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VOLUME XVIII. 65. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY, JU!
Special to Independent.
Heber Springs, July 10.—A pitched
between Cleburne county draft
PpEjPpiaters and soldiers from Camp
Wke is not expected to result for the
reason that it is believed the resisters
are scattered throughout the moun
ains 13 miles south of Heber Springs
and are mot bunched together as was
at first thought. It was understood
this afternoon that all the resisters
except four have sent word by a wo
man that they will surrender to the
soldiers. The other four are said to
have expressed their intention to fight
m it out.
ik In the meantime soldiers with two
machine guns are making their way
through the mountains in an effort to
capture the men. The soldiers are re
inforced by many citizens. Martial
law has not been declared in the coun- :
ty. Two barrels of flour and other j
provisions were found buried today j
near the place where Porter Hazel
r-, .wood was killed Sunday.
A. J. Holmes, treasurer of Cleburne
county, came near being shot last
night by a soldier when l>e was re- i
turning from a section where the :
resisters were supposed to be. He,
was told to halt and drop his gun, and
when the soldier Hid not helieve he 1
had complied, the latter fired. A bul
let passed through Mr. Holmes’ coat
There are about fourteen resisters
in the crowd, it is believed. Three of
them are deserters from Camp Pike.
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ONE ARKANSAN
IN LIST TODAY
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Army Casualties List Includes Name \
bf Private Luther Bradley of
Morrilton.
_Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, July 10.—The army
casualties list today includes the
name of Private Luther Bradley of
Morrilton, Ark., who was severely
wounded.
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Associated Press Dispatch.
-Washington, July 10.—Army casu- '
alties reported are killed in action,
twenty-one; died of wounds, fifteen;
disease, four; accident and other
^ causes, three; wounded severely,
C forty-five; slightly wounded, one; ■
missing, twelve; prisoners, two.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, July 10.—The marine1
casualties reported are killed in action,
two; died of wounds, two; wounded
severely, one.
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Austria Rejects
CITIZENS SHOULD
ERADICATE WEEDS
Many Are Slow to Comply With the
Major’s Order Calling for Prop- j
er Sanitation in City.
It is apparent that many citizens of
Newport have failed to comply with
Mayor Watson’s order issued a few
days ago directing to “cut the weeds
on your premises and the front and
sides, and in the streets and alleys
adjoining your premises and to clean
up the premises and put them in sani
tary condition.”
Failure on the part of our public to
comply witl» this imperative order
does not only speak ill for the civic
pride of Newport, but subjects the
public to ravages of disease. Let
every property owner and tenant see
to it that Newportt is placed in a san
itary condition, a sightly condition,
and kept that way. There is no other
way that is right.
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50 WHITES, 65
NEGROES DEAD
Associated Press Dispatch.
Nashville, July 10.—Revised casual
ty lists today shows fifty white per
sons and sixty-five negroes are dead
and more than one hundred were in
jured as a result of the collision yes
terday between two Nashville, Chat
tanooga & St. Louis passenger trains
in the western suburbs of Nashville.
A number of the injured are believed j
to be fatally hurt. No official an
nouncement has been made as to the
cause of the accident, but the gener
ally accepted theory is it was due to
a misunderstanding of orders for the
trains to meet near the scene of the
wreck. An official inquiry will be
conducted.
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EXPELL JEWS
FROM FINLAND
Associated Press Dispatch.
Stockholm, July 10.— The Jewish
Press Bureau here has been advised
that all Jews are ordered expelled
from Finland before September thir
teenth.
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AN APPRECIATION.
Mrs. Sarah Keedy, widow of Aaron
Keedy, one of the late prominent citi
zens of Glass township, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Dock
Dudley, Swifton, Arkansas, July 2nd,
1918. Interment was at the Arnold
cemetery. Rev. M. A. Fry said the
burial service.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1850, moved
to Arkansas in 1880, professed relig
ion at 18 years of age, united with
the church and marks the history of
the Methodist church of Swifton by
removing its senior member, having
held her membership 30 years.
She was the mother of 11 children,
of whom Mrs. Dock Dudley, Ed Duk-s
and Jack Rorex live at Swifton. She
was the grandmother of 29 children
and greatgrandmother of 3 children.
The county has lost one of its old
est and best citizens. Her life of long
and useful years closed only to re
lease its highest ideals and strongest
influence for progress and good and
continue Jto live.
‘ M. A. FRY.
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The Indepenaent works for you.
Use it as your salesman. It carries
nows of the store into hundreds oi
homes.
Knitters Are Needed
Now as Never Before
The Southwestern Division of the
American Red Cross has been asked
to furnish 800,000 pairs of woolen
socks and 120,000 sweaters by Septem
ber first. Other divisions have been
assigned their respective quotas, and
the busy knitting needles will start
clicking again in response to the or
der from headquarters.
Three-quarters of a million pairs of
socks seems like a large order, but
when one stops to consider that we
now have more than 2,000,000 soldiers
under arms and in training and' nearly
half a million men in the navy, it ap
pears insignificant. For the 5,000,
000 women and girls in the South
western Division who have pledged
themselves to knit, sew, roll bandages
or perform any other work desired by
the Red Cross it is a mere trifle.
The average life of a pair of socks
in the trenches is four days. Sailors
on duty on the cold North Sea have to
wear several pairs at a time. There
need be no fear of getting too many
of them. The thing is to get them at
once, so they will be ready before win
ter. Now is the time for all good
knitters to come to the aid of their
country. dlt wit.
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BARN DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Batesville, July 10.—Monday morn
ing a barn on the farm of Mrs. Lena ■
Egner, five miles south of Batesville,
across the river, was destroyed by
fire. Andy Davis, who has the farm
leased, lost a fine mule, wagon and
harness valued at about $300. Henry
Hunt, who is farming on the land, lost
a buggy and a little feedstuff,
amounting to about $75. No insur
ance was carried on the barn nor con
tents. It is not known how the fire
originated.
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PLANT FALL POTATOES.
Arkansas needs a crop of Irish po
tatoes for next winter’s home use and
one that will keep for the best prices.
Fall potatoes should be planted July
15 to August 1. Two or three weeks ,
before planting seed potatoes should
he put in a semi-shady placed piled j
not more than four inches deep, cov
ered with ol dstraw and leaves and ,
kept moist until they begin to sprout, j1
As soon as sprouts are one-fourth of
an inch long, plant a little deeper than
is required for the early crop and
cover as soon as possible to avoid
damage from the hot sun.
GOTHAM
picture will be placed on all the tall
buildings of New York city by ibo po
lice department to warn against pos
sible aerial attacks by the Germans.
Perhaps the city may adopt the Paris
method of warning, that of sending out
fire engines equipped with sirens. This
siren can be heard within a radius of
two miles.
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GIVE ECONOMIC
AID TO RUSSIA
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, July 10.—It was au
thoritatively stated today that the
government regards the situation in
Russia changing sd rapidly as to make
it impossible yet to reach a decision
as to what milittary aid may be ex
tended by the United States. The
project for extending economic aid,
however, is going forward favorably.
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CLAY COUNTY BOY
IS HERO OF EXPLOIT
ON WESTERN FRONT.
A few days .ago Associated Press
dispatches told of Corporal Raymond
Powell, who volunteered to rescue two
Americans and five Australians who
has been captured by Germans. Pow
ell entered the lines and brought back
the captured men and a German of
ficer. The lad who accomplished this
daring feat is an Arkansas boy. His
home is in Clay county, near Corning,
and is the son of a Baptist minister.
He volunteered in the regular army
soon after the war was declared.
MiY PESTIGIS
AHE CONSIDERED
Members of Constitutional Conven
tion Spend Ail Day Discussing
Mob Law and Kindred Matters.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, July 10.—The Consti
tutional Convention spent all day
Tuesday discussing Section 10; of the
Bill of Rights, the guaranty of trial
by jury.
The discussion took a wide range,
involving questions of radical preju
dice, election frauds, mob law, com
pulsory process, the limiting of wit
nesses, and many other questions.
And after the whole day’s debate,
the original proposal by the committ
tee, the substitute proposal by the
same committee and all amendments
were defeated, and a proposition by
Judge Jeptha H. Evans to substitute
the section as it appears in the consti
tution, was adopted. >
“I want to stay just as close to the
old constitution as I can,” said Judge
Evans, “but when I think the old con
stitution is wrong, I am opposed to it.”
The committee had sought to secure
the adoption of an amendment, as
proposed by Judge McCaleb of Inde
pendence, to provide for the trial of
cases for mob violence in counties
other than those in which the crimes
are committed.
This called1 forth a spirited debate
over the question of whether mob vio
lence is ever justified, and several
members declared their personal
opinion that there are some crimes so
heinous that they should be summar
ily dealt with. Of course, no one
sought to justify it in the constitu
tion, either directly or by implication, (
although some of those who advocated
the change of venue asserted that
mob violence would be promoted
through appeals to over-wrought local
prejudice in localities where the of
fense had been committed.
But the convention refused to
change the law with reference to the
change of venue, also to provide that
"the trial for certain crimes might be
held in private.
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TRIAL BEHIND
CLOSED DOORS
Paul Gardner, Charged With Serious
Offense, Is Tried Here Today In I
J ustice Court.
As the Independent goes to press this
afternoon Paul Gardner, a young man
aged 21 years, of Tupelo, is being
tried in the justice court of H. C.
Nuckolls in the circuit court room of
the county court house. Gardner is
chared with rape, which is alleged to
nave Deen commuted aoour two weex^
ago. Ida Jones, aged about 21 years,
of Tupelo, is the prosecuting witness.
Gardner was arrested here a few
days ago by Sheriff J. M. Ivy and
placed in the county jail.
Gardner is represented by L. L.
Campbell, while the state’s interests
are being looked after by Prosecut
ing Attorney Earl Casey of Batesville,
assisted by Judge 0. W. Scarborough
of this city.
The trial of young Gardner is be
ing conducted behind closed doors,
the public being excluded from at
tendance.
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