VOLUME XVIII. NO. IE6. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938. PRICE FIVE CENTS
SPEAKS BEFORE
JOINT SESSION
President Wilson Announces He Will
Go To France And Gives His
Reasons For Doing So.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. . 2.—In his ad
dress before a joint session of con
gress today President Wilson for
mally announced his intention to go
to Paris for the peace conference,
.-saying the allied governments had
accepted the principles enunciated by
Jhim for peace and it is his paramount
to be present. The president
.said he will be in close touch by ca
ble and wireless and that congress
will know all he does.
, Much of the address was devoted
to the railroad problem, for which
the president said he now had no so
lution to offer, but recommended a
careful study by congress, saying it
will be a disservice to the country’
(hd railroads to permit them to re
turn to old conditions under private
management without modifications.
No definite plan for reconstruction
can be outlined now, the president
said, but as soon as the armistice is
signed government control of busi
ness industries will be released as
far as possible. President Wilson
pnirf tribute to the people's conduct
in the war. He spoke particularly of
the work of the women. He again
appealed for woman suffrage.
WOULD PROHIBIT
COMMITTEE’S TRIP •
TO PEACE MEETING.
(By Tha* Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 2.— Senator
.Cummins today introduced a resolu
tion prohibiting a committee of four
democrats and four republicans from
fajAig sent to France for peace con
ference to keep the senate informed
'▼'on'Questions arising there.
CAPTAIN BLUE
TO HEAD BUREAU
OF NAVIGATION.
(By The Associated Press.)
, Washington, Dec. 2.—Captain Vic
ffe-iSr Bine, now commanding the super
•dreadnaught, Texas, has been select
ed for detail as chief of the bureau
af navigation with the rank of rear
admiral. Secretary Daniels announc
ed today that Blue's nomination was
-vent to the senate with that of Rear
Admiral Taylor for another tour of
irvatrnci'.nr of naw.
k. Many Arkansas college boys who
were in the Students’ Army Corps
and sent from the Arkansas Uni
versity, Hendrix college and Ouachi
ta college to Camp Pike for the offi
cers training school were returned to
those institutions last week by or
ders of the war department. To
ucher with several hundred others
they were given discharges and sent
tio various colleges in the south from
which they had come.
The goyemment has asked that all
persons writing letters to our boys
in foreign service write their full ad
dress on the envelope, that it may be
returned here if the boys have come
hpme or been removed from their
present location.
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WILL ESTABLISH
OMDYFIGTORY
S. Switow Expects to Have Plant
Heady Soon And Will Sell Pro
ducts To Jobbers.
S. Switow has severed his connec
tion with the Huguley-Jbnes Compa
ny to establish a candy factory in
Newport, according to an announce
ment made by Mr. Switown Monday,
and he hopes to have his plant, to be
ihe only one of its kind in this sec
tion of the state, in operation within
a very short time. The factory will
be located somewhere on Front
street.
Mr. Switow will manufacture can
dy exclusively for the jobbers, who
have assured him they will handle
his output' At the beginning peanut
candy wall be made, but later Mr.
Switow will take up the manufacture
of other kinds.
Mr. Switow is no stranger to the
candy business. In his former home
state, Kentucky, he conducted candy
; factories and is expert in that line
of endeavor. He says his enterprise
will be -permanent, in which connec
tion it is well to Announce that grow
ers of Spanish peanuts in Jackson
' county will find a ready market here.
There is money in peanuts, and far
mers would do well to give a few
acres to the crop each year.
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BOLSHEVIK ENTER
LEGATION AND RE
MOVE DOCUMENTS.
j London, Dec. 2.—Bolsheviks have
: entered the Norwegian legation at
I Petrograd and removed documents
belonging to Switzerland, whose in
terests are under the protection of
Norway, according to a Copenhagen
dispatch to the Mail. The Norwe
gian minister protested in vain. Nor
wegian newspapers are demanding
: that Norway break relations with the
Soviet government.
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j MANY JEWS KILLED
AND WOUNDED AND
MANY ARE HOMELESS.
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(By The Associated Press.)
Vienna, 'November 27.—Hundreds
are homeless at Lemberg as a result
of programs against the Jews. Many
are Reported killed and wounded, and
three churches and eighty houses
were burned. There is wholesale
looting. The trouble is said to be ex
tending to Jaroslav and Drohobycz
and to many towns in western and
eastern Galicia.
CESSATION OF WAR
WILL REDUCE GOV
ERNMENT EXPENSE.
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 2.—The cessation
of war will result in the reduction of
government expenses for the fiscal
year of 1920, starting next July, to
$7,443,415,838 from $24,599,000,000,
the amount appropriated for the
current year, according to tentative
estimates submitted to congress by
Secretary McAdoo.
KING OF MONTENE
GRO HAS BEEN DE
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POSED, SAYS PRAGUE.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Dec. 2.—King Nicholas, of
Montenegro, has been deposed by the
Montenegrin national assembly, ac
v,... io a message from Prague.
THe dispatch says the assembly de
clared for a union of Montenegro
with Serbia under King Peter.
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Use it as your salesman. It carries
news of the store into hundreds ol
Tomes.
FIRST SOLDIERS
i RETURNED HOME
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Two Ships Arrive At Atlantic Ports ,
| Bearing Non-Combats And
Many Wounded Men.
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(By The Associated Press.)
New York, Dec. 2.— The British
steamer Mauretania is in port with
the first large contingent of Ameri
can troops from overseas. The
troops are mostly non-combat troops
stationed in England and will be ta- j
ken to Camp Mills for demobiliza
tion. Four thousand were aboard the
Maui-etania. The hospital ship,
Northern Pacific, with 11,000
wounded has also docked at Hoboken.
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ATTEND MEETING
OF CITY COUNCIL.
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There will be an important meeting
of the city council tonight when rep
resentatives of the chamber of com
merce will appear before the body
and ask for the institution of certain
! measures that have .for their purpose
the well being of the city in general.
At a meeting of members last week
more than 100 signified their inten
| tion of attending the meeting to- 1
j night.
FULL OF U. S. SOLDIERS.
London, Saturday, Nov. 30.—The
enormous influx of American soldiers
and sailors on leave in London has
flooded all the hotel accommoda
tions in the city and during the past
three nights hundreds of American
soldiers and sailors have found them
selves at 10 or 11 o’clock at night
without a place to sleep.
Thles authorities appealed to the
American Red Cross for help and the
American Red Cross immediately
threw open several of its large head
quarters buildings and furnished the
men with blarikets and hot meals.
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Of the 63,000 officers and soldiers
given by Arkansas to the American
army, 42,000 participated in the
bloody battles of France and Flan
ders. This was probably the record
for any state in the Union according
to the statement made by Gov. Chas.
H. Brough Thanksgiving Day at the
j Camp Pike union prayer and praise
I service, which was the official victory
celebration of the cantonment. More
than 3,500 officers and enlisted men
participated and speeches were made
by Gov. Brough and Colonel Charles j
Miller, commanding officer. Col.!
Miller told of the effect of the dis-1
ciplinary, athletic and educational j
training of the soldier upon his pre- j
paration for peace and urged the
men who are so soon to enter civil
life anew to carry back home the j
lessons they have learned so as to be !
leaders for welfare in their commun- j
ities. Gov. Brough sounded a warn
ing against the menace of Bolshev-;
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PLOT TO RESTORE
KKO IS Fill
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Secret Service Agent Overhears Tel
ephonic Conversation and Dis
covers The Tint.
(By The Associated Tress.)
London, Dec. 2.—A plot to restore
imperialism and to secure the return
of Emperor William has been dis
covered in Berlin, according to an
Amsterdam dispatch to the Express.
According to the dispatch Field Mar
shal Von Macken*J~n, General Von
Born and General Count Sixt Von
Arnim are the chief men behind the
plot. The plot collapsed, owing to
the fact that a secret service agent j
overheard a telephone conversation. |
Many arrests have been made.
HOXIE M \N IS PROBABLY
FATALLY SHOT BY WIFE, i
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Hoxie, Dec. 1.—Louie Biancbi, a j
mechanic employed at the Missouri
Pacific shops here, was shot in the
breast near the heart and probably
fatally injured this morning by his
wife, following a difficulty between
them. Dr. Thomas, after attend
ing thp wounded man, believes that
he is Heeding internally. Many ru
mors are afloat concerning the cause
of the shooting. One reason advanc
ed is that Bianchi had chastised his
child, and the act was resented by his
wife. Bianchi is alleged to have said
after the shooting that his wife beat
him to the gun. No arrests have
been made.
AMERICANS STILL
FIGHT IN RUSSIA
Archangel, .Saturday, Nov, 30.—*
The Russo-American forces, continu
ing their advance u, the Pinega riv
er over ice and snow covered roads,
have captured, the town of Krapagor
skoi, 130 miles from the town of Pin
ega, after a fight w;th the Bolshe
viki. This place since the organiza
tion of the new government of Arch
angel was a Russo-allied provision
depot, but it was raided and captured
fey the Bolsheviki and since then had
been the scene of much partisan
fighting.
A patrol of 70 Americans scouting
yesterday along the Vaga river south j
of Shengursk encountered a 10-fold
superior force of Bolsheviki, includ
ing cavalry and infantry, with many
machine guns. The Americans were '
surrounded, but fought their way j
out, losing a lieutenant and 12 men
killed.
ism and said that the sound morale
built up for Camp Pike soldiers would
be a bulwark protecting Arkansas:
against its spread. The big gather
ing was held at the Y. M. C. A. au
ditorium which was appropriately
decorated for the occasion, and every
capjp activity participated without
regard to sect or creed.
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LOCAL GIRL FIRST
TO ADOPT ORPHAN
Bess Sisson Will Care For Father
less French Girl, Marking First
Subscriber of Campaign.
This week has been set aside as
“The Fatherless Children of France
Week,” and Jackson county’s quota
is 71. Already about one-third that
number has been subscribed, but
during the present week the cam
paign, in charge of Mrs. C. M. Blrwin,
will be carried out energetically in
Newport and other points of the
county. Bess Sisson, the little
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L). Sis
son, was the first to adopt an orphan
today, and this patriotic example
should not only be followed by other
little folks, but by the grownups and
organizations as well.
To care for a fatherless child in
France one only has to pledge ten
cents per day, $3 per .month, or
$36.50 a vear. The term of adoption
is one year. If an individual adopts
an orphan, monthly payments are al
lowed, but if an organization of per
sons makes an adoption, the payment
of the entire $36.50 is required. Per
sons wishing to join this worthy
movement will please make out
checks payable to Morehead Wright,
treasurer, and. send them to Mrs. C.
M. Erwin of Newport.
Already three counties of the state
have gone over the top with their
quotas, but Jackson county is not
one of them yet. There are many
persons and organizations in New
port that will surely aid in the cam
paign, as it is a .most commendable
one, and one that does not call for any
extreme sacrifice.
For most of us there is a peculiar
fascination about the word recon
struction. We hear it daily on every
lip," through the power of the press
and read of it in most of the worth
while war books.
It recalls to us our childhood days,
when, sitting on the nursery floor
with our little blocks, we b> :lt unto
ourselves houses, towers a i towns, j
and peopled them with inhabitants i
of our imagination.
Suddenly some thoughtless nurse
or an older brother would! rush care
lessly through the room and the re
sult of our labor would be in ruins.
But if we were the right kind of
children we quickly dried our tears,
quelled the anger in our hearts, and
started to rebuild our shattered build
ings, carefully Choosing the bfest raa
n 1 4-nof urn ci lies I
• There is going on today the great
est piece of reconstruction work that
the world has ever dreamed of and
few there are who really know or
recognize its importance.
The fair fields of France are flood
ed with the blood of her sons. Her
churches, towns and cities have been
crushed beneath the ruthless heel of
the Hun, and little children are weep
ing bitterly in their homes for the
sound of their fathers’ voices.
The mothers, torn with grief and
paralyzed with fear, are unable alone
to face the future.
Given a chance for the normal
homelife and a good education, these
children will become the cornerstone
of the new France which is to rise
from the ashes of desolation and
shine once more a star in the firma
ment of a higher civilization.
We cannot afford to lose France
from among the nations of the earth.
She has been our inspiration for cen
turies in art, science, music and lit
erature. The spiritual heights to
which she has risen in this world
crisis causes us to bow low before
tier in reverence and admiration.
And so in this sympathetic country
of ours there has grown up a really
?reat organization called the Father
less Children of France. Through it
any one person or group of people for
a small sum may save and protect a
child in France. The gift goes direct
from the giver to the recipient. To
the child it is the difference between [
hope and despair and becomes a bond,
of sympathy and friendship between j
It and the donor now and in the fu- (
ture.
Margaret Deland, in her article
‘War Time Reflections in Paris”
(Harper’s Magazine for July), quotes
a Frenchman as saying: “Oh, you
Americans have not come too late.
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AMERICAN ARMY
NOW II GERMANY
Demonstrations, Either Friendly or
Hostile, Did Not Mark Army's
Entrance To Country.
(By The Associated Press.)
With the American Army of Occu
pation, Sunday, Dec. 1.—No demon
strations, either friendly or hostile,
marked the entry of Major General
Dickman’s army into Germany to
day. The frontier was crossed early
in the day, and by nightfall the
Americans had moved forward 12
miles, reaching Ragden on the left
and Saarholzbach on the right. The
line extended along the Saar river
and through Saarburg and treves.
MEMORIAL SERVICE
AT ELKS HOME WAS
LARGELY ATTENDED.
Quite a good many persons attend
ed tRe Zl' s’ Memorial service at the
Elks Home Sunday afternoon, when
a splendid program was carried out.
The musical program, which was in
charge of Mrs. Maude JReamey, was
excellent, solo numbers by Mrs. Chas.
P. Bandy and Troy Thompson being
especially enjoyed.
A biographical sketch of the life of
Judge M. M. Stuckey was given by
Hon. S. D. Campbell. Roy D. Camp
bell, who was to have appeared with
a biography of B. J. parter, a de
ceased member whose home was at
Cotton Plant, was unable to be pres
ent. Hon Jos. M. Stayton gave a
biography of the life of Adam Lock-—m
aid, and Mayor C. M. Erwin a sketch
of the life of Fred R. Suits. Judge
Dene H. Coleman of Batesville deliv
ered the general eulogy.
J. Q. Blackwood filled the Exalted ~"
Ruler’s station as master of crepionT
ies in a> very creditable manner.
Each talk by these able men was
touching and appropriate, duly com
memorating the lives of noble and
greatly loved brothers of Elkdom
who have answered the final roll tall
this year.
You may still help us if you ever
really get in. But have no fear, Ma
dame, have no fear; we shall never
give up while there are any of os
left!"
Then he added, his voice dropping to
a whisper, “But there are very few
of us left.”
Let the brave pathos of those
words sink deep into every American
heart. It is true that there are few
of the fathers left, but, thank God,
there are still the children, and the
work we have to do is to fit them to
fill the places left empty by heroic
deeds.
Is it not worth while trying to re
build, not merely a church or a village
or a town, but to reconstruct a great
nation ?
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