Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - June 17, 1931, Blytheville, Arkansas Served by the United Press COURIER THE DOMINANT NEWSPAPER OP ST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 70 Courier Dally Herild Mississippi Valley Lender ARKANSAS JUNK 17 Diving Diana Here's a brand new brand of by Georgia Joleman of Los Angeles national champion H's just part of her lor the forthcoming national A A U championships wherein she hopes to retain her title She leaps from a springboard and at the top of hu flight aims and shoots an arrow al a target at end of the pool She declares U to lie a splendid way of perfecting lime and balance in air Anyway U makes a remarkable picture 2 Marines Missing In Nicaragua MANAGUA Nicaragua June 17 Tivo marines and three guardsmen were re- missing nnd were believed an with The missing marines were William Chattanooga lessee and Lieut Lester Cal latter n n he in command i cue of six patrols which started an against the outlaws The battle Monday FIRE Bit Bums at Wharf in Harbor at Hamilton None Injured HAMILTON Bermuda June n i liner Bermuda one of the largest motorships in the was destroyed today by fire in Hamillon harbor No in- juries were reported The fire out in thr fore part of the superstructure early this morning It ate backward down Into tiie ship burning the pumps as it progressed Tne ilton fire brigade was unable to check the flames At A M the engine room staff was forced o leave and the fire continued to burn steadily while the ship listed the wharf Naval lent assistance but fire burned fiercely and at 7 o'clock with he A B and C decks gone the ship was resting on the tnm of harbor with a heavy list Will Ask Supreme Court to Review Ruling Holding Petitions Void ROCK June 17 were reported led by one of the Sandino chiefs Lincoln Tomb cotion Occasion for Re- ference lo Gang Rule ItY Cr.AlTKIt United SUIT June n American republic not permit any man lo stand above the law President Hoover said in an address dedicating cled tomb of Abraham Lincoln There can be no man in our county wiio either by position or his Influence stands Mr Hoover said Thai tho republic cannot admit still live Tor ours is a government of laws and n society of ordered liberty safeguarded only by This brief but emphatic ration toward the end of a short address eulogizing the greatest izen contributed lo history by was linked hy many heard it with conditions in where Alphonse and eight of his employes last week wore as n result of the federal government's effort to break m long standing wholesale defiance of prohibition and other laws II is known hat the situation In Chicago has long been a cause of chagrin to Hoover that federal cleanup activities now on are due to his Picturing Lincoln as symbol of union nnd of human rights greatness is growing not in country among all ples Mr Hoover referring to Gettysburg address said it should be our purpose and our resolve today to be dedicated to the great W M Williams is now in charge task remaining before us the office recently moved to tin The six decades which have First National Bank passed Lincoln death written on school of history changes bewildering in their ty in their Mr Hoover said They and enriched life beyond the imaginations of Lincoln's con- temporaries Tlie years have not only yielded rich treasures al and spiritual but they have Is Precarious riers Claim Iu Asking 15 Per Cent Boos I WASHINGTON June 17 of day in- tT1 lule commerce commission for ls edit in all freight and charges signed by lasted Iwo hours here said The rebels Th i 1 I and Mountain group and I W II Cole of thr group of Ihr II A S eastern tt'iineil tho present ot the railroads as an emergency serious Impairment of resources and to n of efficient and quate service Embodying twenty pages the sot in he of Hit roads with earnings cent on property of railroad bonds which would securing of capital difficult heavy competition from trucks and busses New Stock Issue Already Half Subscribed lion Reported Good Officers of ing and Loan Association have been as follows for his Zal for B Harrison president D Gillen vice W Williams secretary ana treasurer Already 50 per cent of the new series of stock opened June I has been subscribed an annual report to the stockholders showed The same report lhat the state banking department has its regular annual audit find re- ported the of the tion in excellent condition Adequate Moisture All Is Needed to Insure Successful Farm Year J Westbrook attorney for Ha t brought challenges to readjustment Woman Faints at Sight of Alleged Assailant Profective association whore to have the Arkansas divorce act submitted to a vote at both by government als to a changing world Our try has become powerful aiming general election of 1932 was lions It is charged with thwarted yesterday when Attorney General Hal L Norwood in an opinion ruled the petitions filed by them were insufficient said today he would file a petition in the court today or tomorrow ing for a review of the action The on the petition was led by six Hot Springs attorneys n Little Rock and a Hot Springs hotel man and Mayor Leo Me Laughlin of Hot Springs which Is making a bid for the divorce trade which Ls now enjoyed by Reno Nev ly new responsibilities both at and abroad Will Lilly Street Revival Will Elect Successor to Dead Kennett Mayor KENNETT -A special tion will be held heie in about j ly days to name a successor to HENDERSON N C June 17 or who died The evangelistic meeting the Baptist Mission church on Lilly street will close tonight willi the baptismal service at the First Baptist church Rev P B- Langtey ary of the Mount Zion and I counly association con- 1 ducted services assisted by daughter There have already been 14 ad- ditions to church and six nre expected to join tonight fainting twice at tho sight of the negro Mrs L E Er- win today had identified Robert Jenkins negro as man who at- tacked and her Monday morning at her home in Norlina The negro was barely saved from a mob Jenkins was among three negroes he'd pending identification by Mrs Erwin Mrs Erwin fainted when Jenkins and the others were brought before her in the jail here and when Jenkins was brought out alone she screamed Take him and fainted She still maintained Jenkins was guilty party when he was ex- In different clothes Invitations Sent to 112 Operators in Arkansas and Missouri Cotton pin operators of east Arkansas and southeast souri will meel at city hall here at Thursday night for renewed discussion of the proposal lo adopt colton bagging as wrapper for cotton in this territory pt M A committee consisting of O W snd has Issued to 112 pinners and n representative attendance Is an- L W Harrison Miss secretary of the Delta Cottonseed ing association which has been In- strumental In obtaining extensive adoption of cotton In the Mississippi delta will be present and will exhibit a number of com- plete patterns of the cotton per Cotton bagging while more ex- Optimism which farm lenders of havn expressed over this year's crop outlook Is by J E Mississippi comity agricultural who regards lack of moisture from which immediate vicinity of and a few oilier parts of county are as the only serious adverse of the past week have ended the 1931 drouth In many parts of this and adjoining souri counties but have other parts Thc has not yet become critical however and with showers predicted for ho latter part of the week no serious alarm Is bring felt While here Is little promise of a profitable market or cotton or other Important farm crops this year gardens of size ami quality greatly feed acreages low production costs and greater emphasis upon ity nre all factors lhat will go far to counterbalance the low prices Hint are anticipated Crops Not Suffering In general the farmers of Mis county have put selves In splendid condition lr this period of low prices I paid Mr Critz this morning and with the crop outlook the best have ever seep nothing seems lack Ing assurance of adequate mols lure So far even in that have had least damage has been confined to gnr and such crops a green beans Cotton Is making ex progress nnd while Iher have been a few Instances of np Memphis Bank Robbery DALLAS Tex June 17 Scales 35 prominent j la society man and a former Cor- nell and Heidelberg student today agreed to return to Tenn for questioning in tion with Ihc holdup of a branch of the Union and Platers Bank nnd Trust company Scales offered to return it officers agreed lo allow him time here to complete some business transactions They con- sented liens ive jute is stronger lighter and neater appearing and Its use lias pronounced ec- sound by men who have 37 and Ralph Ar- Investigated Textile mills have nold 23 arrested that they will welcome its connection with the robbery general adoption because ot its agreed to uniformity in weight nnd the Im- tion H L Scales of proved protection it gives the Tex farmer and father o Its general adoption would for a revival where he will assist the Rev Floyd Chaffin lor two j weeks ly Saturday morning in a Memphis hospital R M Jones president pro tern of the city council and acting may-1 Ic or has announced lhat I met S the special election will be pub-1 following the next regular of the council the first Tuesday in July Mayor succumbed ing an operation for appendicitis and gall stones The funeral was held Sunday afternoon Rev under his son to will be at return The father some years ago made SI 000.000 in tile New Orleans col- Ion market My boy didn't have anything to do witli that bank robbery or any other robbery the elder Scales declared He has nothing to fear from a full investigation I want him to go to Memphis and clear Loot at Joseph Store An open cash in the L fice of S Joseph Metal Works 410 thls Highway Bandits Take Cash Gun West Main street yielded a lone dollar to a whc entered the building through a skylight lasl night Police said today that the in- truder had to crawl across the roof of an adjoining building and provide domestic market for about a quarter million bales of and staple cation Lake Street Methodists to Have Special Service There will be special services at Lake Street Methodist church tonight beginning at S o'clock in carrying oui the plan ot the southern Methodist church for special prayers today Thc song and prayer service will be followed with the sacrament of the Lord's Supper All members nre urged lo lend Disturbances Continue in Ohio Winers Strike Fears that stale troops must br summoned to maintain order In the strike ridden areas of eastern Ohio's coal fields were expressed by officials today as the strike spread to other mines Five men nnd three women ware arrested as disturbances were The strike has extended to 16 mines and the Minor's Union was also extending Us activities and promises were made by leaders that other mines would be closed ns more were recruiting lo the of strikers Former Officer Waives Liquor Charge Hearing John former deputy constable waived preliminary ing before Justice Oscar Alexander on charges of manufacturing n 1 T J Ul lilt imu Mock trades and possession of Move Slowly During Day Ruth Top In Popularity Miss Ruth who Inst he load In Lho COO j vacation lilp con- lo Miss was ack nn lop hi votes u half i oilier within striking distance 1 Hie lop and noun of he active out or the running MKs Is now In second lace nnd Miss Edwards lio last Friday o third Another who look n noticeable spur nee bst week Is Miss o Mho advanced from With place lo fifth Today's count of the ballots inn 17 candidates hv the limit Margaret Margaret Cross Dell Pride Lou Cookc Mary Hayll Evelyn Harwell Branson Until Dull Elliott Virginia Burton Manila Marlon Burns Martha Robinson Dorothy Wilson NEW YORK June 17 UP Trading on the stock exchange ncd of his clothing and tied to Ins automobile two miles from here late yesterday afternoon said the car in which the two boys were riding was stolen in Liltle Rock j lower himself through the skylight today was the lightest in five years to enter the building Officers prices moved over a fractional had a definite cine as to the avca for the industrialists closing DE QUEEN Ark June 17 UP identity of the skylight bursar iower Hudson of La I who has invaded a number of ono to more salesman held up and I houses in the lew to Ule by youths of in cash and months but have been unable to an automatic shotgun then secure substantial evidence in Tokyo Is Rocked by Severe Quake Tremors TOKYO Japan 17 UP Tokyo and vicinity was rocked by n severe earthquake starling at o'clock tonight Authorities believed considerable property damage would be reported Several sections of the Sale cf Washington Post Almost Completed I WASHINGTON June 17 i Sale of Washington Post cap- I morning newspaper to David Lawrence for appeared Dies at Home of Her Son Interests Involved gathered Funeral services were he'd this morning at cemetery tor Mrs Ingram 82 who succumbed nt tbc home of her MIL C H Ingram In the Gosnell com- munity yesterday afternoon The Rev Williams officiated at the services The Cobb Undertaking company charge of ments parent injury to corn this Is at by Mr to lack o proper seed bed preparation cultivation rather to the weather Yesterday nnd the day befor iaw good showers at- Rosa Luxom Hightower end near the line and dis Sufficient rain to be substantial help was also exper diced at Ekron and other vest of and in tl part of this Seed One important favorable facto which has received little publ attention Is care In this vicinity gai this year to the selection of the minuting For the first tlm in years according to men lar with situation this ity will produce a crop confined almost entirely to the high quality varieties of collon for which and Mississippi county were once famous Some estimates have 11 that as much ns 90 per cent of production this year will be of better stable varieties of cotton Such a situation it Is said will help In improving local market conditions If hereabouts are at all discouraged over the outlook a visitor driving over the county's highways wouW see no sign of It Stands are almost uniformly good fields have been receiving careful cultivation Costs have low and with plenty of falfa soybeans nnd for feed n good garden nt every house it seems apparent that conditions distillery He was bound over to i next winter will present a decided Take Gems WortK Over From Home of New York Attorney NEW foRK Jimr 17 UP Three raided the home of S Menken ent lawyer civic lender and ad- vocate of heavy firmaments day forced Mrs Menken to out of bed nnd open n small Till safe anil escaped with Jewelry worth more than had left for his office when the robbery A nt door of Donose Loans lo Farmers Who Fail lo Adopt Methods LITTLE ROCK June 17 UP After agreeing much of for Hie condition that sled In Arkansas was theirs from all parts of slate here yesterday said they demand heir former clients themselves on n live it home basis 13 A Lynch lent of the Arkansas Bankers was ninong Ihc speakers Wo hear a lot of talk about industries lo said but Arkansas rv to be profitable and success HI must be built from within Our u i id agriculture will be np from a combination of he two Will Kraft Policy The occasion was a session ot he committee ol the slate association held at the call E J Bodman the chairman 0 draft a program through which ot the stole can help place Arkansas agriculture upon a sound nnd stable basis A resolution em- bodying such a program is to be prepared hs an expression of policy It Is expected hat It will urge banks to advance money only lo farmers who re- ducing production costs by the ot efficient methods nnd are producing their own food and feed supplies of flowers to deliver He asked a servant to stan for them The the door nnd two men rushed IID anil joined their confederate and forced their wny Inside displaying The were Insured 11 was re- ported for Will Refuse Loans Commercial banking must quit financing the farmer unless a change Is made Mr Lynch said Col C Robertson of lanna said alter 1932 under no circumstances will his bank loan money for food or feed which can be grown on tho farm He was disgusted with the turn of affairs and his expression was echoed throughout the room If farmer helps by providing for lean years would be no excuse for money IK In Arkansas by the Red press he said Win Build New Highway From Maiden to Risco new concrete from Maiden to Hisco will be started soon by the com- pany of Tenn who have lust comnleled way Nn 84 from to Hayti a distance of six miles When the new highway from den lo Risco Is It will connect State No 25 at Maiden with U S High wny No Cl just south of New Madrid await the action of the grand jury next fall Bond was set at was arrested last by deputies out of the office of Sheriff W W Shaver at the site of a distillery northwest of Gosnell ln r II to before Justice Jesse C In the District of Columbia supreme court Oklahoma Governor Seeks to Force Phone Rate Cul nre of power lines Telephone and telegraph lines also were damaged Some damage was reported at Yo- kohama the seaport city 13 miles Irani here Ship's Physician May Provide Key to Death NEW YORK June 11 Jamison I Carr ship's doctor on the liner Franconia may prove to be the of mation infinitely valuable lo the solution of the mysterious death of Starr The tor has premised to be here Friday when the grand jury resumes at Mineola L I Us inques into the circumstances of the death of the girl whose bruised body srith its traces or was found at Long Beach Kinds of Vegetables in Gardens at Yarbro Bankers Will Meet to Form Regional Groups Organization of two regional clearing house associations to serve the banks of Arkansas will be undertaken meetings at tonight nnd nt boro Thursday night B A Lynch president state bankers and John W SnydT member of the state committee on clearing house associations attend both meetings the regional tons it is expected definite ation will be given to the bankers code nt the recent of the stats association The meeting Is for the ers of Clay Greene nnd Randolph counties and that nt for nnd county bankers It- may er appear feasible it ii said lo merge two groups into one rc organization contrast to those which followed last season's onslaught of drouth and depression Children Enjoying Free Playground at Mill Park The free playground at Ihc cago Mill is being enjoyed by the boys and girls who go there dally for supervised play under the di- rection of Miss Mary Outlaw From eight o'clock in the Ing until three o'clock in the after- noon there are all kinds of games with volley ball croquet baseball wading pool and the story hour offering Interesting ment Children are requested Lo bring their favorite story books and Miss Outlaw will read stories to the crowd each morning The Chicago Mill and Lumber corporation is extending an Farm girls of Yarbro four miles north of here know their bles At a meeting of girls club today several members ed hat they had from -10 to kinds of vegetables growing in their dens None of the 10 members had less than ten varieties Plans were made for a club party Tuesday evening June 30 nt the home of Miss Pauline Meal dent Hold Services Today Alva Wert Named County tatlon to every boy and girl In the city to visit the playground I 1 Child Drowns in Pail AMITY Ark June 17 The three-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman Lambert OKLAHOMA CITY June 17 UP Governor William H Murray day made his first movo in his campaign to In to reduce their rates in at p m yesterday The Rev Williams will officiate lahoma The governor ordered Attorney General J Berry King lo bring who live eight miles from against tho Sou 11 western Bell was drowned while playing in Telephon company foi payment bucket of still i of 5510.450 which he asserts is when found efforts lo revive i due the state for fees on invested her proved capital Dr Alva Werl of this city has Last rites will be conducted been appointed chairman of the afternoon at North cemetery j Mississippi County Society of Op- for George T who died the having been made by Dr C H Brown Harrison Ark president of the Ar- kansas Association The state groups propose to hoM a number of eye clinics out the stale during the fall and winter Dr Werl will be in charge of the arrangements in this ty in cooperating with Ihr county Jit tile services Funeral plans are In charge of the Cobb Undertaking company The deceased is survived by his widow two Eons a daughter two three sisters and his ther Silas Pinkley Judge Keck to Sneak at Osceola Tomorrow OSCEOLA Ark June G E Keck of Blytheville will ad- dress Ihc Osceola Civic club at its regular luncheon meeting hero morrow according to an ment made today by G B president of the club Trade in Mav Was Lowest in Years Hugh Bates New Dean of Caruthersville College L Bates of Warrenton has been chosen dean of ville Junior college lo succeed William T Miller Mr Bates will assume his new duties ly Dean Miller is now teaching In the Stato School of Mines at Holla but later will assume a sition as an assistant in Ohio Slate college Mr Miller lias been connected willi the Junior college years a5 Girl Rescues Mother and Brothers From Flames WASHINGTON June 17 Exports from the United States during the month of May total In value while Imports were valued nt ths de- partment of commerce said today j The figures on both exports and Deficit Up Despite are lower In many Income Tax Payments cars Armorel Man Fined for Possession of Liquor WASHINGTON June 17 The treasury deficit took ft jump of more than eight million lars on June 15 despite Income tnx payments for the second quarter which began to come into the treasury on that dale The treasury statement showed today Ihc on June 15 Income tax returns tabulated at close of business on June 15 aggregated HAMBURG Ark June 17 UP lo heroic efforts of ainc Slocum 18 her mother nnd two brothers were alive today Lightning which Mt fire to the barn where the family was un- loading a wagon killed her father Charles F Slocum 48 and iously burned the mother and boys rendering them unconscious managed to drag them out before the dry barn consumed by flames WEATHER cloudy local Marlon McClanahan of Armorel was fined by a jury in Justice Oscar Alexander's court Monday on According to the official feather observer Charles Phillips jr the maximum temperature here a charge of Illegal possession of dny was 86 degrees nnd the mini- nor He made bond for appeal to I mum 69 degrees with 19 inch of circuit jrain Today a year ago the McClanahan was arrested by i mum was 85 degrees sheriff's Saturday and the minimum
