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Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor Alex. H. Washburrt- Money Circulation Relief on Prices to Follow Washington dispatch Thursday said: average American had $5 mss at the end of January than a month earlier. "The Treasury said today the average January 31 was $193.16, compared with $198.63 December 31. "This was based on $28,091,671,632 in circulation among a population of 145,434.000 January 31.

That was less money and more people than a month before." With less money in circulation than a month ago you can be pretty sure that the inflation- siy peak has been reached and passed. For it is the pressure of too much money in circulation that booms prices beyond what is right and reasonable. It is a famliar experience during wartime, and for a while thereafter. But eventually the flood of easy money is soaked up and the nation returns to a sound basis of Supply and demand. That there hasn't been a sharper drop before now is almost certainly due to the fact that the nipple, have husbanded their cash fflrlier than they did after Worlc War buying Savings Bonds anc life-insurance; and the further fact Hope Star WIATHER FOfttCAtr Arkansas: Occasional rain except sleet or snow in extreme northwest portion, continued cold this afternoon and tonight Temperatures near 25 to 34 tonight.

cloudy, occasional rataj 49TH YEAR: VOL 49 NO. 104 Itar MOM It, HOPE, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1948 Associated Press Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n. PRICE SbGOftfr Truman Object of Political 'Brickbats' By The Associated Press Political brickbats showered down on President Truman irom a full battery of Republican campaign speakers today. Another came sailing up from a Southern stronghold of his own Democratic party. On the side, two candidates for the GOP presidential nomination differed publicly over how generous this country should be in helping Europe.

The added attraction featured Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Senator Taft of Ohio. Both gave the Truman foreign policy a severe raking, but they split in their discussion of the Marshall plan. Dewey told a Boston Lincoln Day audience the forign policy "should be thrown overboard lock, stock and barrel." Taft, speaking at St.

Paul, blamed it for "the'losing of (the pace thus far." that both the labor unions and However, Dewey said it would be industrial management have to give the administration controlling production so there all has asked for spending under wouldn't be too much surplus of I the Marshall plan than to "limit it gccds in the event prices wen: down with an amount which might fail to do the job." Taft insisted that foreign aid spending should be held to essential food and industrial pump-priming. He said he is against inviting the 16 western European nations to "add up their desired imports, subtract their possible exports and hand us a bill for the difference." Former governor Harold E. Plans for Two Hospitals in Arkansas Approved Washington, Feb; 13 (fP) Public Health service said today it has approved construction plans for two hospitals in Arkansas. The projects, to be built under the 5-year federal hospital program in which the federal government pays a third of the toal cost, are: Crosselt Health Foundation, rossett, 52-bcd genral hospital, private, non-profit; total coast federal shares Boone County Hospital Harrison, new 40-bed general, public hospital, total cost federal shares $150,000. Lost Man-Days Took Big Drop in 1947 Thousands of Man-Days Idle' suddenly.

But basically prices are fixed by the amount of money in circulation, and that now seems to bo definitely smaller. -9- Ike Did and Didn't say Russia's War Aims JAMES THRASHER Nothing could be more typical of BY iNoimng could oe more 'typical ot.stassen of Minnesota, who also is General Eisenhower's honesty than I running for th Republican nomi- his statement on the possibility saicl in Germantown, war with Russia made man m-l he thinks the Marshall plan hou i formal speech before the National carned oat as finall deve io ped Press Club two before his undcr the loadershlp Senator nf stnff 'Vandonberg (R-Mich). Vandenberg is chairman of the Senate Foreign under way and finance it for the first 15 months. ment as Chief of Staff. In answer to a question, the general said that the Soviet Union He probably knew, even as he j(jcke, that there might be some who would lake that statement out of context and quote him to the country's disadvantage.

But he had been asked an honest question, and, since his knowledge of the answer was certainly superior to that of most Americans, he undoubtedly felt.he had to give that answer honestly. It will be surprising if the opponents of aid to Europe, of universal military training, of an adequate armed forces budget and other necessities of national defense, do not to make capital of General Eisenhower's So it might be well to remember that the retired Chief of Staff said something more. He said that Russia is in no position to support a global he has a number of lirst hand witnesses to bear him out. But he also said that no other nation in the world is in a position to support one, either. He was obviously speaking of this country.

General Eisenhower does not jhink that Russia is going to pro- oke war. But, as a professional soldier, he favors ERP as an ex- 11 Members of One Family Perish in Fire Utica, N. Feb. 13 Eleven members of one family perished today in a flash fire that swept a two-story frame dwelling in uiica's 'West. Side.

Six bodies were recovered by firemen irom the smoking ruins i''our were children. One was a woman, clasping an infant. Victims included Mrs. Rutr Hoag and nine children ranging in age irom five months to ID years r'ouneen scantily clad persons fled irom Ihe building, Fire barry said. Jjana Pay, br.

nis wile and 19-year-old daughtei were nospitalizeo. with burns aite jumping irom a second floor win ihe walls of the long, ramshack le building, in (Jeaar street, near the Mew York Central railroad trucks, collapsed belore most 01 tne second floor occupants who had been asleep could get out. blazed fiercely for only short lime, DUC ihe intense heat eo.ooo 15,000 10.000 6,000 SPRING strikes began in April ond May than in ony Other months and total idleness wos greatest in these months. Through 1947, continued to be the chief cause of most work stoppage! Monthly average 1,412,000 4985 recorded strikes, 4,600,000 men were effected, with a loss to the nation's production of 116,000,000 man-days of work. Most of this was lost in 31 large, stoppages, involving nearly 3,000,000 workers.

repre sents only 3600 work 1 stoppages, involving 2,200,000 men, with a loss of 35,000,000 man-days of labor. Three large disputes caused almost half the year's idleness. The nationwide telephone strike in April and May; the longer East Coast shipyard Strike; and the brief soft coal stoppage accounted for of the man-days lost 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1946 Preliminary estimates indicate that last year's work stoppages were only one-third as great as In 1946, only about half as many workers were involved and the man-day loss to production was reduced by two-thirds. Graph above, from Bureau of Labor Statistics, charts the trend of idleness to strikes since prewar 1939. jje he ecuri ren, who also aspires to the White House, told his Republican listeners at Los Angeles that if the GO 13 wants to follow Lincoln it should Continued on Page Two Guerrillas in Greece Told to Kill Americans California's Governor Earl War- delayed the firemen's search lor OOO.1CJS.

The list of dead, compiled by Capi. Eugene McWally 01 tne Fire Prevention Bureau, included Mrs. Hoage, 24, and Mrs. Shirley ioage, 29, and these children: Virginia, 19; Dana, 3, Mark, eight months; Catherine, two; Geramine, IU; Audrey, five, Charity, seven; Michael, 11 months, and live montns. Mrs.

Shirley rloage was the wile of an older son 01 iuchara Hoage, husband ol Mrs. By DANIEL Salonika, Feb. Greek guerrillas THRAPP 13 have (UP) been or- cellcnt security measure. He urges universal military training and believes, even with atomic -bombs and the "almost transcendent position of the air force" in modern war, that ground troops will always be necessary. The general did not say xhat the Soviet Union is not preparing for war, or lhat it would not resort to war if it had the strength and if present pressure methods do not 'P-iiiccccd.

He did not say what Rus- pin would do if capitalism crossed up Soviet predictions by failing to collapse. No one can say, and no he said. one can dare assume, that there i i ou must is no danger when thinking of our own defense problems. The goal of Russia's current five- year plan is to repair war damage and bring the country's industrial potential at even with America's by 1950. Americans who have traveled in Russia recently doubt that this can be done.

But that is jtthe stated goal. There is nothing wrong with the Hoal in itself. But, coupled with the Kremlin's bcligorant altitude, it gives no cause for complacency. It would be a different and better world if it were not necessary to view Russia with suspicion. The lives of all of us would be happier.

But both the history of Lenin-Stalin communism and the day-by- day propaganda from Moscow force the democratic wiirld to be suspicious. Our domestic problems today are pressing. They must be solved. But Pwe would be unwise to let anyone twist the candid words of a great general into an excuse to devote our entire thought and. energies and resources to their solution, at the expense of safeguarding freedom.

dered to kill any American military observers found "interfering with operations" on the battlefield, a captured guerrilla political leader who participated in Tuesday's attack on Salonika said today. The guerrilla, John Fotiades, a officer in the Stefamides battalion, said these orders were issued to him in October, 1947, at the Greek guerrilla training camp at Boulkes, Yugoslavia. Fotiades said he fought with the Greek guerrillas against the Germans in 1944 and 1945. He was taken to Boulkes for political training in September, 1946, and ordered back into Greece a year later. "Before I left Boulkes I was told: 'You must kill Americans and drive them away because they conquerors of One Captured American Dies; China Reds Charge U.S.

With Participation irf Civil War Slayer Dies, Gives Eyes Tucker Prison Farm, Feb. 13 Harold Hyde went quietly to his death.in the state's electric chair this morning after arranging to give his eyes to help two partly blind persons. The 26-year-old convicted slayer of his fiancee's father, Frank Cottonseed Crushed Shows a Marked Increase Washington, Feb. 13 The Census Brueau reported today that otton-seed crushed in ine sixth month period Aug. 1 to Jan.

31 to- alled 2,778.869 tons compared with ,174,269 tons in the corresponding a year ago. Cottonseed on hand at mills Jan. 1 totalled 1,115,984 tons, compared vith 766,753 tons in the correspond- ng period a year ago. British Freeze Prices on All Consumer Goods London, Feb. The Board of Trade moved today to freeze Grains Show; Recovery Signs; Butter Down New York, Feb.

13 Coni- modity prices began to show signs of gaining a little strength today but a violent down swing hit wholesale butter market. prices on virtually all goods. consumer San Francisco, Feb. 13 The Chinese Communist radio to- 'day announced one of five U. S.

Marines captured by the Reds in North China died of wounds. It charged the United States with active participation in China's civil war. The broadcast confirmed rumors that one of the marines, Pfc. Charles J. Brayton, Fort Jay, Governors Island, N.

was wounded fatally. Here and There in Arkansas Washington, Feb. 13 There is no exact parallel between conditions in the south after the civil war and conditions in Western Europe today, says Congressman Hays of Arkansas, in defining European aid. He cited what he condsidered several differences in answering critics who say the South recovered unaided from the civil war and ask why Europe can't do the same. Memphis.

Feb. 13 (IP) Hoyt R. Alen of Little Rock has jcen named president-elect, and Dr. Robert Wood of Russellville, a vice president of the Mid- Continued on Page Two "The unlicensed acts of United States armed forces the and military personnel in various parts of China and their aid to Kai-Shek in wanting civil war are facts known to everyone," said the broadcast. Simpson, Berryville, was I "This is utterly imperialist, ag- strapped into the chair at 7 a.

m. jgressive activity and the great I.Chinese nation will absolutely not and was pronounced dead 10 mm- nau this a gg ression since Oco ln? ter by Dr A Hollms of tober, 1945, U. S. armed forces and military personnel have continu Sherill. Kuth Hoage.

Mary hoage, 13, who' jumped from a second story porch into a snow banK, said other members of family were huddled in one room waiting for rescue when the building collapsed. Her father, Richard, was at work in a garage. The eleven persons who reached safety witnout apparent injury stood weeping at the ruins while firemen searcned. Cause of Ihe fire was not determined immediately. shoot Americans whenever they interfere in He sneered, spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders when questioned about Americans, although previously he had answered olhcr questions freely and vithout expression.

Fotiades was one of 121 guerril- as who were captured by the JJreek army after they shelled Salonika early Tuesday with a 75 millimeter cannon and several 20 Yeors Ago Today The district Grand Exalted Ruler Louis Josephs of Texarkana will pay a visit to the local Elks lodge depulv Internal Revenue Collector will be here March mortars. The captives were -narched through the streets of Salonika yesterday in a victory Darade. Fotiades, 36, is a stocky peasanl- similar to almost all guerrillas. His head was shaven and he wore a collection of nondescript clothing with enough khaki to pass as a partial uniform. He said he was born in Pontos, Asia came to Kavalla, Greece.

24 years ago. He said there were 520 men in the attack on Salonika, including a 40-man gun crew, mortar crews and three battalions of 140 men each. The mortar section had three inch mortars. Fotiades said the attack against Salonika was carried out under the direct command of Lt. Col.

Niki- las, guerrilla commander for central Macedonia. He said his post was with a security section 1.000 yards from the gun that blasted Salonika. Of Bad Weather Over U. S. Is General Chicago, Feb.

13 ng rain, sleet and snow Frccz pelted areas from the plains states to the East gulf region today as winter's icavy snowialls and severe cold prompted the placing of a partial embargo on rail freight movement into parts of New England and New York state. There was an absence of extreme cold weather in the chilled North Central and New England areas, today. But federal forecasters said a mass of cold air was piling up west of the Hudson Bay district and appeared headed across the Canadian border. Freezing rain and sleet extend ed from southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma through Missouri, parts of Illinois and India highway travel was reported hazardous. Snow fell in parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and southern Missouri.

Most of the South was drenchd with heavy rains. Nearly all of Texas shivered as temperatures dipped iar below normal. In Corpus Christi, on the Gulf, the mercury early today slid to 35, one degree colder than in far-North Edmonton. Alberta, Can. Temperatures moderated in the Eastern states and were slightly below normal west of the Rockies.

Cold continued in most sections of the mountain states. Only high-priority freight was to 3e carried into the Northeastern section of the country following an- louncernent of the four-day embargo by the Association of American Railroads, at the direction of the Office ol Defense Transportation. Hyde's last words were: "This the first time I've ever been on a thunderbolt. I've been on everything 1 Prison Supt. Tom Cogbill said Hyde and his father signed an agreement to permit the removal of the corneas of young Hyde's eyes in an operation to be performed in LittJe Rock.

The corneas will be transferred to the eyes of a 25-year-old man and a 33-year- old boy. It was the second such donation within a year. Last May, Vollie Bill Bates, executed for the holdup-slaying of a Mena, cab donated his eyes to help'the partly-blind. Simpson was shot and beaten fatally at his home last April 28. After he was convicted last June in Carroll circuit court, Hyde told Judge Maupin Cummings he wanted to "get it over with as soon as possible." However, his execution was delayed by an appeal to the supreme court.

The appeal was rejected and Governor Laney declined to intervene. Writing a Melc But Writing a Entirely Differe By HAL BOYLE New York A bald-headed man called "Curly," who thirty years ago wrote the dance tunes ously carried out aggression and military reconnaissance against liberated as well as Making unreasonable 'demands." The broadcast said the five marines had "advanced against a position" of the Communists near a village north of Tsingtao Christmas day. It said the U. S. Navy had been asked to "apologize." On previous occassions U.

S. military personnel taken into custody in Communist territory were released unharmed after a few days. This time, said The broadcast, 'the four surviving marines would be treated with "clemencs'" on condition to the U. S. guarantees "no recurrence." Adm.

Charles M. Cooke, commander of U. S. Navy forces in the Far East, said in Shanghai Monday he could not confirm a rumor that one marine had been killed He said he had had no news of the five since they were captured Christmas day. The Communist broadcast, from a secret station in North China, Continued on page two )dy Is Easy Hit Tune Is nt Matter wife.

They were a featured act or the "Four-a-Day" circuits for year until something happened to vaude Sir Stafford Cripps, austere chancellor of the exchequer, told Parliament last night the freeze, at December-January levels, would be on manufacturers' ceiling nrices and distributors' profits. A Board of Trade official estimated the orders would be applied before the end of February. Cripps coupled the new effort arrest the cost of living with a warning to labor and industry to curb wages and profit volintariiy or face governmnt compulsion. A government spokesman said the order affected four-fifths of all goods and services covered by British controls. Food, clothing and furniture are among them.

Cripps opened debate in the House of Commons an a labor government, proposal to fix wages and incomes voluntarily. The program, offered last week in a white has stirred revolt in some powerful British labor unions, oackbone of Prime Minister Al- Grain prices were irregular, they gave indications of attembt- ing to climb in contrast to downward slides of the past The price of wholesale buttiil 1 slammed down 5 to 6 1-2 cents a pound on the New York mercani tile exchange. The drop was immediately iftJ, looted in some retail prices. The National Association of tail Grocers said a key city surw showed reductions in flour, bacon lam, lard, vegetable eggs and butter, and in some beef. These -price --cuts were- not leaders posted to attract said' Patsy D'Agostino, president ofe, the association They are geriuine-j reductions, made possible by iU flexibility of grocers to adjust market conditions quickly, he said.

Grains showed widely tendencies Corn swung down air much as the full limit at the start but wheat and oat deliveries wet steady to slightly higher. prices subsequently came bacte, irom the lows; Cotton fell almost $4. a bale ymal tharS tlee's regime. The French government also Reds Told U.S. Takes Over for British Moscow, Feb.

3 told the Russians today that the Briitsh flag is being taken down al over the British zone of Germany Stars and Stripes instead, as Americana "take over" the Ruhr and other British administered areas. A Munich dispatch printed in the Communist paper asserted the United Sates is continually buying into Ruhr mines and German factories and otherwise assuring itself permanent footholds in the German economy. The Americans are turning back industrial firms to former Nazis, Pravda said. It depicted the U. S.

program of reparations as directed toward removing from the scene all competitors of American firms leaving untouched the total German war potential. moved ngainst price boosts. It sent the National Assembly in Paris a bill to outlaw all price increases since Jan. 15 not justified by production costs. A lawbreaker could be jailed for a year, and put out of business.

British unions some 5,000,000 strong have been insisting upon higher pay despite Prime Minister Attlee's ho 1 -t e- line plea in last week's government white paper. They are in mining, railroading, shipbuilding, en: ginecring and civil service Cripps reiterated the voluntary measui'eB to 'stem and 'profit- Then Xriife' asrked 1 New York. Shoitly after the opening, however, mills began buylnr and there was a rebound lha. brojglit the price about $3 above the lows at the start. At New Orleans, cotton was $1 25 if 1 to $2.60 a bale lower Stocks were irregular and activity was moderate Price changes were small.

At Chicago, seller were holding hogs at about yesterday's of $23.75 to $24 25 a hundred ottnds. The best bid shortly after the opening was $23 50 The pits hardly more than" opened at Chicago when soybeans were'offeied at the eight cent decline from Wednesday's fen The question in economic political cncles was whether problem was inflation or deflation) President Truman saw in the cent 'commodity price drops, in the right direction But infla-sS tionary dangers have not moved by the market decline, The president said he-felt' strongly as ever that Coiy show'" the House: "Can we take them in a demo- Symbolical Irony Berlin, Feb. New foreign investments in Germany arc forbidden under military government law. Gen. Lucius D.

Clay, the U. S. military government, repeatedly has denied Russian reports of investment of American capital in Germany. Pravda's assertion that the U. S.

flag is replacing' the Union Jack apparently is intended as symbolical irony since there are no American troops in the zone to fly the U. S. flag. British 5-6 to Assist in making out income I the 30 men in his group, he said, Notice: It is re-112 were killed and five wounded ported that two men and a wo-j by strafing Greek spitfires. I asked him what he would do man who recently passed bad checks in Hope have been arrested at Seamy.

Their names were listed as K. S. Thomas and W. C. Branndon and the womyn answered to the appellation of "Honey Bunch" The film will be famous H'ickman passed on before here by Mesdames J.

A. Henry, Roy Anderson, G. A. Linaker, J. A.

Brady, Bert Keith, George Waddle. Miss Beryl Henry, and D. L. Paisley. Bulletin Jackson, Feb.

13 Four persons were reported killed, an undertermined number injured with me if he caught me. "I'd fhoot you it you were interfering with operations," he said The orders to shoot Americans apparently were issued at the Yugoslav training camp only a few months after the first members uf the American military mission arrived in Greece early last summer. Members of the mission were not assigned to the front as were the American officer-observers who reached Greece lust month. However, they made trips to Ihe front off and on to determine what equipment and supplies were need by the Greek troops. There were about 40 to 50 men and several homes destroyed the military mission.

An addi- day when a "twister" hit east and'lional 90 observers are expected so with ol Newton, Miss. be in the field by next month. for Vernpn and Irene Castle, is still tinkling a tuneful past ior people who are homesick for yesterday. He is Arthur N. Green, now billed as "The man of a million melodies" but once known as America's dance king.

In his sixtieth year Curly pulses a battered piano in the Knickerbocker Music Hall, a Manhattan theater cafe. It features old-lime songs, variety acts and "The Wayward Maiden," a satire on the old-fashioned melodramas. Green has found pleasant anchorage in this last refuge of vaudeville, which is popular both wilh college kids and old-timers who come to shed an alcoholic tear over the songs of their youth. "It's funny about the old they're like life itself," said Curly, whose fingers are a rippling anthology of the last half century of music. "They're popular for a while and then lose out.

But every to enjoy them." Chattanooga, was soaked so ten they come back again with the heaviest 24-hour rainfall as a IIPW generation conies along in the 69 year history of the weather bureau 3.84 inches. Memphis also got a wetting and rainfall over a 30-hour period measured 5.2 inches, including 2.70 inches yesterday. Sleet and rain was extensive over Arkansas, Georgia and Louisiana, with some cities reporting rain daily lor more than a week. Texas counted five deaths attributed to the severe cold, Kansas three. Many motorists were stranded in southwest Kansas as drifting snow blocked many roads.

Train and bus lines operated behind schedules. In a Tulsa, railroad sla- tion stairways leading to the tracks are painted in different colors. Trains are announced by the color of the stairway leading to them as well as the track number. ville that shouldn't to vaudeville. Green retired but he's back parade.

Castle had been his close friend. "For twenty years I couldn't write a note." Curly said, again now. He's turned out a new catchy dance of a boogie-woogie with a rhumba rhy- thym" he says is catching on in Harlem. "Writing a melody is easy," he said. "I can do it in 15 minutes and base it on phone number, a car license, the figures on a dollar bill.

"But turning out a hit tune. There's no rhyme or reason to that. Writing a hit song is throwing can come up with a natural any time." Green believes women may write the best American songs in the next generation. "There've been only a few in the history of popular music" he said. "But women are turning more and mure lo new fields, and some are bound lo put their thoughts in music." 1 asked Curly if through the years he hadn't developed a phobia against familiar tunes he has played thousands of limes.

"How can you dislike anything that has a melody?" he said. One of his proudest memories is the day in 1917 when the late Geoge Mother of Robbins Arrested cratic way by free choice, or we to demand the imposition of them by force? "Unless we exercise restraint," he said, "the sheer facts of the case will demand compulsion, which this government is anxious avoid." Sir Stafford that wage negotiations either be postponed or 'conducted in the light of the principles in the white is no boosts. He said the government plans to freeze manufacturers' prices and distributors' profits at the December-January level, perhaps in a month or so. This apparently was in response to labor opposition to the-wage freeze without compensating profit and price clamps. Meanwhile, the manufacturers and distributors are to hand in plans for voluntary price-and-profit rollbacks on both controlled and non-controlled goods, A governmen source said price controls already cover 80 per cent of everything sold, including food, clothing and furniture.

The federation of British industries is being asked for a voluntary price freeze on the rest. the House Banking Committee posed a two weeks congressional ft Each night he lives over his liie again as he tinkles out 100 to 300 tunes. Few people now request any of ihe thirty numbers he wrote himself, except lonely beleaguered Elks who call for "Hello Bill," the official song. But more than three decades ago people in the streets hummed his now half-for-, gotten novelty, "If I Catch the Guy i house humming a tune he had just Who Wrote Poor Butterfly." And an America weary of waltz turned eagerly to the new Little Rock, Feb. 13 Two additional persons have been charged in connection with the New Year's Eve poison death of Mrs.

Lonnie A. Robbins, 52-year- old bride. whose husband is charged with first degree murder. Arkansas State Police Capt. J.

Earl Scroggin announced here that Mrs. Jewell Robbins, 71-year-old mother-in-law of the dead woman, was arrested on a warrant charging first degree murder. A second warrant charging accessory after the fact of murder was issued for Henry Petty, 50- year-old former hired man at the Bobbins farm near Scotland, where the former Mrs. Sadie Sue Dudley of Abilene, died, the police official added. Basis for the new charges as nol disclosed.

Mrs. Jewell Robbins, who had sold the farm and moved to Little Rock, was arrested here. The warrant for Petty was sent to Sheriff William E. Black on Montgomery county, where the former Robbins employe reportedly now resides. Scroggin said both warrants were obtained by Prosecutor R.

E. Rush of Harrison. Mrs. Lonnie A. Robbins died at Deadline Set for School Candidates The annual countywide school election has been set for Saturday, March 20 and the local school district has two board members up for three year terms.

The terms of Clifford Franks of Hope and W. B. Ruggles of Shover Springs expire. At the same time electors will vote the millage to be levied for building, debt service and general fund for operation of the school system in each district. A district not voting 18 mill tax does not share the Equalization Trans- poration Fund, Teacher's Salary Fund, and loses part of the state apportionment, an eighteenth of the amount for each mill below 18.

The required number of names on a petition for school director is twenty and the number of names on petition for county board members is fifty from the zone the candidate will represent. Polling places will be school houses in each district except Hope composed. He wanted it the; down. Green volunteered. written I think Cohan gol Ihe tune from dance rhythms Green composed for listening to the railroad whe the famous Castle team "Tango! that morning as he rode in." he re- Argentine," the first tango written called.

"There wasn't a piano in this country, "Innovation Tan-jhandy, so I just wrote down the "Sans Souci," the "Half and i notes' as he hummed them." Half" and "Raggin' the Old Vir- i The tune was "Over There." ginia Reel." M. Cohan stepped into a music the farm home a few hours after she und Robbins arrived there following a Christmas Day at Abilene. Physicians said strychnine caused her death. Robbins is held here at State Hospital, where he was transferred for mental examinations. Physicians have said they believe him sane.

Robbins had denied any knowledge of how the poison was administered his wile. Van Buren County Sheriff Doyce Casingcr said Bobbins' trial is to open at Clinton, Feb. 23. jGreen still has the original copy, The death of Vernon Castle in an I signed by Cohan in the scrapbook air crash in 1918 broke up his hit all show people keep to cheer them He went into vaudeville with his I through the rainy clays. which is the city hall.

The deadline for placing the lames of candidates on the ballot is February 28, 1948. Assassin of Gandhi Taken to Bombay Bombay, Feb. 13 Wi K. Gandhi's assassin has been flown to Bombay from New Delhi, it was learned today. The special plane carrying the assassin, Naturam Vinayak Godse, arrived in Bombay before dawn Thursday.

Elaborate precautions Continued on page two Continued Cold and Rain in This Section Hope and vicinity will get some more of the same as far as ther, is concerned with tures from 23 to 34 degrees tonight-, and occasional rain Saturday and continued cold. In the past three days this section has received 2 50 inches of rain with a low temperature of degrees. Tcmpei ature low last was 32 degrees and the high waa, 41. 'i -But the mercury began falling 'L this moining and it S4 erably coldei by midaftemon, By Jhe Associated Press 5) Arkansas had more snow, sleet nw and cold lajn today but tures generally weie above tree ing and tended to make the weat er a little less disagieeable. Sleet and snow wa4 North Aikansas, with the worst the Northwest.

State police highways were covered with, inches of ice in the Ozark ma tain area. Rain was general Fort Smith's minimum on grees was the coldest temperat reported in the state this rnqi Most other lows were ing. More sleet or snow was fq, for the Noith and Noithwesti and rain elsewhere. Tempetatuies tonight pected to range between 25 Northwest to 34 in the ScM 0 Soy beans, Co) Demonstrate Included Special 4-H Club prody demonstiationb for 1948 in Laredo Soybeans and Hybrid announces Olivet Adams, purpose of the Laredo SiCtyhi, demonstiation it, to increase' quality and amount of homC f' feed that may be limited acreage The purposes. Hybrid Corn demonstration to increase the amount that may be produced on acreage and to show the adapted varieties.

To promote these two 4' strations a special leadership; test has been announced Club boys 14 years of over. Premiums for tlte which will close as productiqa at the 3rd DisUicl Livestock during the week of Septet art supplied by the and the Uempstead Coun Bureau, contests County Agent Special deta.jls will be given had been' taken against attempts al 1 2:1 5 to at suicide. IKXAR,.