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''I" Y- lift comfy fcjMa taemwMMM litttoi ttm twtk VOLUME 240 HOME HOPE, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1031 BAN Of ficers Question Indian in Regard to Death of Student Secret Tribal Customs Are Thought to Hold Murder Secret BODY FOUND FRIDAY Young Woman Disappeared From Cabin Home Last Saturday WHITE RIVER. Indian Reservation, (fP) tribal customs of trie Apache Indians, was believed by authorities Saturday to hold the key to the death of Henrietta Schmerler, 23-year-old Columbia University Student, whoso, body was found in a ravine near Frtrt Apnche late Friday. Officers called 'the tribe leaders into a conference for an Invcstlgaiont but met taciturnity. The girl, a student of Ethnology and Anthropology had lived alone in a cabin for a month. Claude Gilbert, an Apache buck, held for investigation denies ho saw the woman Saturday when she disappeared.

Authorities believe she came upon secret tribal rites in her studies and aroused the enmity of members. There wore no marks of violence on her body. Unusual Illness Is Told By Physicians Woman Has Been Living Months Any Sleep SALTILLO, woman who has been living for six months without sleep has been discovered here. The woman, who first was consigned to the Civil hospital and later to the state penitentiary because of menial disorder, has not closed her eyes for six months, physicians said. She was taken from the hospital because she sang continually, keeping other inmates from sleeping.

At the prison she dug holes through the walls with her bare hands, which physicians say have the "strength of iron." Physicians said she apparently had not suffered from her loss of sleep. The cnsc is the first of its kind ever discovered in Mexico. Suspect Held in Slaying of Boys North Carolinan Linked With Crittenden County Double Murder ASHEVILLE, N. Rex King, 35, of Ashevillc, was held in- communicndo Friday night while police investigated reports that he told several persons he was In Tennessee with Burton Hensley and Woodrow Wilson, Yancey county youths, whose bodies were found on a burninb brush pile near Marion, last October 22. Capt.

Fred Jones, head of the City Petectivc Bureau, has wired Crittenden county (Ark.) authorities that he is holding King on a technical charge. The bodies of the youths were found by two wood choppers. Both boys were unconscious when found and did not regain consciousness. Officers here said that King had a watch in his possession which tallied with a description of a watch carried hy one of the slain youths. King also had an automobile which recently had been painated.

Officers said the car formerly was painted green, the color of a ear in which the two youths were riding shortly before their bodies were found. Jones said King admitted painting the car but said he bought it in Texas. County Superintendents Will Convene at Conway CONWAY, A state conference of county superintendents will be held here August 7 and 8, A. A. Parsons, superintendent of Faulk- ne rcounty schools, announced Friday.

The customary four-day conference reduced to two days because the r-uncrintcndents held a spring 'meet- Ing at Peabody Teachers' college. Nashville, during the south- wide education conference there. Sessions will be at night. Hosts for the mpfting will be Hendrix-Hcnder- college, Arkansas Stale Teachers Itn.i lln- C'ouimtrcu. 'liiiiiilicr of Mexican Consul Free After Raid It was all a mistake, said Oklahoma City, police after they raided lean consul, and allegedly found a quantity of beer.

The liquid was dumped and Valdcz was taken lo.jthe police station, but charges wfcrc dug up an old statute which states dropped soon after. Former Hope Boyl Radio Announcer Artells Dickson, Born in Hope, Is Now Columbia Artist and Soloist baritone, is 'fe artist-who ra from the stage. He has played in musical comedy, dramatic stock and vaudeville. Born in Hope, August 28, 1900, Dickson. like so many other artists, made his first dramatic appearance in grade school.

And'in high school he was victor for three successive years in a singing contest. After graduation Dickson came East and entered Columbia University, studying art and voice. But after two years the problem for the next five seasons he gave concerts with Lyceum and Cliautauqua companies. Then he spent a season with musical and dramatic stock companies in Chicago later traveling the Paramount-Publix circuit as soloist and master of ceremonies. Dickson did extremely well in vaudeville, but the boredom of the itinerant attacked him and he went to New York and asked Columbia to give him a job.

After passing the necessary audition test he was taken on ax an announcer and sustaining artist and later developed into a solo CD. Post. The Dickson family were residents of Hope several yours ago, the father being a sign painter and house decorator. Young Artells Dickson was a popular high school student possessing at that time, a remarkable voice. Hope people at that time predicted lie would go far in the musical world and cvidcntally their predictions have come true.

Raiders Destroy 50 Gallons Whisky Texarkana Farmer Is Held to the Bowie County Grand Jury side deputy sheriffs, accompanied by County Attorney Boswcll, raided the farm house of William Nichols, 10 miles south of here Friday afternoon and confiscated 50 gallons of whisky which they said they found concealed in the house. Nichols was given a hearing before Justice Ragland and was held to the Bowie county grand jury under bond of $500, which ho furnished. Troops Are Defied by Students in Santiago SANTIAGO, Chile Anti-gov crnmcnt students, who remained barricaded in the University of Chile Thursday night in defiance of an ultimatum and dared troops to fire on them, stuck to their posts Friday while the' authorities attempted to deal with them peacefully. Meanwhile from 300 to 500 persons nursed cracked heads and other injuries received during a turbulent night in the course of which a firearms store was lotted, several street cars wrecked and the principal streets were the scenes of almost continuous clashes -between demonstrators police. Mounted men, armed and Total of 30 Cars Melons Reported Through Saturday Prices Continue at 25 to 40 Cents on Local 'Market PEACH CROP MOVES Total of SO Carloads Reported Shipped From Nashville Waermclons went on the Hope market with full force Saturday, and commission houses reported total load- Ings of approximately 30 carloads by Saturday night.

Fifteen cars had been ropotrcd up to Friday noon. Similar activity was reported in the peach market at Nashville, a total of 50 carloads was expected to be reported out by Saturday night. Charles Ferguson, of the Nashville News, told The Star prices were very satisfactory. The Nashville paper said o.uotatlons to the farmers were running $1.50 for No. 1's; $1 to $1.10 for No.

2V, and $1 on orchard run sold to trucks. Sorrie peaches of the third quality were going for as low as 75 cents to trucks, according to other reports. Watermelon prices continue uncertain, Saturday barely maintaining previous quotations of 25 to 40 cents, according to commission house reports to The Star Saturday. Gales of rain and wind to sweep the southwestern, counties Friday night. Nashville reported, only S'JIight rain, but there was a drenching downpour for one hour in Hope and central Hcmpstead county about A storm Thursday jnjght threatened jsrcat poach orchards viller oltt''danrajjo-Van wtllovw ited to 10 carloads or less.

Associated Press advices from Fay- cttevillc reported a 15 per cent loss in the apple crop from a storm there bumper peach and apple yields made these losses negligible. Takes Own Life In Fit of Alger Resident of England Had Objected to Wife's Leaving on Visit Boyd, aged 56, well known resident of England, shot and killed himself at his home here about 10:30 Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd had been enter- tainig their daughter and her husband, Mr.

and Mrs. H. W. Jennings of Russcllvillc. Mrs.

Boyd had planned to return to Russcllville with her daughter nnd son-in-Jaw for a visit. It was said that Mr. Boyd objected to his wife's making the trip and had thrcat- cne dto kill himself if she went. The threat was not taken seriously by members of the family, however. However, he secured a revolver and went out on a porch.

A shot was heard and Mr. Boyd was found dead. Besides Mrs. Jennings, he is survived by two other daughters, Miss Ada Will Boyd and Mrs. Worrel Mills of England.

He also is survived by two sons, Wayne Boyd of Humphrey and William Boyd of and by two brothers, R. S. Boyd of Lonoke and Eagle Boyd of England and by three sisters, Mrs. J. E.

Bisco and Mrs. Frank Martin of England and Mrs. Fletcher Chenault of Little Rock. State Oil Office in Texarkana Opens Office Temporarily Closed on July I Has Been Reopened Arkansas state department ofoil and gas conservation has re-opened a branch office here with C. E.

Harris, conservation agent, in charge. The office was temporarily closed July 1 when several abandoned wells in the El Dorado field were being plugged and Harris was sent there to assist in supervising the work. The Texarkana office was opened first in September, 1930, following the discovery of oil in the Charles V. Lcnz well 14 miles from here. Although drilling activity in Miller county has been at a stand still for several months.

Harris expressed the belief he would have at least three wells under way by fall. He said he uas with several operators rffiirl In ulrtirl Ilirin to this iv- After Close Brfsh With Death They'd just a height of 2000 feet. shown here, nonchalantly walking'from the scene with the parachutes which saved them from death, are Liuet. Francis Kelly (left) and Serg. David Spicer (right), U.

S. army flyers plane crashed after amid-air collision with another military craft over Newington, Conn, The two occupants of the other plane plunged to their deaths. The two planes were part of a formation of six en rbute from Mitchel Field, Long Island, to East Stamford. Conn. Bulletins 1 1.ERANTP, to Moodwky ditch In tnm bout lite Friday.

DURANT, free -bridge over Red River, between Oklahoma and Texas with armed forces called out to support each contention, opened Saturday shortly after a federal injunction restraining the opening was dissolved temporarily at Houston. Stlm- son arrived from London Saturday evening on what he described as purely an unofficial visit. ASIIEVILLE, N. oritlcs at Marion, telegraphed police (o hold C. R.

King of Yancy county, North Carolina, without bond pending his return to Crittcnden county, Arkansas to face murder charges for the deaths of Burton tlcnslcy and Wood row Wilson, both of Yancy, who were found badly burned on a brush pile West of Memphis and taken to a Memphis hospital where they died, nine months ago. Confederates To Meet at McNeil Program Is Planned For Annual Gathering on July 29 and 30 MAGNOLIA, annual Confederate Veterans' reunion will be held at McNeil Wednesday and Thursday, July 29 and 30. It has been the custom to hold these reunions annually and of four days duration. In 1920 25 veterans and their families attended, but no meeting was held in 1930. J.

E. Hawkins will give the welcome address, H. Minor Wallace of Little Rock and A. D. Pope of El Dorado are scheduled to speak Wednesday.

Officers of the organization are: W. A. Kelly, quartermaster; J. J. Luck, adjutant, and J.

E. Hawkins, commander. Entertainment will be provided for the veterans and their families by citizens of McNeil Funeral Services Held for Victim of Alcohol services were held Friday for Joe Lennard, 50, who died here from drinking a concotion believed to have contained denatured alcohol. Lennard. who came here from Memphis, about two weeks ago, had been drinking two or three days, officers were told, and Wednesday afternoon he mixed a bottle of soda water with what is believed to have been denatured alcohol and drank it.

He died Thursday. Papers in pockecs of his clothing indicated he was a member of the Oklahoma department of Ameri- iii' Li -inn. luTr InirioJ Graf Zeppelin Now (Might to Arctic TTT'TT Dr. Eckener Does Not Intend to Visit North Pole This Trip Graf Zeppelin took off Saturday morning for Leningrad on the second leg of a flight to the Arctic. Dr.

Eckener does not intend to circle the north pole on this cruise but will go from Leningrad to Archangel, and thence northward for observations over the glacial sheet. Speeding on Third Is Complained Of Property Owners Reported Planning to Petition Council Tuesday Complaints of speeding on West Third street since that avenue was npone das the route of highway No, 67 through Hope, are expected to be filed at a sepcial meeting of the city council next Tuesday by Third street residents. The council has-ben caled in special session Tuesday to consider a proposed oi'dinanco in behalf of the State Highway Department and the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads creating Third street as a of state regulation.

Third street residents are said to be preparing to send a delegation of 12 or 15 property owners before the council either to oppose the ordinance or to seek special police protection along the state highway route. The route of No. 67 through Hope has been the subject of much controversy, Third street being chosen as a compromise between the present route along Division street, which the state and federal governments refused to consider, and Sixteenth street, which was opposed by the city as taking the highway out of town. Plans Completed For Dedication of Port Here Sunday More Than Dozen Planes to Perform or Carry Passengers 18-MILE ATR RACE Congres sman a to Make the Dedication Spech at 2 p. m.

All arrangements are complete for the dedication of Hope's municipal airport from 2 to 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon, with an address by Congressman TilmanB. Parks, an air circus and many passenger-carrying fliBhts from the field. Congressman Parks will here from Camden to make the opening address shortly after 2 p. m. He will be introduced by Mayor John Vesey, who will make the, speech of welcome.

The Hope Boys Band will play during the afternoon. More than a dozen airplanes will come here for the program, including five commercial ships frorh Texarkana, four from Little Rock, probably several from Pine Bluff, and in addition, the National Guard planes 'of the 154th Observation Squadron, Little Rock. Among the featured of the air circus will be a parachute drop by a negro flyer from Memphis; airplane races from Hope to the Experiment Farm, three laps, 'or 18. miles; and a series fo acrobatic stunts, including trick landings with a dead motor. Hope has; eartended an invitation to residents of all Southwest Arkansas to attend.

A small admission fee, 25 cents f.or adults, and 10 cents for children, will be charged at the the proceeds to go to a fund for the con- airport. Unsigned Letter Confesses Murder Letter Mailed in New York Admits Murder of Lepanto, Merchant MEMPHIS, 3 unidentified person "confessed" Saturday in an unsigned letter to the Evening Appeal to the slaying on May 6th of John Frisby, merchant of Lepanto, Arkansas. The letter was postmarked New York, July 23, and said it was written to prevent punishing the wrong person. Poinsett county offires regarded the letter as a hoax, Claimore Henderson, a Lepanto mechanic, awaits" grand jury action in conection with the slaying. Students Believed Dead From Poison Houston Couple Found in Automobile Parked on Streets HOUSTON, Glover, a freshman and Dan Powpll Stratton, a junior at Rice Institute died Saturday morning apparently from poison after being found in a critical condition in an automobile parked on a residence boulevard.

No marks of violence were on either of the bodies. The pi'ii' attended a dance earlier in the r.vcnins and had been seen talkin? earnestly ever something. v.viv r.u.'ir.lKT.s uf prominent Grand Jury to Hear Jack Howard Case Union County to Hear Burglary Case of Tom Slaughter Slayer EL DORADO, Howard, arrested here last Friday after an automobile wreck in which an escaped convict was killed, was bound over to the grand jury Friday on charges of burglary and grand larceny. The charges grew out of the robbery of the J. M.

Bishop store near he.re about two weks ago. Work clothes and tobacco valued at $200 were taken from the store. Howard, who killed Tom Slaughter, notorious desperado, after an escape from the Arkansas penitentiary several years ago, was implicated in the robbery by W. D. Lambert, escaped Louisiana convict, who also was in the accident.

Howard is under J1.500 bond on burglary and grand larceny charges in Little Rock in conection with the robbery of a North Little Rock store. DeQueen Now Building School Bus Bodies of Sevier county schools has created a new manufacturing of schopl bus bodies. The Garner Brothers company now is constructing nine "Queen of bus bodies for Sevier county school districts, as follows: Lockcsburg, three; Horatio, four; Gillham, two. The buses are being built in two sizes, one to carry 40 and the other 52. Gardner Brothers have built express tiuck bodies for use of the American Exyrsfs fur sjuvwi'ul yews.

Back to London Called to Washington to. confer with President Hoover on the German economic situation, Charles G. Dawes, United States Ambassador to Great Britain) is shown above as he arrived at the White House, Due to critical conditions in European, finance, he was urged to cut short his American and to his post in London. Report Here on Peach Market 12 Cars Shipped From Arkansas Tuesday and Wednesday Arkansas Special Peach-Report, II, S. Department Point information for Wednesday, July 22, 1931.

MACON, temperature 91 degrees. Partly cloudy. Haul- ings heavy. Ligh't wire inquiry. Demand light, trading limited, market weaker.

Carloads f. o. b. 1 usual terms Sixes Elbertas U. S.

1, large 85-100, mostly 85c, medium size 70 75c, bushel baskets 1 7-8 inch minimum to 2 inch minimum 65-75c, few higher, Vi bushel baskets 2 inch minimum 40-50c. Most shipments rolled unsold. CANDOR, nearby points) Hot, clear, Haulings light. Light wire inquiry. Demand slow, market weaker.

Carloads f. o. usual terms few sales' Sixes Hileys U. S. 1 large 1.00, medium sized small 50c, bushel baskets Hileys U.

1 2Vi inch minimum 1.00, 2 inch minimum 1 3-4 inch minimum SOc NASHVILLE, nearby points) Warm, mostly cloudy, Loadings increasing. No sales reported as yet. Elbertas showing good quality. Carlot shipments reported for Wednesday, July 22: Alabama Arkansas 11; North California, 38; Central California, 39; Georgia, 421; Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, 46; South Carolina, 11; Texas, 15; Total, 555. Unreportcd July 21: Arkansas, Louisiana, 1..

Unreported July 16: Central California, 10. Primary Destination of Arkansas peaches, Wednesday, July 22, 1931: Kansas City, Coffeyville, Denver, St. Joseph St. Louis 2. 26Knowi Ovar Ri ONLY 3.

Damage VA' PITTSBUHGf have been i ters nun burned arc' in turned a persons Jntu suffering Fridl morning early 11 The coroners 1 sons missing, searched thorough! belief thai Of the 26 bodies gue, only three 12 hours after the 1 Physicians featj fear among the rise increase the ndmberj The building was dL timated $50,000. Farmer's; Given Self Jack Airmen Are Forced To Abandon Flight Fuel Load Too Heavy on Attempted Hop to Istanbul, Turkey FLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT, New Boardman and John Folando, failed in an attempt to start on a non-stop flight to Istanbul, Turkey Friday, when they were forced to dump 450 gallons of gasoline in Jamacia Bay to save themselves from crashing. Their gasoline laden plane was wallowing over the choppy waters when they pulled an emergency valve releasing the gasoline. They turned back and lauded 9 miiv- utes after the take off at 4:52 Friday morning. The Boston flyers said they would drekU 1 on the next start after cettins sxmu much uacded sleep.

HISON, hours, the jury Mullins, charged with Wilson, well known community, in a qu over pasturage for'. verdict of guilty anij at seven years in' attorneys filed, peal. The case went; to 6 p. m. Mullins, taking the of Wilson's sons shooting, gave his he and Wilson had had' ou'sly because some of wandered into Wilson.

The morning ol, he said, he heard dogs woods near his house shotgun, went to see if'j chasing his hogs. He met Wilson's sons, was armed, he said, find' if they had sen his were talking the elder up on a horse and, after told one of his sons to MuUins testified. When Wi ed for the gun, Mullins at him and held the sonaat their father was shot. killed Wilson in Wilson's sons said their "fat killed without warning, and Ira Wilson, brother of man, testified Mullins prevfai threatened to kill the elder Approximately SO Wilson was one of the 1 framers in this section, Mul merjy a Pine Bl.uff a share-cropper. Guardsmen Inj In Louisiana St 34 Hurt, Two Serioi Wind Strikes Camp, Alexandria ALEXANDRIA, four Mississippi national were injured and erty damage caused by storm which struck Camp Friday night.

A guardsman ed a fractured skull ruptured appendix and treated in the Baptist ers who received minor injuries treated, at the camp hosnjiaj, Carl Pouglas, 19, of Joseph Wink, of BHoxi, seriously fractured skull end Wing his side, believed to be a appendix. Tents were blown down, tened, an airplane demolished, frame buildiug damaged, tried to keep order as guardsmen, sought retygf heavy downpour, Practically every was blown down jurv-J were iAi-uck, By fV Uitf.