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Widely of thundershowers Saturday in northwest tonight. Experiment Station report lot 24-hours ending at 7 a. m. Friday High 80, Low 56. 57TH YEAR: VOL.

57 NO. 166, Star of Prtit Contolldtttd Jin. H. HOPE, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1956 Member: Prttt Audit Av. Net fold Cltel.

Mat. Match 1W PRICE Sc COPY IO Persons Die in Explosion, Fire in Lights Gas Heater, 3-Story Building Gutted PULASK, Va. A restaurant owner lit a match to a gas Beater and touched off an explo- and fire today that leveled a three-story brick building with the loss of 10 lives. The blast rocked the old business section of this manufacturing town of 9,000 and in a matter or minutes the building was a giant torch. It housed a restaurant, two shops and a Salvation Army transient home on the ground level.

Seven families lived in upper-floor apartments. Four survivors of the 15 or 16 believed in the building were hospitalized and one unidentified body was recovered. Police Lt. G. E.

Bouldin said he believed 10 to 12 bodies were in the smoulder- ing ruins. Only the back wall and a small section of the side wall were still standing when firemen finally put down the flames. A witness said the blast lifted the roof which then crumpled inward. A National Guard company from the Pulaski-Radford area was ordered on duty. Police Chief Lee S.

Boothe said It probably would be late afternoon before the charred ruins could be examined carefully. Mahaffpy, the restaurant bperator, said he was met with a roaring explosion when he struck a match to the gas heater at about 6 a.m. Mahaffey, a man his 70s, was hospitalized with undertermined injuries. wife, who lived with him in an apartment upstairs, ex- caped from the building by sliding down a drain pipe. The first explosion blew off the backstairs to the apartment.

The Salvation Army maintained a transient headquarters on the first floor of the building. It was not known immediately if there were any occupants. The explosion rocked houses for miles and knocked out windows in an area of three blocks. Two cars in front of the buildings were demolished. ma Revenue Chief Goodwin Cited 1 for Contempt FORT SMITH S.

Goodwin, Arkansas director pf Internal Revenue Service, has been cited for 'contempt of court in Ashley County, it was revealed today. He was cited by 2nd, District Chancellor James Merritt, acting as" Ashley County probate judge. The case has been removed Court at El Dorado. to Court records here said Godwin was cited for failing to appear at a hearing at Hamburg after he was subpoenaed. The hearing concerned a government claim against the estate of Howard A.

Shutt. When failed to appear for the hearing, according to Federal Court records, Juge Merritt ijsUecl writ of attachment for Godwin! 'writ of attachment, is- for a witness, compares to a warrant of arrest issued for a defendant. In-their-answer, U. S. attorneys said Godwin sent two men to the hearing to represent him.

He contended they were better acquainted with the case than he, Godwih, who is free on $2,000 bond, declined to comment at Little Rock. No hearing date has been set. vt: Invisible Mist Troubles Tulso TULSA, Okla. invisible mist that can be felt and which smells like freshly sawed fiber wood, today still was causing Tulsa officials and some motorists trouble because it eats paint off automobiles. City Boiler Inspector W.

B. McKim said the spray is just' east of the business district. McKim said insurance companies are extremely interested in finding the source because of a flood of claims. NQN-STRATQIC WASHINGTON (Up) Among the non-strategic goods which the United States freed yesterday for with. Russja wpre brassieres bus Chambers Files for denomination LITTLE ROCK Paul Chambers of Helena, state Democratic national committeman filed today for re-nomination in next summer's primaries.

He is the only candidate for the position. Benware Jailed, Kidnap, Robbery All a Hoax Leon G. Benware, 34, of Norwich, Conn, was arrested by the FBI and Connecticut State Police today on charge of fraud against the government and furnishing a false complaint to the Connecticut Police, it was announced by A. M'. Bryant, Little Rock office of the FBI.

The complaint charged that Benware falsely claimed he had been kidnapped in Connecticut and forced to come to Hope, Benware also furnished a similar false complaint to the Connecticut State Police alledging armed robbery and kidnapping. Hope Chief of Police Jack Brown said he had been informed by Connecticut State'Police and the FBI that Benware admitted he had been with a woman and she had "rolled" him for his money. He then stored his car in Virginia and hitchhiked to Arkansas. He claims that when he'reached the state he got a ri3e with'some teenagers and that they beat him ujj arid threw him out at Hope, Mr. Brown said.

Benware was found beside the Highway inside Hope City limits on April 18. He taken to a local hospital for treatment. The initial investigation in the matter was conducted on complaint by the Hope Police Department. Agents of the FBI of Texarkana and Chief of Police Jack. Brown" and Sgt.

Milton Mosier of the Arkansas State Police conducted the investigation. National Music Week Observance by Friday Club The Friday Music Club announced plans for the observance of National Music Week bfiginning May 6. Schools, churches, civic clubs, and women's clubs will be asked to cooperate by including music on their programs for this week and by donations to music projects. On Sunday May 6 at 3 o'clock in the High School Auditorium the graduating members of the Melody Maids will be presented in a recital. Piano solos and ensembles, vocal numbers and a marimba duet are to be featured on the program.

The chief observance of the week js usually the city wide music festival in the Hammons Stadium which is scheduled for May 8 this year. "Say It With Music" is to be the theme and practice begun in all schools. Further details will be published next week. KILLED BY CAR SWIFTON, 67-year-old resident of Walnut Ridge, Cecil Andrus, was killed last night when a car struck him on Highway 67 near this northeast Arkansas town. State Police Troper Bill Manes said the driver of the car was Eugene Osborne, 26, of St.

Louis. 2,123 Hempstead County Farms Received $2,861,065 for Sale of Their Products in 1954 The value of products sold in 1954 by operators of 2,123 farms in Hempstead County was $2,861.065, according to a preliminary report of the 1954 Census of Agriculture published by the Bureau of the Census, U. Commerce, S. Department of The value of all crops sold was $1,380,977 and included $1,243,066 for field crops, $89,404 for vegetables, $30,387 for fruits and nuts, and $17,520 for horticultural specialties. The value of alf livestock and livestock products sold was and included $243,568 for dairy products, $378,876 for poultry and poultry products, and $691,113 for livestock and livestock products.

The value of forest products sold from the county's farms was $166,531. Senior Class Play Tonight at the School Tonight the Senior' Class will present a three-act play, "Curtain Going Up," at eight o'clock at Hope High School Auditorium, under the direction of Mrs. B. B. McPherson.

Ginny Herndon, who plays the part of Joan Wfiite, a high school girl, is a member of the Bobcat and Hi-Lights staffs, F. N. A T. N. H.

Library Club, 'and English Club. Tn the Senior Who she was elected most popular and cutest. Serving a cheerleader for three years, she was also elected Campus Queen dur- mg her freshman year and was Homecoming Queen two years. Cast in the role of Mr. Richard Leveridge, father of one of the playcast members, is Walter Smiley.

Walter is a member of the English Club: During his sophomore year he received the Favorite Couple honor Kay Ray plays the part of Sylvia Moore, a student. Kay is a member of the Hi-Lights and Bobcat staffs, N. H. Library Club English Club, Secretaries Club, Rainbow Girls, and M'elody Maids. Last year she was High School member-at-large of the State F.

T. A. Sheriff Cook Asksfublic for 2nd Term The Star today was authorized to announce the candidacy of Jimmy Cook for a second term as Sheriff of Hempstead County. In making his announcement Mr Cook said. "During my two years as Sheriff I have carried out the duties of this office in an efficient manner and will continue to do so if you see fit to elect me your Sheriff for another two years.

"I have done my best to make Hempstead a good sheriff and I believe I have. Now I'm asking for a second term. During the next few months I will make every effort to see everyone but will not r.i way. negloct the Sheriff's office. the duties of "I'm soliciting your support for a second term with the promise that I will continue to do everything in my powci fo give Hempstead the kind of Sheriff it wants." VFVVtiTnstoll New Officers Officers of the VFW Post 4511 for the coming year will be installed at a special meeting Sunday, April 29, at 2:30 p.

m. Immediately following the installation there will be a meeting of District 10. All VFW members are urged to be present. Most Important Duty Parents Face Is the Infliction of Discipline on One's Offspring By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK One of the most important duties a parent faces is the infliction of discipline on one's offspring. All my life I have been a against the idea of comfprmity.

have never wanted to be like anyone esle. I have always wanted to be only myself and after many years I'm not sure I've found the goal. I know, better than any critic, that I have yet to become the one I'd like to be. Well, late in life but young in heart, my wife and I went to a department store to buy a gargle and a Joothbrush, know how th'ose department store people get conlused. Instead of what we really ordered, they sent a crying baby, wearing a pure mink diaper, to our address.

Rather than say Macy's was wrong, rather than criticie Gimbel's, we took the girl. We named her Tracy Ann, and she is still the only thing after more than 8 years of marriage thai a department store delivered which my wife has taken without checking on the exchange possibilities. Our only investment in her has been love, and we feel no need of a refund. The other evening, worn out by a hard day of adventure with other children, she ran a slight torn- Continued on Extended Forecast ARKANSAS: Temperatures near normal northwest to 5-8 degrees above normal southeast. 'NorrrTal minima 50-55 north and 55-64 south.

Normal maxima 71-80. No important changes until cooler west and north about Tuesday. Precipitation moderate to locally heavy with showers and thundershowers mainly Monday and Tuesday, and northwest portions Saturday. Ballot Title Okayed by Gentry LITTLE ROCK title of the so-called city ballot 'home rule" constitutional amendment was approved today by Atty. Gen.

Tom Gentry. Backers of the move said petitions already were in the hands of the printers. Circulation will begin soon, they said. The proposed amendment would give cities in Arkansas a larger role in their own government. Under present law, the state government for cities and set Imitis on municipal' taxation.

Signaturs of 33,513 qualified voters will be required to gain the proposed amendment a place on the November general election ballot. The signatures must represent voters in at least 15 counties. The deadline for filing petitions for the November election is July 6. Raymond Hedges, secretary of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, said meetings in 24 cities have been set up. The proposed amendment is being backed by Arkansas Citizen's Committee for Home Rule, a group of Little Rock business and professional men.

The group is headed Biglow Robinson Howard Cockrill, vice chairman of the group, said the amendment would give any Arkansas city the "power to perform any function not denied by its charter, so long as these powers pertain to the op eration of the municipal govern ment." "Now a city or town can only exercise those powers delegated by the General Assembly and permit ted by the constitution," Cockrill' said. Civil and criminal laws would not be affected, he said. Cockrill described th proposed amendment as "permissive legislation." He said no city or town would be required to adopt it. This is the fourth attempt since 1947 to pass "home rule' tion. None of the earlier efforts got as far as the general election ballot.

Demonstration Fails to Halt Hiss' Talk By RELMAN MORIN PRINCETON, N. J. Alger Hiss spoke on the heavily guarded Princeton University campus last night in a calm anticlimax to weeks of fanfare. It was his first public speech since his release from prison. Protests against the heralded appearance of the convicted perjurer before a student debating society had led to rumors of possible But all was peaceful.

After speaking on foreign policy, Hiss slipped out a back door of the meeting hall to avoid a wailing crowd and returned to his New York City home. Hiss, whose role at the Yalta conference has been in bitter contention for years, told the students that "we got what we asked for in terms of technical concessions." He also said. "I don't happen to believe that Yalta was such a pernicious occasion." A query from a student during a question period led to the reference to the 1945 Yalta conference among the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the late Russian Premier Joseph Stalin. Hiss, then a high-ranking States Department official, was an adviser to Roosevelt at Yalta.

Five years later in 1950 was convicted in New York City on perjury charres for denying before a federal grand jury that he issued out State Department secrets for a Soviet spy ring. He served almost four years in a federal peniteniary. Hiss was well received last night by members of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society who had invited him to address them They laughed at his quietly phrased pi use speech, and frequently hurst into ap during his Democrats Quickly Switch Farm Proposals '-BY B. L. LIVINGSTONE WASHINGTON Democrats, in a fast change of pace, today switched their affections from short-lived new farm sidy proposals to a two-billion-dollar farm bill patterned after President Eisenhower's suggestions.

Less than 24 hours after proposing it, Democratic farm leaders in the House last night deumped plans to press for "compensatory payments" to farmers in the form of Vahd subsidies intended to bring farm prices to the level of 90 per cent of parity. In its stead, they put forward plans to present a compromise farm bill containing Eisenhower's soil bank program and other non- controversial provisions of the catch-all measure vetoed two weeks ago by the President. The switch, latest in a series of confused maneuvers, came after Republican farm belt members and many Democratic House members turned a cold shoulder on cash subsidy payments to farmers. Rep. Cooley (D-NC) said the decision was reached in consideration of Republican predictions of another presidential veto.

However, Rep. Poage (D-Tex) said he planned to carry the fight to the floor of the House anyway. Poage was the original sponsor of the subsidy proposal, which called for cash subsidies equal to the difference between current price supports and 90 per cent of parity. Parity is a price determined under farm law to be fair to farmers in relation to their costs. Cooley, meanwhile, prepared a bill for Agriculture Committae consideration Monday wrapping up a number of features of the vetoed farm bill, including the President's $1,200,000,000 soil bank.

It. would authorize another billion dollars for disposal of farm surpluses, and a corn price sup- pert program covering all corn would writs into law present price support levels established administratively by Eisenhower's order after his farm bill veto. Rep. Hope of Kansas, senior Republican on the Agriculture Committee, termed it a "fair compromise." But Hope and other GOP House leaders said tney would insist also on authority for advance soil bank payments as requested by Eisenhower. This would make available up to 500 million dollars to farmers this year.

Cooley's announcement that the cash subsidy plan had been abandoned came after a long conference with Hope. The Kansan's refusal to go along with it was regarded as the influencing factor in the Democratic decision. Confusion Over Level Figures Shown ai U.S. Board Hear! Experiment Funds for Atom Ships Fails WASHINGTON W) An administration request for $37,900,000 to buiid three experimental merchant ships, including an atomic tanker, was turned down today by the House Appropriations Committe. The moeny had been included in the $1,522,673,000 President Eisenhower sought to finance the Commerce Department and related agencies for the fiscal year starting July 1.

The committee cut the over-all request to $1,382,003,000. The House Merchant Marine Committee had questioned the authority of the Maritime Administration to blu'ld the ships even if the money were provided. Ninety eight million was chopped from the 295 million requested for maritime activities and 25 millions from the 800 millions asked for federal-aid highway work. However, the money approved for the highway program is 35 millions more than Congress appropriated for the current year. For the Census Bureau the committee recommended 1 million to start a census of governments, a million for a national housing survey, and $150,000 to prepare for 1958 censuses of business, transportation, manufacturers and mineral industries.

The Civil Aeronautics Administration was allotted 196 million a cut of 6 2 million. The committee earmarked a large chunk of CAA money for of 16 new radar centers and improvement of existing radar. Negroes Consider Birocial Committee JACKSON, Miss. MV-More than 5,000 Ncgores began to gather today for a meeting to consider forming a blracial committee to "expire the present race tension" in Mississippi. Formation of the committee was high on the list of activities for the fifth annual convention of the Regional- Council of Negro Leadership, Last week, Gov.

J. P. Coleman pledged his assistance to such a committee' "as long as the committee does not seek to change Mississippi's segregation laws." R. L. Drew, convention board chairman, said yesterday, the leaders of 40 of Mississippi's Negro organizations would draft the resolution creating the committee.

In additionj 1,000 Negro ministers of all denominations will hold a panel discussion on "The role of the church in the present transition." Tonight at Forest, 40 miles lo the southeast, Sen. Eastland (D- Miss) will address a Citizens Council rally. Citiznes councils are groups of white men dedicated toward keeping segregation in all walks of life. Marciano to Retire From the Ring NEW YORK boxing champion Hocky Marciano announced today he is retiring undefeated "because I want to start living for my family." "I am comfortably fixed and I am not afraid of the future," the tanned and fit looking champion said as he became the fourth man in ring history to retire without suffering a single defeat. Marciano, who had won all 49 of his bouts and successfully defended the heavyweight championship six times he finally succumbed yesterday to his family's pleadings.

'We want to have more children and the way you have to live as a fighter has made me a poor father my three and one-half-year-old daughter, Mary Ann," Marciano added. "You've got to go home and get introduced to your family, it's a funny feeling after a while." Marciano said that to be a boxer and "to stay in tip top shape" he had been able 'to spend only wo weeks at a time with his fain- ly. "When I started I was single." IB said. "But my mother and my wife have been pleading with me retire and I told them last night that I would do what they wanted. "I took a vacation with my wife and 1 enjoyed it so thoroughly that i realized what I was missing," the champion added.

Marciano, wearing a dark blue suit and checkered crayat, looked extremely well conditioned despite jeports that he was teu'ifically overweight. "My physical condition has nothing tp do with my retirement," he said as he opened his coat and patted a flat stomach. "in my last fight, weighed pounds and right this second I weigh only he Men Returned of Own Will, Russians Say UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. IJI The Soviet Union's U.N. delegation says five Russian seamen who gave up U.S.

asylum and returned to Russia went back of "their own freely expressed will." A statement from the delegation denied that Russia's U. N. delegate, Arkady A. Sobolev, pressured the five men into going home. The Stale Department Wednesday demanded the recall of two low-rank Soviet delegation members, Aleksandr K.

Guryanov and Nikolai Turkin, charging they engaged in "particularl objectionable acts" in conenction with the case. It also warned Sobolev to adhere strictly to his U.N. funp? tions while in the United States on diplomatic status. The Soviet statement said arrangements for the return of the seamen were made by a Soviet consular official i Washington, U.S. immigration authorities at New York's Idlewild Airport interviewed the men before their departure April 7, the statement continued, and found "that the Soviet sailors were leaving the United States at their own freely expressed will." L.

M. Zamyatin, Sobolev's top political aide, told a news conference his chief and other members of the delegation went to the airport as friends an dcompatriots to see the seamen off. He termed groundless a State Department charge that Sobolev intervened during the immigration interview. Lion in Offer to Striking Workers EL DORADO, Oil Co. has offered its striking employes a wage increase of 15 cents an hour and another increase of an 10 cents an hour six months.

after a contpcjt is signed. Don' 'McCullar, president of Local 381 International Union of Operating Engineers, said the offer would be considered at thiv next union meeting. He said the local would meet, soon but didh7 specify when. In a letter. to union members, Lion President M.

Martin also offered increases in the differential paid for work on the to 11 p.m. shift and the overnight shifts. said the plant, which shut down when the strike started on March 2, had resumed pera- tion with supervisory employes, McCullar said there might be a limited operation but added he didn't think there would be a-full operation "with inexperienced per- sonel because of the danger in volved." The strike grew out of a dispuli over w.age scales. The union has not made publii its demands, but has charged tha wages at another refinery' here are considerably higher than a Lion. Wages under the old con tract ranged from $1,49 to $2.5 an hour.

OldMillwi HeighfConfuses Upstreai The Southwest Arkansas Watefri District delegation to the and Harbors Review Board, ington, returned, Thursday! and' the entire group was opthttMi tic about the possibilities of Corps of Engineers agricultural, municipal and trial water in the proposed fled Millwood Dam. Members the delegation special tribute to Congressman" Oren Harris for his efforts 'aiJT interest in proposing and'advocit ing a fair, equitable and solution to the present controveifj Both Senators John McCleUl and William Fulbright were' Intel viewed and pledged their suptfoi toward whatever the" Reviei Board recommended. 'W" It was the opinion of the tion that a great deal of the formation was, classified larly as to the actual height o. water' level within the age pool. By the testimony of posing a "wet" Millwood-Dam- was evident that their idea ter storage in Millwood ror and their testimony: height of the water storagt 286.5 ft.

above sea level. maximum height of.the waterd would occur in flood; instead of height With' storage of terest calculations-has of thfcL- in the the jl i T. Rosebaugh. vice-presi of Ideal Cement in mony as to the-effect a Wet wood, would'have on his Coirip, based his statement on the.wai storage being at a.height of above 1 General Holle, chairman'. 1 Board of Review, pointed oil Mr.

Rosebaugh, that his inl tion as to the height of storage was not correct Mrs. T. Pedron 76, Succumbs at Texarkana Mrs. L. f.

Pedron, aged 76, resident of Texarkana, died at her home early Thursday night. She is survived by six sons, Leon, Paul and Theodore Pedron of Texarkana, Ray Pedron Nashville, Frank of Spring "Hill and Raymond Pedron of Hope, three daughters, M'iss Gladys ron of Texarkana, Mrs. J. C. ker of and Robert Weston of San Antonio, Texas.

Funeral services will be held al 2:30 p. m. Saturday at Rose Hill Church of Christ of Tpxarfcana. Burial will be in Memory Gar dens at Texarkana, All Around the Town By The Stir Staff Dr. Frances C.

Rpthert, state director of the Division of and Child Care of the health department, will be principal speaker at a meet of the Hempstead Health Council at 7:30 Monday night in the courtroom. In a recent issue of the, Christian Science Moniter the type of advertising of Crescent Drug Store, now carried weekly in the Star, was praised in the ads the Crescent Co. praises some local club, institution or group pf Two girls from this area are candidates for Queen Pf Reddle Pay to be held at Henderson State Teachers College on Moy are Jiuuxita, Emmet and Charlene Rogers Hope. At Ouacbjta, College Rho Sigma Social club for men, held a banquet recently in honor of seniors among the group was Richard fie pf Hope. Marine Pvt.

Willie if, Stephens, or Hope Route three, arrived In Japan April 17 fpr a U-manfh. t9 of duty with the Third Marine Ojv- jsion fee is the spn of M.rs,. QYJe fo.Jtfs. are reminded. the Buddy Poppy sale to be hjjg jn, downtown Hope the money fee the disabled veterans pendants the the true elevation of storage.level was 264'ft.

with 1 1 000,000 gallons, per day of leyel less than the water level concerned the Ideal Cement! Upon learning of the' errol his calculations on! Jhe jhei the water," Ro'sebaugh his testimony but failed to rect his statement. In the, of a favor'ablcf cision of-the, Review Board, wl would include Will Dam. authorisation will have obtained- i Congress' as to Modified Millwood with its' storage, ani? whatever 4 yf fcwk dams are prpp.osed.' The Water; trict deMigatjJn in their 1P' repeatedly stated that Us were not ups dams, that now the water stofj of the entire fepii area equitable lairly divided, 1 MUlwopd Darn 'should, contaifi' fair share of the water stpi introduced into the tss, by L. fj, aWJland, manager Texarkans Chamber pj Got and speaking lor the other bers of Commerce 1 yepr was this week's issue pf, and Wortd Report taining srticje by G4 Samuel Stwgis, Chief oj Corps pf Engineers, ly presented Southwest Ar sas entire 0 the upstream in homa and'Arkansas and, Millwood, their jn -a. and felr in VMSK whqie alley-jnjght regftJn'Jtgi in pppulatlpo $hf perous a rea the water LJTTL.H LJ'.