VOLUME XVIII. NO. 165 NEWPORT, ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY,
LATEST REPORTS
INDICATE HOUSE
TO BE REPUBLICAN
CONTROL OF SENATE IS YET
GREATLY IN DOUBT
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Democrats Claim the Senate Will Be
Democratic by at Least One
and That Small Margin Will
Prevail in House
SPEAKER CLARK IS LEADING
(By The Associated Press.)
New York, 5 o’clock.—The next
house of representatives will be re
bublican on the face of the latest re
turns. The political completion of the
senate is still in doubt.Apparently 219
republicans, 193 democrates, one so
cialist and one indenendent have been
elected to the hous. Defii .te returns
from thirty-one districts are missing
or in doubt. The latest senate figure
is so close as to make it certain that
probably not until all the returns are
s received from seven doubtful states
WL could it be determined which party
Ik will have control. The democrats,
I v||»ccording to available returns this
afternoon, have forty-five seats and
the republicans forty-four.
(By The Associated Press.)
New York, Nov. 6.—Both the New
York Times and the New York
World this morning conceded the re
publican party will control the next
congress. Both the democratic and
republican party managers this
morning predicted they will have sub
stantial working majorities in the
next congress, but returns showed
between fifty and seventy-five con
gressional districts are still unre
ported, and the lineup is so close that
the scales might easily be turned in
favor of either party. The contest
for the governorship of New York
is so close between Gov. Whitnan
and Alfred E. Smith, democrat, that
it appeared the soldier vote would
settle it.
Members of the United States sen
ilk ate defeated include Weeks of Mas
sachusetts,Lewis of Illinois and Sauls
bury of Deleware. Representative
’ Sherley of Kentucky, chairman of the
„;v appropriations committee, was also
kj defeated. In Michigan Henry Ford is
ip; running behind Truman H. New
spl berry, republican candidate for sena
tor. In Missouri former Governor
¥ I Folk was defeated for the senate by
I Judge Spencer, republican. Late re
I turns from Kentucky indicate Gov
t ernor Stanley was elected senator
I over Bruner, republican.
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(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 6.—The dem
ocratic national committee claims the
senate will be democratic by at least
one and also that the democrats will
have a small margin in the house.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 6.—The repub
lican national committtee claims safe
majorities for the republicans in
both houses of congress.
(By The Associated Press.)
St. Louis, Nov. 6.—Early indica
tions that Speaker Clark was de
feated are not borne out by later re
turns. It now appears he has a safe
lead.
(By The Associated Press.)
Atlanta, Nov. 6.—Nine southern
states east of the Mississippi river re
turned unusually large democratic
■' majorities in all state, congressional
Rj and senatorial contests except in the
fe i first and second Tennessee and ninth
Virginia districts where republican
|| 3|L congressmen were returned to office.
jpg. (By The Associated P, Jss.)
gMr Chicago. Nov. 6.—Medill McCor
jj&L mack, republican, was elected to the
1|P" United States senate yesterday by a
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COUNTY NU1SE IS '
HMP1SID
Secretary Of Public H«alth Associa
tion Tells Of Work Done Here
By Mrs. Elizabeth Spitzer.
One of the most important activi
ties of the Arkansas Public Health
Association is its campaign for pub
lic health nurses in the various coun
ties. Jackson county several days
ago made an appropriation of $1,800
for the purpose.
Mrs. Charles L. Shafer, executive
secretary of the association, who re
sides in Little Rock, has given out the
following statement for publication:
“Jackson county appropriated $750
for the work last year, but at that
time neither the judge nor the mem
bers of the court fully realized the
great goodi the country would derive |
from this fund. The nurse had been!
in the county less than two months
when the influenza epidemic came.
She was a trusted lieutenant whom
the doctors appreciated, for Jackson
county had its share of the epidemic
tragedies. One night this nurse was
the sole watcher by the bedside of
two workmen, both of whom were
raging in delirium when found in
their cabin in the outskirts of New
port, and who died before morning.
On another occasion she brought to a
family in which the mother and three
children, one a tiny babe, were all ill
with the disease in the same bed on
which lay the dead body of the hus
band and father.”
LIGHT VOTE POLLED.
One of the lightest votes on record
was polled in Jackson county at the
general election yesterday, figures
on which will be published tomorrow.
The local exemption board is pro
gressing slowly n its work of secur
ing men for the call for next Thurs
day. Jackson county is asked for 120
men but so far only about half that
have been examined have passed the
examination. It is thought that prob
ably only about 75 will be ready by
next Thursday, and the remainder of
the county’s quota will be qualified
later.
Usa it as your salesman. It carries
news of the store into hundreds ol
homes.
Casualty List
The following casualties are re
ported by the commanding general of
the American Expeditionary Forces:
Killed in action-42
Died of wounds-59
Died of accident and other
causes - 1
Died of disease- 78
Wounded severely---31
Wounded (degree undetermined) 150
Wounded slightly -158
Missing in action-10
Total_529
Among the casualties for today are
to be found the following Arkansas
boys:
Killed in action Eli C. McDougald,
Stuttgart and Williams C. Willis of
Russellville.
Wounded severely, John D. Muck
ley, Winslow, and Theodore A. Blake
of Chidster.
Wounded severely in action, pre
viously reported missing in action,
Private Lewis E. Schull.
Wounded in action, degree undeter
mined, previously reported missing in
action, Private Walter L. Wilson,
Scottsville.
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plurality which is estimated from
fifty to sixty thousand over Senator
Lewis.
(By The Associated Press.)
New Orleans, Nov. 6.—Incomplete
returns from yesterday’s election in
dicate the woman suffrage amend
ment was defeated in Louisiana.
(By The Associated Press,)
- -Tampa, £la.. Nov; 6.—Returns rep
resenting about one-fourth of the vote
cast show a ratio of about two to one
in favor of state-wide prohibition.
AIRPLANES LAND
NEABJIS CRY
Three Aviators Were Returning to
Texas From Washington, Where
They Made Test Flights.
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Lieuts. W. D. Baucher, Jr., of In
dianapolis, Ind., C. N. Cone of Del
aware, Ohio, and Z. P. Lee of Tole-1
do, Ohio, landed with two Curtiss!
training airplanes on the farm of
Lucien Daugherty, one mile east of ;
Newport, Wednesday morning at
10:30 o’clock and spent one and one-]
half hours there while getting a
supply of gasoline for the planes, j
each one of which carries thirty gal- j
Ions. The airmen spent last night in
Dexter, Mo., which place they left this
morning at 8 o’clock. They were re
turning to Ellington Field between
Houston and Galveston, Texas, from
Washington City, where they gave
demonstration and test flights, leav
ing the capital city last Thursday.
They were called to Washington
from Texas to demonstrate bombing
flights. Lieut. Baucher, who is 27
years of age, was the first aviator to
fly over Washington at night, flying
1700 miles in each direction from that
city last week, demonstrating the
ease with which bombing flights
might be carried out in Germany. He
says he met with splendid success.
Ellington Field is the largest avia
Einn nomn in fbo wnrld and bombers
train there exclusively.
The aviators said they maintained
an average speed on trips of 70 miles
per hour and usually kept at a height
of 1,500 feet. They were held up in
Ohio for two days by a snow storm
last week. On cross country trips in
the states the aviators do not fly at
night, they said.
ARKANSAS FARMERS
FACE A FAILURE.
“Arkansas farmers face a failure
in the corn crop next year, unless
they take every precaution immedi
ately to select a supply of good seed,
either from their own corn or from an
available source. ^
Our people must know that good
seed corn is scarcer than ever before
and that without it another poor crop
in 1919 is a possibility, and this
would be a llttie short of a calamity,”
says Dean Martin Nelson, of the Col
lege of Agriculture, Fayetteville.
“Do not take chances. Do not
gamble on so serious a matter. Se
lect your seed corn and get it out to
itself. Unless seed is separated' from
the rest of the corn, great damage
may be the result. Pick plenty of
seed. Have twice as much as you
need. If you have a surplus your
neighbor will undoubtedly need it.
To save seed corn, place in a dry
place with good ventilation and where
mice and rats will not destroy it. Re
member that millions more of people
are depending upon us for food durng
the coming year, and there are
PRIME IS
OFF TOMORROW
Schools Will Open, Picture Show
Start, and Things Will Re
sume Tneir Normal State.
The influenza epidemic having ap
parently run its course in the com
munity, the city board of health an- <
nounces that the quarantine will be ;
raised, effective tomorrow morning, i
when the public schools will be open- i
ed, continuing through Saturday and ;
resuming regular schedule next Mon
day.
The Madaline theatre will resume
operation with a movie performance
tomorrow night. All the Churches
will have services Sunday, and all
other meetings may now be held as
before.
GERMAN LIE.
The most popular German lie of the
season is the story that army doctors
and Red Cross nurses have been shot
at sunrise for injecting disease germs
into soAdiers. Every army camp in
the United States has been named as
the scene of the tragedy. No inci
dent of the sort has occurred at any
camp or hospital either here or
labroad. “The reports are ridiculous,”
says the war department, “and with
out the slightest foundation in fact.
There have been no medical officers,
nurses, or anyone else executed at
any camp in the United States or
abroad for any such cause.”
The purpose of these stories is ev
ident. They are designed to depress
civilian morale by worrying the rela
tives and friends of the men in ser
vice and to weaken the faith of the
American people in the efficiency of
their war department.
A similar story alleges that influ
enza has been spread by means of
germs in asperine tablets. That sto
ry is equally ridiculous and untrue.
Germs would not live in such a me
dium even if the Germans wished
them to.
fewer people at home to produce it,
and with a poor crop last season
every one should see the necessity of
selecting seed corn right now and
caring for it properly.”
TO INDEPENDENT* PATRONS
We have made a special request
of all the boys who deliver the Daily
Independent to place the papers on
porches of the homes.
This demand was made because of
the fact as the days grow shorter and
the messages from the front are an
hour later arriving each evening, with
few exceptions, the paper will neoes
! sarily be delivered later than when
! days were longer and we ask the pa
j trons to make reports where this re
quest has not been observed by the
boys.
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1 To Help Win the War?
§§ —that question is uppermost in the
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=§ can draft your spare dollars by de
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== help conserve the resources of
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[ IE Safaty-Satisfactory S
ENEMY FIGHTS
HARDER TODAY
Is Using Gas and Machine Guns, De
luging Village Where Many
Civilians Were Located.
(By The Associated Press.)
With the Amerean Army on the Se
ian Front, Nov. 6.—German resist
ince against the Americans stiffened
:onsiderably west of the Meuse to
iay, the Germans using artillery gas
ind machine guns. The Germans last
light deluged the village of Beau
nont, where there were more than
100 civilians, with poisoned gas.
Washington, Nov. 5.—Marshal Foch
tas the terms of armistice for Ger
many and awaits application of them
iy the German military command in
;he field.
The government at Berlin is so in
formed in a note which Secretary
Lansing handed to Minister Sulzer of
Switzerland tonight, announcing that
the allies have declared their willing
ness to make peace on the principles
enunciated by President Wilson. The
note now is on the cables. In 24
hours it should be in the hands of the
German government and the world
may know whether an immediate end
of the war is at hand.
Publication of details of the armis
tice terms still is withheld. They may
not be made known until the Germans
n* vm'ooforl fVtom a •
the course followed by the allies in
dealing with Bulgaria, Turkey and
Austria. Only the details are in doubt
however, and no one doubts that ac
ceptance means abject surrender.
The statement has been authorized
that tl^e drastic conditions under
which Austria passed out of the war
have been followed closely and in an
swer to queries for further informa
tion, officials said tonight the state
ment of Premier Clemenceau, cabeled
from Paris by the Associated Press
told the story:
“The terms,” said! M. Clemenceau,
“are what President Wilson himself
recommended to us for the security of
our troops, the maintenance of our su
periority and the disarmament of the
enemy in so far as that is necessary
to prevent a resumption of hostili
ties.”
Secretary Lansing’s note gives the
first hint of what has been going on
in the momentous conferences at
Paris between Colonel House and the
allied premiers. It quotes a “memo
randum of observations” by the allied
governments on the president’s cor
respondence with the German author
ities disclosing the approval of the
president’s peace program with reser
vation of freedom of action in the
peace conference on the moot ques
tion of freedom of the seas and a spe
cific statement that by restoration is
meant that Germany must make com
pensation for alii dama^j done tc
civilian population and their property
“by land1, by sea and from the air.’
This last, in which President Will
son concurs, means German paymen
for towns and cities destroyed an<
countryside devastated, for ships sun]
by submarines and raiders. It mean
German payment of damages to th
families and dependents of civilian
killed or carried off in violation of th
rules of warfare.
• Thus much of the real work of
peace conference has been done in ad
vance. The spokesmn of German
have accepted the president’s terms
now they must accept the allied qua:
ifications if they want to stop the ac
vance of tl»q allied and America
armies.
United War Work
Reports from Washington, made u
from official advices from all ov«
the United States, are to the effe<
for the civilian war-work agencie
under the title of United War War
Campaign are being recognized ever:
where as a triumph in unity.
The foremost speakers of the corn
try, representing the United Counci
of Defense, Four-Minute Speaker
Rotary clubs and commercial, frate
nal and civic organizations, churchie
schools, boys’ and girls’ clubs, eti
have rallied to the service of the wa
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BUTTERED RUNS 1
FLEE IN TERROR *
ON WHOLE FRONT J
RETIREMENT TOO RAPID TO
GET ARMIES LOCATED
The British Have Cleared Mormal
Forest and Threaten to Drive
Wedge Between Mons and , fil
Maubeuge— French
Fighting.
AMERICANS FIGHTING HARD.
(By The Associated Press.)
Berlin, via London, Nov. G.-^-Jka, of-.-miii'aij
ficial statement issued today says “a .f^|
German delegation to conclude aa
armistice and take up peace negotia- :|
tions has left for the western front.”
(Associated Press Summary.)
Germany’s shattered armies are in
rapid1 retreat from the Belgian front
ier to the Aisne river. The retirement
is so rapid it is difficult to determine
the exact location of the contending
forces along a front of nearly one
hundned miles. The British have
cleared Mormal forest and threatcn^t®
drive a wedge between Mons and
Maubeuge. To the south the French,
have forced the enemy back three t®
four miles, while along the Meuse the
Americans, co-operating with the
French, have moved nearer to the Se
dan-Loonguyon railroad. Ghent i®
closely invested by allied troops. The
Americans north of Verdun have
crossed the Meuse at three places.
work bodies, according to Washington
advices, and it is expected that very
few parts of the country will find it
necessary to give an entire week t®
the campaign to raise their respective
quotas.
“It is manifestly plain to all that
the people of the United States would
not approve of a financial campaign
every month, which would have been
necessary if each of these organiza
tions and the Red Cross had made
their campaigns separately,” said &
prominent official of one of the larg
est of the organizations. “And this
would have been just the result, if
we include four Liberty Bond drives
per year. Under the present plan w®
' I s*an mn Ira nnp s tronc drive and have
• it all over with within a few days.”
; It is stated by high officials that
1 there are two distinct reasons whjr
i the approaching campaign should b®
i a success even in the possible event of
3 an immediate peace. There is as yet
3 no assurance that the Germans afe
a to cease hostilities,, and may at
any minute show their hj*nd in a
i terrible onslaught upon the al
- lied armies. In case of an immedato
y cessation of hostilities, it will be ne
; cessary to hold the millions of sol- ^
- diers “over there” for possibly eigh
- teen months for the purpose of garri
i soning the large German cities and
ports and supervising the mammoth
tasks of reconstruction in Russia. In
any event, the need for large sums of
money is imperative, and it is said
there is not a single one of the seven
great organizations which is not es
P sential to the welfare and well bein^;
r of our soldieds here and abroad,
t The seven organizations to bone
's fit from this great campaign are the
k Young Men’s Christian Association,
- Young Women’s Christian Associa
tion, National Catholic War Council
l- (Knight's of Columbus), War Camp
Is Community Servce, American Libra
5, ry Association and the Salvation k
> Army. . •
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Tke more you help the men at the
r- vtont the quicker the end will com*
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