The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 54, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 6, 1938 Page: 1 of 8
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A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
The Weather
Partly rloudy, colder, much coid-
der in interior, freexing in north
portion tonight Sunday, partly clou-
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VOL. 44—NO. 54
CT'ERO TEXAS, SUNDAY. MARCH (i, 193X
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
Fatm Women From
Counties Meet Saturday
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o Council Votes to Eliminate Elective Office of City Attorne
TMk iFIRST STEP IN jScene as Record Los AngelV Flood Washed Out Railroad Bridge^QQ Delegates At
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be prepared to*
of an oppor-j
is offered. Be-j
fathers saw fit;
It is good to
take advantage
tunity when it
cause the city
to provide a nkodern baseball |
MAYOR’S PLAN
IS APPROVED
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CueroMunici-iCity Mxiser Will
because certain! Replace Elective
ave seen fit to j Office
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WILL NAME TULLY
I Present Attorney Has
_j Served City Well Mayor |
Tells Council
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5? stadium at the
pal Park and
baseball fans
maintain this I park in excel-
lent condition luring the win- j
ter months citizens of Cueroj
and Cuero teiritory are
have the opportunity of see
ing a big ieague baseball club j
perform in thsir very back The Cuero City Council in
yard on Thuruday,^ March 17. • special session Friday even* i
The Victoria Gulf Oilers 'ing at the city hall voted 4 to i
boasting some of the finest* 2 in favor of Mayor Newman’s j
semi-pros in ttestate will pro-!proposal to abolish the offlce !
vide the opposition. The game!** city attorney as a first
was originally Ischednled lor! »«** “ward reor*anWn* the'
a Hjfll I
; it on a
basis,
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First District Meet
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By POLLY HOWERTON
Eighteen Home Demonstration ‘Agents an<| apj
Iv 200 delegates representing one hunpred and ninety
Demonstration clubs with a membership pf 3332
Cuero Saturday to attend the first fchu^td^gr^dt i
Home Demonstration Councils. The meeting wa%. hete
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! Methodist Chulch with the DeWitt
the day. In this district there are 147
membership of 2162. $
mnty counbif ]
-H Girl’s clubs
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.. . - k -i . ... i city government and placing
¥ Victoria but the Victoria brill 9
SISTER OF MRS
A. F. METZEDIESI^S."
i Cuero afcs cl
park is not r iady and
Cuero park is.
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Facts revealed in the re-
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cent survey bf statisticians opposed it.
for the Centn.1 Housing com-! The council ordered that the reg-l
mittee that 40 to r 50 new ‘ " “* A ' ‘ mmm
homes per year for a ten
year period will be needed to
take c$re of Cuero’s normal
growth should spur more citi-
zens to* begin home butffflng.
With federal insured bulld-
ing loans available in almost
It unlimited amounts for home
j construction at the lowest in-
terest rates ir history there is
ft no# little excuse for the man
with a regular Income to de-
lay providing a home for
himself and I is family. There
are now soorcs of rent paying
families in Cuero who would
own their homes if their rent
checks had been applied to
purchase rather than to lease
the
more business-like j
Aldermen Grunder,!
Ley, Shannon and Seekamp
voted in favor of the propos j
al and Aldermen Spangle and!
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Funeral From Dietze
Home for Mrs. Emma
Hathaway
Prior , to this year only a
i meetmg, a'state meeting at
’Short dourse at College
i had senpd 'the organiz^tH
.meeftng last year it was'1
el
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district. 1
ing pi
district mccting^l
chosen aS-fhc^&rst
,for —
were
rarest
Atascosa, Kerr, Lavaca, Wil
ular city election be held on Tues- j
day, April 5, without a place for'
city attorney an the ballot. Instead;
a city legal advjsor will be ap-
pointed. EL A. Tully, Jr., is present
city attorney and has served the
cky Since hie election in ML His
term expires following the April
election.
In commenting before the coun-
cil on his request for abolishment
of the elective office of city attor-
ney. Newman said he had no com-
plaint to offer of Tully’s service
and that no disagreement existed
between them. The present attor-
ney has been efficient and prompt
in fulfillment of his duties and he
intends to recommend to the coun-
cil his appointment as city legal
advisor at the same salary, New-
ma| said.
the Mayor declared abolishment
of the city attorney's offlce is but
the first step in his plan to reor-
ganize the city government and
place it on a more business-like
basis. He indicated his next move
j would be to ask for abolishment of
' Funeral services will be held .
j here at 4 o’clock this afternoon for j ’
Mrs. Emma Hathaway, sister of |
Mrs. A. P. Dietze, who died Satur- V*
day morning at 3 o’clock in Hous- i th.
announced here Satur- ____
fugio, Calhoun, Uvalde, _
Jackson, Refugio; ' *
ton. it was
Meyer
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| Mrs. Hathaway’s bod}
i brought to Cuero on
\ train and. taken- f-teclA.
i home, 904 Terrell street, where
services will be held. Interment)
will be in Hillside cemetery under'
direction of the rfeimd Punefal
home.
belc*r
“ ‘Meyer
traction of ]
Gruenau with
at the organ. N
Nordheun, |
and County
Railroad bridge out near Los Angeles ,
This Central Press soundphoto shows a Southern Pacific railroad- bridge roaring down the canyon in the background. Rail communication with
collapsing into raging torrent near Los Angeles as floods swept South- Los Angeles was su pended at the height of the flooa
em Salifornia with loss of life and heavy damage Observe the water
. given
D> ogist Item A. A M. College.
—Cenrtal Press
LEVEP BREAKS ®oats Needed On Famous Wilshire Boulevard
FLOODS FRESNO ~ —7
■ Mrs. Hathaway is
two children, a son of San__D^R°- GL^yx*Powell "of Kenedy
J sok>. Tke# were repasts
various groups.
At the noon hour a del
the places th ;y now occupy, j ne moreawa ms next move pi d Waters Renorted
Y Y 4- ! would be to ask for abolishment of rMMm VValCIs IvC p«l U «
Taypayers in the Nordheimlthe office of city marshal and the Nine Feet Deep In t
School district a Of Police.
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California, and a daughter Mirs.
Robert Allen of Houston. Two sis-
ters, Mrs. A. P. Ptette of Cuero _
and Mrs. L. H. Reuser also survive ; ^7^;; w^'^^dVt
as well as ten grandchildren and byterifiL annex wlth
eight great grand-children. Schorr* as general
and white color theme
ed throughout the mexl.
bowls of red phlox deco
tables. Girts of the DeWitt
4-H clubs served the meal.
The interesting program
i continued after the 1
! adjournment was at three
TERRORISM TO
REAP REWARD
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independent
went to the x>Us • Thursday
and voted a
for their schi
present era,
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15c tax increase
Dols. While the
The proposed change in the city
legal set-up and the issuance of the
city election order were the only
matters of importance to be acted
upon at Friday’s special meeting,
with state and j The appointment of a park manag-
federal governments vielng in| «r„came up *OT discussion but no
; their efforts to find new tax;
1 definite action was taken.
Parts of City
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revenues, is a poor time to, appointment would probably
suggest a tax increase Of any made during the present week.
kind, Nordheim voters never- ~ . D T~.
the-less went to the polls and Lzeneral r^erfihing
voted for the tax because they; Feeling So Good He
thought thejir schools need i Wanu to Get UP WAREHOUSE FOR
TRESNO. Cal., Mar. 5L (1NS)-A'
weakened levee on the swollen
Herndon Canal gave way today j
loosing a raging torrent that flood- ,
ed more than half of Fifesnc and j
inundated hundreds of hemes. Nc j
thej deaths were reported.
The residential district in the ;
vicinity of Fresno State College wai |
buried under water nin? feet deep, j
The college itself and the stadium i
were flooded.
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Howell Houston
Join Herb Same*
San Angelo
ed it. As a reRuIt state aid will»
be available for the employ- j tucson. Ariz., Mar. 5.—<ins>— j
ment of a new teacher. I Gen. John J. Pershing, who last
Y Y * I week was near death from heart
It never rains, but It pours, j trouble and uremic poisoning, was
Closing one I Of the busiest "in good condition” today.
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weeks of th<
its ninth
school The
managed to
year because of
mnual cooking
Daily Record has
get along without
KIMBALL MILL
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(. ominunists to Pay With:
Own Lives In Latest
Stalin Purge
By H. R. KNICKERBOCKER ’
PARIS, Mar. 5.-(l^)—’Com* „ , „ _ _ ^
„ . 1 How ill F. Houston, for
munist International Is condemned. ^ ^ ^
to death. me fc r Ed Friedrichs, 8M§
! Russia’s Red terror has brought j refrigt rator firm, will leave
its own reward and today as this meek for 9an Angelo
| Slalin's ,ounh ** - - - ^ f
comrades approaches its climax, tne with ^erbert samw former
] world is witness to the most aston- b0yi the operation of use
! thing spectacle of all the 20 years Angela t Buikling Materau
of that revolution which once ex-! pany. The company has
alted the hopes of rebels ag York Ice Machinery Cc„
tiie existing order throughout the ^gon ng equipment and He
world. will assume charge of this
ly of the Ju- ' the business,
the last of i ; “ _T r d
the boi- Community Prayer
It is witness not me
dicial extermination
the aid erf i s news editor, its
and press room Cold Wave Due to
its Chief linotype; Strike Texas Today
day and H.
physician, Dr. Ronald Davison, re-
ported.
General Pershing, has been feel- j
ing so good in the past two days
that he wants to get up, Dr. Davi- j
son said.
Construction Starts on
New Building 60x96
In Size
Buses stranded on Wilshire boulevard, Los Angeles
the old guard who made tl
| shevik revolution, but- it is witness
t of a formal death sentence by Rus-
Tnis photo gives some indication of the voiume of
water that 1 lowed through many Los Angeics sweets
started i following record-breaking rain fail which caused
stereotyper
helper and
operator miich of the .period.
Harry C. Putman, Record edi-
tor, has been ill since Febru
ary 26, A fonse Gonzales,
stereotyper and pressroom
assistant, \ras injured Tues-
E. Miller, chief
linotype operator, went out
Irith a bad leg. In addition to
the rcgulai afternoon and
Weekly edil ions the skele-
ton force .however, has
Construction has been
j on a large feed storage and distil-]
1 bution warehouse at the plant ol
: the Kimball Milling Co.] at '
j western edge of the city.
The warehouse* is of galvanized
! iron. 60 by 96 feet in size and will i . *Y Y *Y
-- 'cost between $5,000 ancl $6,030. j SHANGHAI. Mar. 5.-MNSI
A ccld wave will strike scuth j The Kimball Milling jCo.. pur- .^ul General Raymond Gau-
Texas early today with freezing j chased the plant of the
floods in Southern California. This is a scene on , Communists upofi Lntematlon-
*.....in ; *• . _ _ I
famous
midst reel.
Community
Service Held Hi
At Baptist Cl
JmSm
LATE WIRE FLASHES
temperatures in the northern por- j Shelling and Feed Mill last
tion of the state International^ News j and has made this city ft's
Service said Saturday.
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Con- was resided hero today
today • deaths of M . and Mr.-. *-'•*■**••■»j
Cm rc protested strongly to Japanese au- Floyd Abcin ittiy. both killed bv
i Mail V/UUUUU1IWW
Wiii-hirc 'boui.'Viird. with buws stranded in ; aJ communism UMf J
(’/anal Press i While the trial proceeds and the aanua, observance
_ defendants confess With a fervor Wor]d,g ^ of ^ ^
which puzzles professional psy- Ba ^ church, Friday afte>
chiatrLsts in every ebuntry. thous- MarciT4th ^ Weil attended,
ends of foreign communists in the Mrg| Apthur p^cher ^ras
Soviet Union are attempting «°;for afternoon.
•Y -Y (flee the country. ! i Mrs, S. P. Boothe gave i
Ft: 'chv Kim S.mtord v;,-. slam Apnl' Even those who rtm from their ^ by Mrs
native lands wlWi turned j Hamilton at the organ. There’
are today appyling tq their embas-
SomiK l 7* 1936J near 0 >k Grove. M«*.
Texas distribution
’tir
Live stock warnings were posted; home plant is located in IT' Woit'-.
in the north portion. | e. D. McClanahan is loc;»i manager.
• a‘ thorities acainst the action «f *
south . _ .
Th(. Japan* .>e s< ntrv who, cuffed an
American school tcacner cn the side
blasts from a skorgun m tlie ban,:
of tin* husband.
sevei
choir
ral numbers by the
r with Mrs. Henley Webb
Rider Is Killed
At Houston Rodeo
Former Premier
Admits Treason
of the held.
The victim. Miss Grace Brady,
aid the sentry struck her entirely
without provocation.
Idler early today.
HOUSTON. Mar.4— INS— Ernest, MOSCOW. Mar. ,INS* Ab-
n !■ ■am ,-Handy-Henderson, 23, of Weumka,; dullah Irkanov, formn je< mu r <J
printed the regular weekly okla., a rodeo rider, died today of; Uzbekistan in Central Afia. enn-
issue of the Ganado Gleaner injuries received last night in the|fessed his guilt of
and turned! out fourteen jobs arena at the Fat stock Sho* brought against i*.m as
uu His ^ ^ fractured wh€n a , spssjcn of the Mose r- | ;
Of commercial printing. ; steer he was riding rolled on him. l<Ippned tonight
tnasfn charge;
I ht
RAVELLO. Mar. 5 dto* Re-
ports Greta Garbo and Ieoptld
Stokowski ar<- already married
croiipcd up here again t' dav.
HAIFA. Pale-tine. Mar.
Forty Arabs and one Brr.i h
were reported killed to:!av in a <i *y- times
long baffle west of Jenin.
Fifteen Arabs and . -vnal
u r.s v. ci'1- wounded
imber of prayers
leaders from each
were
F VST ST. LOUIS. Mar. 5. -HNS)! sies in Moscow for htlp to return,
y,,, W Quick. 37 p-wcrful East j Even German Corrimunists are
< d in tlfc backyard of his heme . tration camp$. italics are^ seating inn ammulmlffiT"
| istrations. ^
_____ ! Two hundred Austrian Schutz-
At'HTIN. Mer. 5. tINS) - Gcv , bunders. Socialists wpo escaped af-
kiiKffy min- hun<J^
Jirnes IV. Allred aid t* lay
ter their abortive uprising in 1934,
and thought to find refuge in the
BABY GIRL
Friends of Mrs. Charles
Jr., tpe former Miss 8’Delia
will be interested to
JEFFERSON CITY.
M ir 5.
i , . 1. irgrapde: J Auf'.m Beasley,, ..Patherland of the I Revtriution.” ^rn’l.tfol . .
____________ _______ CIO organize: tor the San Antonio now are pleading wjth the Au5_ 2nd * mebiU^lms been
-. »ms»—Raymond Boyer. 3’J. Kid- |>,-e.ui shellers si l ike, urging lnm to j trian legation to li^lp them and i n4a_Ju1phar|<M. Mother and
'-as City, Mo., was e\< cuo ci m t urt ,n p, nia-c wi i Mayor C K. | according to an Austrian who has ^ nicely Mr and
lothni pas rhqinber nt Abv ^f Ve| i * » *1 iust returned from Moscow, their . h
ml -- (letiru pas cnamoei m * Qmn an attempt to arbitrate the , . , „■ . «h Card
DALLAS. Mar 5. ,IKS# 'A h m- j p.enitenliary here ten;.v t„ T - - ' legation actually is living than all
al verdict of murder, and uicide slaking if W. DaL* Sanlerd K jvsa- ithe aid possible,
are excited over the
of being grandparents.
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Putman, Harry C. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 54, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 6, 1938, newspaper, March 6, 1938; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1073729/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.