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fit deed! nro doubled with Ail evil ed night and f-jtidair. VOLUME 172 Associated Press Netonpapef Enterprise HOPE, APRIL 30,1936 fctar ot 1839; Priirt, 1927. Consolidated January 18, 1929. MICE 66, ITALY REACHES ADDIS ABAB Here and There By ALEX. H.

WASHBURN- CDITOR the American newspaper, trade journal, brings me some interesting figures on "national" is, factory advertising which is placed and paid for without authority of the local merchant. The figures that despite the prominence of radio advertising in the public's ear today the daily newspapers are still holding the supremacy which they wrested from the magazines during and after the World war. last year for which com. (i)plete figures arc 1,196 national advertisers spent their money as follows: Daily newspapers $118,793,000, Magazines $94,205,000. Radio $41,542,000.

None but a very rabid newspaper man would insist that there is no other successful advertising medium besides his own. The experience of the 1,196 national advertisers in America proved in 1934. as in every year since the World war, that while there are many mediums a successful program has lo be based on the printed for timeliness, the page as the daily newspaper prints it. Other advertising mediums are supplementary, and of a certain all the great advertising accounts have considered the daily paper to be basic. XXX Regardless what you think of The Star's views on( statutory prohibition you will concede that in our resolute refusal to accept whisky advertising we have stood for Uic public good against a temporary personal advantage.

In 1933 The Star announced its repeal publish beer advertising and reject whisky advertising. We have never deviated from that policy. In choosing between the luxury beverages most Americans feel that their country would be better off if beer were encouraged at the expense of the whisky-drinking habit that has made the nation at times notorious. That should be a sound public yet it is poor business pol- tho viewpoint of the newspaper owner. For the whisky people last year spent four times the amount of advertising money that the beer people spent.

In New York, for Instance, Editor Publisher tells me that the total beer linage in 1935 was while the whisky linage was 3,114,919. In the smaller daily newspaper field the ratio for whisky runs still higher. It. is regrettable. But The Star is not a "box office" newspaper.

And, looking over the state, there are only two papers of our size or larger that hold to this to accept beer and reject whisky Arkansas Gazette and ourselves. Homecoming to Be Held on May 10th for County-Seat 14th Annual Event for Is Centennial Year EVENT HAS GROWN Picnic Luncheon on Courthouse Lawn Will Follow Sermon Tho fourteenth annual homecoming celebration at Washington, Hempstead county-scat and war-time capital of Arkansas, will be held Sunday, May 10. Each year former citizens of Washington are invited to attend the reunion. Tho affair is annually attended by residents from all over Arkansas iind many other states. Tlic first Washington homecoming was held in 1923 when members of the Washington club of Tcxarkana returned to their former home town and held a small reunion.

Each succeeding year the same thing has been done with thd celebration gradually becoming larger. Several "hundred persons affc oxpwtett'to" attend this year. Homecoming will bo centered around a special; service at the Washington Presbyterian church where the Rev. Thomas Brcwster of Hope will deliver a Mother's day sermon. At noon residents of Washington will be hosts to visitors with a picnic luncheon on the courthouse lawn.

The afternoon will be spent in rcncwinfi acquaintances and visiting historical places. All former citizens of Washington or their families are cordially invited to attend. Scout Leaders in Session Thursday A. to Serve Dinner at High School Thursday Night Scout patrol organization and boy leadership will be discussed at the third meeting of the Scoutcrs Training school at 6:30 p. m.

Thursday at the liinh school gymnasium, The Parent-Teachers association will serve dinner at 30 cents a plate. Scout Executive Robert Elliott appealed Thursday for additional recruits. He said that any man in the Hope area interested In scouting would he welcomed to attend the mectiiife'. He asked that all members of the course be able to tie the bowlin knot, as that would be the "password" for Thursday night's session. At the last meeting a new patrol was organized, and will be known as the Owl patrol.

This patrol is headed by Ralph Owen as patrol leader, and includes the following members: Foy Hammons, H. D. Huie, C. Franks, Paul Rowc, Wallace Rogers, D. F.

Reedy. Committee Favors Record Naval Bill Recommends Passage to Add Ships, Planes, Men, to U. S. Navy WASHINGTON 1 A record peace-time naval appropriations bill providing for adding more ships, air fighters, and men, to the nation's sea defenses, was approved Thursday by the house appropriations committee. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: HLG U.

b. PAT. OFF, dentist ought to bo good expert at drilling. Townsend Probers Booed byOld Folks Congressman Has Warm Time in Battle Creek (Mich.) District BATTLE CREEK, hisses and yells from elderly spectators at the Congressional inquiry into the Townsend orguniation in this stronghold of the old age pension plan, forced an adjournment Wednesday. Representative Clare Hoffman, (Rep.

conducting the- investigation, was booed from the moment he walked into the crowded room by Townsend Club members from the district which was the first to elect a congressman on a Townscnd platform. The second of eight witnesses summoned to the hearing was being questioned when the jeers if the spectators at Hoffman's questions and their cheers for the answers of the witness, led the investigator to announce: "1 guess we'll have to give it up for today. Maybe by tomorrow the enthusiasm of you people will have cooled off some." Eurly in the hearing Hoffman suspended questioning as an elderly spectator near the platform began chant(Continued on pafie Pockets Are Novel of alligator skin add a novel touch to a black tweed skirt worn by Mrs. Reginald Fellowes. With the suit goes a black and white printed satin blouse.

Saenger Theater Sold by Brundidge to Malco, Lessee Theater Operator Acquires Building; Largest House in State BUILT SHEARS AGO Built by Brundidge, Open- eclby Saenger Company September 26, 1927 Hope's Saenger in the hands Thursday when Malco Theaters, its present operators, announced they had purchased the building from J. P. Brun- didgo. The price was not announced. The deal was closed Wednesday when M.

S. McCord, secretary-treasurer of Malco, came here from North Liittlc Rock lo wind up final details. The Saengen was built by Mr. Brundidge on a contract by which the origbial Saenger Theater company of New Orleans agreed to take a long- term lease, and operate the theater. It was built on the ruins of the old Alice theater, built by Harvey Crutchfield, but which burned many years ago.

Utilizing part of the old walls, Mr. Brundidge erected the present magnificent house, and Saenger Theaters opened it to the public September 26, 1927. The theater operation passed into the hands of the Publix-Paramounl corporation! in 1930 when that company acquired all the Saenger concern's leases. In 1931 the Malco company took over the Paramount operations in Arkansas. Malco closed their New Grand house, in Hope, and concentrated the city's amusement business at the Saenger.

Arthur Swanke, a veteran theater operator, was sent here j.n 19.32, and undeVJiis management the house has been highly successful, culminating in his company's purchase of the building Thursday, Malco had recently spent considerable money on improvement, New and more powerful lamps have been installed in the projection-machines, at a cost of and an additional $700 has been expended for mechanical overhauling. Hope Scrubbing Up Its "White Way" Light-Shades Are Being Cleaned for First Time in a Year Part of the city's 19S White Way lights in the downtown section of Hope were getting a scrubbing Thursday for the first time in more than a year. A crew of men sent out by the management of the water and light plant were washing the shades of each light, which had grown dim because of a year's settlement of dust and dirt. All of the light-shades will be washed, it was announced from the office of the municipal power plant. Medical Quackery Now Big Business So-Called Cancer "Cures' Are Flayed by Dr.

Morris Fishbein Evanston idueates Drivers and Enforces Law tof Set All-Ameriean Traffic Record Common Sense 1 Is Illinois City's Safety Solution Every Accident, However Small, Is Investigated by City Police Damaged Party Is Permitted to Settle Outside of Court This is the second of two stories telliny hoiv Milwaukee and Evanston, 111., won traffic honors as the safest large, city in America and the safest moderate-sized city, respectively. B.y ELIZABETH WALKER NEA Service Special Correspondent CHICAGO 111., that scholastic (stretch of ivy-covered schools and churches which separates this midwest metropolis from the newer and more fashionable villages farther north, has long been lauded as Chicago's Most Cultural Suburb. But recently it has acquired another name. Nowadays it is also being hailed as America's Safest City. For the third time in four years it has won tho grand prize offered annually by the National Safety Council to.

tlic municipality with a population ofl 10,000 or more making'the greatest strides in solving traffic problems. In 1935, while scores of less cultural communities were' wringing their metaphorical hands' in horror over their lengthening lists of motor vehicle fatalities, erudite Evanston, a bustling city of 70,000, crowded into 8.2 square miles, was. gazing with pardonable pride upon an auto mortality register that showed only two new names. During the preceding 12 months it had reduced the number of its traffic deaths 75 per cent, representing an auto death rate of only 2.9 as compared to that of 18.1 in the country at large. Starts on Small Scale To the question "How did Evan- slon achieve this record?" the stock answer is: By evolving its now famous "Evanston Plan," a system of accident prevention based upon the three E's of traffic, engineering, law enforcement, and safety education, which it started to put into effect in the fall of 1929.

That year Evanston's city fathers, goaded on by the safety council, formed a police bureau of accident prevention. In charge they placed Franklin M. Krcml, a rangy 26-year-old, who, several years before, had been forced by financial difficulties to quit his law studies at Northwestern University; and get a job as motorcycle cop with the Evanston police department. There- was nothing spectacular about the program of safety the newly established bureau proceeded to adopt. Tho first thing it did was to organize three accident prevention squads, of two men each, working eight-hour shifts, to' investigate all traffic mishaps at their source and collect evidence against the offenders.

Step two was employment of a part- time traffic engineer, whose duties were to studyj the accident reports gathered by these police investigators and recommend NEW YORK. A warning lights, would make streets aKainst charlatans and quacks was I jjyf ur voiced Wednesday night by Dr. Morris I Public Is Educated Fishbein of Chicago, who said quack-, 0 thing which the bureau cry had become a "big business set oul to accomi was, through Evanston, 111., lias paid) strict attention to the' three engineering-, and winning traffic safety honors. Here the first of the three is being exemplified, with Lieut. Frank M.

Kreml of the city's police department giving instructions to a group of interested women drivers. Glaring headlights and defective brakes, two prolific causes of motor accidents, get thorough attention from Evanston police in their safety At Uic left an inspector is examining a headlight for proper focus and pilch. 'At the right, the portable break used by the accident investigation squad is shown in use, rogisering the relative effectiveness of brakes. every sense of the word." Dr. Kishbein told the New York Stale Medical Society that well cdu- frequen tly were found among the charlatans.

Ha said: cducation, to arouse the citizens of Evanslon! to the importance of care in driving. To achieve this, poster boards, the two local newspapers, and radio were used. Civic groups and wt-lh ('I trimi Iiu ftiim: i -The credulity of mankind in rcjwrd! soclnl were asked to dc' lei new apparatus i.s astounding. All sorts of rays, electric shocks and vi brators are being sold to people as 'cure alls' when their uses in disease arc exceedingly limited." Dr. Kishbein, editor of the journal vote a meeting a year to of accident prevention.

Classes in public safety for children were added to the curricula of all elementary schools, public, private, and parochial, a "safety driving" of the American Medical Association, said the most despicable charlatans wci-j those who preyed on cancer victims. "The medical profession today docs nut know the cause of cancer." he said. "The medical profession today does know that the one real hope for any patient with this condition i.s early diagnosis and prompt treatment either by surgery or by the use of radium and the X-ray. "Yet throughout the counrty and Canada today there are charlatans who explot serums, vaccines, caustic pastes, and mixtures and herbs and roots and vegetables which have been shown by scientifically controlled experimentation to be completely without merit." course was made obligatory for slu- denls atlendii.g Evanston Township high school. And a school for women drivers was established.

The Evanston Plan now includes an annual traffic officers' training school, jointly conducted by the local police department and Northwestern University, psychological examinations for drivers with high accident records, and a vehicle inspection station, where motorists must report twice a year for ear examination. Every Accident Checked Evanston was! one of the pioneers in seeking the cause as well as the cure of traffic accidents. Today, ac(Continued on psuje threes) H. M. Stephens to Run for Treasurer County Judge to Stand on 4-Year Record in New Campaign Bid H.

M. Stephens formally announced in the political column of today's Star that he would be a candidate for Hempstead county treasurer, subject to the action of the Democratic primary election August 11, 1936. His formal statement follows. "To the Voters and Taxpayers of Hempstead County: "I take this opportunity of letting you know that 1 am a candidate for county treasurer. If you see fit to elect me as your county treasurer, I shall guard and protect all public funds coming into my custody with the same care that I have looked after, guarded and protected your interests as county judge.

"I assure you that no one will appreciate your vote and active support more than I M. STEPHENS." He is completing his second term as county and probate judge 1 (having been elected in 19.12. Judge Stephens asserts the county debt has been substantially reduced during his administration, despite declining revenues he will make the race for treasurer on his four-year record in the judge's office. Suggest 8 Lanes for U. Highway Gigantic Transcontinental Road Proposed to the Congress eight-lane supertranscontineatat highway was envisioned Wednesday before the house roads committee as a basis for revival of industry.

The committees heard Representative Randolph W. in sup(Continued on page three) Bulletins NEW John Fio- 24, upholsterer, pleaded innocent Thursday to an indictment charging murder in the first degree in i connection with the slaying of Mrs, Nancy Evans Tittcrton in her apartment April 10. TRENTON, N. District Attorney 1 Francis Madden of Queens county, New York, announced Thursday thearrest or Sol Marcus, 23, Trenton, in connection with the Paul H. Wcndcl case.

Madden said Marcus was arrested on a fugitive warrant as an accessory to the Wcndcl kid- naping. Lynching Probed in Poinsett County 19- Year-Old Negro Slain by 10 Armed Men Wednesday Night LEPANTO, Ark. (fp) Poinsett county officials Thursday pursued an investigation into Wednesday's lynching ofa young negro, the South's second victim of mpb violence this week. The negro, Willie Kees, 19, accused if an attempted attack on a white woman here April 18, was taken from City Marshal Jay May by 12 enraged men at the point of guns and slain. Sheriff J.

D. Dubard refused to discuss the case until he had concluded his questioning of residents. Replenish Fish Streams RICHMOND, million fish of the yellow perch species will replcnsih streams in eastern Virginia under a distribution program of the state commission of game and inland fisheries. Movie Actor Carves Soap (A 1 Alan Baxter. who plays public enemies in the films, carves busts and friends in soap.

bus-reliefs of his Treasury Deficit to Be 5 Billions Largest in Peace-Time Demands Tax Pass WASHINGTON A Treasury deficit of 5 billion 966 thousand biggest; in peace-time forecast by Secretary Mor- genthau for the current fiscal year Thursday in urging congressional enactment of President iRoosevelt'p full tax program. Morgenthau said prepayment of the bonus was partly responsible for the huge figure by which he said expenditures would exceed income in the 12 months ending June 30. The convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States was asked by its resolutions committee Thursday to attack the administration's tax plans, condemn legislation to fix labor conditions, and approve a proposed survey, of available jobs. These requests were presented after Secretary Hull, saying there is a rising danger of a catastrophic World war, had attacked what he termed the supreme folly of excessive trade barriers. Members of the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday heard repeated statements possible a reduction in taxes, was the best method of meeting President Roosevelt's suggestion Iliat business enlarge its pay rolls.

Speakers before the chamber annual convention repeatedly denounced the administration's $803,000,000 tax bill. Fred H. Clausen, president of the Van Brunt Manufacturing Company, Horicon, said: "The answer to the challenge of the administration to restore employment to idle men lies in the hands of Hie government. We ask that the federal Uxlng power be returned to its proper function and be Limited to the raising of the revenues required the economical administration oi government. "We are always confronted with vhe query 'wliat substitute tax proposa have you to Our answer has (Continued on page three) Badoglio's (ii Command Capi Unconfirmed Rep Invaders Have ed SASA BANEH Italians Storm South, Clearing to Haraf ROME, press dispa' Thursday that Marshal troops had arrived on a hi leading to Addis Ababa and within artillery sh.ot.of the'Eti capital.

said the column of fighters had passed, beyond Debra Blhran, the sacredli of Shoa. Late in the afternoon an unco ed press dispaeth declared the a'flv guard of the motorized ed Addis Ababa at 10 a. in Panic ADDIS ABABA, right Associated lassie returned to his capital atJ (African time) Thursday and hours into a tion with Cornelius Van ister resident and consuL-generaKj the United States. The emperor told the Assoclati Press correspondent: "Ethiopia is not defeated, carry on its fight to the last Before the emperor came back'it his palace the capital was a panic by reports that the Ifc were near. Sasa Baneh ROME, force in Ethiopia, reported Th' that Sasa Baneh, gateway to Eth.

second city, Harar, had been storm Wednesday. 'ft Saha Baneh was taken, he said, the climax to many days of 1 fighting. Hia report came as authorities said the tension between Italy andt Great Britain was relaxing' and, Uie danger of a European war; resulting, from the Italian campaign ishing. Meanwhile, the northern' front 'the fall of Addis Ababa appeared im-'f minenfc An Italian motorized column turned due west Wednesday for the push on the capital. Unofficial reports had the columnfi reaching Koro Gassa, where the.

road from Dessye turns sharply west for straight run to the capital. described as friendly. The Northern army is exercising every precaution against falling into i trap. Scouting planes are engaged'in almost constant reconnaissance flights to prevent the main column from, falling into an ambush, and an advance infantry patrol also affords a safei guard. An Eritrean column is advancing along an old caravan route to the west and more on a direct line to the ital than the auto road.

This column crossed the Mofer river and occupied the mountain height of Dobo. With the fall of Addis Ababa ently in sight, heavy shipments of workmen to Africa continue, indicating Premer Mussolini intends to continue large scale work. The S. S. ITm- bria sailed Wednesday from Naples with 2,090 workmen.

Owner Must List All His Farmland Forbidden to "Transfer" Crops to Other Coun- ties or States Landowners or operators who file work sheets covering a farm in Hempstead county will also be asked to 'ile work sheets covering all farms owned or operated in the county, and he names of other counties and states which they own or operate farms, according to W. E. Mouatcastle, county agent. States and counties will co-operate this exchange of information, since a landowner will not be permitted to divert acreage in this county and then plant an excess of soil-depleting crops on other frams he owns or operates. Landowners and operators will be penalized by a deduction of payment due them on land on which they have performed in accordance with the program if it is found that soil depleting acreage have been on other land which they own or operate.

This provision is necessary in order to insure the carrying out of the soli conservation program on an equitable basis throughout the nation. A lobster taken off the coast Jersey is believed to be the largest ever caught; it weighed 34 pounds and was estimated to be 50 years old..