The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1934 Page: 1 of 6
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Fair tonight. Saturday
ly cloudy.
A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COM MUNITY
dc Wagner Buys
Cake; Somebody
Else Eats It
••Doc" Wagner Ds convinced
you can't have your cake and
somebody else eajt it too.
“Dqc” was high in the bid-
President’s ball
ding at the
Tuesday evening and was an-
nounced as the purchaser of the
fine birthday cake contributed
by Petal PHskal.
Doc placed the cake in the
lounge of the city auditorium
and went out with a party of
friends to get a cup of coffee.
He returned to find two layers
of the cake missing. Hie third
from
fjiumble Expected to Start
Test Near Thomas-
ton.
LEASING IS ACTIVE
Hochheim and Ecfgar Sec-
tions Getting Oil
Play.
Return of fair* weather is expAk
ed to bring about a spirited renew?
ral of oil activities in DeWitt coun-
POSSE. ON
Posse of Officers
zens Are Ci
layer had been rescued
hungry mouths by a friend, and
was turned over to its owner. *
But Doc was a sport and
(taking a food friend off in the
corner, he managed to sell the
remaining layer for 10 cents
more than the whole cake cost
Aim. and all was wefl.
leading Methodist ministers in ,
nation/ addresses a gathering
Here a^e pictures of John Dillinger and
manacled and goaded, for preliminary heart
Front raw, left to right, are: Russell. Oak, d
/■A bloc of leases covering about
7*00 acres has been filed by T. W.
Lovett. J. D. cooper and . Robert
Lyle Andrews, ir. this section. The
i geologists reports for the area are
toifl to be highly favorable.--.
Thirty leases have been filed from
the Hochheim section by F. B.
Lefevre.
Leasing is also 'underway in the
Edgar section by the Keystone Oil ft
Refining company, a large number
of leases said to have been secured
in that Section to date. None of
these leases have been filed as yet
with County Clerk J. P. Bridges.
The HUgartner No. L between
Nordheim and Yorktoym was
abandoned about ten days ago as a
and John Dillinger.
tonal Illustrated News photo)
SAN ANTONIO. FW>. 2.—Argu-
ments in the trial ot Sam NamL
San Antohio htock salesman
charged with conspiracy to commit
theft, were stiff underway in Ninety
fourth district oooK here Friday
afternoon
J. Franklyn Spear, chief defense
counsel, was presorting the argu-
ment for the defense.
Thursday afternoon’s seskkm was
taken up by defense counsel in
taking exceptions to the couHfr
charge. Arguments were started
Dr. Putman requested the state’
department to send one of their
most competent engineers to this
etty following a Conference with Dr.
J. C. Dobbs, member of the school
board. >'. - Am? /
The city health officer has v de-
clared the condition at the John C.
French school a dangerous one, and
has declared tl»e problem concerns
the city as well s* th& school:
In the event tfce water Supply, of
Cuero As contaminated through
such a condition, the city would be
subjeetr to a fine not less than $500.
LONDON. Feb. a.—(WSh-presi-
dent RoSkvelt’s new monetary pol-
icies scored a major victory'. today
when the international gold price,
as determined In London, : was
marked up 10 a point within a frac-
tion of the $35 an ounce figure
sen” had approached Schaefer with
another “proposition,” which would
enable him to make bat* what be
had lost oq the fiffat deal. *
Schaefer reported the second
transaction to officers, and Hull
and peOrafltenreid were trapped by
investigators for the district attor-
ney and state rangers. Schaefer had
testified that LteGraffenreid wag
supposed to faring the counterfeit
moody which Schaefer was suppos-
ed to buy for $1006. An envelope
fuff of blank paper, taken ftoro,
DeGraffenreid was introduced as
evidence.
The defense offered three detec-
tive* as .witnesses, to Show that
Schaefer had not reported the theft
of his $1944 to them,
Capt Aubrey Hopkins testified
that Nami. and Schaefer, who gave
his name as “Kennedy" r*«n* to
headquarter* to report the theft of.
a pair of pants, three *20 Bills, and
a watch, and that no mention was
made of the theft of a mjfprj press,
which was supposed to hotyt con-
tained Schaefer’s money. ^K
Sheriff Sends Dalta \
on Bad Check Makers
’• which provided the basis for • de-
valuation of the dollar.
Abandoning the French franc in
! favor of the new 5996 cent dollar as
| the gold price b#se, the British gold
| abritei* advanced the rate four
shillings, (about $190) to 139 shil-
{lings, six pence per ounce.
This had equivalent to about
*34.85 in American currency at to-
day’s opening exchange rate of
$409 1-2 to the pound.
One of the first aims of the
Roosevelt monetary policy was to
bring about an adjustment of the
world gold price to the fixed Amer-
ican figure of $3S an ounce. Action
of the British in marking up gold
by the largest margin ever record-
ed indicated that the new Ameri-
can price was headed for interna-
tional acceptance as a new bullion
gold standard.
W. A. (“Buck”) Henrichsen (right, with glasses), former county
highway policeman, who quit his potted work to join the Roger Touhy
gang, is ftbewn on his way to the John Factor kidnaping triad Monday.
Henrichson. who took the stand for the state, proved anything but a
help for the prosecution when he said that he never heard the kidnap-
ing of Factor mentioned by his “pals" and never suspected that Factor
had been kidnapped. He testified that he rented the house in Glenview,
111., where Factor was first held a prisoner, but did not know that<Touhy
was to use it for that purpose. (International Illustrated News photo)
to a circular letter mailed out this
«nc OH tee week by Sheriff J. B. Arnold.
Qhoftff Arnold sent a description
£ to the sheriffs of Texas of a number
■ t _ _ .of checks which have been turned
be in aeaa to him for investigation. The
ging a Tur- /checks were cashed by different
14 Several Pe°Pl€ 1104 merchants who were
victims have not been able to iden-
been fufog- toy anyoiie who has been arrested
, substantial *> far.
T~_ Various kinds of tricks are being
used to deceive local people into be-
rnival com- Having the holders of the checks are
gned. The ®«* *«* standing.
mred bv the °ne r«*lted a furnished
■orea oy me bouse here, went to several mer-
Professional chants, made purchases in the
*ery DeWitt neighborhood of five or six dollars.
. _____ received change for a $15 check and
fid commu- ^ Merchants were referred
operate in to the person who had rented the
a big 8UC- Tmrty the bouse. The owner of the
. ,, house told the merehanii the party
worth-while ^ taken the houae ^ renter
le York town had promised to pay the rent as
appreciates tooa M the fam,ly moved in.
Sheriff Arnold is cautioning of-
News. Cuero fleers over the ttate to look out
Trot Will for similar sfbnts. Checks pre-
Jblicitv to *nted good appearance, us-
ually being drawn on well known
\ She wants companies, with the firm names
Igbbors f to Printed on the paper, signed by a
ft this 1934 ores*<*ent an<1 secretary. and in
// some Instance* a check protector Is
citizens can used.
insuring the Recently a prisoner was brought
. here for investigation but local peo-
** IT ana pie who had been swindled could
) participate wot identify him. 8heriff Arnold
i benefits. toned the prisoner over to Victoria
___ authorities Sunday, however. the
p - officers in that city having a charge
ly- of forgery against him.
brought
House Leaders Postpone
Consideration of Re-
lief Bill.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2—(IMS)—
Discovering that a movement was
underway to continue the CWA in-
definitely. house leaders today sud-
denly postponed until Monday
consideration of the $950,000,000
federal relief and civil works ap-
propriation requested by President
Roosevelt.
The measure was reported to the
house by the appropriations com-
mittee and Democratic leaders had
announced that it would be passed
by' adjournment tonight.
When they learned of the effort
to boost the total it was decided to
consider the bill on Monday under
Siipension of rules when amend-
ments will be barred.
The administration is determined
to demobilize the huge army of
4,000.000 CWA workers by May 15.
but the needy of the nation will be
cared for. Harry L. Hopkins, federal
relief administrator told the house
appropriations committee in testi-
mony made public today.
He estimated that the *950.000.000
sought for the federal relief and
civil works administrations by
President Roosevelt will carry the
the country through until congress
meets next January.
The future problem of relief ^
still to be determined, by the in-
timated that the CWA may be
revived if it 4s needed.
The CWA has cost *675.000.000
with $400,000,000 being provided by
the public works administration.
*100.000.000 by the relief adminis-
tration. *175,000.000 by the' local
communities
Ground-Hog Goes Back To
Sleep For Another Six Weeks
After Seeing His Shadow
“I f Candlemas clay be fair and clear,
There'll be two winters in the yeai.
If ffiandlemas day be wet and foul.
'Vi
The half "o winters gone at Yule."
For those who still lay faith in this age eld prediction, the
outlook for continued sunshine and warm weather is dark indeed.
For Candlemas day in Cuero wa&' the brightest day we have ex-
perienced in many days.
Unless the Ground-hog v.as sound asleep and failed to
out of his hole, it looks mighty bad for the lovers of “fair
warmer." for the little weather prognosticator cculd net have failed
seeing his shadow. And they tell us, if he sees his shadow he goes
back in his hole to sleep through an additional six weeks of wintry
weather.
Since the early Clulstlan era, Febiuary 2nd has been, known as
the day of weather prognostication. Even the old Romans knew
this day and all over Europe fne weather on this day omened un-
seasonably cold days and crop failures. Foul vvtatlier foretold a
bright and early spring.
Moratorium Upon Fore-
closure Sales Ap-
proved.
AUSTIN. Feb 2.—(INS)—The leg-
! islature today approved finally a
! 30 day mbf-atorium upon foreclosure
! sales agalnsf real estate.
The final vote was upon a con-
jference report on amendments to
! the bill. The hoi^e accepted the re-
port readily but ihe senate spent its
morning seAion in a drawn out.
i three-man battle against the
measure.
I The three opponents were Sen-
ators Will Pace of Tyler. Cecil
j Murphy of Gainesville and T. J.
(Holbrook of Galveston—all an-
nounced foes of moratorium legis-
lation:
The house tqdav. refused to fix
j February 10 as a date for ending
; the special session, but lpft its de-
cision open to reconsideration.
Tabled, subject to call, was a reso-
lution adopted by the senate fixing
, noon. Saturday. February 10. as the
I date for sine die adjournment.
com
CHICAGO. Feb. 2.—(MS)—Gordon
Alcorn, last of the men wanted for
the *60.000 kidnaping of Charles
Boettcher. Denver broker, was cap-
tured by federal men here last
night, it was announced today.
Alcorn was in bed in an apart-
ment. He offered, no resistance.
Alcorn admitted his part In the
Boettcher kidnaping and said that
he and Verne Sankey. leader of the
mob. had engineered the actual
“snatching” of tne young broker.
Alcorn. 28 yea.-s old. will prob-
ably be taken to South Dakota to
stand trial with Sankey for the
Boettcher kidnaping. Sankey al-
eady is in Sioux Falls, S. D., Jail
having been taken there last night
by Melvin Purvis, chief of the lo-
cal federal agent*.
Death in Chair
SMOKING IN COUI
DENVER.— i INS. i—Thft
smoking in Denver's w«
criminal courts was raleed
when District Judges Oil
Sackmann and James C.
weather were transferee*
two criminal divisions. U
bacco in all forme had 1
bidden while District Jw
F. Dunklee was on the
benah.
San Antonio Youth
Killed in Bar-room
Mrs. Gene Livingston nee Miss
Eunice Murphree of Hutchinson.
Kansas, arrived Wednesday for an
extended visit with her parents,
Mr. and Mr* Tom Murphree.
SAN ANTONIO. Feb 2 INS-
Sixteen bullet wounds b; u '
death early toda\ r«» .\ ■ st:- et. 25
the mid-term
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40—NO. 28 CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1934
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Howerton, J. C. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1934, newspaper, February 2, 1934; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth999633/m1/1/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.