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VOL. 37—NO. 267
CUERO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1931
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All Cuero citizens will be of-
forded an opportunity to have
ft share In the winter charity
program by generously sup-
porting the Benefit Carnival
ttkftt Is to be staged next week
under the direction of Bill
Bili who is said to be an ex-
port in planning and staging
sach affairs. Cuero has ample
talent and all of this will be
enlisted in the project and in
addition every sort of side-
tfeow and concession will be
provided to entertain the
carnival crowds.
* * *
Cuero has had no fall festi-
val of any kind and the car-
staged in such a worthy
should draw the large
that usually patronize
professional attractions that
pave been brought here as a
feature of the Turkey Trot.
«r have come independently.
Outside carnivals always take
hundreds of dollars out of lo-
cal circulation while those
who patronize the charity
carnival will enjoy equal en-
tertainment and at the same
time tiie money will be kept
at home and will be used to
prdride food and other neces-
sities for the poor of our city.
f * *
fortunate that
bility of the affair
such capable hands as
Mafflffillk, $17,850,000 OIL
■SUIT FILED BY
ALLRED TODAY
SIX PAGES TODAY
THE GAVEL
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Anti-Trust Suit Filed
Against Fifteen
Companies.
“CONTROLLED PRICE”
Attorrpy General Alleges
' Prices Held Up By
Trust.
AUSTIN, Nov. 12.—(UP) — At-
torney Allred today filed an anti-
trust suit against fifteen oil com-
panies, the Texas Petroleum
Marketers Association and the
American Petroleum Institute, ask-
ing penalties totaling $17,850,000.
(Forfeiture of the Texas permits’ of
certain companies was asked.
The violation consists of a re-
ported agreement to abide by a
code of practices. Under it. All-
red charges, that since November
20, 1828, prices have been controll-
ed and competition kept down. He
alleged a nation-wide consipracy
to control the price of petroleum
products.
Approval of the Federal Trade
Commission was obtained, he said,
as a blind, although the companies
knew the Federal Commission had
no power to set aside anti-trust
laws. The minimum penalty
against each company would be
$25,000 and the maximum, $1,050,-
080. The suit is the largest suit
ever filed in district court here
and will be called in the January
term of court.
The full list of defendants is:
Standard Oil Co. of New York;
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey;
Standard OU of California; SheU
Union Oil i Corporation, Humble
OU and Refining, The Texas Com-
r- - pany, Gulf Refining, Tastotex,
tfeSfle of Bill Hill Who al- Continental, Magnolia Petroleum
Company, Strains Oil Company,
a resident of Cuero for
a short period has
Shell Petroleum Corporation,
^ Cities Service OU Company, Tex-
tile greatest Interest Marketers Associa-
tion and-the American Petroleum
institute
>
community affair* and has
proved himself a
r in taking the lead
in projects such as this.
There are not many here who
voluntarily assume the
of such an affair but
_r Hill has not only
enthusiastically into
but himself Initiat-
ed the movement.
* * *
r a small group of
workers with the as-
rof the Welfare Asso-
jolned together to
hot lunches for the
large number of little chil-
dren at the John C. French
school who were unable to en-
joy hot noon day meals and
whom their teachers knew
Were suffering from proper
nourishment. The hot, nour-
ishing lunches were prepared
In the home of one of the
women and then served at the
school by others of the
.group with the assistance of
the teachers. It was a big un-
dertaking but was successful-
ly carried through and an av-
erage of sixty children were
fed each day. Regular checks
were kept and there was no-
ticeable improvement in their
general health and appear-
KDCe. The question of financ-
ing the “soup kitchen” at the
school this year has been un-
der consideration for some
time for it was realized that
the project was even of great-
er necessity this year than
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* NEWS FLASHES *
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8AN ANTONIO, Nov. 12.—(UP)
Hal Long. 46, a job hunter from
Gutherie, Oklft, was found dead
In a tourist camp here today. Long
held a pistol in his hand' and there
was a bullet wound in his head.
Hi-
turkey prices Gobblers Hold Touted
in new hike victoria Eleven To A
THURSDAY
Price Goes to 16 Cents
Market Shows an Im-
provement.
RECEIPTS ARE FAIR
Standstill Wedne:
More Than 6,000
Marketed Here in
Few Days.
Birds
Past
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Turkey prices took a new high
here today as buyers ofiered 16
cents per pound for Number 1
birds. Prices throughout the day
ranged from 15 to 16 cents, with
the choice birds bringing 16 cents
in most instances.
De Witt county turkey growers
have marketed more than 6,000
turkeys in this city during the past
four days, according to estimates.
One packing company reported
having prepared nearly 1400 birds
for the market on Monday alone.
Another buyer declared that he
had purchased between 6000 and
7008 pounds Of choice turkeys dur-
ing the past three days.
Thq movement is expected to hit
its real stride during the early
part of the coming week when
thousands of birds will be brought
into this city. DeWitt county ex-
pects to market more than 160,000
turkeys this season.
The birds which are being
brought to Cuero markets at the
present time are said to be in fair
condition but not up to the stand-
ard of last year’s crop. Number
2 turkeys are being sold for 9 and
10 cents per pound.
.
Two tons of Victoria High Stingarees rolled
Cuero in a special bus Wednesday afternoon coi____
trouncing a Gobbler football team. That same two
of Stingarees, slightly battered, rolled out of Cuero
hours’later completely satisfied with a, 6 to 6 tieJ
satisfied they should have been for Old Lady Lu$:k
Iy cast her vote in their favor.
There were few breaks in the game, but the
TREES CUT ON
RIGHT OF WAY
the LUa
A second contribution to the an-
nual Cross the ’Flansus Christmas
Cheer fund was ahnpunced *Ttnfh£-' "way department
ROTARY VILL
HELP NEEDY
NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—(UP) —
John Held Jr., famous for his jazz
age characters has married Miss
Mary Moore, winner of the Gal-
veston beauty contest.
WACO, Nov. 12.—(UP)—The trial
of William Cordell Beck, 19, form-
er University of Texas student on
a murder charge today was set for
November 23rd.
GALVESTON. Nov. 12.—(UP.) —
Two years in prison was given
Theodore Owen today for the death
of Clarence Gregory in a street pis-
tol battle here March 13.
LEGION PLANS
BANQUET HERE
Annual Affair to be Staged
Next Wednesday
Evening.
To Make Special Donation
To Welfare Association
During Winter. ' ^
The Rotary Club, at its regular
weekly luncheon at noon Thursday,
voted unanimously to make a
special donation to the Cuero Wel-
fare Association of $10 per month
for the period of December, Jan-
uary and February. The matter
of making a special contribution to
increase the relief funds for chari-
ty work in the community during
the winter months, was presented
by President Jim Howerton, who
was delegated by the Welfare As-
sociation to make the appeal to
the service club.
Dr. J. C. Dobbs was in charge of
the program for the day and as
chairman of the Aims and Ob-,
jects Committee explained the*
purposes of this important com-
mittee and pointed out the func-
tions of the subordinate commit-
tees. He then called on Dr. John
W. Burns to speak on “The Ideals
j of Rotary.”
INDIAN FACES
Young Ladies Take
To Tree as Bulldog
OffersArgument PENALTY
The tree sitting craze may
be a thing of the past in the
minds of most people but to
Miss Waldean White of this
city and Miss Hortense Taylor
of Victor!^ "tree sitting” is a
port in a storm. As a matter of
fact, tree sitting is not exactly
a fad with either of these two
popular young ladies, but when
a sixty pound bulldog, suffer-
ing from rabies, decides to call
on one a high tree is Just about
the safest spot known, in the
opinion, and therefore sit they
did in the highest branches of
a tree on the White ranch near
this city, while Old Bob, the
bulldog, raged below.
Chased by the rabid dog the
young ladles , "took to the
branches,” remaining there un-
til {^Mexican tenant on the
ranch arrived and dispatched
day when officers at the American
Legion authorised the Reoprd to
placet he organization's name on
the list of donors to the! cause with
a gift of $5. Far a number of years
the Legion has headed ethe list
when the drive began on December
1st This year the Auxiliary opened
the drive on Armistice Day with a
donation ot $2.50.
!
John S. Fenner returned to
Goes to Death in Chair at! Cuero Thruaday evening after
Early Date; Convicted I spending the Armistice Day holl-
Of Murder. i day with his family in San Antonio.
Clearing of New Highway
Entrance Con-
tinued.
Another step in the clearing of
the North Esplanade Street right-
of-way was taken Thursday
ing when the long pow of
hackbenry trees formerly bordering
the walk In front of
Brown home was cut dm
S. Fenner, state highway
stated Thursday morning that the
oak trees on the right of way would
not be removed at present and
that any plane for building the
highway into the city to provide
(or leaving the trees would be left
to the city. He stated that the
state highway department would
not interfere in any plane for pre-
serving the trees since'it is the
policy of the engineers to save the
trees wherever possible..
The Hawthorne Club, piaBMr
3 fact. The Gebbk
to the ftfr earlj
whipped
their own
tossing
Dinter Post Make*
Donation to Record
Crow 'Rnruu* Fund ZZTJZ £
move the trees which center
new right of way for the
of Esplanade, petitioned the
to save the trees, if possible,
the mayor and the resident
highway engineer promised
full co-operation, Thursday's
nouncement from Mr. Fi
ing to substantiate this ,
The plan was advanced by tee
club women that tee trees be en-
closed in,» parkwa^ that
center the nek higbws
a beautiful approach into the city.
Mr. Fenner has drawn up a plan
for the parkway and It Is hoped by
the sponsors ot the project teat
this may be eventually carried otu.
HUNTSVILLE. Nov. 12—(U.P.) —
Chief Red Wing. 39 year old;
Cherokee Indian, listens to a cheap j
alarm clock outside his barred!
door tick away his life as he awaits j
his day of execution in the peniten- .
tiary.
On November 19 he is doomed to
pass through the little door at the
end of the row of cells and take his
seat in the electric chair. He was DALLAS, Nov. 12.—(UP.)—A
convicted in New Braunfels several, great offensive will get underway at
months ago for the assault and! noon Monday, November 16 In Tex-
murder of a two and a half year old j as as hunters shoulder arms and
8iri- , go forward in their annual war
Prison employes say he will be) against ducks,
the first Indian to die in the chair, j For the first time in history of
Red Wing was doing Indian war the duck season, the month of
Mr. Bulldog with a charge from dances in a carnival side show when | hunting will begin at noon instead
he was arrested for the crime. He ; 0f midnight. The season ends De-
also has worked ps a maker of ! cember 16.
beaded moccasins, he said. j rncse who hav€ observed the
A calendar hangs cn his wall and | movements of the ducks claim that
Duck Season Opens Noon
November 16th; Season To
Be Short Hunters Warned
a shotgun.
! The president urged the Rotari-
i ans to lend their full co-opcration
_ j to Bill Hill, chairman of the Boys’
Plans have been completed for the j Work Committee, in his efforts to
city and! Raids
BANK BANDITS
ACTIVE TODAY
a cheap alarm clock ticks loud cut-
side the barred door When the
day is ended. Rec! Wing crosses it
off his calendar. Not so many days
are left uncrossed.
Although he had admitted the
annual American Legion banquet
which is to be held here next
Wednesday evening. November 18th-
and indications are that this yeaf’s
entertainment will be one of the
most successful ever staged. De-
licious Cuero turkey will be fea-
tured on the menu
Legicn notables from a number
of South Texas cities are to be
present at the banquet which is
recognized as one of the outstand-
***** *nen the plan for the j jng LegjCn activities in this district.
■ _ , , crime during his 'trial, he now de-
revive Scout Work in the city andj Raids Occur Throughout: nies he js guilty he was lodged in
reminded them that this was one. Country; One Bandit is [the death house But death house
of the most impoitant works that;
the club may undertake in thei
community. Bill Hill, in respond-!
ing, called attention to the Rotan-j
ans to the Charity Carnival to be
Killed.
staged next week and told them
that each one will be expected to
carry out his astsgnment when call-1
ed upon.
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carnival was suggested and
this was seen as , a splendid
way of raising funds and
solving the problem.
The banquet is to be held in the
American Legion club roms. and
is slated to begin at 8 o'clock.
Eleven Men Rescued
Unusual Bargains
Offered at Koehler
Turkeys to belPentiful j Thank*«iving Sale
For Pennsylvanians
From Lifeboats' HARRISBURG* Pa Nov 12
Koehler's Tnanksgiving Sale,
j which opened Thursday morning,
_______dm , drew the usual large crowds that
' l< UP.»—Turkeys will be plentiful in j attend any selling .-vcni staged b\
--- 1 Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving Day I popular store. Unusual re
KjiftlBOA. Canal Zone. Nov. 12 — | according to agricultural statistic-1 Auctions in all departments, at a
'(UP>—Eleven men were rescued; ians here. ’time when winter stocks are sill
$04ay in life boats by the United They estimated 54 per cent of the , unbroken. offering irresistable
marina sweeper Swan. They annual “crop” will be ready for the j values, arc contributing to the
been adrift lor days after j Thanksgiving market, an increase | success of the event
ST. LCUIS. Nov. 12.—(UP.)—L.
G. Dowling. 29 year old vice presi-
dent of the Midland Savings Bank,
shot and killed one bandit and
wounded another in successfully
frustrating a holdup at the bank at
noon today. Dowling was critical-
ly wounded himself in the exchange
I of shots. The attempted holdup oc-
| currcd just after all employes but
i Dowling had left for lunch.
PARSONS. Kan., Nov. 12.—(UP.)
—Bandits who robbed the Parsons
State Bank here today kidnaped
three employes of the bank and
forced them to go along as hostages.
The bandits escaped with $2000 in
j guards say that is usually the case.
"I didn’t kill the little girl.” he
declares. "Another man did it. He
told nre about it and begged me not
to give him away and I told him
I would protect him. Now, nobody
believes me.”
“They made me say that I did it.
They Just kept cn talking German
to me. They scared me. I thought
If I would tell them I did it, they
would quit talking to me that way.”
New Braunfels and the; surround-
ing territory is thickly settled witn
German-Speaking people.
As an employe of different carni-
vals and show troupes. Red Wing
said he has traveled all over the
world. But now the Chief fears that
his days of wandering over the
earth are apparently ended, and he
_ j cash .They were in a large expen- j paces the short path between the
sive automobile. j narfow walls of his cell in the
- ideath house.
QJWlCCklng of ttof iteamer Baden j of two per cent over the 1930 total
; "|toden, and wore first sighted by The turkeys will be of ‘ good
An airplane pitot last Saturday. j quality." the report said.
The sale wi.’I continue for
eleven divs. Saturday niuht
November 31st
MA.DISON. Ind.. Nov. 12.—'U.P.» (
—A band of eight bandits raided [ Wm. Bitterly of the Meyersville
two adjoining banks simultaneously ! community was a business visitor
here today and escaped with $27,500 j in Cuero today and called by to in-
in cash and an undetermined spect the Record office and meet
amount in bonds. | old friends.
the outlook for the season is better
than in the last 10 or 15 years.
Wallace Moore, connected with a
local sporting house, declared there
are pre-season indications of the
best year in history.
Snorting goods houses over the
state have reported a large de-
mand for hunting licenses. guns,
shells and other hunting equipment.
Much enthusiasm has been shown.
The federal law has ordered the
season to begin at noon because it
is contended that many'ducks are
shot on the night before the actual
season begins, and before game
wardens have time to check up on
the hunters. It is also believed that
there will be less accidental shoot-
ings if the season opens at noon in-
stead of midnight or daybreak. The
ducks also wrill be given a better
chance to get settled with the sea-
son opening at noon.
The fact that this section is a
better feeding course for ducks and
geese than the Atlantic, Western cr
Rocky Mountain area has made
this a good place for ducks to col-
lect. hunters report. The compara-
tive warm falls of Dallas
year.
Shultz,
telnly ‘
Sloan
short pa
down
he wM
not more than 30 allowed to be in
a hunter’s possession at any time.
Snipe, Gallinuies or Mudhens are
25 a day or 50 a week of all varieties.
The limit on geese and Brant are
four a day. or 12 a week, or not to
ocssess mere than eight at any time.
It is unlawful to hunt, shoot or
kill any wild ducks, wild geese, wild
brant, or any other wild water-fowl
from after 12 o’clock noon each day
until 30 minutes before sunrise on
the following day in Harrison and
Marian counties.
Fortunate “breaks” for the hunter
are said to be the fact that fowls
are reported to be stopping at lakes
-nd various places Instead of coc-
inuing their flight further south.
Another factor is that the ducks
have been protected from gun fire
cn their flight this far and are f**3
from the wild tendency that or-
dinarily makes them leave.
The deer season also opens No-
vember 16 but it does not close un-
til December 31. The bag limit is
two bucks a season. Black tall or
mule deer west erf the Pecos is
limited to one a season.
Hunters have been warned that
it is unlawful to kill doe deer,
fawns or spike bucks; it is unlaw-
ful to shoot any gun or firearms in,
along or across any public roads in
the state; it is unlawful to hunt, kin
or possess game birds, game ani-
mals or other birds and animals ex-
cept where provided by law; it iz
unlawful to hunt from a motor boat,
sail boat, boat under tow, automo-
bile or aeroplane.
Other "don’ts” are; don’t hunt on
shot a pas
in terferred
Cuero wm
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end after a
the
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line^
haywire, a
and the
state game preserves; don’t hunt,
and I kill or take any duck, goose or
North Texas also have caused many j brant by any other means than by
ducks to settle here. | the ordinary gun, not to exceed 10-
Thr ducks this year are said to j guage, capable erf being shot from
be larger than those of last year, i the shoulder; don't use or possess z
&outs report. There also is suppos- headlight at night in a territory
cd to be mere large geese. where deer are known to ronge;
The bag limit per day for duck j don't use a deer call, except deer
this season again will be 15 with horns, which may be rattled.
yard loss,
to the 25
bullet pass to <
yard, fins,
goal line
kick for
remainder of the
Ing duel, with
slight edge of
Sloan. A strong wta»
teg difficult for bote
The second half
moot entirely In
the Gobblers
time again. A |
quarter took the bail
line, where |
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