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World- Wide News Coverage Given Impartially by Associated Press night ARKANSAS and Saturday; -Mostly local cloudy thunder. Friday. Hope Star showers in The afternoon northeast and Weather night, portion Friday VOLUME 40-NUMBER 307 3 A A Undefeated HITLER Walnut Ridge Will Show Heavy Squad, Team Averages 174 Both Squads Are Reported To Be In Physical Shape 4TH GAME OF SEASON Visitors Have Two Stars In Milligan, End, and Coffey, Quarter The kickoff at 8 p. m. Friday will send the Hope Bobcat football Lenin into am intersectional clash with the undefeated Walnut Ridge Bobents at Hammons stadium.

The locals will be facing the biggest teum to date, the official weight rUlease showing the Walnut Ridge team to average 174 pounds to the man. The Walnut Ridge line averages 182 pounds, the oackfield 160, Although the visitors' record ur has not been as impressive as that of Hope, reports indicate that Walnut Ridge has been "pointing" for the Hope battle and the team is expected to put up a hard fight to the end, The up-state eleven boasts two outstanding stars in Coffey, 170-pound quarterback. and Milligan. 220- pound right end. Milligan is reported to be exceptionally fast for a big man.

running the 100-yard dash in 11 secunds. He frequently is used on endaround plays, and is said to be a great defensive player. The Walnut Ridge team, according to roports, left that city- Thursday -and stopped over for a work -out on some neutral field before entering Hope. This report, bowever, could not be contirmed. Coach Foy Mammons announced Friday morning that his team would be in shape, but feared a slight let-down because of the tough El Dorado battle last week.

Halomons, however, said some of the members est the team were taking Walnut Ridge with "much scriousness" in view of their big. heavy team. Charles Ray Baker, halfback, will be the only Hope regular who will not start. Baker has a knee that has been giving him trouble, and will see part of the gaine from the bench, Sunny Coleman, dandy blocking back, has been given the assigument, arsel will start in the backfield with Ellen, Taylor and Daniels. Sonny Murphy and Jimmy Simms wall get to show their if the score is anyway safe at halftime.

Murphy is near, letterman, while Summa is playing bis first year of high school football. Be has three more to go, and Himmons is anxious to give him as much experience this season as possible, The officials for the game: Gerns I Howard, Quachita, referee; Bill merville, Henderson, umpire: Evans, Texarkana, headlinesman, Earl O'Neal Hendrix, filed judge. Game-time is 8 o'clock. Cox Oil Mill at Prescott Opened C'elebration Held for C. of Industrial Project PRESCOTT, Ark The Prescott Chamber of Commerce sponsored a program Thursday, celebrating the opening of the Nevada county oil mill.

Arkansas Nathaniel Dyke, chairman of the Council of Agriculture, Sejence and Industry was the principal speaker, Be discussed "What Industry Means to Arkansas." Other speakers K. Thatcher, executive director of the slate Agricultural and Industrial Conunission. wha spoke on "Peanuts and Soy Beans Senator Ellis Fagan, Ltitle Rock: E. Smith Reid. Little Rock.

engineer of the state Agricultural and Industrial Commission; I. G. Gingles. Benton and Ernest Cox. manager of the mill here.

A luncheon was given at the Loco hotel for guests and Prescott business men. William F. Denman president, and Tom J. Compton. chairman of the Entertainment Comittee of the Chamber of Commerce, had charge of the program which was hell in the open air theater in the City park following a concert by the Prescott band.

As the earth rotates 011 its axis, the surface A1. the cquator travels fastest. For this reason. if the earth were 1u nerease 1s rotaton speed, the centrifugal force would be felt in the equalorial regions. HOPE, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1939 OFFERS PEACE A A A A A Grid Teams to Clash Here at 8 p.m.

German Sea Raider Renews War Started by Emden and Seeadler in Last Conflict Sinking of British Steamer Clement Counds Warning Von Luckner Became Greatest German Sea Name in World War STORY OF EXPLOITS Lone Wolf Ranged Two Oceans and Left Destruction, Fear By NEA Service Ominously, the blasts that sent the Athenia to bottom off coast of Brazil suond warning to allied shipping. Loundly, they echo memories of two effective German raiders of the first World war. How did the Nazi 'poc-' ket" battleship. Admiral 1 Scheer, slip through British blockade in the North Sea? Is it to become a Seedler or an Einden of the current campaign. In 1916 the allied blockade ring was uncomfortably tight around Germany.

Somebody must run the blockade, strike back. Count Felix von Luckner, the "Sea Devil," took. the job. An American schooner, the Pass Balmha, had been captured by a U- boat the year before, was resting idle at That was to be his vessel. yaremen.

windjammer through the blockade--then bucancering on the high seas! The task was the kind Von Luckner relished. He disguised the boat as A neutral Norweign freighter with the entire crew trained to speak Norse. Timber provided the fake cargn. Hidden guns were installed. Under cover of El pitch black November night, the Secadler slid the Weser river and into the North Sea.

In a storm it passed the Brilish blockade and was tossed into the Artie. Christmas Present For Germuny A few days later Christinas brought the Secadler a present--a wind which drove the ship south. The English cruiser Avenger sighted the Seeadler, halted it, but penetrate the disguise. The Secadler was free. First target was British steamship Gladys Royal off Gibraltor on Jan.

11 The crew was removed and a bomb sent the Gladys Royal into a dive. Next came the Lundy Island, with cargo of sugar, Then the French Charles Gounod; the H. M. S. Percy, out from Nova Scotia and disguised as a U.

S. boat; the French Antonin; the Italian Buenos Aires. In cight weeks on the Atlantic, Witters had either two or four funnels; the Ewden had three. So Von Muller erected a fake funnel of wood and canvas. Hitting the Calcutta-Bombay seaway, the raider captured the Greek ship Pontoporos, with 6500 tons of coul for the Brilish, Next morning took the English transport Indus.

The following day brought two more captures and two more sinkings, plus the seizure of the Kabinga, headed from Calcutta to New York wtih Amowned goods. The Kabinga was added Eden's train as a priSon ship. With a British squadron at her heels the Endon shifted to the MadrasCalcutta route, bagged British collier Trabbock and the Clan Matheson. Then creeping into Madras harbor itself, the Enden poured a full salvo into Fort St. George and tanks of the Burma Oil Company.

A stray shell struck a increhantman in the harbor. After 125 rounds had been fired the sky was as light as day, many tanks had exploded, the city was in panic. The Enden fled. Later the Emden expedition steamed into the harbor of Penang. A French armored cruiser in the bay was the lure; the Russian cruiser Jemtehug was what she got.

Stopped by Australian Cruiser The Sydney, Australian cruiser, brought Waterloo to the Embden in a long battle off North Keeling island 01 Nov. 9, 1914, as Captain Von Muller made a daring effort to cut (Continued on Page Four) A Thought A Thought Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through PRICE 5c COPY PLAN A A Friday El Dorado Woman Is to Supervise 1940 Census WASHINGTON (P) Rep. Wade Kitchens, Arkansas Democrat, nounced Friday he had recommended appointment of Mrs. J. R.

Wilson of El Dorado to he Seventh congressional district supervisor for the 1940 census. Research Required for Good Farming George Ware Tells Rotary Club of Two Kinds of Cottonseed "Private industry spends for scientific research to improve its production methods and goods about $1.70 for every $100 in sales--but there is spent for scientific research in agri(culture only 37 cents per $100 in sales, anet this is paid for by government," George W. Ware, assistant director in charge of the Fruit Truck Branch Experiment Station here, told Hope club Friday noon at Hotel Barlow. The value of rescurch is specific, Tic added, taking as an example the local station's experiments with two groups of cotton seed. The high-yield seed showed a return of $52 per acre, the! low-yield seed $33.

But the the first was $28, yielding a profit of $24 per while the production cost for the second was $25, the profit of the high-yield seed, yielding a profit of only $8-one-third Mr. Ware gave an interesting summary of all scientific development, reporting that one observer had said that the invention of the tin can led to grunting the right to vote to women -tin-can-cooking gave them leisure, and leisure aroused in them an interest in political affairs. Club guests Friday were: M. R. Owens, Little Rock; and W.

L. White, Dallas. Will Restock Red Lake Near Fulton Sen. Pilkinton Announces( Delivery of Fish From Hatchery The Little Rock office of the ArkanGame and Fish Commission Friclay notified state Senator James H. Pilkington of Hope that it had instructed its fish hatchery at Lonoke, Arkansas, to make a delivery of fingorling game fish to Hempstead county this week for -restocking Red Lake near Fulton.

Mr. Pitkington said that the state fish distribution truck will arrive in Hope about noon Saturday, October 7 th, enroute to the lake with the loaci of fish, and that if possible SOITIC of the interested fishermen in Hope and Hempstead county should accompany the truck to the Lake and assist with the planting. He said that the distribution truck would be met here by Miles Laha, Hempstead county game warden, and that local persons who wished to accompany the truck to Red Lake should be ready to go upon its arrival in town so as not to delay the, planting of the fish. Operation of a bicycle is prohibited 131) the streets of Cumberland Md. u- less the bike is in good condition and the operator has a special permit from safety department.

What is possibly the world's oldest savings account is one of $15 deposited in a Manhattan bank in Interest has increased the original deposit to nearly $4000. 10,572 Nazis Dear, 30,322 Wounded, in Pole Campaign United States, Sends Warships to Protect Threatened Liner IROQUOIS IN PERIL Germans Say British Plan to Destroy It, Then Blame Them BERLIN, Germany -(A)- Fuchrer Hitter Friday listed the losses of Germany's armed forces in the Polish campaign as 10,572 killed; 30,322 wounded; 3,404 missing. Protect U.S. Liner HYDE PARK, N. Y.

-(P)- dent Roosevelt told reporters Friday he WAS dispatching naval vessels and coast guard cutters to guard the American steamship Iroquois, as a very illustration of the operation of the neutrality patrol in Atlantic wa. ters. Asked whether his action meant 4 precedent was being established that warships would acompany other ica ships. the president replied in the negative. British Angry LONDON, Eng.

-(P)- The British admiralty, commenting on the man statement that the United States liner Iroquois might be sunk, said Friday: "It is surprising that an officer of the former imperial Germany navy like Admiral Racder should bemen his uniform by lending himself 10 such baseness." The suggestion, made to Washington through the United States naval altache at Berlin by the German commander the admiralty asserted, "enables us once more to realize and mcasure the criminal mentality of the Nazi party leaders." Germany Warns U. S. WASHINGTON --(Ar- The White House announced late Thursday receipt of a warning From the Germany navy that the United States liner Iroquois, now somewhere in the North with full load of American passengers, would be sunk near the American coast. The ship is due in Now York Wednesday, Who would do the sinking was not made clear. The German Admiralty, which denied sinking the British line Athenia which some America lives were toast, said the sinking of the Iroquois 'would be accomplished through a repetition of circumstances which marked the loss of the steamship Athenia." German sources accused the British of sinking the At(Continued on Page Four) Marine Sergeant Is Killed at L.

R. Sgt. Siguar Fosse Slain tempting to Stop Cafe Holdup LITTLE ROCK-IA)-Sergeant Sigurd Fosse. 40-year-old U. S.

Marine Corps recruiting officer, was shot and killed carly Friday when he altempled to frustrate a holdup in a downtown restaurant, The lone bandit, after 3 struggle with the officer, fled, leaving the marine fatally wounded on the sidewalk in front of the cafe. Fosse died before he could be removed to a hospital. The Probable Starting Lineup HOPE WALNUT RIDGE Green 190. Left End Hearn 175 Calhoun 235 Left Tackle Jones 190 Breeding 163. Left Guard D.

Willet 171 Bundy 175. Center Wilkinson 155 Quimby 160. Right Guard Willet 172 Simpson 255 Right Tackle Van Winkle 190 Eason 190. Right End Milligan 220 Daniels 178. Quarter Back Coffey 170 Ellen 162.

Left Half Riggs 155 Coleman 150. Right Half Woudring 145 Taylor 167. Full Back Logan 170 Team Average 184 174 Teant Average Line Average 195 182 Line Average Backfield Average 165 160 Backfield Average Seedier NORTH leaves Germany AMERICA Dec. 21, 1916 ASIA Sinks 27 sinks leaves Tsingtau Seizes Emden Br. ships or Bay of Aug.

5, 1914 Sinks 3 10 ships Bengal American Ocean Shells Shells Atlantic vessels Oct. 1, 1939, Madras Seizes Pacific Ocean Clement AFRICA Penang; Russian! sunk Seizes vessel dr sinks 11 ships (SOUTH MOPELIA I. Sinks 9. Ital. CHAGOS Secodler Aug.

2, stranded 1917 vessels KEELING IS AUS. Indian Ocean Emden sunk Nov. 9, 1914 Radier's routes: the Enden operated largely in the sailed into Pacific. The cross marks the first Indian Ocean; the Secadler cruised South blow of the Admiral Scheer, German pocket Atlantic, then raider to open operations during the latest war. battleship, first surface Demand Embargo on Arms Retained Many Senate Opponents Then Would Agree to Bill Revision WASHINGTON -(P)- A dozen scnate opponents offered Friday to accept revised neutrality legislation which would relain the arms embargo now in effect, and set up requirement for cash payments on belligerents' purchases.

Meanwhile, Senator Thomas, Utah Democrat, declared no nation could complain against repeal of the arms neutrality bill is to prevent American ships from carrying war supplies embargo, because the administration's to belligerents. Big Hope Melon for University Team Mrs. Hattie A. West Sends 119-Pounder to State University FAYATEVILLT -(A)-. The giant watermelon that took first prize al the Hempstead county fair at Hope last week will be eaten by the University of Arkansas football players.

The huge melon, which according 10 the express company, weighted 119 pounds, was sent to J. W. Fullbright, university president, By Mrs. Hattie A. West of Hope, whose grand son.

Talbot Field, Jr. is a student in the university, The -winning melon was grown by O. D. Middlebrooks of Hope, champion grower of the state's premier watermelon section. Middlebrooks rais.

ed the 195-pound watermelon a few years ago that still holds the world's championship. President Fulbright, after ining his gift melon, decided that the Razorback football squad of 48 members was the only campus group husky andi hungry enough to consume the huge melon. So some afternoon after practice the Razorbacks will tackle the 119-melon. CRANIUM CRACKERS War Words Identify each of the following words or names associated with the new European War by indicating the proper phrase that describes it. I.

Embargo. (a) New Yugoslav Minister of War; (b) British liner sunk in English channel: c) neutrality provision prohibiting export of arms to belligerents by U. S. 2. Calineseu.

(a) Polish city where 1000 were reported killed by bombs; (b) assassinated Rumanian Prime minister; le) French air -force commander. 3. Gort. (a) British general: (b) substitute for wheat used in making German bread; (c) fort in the Mediterrancan. 4.

Warsaw. (a) Tool used by exiled Kaiser Wilhelm to cut wood; (b) beseiged Polish city; (c) flooded river blocking troop movements in Bulgaria. Answers on Page Two Germany Asks No More Territory, He Tells Reichstag Alternative Is a Frightful European War, He Declares BRITISH STUDY IT But "More Than Has to Be Pledged, London Reminds World Chandler Is to Be Appointed Senator To Resign as Governor and Fill Seat of Sen. FRANKFORT Ky. -(P)- Governor Chandler, a high official source disclosed Friday, will resign Monday and be.

appointed United States senator Licutenant Governor Keen Johnson who will succeed him as the state's chief executive. Chandler will take the scat left vacant by the death of Senator Logan Tuesday. (Keen Johnson, now lieutenant ernor, was chosen governor in Kengov- tucky's recent election.) Japanese Losing in Major Battle Invaders Falling Back From Drive Against City of Changsha HONKONG -(A)- A Japanese back with heavy losses appeared set-, Thurs day to be the result of Japan's first in major military offensive against China nearly a year. Chinese reported that a co-ordinated campaign aimed at ital of Hunan province, had capChangsha, been repulsed and that the Japanese were falling back across the Mi river, 40 miles north of the city. The Japanese offensive was launched a few days after Japan and Rusin sia reached a truce September 16 hostilities along the frontier between Manchoukuo and Outer Mongolia.

It was designed as a Servere blow at Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek's forees. Estimates of the number of men involved ran as high as 500,000. failed Chinese to reports, which Japanese deny, said Chiang's forces were reoccupying towns along the railway north of Changsha as the Japanese fell back. The Japanese drive started from the Lake Tungting region, southwest of Hankow, and headed down the railway line.

Chinese said the Mi river would form the temporary boundry between Chinese and Japanese forces. A year ago Japanese pushed so close to Changsha that much of it was burned by the Chinese in accordance with their "scorched carth" policy of preventing valuable buildings or equipment from falling into enemy (Continued on Page Four) H. A. Turner, 78, Veteran Weekly Publisher, Dies EL DORADO, Ark -A H. A Turner, 78, former publisher of weekly newspapers in Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma, died here Thursday following a long illness.

Survivors include four sons and one sister. Funeral services probably will be held Friday afternoon. Mr. Turner was the father of Brown Turner, who wrote a front, page featur for Hope Star for a year, and now is managing editor of the Nashville (Tenn.) Times. The elder Turner had six sons, all of them being either printers or newspaper men BERLIN Germany -(A)- Adolf Hitler Friday proposed a European peace settlement "on a comprhensive basis" but added that if the Allies rejected: his "outstretched hand" this statement "will have been my last." "Then we shall fight," he went on, and pictured the new war as one sure to bring unprecedented horror to the world.

"May those peoples and their leaders who are of the same mind (as himself) now make their reply," he said in an hour-and-20-minute speech to. the Reichstag and the world. He challenged the Allies to "interpret these of mine as cowardice, if inopinions need not occupy myself with what they think: I make these statements simply because it goes without saying I wish to spare my own people this suffering." Hitler declared "neither force of lapse of time will conquer: Germany. It is an infantile hope for disintegrations of -Plan our people." -These were mong" the other mat eria phases of his speech: 1. Renunciation of further territorial claims, save for old colonial demands.

2. Declaration that Germany and Soviet Russia together "relieve one of the acutest spots in Europe" by working for a peace zone in eastern Europe. 3. Specific assurance to the world that he had no designs on Rumania, the Ukraine, the Urals, or 'Denmark, nor expansion in eastern Europe generally, and Scandinavia as well. His interests ar wholly economic.

Luckner Von Mueller Leadership Meet at Hope Saturday Demonstration Clubs tol Hold Session at Hope City Hall A leadership meeting to be held i in municipal court room of the city hull Saturday, October 7th. The 'meeting will be conducted by the home demonstration agent, Mary Claude Fletcher. Demonstrations in upholstering furniture, refinishing furniture, plans for mattres making, ideals for home crafts will be given. The meeting will. begin at 10 and last until 3:30 p.

111. Each home, demonstration club is to send home management and arct craft leaders, also the presidents of each club. This is one ol A series leadership mectings that will be held for the home demonstration club leaders. Following is the schedule home! demonstration club meetings for the' month of October, the club. the meeting place, date and time.

The schedule follows: Bruce Chapel, Mrs. C. M. Foster, OcLober 2, 2 p. m.

Centerville, Mrs. Herbert Clark, Oetober 2, 2 p. m. Liberty Hill. Mrs.

J. C. October 3, 2 p. 'm. Ozan-St.

Paul, Mrs, 0, C. Robins. October 4, 2 p. m. McCaskill, Mrs.

E. W. Rinchart, Octuber 5. 2 p. m.

Centerpoint, October 5, 2 p. m. Allen, October 6, 2 p. 1. Now Hope, October 6, 2.

1). m. Metrose, Mrs. Fred Petre, October 3. 2 p.

191, Hinton, October 00, 2 p. Belton, Mrs. H. Harris, October 11. 2 p.

111. Hopewell, October 12, 2 p. 11. Bright Star, October 13, 2 p. fil.

Friendship, October 13. 2 p. 11. McNab, Mrs. Bobbie McIntosh, Oetober 16, 2 p.

m. Rocky Mound. October 17, 2 p. 111. Columbus, Mrs.

Allen Wowns. Oetober 18, 2 p. 111. Hickory Shade, Mrs. B.

S. Wilson. October 18, 2 p. lu. Shover Springs, October 19.

2 p. m. Old Liberty, Mrs. Mosier. October 19, 2.

p. m. Mt. Picasant, Mrs. W.

H. Harper. Octiber 20, 2 p. 331. Oak Grave, October 23.

2 p. 11. Zion, October 23, 2 p. 221. Sweet Home, Mrs.

Mary Wilson. October 24, 2 p. m. Bingen, Mrs. Glen Crowell.

October 24. 2 p. m. Washington, Cetober 25, 2 p. 111.

Mt. Nebo, Mrs. Dorsey Burns, Octuber 26. 2 p. 110.

Green Laseter, October 26. 2 p. 111. Marlbrook, October 27, 2 p. hi.

The British View LONDON, -(P)- The British government said Frdiay night that Hitler's peace' proposals would be "sub jected to careful examination in consultation with the governments of the dominions and the French republic. "But," the statement added, "it is necessary to remember two things: "First-no peace proposal is likely to be accepted which does not effectively Europe from the menace "Second--something more than words will be required to establish fidence in any peace proposals Germany might make." Methodist Revival Bringing Results Attendance Is On the Increase--Junior Choir Is Organized Interest in the revival at the Methodist church continues to grow. Reverend C. B. Wyatt has done quite well in organizing a junior choir and in developing interest in the young people's meetings.

The hour spent in these group meetings after school and again at 6:45 at night are bringing results, if interest and number are to be taken as an indication. Reverend Kenneth L. Spore preached two powerful sermons on Thursday, while the sermon on Friday morning was a continuation of thought in presenting another phase of Paul's ministry. His challenge to his audience came in the statement that the "religion of people about us is the instrumentality through which others are saved." Using Paul as the model, he called upon every member to be a witnes for Christ at all times. Services will be held at 7:30 Friday night.

There will be no morning service on Saturday morning, but the usual services will be held Saturday evening al the suual hour, 7:30. There are 17,464 wires in cach of the cables supporting the San Francisco-Ookland bridge. Cotton Cotton NEW YORK-(P)-October cotton opened Friday at 9.13 and closed at 9.12. Middling 9.19..