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The Weather
Rain south portion, with
freezing rain to east and cen-
tral coast. Saturday colder.
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VOL. 43.—NO. 18.
CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1937
SIX PAGES TODAY
MqpTallc CAVASAS GETS
' SUSPENSION OF
SENTENCE HERE
WHEN JULIANA (COMMONER) WED
Mexican Convicted of
Murder Gets Four Year
Suspended Term.
TRY CIVIL C,ASE
Court Turns to Civil
Docket Friday With
Trial of Suit.
This Texas weather is a
fanny proposition. Shirt
sleeves one day and “heavies”
the ’next day. Folks reporting
for work around 7:30 were
convinced that the mercury
was irising. At 8:30 ice start-
ed forming on windshields
and -steps. You can’t figure
this Texas weather no matter
how hard you try. We have
expeit weather men to do that
for us, and they miss it about
a third of the time. All we
need now to make the winter
complete is about three, or
four inches of snow.
* * *
The Cuero Federal Savings!
and Loan Association made
real progress during 1936. The
Association reported an 87
per.cent Increase in the aggre-
gate accounts of investors and
a 98 per cent gain in the
amount of new loans over the
previous year. Forty three
loans were made during the
year and that meant that
forty three homes took on a
new appearance in Cuero.
The Federal Savings and Loan
Associated is backed by Uncle
Sam and perhaps that’s one
reason for its success.
I 3ft 2f>
A plant exchange day would
be a good idea in our opinion.
Of course, it’s a bit early for
such an event, but we believe
that a plant exchange day
early in February would prove wiI1 probably visit
popular. There’s quite a bit v
of interest being shown in
flower planting this year,
and folks who have an excess
of one kind of - plant would
welcome the chance to ex-
change them for some other
variety of flower. We suggest
that the Chamber of Com-
merce sponsor a plant ex-
change day. What about it
Mr. Arnold?
* * *
Several citizens have called
to deplore the slaying of
mocking birds, cardinals and
other song birds by young
bunters. Incidentally, these
Birds are protected by law.
"We suggest that the Boy
Scouts of Cuero sponsor a
movement to protect the song
birds in Cuero. It’s all right J
Manuel Cavasas, found guilty in
district court here Thursday of the
murder of Demetrio Torres, Nord-
heim tenant fanner, was a free man
today on a suspended sentence.
Cavasas was given a four year
sentence by a jury in district court
Thursday afternoon following a
speedy trial. The Jury recommended
the sentence be suspended.
With the completion of the Cav-
asas case, court concluded the first
week’s work on the criminal docket
and turned to the civil docket Fri-
day.
A suit brought by the Federal
Land Bank of Houston against
Walter White was underway Friday
morning. The case being tried before
a jury.
Work is to be resumed Monday on
the criminal docket, according to
District Attorney Howard P. Green.
It is likely that a murder case will
occupy the attention of the court
during the early part of the soming
week.
ROODS FORCE
80,000 PEOPLE
FROM HOMES
Stricken Ohio Valley
Counts Terrific
Losses.
72 FOOT STAGE
Crest Expected to Reach
Cincinnati
Tonight.
By International Notes Service.
A ragged, suffering army of more
^ than 100.000 persons, approximately
75,000 of them in Ohio and Indiana !
alone, sought food and shelter to- j
day as angry flood waters boiled 10- |
ward all-time record highs.
Cuero Bride Of Two
Weeks Quarrels; Ends
Her Life With Gas
. CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Jan. 22.—(INS)—The body of
Mrs. Geraldine Waldine Pridgen, 22. Cuero, a bride of two
: weeks, was removed to Cuero for burial early today.
| • Mrs. Pridgen’s body was found in a hotel room here yes-
i terday by her husband who told officers they had quarreled*
All the windows in the room were closed tightly, and the
gas was turned on. Officers found an empty bottle labeled
poison.
A note addressed to “dear folks” was also found in the
room. “This is the easiest way,” it said. “I am going to end
^— | this in an easy way. I can’t face
* Juliana and Martinus Joannes-*Wilhelmus Van Stya
This is the first original photo from, the Netherlands of the con*
moner bride, Juliana, and her husband, who were weo at Oegstgeest,
the same day that Crown Princess Juliana married Prince Bernhard
LiDpe-Biesterfeld. Eorn at exactly the same time as the princess,
Juliana Wilhelmina Van Der_Meer is shown with her husband, Mar-
tinis Joannes WilhelmusTSa» 3fyn, leaving the town hall after the
ceremony.
—Central Press
COLD WEATHER
TO BESHORT
Cuero Again This
Evening.
Freezing weather will probably
visit Ctioro again tonlghtr few* fndK
cations are that winter's latest in-
vasion will be' short lived.
So weather men indicated in fore-
! casts made Ftklay aftemom.
Rain will accompany the cold
weather.
Saturday will bring freezing
weather with rain in the south por-
tion of the state. Temperatures are
i expected to rise Saturday night in *
rthe northern portion of Texas, and I
warmer weather will be experienced
in this section Sunday wekther re-
ports stated. - .
Temperatures of from 18 to 22
degrees are scheduled for north-
east Texas tonight; temperatures of
from 30 to 94 in the southwest; 26
to 34 to the southwest; 26 to 34 in
the southeast except on the coast
where temperatures of from 32 to
34 are expected.
The Rio Grande Valley may es-
cape the freeze.
, Freezing weather struck Cuero
for boys to kill sparrows, jay j Shortly before 9 a. m. Friday, cover-
birds and Other destructive |trees and shrubbery with a thin
coat of ice. The misting rain which
accompanied the blast was not
No Military Aides
For R. I. Governor
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 22. —
(INS.)—The days of make-believe
Colonels civilians who sport mili-
tary gold braide -as-aldes to t the
Governor, no longer exist in Rhode
Island.
Their day passed when Governor!
Theodore (Frasheis Green affixed
his signature to a bill passed by
the general assembly, in special
session.
Under the law, a governor may
appoint three civilian aides but
they wear nothing but civilian ap-
parel consistent with the occasion,
from formal evening or morning
clothes, to tweed , sports attire.
SEEK SETTLE
MOTOR STRIKE
LIVE AT HOME
PLAN POPULAR
WITH FARMERS
Real “Farm Relief’ Found
in Gardens and Home
Work.
AIDING THEMSELVES
Farmers Receiving
Urged to Raise Own
Foodstuffs.
WESTHOFF MAN
DIES THURSDAY
DeWitt county farmers aided hy
the Resettlement Administration
are making notable progress in
their “live-at-home”
i •
A 62.5 foct wall of flood water in ! *
the Ohio river at Portsmouth. o„ j Services For Hilmer Voel-
was rising at the rate of 2 inches an I -Jq gg {{eld
hour with the citv inundated to a : _____
of 6 and 7 feet. ! Sunday.
you all again. I hate to make you i
suffer but my life is ruined. This is J
the easiest way.
She is survived by her husband.. I , . , . .
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Boethel, | ,tart*d here ***
four brothers and two sisters, ail of | Trent, regional director
Cuero, ! settlement Administration,
examinating the «nmial
depth
The body of Mrs. Waldene Pridgen
j 22. was brought to Cuero in a
Freund Funeral Home hearse Fri-
day morning. Funeral services will
be held from R. H. Boethel home at
By international News Service | Funeral services wil1 be held Sun’
Yellow flood waters surged jjvev J day from the home at Westhoff for
great sections of the Ohio river and i Hilmer J. Voelkel, 31, well known
tributary valleys today, causing j westhoff man. who died in a San
thousands to flee from their homes j An(onio sanitarium shortly after 3
untold proDerty damage. and ; m
spreading a menace of famine and The deceased had been in m
pesy.lenee health for the past three months.
™lef Cn eS1„m * leaf Burial will be in the Westhoff
80.000 persons in 10 most severely' ^ Father Marco of_
stricken statcs-Ohio, Pennsylvania, - ficiating Freund Funeral home
Illinois, Indiana^ Kentucky, Arkan-!^ ^ in ch of mterrnent.
sas, Missouri, West Virginia, Mis-
souri and North Carolina—are al-
ready homeless, with thousands
more fleeing from their home hour-
ly as rivers constantly rise.
this county made by
ton. rural supervisor.
Out of the 139 families
loans in DeWitt County,
Linudenau Saturday afternoon at reP°rted 88 having
vegetables for their
year in spite of the
ing draught. Thirty-six
Hilmer J. Voelkel was born July
Uth, 1905 in Lavaca county. He had
lived at Wethoff however practical-
ly all of his life, and leaves many
_ , ., friends in that community to mourn
Every governmental agency—tne his
-Red Cross, coast guardsmen, state j
tilitia, WPA workers, CCC men '
His mother. Mrs. Paul Voelkel, two
General Motors and Lewis
Square Off For Fight
To Finish.
-
d state and local relief agencies-^^I^of^CueTo!
obilized in the stricken areas to
s^pcor the refugees and attempt to
stpp the yellow, boiling, onrush ing
survive.
t
srmen predicted
Ohio.
'would teach a flood stage of 72 feet
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2SL—1 at Cincinnati today. Two thousand.
General Motors and John L. Lewis
today squared off for a fight to the
finish. •
Peace conference here seeking
amicable settlement of the strike steps.
Lewis is conducting against the big
motors combine exploded like a
thinly
families within the city limits have
abandoned their homes and thous-
ands more prepared to leave as the
flood waters lapped at their door-
freezing at 11 a. m.
birds, but to kill one of these
silver throated song birds who
do so much to make life
brighter and more cheery is ‘Tnree of Four
to kill a friend. Boys, let’s Quadruplets Die
confine our hunting to the de-
structive birds and spare
these songsters.
* * *
Prom all we had been told
we had the idea that legisla-
tors were going to be pressed
for time if they considered
all the work brought
AWAIT WORD
OF PRESIDENT
Congress Will Act
Roosevelt
Suggests.
j skyrocket, in a shower of
[ veiled vituperation that dragged in
j every issue, economic and political,
‘ under the sun.
General Motors executives
] had been here 48 hours engaged in
the peace conferences, bombarded
Lewis with a final verbal barrage,
packed their grips and set out for!
New York.
Secretary of
MEMPHIS. Tenn.. Jan. 22.—INS
—Gov. Gordon Browning today
called out the National -Guard to
patrol the levee at , Tiptonville,
. Tenn., in order to prevent dyna-
w^° miting. it was announced here.
The move wak taken by Gov.
Browning after reports reaching
him that residents on the Missouri
side of the river were planning to
i dynamite the levees on the Tennes-
Labor Frances Perk- j see side jn order to relieve the pres-
ins and Gov. Frank Murphy, oi, sure 0j the river and thus
Michigan, who sponsored the peace ; their homes from the floods,
meetings and brought the warring
groups in the strike together were
left high and dry.
save
Mid-Term Exams
Are Completed
Examinations were being complet-
ed in Cuero’s public schools Friday,
and announcement of promotions
will be made within a short time.
Examinations started Monday of
this week. Many students had com-
pleted their mid-term papers by
Wednesday.
3 o’clock. Interment will be in the
Lindenau cemetery.
Mrs. Waldene Pridgen was born ^ _
October 26th. 1914, at Lindenau, the I P^ed as having sufficient
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. 26 as having sufficient
Boethel. She lived until her mar- butter from* their own
riage at Lindenau, and was one of j making cheese. More
that community’s most popular j 50° quarts of vegetables
young girls. ;were Put up by these
She was married January 6th to .
Jimmy Pridgen of Thomaaton.
Surviving are her husband, her I
parents, two sisters, Mrs. Wm. Kues- j
ter and Miss Alice Boethel, and
four brothers, Alvin, Herman, Mil-
ton and Woodrow.
A Jekyll-Hyde?
Crisis Nears In
Youth Charged With
Beating Young Girl
WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.—(INS.)
—Ready to help President Roose-
velt enact his “carry on” program
for “those who have too little,”
congress today fiterally sat on its j
hands awaiting specific recommen- |
dations from the White House. j -
Aside from House action on the | LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 22.—
resolution extending the RFC and j (INS.)—Charged with brutally
four of its subsidiaries until June! beating a girl and then attempting
30. 1939. Capitol Hill leaders were 1 to bum her alive when she resisted; ly inevitable,
without an immediate program his* advances, 16-year-old Albert i
hundreds cf measures languished Dean was in jail here today,
in • committee without prospect of
PORT STRIKE
NEARS CLOSE
Rank and File Seamen
Vote to Terminate
Strike.
MONTREAL, Jan. 22.—(INS.) —
—Modem medical science, backed
by the full financial resources of
the provincial government, today
failed to save the lives of three of
the quadruplets bom yesterday to
Mr and Mrs. Arcade Rondeau.
A boy and a girl died shortly
after attending physicians had
action until after the President
The war office issued a state-
i merit declaring it cannot co-oper-
The youth was arrested on the. ate longer with political parties
compaint of a pretty Eva Woods, j “which are blocking essential re-
Japan
has submitted specific recommen- who came to police station •fc’ith'her j forms at a moment when
dations.’ j face badly swollen from a beatipg. stands at the crossroads.”
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—(INS.) —
. j it • . The maritime strike which has
Japan & Uprising'checked shipping activity in Atlan-
tic and Gulf ports since last No-
vember appeared near an end to-
day.
With the approval of the joint
strike council, headed by Joseph
Curran, 1200 rank and file seamen
voted at a meeting here to termi-
nate the strike and seek amicable
agreements with steampship com
panies. The resolution to end the
strike will be submitted to seamen
in otner east coast ports, ana Pa-
cific coast strikers will be asked to
concur.
TOKYO. Japan, Jan. 22.—(INS)
—Military and civil leaders formed
battlelines in Japan's parliament-
ary crisis today with dissolution of
the diet or resignation of Premier
Koki Hirotas government seeming-
before Siyen 811 8 “f8ir chance” to sur-
them. Now we see where *“"* " ““
Texas governing body has I
i
taken a three day holiday due
to the fact neither house had
anything to do. Realizing the
serious problems to be consid-
ered, it would seem to us that
the legislature would be act-
Citrus Ranchers
Battle 'Cold Wave
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 22.—(INS)—
Citrus ranchers of southern Cali-
fornia today battled a frigid
blast sweeping out of the Rockies
ing much wiser if legislators in a desperate attempt to save the
stayed on the Job. Surely there
is something that could be
done.
$100,000,000 fruit crop
Black smudge of smoke clouded
the entire area as ranchers poured
5,000 gallons of oil into their
smudge pots as they combatted the
coldest weather experienced since
1913.
HOMES DESERTED AS FLOOD WATERS SWEEP LOWLANDS
families*
5,402 pounds of meat
Although practically
families were farm
than owners, they
temporary homesteads
13 trees, 16 shrubs,■■
walls in 27 bouses and floors
They made 9 mattresses ant
ovated 13 mattresses, mad
quilts and renovated 32.
Mr. Blanton's report was as
jointly with Louise
supervisor of home
I plans for DeWitt oounty
Loans totaling $22,673 were mods
i by Resettlement Administration to
; 139 families in De\
jfcW 1936. 3
I loaned was
tools and other
'able” goods, the
j spent for consumable
las. food, clothing
1 etc. Forty-one per
)amount loaned has,
(repaid, although the
i made to run from one
! Average repayments
were 26 per cent.
Only 59 mode no
average borrower received a
$160 and has repaid
Musical Festival
For April 29
In City of
Daughter of Late
Harry Linton Butler
Apparently a true-life Jekyll-
Hyde, the career of Harry Lin-
ton Butler of Santa Barbara, Cal.,
has come to an end—by police
bullets. Butler was shot and
killed in a gun duel outside a
Pasadena bank, where he had
been acting nervously, according
to police. Butler, former presi- I clubs, pep squads, and
dent of the Pasadena Realty , bugle corps,
board, and a prominent citizen of
Santa Barbara, was identified by
bank officials as the mysterious
bandit who last March walked
away from the same bank with
i ' ©ver $4,000.
•-Central Pres*
President Wm. F.
Texas Lutheran College
that the Fourth Annual
Festival for South Ttam
Schools will be held at
April 29 and 30 and May L
Music Festival will include
different contests—in voice,
string, wind and preclusion
ments for bands,
Judge Proctor Gives Blockade of Spanish
Benoit Sentenced
To Life in Prison
BAND OR LONDON
MELBORNE Australia,— (INS.)
—Already between 300 and 400
tMMfcmen from all over the Com-
monwealth have applied for selec-
tion in a brass band of 40 or 50
players which will be sent to rep-
resent Australia at the Coronation MONROE, Mich., Jan. 22—INS
celebration in London. All the| —Alice Benoit, paroled convict and
bands men w’ill be amateurs and Marijuana addict, today was sent-
their services will be available to enced to life imprisonment in the
the Australian contingent of, Jacksdn penitentiary for the kid-
visitors to the Coronation, if de- j naping-murder of state trooper
tired, on any ceremonial occasion. Richarl F. Hammond,
Wv Ms |
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Paintings to Museum
Waters Declared
| The contest is limited to
schools having an enrollment
, exceeding 500 and the
astic rules will determine
The Seguin Chamber of
merce will provide all cups
| medals as well as free lodgini
breakfast fbr contestants
travel more than 50 miles,
contest will be held in four
itoriums of Seguin. Special
j tures of the Festival are
concerts by the winners
the band4 and acapella choir of
Texas Lutheran College.
: year thirty-five high schoc
sending 2£60
HOUSTON, Jan. 22.—(INS)—A MADRID, Jan. 22.—(INS.) — A
group of paintings valued at ap- blockade of Spanish waters off the
proximltely $10,000 has been given rebel territory was declared today,
to the Museum of Fine Arts by Mr. This drastic measure was taken
and Mrs. Walter Weber of London, as insurgent aircraft staged four represented,
it was learned Wednesday. j separate raids over Madrid, and ; This has become one of the
The paintings of the Dutch and j battles raged on the Madrid and , music festivals within the (
Flemish schools, were given in Malaga fronts. j -1 ■
“Nationalist” warships were in- i
structed to stop and search all
ships, regardless of nationality.
memof-y of Mrs. Weber’s parents,
the late Judge and Mrs. F. C. FToc-
tor of Houston. ' -
Tlie four canvases presented to
the museum by Mr. and Mrs.
Weber include Paulus Van Somer’s
“Duke of Buckingham.” Gerard
Dou’s “Woman at Toilet.” Michie!
Janszen Miereveldt’s “Lady Mary i
Napoleon Started
Canning Industry
Russia Accepts In
Principle Franco-
British Pi
Jvere,” and Cornelius Janson .
J Ceulen's .“William of Orange."
GENEVA Jan. 22—(INS.)
DENVER. Jan. 22.—(INS.)—'The j Russia, through her Foreign
Van ■ Napoleanic wars which devastated ister, Maxim Litvlnoff, tocgpjg
i Europe more than 100 years ago cepted in principle the
i dSSTSST- SSf&tS: of j •
lv»nSsLl« Md.^fferld »; ‘such Litvtoog aM.
' of 12.000 francs for the best ! must be considered in the embrl-
and Russia’s assent is
upon an ta-
-
A home deserted near West Frankfort, I1L
Heavy rains, bringing floods in lowlands of the
Ohio river valley and in southern Indiana and
southern Illinois, have forced residents to flee their
homes. In this photo, a deserted home near West
Frankfort, 111., is pictured. The Salvation Army
removed the occupants in a boat.
—Central Press
I school. Miereveldt of tt'e Dutch ; reward
i school was invited to England bv method of preserving food for mill- omc stage
| Charles I and commissioned to paint tar>’ use- Nicholas Appert of Paris conditional, hinging
I hLs portrait The other artist first j the prize in 1810 when he | ternational neutral railitanr
! .studied with the Dutch painters and demonstrated a method of preserv- of both the Loyalist and 1
was later greatlv influenced bv tliojiog cooking food in bottles. areas.
Flemish school and for eight years Thousands of acres of Colorado Russia insists that army,
painted with Van Dyck at Jhe cour- i land are devoted to raising fruits j and air experts take part In
of Charles I. ’ land vegetables for canning. .control.
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