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VOL. 43.—NO. 24.
CUERO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1937
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
IffiqpTallc
SCENE Of NEXT
BOSS TRIAL YET
BE LEARNED
Follow Worst Flood in Histofy With This Map
Death and destruction stalk
in the middle west. Hundreds
of persons are dead. Hundreds
of thousands are homeless.
Here sits a little boy waiting
for a mother and father who
will never return. Here, in the
crowded corner of a make-
shift hospital, poorly heated,
poorly ventilated, lies a moth-
er dying from
while a baby, born in an open
boat as the mother fled the
roaring torrents, cries help-
lessly. There, an old man andj“£ * Quoted Thursday on a pos-
tsibility of a change of venue m the
old woman look out over a vince Boss Murder case.
Judge Pool Has no Com-
ments to Make Re-
garding Case.
MAY TRANSFER** CASE
7" Possibility Also That It
pneumonia Might £gain ^ Trled
In DeWitt County.
District Judge J. F. Pool would
swirling expanse of muddy
waters, seeking to distinguish
Judge Pool stated that he had
received a copy of the written j
MM|| , „, _ opinion of the Texas Court of \
the spot where once stood a criminal Appeals in wnich the j
little home, representing their!Court granted Boss a reversal and
life’s savings. A little further!4 new ‘rial- but ^d ^ had
no comment to make at this time.
down the street rescue work- j Reversal was granted by the
ers are busy With the grim task j court due to a technical error in
of piling body after body into ^ charge the ^ury’ a tectmica1'
V* uwj a uvuy llwjity which involved the insanity plea
open ditches, the last resting iof Boss
(V,<# *V-v
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TRIAL FORMER {FLOOD CRISIS PASSES;
TEXAS RANGER I MISSISSIPPI WILL NOT
REACH EXPECTED MARK
HERE MONDAY
Trial Date Tentative,
However, Judge -(Pool
Declares.
FELONY CHARGED
Jack Robbins Held in Al-
leged Swindle of Cue-
ro Woman.
This map will help you to follow dispatches and broadcasts from flooded areas.
place for unfortunate victims
of the demon flood, a grave of
Boss was convicted by a DeWitt
county jury of the murder of R. W.
Albert of Brenham. Albert was
slush, mud, horror. Those and brutally slain and robbed near
many other scenes are de- • Houston in May of 1936. Boss,
picted daily in that God for-jw*° made a confession of the' -
saken area. Hundreds of;,^ ^^sentencec^ the electric;Total $277.50 Contrib-
RELIEF FUND
MOUNTS SLOWLY
I der w v,
thousands huddle by tiny fires, chair on June 27th, 1936, when the \
bodies wracked with
with cold, with hunger-
torn with horror and
pain,
-minds
case was tried here on a change of
uted in County Prior
to Noon Thursday.
venue from Harris county.
Tliere is a possibility that the | Contributions to DeWitt county’s
fright AejflUUj again be tried in Cuero.! flood relief quota were ^ receiv.
Dancing Pupils Will
Present Floor Show
At President’s Ball
and grief. They look to US for! wtaTv«r oHhSlLT i <* —•& as the fund
relief. We in our good fortune ! buity | neared the $300.00 mark,
must provide that relief. Never! It is also possible that the defense j DeWitt county citizens have been
in the historv of this nation ask a change of venue n the 1 asked to contribute at least $500 to
'grounds that due to widespread' the fund needed to care for hun-
has such a catastrophe been j publicity given the case during its i dreds of thousands of homeless
recorded. Never has a call! trial here that the defendant could : people who have lost their worldly
not secure a fair and impartial! possessions in the devastating flood
trial in this county. j which has stricken the middle west.
Just When Boss will be returned The Am^ui Red Cross*at the
to Cuero is not known at this time, j present tirrflpg caring for several
He will probably be brought before hundred th<JGsand and needs are
the June term of court, however. J mounting daily.
--| A check at noon Thursday reveal-
ed that a total of $277.50 had been
been more urgent. We must
share with our neighbors. We
must. Every man should con-
tribute to the Red Cross fund,
even though it be only a mite.
Bring in your contributions
today. If you prefer that your
name not be published, we
will be glad to withhold publi-
cation. Let’s all give, even
though we can afford but lit-
tle. Hundreds of thousands of
homeless people, destitute
people are calling to you.
Won’t you share even the
crumbs?
i- v *
The laws of our land in one
sense are crudely drawn. It
would appear to the casual
observer that in many in-
stances they protect the
guilty rather than the inno-
cent. There are too many loop -
holes through which the
guilty man can escape justice.
There are too many disgusting
technicalities which allow a
shrewd lawyer to secure fori
SEEK TO CHECK
CONVICT ROLLS
A floor, show by students of Mrs.
Sterling Boothe Jr., will be an add-
ed feature of Saturday night's
Birthday Ball for the President,
Shelly Tarkington, general chair-
man, announced Thursday.
“An entertaining floor show by
some of Mrs. Boothe’s most talented
young artists will be presented early
in the evening,” Tarkington said,
“and we hope that everyone will be
on hand to see it.”
Two orchestras are vto provide mu-
sic for Cuero’s ball which will be
staged at the Municipal Park club
house.
HOLD SUSPECTS
IN KIDNAP CASE
RABKE TRIAL
IS CONCLUDED
By International News Service.
“The crisis is past.”
That was the word which ran like wildfire today down the
2,000 mile long flood front in which $400,000,000 damage and
ar. estimated 400 deaths have been caused.
Thousands continued to toil unceasingly to strengthen
the Mississippi’s billion dollar levee system. Wholesale evacu-
t,™ fhe^afSe'rchaS ! ati0“^continued. The threat of disease stiil hung like a pall
in district court here with felony! °'ex the vast inland basin.
theft and accomplice to felony theft, I But definite word that the flood-maddened Ohio ri’
has been tentatively set for Mon-i__. . .
day, February 1st, Judge J. P. Pool j I s owty receding, and
stated Thursday.
Robbins is now held in the De- !
Witt county jail, being whisked here i
from Eunice. Louisiana where he
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff
Henry Wied, State Highway Patrol-
man R. R. Rohatsch and John Mil- .
ler of the Louisiana State Police. *
The former ranger who served
under the Ferguson regime, is charg-
ed in connection with an alleged
swindle in which a Cuero woman
was the victim. The deal involved i
$4,000.
CONTINUANCE
MAY BE ASKED
Newman Has Grounds
Upon Employment of
State Senator.
Employment of J. Franklyn
_ .. , , , ... Speers of San Antonio by the de-
Robbms has made no statement in - ____. . . z. __ .
_ ... .. . I fens* in the case in which Farris
vulge their names until arrests are j Speers one of
made.
Theft of Bull Draws
$200 Fine.
Trial of Edwin Rabke, charged
with the theft of a bull from Albert
Hartman, DeWitt county farmer,
was concluded Thursday afiemoon
when Rabke was found guilty and
fined $200.
Police Search For
. Missing Trophies
the most brilliant
young criminal lawyers in the state,
is a member of the Texas Senate,
and is now in Austin in attendance
to duties of this office.
According to a law passed by the
Texas legislature in 1929, -grounds
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Jan, 2§. i for a continuance in any suit crim-
—(INS)—Police were today search- j inal or civil, are found where a leg-
A jury’ was completed early j ing for two model ships, made by j islator, representing either cause, is
Thursday morning and taking of President Roosevelt, and stolen from busied with duties of the legislature.
testimony begun. The case was
expected to go to the jury some
time this afternoon but no report
had been made a The Record’s
press hour. 4
The Rabke case was the only
case set for Thursday.
District Attorney Howard P.
i Green has not stated which case
the Hyde Park estate of his cousin,
Ellen Rooseveit. Jt was said that the
President prized both models high-
The law reads
“In all suits, either civil or crim-
inal, or in matters of probate, pend-
| contributed by citizens of Cuero p vt will A„n„ jhe will try Friday,
land Yorktown. No report had been *our Men Will Be Ques- __
• made by Westhoff or Nordheim. I tioned by The Iff f>rT\ I i 170
poik- ALLRED LAYS
j Contributors not here-to-fore!
• mentioned included Gus Die ze j _
™C0MA-Wash-Jan 28-aNS,i
May Never Know How SS.OO; Mrs. Amelia Hartman $2.00; | TPour more suspects in the kid-
Many Men Died When ilHer£T 8o2: ^ °^Charles ^t.t‘
_y . _| , , 1 Lodge $5.00; Miss Annie Sykora 50 son, 10, here Dec. 27, were being
rrison r lOOQCCl. j cents: Miss Annie Speed 50 cents;
- l A Friend $1.00; Fritz Wagner $1,-00;
LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 28.—(INS) Thomas Murphree $1.00 and T. A.
—The number of convicts killed in ; Bullard $1.00.
the riot or drowned in the flood ____
waters at the state prison at Frank- i
fort may never be known .it was
believed today.
A complete check of the prisons i
population, of almost 3000, now re- I
COLD WEATHER
IN THE NORTH
being
questioned today.
At Portland, Ore.. Raymond Clark
30. and Arthur Liggett, 32, were ar-
rested, Clark because he possessed
DOWNTHELAW
Demands More Drastic
Liquor Control and Stand
On Horse Racing.
ly, and that they were valued at $2501 ing in any court of this state At any
each. j time the legislature is in session, it
Sam McWinnie, gardnerer on the j shall be sufficient ground for .a
Ellen Roosevelt estate, was held as j continuance of such cause if it shall
a suspect. j appear to the court, by affidavit,
• that any party applying for such
j continuance, or any attorney for
| any party to such cause, is a member
of either branch of the legislature,
and is in actual attendance on a
session of the same and that the
presence of party or attorneys is
necessary to a fair and proper trial
of the cause.’’
The defense has of course made
no statement regarding . procedure
j in the case and both Judge .J. P.
j Pool and District Attorney Howard
! P. Green have refused to discuss
40, was quetioned about possession
of a crudely drawn map of the area
near the Mattson home here. An-
other man was in custody at Los
Angeles because his automobile had
moved to a stockade and guarded
by state militia, has not yet. been
completed, but duplication of name- ! -
on the prison rolls, it was learned Temperatures Will Not
eff0rt£ “ del*rmln' the! Drop Materially in
A number of prisoners, it was be-' This Section.
lieved, escaped in the confusion at- j j he had been receiving
tending the evacuation, further | Freezing weather slated to sweep i Washington, newspapers at
complicating attempts to fix the' in upon north Texas tonight will i Diego, Cal. j made repeal of the race laws a
death toll. j lower temperatures in this section I Youn? Mattson was murdered be- ( plank of his renomination campaign,
de.|_., --~----|slightly, but will not cause any 1 f°re ransom demands for $28’°°0 an<* had been re-elected on it
a bloodstained overcoat and a type-
writer, Liggett because he possess-
ed a gun One of the ransom de- i ^ Te'pel ^hoi^Trace* glmblmg
mand notes was made on a type-
writer
, ; j governmental agencies. Gov. James
In Los Angeles. Clyde Braland,
| AUSTIN, Jan. 28.—(INS)—Demand-
ing more drastc liquor traffic con
repel of horse race gambling
laws and consolidation of minor
V. Allred today placed three emerg-
ency subjects before the 45th legis-
lature.
In his third message of the session,
Allred asked that the powers,^ and
salaries, of the liquor control board
Definition of Word
Newspaper Puzzles
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Jan. 28.—
(INS)—What is the legal definition
of the word, “Newspaper?’’
That is one of the many tasks
the present session of the 51st Gen-
eral Assembly of Arkansas must ac-
complish.
At- least, the legislature has been
asked to give a legal definition of . .
the word by the Arkansas Press As- ! tlie case *.rom an^ angie
sedation.
The Press. Association at a recent j
session here pointed out that niany ;
state laws have particular bearing cn |
the publishing business and that in j
many, the word, newspaper, is used !
but that the term has never been i
STARTSPENDING
BALL ROLLING
legally defined and is
various constructions.
open
Washington state license plates and ^ increased.
Seattle, j As to horse racing, Allred remind-
Ssh j ed the legislature that he had
race
his cljent leniency not ae-'o*i_i e
served. The ordinary man, not|B,ble Conference
familiar with the fine points! Opens U1 Methodist
of our statutes sometimes be-' Church Thurndav lower temperatures Friday and pos-
v^uui 1 Iiursudy . sibly rain according t0 the predic_
• slightly, but will not cause
; drastic drop of the mercury weatli-
| er men said Thursday.
South Texas will receive slightly
comes disgusted. A chicken
thief gets a year in prison for
A three day Bible Conference was
tion.
Weather prognosticators were un-
the theft Of a hen A confess- opened afternoon at the able to say whether or not the colder
e tneii oi a nen. A confess Methodist church and continues at j weather would be long lived
ed murderer is released on a!7:30 this evening,
five year suspended sentence.
were paid.
Acid Branding
Of Cattle Seen
SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 20,-.;iNS>—
State, county and city police today
; Cuero’s second day of sunshine | Were Searching for two bandits who
Sessions are to be held daily at ! for 1937 was welcomed here Thurs- ! shot and wounded Patrolman Eddie
Another confessed murderer 3:30 and nightly at 7:30 according | day. j^rendler. 30.
Anotner coniessea murderer , t0 an announcement by Rev. W. M.! __
and had been re-elected on it.
“Let's have a clear-cut vote on
this proposition and dispose of it
one way or another,” he urged.
I “Bookie shops should be outlawed
more perfectly, by changing the law
so it need only be established that
the bet was made, and not that the
race was run.” Allred went on.
who brutally killed an unsus-
pecting victim escapes just
Lane, pastor.
I,
The officer was shot in the leg as
I he attempted to arrest the two
Postman Steals
56,000 Stamps
For Collection
l Three Big Appropriation
Bills in the
Hopper.
( AUSTIN. Jan. 28—(INS)—'Three
_ j big appropriation bills, tossed in the
SOFIA. Bulgaria, Jan. 28.—(INS)— | senate ho™*T today start the
Ten thousand letters were stolen in j spending ball rolling, showed that
the course of thirteen years by a j state departments, higher education-
philatelist-pqptman in Sofia, j The ! aj institutions and ellemosynary in-
letters, from which fifty-six thous- stitutiens will probably get approx-
and post-stamps had been cut out, j imately the same appropriations for
were discovered at the home of the j 1938 and 1939 as they did in 1936
stamps-collectot, who had kept j and 1937
all letters. As the news was spread at
the Sofia post-office the post-stamps
Most attention was paid to the maniac would have been lynched by
liquor laws deficiencies.
f “The legislature adopted a policy
intended to encourage temperance
and to protect local option dry areas.
These purposes have not been ob
___, . . . , Texas Wesleyan College of Fort i
p ishment because of a triv-! worth is conducting the conference i
fll error in a Judge’s charge. \ which is open to the public. Metho-
Such is the law of our land at dists and their friends are urged t0
’ attend.
J. W. Simmons, professor « UmjOM Age Check* 1 ^.T^lyV.mThe robbery’ri tVmS
times, most difficult to under-
stand.
Trotsky’s Son
Faces Charge
Mailed Thursday a li£luor store. red declared.
Brendler was the second San An- I
to be
tonio motorcycle patrolman
shot In two weeks.
A. A. Edwards was shot and killed
and displayers in Victoria county.
All such machines seized, includ-
—Sergei Sedov, second son of the
Bolshevist exile Leon Trotsky, has
been formall} accused of Industrial J ing the penny machine which many
wrecking-mra capital offense—it was persons erroneously think are ex-
AUSTIN, Jan. 28.—»INS)—Old age
assistance checks- were mailed to j
Victoria Slot Machine* 1^6 dUnr°Janu?ry. t°heaold a$ge^:|^If6.arreStinR tW° ban<HtS JaRU*
-- n o 01 ! sistance commission announced to-!____
Must Cso bays ohenff day i« , - 7. . £
_ j During the month. 15,000 former|^®®OIld V lCtuil Oi
VICTORIA. Jan. 30.—Sheriff R. A. recipients were cut from the rolls j r’ Farr»lr»«ir\r» Hi#**
and approximately 8.000 were added, j iLXpiOSlon L>*lcS
Last January payments were mailed'
today. -
Crossed Signals No
Halt to Welcomers
Rogan announced Wednesday his
_ _ ! department hereafter would crack
MOSCOW, Russia, Jan. 28.—INS {down on all slot machine owners
announced officially today a few empt, will be destroyed and
hours after the death penalty had owner and the displayer will
been asked for all 17 defendants in prosecuted, he said,
the “Trotsky terrorists” trial. j several recent
The announcement confirmed
Will Ask Gable To
Undergo Blood Test
I
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Jan. 28.
—•INS)—As a streamlined train drew
into the station here recently, a
j battery of newspapermen. photo-
j graphers, Unicr Pacific officials
I I r.f lard citw officials, sped down to the
In Capital V^nyj Station to greet Helen Hayes, famed
- I movie star, who was scheduled to
AUSTIN. Jan 28.—(INS)—Second ' arrive.
i victim of a gas explosion in as many ! it was to be a great
1 days. Miss Evelyn Menn. 22, died i stunt.
his shocked colleagues, had not the
police come in time to arrest him.
Though a great part of the un-
distributed letters long ago were
considered lost, the post-office di-
rection has, nevertheless, decided to
let the letters be distributed. “Bet-
ter late than never” thought the di-
rector. Considering, that some of j
the letters have been lying at the j
post-man’s house since 1923, theyj
are to reach their destination thir-
teen years after they were mailed.
They call for appropriations of
$34,818,562 for the coming biennium.
Senator John S. Redditt, Lufkin,
chairman of the senate finance
committe. introduced the three bills,
explaining that they were merely for
the purpose of argument, since the
committees will eventually write the
appropriation bills.
Allred May Accept
O’Brien’s Resignation
Mississippi will not
crests previously
gave optimism to the
disaster.
The Ohio river was
all along the line from
burgh nearly to its con
with the Mississippi’s at
HI. A few lower Ohio river
reDorted slowly rising stages
today.
Col. Eugene Reyboid, who
previously predicted a
feet at Memphis, cut his
an expected crest of 47 feet.
MEMPHIS HOPES TO
MISS HIGH WATERS
MEMPHIS, Jan. 28.
the fight to hold the
waters of the Mississippi
check went on without
Co’onel Eugene Reyboid,
army engineers here, today
ed a more hopeful tone
ture as revised weather
the estimates of the crest
here downward.
Previously a river crest of
was forecast for the latter part
next week, but weather reports
scaled this flgi
crest of 47 feet.
PLAPMTO HOUSE
500,000 IN
WASHINGTON,
Concentration camps to
000 persons have been
the highlands off the
river valley in anticipation at it
ing flood by Sunday,
towns and communities
completed for emergency
for 500,000 more If the
evacuation of the great
found necessary.
These steps were
at Red Gross headquarters *»
of trucks and watercraft
assembled at strategic p<
sible to the 1,000,000 _
in the Mississippi's lowlands
from Cairo, m., to New
Rotary Club Plans
Annual Ladies’
T’fA
•AS
Ladies night will be staged
Cuero Rotary club on the
February llth, Cuero
were informed at the
luncheon Thursday. Ladies will be
entirely in charge of the-“““ - r
Thursday’s features
music by a trio composed of
Davidson. Alfred Marquis and
Lillian Ryan.
A discussion of the status of
“shipper-owner truck lines’*
operating in the state was
Fielding Breeden. Breeden
that present regulations
ed the rights of shippers who own-
ed and operated their own truck*.
Will Confer With
Farmers Regarding
Popcorn Acreage
Ward Timlin, head of the.“Tex-
publicity | ene" company of Hidalgo county
AUSTIN, Jan. 28.—(INS)—‘A well-
founded report that Governor
James V. Allred has telegraphed
Jack O'Brien. San Antonio sports
writer, accepting lys resignation as
a member of the Fish. Game and
Oyster Commission, was circulating
here today.
Tire Governor, asked whether he
had wired O'Brien, said “I decline to
grand
District Judge J p Pool often have
reports that Sergei Sedov had been urged that the matter of slot ma-
arrested at Krashoyar.sk. where | chines he investigated and infrnc-
workers in an industrial plant tions of the law be prosecuted Lit-
charged he had attempted to pois- , tie action, if anv. has been taken
on them with gas. before.
in a hospital today of burns which i But watchful officials could see no
^ __ | covered two-thirds of her bodv. ! Helen Haves. Suddenly someone saw
be j LOS ANGELES, Calif Jan 28.— The explosion occurred when Miss Mr Charles FacXrthur. writer aud
j tINS. i A request that Clark Gable Menn struck a match to light n husband of Miss Haves alight from
juries ardjfilm s ar. undergo a blood test to ci'gare’te in a small tourist canto : the train
which is interested in securing an j confirm or deny, the report
determine whether he Ls the father cottage in which all the windows it was discovered, due to a mis-
of 13-year-Old Gwendoline Norton had been closed against inclement take of railroad officials that it was
^till be made today. Joseph Fainter. • weather Mac Arthur who was to arrive and
attorney for Mrs. Violet Wells | Mrs Quincy Lowman. wife cf a not Helen Hayes.
Norton, the girls mother, an-I highway patrolman, died yesterday The publicity stunt went ahead as
noun cod. after a similar accident. planned.
The wording of the telegram, ac-
cording to the report, was that the
Governor offered to accept the resig-
nation as written in O'Brien’s daily
j sports column of Wednesday
acreage of pop corn in this county,
will be in Cuero Monday to con-
tact interested farriers, J W. Ar-
nold, Chamber ot Commerce secre-
tary said Thursday.
The Valley firm is interested ir j O'Brien had written that if the
securing at least 2.000 acres of pen- I "politicians in power" didn't like his
corn in this county, and will be ! current attack on William C. Tuck-
glad to contact interested farmers j er. executive secretary of the com-
at the Chamber ot Commerce of-! mission, that they could “take the
fice Monday. • job and go to Helena with it.”
Jail Seeker Turns
Repentant Too
PUEBLO, Colo., Jan. 28.—(DtS)—
If you don’t want to stay in jail
don’t try to get in. That was the
moral of a story enacted here re-
cently.
Duke Graham. 32, approaches
lice officer, E. R. Blllihgs al~
o'clock in the morning and
to be put In. jail for thirty days.
Billings obliged and he was in-
carcerated on charges of drunken-
ness and vagrancy.
The following day in police court
be said he didn’t want to stay in
jail but Migistrate Warren Lattimsr
said he would have to serve out a 10
day jail sentence even if he didn’t
want to.
Would Substitute
Gas For The Chau;
AUSTIN, Jan. 28(INS)—A hill
proposing to substitute lethal gas
for electrocution as the method at
carrying out capital punishment
sentences in Texas was offered in
the Texas House today by Arthur
Holland of Belton. .
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