ENTIRE SOUTH IS
IH WHIR'S GRIP
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^AlSnow Falls In Alabama And Freezing
Weatiber Is Reported Along En
* tire Gulf Coast.
(By The Associated Press.)
Atlanta, Jan. 3.—The entire south
is in the grip of a cold wave. Bir
mingham, Alabama, reported a tem
perature of twelve above zero tljis
morning with six inches of snow and
a shortage of coal threatened. The
temperature here is down to twenty
degrees. Frezing weather is re
ported along the entire gulf coast
from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Ap
lachicola, Florida, with snow and
sleet and cold rain common nearly
everywhere. Chattanooga reported a
temperature of sixteen above, Little
Rock fourteen and Dallas eighteen.
MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER
A BEAUTIFUL AFFAIR.
Mrs. A. S. Madding was a charming
hostess Thursday afternoon, enter
taing a large number of friends with
a miscellaneous shower, compliment
ing Miss Willie Overton Minor, whose
marriage tomorrow afternoon will
close a series of beautiful pre-nuptial
affairs that have been given in her
special honor this week. The home
was in holiday colors and it was a
happy thrbng of handsomely dressed
'adies who responded to invitations
for the afternoon. Miss Minor, with
her matron, Mrs. Madding, the hos
tess, and Miss Carolyn Whitmarsh,
a charming girl of Texarkana, her
maid of honor, received their guests,
extending a welcome, in the living
S room, after they were received in
the-hall by Mrs. R. D. Brown. Con
cluding the formal reception, a very
pretty event, the showering of the
1 bride-elect took place in a flower be
decked window, where a wedding bell
of white was suspended from the ceil
ing by ribbon streamers. To let the
dainty articles inclosed in the bell
fall on the honoree, the ribbons were
pulled by little Scottie Madding, Vir
ginia Hinkle and Mary Ann Parish,
who were the personification of
sweetness in their dainty little frocks.
The gifts were unusually pretty and
©very one useful, and will make the
new home attractive and homelike.
After all had enjoyed looking at the
U gifts of silk, linen, silver and cut
glass pieces, a delicious, as well as
bountiful lunch, was served by Mrs.
Madding, Mrs. Kinman and Misses
Corinne Mosby, Frances Bailey and
Thelma Hays.
WAT(JH FIRE IN TUB.
Washington, Jan. 2.—Members of
the National Woman’s Party, wear
ing seamen’s slickers, stood in driv
ing rain on the sidewalk before the
White House today tt> keep burning
in a metal wash tub their “watch
fire of freedom,” which they say will
burn until the Senate acts favorably
f on the woman’s suffrage amendment.
The fire was lighted in the tub last
night after civilians and men in uni
form had extinguished one started in
a decorative urn in Lafeyette square.
Half a dozen women arrested dur
ing the disturbance and released
without bond, did not.appear in Po
I lice Court.
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WILSON ARRIVES
AT ROMT TODAY
Is Given Great Reception In Italian
Capital—Peace Conference May
Begin January 13th.
(By The Associated Press.)
Rome, Jan. 3.—President Wilson
arrived in Rome at 10:25 o’clock
this morning. He was received at
the station by King Victor Emanuel
and Queen Helena and members of
the government and representatives
of local authorities. An immense
crowd welcomed the president with
the greatest enthusiasm.
(By The .Associated Press.)
Rome, Jan. 3.—King Victor Eman
uel has accepted an invitation to have
luncheon with President Wilson and
family at the residence of Ambassa
dor Page Friday.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Jan. 3.—According to morn
! ing newspapers there is every likeli
I hood that the peace conference, or ra
i ther the preliminary conference, be
| tween the four great ^llies will open
| January thirteenth.
! NO DECISION ON
UNIVERSAL MILI
TARY SERVICE YET.
(By The Associated Press.)
Wshington, Jan. 3.—Secretary Ba
; ker told the House Military Commit
tee today that no decision has been
reached by the war department on
the question of universal military
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OV/i V IV- V/. lie U1U1VMUVU w JC
ject for permanent military estab
lishment will be presented to congress
until the peace conference concludes.
WORK OF REMOVING
SOLDIERS FROM VES
SEL IS PROGRESSING.
(By The Associated Press.)
New York, Jan. 3.—Information
that approximately one thousand
troops, including some of the wound
ed, have been removed from the
American transport, Northern Pacific,
which is aground on Fire Island, this
morning indicated that fewer than
fifteen hundred soldiers remained
aboard. The work of removing these
is progressing favorably. It is stated
an effort will be made today to float
the vessel.
SEC. M’ADOO URGES
GOVERNMENT CONTROL
OF RAILROADS.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 3.—Director Gen
eral McAdoo, testifying before the
senate interstate commerce commit
tee which took up his recommenda
tion for an extension of government
control of railroads until 1924, esti
mated that the government loss of
operating railroads this year at
$136,000,000, but declared in 1919,
with conditions remaining virtually
the same as last year, the government
should make a surplus of $100,000,
000. He presented a lengthy state
ment reciting arguments in favor of
the continuance of government oper
ations.
RECOMMENDS THAT
ALL CAPTURED HUN
SHIPS BE DESTROYED.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 3.— Destruction
of all captive ships of the German
navy surrendered to the allies was re
commended to the House Naval Af
fairs Committee today y Rear Ad
miral Rodman, who commanded the
American fleet in the North sea dur
ing the war.
GOVERNOR APPROVES.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 3.—Governor
Brough yesterday sent to the South
ern Commercial Congress in Wash
ington, the following telegram:
“Heartily approve Bankhead reso
lution for the transfer to the Secre
tary of Agriculture of available and
dispensable war materials suitable
for highway improvement for distri
bution among states. No more im
portant post-bellum work than that
' of the improvement of roads.”
Harry Lynn Writes About
His Army Life In France
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The following interesting letter to
a friend is handed to us for* publica
tion and will be read eagerly by
his acquaintances here, who had lost
sight of him while he was in the
great fight across the big pond. No
young man ever went out of Newport
who was rushed through faster than
he, and his friends are glad to know
he is well and coming home some
day. He is with the Second American
Army and in located at Toul, France.
The letter follows:
Toul, France, Dec. S, 1918.
Dear Friend; I suppose you will
be surprised to hear from me, but
nevertheless I am writing. I am sta
tioned for the time being in Toul,
France. It is a little town, and
needless to say, a very dull one. I
think we will leave for Germany in a
week or so. I have had some exper
i iences since I left the states. It took
us 14 days to cross the ocean. There
was nothing to the trip until we got
in the Bay of Biscay. Here we en
countered five submarines, but they
did not fire a torpedo. I think they
came up to see what was on the sea,
and when they ascertained they
again disappeared in the sea. We had
a convoy of about 25 torpedo boat de
stroyers. They dropped about 40
depth bombs in the sea and claim to
have destroyed two of the subs. We
landed at Brest and stayed there four
days. We didn’t have any barracks
to sleep in there so had to pitch our
little tents in a mud field. We slept
on the ground and about midnight it
Degan to rain. At one o ciock our
tent was full of water, so that ended
the sleeping. We got out and stood
in the rain the balance of the night.
It rained every day we were there
and of course our stay was not very
pleasant. We left there in “cattle
cars” and stopped at another place
for about a week. My company left
me in this town (Chateau Du Loix)
on detached service. I have never
seen my company since. I don’t
know where they went or where they
are now. A few days after they left,
I, with three others were sent up to
the front (Verdun). There was a
lively time going on up there and I
will never forget my first day. J
never heard so much noise in my life,
but I got used to the noise and
“ducking shells.” My face would not
have a bit of “respect” for the “mud”
when a shell would explode too close
to me. Just fall right down in it.
By the time night would fall I would
resemble a mud baby more than any
thing else. Then too, the Germans
would shoot us a few gas shfells ev
ery now and then. Imagine one sleep
ing with a gas mask on. I never did
get used to that. I was sleeping in
a building one night when half of it
was filown away but fortunately for
me, I was in the half that remained.
I won’t tell you what I thought or
| what I said when this happened, but
rest assured it was a plenty. I was
j working between the Verdun front
! and Tout. I came very near getting
knocked of^(as we call it over here),
the very last night of the war. I left
Verdun that morning and came to
Toul, intending to spend the night at
Toul but no such luck, for almost as
soon as I got to Toul I was sent to
the front. A convoy train was pass
ing along the road I was traveling
and the Germans had sighted it, and
was shelling it. The big shells were
bursting all around me, but I pulled
through somehow or other. I got up
to- the American artillery and maybe
they were not pounding the Germans,
2,800 cannons barking at one ttime.
Some noise too. The flashes from
the guns and shells made it almost as
bright as day. It was a wonderful
sight, even in all of its horribleness.
The Americans were sending over at
least 8 shells to the Germans’ one.
I never realized what war was when
I was in the states, but now I know
and I hope it is over for all time. I
have stood up in the rain and march
ed in the mud all night many times.
The boys that didn’t come over don’t
realize how lucky they are for it was
not any play over here. I was in
hopes I would get home soon, but it
looks like May or June now, for the
Second Army is going to Germany.
Lots of the boys have had a good
time here. They have never been out
of Paris and I have never so much
as seen Paris. I think I played the
army pretty lucky. Don’t you? Two
months after I got in, I was on the
sea and two weeks after I landed I
| was at the front. Not many of the
i ho-'s got along so fast.
! Write to me for I am lonely, ahd in
i a lonesome land.
n* _i_
Harry E. Lynn,
Headquarters Second Army Ameri
can Exp. Forces, A. P. 0. 918,
France.
HEAVIEST SNOWFALL
SINCE 1898 FALLS AT
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
(By The Associate^ Press.)
Jackson, Miss., Jan. 3.—The ground
is covered with snow to a depth of
one foot, the heaviest snow fall here
since 1898. The thermometer this
morning registered ten above zero.
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AIRPLANES SHIPPED BACK.
Batesville, Jan. 2.—The squad of
! aviators from Eberts Field making a
tour of the northern portion of the
state are in Batesville today, having
! arrived here by rail. The airplanes
were so damaged by a forced landing
that the trip could not be continued
to include this city.
The party, which consists of Lieu
tenants Lenelian, Page, Bonhag, Olive
and Hartman, will return to Mountain
View Thursday, where they will pre
pare to ship their damaged machines
to Eberts Field. They will then en
deavor to repair one machine, and
use it to continue part of their flying
trip.
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Temperature In Newport Friday
Morning Registered Ten Degrees
Above Zero—Weather Clear.
• If you think you are in the grip of
a cold wave and having a hard time
keeping warm, ju.^t remember last
winter. If you can recall what the
weather man gave us then, you
ought to be willing to wish him a
happy New Year now, because the
present weather is summer in com
parison.
The temperature here this morning
registered ten degrees above zero.
During the severest weather of last
year the mercury dropped to ten be
low zero. Yesterday morning the
temperature registered 17 degrees
above zero.
While the present weather has a
bite to it, tkere is no suffering in the
city. Coal dealers have plenty of
coal on hand, and everybody is be
ing supplied. The weather is clear
today, and the weather report for to
morrow predicts rising temperature.
Telegraphic reports today tell of
the severest winter in years along the
gulf coast from Texas to Florida, with
snow annd low temperature in the
states of Alabama, Mississippi and
Tennessee.
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AGAINST INCREASE.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 3.—At the re
quest of the brick manufacturers of
Fort Smith, Hope, "Mansfield, Little
Rock and Texarkana, a conference
was held yesterday with the Arkansas
Railroad Commission, to decide upon
what action should be taken regard
ing the proposed increase in the
rates by the Western District Freight
Traffic Commission.
It was decided that the Commis
sion shall be prasent at the hearing
in St. Louis next Tuesday, combat
tinug any furthea* increase in the
rates on rick. The manufacturers
will engage special counsel to assist
the council of the Railroad Commis
sion. The rate and the question of
Jurisdiction will be considered is their
protest.
The rate proposed is an increase
of 15 or 50 per cent over existing
rates.
County Clerk Fred Parish, secre
tary of the local exemption board,
yesterday received a ^telegram from
the adjutant general’s office stating
that the Jackson county board would
continue its work here until further
orders. The clerical work of the
board is being carried on by Mrs. Mc
Nees, who will remain in that posi
tion until the board is< disbanded.
REDWINE ELECTED.
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Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 3.—The board of
supervisors, consisting of the gover
nor, secretary of state, and commis
sioner of agriculture, yesterday elect
ed F.„ G. Redwine of Marshall, as
deputy warehouse commissioner and
superviser of markets. Frank Broad
nax of Camden was appointed field
organizer for warehouses. Commis
sioner Ferguson announced the ap
pointment of Tom F. Digby, of Junc
tion City, as clerk of the department.
CHARLES EVANS COMING.
Charles Evans of Louisville, Ky.,
All South Christian Endeavor Secre
tary, will spend the month of Janu
ary in Arkansas, beginning Sunday,
January 5th, 1919, a the Central
Christian church. Mr. Evans is a
very capable speaker and has visited
Newport once before. It will be
worth your while to hear him.
TO REPRESENT ARKANSAS.
Spefinl to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 3.—The governor
has designated Sidney Y. West,
chairman of the Military Welfare
Committee and prominent cotton man
of Little Rock, to represent the state
of Arkansas at the preliminary con
ference of the International Congress
to be held in Washington, Jan. 17,
! 1919.
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AMERICAN GOES
j IP Mil FEET
Aviator Captain Lang Establishes
New Altitude Record— Flyers
Suffer Frost Bite.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Jan. 3.—Captain Lang, an
American, established a new altitude
record at Ipswich yesterday, reach
ing a height of 30,500 feet in a Brit
ish airplane. Observer Blowers who
accompanied Lang, collapsed when
his oxygen bottle broke, but recoven
| ed. Both men were frost bitten dur
| ing the flight.
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. WHITTAKER MADE MEM
BER OF JONESBORO AGRI
CULTURAL SCHOOL-BOARD
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 3.—The governor
has reappointed Senator Richard > j
Whittaker of Knobel, Clay county, as
a member of the First District Agri
cultural Board for the Jonesboro
school for the full term of ten years.
In making this appointment, the gov
ernor said Senator Whittaker had
been untiring in his interest in the
affairs of the Agricultural schools.
He was primarily responsible for the
passage of the Millage Bill which
put the University, the State Normal,;
and the four agricultural school on a
self-supporting basis.
Casualty List ' j
The following casualties are report
ed by the commanding general of the
American Expeditionary Forces: ’
Wounded (degree undetermined) 146 V
Wounded slightly _ 3%171 M
Wounded, degree undetermined,
Daniel W. Vaughan, Newport, next
of kin, Miss Jessie Dudley of New- (
port; Chester Staley, North Little
Rock; George Monroe Williams,
Evansville; Roger Dodson, Cherry
Valley; Joseph W. Gray, Fayette- ||
Wounded slightly, John B. John- ’ ;
ston, Sulphur Springs; Leon Su
Veith, Hamburg; Alfred E. Ains
worth, Village; Tanner G. Hill, Ft.
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