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a a a to to covering two the: rural Hope night. Coolet in North one in the Saturday. Hope 3 Star day perature: Arkansas night THE neat and generally WEATHE freethe Saturday, VOLUME 33-NUMBER 44 1927; of Consolidated Hope founded Hope 1899; Star, Hope January Daily 18, Press 1929 HOPE, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931. NBA) -Mesha AP)-Meant POLITICAL AL MACHINES Methodists Plan to Consolidate Consolidation of Two State Conferences Is Being Sought LITTLE -A commission to study a proposed consolidation of the two conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in Arkansas was authorized Friday at the annual meeting of the Little Rock conference. Bishop Hoyt M.

Dobbs was instructed to name the memebrs of the commission to meet with a similar commission, recently appointed by the North Arkansas Conference. Music Club Will Render 'Messiah' Rehearsals Under Way by Mrs. R. A. Boyett, Local Musician Friday Mrs.

Ralph Music Club, Routon, president of the announces a presentation of Handel's Oratorio, "'The Messiah' 'at the First Methodist church on Sunday evening, December 13, at 7:30 o'clock. There will be no evening services At the other churches of the city on this day. The choral department of the Fri- day Music Club will sing, assisted by a group of the best male voices in town. The Messiah is the most oratorio ever written and Is given at Christmas-tide all over the world, wherever there is A group of cultured musicians. Mrs.

R. A. Boyett is the director and is musician with much experience, with oratorles and directing choruses. She has been rehearsing the chorus for some weeks and a treat is in store the music loving public on this occasion. Girl Takes $3,000 In Pantages Suit $1,000,000 Action Brought in Attack Case Settled Out of Court LOS ANGELES -(AP)-An abrupt end to the Alexander Pantages-Eunice attack case was reached Thursday.

The co-ed dancer settled for $3,000 a $1,000,000 damage suit pending against the theatrical magnate as the result of an alleged criminal attack. Accompanied by Mrs. Irene Pringle and Dr. Lewis A. Pringle, her parents, Miss Pringle appeared before Superior Judge M.

F. McComb where lawyers for the dancer and Pantages stipulated to the settlement. She will receive $2,100, the balance going to her lawyer. Last Friday Pantages was acquitted at his retrial granted by the State Supreme Court after he had been convicted more than two years ago. The retrial was granted on grounds that testimony concerning Miss Pringle's moral character had been stricken from the records and should have been allowed.

Miss Pringle's civil suit was filed several weeks after the conclusion of the first trial in 1929. The trial had been set for January, FLAPPER PAT. FANNY OFF. SAYS: NEG. U.

5. GENDIS PARKER HEA If a person con do all his Christmay shopping at out 4'me, U's a Associated Newspaper Press. Enterprise PRICE 60 COPY READY DeQueen Bank Is Robbed of $7,000 Early Thursday Second Robbery of First National Bank Within Past Year BANDITS ESCAPE Over $500 in Silver Is Overlooked by Robbers in Daring Holdup DEQUEEN, bandits who held up the First National Bank of De Queen at noon Thursday and dashed away with $7000 had apparently made good their escape Thursday night. Sheriff Jim Sutton of Sevier county returned here late Thursday after spending the afternoon across the Oklahoma boundary line searching for the two, Although Russell McKinney reported that he saw two men run from the bank and drive west in an automobile, the motor of which been left running, Sheriff Sutton said Thursday night that he did not lieve the two had headed for Okla- homa. Bandits Escape With the single exception of McKinney, Sheriff' Sutton said no one had seen the bandits leave the bank and that he was without clue which lead to their capture.

sheriff professed ignorance of a report that three youths had been at Gillham, 12 miles nourth of here? for questioning in the robbery. It WAS treported that they' were. later reafter providing an alibi, Two other youths were. also taken from a train at Texarkana' fit were released. surrounding.

towns and cities Thad of thia officers were instructed to pick up all suspicious persons. Assistant Cashier Terry Hunsucker, who was the only official in the bank at the time of the holdup, said two men, one about five feet two, and the other five feet entered the bank about 12:30 and that one man drew a pistol from a newspaper. A. O. Williams, bank customer, was forced to lie on the floor with Hunsucker while the two scooped up $7000 in currency, passing up between $500 and $600 in silver.

While the two men were on the floor, Mrs. B. Gatewood, of Dallas, entered the bank. She was unaware of the holdup and injured as to she could get no service. "We're rdbbind the bank," one of the bandits told her as he ordered her to march into a vault with Hunsucker and Williams.

Mrs. Gatewood dropped her purse and fainted in the president's office. The bandits fled after putting the two men in the vault. They failed to throw the combination and Hunsucker opened the vault door a few minutes after the bandits fled and sounded the alarm. The robbery Thursday was the second within a year for a DeQueen bank, three men having hold up Hunsucker last December 26, and escaped with $14.500.

Charles Tobin, 40-yearold cripple, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. The other two have never been apprehended. Two Men Held in El Dorado Holdup Former Texarkanian One of Pair Jailed Over Store Robbery EL DORADO, with robbery in connection with the holdup of the Piggly Wiggly store at Smackover last Saturday night, W. P. Dickert.

30, former, steeotyper for a local newspaper, Louis Mullins, 25, grocery clerk, were in the Union county jail Thursday night following their arrest by county officers. The two were arrested by Constable Johnny Daniels and Deputies B. A. Hancock and Walter Vanhook at the home of Mullins' mother, Mrs. Jim Rowland three miles west of El Dorado on the Magnolia highway.

The arrests were made on descriptions furnished by the employees of the grocery stroe who officers say have identified Dickert as one of the pair. Neither of the men has made a statement. and bond has not been set. Preliminary hearing will be held Friday morning before Judge Floyd E. Stein in municipal court.

Dickert came to El Dorado several years ago from Fouke. and recently returned to El Dorado from the East Texas oil field, where he was said to have made considerable money in the hotel business. Mullins formerly worked for the Figgly Wiggly store. The store was robbed of approximately $600 by two unmasked men who entered at closing time and forced the cashier to turn over the day's receipts. Dickert was employed in Texar-' sc voral yews ago.

Salvador In Hands of Military Group After Street Fight Elections of New Leaders Expected Within Next 48 Hours HEAVY FIGHTING President Barricaded in Palace During Battles Thursday SAN junta governed the republic of Salvador Friday following a short lived revolt Thursday which resulted in sharp fighting and the flight of President Arturo Araujo from the country. The military group assumed. complete: control after the fighting had ceased and prepared to secure the ratification of congress until elections can be held. Elections are anticipated within the next 48 hours. President Barricaded Araujo was barricaded in the palace at San Salvador, surrounded by loyal troops and National Guardsmen under Gen.

Armando Llanos during fierce fighting. The rebels were said. to have been aided by the First Infantry regiment. A. Salvadorean airplane arrived here and its occupants, Pilot Julio Sosa and two other aviators, were' arrested as fugitive rebels.

Troops in the interior of Salvador were reported to have remained loyal to President Araujo. Clashes in Streets Icavy fighting took place In. the streets of San Salvador, and fircarms brought: into play in several in: stnaces, The 'situation was said to be "very grave," although a state of fisiege been in effect since July. President Araujo was said to have ordered that no airplanes should land at or depart from the city until the movement had been brought under control. The republic of Salvador, 140.

miles long and 60 miles wide, has had a troubled history since it gained its independence from Spain in 1821.: Late in 1927 the government put down an uprising and executed two army officers. In 1929 a plot to assassinate President Bosque was thwarted and the leaders arrested. Disturbances, said to have been inspired by Communists, occurred in 1930. Senor Araujo was elected early this year to succeed Dr. Bosque.

The balloting was without disorder as the result of strenuous precautions taken by authorities. Martial law subsequently was declared because of tacks against the government in opposition newspapers. Labor Head Asks Work, Not Charity Five-Day Week of Seven Hours Daily on Job Urged to Council (AP) -A vigorous demand for work, "not charity and relief" was laid before the senate manufactures subcommittee Thursday by William Green of the American Federation of Labor. a with Green seven pleaded hours for daily a on five-day the week job, to -distribute work among the unemployed. industries insist upon working employees 50 hours weekly, he said there will be 8 permanent unemployment problem.

"If every employable person who wanted a job had one, the total work for each would be 35 hours weekly." he said, adding "there's work enough for all on the basis of a five-day wwk seven hours a day." Green saaid he opposed unemployment insurance as a program for handlnig a permanent problem. He said it was up to industry, however, to take care of employees displaced mechanization or for other reasons. Meetings Planned By W.C.T.U. Group First of 25 Sessions Starts at Washington Friday Morning WASHINGTON -(AP)- A call for "real friends of prohibition" to rally against resubmission of the 18th amendment to state conventions came Friday from Mrs. Ella A.

Boole, president of the Womans Christian perance Union in an address, opening a four day regional conference of that (r: anization. "Other Woman" Involved In Love Triangle Tangle When an unknown young woman sends notes to your fiance during A dinner date, when she calls him "darling" and "sweet-heart-dearest" in mast affectionate tone, and when the man's explanations are clumsy and hesitating, are you justified in break-' ing the engagement? Ann Fenwick's answer is "Yes." Even though the engagement has lasted eight years it should be broken, according to Ann. She is one angle of' a triangle love tangle involving Phil Ecroyd, lawyer, and Letty King, file clerk, in the new serial, "Three Kinds of Love," by Kay Cleaver Strahen. The problems of the long engagement are presented in this story of three- -modern girls and how they mot Ann, engaged for, eight years to Ecroyd, secs a younger, livelier rival win him away from her. Among the indictments of the longdrown-out engagement offered in the novel are following: (1) It binds a young couple without giving them the happiness of hame life.

(2) It steals the glamour from love, making it commoplace and taken for granted. (3) It is almost certain to lead to disagreements and quarrels which eventually. will cause an open break and much unhappiness. "Three kinds of Love" introduces other problems of modern young people. Its characters are likable, and Filling Station Held Up Officers on Trail of Two Kidnapers umber Co.

Official and -A pair of highwaymen and kidnapers arc being sought by officers of three counties. Their victims were J. L. Gardner, manager of the Arkmo Lumber yards at Wynne, Cross county, and Drew Douglas, operator of a gasoline filling station a mile east of McCrory, Woodruff county. The highwaymen first appeared at the Arkmo mill and held up Gardner.

After' robbing him of approximately $30, they forced him into their car and drove to the Home service station operated by Douglas. They lost little time looting the station money drawer of its contents, about $8, Douglas also was forced to get into the robbers' car, The two kidnaped men were taken to a negro church about 18 miles north of McCrory, where they were tied up and stripped of part of their clothing. Then the kidnapers drove away in the direction of Newport. Gardner and Douglas freed themselves in a short time. Sheriff Smith of Woodruff county, who was in the community, was on the trail of the robbers within al few minutes.

Officers of Cross and Jackson counties immediately set out in purusit. The robbers threatened their victims with a sawed-off shotgun, Pioneer Resident of Texarkana Dies Sister of Mrs. S. G. Norton of This City Succumbs to Heart Attack TEXARKANA-Mrs.

J. Stuart, 67, wife of the late Jamies W. Stuart, pioneer Texarkana publisher, died suddenly from 8 heart attack at 2 a. m. Thursday at the family home, 301 West Broad street.

Mrs. Stuart had been a resident of the city for 40 years, coming here from Forrest City, Ark. She born at Natchitoches, the daughter of Dee W. Davis and third cousin cf Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Her husband was one of the early publishers of the Texarkana Courier which was founded in 1900.

He sold out his interests in 1909 to C. E. Palmer who changed the name of the paper to the Four States Press. It became the Texarkana Gazette. Mrs.

Stuart is survived by two brothers, De Witt Davis. Texarkana, and David F. Davis, Hope. one sister, Mrs. S.

G. Norton, of Hope. two sons, Jack D. Stuart and Dee W. Stuart, of Texarkana, two grandchildren.

Blanche Evelyn Stuart and Jack Collins Stuart, and five stepchildren. A. C. Stuart, L. R.

Stuart and Mrs. Jim, Hughes of Texarkana, Ed Stuart of Brinkley. Funeral services will be held at ::30 D. 91. Friday.

Senator Robinson of Arkansas Will Head Democrats Report Slated Soon Upon Steel Rail Probe report on an investigation to determine whether stock rail producers combined to fix prices is expected shortly by the justice department. Attorney General Mitchell said Thursday a justice department investigator would return in a few days from Denver "prepared to make a report." The investigation was undertaken sometime ago after Senator Couzens, of Michigan, asserted in the senate that steel rail prices continued on a high level despite downward fluctualions of materials. Previously the interstate commerce commission had suggested investigation. The attorney general said the report might be merely a' 'progress report, or might show the invsetigation had been completed. C.

C. Membership Drive Next Week Ralph Routon Entertains Board With Duck Dinner Ralph Routon entertained the board of directors. of Hope Chamber of Commerce Thursday night at Grassy Lake with a fine duck dinner as ever was served in Hempstead county. The retiring. president was host to the new board at Its.

regular December' meeting, the i scene being laid in Mr. on a duck hunting grounds about 20 miles from the city. Twelve of the 18 directors were present, as follows: Alex Washburn, Ralph Routon; Frank Ward, Carter Johnson, Anderson, R. L. Gosnell, C.

C. SpragIns, E. E. Austin, Terrell Cornelius, Pat Duffe, Roy Anderson, George Ware. Following the duck dinner members of the board held a business meeting, deciding to stage the annual member.

ship campaign next A finance-membership commtitee will be announced over the week-end to take charge of the canvassing. State Auditor To Appear in Movie Warner Brothers to Make "Believe It Or Not" Film at Once LITTLE ROCK-While State Auditor J. Oscar Humphrey, who was featured in a "Believe It or Not" cartoon several months ago as the best "no handed" marksman and automobile driver in the country, was on a quail hunt Thursday a teleam was received at his office rogrmf gram was received at his office from Samuel Sax, manager of Warner Bros. Vitaphone studio at Brooklyn, N. asking him to participate in the making of a "Believe It or Not" motion picture.

Mrs. Humphrey and employes of the auditor's office accepted the invitation for Mr. Humphrey before he knew it had been extended. Arrange-1 gements were made by Warner Bros. through Joseph Shrader, Little Rock photographer, to have a short motion picture film made showing Mr.

Humphrey firing at targets at short and long range, driving an automobile and doing other things that appear difficult for a person without hands or arms. The film will be sent to the Brooklyn studios to be reproduced as part of a Ripley picture, which will be released for showing in theaters throughout the country within a few weeks. Local Musician To Sing Over KWKH Mrs. Ralph Routon to Be Heard on Air Sunday Night, December 6 Mrs. Ralph Routon, will broadcast from KWKH, Shreveport, at 11:30 p.

in. Sunday night, December 6th. She will play her own compositions and accompany Professor Andrew Lawrence Quattlebaum of the Centenary College department of music, who will sing songs composed by Mrs. Routon. This program is being presented by resuests of friends of Mrs.

Routon, was recently heard in a program over this me station. Bulletins WASHINGTON (-Republican Independent foes of Senator Moses, AS president protem of the Senate stayed away Friday from the regular Republican conference, called to organize the party machine for this session. TOKYO, war department Friday ordered a detachment of a railway regiment of the Imperial guards division to proceed to Manchurla, explalning that the additional force would assist In repair work, made necessary by increasing bandit raids, SANDRINGHAM, England-(AP) -Queen Mary is reported to be Ill with a slight cold. Negro Sought By Posse Near Stamps Accused of Attack Upon Mrs. Artie Clark Near Falcon STAMPS, Moore, negro, accused of an: attack Wednesday upon Mrs.

Artie Clark of Nevada county, was being sought Thursday night in dense woods. of where creek, was 15 miles north of here, he reported to have fled following the attack near Falcon; small community in Nevada county. Five Stamps. citizens, hastily deputized, headed by Deputy Sheriff ver Cummings, were stationed in the woods awaiting the negro's surrender; It was believed he would be captured early Friday. Considerable feeling aroused in the county when first news of the attack came had subsided Thursday night and officers were anticipating no mob violence in event the negro is caught, The attack occurred in the Clark automobile late Wednesday afternoon after Clark had left the negro in the automobile with his wife while he walked to a nearby house to prepare a herd of mules which the negro was to drive back to Stamps.

Mrs. Clark said she fought the negro away from her and screamed. The negro ran fled into the woods as Clark toward the car after hearing the screams of bis wife. Mr. and Mrs.

Clark took the negro with them from Stamps to Falcon in their automobile Wednesday afternoon, intending to leave him there to drive the mules back to Stamps. Moore had been working for Clark several months, doing carpenter work about Clark's place and other odd jobs in Stamps. Arriving at the house at which the mules automobile were and kept, walked Clark parked. house. to He left Mrs.

Clark and the negro sitting in the machine, A. Tatom, Stamps city marshal, said the negro served a term in the penitentiary in 1921 for attacking a 12- year-old negro girl. The woods were searched Wednesday night, but members of the posse refused to give up the case Thursday in the belief that the negro would be found near where the attack occurred. It was not believed that the negro was armed, Four Slightly Hurt As Bus Overturns Shoulder of Under the Highway Weight of Heavy Machine An aged woman, a young girl and two men were slightly injured Thursday night when a southbound missouri Pacific bus skidded off the highway three and a half miles north of here, and overturned into a ditch. The injured were taken to a local hospital and treated and then returned to a hotel.

They refused to give their names. The accident occurred when the driver of the bus attempted to swerve the machine around an automobile wrecker which was parked in the road. The weaight of the heavy machine caused the shoulder of the highway to give way and the bus overturned into a ditch which contained about three feet of water. Six other passengers and the driver of the bus escaped injury. They were removed from the overturned machine through the windows.

The aged woman was strungling in the water. Mrs. Caraway Does Not Attend Party Conference Fridas Congress Convenes in Reg ular Session Next Monday TO SAET BANKHEAD Democrats Say No Basis for Refusing Seat to Alabaman Ann Fenwick appealing. You can't afford to miss a single chapter. "Three Kids of Love" begins Wednesday in Hope Star.

Talks To Hope Rotarians President of Magnolia M. Speaks on Eco-. nomic Outlook Although there are some individual lessons in thrift to be learned as a result of the panic, the fact remains that American sociely must find some real solution for unemployment, President C. A. Overstreet of Magnolia A.

M. college told Hope Rotary club at its luncheon Friday noon in Hotel Balow. Denying that he was the pessimist some of his friends thought him to be, Mr. Overstreet said society had a pressing need to face the facts.if it expected ever to find a way out of the business gloom into which the world was plunged 1929. Other guests besides Mr.

Overstreet were four members of the Stamps Rotary club who came here in a body for Friday's luncheon. The Stamps Rotary club who came here in a body for Friday's luncheon. The Stamps Rotarians were: Ross Crane, Claud Cox, Phil Carpenter and M. L. Dudney.

Epworth League To Present Pageant Public Invited to Attend Program at Methodist Church Dec. 13 The Epworth League of the Methodist church will give a pageant at the church hour Sunday evening at 7:30 o'elock. The public is invited. Following is the program: Prelude--Mildred Valentine, Song. Scripture Lesson--Mabel Barnum.

Prayer-Mr. John P. Cox, Song. Offertory. Violin Solo-George Ruffin Marshall.

l'ageant: "A Pinch in the Press Office." Song, Benediction. Three Miners Dead After Fall of Rock Three Seriously Injured and One Has Nar- row Escape SCRANTON. of three mine workers, killed by a fall of rock, were removed early Friday from the Capouse Colliery. Two others were injured and a sixth had a narrow escape. Those dead are: Arthur Jones, Andrew Galaida and Henry Skree.

Convicts Go on Strike Protesting Pen's Food CORBORA. (AP) ---Nine hundred convicts in the penitentiary here have gone on 8 hunger strike in protest against the prison food. the ('p-)-nore and graslinang of tr 'col'e and infliction of solitary confinement. WASHINGTON- (AP) Senate publicans and Democrats organized their machines without a hitch Friday but the Republican Independents die opposing: the re-election Senator Moses, prseident pro tem of the sent ate have absented themselves, from their party conference. Two.

parties will go into the session opening Monday, with. the same ganizations. Watson, of will head Republicans and Robinson of the Hattie Caraway, of Arkan recently. appointed, to, succeed her husband, attend the cratie. parley.

Friday, but is to be. present on roll call. Senate Democrats, in Friday, decided to vats ator, Bankhead of Alabama Monday any attempt is made to prevent him from taking the oath of office Democratic leader, Robinson, nounced following the party, confer ence that those present agreed there was no basis for a to Bankhead, elther in precedent in fact. Held For Wrecking Train; Gives Alibi Texan Will Be Released: Investigation in Gurdon Crash Continued ARKADELPHIA-J. Lyons, Victoria, Texas, proved an alibi to sat: itfy Clark county officers Thursday.

afternoon that he was not implocated: in the wercking of a Misouri Pacifica freight train near Gurdon early. Wed. nesday, Sheriff Alfred said? Thursday night. Lyons will not be released until Friday, however, the sheriff said. The suspect furnished the name of a motorist in whose auto he was riding, at the time of the train wreck and officers at Victoria were elephoned Thursday afternoon to finally estahlished the identity of the suspect, ace cording to Sheriff Duke.

The story originally told by Lyons whe nhe was given a ride by Sheriff! Duke on the highway near the wreck Wednesday morning, In which a num. ber of discrepancies were found, was cleared up Thursday afternoon when the suspect underwent a thorough grilling in the Clark county jail. The prisoner proved that he WAS many miles north of Gurdon on the day before the wreck and was riding, toward Gurdon with the motorist whose name he gave and who later, corroborated his statement at the time of the wreck. Sheriff Duke continued the investigation Thursday night in hopes of additional arrests. Clues were scarce, however and no arrests predicted immediately.

The engine and 14 cars of the freight. train were derailed. Missopri Par cific offiicals declared the rails had been tampered with and expressed be. lief that the attempt had been directed toward the Sunshine, crack: passenger which was scheduled to pass the scene an hour later at its usual speed of between 60 and 70 miles an' hour. Railway officials who rushed here from Little Rock Wednesday had returned to their offices Thursday.

New Fixtures Installed in Gurdon Post Office GURDON. fixtures for the post office have been received and installed together with equipment needed. Heretofore the fixtures belonged to Mr. O'Neal of Hope, who owns the building in which the fice is located, but new and better equipment has beep sent here by the government and the old has been discarded. The office now has a more attractive appearance and the cony: u- lence far exceeds the old Extures, gift..