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APRIL 27, 19S2 HOPE ARKANSAS VOLUME 33-NUMBER168 Farm Crop Debts to Be Lightest in HistoiyThisPall Sharp in Federal Program This Spring CLOSlNGlJATURDAY Total May Run to 900 Applications for $125,000 or $130,000 Federal crop loans in Hcmpstcad county will run considerably less this year than In 1932, with the loan program for the current season closing Saturday night, April 30. Notice of the April 30th deadline for applications to be filed in the Memphis Loan Bureau, was received here early'ta the week by the stead Loan Committee from Karl M. Blanchard, manager at Memphis, Up to Wednesday noon about 575 checks have been received by Hempstead county farmers, for the total amount of $75,000 or $80,000, The total number of applications will be around 900, and the total amount probably $125,000 or $130,000. Last year the government loaned approximately 1,000 individuals more than $150,000 in this county. The number of applications is about ns great this year, but farmers arc asking for smaller amounts; and where the amount requested is equal to las'l year, the Memphis bureau has cut it down.

Hcmpstcad farmers ore expected to reach harvest time this fall owing less on current -account than any. time probably in last twenty yfars, in the opinion of local observersy' University Students Edit Star Thursday Hoover Urges Chief Executive Addresses P. Governors Meeting in Virginia RICHMOND. a "sure highway to national recovery," President Hoover cited to the governors conference Wednesday the absolute necessity of reduced expenditures, better distributed taxation and balanced budgets on the part of the government. The economy move must have the intelligent support of the people, the president said.

"We cannot restore economic stability in the nation by continuing to so largo a part of our private effort into the coffers of the government," he said. Recluse Uses Gun To Endjis Life Walter Harvey, 73, Requests He Be Buried in Military Uniform Harvey, aged 73, recluse, but believed to be a member of a well known Virginia family, ended his life by firing three bullets into his brain Tuesday. The affair occurred near Hatton. He had lived here about 12 years. Deputy Sheriff Kungatc said a revolver found in the dead man's hand contained four empty cartridges.

An. inquest held by Justice J. o. Fakes of Vandervoort developed testimony that Hcrvey made burial ar- urrangements with Looney Whitely, a neighbor. He told Whitely he was preparing to end his life.

Whitely found Harvey's body after neighbors had heard shots. I It is said Harvey wrote two notes in I which he said that he was ending his life and selected the clothing ho de- lor burial. One of the requests was that he be buried in an old he had worn while student in a Virginia college. The Star will be edUetf Thursday bv a group students of the Department of Journalism, University of Arkansas, who arc on a lour of the state's newspaper offices. W.

J. Lemke, director of do- of FayctlcvIHe, will be in charge. The student staff will be headed by Mack Anderson, senior student whose home is in Magnolia and who is well known here. The Star gladly co-operates with the uhlverslly and asks for the assistance of the entire city in making the students' stay here a pleasant and worth-while event: Lindbergh Aides Withdraw Services Spitale and Bitz Opposed to Recent Ransom Payment NEW Spilalc and Irvin Bitz, Lindbergh kidnaping intermcdairics witlidrew Wednesday because their lawyer said he believed they were opposed to the recent payment of $50,000 to a purported representative of the kidnapers who took the money and did not return the baby. The lawyer said he knew that Spitale pleaded with Lindbergh not to make tho payment.

Kentucky Brothers Die in Gun Battle Conflicting Stories Follow Fight in Which Kins- 'i men Are Slain I 1 ft'' broUicrs were shot and killed in a gun battle Tuesday at Kcaton, Johnson county, 25 miles from Here and just across the Lawrence county line. The dead arc Alma Fyffc, 34, and Noah Fyffe, 38, a Johnson county deputy sheriff. A younger brother, John Fyffe, present at the shooting, but there were conflicting stories as to whether he participated. Deputy Noah Fyffe arrested his brother, farmer, on a liquor charge Sunday, but Alma escaped escaped while Noah was taking him to Paintsvillc. Tuesday afternoon the three brothers met In Wince Mullins' blacksraoth shop at Kcaton, and the shooting be gan.

John Fyffe passed through Louisa after the shooting, said he had not participated, but that Noah and Alma killed each other, and said he was on his way to Wilbur for his parents. Johnson county officers, however, said they had heard reports Noah killed Alma, shooting him three times and then John fatally shot Noah. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs. J.

M. Fyffe of Wilbur, Lawrence county. Truck Driver Is Killed in Missouri Enroute From Jonesboro, to Chicago With Load of Rice SIKESTON, E. Marbury, 28, driving a truck load of rice from Jonesboro, to Chicago, was killed when his truck struck a corn planter on highway 61. L.

A. Farlett, a companion, said he and Marbury had dozed off to sleep when the accident bccurred. Marlene Dietrich and Jas. Cagney Suspended HOLLYWOOD, Dietrich, blond beauty from Germany, ind James Cagney, two of the best noney making performers in motion pictures, were suspended by their studios Tuesday because of disputes their work and salary respectively contract of James Cagney, who is odds with Warner Brothers over a cemand for a $2400. increase weekly in wlary, has, several years to run.

Mwlene Dietrich, German star, is undir contract to Paramount to make more pictures and the contract of Jisef Von Sternberg, her director, who talked out of the studio when it refused his adaption of her new picture, tBtaide Venue," not expire VUUl next December. FLAPPER. SAYS: To Present Child Welfarefrogram Both American Legion and Auxiliary to Have Speakers Present SERIES State Officials of Unit on Tour of State Where Programs Are Given A child welfare program, sponsored by the Leslie Huddleston Post of -the American Legion and the Auxiliary unit of that organization will be held Thursday night, April 28, at the city hall, beginning at 8 o'clock. The ipubllc is most cordially Invited to, attdnd this program, which is one of a scries of like programs being held over htc state on the Child Welfare subject. An interesting' program has been prepared for" the occasion, as follows: W.

R. Anderson. by audience. Purpose, of Hall. Reading of Children's R.

L. Searcy, of Lewisville. What our county has accomplished along: 1. Medical Service; 2. Public health and administration.

3. Education and training. 4. The handicapped. Ira Hammond, county health nurse of Hemp'stead county.

What our county hopes to accomplish along: 1. Medical service. 2. Public health and administration. 3.

Education and training, 4. The Alberta Hamm, supervisor of nurses in Balance diet for H. O. Kyler, and Mrs, Harry Shiver. Ward Pabney.

the American Legion can assist' in' improving and our county-speaker from Little Rbck, the Auxiliary, can assist in imprbvi child 1 health and protection Jessie Cox, state secre-' tary of Legion Auxiliary; and Mrs, Edna Miller, state of American Legion Auxiliary. the P. T. A. can assist in improving child health an protection in our Etta E.

Champlin. Star Spangled Banner." Benediction. i Social. Light refreshments. Treasure Hunter Slain ByNegroes Three Held in Jail at Baa- trop, Louisiana Over Killing BASTROP, negroes were arrested and charged late Tuesday with the fatal shooting of W.

A. Givens, 56-year-old Bastrop man, who was killed near Bonita Monday night while digging for a treasure a fortune teller had predicted would be found on the farm of the negroes. The negroes, William Watt and his two sons, Myrle and Tyrie, were said to have confessed to sheriff's officers that they killed Givens, They declared that they had fired in the victim's direction to scare him away from their farm and that they had no intention of killing him, officers said. Givens, with four negro diggers, went Monday night to Watt's farm, carrying spades and a divining rod. While they were digging they were fired upon and the negroes fled to Bastrop and notified officers who went to the spot.

Officers said they found Givens dead from ax wound's on the head and a bullet in his shoulder. Louisiana's Governor, No Huey! fM as wtsUy a to ft lovly Seven Accused of Wrecking Depot Men in Custody Charged With Destroying Cotton Belt Property men were in custody Tuesday charged with wrecking the Genoa depot, 12 miles southeast of here, and smashing about 100 glass insulators against the railroad tracks outside the station. Deputy Sheriff Arthur Turquette and Special Agent Hanson of the Cotton Belt railroad, who investigated, reported that the station was almost destroyed. Windows were smashed 1 stoves overturned, doors broke off their hinges and planks from the floor pulled up. Geo.

Elkins, 19. and Oval Mai'gason, 80, were charged with wrecking-the state, while Paul Favors, Deri Elkins, Arthur Rose, Herman Skeets and GOJJ! Mason were named by the officers as the ones who smashed the insulators. A hearing will be given the mm Wednesday. Here's the first woman governor of Louisiana in the history of that state. Alice Lee Grosjean, 25, is acting chief executive of the Creole state during the 10-day absence of Governor Alyin O.

King, who attending governor's convention at Richmond, Va. Miss Grosjenn was made-Louisiana's secretary of state by Senator Huey Long when he was governor. She still holds th'a't As Paul Cyr has vacated the post of lieutenant governor, Miss Grosjean- automatically stepped into, tne governor's chair at Baton Rouge -when Governor King, Senator Long's successor, went away, Ohio Blast Case Chicago Police Hold Former Columbus Men as Alleged Bombers search for the explanation of a which wrecked its new state office building in Columbus with loss of 10 lives involved Tuesday two men arrested here in a stolen automobile loaded with explosives and dynamiting tools. They arc EdWard B. Wallace, 30, once a federal convict, and Frank Wilson, 24, both of Columbus.

They were seized last Thursday in possession of dynamite ahd tools stolen from the S. A. Healy Construction Company when it installed a sewer interceptor at Columbus about a year age, Both were discharged for thievery, officials of the firm said. Ohio officials first believed the building had been bombed but later credited a a gas explosion. They denied the men were wanted in Columbus for anything but car theft or as safe-blowing suspects.

Wallace admitted, police said that he had been employed in a sub-cellar of the state office building, a $5,000,000 structure ncaring completion which was severely damaged in the blast April 14. He refused to waive extradition to Ohio. Body of Oklahoma Youth Recovered Former County Attorney Leaves Home to Go to Party SALLISAW, body of Robert Haney Wall, 21-year-old son of W. B. Wall, former county attorney, was found Tuesday near Wild Horse mountain with a bullet wound in the heart.

The young man had been dead about two days. He vanished Monday night after telling his mother he was going to a party and would be home late. Authorities had no clue as no weapon was found near the body. Officers believe Wall was murdered and his body thrown from an automobile. Ted Patten, a Sallisaw youth who was seen with Wall Monday night in Wall's car, was being sought lor questioning.

Negro School to Present Minstrel Wed. Night A negro minstrel will be presented at the Shover Street school Wednesday night at 8 o'clock by students of the elementary department. High class entertainment is promised, featuring latest songs, dances and jokes. Special arrangements are being made to tak? care of 9 large attendance. The public is- invited to lje Store Is Destroyed Damage Estimated at $40,000 in Blaze of Unknown Origin estimated at $40,000 was caused early Wednesday by fire in the Red Cross Drug Store and office building here.

The origin of the blaze was not immediately determined. Damage to the stock and fixtures of the store was estimated at and the building Bulletins titans tor a'thorough Investigation of the stfftk tttarget WAS worked out Wednesday at an executive meeting of (he steering committee of the Senate Banking NjoMrOLK, Va. John Hughes Curtis, returning from' secret mission as a negotiator lit the Lindbergh case, authorized the statement that a number'of obstacles tn the negotiations for the return of the child had been overcome. He- refused to further discuss his Wp. v.

jj' Ohio Reporter Is ShotBfBandits Two Men Waylay Newspaper Man in Front of Home CANTON, Bouklias, reporter for the Ohio Examiner, weekly newspaper, was iously injured in front of his home early Wednesday by two men who lay in wait for him and opened fire with a shotgun, sending approximately 100 slugs into his body. Physicians said that his condition was serious. The Examiner had been waging a campaign against organized crime in The shooting came just six years after the slaying of-Don' Melton, crusading Canton editor, who assassinated while waging "a war' against crime in this-'eity. Headof Tre Looses Husband Accuses Junior Class Play Next Friday Night 'The oTair" to Be Rendered at High School Auditorium Thrills and mystery arc to be presented in the annual Junior class play to be held at the High School auditorium on next Friday night. The cast under the direction of Miss Lois Fergumon, have been working faithfully for the past several weeks and each and every one will be able to act their part like a veteran when the play is presented.

"The 13th Chair," will hold the audience spell bound from curtain to curtain and all who fail to sec it will indeed miss a real treat. A matinee for students will bo held 1 at 3 o'clock in Die afternoon and the night performance will begin promptly at 8 o'clock. May Face Charge of Manslaughter Tyronza Officer's Fatal Shooting of Youth to Be Investigated OSCEOLA, L. Gtad- ish, prosecuting attorney, said Tuesday night that it was "probably technical charges of manslaughter" would be brought against Deputy Sheriff Harris Smith of Tyronza so the Grand Jury would investigate a shooting there Friday in which one youth was killed and another wounded. Tommy Lee Bowling, aged 23, said in a Memphis hospital that he and Arlic- Bird, 22, who was killed, had been "framed." Previously he had said Smith was their friend and had "done his duty." Smith said he shot the youths during an attempted robbery of a drug store at Tyronza.

Douglas Hopgopd. 14, said by officers to have unlocked a door so that the pair could enter the store, was taken into custdy Tuesday and questioned by Justice N. J. Hazel. iladelphia Court Avers Weal thy Matron' Sought Inheritance details of a baby substitution allegedly perpetrated by a wealthy and childless married woman to collect an inheritance, and two unwed mothers came to light Tuesday in an equity action filed in Dauphin County Court.

Euston A. Sullivan of Merion filed a petition to strike from the vital statistics of the state the record of the birth to his wife, Grace May Sullivan, on October 12, 1931, at St. Vincent's hospital, Philadelphia, His petition denied that he is the father of the six- month-old girl or that his wife, Helen Blair Sullivan; is the mother. He declared the baby is the child of Miss Edith Crebbe, a Detroit nurse, who was arrested' at Downington, last week in connection with the Lindbergh kidnaping and subsequently absolved in that case. Sullivan declared he left his wife in the winter of 1930, went to Florida and then Swampscott, where Mrs.

Sullivan visited him on July 4, 1931. Mrs. Sullivan returned to Merion, advised her family, she expected to have child and made plans for the event. October 9, 1931, she left home to go to a private hospital in Boston. Instead, Sullivan said, she went to the Clinton hotel here and registered as Mrs.

Gerald E. Hardy of London. As Mrs. Hardy, the petition continues, she visited Miss Crebbe in the maternity ward of the hospital and conspired with her to represent the baby as that of Mrs. Sullivan.

This was accomplished, it is alleged, by informing hospital authorities that Miss Crebbe in reality was the wife of Euston Sullivan. Later Miss Crebbe refused to relinquish her baby to Mrs. Sullivan, the petition declares, but another unmarried mother at St. Vincent's, described as Mary Smith, turned over baby, and this child was christened Grace May Sullivan at St, Margaret's church November 8, 1931. Sullivan says he has no knowledge of the present whereabouts of his wife or the second baby.

Miss Crebbe's child is said to be in Detroit. Just how Mrs. Sullivan's alleged fraud would have won her a legacy was no.t made clear. Her father was the late William L. plair, a former partner of Milton Hershel, the candy manufacturer.

Blair left his fortune in a trust fund for his widow to be divided at her death. Ritchie Cites Prohi and Farm Situation in Talk RICHMOND, Va. National prohibition and the farm situation were cited by Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland Tuesday night as "illustrations of the importence of excessive federalism and a revelation of the limitations inherent in over-centralization." The final speaker on the program at a state dinner given executives attending the annual governors' conference now in session here, Governor Ritchie asserted that "the present upset in our economic equilibrium is largely due to the upset ill our federal equilibrium. Stage Bullet Real; Two Negroes Shot MIAMI, Fla.

Rehearsals hearsals for the class play of seniors in Booker T. Washington High School for negroes went along only, so-so until the director, plated the lack of this scene again," pleaded, "and get some And so the villian discarded his rehearsal business in shouting "bang" when he was Supposed to shoot the he'rb. Instead he seized the pistol to be us.ed in the play, pointed it at the hero and pulled the.trigger. The verbal "bang" was not necessary- Anthony the'hero, to the non Coleman, another member of the cast. Both were- shot.

Hospital attendants said Gardner may live and that Coleman, wou may live -and that- Coleman, by the same is in 'good condition. Aid Offer Refused By State Engineer L. JR. Plemmons of District 7 Rejects Plans of Ouachita County Judge highways in Ou iita department, iXstrict Engineer L. Plemmons said.

Several ago it was. announced that County Judge Watt Jordan would co-operate with the salaries, for operators of road machinery in maintaing state in this county. 'Mr. Plemmons said that this was not necessary and that the county judge would have nothing 'to do witK state highways. State 'crews have been at work on graveled highways' the past few days and all roads are place in first class condition, Mr.

Plemmons de clared. Falling Into Disc Team Becomes. Frighten. ed as Youth is Plowing in Father's Field 01 a Hammond, aged 19, son of Arthur Hammond, farmer living in the Six Mile neighborhood cast of Charleston, was brdught to a hospital here Tuesday suffering from seribus injuries sustained 'wh'fle plowing with a disc plow. The team became frightened and lunged causing Otha to fall among the discs.

He also is suffering from the loss of blood. He was unconscious when received at the hospital. Physicians said he probably would recover. i '-) 'l'i'1. if Would Paralyze United States MEYER IS SPEA The Federal Re.erve Agrees Wit Secretary Mills" Wednesday loosed administration offensive; iigsiflsl cash payment of the' before the 'House Ways.

"To select our hopes a' balanced to a smashing bloy confidence is to me, simpl; Dry up credifand you and paralyze Eugene Meyer, GoVernor' 1 Federal Reserve' Board, added 4est to that of Mr. Mills, spying tinner -with would'j danger the 'confidence of the world in the United Kidnaping Suspect CaughUn Africa Extradition of Deputy Is Sought by Prosecutor From Missouri NEW R. Page of Kansas City, Jackson county prosecutor, Tuesday obtained affidavits from members of the crew of the freighter City of New York who Monday identified photographs of Martin Depew, wanted in Kansas City on a kidnaping charge, as likenesses of M. Long," who deserted the ship in South Africa March 27. The man, an engine wiper on the boat, was arrested Friday at Johannesburg at the request of the attorney general of Missouri.

Missouri authorities are convinced he is Marshall Deputy, also known as Martin Depew, who is wanted in connection with the kidnaping of Mrs. Nell Donnelly, wealthy garment manufacturer. Page planned to go to Washington Tuesday afternoon to confer with federal officials regarding the extradition of the man from South Africa. He said Tuesday he had received word from Kansas City that the trial of four from next day gay 83. Institute of Hears, Suggestion of ment Control CHATTANOOGA; Tenn.

Frank J. Loesch, Chicago attorney, Tuesday night told the Institute Justice at University of nooga has failed; drinking. and financed crome "am 1 growing worse and that the way the adoption of the Anderson plan. for government control and sale of rtl liquors; Mr. member of Hoover's 'commission on law obser-: vance and enforcement, painted a ture of organized crime adequately'filL financed for the first time in its hjsn tory, and.

by prohibition; of the liquor traffic growing steadily cr, and of the security of the country threatened through corruption of ficials. He painted possibilities under the Anderson plan of which the advantage gained by the tion of'the legalized liquor tra.fficj.aiisl saloon were preserved; in which perance was obtained by regulation; in which bootlegging was ended and in which the billions of dollars of profits from the sales of liquor were used to fight crime, Mr. Loesch opposed repeal of the prohibition law, declaring the field )S clear for the establishment of a sound syste mof control and should be kept clear, He said the Anderson plan is similar to the Brett system, which has at" tained great success in Sweden. Under this plan a bipartisan national com' mission would be set up and envr powered to fix the alcoholic content of all liquors to be sold in the United States, to fix the price and "to fully regulate every aspect of the matter within the legitimate scope of the federal government." Hit With Stone, SkuIlFractured Youth Near Charleston jured in Fight ing Row Over Girl Caton, aged 18, is in a hospital here in a serious condition as a result of a fight with Alonzo Pierce, also 18. The two youths were said to have used stones for weapons.

Caton. officers were told, first struck Pierce, but the latter was not injured badly. Pierce then is said to have struck Caton just above the left eye, fracturing the skull, The two youths live in the Vesta community, six miles north of Chariest ton. The fight was said to have resulted fcojn an argument a Pierce vested.