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VOLUME XVIII. NO. 52. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1918.
FIGHTING IN ITALY DECR
_BUY s BUY W. S. S. BUY W. S. S. BUY W. S. S. BUY W. S. S.
Conditions in Austria Grow !
ATTEMPT TAKE LIFE
OF EMPOROR-REPORT
(Associated Press Summary.)
Fighting along the Piave river ap
parently is decreasing as the Austrian
offensive enters its second week,
while in the mountains little atcivity
has been reported for several days.
Concentration of large bodies of en
emy troops in the mountains, how
ever, is taken to indicate the Aus
. A trians are preparing for another at
* tempt to push southward to the Vene
tian plains. Fighting in the Montello
region continues in ntensty.
An Italian newspaper estimates the
, Austrian losses at 120,000. Forty
Austrian divisions have been engaged
in battle.
A report has been received in Lon
don to the effect that twelve German
dvisions will be sent to Italy to take
the place of an equal number of Aus
trian divisions which are to be sent to
France.
Meanwhile the dual monarchy is
seething with unrest over the food
situation. Bread riots have occurred
in the Vienna district. The number
of munition workers on a strike there
has increased to 150,000.
• An attmpted attack on the German
embassy in Vienna was prevented by
a the police.
It is reported that the Austrian
premier is about to resign.
Activity in France and Inlanders is
confined to raids. There has been no
fighting at Chateau-Thierry since
Thursday, when the Americans ad
vanced their lines in Belleau Wood.
Paris, June 22.—Telegrams re
ceived in Paris by way of Switzerland
describe conditions in the interior of
, Austria-Hungary as becoming criti
cal. Fifty thousand workers at an
arsenal in the Vulcan factories and in
the W'orsc'naelowsky airplane works
are on a strike. The burgomaster of
Vienna told the municipal council it
would be impossible to distribute po
tatoes after the week-end.
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Associated Press Dispatch.
London, June 22.—Accordng to the
Vienna Neuie Freie Presse, during
the serious street rioting in Vienna
the police and military were called
out and to<)k strict measures, besides
issuing warning to parents making
them responsible for the actions of
their children, says an Exchange Tel
egraph dispatch from Copenhagen.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, June 22.—Unconfirmed re
ports are current on the Amsterdam
Exchange that an attempt has been
made on the fife cf Emperor Charles
of Austria, according to a central
news dispatch from Amsterdam.
-BUY W. S. S.
START WORK ON
NEW m CLASS
Local Board Will Mail Questionnaires
to Registrants Beginning Next
Tuesday.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 22.—Draft ex
ecutives of all states today were in
structed to hegin mailing question
naires to registrants of the 1918 class
on June 25th.
-BUY W. S. S.
In asking the people to Invest in
War Savings and Thrift Stamps, the
government is not asking them to
or. a paying basis.
Local Board Searching
_ For War-Fit Manpower
.wy . ' __
The local exemption board for
Jackson county has started the work
of reclassifying draft registrants, and
several men who have deferred
classification will probably be
placed in Class 1. This action comes
at the instruction of the provost mar
shal general, and it will require sev
eral days for the board to complete
the work.
According to the recent rulings
from Washington it will be necessary
for the board to reclassify married
men without children who are now in
■ Class 4, and who have no dependents
except wife, and place them in Class
2, and married men whose income is
sufficient to care for his dependents
will be placed in Class 1.
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OR FIGHT ORDER
Crowder Outlines Occupations Which
Are Classed As Non-Useful Ef
fective on .July 1.
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Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 21.—Instructions
to draft boards were issued today by
Provost Marshal General Crowder ex
plaining and amplifying the woi'k-or
fight order, under which, after July
1, all men of draft age, regardless of
their classification, must engage in
employment held to be productive or
join the army.
“When it has been determined a
person in deferred classification is
an idler or is engaged in nonproduc
ductive service,” says the instructions,
“the classification and order number
! of such person will be withdrawn and
he will be immediately iducted into
the military service.”
Managers, cooks, clerks and other
! employes not engaged in the actual
j serving of food and drink in public
places are exempted from the section
! declaring such service of food and
drink non-productive. Store execu
tives, managers, superintendents and
,heads of special departments, travel
ling salesmen, registered pharmacists,
delivery drivers and men doing heavy
work are not included among the
clerks and salesmen of mercantile es
(Continued on Page 2.) j
A BUSHEL MEANS A SOLDIER.
Do you know that every bushel of
wheat now saved means the support
of a soldier on the battle line until
the next harvest? As no soldier can
live without food, every bushel of
wheat is the actual equivalent of a
fighting unit. The moral is clear. ,
We must supply soldiers. But it is
useless to supply the fighters them
selves unless we can also supply the
wherewithal upon which the soldier
lives. The number of men we can put
in the field is in direct relation to the
number of men we can feed in the
field. Will YOU support a soldier
until the next harvest?
Fifty-Nine Are Killed in \
Wreck of Circus Train
TEN PER CENT
INCREASE OF
RATES APPROVED
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 22.—A ten per
;ent increase of express rates was
approved today by the interstate com
merce commission.
900,000 AMERICANS
ARE NOW IN FRANCE
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 22.— General
March, chief of staff of the United
States army, today authorized the
announcement that 900,000 men have
been shipped across the seas from
American ports of embarkation.
Gen. March said the United States is
now five months ahead of its sched
ule for putting troops in France.
Casualty List
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 22.— The army
casualty list today shows killed in
action, fifty-two; died of wounds,
twenty-six; airplane accident, one;
disease, nine; accidents and other
causes, ten; wounded severely, thir
ty-seven; degree undetermined, two;
missing, fifteen; prisoners, one.
Associated PresB Dispatch.
Washington, June 22.—The marine ,
corps casualty list shows killed in ac
tion, four; died of wounds, fifteen;
wounded severely, twelve.
-BUY W. S. S.
600 PHYSICALLY UNFIT.
According to the Arkansas Gazette,
approximately 600 men of the May
24th draft increment that arrived at
Camp Pike have been discharged be
cause of physical disabilities. That
paper says many of the discharges
will be held up temporarily until a
new supply of blanks arrive. So
many men have been released from
army service within the past few
weeks that the camp has run entirely
ou of blanks.
-BUY W. S. S.
Do not forget that War Savings
Stamps are not for children only.
Most of the squandering is done by
the grown-ups.
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Associated Press Dispatch. \
Chicago, June 22.—Early this af
;ernoop a list of casualties compiled
>y the Micigan Central Railroad
ihowed fifty-nine dead, and 115 in
jured in the circus train collision.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Chicago, June 22.—Thirty
tnown to have been killeffi and mo^ ™
han 100 injured in a collision be
tween a train of empty cars and a
special train aboard which was the
Elagenbeck-Wallace shows which were
aeing transported over the Michigan
Central Railroad near Gary, Indiana,
Jarly today. These figures were
aased on the casualty list compiled by
Manager Gollman of the shows. It
s believed thirty or more of the in
jured will die. Other reports place
the number of dead jn excess of Goll
man’s figures. According to a dis
patch from Gary the circus train was
standing still when the train of emp
ty Pullmans crashed into it and
ploughed theii1' way through the
lighter circus coaches.
At the Gary hospitals it was said
twenty-eight of the injured will prob
ably die. The wreckage caught fire
after the collision and it is believed
the bodies of a number of those kill
ed were incinerated. Those reported
missing include the Rooney family,
bareback riders. The Meyer family,
animal trainers, and a number of
others, were widely known perform
ers. |n
-BUY W. S. S.- *
SLOGANS.
When you buy War Savings Stamps
you do not give your money, you loan
it at 4 per cent, compounded quarter
ly. You help your government, but
you help yourself even more.
War Savings Stamps help provide
that “Force, force to the utmost,
force without stint or limit, the right
eous and triumphant force which
shall make right the law of the
world,” which President Wilson saya
must be used against our enemies.
The government needs your money;
ou need the stamps.
Make every day a thrift day and
help your government end the war
days.
Protect your soldiers with your
savings.
War Savings Stamps save lives.
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