouse, standing by
the piano, at the time your brother
was killed in the garden. We know
that. A dozen persons have testi-
fied to that He’s not guilty, so
don’t get any more wild ideas.”
“But ...”
The wide stone steps of the
courthouse invited us. I was afraid
of what awaited us there, but 1
urged George to ascend. We passed
between the tall white pillars.
A crowd had begun to gather.
This was to be no ordinary hear-
ing. There were a half dozen re-
porters with flash guns knd cam-
eras. I saw Belzer coming toward
me. I didn’t like the glint in his
eye. *
“Hello, Butch,” said the self-
styled star of The Morning Eagle,
“the funniest thing happened to
me last night—or maybe it wasn’t
funny.”
“What?”
“Burglar got into my room.
Didn’t take anything but an old
shoe box full of knives. I thought
nobody knew about that box but
me—and you.”
“Maybe—maybe you just hid it
so well you couldn’t find it.”
“I know darn well where I put
it! So do you.”
“I? What do you mean?”
“I mean . . .” He looked at me
closely. I suppose no expression of
guilt crosfeed my face. I was still
too worried about the hearing
ahead of us.
Belzer grunted. “Well, never
mind. You're a deep one.” He
moved back to the table reserved
for reporters. I escorted George to
a seat in the front row.
A door opened J>ehind the clerk,
and the judge entered and took his
place. Spectators who had been
gossiping, quickly hushed their
voices and sat down.
The coroner and Captain Mc-
Donald appeared, arguing in an
undertone, and found seats at ta-
bles the other side of the railing
,
ib hardly load tmAgft 1$'
from us. Harvey McGuire and the
district attorney were there. Jerry,
pale but erect, was brought In
through a side door by an officer,
the charge against him was read,
and the hearing had begun,.,
Jerry’s voice as be pleaded
“Not guilty” was hardly load
enough to be heard where wfi. ML
Although George wanted to. have
no part in the hearing, he waa the
first person called to the vtaad,
since it was he who had signed the
warrant for Jerry's arrest.
I was surprised by George Marie*
ham’s lack of knowledge of the
case, revealed when he beg** to
talk. The only thing he wea able
to state clearly was that he had
made the murder charge becauae,
according to testimony of gumto
at the party in the Rio Vista dub,
and according to the accused Man
himself, Jerry had been the last
one in the garden before St, Clair
reported finding the body.
“But I wish to withdraw my
charges,” George appealed at the
end.
Why?” asked the startled
judge. J_
“Just because I do not wish to
prosecute farther. I am convinced
in my own mind that Mr, Mont-
calm is innocent”
"Unless you can prove that this
man is innocent it will be the duty
of the state, to prosecute, whether
you wish to prosecute or not,” the
judge told him. “If evidence at this
hearing indicates that there XS
grave doubt as to the prisoner's i%
nocence, he must be brought to
trial.” J J
George had nothing more to say.
He was dismissed by the judge aim
came back to sit with me agaiiL
To me he whispered, "The next
move is up to you. You’ve got to
get him free!” ( ' f 1
The next move was not up to
me, however. I was flabbergasted
when Harvey McGuire got
feet and requested
present a witness on Jerry's
“I wish to question William
he said, “now being held an a
cotics charge. I believe.”
Our hearts sank as CB1M wM
brought in under guard and tMB
the witness stand.
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