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VOL. 37—NO. 198
CUERO, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1931
SIX PAGES TODAY
fATown Talk MIUIONS FACE
DEATH IN CHINA
AS FLOODS HIT
More Fall Harvesting
The spirit of Victoria coun-
ty citizens who are pushing
forward with plans for their
1931 Victoria District Fair in
spite of existing conditions
and reverses is to be admired,
and with such spirit behind
the affair, we believe that this
year’s district fair will be a
great success.
Undaunted by pessimistic
reports regarding the 1931 cot-
ton yield, and prospects for a
"hard winter,” enthusiastic
Victoria citizens are putting
heart and body into the work
of planning the ’31 Fair which
promises to excell even the
excellence of past celebrations
of its kind in Victoria.
With the Little World’s Fair
at Yorktown, and the Turkey
Trot at Cuero, postponed due
to existing conditions, Cuero
and Yorktown should join
citizens of Victoria in making
the 1931 festivities a gala oc-
casion and the unusual suc-
cess that it today promises to
be.
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Buy cautiously, buy wisely,
but Buy. That is the advice
which is going the world over
as the nation faces its period
of depression. Americans are
guilty of spending
1,000 Dying Daily as China
Stricken by Pest-
ilence.
THROWN
RIVER
Dead Thrown Into Swirling
Waters of Yangtse
River.
HANKOW, Aug. 24.—Relief was
rushed to the flooded Yangtse River
Valley Sunday but with the knowl-
edge that many ipore thousands will
die before any measures can prove
effective for the homeless, starving
and pestilence ridden millions.
Careful surveys reveal that at
least 1000 persons are dying each
day in the district which centers
around Wuchang. Hanyang and
Hankow. Sixty thousand square
miles of Hupeh and Tunan provinces
are covered by water five to 20 feet
deep. Seven million people were
homeless and destitute in those
'provinces.
It was a physical impossibility to
estimate the number of deaths but
there wqs little doubt they would
reach 2,000,000 in Hupeh and Tu-
nan provinces before the floods
abate and ravages of disease and
famine end.
The situation in more remote dis-
tricts farther away was unknown
but it was certain many more
deaths would be added to the total
resulting from the greatest catas-
trophe which has struck China.
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TROTTERS AND
TIGERS BATTLE
TO DEADLOCK
Man Kills Wife And
Then Commits Suicide
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The American Asiatic fleet, act-
unWisely in* cn orders from Washington.
H ESTJM£
being enjoyed, and in doing SO cause gunboats were not fitted to
increase prosperity for the convey large numbers of refugees
moment They are also guilty “f°rs^{^15port quantity
|of taking too seriously the Relief societies worked feverishly
Cries Of the pessimist, and' to aid the destitute but the tre-
when times become a little mendw* need for relief surpassed
to hold back, to horde,-f Lack of organisation and trans-
portation for food available in oth-
er parts of the country made err- i
tain that no scheme for immediate
relief was likely to be effective.
In Hankow the situation in native
sections was appalling. Hundreds of
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€ 1931. King Fea
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Darkness Halts Mound Duel
in 12th With Score
Tied 1 All.
GREAT EXHIBITION
PORT ARTHUR. Aug. 24—'UP'
—W. P Cash shot and killed hii
wife, shot at his sister-in-law. Mrs.
R. D. Armitor and then killed
himself in his apaitment here to-
day. A note dated Sunday, and
found in Cash’s clothing, told of
his intention to die and gave poor
health as the reason. It was
signed. Mr. and Mrs. W. P Cash,
but police believe that the man
wrote the note himself.
NIGHT OFFICER
ARRESTS TWO
BURGLARS
Newman Tagles With Tex-
as University Bat-
tery.
Darkness Sunday afternoon found j
I the Cuero Turkey Trotters and the ;
Goliad Tigers in a hopeless 1 all
j deadlock after 12 innings of fast
baseball, and .moires were forced
to call the game, ringing down the J Market
j curtain on one of the best exhibi-
■ tions of baseball seen in Goliad this
j season.
With Newman hu:!ing airtight
ball for the Cuero aggregation, and
l the Texas University battery of
| Garrett and Blanton holding the
j Trotters well in hand after the 1st
i frame, the game proved to be
j sensational mound duel
hurlers received excellent support,
land although the Trotters outhit
; their rivals, they were unable to
bunch blows when hits meant
J runs.
The Cuero nine got off to a fast
start when they scored in the first
frame, Ferris Newman crossing the
plate for the first tally.
COTTON SHOWS
SLIGHT GAIN
Closes Twenty
Points up Monday After-
noon.
Officer Parks Catches Two
Men ‘‘In The Act” Sun-
day Morning.
BOTH ARE BEING HELD
Face Burglary Charges.
Held in DeWitt County
Jail. v
Two men. one an ex-eon*
were held in the DeWitt
jail today and faced probable
lary charges after being
in the wee hours of Sunday morn-
ing by Night Offcer Parks.
The first, Raymond Algular,
Mexican, was arrested shortly
midnight when he at temped to
break into the John Lewis
only other threat came when W ) since the establishment of futures
Newman crashed a triple deep into | in 1894 were recorded,
left field, but died on third when
the next three batters fanned.
The Tigers evened the count in
the seventh frame, but were held j
to a standstill from that point on,
by Newman's splendid hurling.
to tighten up purse strings to
the extent that the problem^
teSerSoway increased. There is
no time when foolish expendi-
tiwfea warranted. Every
nan should spend his dollar
where it counts most. But
there is a chance of being too
conservative. Now is the time
to Buy, for prices are
CIIERO FIRMS
6,000 Mutilated Fish
j Win Judge’s Decision
BOOST fKO&ms,
Six Stores to Give
Auto Tickets for Victoria
Celebration.
LONDON. Aug.
thousands, destitute with their lit-
tle homes covered by the swirling j Six Cuero firms have already ar-
waters. were starving. As they sue- i ranged to give away tickets for , _ _ . . , .
cumbed to hunger or disease their) automobile to be given away' mouths of its diversion pumps with j Great ^Bntains^ second labor ^gov-j
24.—Six
wad food
California
te for thej
division of fish and game against
the Gfenn-Colusa irrigation Dis-
trict. Judge H. S. Gaos of the Su-
perior Court in Willows ordered the
government district to cover the
thousand matflsaed
! fishes, displayed in
Away; “ur' "““If — *
BRITISH LABOR
CABHCT QUITS
Hands in His
to King
Monday.
He fanned Blanton and Garrett
the big guns of the Goliad nine, to
end the game in the twelfth.
The Goliad Tigers, cream of the
j South Texas Amateur League, had
j won 13 and lost 5 games prior to
j Sunday, defeating Edna. Beeville
i Woodsboro and El Campo in suc-
I cession.
.Tfce game drew a record crowd.
Batteries: CueFo, Newman and
Dietie; Goliad. Garrett and Blan-
ton. •
Score by Innings— R
Cuero ...... 100 000 000 000—1
Goliad...... 000 000 100 000—1
Cotton continued its slow but
steady gain Monday as the market J on the of Main an<1
closed 20 points up. October New nate Nlght oj^ wbo
York was quoted at 7.07, while | substituting for Night Marshal
October. New Orleans, closed at' Moser now on his vacation
7-28 to 29. Middling cotton was) ered the ^ a chase
bringing 6.65 to 70 on the local j ed overtaking Alguiai^
mark&t placing him under arrest.
The trend has been favorable dur-! George Quinn, a white man,
mg the past two days, and after a broke the Cuero
slight gain Saturday, the market West Main street, was
opened steady Monday to close | shortly before 4 o’clock as he
higher than it has been in two | tempted to escape in the
weeks Parks was too quick for
The wheat market however took a ► the chase was a brief one
Their j decided drop and the lowest levels j -QUjnn had broke out
j in the front door of the
j but was unable to open the
and had gained entrance
a rear window, according W
) cers. He was apparently
ing only for “dope" as he
nothing more than an
phine box when he
make his get-away. A
ber gloves and a bit wer
his pockets.
Both men were to be
aminlng trials Monday
Quinn is unknown to
_ j while Algular has recently
AUSTIN, Aug. 24 —Governor R. S leasod from tbe *at®
Sterling Monday awaited expres- where he served a
siens from cotton farmers and the ence 8lven him in
public generally on the advsability j “er® *or 4000
COTTON VIEWS
BE RECEIVED
Governor Wants Expres-
sions bv Cotton
Growers.
24— (UP.)—.
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bodies were thrown into the Yangtse ! October 2. Neighbors Day, at the fish screens—a legal precedent
together with dead dogs, monkeys ’ Victoria District Fair, according to; regard to irrigation, districts, says a
lower) and horses. It was impossible to dis- j announcement in today's Record. bulletin of the American Game As-
Arrangements with these firms i sociation, which may mean the
eminent beset by financial difficul-
ties came to a formal end texiay
when Premier J Ramsey MacDon-
Protest Adoption
Of New Carlendar
DALLAS. Aug. 24 —«U.P.>—The
cf calling a second special session of ,t< ij-rj jg
the legislature to enact cotton acre- CVklL- Puck U/am
age control legislation. re jr01K tUl*h VVO°
The governor submitted a ques-1
ticnnaire to the citizenry and the j
members of the legislature asking
submission of views on the subject. )
A special session will be called if |
it is demanded, Governor Sterling
said, at the same time warning ad- but science lias
vocates of the cotton acreage, re- 1 the attraction which te
Those
WASHINGTON! Aug.
the “primitive urge* if
they have been in many.; afford- I ™ c0”pleted...b» I^»l? .“•>»* — or valuable fish in j the resignation of the labor protest to adoption ct the Cotssold j Ta7d"m succ^Itc years was Ulled thul ^
iy years. A dollar put in
circulation today means much
BMre than the dollar of yes-
, teryear. Again we sav r„v rtver' one of the contributin? fac*
_. _ _ ® Sa^’ “u - tors to the Yangtse flood was fail-
ed Sunday with announcement that [ edltor of the victona Advocate.) the future
the flood level appeared stationary. I who s^nt ™ '^t^day in -
A survey party reported the Han Cuero and tickets have
Cabinet. It was announced officially, calendar which would give the
: by the senate at the special session
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wisely, buy cautiously, but
&xy
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When the biggest airship in
the world comes to Texas it
will be like coming home to
Mamma. If it were not for
Texas-produced helium she
couldn’t go anywhere. It is on-
ly proper that she should ac-
knowledge her obligation to
the biggest and greatest State
in the Union. And Houston is
ing. ~
But relentless nature must be al-
lowed to complete her destruction
of life and property with the flood
waters and only after ber toll of mil-
lions of lives and dollars has been
taken can human endeavor step in
and take what remains.
Marine Flyers Die
When Plane Crashes
been supplied them. They are H.
Runge & Co., hardware and ma-
chinery departments, Breeden
Bros., grocers; Central Power &
Light Coi. Wagners No. 1 and 2.
and Semmler s Service Station.
Only one firm in each line of
business will be accepted, Morris
said Saturday. Firms not en-
gaged in any of the above lines
I can arrange to give car tickets by i
‘ notifying The Record or Victoria
j Advocate.
RAIN SOAKS
THIS COUNTY
recently ended. The bill was not I
that MacDonald was forming a na- | world thirteen months all starting j
ticnal coilitKm government. The of-
ficial announcement said the King j adoption of the calendar was for- , kmed ^ senate
Road Work Hailed
Westhoff Receives
Downpour.
aid called on the Kong and present- | seventh day adventus today aross in j 1?l*D “JJL* Pr°^ more campers and toorteto
i planting of cotton on the same nation's forests and parks
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the American Game
cn Sunday A resolution opposing *'*“ 7“ ' Up-to-the-minute
on ouiiuaj. rt considered in the house after being state* wrrwt
; adoption of the calendar was for-;. ..... .. ^ united states Forest
had accepted the resignation and : warded government officials. .
commissioned MacDonald to form a i _____ ! 1 come Tax Flan Looms
national government. ! j ^ event-a special session is call-
MacDonald arrived at Buckingham) n/YIYfYIT^ O 1 l/C congressional redistricting and_______ _______
Palace at 4:13 p m At first he re-| KllKKIr j taxation probably will be submitted., for a ^ ^
; fused to talk to the press but then } 1 WLJl/lU UTl 1 U ; it was indicated. A group of legtela- j sured by the
As (said things are going on as well as niTflftn VlfTf I HTTkT I °rS are preparing a biU 10 PrOT'de-i tion devrtoped to radio
i can be expected under the difficult | D1 jL L \ U| II I \AJ I |VJ fcr a stat3 income tax on individu- ( now employed to
and trying circumstances. The offi- DU I T iJ If ILL IT 111 1 a5s and corporations,
cial announcement of his cabinet's
tributidg this rush far
treats In search of rest
a tion to the low volume
found there. Decibel te the
WASHINGTON. Aug. 24—(UP.»
—Two marine aviators were killed
in a plane crash yesterday at Cor-
. , i into. Nicaragua, the navy depart-
gTfa. est and biggest city ment was informed today. Radio
Residents Of Oil
Boom Town Fear
Incendiary Fires
DeWitt county was again soaked 1 resignation followed the conference
as heavy downpours visited this with the King. San Anton:o Pilot
j section, bringing Cuero 10 of an • ___
inch, and other sections of the
■ county heavier falls
Westhoff received a downpour
shortly after noon and for that
reason work on the paving of the
5.6 mile stretch of highway 81 be-
yend that city was halted today
Gangsters Wanted
vantage by city notee
The governor indicated he would ‘ Thus we find ” say
I be averse to a special session unless ficaiiy.inciined forerten.
Believ?* J assured, in advance constructive
Houston Will Breeze Thru J legislation would be enacted.
Dixie Series. While Governor Sterling was; ltg ^ 57 dedbete,
--« 1 awaiting an expression. J. E. Me- j ^ street ^
tooting of taxi
1 tired business man whose
, frayed by the notee to hte
The Houston Buffs will breeze Donald, commissioner of agriculture. tootin(t horns on
III Sunday Slaying j thruogh the Dixie series this season ; planned to make a series of address- stree^ ^^h its 75 decibels.
_ j with little trouble.” said Claude es. this week in the cotton belt of
YQRK ^,ie 24—'UP1 - Robertson, manager of the San An- Texas. McDonald is an ardent ad-
family discussions which may
much the same effect
- ........... —_____________ _____ __ , r,, t-o - - - — One man was dead and two injur- tcnio Indians who spent Monda>' in I vccate of cotton acrea«e reduction [ plane,8 n5 decible^ ^
In that State. But it is to be reports to the department said KILGORE 24 ~,UV' ~ The detour was reported passable ed today and poUce were searching Cuero while the Indians were en-| and will “beat the bushes” “ 1
hoped the authorities f**J»«* j STSLf Zc -£d
US positive Information as to ,t“'n„y Private Richard M Camp-: h“d <1f-rwed '*'> chu:'ch“ ilctour Saturday night.
Whether or not she is coming, bell djed a few hours later. ; other Jir-es had been discov ered be- The rain came as a benefit to
and if she is coming before
another corn harvest, we
should like to arrange to leave
forAdamage was done, and extin- rar,™c j ,__, u . . ,
• T, , • . . , .. . ragges and pasture lands, but ma- shooting was reminiscent of
; guished. The tour buildings saved tpr1allv snooung as
Ql, II.T 125 YEAR OLD from burning were a gin. a whole-
INDIANOLA. Ia., Aug 24.—'UP.' ! sale grocery, a vacant warehouse
-A quilt 125 years old, made by her and a small hotel. Two spspects
Standing a stalk Of this year's I great-grandmother, is owned by j were held.
mm fn. ~~ _ moorine Mrs' A F Conre>' h€re- and 15 rem*!-----
“ iniscent of frontier hazards. The |
maker cf the quilt. Drusilla Mace.!
was captured by Indians when she
was a little girl after they had kill-
ed her parents. The Indians sold her ;
to a French family and 12 years
later her uncle traded a yoke of ox-
en for her.
who Sundav Joying an "open date."
night lined the victims uo in a "The Buffs have one of the best
slaughter house and mowed them Texas league outfits ever asSem-
Y>ie bled." Robbie stated. “This years
club is even better than the outfit
for the gangsters
down with machine guns.
to ac-
quaint farmers with the proposal.
corn for use as a
mast—Post-Dispatch.
terially damaged cotton
Young Ladies Head
Kiwanis Program
Members of the Kiwanis club en-
joy'd a delightful procram today.
St. Valentines Day
Chicago.
the
massacre In
to some woodland dell and
surrounded by the muted
birds, the sighing of
j branches and the muffled
j flowing water, finds peace
Tried Here Monday j £££ “ atmc*phere <*
Two Lunacy Cases
Women of South
Interested in Flying
DALLAS. Aug. 24—(UP.)—Fem-
EAST TEXANS
PROTEST LAW
__ * of “.song hits.
Appear Before Sterling To ClQS* harraon>
September Wheat
Hits Bottom Today
Trial of lunacy cases constituted
court proceedings in county court
that gave the Southern League
j champs such a whipping two years
! ago with the aid of Mr. Hallahan."
he continued.
j Robbie hinted that as long as the Monday morning, two cases being
Cards can furnish Houston with tried. One Cuero woman was judged
such players as Dean. Medwick. I insane, while a Yoakum negro was!
- j Selph and a number of other out- also ordered confined in the state
CHICAGO. Aue. 24—<UP>—Sep- standing stars on this rear's nine asylum at Austin,
as three of Cueros most attractive tember wheat dropped to a new all no ciub m the Texas league will^e) The court will continue its con-
young ladies Misses Anne Margaret time low price of 47 cents per) abie tor compete, with them sideraticn of the criminal docket
Montgomery Beverly Gramann and bushel on the Chicago board of i He admits that Dean is a great this week, jury cases only being
Marv Helen Box offered a program trade today The mark was the huider. hut believes that if Hobo tried.
day in Protest to Mar-
tial Law.
tatoe interest in flying is increasing FOURTH FAIL AS DRIVERS)
rapidly in the Southwest according Harrisburg la Aue 24._
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iw6' ln€t>‘nine club, cnats for automobile operators li-! AUSTIN. Aug 24 — U P —Car
n pilots organization. censes in Pennsylvania fail to Estes, militant leader cf the East
These in the section with licenses qualify in the tests given, the Penn- Texans in their fight against re-
svlvania State Highway Patrol has .unctions on development cl the
indicated. In the first six months of world's largest oil field arrived :r.
Include.
Miss Frances Woods. Altus, Okla
lowest since futures trading was Carson had been a member of the
by Misses Box established m 1848 It was reach- puff team this year he would have
?nd Grafnanr. accompanied by i ed in a 1 1-2 cent drop which fol- eclipsed Dean's performance. Car-
Mi.ss Montgomery on the piano, lowed a wave of selling activities. son has won j- games for ’he In-
f. a'ured the program. Corn and oats sold down .o new djam; this year an excellenT record
lows on all deliveries. .-or a pitcher who is working for a
team as weak as the Indians
Mr. and Mrs Robtertson were to
return to San Antonio
evening j
Two Killed When
Fight Picture*
Show Schmeling
Decisive Winner
A„,„ i. 0,.M “7»Un,y
Miss Edwina McConnell. Ft Worth; 1931. 103 454 applicants were ex- Austin today for a conference w.’.i.
Miss Ilia Cosby. St. Louis; Miss amined. Of the total. 77.702 were Governor Ross Sterling about
Gerry Honomichl. Tulsa; Mrs. Edith
licKanna Wichita Falls; M^s
Mary Elizabeth Owens. Fort Worth:
Mrs. Jimmie Kolp. Electra. Texas;
Mrs. Debie Stanford. Houston; Miss
Dcrothy A. Lyon. Kansas City:
Mrs
Josephine Woods. Altus. eral days.
qualified as licensed operators and martial law in the oil fields Estes
26252 failed camp by airplane from Rochester
___:—:- Minn., where he has been under
The Record is glad to report lit- treatment in the Mayo clime He
tie Donald Markowsky improving will go from here to Kilgore for a-
rapidly from a slight attack fever conference with Brigadier Gem ral
Ruth Stewart. St. Louis; Miss which has kept hijjri indoors for sev- Welters, commander of militiamen
VFRTEBRAZEN
in the oil fields.
GOOSE CREEK Aue 24—-UP ----
—Two men were dead and a third DeWitt county will be a quail
was in a hosnita! injured today in hunters “paradise- this year ac- --
an auto accident on ’he Houston cordme to hunters who report great She—Women are no longer tho
road. Philip Miller. $0. of Bay- numbers of quail in all sections of: timid yielding creatures that they
5 own a no V J Maeiies.- 25 were the county A mild winter and an were Thev are shewing a In’ more
killed and H G Kider!:> injured abundance of vegetation have en- backbone •
F >ur -’here escaped injur: The a bled the birds to prosper He—Ves I’ve notic'd ’h ’ at
au’amobiip fan iff »he road r. a The quad season opens in this dancer and on the bathmy b^ach -
curve and overturned s«v’ion on Dccembr-r Is* r;>., n Transcript.
There was no doubt left in the
Monday minds of fight fans as to the de-
cisive victory scored by Max
—■ Schmeling over Young Stribling in
Cleveland recently after they had
viewed the fight pictures now show’-
mg at the Rialto theater.
The fifteenth round. shown in
slow motion. Was vividly depicted.
Schmeling having the young Georg-
ian ail but out when the referee
stepped the fight. The pictures are
• be shown again this evening.
They even give some of the
for the increase to the
visitors to the mountain
proved picnic grounds and
sites of the east to the Ne#
City noise investigation.
Henderson to . j
Advocate Cotton
Acreage
AUSTIN, Aug. 24.—(U.PJ--J..*
McDonald, Texas OnmmUKkii#*1’
Agriculture today accepted ait
of W K. “Hello World” H
of Shreveport to speak for
acreage reduction n Texas
Anderson’s Radio station, K. W.
H Henderson came to Antein to
tender the use of his station
McDonald ^nd Governor
ten furthering the general
for acreage reduction nrxt year, g
McDonald will begin a
around the circle of Tfexas
day to secure expressions
farmers on a special session of the
legislature to compel acreage re-
duction.
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