HEAVY FIGHTING
4 STILL CONTINUES
On Twenty-two Mile Front Germans
Make Gains in Center, But Held
'in Check On Wings.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, June 10.—Resuming the
offensive on a twenty-two mile front,
from South 'of Mont Didier to the
Oise river, and south of Noyon, Ger
mans made gains in the center, but
are-being held in check by the French
on the wings. Heavy fighting con
tinues. In the center Germans reach
ed Ressons-Sur-Matz and Marcuil an
advance of two and one-half miles.
On the left the enemy gained only
one third of a ’ mile. On the right he
checked, after crossing Jthe first
French line.
Germans expected to strike for Com
peigne on the road to Paris, if the
right wing gives way, or on Amiens,
and a separation of the British and
French main armies if left wing is
thrust back.
On the Noyon and Rheims salient
f”; there is only local fighting which is
being checked by French and Ameri
can troops. Elsewhere there is no
activity of moment.
Increased artillery fire is ' reported
on the Italian mountain front.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Paris, June 10.—The War office re
ports that the Germans’ attack be
tween Mont Didier and Noyon con
fined last night with undiminished
violence, but furious German attacks
on the left wing has been repeatedly
broken up by the French. In the cen
ter enemy, bringing up reinforce
ments made further progress, reach
ing the southern part of Cuvilly Wood
and Ressons-Sur-Matz.
The French and Americans are con
tinuing attacks in the region of Brus
siares, on the Marne front, and have
gained more ground, taking prison
ers. 1
Prisoners report German losses in
the battle between Mont Didier and
Noyon, extremely heavy.
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Associated Press Dispatch.
With the British Army in France,
June 10.—Considerable local improve
ment along the British line just south
of the Somme, was effected last night,
through a slight advance in the neigh
borhood of Bouzencourt.
Associated Press Dispatch.
■Washington, June 10.—Pershing’s
Commique reports the repulse of
heavy enemy attacks in the vicinity
of Bourches, with severe enemy
losses, and lively artillery fighting in
the Chateau-Thierry and Picardy re
gion.
' Prof, and Mrs. Edgar Williams
left this morning for a trip to be
made in their car, covering three
states, Arkansas,'Tennessee and Mis
souri. They will go from Newport to
Memphis, then to St. Louis and on to
Kansas City, Fulton and Mountain
Grove. Mr. Williams'has a sister at
Fulton and 'Mountain Grive is the
home of both Mr. and Mrs. Williams,
where a visit will be made. They ex
pect to return here the first week in
July in order that Mr. Williams can
take charge of a summer school at
Campbell station, which opens the
8th of July.
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INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION
MEETS JUNE 19.
Special to Independent,
i Little Rock, June 10.—Frank L.
.James, state secretary, reports that
I about twenty delegates will go from
I Arkansas to the International Sun
day School Convention, which opens
at Buffalo, June 19.' It is a quadren
nial session, and it is said the pro
gram is one of the most elaborate
ever prepared.
SMALLPOX RAGING
IN KRUPP PLANT.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, June 10.—A Times dis
patch from The Hague quotes that a
neutral arriving there stated that an
epidemic of black smallpox was rag
ing among the workmen in the'Krupp
plant at Essen.
PI DEL RID
SIMS1TI*
Making the Number of German Sub
marine Victims Now Eighteen—
Crew Was Rescued.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 10.—The sinking
Saturday of a small American steam
er, the Pinar Del Rio, off the coast of
Maryland, brought the number of vic
tims of submarines operating off the
Atlantic coast to eighteen, including
eight steamers. The crew of the
Pinar Del Rio was rescued.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Norfolk,, June 10.— Survivors of
the steamer, Pinar Del Rio, which
was sunk by a submarine Saturday,
announced today that a submarine
also sunk a schooner in the same vi
cinity that their vessel was sent to
the bottom.
NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS
DAY MUST BE MADE
A BIG SUCCESS.
The National Wrar Savings Com
mittee, w'hich is carrying on, through
its state and local committees, a Na
tionwide campaign to get all the peo
ple on or before June 28 to pledge
themseles to save to the utmost of
their ability and to buy Wrar Savings
Stamps with their savings, has given
out the following statement:
“Those of us who remain at home
w’hile others do the fighting have an
ever-increasing number of 'opportun
ities to do definite and highly impor
tant work for our country. WTe wish
to do this work as an expression of
the gratitude we feel in being priv
ileged to continue'at our usual tasks,
to enjoy the loving companionship of
our families, to meet freely with our
friends and neighbors, to enjoy all the
security of life and most if the pleas
ures and the ecnomic privileges of
peace times 'while other men, who
have had to put aside all these things,
are fighting our battles for us on the
sacred soil of France 'and on the high
seas.
Our new opportunity to seivu
conies as a result of designating June
28 as National War Savings Day, a
day on which all men and women and
all children of sufficient years to ap
preciate the day’s significance are
called upon to pledge themselves to
save to the utmost of their ability
and to conserve all possible labor and
materials for the government, and to
buy War Savings Stamps with their
savings. Our part is to do every
! thing possible'to make this day stand
1 cut among the great days of this pe
riod of the war.
Casualty List
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 10.—The casual
ty list reported is as follows: Killed
in action, thirteen; died of wounds,
five; ' airplane accident, one; acci
dent from other causes, one. Wound
'ed severely, forty-six; degree unde
termined, seven.
! Among those wounded severely
was Private Joseph R. Crownrich, of
Hamburg, Arkansas.
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"COAL WEEK” IS
NOW UNDERSTOOD
J. C. Couch Says Patriotic Co-op^ra
tiin of Consumers Should Not Be
Relaxed With This Week.
To All Chairmen Local County Com
mittees, U. S. Fuel Administration
for Arkansas:r
1. The intensive campaign of
“Coal Week,” June 3d to 8th, has re
sulted 'in a better understanding on
the part of the consumers, and the
patriotic cooperation we have had
should not be relaxed with this week.
2. There has 'been a marked in
crease in the volume of orders, but
still the orders for steam coal, or
slack, are not what they'should be.
3. Arkansas mines are, for the
most part, running full time, in a
season when ordinarily they ’operated
only part of the time, and this must
be maintained.
4. By 'accumulating a large vol
ume of orders in the hands of the
dealers, it is expected there will be
demonstrated to every agency con
cerned in the distribution of coal the
universal and urgent demand, and this
will give rise to a steady and in
creasing pressure for rapid and equit
able 1 distribution.
5. By keeping coal orders con
stantly accumulating, the resulting
pressure, it is believed, will have the
effect of keeping production at the
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mer months.
6. The Fuel 'Administration be
lieves that if the bulk of the orders
for next winter are in hand by July
1st, it'will be possible to handle them
with greater facility, as conditions
will be more favorable for transporta
tion, and railway traffic will not yet
be'congested by the moving of crops.
7. While the co-operation of the
domestic consumer is effective in
warding off possible coal shortage in
the homes next winter,1 the greatest
help must come from the industrial
plants.
8. Get Your'Coal Order Out of the
Way of the Government.
H. C. COUCH,
U. S. Fuel Administrator 'for Arkan
sas.
SUPREME COURT
SUSTWNJECRESS
Of Federal Court, Which Prohibits
Publication of Articles Embar
rassing to Administration.
Assocated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 10.—Federal
court decrees prihibiting newspapers
from publishing articles held to em
barrass the administration, although
the acts are not committed within
presence of the court, were sustained
today by the supreme court.
ANXIOUS TO DO
UIS BIT IN WAR
“
Home Boy Says Camp Life Has Sur
roundings Conducive to Good
Morale of the Soldiers
The following news item to the
Independent from Tom Poe, Second
Lieutenant, Sig. R. C., A. S. Publicity
Officer, will prove of great interest
to the friends and acquaintances of
John W Pettet, a patriotic home boy,
who, a short time ago, went into
training at Kelley Field, So. Antonio,
Texas:
Headquarters, U. S. Aviation Schools,
Kelley Field, So. Antonio, Tex.
Newport Independent,
Newport, Arkansas.
In a recent interview John W. Pet
tet, of this place, who enlisted in the
Aviation Section, Signal Corps, and
has been located at Kelley Field,
South San Antonio, Texas, said:
“When I first enlisted I thought that
I would be obliged to undergo the dis
comforts we read of soldiers experi
encing in our armies of other days,
but to my great pleasure I found com
forts and advantages provided our
boys in khaki such as have never been
provided our soldiers in past conflicts.
All kinds of entertainments of a
clean, healthy nature is provided for
us and the Y M. C. A. and K. of C.
give Us just that homelike atmosphere
with all sorts of educational and re
ligious programs in addition, that are
just the thing to keep the morale of
the men at its best. The training we
uet. while strenuous, is efficient and
speedily makes a soldier out of the
greenest rookie. I am impatiently
waiting for the opportunity to do my
bit ‘over there.’ ”
Private Pettet already has one
brother in the infantry.
GERMANS REPULSED
AT AVELU WOOD.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, June 10.—The w.-.r office
reports the repulse of a German at
tack last night against the British
post of Aveluy Wood north of Albo'.t.
L AI. PISSEIIER
raiytmiiED
Twelve Persons Injured—Prompt Ac
tion of Trainmen Saved Five
Troop Trains From Disaster.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Louisville, June 10.—Twelve per
sons were injured in a derailment of
Louisville and Nashville passenger
I train No. 7, near Louisville late yes
! terday. Prompt action of the train
|men in placing signals stopped five
1 troop trains in time to prevent more
disastrous results.
PERMISSION ASKED
FOR REHEARING OF
CHILD LABOR LAW.
Associated Press Dispatch,
Washington, June 10.—Solicitor
General Davis today asked the su
preme court permission to file a pe
tition for rehearing a suit in which
the Federal Child Labor law was de
clared unconstitutional. The motion
was taken under advisement.
GENERAL SEMENOFF
HAS DRIVEN BACK
RUSSIAN TROOPS.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Harbin, June 10.—General Semen
off, leader of the Anti-Bolsheviki
forces in Siberia, has driven back the
Russian troops, which crossed Onon
river. Advices say, however, that
Semenoff is facing heavy odds.
DES1GNSDFNEW
(EMU THRUST
Supposed to be the Consolidation 'of
Picardy and Aisne Battle Theatre
For Later Attacks in Paris.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 10.—The new
German thrust between Mont Didier
and Noyon is regarded by officials
here as a local operation on a large
scale, with limited objectives, design
ed to consolidate the Picardy and
Aisne battle theatre and straighten
the line for later mass attacks to
ward Paris or on ports.
RECRUITING OF U. S.
HAS BEEN RESUMED.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, June 10.—Captain C.
N. Cartmell, U. S. Recruiting Offi
cer, has been advised that hereafter
the Aviation section of the Signal
corps will be known officialy as the
Air Service of the National Army.
For this service he can accept only
students who have failed to secure
commissions in the service.
Captain Cartmell has been directed
to resume recruiting of the United
States Guards, men above the draft
age, which was discontinued several
months ago.
White men are wanted for stevedore
regiments, at Newport News, Va.
In 33 days Captain Cartmell se
cured 400 recruits, about half of
whom are young men just coming of
age, who would have been required to
register June 5.
LEGISLATIVE POLITICS
NOW COMING TO FRONT.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, June 10.—Now that the
smoke 'of the recent primary has
cleared away, legislative politics is
already coming to the front.
The first candidate to announce for
speaker is Clarence P. Newton, su
perintendent of the confederate home,
who was nominated as one of the
four representatives from Pulaski
county. He has already had consid
l^onotlntivp pYDprip.npp. having1
represented Lonoke county in the
sessions of 1909, 1911 and 1913.
Another prospective candidate is
Henry Stevens of Columbia county,
who has been renominated, having
represented his county in the sessions
of 1913 and 1917.
Several of the familiar faces will
be missing in the session of 1919
among those who were defeated being
Steve \leador of Clark, J. W. Clack of
Yell, S. L. Owen of Ouachita, and M.
B. Norfleet of St. Francis.
New Ruling of
Protest Marshall
Gives 1918 Class Registrants An Op
portunity io Enlist in the Ma
rine Corps.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 10.—Men in the
nineteen hundred and eighteen class
of draft registrants may enlist in the
navy, marine cirps, under a new rul
ing of the provost marshall.
GOVEINOR PUIS
TO REICH COOL
I
Proclamation Issued Setting Aside
June 28, As lime to Pledge '
Economy to Help Win War.
Little Rock, June 10.—Gov. Brough
has issued a proclamation setting
aside June 28, between the hours of
noon and 10 p. m., as a time when all
adult citizens, primarily the heads of
households, shall pledge themselves to
save and economize ti help win tho
war, and as a minimum fulfillment
of such pledge to invest in a speci
fied amount of War Savings Certifi
cates during the remaining months of
1918.
This i3 in pursuance of a plan for
the more intensive organization of
the‘state for the sale of War Savings
Stamps, under the direction of Moor
head Wright, state manager, who de
sires that Arkansas shall reach its
goal of $35,000,000 by January 1,
1919. .
Gov. Brough says: “This great
war in which America is destined to
play the deciding part and in which
our troops in France have already
upheld the high traditions of our na
tion for patriotism, valor.ajytjnjte^^
tive, is one of nations,—hot of armies
—and our great people must be eco
nomical and thrifty and show a great- .
er saving than $50 per capita, as '
heretofore, if our civilian population
is to play its full part in making the
world safe for democracy, and d#m- *
ocracy safe for the world; devoting
their labor only to the most necessary ^
tasks of buying only those things
which are essential to individual
health and efficiency, and practicing
thrift as a matter not merely of''*
economy, but of transcendant patriot
ism, thereby obeying the order of our
great commander-in-chief, Woodrow
Wilson, issued May 29, 1918. * ■ -O
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One Steamer Reported Sunk in Beh
ring Sea, According to Advice of , |
Department of Commerce.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 10.—The first
merchant fleet this year, from Seat- , ?
tie to salmon canneries in Bristol
Bay, was caught in ice'in the Behring
sea. One steamer was sunk, accord
ir.g to advice of the Department of
Commerce.
To advertise it in the Independent
is to sell it—if it is something for
which live people find a need.
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