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1'' i ftfCL -a' xfJfS- rtlfi! HOPE, DECEMBER 1, 1980 of ftfffitfck Hbpe PwSt, QmidlicUMd it Jlntlfcr? 18, 1929. 71 ST. CONG :W.SL Atkins Named! i liquidating Agent in Arkansas Bank iv 1 New Plans For Reorganization Advanced By Depositors DOES CONFLICT Atkins Says His Appointment Interfere With Reorganization Appointment of W. S. A'tklns, Hope attorney arid banker as agent for the Arkansas Bank Trust which suspended payment November 17, was announced Sunday, by Walter Taylor, state banking commissioner.

Claims for deposits should be filed in person by the depositors, at the bank, all legal proceedings having been assumed by the state in the person of the banking commissioner and his local deputy, Mr. Atkins. The only step required of depositors is to fill out the blanks available at the Arkansas Bank Trust Co. office in Hope. Mr.

Atkins told The Star Monday morning that his appointment as does not prevent or hinder any present or future plans for reorganizing the Arkansas Bank Trust Co. as going concern. Appointment of the state's agent is necessary, he said, in view of the bank's suspension, but does not conflict with any reorganization plans of stockholders 'or both. plan. Plans for reorganization with a new capital structure have not been abandoned, The Star learned Monday.

Petitions are being 'circulated among the depositors protesting against the appointment of a liquidating agent Star about 400 depositors are. in an informal manner through U. A. Gentry, city attorney Of Hope and former state senator, in an "effort to subscribe. the capital stock themselves.

The approximate plan, The Star learns on good authority, is for depositors holding more'than $500 to subscribe "half their deposit in stock in a new bank to take over the assets and liabilities Arkansas Bank Trust Co, Mr. Gentry told The Star Monday morning that he had been appealed to by many small depositors to assist in formulating a -reorganization plan among the depositors themselves which would meet with the approval oi the state banking commissioner and permit the bank to reopen, It is contended this group thai the Arkansas represents many smal depositors and small borrowers, especially in the rural section of Hempstead county, who have need of (Continued On Page Three) Mother Jones Is Called By Death Texarkana Couple and Three Youths Held in Texas Jail Quintette ArT'HeU ori Charges of Robbery With Firearms LOOT IS ONLY Two Youths Arrested and Implicate Others in Robbery Scene if chargs-'Of. robbery with firearms, a capital, offense in Texas, was placed against a Texarkana man, wife and three youths, living near Texarkana, for the robbery' of the Ritchie Motor at Atlanta, Texas, Saturday night. Thirty-five dollars was all thali was taken by the robbers, and the arrest of all the participants followed that night and the following morning. Those -held the Atlanta jail are: Mr.

and. Mrs. Elmer Walker, Morris, 17, Gilbert Tedders, 17, and Tim Mixon, 19. District Attorney R. G.

Waters that Morris and Tedder, after their arrest, confessed their part in the crime and implicated the others. It was reported by the sheriff, that practically all of the $35.00 taken in he robbery was recovered. The money was taken from the cash drawer of the motor company, which is at night. The attendant was asleep, when two of the members entered. He awakened by the bell of 4 ne cash register and was compelled' tr keep quiet by one of the men Who had him covered with a Mother Jones, famous leader in a dozen bitter struggles, is dead at hei home near She was called by death earlj Mwiday old and Unitld Statel for 75 years.

cause of the Hunter Drowns in Mississippi River Goes Down When Boat Is Rescued FERRI.DAY, were being made Monday by searching parties.lo recover the body of Otto Thompson, 40-year-old boilcrmaker employed here by the Missouri Pacific Railroad company, who drowned about 1:30 Sunday afternoon when a boat in which he and a companion, jlohn "Bucky" King, 23, were rowing overturned when hit by a whotecap during a heavy wind on the Mississippi river four miles north of Ferriday. The par were hunting geese on the rver and were returning to their automobile oh the bank when the accident occurred. King was rescued by a party of negroes from Balon Rouge, in a tugboat en route to Vicksburt: at a point near Sycamore shute, after drifting nearly two miles from "the place where the boat turned over and where Thompson was last seen by King at the railroad man endeavored to swim to the bank. Live Duck Decoys Help Hunters Capture Geese MONTICELLO, Ind. (U.R) Wild geese are easier killed in a pen than en the wing according to Smear Malone and Charles Hutlon, who have tried both ways.

The pair saw fceven Wild geese light in a ditch where tame ducks owned by Hutton were swimming. As they approached the geese took wing. The men fired and one goose fell. 'The others escaped. The next day the wild geese returned.

-The hunters decided to capture them. They began to drive "all the birds toward a double corn crib. The geese took flight several times but finally went Inside the crib with thfe ducks. Two of the. wild geese were found wounded by shots of the previous day.

vere the wings, of the ptnors wery clipped. Mother' Jones of Labor Fame Dead Once Militant Crusader in Cause of Workers Was 100 Years Old Jones, 100 years old, militant crusader for the rights of the laboi-ing man, died Sunday night at her home in Maryland. The celebrated labor leader, who had championed the cause of the working man for 60 years, succumbed to the ravages of old age only after her death had been expected several times during the past year. In her battle against death she had displayed the same indomitable spirit she showed in her labor activities 'when she refused to be stopped even by militia 6r governors. Mother Jones," as she was known to union labor men and women all pyer the country, had been confined to her bed for more than a year during the past few months had been unable to' take solid food.

She lived at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burgess, near Silver Springs, Maryland. Off iciaisliiinir Aviatrix Is Dead Former Flying Comrade of Woman Plans to Continue Search MIAMI, officials Sunday agreed in expressing the belief Mrs. J.

M. Keith-Miller, Australian aviatrix, perished on an attempted flight in adverse weather conditions from Havana to Miami. No word has been received of the Australian flier since she left Havana in her reconditioned plane, The Bullet, at 9:11 a. m. Friday.

The naval station at Key West said no ships in Gulf or Atlantic waters had reported information on the missing aviatrix and that orders for a search by navy boats would have to come fro mthe navy department at Washington. She was believed to have blown over the Gulf -of- Mexico by high winds. Refrigeration Will Be Demonstrated at Shover There is to be a demonstration in refrigeration and ice dishes, by Miss Vara Crippen, of the Southern Ice Utilities company ut the home of Miss Earlie McWilUams of the Shover Springs community on Tuesday afternoon, December 3. The meeting will at 2 o'clock. ladies of the community and adjoining communities ere urged to be present.

Mrs. C. Cplliw, reported. Truck Skids and Kills Blacksmith Driver Is Absolved From Blame For Accident By Sheriff MEMPHIS, Mann, 59, blacksmith, was crushed fatally Sunday by a truck which skidded and overturned on fa wet highway near Marion, Ark. Sheriff Claude Cooper absolved Hanley Romines, West Memphis, driver of the truck, Mann operated a smithy at Marion and lived here.

New Building For Arkadelphia Paper Siftings-Herald to Hold Open 'House in That City Tuesday Formal dedication and opening of the new building of the Siftings-Herald, daily newspaper at Arkadelphia, will be observed in that city Tuesday. Invitations have been received by the stafi of Hope Star, and of the Ar- Kansas Printing Stationery of this city, to attend. The Siftings-Herald is owned and edited by Philip McCorkle, a cousin of Ed McCorkle, owner of the Arkansas Printing Stationery Co. and a'former owner of Hope Star. Philip McCorkle is well known in Hempstead county, Nevada, Howard and other parts of Southwest Arkansas, and the forrnal dedication of his new building will draw hundreds of newspaper men to Arkadulphla Tuesday.

The building replaces the one destroyed by fire during the summer and provides sumptuous new' quarters for Arkadelphia's daily newspaper. Swallows Poison To End His Life Body of Missing NashvilU Insurance Man-Found in Woodlot NASHVILLE Charles Littlefiel aged 57, wh chad been missing sine Wednesday of last week, dead Sunday in a small woodlot i the outskirts of Nashville. An inquest was held and the jur; decided.he died by his-own hand. bottle held carbolic acid wa found near the body, which was fount by Tom Cranford who was strollin through the woodlot. Searching parties were formed Sun day and were making a search nea where was 'seen las Wednesday, which was in the 'opposit direction from where the body wa found Temporary insanity is blame for, his act.

Persons who saw hii Wednesday, and earlier last week, sale le acted queerly. He was seen late Wednesday walking about two miles 'rom Nashville. He stopped at a farm louse and inquired the way to Highway No. 24 which leads into Nashville. Littlefield was a former county mdge and county clerk.

He was a ustice of the peace and was engaged the real estate and insurance business with George Coleman. He is survived by his wife, one step-son, Garland Willingham, Amarillo, Iwo sons, Arthur Littlefield, who was last heard from in the Rio Grande Killed In Little Rock i Robbers Are Killed By Little Rock Officers Early Monday As They Are Caught in Building of Dairy Company T- 4 LITTLE nephew, c-f early Arkansas Governor and his ompanion were, killed by police early Monday, dtiring the robbery of a dairy company. The slain robbers, J. B. Eagle, 36, if Lonoke.

and Joel Lee Prince, 52, Rock Were killed after a gun ight with several officers after, they were discovered in the dairy building of the Terry Dairy company. nephew of James P. Eaglej who was governor of Arkansas in-the 10's, and is of a family prominent in jonokfe for the past half cen- His father was the late "Black Foe" Eagle of'Lonoke. Police said this was the first time known to them that Eagle had undertaken to comtnU a criminal offense. The two men entered the dairy and bound the' nightwatchman, Jqhn McBrayer, When the nieh went on into building McBrayer freed himself 1 and summoned aid.

When the police arrived and were searching the place the first man they encountered was Prince, who opened fire upon them. He was fatally wounded by' a shot from one of the officers guns. Eagle was encountered by another group of officers in another part of the building. It is said he attacked the officers wifli a milk bottle and was shot down, Eagle was killed instantly. i Short Cotafse To Begin Next Week Farm Chautauqua Will Be Held at Hope City Hall December 11-12 any ever given on the chautauqua platform." That is the expressed opinion of many people who have heard the lecteures that are be given at the agricultural short) course to be held in Hope city hall on -Thursday and Friday, December 11-12.

Despite the high standard of the lectures, demonstrations and motion pictures, no admission'charge of any kind will be made at any of the hear- Arkansan Is Old Friend of Secretary of Labor PINE appointment William Doak cf McLean, by President Hoover as successor to J. j. Davis, secretary of labor, was of unusual interest to one Pine Bluff man, G. H. liirighton( Young, who knew Mr.

Doak several years ago when they worked tpgeiiier on the Norfolk and Western railway at Rpa- nokc, Va. Young and Doak served together many times on committee work in union affairs in Virginia. valley in Texas, and Roy Littlefield of Nashville, Littlefield' was born and reared in this county and was well known. Physicians said the condition of the body'indicated that he had been dead since Wednesday or Thursday. New Air Service To Be Inaugurated Flying Time Between Two Coasts to Be Cut to Forty-two Hours SAN FRANCISCQ, rect airplane passenger service from California to New York will be inaugurated Monday night.

The Bowen Transport company and the National Transportation company subsidiaries of the' United Aircraf Corporation will inaugurate a 42-hour schedule from coast lo coast. The train schedule is from' 8 to 82 hours. Actual flying time will only be about 26 hours, but the schedule calls for overnight stops in Chicago. Thr eastbound planes will leave Oakland at 8 p. and will arrive in New York about 4 o'clock p.

m. on the second day. Stops will be made at the following for no other purpose than to help the people solve their many problems of the not only interest them, but to encourage and inspire them as and every women, boys and girls, from town and from country, will be cordially welcomed at every session. New thoughts, new ideals based both upon scientific experiments and investigations conducted by many agricultural colleges, and uppn practical experiments of "dirt farmers" everywhere, will be presented in the be- liei! that they will be of hip to us'in meeting the difficulties thai we are constantly encountering. And these facts, important to all of UU, will be presented by men and women who are numbered among the best agricultural lecturers and demonstrators in the coUnntry in a manner that is interesting, fascinating, Local committees are preparing a program that will include discussions of the farm and home problems that are most common in this community, and the Agricultural Extension Department of the International Harvester company, which is co-operating with our local people in conducing the short course, is doing, and will continue to do everything possible to make it of great and lasting benefit to all who attend.

The schools have been especially invited to co-operate in the meeting. Farmers and business men are Urged to make this their short course. They will be benefited much more than they may now realize. All club women, teachers; the woman on the farm, the woman in town -will be greatly interested and greatly helped if they will attend as many of the meetings as possible. They will be particularly benefited by hearing the talks of Miss Grace Marian girl, fram woman, rural teacher; city teacher, ex- tention workers for the U.

S. Department of Agriculture during the war, and. able lecturer and writer on household and other subjects relating to women's work. H. S.

Mobley and John M. Hannon will have prominent places on the program. Mr. Mobley is a practice farmer and a nationally recognized leader in agricultural progress, talks on "The Educational Use of Knowledge" and "Communities Are Made of Folks" linger long in the memories those who hear them. Mr.

Hannon has talks that will be helpful and useful. Bulletins men escaped with $18,800 in, cash Mon day, in a holdup of three employees of a Cincinnati Street Railway money truck. were first- Informed that an American Railway Express truck was robbed. hundred persons, some calling hundred persons, some calling" themselves communists, staged a parade on the down town streets hero Monday, ending in front of the White House. Police interfered when placards were "displayed by the padide members and the placards were distroycd.

STEPHENS, The Peoples Bank here suspended Monday for a five day period. Officials said the closing was for reorganization and a possible consolidation with the Bank of' Stephens. It is said that negotiations for.the merger Monday by the'offleers of the two banks. Young Cop Shoot Four Bandits Find Man on Porch With Broken Neck Sheriff Unable, To Tell How Man's Neck Was Broken body of Theadore Francis Coins, 29, with 'his neck jroken, was found on the front porch Patrolman Dominick Griffo, a rookie of two years on the New York police force, never had been particularly proficient at pistol practice. But when four bandits attempted to" hold 1 up the a cafe in which Griffo Was seated, off duty, he' dropped all of them with six shots and then subdued a' less seriously wounded one with his pmpty gun.

Three of prisoners werp serious condition. Bills to ROBINSON Asks Fbr gress, not malitierVerejheld I placed 'first ernphssisy-, 'itiej, were injured Many friends of present at the ovtotin well as to be the capital .6 Vice and Worth were' welcoi entire The first business '1 the Handle Factory Will Open Soon i j. ant at Eagle MilKr Obtained Large Timber Tracts hicltory handle which will give employment to, 24 men and will represent an'i Investment of 520,000, has been obtained for'Eagle Mills, Ouachita-county, according tp an announcement here, today-by Luther Ellison, secretary-manager- of South Arkansas' Chamber of Commerce. It will operate as the Scales 'Bros. Handle Facory, under, the management of E.

N. and E. W. The company has closed a'contract with the Cotton Belt- for tracks and will maintain a yard for switch ties and piling. The company expects to manufacture wagon dimension stock later.

Because of large timber tracks in the vicinity of Eagle Mills, Ellison announced, and along the Cotton Belt, it will be possible for the com- the Senate and the other they Were in se similar message 7 Numerous Congress come Senators and Represeritsitlv sending down the difficult 1 survive. One bill, to proposed hy- son, in the Senate. It'is a strVkeri' bringing him home after a drinking party. Sheriff T. S.

Fisher, said there would not be an inquest, at the request of the man's mother, Mrs. Liza Webster. Everett Brady, 35, was arrested arid chargefl with selling liquor to Coins and h7s four companions. Sheriff Fisher said that he had obtained no explanation as to how the man's neck was broken, New England Sends Hoover Its Products box of products from each of the six New England States was shipped by the New Epg- land Association of Market Officials recently to Herbert Hoover, who is recuperating at Rapidan, Va. The box contained a Rhode Island turkey, potatoes from Aroostook county, Maine, apples from New Hampshire orchards, maple products from Vermont, eggs from Connecticut, and vegetables from Massachusetts.

Last Police Horse Retired COLUMBUS, ttl.R)— The last of 13 police horses, Old Babe, has been retired. Old Babe and a dozen others have been honorably discharged from traffic duty because of mpdern traffic on a The horses have been towns along the route: Reno, Elko, Salt Lake Sacramento, City, Rock Springs, Cheyenne, North Platte, Lincoln, Omaha Des Moines, Iowa City, Chicago. Toledo and Cleveland. The New York-Chicago-San Francisco route.is the Ipngest lighted ail-way in the world. It also has the longest network of radio and radio beacon'stations.

The planes along this route will also carry mail. Toronto Taxi Drivers Fight Fingerprinting TORONTO, new city ordinance requiring all Toronto taxicab drivers to submit to finger printing for identification after January 1 has met opposition in the city council. Comptroller Claude Pearce, of the city council, said the past associations of'finger printing made it odious for taxicab drivers. Pearce also objected to a provision pf the new ordinance requiring the installation of taxi-meters in all cabs. The requirement, he said, was a "great injustice" since the meters cost -each and only were made in the ed Soviet Textile Experts Arrested 'For 'Sabotage large number specialists in the textile industry have been arrested in recent weeks, charged with economic counter-revolution Some of them, according to reports held high positions of trust.

Investigation of their alleged sabotage is still under way and the arres of additional pel-sorts involved in theij activities is likely. While no announcement has been made, there is said to be evidence that some of these sepceialists reseiv- ed substantial presents from foreign frims. $500,000,000 within perio'cV by the Federal was sought by Represent of, Wisconsin. This provide for spend 80 per'cent'and theji remainder. At $125,000,000 annually foE-JUT" on a fifty-fifty basis, would pause one half of to be spent on the roads the farmer has to haul his': Among other bills prop one by Representative Arkansas, asking that to the farmers of, Arka aid in -tiding them through ft ter and t6 help them crop is harvested, Brundidge UpJ(( In Suit Tornado Breaks Up Wake MACON, tornado which ripped through this section of Mississippi recently picked up 22 ne- groes holding "wake" services over the body of Brown Hughes, negro farmer, dumping them several hundred yards from the house where the service was held- pone was injured.

The corpse was disrobed. in the timber business since.J915, IB said, and have bought large timber tracts in this section, This is another evidence of the availabilty of South Arkansas a successful manufacturing section," Mr. Ellison announced, Dermott Suffers Heavy Fire Loss Heading Mill Blaze Causes $175,000 Fire Loss Early Monday DERMOTT, heading and stave mill, owned by W. B. Bynum, and employing approximately 100 men was destroyed by fire early Monday.

The loss is estimated at $175,000 which is mostly covered by insurance acccrding to information by company cfficials. Work of rebuilding will start as soon as the details are completed it was announced. The Demott and the McGehee fire departments save some of the yard stock, and the offices from being consumed in the blaze. The fire of undetermined origin was discovered in a storage shed, housing finished, products. The blaze spread rapidly to the kilns and mill proper.

Cornell Students to Take Course in Cold'Cures ITHACA, N. at Cornell university here will be given first hand instruction in preventing colds, according tp an announcement by Dean F. Smiley, medical adviser. Smiley plans to establish cold prevention classes this winter. Colds among students were reduced 40 per cent last by a treatment which included ultra-violet ray baths, alkalLm'zation, instruction regarding diet and the use of a caVwrhisil vaccine iu the nose and thi'pat.

fThe Supreme Court Against Belts in Tax Case From 1918 LITTLE supreme court Monday ne ber owned separate frorn Ian4 is ject to an improvement tax case came before the court, Arkansas county. Another case that held the tion of the court Monday was, coming from ofta court, seeking to recover a from the Federal Government The case showed that A. and P. Brundidge dissolved nership 1918 in their cotton at Hope, Betts agreeing to the interest of BrundjdgSf C. Cameron, in listing assets pf thf.

company said that $18,153.90 the firm from the Betts advanced Brundidge hjs. thir amount In all, Brundidge ed $37,572.45 from Belts, the aingunt claimed due. Later, after a decision the pany was not due money 'fcnm federal fioverment Betts suefl to compel Brundidge to return amounting to $9,084.45. The court ruled that there was no iraud or undue advantage tskep, wd that a mistake had merely which was not a sueable Church Marriages Drpp In are losing jn popularity in, according to latest figures pf istrar General. In five years, ceremonies have declined 19 pep and Ihe Qf civil increased gjdnortlonstely.

cm mamaie of every three tracted outs)de thf church. Northern brides the fojr Cheshire, if purely civi 42,316 marriajjefc of.