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VOL. 44.—NO. 186.
CUERO. TEXAS. SUNDAY, AUGUST 7. 19:18
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
•J^TownTallC BAND CONCERT
ATWESTHOFF
BIG SUCCESS
Cuero And Westhoff Join
Hands In Friendship
Meeting
WESTHOFF WINS GAME
Kills Parents, Brother For “Good Of Humanity
Cuero citizens who drove
out to Westhoff Friday night
to join their Westhoff neigh-
bors in a band concert, ball
game and other festivities en-
joyed a delightful evening.;
The affair was truly a success, j
and should go far in binding
the friendship of Cuero and
Westhoff. Next Friday night
the band will visit Concrete
where a second concert is to
be given. If you were unable
to make Friday night’s trip to j
Westhoff. plan now to be on I
hand at Concrete next Friday j
^evening.
* * * ; -
Cuero and Westhoff joined hands
Two youths who embarked;in a friendly greeting Friday nlght
upon a career of robbery will M the first of a xrles of rural
have a long time to think dand concerts sponsored by the
over their sins in all probabil- f Cuero Chamber of Commerce was
ity. Trie two, who have admit-
ted holding up a filling station
in this city, two stations in
Cuero Softball Team Goes
Down In Defeat Before
Westhoff Lassies
staged in that community.
A concert by the Cuero Munici-
pal band was preceded by a soft-
San Antonio and one in Vic- «ame between the Kiecka Dme
torta. were captured In San
Antonio Friday only a few Westhoff emerging the winner,
hours after they had 4aken a delightful hours concert was
$31.00 from a Victoria station. «urint which time cowboy
stew and other refreshments were
Their burglaries have netted 1 served on the grounds. Auction of a
them less than $200.00. For cake, won first by Sheriff Emil
I that $200.00 they now face Markowsky and again by W L Fer-
guson of this city before finally be-
life in prison. Crimes does not lng auctioned off for keeps, fought
pay. $18.00.
^ ^ ^ | A large number of Cuero business
men accompanied the band, and
.Despite the unfavorable Westhoff turned out enmasse.
publicity resulting from the J *** “ch concerts are ** Pla>"
_ . , __ , ed by the Municipal band, the sec-
Colorado river flood. Federal iond to ^ offered next Friday night
engineers are still hard at at concrete, it is planned to con-
work on the Guadalupe- Unue the concerts with the Cuero
I high school band as musicians upon.
Blanco flood control program, a^pi^on of the concerts schedul-;
and are encouraged over pros- ed for the Municipal band .
peeks. Engineers were in1 Communities wishing to
Cuero this week checking
TWO BANDITS
TOBECHARGED
WITH ROBBERY
Sheriff Asks Return Of
Pair To Cuero For
Trial
Ruiche To Buy Cotton
At McLarfy's This Season
U. L Rusche. who has been pur-
chasing cotton for local firms for
many years, has accepted ' a posi-
tion as buyer for the McLarty
Grocery this season.' according to
an announcement by Rusche Fri-
day. The well-known buyer can be
found at McLarty’s duriitg the
current cotton season. he having
been employed by Breeden Bros
during the past few years.
CHINESE HOPE
FOR VICTORY
IS DOUBTFUL
So Writes Former Cuero
Woman From Heart Of
War Zone
ARRESTED FRIDAY
Had Robbed Filling Sta-
tion In Victoria Short
Time Previous
REOPENING OF
SCHOOL NEARS
Accused as the triple slayer of his parents and his brother. HarlaSl Hopkins. 18-year-old farm youth
fo Hinckley. Minn., is said by police to have confessed the slayings gi Ag as his motive, -for the good of hu-
manity. Hopkins, shown with States Attorney Passolt at Hlncl^kv.readily aunntted shooting the three
as they slept, taking $30 from his father's pocketbook and then It-ting fire to the farmhouse to conceal
his crime, according to police. They described him as not quite rightfnhis mind.'
—Central Press.
COTTON CROP LATE WIRE FLASHES JAP“RUSS!AN
securei
these concerts are asked to contact1
the Cuero Chamber of Commerce
MOVING SLOWLY
details, and plans for the
general survey art moving
along nicely. Flood control is
^the important thing just now.! OyGF COflfCCtiOflGfV
wIf the river can be utilized for
Earl Rayes Takes
i
( DETROIT. Aug. 6— «INS.) — A'
Florida chain gang fugitive ."wanted
for killing a guard in his escape.)
| was shot to death by Dearborn po-
IAR100MS
Only Twenty Bales Receiv-'™ Diplomacy Blasted Out Of
- i
power, and certainly it can,| R*ycs- assistant manager oi
that can come later. Let’S , the Rialto confectionery for the past
preserve what we have before several months. bas taken over act-
ed In This City Prior
Noon Saturday
escaped from the chliin gang with
him. was captured.
The slain fugitive was Arthur
ohc-rman. 26 charged with killing
guard W L. Aters in an escape
Picture As Red Army
Advances,
TOKYO. Aug. 6—<IN'S.i-
Mar-
we start building
new.
* * *
Hats are blamed
alarming spread of
anything
■M
I
ive charge of the confectionery. The
Record was informed Saturday.
! The confectionery was formerly
operated by Mrs. Benton.
. , ■ Rayes invites his friends and pa-
, trons to continue their partonage
typhus and assures them prompt and cour-
fever In the neighbor city of teous service, _
Gonzales. Nine cases of fever _
have been reported in thatj Venus, iy«5o.
city during the past few days,,
and steps dre now being made j
to launch a war on rats, the
carriers. It might be a wise
idea to launch such a drive in |
Cuero before any cases of the
I serious malady are reported
here. In addition to being car-
riers of disease, rats are de-!
stroyers, and claim a toll,
which runs into the millions
of dollars annually. Rid your
home of rats. Rid your busi-
ness place of rats. Let’s take
all steps necessary to ward off
an epidemic of typhus fever in
Cuero and DeWitt county.
* * *
We notice that General Mo-,
tors presented. the King and
Queen of Sweden with a
handsome limousine upon
their departure for their na-
tive land. While General Mo- i
tors is entitled to do what it
pleases with its money and
the gesture was a gracious1
one. we are just wondering if
that money could not have
been put to a better use. The
thousands spent for that au-l
tomobile. just another car to
the King and Queen who per-
haps have a dozen or more,
could have purchased shoes
for hundreds of needy chil-
dren. But perhaps general mo-
tors was careful not to set too
costly a precedent. Royalty
doesn't visit our country often,
and we will always have our
needy children.
DeWitt countv’s 1938 cotton move- from the Floral Citv chain gang on
mem remained slow Saturday as far July 22. Bruce Parish. 22. was cap- sha„ Eluecheds Red Army
as the immediate Cuero area was tured.
concerned _ ’t,ic Ea.-t. striking at four points
Prior to noon Saturday only 20 HANKHOW. Aug. 6— tINSA - on the Siberian frontier with in-
bales of 1038 cotton had been re- Shaking the entire city with their fantry. tanks, artillery , and airplanes
coived in this city. This compared bombs. 53 Japanese airplanes to- I today brought the Rus.-OjJapanese
with 300 bales on August 6th of last day raided Hankow. Two fires , border struggle to its most explosive
year. were started at the aerodrome, but j stage in two weeks of undeclared
With three or four more days of were quickly extinguished . * war
hot Weather, however, the movement -- • Diplomacy, which Ixiih Moscow
will show signs of imprwrement in AUSTIN. Aug. 6.—* INS.*—An em- igud Tokyo hopp'd would peacefully
this city, observers said. The crop ergenev quarantine of Kleberg conn- end the conflict, was blasted out of
has been rather late, and showers tv as a pink boll infested area was | th<- picture with two fresh alleged
during the past few days have slow- proclaimed today by Governor Jas. invasions of Japanese-controlled
ed , Up the gathering of what little v Allred at the request of Federal : territory.
Charges of robbery with firearms
l ■ * 1
will be filed here against James Jack
Rudisail. 21. and N S. Moody. 22.
Sharpsburg. North Carolina, youth
who were arrested in San Antonio
Friday and who admitted the hold-
up of theiSemmler Service Station
here two weeks ago.
Arrest of the two bandits came
only a few hours after they had
hi-jacked a Victoria filling station
and sped toward San Antonio after
outdistancing Cuero officers who at-
tempted to stop them as they flash-
ed through this city at 80 miles per
hour.
Rudisail was arrested by Radio
Patrolman G. L. Kuykendall and
Detective Otto Leichman and A. B.
Neal, all of.San ‘Antonio, when he
appeared near an abandoned auto-
mobile being watched by the police.
The automobile, with a flat tire,
was just off Rigsby Avenue, and
had been reported to police head-
quarter; by a milkman. It carried
automobile licenses similar to a car
reported as wanted for the hold-up
in Victoria.
Following his arrest, police said,
Rudisail told them where his com-
panion could be located.
The second man. who gave his
name as M. S Mooday. 22. was ar-
rested st the DeSoto Hdtel. in San
Antonio.
Police said both men liad pistols
when arrested and when searched
had $24.30 of which $6.50 was in sil-
ver and pennies.
The detective asserted the two men
admitted robberies in San Antonio
and in Victoria. Yoakum and Cuero.
The two men. one of them more
than six feet tall, also admitted, it
was said, to stealing the car in
which they were traveling in
Sharpsburg. N. C The license num-
bers on the car were from Bexar
County.
Sheriff Emil Markowsky was in
San Antonio Saturday afternoon«to
secure more complete information
regarding the robbery here and to
make application for transfer of the
pair to Cuero when trial in San An-
tonio on robbery charges there, was
completed.
Definite Date Not Yet Set;
Probably Reopen On
September 12
Date for opening of the fall term
of Cuero schools has not yet been
definitely set. The Record learned
Saturday.
It is probable, however that reg-
istration of students will get under-
way on September 12th, and that
class work proper will be underway
by September 14th.
A slight increase in enrollment
looms for the Cuero Independent
School District this year, with at
least twenty-five transfers from ru-
ral schools to be included among the
new students.
FINAL VOTE
COUNT MADE
O'Daniel’s Majority Over
Entire Field 31,447
Votes
cotton there is open.
and State Agricultural authorities.
Dr. McLeod Will
Take Vacation
Soviet airplanes, backing up Mos-
cow's demand for a Japanese re-
troat. raided Knzan and the rail-
wav settlement of Kohe and Shikai
in Northern Korea. The railroad
stations, however, were not hit, said
--- an army bulletin
Services at the Fils' Presbyterian J Gravity of the crisis was mcreas-
church this, evening will mark the I tonight when it was semi-of-
last regular Sunday service to be 1 finally understood, the Soviets forc-
conducted by Dr W. A. McLeo;;. ibly closed the Japanese consulate
pastor, during the month of Aug at Khabarovsk Siberia
Dr McLeod has been granted th< _
remainder of the month for vaca-
tion.
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WILL NOT SLOW
UP MARKETING
Governmental Regulations
Not Responsible For
Holding Up Crop
Governmental regulations regard-
ing .vile of 1938 cotton should in no
way slow up marketing of the crop.
Coujnty Agent B A Oswalt indicated
Saturday
Reports werC current here that
only one bale of cotton ginned in
Cuero to date had been sold due to
the.governmental red tape regard- < old Plane in which he flew the IH,si:",:‘ at Shunmieng Hill, north
mg 'll*- vile of the cotton tbroad Atlantic. Douglas Corrigan ’ 01 ^,1-<ngki,f«c.ud also
„ , ,. . conducted hug*- sc. lo militarv oper-
( ants in filing holders to sell all today brushed aside suggestions that atlon> liear
cotton raised on acreage within tive x-rays bo made of his injury from chan-kulen
individual quotas are being dis
Policeman Shoots
And Kills Attacker
i AUSTIN. Aug. 6—(INS.)—W Lee
O'Daniel, the Fort * Worth flour
merchant, received a majority of
31.447 votes over 12 other candi-
i dates for governor in the Demo-
cratic Primary election July 23. it
was revealed*today in the official
canvass of votes by the State Dem-
ocratic Executive Committee show-
ed. a record for official tabulations
which usually lack one or more
counties.
In the governor's race. 1,114.885
votes were cast. The rote: O'Daniel
573.166: Ernest O. Thompson 231.-
630: William McCraw 152.278
Hull Works On
m
*
Corrigan Suffers
Slight Injury As
Crowd Mobs Him
NEW YORK Aug ft 'INS >
His chest patelied up effectively as tun
TOKYO. Aug 6 — ‘INS ' Possi-
bility ol a • serious new fic tion be-
c wren Tokyo and Mosctiw arose to-
day with reports of a new Invasion’’
of Manchukuo by Russian troops.
• us! as tension between tlie Soviet
Union and Japan was beginningg to
relax ,
On top of this, according to re-
l'orts here, altoi a relatively ' peace-
ful nnrh! Soviet forces ojx-ned a
bombardment on Japanese
Shaolosaopmg and
CHICAGO. Aug. 6 —<INS»-Clyde
Walbert. 29. Chicago policynan. to-
day shot and seriously wounded Jno.
Maxwell. 28. and arrested two other
men. including a Texan, when they
allegedly attempted to strong arm
him in a park here.
Arrested were James Harris
Vaughn. ^3. of Plamvlew, Tex., and
George Hayden. 23. of Chicago.
Walbert, in plain clothes, was walk-
ing in the park when the men at-
tempted to beat him. he said. He
added he was forced to use his gun
in self-defense.
Police said Maxwell. Vaughn and
Hayden had been arrested early
yesterday for fighting in a street
brawl.
home-coming
wi B
Seek Escaped Convicts
in Central Texas
Aug
-INS I Be -
,i 1034 1 .a vi He
clock this morning.
flllisa Winston
. . . chosen “modern Venus’*
Selected the “modern V* r.m bv
judges at the Stccr'ec is- ra*
New York, in a beauty compc'..-
tion, Ellira WinsUm IT loo
the trophy rh: rctc- vc! V* r
agree with the ju-'g s it*- •-*,
uun l vim 1
Friday's strenuous
• tribal ted at the county agents s ot- , celebration
fice at tins time as raptolv as clerks | -n fpeLs alright tins morning
ran dispose of thpm. he stated pt. said, exposing a tape-plastered
Vftu-i • a producer na.x produced area beneath his shirt “So I’ll jus
cot win on acreage in excess to his, leave the tape on and l--* it go."
quota lie must |x»st a txjnd before j Even the little hero v.v.- uncertain. At sriN
tie pan sell such cotton. With Uie i when the injury occuired He r< - )>,•, ,) •,
bond posted, he can sell all of his! called being crushed between two n ,, 4
cotton and cm pay the tax on cot- heavyweight body guards as lie left p:■ .Vitt *.f Tayk-j tour con-
ton produced on excess acreage, at the hotel yesterday morning and a vieN wi , ,*wWl lVst aff rnoon
the lelo.si- oi the'season. Oswalt said crowd surged in It felt as though f,om cr',.tra, pns0n fi.nn alter slug-
Cotton produced on acreage in ex- a couple of pile drivers ’ struck gmg a guard, wen .ought m Central
cessj to the quota allowed tlie pro- him. he said Texas tm o
ducer carries a tax of two cents ’---— - --------- - s-'.i,, p„l*.-. :*.!’,«.••. u t.ail of
P* r lauimi BABY GIRL stolen cars to T.u 1<> f .nlv this
------- - — Mr and Mrs H L Grant an re
KOREANS VOIJ'.NTKIJ! toicmg over tlie arrival of a 5 ixiuiid
TOKYO -INS*—Three tlwais- in ounce babv girl who’ arrived at imind at Thorn J
ano Koreans applied for the Santa Rosa Hospital in San An- moIcii m I.iom.i.
I'lildan service soon after a new tonio Thursday Both mother and abandoned in Crrrlevilk
law penm'ting volunteers was pass- baby are doing fine Condition'of eotqmumtv near Tiivlor
ed reccntb Four hundred will t>- the lather is questionable The p-r' it' <a; wa
accepted foi'.-crvice in North China Record was informed thcreaftci
Ray Barnes Will
Take Over Gobbler
Ray Baines will assume active
management of The Gobbler Mon-
day Barnes was one of the foun-
ders' of this popular eating place
and is a thoroughly trained restaur-
ant man.
He will take the place of Chick
Churchill. Gobbler Third Baseman,
who has been operating the place
for the past few months.
t'lormnr Mini fir-
W 1? Kulischc of
c-vr st*Jen from
Houston. wa
A light truck
, w.-s found
\ small
and the
reported’ stolen soon
Powis Tarkington
Buys Peavy Home
Mr and Mrs Powis Tarkington
•lave purchased the former Chas. D.
Peavy Jr., home on Hunt Street, it
was announced Saturday.
Minor improvements are now be-
ing made on the propertv and Mr
and Mrs Tarkington plan to occu-
py their iiew home about Aug 15
Cordell Hull
. . . busy in capital
V, hitr other members of the presi-
dent's official family and even the
prescient himself vacation in
other climes. Secretaiy of State
Cordell Hull works on in Wash-
ington. braving the heat. HuiT,
shown en route to his office, is
considered one of the most ener-
getics of government officials.
—CYiii’tui /vjra*
COURAGE IS GREAT
Chinese Do Not Flinch In
Face Of Great Odds
She Says '
Tlie hope of China to stave off
some one or some nation does not
nese hordes has assumed a yh»y
outlook during the past few weeks,
Mrs. Edith Henry, former Cuero
woman, now a missionary to China
writes to friends in tMs country,
the letter being forwarded The Rec-
ord.
i "Many days one wonders why
some on or some nation does not
have the moral courage to assert
that the world has reached the
limit of what It can stand in the
way of merciless slaughter and in-
fliction of suffering,” Mrs. Henry
declared
| A portion of her most interesting
and informative letter follows: .
Dear Mrs. Starboard:—
! These are being hectic days for
us. Mr. Henry finally managed to
wrangle a permit out of the Japa-
nese for his return to Soochow; it is
being a sad experience for him and
the other men who went up. He
wrote the other, day of his expe-
rience of going into hie heme and
seeing the complete
1 destruction of things, the
of the home: and then the aheenoe
of fine friendships that we have
spent? all these years in building
TtoUy somg^ffips it hurV
t nearly breaks one's heart
we are haring to keep eng- faces to
the front our faith fixed in Hi*;
I we walk not knowing some —*rifr
> and yet assured of othef things,
j One dare not think in terms of or
plan for the future; we simply live
day by day. believing that surely out
of this horrible pxelee God will yet
assert His right over the hearts and
, spirits of men. The situation in
1 which we find ourselves is a ter-
rible indictment of men. and the
road along which mere human de-
sires lead. I fear to think of what
1 my own children are going to have
to go through in order to find the
f "high road” of life; we have
such a bungle of things in our gen-
eration.'’
“The papers today look very dis-
couraging for China; and yet the
will to resist seems as yet determin-
ed: they can not do otherwise.
Many days one wonders why some
one or some nation does not have
the moral courage to assert that the
world has reached the limit of what
J it can stand in the way of mereflea
I slaughter and infliction- of suffer-
ing. It is all too much for me; my
i poor brain reels under the weight
i of all I see and know.”
"Some of us feel keenly disap-
pointed at the part of the task that
' falls to us; it seems so far wide at
the mark of real ministry. Jult to
come along in the wake of this fear-
ful war and try to mop up and as-
suage a small corner of the area of
suffering does not quite satisfy; and
yet it is a piece of work that must
be done, we dare not no it So I fo
ahead with my work of feeding the
babies in the refugee camps their
milk In our one experimentation
camp we We feeding more than
twelve hundred a day. We have
been rewarded in seeing a very
small percent of our babies sue*
cumb to sickness. Some of them in
; fact look remarkably well fed and
: happy. That of course is only a
comparative statement. There are
scores of them in the total who ark
dying because of poor food and poor
living conditions. And we are in the
peaceful-conquered area: the story
of those who are in the fighting
area, we know only too well from
experience what they are enduring.
Horrible story."
“As I perhaps wrote you before we
are staying right on here in the
American school this summer. In
the fall the two boys will continue
on in school. Edith Frances will be
gone, and then I hope to go back to
Soochow and join Mr. Henry in
(lie task of rebuilding our center.
Because the hope of doing Christian
work in the Japanese occupied areas
’ looks doubtful to say the least al-
ready the church has under consid-
eration tlie moving out West and
opening up new missionary centers
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