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BLYTHEVILLE COURIER NEWS THE DOMINANT NEWSPAPER OP NORTHS -X IJLJ kJ VOLUME 283. Blytheville Daily News Blytheville Courier BlyUieville Herald Mississippi valley Under AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI BLYTHEVILLE, 'ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1941 SINGLE COPIES FIVE Refunding Bonds Advertised TROOPS DROPPED ON ITALY Legislators On Board First Are Asked To Resign eb 14. Homer Ad- hi 'I 6 1 1 1 bQ today invited legislative mem- ie i Lo themselves and then re-enacted itb eaihei.act of ordering the advertisement of new bond? and the recalling of the old ones. The unusual action came it became evident thai the State Supreme Court in its decision Man- Gusty Pacific Licks at West Coast day would uphold the bond refunding legislation with one exception that legislators cannot serve on the board that contemplates the refunding. Eijfht Legislators on Board Five representatives and three senators who had voted the insertion of the advertising retired nom the governor's conference room where the meeting was being heid and the same procedure of calling the roll was followed at Adkms' request.

"Not wanting to take any chances on the tribunal holding that legislators cannot serve on the committee," Arkins said, "and that I rmy action they might have taken serving- as board members' might invalidate our earlier action it is- necessary that we re-enact the reading of the notice to protect future acts of the board." The board's action was the nvst official step in the refunding program approved by the General Assembly and now before the State Supreme Court for a test of its Must Be Advantageous Bearing, in board members -the-governor that, the refunding ous to the P. T. A. Groups Complete Program For Founders' Day Observance Here Current evrmts will be discussed by W. c.

Teague of Memphis, radio commentator and editorial writer at the combined Found- ejs Day observance and Father's Nigh program of the Parent- readier Associations of the citv Legislature Will Act On Resolution Asking Congressional Probe LITTLE ROCK, Feb. The house today in a joint resolu- recommended a congressional investigation into an alleged monopoly of the Aluminum'Company of America. The resolution introduced by representative Clore of Washington County, charged that the Aluminum Company of America controlled production of bauxite in Arkansas and its importation from abroad, thereby having a monopoly on that i product in "We are being are being robbed of our resources without -getting a fair Qlpre charged. resolution recommended also the.tariff on aluminum in- Mr. Teague is widely known in this because of his editorials written as a staff member he Commercial Appeal and also hls raclio ove Other Program Features Also on the.

program will be numbers by the kiddie band composed of first graders at Lange school, the president's message to Mrs. 1. A the folk dances to be presented by Sudbury students under ihe direction of Graham Wright completed. "We must get competitive bidding if possible on our new Adkins said. "I am not to be a'party to the signing of a contract for the state which would be regretted for the next 25 years." "The market may be as good now a.s it was six days ago, but we are going to drive a hard bargain or else there will be no refunding." Adkins told the members he.

expected to be in Washington Monday when the supreme court decision on refunding is handed down. He hoped to get the promise 01 the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to take at least half of the proposed issue. Issues Vary In Size A breakdown of bonds to be for sale disclosed that Series A with $76,233,000 is the largest and the Devall's Bluff Bridge re- nmding series with $218,889.60 worth is the smallest The Devall's Bluff bonds were approved by a legislative act in 1939 at the request of Former Governor Carl Bailey. not creased from $1 to said the price was being by the aluminum company. The house previously had received, a tax of ton on bauxite mined for the benefit of the old age pension fund.

Meantime, preparations progressed favorably for the special election tomorrow in which voters will express their opinion of the refunding program. Adkins will speak by radio tonight at 6:45 o'clock urging everyone to vote Both houses of the legislature will adjourn tomorrow for the election. Will Discuss Jaycee Club ArHotel Tonight Hotel Noble will the meeting ace at 7:30 o'clock tonight for all young men interested in forming a. Blytheville Junior Chamber of Commerce, Jack O'Keefe, one of a group of young business men sponsoring the meeting, announced tooay. The City Hall previously was named as the meeting place A number of members of the Osceola Junior Chamber of Commerce will meet with Blytheville men to assist with organization of the civic body here, if the local group decides to act.

Anyone interested is invited to attend. Desired age range for a group is 21-36', iMississippi Countians Named To Posts In East ern nsas- Council S. WEATHER FORECAST tonight ith temperatures near freezing. Saturday cloudy and somewhat MEMPHlS-Fair and colder tonight. Lowest temperature 28 Saturday Highest 52.

AR KAN'S AS Warmer i west portion. Temperatures near freezing in the east portion tonight. OSCEOLA, Feb. Earham of Osceola' and Clarence Wilson of BlytheVille were elected vice-presidents of the Eastern Arkansas Council of Boy Scouts of America at their recent annual election held in Wynne. Others from 'Mississippi 'County who were given positions of leadership in the council Vere James Hill.

of Blytheville, chairman of organization and extension- James V. Gates' of- Blytheville health and sanitation. District chairman included Mr Barham. Clarence Wilson. Blytheville; Joe Clay Young.

Jonesboro; the Rev. Mr. Culley of Paragould; jT. H. Hitt, Pocahontas; Hitt, Wynne; Dewey Moore.

Helena-' S. G. Williams, Forrest City; and Godfrey Merrifield. Marianna. Among the immediate objectives of the Council are the enlargement and improvement of Camp Frierson, south of Jonesboro, 'and prfe- parations for the Boy Scout Rally to be held on Robinson Crusoe 'Island in the Mississippi River north of Osceola.

A new concrete swimming pool, additional dining room space and additional huts are to be built at Camp Frierson, the 80-acre wooded tract given to the Boy. Scouts of America 'by Judge' Charles D. Frierson of Jonesboro. The first annual encampment held at Robinson Crusoe Island last August drew 155 Boy Scouts and 25 adult Scouters for the three- day rally. Between 350 and 400 Scouts are expected to attend this year, Mr.

Barham stated er will be introduced by McClurkin, superintendent of'thf' city schools. Parent-Teacher Associations of Lange, Sudbury, Central and Junior-senior High are joining together to observe the founding ot the National of Parent-Teachers. Knows World Affairs Because of the wide "knowledge'! of-world affairs which the has, it was believed that the I men would be especially interested ui attending the program and' therefore was decided to combine Father's Night with the annual program Parents will register as they enter the auditorium order that attendance prizes may be awarded to the school with'. the most parents- present. British In Daring Action Says Rome; Expect Japan To Attack East Indies Five autas- were buried under the rubble of construction downtown San Francisco when gusty winds from the Pac damage to partially erected buildings.

The dust storm winds which churned'across the Southwest rolled Ohio river valley CAA Students Study Civil Regulations Hying students enrolled in the Civil Aeronautics Authority-sponsored courses have completed the second of four ground school cour- Caruthersville Man Talks To County School Officials AI Osceola R. M. Pierce, superintendent of schools at Caruthersville, spoke to 3G superintendents, principals and coaches at meeting of the Osceola high school last night. He discussed "The Superintendent Looks at the Whole School" and emphasized the need of ad- and begun of civil air! Justment of the school curriculum rpplll innc to. the needs of today.

Cnrl Bird. superintendent of school ni Wilson, gave a summary of school legislation. Mr. principal of the elementary school at Ca- regulations. The students, who completed a study -of meteorology recently finished a navigation course Wednesday and have work on air regulations, which will be followed by study of aircraft operations before winding up basic ground work Feb.

28. ruthersville, was a guest. In the basketball meeting which followed the program plans were Flight training will begin sootil mad the basketba11 lourna- after March l. Mar. May July Oct.

Dec. ments for the A and 'divisions. The tournament for the division will be held In Blytheville gymnasium on Feb. 27-28, The tournament for the division will be at Shawnee on Feb. 27-28 open high low clo.se close and March prev.

forms in winds from the Paeltlc caused and high on townrd the telephoto). Chism Is Slightly Improved Charles Cooter, resident who never has regained consciousness after suffering a fractured skull and other injuries in an automobile-truck mishap at Cooter Saturday night, was reported slightly improved today at Blytheville 1. Officer. John Foster of the city police department became the second person to give the MLssourinn a blood transfusion, donating his biood early last night in an effort to aid in ChIsm's fight for lile. Early last Sunday morning a transfusion was given by Tom Chism, 39, father of the injured youth.

Chism still was given only a slight chance to survive injuries suffered after an automobile in which he and three other young Missourhms were riding crashed LONDON, Feb. M. (UP) quarters today lirtfic) attack on the -NeLherliinds East Indies and British Singapore tinted with a drive, into Bulgaria and perhaps Yugoslavia force Greece to make peace with Italy. It was evident that all the'way irom SluKajwrc to Hongkong by ay or Australia the British empire was preparing for an imminent Japanese that wild be taken despite belief here that, it might align the United Slates a.s well as Great, Britain Japan. Jap Move Awaited Singapore reported it was taken "or granted there that the Japanese would stir soon and the Aus- rallan war cabinet held an emergency meeting with the chiefs of the righUnu to consider whnt was called a situation of gravity.

The Times, a conscrvntlve' newspaper, asserted today that the Nazis had taken complete control of Japanese press censorship and had honeycombed' Japanese gov- ermhental departmcnls with their' operalivcs. 5 (In New York the Columbia Broadcasting System picked a British broadcast' reporting that Japan hud demanded of the Neth- crloncls East Indies permission to explore islands around the Indies, nlso mining nnd fishing concessions and the right to exploit developed regions, permission Jtipuncse and professional work in the Indieif unci the rfe'h'f'to an airplane between the Indies and Japan.) HOME, Feb. nd or British parachutists I jrV German Movement In Balkans May Be Only A Matter Of Days SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. i'UP) A high source informed the United ircss today that now it Ls not a mutter of whether or where Germany i.s going to move in the Balkans, but when. "It might be said tlmt now it Is only tv mutter of days before the Germans will move by way of Bulgaria and perhaps ul.so Yugoslavia toward Greece," the informant -suid.

"The motive would be to impose peace on Greece before British iorces which will be'released with the end of the cumpulyn in Africa could be sent to Greece to open-anew front in southwestern Europe high command asserted that the entire band had been by alert Fascist del jcnse forces before it could cause j'grave damage" that had been Dropprd in Darkness The parachutists were "said lib' have been dropped Monday night and-Tuesday, morning under cover ot darkness in two areas, Lucana and Calabria, both in the arch' of the Italian boot. (Reports irom elsewhere' have" Nazi air squadrons-, sent to Italy's aid have been estab-' I ashed in these areas as well as-In Sicily ucross the narrow channel" 1 f'lt A TT-i i. into a parked truck on a dark i Work. Rotary Work Is Topic Of Herbert Parker's Address Yesterday Herbert Parker of Jonesbboro, Rotary district governor, paid his ofllclnl visit to the local Rotnry clul) nt thi! weekly luncheon meeting yc.stcrday nt the Hotel Noble. Mr.

Parker, who i.s engaged In the retail drug business and is the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy, spoke to the group on "Rolnry und Rotnry's Cooler street early -Saturday night. Red Carnither.s, 19, Steelc, driver of the automobile, was dismissed from Blythevillc Hospital Jarly this week after receiving treatment bone. for a broken collar- 1033 1035 1028 1028 1035 1031 1032 1024 1024 1032 1019 1019 1010 1011 1CPO 971 971 964 9G4 973 968 968 964 960 970 The following schools were rep- Tvv sister Gcraldine, 18. and Coot- re- Jnn. 970 970 970 957 974 Mississippi Chicago Wheat Immediately following Lhe lunch- con, directors of the locul chib met to mnke of their ivork (o the visiting official.

Announcement was made urging nil club members to vote In tlit 1 refunding election Saturdny. An invksitlon to attend the Institute of Inliii'nntional Understanding tonight ru O.sccoln Baptist Church wns extended by the Osceola Rotary club. Blytheville Negro Is Charged With Murder In Fatal Shooting New developments this week in an investigation of the fatal shooting. of Dick Sanders, 42-year-old Wynne negro, will be presented Monday, at preliminary hearing Municipal Court, hero for Walker, 49, Blytheville negro chrirg- ecl with murder In connection with the shooting. Investigation by city police and Deputy Sheriff John M.

ReUimillcr resulted yesterday in questioning of several negroes whose testimony led Deputy Prosecutor Graham Sudbury to believe that the case against Walker was strengthened. The new testimony was said to vary considerably from Walker's version of the Sanders was killed shortly after 7 p. in. Saturday. His body was discovered by other negroes ab a street intersection in Robinson addition.

As local police and State Policeman Gene Dickinson investigated and awaited arrival of Coroner W. Stovall to conduct an inquest Into the death the cause of which at first wjts not apparent, Officer John Foster knocked on door at a house nearby. Entering the house. Foster discovered a bullet hole through the southern Italy.) The number ot parachutists' said to have been small. The' high u-ommnml described them as armed with machine guns, hand grenades' imcl explosives and declared thiit the- Intention ol the British, force was la Interrupt and damage Itallaii communications find waterworks in the region.

Important Area (Italian wltrfthe tip or the pcnmaula have greater importance view or the increasing ferocity. 1 of the British attack on Libya and the drive west toward It Is---presumed that tnlorcemonte for the German air iorce detachments in the Unit Italy along cor cation routes In the i pai'aciiutlsts (illegal have been nJroppect.) The region is wild and populated and it was pointed that the British detachments by no of invasion tlons. It wns thought here that the operation was an experiment in" which the British, having tested German methods In the Libyan desert sought to mnke a trial of another Nazi the parachutist attack. Black Water and Burdene. Roof Fire Today were Henry Hudson of Newport and Norman Mosley.

i Junior Rotarian. Open High LOW May 791-8 79 3-4 79 74 3-4 75 Close 79 1-2 741-8 743-8 World's Heaviest Horses i The English shire horse is the A roof fire at Hawk's Fruit store, I heaviest in the world. It is of the! Lake and Main streets, sent fire- same breed as those used by armor- men there at 11 n.m. today. clad knights In the Middle Ages, Damage was slight.

Chicago Corn May Sspt, 605-8 Gl GO 5-8 607-8 603-8 GO 5-8 603-8 CO 1-2 Osceola Presbyterians Will Hold Note-Burning Ceremony Sunday OCEOLA, Feb. the burning of the last iwo notes against their building at the Sunday morning service, Feb 16 Osceola Presbyterians will pass another milestone in the 90-year r.is- tory of their church. The Rev. L. T.

Lawrence, pastor, will preach and the note-burning ceremonies will be in charge of R. C. Bryan, treasurer; A. Bowen clerk of the Session, and Saturday warmer. cloudy and lie Speck, and one negro troop led by Ed Bradford.

orgazmaUon. A. W. Bowen is superintendent of the Sunday school. Two women of the church.

Mrs R. C. Bryan and Mrs. George Bd- rington, hold slate offices in the women's organization, the. former being treasurer of the Arkansas Presbyterial and Mrs.

Edringion Spiritual Life Leader. In 1851 the Memphis Presby- in session at Holly Oct. somewhat, Dec. Jan. New York Cotton open, high low close close Mar.

.,1031 1031 1024 Mi 1032 1029 -1029 1021 1021 1030 July 1015 -1015 1006 1007 1017 968 965 963 96S 959 968 959 957 958 957. 956 971 966 966 The $22,000 building of field stone in English Countryside architecture and the $5000 manse on the adjoining lot matching the main building style and construction were completed in June 1937. Only had WMtc a small balance remains on the Illinois and east of the St. Francis River be alloted to the Memphis Presbytery; this was granted, and the Rev. Mr.

Coons and the Rev. Mr Gray were appointed to visit here and aid the Rev. Mr. Talbot, who manse. Elders of the church are R.

Bryan, A. W. E. S. Chiles, Joe Crpmer, George Doyle, E.

Sullenger and A. F. Sptese. JB priver president of the "Men of the Church," men's brotherhood to this from was serving as preacher teacher to the small settlement on the bank of -the Mississippi River, The two men were requested to spend "one Sabbath" (per month) in Osceola "In view oi the destitution West of the Mississippi River." In 1855 a Rev. Mr.

Cummins reported to the Memphis an organization had been ci- fected in O.sccola and a meeting house erected on land given by Mrs. Margaret Bard, an ancestor of the Edrington families here Records show that the Rev. Mr Talbot received the sum of $250 during 1856 from the Board of Missions. The Rev. Frank C.

Morris, grandfather of Mrs. Claud Pen-In of this city, came from the Tuscumbla, date. The church was destroyed in 1872 by a tornado. From that dnte until 1899 the congregation oi around 55 members worshiped in the old Masonic Hall that stood on Broadway on what is now part of the John W. Edrington lawn.

In 1898. the pasior, the Rev. J. M. Batte, gave each child in the Sunday School five cents ns nucleus for a building fund; two of the little girls "pooled their re- a negro.

in bed, whnt had happened, "I 'shot him," Foster said the negro (Walker), told him. "He came to the dor and told him to come in. He kept shaking the door and yelling, 'Give me that money. Give me that I shot him through: the dor with my pistol." The negro was arrested and taken to the county jail. He is an ex- soldier receiving a government pension, and said he picked cotton In the Fall.

The negro told police he was alone in' the house nt the time of the shooting. He said he went back to bed after the shot was flred, without investigating. The bullet struck Sanders in the right shoulder and penetrated a lung. Preliminary hearing was scheduled for tomorrow after a charge of murder was filed against Walker Wednesday, but was postponed until Monday because of tomorrow's refunding bill election. Presbytery in 1857 to serve sources" and increased their two the little congregation.

John W. nickels to $10 by selling popcon wilhams, an ancestor cf Mrs. jand candy and were rewarded with B. Hale, was a charter member a Bible each; the two little girl; and elder of that period; John were Mrs. Harry Miller of Osceol- McNary Bowen was an elder in and Mrs.

J. Pride of Blythe- 1860. i ville. Mrs. Miller still has her Bible.

A subscription school was con- The one-room frame building ducted in the church during the cated on Bard Avenue served the Reconstruction Days following the congregation; until the new build- Civil- War by H. Spiva, Houston Armstrong and D. O. Heastou. Mrs Alex Goodrich is listed as an early leader in the women's work of that Ing was completed in 1937.

The present membership bers 104 with the Rev. T. Lawrence, "the 33rd pastor 1855. Livestock EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Feb.

7000-6500 salable. Top, 8.15170-230 8.00-8.10 140-160 7.10-7.65 Bulk sows, 6.60-7:15 Cattle, 500-' Slaughter 14.60. Butcher yearlings," 8.00-10.00 Slaughter Beef cows, Cutters low, cutters, 4.75-0.00 Seven Die In Blast At Mine DU QUOIN, 111., Feb. 14. Seven workmen were killed today hi a mysterious explosion at' the liquid oxygen plant ol the United Electric Coal Company about five mile.s west of here.

The plant manufactured liquid oxygen used to impregnate carbon cartridges, sacks of linely ground carbon, to form an explosive substitute for dynamite. The plant was demolished, a- railroad car destroyed and four automobiles and a truck damaged. The door of a garage 500 feet away was torn off. George Huff, superintendent of the coal company in whose mine the explosives are used, said the cause of the blase was undetermined. He termed it "strange" because men were working to the east of the plant and would have been blown eastward had the explosion occurred inside the two story frame building.

However, they were blown westward by a blast outside the plant and one body was found 500 feet distant. Huff said; that neither Ingredient -T-L. O.X. or the carbon cartridges, was explosive in itself, requiring mixture for blasting purposes. Stock Prices A.

T. T. Am. Tobacco 160 1-8 68 Anaconda Copper 22.1-2 Beth. Steel 75 1-2 Chrysler 63 ir2 Cities Service 3 7-8 Coca-Cola General Electric 30 3-8 General Motors -il 1-4 Internationa) 46 1-2 Montgomery Ward 35 1-2 N.

Y. Central 12 North Am. Aviation Packard 23-4 PhJllips A Radio 41-8 Republic Steel 17 Socony Vacuum 83-4 Studeoaker' 81-4 St'd of N. J. v.

33 1-8 Texas Corp 34 U. S. Steel 66 7-8.