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is St. Luke 18:17, wrest; much colder Fiday, shall in no wise enter freezing in extreme satver shall not: receive the Hope day; colder In. West kingdom of na A little child Thursday night, Vorlly 1 say unto you, who- Star fain Thursday and A Thought Arkansas a Associated Press VOLUME 37-NUMBER 16 (NI41) -Menna Newspapor Enterprise Ams't HOPE, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1935 Star of Consolidated. Ilope 1899:. January 18, 1921: 1929.

PRICE 50 COPAY LUCK'S CAMP IS HIJACKED Here and There -Editorial By ALEX. H. WASHBURN- NEWS item furnished A service, tells me this Senator Caraway and Party Visit Hope on Thursday Woman Senator Accompanied by Secy. Whiteside, Mrs. Whiteside VISIT OLD FRIENDS From Hope They Go to Nashville, Former Home of Whiteside Senator Hattie W.

Caraway of Arkansas and a party of friends, including Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Whiteside, spent a brief visit in Hope Thursday morning renewing old acquaintances. here they visited Mr. and While.

T. Gorhom, R. L. Gosnell. and Mr.

and Mrs. Lloyd Spencer. Mr. Whiteside is sceretary to Senator Carawny and is a Washington litical writer. He once lived at Noshville, where it close friendship with Gorhams and Mr.

Gosnell first sinrted. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer are, close friends to Senator Caraway. was Mr.

Spencer who introduced Mrs. Caraway at a political rally here several ycars, ago when the late Senator Hucy Long invaded Arkansas to aid Mrs. Caraway in her campaign for election. Also included in the senator's party were. Miss Dorothy Strickland.

Nashville, and Chester Watkins, of Washington, D. The left shortly before noun for Nashville. Gives Warning on Hallowe'en Pranks Chief Ridgdill Cautions Pranksters to Be Careful Thursday Police Chief John W. Ridgdill issued al warning Thursday morning against the destruction of property as the city prepared to celebrate Thursday night. Members of the police department will be 011 duty, and law violators will arrested, Chief Ridgdill warned.

There will be no interference with innocent fun, he said, but theft, disturbance of peace and malicious damage or destruction of property, will be a good method of getting merry makers in jail. Chief Ridgdill also warned against shooting of fircarms. Mrs. Schooley Is Buried Thursday Hempstead Woman Laid to Rest at 10 o'Clock in Rose Hill Cemetery Funeral services for Mrs. George W.

Schooley, who died suddenly Tuesday night of heart discuse. were bell at 10 m. 111. Thursday from the family residence north of Hope. In charge of the service was the Rev.

Wallace R. Rogers, pastor of First Baptist of Hope. Burial was in Ruse Hill cemetery. Mrs. Schooley had been a resident! of 58.

Hempstead Surviving county are, muny her years. husband, She was six sons, and three daughters. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: REG. U.S. PAT.

OFF. A NEA Folks given to horseplay aren't saddled with responsibility. A Airport Commerce Bureau Okehs It; But Land Is Not Yet Owned Department of Commerce Announcement Is "Merely Preliminary" LAND ONLY LEASED WPA Requires Outright Ownership Before Making Improvements (P) --The Department of Commerce has approved a 17- million-dollar nirport program of the Works Frogress Administration(WPA), involving the building Or' improve250 airports, 'At the WPA Thursday it was explained that Department of Commerce approval was merely preliminary. In cach instance government moncy will go only for improvements and not for land purchases. The projects aproved, and the amount of federal funds, include the following: Hope: $16.001.

Cinden: $24.757. Russellville: $6.869. Scarcy: $12,491. For state-wide work: $17,890. No Construction Guarantee Local interpretation of today's Associated Press dispatch indicates that there hasn't boon any final action on the Hope airport project.

The City Planning Board and Mayor Albert Grayes. filed a WPA airport -project more than" a month ago, but it was on a tentative basis, as was: the case several. similar projects in the state. The City of Hope has leased airport site, while the present WPA regulations require a city-owned site fore funds are expended on permanent improvements. The Hope project was filed on the chance that fedcral regulations might be modified.

or that the city government might consider outright purchase of a site. Fulton Cotton Crop May Be Cut Half Sharp Reduction Attributed to Acreage Lost in Spring Floods Cotton ginning in the Fulton arca this year will be only about half of the total of last year, figures compiled Thursday by Ben Wilson, The Star's I correspondent at Fulton, showed. Both gins at Fulton have ginned a total of 906 bales this yeur as compared to 1,996 bales as of October 31, 1934. The Temple Colton Oil company at Fulton has ginned 330 bales so far this season. Last season at that date the firm had turned out 798 bales.

The W. E. Cox gin has turned out 576 bales this yeur. Last year of the same date the gin had turned out 1,198 bales. The Cox gin at Mineral Springs up to Thursday had ginned 435 bales, Al Ozan the Cox gin had turned out 400 thus far.

"The Fulton arca, having some of the richest bottomland in Hempstead county, suffered extensively from backwater during the river rises last spring--much cotton acreage being lost for the seuson. War Trade Again Forbidden by U.S. Roosevelt and Hull Repeat Cautions to American Business WASHINGTON. President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull denouneled Wednesday with either American denlings Ethiopia. of any sort Italy or Seeking to strengthen the govern'ment's neutrality policy by discouraging trade with the belligerents, the president and secretary of state indirectly hinted that still further action might be taken.

The president said: "The American government is keeping informed as to all shipments consigned for export to both belligerents." Hull the neutrality policy was intended to "discourage dealings" with both warring countries. cAn repeat that an early peace with the restoration of normal business land normal business profits is )rounder and far preferable to temporwry and risky war profits." Is A A Approved; Funds Doubtful The Star by NEA. its feature astonishing story: American railroads last year killed but one passenger for each 400 anillion passenger-miles. Commercial aviation lines killed A passenger each 24 million passengermiles. But nutomobiles killed one for every 11 million passenger-miles.

That incans the railroads are 17 -but times that safer than commercial commercial airways always twice as safe as traveling by automobile! What do you get out of those facta? I got. this: That we are a lot more careful about property than about hutman life. And when you stop to think about it. you know that is true, The railroads are safest, not because there, is less chance on steel rails for horrible accidents, but because the railroad train on which you ride represents an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Somebody watches that valuable property close-.

ly. Airplanes are second in anfety beenuse a big airliner represents an investment of pretty close to $100,000. Somebody is always around to look after $100,000 property. But an automobile--well, an mobile can be bought for a few hundred dollars. Humanity, alas, writes the ticket not in terms of humanity but in terms of Compensation Law Urged for State Accountants Point Out Federal Tax Will Otherwise Be Effective LITTLE 'that Arkansas can gain' by passage of a state unemployment compensation law to work with the national social security legislation were described Wednesday by J.

Cooksey Fuller of Little Rock in an the address at the Society annual of Certified meeting Arkansas Public Accountants. Arkansas's pay roll tax total would be no greater it the state had such a law than it will be under the federal law alone, he said. In cases where a state law is in operation taxes paid cral under tax it are levy. deductible from the Arkansas had a state pay roll tax amounting to 90 per cent of the federal tax," he said, "and a hypothetical employer was due to pay $1,000 under the federal enactment. Then be 5900 retained would go for to the state and would use as unemployment compensation in Arkansas, while $100 went to the federal government.

If there was no state law the entire $1,000 would be payable to the federal collectors. "All unemployment compensation is paid under state laws and until a state enacts an unemployment Jaw there can be 110 matorial benefits within the state," he said. Women Open War on Slot-Machines Children Steal to Obtain Money to Play Them, in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) The women of New Oricans have opened "war" on the slotmachine racket which has an estimated take of 000 a week. Infuriated by what they term "apathy" on the part of authorities toward the hundreds of machines opcrating illegally in every part of the elty, the women have organized commitice to lend the drive against what they describe aS "onc-arm bandits." The committee composed of Mrs.

W. G. Fisher, chairman; Mrs. Jennie G. Skinner and Mrs.

Joseph Friend, all club women, met Wednesday to plan its drive. "We are going to Superintendent of Police George Reyer first," Mrs. Fisher said, "and if we don't get action! there we're going straight to the Police Board." W. H. Burney, superintendent of the New Orleans Municipal Boys' Home, in an address before the Institute on Juvenile Delinquency, said: "Children hungry and in rags, beg on the streets for money to play slot: machines.

They steal automobile accessories and sell them for a mere pittance tc secure money to pour into the slot machines. I advocate that a law be passed to keep children out of places housing these machines." Superintendent Reyer has said that his men have orders to 'pick up and destroy slot machines whenever and they are found. He said many have been destroyed, but has refused pubLie inspection of recerds covering the matter. Decisive Battle Is Near at Dessye as Italians Advance Ethiopians Expect Smashing Attack, Half-Way to Capital City NEW PEACE MOVE Italy Willing to Negotiate, Spokesman Declares at Geneva ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia--(Routcra, British News -Ethiopian officinl sources said Thursday they bad received information that the: Italians are planning a smashing offensive from a point north of Mount Mussa Ali across to the Danakil desert: toward Dessye. (These are on the northern front.

points, Mussa All was one of the first places captured when the Italians invaded Ethiopia from Eritrea, Italy's colony on the Red Sca. Dessyc, half-way between Eritrea. and the Ethiopian capital. is the place sclected by Emperor Haile Sclassie for a decisive battle.) Airplancs, infantry and cavalry would co-opcrate in the big push, advices said. The approaching departure of Emperor Sclassic for Dessye started an enormous.

trek to that troop concentration point, the road being thronged with tribesmen marching in groups of. 20 and 30 under their chieftians. Italian Tank Cauptured ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Ethiopian government Thursday. announced the capture of a lone Italian officer and his tank near Dolo, in southern Ethiopia, as the only military news received from any front in the last 24 hours. At the same time the government said that the Italians are building an air base in the Danakil desert, northwest of Mount Mussa Ali and GO miles from the Eritreand border; Italy Talks of Peace GENEVA.

Switzerland-(Copyright Associated Press)-An Italian spokesman announced Thursday that the warring Fascit nation is willing to negotiate for peace with Ethiopia. The spokesman made this assertion AS the League of Nations offered Italy a final interval for consideration of a settlement of the East Africa conflict before being subjected to an ic blockade. A British spokesman conceded that Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare would also be pleased to sound out the situation before the application of boycotts, Press Angers British LONDON, Eng Britain made new representations to Mussolini Thursday against a continuation of attacks upon it in the Italian press, high authoritative sources announced. Similar representations were made in regard to alleged anti-British propaganda on the Italian radio. Anti-British Riots ROME.

students houting "Down with England' demonstrated cutside the British embassy Thursday ah Italian authorities lookcal toward Germany and Austria for working agreements in Italy's hour of trial under of Nations sanctions. Copyright Associated Press WITH THE ITALIAN TROOPS in Northern -Unconfirmed press dispatches from Mogadiscio, Italian Somaliland, said Wednesday night that thousands of Italians and Dubats (native troops) swept the Ethiopian defenders aside in a bloody battle, reaching the vicinity of Gorahci, 011 the southern front. The dispatches said the battle had raged fortified between Italian Gorahci and Scillave, several center, for days. There was no estimate of the dend and wounded. To Attack Oorahei ROME, Italy-(A)-Dispatches from the Southern African front to Italian newspapers said Wednesday night native troops now were occupying the road from Scillave to Gorahei atory to an attack on that Ethiopian city.

The dispatches indicated the Italian near Gorahei. the immediate forces are holding strategic positions, tive in the drive of Gen. Rudolfo Grazian's forces toward Harar. Moving Toward Makale ADIGRAT, Ethiopia, Oct. 29 (Delayed, Copyright Associated Press)-.

Two columns of Italian troops moved toward Makale. in northern Ethiopia Wednesday wtihout encountering re(Continued on page four) War Scene as Italians Prime Guns for 'Big Push' a To Port ITALIAN ARMY of 180,000 men, Gen. SAUD.I ARABI Emello de Bono commanding, advancing pating steadily major beyond battle near Adigrat-Aksum Makale, line, 50. antici- miles A6U AFIELD A southward. Dessyc would be next goal.

Wamanis in ETHIOPIANS, sector. Ras Seyoum comMANY ETHIOPIANS KILLED, Cher back, with armies left and Expected to fall manding. this Dedjasmatch, Ayaleu, their Cheren Makale before attempting major right, south resistance. of leader wounded, in impatient and rash attack 011 Italian 10.300, mountain stronghold. Hanethe YE MEN Raida 30,000 ETHIOPIANS protecting.

foothills leading from 150,000 ETHIOPIANS, Ras (Adus Danakil: Plain in northeast. Kassa sector. commanding, Sporadic in attacks this Talig Res A against repulsed in Italians' rugged right country. wing SECOND ITALIAN ARMY. Bedda based at Assab, advancing to Jakota 1 MUSSO execute two-pronged: move.

Inent: force. to strike Sot northward to protect Italian ETHIOPIAN RESERVE FORCE Debra Ta boT Tad first army's left wing; another moving War up here for major bat- Gune to swing. southward toward Minister Ras Mutu 13800 the railway and Ras Nassibu's Getta commanding. at May re- Gobad' constantly invaders Makale. growing army.

LARGE ETHIOPIAN ARMY ETHIOPIAN CONCENTRATION massing here for defense. of here, in strong position, in- Harar. and all -important Dji. spected by Emperor Hailo bouti-Addis Ababa railway. Selassie who will take person- Chomen Diced Ras Nassibu commanding.

al command soon. Eight thou- Stamp sand trained troops en route Addis Jimbas Kirtt. cal to Dessye from capital. Ital. ians hope to reach Dessye as then southern make army reaches: Harar, Wacho advance on Addis Ougu Dungala Ababa from two sides.

Zwal Hora THIRD ITALIAN ARMY, Gen. Rodolfo Grazi. Italian troops ani, Italy's greatest colonial fighter, commanding. Capture of Dagnerrei marks adEthiopian troops vance of 25 miles in two weeks, 60 miles Bode Gurbo further than the original line. Determined as.

Direction of Italian sault on Gorahai expected Burry offensives to date and Bate those expected. Defoyeh: be DAGNERREI FORTRESS falls. to Italians, Shiver Saras tive Dubats leading attack with aid of forces a of Sultan Olol-Dinie, formerly Ethiopian dependent. Italian planes. from Mustahil.

base aid advance. Oddur Sule Missarole. Demasi Iscie Hahadda This map, picturing progress of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, gives you comprehensive picture scene as Mussolini's Blackshirts and their black-skinned native allies were reported about to launch a big-scale offensive on tour fronts. The dotted arrows indicate how the Italians hope to penetrate Ethiopia's, machine-gun studded mountains from north south and its burning Danakil. from the east, the invaders then -to be in position to strike toward Addis Ababa, the capital, from Dessye, in the northeast, and Harar, in the east.

Hit-Run Victims Reported Better Mr. White on Road to Recovery- White's Condition Still Grave The condition of Mr. and Mrs. Powell White, injured by a negro hitand-run driver Tucsday night, WAS reported Thursday by Julia Chester be improved. Hospital attaches said that both victims of the accident rested well Wednesday night.

Brighter hopes are held for the recovery of Mr. White. Mrs. White remained in a serious condition. She is suffering from al fractured skull and occasional hemorrhages of the brain.

Police continued to search Thursday for the negro driver whose identity is known, Officers said that his arrest is expected this week. The automobile abandoned by the negro at the scene of the accident, North Laurel street, is held by the police, After striking Mr. and Mrs. White ns they walked across a street, the negro jumped from his car and fled into the darkness. negro is believed to have been alone when he struck the two destrians.

Crosnoe Clemency Decision Monday Futrell Indicates Furlough Unlikely to Be Granted LITTLE Governor FuI trell's decision on a clemency of Charles Crosnoc of Hope, serving six year sentence for arson. will be announced next Monday, he said Wed- inesday. The exceutive said he would advise Crosnoc's attorney, J. C. Clary of Warren, then, but he did not "think now that Cresnoc would be granted any elemency." Crosnoe convicted of firing a gin at Banks.

Bradley county. He sought his release at il hearing last week on the grounds that two others convicted had been liberated and the! claim that he had been promised immunity by State Insurance Commissioner U. A. Gentry for a Trio of Unmasked Station $53 Hold Up Robbery Reported on West City Line at 3:30 a. m.

Thursday "COVERED" BY: GUNS Two Ransack Filling Star tion While Third Waits. in Automobile Three unmasked men held up, and robbed Luck's Tourist Court on High way 67 west of Hope at 3:30 Thursday and escaped in the direc tion of this city with $43 in cash and about $10 in cigarettes, and cigars Nearby towns quickly, notified but no trace of the had been found at noon Thursday. The rob bery occurred a few minutes after Po licemen Stewart and Baker had left the station after completing their night beats. The three bandits drove into the station from the direction of Tex arkana. One man stepped, out and ordered Odell Luck; employe, "filler up and check the In the meantime, the other two men stepped from the car and strolled in side.

When' Luck finished servicing the car he was told that one of the men on the inside would pay the bill by Bandits Luck went in to: collect but was greeted with two pistols. He was.com manded to "hold up your hands mean One of the bandits then went to the rear of the station and roused a negro cook, who ordered to come out and joln Lucky Both were told to lie on the floor one of the bandits, went, to the cash register. The register would not open for the bandit." Luck was made to rise and open the register. The bandit took all the cash and several cartons and boxes of cigars. With the robbery.

completed Luck and" the negro cook were told to lie on the floor five minutes. The two, bandits joined the third man in the car who had kept the motor running, and whiskey away toward Hope. Car Is Described Their automobile was a 1935 models Oldsmobile sedan, It was dark blue with a red stripe around the body. The two bandits with pistols were heavy set, ranging in age from about 30 to 35." The third man who sat under the wheel was smaller and appeared to be about 30 years old. Luck said.

the trio apparently. were professional hijackers. They were calm and went about the holdup smoothly, Not a curse word was u- tered, Luck said. The Fulton toll bridge attendant reported that the three men passed over. the bridge at 2 At that time they inquired of an all-night- service station at Hope, The robbery occurred an hour and a half: later, Bulletins TUCKER PRISON FARM, Ark.

Superintendent Tom Cogbill Thursday denied petition for sanity. hearing, for. Frank Dobbs, the eve of his scheduled execution for the slaying of Miss Fannie 'Orr, 51, Benton spinster, MEMPHIS, Charles G. Henry, of Memphis, gencral manager of the Mid-South Cotton Growers association, told Senator McKellar Thursday that the cotton classing service is the greatest benclit 1 the co-operatives have brought the Southern farmer, "The farmer knows today what his cotton is worth. Thore are 110 more bargains for the cotton merchant at the cxpense of the producer," Henry testified.

Senator McKellar charged the co-operatives with the outright buying of cotton from farmer members. LITTLE ROCK-(A)-Plans for the development of approximately 250,000 acres of land to be purchased by the government in its program of acquiring submarginal lands were discussed Thursday at al meeting of the State Planning Board. er's There Is No Time to Revise the List Land List Brings in the Tax Money Such a Rush of Late-Pay- This year's publication of the Hempstead county delinquent land listthe first in several seasons--brought such a flood of late payments 1 following the first insertion a week ago that the final publication today had to be without the customary revision. It: is customary after the first publication to drop from the list the names of those who have paid tax and penalty before the final publicationbut it was physically impossible do that this year, it was announced Thursday by county officials and management of The Star and weekily Washington Telegraph, which, published the list jointly, In other years there was a twoweeks interval between the first and second publications, but this year only one week was allowed, the publication (Continued on page four) Band Uniforms on View Here Friday They Arrive Thursday, and Will Appear at Friday Night's Game A confident Bobcat football team went through the final practice session of the week Thursday as it prepared for an invasion here Friday night of the Smackover High School Buckaroos. The Hope Boys band, made up inostly o1 high school students, will strut between halves at the game in brand new blue and gold uniforms.

The 'uniforms arrived in Hope Thursday morning and were being distributed to members of the band at Gorham Gosnell's store, A 50-piece band from Smackover will also perform at the game. The visiting band will arrive here late Friday on a special five-coach train with 500 boosters from Smackover. A battle of wide-open football is in prospect when the two teams tangle at 7:45 p. m. The visitors are reported to be dangerous with air raids and sweeping end runs, The Bobcats' running attack has been stressed in practice this week, and the throwing arm of Tootsie Cargile, ace Bobcat back, is in good shape to match that of the visitors.

Physically the Hope in good shape for the battle with the excep-1 tion of Reese and Bright. Reese turncd an ankle in practice Wednesday and may not gel to see much action. Bright injured his shoulder in the Nashville game lust week, but is expected to play. Soil Conservation Meet on Thursday Attempt Will Be Made at 7:30 to Increase Cooperating Area Business men and farmers of Hope and Hemstead county are urged to at-; tend a soil conservation meeting at Thursday night at Hope city hall. New plans will be discussed a wider knowledge of the soil conserration program will be outlined.

It is hoped that new contracts may be secured at the mecting. Those desiring soil conservation service and ready to sign contracts are asked to bring their land descriptions to the mecting. President Rebukes His Brain Truster Tugwell "Wild" in His West Coast Speech, Declares Roosevelt irritated al press speculation, concerning year's government budget; -President Roooscelt Wednesday chided per men for printing "crazy stories" and then included his favorite Brain Truster, Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy in: his sharp criticism. In a speech at Los Angeles Monday, Tugwell told a Democratic assemblage that the administration could satisfy every humanitarian demand and still balance the budget in 1938. This statement, Mr.

Roosevelt declared. was almost as unfounded as the predictions thrown out by many political observers that the probably never would be balanced: again. Tugwell's statement wasn't. quite as "wild" the newspaper stories, he remarked acidly, because Tugwell knew EL little more about the budget than the newspaper men. But it was evident that Tugwell's speech had angered his chief.

Not even he, himself, said Mr. Roosevelt, knew anything about the shape the budget will take when it is drafted about New Year's Day. He and his advisers will settle down studying the financial situation at Hyde Park this week, he said. The president left late Wednesday night for his home on the Hudson where he will spend a week. Meanwhile, the president said.

be hoped the newspaper men would stop "making stories out of whole cloth." He remarked that every effort would be made to hold down the old govdepartments to figures on which they were opcrated during the fiscal year. But he refused to make any commeut on the so-called "emergency expenditures." He has thus far dealt with only two departments and two independent agencies, he said..