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VOL. 43.—NO. 126.
CUERO, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1937
SIX PAGES TODAY
NEW CHINESE ENVOY TO U. S.
ONE THOUSAND
AT GARFIELD
FORMAYFEST
Annual May Celebration
Attracts Visitors From
Wide Area.
Wounded Man Races
Death to Lubbock
TURNER EXHIBITION
York town
l j ; 5-2 in
Defeats Poth
Bluebonnet
MORTON. Tex.. May 25.—(INS)—
An air race against possible death
was under way from here to Lub-
bock today. William Jaggers. 60.
was shot when he was on Main
street here this morning. . An air
ambulance, piloted by Clint Breed-
love of Lubbock was called ?r.a
arrangements made to hurry Kag-
gers to Lubbock for-treatment.
Sheriff Standefer said he was
holding a suspect in the case, pend-
ing outcome of Jaegers wounds.
Jaggers was shot four times.
FRELS SUES Cuero Park Draws 2500
FILM TRUST it
FOR $195,000
Visitors In 17 Days
Victoria Exhibitor Claims
Damage From Inabil-
ity to Buy Pictures.
HEARING IN DALLAS
Toeh Wang, Ambassador Wang and An-Fu Wang
> *
League Game.
A crowd estimated conservatively
at more than one thousand were
guests of the Garfield Shooting
Club Sunday, when a mammouth
Mayfest celebration was held at
the club hall. County officials join-
ed other prominent citizens of this
section in making the celebration a
success, the feature address being
delivered by County Attorney S P.
Hebert. -
Although the varied program was
scheduled to get underway at 2 2C
p. m. it, w’as after four o’clock be-
fore the initial feature started. This
was an athletic exhibition by the
Turnverein, which was thoroughly
enjoyed by all.
This exhibition was followed by
target and Blue Rock shooting dem-
onstrations, and public speeches by
several county officials.
A baseball gamp between teams
from Yorktown arid Poth was next
on the program, although the con-
test was played some distance from
the Garfield hall. This game was
i a regular Bluebonnet League con-
the great out-of-doors are qjj Structure Will Be test B^d sj^ted originally to have
warned to be on the lookout Transformed Into Col- ***" played in Yorktown, but site
. rr,. c a laiwrmea inio was changed following a request
for snakes. The experience of onial Residence. by Garfield club officials that the
a Westhoff woman Sunday - . game be played as a feature of their
stresses the necessity to exer- ^ old Alexander Hamilton home celebration. Yorktown won the
., _ _ . , on Esplanade anti Prairie streets, game 5 to 2, to retain first place in
etae caufon. Suffermg from ^ one of ^mmi impo,ingWe standing
a rattlesnake bite, the West-, resldmces to ^ Mywhen changes' si* hundred per-
hott woman is now in a criti - now underway are completed were cd “' the tor?est
cal condition. She was at work
Bn route to Washington to assume his duties as new Chinese am-
bassador to the United States, Cheng Ting Wang is seen with his
two daughters, Yoeh Wang, left, and An-Fu Wang, In San Francisco,
—Central Press
Picnicers, fishermen and
!
others who enjoy outings in
HOME REBUILT
sausage suppers ever held at the
hall. Several hundred persons were
turned away, when it was learned
Now owned by Roy Hamilton,
In her garden when the snake I president of the Buchel National
.Eriiok- without wnminer Wn lBank> and 500 of the original they* could not be cared for.
n owner, the old homestead, with Its * Music for the occasion was fur-
Can’t be too careful. spacious grounds covering a quart- nished by three musical organiza-
* * * er block in one of the best resi- , tions, the August Boldt's Lone Star
City Officials might well dence sections of the city, is being band from Cuero, Fritz and his
Mrrw tv,_ . . transformed into a beautiful colon- . German band from San Antonio
carry cneir pa mg e peri- ial style residence that will make and August and His Plowboys from
ment to many other parts of it a show place when completed. Yorktown.
the eitv Cuero’s naved street Improvements now well underway The celebration was brought to a
* , # * A . under the direction of William fitting close with a dance at the
system IS fast deteriorating. Adickes &•* Sons, Cuero contrac-' Garfield Hall.
Some streets can be saved if tors, call for a complete new--
treated now. Others have Colonial ^ root, six huge col- VIT/IAlir TA VTO
been neglected too long. Our ^ .T^conTX lWlUMt IAAEO
paved street system is some- i and a huge 10-foot brick porch ex-
thing which we should make 1
The contract is scheduled to be
every effort to preserve and completed in thirty working days,
unless we act now, it is likely Atlee B. Ayres of San Antonio was
SHOWING GAIN
the architect.
that the cost at some future _
z™ s lti: Mon- F* M
day is of a cheap type,-^but 1 ° Dallas Oil Man
apparently satisfactory. We
Twenty-two More Returns
Filed in City
of Cuero.
By PAUL MAY
-7“ WASHINGTON. D. C., May 25.—
^ u . DALLAS, Mnv 2o.—(INS)—Leon L. Cuero residents filed twenty-two
hope that the work Will be Shield. 50. well-known oil man more income tax returns last year
Continued. died in a local hospital this morn- than in 1935, according to a report
4: y y in? from injuries sustained when made public today by the Internal
jo-to buyers are expect- _ to Caere
Ing a real rush this week. To- Dallas. H
SERVICES FOR
RICHARD GAUHL
Long Time Cuero Resi-
dent Buried in Hill-
side Monday.
'Citizens from this city and many
nearby communities Monday join-
ed in last rites for Richard E.
Gauhl, 58. native Cuero residenr
and an employe of the Freund
Funeral Home.
Gauhl was found dead at the
funeral home Sunday morning.
Services from the home were fol-
lowed by rites at the Lutheran
church with Rev. John Kern of-
ficiating. Interment was in Hill-
side Cemetery.
“Dick” Gauhl, as he was known
to friends, was born February 23rd,
1879. in Cuero. He spent his en-
tire life here, acting in the capac-
ity of a druggist for twenty-five
yeare. For the past seven years
he had been a faithful and trust-
ed employe of the Freund funeral
home.
He was married at Ameckeville
in 1913 to Miss Alma Junker, who
survives him. Two sisters, Mrs.
Henry Meyer of New Braunfels, and
Mrs. Henry l^nneke of Cuero, and
three brothers, Oscar Gauhl and
Fred Karow of Cuero and Rudolph
Karow of San Antonio, also sur-
vive.
VISITORS HERE FOR
GAUHL FUNERAL
The following out of town visitors
were here to attend the last rites
for Richard Gauhl here Monday
afternoon:
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyer and
daughter of New Braunfels; Mr.
and Mrs. Hugo Junker > of Hous-
ton; Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Wilden
of Gonzales. J. L. Sloan of San
Antonio; C. A. Velte of San An-
tonio; Mr. and Mrs. F. X. Beck of
Yoakum; Mrs. Hertha Livingston
of Yoakum; Mr. and Mrs. E. G.
Miller of Yoakum; Mrs. Curtis
Jaetzeld. of Yoakum; Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Allen of Yoakum; W. W.
Find of Yoakum; Frank Sala of
Victoria; Mr. and Mrs. :George
Rvan of Victoria; Mrs>J. E. Ryan
of VictoHa. Mrs. Desmond Sengerle
of Victoria; Mrs. Helen Leur, of
Victoria; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Meyer
of Victoria; Mrs. Charles Frobese
of Westhoff; Albert J. Turk of
Yorktown; Mrs. Elizabeth Stuerm-
er of Yorktown; Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. Stuermer of Yorktown; Mrs.
Otto Kraege of Yorktown; Charles
Kossbiel of Falfurrias.
Suit Underway ir| Feder-
al Court Charges Vio-
lation lAnti-Trust
DALLAS. May 25.—(INS)—
Violation of Federal anti-
trust laws by two large mov-
ing picture exhibiting com-
panies and several distribu-
tors is charged in a suit un-
derway in Federal courts to-
day.
Rubin Frels, Victoria, the
plaintiff, is suing for $195,000
damages against the Jefferson
Amusement Company and others.
The East Texas Theaters, Metro-
Ooldwyn-Mayer. Pa-amount and
and several other .companies are
named among the defendants.
Frels alleges tha’ refusal of big
distributors to let him buy pictures
from them'had injured the business
of his theatres in Victoria. Bellville.
El Campo and Yorktown.
• Frels took the stand in Federal;
court today to tell his story’ of how
the "Big Eight" of the motion pic-i
tore industry allegedly held back
■ commercially successful pictures
from his houses, after the Jefferson
Amusement Co., entered into com-
petition with him.
GUARD ACCUSED SLAYER IN JAIL RESIDENTS OF
i NEAR-BY TOWNS
ARE ATTRACTED
(Park Pool Most Popular?
Swim Tickets Sold *
To 1,075.
PICNIC UNIT POPULAR
Others Come to See Ten
Acre Lake Now Filled
With Water.
Threats of suicide caused jail officials at Lonoke, Ark., to place a
' close guard over Lester Brockelhurst, 23-year-old Rockford, 111-,
_ . “good" boy accused of three slayings. Brockelhurst Is shown par-
Tne plaintiff told the jury that 'J^aking of a meal on hamburgers in jail with Bemioe Felton, 18-year-
prior to 1933 he had no trouble ob
tabling pictures for his theaters,
but that after the Jefferson Tmuse-
naent Company opened rival show
places, he was denied films by some
of the companies and refused part
of ‘their production by other Hol-
lywood firms.
No definite reason was ever giv-
en for a change in policy, Frels
said.
old sweetheart, arrested with Brockelhurst at Brewster, N. Y. The
two were to be arraigned for* the murder of Victor A- Gates of
Little Rock. —Central Proa*
The Cuero Municipal Park
has attracted more than
2,500 out-of-town visitors to
this city since the park swim-
ming pool opened May 8th, H.
L. Grant park manager esti-
mated today. Of this number
1075 came to swim in the
pool, while the others camp to
make use of the picnic Units,
to visit the club house and.
view the ten acre lake,
is now filled with|
Grant said.
The park manager has bam
making a close check on visitors
since the park pool was officially
opened for the 1937 season seven-
teen days ago. His records fchovr
he had sold 1,431 swimming
ets and of this number 1,018
to persons residing outside of
ro. Half that number
ed swimming parties to Cuero
did- not go into the pool
and at least 1,000 more have
ed the picnic units, club
S.S. EXPERT TO
VISIT CUERO
S. E. Weldons Herefords
Bring $90.00 on Houston
Market To Top All Sales
Deputy in Charge of Vic-
toria Office Offers
Assistance.
estimated.
The well filled lake is due
principal attractions at the
site at present. Visitors
-■- | gating upon its banks each
Local bankers and business men Three of the four animals weigh- noon and evening and no less
arc urging that more interest be 1 ed a total of 3970 pounds, or an a dozen boat owners at
taken in the raising of fin? cattle ; average of 1323 pounds. For this timles have had their skiff*
in DeWitt County following a sale 1 group he received seven cents per sail boats skimming over its
of four Hereford cows made re- pounds or a total of $277.90. For The present depth of the
cently on the Houston market by j the fourth aiymal, which tipped three feet at the north bank
S. E. Weldon, stockman residing : the scales at only 1170 pounds, Mi’. 14 feet at the south bank. As
5 near Yorktown.
It Is interesting to note that the
four Hereford cows sold by Mr.
J. J. Musco. deputy collector in ■ Weldon were fed only grass and
charge of the treasury departments burnt. pa5e during the “me thf
recently opened branch office at
TOMATOES HOLD Prc“S"LN;,Tw.y
ft
matoes south of Cuero
who paid income taxes last year was '
am Shield suffered a fractured skull 153 In 1935 the number of income
laid to be a little late and ‘V fight which t00k place wU!l tax returns flled in Cuero was 131.
aaid to be a little late and Slde a gambling joint. Police held In DeWltt county the number of
will be pouring into markets a suspect for questioning. income tax returns filed in 1936 was
this week. Prices are still _ . ~ 267, as compared with 231 in 1935.
holding up and farmers ars LsCRpiIlg Amoius Yorktown, the only other DeWitt
...... I<r*ii r* county town separately listed show
CMning in on th6ir crop. vjclS FwlllS v/Tl© an increase in income tax returns
Prices at three and one halt - of from 79 to 87.
cents would be good, and we „ YO';KERS N Y • “*Y E For,the s““e °f Texas' the "um_
. Gne mun wus killed by deadly ber of income tax returns filed in-
don t believe that prices Will ammonia gas ard 18 persons wer« creased from 123,259 in 1935 to
drop much lower than that, rescued today when flames burst re- 135,739 in 1936. The number of in-
Thp man whn InnkrH intr. tho f”geraticn pipes as they swept dividual income tax returns for the
ine man wno iOOKca into tr.C throu?h a thrcr story frai|g dwel_ entire country jumped from 4.201,-
future and planted seven or ling here. 859 in 1935 to 4,666.504 in 1936.
eight acres of tomatoes
should be in pretty fair
shape this year.
* * *
Indies of the Dinter Post
American Legion Auxiliary
have completed their plaiv.
for the observance of Poppy
Day here Saturday. All that
they need now is the coopera-
tion of Cuero and DeWitt
county citizens and we feel
sure that that cooperation
will be given. Buy a Poppy
Saturday and aid the disabled
veterans. The ten cents or
twenty five cents we give- is
nothing when compared to
the sacrifice th^y made.
Record’s Circulation
Drive Ends Wednesday
Winner Still Unknown
The Record’s circulation cam-
paign closes at 12:30 o'clock noon
tomorrow, and the names of those
earning the* three cash guarantees
will be announced in the Wednes-
day Record.
Luke Lapsley, campaign manager
in a statement given out Tuesday
said. “The campaign closes at noon
Wednesday." The race has been a
close one all the way throueh. and
from every indication the final re-
ports will decide more than one of
he coveted awards Those .working
have done exceptionally well
throughout, and have shown the
finest spirit of friendly rivalry and
good sportsmanship Every possible
effort has been made to «assyre
everyone the fairest sort of treat-
ment and to handle every detail of
the work in the most business-like
and accurate way."
Subscribers and friend.' of those
comiieting can pay subscriptions at
the office up to noon, and have them
credited to one of the workers ar.d
one of the local organization.' com-
peting for the . peri.il sr.o award.
GUNMEN SHOOT
DOWN OFFICERS
Deputy and State Troop-
er Fired Upon by
Brady Gangsters.
LOGANSPORT. Ind. May 25.-,
(IKSi—Operations of fhe A1 Brady
gangsters reached Dillinger's-like
proportions today when they ma-
chine-gunnefti two peace officers
who had thrown a net across the
highway to trap the mobsters’after
the bank of Goodland. was robbed
of approximately $2,500 in cash.
After once firing on the police
car and fleeing, the robbers hid in
ambush behind the Caly churchy
six miles west of here, and firI,d
another volley at the officers,
critically wounding one. and slightly
injuring the other.
Those wounded were:
Paul Minneman. 37. state trooper,
who is at the point of death with
six machine gun wounds in the
abdomen and chest.
Elmer Craig, deputy sheriff rf
Cass county, shot in the foot and
chest, but not seriously. .
were in his possession, thus cut-
ting expense of raising them to the
Victoria, will be at the post office minimum.
in Cuero on Wednesday and Thurs- — ---
day. May 26 and 27 to assist local m/vaa « tn/vnea itai w !
citizens with their Social Security
returns. This information was con-
veyed to The Record publisher in a
letter from Musco this morning.
The new Victoria branch office
will serve the counties of Jackson,
Calhoun, Goliad. Victoria DeWitt -
and Lavaca and is located in the Buyers Paying 3c to 3V2C
Federal building. ; „ it*" d
In his letter to The Record Musco Mere; fclgntn Car ISe-
says: “I understand that the tax- ing Loaded.
pavers in Cuero are having some -
difficulties in preparing their Social Tomatoe prices were holding
Weldon received $76.05 or 6 1-2 as the banks have time to
cents per pound. an additional two feet of water
DeWitt county, because of its be added,
diversified soil and many varie- -; .. ■ ——- \
Win Honor»«s. a.
counties in the state and ranks Mllftic Tnumamwrf
high in beef production.
STEADY PRICE
Friends in Cuero will be glad to
read of the honors received recent-
ly by children of Mr. and lift.
Arthur C. Jones of San AntonK^^
From Office Today Mrs. Jones was formerly Miss
Breeden of this city, daughter ,, of
Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Bneedea. F
Miss Jane competed in the mu-
• f
Security returns. Therefore I steady at 3c to 3 l-2c today, de-. gagement for the day.
^ U\ ^er° at thP ?ffiCe May Pending on quality and each of th* The President caught cold Satur-
26 and 27 to assist all that need as- two cuero packing sheds were | day when he sat in an open car in
sistance busy loading out their fourth cars, the rain at Quantico, Va.
I will appreciate it if you
WASHINGTON, May 25.—(IKS)—
On the advice of his physician,
Pres. Roosevelt remained away from . _ • . . . ,, . • ------
his office today and nursed a held tourpament during ¥uslc_W<»*
cold.
The President planned to hold
his regular Tuesday press confer-
ence but otherwise he had no en-
Some extra fine quality tomatoes
mention this fact in your paper were bringing more.
Tuesday and I am sure many of the Buyera at- the F. H. Vahlsing
taxpayers will appreciate knowing Corporation shed, located at the
it. Respectfully yours, J. J. Musco. s_ p. deDot..said there was a notice-
Deputy Collector.
—A
No Reason Now For
New Court—Marley
Roosevelt Economy
Plea Overridden As
House Votes Relief
and made an average of 95, and
won “Excellent National
playing twelve pieces from a
ory.
Arthur Jr. played seven p
from jfbmory in the contest
State honors.
won
able increase in quality of tomar
toes they received yesterday and
today over those of the previous
week. Most of last weeks toma-
toes were pulled too early they de-
- dared. Receipts continued slow j
CHICAGO. May 25—(1NS(—Prof, only slight improvement being! ri^nt “aliocatihg’ $55,000,000 for
Raymond Molev. former No. 1 shown over the amount offered | ncod control work was adopted,
brain truster, declared today.* earlier in the season. i vote was 156 to gg
“subservient court" is the only ;Arthur Means, operator of Cue- j Hou5e als0 approved • an
possible motive remaining for Su- ro's other packing shed, reported j amendment offered by Rep. Jones,
preme Court reform.
WASHINGTON, May 25.—(IKSV-
The administration was overridden
for the first time in the House re-
J lief fight today, when an «mend-
some improvement in receipts for j Texas for the ajjocaticn of $10,000,-
* All the arguments for a change the day. The quality of local to- ^ for the construction of ponds
in the court are gone unless it is a matoes -is good. Means declared. I .md smali lakcs in the Great Plains
subservient court he. the President. He said’he expected present pricesj Aroa
wants", the former new' dealer, to hold up until the East Texas j ‘ _
now editor of "News Week" Mag- crop starts moving, which may be
azine. said.
British Peers Must
Miss Duke’s Wedding
Eleven Russians
n Anti-
bv June the 4th or the end of the
following week. . FY*»rnD»rl
Local buyers were paying th>’ A u
same as offered by Yoakum oper- Trotsky Demonstration
ators. . » •1
Cuero Girl Gets
College Diploma
BELTON, Tex., May. 25—(Spfck
—Miss Demeris Buchel, of tXiero,
received her Bachelor of Art* de- .
gree Monday morning at 10 o'clock
from Mary Hardin-Baylor. i Tbt
commencement address was mad*
by Dr. George W. Truett, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of Dallas,
This is the twenty-fifth year that
Dr.' J. C. Hardy, president of the
college, has presented the seniors
their diplomas.
REDONDO BEACH Cal. Mi<>
25.—tINSt—Tn tbe he^rt of the busi-
ness district, two bandits, flourish*-
ing guns, tod iy h.» Id up Harold
Goode. 30. bank 'nv-ssengeY. as he
drove his ear to the post office and
i • •!>(>, J him <•. s,; huo in t uneeny.
MONTS. France. May 25.—<INS)- —
Decision of (he British government
frrbiddine any persons having of-
ficial status to attend the- wedding
Attend Graduation
MOSCOW, May 25.—(INS)—The
Forty-Six Attend
Legion Meeting
Forty-six Cuero Legion airen
turned out for the regular monthly
meeting here Monday night, which
| was pushed up one day on accouQt
'of the T. P. A. barbecue.
The post went on record as en-
dorsing a better citizenship course
Exercises in Belton & “5
Dr. and Mrs. Fred Buchel re-1 eleven railway officials at Khab-
• of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. turned to Cuero Monday evening arovsk.
Wallis Warfield was telephont-d to after attending the graduation ex- They were convicted of wTecking
the Chateau Do Cmdc from Lon- crcises at Belton. Their daughter, railways in the Soviets far east, al-
don last nisrht. it was learned to- Demeris, returned home with leeedly under instructions
day. . them. * j Tokyo.
Stalin governments stem cam-1in the Cuero schools and voted to
furnish a plaque to Superintendeufc
Zimmerman.
Talks were made at the meeting
by Clifford Davis. Walter Boehl,
Tom Cheatham and O. A. Zimmer-
man. Following the meeting sancl-
from wiehes and liquid refreshment*
were served. . :Z2 -JLi
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