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VOLUME XVII. NO. 238. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. MONDAY. JANUARY 7, 1918 SXN33 3AI3 3DIH3
* PEACE SITTINGS;
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Russia Fails in Attempts to Have
Peace Negotiations Tranferred
to Stockholm.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, Jan. 7.—Russian efforts
to have Germany acquiesce to a trans
fer of peace negotiations at Stock- >
holm apparently have failed. Official
announcement from Berlin says the
' crown council announced that sittings
•were temporarily suspended after a
discussion of the Russian demand.
A report through German sources
that fear of lhtrgue in Stockholm on
the part of the interests endanger the
work of the plenipotentiaries is not
confirmed at Petrograd. The polit
cal situation Germany is disturbed
over the attitude of the liberal par
ties concerning the government
stand. There is danger that the So
cialists may desert the Reichstag
majority.
Associated Press Dispatch.
1 New York, Jan. 7.—New York is in
the grip of a glaze storm and this
city is covered with thin ice. Traffic
was suspended many hours and wire
communication was interrupted.
There was one death and injury to
a number.
SENATOR SMITH TO
HAVE CHARGE OF ADMIN
ISTRATION LEGISLATURE
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Jan. 7.— Senator
Smith of South Carolina today was
chosen by the Senate Democratic,
Steering Committee' to be chairman
of the Interstate Commerce Commit
tee, succeeding the late Senator New
lands. He is to have charge of the
administration Railroad Legislation
in the senate.
* CALL FOR CONDITION
OF NATIONAL BANKS
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Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Jan. 7.—The Comp- .
troller of Currency today issued a
call for condition of national banks 1
at the close of business December 31. I
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DELIVERS PATRIOTIC ADDRESS
Special to the Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 7.—Gov. Brough
last night delivered an inspiring ad
dress at the First Christian Church,
on the occasion of a patriotic service
in honor of the boys who have gone
from the congregation into the mili
tary service of the country. A ser
vice flag containing 27 stars was un
^ furled. The church was elaborately
decorated with all the allied flags,
those of America, Great Britian and
France being conspiciously displayed
over the pulpit.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Amsterdam, Jan. 7.—The German
has recognized the Finnish Republic. I
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Late Wire Briefs
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, Jan. 7.—British causali
ties for the week ending today to
talled 18,998.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Jan. 7.—Gen. Pershing
reports the death by ah’plane acci
dent in France of Lieut. William S.
Fly and Sergeant George E. Houdek.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Jan. 7.—Statements
that the United States is planning to
take over the packing business were
declared by Francis J. Heney, special
council conducting the Trade Commis
sion inquiry meat industry. j
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Jan. 7.—Director Gen
eral McAdoo designated next week
as freight clearance week and special
campaigns will be conducted to in
duce quick unloading of cars to re
lieve congestion.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Jan. 7.—The govern
ment’s motion to postpone because of
the war further consideration of sev- !
eral important anti-trust suits was
granted by the supreme court with
exception of the case against the
United Shoe Machinery Co., which
will go forward.
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Washington, Jan. 7.—The supreme
court in unanimous opinion today held :
the selective service act as constitu- 1
tional. In announcing the opinion of
the court on draft cases Chief Jus- :
tice White declared a conclusion was
reached that most of the contentions
were immaginary rather than real. 1
The government contention that pow- i
er be given to congress to declare <
war includes the power to compel :
citizens to render military service at j ■
home or abroad was sustained.
Germans Butcher Baby
And Murder Parents
(By Josiah M. Ward, Former Managi
ng Editor Denver Post, Now With
;he American Troops in France.)
Paris,—In the Village of
lear the border of Belgium, once
ived a butcher. He had a prosperous
msiness on the small scale which
nakes for a happy, independent way
if life. He was young, and had a
/oung wife and one child, a boy four
/ears old. In the natural course of
:ime he would be mayor, or hold some
ither office of communal importance;
lut war came, and with it the pass
ng of armies. A small body of
French soldiers came to the village of
-and, needing provisions,
lought for cash his entire stock of
neat, which, at the best, would not
lave fed them for more than two
lays. It departed.
On the next day a party of Ger
nan scouts—Uhlans—rode into the
■ullage. The first place they reached
vas the butcher’s shop. The butcher
vas sitting in his shop, smoking his
lipe. The lieutenant of Uhlar.s haled
lim forth.
“Bring out all the fresh meat you
lave,” he peremptorily ordoied.
“Pardon, sir; I have none,” re
ilied the butcher, waving his hands
leprecatingly.
“No fresh meat?” said the lieuten
int harshly. The butcher explained.
3n the day before some French
;roops had bought him out. He was
sorry, but had not had time in which
;o replenish his stock.
The lieutenant rode up to the door
if the shop and looked in. He saw
lothing in the way of meat; nothing
ixcept the butcher’s freshly cleaned
dock and the empty hooks on which
;he meat on sale was ordinarily hung,
de was angry. “I’ll see that you
have fresh meat on those hooks, and
soon, cochon.” The word “cochon,”
meaning pig, with the French, is the
vilest of insults. The butcher tried to
placate the officer. Their voices
brought from the interior of the
house the boy of 4, curious to know
what was going on. The lieutenant
gave an order to his men, who dis
mounted, and all entered the shop.
The lieutenant gave another order.
Some siezed the butcher so that he
could make no resistance; others
siezed the child, and tearing off his
clothes—only a garment or two, for
it was August—laid him on the
btucher’s block. One of them took
in his hand the butcher’s cleaver and
held aloft over the naked body of the
child, who was now screaming with
fright.
“No meat, eh?” asked the lieuten
ant.
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The butcher repeated his explana
tion, doubtless believing that the ac
tions of the Germans were meant
more for intimidation than action.
The noise of the child’s screaming
brought the mother on the scene from
the store of a neighbor tradesman.
She tried to intercede, volubly repeat
ing her husband’s explanation of their
lack of meat. The lieutenant gave
another order. Two German soldiers
held the squirming body of the child
rigid on the block. The German sol
dier having the cleaver in hand
brought it down with all his strength
upon the body of the child; and
again and again, until the body was
cut into quarters. The first blow
stilled the voice of the child, but not
those of the mother and father. The
father struggling in the hold of his
captors, sent up such a cry that it
sounded like a shriek from the depths
The chances are
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flL, . , 11 j Men who retired, (v\
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* fi M Frll ty years ago, would
‘ J IjuJ be obliged, should they return to active manage
Kr ment today, to master new problems, to learn new
methods, to adjust themselves to a new order of
things.
I 'l The business world looks forward in bewilderment toward the
•i time when peace will reign again and when we will be drawn into the
0 perplexities of commercial readjustment.
Hi Some see great signs of promise in the business horizon, others
warn of new contestants, not only in the world’s markets, but in
our own.
Everyone who would not be left behind in the new day of business
■■jij must look inward now—and prepare.
pf Thoughts must be turned from the all-absorbing topic of how to
Pi SPEND money to the vastly more important one of how to CON
I'! SERVE money, and energy, too.
Ill It resolves itself, not so much into questions for boards of directors,
jp captains of industry and business managers, as it does into a question
jjj| for the individual.
pjj “Preparedness” is, after all, a personal matter. (
of hell. The mother shrieked and
moaned, and moaned and shieked, but
could not make a move forward to
save her first-born from its terrible
fate, as she, too, was held firmly by
two German soldiers.
That was not all. The mother’d
dress had been torn almost entirely
from her body and her naked body
exposed. Lust gleamed in the eyes
of the Germans as they carried her
into the room back of the shop. Her
husband raved like a mad man, but
was powerless. The soldiers went in
to the room one after another. Two
men with rifles and lances stood out
side the shop and threatened with
death any or all of the villagers who
came within the sound of their voices.
But no one came to the rescue. The
villagers were unarmed, cowed, yet a
few concealed back of the shop heard
and comprehended.
The ordeal of the mother ended
wtih her death. She was then drag
ged out of the room at the back of
the shop and her body hung by her
breasts, was suspended beside the
quarters of her child.
The father was now insai c. The
lieutenant said to him: “Now, you
have fresh meat. Let this be a lesson
to all such dogs as you.” (It was a
lesson—a lesson in German.)
The lieutenant gave another order.
The father was shot dead with a re
volver. His body, head down, was
hung upon the meat hooks, and there
the Germans left them, to further
terrorize the villagers in their cam
paign of frightfulness.
un the next day a force of the
French army, some 5,000 strong,
returned to the village of
and among the sights shown them by
the inhabitants were the bodies of
the butcher, his wife and their child,
still hanging from the hooks in the
little blood-bespattered shop. The
depositions of villagers and a suffi
cient number of French soldiers were
taken and are now in the archives at
Paris. The incident was narrated to
me by a Belgian officer who heard
the story first-hand from a number of
French officers who beheld the bodies
on the hooks, just as they were left
by the Germans, who, before their de
parture, threatened that, any of the
inhabitants of the village who remov
ed the “fresh meat” should suffer the
same fate.
“I personally saw,” said the Bel
gian, “the remains of a burned house
in-and the charred bodies
of two French soldieis who had been
incinerated in it. What I was told is
this: “In the fighting at
two wounded French soldiers were
left behind after a furious charge by
an overwhelming German force. The
Germans then set about destroying
the town. They poured petroleum up
on the more inflammable buildings,
for in those early days of the war the
Germans had no thought of saving
petroleum, and set these houses on
fire. The wounded Frenchmen were
soon discovered in the hiding place to
which they had crept and were
thrown into the flames of one of the
houses. They were burned alive, but
the flames left enough of their uni
forms to identify them as French sol
diers. Depositions were also taken in
and are in the French ar
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“I will tell you of another Incident,
the truth of which was vouched for to
me by persons I know. Before the
war a custom existed wnereby \a Bel
gian boy was taken tnto a German
family which had a boy child of abqut
the same age, and the German chi\d
was taken by the Belgian family, the
exchange being made for the purpose
of teaching each child the language
of the other nation. In this particu
lar case which I am about to tell you,
a Belgian family had a German boy
in their keeping, their own boy being
in the houshold of the German par
ents of the boy who was in their care.
When the war was precipitated the
Belgians supplied the German boy
with a new outfit of clothing, bought
a railway ticket for him to the town
where his parents lived, supplied him
with enough food for the journey,
and sent him off with a note to his
parents, asking the return of their
boy. The response that they received
was that their boy was sick with the
measles and would be returned on his
recovery. They waited and waited,
and their boy, not having returned,
they wrote urgently to the German
family. There was no reply to this
letter, nor to others that followed.
Finally the boy arrived home—but
his right hand had been cut off. The
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CHICAGO GRIPPED '
I BY SNOW SUM
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Fall Reaches Foot Depth and Busi
ness Is Demoralized By Storm
In Windy City.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Chicago, Jan. 7—Chicago this r
morning began to dig itself out of '
snow after one of the worst blizzards
in history. The storm, which is gen
eral in the middle west, began abat
ing at midnight. This morning the
sun was shining. Snow in Chicago
reached a foot level with drifts from
five to ten feet deep. Two are knows
to be dead in Chicago and a number
were injured in collisions in the blind,
ing snow. Traffic is demoralized
electric and steam railroads in ’all
directions are tied up. It is predicted
that it will be days before normal
conditions are restored. A fuel fam
ine is possible and food shortage is
feared in many towns.
GOVERNMENT WILL
CONTROL 1918 SUP
PLY OF BINDER TWINS,
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Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, Jan. 7.—The food ad
ministration has arranged through
voluntary agreements with manufac
turers for control of the 1918 supply
of binder twine at reasonable prices,
though not so low as was formerly
expected.
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