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Che dTuero Record
A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
Fair, freezing tn nortJ
soath except In Valley.
I riday.
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CUERO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MVYRCH 7, 1935
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AVOR COMMUNITY CENTE
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Secretary of the Chamber
otf Commerce Joy Arnold isj a nnAIiminiT
hoping that Cuero will send a: APPII N I [YlK|\ I
large Se egation to the meet- ■114 1 vimniuill
big:to be held in La Grange!
next month for the purposej
of otlttin ng plans for the com-
ptetton of Highway 77, the
through route from Dallas to
Corpus Christ;. And it’s
necessary that action be
taken at once. Only about
seventy miles of this highway1
Y-erriain to be paved, and if
It is expected that this
te will be extensively used «
by out ( f state tourists who
are now coming to Texas in
Increasing numbers and who
will throng the state for the!
Texas Centennial in 1936. If
this section of the state over-
looks the opportunity of com-
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MAY BE KNOWN
BY SATURDAY
Judge Pool Promises To
Wire Record His Ap-
* pointment.
22 APPLICANTS!
NOT YET DESIGNATfcDjCITIZENS VOICE THEIR
WMENTS AT R
HERE WEDNESDAY Nl
Fight for Power as Greek Revolt Spreads
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Job of Selecting Auditor
Not Easy One,’" Says
Pool.
pleting 1 his
from Da las to Corpus
Appointment of an auditor for
DeWitt county to fill the unexpir-
ed term of th>i late L. G. Covery,
will not be announced before Sat-
urday. District Judge J. P. Pool
through route! informed The Record Thursday.
I Judge Fool was reached by The
and>
, Record in Edna where he is con-
thence OH to the Valley, some! ducting a special term of court.
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Other enterprising section Isj “I have not as yet decided upon
going to put .through plans! my appointment.” Judge J. P Pool
b V 6 h declared. “I have received twenty
for a substitute highway, and
we’ll be left out in the rain,
the by-road. Cuero should
one or twenty wo applications, and
I must investigate them thorough-
ly,” he declared.
. j__ , . , . . “It is my intention to appoint,
.how proper Interest and join to the ^ of my ablllty the man
other to1 ms along the route best qualified for he job, and my
In urging immediate
all along the route where the
road has not yet been paved.
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Proposal that the city of
Cuero purchase the interests
of the Southwest Gas com-
pany Vii: probably meet with
action!duty is no easy erne. I have been
rather busy down here in Edna for
the past couple of days, but hope
to clear the matter up by Satur-
day/’- the district Judge concluded.
He stated that he would get in
immediate touch with The Record
as soon as the appointment was
definitely decided upon.
It is understood that thq majority
of the applicants for the job are
residents of this city, and that a
number of them are either now, or
have been at one time, connected
with the county government.
Order for the appointment was
YOUNG GIRL IS
VICTIM ATTACK
OF PNEUMONIA
Unanimous approval if Mayor J. T
j i —h # 'plan for construction of aiCommunity Cv*.
VHere
- ' j The meeting was called by the Mayor
, SERVICES_FRIDAY j purpose of sounding out local sentiment i
Funeral to be Held From! gard to his F°P°sal to group the efforts of
Home of Parents, Mr. ! government, the American Legion and
and Mrs. Albrecht. 1 (Golf and Co
Josephine Albrecht. 12. one of five! |\Q|HEARS Providing a
and recreation
DR. JOHN HELD c“~
Mission Valley students rushed to a ;
j local hospital over the week end j
..suffering from pneumonia, was I
j claimed by death in the early hours j m |
j of Thursday morning. „„ . , L,
U* young girl, daughter of Mr.! Future ofjEuTOpf!
and Mrs. Otto Albrecht of Mission
Valley, would have been thirteen
years old Friday, death coming on
Eleutherioi Venizelos
Cantarc of Revolt
Premier Taaldaria
Revolt in Greece aimed at the restoration of
former Premier Venizelos to power is meeting
with strenuous government opposition directed by
Premier Tsaldaris. Map shows (1) Macedonia and
Thrace to which revolt spread,. (2) Athens, seat
of the government, and (3) Canea, Island^of
Crete, the home of Venizelos. Crete was seized by
the rebels.
call for the
j club house.
Was course, tennis court*
Subject For Interest- ' football fields, and
ing Address. ,thick and action
• -|L- - municipally owned
the eve of her birthday shortly af- j A highjy interesting address on
Iter midnight Thursday morning. ! the subject. “T^e Future of Eu-
j One of five students to contractj rope.” by Dr. John A. Held, evan -
pneumonia after an attack of the j gelist in this city conducting a
measles, the young girl was brought' series of meetings at the Baptist
to Cuero Saturday in a
Jacent to Cuero.
The project la
Approximately $50,5
be financed throu
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condition. She steadily lost strengtl^of Cuero Rotary Thursday with
LAST RITES FOR
MAX WEHMAN
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approval and disapproval of
the citizenship generally.
There aTe some folks who do
not approve municipal plants.
There are others who believe
the purchase of the Cuero
system would not only mean
the purchase of a money
making proposition for the
city Itself, but the eventual
reduction in gas rates for the
individua gas consumer.
Those questions are to be _
worked dut ana explained Attorneys De-
The city officials of Cuero do ., ..___
not interd to jump into the SC “Sordid” ^
matter without first knowing! _*
t, jilst where they stand. Theyj new york. Mar. 7.—gns.) —
hive beetl carefully investi- 1 Realistic drama, sordid, with com-
gating the matter tor thel e<ly. pathos and tragedy Intermln-
past threje months. They will
act howeirer, as the majority
Former Cuero Man Is
Buried in Lindenau
Cemetery.
in session here Wednesday.
GOULD TRIAL
NEARS CLOSE
citizens wish them to act.
Vd- like to have all the “ifs
and ands ’ from the lips of
city dads themselves before
We form any definite conclu-
sion.
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Governor James V. Allred
announced the receipt of
$2,870,386 from the FERA for
relief work in Texas during
March on Wednesday morn-
, ing. Of tlds sum more than a
million wll go for drouth re-
jH€f, more
thousand
Funeral services were held in
this city at 2 o’clock Wednesday
given by the Commissioners Court afternoon from the Freund
‘ ' Funeral Home for Max Wehiftan,
46, former resident of this com-
munity and for the past several
years a resident of San Antonio.
Interment was in the Lindenau
cemetery with Rev. Lorfing. the
Lutheran minister of that com-
munity, officiating.
Wehman died Monday in hLj
home at 205 Dashiell street, San
Antonio. He was a native of
Shiner, but lived in Cuero for
many years as manager of the
Cuero Gin Co. He had lived in
San Antonio 14 years.
Surviving are the widow. Mrs.
Edna A. Wehman; a son, Victor
Wehman; two daughters. Mrs. R.
! C. Fisher of San Antonio. Mrs.
gled. to which only Sinclair Lewis; ^ m pieneman of Torreon, Mex..
would do justice. j three brothers. Paul Wehman of
Thus Alfred Becker, counsel to j Floresville, William Wehman of
Norman Gould, one of the defend ! Lindenau. Ed Wehman of Westhoff
ants in Mrs. Wilma Gould’s $500, -1 and a sister. Mrs. Tillie Nieman of
000 conspiracy suit charging Gould | Corpus Christi.
Eleven Persons .
Killed in Blasfe-
At Utafc QU Well
ST. GEORGE, Utah, March 7—
INS—The death toll mounted to 11
today in the tragic oil-well holo-
caust at the Arrowhead Petroleum
Corporation well seven miles south
cf here near the Arizona line last
night.
The blast is believed to have been
caused when the shot that would
have brought in the well exploded
prematurely.
Nine persons were killed outright.
FROST TO THE
COAST TONITE
Generally Rising Tem-
peratures Slated for
* Friday.
FLEE BEFORE
COMMUNISTS
Americans Warned to
Evacuate Keweichow
Province.
serious ‘ Church, featured the noon program
and it was known for some hounfTDr. Held's address being unusually
before her death that the end was j entertaining.
not far*away. f j j Being an Austrian and having
Ttt*> daughters of Mr. and Mrs. j visited in Euroj>e several time*
Alfred Albrecht, a son of Adolph since the world conflict. Dr. Held
Ohrt and a son of Albert Rienecke j gave Rotarians an insight into the
are still confined in a local hospital j European question which proved
suffering from pneumonia. ! edifying and interesting.
Services for Miss Albrecht will be) Discussing the possibilities of
hid from the home of her parents, war in Europe, ihe speaker de-
! Mr. and Mrs. Otto Albrecht in Mis- dared in his opinion there would
sion yalley. at 2 p. m. Friday with; be no war in Europe. *
Rev. Meier officiating and E. J. i -Europeans do not haye the money
Fseund in charge of arrangements.: to back another war, they have
Interment will be in the Mission, had enough war and in estimation
\ alley^cemetery. ! they will not start another con
The >pung girl, a popular mem- j fliat» j*. Held declared
ter of the Mission Valley school; The smaller countries of Europe
!were left in a deplorable condition
following the war Dr. Held . de-
They were not prepared i proved the plan
„irvivp j for Democracy as they had always! council to
'____ 1 been Serfs, and fike children, were neerlng Oo.
j unable to care for themselves. {the property!
niinvi rvnrnrn "II is the«W a natural conse submit the applies
KUm tArtll tu j£r*i,£ ars^stLisrto
! tatorship, and Austria and Ger-
school1
school
mates to mourn her tragic death.
In addition to her bereaved par-1 H ^
ents, one sister, Eleanora, remains
PEIPING, Mar. 7.—(INS)—Alarm-
ed at a terroristic advance of Red
armies in'Keweichow Province, the
American legation here today issued
a consular warning to all Americans
Frost to the coast was the
weather man’s prediction for South
Texas tonight as a new cold wave
reached down from North Texas.
Cuero experienced a chilly
norther early Wednesday night,
but no severe temperatures were
felt here. Rising temperatures
were predicted for Friday.
The mercury dropped to below
freezing in Dallas today following
a hard sand storm that swept into
that section of the state late Wed -
nesday. Minimum temperatures !
Thursday was 30 degrees, a sharp j
drop from the spring like weather '
prevailing in Nflrth Texas Wed I
nesday’ morning. • ,
North Texas generally reported' .
lower temperatures. The mercury j Last Minute Rush To Se-
stood at 24 at Amarillo and other j cure Auto Plates Ap-
Panhandle towns reported similar. Dears Likelv
readings. J
Public Works
*nd grant.
The
careful
proposed
engineer,
the
the
the most
veniently
to build
imming dooI
of Main street or
Victoria
secure an
* ould
ninety
been made, he
Upon
ohded by Dr. J,
group of thirty <
ATTAX OFFICE
The forecast was for generally
many are better off under such
forms of goveminent.”
While not a follower of Hitler,
Dr. Held paid triubte to the at-
tributes of the German leader.
He described Hitler as a man free
! of personal frailties, such as
. drinking, gambling and other such
•K Garr
neerlng
than one hundred i vorce in Kansas City. Mo., joined
for education and a vaudeville troupe, returned to
tm O hundred thousand the Vieuz Carre, then finally turn
for trans ent relief. That </d up in Chicago.
Ing spent
provemen
set aside
and -ship
and others with employing Prince;
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Mike Ramanoff to drug and de
fame her for divorce evidence, a Longhorns XVill
Fourth Place As
Gray Sets Record
day characterized the battle which
has been waging more than a week
in Supreme Court.
Making the defense summation.
Becker urged the jury to remove, AUSTIN March 7_iNS_The
any influence of chivalry to wo j southwestern conference basketball
men. and traced Mrs. Gould s life j season was closed today,
from childhood. He pointed to; with the Texas Longhorns having
her marriage at the age of 13, and; cinched fourth.place from the Texas
the birth of a child of that mar- i Aggies in their game here last night,
riage, and charged she left her j The Steers won 35 to 25.
husband in 1912, obtained a di ! Jack Gray took scoring honors in
the final game, being the first in-
dividual to take the conference
scoring record three years straight.
He made 11 points last night.
tcvbe ready to flee at a
notice.
The legation also notified Chi-
nese authorities in the affected
! areas that Americans must be pro-
! termed during the Red onslaughts.
The Chinese promised to take all
necessary precantionary action.
Although no Americans were be-
lieved to be living in the areas up
to now captured by the ravaging
Communists, more than a few were
known to be in sections immediate-
ly imperiled. v
Chinese government forces were
forming strong defenses along the
Wukiang river. 70 miles north of
Kweiyang. capital of the province.
The Red hordes have captured
moments i temperatures in all sections
of the state Friday.
leaves litJe for k work-relief
program n Texas. The trouble
relief work in Texas
Is that not enough of the re-
lief monesr being spent, is be-
•on permanent im-
ts. Take the $174,000
or transient relief
Then he went into a discussion
of call girls.
There is no question of Mrs
Gould’s dressmaker, he said, and
a competent one. The real question j
is. what is a call girl? he concluded.
Prohibition Speakers -
Will Be Heard Here
T
With slightly more than three, !Jer^OIJal Ambits, Hitler is an in
eeks remaining in. which to pay, ^tual. a capable lgader, he
! 1935 auto license tax. less than 250 i st£^ed-
'of the more than 6000 plates to bei He. defended Hitlers action inL
delivered in this county have been;ljannin^ Jews in Germany, declar-
secured by DeWitt car owners a \ bis activities had been (
check of records in the office of i directed against the Communistic
county tax collector Fritz Poetter| Jews, the Reds that drifted iu
r ■ j revealed Thursday ^ from Russia and not the God -fear—
AUSTIN. March 7—INS—Despite IT mursaay
an adverse vote, advocates of writ-! means that +
ing the State Monoplv Plan of Li. have to issue more han 200 plates
quor Control mo he States Basic per day if the last minute rush is to
The motion
Garrett
firm, who
Cuero fdf the PM
s peering location,
steps necessarj
aid. Garrett
reasonably expec
to put up afi of
for the project,
P«-
No Vote On Texas
Liquor Control Plan
be avoided.
T&x Collector Poetter is anxious
that this last minute rush be avoid-
ed, not only because of the incon-
pUrchkse of the
3$ per cent would
■■t. Seventy
n. however, must
ed, and
by the city
ents nill be
repayment of
uire about
Law still were confident today as
the legislatre, after a morning's
‘hectic debate, adjourned, until to-
morrow with no final vote in either
house.
At adjournment. R4l}- Oeorge
Moffit. leading advocate of constitu- , ^Poetter xaidj
tiona! state mononlv. asserted a sub- i Thursday. Poetter saia.
If you have not already bought
;y also J f— •’“1V *r*'* !yo»te 193^ automobile license plates,
Shrarti'yPfW'y b« altowd|i«.v.t, sale - o ^ >t oncf and ,voM hou„ ot
waiting in line. The 20 per cent
h Garnett and 1
the opinion I
Id be self-1
will'ing, upright Jewish citizen.#
He stated that; prior to the war.
the German government was the
best government in the world and
that at that time the laws and pro j —
posals now being offered in the j
United States such as unemploy- j n|||U||f
several towns in Szechwan Province.
where they looted freely. They aLso | ^tiIutc l)lan saleiiof
were strong in Kansu and______, . ,
provinces. 'of light wines and beers
vrnic-nce and long wait it will cause | ment insurance, as a means of re •
motorists. covery, were actually in effect.!
In a statement given The Record There was no unemployment, trere
were no beggars. The German
people were satisfied.
A native born Austrian who cam*
Honoral Oliver W. Stewart, well
. known exponent of prohibition and-
Seeks To Break
Moffitt would not predict how , . . . -. . . .__.
he would lain. ! A test ! l^naity goes on at Midnight April
vote showed he had
man> r6‘'"I0l'i'„;"s though you hare been waiting
... ^ „ , i while ad.ocateAot ou.tight repeal h»uf """ **"
HI* Own Record h ad n. V I strikes midnight
DAYAONA BEACH. Fla. March 7(
lle ing business in both houses tom or-
DEATH
Sentenced For
Filling Stal
ten<
8AN ANTONIO,
— James Scott, 19-
C’HANCE
J Miss Norma C Brown, nationally i speedway bearch here again today '
known lecturer, are to be heard at
five -ton!the BaPtist church in this city on
Thursday."April 4. at 2:30 and 4:30
BINGHAM. Utah.—A
these transient re- i boulder plunged prmp‘ on (|M subJect ,.The 0nconl,n„
lief subjects out of the state. I 1 ®^!. 1 B ' h n Cf ? war with Liquor Traffic", accord-
crashed through the walls of the ______ . _ . f
to this country pt the age of 16.
Dr. Held is now an adopted Texan
who has faith in this state and in
this country, ad he declared un
line for hours, when the clock j tjle j)e0pie 0f Em-ope learned to
kes midnight, the penalty will; take principles Df Democracy
In the senate, no vote was reached | “ft-"'!' *° *n th0*f "if, Jt* | into their IKartJ that they would . ..
i i:Hsi: ^^—r.««! ** ~
In addition to Dr. Held's address, j
Ashton Hesse provided an enter -1 Augustat,
Augusta*
. when he
prisoners who were released under! . vour be“'8 initiated into the local club! hlllt the ^ car
general amnesty, refuked to leave j be sure vou have the following ’ by Jap Lockhart, ex district gov-* “f statlon where h®
the orison ai Solvemka Ffoshega. j_____,.^j,. « j ernor of Rotary! in Wisconsin.
nounced this afternoon that
wpiiid .take his giant racer on the pmv
back to tieir own homes if resiUence of Fred Tedcsco
possible, $nd bar thevgates of slashed a bed from which *».» advjuice man of the nving
further transients l Tedesco had taken her baby a few ron FouRdation
for an assault upon his own worlds
land speed record The run will be
made about 330 E S T The n-
trepid Elnglish racer said
Campbell's decision to make the
collector, but must, be applied by j ~‘I^"’*ddiU0n to tor
_______. ^ piim as the law specifies. _______ ^ ^
THROWN OUT OF JAIL j hare just a short time in ta^ng featre ^with hLs rendition| tendant
BELGRADE —<INS.» 4 Thice wh^h to register >our car-d , <t f ..Little prairie Flower ,f Hesse I August I
and
Mrs.
ing to an announcement Thursday 1 attempt, his fourth within a week; Ah three objected strongly
by R S. Middleton of Indianapolis,
Texas to
who must be carried on relief i
rolls as additional burdens to
(Con inued on Pose 2>
minutes earlier, The mother and
Stewart, is to be heard at 230
child were in the kitchen the onlyjand MLss Brown aI 7 30 The public
room of the house that was not jnvited and there will be no ad-
demolished.
I mission
charge.
came after an inspection of the
beach. He was prohibited from mak-
ink a run Tuesday when Mayor A
H. Armstrong, after a conference
with Lady Campbell, ordered the1
attempt abandoned because of
j weather conditions.
^ ’ i information with you:
1 Either your old registration re- j Lockhart, a resident of Oskosh,
ing turned our into thy cold After
Itskifig ior instruction from Bel a ]icensr piates
grad* the governor of the piTs.Vn micics and trailers have to Ilocal Rotary sessibn. '*
informed rile inert that tt was un ^T^-pighed. Bring your weight slip! R Soileau was a nwst of W.
po>--ible for them to serve the rest you T- McLarty.; In addition, Me -
of their- ent once as tiicy d*>iretl. 3 registered in another county.1 Larty was host u| his son. Tel Mc-
.uid he had them forcibly expelled, briny your registration receipt.” i Lartv. Jr.
the number of vour 1934 Wisconsin, was a| visitor in Cuerojyxuth. was
! and took occasion to attend the ' hi 1 connection with the’’
w; us returned here ac
stir witness.
fcugustat. 24. was »
M|arlin and a fc
Ttxas A. & M.
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Howerton, J. C. The Cuero Record. (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 55, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 1935, newspaper, March 7, 1935; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1130531/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.