STULENTS MAY ENLIST.
Special to Independent,
Little Rock, March 4.—Medical stu
dents who have been discharged or
exempted by reason of physical dis
ability can apply to Capt. C. N.
Cartmell, U. S. recruiting officer, for
enlistment in the Medical Reserve
Corps, upon a waiver from the sur
geon-general.
SILENT SENTINELS DO
NOT VIOLATE THE LAW.
associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, March 4.—The local
court of appeals today reversed the
police court conviction of the White
House Pickets of the National Wo
men's Party, holding the picketing of
the White House by silent sentinels
was not an unlawful assembly unless
unlawful purpose or acts are shown.
NOTICE.
At the direction of the..Jackson
ccunty court notice is hereby given
that there has been filed in said court
the petition of T. J. Gregg, C. R. Hite,
C. G. Henry, R. B. Hooker and N. B.
Wishon, as Directors of Newport Le
vee District, representing that the
improvements contemplated by said
Newport Levee District will be of
material benefit to the real property
located within the following bounda
ries, to-wit:
Beginning at the intersection of the
left bank of White River with a line
parallel to and 200 feet distant,
measured in a Northerly direction at
right angles, from the South line of
Section 2, Township 11 North, Range
3 West, at a point on the boundary of
the Newport Levee District, said
boundary being described and set
forth in Section 1 of Act No. 249 of
the General Assembly of the State
of Arkansas for the year 1917.
Thence Northerly, along the left
bank of said White River, to an in
tersection with a line parallel to ana
I, 000 feet distant, measured at right
angles in a Northwesterly direction,
from the center line of the North
bound main line track of the Missouri,
Pacific Railway, formerly the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway.
Thence Northeasterly, along a line
parallel to and 1,000 feet distant,
measured at right angles in a North
westerly direction, from the center
line of said Northbound main line
track of the said Missouri Pacific
Railway, formerly the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern Railway, to an
intersection with a line 1,320 feet
West of the North and South Quarter
Section line of Section 2, Township
II, North', Range 3 West.
Thence North, along a line 1,320
feet West of the North and South
Quarter Section line of said Section 2,
to a point on the East and West Quar
ter Section line of said Section 2,
1,320 feet West of the Center of said
Section 2.
Thence East, along the East and
West Quarter Section line of said
Section 2 to an intersection with a
line parallel to and 500 feet distant,
measured at* right angles in a West
erly direction, from the center line of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway track.
Thence Northerly, along a line par
allel to and 500 feet distant, measured
at right angles in a Westerly direc
tion, from the center line of said
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
a line parallel to and 1,100 feet North
of the East and West Quarter Section
line of Section 2, Township 11 North,
Range 3 West.
Thence Easterly, along a line paral
lel to and 1,100 feet North of the East
and West Quarter Section line of
said Section 2 to an intersection with
a line parallel to and 200 feet dis
tant, measured at right angles in a
Northwesterly direction, from the
Northwesterly right of way line of
the Missouri Pacific Railway, for
merly the St. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern Railway, at a point on the
boundary of the Newport Levee Dis
trict, said boundary being described
and set forth in Section 1 of Act No.
249 of the General Assembly of the
State of Arkansas for the year 1»1/.
Thence in a generally Southwester
ly direction, following the said boun
dary of said Newport Levee District,
as described and set forth in Section
1 of said Act to the point of begin
ning.
And praying that the boundaries of
said Newport District be extended so
as to include the territory lying with
in the boundaries above set forth.
All persons owning real property
located within the boundaries above
set forth are hereby notified to ap
pear in the Jackson County Court on
the 28th day of March, 1918, and show
cause why said petition should not
be granted and the boundaries of said
Newport Levee District should not be
extended as prayed for therein.
Given under my hand, as Clerk of
the Jackson County Court, and at the
direction of said Court, on this the
23rd day of February, 1918.
J. P. PARISH,
273v dl2t. County Clerk.
CLUB HIS WEAPON
HE GETS REVENGE
—
British Captain Kills Five Ger
mans as Toll for Maiming
His Baby.
THEN TAKES MACHINE GUN
Wounded in Fighting, the Captain
Holds His Command Until Relief
Comes—Another Hero During
Offensive at Masnieres.
With the British Armies in France.—
The full story of the heroism of a Brit
ish captain, who was so moved with
hatred of the Germans for crippling
his child with a bomb that he attacked
and killed five of them with a club
and withstood a German onslaught by
his inspiring leadership, has just been
received. The tale has made the cap
tain’s name a byword of bravery in the
British camp. Here are the facts:
When the Germans delivered their
treiriendous assault against Masnieres
and Marcoing during their offensive ;
on November 30, those two towns and
the territory about them were being
held by a division of English troops.
On the .staff of the commanding gen
eral there was a captain who may be j
designated as Captain Black.
Black was a man of long service. ;
He had been a jovial companion until j
recently, when during a German air !
raid over England his baby girl was
crippled for life by a bomb. Black
had become bitter against the Ger
mans and had sworn that he would |
exact full penalty for the airman’s i
deed.
Gets His Revenge.
The captain little knew when he
turned in for the night of November
29 how soon he would get his revenge.
Next morning the Germans attacked
Masnieres, and the brigade to the
right of the troops holding the town
was forced to fall back. The brigade
in the town, however, stood firm and
fought the enemy off. Meanwhile,
waves of Germans had swept by to
the south of the town and were swarm
ing westward.
Captain Black came out of his head
quarters, south of Marcoing, to find
five Germans already In possession of
a great dump nearby. Black had In
his hand a heavy walking stick which
was his only weapon. Without a mo
ment’s hesitation he charged the dump
alone and beat about him so fiercely !
that he brained all five opponents be
fore they recovered from the surprise.
He had made good his vow, but his
work was not finished.
Other Germans appeared west of Les
Rues Vertes, a southern suburb of Mas
nieres. Black collected all the signal
ers, cooks, orderlies and other serv
ants available, and with two companies
of regulars delivered an attack toward
Rues Vertes. The Germans fell back
and fierce hand-to-hand fighting fol
lowed. Black led his little army from
house to house, and as often as the
Germans made a stand he drove them
out, until finally the whole suburb had
been cleared, with the exception of
one machine gun, whose crew of eight
men kept pumping bullets into the
British ranks.
Black charged this machine gun with
one orderly. Four other orderlies had
been shot down beside him previously,
and this one also was caught as the
machine gun was reached. Black "then
attacked the Germans with a revolver
in each hand and shot down the last
man of eight. This cleared Rues
Vertes of the enemy and outposts were
established about the place. Black
had been wounded during the fighting,
but he|held on to his command until
relief came next day.
Colonel Is a Hero.
This story is not the only one to be
related of that bitter day about Mas
nieres. A regiment which had the
stiffest part of the fighting in the towrn
was made-up of troops known as “die
Hards.” and tffby fought all day with
rifles and bayonets at close quarters
and never gave a step. During the
fighting the colonel had ibefen wound
ed in one e%e, and so serious was his
Injury that Ms other eye hecame use
less. His troops coptinued to be so
hnftl prejsed ‘that it seeqjed' probable
they would give way.
The oolonel knew they needed all the
encouragement possible. He called, for
an oede^ljr, and, led by his servant, he
stnfteil making a round of the front
tine to speak* words of encouragement
to Ws ►oops. For hours th’is blind
man. »Hh bandaged ej’es, kept up his
triMiip-among his inen with his hand in
that of.Ms ortlerljrfpilde. ThlslWrolc
' example was the final word for the
TJoirimies. SHhey loved their colonel,
and they ato*>)l and died for him'and
j held their line.
SITE OF EL DORADO FOUND
. ■ .
Ruins of "Legendary** City Reported
to Have Been In a Brazilian
lorsst
Madrid, Spain.—News has been re
ceived here of the discovery In (Brazil
of the site of the Incun city, known to
tady Spanish and *TPortuguese exploit
j era as El iNtrutlo, and hitherto regard
■ ed as legendary. The ruins are in the
Manoa region, near the Bolivian fron
tier, in the midst of a dense forest
An archaeological expedition, including
J Braxillm, Spanish and Portuguese sd
[ entists, will make a detailed study of
j Me distrlct
Soldiers Receive Best of
Treatment in Hospitals
A—____
Associated Press Dispatch.
Chicago, March 4.—Nothing is too
good for United States soldiers sent
to army hospitals for treatment, ac
cording to Major W. A. Shields, in
charge of the Army’s Central Depart
ment medical supply depot here, who
has just given to The Associated
Press a detailed account of the meth
ods employed in safeguarding the
health of the men in khaki.
Major Shields said that medical
officers at the various army hospitals
have only to ask for what they want
for the treatment of the men and it
goes to them.
“An officer at Fort Sheridan re
cently asked for a special type of
operating table,” said Major Shields.
“It was not a standard table and is
used only rarely. Although it had
to be made to order and cost consid
erably more than the ordinary table,
it was rushed at once to the hospital.”
Many surgeons, he stated, ask for
certain uncommon instruments,
sometimes for use in one particular
case inly, yet the medical supply of
ficers spare no efforts to obtain
them.
Carrying out the departmental
policy of thoroughness in the treat
ment of the men, only the most sani
tary, most efficient equipment is sent
out. This rule anDlies to everything.
from the furniture used in the insti
tutions to the dishes from which the
patients eat. Major Shields said that
all hospitals are supplied with high
grade silver-plated knives, forks and
spoons, fine quality linens, the best
food, sleeping quarters as pleasant
and convenient as money can provide,
and that everything else is on the
same high plane.
Although the depot has to furnish
no supplies for wounded men as yet,
the hospitals of the Central Depart
ment have received more than 9,000,
000 feet of cloth bandages—enough to
extend from New York to the Texas
coast When the American forces are
actually engaged in trench warfare
in any considerable numbers, and
wounded men begin to pour into
American hospitals. Major Shields
said, it is probable that the medical
supply depot will be overtaxed to
supply needed bandages. Because of
this fact officials are investigating
paper bandages which are said to be
equally as serviceable as the kind
now in general use. Paper bandages
have been in use in Germany for
some time almost exclusively owing
to the inability of that country to get
material for cloth bandages.
Major Shields expressed confidence
that the department will not be em
barrassed because of the scarcity of
any needed drug or medicine used at
army hospitals. German drugs have
been duplicated by American medical
investigators with the result that the
to care for its men, either wounded or
ill.
Practically no whiskey is used in
army hospitals, Major Shields said.
Its use, he declared, is being dis
couraged because the reaction it
causes makes its use as a stimulant
undesirable, according to the medical
officer. He said, however, that a
small quantity of whiskey is carried
at the depot and will be supplied
should any medical officer call for it.
In this connection Major Shields
spoke of the Vera Cruz expedition in
1914 when he acted as medical supply
officer for General Funston.
“During thi month that we were
there,” he said, “I issued just one
quart of whiskey.”
On the other hand alcohol is one of
the most wiueiy uscu
plies kept at the depot. It is shipped
to cantonment camps in 50 gallon
drums and is used in great quantities
for baths and in rubbing.
Electricity is being made to do its
share in the care of the soldiers.
Many modern hospital appliances are
(iterated by electricity in addition to
the part it is playing in the treat
ment of tuberculosis. X-Ray photo
graphs of lungs of soldiers suspected
of being tubercular are taken at the
rate of fifty a day at each of the
cantonment hospitals. By the use of
these “lung pictures” the treatment
of tuberculosis has been greatly sim
plified. Fifty thousand X-Ray plates
have been used at the Central De
partment camps in the past two
months, Major Shields said.
To mend fractured limbs, splints
in various sizes, made of steel, or
wood, are carried at the depot, for
shipments to hospitals as needed. At
each hospital there is a carpenter
who adapts the splint to the individ
ual need of the patient.
NOTICE.
To our customers: We will not sell
any meat Tuesdays but will have a
nice line of fish.
276d3 Fike’s Meat Market.
TOWNSENLS RETURNS.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 4.—Wallace
Townsend, director of the Arkansas
State Council of Defense, returned
from a visit to the State Councils of
Illinois and Indiana with much valu
able information relattive to the or
ganization of these quasi-official
bodies which are rendering such val
uable assistance to the government
in the prosecution of the war.
Practically the entire country is
organized. The county is the unit of
organization of the state councils in
thrity-seven states, including Arkan
sas, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Tennessee and Washington, promi
nent local citizens were called upon
to organize the local councils, and
various qther methods are used in
other states. In Indiana the seven
members constituting the local coun
cils ai'e appointed by the circuit
judges. Many of the nation’s most
distinguished citizens are connected
with the Indiana council, George Ado
being director of publicity, C. W.
Fairbanks chairman of public policy,
and Thomas Taggart, chairman of
the Advisory committee
The whole purpose of the entire
organization of state and county
pAnnnila in TnHiana ia rwcraniTiA
resources of the state in men and ma
terial on a war basis. The demands
of the state’s resources, agencies,
and institutions become greater each
day, and if these demands are to be
met it is absolutely necessary to or
ganize and prepare therefor in the
most comprehensive manner and to
the last detail.
In its statement of purposes, the
Indiana Council says, “The time is
long since passed for a discussion of
‘reasons why’, and the supreme pur
pose of the Indiana State Council is
to so carry out every wish, direction'
and order of the president, "the jwar
department, and the council of nation
al defense, that the Federal ^govern
ment shall receive from no state a
support more enthusiastic than that
which comes from Indiana.”
Mr. Townsend plans to put into ef
fect in Arkansas many of the ideas
he secured at Indianapolis and Chica
go.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Maris and chil
dren left Sunday for Benton to spend
three or four weeks with her sister,
Mrs. J. H. Kelly. During his ab
sence Mr. Maris will enter St. Vin
cent’s Infirmary for an operation
To advertise your goods i' to get
the attention of the man or wQinan
who might otherwise never have
known it at all.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCE
MENTS,. ‘
The Independent is authoris
ed to announce •* the following
persons as candidates for public
office, subject to the action of
the Democratic party:
For County Superintendent—
J. M. Balch. ”
Garland E. Land.
A. J. Gamer.
Z. D. Barber
H. L. Thomas
For County Treasurer—
W. D. McLain.
Charles K. Coe.
For Congress —
Wm A Hfvlirps
W. D. Davenport.
W. A. Oldfield
For County Judge:
John A. Melville.
R. F. Tyer.
W. M. Tims.
W. A. Mink.
For Chancellor (Eighth District)—
Lyman F. Reeder.
For Sheriff and Collector—
Terrv Guin.
J. M. Ivy.
For Representative:
R. T. Simmons
For Representative—
Fred R. Suits.
For County Clerk:
J. F. Parish.
Grover C. Nance.
For Assessor—
D. J. Nance.
For Circuit Clerk—
R. W. Bandy.
For Constable—(Union Townsh.p)
C. M. Ivy.
Ben Sandmon.
For Road Overseer (Richwoods Twp.)
Mark Cole
For Road Overseer (Bird Twp., East
ern District.)—
R. A- Wilson.
For Road Overseer (Western Diet.
. Bird Township)
Walter Cole.
For Coroner—
T. J. Mooney.
WILL IMPROVE COAL.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 4.—The Feder
al Fuel Administration announces
that the state administrators in the
anthracite region have already begun
constructive work looking to the bet
terment of the quality of anthracite
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coal, not only aa It is delivered to th
consumer, but bb it leaves the mir.os.
This is done to overcome the jr.rt
complaint of consumers who object cl
j to paying high prices for mate: ini
which contained an undue proportion
of stone, slate and dirt. This cor.cti- j
tion is said to. apply to the Eastc.n JM
anthrocite region particularly._ 1 j|
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