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VOL. 37—NO. 303
CUERO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER. 27, 1931
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Any who may have doubted
s the worthwhileness of the [I
||/ gOhristmas Cheer party for the
children annually Spon-
by the Record need only
have attended the event
Christmas morning to
• been convinced that It is
mss* wp* Only worthwhile but a
which has gone far
the management of a
dividual. It is the
bration of the kind
^hi the community for
needy little ones and each
has seen an Increase in
number attending.
Jm in all events of the kind
many who come, in-
men and women,
to receive gifts who
“ re a part in it;
effort ot
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h
CUERO ENJOYS
SUNSHINE ON!
XMAS DAY
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Old Santa Brings Prize
Weather to This CSty
For Christmas.
NEEDY REMEMBERSD
Poor of City Receive Gifts
of Foodstuffs and
Clothing.
California’s widely heralded sun-
shine had nothing on the brand of
weather Santa brought to South
Texas on Christmas Day, Cuero
basking In warm sunshine while
Diamond’s Finish an Object Lesson
* * * * * * * * *
Last Episode in Career of Notorious Gang Czar, Slain by His Own Kind,
* Emphasizes Only Ending to Path of Crime.
■
many parts of the country shivered
under a mantle of snow.
Aside from hundreds of kiddies
who expected Santa Clau and were
not forgotten, there were bright
faces and Joyous hearts in literally
scores of Cuero homes where
hope had been dim all week as they
awaited and wondered if the old
fellow would arrive.
Duck loads of food, toys and
Meg were distributed to
naedy throughout the city—Ro-
ms and Kiwanians distributed
their animal Christmas baskets, and
hundreds of kiddies crowded the
WHm school house across the Han-
for their anginal Christmas
if-
f Civic leaders declared that Cuero
before shown such a
to spirit ci Christmas rejoicing and
_ charity. And the colored lights and
!fpy Christmas trees still were in
Ovkteooc Friday night anticipating
of the New Year.
Clkus visited the poor Fri-
under the auspices of
Botary .and Kiwanis clubs, slx-
l'baskets containing a /: real
fSfcnpr being distclbut-
i Cttf*
Wsooers at the county Jail were
given a turkey dinner by Sheriff
Emil Mar-
RELIEF DEBATE To Air W« Stories
IN CONGRESS TO
BEGIN MONDAY
Senate Committee Will Open
Hearing on Emergency
Aid Measures.
HOOVER OPPOSES PLAN
La Follette-Costigan Aims |
Would Bring Direct Aid
to Unemployed.
Diamond (&$£) on Eve of Death
The ringing down of the curtain upon the career
•f Jack “Leg*” Diamond, by the murderous gun
rulo.’of which ho wae en expert exponent, more
than evar emphasize* the truth contained in the
slogans “You <tau’t get away with it!” Arrested
25 times fpr crimes ranging from petty larceny to
murder, Diamond, the New York sneak thief who
rose to power in the underworld, served but one
short sentence in o reformatory. Consequently,
he sneered at the laws of the country and broke
them Just as he pleased. But the code of gang-
land could
found to his
rival gangsl
His I/ast Ride.
ho so lightly violated, es Diamond
>st. Three times he survived when
n pumped bullets into his consump-
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—(U.P.)
—What promises to be the most
bitter battle eff this season of con-
gress. to decide whathe the millions
of Americans whose Christmas
wasn’t so happy are to be helped
with federal dollars, starts Monday.
The sepate committee on manu-
facturers will open hearings on
the need for federal relief, on the
basis of bills by Senators Robert M.
SIX PAGES TODAY
ROSS RANSUS
PARTY PROVES
Record Crowd on Hand
Take in Annual Xnus
Party.
ALL REMEMBERED
Santa’s Helpers Kept “
“Supplying The De-
mand.”
One of the few war correspon-
dents who went through the "Big
Parade” from start to finish with
General Pershing, Newton C.
Parke, foreign news editor of the
International News Service, will
tell some of the big news stories
La Follette, Republican. Wisconsin, of the war that have never been
told before. Parke will broadcast
over the Columbia chain on Dec.
five body, bdfc this last time his enemies took good
care that there should be no recovery. En-
tering the rooming house in Albany, N. Y., where
Diamond was sleeping off the effects of a gey
party, held to celebrate his acquittal of an abduc-
tion charge a few hours earlier, gunmen put three
bullets in his brain, giving fresh significance to
to the warmne “YOU’CAN’T WIN!”
Cuero.
nippiness for those
id to distribute the
re*ret that they
for it takes
services were held at
..ivfctfMS local churches. On Christ-
high * maw was
______ at midnight in St. Mich-
ael's church. Cuero's protestant
churches also held impressive
Christmas stgMces, with hundreds
of citizens jafting in the celebra-
tion of Christ's birthday.
AH Cuero Stores were closed Sat-
a three day
and
9 many more
duty to have
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XMAS DEATH
ML MOUNTS
Twenfcy Texans Killed in
Christmas Accidents,
^loOtjaws.
DALLAS, Dec, 2T.—(UP)— A sur-
vey of violent deaths that occurred
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
revealed a toll of twenty. Of this
number nine died in automobile!
accidents. Eight died of shot gun
wounds, and two were stabbed to
death, one was burned fatally.
More than two hundred persons
were killed Christmas Day in the
United States, a survey of the en-
tire nation revealed.
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l NEWS FLASHES *
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SAN
ANTONIO, Dec.
26.—(UP.)
PAGEANT TO BE
GIVEN TONITE
and Edward P. Costigan. Demo-
crat, Colorado, providing for appro-
priations of $250,000,000 and $365.-
000,000 for emergency aid to relieve-
"hardship and suffering caused by
unemployment.”
President Hopver is militantly
against the plan, and is cm record
in a number ofTapecches and state-
ments in favor of help by private
charity and state and municipal
action to take care of each
state’s needy.
Aid Depends On Hearing
The chance of congressional en-
actment of a huge appropriation for
relief depends largely upon what
evidence is placed before the senate
committee hearings as to the need
for aid and the extent of suffer-
ing now.
The Democrats who have com-
23 on the “Going to Press" hour.
CONVICTS FIGHT
J. B. Stone, a construction super^ I p , . . g
intendent, was shot fatally today “re*bytcrian i>,3t vice
in a rooming house disturbance J y
Police arc “seeking his assailant. j '
Thu
Evening Open to
Public.
i
holiday toll.
CISCO Dec 27—(UP—Eddie
! Smith 22 year old truck driver
j died in a hospital here today from
Lloyd Ellis Dies •cddeDtai *** wounds He
Mother of Mrs.
be a splendid thing
automobile drivers
adopt a set of New
resolutions—and keep
A few suggestions fol-
Funeral services were held in Ban
Marcos Saturday afternoon for Mrs.
L. J. Daley, mother of *Mrs. W.
Lloyd EHls of this city, who died
tn that city at 1 o'clock Saturday
morning after a month’s illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis and children
left Thursday afternoon for her i
bedside when the message came
telling of her critical condition.
Mrs. Daley was the widow of one
was found In his boarding house
room Christmas morning when he
called far help.
SEVEN TREATED
Seven persons were treated in lo-;
DALLAS, Dec. 28.—(UP)—Death j As the concluding feature in the
was an unwelcome Christmas j community's religious celebration
visitor in many Texas homes as I of Christmas a beautiful pageant
accidents and killing took a large; bringing a real Christmas message
will be presented this evening in
the auditorium of the Presbyterian
Church annex. A cordial invita-
tion has been extended by the pas-
tor, Dr. W A. McLeod. to all
friends of the church to enjoy the
entertainment with the congrega-
tion. the hour having been set at
8 30 to allow members of other
churches of the city to attend.
The Err.p'y Room" is the title
of the Dazean* and the best ama-
•eur talent of the city has been
drawn or. for its presentation
RANSUS FUND
FALLS SHORT
Christmas parties may come an
go but never will one be a greats
success or bring more joy than di
the annual Cross the
| in the little Mexican school
v.n Christmas morning, 1811.
A crowd of more Ahan four 1
dred children were on
Joy this annual
sored by J. C. Howerton
Record and provided by
Cuero citizens and not a one <
went away disappointed.
Cap pistols and doOs
wouders with teary eyed
sters who became
ing Santa’s arrival, t
including the many
great time.
The 'party this year
FLOOD WATERS
every boy and girl
_ | The *'■
Two Towns in Mississippi I
Inundated But liovees
Expected to Hold.
I froilt and candy,
; Three hundred
CLARKSVILLE. Miss.. Dec. 26 -i*?a^
Hundreds of convicts and volun-1 J™
teer citizens, fought to strengthen J tockles^
levees barely holding the Talia- j *****
hatchle river in its bounds. j had b
With backwater flowing through!
the streets of Glendora* and
rear, scores did their j Christmas i
plete control of house legislation, visiting in skiffs, siting as tb$ ‘
and with a few Western Republi- j rowed from house to house, and !1
cans hold a control of house leg- the Sumner postmaster delivered!
islation, and with a few Western
Republicans hold » control of the
senate, are opposed in general tg
the "dole” principle, but If wide-
spread suffering were disclosed, they
probably would fall in line with the
Lafollette-Costigan proposal.
Total
Cash Contributed
Amounts to (.
*124.50.
Cash com.nbut.ons donated by
Cuero citizens for the annual
Christmas Cheer party for the
poor children and staged in the
little school house "Cross the
The hearing, presided over by I*
Follette as chairman of the com-
mittee. will last through three days
of next week and probably into rise
following week. The witnesses will
be largely social workers.
The La Fotiette-Coatgan program
affords a strong contrast with Presi- j
dent Hoover's own wide program
for economic rehabilitation, which
concentrates upon the problem of
providing aid and credit far Indus- j
try and through through industry
employment of the same horde;
the Sumner postmaster delivi
mail and packages In motorboats,
after the water flooded the post
ocfltee fldbr. '* • ii*:
Superintendent J W. WttjB
of Parch man penitentiary, who
rushed 200 convicts into the dan-
ger zone for levee work, predicted
the dikes before Sumner and Glen-
dora would hold, although the
Tallahatchie river still was rising
at the rate at two_ten$hs of a foot
! every M hours, and swollen Cas-
siday bayou, fed by the Talla-
hatchie. presented an additional
1 menace te the section.
One of the Bayou Cassidy levees
j broke Thursday night near Sum-
i ner and a serious tamdadas was
1 halted by quick work of the sand_
i bag crews from the penitentiary.
cal hospitals Christmas Day for; jttm8usr totaled $124.50 this
injuries received in two auto crashes
j in this city. None were seriously in-
jured.
No holiday fatalities were report-
ed in this section of the state.
1. I will make it a practice
*jttdve prudently and care-
at all times.
I I will give due regard to
rights of others, who are
entitled to the use
and highways as I j
1. I WIH not be a road hog.
nor drive on the wrong side
of the road, cut corners or
drive at high rates of speed
•#hen conditions are not fav-
4. At all times I will keep
lights, brakes. steering
and horn in the best of
tdondltion
6. I will be watchful to do
my part to prevent an auto-
mobile accident in 1932.
Many more suggestions will
come readily to mind Our
manual toll of automobile fa-
talities is rapidly approaching j
the 35.000 mark—35,000 lives1
of the prominent pioneer mer-
chants of Ban Marcos with which j r CL__ICC
city the family has for many years *OTtrait Of onentt
DEMOCRATIC SLOGAN
Cne hundred thousand sloganeers
responded to the Pathfinder Maga-
zines call for a key phrase for the ! der the new proposal,
year. Democratic party but the prize! Free Wheat BUI Approved
$75 went to J. J. Stubbs of Robstown,;
Tot W Trying
—which would be fed directly un- To ReSCUC MotHcr
&
mS1*! Pi
-V. • A *aSVt
—
American
which lacked from $50
reaching the amount of collected • Texas, whose slogan, picked by
in previous years. In spite of the Senators Sheppard. Copeland and
fact that the amount was less and djh js: **Hee! Haw! We re coming
been identified. She had been in ill j
health for several years, and had:
suffered several strokes of partly- j
Ms recently. She had visited her |
daughter here on several occasions
and had many friends who will re-
gret to hear of her passing.
Is Xmas Present
JOE BROWN IN
FEATURE SHOW
“Local Boy Make* Good”
Feature at The Rialto
Theatre.
It is a new Joe E. Brown who j
cavorts across the silvers creen in
"Local Boy Makes Good." the
: First National production which
opens today at the Rialto Theatre.
The new Joe is as funny as the
! old Joe but in a different way. He l
! is not at all in ’he mood of "Top
, Speed." "Hold Everything."
! "Broad Minded." of "Going Wild.”
He U timid self-effacing near
sighted, a victim of an inferiority
A portrait of the “Big Chief.”
Gus Lenz. sheriff of DeWitt cun-
ty, was exhibited to his friends
during the past week by Carl 1s-
leib, Cuero leather worker who! Glenn Young
finds diversion and recreation in Lillie Bell Young
: his art.
The picture was given to
Sheriff Lenz as a Christmas gift
by the painter. Originally done
as a pencil sketch it was touched
up with oils and is said, by those
who have seen it. to be a life-like
* portrait of the sheriff.
the number of children was much
larger, the expense of staging the
annual party will exceed the funds
only about $10 because of the gen-
erous donations in fruits, candies
and the like contributed to the af_
! fair.
Contributions received late
Christmas Eve and not yet listed,
are as follows:
Jo Beth Montgomery 50c
back!”
A slogan good or bad never elect-
ed or defeated a President. The
misguided pastor’s "Rum. Roman-
ism and Rebellion," was an unof-
ficial injection into the Blaine cam-
paign. "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too”
needed the hard cider that went
with it to make it effective. The
Pathfinder hundred dollars is wel-
Another phase of direct relief, the
Capper resolution to give 401)00,000
bushels of farm board wheat to
feed people, has been approved by
the committee and is on the sen-
. . *f i
EMMETT, Ida., Dec. 26.—(UP)-
Alice. Vickery, 6, was burned to
death Thursday when she Attempt-
ed to rescue Her mother. Mrs. V.
A. Vjckery, from their burning
home here. Mrs. Vickery was so
ate calendar ready for action! severely burned she was not ex_
when congress reconvenes. But it*peeled to recover. The father and
was dealt a heavy blow by a report j three other children were also bad-
from Chairman James Stone of the; ly burned.
fanp board, announcing that to' --
maintain reserves to the legal point.' » lin
an appropriation of $16,000,000 Seven Killed Wnen
would be needed if this much wheat! Ax- a m.
is given away A*ltO Strike* AutO
»ar Is
illary work and
the adopted pla
napii action
25c ! come Christmas money to Mr.! The La Follette bill would create!
Stubbs of Robstown. But there is a $250,000,000 federal fund to be dis-
25c
something lacking in his slogan.
CORK LEG FOR SALE
SAN ANTONIO. Dec. 26 —
(U.P.)—A flatiron, baby • car-
riage. cork leg and cuff links are
to be included in a police auc-
tion sale here December 23.
Items confiscated by officers
within a year's time also in-
clude felt hats, a violin, straw-
hats. parasol, bicycle frames,
pocket knives, and two boots
for the right foot.
SURRENDERS i Its double monosyllabe
SAN ANTONIO. Dec. 26—(UP)— course
T. L. Dixon, a carpenter, surrend-
ered to police today and declared
he fired the fatal shat that killed
J. D. Stone, a construction super_
intendent. Dixon would not ’re-
veal to officers the motive for the
BUFFALO, N. Y.. Dec, 26—Six;
in-1
shooting.
R. A and I. W Brown, father
and brother respectively of Mrs
NINE KILLED IN
TRAIN CRASH
Four in One Family
When Train Hits
Auto.
tributed by a federal emergency re
of lief board through the children's! stantly in
------- the reveille of the Demo- j bureau. The board would have au- j cident on the outskirts of Batavia,
cratic donkey, its final phrasing is, | thority to grant up to 50 per cent j 25 011168 from Buffalo. They were
it is to be hoped, prophetic, it com- of the total needed in each state for! en route to L*n<k>°-
Yeg^ Who
Store
TEMPLK, D^T
today sought yeggs
the Cale Brothers
day in an
men and a child were killed in- ; ___ ^ ^ {e
a railroad crossing ac_j *ge estimated
ing a market
CHARLOTTE. N. C.. Dec.
mits the party to no promise as
woul dthe second prize winning
slogan of Edwin A. Halsey, secre-
tary to the Senate minority, who
advocated. "Vote Democratic and
sat regularly.” There is assurance _
(of some sort in the third prize slo- j
! gan from North Dakota. "If we j
want a change for the better, we'd |
; better make a change.” Sensible j
! Democrats are aware that Hoover;
promised prosperity and current
events turned on him. They want
no "I told you sos" and Mr. Stubbs
ignores economics in favor of bal-
lots.
Cn that grounds, there can be no
objection to it. But Messrs. Shep-
26— paid, Copeland, and Dill are not
relief, the state providing the
mainder.
FIVE ME WHEN
HOTEL BURNS
Search on For Additional
Bodies Among Ruins
Saturday.
33 Pri*oner* Freed
By Jurist in Dallas
The fire
nt $10.000.
in
the grocery.
Eight Killed In
Battle With
Featured in the supporting cast
are Dorothy Lee. Ruth Hall. Ed-
ward Nugent and Wade Botler.
destroyed because of negli- I ln “ ,new wa>'
fence and carelessness. The
care Is up to the individual
driver. He must face and ac-
cept the responsibility that is
his when he takes the wheel
of his car, if this needless
waste of irreplaceable lives is
to be stopped.
compler He provides plenty of j Jno Y Thompson of our city, are (Up'—Nine persons including four humorous men Because of that they
Mr and Mrs Fielding Breeden.
Mrs Henry Mugge, Mrs W R
Rath bone and R. P Breeden mo-
tored to San Antonio Saturday for
a brief visit with Mrs Phil Howard
who has been ln ill health for
some time.
in one family were killed here to- j have overlooked the dreadful pos-
day when their motor car -was sibilities.
struck by a passenger train. "Heel Haw!” can become "Haw!
The nine victims were riding in Haw" or, what is worse. Ha! Ha!”
a small sedan. Police believe that —Dallas News.
possibly the crowded condition of ________
the car interfered with the driver Mr. and Mrs William Frobes"
_ either in seeing the approaching and son Billy, and Mr and Mrs.
C A Gramann arrived Christ- train or in applying brakes before Carl Gramann and Misses Marie
mas Eve from Baton Route. La . he reached the crossing Bodies and Beverly Gramann. spent Christ-
l here enjoying the Christinas holi-
day* as guests of the Thompson
family In company with John Y
I Mr. Brown <1. W > paid ihe Ree_
ord office a brief business call Fri-
day morning H* surely is "a go-
i getter' in his line
PESHAWAR, India.
* CP > —Eight persons
today and fifty others
the superintendent of
wounded, when sokhen
j crowtf of five hundred “red
to spend the Christmas
with his family
holidays were scattered along several hun- mas in Victoria at the H
dred feet on the railway mann home.
C. Gra-
SPRINOFIELD. Mass.. Dec. 26.
— (UP)—Fire enveloped the New
Court Hotel today, trapping 48
roomers and fatally burning at
least 5 i>ersons including an entire
family.
A checkup, several hours after
the fire, showed that twelve per-
j sons were missing. The other
I thirty one occupants including
several children reached safety by
fire escapes or were carried out
i over ladders by firemen. Firemen
and police were imking into the
i still smoking ruins seeking addi-
tional bodies believed burned in
the charred debris.
DALLAS, Dec. ftS —Thirty-three
prisoners in the Dallas city jail—
most of them there * for excessive
celebration—received an unexpected!
Christmas gift Friday when Corpo- j
ration Judge Cavln Muse ordered Abdai bta,
them released and suggested they
return to their families for the j
Yuletide dinner. None of them was!
fined.
;i the anU-British
frontier
Man Drowned By
Stream From
Valley Kiwanis Parley;
Plans Being Prepared •, MOB^ Au* .
i J R Goodman wi
MERCEDES. Dec. 26—The Low-
er Rio Grande Valley is starting
active preparations for the enter-
tainment of visitors to the 1932 Ok-
lahoma-Texas Kiwanis convention.
rotm here today by fires
ing a blaze in the 8L
hotel. He was found face 1
upon the floor Firemen
escape had been barred I
and flames and he had
to be held in Harlingen, at a general when several large
meeting here January 4. waterwere thrown into hfc
A Valleywide organization Is to be
formed to handle the work.
About 1200 persons usually attend
this convention.
Herbert Same* is here
Angelo for a visit wi
frienda
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