VOLUME XVIII. NO. 121 NEWPORT, ARKANSAS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS
AUSTRIAN NOTE
DOES NOT MAKE
■ AN IMPRESSION
CERMANY ALSO MAKES PRO
POSAL TO BELCH M.
If Official Sentiment Is Reflected
Through Newspaper Comment
German Attempt At Peace
Will Fall Flat.
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AMERICANS MAKING READY
(Associated Press Summary,)
While the Austrian note to the bel
ligerent nations proposing an infor
mal discussion of peace terms, Ger
many is making another big offer of
a separate peace to Belgium. An
nouncemem is macie -mar tne rseigian
' government has been approached with
the proposal that the Germans will
withdraw to the borders of Belgium
would remain neutral during the re
mainder of the war. Aust’ias offer
was received coldly by the entente
capitals, and if official se. liment is
reflected by newspaper comment, the
efforts of the central powers to reach
peace by agreement is doomed to
failure.
Meanwhile the Americans on the
Lorraine front, who are under fire
from the fortress of Metz, apparent
iy are making ready for i drive
Against the Kriemhild line, to which
the Germans withdrew their shatter
ed colums from the St. Mihiel salient.
The British are creeping nearer
the Hindenburg line in Picardy. The
German retirement in Flanders con
tinues, while east of the Ailette and
south of the Aisne the ailies are
maintaining close contact with the
enemy.
(By The Associated Press.)
„ ^ ^London, Sept. 16.—A. J. Balfour,
British foreign secretary, giving his
personal viewpoints on the Austrian
peace note, said, “It is increcFbie that
anything will come of this proposal.”
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Sept. 15.— Austrias
peace offensive note had not reached
the state department this afternoon.
(By The Associated Press.)
Amsterdam, Sept. 16.—The note in
which Austro-Hungary invites the
belligerents to a conference for a
discussion of the possibilities for
peace was dispatched by Baron Bu
rian, the foreign minister, on the or
der of Emperor Charles, the Cologne
Volks Zeitung declares.
The peace initiative should have
.a*, been left to the entente allies, accord
J^ing to the Tages Zeitung of Berlin
which comments on the Austrian note.
“The fate of all previous announce
ments as to the readiness for peace
and a conciliatory spun on me pan
of the central powers will not encour
age great hopes for this offer to
meet with any greater success,” says
the newspaper.
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! Madaline Theatre Was Filled When
Y. M. C. A. Scenes Were Shewn
Sunday Afternoon.
The seating capacity of the Mada
line theatre was taxed Sunday after
noon when the largest crowd ever as
sembled there witnessed the censored
pictures shown under the auspices of
the Y. M. C. A., under the direction of
0. T. Finch, state Y. M. C. A. secre
tary, who delivered an enthusiastic
and instructive address and explained
the scenes as they were shown. Life
of the soldier boy from the time he
reaches camp until he find's his way to
the front line trenches was graphical
ly depicted, and in this manner the
splendid work which the Y. M. C. A.
is accomplishing in this country and
in Europe was illustrated.
Mr. Finch left this morning for
Batesville, where the pictures will be
shown tonight.
For the information of our readers
we are here giving the report for Au
gust of Y. M. C. A. Activities at
Camp Pike:
Estimated attendance at the
buildings - 846,755
Number of envelopes given
out_ 728,917
Amount of Stamps sold__^_$30,766.50
Pieces of mail handled- 463,334
Amount of money orders
issued_$56,626.50
Number of Special Commit
tees - 32
Number serving on same— 98
RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES.
No. of meetings held-251
New Bible classes organized-48
No. of Bible classes meeting-203
No. Soldier-teachers used-115
No. Scriptures distributed-14,542
Persl. Christian Life Interws-5290
Decisions for Christian Life-1712
No. Temperance Pledges-160
Personal Purity Pledges-395
No. Daily Bible Readers-6039
No. pomising to pray daily-2559
Pcs. Relig. Matter distributed-. 16,693
Counted attendance at same—95,974
Total enrollment of same-2,070
Attendance at same-8,915
No. Civilian-teachers used-54
No. visits to the sick-5,086
No. requesting prayer-1,672
Renewal Christian purpose-1,180
Anti-profanity pledges-387
Anti-gambling pledges-444
j No. of follow-up interviews re
j garding above pledges-746
No. Bible classes operating-123
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES.
No. of entertainments-267
No. of lectures-22
New classes organized-22
No. classes meeting-436
No. of Soldier-teachers-231
No. of subjects taught-5
No. of books in library-6,159
Educational clubs organized-4
Counted attendance at same--234,989
Counted attended at same-27,250
Total enrollment of same-433
I atf pnrlnnpp at same_10.897
No. civilian teachers---46
Pcs. reading matter distrib’d--29,066
No. of books taken out-6,351
Total attendance at same-94
Athletics is also a great featuure,
and! every dean sport is enjoyed by
the boys.
Total in Compulsory Athletics_-1,665
Total in Organiz’d Athletics-7,288
Total in Informal Athletics-44,586
Total Number in aTT Athletics.-53,539
Estimated Number of Spectators
at all events- .265,697
LENINE AND TROTSKY
WERE PAID AGENTS OF
GERMANY IN RUSSIA.
The United States government has
come into possession of documents
which prove that Lenine and Trotsky,
Bolshevik leaders in Russia, were in
tlhe pay of the kaiser and acting
agents for Germany in the work of
spreading German propaganda
throughout Russia. These documents
were unearthed by government agents
in Petrograd. They go to prove that
the German general staff planned the
whole Bolshevik revolution, bringing
about the worst state of chaos and
bloodshed ever witnessed by the
vorld.
j T. S. Holloway is spending a day or
> two at Paragould on business.
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IHI'j CASE
NOLL PfAOSSEDj
Maliel Sherman, Charged With Being
Connected With Harmon Murder, j
Will Not Be Tried.
The case against Mabel Sherman,
charged with first dgeree murder, has
been noli prossed by the state The :
woman was charged with being con- j
nected with the killing of Herman
Harmon at a resort in Newport about
a year ago when Harmon was phot to
death by Chess Kelley, the Sherman
woman accompanying Kelley to the
resort. Kelley was sentenced to be
electrocuted, but his sentence was re
duced to life imprisonment by the
governor.
Monday morning circuit court was
occupied by the case of the j
state against Glover White and Clara j
Sneed, who are charged with petit j
larceny. The case went to the jury, j
which had not returned a verdict up
to press time.
Monday afternoon the trial of the
case against Cora Phillips, a negress,
was in progress. The woman is
charged with carrying a razor.
Other proceedings:
Ernest Johnson, forgery, plea of
guilty, sentence suspended during
good behavior, defendant to pay costs.
A T. nimpal .T "P. POllT’fc. rlD
LIBERTY Lit
WORKERS MEET
Sales Committees And Others Receive
Instructions At the County Court
House Sunday.
More than one hundred persons at
tended the meeting of the Jackson
County Liberty Loan Organization at
the county court house Sunday after
noon. All the township chairmen,
salesmen and others were present and
received their instructions from the
county chairman, G. A. Hillhouse. A
marked spirit of patriotism prevailed i
throughout the meeting, which was
indicatve of the enthusiasm every
committee member will put into the
work assigned him.
The Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign
will start September 28.
MEN LEAVE
FOR CAMPS
Two Left Saturday For Texas, Two
For Camp Pike and Six Go To
New Orleans Wednesday.
The local exemption bcuid sent to
Camp Bowie at Fort Worth, Texas,
Saturday afternoon Joseph W. Lope
and Anthony Bowlby of 1 uckerman,
who enter the limited service class
and will join the 28 men who left here
three weeks ago. Taylor Dowell of
peal dismissed.
Clara Sneed annd John Brown,
petit larceny, continued.
Glover White, carrying a pistol,
dismissed for want of prosecution.
John Lemons et al, gaming, nlea of
guilty as to J. W. and J. O Lemons,
fined $10 each.
Tom Berry et al, gaming, plea of
guilty by R. Fletcher, fined $10; plea
of guilty by Tom Berry, fined $10.
Marion Jackson, Tilman Mathis et
al, gaming, plea of guilty by Doss
Churchman, Marion Jackson and Till
man Mathis, fined $10 each
Henry Lancaster et al, gaming,
plea guilty by Henry Lancaster, E. L.
Langley and Ira Long, fined $10 each.
Bob Weatherford et al, earning,
plea guilty by Bill McDonald, Joe
Southerland, Geo. Wilcox and Bob
W’eatherf ord, each fined $10.
Otto James, appeal J. P. Court,
plea guilty, fined $1.
Lawrence Ballentine, appeal J. P.
court, appeal dismissed and judg
ment of J. P. court affirmed
Herbert Sease, appeal J. P. court,
plea guilty, fined $10.
Herbert Sease, appeal J. P. court,
plea guilty, fined $50.
As an illustration of what can be
accomplished in Uncle Sam’s army
through grim determination and pluck
has been demonstrated by a brother
of Louis Rushing, who is a clerk at
The Memphis Store. Rushing’s
brother joined the army in 1914 as a
private. He had reached the fourth
grade in school, having no education ’
whatever to speak of. By hard work
he has been advanced to a second
lieutenancy, being stationed now at
Honolulu.
x uCKerinzui anu o. \i. o»ucc ui uwu
ton were sent to Camp Pike last week
as clerical men. Wednesday after
noon of this week the board will send
to Tulane University, New Orleans,
six young men who enter for radio
service and automobile mechanics.
They are William Bond Frizzell of
Olyphant, Claude McGinty of Swif
ton, Ira Everett Kinnard of Gruhts,
Henry Stout of Swifton, Norman
Adams of Algoa and Ralph N. Tucker
of Grand Glaize.
HOW BONDS MAY BE SOLD.
The treasury department has deter
mined, after careful consideration,
that it will not provide any plan for
disposing of the Fourth Liberty Loan
Bonds on the installment plan, other
than the usual plan of previous loans.
This information was conveyed to
Chairman Wm. R. Compton of the
Liberty Loan Organization of the
Eighth Federal Reserve District in a
telegram from Lewis B. Franklin, di
rector of War Loans.
The plan, as heretofore, will con
sist of initial payment and three sub
sequent payments about one month
apart.
Director Franklin requests Chair
man Compton to advise the local com
mittees at once of the decision
reached. ,
Mrs. George Harrison and little
grandson of Conway, are guests of
her brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs.
Forrest Bleakley on Walnut street.
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PEACE PARLEYS
FEATURE NEWS
No Government Involved Is Likely to
Send Delegates to the Confer
ence Suggested.
Overshadowing in interest even
Marshal Fooh’s hammer blows
against the harried Germans, is £he
Teutonic bid for peace made through
the imperial government of Austro
Hungary.
Not only in Washington, but in
London and Paris, pacifists found
cold comfort. None of the govern
ments involved was inclined to take
seriously the request that delegates
be sent to such a conference as that
proposed b the Austrian government.
It was pointed out that the United
States and entente allies have made
their peace aims so clear there can
be no mistaking them.
The assertion that “the central
powers leave it in no doubt that they l
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a.ic wag nig ci wax v/x ucacuoc iui i/iic
integrity and security of their terri
tories” was greeted with skepticism
in the face of the Washington dis
closures unmasking completely the in
trigue which has wrecked Russia.
It is accompanied also by the an
nouncement that a German submarine
had sunk the British steamship Gal
way Castle with the loss of 189 lives.
Ninety of those perishing were wo
men and children. At the same time,
U-boats renewed their attacks upon
shipping on this side of the Atlantic,
shelling only 80 miles off the coast a
transport carrying Canadian sick and
wounded.
Grim meaning was given the over
tures by the announcement from
Paris that Austrian troops, which,
tried to block tlhe way of the Ameri
cans, were utterly demoralized and
surrendered to a man.
While the peace kite was in flight,
British, French and American troops
continued their relentless pressure
against the Germans. Pershing’s
men advanced from two to three miles
on a 33-mile front. Haig’s force ad
vanced northwest of St. Quentin,
while French forces made progress
south of the same city. Mangin’s
army simultaneously struck a new
blow at the German salient north of
Soissons. Wherever the allied troops
attacked the German lines moved
back.
New Peace Offers.
Germany has made peace offers to
Bi gium and would have that bleed
ing little nation to remain neutral un
til the end of the war.
The terms of this proposal are as
follows:
That Belgium shall remain neutral
until the end of the war.
That thereafter the entire economic
and political independence of Belgium
shall be reconstituted.
That the pre-war commercial trea
ties between Germany and Belgium
shall be put into operation after tne
war for an indefinite period.
That Belgium shall use her good
offices to secure the return of Ger
man colonies.
That the Flemish minority, which
aided the German invaders shall not
be penalized.
The proposal contains no word re
specting reparation or indeminties,
no admission that Germany has
wronged Belgium.
Austria has addressed a note to the
belligerent countries of the world in
viting them to meet at some neutral
point J.UI <X llUIl-OlllUJUfe uiov.
peace terms, asking no armistice The
delegates would discuss whether per
requisites for peace exist. The no^e
was also sent to the pope.
Washington is not impressed by the
proposal, which is regarded as a Ger
man feeler and a feature of the her
alded peace offensive.
SECRETARY BAKER
HS REACHED LON
DON FROM FRANCE.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Sept. 16.—Secretary Baker
arrived in London today from Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Hinkle and
baby will return this evening from a
visit to Batesville. They will be ac
companied home by Miss Pearl Hin
kle, who is on her return to Little
Rock, where she is employed.
AND 1IIIAIERIAL
IS INCREASING
—
GERMAN ARTILLERY ACTIVITY
IS INCREASING.
But With Little Effect. French A’ e
Reported To Be Making Pro
gress and British Accomplish
Local Gains. *
GERMANS FLY OVER PARIS.
(By The Associated Press.)
With the American Ai-rn\ :n Lor
r*M inn fvonf 1 li A ntiiriftr I 'nvrvlnn
artillery increased somewhat during
the forenoon today, but no infantry
attacks were made.
The Germans last night used many
guns against St. Mihiel with little ef
fect. Reports show the number of
guns and material captured by the
Americans is increasing. The entire
park at Jaulney has been captured.
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(By The Associated Press.)
London, Sept. 14.—The British last i
night advanced their line north of the '
Arras-Cambrai road, establishing
posts in the vicinity of Sauchy Cau
chy and Oppy, Field Marshal Haig,
reports. On the Flanders front the
British pushed ahead in a successful
minor operation on both sides of the
Ypres-Comines canal on a front of ?
more than two mites.
(By The Associated Pres^)
Paris, Sept. 16.—It is officiary an- ">
nounced that the town of Vhilly, on fl‘jj
the north bank of the Aisno liver
east of Soissons, has been captured by
the French. The French continued
their progress between the Oise arid
the Aisne, and Mont Les Singes was
captured.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Sept. 16.—Several enemy
aerial squadrons flew over the Paris
region this morning and succeeded in
dropping some bomb3. There v.ere
few victims. / ,]
(By The Associated Press.) ,
London, Sept. 16.—With the excep
tion of the pacifist Daily News, which
advocates acceptance of Austria’s in
vitation, the London morning papers
scornfully reject the note as a trick
instigated by Germany to gain time to
reorganize her shaken armies, while
the offer to Belgium is denounced as
a cynical insult.
SERBIANS AND
FRENCH BEGIN
An Offensive Against the Bulgarians.
On the Saloniki Front, According
To Advices.
(By The Associated Press.) ' te.
Washington, Sept. 16.—An official ,
Serbian communique received today
announced the launching of an offen- .. *?
sive against the Bulgarians on the
Saloniki front by the reorganised Ser
bian army in co-operation with the
French forces and the capture of
three strongly fortified Bulgarian po- >.
sitions. The Serbs and French start- ||
ing yesterday reached their objec
tives, and were still going at the time
today’s dispatch was filed.
CALL FOR NEGRO
DRAFT IS ISSUED
Arkansas Will Furnish 2,120 of a To
tal Of 29,016 to Entrain Septem
ber 25 and 27.
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Sept. 16.—A draft coll
for 29,016 negro registrants qualified
for general military service was is
sued today. They will entrain Sep
tember 25 to 27. Arkansas* quota is
2,120.
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