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VOLUME XVIII. NO. 102. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS
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LOCKED
III HUGE BATTLE
ON WIDE FRONT
Present Fighting On Twenty-Five
Mile Front Is Most Desperate
of. Present Allied Offensive.
(Associated Press War Summary.)
The British and German armies
are locked in a mighty battle today
over a twenty-five mile front from
Lihons, six miles south of the Somme
river, to the Cojeul river, southwest
of Arras. This attack, which began
with the British attack east of the
Ancre river Wednesday, has spread
into one of the greatest battles of
the allied offensive. In Picardy the
British are reported to be mak
ing progress at some points. The
British apparently are still on the
aggressive along the whole line.
The French have occupied the
soul hern banks of the Oise and the
Ailette negion at Sempigny, south
of Noyon, and also have reached the
outskirts of the town of Guny and
Pont St. Mar, within three miles of
German positions north of Chemin
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offensive in May, and unless the ene
my can stop the allied onrush virtu
ally all his territorial gains of the
present year are in a fair way to be
wiped out. Noyon, the pivot of the
German lines in Picardy, is still hold
ing out, but is now under fire of the
French artillery.
The Amreicans north of the Vesle
have increased the security of their
positions by cleaning out an impor
tant point north of Fismes. German
counter attacks were repulsed.
The British are making further
progress in the Lys salient in Flan
ders, both east of Merville and north
of Bai'lleu.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Aug. 23.—Allied, troops on
the Ussuri river front, north of Vlad
ivostok, outnumbered by the enemy,
have been forced to withdraw after
heavy fighting, says a Hardin dis
patch, dated Wednesday, to the Daily
Mail.
(By The Associated Press)
London, Aug. 23.—A battle is being
fought on a twenty-five mile front
hetwftpn T.ihons, south of the Somme,
to the Cojeul river, southwest of Ar
ras, the war offive announces. The
British made progress at a number of
points duing last night and two
r enemy attacks were repulsed east of
Beaucourt. The British line was
slightly advanced east of Letouret,
northwest of Neuf Barquin and east
of Outersteen on the Lys front.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Aug. 23.—The French ad
vanced their lines between the Oise
and the Aisne during the night to
Guny and Pont St. Mard, just south
of the Ailette. The French hold the
right bank of the Oise and Ailette
from Sempigny to the railroad west
of Coucyle, says the war office state
ment.
A Havas dispatch says Gen. Man
gin’s army took five thousand prison
ers during Wednesday’s and Thurs
day’s advance between the Oise and
Aisne, according to advices reach
ing Paris.
A SERIES OF PROTRACTED
''SERVICES IN NEWPORT ,
WILL BEGIN SEPT. 1.
A series of religious services will
begin in Newport the first Sunday in
September. Arrangements are be
ing made for a large tent for the
meeting. All the churches will be
called upon next Sunday to unite in
the meeting for the purpose of mak
ing it INTERDENOMINATIONAL.
A united effort in religious mat
ters is just as essential in winning
the battle against Satan and his
hosts as it is against the enemies of
democracy.
FORD TRACTOR
IS SHOWN HFRF
Tomorrow afternoon at the Fair
Grounds the enterprising firm of
Hutson-Ladd Motor Car Company
will give a demonstration of the fa
mous Fordson tractor, which wonder
ful invention has been made available
to the Jackson county farmers
through this local concern.
Every thrifty farmer should see
the tractor operate.
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RUNG TIGER
A sure-enough blind tiger was raid
ed in Newport about 12 o’clock Thurs
day night, as a result of which Night
Marshal Ben Saridmon is nursing a
slight flesh wound in his left side
near the pistol belt, being shot with
a pistol by a negro man known as
“Blind” Campbell, who is alleged to
t__ i_~ mli-iolrow of Vinrnp
on lower Front street, at which place
Sandmon conducted the raid. The
night marshal tuuk a shot at Camp
bell, one bullet taking- effect in his
arm. Campbell later went to the
home of Chief of Police Martin and
gave himself up, saying the reason
he shot Sandmon was that he did not
know he was an officer, but thought
him to be someone posing as an offi
cer with the intention of holding him
up, and that when he discovered who
Sandmon was he did not surrender to
him for the reason that he feared he
would get shot again.
Officer Sandmon says he had sus
picioned for some time that Camp
bell operated a blind tiger at the old
j “Blue Goose” stand on Front street,
and last night when he saw a man
I named O’Neal going toward the place
* he ^decided to follow. A short time
later he witnessed Campbell selling
whiskey, entered the place and told
j Campbell to consider himself under
I arrest. Campbell -fired one shot,
| Sandmon using up all the ammunition
| he had, and staying with his post af
i terward until help came. A chest
! containing some whiskey was taken
j from the home of Campbell.
I Campbell’s trial will come up short
| ]y in a local court, at which O’Neal
i and a man named Herford, who ac
! companied Sandmon to the house, will
; appear as witnesses.
Ben Williamson of Mountain View,
John Bledsoe of Calico Rock, and A.
C. Hutchinson of Mountain Home,
members of the constitutional con
! vention, were here last night at the
Hazel hotel, going down to Little
Rock this morning.
Subscribe for the Independent.
WOUNDED LAD WRITES
LETTER FROM FRANCE
TO HIS FATHER HERE.
The following letter was written
by Edmund J. Brock to his father E.
J. Brock who esides east of Tucker
man. Young Brock was wounded re
cently, and his letter will be of inter
ets to his friends.
On Active Service in France,
July 31, 1918.
Dear Father: It has been quite a
while since I last wrote to you. I
was wounded in the leg at Chateau
Thierry July 19, on the Paris and
Soissons road. The “Square Heads”
nnally managed to hit me in the leg
! and I’ve been having a tough time of
it. But don’t worry about my wound,
' for it is entirely safe and we get the
| best of treatment and I am on the
I road to recovery.
I hope to be back at them in a few
days and some brown-hide is going to
pay for every drop of blood I have
lost—I mean for every bullet in my
gun to count from now on, and I hope
to be out again soon.
I was assigned to No-Man’s Land
(*r Dead-Man’s Post) one night and
next morning I brought in a pistol, a
watch and 3 pairs of field glasses.
I think I was pretty lucky. The cap
|tain said he’d always bet on the Yan
kee kids doing their part. What do
| you all think of the way us Yanks
are doing? We are doing just as
' good as the papers say we are.
Well, I must close. Hope to hear
from home soon. I am feelir^ fine
today.
Your loving son,
Private Edmund Brock,
American Base Hosptal No. 8,
A. E. France.
FROM BASIL WINGO.
C. C. Wingo of this city has receiv
ed the following letter from Basil
Wingo, who is stationed at Vancouv
er, Washington, being a member of a
■ contingent of Jackson county men to
go there to join the spruce division
recently.
“August 16, 1918.
“Dear Ones at Home:
! “Will1 write you a few lines tonight.
| Am feeling good.
“Only one of the Jackson county
boys waS assigned to the 16th Co.—'
j Earl Lowo. They will leave here to-,
morrow. He doesn’t know where he
is going, but he’s on his way. We all j
will be transferred in a day or two.
They leave as soon as they are as- .
signed to a company, so I guess I
will be on my way as soon as you re
ceive this.
“I was reading the Independent j
just now and saw the names of sev- ,
eral I knew. We are still working at j
the mill. The boss man is from
Washington, D. C., and all the high ,
officers go to him for orders. He j
wears civijian clothes. This is the
only finishing mill here. All the
lumber comes here in the rough and
in logs. We never see a round log—;
all of them are split.
“I like it better here all the time,1
.. . "i
and all the other boys do too, though
there are a few guys here who think
they know it all. We have a full
blooded Russian boy in our tent. We
call him “Dutch.” He’s a dandy fel
low, and we have lots of fun with
him.
“I worked at the gravel pit this
morning and at the mill this after
noon. They change you around. We
had a concert last night by a 200
piece band.
“Light showers fall here every day
or night. The real rainy season
starts next month.
“Tell everybody hello.
“Basil.”
NOTICE TO PUBLIC.
Our garage will be open from 8 to
10 a. m. Sundays and will be closed
for the rest of the day. This is a war
measure and is being done all over
the country and we hope our custo
mers will appreciate our position.
Get your gasoline and other necessi
ties on Saturday annd we think you
will be inconvenienced by little.
02d2 L. O. Umsted Auto Co.
BRITISH SHIP
SUNK BY SUB
(By The Associated Press.)
An Atlantic Port, Aug. 23.— The
British steamer, Diomed, was torpe
doed and sunk off the Atlantic coast.
More than a hundred of the crew,
many of them Chinese, were severely
injured, but they were rescued and
brought here.
LABOR SHORTAGE
BECOMES SERIOUS.
Washngton, Aug. 22.—The fact
there now is a shortage in war work
of f,000,000 unskilled laborers and
that the reserve of skilled workers is
exhausted, developed today at a con
ference of field agents of the federal
employment service. Further cur
tailment of non-essential production
is planned to release men for war
work.
The labor shortage is so serious
that completion of a number of im
portant war projects for the army
and navy is being delayed, it was
said. The field agents decided that
the only way in which the laborers
can be secured is to take them from
non-essential industry.
“The time has come for the eneire
nation to realize that business as us
ual is no nloger possible,”_Nathan
a n. *j.L __ -I nuf /Jivnnfnv nf t.VlP
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employment service, told the confer
ence. “If we are to end the war
quickly, the production of luxuries
and non-essentials in this country
must come to an end.
“Manufacturers must give up the
creation of useless goods, workers
must be willing to change from non
essential to war production, even at
a hardship to themselves; the pub
lic must stop buying luxuries and
thereby make the problem of curtail
ment of non-essentials easier.”
Indications of how the non-essen
tials may be combed out was given
today when the Community Labor
Board of the District of Columbia
announced a list of 24 classes of wor
regarded as non-essential. Employ
ers in this class are called upon
to voluntarily release their unskilled
labor for war work, community boards
are being organized throughout the
country by the department of labor,
and they are to work in close co-oper
ation with local draft boards.
Followng are the industries which
thie district board, the first make
an announcement, has listed as non
essential :
“Automobile industry accessories,
drivers of pleasure cars, cleaning, re
pairing and delivery of same,, sight
seeing cars, auto trucks other than ■
those hauling fuel doing govern
work, teaming other than delivery of
products for war work, bath and bar
ber shop attendants, bowling, billiard
and poolrooms, bottlers and bottle
supplies, candy manufactureis, ci
gars and tobacco, cleaners and dyers,
clothing, confectioners and delecates
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(By
Amsterdam,
is an exalted one,
danger,” Admiral von Hintze, G*r- , ^
man foreign secretary, tofld a coofef^y|
ence of German journalists in Ber
lin, according to &S 4
Zeitung. Von Hi |
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Casualty List
The following casualties are
ported by the commanding general
the American Expeditionary Forces:
Missing in action: Russell D.
Montgomery, Keo; James J. Parrott,
Shiloh.
Killed in action, 27;. missing in ac
tion, 35; wounded severely, 30; died
of wounds, 18; died from accident
and other causes, 1; died of disease, t
11; wounded, degree undetermined,
10. Total, 132.
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sen establishments, builders and con
tractors not engaged in erection of
structures for war work, dancing
academies, mercantile stores, florists,
fruit stands, junk dealers, livery and
sales stables, pawnbrokers, soft
drink establishments, soda fountain
supplies.”
Newport is soon to have the only /
electrically operated ferry in Arkan- f
sas. An eight-horse power mottor
has arrived and work will begin
Monday to equip the Newport ferry
so it will be operated by power fur
nished by the Arkansas Light &
Power Company. This will do away
with the gasolinq engine with which
the ferry is now run, and will enable
the ferry to operate at a greater
speed and convenience. The Newport
ferry is owned by Marion Dickens and
Newport and Sidney Mack, who re
sides across the river in Oil Trough, .
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