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VOL. 43.—NO. 31. -
CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1937
SIX PAGES TODAY
i*TqwnTallc ICUERO SCOUTS
-1 TO CELEBRATE
ANNIVERSARY
Paducah—Abandoned by 34,000 Residents
A modern Pied Piper is mak-
ing plans to rid Cuero of rats
and mice, and if he can get
the results he “guarantees”
then we are for him 100 per
cent. There is nothing dirtier
in our opinion than a filthy
rat or mouse. Both arc car-
riers of deadly disease. Both
are destroyers,
individual would
Will Stage Special Activi- j
ties During National
Scout WTeck.
The average!
TO HEAR ROOSEVELT
perhaps be. President tq Address The
(
surprised to learn just what it
costs him to board one rat or
one mouse. And where there is
one, there is usually a dozen.
The figure will run into a neat
Scouts Monday, Feb-
ruary 8th.
- ‘
Cuero Bey Scouts will join Sccuts i
throughout the nation during the 1
week of February 7th to 13th in the ;
sum. A campaign against rats j celebration of the Twenty Seventh j
%nd mice is a campaign
which we would lend hearty
to | Anniversary of the founding cf the |
A' an important meeting cf the i
Support. We hope that Cuero; local council tenight. Scouts will ■
gaerchants see fit to join in Plan activities for the week, includ- j
„__; ing special church services ir> all lo- ;
uus campaign, which inci- !ca] chUrehM Sund0). momlns
-dentally is to be carried into Featuring Monday’s program will J
Xte residential section Of the! be a radio address by President j
..... . Franklin D. Roosevelt w’ho will !
Ufcy as well as the business
Action. Let’s get rid of the rat
Md the mouse.
$ .V a
speak from the White House. Par- l
ticlpating also in the broadcast will j
be Mr. Walter W. Head of St. Louis, j
President of the Boy Scouts of |
America and Dr. James E. West, the !
President Proposes Wide
And Startling Changes
In The Judiciary System
W0UIMHAN6E 3
PERSONNEL OF
B.& P.WOMENTO
Popular Cuero Girl
Marries San Antonio'
SPONSOR DRIVE M“ IT! Tu'“Uy:
BEAUTIFY PARK
j Business Women’s
to Take Over Beautifi-
cation of Entrance.
1937 PROJECT
j Tlie marriage of Miss Adelaide i
j Meyer and Eugene E. Evans of San *
i Antonio was announced by Mr. and
j Mrs. P. H. Meyer of Cuero Friday.
' The wedding was performed in a
Club * Quiet ceremony in the Lutheran
parsonage by Rev. James Vorkoper
cn the evening of February 2nd.
The happy couple will reside in
Freeport Long Island, N. V., where
Mr. Evan§. is associated with the
Evans Raffing company.
THE COURTS
Decoration of Drive Off i
| Victoria Highway Also
Planned.
j Beautification of the entrance and
1 drive of the Cuero Municipal Park j
; will be the chief objective of the j
: Cuero Business & Professional j
i Women's club during 1937.
* Cuero Rotarians are in for i c^ief Sc°ut Executive. Eight Eagle j
.Scouts from Washington and near- !
areal treat next Thursday.;by scout Councils will be present, j
-Anns are to be in' February 8th is the Twenty-Sev- j
of the program, and I A^'cS‘rv, .ot ,th5 ,ound‘n8 I
of the Boy Scouts of America. Boy;
t certain that the program Scout Week will be observed in j *
Wfl be the best that the club Scout Councils throughout the I
haaenjoyed In many moons. ~ j
It’S Sven more certain that you J House will be a feature of this an- j
woift be able to find a single jnual observance,
married Rotarlan neat Fridayj !
moraing wh© will venture to Jamboree in his address. This event
say (hat it wasn’t. In all seri- * take Place next June 30lh ro
- . , July 9th in Washington, D. C. ir.
ousre&s however, we 11 lay our, response to an invitation extended
by the President. It is expected that
Flood waters In business section; statue is of Chief Paduka
Paducah, Ky., one of the most beautiful of river
cities, was entirely evacuated by its 34,000 inhabi-
tants as flood waters of the lower Ohio river in-
undated the entire city. Water in some streets
reached a depth of 18 feet. This is a scene In the
center of the business district, with the postoffice
at the right. A statue of Chief Paduke mourn-
fully views “his” stricken city.
CARPENTER
DEFENDED
last lime, in fact, our only
dime on the contention that
the program will be most un-
usual
¥ * *
The city is ready to collect
the ishrubs and plants which
have been offered by Cuero
citizens for the decoration of
House Refuses to
demn Pension
Director.
President Has'Vital
Message for Congress
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—(INS.)
President Roosevelt will send an
important message to Congress to-
Con- : day, the subject of which was not
FIREMEN WILL
MEET TONIGHT
So club members veted at their
regular monthly session here Thurs-
1 day evening. Miss Florence I. Ellis
| and. Miss Agatha Weber were ap-
; pointed co-chairman of the project
i which is expected to lend much
■ beauty to the Cuero Park project.
Planting of shrubs, flowers and
! vines from the Victoria highwa/
SALARIES OF
OFFICERS TO
REMAIN SAME
Congress Startled by Un-
usual Proposal of
Roosevelt.
__
MANY CHANGES
Would Appoint Fifty Ad-
ditional Federal
Judges. ,
By GEORGE R. HOLMES
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 5. —
(INC.)—President Roosevelt pro-
posed to Congress today a sweeping
reform of the Federal Judicial
system, both as to practice to
- personnel, the goal of which to to
DeWitt County Officials |Wuse the bench with new and
Will Enjoy Substantial .younger blood’ ^>eed up
Renumeration.
DEPUTIES
! justice, and eliminate long
over deciding the constitu
— | of legislation.
INCLUDED! Mr. Roosevelt laid his
(ing recommendations
! toture6of°the project^wW^h^LO | F°Ur Assistants to be Al“j Congress in a special
get underway at once.
Thursday evening's'
program i Collector. |if enacted, would permit the
: proved one of the most interesting ; - j pointment of fifty additional
. held in recent months. I Salaries of DeWitt-county officials aj judges in all categories at
I PI am for t’-p 1937 Business & | will remain the same in 1937 as they;der present 'conditions permit
^(Professional Womens Convention j were in 193€ members of the Com-imembership of the United
were discussed. The convention this ' . . _ . , , I c,mrpm. rvu.r*
year will take place in June in the j mi5S10ners Court hav* decided. I
city of, EH Paso. Miss Agatha Weber ! Salaries of the County Judge, , members
and Mrs. Ellen Farmer were ap- I Ccunty Tax Assessor and Sheriff ! nn. Mr
pointed co-chairmen of an “On to Itop tbe 11st witb 13500.00 salaries. ^ T
El Paso Driver J The tax assessor is allowed four
An interesting and educational i deputies and the Sheriff one full j . j .. . «
program was opened with tbe read- Itime deputy and three specal depu-
hig of the Club Collect.!ties-
Total salaries in the office of the
Tax Assessor and Collector will
amount to $9,800 annually, the re-
port of the commissioners court
25,000 Scouts and Leaders repre- ;
senting every city, town and village
AUSTIN. Feb. 5.—(INS)— Reaffirm
will take part in this event. They j ** “DHMcnUfc principle”
will camp together for ten days '
along the Potomac River on 350
acres of Federally-owned land loan- . .
'several successive votes today to
condemn pension director Orville 8.!
lose on pension rolls should not be
| denied the right to vote, the Texas
I House of Representatives refused on
I announced at the White House.
So important, however, did Mr.
Roosevelt evidently consider the
communication hat he asembled at
his office this morning members of
his cabinet and congressional lead-
ers, including Vice President John
Gamer to consult with them about
ed by Congress for the occasion. PZ-'T* ^ k'
Because the Jamboree will be ac-!^nde“n ^nsion director Orville 8 in addition to the cabinet, and
tended by Boy Scouts of ether lands j•penter for thinking otherwise. , the leaders of both Houses. here
it is expected that ambassadors and ! Carpenters personal opinion that j were present the speaker- of the
other representatives of the partici- | . e °. yway t0 prevent old people House, and the chairman of the
UmiWnal Park A ! pating nations will join with Prest- ! _rom_lnf fencing elec .ions was to Judiciary
the Municipal Park. Accord-. dent Roosevelt and other leaders at j disenfranchise them has been a gress.
tag to Mayor Newman work- " “ ‘ “
men will call at homes where
plants are available. All you
have to do Is telephone Mayor
Newman and he’ll send some-
one down to secure the shrubs
or plants you wish to con-
tribute. Here’s a chance for
Chief Frank Williams
Explain Workings of
Firemen’s School.
the nation s capital in taking part j^0™ center. in tke houS€ f°r two j
existing conditions.
He proposed, briefly
any Federal Judge,
or otherwise, reached the
| ment age of 70 years and
Committeees of Con-
in several Jamboree activities.
days, ever since it was made Wed-
Au‘“ ”
rabble rousers and get down aud
successful year in their history- Over
1,300,000 persons have been connect- ! ‘
ed with the movement, he stated, i
Smash-up And
Nobody Hurt!
every Cuero citizen to have a
part In the beautification of
our park. And it is 4ours.” The
been members since the organiza-
tion was first incorporated in 1910.
It is expected that millions of the
BELVILLE, Capetown. Feb. 5. — port at 7:30.
i vote some taxes," was the refrain t
and more than seven mUlion”'have!'°f opp<ftion 10 resolutions which
would have personally indicted'
Carpenter for expressing his “hen-1 (INS.)-—,An amazing series
est opinion.” j lisions. in which
After an ail-merning
Volunteer firemen and city of-
ficials of both Yorktown and Cue-
ro will meet at the Central Fire
Station this evening to hear a talk
by Chief Frank Williams, ins true- Miss Lillian Ryan discuss-
tor in the Firemen's Training*ed Fundamental Business
School at A. & M. College. Ethetics that should be used by a
Chief Williams is to outline and business woman in oncer to be a ;
explain Fne work carried on in the Better Business Woman for a Better; <rll° ®rst deputy is to
Firemen's Training School which is Business World. Miss Mary Gaston.,cclve tw° deputies
sponsored by the State Firemen s DeWitt County Home Demcnstra- j ZZZf1’*00 and a fourth
and Fire Marshal's Association tion A«ent a most interestiitg ;
Cuero councilmen have-been ex- vocational Ulk. telling in particufirr | chlef Deputy S^n , —
Inviiation to at. about her work with the 4-H dub j ^to
tend this meeting, and it is hoped > ®irls ta the coutfty- 1 -peciai deputies ^480.o0
that Mayor Newman and the en- i Guests <* the club present were
tire council will be present. ! Mrs- Harvey ShaV, Mrs. Josie
Foremen have been asked to re
ss-s
j *. 1
l c_ months, and did not elect to
will re- j ~as many oi fbem do
deputy the Prudent should hare
er to appoint an additional!
Henrv!to Lhe bench to lighten the
If the law he proposes
immediately enacted by the
gress it would permit the
• Freundf Ito. Olive "b. Riev, Miss Ithc Ccunty Clerk, a part time deputy *dditional
: Fmn. .Tlienper Vera Sample ; t0 recelve J138° and » full time J CoUrt JaStiCes 85 of
and three special deputies
: each. ^
Two assistants are also
allowed
seven
es lof
mdtoi
col-
Erna Juenger. Miss Vera
I and Mips Mary Gaston.
tor cars
present and former members
and | a,; rtU*llll-'riU11" argument, were badly smashed ud while none
their families and friends will !to- J* ^ ^ ilf way out of its
ten to the broadcast on February ^Acuities by adopting a resolution
8th. On February 8th also as provid'- by Herman Jones 0i Decatur which
park belongs to each and evefy ied in the National By-Laws of the ■ mferely said the House disapproves
our
have a part in building it. All; Oath and Law, the guiding princi- !
should be proud of it. If youiples of the movement,
have any shrubs you care to .., 7 .. Z I
contribute call Mayor New- J
man tomorrow.
¥ X ¥
Boy Scout week is to be ob-
served throughout the nation
from February 7th
FLOOD RELIEF
FUND GROWING
of their occupants received a
scratch, accurred near here in the
early hours of the morning.
Lion and Hyena
Seized For Debt
House Will Probe
Lobbying Activities
i-1
I deputy $1500.
The following salaries will be paid:
County Judge T. A. Graves $3500;
| Tax Assessor-Collector Fritz Poet ter
; $3500; Ccunty Clerk Henry Koenig
$3250; District Clerk Maggie Edgar
$2200; Sheriff Emil M&rkowsky
today,
SOPRON. West Hungary, Jan. 5. ____
collteionirblt^Ir:Lo^care ^Th^ ' «***£ the" badlff hereto a deb? ito limit the investigation^ sulphur j S’; sTeve
comsion between two cars. This . - ,2 „ . ™ lobbyists, the Texas House today I Hebert
was followed a minute and a -half ! W ' ThlS debt ^35 i voted the broadest Dossible inve«;i(
later, by another head-on collision I incurred b-v the ™nerj>t a small cir-j ^ the br°ftdeSt mveS,J' !
j of two more cars close •*- 'Tn'»"1 Cus
World’s Fair
BondsAttract
Heavy Demand j DeVVitt County
NEW YORK. Feb. 1.—(INS)—With '
(were hurled towards the two cars [h T*le credltor^as the National La-
■ which had collided first, and one , ^ Insura»ce Company-, a state m-
i of them crashed into a car stand- ! ^ t \ CirCUS
j ing at the side of the road. -left tOWn' leavm? the tw0 1)63515 35
Only a few seconds later two
$2700 .
Salaries are payable
gation of all attempts to influence ! month installments.
legislation, past, present and future. I _
The vote came cn a substitute I
resolution, offered by Emmett Mcrse '
cf Houston and signed by 66 other
dn twelve
to 13th,: newspaper companies, department
-a n.i.i, _____ w ’j stores, investment brokers and rug
and we think it would be an i store chains buying up bonds along
Passes $750.00
Mark.
j more cars, coming from opposite
Fund directions, dashed into the pile of
i previously-wrecked cars, and com-
•pleted the morning’s-excitement.
A policeman on the spot was un-
able to write down the names of!
JAIL DEBT IS
jg^deSfggjS^gSsr g| nearly pair
-y--- -----■ store cnains Duying up Donos along: Contributions by Nordheim cui- neonlp invni oh . . . . '**'-“* u“*“ ;u,urui,r up io
excellent idea for some local With Mr. and Mrs. Average Familv izens- totaling $86.00 Friday swelled Hf, har„, ,Q“1C^ y enou^n- j buy the lion and the hyena. When
organization, say the Rotary I ^ ,N<7 19M Worlds Fs.r |thr Do Win County Mtt. Flood I p^tteulan, oi oneTocWent -t - lhe 1,31111 approached the cage, the
duo or Chamber o, Commerce, j ~ -
to plan some special event for than half of the required amount. (Warded to the St. Louis office of the ; ^ .
the Cuero Scouts riurim? thnl The lar8est single subscription to American Red Cross.- ! L-OrporaiOIl TfiX
g date was the $750,000 bond purchase, Contributions by Cuero citizens! D J 1? \ T
WGtiK, Say a barbecue supper I by tbp Consolidated Edison Com- | reached the $487.00 mark, with late j * ’ Ix-CAdy P OT V OtC
Or a Weiner roast. The Scout Pany R. H. Macyi. New York s big- contributions being as follows: Lu- i - --—
should be encour- 'gest department Store stands next j^ran Ladies^Aid $5: Mr. and Mfs. j AUSTIN. Tex.. Feb. 5.—(INS.) — JJ- S. Has By Far
their cages and had them transfer- ! posed to investigating the $175,000 |
red to a small farm dgar the town I public relations expenditures by Rov j
where the Company has to pay two iMlller' pubUc re,ati°ns COUT**' far !
dollars a day for their feeding. The jtbe ^exas Sulphur Company,
j company will be obliged to pay for | . I :
them until someone tums Up to Oil Price Increase
when ])on stuck out- its paw towards him.
He shrieked with terror and fell
back. Later he was informed that
the lion was trained to shake "hands
with its owner. It is an 8 year old
male.
Only $1,000 of Original
$32,000 Still To Be
Paid.
To Be Investigated:
majority of the court are
the 70-year mark. The
his proposed bill provided,
that In no case should tbs p
nel of the Supreme Court
fifteen members.
Under certain conditions,
number of judges might be
or fourteen, dependent upon ages,
retirements, and other oondltkm.
There are some twenty-five lower
i Federal Judges who are now
I the retirement age and still
j tionlng. the President said, end un-
i der his plan if they elected to re-
l main on the bench then
judges could be appointed
I them. v.
Moreover, the Chief Justice '
the Supreme Court would be
jowered by the proposed
to assign justices to particular dis-
tricts where the dockets wen con-
gested, and where speedy
Justice Is endangered bee
i that or other reasons. Thw.
-
additional
d to asrt*
_ . DeWitt count5’ U resd>' t0 retlre i Justice, in etrect. would
Feb. 5 —*INS)s—Without \its compIete indebtedness on the j commanding judicial officer
Mobile fore of Federal Judges
AUSTIN. .,......... f
a dissenting vote, ihe senate today I DeWitt ccunty jail.
passed a resolution calling
investigation of the recent
WdTnd the°one $27-|Shooi $1S; oUn^^Wiu^b I ^ ^ ^ £ ““ °f ^ ^ |
courage that movement is to! 829.500 for preliminary expenses be- Mrs- Charles Lenz $1.00; Willis* ‘ l0r °°r actlon 0 f
show active interest in the ' fore the fair starls P3^ vray : Barfield $2: Dr. S. P Boothe $7.50; [da> 35 1116 Texas House received
ocuve interest in .ne ai- j and at thp rate cf investment the ; Cuero W. B. A. $2; Mrs. Wm Sem-! from taxation and revenue com-
fairs Of the local organization. I corporation should more than cover m^er 52
There are few Scout boosters1 its d1101* lon^ before the construe-
to Cuero. We need more. There: be*lnt * ,he.Lons Ul~r* Evangelist To Be
is no movement in our lahd one point pleasing the fair corpor- In Pulpit Bapist
today that boasts higher is the advance in the sale cf |
. .__. . . . . , , ,the small $100 individual bonds. It i
ideals, higher principles. A. was many weeks after the bonds i -
Boy Scout is a real American 1 were placed on the market before , Rev. A. C Maxwell of Beaumont.
boy. Let’s get behind the lo- tbe brst smaI' one was s0*d but un- j general Baptist Evangelist, will be
. ’_____ • |der the impetus of a little public-j in the pulpit at the Baptist church
cal organization. . | ity to the first $I00 subscriber.
World’s Largest
Radio Audience
fer an
. oil pner
j increase and sent it to the house fer
action.
Senators E. M. Daqu of Brown-
! wood and H. L. Winfield of For*,
j Stockton asked for the lnvestigat-
All but cne thousand dollars of
the original $32,000 jail bond debt
has been retired.
ould be assigned anywhere.
In order to speed up the
ination of the constitutionality
Ladner! legislation. Mr. Roosevelt proposed
the re- j that District Federal Courts ba-rs-
bill to j BERLIN Germany. Feb. 5 —INS
j mittee Rep. Herman Jones
i assess a 5% net income tax against ’—The United States has the larg-
i corporations doing business in the 1 est number of radio listeners in the
jstate- world, with Great Britain second;the Uni^ersity of Texas Board of |
---and Germany third, according to Regents, was quoted by Davis a« j
figures published in the "Nazi An- say*n£ that oil produced cn Univer- ;
;sity land in west Texas was bring-
County Auditor Nic
would now like to secure
maining two *500.00 bonds. i quired to notify the Attorney Oen-
The bond issue was voted in 1916. j eral when the operation of a law
•ing committee after they were in- ! at which time Jesse Farrs was jailer, is challenged through the injuoc-
formed that oil produced in west Sixty four $500 bonds were issued. • tion process, and that where a dto-
Texas was increased only one cent,' Sixty two of the sixty four have ! trict court holds a particular law to
while east Texas oil was increased been redeemed. j be unconstitutional the case shall
14 cents. I----| be routed immediately to the 8t»-
Dr George Morgan, member cf «5 000 000 Art ! prcme 0011,1 for sP«dy determllto-
• ’ ! tion.
Church Sunday IBlast Rocks Flood
Stricken City Today
Collection Given
1* * j truck driver connected with the fair
Merchants of a nearby city i site operations, the small
a for both morning and evening serv-
j ices. Sunday according to Rev. M
bonds Soileau, local Baptist minister.
grifi" here.
The numbers of listeners in the
_ different countries in 1936 are giv-
LOUISVILLE. Ky . Feb 5 —<!N5‘- ! en Allows;
A terrific gas explosion rocked *hts ' United States 25.000.000
flood-be-leaguere<? city ttxiay. de- 1 Great Britain 7.850.000
ing 35 cents a barrel less than eth-
er oil.
University Texas Bums Bill Passes
Senate Friday
were victimized last week by
a solicitor who claimed to bp
securing funds for a negro or-
phans home located in San
(Continued on Page 2) * i
have been moving with comforting l Special music by Professor
rapidity.
Mrs.
R . stroying the Bollincer-Han * k O f- Germany
i fee company building at a loss es'i- France
arrl mated at from $150,000 to $200,000 Japan
The n;
Ordered To Arrest
Sit-Down Strikers
AUSTIN. Feb. 5.—(INS)—A life-
| time of fine arts collecting was
( turned over
AUSTIN. Feb
5—(IKS)—The
I
day
FLIT. FIRE
A flue fire caused minor danm^i
to a frame duelling in the cclore
section of the city Friday morning, .attend,the services,
F D Ray of Bolling will be an-j The blast hurled the entire r-ff
her feature of the services for the ] of ‘MTour,story structure mtc lbt
air. and shattered win<i<fW.- to
I blocks around Leaping flames the countrv a” have a
•anen of friends cT the church u j which followed m ys wake . gutted 'ft listeners corresponding
7.500.000 i
3.200.000 ’ -
2.600.0001 FLINT. Mich.. Feb
that the . Armed with an order for the arrest
I the finest paintings in the world,;
Rev. Seic.r.i i-.- ;cd a cordial invi-
. what remained of -lie building.
x-r emphasizes
appeal of the radio must be furth- of sit-dewn strikers. General Mo*
er increas’d in Germany. so that*' ters attorneys today called upen
cou*;r\ shad have a number j Sheriff TItomas Wolcott to er.fo.ee Texas here under a few conditions
to her ; the court order, the sheriff teiepherto imposed by Stark, who is chairman
to the University of j Bums bill establishing the state
Texas today when H. J. Lutcher t board cf pardons and paroles was
Stark of Orange gave to Texas the I finally passed by the senate and sent
to the House. ,
A few corrective amendments were
The collection, including some cf | made today, while others were to be
j $5,000,000 art collection of his late •
5—(INSj— mother. Mrs. Miriam A S*ark.
will be housed at the University of
cultural stature.
id Gov. Flank Murphy.
3
made in the house.
The bill is being rushed, sinee the
present pardon passed out of exist-
ence and no method is available for
of the University board of regents, j pardons and paroles.
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