The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 117, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1937 Page: 1 of 6
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VOL. 43.—NO. 117.
CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1937
SIX PAGES TODAY
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If Cuero’s Future Farmers
prove as excellent in tilling
the soil as they do in the role
of host, then agricultural fu-
ture of DeWitt county is as-
sured success. [ Fred Hansen
and his boys were hosts to
dads and other guests at a
banquet staged in the Pres-
»rian church annex
Thursday evening, and no
more enjoyable banquet has
been held in Ouero in many
months. Incidentally the boys
proved to be after dinner
speakers of par excellence.
BONDED DEBT !
THIS COUNTY
IS REDUCED
Debt $25,000 Lower Than
It Was in January of i
. This Year.
$825,500 DEBT
Yoakum and Yorktown
District Most Heavily
Bonded.
CORONATION OF ENGLAND’S KING
§!
DeWitt county’s bonded indebted-
ness has been reduced $25,000 since
the January quarterly report, the
The Future Farmers organi- report made by County Auditor Nic
sation is proving a most) Ladner to the Commissioners Court
FUTURE FARMERS PROVE
PERFECT HOSTS TO DADS
HERE THURSDAY NI6HT
Cuero’s Future Farmers of America proved the “perfect
hosts” here Thursday night at a banquet honoring dads and
other guests. The banquet was the second annual Father ahd
Son Banquet sponsored by the Turkey Trot Chapter of Future
Farmers and set a new standard for entertainment.
More than one hundred guests attended the delightful
affair held in the basement of the Presbyterian church. •
High praise was paid to Fred Hansen, sponsor of the lo-
cal Future Farmers club, for the accomplishments he has
—-------— registered during the' past
worth - while organization.
this week revealed.
Total bonded indebtedness
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Fled Hansen has established;
“ . .. DeWitt county at this time *s
A splendid record. and the $325,500 as compared to $850,500 on
work should be given every January 1st, of this year.
rnnufotnio I The Yorktown and Yoakum dis-1
encouragement. Congratula- ^ ^ heaJlest
tjons to Hansen and members district* in the county. The yob- ;
Of the Future Farmers on bum road district, Road District
their 1937 banquet * bonded ‘ndebttdDe* ot
* * * The Yorktown District, District
“I believe in less power in No. 2. bears a bonded indebtedness
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TEXAS SOLON
IS CHARGED
two years in this city.
Members of the club were
in sole charge of the program,
with Walter Rohre as toast-
master.
Interesting features indod-
Representative From
Beaumont Held After
begging and
more in bar-
gaining,”—that statement is
a portion of the creed of the j $673,000, Ladner’s report
Future Farmer.
erf $209,000. t
Total county wide bonds amount
, to $152,500 and total district bonds
further
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and events ot a $4700 steam shovel
of the past year or so have headed the list erf accounts ap-
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■ffPUfe* W.
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Man Killed.
AUSTIN, Tex., May 14.—(INS.)—
Charged with the early morning
Fred Buchel; response by Bill
Lau, history of the F. F. A. by
Billy Weber, purpose of the F. F. A
by Norris Schreter, F. F. A %-aed
by Arthur Kullin, report
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made that feature
creed a most Important one.
The trouble is that there are
not more Future Farmers
living by such a creed. Power
In begging has increased
while power in bargaining
has decreased. Laziness has
put more men on relief than
the £oU weevil or the potato
bug. In fact, if the boll weevil
and potato bug had to de-
pend upon what they could
find on some of these "relief”
farms they would starve to
death. .
¥ * *
The State Highway Depart-
ment has been trying for
some time to get some defin-
ite information on highway
travel in order that that de-
partment might learn where
it might Improve its service to
the public. To this end every
purchaser of an auto license
this year was given a post
card on which were some
questions which he was to
answer and mail it to the
department. These cards re-
quired no postage and yet, at
last reports, less than half
the purchasers of license in
Lavaca county have returned
these cards. At the time this
report was issued the highway
department had no available
data to report from DeWitt
county. The point we
driving at is this: People will
of the proved by the court.
No business of special importance j
was considered by the court, the
allowing of ■ accounts and transac-
tion of regular business matters be- 1
lng the only feature.
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King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are shown after crown ing ceremonies with their daughters, Princesses Elizabeth
and Margaret Rose during coronation in London Wednesday, May 12. Others shown in this picture are members of the
court. —Central Press Radio-Soundphoto.
hotel corridor killing of Herman 700111 w°7*. fleld trips and____
Hicks, Houston oil man. Represen- Joba projects by James Netaw.
tative B.r E. Quinn of Beaumont explanation of F. A. A symbols feu
was released on $1,000 bond today, i *farv3n Jaro8*ewskf’ i58por
j Representative Quinn waived an chapter _acttvit.ies by Henry
examining trial but reserved the “an and i\ dl8CU88lcn
right to ask one later, according to “ P™**** by Stanley
Justice of the Peace Paul Holt in and 1
whose court the charge was hied. . Mu^1
Police listed as witnesses, John ■ *
R. Sterritt, who was with Hicks. ^
Representative Homer Leonard of y___ .
Housekeeping No
Cinch Cuero Record
Reporter Learns
no cinch, r
After struggling for nine
minutes with a double arm-
ful of sheets and pillows in a
private bed-making exhibition
prior to the opening of the
Stowers Furniture Company’s
bed*-making contest, we’ve de-
cided 'to stick to news report-
ing.
Upon completion of our job;
the bed looked as if a pair of
acrobats had been turning
flips and back sumersaults on
it ail morning.
Incidentally the bed-making
contest, which offers most at-
tractive prises to Cuero house-
wives, continues through Satur-
day, and ladles adept at mak-
ing beds are invited to partici-
pate.
SENIORS WILL
PRESENT PLAY
“Romance in a Boarding
House” Class Offering
Tonight.
“Romance in a Bearding House”
will be the offering of the *1937 Se-
nior class of Cuero high school at
the senior high auditorium be-
ginning at 8 o’clock.
The play is said to be a rollicking
comedy, and promises to provide
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plenty of entertainment.
The cas* includes Fay Nell Meit-
: zen, Weyman Redmond, Doris
Morgan, Kirkscy Bennett, Chester
LeSage. Joyce Dahlman, Lander
Wofford, Jo Beth Montgomery.
Laura Jim McMurry. William Burt
i and Anna Bell Buehrig.
Cotton Dusting Machine
Shown By Cuero Firm
A new and practical cotton dust-
ing machine that retails at $85.00
was being demonstrated today by
the Cuero Machinery & Hardware
Co., which has taken the sales
agency few this territory.
The machine is of the blcwer type
J. C. Kossbiel, president of the
Cuero Machinery & Hardware Co.,
in commenting on the dusting ma-
chine said, “We have taken the
agency for this machine because we
are interested in seeing .»a cotton
crop made in this section and we
j and is manufactured at McQuecny i are convinced it can be made cer-
tain only through poisoning. This
machine is the most practical we
have ever seen and it is priced with-
in reach of the average farmer. It
OCEAN FUGHT
IS COMPLETED
Cuero Man Named
General Agent For
Insurance Co.
in south Texas from a model de-
signed by a Mr. Hagen of Lavaca
county. Its simple construction and
practical operation should make it
a favorite with the cotton farmers
of south Texas. It can be used for
dusting cotton plants with either
sulphur or other poisons and the
amount of poison forced into the
blower can be easily regulated
from the drivers seat. Motive pow-
er can be supplied either by two
animals or the machine can be
hooked on behind a tractor.
YOUNG KILLER
UNDER ARREST
McAllen, Senator Gordon Burns of
Huntsville, H. 8. Chefry of Dallas,
a Mrs. Gilfillan, E. G. Scott,
room clerk and Serman Wilson, a
bellboy.
Deputy Sheriff Paul Blair, who
with Judge Holt, accompanied and
talked with Quinn while he was
arranging bond, sakl he told them
that two men came to fate door on
- I the fifth floor of the Driskill Hotel
Declares He Prefers Chair early this morning and-were beat-
To Life in Peni- in« on threatening to “come in
. .. and whip me.”
tentiary. Steritts’ story was that he and
.. _ _ Hicks were together in a room
HAWTHORNE, N. Y., May 14. j across the hall from Quinn, whom
(INS)—Deputies of three states they did not know. The room
were in a rrtad race to reach here clerk called and asked them to be
today to pick up a youthful ex-
Sunday school teacher, quoted fis
accompaniment, on-
quiet.
police as calmly confessing to
fen Sewin'1 thf sS^i ^tton!three ««*-*“** holdup murders
and wflTdTthe job ” ° ° I Accompanying the youth when
his car was overturned by a New
sang to his own
the guitar.
Sponsor Hansen,
dads, urged that the bays
every encouragement to
the work they have been
on during the past
and pointed to the
by *£uaf exped^Qcc-to ifc
ing on of demonstration
At the eoncldatan of hi**v 1
presented oertifleafes . at
Joel Morrow, Allen
Buehhom. Bo ShuRs, >
cock and Staple?
certificates being awarded
have accomplished
achievement during the year.
Members of the
iliary served the banquet «
consisted erf cole slaw, veal
with barbecue sauce.
over 1
Steritt said he heard something
hit the door after the room clerk gratin, string beans,
called. Then something else cream, cake and coffee. '*
slammed against the door. Distinguished out of town
Steritt said he then suggested to m addition to dads included:
Hicks that they go see “who that is t. Q, Hawks Jr„
impress upon our farmer friends
the necessity of poisoning syste-
matically to insure best production.
- Randolph Larcade, young Cuero
Merrell And Lambic Land business man. today announced his
Early Today on Amer- appointment as general agent for
ican *Soil. the Ullion Central Life Insurance
— ( Company with a territory embrac-
QUINCY, Mass., May 14. (INS) jng seven counties. Lagcade will
Landing on the first ground »he> maintain headquarters in Cuero.
are I b*d 86611 Since leaving the coast of. xjjjg union Central Life Insur-
Ireland, Dick Merrill and Jack
RAIN NEARLY FIRST TOMATO
TWO INCHES SHEDOPENED
1.78 Inches Received Here Tomatoes Bringing Four
Mrs. Leonardt And Half Cents Here
Reports. Friday.
DeWitt county farmers beamed
Kossbiel was jubilant , ,... . . .. ... . ,. .. . , - _
Thursday’s rain “We have pros-1York state trooper was a pretty throwing bottles or water pitchers toria F. F. A.; John Hagler,
pects for a real cotton crop again • brunette, an expectant mother, who at our door.” They went across er of Vocational Agriculture,
in DeWitt county if we can just i lou.dly announced her intention to the hall and knocked, he said, and toria; C. D. Parker. District
“stick by” her lover. the door opened. “A man was visor Vocational Agriculture,
The young man is Lester W. standing there eating a sandwich.” ville; J. B. Rutland, State
Brockelhurst, 23, of Rockford, 111., I Steritt, according to officers asked visor Vocational Agrimfltmt^
H<* once lived in Dallas and is want- the man in the door whether he tin; Mr. Persons. District
ed for a Fort Worth murder. * was responsible for complaining to L ture Agent, College Station.
Charged with atrocious slayings the room clerk, and had been | -
that might have rated him in a throing things at the door. “We
federal circular as the nation’s No. swung at each other a couple of
1 killer, he proclaimed: “All I times. I heard a couple of cracks
want is to be taken to a "state but didn’t think it was a gun. Hicks
where I can burn. I don’t want slip to the floor. “Come on,” I
la life sentence.” said, “you are not shot,” and I
The youthful couple confessed reached down to. help him up and T____
that a desire for luxuries they got blood all over my hands.” # > __ 0
could not afford caused them to Hicks was shot through the neck British .Await
abandon Sunday school teaching with a 25 caliber revolver. Regarding Ship
for a career of crime and murder. Representative Quinn was at his — “
----desk this morning, surrounded by
Billy Miller Hurt members “d “mn* how
WAR
IS
Tomatoes brought four and one-
Larnbie, “coronation”
ance Company is an old line corn-
find fault and “cuss” the
Highway Department and the murk7 skies this afternoon for a
County commissioners about 20 minute pause to check their gas
roads and abuses on roads and
other matters about roads but
when that department
.TfufS ^ hCme routlo^rinlr4lLtiPona
trana-Atlantic^fliers, glided out_of office m Cincinnati. Ohio. The in Cuero totaled 17b
™ minute omu.se to cnecm tne.r COII,pany WaS formerly °P6r*ted in inches to Marion
uunuir pause 10 cnecx tneir Cuero by the ja-e Felix A. Hans. Leonardt eovernment weather re
oline supply at the Squantum Na- Larcade Ls at present ^n^rdt’ ?mernment wca her
val Air Station.
present assotwicu corder
Their stoD was useless however with his father in the operation of Fall in Cuero wa5 somewhac
•---- - • •• ’ .... - Larcade s Food Market on W. Main beavjer jn somP sections of the
asks for mechanics found they still had gtre€t He wiU continue
188 gallons of fuel aboard.
Friday after a soaking rain had half cents per pound here Friday
brought relief to suffering crops as the first shed opened for busi-
and a rosy tint to the agricultur- ness.
Approximately 800 pounds of to-
matoes were purchased at the Alex
Woldert & Company shed located
in the old potato curing plant with
Arthur Means in charge.
Albert White of the Five Mile
Blast.
to spend county but all portions of DeWitt j community broueht in the largest
them for a little Information 1UAfter "being treated" for “bad Part time at,t^e„?,r^ery c^1ring,^® county shared in the splendid fall.} amount of tomatoes.
and given coffee and
• cakes, the fliers took off for Floyd
gripers piekli N_ Y.. they landed
in order that they may give headaches
better service these
Just fail to function and this;it”2:40 p. m. (EDT) and took off at
leads us to the conclusion 3 p. m.
that there are plenty of peo- _ T «1AA
pie who are good at finding Farmer Pay* $100
fault but they are mighty
poor hands to give anything
in' the way of service.—Yoa-
kum Herald.
For False Tip
next several months and then Yorktown received more than an
plans to devote full time to the jncb of rain. Westhoff received
insurance business. His territoiy more than a quarter inch. The
embraces DeWitt. Victoria, Lavaca. stratton section received in the
Gonzales, Fayette, Goliad and Cal- neighborhood of an Inch. as did
hcun counties. Concrete and Hochheim.
Tomatoes, corn and feed crons
WPA Personnel To Will be greatly benefited. While the
D D j JO cotton was not in need of rain, no
Be Keduced boon harm was done to this crop.
A second tomato packing shed ls
episode occurred. , I LONDOf< «*» “-flWMrtO.
Doing Tarzan Act "I culled up the room clerk em-ly WNtetmil circles expressed, lesrx o»
& in the morning and asked If he j possible grave International --
make
Billy Miller was treated for’ Pain‘ S^uieTdo^6^
ful cut and bruises Thursday af- “They got louder and louder and
ternoon following a fall from a tree proposed that they go beat up who-
while enjoying a Tarzan act with ever it waS that complained to the
a group of boys. clerk. They knocked on my
door.
“I had my gun in my hand. Both
of them jumped on me and I
swung at them with the pistol hit-
CHEHALIS. Wash.. May 14.—(INSl
—Benny Balthunas. local farmer,
craved excitement and he got it.
To Hear King
Washington. May 14 (ins)— Theatres Open
Works Piogn^s Administrator
Three days after Deputy Sheriff Harry L. Hopkins plans to reduce
R. S. Jackson was slain by two WPA personnel in rural counties of LONDON, May 14. <INS.> Lon-
bandits. Balthunas told authorities the countn- as a Gf the pro- don theatres °Pencd an hour ea:ier
Indianola Mleetinu S3W men hiding at his farm ’ . -7-ftiio °n tfle King Grorge s
inaianoia iVieeting A <jozen state policempn and gTam ^hich contemplates a a2o.000 coronation. May 12. to enable the
deputies from five counties roar- cut in WPA workers under the SI.- audiences to listen to the radio
Of interest to stiamp collectors in ^ town of Pe Ell and 500.000.000 appropriation request- broadcast of the King's .-peech to
The boys had rigged up an old-
fashioned “belly-buster” in a tree
on the old factory hill. As Miller
scheduled to open Monday at thtJ swung clear of the tree the chain fellow' licks on the side
n«\v»nt > LciMJrkrr thn affair hrnlro VniT*linor © _ . _ __. 4*
of the neck and the gun went off.
The tall, white-haired middle-
aged men was white lipped and
nevous as he told his story. A
knuckle on one hand was freshly
scarred.
Southern Pacific Depot. (holding the affair broke, hurling
Arthur Means declared that prices j Miller to the ground. He suffered
Special Cover For
to be paid here this year will be just
as good as those found in Yoakum
or Hallettsville.
In commenting on the tomato
crop, he declared that one of the
best crops found in this entire sec-
tion was owned by Will Morrow who
has seven acres five and a hill
miles out of Cuero on the Victoria j
highway.
a severe gash over his
other bruises.
eye and
Roosevelt Asks For £
Vote on Proposed
Judiciary Change
Cuero Surgeon 1*
Signally Honored
quences, the British
waited grimly today for
particulars regarding the
that damaged the British
Hunter off the Spanish port of*
meria, killed 8 and injured 14.
A high British official was quoted
by the London Daily Mail as stating
there was nothing to indicate the
Hunter had been attacked . by a
plane or another ship. He said the
damage apparently resulted from
the Hunter running afoul of a
mine.
New Waves of Strikes
Hit General Motors
FLINT, Mich . May 14.—(INSl-
this city will be the special cover surrounded the farm. Closing In. ed of congress. the British Empire and other radio. The new wave of -strikes sweeping .
which has been prepared for the they found no sign that anyone had Hopkins diselosei this intention ceremonies. Eearlier opening en- i General- Motors Corporation plants 1,pn
Old Inidanola Association reunion been there.
in a letter to Ren.- Kloeb Ohio, abled mast of the occupants to! wpi force 8.P00 workers in Chevir -
to be held in Port Lavaca Sunday. The sequel to Benny's story came who has proposed suspension of reach the theatre in time for the. . nlsof thp COmpanV here in-1’nu-.V^ h,slices to the high court
The cachet commemorates the in justice court when he paid a $100 WPA from May until December in performances, despite the jamm .. . _________
pioneers who founded the town of fine for “obstructing justice" af- 2.000 m,.i < ouut’ec in the cor.n- traffic conditions on
old Inidanola. ter three days m jail -tn - night.
Washington this morning from a 17 ical Association was paid Dr. J. W.
day Texas fishing vacation to ad- Burns of this city wdien he was
vise Senate leaders he wants a elected member emeritus,
roll call vote on his proposal to in- L>r. Burns and Dr. Edward Rnn
crease the supreme court member- dalL Galveston, daairman o e
boarj of regents of Texas Uni-
All pleadings for compromise— versity, were signally honored,
one which would add
coronation to idleness Monday, it
officially today.
Dr. and Mrs. Burns returned to
Cuero Tuesday following the close
was stated' have fallen on a deaf presidential of the convention held in Port
iear. it was learned. . Worth
Masons Hold Meet
In Yoakum Thursday
Cuero Masons joined Thursday
in a district meeting held In the
city of Yoakum with Masons trout
Shiner. Moulton, HaUettsvfflh,
Schulenburg, Flabonia, Hochhafm,
Westhoff, Yorktown. Oakland and
Victoria, also taking part. •
An interesting and lnstruffilva
program interspersed with muule-
al numbers, was enjoyed.
Wives, widows and sweethearts of
Masons and members of the BOt-
em Star and their husbands wm
sjjecial guests.
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