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A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
The Weather
Partly cloudy, showers In the <
portion, cooler In the northweet
tion tonight, westerly winds mi
coast
VOL. 47.—NO. 216.
CUERO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941
TWELVE PAGES
TOR* DAMAGE Mil REICH SIMM
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ram Talk
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Cuero’s business section has
year* been one of
it lighted business
to be found In any
in this section of
of the
street lighting system will
fa a tong way toward remedy-
ing this situation .Merchants,
store owners, however, can
an even more important
Lights in display win-
are now turned off
9 p. m., even before
picture shows have
their initial run for
night, and*^ while many
ions are still riding about
In cars or window shopping on
>p to flOMid-
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CUERO CARES !
FOR REFUGEES
TUESDAY NIGHT
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More Than Two Hundred
Persons Cared For In j
This City
RETURN HOME
"Evacuate" Cuero. Early
Wednesday And Return
To Their Homes
Blowing Up a Spitzbergen Coal Mine
siA’WM
r
:
! NAZIS CLAIM
j CAPTURE OF
100,000 MEN
Say Russian Losses Would
i Come Close To Mil-
LOSSES EXCEEDING
MILLION DOLLAR
FStoi&’-’S**.
set***
-
lion Men
NEAR LENINGRAD
HOUSTON, Sept. 24.—(INS)—Weary jjfj
journey back to their homes along the Texas
as a 100-mile-an-hour hurricane curved
, and headed for the Louisiana border.
Center of the tropical disturbance,
^-1 | of gale'force over an area of hundreds
Army Within Rifle Shot Of 1 torrents of rain, was reported this
• ' City According To
German Report
mm
When we stop
tiny gpst of maintaining
windows for another
lour or two, we see this prac-
tice as % foolish one. Did you t
Wm*
Refugees who fled fo this city
■a coastal cities threatened by;
Tuesday’s hurricane early Wednes-
day morning were turning home-
ward to resume their normal life.
Cuero was practically “evacuated”
of refugees by 9 a. m.
Some two hundred and fifty per
i
t BERLIN. Sept. 24.— —One hun-
dred Thousand more ,. Red army :
j troops, have been -taken prisoner In
gigantic double “Iron rings” east of
AAA WORKERS
MEET HERE
Kiev, Nazi military authorities esti-
j mated today, and it was predicted
Soviet losses in that sector
that flie average showf sons from Port Lavaca, Port OXJon-<
in Cuero can be light-1 nor, Pulton and other small coastal
1th 10 one hundred watt Cities were cared for here Tuesday
at a cost of around 3 i night.
»nr Th» owwacp ! The 001114 bouse‘ city hal1- city
nv. auditorium and parte chib house
W in Cuero. we are j were thrown open for the night and
only five such! hot coffee was served at the club
I bouse by the American Red Cross
One of the British raiders who recently landed on the island of Spi
he blew up one of the coal mines there to prevent the fuel from falling in
was so great that it knocked him off his feet. Seven hundred inhabitants
tzberdbn north of N
ig into GermaA ham
ibitant* wer$-4akea
i of tfca Bay Kawmree! Phot®
of Norway is shown as
The concussion
hack to England.
come close to one million men.
j Prisoners from the four Shattered
, armies in the Kiev sector already
number 550,000, and the
proach an “astronomic
would Seventeen Counties Rep-
■ resented At Meeting In
Court House
dead ap-
flgure’’ in
what the Germans describe as “the Delegates to the AAA from seven
i!
cost of
for such windows i8 mobilized
be around one and Cuero’s defens
That
*
1
guard unit was on
patrol during the -early paid of the
'rnmkmi
we know, and wel,^ .
tied in with Intel- ■,***
forty live minutes, members of the
were posted on highwa;
out of the city to answer
and direct traffic and at j
concentration points for refugees
advertising where they assisted in any capacity
money. Mer- j pomade,
took into this Several hundred persons were
, T*»cared for in Victoria while a large
economy may be ^ of ecc boys from a coastal
camp were quartered to Yoakum.
' B. B. Thom and Rees Shannon,
operators of local short wave radio
TWO CHARGED
wrm ATTACK
S! Camp Hulen Soldiers
Charged With Robbing
Victoria Man
county’s
. , • * * -
hear very little *about
S Sk . * ..______! stations, were on the air through-
cotton crop ^ ^ night to p|ck up
1C of the poorest] and keep Cuero posted on movement
has ever produced. of JJ* *torm
now declare that!.'™™™ ** “ “*•
• to this city that a storm was blow-
Will fail to reach • tng on the coast. Occasional gusts
lie mark, and th^t of Wind reached a velocity of 25 or
is a record, one of miles per hour and light rains
do not care to boast.i,eD Otherwise this city enjoyed
perfect weather.
- S Victoria likewise reported little
M Of course to blame for > wind. Merchants of that city were
t cotton pro- \
Army officials have taken custody
of two Camp Hulen soldiers charged
with robbery by assault- In Victoria
following the abduction of J. C.
Lockman. 26, an employe of the
DuPre Sand and Gravel Co.
Sergeant Connie Miller and Pri-
vate Robert Freret are the men
held. «•
The two oldlers are said to have
assaulted Lockman With their fists
a short distance from the Light-
house Night Club on the Cuero-
Victoria highway. Lockman said
the two men too - hi* watch and a
small amount of change.
boll weevil did little dam- to have been prepared .for any
—'*u ---m many
but
‘•scaped Injury.
houses to the city
this, year\ fre are
^ i* j port Lavaca reported little dam-
it, is cracked Up to be. ^ several small boats were re.
Administrators Will Of course; ported damaged when tossed upon
defend it rigidly, but we still ** heaeh
have our doubts. What's the
(0*4 of a pegged price if you
have nothing to sell.
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Weather bureau* erperienc-
a difficult task i*
progress of Tuesday ’s
atorm, and from all reports re-1
7 ceived. we are convinced that Thirty ElCJllf CduStS frOIR
their methods
WILL REPORT
TO RANDOLPH
Rev. Jghn Rideout
To Address Episcopal
Men This Evening
6 <<
Rev. John Rideout, minister of the
Episcopal church to Goliad, will be
the principal speaker at the first
supper and get-together of the men
of the Grace Episcopal church
Wednesday night at 7 o’clock in
Proctor Memorial Hall. Plenty of
food will be available and an inter-
esting program will be presented ac-
cording to the committee for the
evening. _
Aviation Cadets To.
Get Olive Drab
Uniforms In Future
In the Interest of economy the
army«has abandonedlphe hand-
some slate blue uniform hereto-
fore worn by advanced flying
cadete and ordered it replaced
with the more serviceable olive
drab uniform.
- Slate-blue unffortits now to
stock are being concentrated at
Randolph Held, where they will
be issued to Cadets in that- area
until the supply is exhaused,
probably in a month or so. By
the change over, the war depart-
ment said a considerable waste
of wool would be avoided.
1 BIG REFINERY
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[Fire Rages Through Larg-
; §$t Refinery Of Its Kind
In The World
Lions Will Ouf Roar
Pep Squad At Friday
.Night's Ball Game
Cuero Lions wil\ “roar” at
Friday night’s football game.
After hearing Coach Eddie
Shinn’s mburtiful talk regard-
ing plight of his hard hit teafn.
Lions voted to attend Friday
night’s gams in a body and of-
fer Shinn all the side-line sup-
port possible. Cheer leaders will
be selected and Lions promise to
out roar the Gobbler pep squad.
Shinn, along with Superin-
tendent O. A. Zimmerman and
assistant-coach. Hilley, was a
guest of the club Wednesday.
Zimmerman was heard In a
discussion of school finances and
the twelve grade system.
WHITING, Ind„ Sept. 24.—(INS.)
-Accompanied by a series of ter-
rific explosions.41re of undertermin -
origin today raged fqr hours at the
the Standard Oil Co.’s Whitting Re-
finery. largest plant of its kind in
the world.
The first explosion jarred the city
iat 5:40 a. m. and at 10:30 a. m. the
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flames still were not fully under
control. The company sounded em-
ergency’ alarms which brought 5,000
employes to aid firemen of several
cities and volunteers to fighting the
flames.
One man was reported killed, and
five were seriously wounded.
Firemen concentrated attempts to
prevent the fire from spreading to
several so-called “agitator plants.”
These, they said, contain highly
volatile fuel and if they explode
“the whole town will go up.”
| greatest single catastrophe suffered teen counties discussed the cotton
y an army to the world’s history, allotment for the coming year at
tryAtp^?t»8
I of Leningrad. acoottUp* to military to the court house, according to
advices as efforts were redoubled M. j Korth, committeeman for
j to capture the second city of the U district
6 8 R- j The relations of cqAton
Major victories were claimed also r^., - . .
toe dlscuselon, Korth «ld.
28.606-ton battleship Marat—one of need of a cotton survey was also
the three known Soviet capital war- discussed at the meeting,
ships—was sunk by the luftwaffe in Counties represented included At-
! the gulf of Plnland. Her sister-ship, ascosa. Bee. Bexar. Caldwell Cal-
the October Revolution, was report- boun, Comal, DeWitt, Goliad, Gon-
ed damaged again. > . j zates. Guadalupe. Jackson. Karnes,
German authorities said the dual; Kinney. Lavaca. Medina, Refugio,
“iron rto8" was closing to rapidfy on and Victoria. M. C. Todd, field man
200.000 Red army troops pocketed j for this district, presided''at the
under “chaotic conditions” east of meeting.
commi
points
fore
bureau
cyclonic
it* present trend
cross
border
Nachitoches i
La. This
proximately
where the i
winding up its
maneui
Three
dead
es
are far from j
perfected. Anyone who would'
have predicted Tuesday morn-
ing that the storm would
move inland and strike Pales-
tine would have been consid-
ered either weak minded or a
new comer to Texas, but nev-
er-the-leas that is just what
This City Exoeded To
Graduate This Week
Thirty eight Aviation Cadets,
[graduates of the Brayton Flying
Service school here, are expected to
report to Randolph Field on Tues-
day. September 30th. for an addi-
tional ten weeks cm military flight
Texas was lucky as! training
we see it while damage Will The cadets are members of i a
_ui_ group of 585 youths, graduates of
probably run into the millions,; nnmiirv ^
there was little loss of life, and
certainly we got off much
lighter than we'expected Now
It is be
, primary schools.
Other Cadets reporting to Ran-
dolph will include 38 from Stam-
ford. Texas; 47 from Corsicana.
Texas: 42 from Oklahoma City.
It (8 back to normal and weiOkla.: 70 from East St. Louis. 111.:
glad Of it. <j and T3 from Muskogee. Oklahoma
The remaining Cadets win report
^ ■ either to Goodfellow Field, at San
A Texas, the civil basic flying
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Most rural schools of
tty are now open and stu*
hard at work with en-
it being well up to par.
schools are looking to
Rayburn Sees Early Arming
Of U. S. Merchant Ships
Believes Congress Will
Give Speedy Approval
Of Measure -
Angelo
school at Brady. Texas and to the
Southeast Air Corps Training Cent- ment
er at Augusta, Georgia.
Yorktown’s first - Trades Day.
successful year and «ta*ed today, Wednesday, was re-
4_ ♦hatlP°rt®d 10 h*Ve been qUlt« 3 ^cess
is every indication t a large crowds thronging the city.
1 be achieved. | An Interesting program was pre-
io Pate 2) sen ted during the afternoon.
FALL PROGRAM
READYTOOPEN
Campbell Buys Equipment
For Fall Recreational
Program Here
The fall recreational program a*
the municipal park is now ready u
start, since the equipment for th*
program was purchased Tuesday in
Austin by Dan Campbell, recreav
tlonal director.
The equpment included two foot-
balls. tw’o vollevball sets, a medi-
cine ball, a badminton set, two table
- ■ tennis sets, a basketball, and twr
Stern Military Measures *
Talsn In All Dartr Of [used to the recreational / classes
I a he II III All rans UI whlch wlll on October 6
Arnpntinp T Campbell said. The classes will be
HI ycillHIC open to men and women with Camp-
1 bell conducting the class for the
BUENO,S AIRES, Sept. 24.—(INS)— men. and Mrs. Campbell teaching
Stern military measures were tak-I the women's class. The classes will
en in all parts of the country to- probably meet twice ,a week, althe
„„ ino definite class time will bp decid-
day as Argentine newspapers re- \ . . , , .
1 ed until a meeting of interested
ported that a pro-Nazi revolution, persons has been held in the near
allegedly with the complicity of future
some army officers, was nipped over- Children who wish to leam to
' dance are asked to report at the
.... . „ . . , ,clubhouse in the park Saturday
Although the government took morning> September 27. at 10 o'clock.
little scratching around. And after| precautionary measures to preserve, ^ which time class times will be
you’ve permitted arming of mer- j order, it was understood that the fixed. Mrs. Campbell will conduct
chant ships there certainly won’t be movement at no time assumed se-jthe lessons in folk and ballroom
much left of the neutrality act.” j rious proportions. dancing.
Kiey, Hitler’s field headquarters
said "complete liquidation of these
forces can be expected within a few
days.”
BERLIN. Sept. 24.—(INS)—Lenin-
grad, with a population of nearly
3,500,000 face* destruction equalling
that of Warsaw, German military-
authorities said today.
Devastation of the second city of
the U. S. S. R„ now being pound-
ed ceaselessly by German. artillery
and aerial bombers, will come as a
result of the “official Soviet declar-
ation that Leningrad’s civilian pop-
ulation is participating to its de-
fense.” a German military spokes-
man said.
Mrs. Marion leonardl
And Miss Alma Frobese
Plan New Residence
and In a
took tti
cuers
back to the
Charged With (ashing
Worthless Check
Miss Alma Frobese and Mrs. Mar- f
ion Leonardt took out a building j
permit Wednesday for a new resi-
dence to the back of their present!
home on Stockdale and Newman
streets, according to the city comp-1
trailer's records. The permit for the
three room and one bath house wa> j
few Si.500 and sent the week’s total
to $11,463.07. the second time to i
three weeks that the total has crack- j
ed the $10,000 mhrk The Cuero
Lumber Company was designated as
the contractor for the work.
but we will |
A
j 1
C. L. Atchison was charged with
swindling by means of a worthies*
check in the county court late Tues-
day afternoon. It was alleged that
Atchison cashed a worthless check
for $32.17 at John C. Ley’s for gro-
ceries. The check was made out tor _
the Farmer’s State Bank and Trust I navy, if necessary ,to man merchant
Navy May Be Called
In To BreA Strike
WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.-M1N5)—
A high administration official today
disclosed that Pres. Roosevelt la ex-
ploring the possibility. of using the
of a
REVOLUTION
NIPPED IN BUD
. WASHINGTON. Sept. 24—(INS)-'
Speaker of the Hofise Rayburn to-
day predicted that Congress will give
speedv approval to Pres. Roosevelt’s
anticipated request for authority to
arm U. S. merchant ships.
He said;that he expected Mr j
Roosevelt would go into detail!
about his proposal to modify or re-)
peal the neutrality act—which for-j
bids arming the vessels—next Mon-j
day at his regular conference with
legislative leaders.
“Until then I don’t want to com-
In detail about the matter,”
Rayburn told a press conference
“But I do think Congress will per-
mit the arming of merchant ships,,
although of course there will be a |
night.
company of this city.
In the justice court of F. L.
Barber, Allee Mathis was fined $14 used to man the ships was
ships tied up by the scanners strike.
A hint that the navy might be |
given
on a charge of disturbing the peace. I when this responsible official said!
The complaint was filed and the ar- j that “the color air the uniform might * .
rest made by H. J. Grunewald. coun- be blue instead of khaki, if neces- Jtgelf
Ly constable. ' sary.” - J ^ K*r**y
Smith Motor Co. Completes
rarts Store, Service Dept.
New Department To Be
Home
Club Hokh
i club of the
Within the short period of a year their busina
since he took over the Cuero fran- pians igr t
Thrown Open To Pub- jchisesmithhas*iot°niydoubtedhis mg
lie Inspection
A Record representative attended
a pre-vue Wednesday of the new
parts store and completely modern-
ized service department at the
Smith Motor Company to be thrown
open for public inspection, simul-
taneously with the showing of the
new 1842 Chevrolet Friday and Sat-
urday.
It will surprise most Cuero motor-
ists to see the extensive improve-
ments Newton Smith, the aggressive
ydung head of this fast growing
dealership has made.
of the d
worth, to
the high
officers’
new and used car quotas but has Wordldne
provided Cuero with one of the most
modern parts stores and one of the
best equipped service departments to;
be found In all of south Texaa.
The parts store, located in the
north center section of the building SI
has been enlarged and completely SUBSCRIPTION
modernized. Henry W. Hots, Rt <
The service department has been mts W&nnuth Rt
enlarged and equipped to take carei Louis
of 16 automobiles at one time an 11 o. G. Brandt, ’
the shop is manned by six men, all,1
specialists to their
Smith declares.
I Marilyn and
department. Kingsville,
Mrs. Wm.
The company has gone to consid-j Mrs. Carl
erable expense In.equipping the shop] town,
to give the best and speediest serv-. Mrs. A. E.
ice available, he said. , < Chat.
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Putman, Harry C. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 216, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 24, 1941, newspaper, September 24, 1941; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1097532/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.