The Cuero Daily Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1925 Page: 1 of 6
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CUERO STAR and CUERO NEWS
We have no right to Succeed Unlesa We can Render Real Service to our Community,
90 CENTS
CUERO, DeWITT COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22. 192S
VOL. 62, NO. 18
OUR COLUMN
Tragedy At End Jazz Trail
Swindling Is
Filed Here
Mrs. W. F. Holly, 42, former
dent of near Cheapshie, and her
pan ion, Mrs. L. D. Berry, 58, of G
were killed at 5 o’clock Wedne
afternoon, when the antomoblh
which they tfoe Titling was shM
a 8. A, 4b A. P. train at Greed,
mites south of Kenedy. }
eat for a franchise to
in the car wKk in a iww- MM
not hurt in Okie fatal Crash. Tt
I belonged to Mrs. Roes McCai
Kenedy. . ; ^
Mre. Brfrry was killdg to
Mrs. Holly was taken to the I
at Kenedy, but died on the op
table. Mrs. Berry leaves t I
fad step child. Mrs. Holly
vlved ^7 her husband and one
Members of the train crew w
able to explain ho# the baby i
death in the. erash. The ehi
pinned in tk* wreckage eC the t
was texrricated by traiamt
scratched. -i..,
Funeral serrices for
be held at Ftotonia Thurs#*
noon. Mrs. Hatty vfll M i
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“Remember the Devil lived in
Heaven until he knocked his own
home town.
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Of course Ctiero has no knock-
ers we Used to have a few but
they have moved away} thank
goodness, and they really haven’t
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been mfcsod; those who remained,
not knockers, are rejoiced that
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they act gone and fervently hope
will stay gg||»,
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At this time just when the in-
come tax returns, must soon be
*W®, 6;Wj*Ujaeetand pamper
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that
lito affifi we gTve Our Uotumn s
space today to the following article
headed
Tax Law
Depart-
Reports.
most
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with the proper internal
by March 16. and
to call attention, to 'cer-
made by the new 1924
Man Giving Name of W. Wil-
liams Held at Eagle Lake
on Advice local Officers.
A man giving his name as W. Wil-
liams is being held in Eagle Lake for
Cuero authorities following the filing
of a charge of swindling against him
in the DeWtit county court in connec-
tioa witlt the ”Uy*t6rUma;j$#n a*
vertfsthg scheme which was recently
worked on local merchants. '
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position, and
ent to get the
sabftcribe. The
not Joined the
The complaint i against Williams
was filed by a local merchant, one of
the victims of the alleged fake game
jit was filed in the county court be-
cause the amount involved in this
particular merchant’s case was less
than $50. Other similar charges may
be filed in connection with amounts
secured from other merchants, coun-
ty officials said.
The charge- of swindling grew out
of alleged.false .representations said
to have been m&d# bjf*ffiMlllams to
As ttvthe great majority of indm 'imerchants who were prospective pa-
uals, these changes relate particular- tnms of his advertising scheme. In
ly to rates, credits, and character of talk. og!c||j allege, Williams
income. The net normal tax rates told pospects thatSfreral of the big-
are: 2% on the first $4,000. of net ln* gest merchants hi pKf 'city had taken
come in exceas of the credits allow- j advantage of the
ed (these credits will be explained used this as an a;
later); 4% on the next $44)00; tod other merchants
6% on the remainder. These are in big merchants had
tn* 4 « and 8% rates under scheme, officers alleged.
® 1 The mysterious key scheme was a
l which Merchants pv.id a cer-
which w%re to
to patrons buying a
wertain amflftiM^ffi ftWWffiiatffiiser^esf
- j,., •■wir3r,Wm J**y* were good ^mraPftgses to the
ated and ffirev 1% on the net incom £jlcw an(j there wlv supposed to be
In excess of $10,000 and not ®**ia lucky key in the lot that would
tees of $144)00; 2% on the ne^t $ , open a The Voider of this key
or fractional part thereof, and so on wa8 ^ a prize_
np to 40% in excess 6f $500,. j Officers this monflng^l^timated that
The credits allowed for the norma ; j0C3j merch^ntg had lost as mnch as
tM,aaly are: the amounts received as|$250 in the project
is from domeetic corpormulh11 Following the filing'of ..the com-
the case, of ft ,ingl®JJer80^|* plaint here agidtet*%ilHamsf Sheriff
- ^ (AJ4.0O0, °^ ‘“ ous Lens traced the taan- td’ Eagle
the -case of the head 1 Lake and he was taken into custody
a MMWtnd person living with haabpnd offlcers there at re<1uest of
or wife, * P®™*1*1 Sheriff Lens. '
HIM The husband and e t a deputy wtllbe sent '‘from the lo-
tpgether can have bar one - pe , office either today or tomorrow to
heretofore. |
« W, dlBtribu
the husband
returns, the
.here to answer
pending
Oftnrt.
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GET NATURAL GAS
IN FROM VICTORIA
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Prospect For Immediate Supply For
ing City From Refagio Fields Stitt
Local Officiais To Action
Activity on the part of Cuero looking toward securing
ply of natural gas for the city has been stirred by
ment of negotiations now being ca
Moody and Seagraves of Galvesto:
from wells of the Pratt-Hewitt
which has been purchased by the
Efforts to Interest the firm in pip-
ing gas to Cuero was started today
with the mailing of a letter to W. L.
Moody of Galveston by J. C. Carring,
ton, secretary of the local Chamber
of Commerce. This move was made
following receipt of a telegram yes-
terday by Mayor Sitterle of Victoria
from Mr. Moody asking the earliest
date he coaid present a request'for a
franchise to distribute natural gas in
that city. With it almost definitely
assured that gas will be piped tQ Vic-
toria. it is hoped that the company
may be interested in extending a
branch to the line from Victoria to
Cuero, a distance of. only 28 miles.
The following article which ap-
peared in the Victoria Advocate Wed-
nesday gives the status of the nego
tiations for a gas supply in that city:
“Victoria received its most definite
assurance of a natural gas supply to-
day when Mayor S. S. Sitterle receiv-
ed a telegraphic inquiry from W. L.
Moody as to the earliest date he could
DOROTHY ELLINGSON
Pretty Dorothy Elling3on, 16. pf Los Angeles, Calif., is now languishing be-
hind prison bars, with the blood of her mother in gruesome splotches on her
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hands and facing imprisonment for the rest of her life—all. the priee of
jazzmania. Her case has been referred.to. Juvenile’authorities and she will
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likely be. committed to a school of correction.
tarn yftur with
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A fractional part of
Is disregarded unless amount j
mre than one-half of a month,
In which case it is considered as a
whole mouth
JERSEY CITY, Jan. 22.—Judge Eagan today dismissed the
juiy in the fAfrious Hudson County liquor cases when they re-
potted they were hopelessly deadlocked. Ten policemen and
• two civilians were on trial for liquor violations. It was during
_ “ this trial &at federal agents testified that Senator Edward I.
or”singie or the' Edwards led a huge rum ring packed by banks.
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Victoria mail
Crushed As
Piling Falls
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Two Killed, Four Injured ii
Accident at Corpus
Wednesday.
Charred Remains Found in Ruins.
TEMPLE, Tex., Jan. 22.—Mystery today continued to sur-
round the discovery of the charred body of a man in the smoul-
Aaother change In the new law is dering embers of the farm home of P. J. Bendel, eight miles car Wednesday afternoon, according
west of Temple- Whether the body is that of Bendel is not !to warrl received here this monnng
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The are, of unknown origin, is being inves- ;he itA weJsht wa, reMvt.., ventence „4 economy of natnn l m
C. W. Kessler of Victoria and a
comanien, K. W. Hull of Arkansas,
were crushed to cfoath and four oth-
er persons were hurtt two critically,
when a carload of piling at Port
Site, Corpus Christi. rolled from the
that relating to “Earned Income.
THU term me»n. w.ge» .alarle. pro- definitely kno‘wn
ctw«i"^a'^mpaMaMon' lor'“parwnal ligated, with a hint of foul play dropped by offlcers.
services actually rendered. Earned / 4 • T ■
net income means the excess of the A*k* $100,000 For Husband’s Affection
amount of the earned income over the
distribute
“Mr. Moody 1* a member of the .wide-
ly known firm of Seagrapee and
Moody of Galveston, which owns ex-
tensive manufacturing plants in that
city and some months ago contracted
with the Pratt-Hewiu Co., for the gas
output from the company’s wells near
Woodsboro in Refugio county, propon-
ing to pipe the gas through Victoria
anjl Housjm to Galveston whqn a suf-
ficient supply was assured. The
Pratt-Hewitt Co. is now patting down
additional wells to provide the supply
specified in the contract.
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The Houston Oil Company.; Which
controls a number of gas wells In the
Live Oak County field, where Ban
Antonio obtains jts gas supply, Is now
making a survey for a' pipe line to
extend to Beerflla and thence along
the route of the Southern Pacific
road to Houston. It la this rival Una
that perhaps moved rieapnjivii and
Moody to action jefiftiilhng £ Vfefom
franchise, although it had been. TO
mored that all intervening
would be paaebd up. byrboth iinw
cause of a ruling by the* State Rail-
road Commission requiring gas to fie
supplied to the towns through which
such lines tub. and the dealrO’ajt the
Concerns* laying' the lines to reserve
their whole supplies for Houston and
Oatrestan.
The Moody telegram proves that
this rumor is uJ^founded. l^’^east with.
reference to Victoria, and it' came aifJ
a very happy surprise as it is realized
that few things will contribute more
to the growth of the city than cheap
fuel by reason of the manufacturing
Six men were on the car unloading j enterprises it will foster. The cor
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By International Ne#»
DALLAS, Jaa. «.-
recently expelled from
& M. College for basing. H. H.
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sum of the earned income deductions. SAN ANTONlO^TfiX., Jan. 22. Chaiging alienation of hei against concrete piers, crushing th
Earned Income deductions are those former husband’s affections, Mrs. Beartice Real of Kerrville to- two men beneath.
A weight was remove i venience and economy of natural gas 2^, of Princeton, T*Uibv*M
or.? side, supports on the op- for household uses is also appreciated through the brain in a do
pc -ita s;le gave way and 53 piles. With receipt of the Moody inquiry here sometime during tM
each weighing 3.000 pounds, rolled interest was increased in the propo- hours. The tragedy was
down the embankment. jamming ?’! for the establishment of a cotton today when the body was
discoi
mill here.
t'nder the city charter adopted by
hotel employes.
The young man left three
ria in 1916 no franchise can be one *1'* mother, one to his
allowed by Section 214 of the statue day filed suit for $100,000 damages against Mrs. Martin Dies, Charles Hanson of cor..
(which is too long to be quoted here) widow of the late Congressman ,Dies of Beaumont. Mrs. Real and c E Wftrner are in u
Whteh are properly allocable to Or ,______t-,.-_____, i_______i ____t_____there in a critical condition, both bad-|same has been submitted to a vote o!
•harges Mrs. Dies and her husband, Fred Real, a nephew of the
r.ted by the City Council until the* 1,eart an<t one .to President
Btzzell of the College. He
rnmafl each (Reductions are netgll-
db!«. if the tax payer’s net income
on other boys or they might
same route. He said the BUS]
had rnuined him.
far1 as0the late Senator Julius Real, maintained a love nest in San Antonio |lfa ““S^of corpus^uff^rerLvIre ItTv^6 SbortTafre^ the adoptmn “ “
salaried individual is con- where he was wooed away from her. * i injuries but are expected to recover. I of the charter an application for a
. - ■ in- jr i. • j ---1—— jfias franchise was made by an indi-
Pu.h Ferguson Exoneration Move. henry hopF 0le. 1^^.?^“ Tapin'
as earned in- AUSTIN, T^x., Jan. 22.—The Senate today was the scene of
net Income h» more added impetus to the move to exonerate Jim Ferguson of the
was withdrawn. However, the appli-
« less than $5000, but in no ca8e introduced.
yma when another resolution to that end was
Selrator Price. Daingerfield took the floor this
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morning and aihtd.the committee of five to devise ways and
mAfina nf Accomnliahing the exoneration. J. Roy Hardin ap-
”ei!r} a l01!* tlt" re3id^n^ of cant paid an the expenses of the elec-
Goliad county, living near Ander. < “
died Wednesday morning at his home,1 on' - __;
as a result of a short illness-, friends •
here learned this morning. Funeral i Masonic Meeting Friday,
services were conducted from the.
Regular gUted meeting Cuero
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m ye»terd»y. Both resolutions, h<>me « s 0'c",cl‘ ... .... M Prid„ ....
J 1 Hoff has resided in this section many Lodge. 409. At F. tt A. M. Friday, Jaa-
nary 22. 1.20 o’etook Visiting broth-
___ .. # | non nas restaea m section many
)dnesday. Mettnwhile g nujority of fmn ^ A mu.
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BARN DCSTftOVttO BV
A small bain at tbe
Mrs. Henry Hots near tto
mill was destroyed by fire
nesday afternoon. Tbe origin
fire is ugkaown. Tbe Una #**
officials said.
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