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The Cuero Record
A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS LJS COMMUNITY
CUERO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929
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nt of the dairy in-
m thik immediate terri-
taken by the pur-
:ete,bttre bred Jerseys
I liter herd al
ntrodaction of
blooded stock in-
assuring improve-
fn the future dairy herds
and eventual in-
m' production of butter
Chamber of Commerce
sponsored the original
to establish dairying as a
tical, paying business for
farmers o! the Cuero terri-
carrying forward
already begun by
purchase of these
the one
-4orf is thus
1 the good work
financing the
fine animals. This, is
tieal means
definitely
listing the
t cf dairy
>lan that
□la I Jt *
ever La
to mak
project.
gradual improve-
herds and is the
has been adopted
community has
dairying a ma-
CUERO MEN SAY
REPUTATION OF
M’CRABB GOOD
Fire Cuero Men Are Called
to Stand and Testify as
to Reputation.
MAY BEGIN ARGUMENTS
likely That Arguments
Will Strat Friday Morn-
ing^ Reports Say.
BEEVILLE, May 16—Thf de-
fense opened their case Thursday
morning In the Johri McCrabb
murder trial of John 8. McCrabb
with the Introduction of five char-
acter witnesses. Walter Reiffert,
William Buehrig. Ed Koenig,
Charley Cook and Jim Moser, all of
whdm> testified that the reputation
of John S. McCrabb, charged with
the killing of Annie Johnson, on
the night df November 11, 1927,
was good, and that he was a law
abiding citisen .The defense sought
to introduce letters purported to
have been written by Annie John-
son, but was unsuccessful in their
attempt. One portion of a letter
was admitted Wednesday. Argu-
ments In the case may begin Fri-
day.
Innocent Victim
been
the
mg wnei-
In fc28
* + *
e general movement to 1m-
dairy herds has
proofounjed during
veai s statistics re-
from A . and M. College
t out, and has been most
m tie efforts of civic
to finance .the
pure bred animals
among
rs.
of fanners in
or * were
and the total
on farms was re-
agents at
than 2,COO. J. I. Thomas
specialist in the * exten-
^erviee ( eclares that this
absolute y sound plan for
g dairy herds, because
bette: producing cows,
T> milk and bigger profits
ve«y few years. He stresses
fact that dairy farmers
be careful in buying
unless it be to buy two or
good odes on which the
Herd maty be built up.
4
average dairy cow in
itt count} we are told pro-
one-half pound of'butter
day. A Register of Merit
produces 500 pounds of
fat p« year, thus aver-
well over a pound a day.
are the kind of cows that
farmers of the Cuero
a^e to have if the
of tfte Chamber of Com-
are carried out, for the
purchase 1 from the Lassi-
are from Register of
cows, cows that have
production records be-
tbem. The dairy farmer
keeping up a herd ' of
that.has a low average
ion «rill see in the
of the (Chamber of Com-
a welco ne opportunity
d np h s herd thereby
0 better return for his
and mor ey>.
BEEVILLE, May 15.—“I sure do
love Bud,” Annie Johnson, 16, de-
clared Just before her body was
found in an automobile In front of
a dance hall In Refugio, November
11. “If I can’t have him, I do not
want to live.”
This statement was related by
Bert Bomba, a. witness for the de-
fense in the trial of John 8. Mc-
Crabb on change of murder of the
girl here Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Johnson was referring' to R.
H. WUboume as *9*6” Bomba
said. A case against Wilbourte, al-
so charging murder °* the had
been iWiiUwH by the State.
Bomba said he was dancing xflth
the girl When she made the remafrk.
Later In the evening he said he
was sitting on the running board
of an aothncWe two miles from
Refugio With, ■bibourne and Miss
Johnson, sad girl said to Wil-
booene:
“I want yon to quit going with
that blond headed woman In
Cuero.”
The defense also introduced tes-
timony In regard to the effect of
experimental shots on flesh tissue
and the flow of blood. Dr. C. H.
Haynes testified that he fired an
experimental shot at a lamb placed
In an automobile in the same po-
sition the girl Is alleged to have
been when she was shot.
No Blood Spots
Dr. Haynes said he placed the
pistol directly over the heart of the
lamb and fired. There was no blood
found in the car after the shot and
only a splotch on the windshield,
he said. He also testified that a
pistol fired pressed against a body
made a muffled report and was not
as loud as one fired In the open air.
Black powder made a louder report
than smokeless powder he said.
A pistol shot fired directly over
the heart at close range would not
cause a gush of blood, the witness
said. Very little blood would flow,
he said, while if the shot was fired
at some distance there would be a
greater flow of blood and a clean
cut wound would be made instead
of a jagged one. In his opinion, a
person might be able to speak af-
ter being shot through the heart,
but he did not think It probable.”
J. M. Maser of Cuero, now with
the 8tate Department of Agricul-
ture, and a former deputy sheriff
testified that a report from black
powder would be louder than from
smokeless.
Build Baby Airships
German Experiment
Dry officers fired on the car
carrying J. \V. * Hendricks,
above, and his companions at
Abington, Va., but no liquor
was found in the car when
searched. As if to take-^the
administration of justice out o!
humpn hands, fate stepped into
the case when James Crowe,
one of the deputy sheriffs in-
volved in the shooting, was
stricken with a probably fatal
illness.
(International Newareel)
COMPANY HEAD
TO VISIT CUERO
YORK. May 16.—(INS-)—
fusel, st 1 ir outfielder of the
erk Yankees, Is one of the
leaguers who have made
but limited experience
league belt.
Heb,’ played only two
Id W minors as an out-
and only 248 In other po-
wai used at first and
before being transform-
a gardener
ROAD
E. J. Ad«m», President of
The Adams Motor Co.
to Attend Opening.
E. J. Adams, president of the
Adams Motor Company of Del Rio
arid A. J. Bird, an official of the
San Antonio Buick Company, will
arrive in Cuero Friday coming ex-
pressly for the purpose of attend-
ing the formal opening of the Mc-
Cauiey Motor Company Friday
evening, the Occasion marking the
completion of the new Cuero Buick
headquarters, erected by J. J.
Fischer,
O. k. McCauley, head of the
Cuero Buick agency, was formerly
associated with Mr. Adams In the
Del Rio agency, while T. E. Mathis
head salesman of the McCauley
Motor Co. Is a former member of
the San Antonio Buick Agency, H.
E. Darr Jiegd of the service de-
partment of the new Cuero Buick
station, q^so received his training
and experience in auto mechanics
in the San Antonio branch.
A general Invitation has been ex-
tended through the press to the
people of DeWitt and adjoinin
counties to be guests of Nhe Mc-
Cauley Motor Co. at the informal
reception which is to feature the
opening of its handsome new home
Friday evening. Music and re-
freshments are to be provided for
the enpjoymeat of all visitors;
while they are inspecting the build-
ing. The latter was constructed in
the record time of 57 working
days by J. D. Yriung, Cuero con-
tractor. Hollow tile an dstucco
were used for construction, materi-
als used in the building being fur-
nished by the Alamo Lumber Co.
Endurance Driver Finds
COMMENCEMENT
tou of death
*K IN CLEVELAND.
John J. King, world's champion
non-motor stop car driver, who is
doing a 72 hour grind in this city
in the Plymouth Sedan supplied by
the R. 4- Nagel Motor Co., hand-
cuffed to the steering wheel of the
car, began his 72 hours Wednesday
at 2 p. m. He should complete the
stretch Saturday afternoon at
same hour.
King who has driven 170 hours
In a test at Houston, is confident
that he will not encounter any dif-
ficulty in the 72 hour non-motor
stop drive unless the rain contin-
ues as he is subject to pleurisy in
his back and shoulder and it is
very painful. Although he will be
compelled to do without sleep and
eat his meals at some inconveni-
ence meanwhile.
ed at the beginning of the drive
and no oil is to be added until afte:
the drive is completed.
The driver was padlocked in his
place by officer Markowsky and the
lock sealed. He has selected Silver-
ton Tires as he mast at all times
have good traction. Despite the
the : threatening weather 2nd intermit-
tent rain fall, an interesting crowd
looked on as the preliminary ar-
rangements were being made.
During the day King drove about
the town, parking in front of the
Bell Tailors; Davidson’s Electric
Shop; Elite Beauty Parlor; Dr.
Lena Hoffman’s office; E. J. Freund
Ambulance Service; The American
Cafe; The Magnolia Service Station
Goodrich Silverton Tires, Schorre
and Edgar Insurance Co., Flournoy
Studio. At each place the car at-
The car is muring perfectly. King j tracted large crowds full of curios-
declared, praising the Plymouth ity.
highly for its performance, and at Any one wishing to ride with
the same time giving due credit to King may do so either by hailing
the Magnolene Oil and Magnolia him on the street or by calling
Gasoline which is being used ex- Nagel Motor Co., drive headquart-
clusively. The motor hood was seal- ters.
ROUNDED OUT
Programs Which Will Fea-
ture Graduation Exer-
• cised Announced.
EXAMS ARE UNDERWAY
WILL ASK FOR
WORK ON ROADS
Delegation Will go to Aus-
tin to Apptear Before-
Highway Commission.
A delegation of Cuero road
“bosters” members of the Good
Roads Canunitteee of the Chamber
of Commerce will go to Austin
next week to sppe&r before the
Highway Commission which will
in session May and 25th.
secure the official iWjfonitlrm
certain Important m< ,
county Which are in v^ent jpied
of improvement. * /
This action was decided upon at
the meting of the Chamber of Com-
merce directors an Tuesday night,
and will be the first definite step
in the program for highway im-
provement which has been mapped
out by the new administration
headed by Berthold Schiwetz. An
effort will also be made to get ear-
ly action on Highway 81 which
is in bad condition in this county,
and is practically impasable after
every rain.
The Good Roads Committe is
headed by W.-L. Ferguson other
members being R. A. Nagel Dr. J.
W. Burns, W. J. Ott, 'and Judge
Stanley Kulawik.
Former Cuero -
Teacher Making
Success (of Work
Just a Mere “Dash”
I Spent Life
MS # « jf • W/W9C1 Ml 5VUU/ tillC lA»Oil
1 une in iVlinorS ’of the lighter-than-air craft
BERLIN—(IMS)—A four passeng-
er baby airship is being construct-
ed by the Raab-Katzenstein Works
at Cassel to study the possibilities
as a
means of transportation.
The baby blimp is 120 feet long,
has a gas content of 1,4440 cubic
meters, and will be propelled by
two 40 horsepower motors at a
speed of 60 to 70 miles an hour.
The framework will consist in the
main of steel tubing and the ship
will be anchored to a new type of
transportable anchor mast.
The cabin provides rom far four
passengers. One pilot is to be suf-
ficient to operate the ship.
England Now Has
543 Millionaires
MAN KILLED
CALI8TOOA. Calif.. May 16. —
Drew W. Sutber, 26, al Al-
was Jtilled today and
en tx-
LONDON.—(INS) —England’s mil-
lionaires appear to be declining in
numbers. Treasury statistics just
issued show thit for the 1928-1929
financial year there were 543 mil-
lionaires in Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, compared with
569 in 1926. 597 in 1925 and 592 in
1924.
Against this reduction, however,
is to be placed a slight increase in
the list of top rank millionaires
having incomes of more than $500,-
000 a year. According to the statis-
tics, there were 147 individuals in
this class with a total income of
approximately $150,000,000, com-
pared with 139 in 1923 with an ag-
gregate income of $130,000,000.
Figures for the five higher ranks
of tax payers show that 566 persons
paid tax on incomes of between
$150,000-$200,000, 278 on $250,000 in-
comes, 299 on $375,000, 97 on $500,-
000, and 147 on Incomes of $500,000
and over.
A peculiar feature of the statistics
is that there was a slight reduc-
tion last year in tile numbers of
men with incomes of $5,00* a year,
Cuero friends and former pupils
of Mrs. Bernice Vandersall, who
was a member of the Cuero High
school faculty last year and now
heads the Public Speaking depart-
ment at Sul Ross College at Al-
pine will be Interested to hear of
the successful year she has enjoy-
ed in her new position, particularly
as director of the Sul Ro6s Mask
and Slipper club which has present-
ed a series of plays during the
year.
A program of one of these pre-
sentations and a clipping from, the
Alpine paper which tells of other
plays produced under the direc-
Captain Rosa G. Hoyt, army
air pilot, will attempt a round-
trip^ flight from New Yerk to
San^Trancisco and return, tn
the short space of 48 hours,
which is quite a dash even if
he does intend to use a fast
Army pursuit plane.
njtt«rna.UoD*l NiwrMl)
FALL ISHEAVY
THIS MORNING
Downpour Estimated at
M.ore than Inch and Half
Roads are Flooded.
Roads were flooded and fields
badly washed by the heavy down-
pour which fell in and about Cuero
this morning, the fall being esti-
mated at more than IV> inches. The
Yoakum road was under water
from the Fredericks Filling station
to the railroad crossing, about one-
half mile from the Fredericks sta-
tion.
tion of Mrs. Vandersall. reveal the:
versatility of the students who hav6 j The Westhoff road was declar- j
received their training under her, ed to be impassable shortly after
direction. * the rain this marning. but it was
expected that cars Would be able to
Mrs. Vandersall taught English
and Public speaking while a mem-
ber of the Cuero Hi faculty and
coached the girls team in debate
which set the pace for this year's
team in winning both county and
district ^onors ami entering the
State meet at Austin.
Find Old Dwellings
In Lake Constance
CARLSHURE — (INS) —The low
water of the last winter disclosed
extensive remains of ancient lake
dwellings in the Ueberling Lake,
near Sipplingen, and also further'
remains in Lake Constance.
These are now to be excavated by
means of caissons through which
some 600 square yards of the lake's
bottom can be laid bare by pump-
ing out the water. Heretofore no
thorough investigations of this kind
have been made.
The same plan will also be fol-
lowed in the whole district of these
lacustrine primitives in both the
Qerman and Swiss parts of Lake
Constance. Scientists expect to be
go through by night.
No 'unusual rise was reported in
the Guadalupe, although it was
believed that heavy rains above
Gonzales would swell the river be-
fore night. No warning had been
issued by Government authorities
however.
Seniors Get Final Examina-
tions Tc*day, Undergrad-
uates Begin Tuesday.
I 1 .9 . .
Programs that are to feature the
commencement exercises at Cuero
high school a.e now being rounded
out, and all arrangements are prac-
tically complete for* the various
events that are to take place during
the closing week of the session.
Final tests for the seniors are to be
given this week and finals for the
undergraduate classes will begin
next Tuesday.
The first event on the commence-
ment program is the Baccalaureate
service that is to take place on
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock in
the Senior High School auditorium.
Rev. J. W. Black will deliver the
sermon and the other ministers of
the city will assist him in the serv-
ice. Superintendent Melton has an-
nounced the program for this oc-
casion as follows:
Processional
Hymn—Holy, Holy, Holy.
Invocation—Rev. -Everett H. Jones
Scripture Reading—Rev. A. H. Clark
Vocal Solo—Miss Esther Pannen.
Sermon—Rev. J. W. Black
Benediction—Rev F. F. Eberhardt
Recessional.
J. D. Young Had : 4
Planned for Years
To Visit Old Home
To lode forward for twenty i
yean to visiting one's father'
and then when onr the eve, of
realizing this happiness to lose
the opportunity through death,
is the sad experience that has
come to J. D. Young, contrac-
tor who received word Wed-
nesday morning of the pass-
ing in Flemington, West Va.,
of his 78-year old father at the
family home there.
It was just twenty years ago
that Jimmy Young enjoyed a
visit from his father while he
was living in New York. Three
years later he came to Texas
and to Cuero to live since
which time he has never re-
* turned to his boy-hood home.
In the seventeen years that he
has lived here he has married
and now has two children.
Each year he has planned to
return to Virginia taking his
family with him in order that
they might meet his father.
Each time some circumstance
has interfered to prevent this
visit. But this year everything
looked right and the time for
the trip had been set for July
But on Wednesday came the
message from a brother "back
home” that the father had suc-
cumbed from one of the heart
attacks which he had often suf-
fered. Now there is no need of
the trip for the one who had in-
spired the longings for a visit
home is gone.
Mr. Young had planned to
purchase a car in which he
and his- family could travel, the
trip over-land being a feature
of the enjoyment that was to
culminate in the visit to the
old Virginia home. For the
time, these plans will be laid
aside but at some time in the
future the Young family may
yet return to the town where
J. D. once lived as a boy and
where his brothers and sisters
still reside.
117 DEAD, MART
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May *6.—(INS.)*
above even the expectations of pi
the condition of most victims in tl
aster as hopeless, the death toll reached 117
heavy wall of bromide gas panafrated
the building and brought death to
tastro
the terrible ca
There were
phe.
ho bed patients
the
LACKEY NAMED
AS DELEGATE
Sam C. Lackey to R op ice-
sent Cuero Rotary Club
at Convention.
Sam C. Lackey will serve as
delegate from the Cueno club at the
meeting of Rotary International in
Dallas May 227 to 30 having been
named to take the place of IeRoy
Hamilton who had gone to New
York. Cole Dobbs who was selected
to serve as alternate may not be
able to attend, it was announced at
die regular noon luncheon of the
chib Thursday.
The program committee. Includ-
ed Supt. Melton, Sam Lackey and
Edgar Davidson the subject for the
day being the International Rotary
convention. Victor Grunder and
John Bums told of former con-
ventions which they have attended.
Roy McWilliams and
Brantley Cuero High school sei
jrere guests of the club while
tartans Innti of Pt Lavaca
* feme tetee
w t
were
tion
were
the
baefk
kwirll
heroii
ed. '1.
It iwa»"
had ’ died ^j|
blocking the
otherf who
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?ncn rivers nan
PARIS.—(INS)—With the belief
that Roosevelt Field te a better
starting plaoe than Le Bourget, 4s-
solant and Lefevre, both under 25
yean, who flew as far as Casablan-
ca, Morocco, on a trants-Atlantic at-
tempt intend to try the New York
Paris bop.
Armand Lotti. son
Hotel keeper, who __
the fuselage of the plane when it
took off from Bourget last Septem-
ber, is helping to finance the ex-
pedition.
The sloping runway at Roosevelt
Field is what attracts the young
aviators. Last year they narrowly
escaped death when t£ey were
forced to dump their fuel at the
end of the flat at Botrget.
The projected New York-Paris is
partly to “make things right" with
the French public who suffered
keen disappointment after having
their imagination fired by the
youth and daring of the fliers—the
last hope tef trans-Atlantic honors
of the 1928 season.
Lefevre has been studying navi-
gation and now believes he can
pilot the plane straight across the
North Atlantic.
The fliers are using a ‘ Canary”
monoplane. It has a cruising speed
of 125 miles and a theoretical fly-
ing radius of 5400 miles
New Style? in
Corsets Aid The
Woman’s Digestion
PARIS—(INS)—If modem fash-
ions for women are the root of
.many an evil, they are now and
(then responsible for some good. Af-
ter Dr Paul Gallois, who declared
that thin silk stockings were the
cause of dangerous chilblains.
Graf Zeppelin
Well on Way
PARIS, May 16.—(INS.) — The
Graf Zeppelin passed over Nimes
at n:40 this morning headed
southwest over the Mediterranean
on its volage to the United 8tates.
Among the passengers is Mrs.
Mary Pierce, wife of a New York
stock broker, and the only woman
aboard this trip.
The Graf Zeppelin is making its
Heidelberg Festival
Have Special Dramas
HEIDELBERG.—(INS)—The Heid-
elberg Festival Plays, which have
heretofore been confined to ’ the
works of classic dramatists, will tn
j future present dramas written es-
pecially for these festivals by young
dramatists.
The performances this year will
begin with a presentation on July
20 of Hebbels “Agnes Beraauer "
The program for the season,
which wil continue until August 15,
includes also Shakespeare’s “Mid-
summer Night’s Dream" with a new
cast) and new scenery. The direction
is again in the hands of Gustav
Hartung.
comes another French physician, | first trjj* across the Atlantic as a
line lay la
Dr. fLe Noir. saying that modifi
cations in women's corsets have
practically caused the disappear-
ance of stomach ulcers among the
fair sex.
Formerly he adds, this malady
was far-more spread among women
than men. They were provoked by
to determine where the coaat- high, tight corsets, compressing the
ii
purely * commercial/ liner. It al-
ready has two crossings to its
credit. The dirigible left Fried-
richshaven early today.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, May 16.—
(INS.)—The Graf
over Spain this afternoon and was
Flyer Sets Record
Hop Over Mountains
CHICAGO.— (INI) —When
Vance, veteran Boening pilot,
cently completed his eighteenth
hundredth hop over the “hump," a
name given the summit of the sum-
mit at the 8ierraa between Reno,
Nevada and Oakland, Cfcltf.. he es-
tablished a
hurdling
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