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A THOUGHT Give sorrow grief Hurt does not speak, whispers (he o'erfrmight heart, and bids It Hope Star Tt WBATEDCB Arkansas Fair night and Wednesday; slightly Warmer Wednesday. VOLUME 168 AdKoolnted Prewi Newspaper Enterprise ABS'JI HOPE, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1937 Star of Preen, 1927. ed January 18, 1929. PRICE 6c COPY SPANISH DESTROYED Woolworth Scion and 2 Brokers Buy Sweringen Empire Allan Kirby of Wilkes- Barre, in Deal for Missouri Pacific GENERAL MOTORS? Denhardt, and Slain Woman's Daughters His Associates, Young and Kolbe, Former Em- ployes of G. M.

NEW YORK-W 1 Pennsylvania philanthropist and two New York investment in their forties and heretofore relatively unknown in powerful financial announced Monday as purchasers of the controlling block of securities in the vast Sweringen railroad empire. Phincipal railroads in the network arc the Chesapeake Ohio. Missouri Pacific, Eric, Nickel Plate and Pcre Marquette. The three arc Allan P. Kirby of Wilke.s-Barre, of one of the founders of the Woolworlh chain and in the past chiefly interested in the Kirby family philanthropies, and Robert R.

Young and Frank P. Kolbe of the exchange firm of Young, Kolbe Co. The purchase was announced by George Ball, Muncic (Ind.) glass jar manufacture, on behnlf of the George and Francis Ball Foundation, philanthropic institution to which the Indiana capitalist transferred controlling of Midnmerica top Van Sweringen holding company, a month ago. Ball, together with the three purchasers, made the announcement at his suite at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel where Monday he met Kirby for the 7 first time. was not but Wall Street analysts have figured the current market value of securities dominating Hie various interlocking companies, giving control to some 000.000,000 worth of ronlrond and real estate, at around 58.000,000.

The Van Cleveland real estate jtoldings were included in the deal. 'Own Money' Put Up Kolbe rend a statement on hchalf of the buyers, the purchase was made "with a sense of responsibility to the general public." "We have no desire." he asserted, "to control other people's investments with a littli: investment of our own. We do not want to be out on that kind of a limb. "Many of these securities were purchased by the public and by em- ployes at much higher prices and we will do all we can to rcstory values consistent with sound public policy Ivis been ladi down by Uic various government agencies which have established to regulate in the public interest of the activities with which we will be concerned. "We are fully in accord with the desirability of this government regulation and will co-operate with it.

"It is contemplated that in the near future the dissolution of Midamerica will he accomplished, to be followed at the earliest possible date with further steixs in the simplification of corporate structures as rapidly a.s they can be accomplished without dctcrmint to the hundreds of thousands of people directly and financially interested in the profitable operation of the Van Sweringen railroad enterprises to whom wo are responsible." KolVx', 40. a former General Motors official, emphasized: "The money we have put into these properties is our own money. We have no special obligations to any shippers to any banking house, or to uny group." General Motors Flavor Ball, who with George A. Tomlinson, Cleveland shipping man, formed Mid- america in said: "Acceptance of the offer of these gentlemen parses into and capable hands the ownership of tliCM- important properties." Ball and Tomlinson formed Mid- america to bid in at public auction the dominant Van Sweringen securities when they were sold two years ago by a banking group as collateral for in defaulted loans, at a price of 53,121,000. Since Ball announced a month ago he had tinned the over to a charitable foundation.

Wall Street and railroad financing circles have been with rumors of possible purchasers. One group tillering into the Young- Kolbe negotiations was headed by Donaldson Brown. General Motors finance chairman, but after a visit to Washington, where he discussed the situation with Senator Wheeler Mont. I who has been investigating railroad financing, it was announced his group bad withdrawn. Other interests which di.scu.ttcd the purchase were a Cleveland grop, which included John A Coakley, United States Steel traffic manager.

Frederick II. Prince. Boston capitalist, was also said to have been interested. Both Young and Kolbe are former employes of Central Motors, but turned to investments around l'J2i) and in Gruesome Exhibits at Kentucky Trial Pieces of Woman's Flesh Brought Into Denhardt Trial NEW CASTLE, K.y.—4/P}— Pieces of flesh cut from the body of Verna Can- Taylor showing the bullet wounds that killed her were displayed in the courtroom Monday as the state endeavored to tighten its web of circumstantial evidence around Brig. Gen.

Henry It. Denhardt, who is charged with shooting the pretty widow. As spectators, packed into the court room, peered eagerly, Commonwealth Attorney H. B. Kinsolving had Dr.

John T. Walsh of Ln Grange, who helped perform an autopsy on the body, display squares of flesh cut from Mr.s. Taylor's left brest. where the bullet entered and from her back where it emerged. In the center of each piece were holes made by the fatal bullet.

Previously the slate had sections from a hog through which bullets had been fired. The hog, which had been killed, the blood drained, and the hair shaved, had been covered with pieces of the woman's clothing before the shots were fired into it. Defense lawyers fought to have the animal exhibits excluded but after an hour and a half conference in Circuit Judge Charles C. Marshall's chambers ho allowed the state to present the gruesome exhibits. The pieces of hog skin showed markings made by bullets fired at three, five, nine and 18 inches and also when the gun was placed against the animal's body.

From the markings on the flesh cut from the woman's body and from those taken from the hog the state indicated the death gun was held not closer than nine inches. 'ilic precursor of the cigar was a roll of tobacco leaves by primitive South American Indians. (Continued on pafte six) MIND Your MANNERS Test your knowledge of correct social usageh by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below: 1. On the day of the wedding what person is responsible for the bride's luggage? 2. If a bride is married in a traveling dress, does have any bridesmaids? 3.

May she then have a maid of honor? 4. At a church wedding where do the bride's parents sit? 5. Is it a.s correct for the bride to have the glove of her ring finger ripped so that it may be pulled off by the tip. as to remove her left glove entirely? What would you wear You were invited to a fashionable church wedding at 9 o'clock in the evening? (a) Afternoon clothes? (b) Dinner clothes? Full evening clothes? Answers 1. Best man.

2. No. 3. Yes, if chooses. 4.

First pew on the left, facing altar. 5. Yes. Best "What Would You Wear" solution Weddings of this sort Uikc place mostly in the South and West. (Copyright 1937, NF.A Service.

Inc.) Two daughters of Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor are pictured at right, outside the courtroom at New Castle, where they testified their mother had no reason to commit suicide as claimed by Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, left.

Dcnhatdt, charired with murdering socially prominent Mrs. faying his fiancee, Indicated no worry as the courtroom picture was snapped. The two daughters are Mrs. Allen IL Brown, left, and Frances Taylor. Between them Is Dr.

E. S. Garr. Edward Sues for Damages by Book Real Object Is to Prevent Press From Writing About Mrs. Simpson LONDON, of England pressed a libel suit against the publisher and author of "Coronation Commentary" Tuesday despite apologies from both and the withdrawal of the book from publication.

The duke's writ asked unspecified damages and an injunction in an effort to protect Wallie Simpson from unbridled comment by British writers. Death Rate Low as Arrests Increase But Motor Fatalities Gain When Law-Enforcement Is Lax Senate Probe Hits Kentucky Governor Governor Charged With Deliberately Releasing Accused Sheriff University's Traffic Safety Institute reported last week-end a survey of 78 cities a relationship between law enforcement and automobile accidents. The institute analyzed comparative records for 1935 and 1936 and found that "a.s the enforcement index increases, the death rate decreases, and, inversely, that a lowered index is accompanied by a hi.uhcr death rate." The enforcement index was obtained by establishing a ratio between novic- tions for violations of driving laws and the number of personal injury accident If a city had 250 convictions while 50 accidents occurred, its enforcement index would be 5, regarded as "fair." The average index for the 78 cities was 3.5, while the institute sai dtho proper ratio should be 10 or 12 convictions for each accident. Examples cied by the survey showed that when the eDlroil index was reduced by half, its death rale rose from 18.3 for each 100,000 of population to 21.4: Madison, Wi.s., increased its index 33 per cent and halved its death rule; New York city increased iUs index from 5.1 to 8.3 and lowered it's death rate from 13.3 to 10.G. In 21 cities having average indices, the institute reported, there wu.s a 23 per cent in the index for 1936 over 1935, and a seven per cent de- in the death rate.

"Enforcement of the law will bring about reductions in accidents more quickly than either education or engineering," the report said. It cirtieized two general difficulties in total volume of convictions, and a high total volume of conviction for parking but a relatively small percentage for driving law violations. Records kept, by IGli Oklahoma farm women for Oklahoma A. and M. College show they contribute an average of $280 annually to the family income.

WASHINGTON W) Senate investigators accused Governor A. B. Chandler of Kentucky Tuesday of dismissing ouster proceedings against Sheriff Theodore Middleton of Harlan county on grounds that the records in the case had been "lost or misplaced" when actually they were available in the official files. Chairman LaFollette of the senate civil liberties committee introduced Chandler's executive order of January 17, which dismissed malfeasance charges brought against Middleton during the governorship of Ruby Lafoon. Nearly Billion for the U.

Army But It Will Take More Money in Future, Committee Warns Congress WASHINGTON The houst appropriations committee, recommending $116,413,382 for the Army ncx year, said larger sums would be needed hereafter to relieve "an extremely disturbing" military situation. The amount approved by the committee for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was more than was available for the current year, but was $358,078 under the budget estimate. Cement Process Is Told to Kiwanians by Kaufman, Okay Arkansas Portland Superintendent Tells of Plant's Founding C. OF C. IS URGED Speaker Cites Profit in Tapping Natural Resources of Section State First Won Good Homes Prize Just 13 Years Ago Mt.

Vernon Sprang Into National Limelight for Community Work THIS IS 16TH YEAR All Arkansas Is Today Co-operating in Better Homes Movement J. F. Kaufman, superintendent of the Arkansas Portland Cement company, of Okay, was the principal speaker before the Hope Kiwanis club at its luncheon meeting Tuesday noon at New Capital hotel. Mr. Kaufman told of the founding of the Okay plant, and explained the manufacture of cement.

He said: 'Nine years ago a group of engineers and chemists made a survey of the limestone deposits near Saratoga for the Oklahoma-Portland Cement Co. "After this survey was completed the company purchased 800 acres of land two miles from Saratoga and erected the present plant. Making Cement 'Limestone is obtained by drilling holes about 15 feet apart and setting of charges of dynamite in them. By this means the rock is blown to the top of the hole and is then carted off to the plant, "There it is ground by a number of rock crushers, then carried to the storage bins by chain-cup elevators. From the storage bins the -limestone is passed to the "slurry" or agitation tanks.

Here the limestone is mixed with gypsum, water and other materials to make what is known as clinker. "The clinker is then cooked in a kiln feet in diameter and 300 feet long. this kiln the clinker is ground through a fine mesh screen and carried to the silos. From these silos the cement is drawn off and blown into ready-tied bags and sacks," Mr. Kaufman said.

Urges C. of C. In concluded his talk, Mr. Kaufman urged the formation of a chamber of commerce in Hope and cited instances whereby southwest Arkansas could profit by tapping its natural resources and inviting foreign capital to invest in these resources. In the weekly contest the prize was won by C.

P. Tolleson. Mr. Tolleson guessed the correct percentage of tenant farmers in Hempstead county and southwest Arkansas. Guests other 'than the featured speaker were Charles Miller of the Automobile Association of America, Emory Thompson of Fulton, and Mr.

Hannon of Oklahoma City. StudyD Liquor Dealers to Face Prosecution Sunday Sellers Will Promptly Lose Licenses- 11 Held at Helena ay Is Held at Local Station Advanced High School Students Visit Experiment Farm Tuesday A Study Day for advanced high school students was held Tuesday at the University of Arkansas Fruit Truck Branch Experiment station with approximately 250 students attending from several high schools in Hempstead and adjoining counties. The students were shown through the grounds and laboratories and the work 'was explained by six instructors at the station. Approximately 100 students from Hope High School attended under the leadership of Jimmy Jones, principal, and Lykens Padgitt, science inctructor. Other groups attended from Bluff City, Cale and Laneburg high schools of Nevada county.

A series of similar study days will be held during the spring and summer for more than 3,000 vocational students and 4-H club members from 42 counties of the state, according to G. W. Ware, assistant director in charge of the station By MISS CONNIE J. BONSLAGEL State Home Demonstration Agent University of Arkansas College of Agriculture Thirteen years ago this month, Mt. Vernon, a farming community in Faulkner county, made the headlines in the daily papers by whining a $75 cash award and national recognition for a Better Home Demonstration put on under the supervision of Mrs, Minnie C.

Turner, home demonstration agent, and county Better Homes chairman. This was the first time that many Arkansas people had ever heard of Better Homes in America, which is this year staging its 16th annual campaign for concentrating public attention on the objective of the organization. When Better Homes in America was born 16 years ago, few people were giving much thought to housing, except as individuals give attention to their own pleasure. The trend for the past few years has been toward group consciousness and group action. Better housing is a national problem and the national government is focusing attention and action of a dozen agencies on it.

Better housing is a state problem and State Planning Boards are figuring the costs to cities of bad housing and offering possible solutions to slum problems. The quarter of a century of educational work in home improvement carried on by the'home demonstration agents may not have had spectacular results such as may be seen on large government projects, but it has served to "educate the wants" of millions of farm families, and to put them in a very receptive frame of mind for the newer developments. The purpose of the Better Homes movement is educational. Until last year, Better Homes in America was financed by a Foundation. When the funds from the original source were exhausted, the research department of Purdue University became interested in the work, and the Purdue Housing Foundation is now sponsoring Better Homes in America.

The homewaker's interest in improving her surroundings never wanes, but public attention is attracted to her achievements in the spring when Better Homes Week is observed. Turned Brown By Brown Turner LONGVIEW, it begins to look like the government's going to become, so stingy new postoffices and monuments will be hard to find in another year or so. They're taking so many different views on the thing in Congress you can't tell a Democrat from anybody else any more. Looks like all the congressmen are in favor of Uncle Sam saving up a little money just so he don't try to save it in their particular districts. Ever notice that anything a lawyer doesn't like he thinks it's unconstitutional, and is willing to prove A lot of us have found out that every time we have a bellyache it aint appendicitis.

Spring Flood Is Believed at Peak The flat-headed apple-tree borer is ono of the most serious insect pests affecting fruit, pecan and shade trees. Cannery Strike in California Settled 18 Sit-Downers Arrested in Parke, Davis Drug Plant at Detroit By the Associated Press Settlement of California's cannery strike and the arrest of 18 sit-downers in a Detroit dispute held the spotlight on the labor front Tuesday. Governor Frank Marriam of California announced a complete agreement for settlement of the Stockton cannery strike which broke out bloody rioting last Friday. The peace pact provides for recognition of the workers union as the bargaining agent. The 18 under arrest at Detroit may be charged with violating the federal narcotic laws.

They barricaded themselves in the narcotic department of the Parkc, Davis Co. plant when police evicted the sit-downers Monday. Ralph H. Oyler, district chief of the Bureau of Narcotics, said if any supplies were missing from the department he would place the matter in the hands of the district attorney. HELENA, directing raids at Helena resulting in 11 arrests, Revenue Commissioner David L.

Ford said here Tuesday, "I am not going to fool with liquor dealers. If they are caught selling without license or on Sundays I will revoke their permits al once." May Brand Trees GRAND JUNCTION. Even the peach trees, out in the west, arc- not safe from "rustlers." Someone drove into F. R. Roe's orchard at and stole 100 young trees from his nursery.

li. the future nurserymen may resort to branding their kie stockmen brand cattle. Proclamation Whereas, the sting and the bite of wintry blasts have departed into the Northland, the clouds and snow have been replaced witli sunshine and flowers, and the whole earth has bloomed in the splendor of Spring, and Whereas, since nature has divested herself of winter raiment and has put on the vestments of Springtime, it behooves mankind to follow in her 1 footsteps in that respect, and Whereas, it is inconsistent that, in the blamy air of spring, any vestige of the past winter should remain to blot out the beauty of the flowering earth, Therefore, it is ordained and proclaimed that Saturday. May 1st, shall be "Straw Hat and White Oxford Day," on which day ajid date, we, do hereby exhort all citizens to put away the garments of Winter and provide themselves with straw hats, white oxfords and other habiliments of Springtime. Done in the office of the Mayor of Hope, Arkasas, this 27th day of April, A.

1937. ALBERT GRAVES, Mayor. Hope, Arkansas. 10 Dead, 5 Missing, But Waters Are Receding at Many Points By the Associated Prers Hundreds of families were homeless as fresh April rains kept the rivers in Sve states and the Province of Ontario at flood stage Tuesday and piled up unestimated property damage as the water receded at many points. The death toll attributed directly and indirectly to floods stood at 10, with 5 persons missing.

Areas in Pennsylvania, particularly around Johnstown; in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia, and patrs of Ontario, are inundated. Flood Threatening of the Allegheny and, Monongahela rivers spilled into the fringes of Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle" businessarcfr Man-day night while residents prepared for a possible major flood: More than 30 hours of continuous rainfall brought the city, with a population of 700,000, to grips with the worst April highwater threat hi its history. The river surged four feet over the 25-foot flood stage and continued to rise slowly toward a predicted peak of 36 feet. Weather Forecaster W. S.

Brotsman revised his previous warning of a 35-foot stage late Monday as the downpour continued. Dark overhanging clouds presaged more rain. The rainfall was general over the vast 200-mile watershed from Johnstown, to Wheeling, W. Va. Pittsburgh mobilized its defenses against the rivers.

The city was on guard to prevent, if possible, repetition of the terrific damage resulting from the 1936 St. Patrick's Day flood when the water rose to 46 feet and submerged half the billion-dollar "Triangle" with its towering office buildings and department stores. That flood caused approximately $200,000,000 damage and took 58 lives. Merchants erected wooden flood gates and sand bag barriers and installed water pumps. Similar precautions safeguarded millions of dollars of property from flood damage during last January's crest of 34.5 feet.

While most business properties would escape serious damage in 36-foot flood, the high water would paralyze some of the most important industrial plants. Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation announced the plate mill, five open-hearth furnaces at its Soho district plant and six open- hearths in the South Side works, both on the Monogahela, would be shul down by the high water. Precautions were also taken for the safety of prisoners at Western penitentiary. River Patrolman John Greenley distributed boats for rescue work at the institution and for residents oi vulnerable North Side streets. Rain imperiled the lives of 40 crippled children when it washed thousands of tons of earth against the Sewickley Fresh Air Home for Crippled Children at nearby Fair Oaks.

While firemen worked to halt the loosening of more earth, Sewickley creek threatened to overflow its banks and maroon the home. Guernica, Ancient Basque Capital, Bombed by Rebels German Planes, Fighting for Insurgents, Roar Over Doomed City MANY ARE KILLED Men, Women, Children Meet Death From Bombs, Grenades, Bullets GUERNICA, of civilians were killed and this ancient city, once the capital of the Basque country, was left a mass of blazing ruins Tuesday after a insurgent aerial bombardment. The air raid started when bombing jlanes, identified as of German manu- iacture, roared over the city. Besides aerial bombs, scores of grenades were hurled into the city while the populace scrambled for safety. Hundreds ran into open fields where they became targets for swooping machine-gunners.

The Heaters News Agency (British; estimated hundreds of men, women and children were dead. Catfish Dinner to Be Given Teachers All Hempstead County Faculties to Attend Saturday Event Hempstead county school teachers will have a catfish dinner at 8 p. Saturday, May 1, at the Fruit Truck Branch Experiment station, it announced here Tuesday. Every school teacher in the county is urged to be present. The only quirement is 25 cents.

A short business meeting will follow the catfish dinner. Various kinds of entertainment is planned. Finds 82 Snakes in Den LONGMONT, O. Mer ideth saw snakes, 82 of them. Remov ing a decapod post on his farm, lie dis turbcd a den of garden saiakes.

they crawled out. he killed ihom. New Oil Test for Hempstead County E. H. Moore, of Tulsa, to Drill 10 Miles Southwest of Hope A new ol test will be; drilled fccJL, Of Tulca, 1 it was.announced hera Tuesday.

Drilling operations are scheduled to begin on or before May 18. The block was assembled by Vincent Foster and F. P. Borden for W. E.

McKemie, which was subsequently transferred to E. H. Moore, Inc. The block, containing 5,000 acres, centers around section 21 and 22 in township 14 south, range 25 west. The acreage block is about 10 miles southwest of Hope hi Hempstead county, and is about six miles northeast of the Lentz discovery well in Miller county.

It was understood here that Mr. Moore will test the Rodessa sand series, believed to be between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. Mr. Moore is reported to be one of the largst indpendent oil operators in Oklahoma. The Davidson-Smith wildcat test four miles northeast of Washington was shut down Tuesday, pending the completion of a water line to the test.

Depth Tuesday was reported to be 1,500 feet. The G. P. Birdwell test on the W. W.

Duckett land, 24-13-13, four miles southeast of Hope, is temporarily shut down. Operations are expected to be resumed the latter part of this week. Radio News Flash Distorted, Charge Script Writer Is Sueing Floyd Gibbons for "Exaggeraton" NEW $250,000 damage suit against Floyd Gibbons, radio commentator and foreign correspondent, was disclosed Monday when the defendant's lawyer argued for a dismissal of the action before Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora, Decision was reserved. Charles Locke, the plaintiff, a writer of radio scripts, charged that Gibbons had damaged his reputation by interpolating "improper and misleading" statements into compositions he had prepared for Gibbon's comments on the Ohio flood last January. Locke contended that Gibbons had made the insertions "for the purpose of making melodramatic situations and falsely indicating that rn ticliUitiS ui.

U.e SCLII-J of the broadcast." The suit charged that on the night of January 28 from station WLW, Cincinnati, Gibbons had broadcast "that he was reading the script by the light of railroad lantern, whereas he was reading the script by the usual and customary electric light." Locke charged also Gibbons had told the radio audience "that he was actually talking to a diver located five miles away under 20 feet of water, whereas in truth and in fact Gibbons talking to an actor in the studio alking through a lard can." Cotton NEW closed steady Tuesday with net advance if 23 to 26 points. May opened at 12,79 ind closed at 13.08 bid, 13.10 asked. Spot cotton closed steady 22 points up. niiddlins 13.58..