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4. JA VOLUME 188 QFNATF Vbllffi I MOPE. JUKEU, 1932 TAX Survey Discloses Field Crops Late in Hempstead County Cotton and Small for Time of Year Due to Late Planting INCREASECTACREAGE Acreage of Vegetables and Truck Crops Larger Than Last Year State's First Court Built at Washington Original Courthouse of Territory of Missouri Days Was Erected Seven Miles Northwest of Present Scenes Once Thrilled This Pioneer Settlement Farmers living in practically every section of the county report field and truck crops from 'ten to thirty days laic this year. This is attributed to several cnuiies, among them being the continued heavy rains and frost early in March, which delayed the planting season, and the lack of real growing weather. Reporting on cotton, most of the growers say they have decreased their acreage somewhat this season.

The crop is small but in every section of the county it is said that an unusually good stand has been obtained. Cotton fields are in good state of cultivation. Chopping has begun on a great many farms ind Is expected to be completed within the next two weeks. With warm weather the crop 'is expected to show rapid growth from this date. Rains of last week were said to have been beneficial in bringing the ialc planted 'cotton, up to a good stand.

Most growers reported that the cold nights and cast winds of a week kept the crop from making any noticablc growth. The corn acreage, according to most farmers, is slightly larger than last 'On woll drained farms and where fertilizer has been used, this crop, a rapid growth during the past week. Most of '-the 'corn jtt the county has been given; the EDITOR'S NOTE: The Hie third of a series of articled written by the sophomore history etnas of Hope High School on Hcmpstcad county topics. By Katie McDanlel The first courthouse of Arkansas was built' seven miles northwest of Washington and about a half-mile west of where the J. W.

Williams mansion stood. Williams moved the wood structure to his premises and up to the close of the war it formed a part of the negro quarters on his plantation. Steven Austin, an immortal Texas patriot, then a federal judge for' Arkansas Territory, held the first court which ever sat in tfTc first courthouse erected in Hcmpstead county. The courthouse was a crude log shanty. Because of the location of this old courthouse, the scat of justice was removed to Washington.

The first committee to select the site for the courthouse was named in the following being on the committee: James Moss, Hcuiatt Burt, Merrith Edwards, J. B. Davis, and Elizah Stuart. This courthouse was made from the heart of good lumber, about fifty feet square, put up by free labor, arid it took five years to complete the building. James Moss, one of the members of the committee to select a was the first judge, serving from 1828 to 1832.

There was one legislative meeting in this old building and it sat in 1863. Governor Flanagan It was in'this building that Gover- Flanagan Issued many-of the of- Icial war orders. But finally the state records were hauled all the way from Rock, a distance of about one hundred and fifty miles, in wagons which were drawn by oxen, former Governor Rector being in charge of moving. From that time on Wash- ngton's old court house, that had echoed previously to the sound of al debate and oratory, now felt the tread of soldiery; then the little town of Washington became the scene, of many more stirring events of history, and it also became the rallying place soldier and salon alike, ftot unusual was it for: slaves to be sold froni the' door-steps of the little building that lime has made so dear to the hearts of Arkansas people; often within its walls military bodies met to form their plans as did the councils of state. Several aged residents of Washington remember the time when the old courthouse had this distinction of being the state capitol.

Among them arc "Uncle Ab" Smith, who born in the country nearly eighty years ago, and Bob Samuels, an aged negro who played a prominent part in politics during the Republican regime after the Civil war. Original Courthouse This building- which was the first permanent courthouse of Hempstead county is nearly one hundred years old. During those many years it has become rich in memories, not only of the Civil war period but also of the pioneer times. readers may. not Prisoner Is Taken From Kentuc 1 andHange Body of Alleged Dynamiter Is Found Near Town Early Wednesday TRIAL DATlf Whipping of Dead Man's Son Said to Have Caused Original Trouble PRINCETON, rick, 48, was removed from the ail Tuesday'night by a mob-who! hfo xxfy was found hanging from a trtfc three miles from here early We' day.

The lynching party entered the' of Curt Jones, the county bound him and departed with their prisoner, without arousing the citizens iving nearby. victim was to have been tried June 13 on a charge of dynamiting the store of P'Poole T. Hopson last. February. P'Poole was seriously was in a hospital for two months.

The explosion, officers charged, was set off by Merrick as a result of Merrick's son being whipped by a school teacher. FPoolc, chairman of 'the county school board sided with the teacher of the school in the difficulty. 1 on Page Four) Increased 'truck Acreage Several growers have complained about getting a poor stand of The early planted patches, where a good stand was secured, are showing a rapid growth. Most of the growers have their ground in a fine state of cultivation. Those who have replanted their patches are expected to get a good stand since the rains last week.

Cantaloupes arc expected to be one of the leading crops this season. Blcvins, known as the cantaloupe section of the county, reports a normal acreage. Palmos, Washington, Ozan and Emmet have an acreage of cantaloupes this year. In some of these communities this is the first time the crop has been planted in marketable quantities. At Blcvins, growers suid to have had some trouble with insects on their vines.

This is the only community reporting any such trouble. Hcmpstcad county also has an increased acreage in tomatoes this year. This is a new crop in some sections of the county, especially in the Patmos community, where between 50 and 100 acres have been set out. Blcvins, McCaskill and Hope have been shipping tomatoes for several seasons and many of the growers in thcso sections have reported this to be profitable crop. Potato Shipment Begins Shipment of Irish potatoes and string beans in carload lots began in Hope Tuesday, when a mixed car was loaded by various produce dealers of the city.

Grovvers are reported Gallows In La. Wednesday Three Go to Death in New Die at Shreveport NEW Jaques, New Orleans negro, convicted with three Chicago hoodlums of slaying Raymond Rizze a grocer in a bank holdup here two years ago, Wednesday led a procession of four to the gallows. Donald Rylich and George O'Bay followed Jacques in payment of crime. Meanwhile at Shreveport, E. L.

Patterson and Boris Toilet, white men, were scheduled to die between noon and three o'clock for the slaying of Charlie Jones, Caddo Parish merchant in an attempted holdup last year. R. LaGrone, Is Reported Improved n. M. LaGrone, president of the Citizens National Bank, who is a patient in Barnes hospital at St.

Louis, has shown satisfactory improvement, according to Dr. Elsworth Smith, his attending physician there, friends in Hope were advised Wednesday. Man Gashed Witii Knife, Jack Wounded Arrested 5 Cornelius Giant Coast Defense Guns Head for Scrap Pile Endorsed InAlINighl Seventeen giant U. S. Coast artillery guns discarded by the ernment and collected from eastern, seaboard fortresses, arc pictured above in the railroad yards of Columbus, Ohio, en route to steel mills at Weirton, West Virginia, where they will be scrapped.

Each gun, including its truck, weighs 272 tons! Railroad officials, planned to place six gondolas between guns to prevent overloading on bridges. Built on wheels for quick transportation over regular railroad systems, each gun is as long as three ordinary freight cars. tp EcohotnyMi Discussed in! (Continued on page four) Gecht Kidnapers Given Life Terms Pingera and Thomas, Who Feared Death Verdict, Asked Mercy CHICAGO (R 1 Two kidnapers who sought the mercy of the court were sentenced to life imprisonment They are John Pingera and William Thomas who pleaded guilty to kidnaping Mrs. Georgia Gecht for ransom. The two men feared a verdict of death fro mine jury picked to try them and changed their plea.

Another stood trial as the alleged go-between for the gang, former Assistant State's Attorr.iy Ward Swallwell, was acquitted by the jurors. Swalwcll was a friend of Mrs. Gecht and her husband, Dr. Max Gecht, who also was kidnaped and released to pay ransom for his wife. In sentencing Pingera and Thomas, Judge Sullivan said the "very nature of the crime calls for the death penalty." But, the court said, he decreed life imprisonment inasmuch as the state did not demand the extreme punishment.

A fourth man, Edward? Finnen, was freed when the indictment against him was nolle pressed, while the fifth, Nell Montague, escaped from the county jail while awaiting trial. Fiogra and Thomas were taken to the state prison at Joliet. Ramsey Entertaining With Okay Fish Fry William Ramsey, proprietor of the Checkered Cafe and member of the Hempstead County Legion post, is entertaining Wednesday night with a fish fry at Okay, AH members of the post and several of Mr. Ramsey's friends are invited. They are asked to meet at the Checkered Cafe Wednesday night at 7 o'clock to go to Okay in a body.

Ohio Democratic Leader Also Accused of Attempted Bribery BUCYRUS, indictment charging attempted bribery, attempted blackmail and circulation of unsigned election literature-, was- returned Tuesday by the Grand Jury against W. W. Durbin, Kenton, well known figure in Ohio Democratic circles. A second defendant identified only as Mulcahy, was indicted for alleged attempted bribery and blackmail. Durbiu denied the charges and claimed he was being persecuted.

The former chairman of the stale Democratic Executive Committee and adclegatc-at-large to the Chicago convention next montlC was alleged to have circulated unsigned literature attacking Charles F. Schabcr, Bucyrus, and John A. Key, Mai-ion, unsuccessful candidates for the Eighth Ohio district congressional Democratic nomination. Brooks Fletcher, Marion, former congressman, supported by Durbin in the campaign, won the nomination. The indictment charging attempted blackmain and attempted bribery alleges that Mulcahy, representing himself an agent for Durbin, approached Prosecutor J.

Dudley Sears and said and Durbin would drop a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor they held against Sears if the prosecutor would halt the tion of Durbin. In his statement, Durbin said he had never talked with Sears and had nol authorized any other person to talk with the prosecutor. He claimed the charges were "trumped up, ridiculors." FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: BtQ. S.PAT. Off.

Tte girl who's sitting pretty usually bAS good position. One man was left with a gash fiv nchcs wide on his neck that requirec 17 stitches to close up, following an altercation which occurred Wednesday morning at the home of Jess Cornelius, near the golf course. Officers Clarence Baker and Brice Arnett were called the Cornelius lomc where they, found Jack Mimms," aged about 26, suffering from- a deep gash on his neck. Cornelius and Mimms had. been drinking and later engaged in a quarrel which resulted in a fight between (the two men, according to officers.

Both men were arrested, charged with being drunk, fighting, and dis- Lurbing the peace. Cornelius is, held in the city jail, while Mimms was taken to Washington and lodged in a cell there. A preliminary hearing before Judge Gentry has been set for Monday morning. Class Night For Negro High School 35 Members in Graduating Group at Yerger High School The senior High School class of Yerger Negro is holding its annual Class Night program at 8 o'clock Wed- Hope Youth Among Outstanding Pupils Earl Secrest Is Listed in Who's Who Section at of A. FAYETTEV1LLE, of 10 students of the University of Arkansas selected for their outstanding achievements for honors in the Who's Who section of the 1932 Razorback were announced Tuesday with the release of the yearbook.

These students, named by a committee of faculty members and student leaders, are as follows: Earl Secrest, Hope; Jack Busick, Pine Bluff; Harold Albrecht, Little Hock; Robert Wiseman, McGehee; Hal Douglas, Bentonville; Thcva Jane Ogan, Wynne; Fanchon Sims Olliver, Joplin, Burnelle Boyce, Little Rock; Jay Dickey, Fort Smith; Raymond Gibson, Prairie Grove; Ray Forrester, Rock; Warren Wood, Tillar; Walter Cooper, Archey; Oliver W. Holmes, El Dorado; Lester George, Muskotfee, and Clifton Wade, Fayetteville. nesday night. There are 35 members of the senior class, and the program, sponsored by E. M.

Glover and James Harris of the faculty, is as follows: Processional, "God of Our Fathers" Class Creed James Monroe Metclaf. Rev. N. F. Wesson, Pastor Lonokc Baptist church.

Class Novia Tyus Turner. Ivy Clovis Wilma Carrigan. Class Katie Marie Jordon. Chorus. Class Rubye Yvonne Douglass.

Class Eutha Louise Watson Class John Erie Cornelius. Mantle Gladyce Beatryce Beene. Response. Class Charlyne Daniels. Class Song.

Recessional. Class officers: James Monroe Metclaf, president; Lexie Louis Carmicheal, secretary; Chester Lewis, treasurer. House Votes Probe of Federal Sales Purchase of Pink Pajamas at Army Post Starts Inquiry by an array of manufactured articles, featured by a pair of ladies pink pajamas, 'alleged to be sold by the government in competition with private business, the House of Representatives Tuesday voted to set up a Committee of its members to investigate and legation wighTce- necessary, to-take Uncle Sam out of the competitive'marke't. By a vote of 176 to 129, they passed he Shannon resolution creating a committee of five to make the study and suggest remedies to the next session ol Congress. There was no limitation placed-upon the scope of the inquiry 11 on the amount of money which might be expended in gathering the data, although that the sum spent might reach considerable provoked opposition fros many of the members.

The display of manufactured articles was broubht into the chamber of Representative Jos. B. Shannon, Democrat, Missouri, author of the resolution. He handled the exhibits with all fervor of a medicine show barkci and he got response when Representative Thomas L. Blanton, Democrat, Texas, got up and announced he wanted not an investigating committee but a bill "with teeth in it" to make the government stop selling these commodities.

Snatching the pink pajamas from the clerks' table, where they rested with the other Shannon unfurled them to the inspection of his colleagues. "Now those," he said, "were bought at the government store at Fort Lca- venworth, Kan. What in the world do they want with these things in an army it is to deceive the enemy." He snatched a pair of shoes from the table, and, holding them aloft, he advised the membership that they were not only sold by the government ill competition with a citizen retailer, but that they were products of an English factory, imported into this Arkansas College Fees Reduced for Next Year Rev. Otis Graham of Malvern was elected president of the Arkansas College Alumni Association at the annual banquet here Tuesday, Miss Margaret Goodwin of Batesville, was elected vice president Trustees of the college, in session Tuesday morning, announced a tuition reduction for next year tram $160 $140. Student board will be reduced from to $200.

Bulletins NEW Rio, a father and his four daughters, died in a suicide pact Wednesday, because death had taken his wife and their mother. All were adults and natives of Argentina. They died by gas. 5 The Senate Banking Committee Wednesday reported as a substitute for the Goldsborough dollar stabilization bill a proposal Senator glass to make 4U "-Goy ernnw bonds eligible 'for 1 Issuance of cur- ran bill, to make Interstate, Kdl- naping'a federal crime, punishable by death was approved Wednesday by the House Judiciary Committee. LITTLE The State Construction Commission in charge of the new state hospital for nervous diseases discussed a possibility of obtaining a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- lion to complete the hospital an executive session Wednesday.

country iji competition with a citizen manufacturer. But the piece de resistance of his show was a half dozen little bottles, bought, he said, by his clerk in a government store right in the capital. They contained, he declared, reading from the label "gin extract, rum extract, corn extract, rye extract." "And the man who sold them," he shouted, "said there was a great demand for them." Garner Bill Provides Many Arkansas Projects; WASHINGTON, D. Tilrnan B. Parks issued a statement Tuesday pertaining to the public buildings for Arkansas as authorized in the Garner bill.

He said published reports were incomplete. Mr. Park's statement follows: "The report from Washington to the Gazette with reference to the public buildings in the Garner bill is incomplete. The revised bill, which will doubtless pass the House next week, provides for new buildings or the demolition and reconstruction of old buildings at the following places in City, Helena, Ft. Smith, Blytheville, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff, Benton, Bentonville, Clarksville, DeQueen, Lake Village, Magnolia, ftlalvern, Monticello, Nashville, Gs- ceola, Paris, Siloam Springs, Smackover, Springdale, Van Buren, Walnut Warren, Wynne, Ashdown, Ue, Osrmott, DeWitt, iEntf- Eudora, Gurdon, Hamburg, Piggott and Pocahontas." Seabury Reports More Walker Bonds $43,000 in Steel Co.

Bonds Declared Owned by New York Mayor NEW (ff)-Samuel Seabury at the hearing of the Hofsteidter Committee Wednesday introduced testimony indicating that Mayor Walker bonds of the Reliance Bronze and Company which, had receiv- to conclusion, the budget early Wednes The bilfion dollar returned to "the house" Senate action, measure goes -to early Thursday and expected compl of the weet and the twih'ci get bill, the $238,000,000 ure gets right of later Wednesday in tl AII Night a The final roll call,) a. aftei? a day and r' whirlwind of urprise call on Capitol JBillj president to action to arrest foreii American doll The last minute 'i iresident of the'i ets sales however, he Senate in its .75 per cent manufactun was advanced late In i ator ed a $43,000, city contract. Seabury declared opin- mayors removal from Woman Attacks (iii Ls With Hatchet Two Children Rushed to Are Critical RICHMOND, Turner' Shelton, wife of a physician, attacked her two young daughters with a hatchet as they slept early Wednesday and critically wounded them. The mother, 42 years of age, was believed mentally, deranged after many years of ill health. The children, Mary 11, and Eleanor 9, were rushed-to a hospital.

Contents of notes found attached to pillows on the bed of the girls were unrevealed, Wounds Inflicted By Brother Fatal Dies in Texarkana Hospital Without Regaining Consciousness Harvey, aged 24, who was brought from his home 19 miles southeast, of here Monday night to a Texarkana hospital for treatment for gunshot wounds, died early Tuesday without having regained con- consciousness. His brother, Ebbie Harvey, 21, who' surrendered shortly after the shooting, still is in jail. Phosecuting Attorney H. M. Barney filed a murder charge against him Tuesday afternoon and he will have James Aylett Is Dead, Buried Here Man Dies in; at Washington Thursday News of the death of James A.

Aylett, aged 46, of Washington, this county, in the U. S. Veterans Bureau Hospital at Lexington, Tuesday mlorning, was received here Wednesday. Mr. Aylett is a brother-in-law of Dr.

A. C. Kolb, 216 South Hervey street, Hope. The Tbody is being brought to Hope on the Missouri Pacific Thursday morning, and will be held at the home of Dr. Kolb until after noon Thursday.

The funeral service is to be observed, at 2:30 o'clock Thursday atfe'r- noon at Washington, the Rev. W. Stingley of the Washington Baptist church officiating. Mr. Aylett was a member of Leslie Huddleston post of the American Legion and the Legion will have charge of the funeral program.

Mr. Aylett is! survived by his widow and one daughter, Betty Jo. U. S. Accepts Plan For World Parley Britain Sponsors Confer ence to Discuss Economic Situation (IP) -The United States has consented to attend an international economic conference ii London, sponsored by Great Britain t( consider methods of stabilizing worlc commodity prices.

The date of the conference and its program have not been announced, bu the State Department made it clear Tuesday that the American acceptance of the invitation was with the under standing that only economic questions shall be considered arid political qucs a hearing in Municipal Court Thurs- tions such as war debts and repara- (00,000, in new the government Will -ot come rates; on ga pn gjpss receipts companies! To Yield 11,11 These Changes were yield $280,000,000 and brli of the, measure up to asked by the The greatest peacetime revenueii ing bill now goes to adjustment of differences withe House, but no major disputes are; pending between, the twoV and final enactment of the legislat within a week is expected. Its nerves ragged from the night grind, the Senate wrangled sistently throughout the a sharp exchange occurred jusf, final passage. 5 Senator 'TyoUngs of Maryli Glass of Virginia, both questioned sharply would balance the budget. Senator Reed of at) administration spokesman, firiiily sisted the bUl, together vrtth omy measure of J238.000.000, reached the Senate shortly bef day or Friday. Officers said that the killing took place at a still which was operated jointly by the brothers and followed a quarrel between them concerning the ownership of some of the apparatus.

Ebbie is said to have admitted that he fired the shots which killed his brother, but instead he did so in self- defense. He said his brother was trying to shoot him with a pistol and he pickpd up a shotgun ana fired twice. His statement is said to have been corroborated in part by others who witnessed the shooting. Officers said the brothers were under bond on liquor charges. The dead man is survived by his wife and one child.

Ebbie is unmarried- The aged parents of the brother live near where the tragedy occurred. tions barred. France, Italy and other European powers also have been invited by Great Britain. is the understanding of the State Department that the 'scope of the conference will be broad. Tariff quotes, monetary reforms and all subjects which relate to commerce and banking probably will be included in.

the agenda. The meeting will in no way be connected with the Lausanne conference, which is to be held June 16, primarily for the consideration of reparations and 1 intergovernmental debts, but the Utter also will discuss plans for the betterment of world economic conditions. The Stete Department statement night, would accomplish that Despite the late hour, almost a attendance remained on hand to the sales tax issue and pass the hilkj In the gallery were some, the W.QT men members of the House, including Mrs. Effiegene Wingo of Arkansas, te evening dress. Conferees Appointed Immediaely after the bill was passVJjS ed, Vice President Curtis appointed "3 conferees on behalf of the Senate to'-si adjust differences with the House, He named Chairman Smoot of the Finance Committee, and Senators Wat- 1 son, Republican, Indiana; Reed, publican, Pennsylvania; Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, and King, ocrat, ytah.

Cotton Belt Wins Refunding Battle 90 Per Cent of Bands posited Under Loan Agreement NEW St, Louis, Southwestern Railway kpqwn $4 the "Cotton Belt," Tuesday won 4 last-minute battle against a threaten-, cd receivership. At a meeting of the road's Board of Directors it was an- npunced that sufficient bonds of the $20,727,750 issue, due Wednesday, ha4 deposited with the Chase tional bank to complete the 9ft per ceoi necessai-y io make the refunding pteft operative. i'hose who deposited their b.pnds, $c- cordinj to the plan, are to receive per cent in cash aM half in new I per cent general and refudjoj wort- gage securities. The maturing was aconsolidated one beeripg pet cent coupons. The Interstate Commerce Comm loan from the (CoAtinued on Page Four) At adirectW it -WiK mutely 9Df CflfilJ.