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VOL. 43.—NO. 53.
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A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
The Weather
Thursday, partly cloudy,
cooler.
CUERO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3,. 1937
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
i\TopTallt ALLEGES CHURCH
OWES $3,785.19
The Record is more than
pleased with the success of
it’s 1937 Cooking school. We
are pleased because we be-
lieve that women of Cuero
and this vicinity received!_W*
real benefit from the school.
We are pleased because we
think cooperating business
men in this city and leading
manufacturers of popular
products from elsewhere con-
tributed a real service to j
housewives. Attendance at:
the 1937 school was splendid.
A new record in fact was es-
BACK SALARY
A. Allan Seeks
Collection of $3,785.19
From Grace Church.
New J-dge 1. Town, FAILS TO j
“1 REDUCE CROWD
COOK SCHOOL
Tells of Beatings
NO SUIT FILED
San Antonio Law^ Firm
Given Account For
Collection.
Collection of $3,785.19 which he
alleges due him in back salary will
be sought by Rev. Wm. A. Allan.
tablished All in all, the 1937 f°™er rector of the Grace Episcopal
pwwiniu. - church of this city, through San An-
school was the best ever stag-
ed by this newspaper if we are
to believe what our guests
l him in back salary delinquent over
this a period of years.
tonio attorneys, members of the>
church Vestry have been informed. J
According to letters received by i
Vestrymen, Rev. Allan has turned K
have told US during the past ^ account over to a San Antonio
three days. i law firm for collection. Suit has not
.t. z. | yet been filed.
Cuero is to be host to women1 ^ alleges tWs amount due
of fifty five’ counties
month When the West Texas j Members of the vestry claim that
Presbyterlal, district organ!-1 !° *
J ’ itlement upon leaving this city, that
zation of Presbyterian church the payment of the $700.00 was
auxiliaries meets in this city, made and that he signed an agree-
_____«... _ Hiefiraoi-;ment t° 11113 effect, thereby reliev-
We consider this a . distinet, ing the church of all further obli.
honor. Cuero should make an nations in the matter.
effort to make the stay of j----
these visiting church women a Nordheim Farmers
most delightful one. The
Chamber of Commerce and
other organizations should do
their bit to provide fitting en
mm
■
Final Day‘s Session Proves
to be Splendid
Affair. i
M A N Y FEATURES
i „ * * i
Miss Hogue Climaxes « 3-
Day Program With
Unusual Recipes.
^ .
1 A crowded house greeted Miss
; Jessie Hogue. nationally known
; home economist, as she opened the
final session of the Record’s eighth!
j annual cooking school at the city!
: auditorium. Wednesday afternoon.!
! Cloudy skies and occasional rain;
did not dampen the spirits of the j
Alfred P. Mur rah
I housewives of Cuero and vicinity, i
! who look forward to this ’ annual j
I event.
On the stage Wednesday the fol-
lowing tempting viands were pre-
pared by Miss Hogue and inspected
by those present: Beef tenders, a
Cudahy cabbage:
FEDERATION TO
HOLD MEETING
IN THIS CITY
Presbyterian Church to
j Be Scene of Meeting
March 11th.
TO PLAN MUSEUM
Definite Plans For Secur-
ing Museum be
Outlined. •
Joseph B, Ditzer
Appearing before the La Follett*
civil liberties committee in Wash-
ington, Joseph B. Ditzer, above,
organizer for the United Auto-
mobile Workers’ union, testifies
that a band allegedly led by Gen-
i eral Motors’ foremen beat up
dent’s first step toward a re juve-j Coca-Cola salad: K C Strawberry! union officials who tried to hold
Appointment of Alfred P. Mur-
rah, 33-year-old Oklahoma City traY of f=alads,
lawyer, as federal district judge Westinghcuse special breakfast:
in Oklahoma is seen as the presi- Hotpoint Thrift Cooker dinner;
nation of the federal judiciary. Biscuit: Green, Pink and yellow
Murrah, the father of two chil- Ribbon Pie; Admiration Coffee Di-
dren, will hold a roving Judge- vinity
ship assisting Oklahoma’s three Mlss Hogue at the r t of
th“ of the bouse wives, showed how to
ate confirms the appointment, makp Admiration coffee.
Start Seed Block j
Nineteen farmers in the Nord- j
heim community will plant 216 ]
Murrah will be the youngest
judge on the federal bench.
—Central Pm**
Featured dishes on Miss Hogue’s
program Tuesday included roast
beef (German style) Boston Cream I
a rally in Saginaw, Mich, on Jan.
26. Ditzer, who charged that he
was slugged with a blackjack in
a Saginaw hotel by members of a
“loyalty committee” in a General
Motors plant in Saginaw, further
testified that union men were at-
tacked at' Bay City also by so-
called loyal workers and foremen.
Club women from all sections of
this county are expected in Cuero
on March 11th for the regular quar-
terly meeting of the DeWitt cdunty
Federation of Womens clubs.
, The meeting which opens at 11 a.
m. will be held in the annex of the
Presbyterian church, according to
the President, Mrs. J. A. Oswalt, and •
it is hoped that every member club
will be represented.
Plans for the sponsorship of a De-
Witt county museum are to be dis-
cussed and a definite program for
the ceration of the museum outlined.
A Texas program will be enjoyed
during the noon hour at which time
picnic lunches will be spread. All
members are asked to bring their
lunches.
Reporta on the finances of the
various clubs over the county will
be the chief business matter to be
discussed, Mrs. Oswalt said. All club
secretarys are being asked to bring
in their financial report.
| acres of State Certified cotton seed !
tertainment for our visitors, as the first step in establishing a j
The Record welcomes these j seed block for the production of good
seed which can be distributed to
other farmers hi this area at a
will be' cost of wily a few cenfs above oil
women to Cuero.
that their stay here
most beneficial, and we also i mm prices
believe most pleasant. 4. ““ “°°°* "f1
^ i tablished. in the county in co-op-
* * * jeration with the Texas Blackland
Tomato planting is soon to, Cotton Association in their cam-
be the order of the day and paign to have the black land coun-
-v, ... i___j ties in Texas standardize on one
from all reports this tanned-. Und of coUon tot bl0c(.
late section i§ going to have j established at Concrete.
one of the largest tomato | -
acreages ever planted in the
MEN’S CLASS
HAS ELECTION
, pie and Date Nut Cake. Recipes for j
; these dishes were printed in Tues-1
i day afternoon’s Daily Record and 1
• repeated on the Food Pages of J
. Wednesday’s Weekly edition.
In addition to being a very ex- J
| pert cook Miss Hogue is a talented :
i speaker and has managed to keep
Jher audiences well entertained dur-
4-H CLUB WORK
IS GROWING
Penney Company
Baby Department
Announced Today
L. J. Philips New Presi-ii.g^theihwrtfe^of theschooL:<^l Fifty4wo Boys EnrolledMaj“ty T*e according
dent of Presbyterian sparkling wit kept her hearers in in Work Over DeWitt I announcement of W. O. White,
Men’s Class.
j constant good humor.
Miss Hogue took occasion cn the
A: J. Phillips was elected Presi- iflnal day 10 thank the sponsors who
dent of the Presbyterian Men’s ma<le possible The Records 8:h An-
Class. Rudolph Evers. vice-Presi- !nual Cooking School. They are
County.
J. C. Penney Co. has opened a
department devoted entirely to His
to
lo-
cal manager.
The department is located on
j the mezzanine floor of the building
Fifty-two DeWitt county boys aKrectlve build.in oteatlires
have enrolled in 4-H Club work ac- ! have ^ added. There one may
___________________ The Internationa:- Milling Com- : cording to application cards on file j find infants and youngsters wear-
j Vice-President, as the organization • pany, makers of Robin Hood flour: in the county agent’s office. Thirty- ing apparel attractively displayed,
met in regular session here Tues- The Duncan Coffee Company, man- two boys will have hogs as their jTliere 15 a *dde ran&e stock
Was dest and James McCurdy, second
be in
stock
day night. H. W. Nagel was re- j^mers of Admiration Coffee; ; demons'tration FoUr “ 0f_ them j fr?™ wbiC,h toT5h™se’ „
_______ i ■■■ ■- ■ ■ ■ mil elected secretary The Jaques Manufacturing Com-i Mrs. Helen Benton will
'rsZT'Lrzt(ML6TH“
Farmers have had their «« ATK1L W W — ZSSXSSZ ^
Aid™, Marshal Si j MDO 711C DA MM
planting the tomatoes to the; and Tax Assessor-Col- . --I LU‘3r-f11^
field. Indications are that! lector be Named. |followed by a short program. j Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Th? Five Hundred Rebels 1
In Mystery Death
■i
m
Genevieve Legnon
Five persons, including two girl*,
were held incommunicado at Don-
aldson ville, La, in connection with
the death of Genevieve Legnon,
17, shown above. The body of
Miss Legnon was found on a
roadside near Donaldsonville. The
five held told authorities that the
girl, was killed by a hit-and-run
driver soon after the plwty left •
roadhouse.
—Central Fret*
TEXANS URGED
TO OPPOSE PLAN
OF PRESIDENT
Senator Tom Conally
Flays Plan to “Pack”
Supreme Court.
DERIDES LIBERALS
Says Court Would Be-
come Tool of Execu-
tives.
enlarge 1
CHARGED wrm
THEFT OF CAR
Man Claiming to be From
Seattle, Washington,
Is Charged Here.
Charges of. car theft have been
filed against Art Lewis of Seattle,
Washington, a transient, arrested
here Monday night following an
attempt to steal a car belonging to! ^ tbe only Protector he has
AUSTIN. Mar. 3 —f!MS>—4Ten&8
were called on to rally
Presidents proposal to
personnel erf the United States Su-
preme Court and to defend the high
tribunals independence by U. S.
Senator Tom Connally who spoke
last night before a Joint session of
the Texas legislature.
Connally declared that efforts to
“pack" the supreme court
additional judges was “a
to avoid the submission of a
tutional amendment Co the
He pointed to the Re
posal as a grave threat to
“fundamental foundations of
ican Democracy," and
if allowed to proceed
gress, It would set a da
cedent of liberty would
bulwarks of liberty and
rights in this country for
generations.
Connally referred to
Interior Harold L. Ickes, who
from the same platform to
President’s proposal ten days
as a “Republican from ar
state.”
The issue was not one of
politics but struck at the
tradition and fundamental
mental principles, the Senator
phasized.
A large audience gave
sustained applause through
dress.
Senator Connally warned
that some of Its leaders had
ed the court reorganization
of Congress, and urged the
man to recognize the supreme
SERVICES FOR
S'3^^ss^^!mADRID TARGET I^SSksSSI
' be named by voters who go to the
jpany; Southwest Gas Company: j mtdrid. Mer
. Wedemeier Florist; Oscar Probst
3.—(INS)—Five
can be expected on the open-;^“be“ dnWdinjj at nih a|1NC 'STirTl^rry Brah£.7,- hund(ed rebc,s hate tecB kllled and
ing market. At least we’ll hope j to an election notice appearing in; llr* K||j lllj 11 ^ {tailers of cooking utensils; The Elire !wcunded m tw0 days fighting on thc
for the best. (today’s Record. r VI U U .Beauty Shop; The Bass Brown; Madrid fronts, it was reported
^ S(i sf, ; Terms of Aldermen Seekamp. j --- Bilt Shoe Store; Koehler Drv Goods [ credibly today as Loyalist officials
| S^n^?ucr^^ues i ! m tne tet-
and it’s not unlikely that a! Thre€ 150111118 places wiU be main's Casualties. • cream.
’ .tamed this year, votes to be receiv- | . -
t^sl Vail be started in that'.ed at the Kennedy Paint Shop, The i MADRID. Q ,,uc'
area soon. A well known oil City Hall and the Court House.
prospector has a large acreage! “
under lease in the Verhelleifarm Debt Official
section at this time and oil l To AAeet Fanners
prospecting c^ews have been! —_
, . a-,. | • (Former Resident of This
Killed in Fighting County Buried in
Hillside.
Alfred Koenig, well known DeWitt
county citizen.
j Lewis has been bound over to the
(June term grand jury and is now
being held in the DeWitt county
jail.
He was arrested thirty minutes
after the attempted theft by Dep-
uty Sheriff Henry Wied. Wied
was called after Lewis had outdis-
tanced pursuers who witnessed the
attempted theft, and picked up the
man some blocks from the scene
of the incident.
‘ :
! tic for possession of Oviedo,
ice j Government troops, it was stated,
»have completed surrounded Oviedo.
Mar. 3—(INS)—Long-
! range “Big Berthas." firing frem ;
i emplacements more than five miles1
south of the outskirts of Madrid, to- |
day inflicted heavy casualties on
the capitals civilian population.
German batteries of heavy ar-
working the area for more! "Farmers whose land is threat-! tillery" were biamed fcr the' at-
would welcome a little oil play.1 such a lat€ date committee- i famed Hm of
_T , . , -■ .‘men oft— — *~ ' * ’ * •
Yorktown is now enjoying a sistance
Contest To Encourage
Planting Of Uniform
Grade Of Cotton
eXP*hi ^ Flanting of a uniform grade of , ton. His seed must have been de- ! Donald.
0%er t“l! cotton in DeWitt county is to be ( veloped by recognized seed breed-j
"ne„ can b. of decided aa-i^S ^ P^| | ^
FYmeral services were held at 3
o’clock Wednesday afternoon for
Mrs. Mary Zuspann, 61 year old
former resident of this county, who
died March 2nd in Houston.
Services were held from the
Freund F’uneral Chapel and inter-
ment was in Hillside cemetery.
Mrs. Zuspann leaves her husband.
Adam Zuspann, and four children
by a former marriage. They arc
Fritz E3senhuth of Lubbock. Charles
of Houston, John of Houston and
Mrs. Theresa Ryan of Houston. Two
sisters and four brothers also sur-
i vive.
Pall bearers were Joseph and Fro-
bese F'ullencheck. Joseph. Arthur
and Henry Karm and Seward Mc-
says P. B.
miniature boom, and another i district fawn debt adjustment su -! working-class residenS^* Quarter teSt announced Wednesday by J. years removed from the breeding
in DeWitt county would do no pervtsor’ w^° wUl be in Cuero next -------- -----—---- ,uJ w Arnold of the Cuero Chamber block.
harm.
4» ♦ *T
The Alamo Lumber com-
pany is to be host to farmers
and interested citizens of this
Madison Jr., • suia into the __
„ ., ., , quarter, ^ Arnold of the Cuero Chamber block. The seed must have been
I Monday, March 8th. DeWitt Co. j SJuf statement* said 3ma?e' * jof Commejce. | kePt from becoming mixed with
j farmers desiring financial. advice J ___‘___ i The contest will be a county- ; other varieties in the process of
■should plan to meet with him and m \r . i vi ! wide contest and will be sponsored ginnings. The variety selected by
| the local committee at the Court
President’s Plan
To Revamp Court
Is Issue in Race
oourt is
WILL BEGIN
TRANSPLANTING
Farmers to Start Work of
Planting Tomatoes in
Field This Week.
^transplanting of tomatoes from
cold frames to the fields will be un- I gram in Congress, I can not
governmental domination of
wages and industry as a whole,
pointed to the harsh
Europe as labors future if the pro-'
teetton of the courts and the con-
stitution is taken away from It im
this country.
He derided the so-called Liberate"
who have been urging the adaption
of the Roosevelt court proposal a*
those who would find
curbed in thought, action,
cf speech and press if the
weakened to a point where K
become the tool of future ea
and congressional bodies.
Introduced by Gov. James V. All-
red. Senator Connally at once
launched into his attack on the
court proposal. Stressing his dose
personal and political association
with President Roosevelt. ConnaBy
said that the issue was above and
beyond personal friendship.
“While I have supported the
President in 1932 and in 1938 and
with few exceptions, his great pro-
derway by the end of the week, Ar-
thur Means, local tomato culturist.
said Wednesday.
Means declared that tomato plants
w’ent through the cold weather
without harm and that the Cuero
area would probably have an acre-
age of between two hundred and
fifty and two hundred and seventy
five acres this year.
"While some farmers will not
start transplanting until next week,
a number will start the work by
House at 2 p. m.
Farmers who are unable to at-
tend the meeting should contact
House VOteS Hike j by the Cuero Chamber of Com- , each community must hive produc-
'fax Oil QjJ merce- DeWitt County Ginners and ed an average staple length of 15-1G
other cotton manufacturing con- inch
section at a free movie at the|a committeeman beforehand and AUSTIN. Mar. 3 »INS) A
AUSTIN, Mar. 3 —(INS)—The Pres-
idents plan to recamp the supreme
court became today the vital issue
or longer on variety tests j jn the Tenth flfihgressional District
(cents in this county. ^ made at the Texas Agricultural race for the office
$15.- | The cotton contest will be on a Expe riment Sub-Station or U. S. J the death of
and I will not vote for legislation to
bring about the proposed shartf* In
the supreme court without first sub-
mitting the issue to the people," the
junior senator said.
“The oath I took,” Connally con-
tinued,” before I took a seat in the
Senate, was the only one required. I
did not have to swear to support any
proposal or to upheld any political
program, but only to uphold the
Constitution. J stand today to up-
hold all of It.”
Tracing the history of the caq-
stitution. the senator pointed out
its provisions creating the
Hieh School AndltnHnm thi«igive Wm complete information i000-000 ‘"crease in the oil production one-variety-cotton community Cctton Breeding Station. Cotton j Buchanan.
s u nuuuonum about their problems. Farmers |tax was finallv apureved bv the Tex- basis in wHich communities will breeders of farmers growing cotton I Polk Shelton, dynamic young Aus-
who plan to attend the meeting as House today. The bill now goes to (Compete against each other. s planting seed for breeders under | tin attorheV and war veteran nr.-
should bring with them a complete ithe for further considera- To qualify as an entrant in this contract will not be eligible to
evening, the picture entitled.
‘‘Hidden Treasures.” The Key
Fridav or Saturday.” Means stated.
freWitt county tomatoes should bo i •“
ady to pick by the early part ot!“>£ “d, c,Ue?^
jin the history of the world,” mi
_ sakl that today ‘It is the only
ce made vacant by . j ten constitution of supreme j
Congressman J. P. | Motorist Escapes t in the universe.”
In Train Smash He rev,ew'd ,he checks “>
ready
May.
nounced his candidacy today on a
LOGAN. Utah.
_a«_. w». _ . , j list of creditors ad the amount tioi*. t contest a community must be gen- compete in the contest. i niatform of oDoosi’ion "to inv niui „ , , . ,_ . j , ,
tone Wire company is CO-|owed each inc]Uding unpaid taxes ! The bil1 by Jasper Reed cf Texitr- erally recognized as such. It shall The entire cotton crop grown by | which threatens the irdependenc? |Many pers°ns have tar«led 1 el! jJJJ®ra c ^ were
---—— *- «—*—• .... — ■*---- -k- „----- * • - - - -• • • * cars with railroad steam engines but 1P«>pie.
bal-
ances provided by the constitution
1 for the three branches of govem-
Mar. 2.—(INS)—jment. He said that adequate checks
vested In
p : barrel cn oil. If the price of oil is listed in the county agent's pro- of the contest shall be entered
' above $1. as at present, the tax U gram. During the first year it the contest,
i 6 per cent t>f value. shall represent a minimum of five For a community to qualify in
Debated all day Monday, the bill cotton producers or contestants*who this contest, not less than 90% of
wic oujjiciiir cuuri. |
ln Already in the race was Lyndon | have lived to tell about it.
Johnson, former NY A director, who j M. F. Phillips tangled his car with j
is running on a “support-thc-Pres-;one and he can tell you about it,
ident" platform. Several other vividly. That’s what makes Phillips i
Rock Slide Kills
Seven Workmen
was finallv passed in less than ten shall pledge themselves to partici- the cotton of all contestants shall candidates are expected :c enncunce !an outstanding individual.
operating in bringing this I The volunteer committee is com- kana- levies a tax of 6 cents per; center around a school district as each contestant during the period of the supreme court.
picture to Cuero and it is said!13055611 of J- T- Newman, j. ' ’ ”
to be most interesting. DronjBnd8er and J' J Fteher-
by the high school auditorium Small Craft Get
around 8 o’clock tonight and:
see this picture. It will carry1
a beneficial and Interesting; NEW ORLEA~
message. And Terry Newman.WINS) -The Weather r.xrriI mr ml, move, .sevrir1 enuv owned term units
manager Of the Alamo Lumber! mornin? issued a. small craft warn- amendments voted down on Mcndav shall further represent a minimum Each contestant must agree to
company, has promised SOmeil2frif?.rrth!. Te*fS COBSt B“reau iwould havp hppn re-offered Of three hundred acres of cotton prepare his cotton land for plant-; All indications pointed to a bit- trolman Earl Hunsaker who wit- 'south o< here.
rri^rac^^nlr.attentlanCe!i ‘ ^Ccol”‘ ^|tSS
Warning Tdav mlnutes lts bI0IJ°nents cut off pate in this contest as a communi- classify 15-16 inch staple or long^. and embrace t’re President's court Phillips was driving on the high- i FOLSON. MontMar. 3.—(INS)—■
_ ! 311 debate by voting he previous tv; contestants shall represent cot- the classification to be in accord- plan. (way toward Brigham City when his ! Seven Indian workmen were
t w ;question. \ete on the previous ques- ton farming operations on a mini- ance with approved methods and; An address by Senator Tom Con-icar plowed into the engine of a;and three others injured
a.. a.. .. Jtion w;^ ifi to 63. mum of five separately and differ- official standards of the U. S De- nally last night in opposition to the i speeding train. The car was dragged 'when a rock slide 100 feet in
ureau .1 Excop for this move. severe! entlv owned farm units, and it partment of Agriculture. 'court expansion added significancv* 10 rods before being tossed clear of i roared down a steep canyoci along
must agree to to the issue in the district. the train .according to Highway Pa- the Flathead river seven ' mii^
4 off bv the previous question
must grow the same variety of cot
'Continued on Page 8.)
main point of controversy.
The car was badly damaged.
.swept down the canyon walls.
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