The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1932 Page: 1 of 6
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MAY ME STEPS HIRED WILL HOT
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Play Leading Roles in House Tax Fight
I.ARLiE LAND OWNERS FAVOR
PETITlONIMi COMMISSIONERS
COURT TO ORDER ELECTION.
WILL BE CANDIDATE FOR RE-
ELECTION TO ATTORNEY
GENERAL'S OFFICE.
A number of the larger land own-
ers tcgether with their attorneys met
here last Friday with the Board of
Directors of La Salle County Water
Austin, Texas, Apiil G.—At
one of the uncertainties as to
sible candidates for Governor
least
po.--
was
erased here today by Attorney Gen-
Improvement District No. 1, and dis- eral james v, An,.ed( who declared
cussed the advisability of taking positively that he would not be a
steps to dissolve the district. candidate.
It was pointed out that in order to ..j have not beeH( am not ncw< and
bring this about it would be necessary wjl] not be a candjdate for Governor,”
to petition the Commissioners Court Allred said. “During my adininis-
to order an election for a vote to tration as Attorney General, I have
determine this. The larger land been too busy trying to interpret an(1
owners appeared to favor this move enforce the law to even think of pol-
as they stated that they were unable itics> and regret that unfounded spec.
to pay the tax assessed for the ex- uiation has drawn my name into the
pense incurred, and could not borrow race> While ,t ig a compliment tc he
money oil the land as long as it was even mentioned fo). that high honori
in the distiiet. I feel that it is my duty to continue!
It will require 50 signatures on a tw apply myseIf faithfully to the in-!
Petition to the Commissioners Court tcrests of the people in the Attorney |
to secure an election, and it is not General’s office.
believed that any trouble will be ex- -*This is the first ‘breathing spell’'
perienced in securing this number, j have had in months, but it will be
SKELETON FOUND
I FEET UNDER
cam-
den,, Lane Taylor, Lon Cartwright
WORKINGMEN DIGGING STORM
CELLAR ON TOM LEACH
PLACE l \< OVER HUMAN
BONES.
Workingmen on the Tom Leach
| place in the Western section of the
j city, while digging a storm cel lor
unearthed a human skeleton Wednes-
day. The bones were found at a
• depth of six feet from the surface rf
the ground.
I The greater part of the skeleton
had disintegrated, and many of the
bones were broken up before the
| workmen discovered what they were.
Parts of the skull was found, one jaw
bone with all of teeth intact, leg and
arm bones.
Dv. Reeves said there was no ques-
tion about the bones being human,
'and it was evident they had been bur-
ied many, many years, probably fifty
and maybe a hundred. There has
been an established cemetery here for
- fifty years, and unless it was mur-
di-1 The Independent ticket headed by der, and the body secretly buried, the
nolilics The le,, e n r - -.........— * club f,'r the Mayor Albert Martin won the muni- skeleton has been where it was found
P y y " “ Southeast oi Cotu la. >e-jyear beginning July 1st, five were cipal election at Laredo Tuesday after for a longer period.
lonoren mi pontlv wont tA ToolreKrwn orwl n«M f i ■ i m. , . J
at Tuesdays meeting, as fed- one ot the hottest and closest con- On Old Trail.
Jack Bailey, Merle Davis lusts ever known in that city, over a The skeleton was found in close
e Iticket headed by Hal L. Brennan, proximity of an old trail that follow-
The outgoing President j Over 4300 votes were cast. Martin s ed the East side of the Nueces. Thi s
These three members of the.House of Representatives played prominent 7oles in the vim™,.*
paign for a tax bill to balance the country’s budget. Representative Charles R. Crisp of Georgia left
acting chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Introduced the bill containing he Ll« tfr wS
Representative Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York, center, assailed succlsfu^ assisted hl
representatives from both partita. An impassioned plea by John Nance Garner rirt Mi W"‘
tain the national credit and Maintain the financial Integrityofth^country resfored 5hl Soused con
trol of its leaders, and permitted progress in formulating new tax measures. Y H 1
Valley Farmer Rotary Club Independent Club
Buys Her*'ords\ Elects Wins at Laredo
Freddie
San Antonions attending this meeting __„i- , . "’ ' ", "V ~~ Johnson, well known j Out of the ten nominations
isan An ion ions aueninng ims meeuug appiled to a discharge of the duties farmer-stockman in
were: Judge Brooks, Bruce Teagar-
months, but
„ ... ... . *be ^•’ueces Val-irectcrs of the Rotary
ot this office, and not to politics. The ley 8 miles ~ 1
. T , w people of Texas have honored me cently went to Jacksboro and eieciei
“nd John W’ . JalneS’ att°rney with tht’ greatest opportunity for se«-- chased from Johnson Bros., of that Hows •’
r tHe T !ice ev,er fiven »”>• y°™«r man, and city a herd sire and two long year ; Walter Manly, Bill Williams and Le
1 am deeply grateful. I trust they nng heifers of the Double Standard Keithley. The outgoing Prcsi
v ill see til to continue my term of Polled Hereford strain of beef cattle. and the Secretary automatically
service and I will, therefore, make a They arrived by truck a few days ago come members of
lormal announcement at the proper and are now on the Johnson Ranch a
I where they will be developed as a
Hotel Man Dead
at Nashville timt-
be- majority was 390.
total of seven.
Bill Jones, for sometime manager
of the La Salle Hotel here, died at
Nashville, Tenn., on March 15th.
This information was received in a
letter fropri Mrs. Ford, who was asso-
— listed with him here in the hotel
business, to Mrs. Pat Aaronson.
Mrs. Ford said that his death was
sudden and was caused by a stroke
of ap'oplexy.
AMERICAN TOBACCO HEAD 1931
SALARY OVER SI.000,000.
foundation for a registered Hereford DEPl'TY GRAND
herd. The purchaser plans to make j .—
additions to his herd and to raise! Cotulla Chapter No.
New York, April G.—The American
bulls for the stockman in this sec-1held their regular monthly meeting
tion of the state.
I These young naturally muley regis-' Willie Mae Kerr acting as
Submarines to
Tobacco Company paid its president, tered Hereford® are highly bred, one -Matron pro tern and Freddie Johns, n j
George W. Hill, more than SI,000,000 being a descendant of the 1924 na- Worthy Patron pro tern,
for 1931. tional polled grand champion bull; ■ We had with us cn this evening
This was disclosed in papers filed another of the Canadian national I Mrs. Lula Chancey, Deputy Grand!
by the company in Federal court grand champion bull which sold for. Matron, who gave us an interesting
here. The documents are in reply $9500.00 when seven years old; anT*b(i instructive talk on the work,;
to a stockholder’s suit by Richard another of the highest priced polled .which everyone thoroughly enjoyed.
old trail was used up until the eight-
the Board, making ! Due to the lack of sufficient noil- ies by travelers up and down the Nue-
jing places, hundreds of voters were ces, and no telling how many years
—•■ j lined up at the polls at 7 o'clock, and previous to that. This trail n.ad its
MATRON HERE, by agreement the polls were kept bi; inning at the mouth of the river
I open until several hours later, in or- near Corpus Christi, and up stream
dei to allow all to vote who desired, to Uvalde and probably beyond. It
.. , ... . . , ... i A victory parade was staged by connected the many roads leading out
■Monday night, April 4th Miss; the independent Club Wednesday' of Mexico into Texas. The skeleton
\\ orthy | -
328 O. E. S.
night.
Pearsall Has
\
Hot Election
„______ ,_____ _____ . . . Pearsall had a very hot municipal
Rogers, who recently obtained a tern- Hereford ever sold, namely for S14,- Mrs. Joe G. Spence then presented election Tuesday, in a contest to elec:
poiaiy injunction barring further 500.00. The purchaser states that Mrs. Chancey with a lovely gift three Commissioners and a Marshal.
VlSlt CorDLlS bonus Payments to officers of the
* company.
Corpus Christi, Texas, April 5.—
Two of Uncle Sam’s Submarines will
visit in the Port of Corpus Christi,
where they will be open to inspection
by citizens and school children of
Scuth Texas, on April 29th, 30th, anil
May 1st, according to Mayor Edwin
F. Flato.
The submarines are on duty in the
Canal Zone and have been ordered to
Texas’ Ports for two weeks. Through
the efforts of Congressman Richard 1
Kleberg, the Navy Department has
ordered the S-12 and S-13 to Corpus
Christi.
The submersibles will be anchored
in the Port and open to visitation and
inspection by the general public at no
cost, as was Old Ironsides last Feb-
con-
cash
total
Mr. Hill’s cash compensation
.-isted of SI68,000 salary and
bonus of at least $850 000 or a
of SI,018,000.
American Tobacco’s net profit last
year was $46,189,714, a record. Un-
der the bonus plan, in any year when
the company’s net piofit exceeded
SI 1,369,000, the president was to re-
ceive 2'e per cent of such excess.
he has chosen the Polled
because they are “beef without bay- i
onets,” the kind out of which “gras;
and feed make more fat and les
fight.”
Herefords . from the Chapter. Two members of an opposition ticket,
At the close of business a social Howard Shelton and Dr. J. E. Beali
hour was enjoyed and delicious brick were elected. J. W. Tyner was re-
ice cream, topped with strawberries, elected. John Campbell was elected
and angel food squares were str ed Marshal over W. D. Higdcn by 77
to about 25. votes. Over 600 votes were polled.
may have been that of some Mexican
or Indian, or perhaps a white person
who died a natural death and his
comrades gave him a decent burial
by the side of the road.
It will never be known.
Rattlesnakes Said
to be Numerous
Mrs. Housewife, its up to You!
izenship of the city, was “No!” | -
(Carrizo Springs Javelin.) j “Unfortunately,” it was pointedly • , ^ - . .
ith the decision ot the local out, “housewives of Carrizo Springs, \ylll0t \jlllJ 011(1
bakei, Mi. Tondre, to close his bak- who do most of the buying were net
——..... v.v/oc wno <ro most oi tne ouying were net i C f 1 r-i t , •
(Iff in flic \/nl II nf oor er~ and move ^rom Carrizo Springs ; present, and many of them are una-! OC/?00/ JlL LCCt 10 US
IKslxAlO \ U llsl / I L CC / following* the bread Drice-cuttimr war fa___ *____I
$3,500 Salary Cut
following the bread price-cutting war j ware of the situation,
by a San Antonio bakery, a meeting dealers will continue to
of nearly 100 per cent of local
One or
handle
(Zavalla County Sentinel.) Thursday and dealers in food connno-
At a meeting here Monday the dities agreed to handle only the home
Commissioners’ Court went as far as baked bread.
bring the' B. L. Jeffrey, upon request,
ruary.
This will be the first visit to this possible at this time to
secti n of the country by this type of county expenditures for
Unc .• Sam’s defense equipment, and within the estimated income.
Mayor Edwin Flato of this city is were made in every department. cal baker. I hardly know him. He
extending an invitation to every On an assessed valuation of six mil- did not request this meeting. We
school child and citizen in South lion dollars there would be approxi- learned incidentally that he was pre-
Texas to visit the ships while in the mately $15,000 for the general county paring to close his bakery and leave
local Port. fund if all taxes are paid. From the Carrizo Springs, because his competi-
auditors report recently published in tor, a large city baker, had cut the
the Sentinel a little more than $20,000 price of bread below the cost of pro-
DILLEY SERVICE HELD FDR was paid out of the general fund last duction.’
PIONEERS WIDOW.
til0 | The City and School election held
bus- ; cut-price bread, “because,” they say, ;in Cotulla last Saturday were not
mess people met at the court house “Carrizo Springs housewives demand j contested and present incumbents re-
'*•• (turned to office by a very light vote
The proposition is now squarely , Re-elected in the city were H. H.
up to the housewife. Will she be less j W’ildenthal, Mayor; C. E. Manly, R
loyal to the home town than her fel- • L. Keithley,
Rattlesnakee are reported to be
plentiful these days. This is the
month in which snakes mate, and
usually t,vo are found together.
W hen one is found and killed it is a
wise idea to look around a littie for
its mate.
Ranchmen say their hands have
killed hall a < izen a day. and tracks
across th< 'cads are plentiful. The
heavy coverage of the ground by veg-
etation the last twx or three years
has given the reptiles a chance to
multiply.
Fortunately up to now. no one has
has been bitten, although there have
been several narrow escapes.
LAREDO SHIPPING ONIONS.
• ... u(/«u icviuni, gic- ioyai 10 me nome icwn man ner lei- Keithlev, J W Coker Lesley ®ermuba on’on vrop is moving
the year sented the matter before the meeting, low citizens represented at the meet- Cooper and Henry Neal Aldermen- f'°m La,e<;'0’ at tht‘ vate of about 55
me. Cuts He said; “I do not represent the lo- ine? Undoubtedly she will answer, J. B. Poole. Marshal; J H Gallman Ca’S a day U is e
|ing? Undoubtedly she will
when she understands the
an emphatic “No!”
It seems that the city bakeries are
making a combined drive on all small
towns to freeze out the local bakeries,
and it is as suggested in the above |
article, the housewives of the towns j
affected hold this matter in their
hands. They can give aid to the I
situation, Tax Collector and Assessor.
In the School election Mrs. H.
Guinn was re-elected.
C.
'VIDE INTEREST SHOWN IN
ONION EXPERIMENTS.
estimated the La-
redo crop this year will run about
800 cars. The quality is said to be
good.
Raymondville will have approxi-
mately 700 cars this season, and the
peak of shipments there have been
reached.
year. There was a time when the “We all know that even a large
-- county was a year ahead, so to speak, concern cannot keep on doing business hands. They can give aid to the I Tbat onions interest many growers
Dilley, Texas, April 6.—Funeral hut at this time the current year’s at a loss and continue indefinitely,” city bakeries and drive the home man ;'n tbis area was evinced by the 47
services for Mrs. Maggie Ward Oil- taxes must take care of current ex- said Mr. Jeffrey. “It is logical to lout of town—and when he is gone, jv*sit°i s to the Winter Garden Exper-
lard, widow of the late N. Dillard, penditures. So having a budget of infer that, once the local bakery is ithe city bakeries can and will hike ,'1V!Cnt Station on April 4
pioneer business man and banker of around $20,000 and a possible income closed, San Antonio bread will go (the price of bread back to a living were present from I.aredo,
NEW
BUS-PLANE SERVICE
ANNOl NT ED.
this section, were held Tuesday morn- °f only two-thirds that
ing, interment being in the local cem- something had to happen,
etery. Death occurred Monday, af- be out of the question to raise valu- truck service from the large city can [same as in other towns, and it is go- Fearsall.
Officials of the Southland Grey-
Grower- bounb Lines and the Bowen Air Line«
Encinal to‘*aY announced air-bus service to
amount, back to a higher price. This is but (price.
j Catarina, Asherton, Carrizo Springs, start April 15th.
It would an opening wedge,” he said. “if a The situation in Cotulla is just the EaR'l‘“ Pass, Crystal City, Dilley and
The Greyhound company will carry
passengers from any point on their
ter an extended illness. Service was ations. It was because of these con- kill one institution, it can kill all of ; ing to take some patriotism from the Considerable interest was shown by n”*e network in Texas to air
held at the home by the Rev. W. J. ditions the tax payers league was them. Shall we, for the sake of sav- j housewives to win the fight for home !tbe farmers in the
fertilizer and
Defi-
when
Clements, pastor of the Baptist suggested to work with the Com- ing a few cents a loaf on bread for a iindustry. San Antonio bakeries pay [f ther cultural experiments,
church, while at the church tribute missioners Court. brief period of time, be willing to es- no taxes here; they help not one cent n’te results will be available
was paid by the Rev. Bruce Roberts Salary cuts for the various county tablish the precedent that an institu-ito keep up our schools. The local tbe on'°ns are harvested,
of Carrizo Springs, former pastor and officers amounted to approximately tion, not located in our midst or con-[bakery contributes through taxes to
long time friend of the family. Do- $3,500.00 to-wit: Sheriff, $700; tributing to the support of our insti-jthe education of your children. If j -
ceased was born in Gonzales County County Clerk, $700; County Attorney, tution, shall kill a local institution | you help outside industry to kill your COWBOYS AWARDED SW’E \TFRS
in 1860; married Nathan Dillard at $300; District Clerk, $150; County w-hich is?” The expression from ev-jhome institutions, one by one they^i __
terminal points, where the journey
will be taken up by plane.
The Bowen Air Lines operate from
San Antonio and Houston to Fort
Worth, Dallas, Tulsa and Oklahoma
City.
WILL ATTEND REUNION.
Wrightsboro, in 1882; moved to Dil- Judge as ex-officio school superin- ery citizen at the meeting
ley with her family 39 years ago, and tendent, $300; Janitor, $120; Wolf emphatic “No!
was an will go, and there will be no taxes.
Members of the Cotulla
kj wan ntr imiui; »» jrani agv, miu m»i cui|/iinne oui ■ If the housewives of Cotulla will !Football squad were awarded gold • f Bailey. Superintendent *
since that time the family has been Catcher, $600 and the Assessor, Tax1 Mr. Jeffrey cited the once thriving |remain loyal to their town, and le-land maroon color sweaters with i *c"°°*s an<* P>' ' inther. who is
actively engaged in the upbuilding Collector and County Treasurer vol- towns between Pearsall and San An-imand home made bread and no other, I— ------e — .... representing the Regional office of
of the community. She had been a untarily agreed to cut all commissions tonio that are now smaller in popula-
consistent member of the Baptist in handling the general fund. This tions than they were years ago,
Church since early girlhood. Sur- means a total of from $600 to $700. gradually obliterated by its own peo-
viving children are Mrs. A. H. (Min- (The Court and the public of course ple who have diverted their trade to
nie) Hopkins of San Antonio and appreciate this voluntary action on ^be
Hardy E. and Coy E. Dillard of Dil- the part of these officers. The As-
ley; also five grandchildren. Among sessor and Tax Collector’s commis-
otlier surviving relatives are three sions are fixed by statute and the Rrow*nff Carrizo Springs ? he asked,
brothers, Sim Ward of San Marcos Commissioners’ Court has no power The emphatic response of those pres-
and Lee and Monroe Ward of Yancey, to reduce it ent, who represented the leading cit-
large city,
happen to
“Do we want this to
beautiful and
our own
this fight can be won.
BCILDING ROCK VENEER HOME.
maroon C on the front, this week.
Coach Leo Baldwin presented
the Reconstruction Finance C’orpora-
„ . tPp tion in making loans to farmers, will
sweaters to the following boys during illwaaIn na .. Ie2 Ewcmfwypfwd
Chape period Wednesday morning: leave tod fo]. Co„ station t0
r h * i ,J°y Edw‘rd E11,s- Joh" Gilbe^, Ted attend a reunjon of A & || Mudents
B. A. Badour is building a new | Pickens, Tnnadad Abrego, Joe Lee
home on his place just this side of Glibcrt, Stanley Pickens, Lee Roy
Gardendale on the Highway. The
building is to be rock-veneer, and will
be quite attractive. Mr. Badour is
otherwise improving his place.
there tomorrow.
Hatter man, Russell Bell, Bob Steph- i A LIGHT NORTHER,
enson, Edward Earnest, Dick Stephen- | A light norther blew all yesterday
son, Preston Reeder, Raymond and the sky was hazy, as if filled
Marsh and Claude Atkins. with dust or smoke.
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