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Do Hempstead County's Taxpayers Want an Initiated County Salary Act? Attend the Discussion Saturday, June 30, 2 p. Hope City Hall. visions A-2 A-5 Thursday night; Friday partly Graphic Arts Code. cloudy. produced under di- Hope Arkansas Generally fair This newspaper Star WEATHER BROADWAY VOLUME 35-NUMBER 219 (AP) U.S.

Here and There -Editorial By ALEX. H. WASHBURN- EDITOR The Star: Some time that really ought to die of the week for those who ishing action-filled pictures but boginess on Saturday, I said you -C, Roosevelt Holds 3-2 Lead on Next to the Last Count With One More Tally to Come, Digest Gives Him 47 States HE CARRIES 61 PCT. Digest Shows Him 5.68 Stronger Now Than When Elected Roosevelt continues to lead by more than 3 to 2 in the semifinal returns of The Literary Digest poll on the New Deal, according to the tabulations published in this week's issue of the Vermont is the only one of the 48 states which votes a mapority against the President's acts and policies. 'Sixty-one per cent of the 1,508,861 votes now tallied express approval of Roosevelt's program.

The vote so far is 920,357 for the New Deal to 588,504 against it. "Analysis of How Voters in This Poll Voted in 1932 and Hoy They Vote Now" reveals that Roosevelt still holds 1 out of 5 of than his 1 out former of adherents 3 Hoov- and more every er voters to his support, which gives Roosevelt a net gain of 5.68 per cent from the 48 states as a whole. A comparison of the current returns with the previous week's tally shows that President's majority in the poll has been reduced in the District of Columbia and in every state exLouisiana and Montana though the losses in ratio are fractional. Eleven states give the New Deal a majority of 55 per cent, or less. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia show a 55 to 65 per cent alfirmative vote in the poll, Twelve other states show a majorily for the Now Deal of from 65 to 75 per cent and seven additional states, all in the south, give the President a vote of confidence of from 3 to 1 to nearly 6 to 1.

A comparison of the ratios in New Deal poll with the official vote Roosevelt received in 1932 indicates that he has gained favor in 25 states while he loses popularity in 23 other states, which are mainly in the south and middle-western agricultural districts. The second report of the special poll conducted among the lawyers of nation gives a vote of 16,869 for the New Deal to 14,785 against it. Hoover, a majority vote of disapproval is noted in 24 states. The second report of the special clergy poll shows that the ministers continue to vote favor of the New Deal by 12,318 "Yes" ballots to 10,089 "No" ballots, which is a slight decrease in ratio for Roosevelt's acts and policies over the prior report. The first returns of a special poll the educators of the nation among the President a majority vote in all give 48 states and a combined majority higher than in the main poll or any the several Literary Digest special Is.

This expression of approval, it is stated, is "five times as strong as the margin of disapproval in the was banker-ballots." Of the 12,267 ballots received from educators and teachers, 8,226, or 67.06 cent, are marked "Yes" for the per New Deal while 4,041 are registered "No." No Red Tape for Parole Violators States Agree to Rush Them Back Across State Lines first use of new federal law designed to aid states in fighting crime, the Central States Pardle Conference Wednesday moved to permit return of parole violators to their original states without the customary red tape. Illinois, among other commonwealths, has at time found it extremely difficult to obtain the return of parole violater whom a sister state ruse of legal technicalities. Experts attending the conferences believe they have found a way, through the Ashurst law, signed by President Roosevelt on June 7, to overcome barriers and perinit instant tarnsfer of a violator merely by presentation of a state warrant. PreEn EnterprIse AmR'n HOUSING A Pal, Pat Reilly Tells U.S. Agents No.

1 Gunman Is "Out" Ex-Baseball Mascot Talks to Operatives at St. Paul, Minn. ARRESTED IN FLAT I Seized in Apartment for Helping Guide Dillinger to Doctor ST. PAUL, Minn. -(A)- John Dillinger, so desperado, is dead, Albert (Pat) Reilly declared to fedcral investigators here Thursday.

Reilly, held on charges of harboring Dillinger and John Hamilton, his chief lieutenant, was apprehended Wednesday by Department of Justice operatives. Reilly Is Grabbed MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -(P) -Albert (Pat) Reilly, dimutive former baseball club mascot, blinked his eyes in an apartment Wednesday to find his bed surrounded by federal Department of Justice agents. Reilly is wanted on charges of having harbored Dillinger in the Twin Cities more than two months ago. Without weapons, Reilly offered no resistance.

He was taken to an undisclosed destination and held incommunicado. It was Reilly who guided Dillinger and his first lieutenant, John Hamilto the' home of Dr. N. G. Mortensen, then St.

Paul city health commissioner, last spring. Wounds of the two felons were examined by Mortensen and then they departed. It was believed the wounds were suffered either during the Sioux Falls, S. Mason City, la. bank robberies carly this spring.

It was Reilly, the government charged, who leaid the plans for Dillinger's hideout at Mercer, where a Conservation Corps worker and a federal investigator were killed when the gang was surprised by a raiding party. The thugs escaped. Reilly was subjected to vigorous questioning, which operatives hoped would gvie some clue to the whereabouts of Dillinger, who with three others of his gang were the only ones at large. Scottsboro Case Sentence Upheld 2 of Convicted Negroes Sentenced to Die Friday, August 31 MONTGOMERY, Alabama Supreme Court Thursday upheld death sentences 011 Clarence Norris and Heyward Patterson, negro defendants in the Scottsboro case, and set their execution date for Friday, August 31. They are two of the original convicted of attacking Victoria Price, a white woman, on a freight train at Faint Rock in 1931.

Interest Ready on Old District Bonds Payment Due July 1 Will Be Made Promptly by State Government LITTLE ROCK The State Bond Refunding Board set aside 10 pay the first six months interest (21 $17.000.000 road district refunding bonds. The bonds are to be printed now and will be issued soon, bearing the date of January 1. Thus the first payment cf interest will be due July 1. and the action of the board assures holders of old district improvement bonds that interest payments will D2 made promptly Ont the refunding bonds when they are exchanged for the old. Similar action was laken by the board two months ago to insure payment of the first three months inter-, est, due April 1, on direct highways refunding bonds.

The board adopted the resolution requiring the resignation of any emplove of the board who is, or may become, a candidate for public office. The only employe affected at present is Mrs. Ella' Hackett, clerk for the board and candidate for representative from Pulaski county. HOPE, A Seized, U.S. In ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934 of nrolidnted Hope BILL A A Says Dillinger Relief Plan Revives Hope the Miserable Virgin Islands Optimism to Greet Roosevelt on Trip to the Caribbeans Tropical "Poorhouse" Being Converted to Subsistence Homestead PORT OF COLUMBUS Beautiful Islands Startled Discoverer Way Back in Year 1493 This is the second of a series of four articles on what President Roosevelt will see as he visits the U.

S. possessions on his way to Hawaii and after he reaches his destination. BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Washington Correspondent Copyright, 1934, by NEA Service, Inc. WASHINGTON The Virgin Islands, which President Hoover sorrowfully called "an effective poorhouse" when he saw them, are beCing converted into. a subsistence homestead.

President Roosevelt is about to see the beginnings of the project--perhaps most advanced picce of economic planning paternalistic rehabilitation, 'and federal entry into business in his administration so far. Everyone agrees that the Virgins have had a dirty deal since this country forced their sale by Denmark for $25,000,000 lest Germany grab them for A -time submarine base. velt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary Ickes, and Undersecretary Tugwell have enthusiastically promoted the plan to make them content and relatively prosperous again. The government itself will revive the rum industry which once flourished.

Prohibition, which went to the islands with the flag, had much to do with their impoverishments. Beauty Startled Columbus Poor but beautiful, those islands. There are about 50 of them -St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St.

John, uninhabited. When Columbus discovered then in 1493 he was' so startled by their beauty and numbers that he named them after St. Ursula and her 11,000 virgins. Coral reefs, clear blue water, bold headlands, white beaches, turquoise bays and harbors hemmed in are part of the picture. Uncle Sam, drumming tourist trade for the islands, has leaflets describing the Virgins as a marvelous vacation land and is building a handsome hotel at St.

Thomas with PWA money, are only about 22,000 islanders and all but about 2,000 of them are pure white, Of a working population of 8,000, about 5,000 have been on relief rolls or projects. With marriage licenses marrige licenses and wedding ceremonies often an unattainable luxury, 65 per cent of the births are illegitimate. St. Croix is the largest island. It contains about two-thirds of the popolation, most of the sugar cane and other agriculture.

Most of the land is now given to attle grazing. The sugar market slump and prohibition cut sugar acreage from 000 to 5,000 and the ping boll worm long ago wiped out the flourishing cotton business. St. Thomas Important Port Most of the St. Thomas people live in the big port of St.

Thomas, whose bay is dotted with green islands. The port became a crossroads for the mariners who opened the New World, a point af transshipment, bunkering and provisioning and for decades the wholesale center of the American slave indusrty. The coming of the big, oil burning ships, with their own refrigeration. entry of wireless, development of other West Indian ports, and the sugar-rum -cotton collapse took most of the shipping away. Paul M.

Pearson in the American governor. He and his staff work under the direction of the Interior Department. 'The colonial councils of St. Croix and St. Thomas pass the island laws subject to the governor's veto.

The governor may also issue execulive orders tantamount to laws. Live in Squalor Living conditions among the people and the sugar workers are usjually one of squalor. Cane workers (Continued on Page Three) founded 18991 Hope Colly Press, nw Hope StAr, January 18, 1029, SIGNED Is Dead Dakota's Convicted Governor Captures Republican Primary FARGO, N. D. -(AP)- The vindication campaign of William Langer, North Dakota's convicted governor, apparently bore fruit Thursday when form Wednesday's primary election showed his apparent renomination by the Republicans, Hic was elading his nearest opponent by 8,000 votes on returns from 40 precincts.

Cochel, Futrell to Speak Here Friday Weekly K. C. Star Editor, Governor Head Visiting Day Program The largest crowd in the history of the Fruit Truck Branch Experiment Station is expected here when Governor J. M. Futrell and tor Cochel of the Weekly Kansas City Star will head up the speaking program for the annual visiting day.

George W. Ware, assistant director in charge, has completed an all-day program with arrangements to take care of 2,000 visitors or more. Although the experiment station is fairly new it ranks favorably with the leading experimental farms in the country. Many valuable results are being published on hundreds of experiments with truck, crops and livestock- the information of which is being used throughout the state. Every effort is being made to accommodate the large crowd of visitors this Friday.

Loud-speakers will be set up in the out-door theatre and motion pictures will be made of the crowd and special features. A wellplanned all-day program has been planned for both men and women. The morning will be spent in visiting the farm, and the speaking program will be held in the afternoon. Luncheon can be obtained from the missionary society at noon. Mayor Boyett has requested that all business houses display their flags on this day in honor of the governor and visitors, The station can now be reached by the new one-mile spur leading from paved highway 67, miles out on the Emmett road.

The distance to the station by the new route is the same as by old 67. Austrian Railway Bombed Thursday 20th Anniversary of Sarajevo Incident, That Started World War VIENNA, -Wide-spread bombing outrages broke out through Austria Thursday, one of which was said possibly to have been directed at Louis Barthou, French foreign minister. The main-line railroad near Blundenz was shattered by an explosion. Trains were delayed for several hours, but the one bearing Barthou back to Paris was missed. Wide-spread property damage accompanied the disorders, on the 20th anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination of Archduke Ferdinar was the spark that ignited Europe in the World war.

Strike Riots Hit Milwaukee Police 1,000 Bluecoats Stand Off Crowd if 30,000 in Street Fight MILWAUKEE, (P)- Riotwith the street-car strike, some ing continued Thursday in connection 000 persons comprising union sympathizers and curious taxing the strength of Milwaukee's 1,000 police. Fifty-eight were arrested. including five women for violence. Twelve policemen and 12 others were taken to hospitals for treatment of in. juries received Wednesday night and Thursday morning, Officials indicated they would seek action from President Roosevelt to invoke the mediation law and determine what settlement could be made.

1927; PRICE 5c COPY ago when you suggested to book a "Western" in the midwanted to see these fast vancould not get away from their were crazy. I apologize. When I wrote to the home office suggesting this to them, they told me that I was crazy, too. But after seeing Wednesday night's rush for scats, when I stacked them, packed them in. and held them out until the second show I felt sure somebody other than you and I was wrong.

After the folks at the home office get my reports I'm dead sure they, 100, will apologize. I thank you for your suggestion and wonderful help aiding me to put I your this mid-weck "Western" program over; and I'm sure there will be more of these action-filled "Western" and variety programs for the Hope fans in the middle of the week. ARTHUR SWANKE, Manager Sanger theater, Hope. XXX Okeh, Mr. Swanke, But if the hunch was it good one, didn't originate it-1 just passed it on.

Several weeks ago I was getting A shave at the White Way barbershop, and Barber Chester White complained that back in the old days when the late F. S. Horton was running the Grand theater, he put on a "Western" feature every Wednesday and packed 'em in. Today's theater managers restrict "Westerns" to Saturday only, apparently in the belief that only folks like anyway--and so, Mr. White was complaining to me that the barbers and store-clerks of Hope who have to work late on Saturday never could get to see a "Western" picture.

Mr. White deserves the real credit for inaugurating Suenger's new picture policy. That's life for you--a barber thinks up something, the newspaper gets, credit for it, and the theater walks off with the money. XXX In all seriousness, there has been something wrong with the motion All but of the Hollywood picture industry, the last few years. production companies and the New York theater-managing concerns went bankrupt.

It wasn't the introduction of talking pictures that was then altogether responsible-for after technique of sound was perfected the theater audiences came back to normal in only the largest houses in the largest cities. Suburban picture-shows, and managers in the small cities, found something lacking in the appeal of the new-type productions which came out of Hollywood. I used to argue with Manager Matt Press of the Saenger, back in 1930, that what the movies needed to recapture America was less parlor and bedroom drama, fewer back-stuge musicals, and more "Westerns" and serial thrillers. Feople, despite the high-brow crities, do not go to the theater to think. They go to the theater to be entertained.

If the producers can throw in something for the high-brows to chew on without interrupting the story, okeh- but they'd better throw it in as Rudyard Kipling used to say he threw in his descriptive matter, "between America, fed up on chorus legs, is crying for, is some more of the bold and vigorous stuff that went into the making of Pauline White's old-time serials. Or Antonio Moreno. Do you remember Moreno's serial "The Clutching The villain with the handle-bar moustaches had his gang lock Antonio (Continued on Page Three) FLAPPER FANNY OFF. SAYS: REG. U.S.

PAT. IL ON A Many a girl looks for "rocks" before making matrimonial plunge. Material Prices Cut 10 Per Cent to Aid Campaign Roosevelt Moves Promptly to Encourage Construction Program ON AIR THURSDAY President Speaks at 8:30 p. Moratorium Doubtful. WASHINGTON.

(P) President Roosevelt Thursday signed into law the housing bill intended to aid in reviving industry by increasing home, construction and repair. The legislation is calculated to make available several hundred million. dollars for new homes and moderinzation through government insurance of private loans for this The president prepared to set up immediately machinery to put the housing program into operation. A 10 per cent reduction in lumber and, building material prices was ordered Thursday by the National Retail Lumber Dealers association to aid the administration's program. Mr.

Roosevelt worked most of the day on the address he will make over radio at 8:30 o'clock Thursday; night (Hope time). Harvey Betts Dies, Funeral on Friday Funeral Service to Be Held From Residence at 10 in Morning Harvey Belts, 31, well known Hope man, died carly Thursday morning in Gowen sanitorium at Shreveport. was attributed to a lung complication. Funeral services will be held from the family residence on West Third street at 10 o'clock Friday morning. Officiating ministers will be the Rev.

Thomas Brewster, pastor of First Presbyterian church and the Rev. E. Clifton Rule of the First Methodist church, Burial will be in Rose Hill cemetery. Born and reared in Hope, Mr. Betts was a graduate of Hope High School.

He later attended Mexico Military Academy at Mexico, Mo. Returning here he joined the American Grocer company by whom he was employed several years before the firm's removal to Texarkana. Mr. Betts had been ill several weeks. He was taken to the Shreveport sallitorium three weeks ago, his condition being serious the last three days.

A Hope Furniture company ambulance returned the body to this city Thursday noon. Surviving are his widow, one daughter, Mary Kathryn, and his mother, Mrs. J. H. Betts, all of Hope; four sisters, Mrs.

W. M. Cantley and Mrs. Paul Simms of Hope; Mrs. J.

S. of Columbus; and Mrs. I. L. Pilkinton Washington.

CCC Camp Worker Killed by Blast One K. C. Boy Dead, Another Injured, in Camp Near Hot Springs HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (P) One Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worker was killed and another injured in a dynamite explosion at Camp Reform, 15 miles northeast of here, Thursday. William Branham, of Kansas City, was killed when the blast occurred as workers were shooting stumps near the camp.

Tony Moreno, also of Kansas City, was critically injured. Woman Who Beat Child Arrested Orphan's Condition in Alabama Hospital Turns Serious FAYETTE, Ala. (AP) Mrs. Earl Porter, accused of beating and maltreating 12-year-old Mary Virginia Johnson, Thursday was jailed on a charge of assault with intent to murder. The orphan child's condition in a local hospital was reported to be worse Thursday.

Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood to Be Home of Saenger Winner Friday Is Last Day for Filing of Entrants' NamesOne Hope Girl to Get Free Excursion to California City SAENGER THEATRE HOLLWOOD TOUR POPULARITY CONTEST ENTRY BLANK would like to see whose address is and whose age entered in the "Holly wood Tour be a good contestant and abide by the Clip this coupon. mail or send to Manager, care of Saenger Theatre, June 30, 1934. The great Roosevelt Hotel. largest and finest hotel on Hollywood Boulevard, near theaters, shops and studios. will be the home for days for the winners of the "Hollywood Tour Fopularity Contest," is being conducted by the Saenger Theater.

Much interest is being shown in the "Hollywood Tour Popularity Con- and the Saenger Theater has already received 10 nominations, the list being published yesterday. The contest will close Friday, and is still open to any young lady, or woman, Moratorium Doubtful -Unfavorable reports on the Frazier farm morator-. ium bill have been made to President. Roosevelt but those next to him said Wednesday they did not know whether he would sign or. veto the measure.

The president has until Friday to make up his mind, The bill, put through both houses by a determined drive just before ad-. journment, WAS mentioned at the While House press conference Wednesday but Mr. Roosevelt 'smilingly turned questions aside. The president referred the measure to the attorney general and the Farm Credit istration for study. Apparently there is a question in the mind of the attorney general about the constitutionality of the measure.

It was pointed out by some officials that the bill might adversely affect farm credit in the future. Most. of the funds furnished the farmer for and mortgage handling production, year or two have crop come through the federal government but officials recently have noted renewed activity in the farm financing field by private lending agencies. Home Ice Company Is New Firm Here A. W.

Stubbeman, W. L. Hood Take Over Old Independent Company Formal transfer of the Hope. Independent ice company to the Home Ice company was announced here Thursday in a joint statement by A. W.

Stubbeman, owner, and Walter L. Hood, manager. Mr. Stubbeman is a native of Cuero, Texas, with a long experience in the ice manufacturing business, Mr. Hood comes to Hope from Bastrop, La.

Both have moved their families here. The Home Ice company took over operations of the Hope Independent Ice company about two months ago, retaining all local employes of the plant. Since then approximately $8,000 worth of new equipment has been added, giving the concern a modern up-to-date plant. The new company is operating three city delivery trucks, and two rural delivery trucks. Markets Hope Cotton Exchange Telephone Popularity Contest" as I think she would rules and regulations of said contest.

"Hollywood Tour Populariy Contest" llope, Arkansas, on or before Saturday, married or single, beautiful or honely. between the ages of 15 and 50 years. Popularity is to be the deciding factor in the contest. Votes are to be cbtained only through the sale of theater tickets. No other merchants in the city are participating, just the Saenger theater.

This is a bona fide contest. Manager Swanke stressed. and there will be no bility of fraud. regardless of who enters, as can be obtained only (Continued on page three) New York Cotton Open High Low Close July 12.12 12.24 12.12 12.22-24 Oct. 12.39 12.50 12.39 12.47-48 July up 10 points.

New Orleans Cotton July 12.09 12.21 12.08 12.21 Oct. 12.35 12.46 12.35 12.44-45 July up 14 points. Chicago Grain Wheat July 92 Corn July 61 Oats July 43 Closing Stock Quotations Amer Can Amer Tel and Tel ........115 Amer Smelter Anaconda Chrysler General Motors Socony Vacuum 16 Standard Oii of N. J. U.

S. Steel Warner Bros Hope Vegetable Stringless snap beans bu U. S. No. 1 Irish 100 Cucumbers per bu.