VOLUME XVIII. NO. 230. NEWPORT. ARKANSAS SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Some States Arc Barred Including
Germany, But Exclusion Will Not
Be Prolonged Unnecessarily.
Paris, Jan. 24.—The British plan
for a league of nations which has just
been completed, can now be outlined.
The following details, although un
official and subject to alteration, rep
resent in substance the plan that will
be laid before the peace conference:
The main feature will be the estab
lishment of machinery for handling
international disputes. This will he
based on an agreement among the
members of the league not to inter
fere with the territorial integrity of
states, or to permit others to interfer -.
Assistance and guidance to new and
undeveloped states to maintain free
dom of transit and just commercial
relations are some of the principal
aims to be supervised by the league.
A committee to rule on trade in am
munition and arms and before which
would come international problems re- j
lating to economics will be appoint
ed. A similar central body for hand-1
liner international labor Questions is
provided for.
It is held that all international
bodies now existing and any which
may be created, must be brought to
gether in some central place, which
will be the capital of the league, and
work in co-operation with the league
if the co-operation with the league if
the efforts to promote international
co-operation is to be successful. The
British plan provides for a general
conference of the delegates of all na
\ tions memberes of the league annd for
a smaller international executive
council for the transaction of ordin
ary business.
A permanent secretariat would be
presided over by a rpan of authority
and experience in European affairs
sitting at the capital of the league
with all necessary diplomatic immun
ities. Peirodic meetings of delegates
are provided for, hut it is said that it
* probably would be convenient for
states to appoint permanent repre
sentatives to the capital to act for
their countries until more authorita
tive delegates arrived.
The. plan excludes some states, like
Germany, for the present, on the
*r ground of untrustworthiness, but it
holds that this exclusion should not be
prolonged unnecessarily. Every civil
ized state with a settled government
will be invited to join the league.
Provisions for separate representa
tion for India and the British domin
ion is provided for.
Disputes for settlement are divided
into two classes: Justifiable and non
justifiable—and each state will be
'the linai judge as to wueuier u uis
pute is justifiable or not.
The establishment of a permanent
court of international justice for the
settlement of justifiable disputes is
proposed, and until it is created, a
f court of arbitration is suggested.
Either a council or a conference of
the league is thought to be the proper
organ for the consideration of non
justifiable quarrels.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Iv. Coe of Litch
field were in town trading this
morning and meeting their many
friends.
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STRIKES IN BERLIN DIS
GUST SOCIALIST LEADERS.
Berlin, Jan. 24—The German Social
Democracy polled more than 10,000,
000 votes in the elections of last Sun
day, according to the Freiheit, as
against 4,250,000 in the last Reich
stag elections. Twenty added man
dates would give them an absolute
working majority in the National As
sembly. The Majority Socialists are
conceded to have received 8,000,000
votes, .and the Independents a trifle
under 2,000,000.
The strike epidemics in Berlin and
particularly the strikes of the elec
tric, gas and other municipal work
ers, whose position enables them to
extort compliance with their demands
from public or private employers, are
beginning to disquiet even the Social
ist leaders. In common with the
Bourgeoise press, the Socialist Vor
waerts points out the disloyal nature
of the strike of the electric workers
by which hundreds of thousands suf
fered great hardships. The aldermen
of Charlottenburg, a working class
district of Berlin, today at a meeting,
criticised the attitude of the workers.
The city gas employes have, under
threat of a strike, compelled the
granting of a 6-hour day an wage in
crease of 12,500,000 marks annually.
“When Johnny comes marching
home” is a favorite expression, but it
does not correctly describe “Johnny’s”
manner of coming in this day of
rapid transit. When our civil war
ended most of those discharged for
return had to march, or to be abso
lutely correct, tramp many miles be
fore reaching their homes and loved
ones. But now when “Johnny” re
ceives his honorable discharge, he
hops the first train for home, and if
the folks haven’t received the word
in time to meet him at the station, he
hires an auto and is at home in a jif
fy, even if his family lives in the
country.—Exchange.
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IEWJMEMBE1S
An Interesting Session of Newport’s
Commercial Body Was Held At
Hazel Hotel Last Night.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Newport Chamber of Commerce
was held at the Hazel hotel last night
and was one of the best and most in
teresting sessions that has ever been
held. Numerous short talks were
made by members present and were
greatly enjoyed by all, for it typifies
the general sentiment of new get
together feeling that is being born
within the hearts cf Newport’s citi
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The membership committee report
ed 61 new memberships, the results
of two short days’ work of two small
committees.
Plans were made to organize the
county into school districts and to use
that organization to stimulate more
intensive production on the farms, to
organize and promote various rural
activities and to disseminate valuable
information to the farmers and to
properly agitate and promote good
r.oads movement. It is .also planned
to cal! this organization together to
meet with Mr. Cottrell, head of the
Profitable Farming Bureau, who has
been asked to spend a few days in
Jackson county outlining a compre
hensive plan for farm production de
velopment. Mr. Cottrell will proba
bly be in Newport next month on his
work.
W. D. McLain reviewed his trip
with the government surveyor over
the proposed Departeo Drainage Dis
trict and spoke highly of the pre
vailing sentiment in favor of this
project.
Announcement was made by A. T.
Hubly, president of the Chamber of
Commerce that the first annual meet
ing of that body would be held on
March 26, at which time all annual
reports will be read and that the
meeting would be turned into a so
cial event with a suitable entertain
ment, and arrangements will be made
to make the annual meeting a big
event and a marked success,.
Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Hunt of Wel
ddh were here between trains yester
day ©n a short business (Trip.
Pool and Billiard Halls
! Are Having Hard Sledding
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j Special to Independent,
i Little Rock, Jan. 25.—Joe Poiner of
Columbia county, who was cne of the
candidates for speaker of the house,
and who withdrew in the interest of
j C. P. Newton, was elected temporary
! speaker yesterday to serve in the ab
sence of Mr. Newton, who was re
ported sick. Mr. Hillhouse of Jackson
was also nominated, and the vote was:
Joiner 49; Hillhouse 39.
Should a general bill introduced
yesterday in the house by Mr. Wade
in lieu of a local bill applying to Lo
gan county alone be adopted, mem
bers of quorum courts throughout
the state will receive $5 a day and 5
cents a mile going to and returning
from the county seat, for their at
tendance upon the meetings of the
quorum court. The bill originally
applied only to Logan county, then
Mr. Anderson added Little River, and
as several other representatives de
sired to add their counties, it was de
cided to make it general.
Little Rock, Jan. 25.—Pool and bil
liard rooms will soon be legislated
out of Arkadelphia and Batesville, if
a bill introduced by Senator Bone and
passed by the Senate, completes its
legislative course. And there is no
reason to believe that it will fail to
do so. It was read twice in the
house yesterday afternoon, and is well
on its way toward passage. It pro
vides that it shall be unlawful to
maintain pool or billiard tables with
in three miles of Arkansas College in
Batesvillc or Ouachita and Hender
son-Brown College in Arkadelphia.
The pool and billiard halls are having
hard sledding, as a bill has been fav
orably reported in the house, by
Judge Doyle, making them unlawful
within the radius of three miles of
and church or schoolhouse in Law
rence county.
There is to be a fight in the house
on the Shinn bill providing that coal
mines shall employ shot-fiers. The
committee on mines and mining has
made a favorable report upon it, by a
minority«of the committee, consisting
of Bohlinger and Davidson, have re
commended that it do not pass.
A strong fight is being precipitat
ed in the legislature over a bill which
has for its purpose the annexation of
North Little Rock to Little Rock, by
an election to be held in the two cities.
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FIRE AT DIAMOND MINE. j
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Nashville, Jan. 24.—A serious fire
occurred at the Kimberly diamond
mines, north of Nashville, in Pike
county, a few nights ago. Fire of
unknown origin destroyed $75,000
worth of property. The Kimberly
mine is located about two miles west
of Murfreesboro, and is the property
of Q. M. Miller. The fire destroyed
several buildings, including the com
pany’s office located at the mines.
Forrest May of Auvergne was here
today in company with his son, Eu
gene May, who arrived home yester
day from San Antonio, Texas, where
he was in the aviation department,
ground school, at Kelly Field. He
left the^first of September and was
glad to get home and his friends and
relatives equally as glad to see him.
He is a fine specimen of young man
hood and army life seems not to have
hurt him in the least.
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i ONE HUNDRED MILLION
DOLLAR MEASURE ADOPTED.
—
Washington, Jan. 24.—After a week
of spirited debate the senate tonight,
i by a vote of 53 to 18, passed the ad
ministration bill appropriating $100,
l 000,000 for food relief in Europe and
the Near East. The fund was re
quested by President Wilson as a
means of checking the westward
spread of Bolshevism.
The measure now goes to confer
ence for adjustment of minor senate
amendments, but leaders believe final
enactment will be accomplished next
: week. ,
1 Senators Martin of Virginia, the
democratic leader, and Overman oi
North Carolina and Warren Wyom
ing were appointed senate conferees
The most important senate amend
ment changed the house section
against feeding enemy peoples so
! that the nationalities friendly to the
United States and the fillies may be
| added.
j On the final roll call, 15 republicans
and three democrats voted against
the bill’s passage, while 34 democrats
1 and 19 republicans supported it.
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j AVIATORS MAKE QUICK TRIP.
Dallas, Texas, Jan. 24.—Two De
Haviland Liberty-motored planes, pi
loted by Lieuts. J. U. Wegener, Law
son Henry, E. H. Hill and B. M
Jones, on a map-making and aerial
observation trip from the gulf to the
Great Lakes, reached Love- Field
Dallas, late today on the return trip
from Detroit to Ellington Field, Hous
ton, having covered 278 miles from
Lonoke, Ark., to Dallas, in 198 min
utes. The fliers plan to leave Dallas
7 en Days Only
w These Suits and Overcoats
will be reduced as follows:
27.50 Values For 22.25
25.00 Values For 19.75
. 22.50 Values For 18.75
In order to clean-up entire
ly a corresponding reduc
tion of 20 per cent will be
made on all other Suits and
Overcoats during that time.
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PREVEITION ¥’”
U1PREPHPEQ1ESS
Major-General Williams Says Suffi
cient Precaution Must Be Used
to Prevent Possible Invasion.
Washington, Jan. 24.—Maj.-Gen.
C. C. Williams, chief of ordnance, de
scribed to the House Milittary Com
mittee today some of the steps taken
by his department to prevent the
country from going back to the state
i of unpreparedness it was in before
the war. Sufficient arms and ammu
nition will be kept, he said, for an
army large enough to guard against
any possible invasion.
“The Ordinance Department now
has 3,700,000 rifles, 2,000,000,000
rounds of ammunition, and enough ar
tillery ammunition to supply 48 divis
ions for six months,” General Wil
liams said. “Similarly large quanti
ties of other equipment is being held.
“The department plans to keep this |'
material, and in addition machinery
for making it, which has been manu
factured during the war.”
General Williams asked for an ap
propriation of $1,000,000 for bringing
back from France, thousands of tons
of ammunition of all kinds now in
storage, there or at ammunition
dumps.
| ^.rsuuais tne ^uvcimm;iiv|iu»u uc
fore the war will be kept in operation,
General Williams said, and in addi
tion several of the new war plants
will be taken over and kept in such
condition that they could be put in
operation at short notice.
Yesterday at Hickory Ridge a saw
nill boiler exploded and killed the
ireman, who had been with the con
:ern for several years. The sawmill
>elonged to D. C. Evans:
GERMAN COLONIES
IRE CONSIDERED
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The Question Of Territorial Re-ad- ' Jn
justments Have Been Taken Up |
By The Peace Council.
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Paris, Jan. 24.—The question of
territorial readjustments in connec- ^
tion with the conquest of the German jg|
colonies was taken up at the after
noon session of the peace council.
Colonial premiers explained the in
terests of their respective dominions
in these problems. # . Ys|
It was decided that the plenary sit
ting of the peace conference should be
lcld at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon.
' The Supreme Council agreed that •
Foreign Minister Pichon of France .-i;
should prepare for the approval of
the powers a draft of instructions for
the mission which will be sent to Po
land.
GENERAL FRESHING
NOW IS “SIR JOHN”
SAYS WHO’S WHO.
New York, Jan. 24.— The British
“Who’s Who,” a copy of the 1919 is
sue of which has just been received
here, lists the commander in chief of
the American expeditionary forces in
France as “General Sir John Joseph
j Pershing, G. C. B.”
On July 17, 1918, King George
awarded the Grand Cross of the Order
of the Bath to General Pershing, and
in August King George during a visit
to France personally gave the decora
tion to him. The award of the Grand
Cross of the Order of the Bath to a
British subject automatically makes
a knight of the recipient and gives
him the right to prefix Sir to his
name.
The decoration given General Per
shing, however, was an honorary one
and it was said at the time that the
American commander would not re
ceive the title o f“Sir” as he was not
a British subject. *
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