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VOLUME XVIII. NO. 214. NEWPORT. ARKANSAS TUESDAY.
BERLIN IN GRIP
OFJML WAR
Sound of Machine Gun* Can lie
Heard From AH Part* of City
and Many Citizen* Flee.
"(By The Associated Pr-)
Copenhagen, Jan. 7.—Berlin is in
complete anarchy and civil war has
begun there, according to the Munich
correspondent of the Polftiken, who
says lys information is based on tele
phonic messages from Berlin. Ai
banks are barricaded and a number
of public buildihgs are in the
hands of the Spartacan or the ex
treme radical group. Thousands of
armed workmen of Spartacus faction,
the correspondent adds, are crowding
the streets anr.d firing has already
begun at several points. The sound
of mahine gun fire can be heard from
all parts of Berlin.
Dr. Karl Liebknecht, Spartacan
r leader, is reported organizing forces
for a final fight which, the corres
pondent says, is expected to begin
soon. Hundreds are fleeing from the
city.
(By The Associated Press.)
Copenhagen, Jan. 7.:—Adolph Jef
fre and M. Radek, leaders of the Bol
shevik mission to Germany, are in
Berlin assisting Dr. Liedknect and
Rosa Luxemburg in fomenting a
Bolsheviki revolution, according to
advices. Independent socialists are
* reported to have gone over entirely
to the Spartacans.
(By The Associated Press.!
London, Jan. 7.— A general ad
vance by Bolshevik forces marching
westward in old Russia is claimed in
an official report sent out by the
Russian government. The capture of
numerous villages is reported.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Jan. 7.—Ruthenaian troops
have surrounded Lemberg, which is
defended by Poles, according to a
Copenhagen dispatch to the Central
News, quoting Vienna advices dated
Saturday. In the advance on Lem
berg the RutKfenians attacked with
twenty thousand rifles on a twelve
mile front.
(By The Associated Press.)
V London, Jan. 7.—The Port of Riga
was captured Saturday by the Bolshe
viki, according to a Russian wireless
dispatch.
CARRUTH WILL BE HOME
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 7.—“Will be home
for the legislature. Inform our
friends.”
This is the essage the governor re-(
ceived yesterday from Lieut. Col. R.
Hill Carruth, who represents the 18th
Senatorial District in the state senate.
Col. Carruth landed at an Eastern
4 port only a few days ago from I* ranee,
where he had been on duty. He wafc a
student of Governor Brough at the
State University, and the personal
and political relations of the two inert
have always been the most cordial.
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SIMPLICliT II
Mill FUL
Mu*'c and Eulogy Will Not Be A
Part Of the Ceremonies At Fun
eral of Colonel Roosevelt.
(By The Associated Press.)
Oyster Bay, Jan. 7.—With flags at
Oyster Bay at half mast and citizens j
in deep mourning over the death of j
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrange
ments for unostentatious funeral ser-!
vices tomorrow are being perfected
today by members of the family. In j
accordance with the wishes of the i
former president the obsequies will ■
be of almost Spartan simplicity. Af
ter prayer at the home, the Protest-,
ant Episcopal service for the dead
will be rtfod at Christ church by the .
pastor and burial will be in Young’s
Memorial Cemetery among the fir j
trees on the crest of a knoll overlook- J
ing Oyster Bay cove. Present and i
former employes of the Roosevelt es
tate will probably carry the coffin. I
There will be no music or eulogy at j
the church and no honorary pall bear-,
ers.
(Bv The Associated Press.)
Oyster Bay, Jan. 7.—Mrs. Roosevelt
received a cablegram of sympathy
from President Wilson which read as
follows:
“Pray accept my heartfelt sympa
thy on the death of your distinguished
husband, news of which shocked me
very much.”
This was one of hundreds of mes
sages received this morning. Others
included one from Alexandria queen,
mother of England, and former Pres
ident Taft.
FILES BOND WITH STATE.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 7.—Walter E. Tay
lor, sheriff and collector of Pulaski
county, yesterday filed with the
state his bond for $1,100,500. This
is said to be the largest bond ever
made by an official in the state. The
bond of the state treasurer is only
$000,000. It is a strong bond, and
the sureties are worth, probably, ten
million dollars.
GOES TO PARIS.
(By The Associated Press.)
Faris, Jan. 7.— President Wilson |
accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Miss
Margaret Wilson returned to Paris
from a visit to Italy this morning.
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Casualty List
The following casualties are report
ed by the commanding general of the
American Expeditionary Forces:
Killed in action -- 30
Died of wounds - - -- 38
Missing in action- - -46
Total-**•*
Died of disease, John A. Shields,
Greenwood; Luther Dickey, Augus
ta.
Wounded severely, Herbert Singley,
Harrisburg; William Grady, Bates
ville..
Died of wounds, Will T. Anderson,
Augusta.
Missing in action, Rudy Myers,
Paragould; William A. Sawyer, Ty
ronza.
Returned to duty, previously re
ported missing in astion, William L.
Fords Plain View.
Wounded severely, previously re
ported missing in action, Claude
White, Patmos.
BUSCH TO BE A PACKER.
I St. Louis, Jan. 6.— August A.
Busch, president of Anheuser-Busch,
announced today that he will complete
the organization of the Bevo Packing
Company, which, within two weeks,
will enter the pork packing business
in St. Louis on a large scale. The
company will be incorporated at $1,
000,000 and a considerable portion of
the Anheauser-Busch brewery has
been leased.
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Noah Roberts, Wounded,
Back Home From France
With nothing good to say of the
huns with whom he came in daily and
nightly contact for eight days, Noah
Roberts, aged 27, son of G. W. Rob
erts, a farmer residing near Newport,
is back from France. Roberts was
severely wounded on NovembeV 8,
three days before the armistice was
signed on the Sewasaah front. He
was struck in the back and in the left
side by high explosive, and after re
ceiving treatment in a hospital in
France was sent hack to the United
States, arriving in New York during
the latter part of December. He
reached Fort Roots, Little Rock,
Christmas day, and as soon as his fa
ther learned that he was in Little
Rock, he went to Fort Roots and per
suaded the colonel in charge to allow
his son to come home Sunday night.
Noah returned to Little. Rock Tues
day morning and will remain there
until he is fully recovered from his
wounds, which are healing nicely.
Young Roberts was one of the se
lected men from this county, leaving
for Camp Pike on the 15th of last
July. From Camp Pike he was sent
to Camp Merrett, N. J., where he
5pe.it thirty-six hours before- being
placed aboard a transport bound for
Liverpool, arriving in France on the
2Sth of September.
On November 1 Roberts entered the
front line trenches. He was with the
Second Division, composed of troops
from Oklahoma and Texas, principal
ly. The Second, it will be recalled,
established no mean record as a
fighting crew.
Roberts’ division kept the hun on
the jump all the time. His company
advanced 12 miles in eight days
through a wooded section. The young
| man says the Germans fought practi
! cally altogether with machine guns.
The guns, he said, were hidden, and
it was difficult to locate the nests.
He killed one German that he knows
u, he says.
Roberts states the German is a
cowardly fighter and will take the
mean advantage of his adversary.
He assisted in taking many prisoners,
and said many of the huris \yere glad
to get out of the’ fighting, saying
they were tired of war, knowing they
were beaten.
One German was badly shot up and
held up their hands and asked to be
taken prisoner and given treatment.
Stretcher bearers, Roberts says,
started to the first aid station with
the wounded German, and had gone
but a few steps when the wounded
prisoner pulled a ipistol from this)
pocket and shot down one of the
stretcher-bearers. An American sol
dier near by witnessed the dastardly
act and shot off the head of the pris
oner. Roberts saw many cities that
had been laid bare and shot to the
!e/el of the ground by German bom
bardment.
The many friends of young Roberts
are glad to know that he is to be back
in Newport soon. A happier man
cannot be found than Robert’s father
who has at last found his son after
months’ of anxiety and worry. Mr.
Roberts could not hear from his son
in France, and neither could the
young man hear from home, for some
eason. Recently he was reported
severely wounded. Mr. Roberts took
steps to learn of the whereabouts of |
his son through the Red Cross, and
one can imagine his joy when he j
learned that Noah was at Ft. Roots,!
alive. i’cj1
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. ROflOaJDPPpSED
Interstate Commerce Commission
Government Should Not Consider
Operation Of Railroads.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 7.—Opposition to
government ownership or operation
of railroads at this time was express
ed by the interstate commerce com
mittee today by Commissioner Clark.
The statement said after considering
arguments for and against different
plans the commission was led to the
conviction that with the adoption of
safeguards for regulation under pri
vate ownership it will not be wise to
assume government ownership or op
eration. Commissioner Woltey dis
sented.
GOV. BOUGH SENDS
MRS ROOSEVELT TELE
GRAM OF SYMPATHY.
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Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 7.—Governor
Charles H. Brough yesterday sent to
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster
Bay the following telegram, expres
sive of the sentiment of the people of
Arkansas:
“The citizenship of Arkansas ex
tends to you its most profound sym
pathy on the death of your distin
guished husband, one of America s
greatest statesmen.”
To the New York Tribune he sent
the following:
“Arkansas, regardless of party,
mourns the loss of one of the Na
tion’s most distinguished statesmen,
bravest soldiers and most picturesque
characters.”
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Says He Favors League Of Nations
And Will Present Data At The
Peace Conference.
(By The Association Press.)
London, Jan. 7.—Count Von Berns
torff, the German ambassador to the
Cnited States, is working every day
it the German foreign office prepar
ing data for the peace conference, ac
cording to a Berlin dispatch to the
Express. Bernstorff told the Express
correspondent, that he endorsed the
plan for a league of nations, seeing in
it the only way to prevent war by
the limitations of armaments. “We
entirely agree with Premier Lloyd
George and want to get rid of the
univeisal military service,” he said.
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ONLY EIGHT PER
CENT OF SICK AND
WOUNDED SUCCUMBED
-* I
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 7.—The war de
partment announces that of seventy
one thousand wounded and injury
cases tabulated in American expedi
tionary hospitals between January
15th and October 15 last 85 per cent
recovered. The percentage of deaths
was 8.8. f iffpM 1
GOVERNOR APPOINTS
MILITARY ESCORT FOR
FUNERAL OF MR. DEAN.
Special to Independent.
Little Roc. Jan. 7.— Gov. BroUgh,
upon being notified of the death of
John W. Dean, general superintend
ent of the Missouri-Pacific Railway
Company, a member of the Arkansas
State Council of Defense, expressed
his personal and official regrets to
the family. He said that in the death
of Mr. Dean Arkansas has lost one of
its greatest, purest and most con
structive citizens. The governor re-*
quested the Adjutant general to ap
point a committee from the council, (
and a military escort for the funeral
of Mr. Dean, whose body will lie in
state at the Scottish Rite Consistory
l to 3 p. m. Tuesday. The ad
jutant General designated the follow
ing committee: H. L. Remmel, J.
Smith Speed, and Joseph W. House,
Jr. The remains will be taken this
afternoon to Nowata, Okla., his old
iiome, for interment.
Citizens of Newport have learned
of the death of Mr. Dean with extra
ordinary regret.
It will be remembered that Mr.
Dean spent a week in Newport on the
occasion of the recent high water
when the river threatened to find
its way ov(^- the Rock Island levee
near the cotton compress. Mr. Dean
brought every available man to New
port to fight this water; he caused
to be hauled to Newport dozens of
car loads of sand and gravel; he
furnished the city with thousands of
sacks that were filled with gravel and
sand by his men and others and
placed onjhe levee. He took the situ
ation in his own hands, and night
time did not find him in his room
asleep. Ho contributed a very large
share of the work and watchfulness
that saved Newport from a disas
trous flood, and Newport feels keenly
the loss of one of the state’s biggest
men.
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