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Newport Daily Independen
Volume xviii. no. 53. Newport, Arkansas Monday, june 24, ms. * prk?
WAR MAY END
THIS YEAR IS
• BELIEF NOW
Associate/' Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 23.—An official
cablegram to the Italian embassy an- j
nounces the capture of forty-five
f thousand prisoners and enormous
stores of war material by the Italians
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in the counter offensive along the |
Piave river.
" According to the dispatch the Ital- j
ian infantry took the offensive Sun
day after a violent artillery bombard
ment, which destroyed all bridges
across the Piave except one. Enemy
divisions which had crossed the river
were decimated. Thousands of ene
my corpses are floating in the Piave.
^The battle continues fiercely in the
Sardona sector.
Associated Press Dispatch.
At Italian Headquarters, June 24.—
The Austrian retreat has become ‘
wildly disorderly and many thousand
of the enemy are surrendering at the j
first opportunity. The worn of Amer
ican aviators contributed notably to
the disirganization of Austria.
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Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 24.—Confidence
at Rome that the war may be brought'
to a victorious close this year if the
allies give the Italians a full meas
ure of support in the offensive launch
ed against the Austrians is reflected.
in an official dispatch from Rome. I
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Rome, Sunday, June 22.—The Ial-;
ians have crossed the old channel of !
4-U Miifnn iirncf rvf f Vi n r»io in I
stream and recaptured several posi
tions, according to a semi-official an
nouncement tonight. Other detach
ments are advancing from Caposile
toward the main stream of the river.
Numerous bo ing detachments have
«been thrown across main stream,
where artilho and ft are ham-1
mering the enemy
Associated Press Dispatch.
Rome, June 24.—On the Piave i
Iresnt from Montello to the Adriatic
•tm defeated Austro-Hungarians are
recrossing the river in disorder, close
ly pursued by the Italians, the offi
cial statement says.
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I Associated Press Dispatch.
\ Paris, June 23.—The war office an
t nounces the Italians repulsed a new
German attack against Bligny last '■
night with serious enemy losses. The j
JcFrench repulsed a German attack in j
the region of Antheuil, west of the |
|gf>ise river.
A.ssoci&ted Press Dispatch.
London, June 23.—The British made j
successful minor attacks south of
Metern in the Lys salient last night j
and many Germans were killed. Fif- j
Ity prisoners and sime machine guns j
were taken by the British, according j
to a war office statement.
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MORE MEN CALLED
FROM THIS COUNTY
The Jackson county exemption
board today received a call for white
men as follows:
Four men to study radio in Tulane
University, New Orleans, to entrain
July 15.
Five men to enter agricultural
school at Starksville, Miss., to study
radio, July 15.
Forty, men to enter Camp Shelby [
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for military training at Hattiesburg,
Miss., July 5.
Fory-five men to enter Camp Pike
July 22.
Ninety colored men are called tr
enter Camp Pike July 16 and fifteen
more to go to Camp Pike July 20.
The men wanted for radio study
must be graduates of grammar school.
Twenty-four men left this evening
for Camp Pike.
Revolt Against Kaiser
Common German Talk
Associated Press Dispatch.
An Atlantic Port, June 23.—Ger
many, war-weary and ill-fed, is in a
state of unrest so acute that talk of
revolt against the imperial govern
ment is common among both the mili
tary and civil populations, according
to Americans who arrived here to
night on a Norwegian liner after long
residence in Germany or adjacent
neutral countries.
Officers annd men, the viyagers
said, had told them of a sulleness
which is widespread in the German
army, predicting that it would reach
the point where the troops will refuse
to fight.
“You see that I wear the coat of
the kaiser. I only wish that you
could know the feeling that lies be
neath it, for we are not going to
stand this forever,” a German major
told Miss Olga Wursberg of Grand
Rapids, Michigan, according to her
story on coming ashore. The conver
sation, she declared, took place in a
hospital at Godssberg, Germany,
where the officer talked freely to her,
not suspecting that she was an Amer
ican. Under the same conditions she
declared a private soldier said to her:
“Some day we are all going to put
down our arms. Why should we
fight? Our officers now instead of
leading us go behind us with their
guns at our backs.”
Miss Wursberg, daughter of Fred
erick Wursberg, a wealthy Grand
Rapius merchant, who was born in
Germany and is a naturalized Amer
ican citizen, declared that the morale
throughout Germany is poor and the
people near revolt. She asserted that
soldiers in the hospitals convalesce
very slowly, so poor is the food given
them.
Carl E. Olivarius, a Milwaukee
lawyer returned from a trip through
Norway, Sweden and Denmark, de
clared that food is so scarce in these
countries that little can be spared
with travelers from the Teuton em
pire, he said:
“No one in Germany speaks of vic
tory. They always talk of food. The
war, in the minds of the civilian popu
lation, has become- secondary to ef
forts to get enough to eat”
Herman Bernstein, the writer, who
sailtd for Russia six months ago, be
lieving that the Bolsheviki would es
tablish a stable goernment, returned
convinced, he said, that Lenine, Trotz
ky and thsir followers were in the
pay of Germany. He declared that
nine-tenths of the people desire in
tervention by Japan with allied ap
proval to put an end to the chaotic
condition resulting from Souviet con
trol.
“The Red Guard is nothing but a
band of thieves,” said Mr. Bernstein.
“It is not uncommon to see officers
on the street relieving people of their
valuables. To protest means arrest
and in Russia today a person who is
arrested usually is shot before he
reaches a court of justice.”
Mr. Bernstein declared that Keren
sky has lost his popularity with the
Russian people, who blame him for
failure to crush the Bolsheviki revo
lution when he had the power. Ker
ensky’s whereabouts, he said, is un
known in Petrograd.
Baron Sergius A. Korff, another
passenger, who was removed by the
Bolsheviki as deputy governor gener
al of Finland, declared that Gei’
many would be unable to reorganize
the Russia* am y for use against the
allies.
-BU YW. S. S.
LOCAL ATTORNEY IS
i MADE MEMBER OF EX
AMINATION COMMITTEE.
Assooiated Press Dispatch,
Little Rock, June 24.—John W.
Stay^on, an attorney of Newport,
was today appointed a member of
the supreme court examination com
mittee. ,
AMERICANS PUSH
BACK THE ENEMY
General Pershing Reports Further
Improvement of Positions North
west of C*»ateau-Thierry.
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Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 23.— General
Pershing reports further improve
ment of American positions north
west of Chateau-Thierry and artillery
activity and repulse of an enemy raid
in Vosges.
-BUY W'. S. S.
German War
Debt To Go
Higher Yet
Associated Press Dispatch.
Amsterdam. June 23.—The Reich
stag this week will be asked to pass
a new vote of credit of fifteen million
marks, according o the Berliner
Tageblatt. This will raise Germany’s
war debt to 139,000,000,000 marks.
-BUY W. S. S.
20,000, More
Workers Are
On A Strike
Associated Press Dispatch,
London, June 23.—An extensive
strike broke out Thursday in Cologne
and Muelhim on the Rhine owing to
the reduction of bread ration, accord
ing to the Daily Mail dispatch from
the Hague. It is reported twenty
thousand workmen in munition fac
tories have quit.
District No. 41 Has
Gone Over The Top
Although the drive in its intensity
I for the sale of war savings stamps is
| yet in infancy, School District No. 41
| has gone over the top. No. 41 is lo
cated in Bird Township, east of Tuck
erman A. J. Goetz is president and
B. B. Gulbert is secretary of the dis
trict.
S This district is the first to go over
the top with its full quota as required
by the government. The district’s
population is 126 persons, and its as
sessment was $20 per capita, or a
quota of $2,520, which amount is
oversubscribed.
This is great work and speaks vol
umes for these 126 persons who took
this advanced step. Let other districts
follow.
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War Savings Stamp Day
| J! JUNE 28th |i|
jH uur war oougauons are growing eat:n uuy, g ;
| j we, who are at home must furnish the jj j
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(Associated Press Summary.)
Disaster seems to be written in
large letters in the news of he Aus
trian defense along the Piava river.
Unable to force their way farther
thap the immediate vicinity of the
west bank of the river and with
bridges thrown across the stream
swept away by a flood pouring down
from the mountains, the enemy began
i to precipitate a retreat Saturday
night, abandoning a great many can
non on the west bank of the river.
Italian detachments have already
crossed the Piave and are pressing the
retreating Austrian infantry. The
enemy retreat extends all the way
from the Montello Plateau southward
o the Adriatic. In the moui^iins the
situation is unchanged althou^i allied
artillery is very active in somdteec
tors.
A German attack on the French at
Antheuil was also repulsed, while the
British took prisoneers and inflicted
’casualties by local operations. Civil
■unrest in Austria-Hungary is still
■rampant. The Austrian cabinet is
repotted to have decided to present a
collective resignation to the emperor.
That Jacks n O >mty is alive to ttil
important fact if winning the war and
awake in realization of the faet that
to buy war savings stamps is to^aave
money, is attested by the prominent
standing the county has attained n
the list of counties engaged in
tensively in the campaign to place
war savings stamps in the hands of
the people. Jackson county is second
in Arkansas, there being only one
county, Sebastian, that has a higher
percentage than ours. Fort Smith
and other good towns are located in
Sebastian county, and for Jac)cppn
county to go ahead of Pulp ski cbuntjw^i
which stands 12th in the list, Craig
head, which stands 35th, and many
other wealthy counties that have fail
ed to accomplished what we have, is
indeed a distinction.
No one should have to be urged to
buy war sayings stamps. It is bad
policy for a business man to not in
vest in them. They pay a liberal
amount of interest, and one cannot
make a better investment.
Next Friday is War Savings Day
—Boost it.
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Familes Disregarding
Ruling Are Unpatriotic
The state food administiation has
authorized the announcement that no
order, either from his office or by the
county food administrators, will be
issued that will compel butchers or
other retailers of beef to keep a re
cord of the amount sold to families
per week. Neither will private con
sumers be compelled to keep a record
of beef they buy.
To force retailers of beef and house
holders to keep such a record, the
state food administration declares,
would be impracticable, and it is
doubted if an accurate account of
such sales could be maintained. In a
statement to the people of Arkansas
concerning the consumption of beef,
Hamp Williams, state food adminis
trator, says:
“‘Private families have been ur
gently requested by our government
to buy no more than one and one
half pounds, including the bone, per
person in the family per week.
“Any family that buys m&re than
that allotment of beef during the
week is unpatriotic. Any butcher
who knowingly and wilfully sells more
beef than a family is entitled to is
doing his country an injustice. The
family eating more than their allot
ment of beef takes it from the mouths
of American soldiers in France. They
are taking it from the soldiers of the
allied countries, who have tjteen fight
ing our battles for three long yeai^.
They are taking it from the people of
those countries associated with us in
this war, and those people have suf
fered as no others have been called
upon in years to suffer.
“The question, then, for every pari
otic Arkansas to decide is this:
“Knowing hese facs, whether you
eat at home or in a public eating
place, do you want beef when your
country needs it?
I “I am certain that Arkansas, in the
beef conservation, as well as in other
features that make for the winning
of the war, will be found 100 per
cent loyally patriotic.”
Emphatic instructions have been
issued to all hotels, restaurants
and public eating places not to adver
tise on their menus or through any
other medium when beef may be
served. Violation of this order will
result in the United States food ad
ministration promptly closing such
places.
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Biggest Real Est tre _
Deal For This section
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What is thought to have been the
biggest real estate deal pulled off in
Arkansas this year was consummat
ed last week when J. N. Hout, mem
ber of the firm of Jackson County
Realty Company of Tuckerman, sold
the Clover Bead farm to Slayden
Bros, of Tuckerman. The considera- '
tion was $208,000.
The farm belonged to Captain
Tucker of Little Rock, having been
his property for the past fifty years.
The Clover Bend farm is one of the
finest properties in Arkansas or the
south. It is located in Lawrence
county, and has been for sale for
some time, but the value of the farm
and the fact that so large amount of
money was required to gain its pos-j |
session, made disposition of it a
slow matter.
Mr. Hout of Tuckerman, who con- j
summated the deal wthii few days j
after he listed the farm A. ’.s com- i
pany, is to be congratulated tor mak
ing such a sale, many real estate
men far and near having been trying
to do the thing for years.
(•BUY W. S. S.
for the Independent.
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