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.fibert; Man Between 18 and 45, Inclusive, Who Has Not Already Done So, Must Register Thursday, Sept, i2, L
VOLUME XVIII. NO. ILL NEWPORT. ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS
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BUT NONE LOST
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TRANSPORT SAFELY BEACHED,
SAYS REPORT.
German Submarine Torpedoes An
American Troop Ship Two Hun
dred Miles From Coast Last
Friday.
NO MEN ARE FROM ARKANSAS.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Tuesday.—A troop ship
f with 2,800 Americans aboard was tor
pedoed 200 miles from shore Friday
afternoon. All hands were saved
ttrhon fho chin wnc hpflphp.H. Thp VPS
sel was a member of a large convoy.
None was injured by the explosion
of the torpedo, and all aboard were
taken off by American and British
destroyers, many clambering down
ropes to the destroyers. There was
no panic. Many of the troops were
from Chicago and Cleveland. A
large percentage of them were fac
tory hands of foreign extraction.
Several soldiers told The Associat
ed' Press they saw the submarine
when it lifted clear out of the water,
after ore depth of the depth bombs
exploded, wheil*ifc disappeared.
Great excitement prevailed in New
ark during the before daylight hours
Tuesday morning until a short time
before noon of that day when it was
discovered that a wagon cage con
taining one of A1 G. Barnes’ big ti
gers had been left in that town. The
cage rolled off the train as the circus
passed through Newark on its way to
Batesville from Newport. It is said
that nearly every dog in Newark
■“treed” the tiger in its cage, and a
great number of people witnessed
the sight with interest. When day
light came the circus manager at
Batesville was notified of his loss and
a man drove to Newark in an auto
mobile, released the tiger from its
cage, placed the animal in the back
seat of the car annd was its compan
ion overland to Batesville.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Brundidge, Dr. Jno.
H. Dye, Mrs. J. S. Sanford and Mrs.
W. M. Wilson of Searcy, who accom
panied the remains of Mrs. Hattie
Johnson to this city for burial Tues
day, returned home on the afternoon
train. The three ladies were guests
while here of Mrs. W. A. Rossington
and Miss Lizzie Gullette.
Mrs. W. A. Billingsley is busy on
her return home in looking after the
moving of the Red Cross work rooms
from the school building, where the
workers have been all summer. The
surgical dressing rooms are in the
Stayton building on Hazel street, out
the sewing room location has not yet
been decided upon.
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NEWPORT WILL
SUPPORT FUND
Local Business Men Are Responding
Generously to Call For Industrial
School Donations.
Newport business men and others
have become thoroughly aroused to
the great importance which attaches
to the proposed industrial school for
Arkansas, and today they responded
generously to the call for donations to
be used in the building of such an in
stitution in the state. It is believed
at least $1,500 will be raised. ,
The following were appointed by
Mrs. C. M. Erwin to solicit donations:
Mrs. T. M. Johnson, Mrs. C. P.
Bandy, Mrs. A. C. Wilkerson, Mrs. R.
B. Hooker, Mrs. John Stayton, Mrs.
Chas. Hite.
An extensive program and rally
will be carried out in Tuckerman to
night to arouse interest in the cam
paign for the school. Miss Dove Er
win will deliver a talk on the subject
at the meeting, and the citizens of
Tuckerman are expected to raise
quite a sum for the movement.
Newport must not allow Tuckerman
to forge ahead in this undertaking.
HUN REGIMENT
REFUSES TO GO
Twenty-Fifth German Regiment Is
Reported to Have Mutinied At
Cologne August 31.
(By The Associated Press.)
Amsterdam, Sept. 11.—A German
regiment, the twenty-fifth, mutinied
at Cologne August 31, according to
The Telegram .
An eye witness to the incident says
the troops of one regiment refused to
fire on the soldiers of another when
ordered to force the refractory troops
to board a train for the front. A de
tachment of some guards composed of
youths undertook the task. Eleven
youths were killed and many wound
| ed in the clash which followed.
| NO PAPER TOMORROW.
I There will be no issue of the Inde
pendent tomorrow on account of the
holiday which will be generally ob
served by Newport business men.
However, The Associated Press bulle
tins will be posted as usual for the
benefit of those who will want to fol
low the events of the war tomorrow.
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HICKORY GROVE.
The weather is some cooler now
than it has been.
Quite a number of the people have
already begun to pick cotton.
Otho Craig and family of Elgin vis
ited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R.
E. Sorrells the latter part of the
week.
Several of the girls of this place
went kodaking Sunday afternoon.
Quite a number of the people of
Hickory Grove attended the big show
at Newport Monday.
There was a card received last
week from Roy Williamson stating
that the ship on which he sailed had
i arrived safely overseas.
E. A. Mauldin and family of Elgin
were visitors at the home R. E. Sor
rells Saturday and Sunday.
Little Maxine Sorrells went home
with E. A. Mauldin’s family Sunday
and will spend a week with them.
Several of the young boys here at
tended the protracted meeting near
Mr. Templeton’s Sunday night.
Miss Irene Williamson left Sunday
for Jonesboro to enter school for the
next term.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Davis and wife
of Grassy has recently moved to Cord.
Elmer Hunter has recently pur
chased a new Ford.
Little Miss Mildred Sorrells, who
has been very sick with typhoid, is
reported better.
“Dash, determination and daring—
also efficiency”—That’s what our
boys at the front are doing. Keep ’em
go'ug! War Savings is a message to
jthe kaiser that will “get over.”
No Business Will Be Carried On In
City While Work of Registration
Goes On.
Tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 12,
which is Registration Day, will be
fittingly observed by every business
firm in Newport, which will be closed
between the hours of 7 a. m. and 9
p. m., the period of time during which
thirteen million men between the
ages of 18 and 45, inclusive, are ex
pected to fill out their questionnaires
preparatory to placing their services
at the disposal of the government.
The Independent has not been in
formed of any particular program or
demonstration scheduled for tomor
row in the city, but as there will be a
large number of our people called up
on to register the day is expected to
be one filled with activity anyway.
BATTLE AXE.
Lee Doyle and wife with their baby
boy, Lee, Jr., are down from Walnut,
Ridge for a short visit with Mrs. j
Doyle’s father, C. C. Williamson.
Mrs. Ethel Young, formerly Miss
Ethel Davis, now of Des Moines,
Inwn with Vipr hnshanH throiich
in a car to visit her sisters and other
relatives, and intends before return
ing to Iowa to visit her mother, Mrs.
F. C. Richie.
Was misinformed last week as to
point visited by R. F. Tyer and fam
ily, having reported them gone to
Wynne, when their destination was
Monette, to visit W. L. Hinson. They j
returned last week, accompanied by |
Mrs. Julia Hinson, who went, over j
with Will Hinson as he returned from j
| his visit here several weeks ago.
J. W. C. Gardner and wife went up
to Batesville last week to arrange for j
moving thither. Have rented a home i
there and are preparing to go up last!
1 of this week and occupy.
| Rev. T. H. Wright is moving to his I
new home near the Yellow School
House to occupy a house prepared for
i home on Chas. Penix’s place. Brother j
! and Sister Wright are good neighbors
! and Battle Axe folks give them up
with reluctance. i
H. S. Hanley is to occupy the
house now being occupied by Mr.
Gardner.
L. C. (Comeil) Gulley, recently |
connected with the Little Rock post
office, is now in France in the em
ployment of the government in post
office work. His address is Ameri
can P. O. No. 755, France, where he'
would be glad to get a letter from j
any of his numerous Arkansas
friends. He wrote, Aug. 8th, a very
interesting letter to his uncle, J. W.
C. Gardner, giving some thrilling ex
periences he has been having on “the
front.”
Infant of two weeks of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Johns died Saturday
night.
FIRES BURRING
IN PETROGRAD
IS TR[ REPORT
MASSACRES OF PEOPLE IN THE
STREETS ALSO REPORTED.
Secretary Lansing Receives Reliable
Report From Christiana of Grave
Disorders In the Streets of
Petrograd.
MESSAGE DID NOT GIVE CAUSE
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, Sept. 11.—A dispatch
from the American legation at Chris
tiana says reliable information 'has
reached there that Petrograd is burn
ing in twelve places and that there
was an indiscriminate massacre of
people in the streets. Secreta
ry Lansing, announcing receipt of
the message, said it did not indicate
whether the massacre was organized
or merely the result of a general
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CHAIRMAN ISSUES
CALL FORJAtETING
All Workers For the Liberty Loan
Must Meet Mr. Hillhouse Here
Next Sunday.
Hon. Geo. A. Hillhouse, chairman
of the Jackson County Liberty Loan
Organization, issues the following
through the Independent;
“All committees of the Fourth Lib
erty Loan organization for Jackson
county are requested to meet Sun
day, September 15, at 2 p. m., in the
court house in Newport to receive in
structions. The plan is different
from that of the Third Loan, and ev
ery member of each committee must
be present.
“This means the committee of IOC
who were appointed by Mr. Compton
to assist the chairman, the bankers,
publicity department, director of
sales, erecutive, and the ladies of the
different townships.
“We have no room for slackers in
the Fourth Loan organization. Be
on hand promptly.
G. A. Hillhouse,
“Chairman Liberty Loan Organiza
tion Jackson County.”
The Independent works for you,
Uso it as your salesman. It carries
news of the store into hundreds of
homes.
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COURT HOLIDAY
IEIEJMNSW
Court Officials Will Observe Registra
tion Day and Grand Jury Quits
Until Monday.
Circuit court will adjourn this af
ternoon until Friday morning on ac
count of Thursday being Registration
Day, which will be observed both by
the public and the court officials.
The grand jury, which has yet re
turned no bills of indictment, took a
recess this afternoon and will resume
work Monday morning.
The jury in the case of J. R. Hen
ley vs. Hardy Adams returned a ver
dict this morning, awarding the
plaintiff damages in the amount of
$250. The suit was the result of
damages which Mr. Henley claimed
to have sustained when Mr. Adams
struck the former’s car with his own,
I r.oi' ViDinrr hiiHlv tnrn nn it. was '
alleged.
This afternoon the case of Henry
Hagaman vs. Wm. Biggs, a damage
suit for slander, is in progress. Hag
man is represented by L. L- Campbell
and Biggs by C. M. Erwin.
DAY DESIGNATED
FOR DELINQUENTS
Those Who Have Failed to Submit
Questionnaires In Arkansas May
Do So On Sept. 30.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Sept. 11.—Gov. Brough
has issued a proclamation setting
apart Sept. 30 as the date on which
all delinquents shall present them
selves to their local boards for regis
tration, executing their question
naires, or to undergo their physical
examination. The total number of
delinquents in Arkansas is 4,921. The
words “slacker,” “slicker,” and “de
serter,” are a reproach to the state,
and the governor insists that “it is
necessary to remove this stigma from
the escutcheon of the fair name of
Arkansas.
Phillips county successfully tried
out a plan of issuing a general call
for delinquents, which resulted in
over one hundred reporting, of whom
85 were sent to Camp Pike. The gov
ernor says:
“I hereby call upon every regis
trant who shall have heretofore,
through failure to keep in touch with
his local board, been classed as a de
linquent or deserter, to present him
self on this date to the local board
nearest his present residence in or
der that his present status may be de
termined and proper action on his
case may be taken. I most earnestly
appeal to the loyalty and patriotism
of the good citizens of Arkansas to
see that all the delinquents present
themselves to their local boards on or
before Sept. 30 in order that the good
name of Arkansas may be cleared
from the stain of draft evaders. I
appeal to the newspapers and other
agencies to give this the widest pub
licity.”
IS PLEASED WITH
MANNER IN WHICH
WOUNDED CARED FOR
(By The Associated Press.) ^
Paris, Sept. 11.—Surgeon General
Gorgas of the United States Army,
after an inspection of Paris military
hospitals where Americans are under
going treatment, expresses to a rep
resentative of The Associated Press
his satisfaction with the manner in
which the wounded are being cared
for.
NOTICE.
The postoffice will be closed from
12 m. to 5:00 p. m. on Thursday, Sep
tember 12th, on account of Patriotic
j Day. The usual morning and after
j noon deliveries will be made by car
riers.
Geo. R. Hays, P. M.
Did you read that America is the
leciding factor? Coming from Lord
Milner this statement is momntuous
and America is not coming in-—she
has come in—America is in.
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FORWARD TODAY
IN Of SECTOR
AND FRENCH CAPTURE TOWN
OF TRAVECY.
The Holding Of Travecy By The . 1
French Against German Coun- \:|||
ter-Attacks Would Mean Out*
flanking La Fere.
HUN RESISTANCE STIFFENS
(Associated Press War Summary.) j||
The British are again moving for- 1 ;'|M
ward today toward the Hindenbuurg
are reported to have captured thei
town of Travecy on the Hindenburg
line two miles north of La Fere, the^ j,;||.
northern defense of the St. Gobmin «|i ’
bastion. The holding of Travecy will |
result in the outflanking of Lft' Fere. 2
Haig’s troops are reported to hew ^
gained a foothold in the towns of
Pieziere and Epehy, two and one-half iii
miles from the Hindenburg line 4$ ]
posite Lecatelet. German resistance ^ .
in the latter sector took the form ©f , j
strong counter-attacks at GoubW- ' !
court last night, but the enemy wa* )
completely repulsed except at ime Jgi
point where a lone British post wae ||
gained. The enemy is also attacking
desperately against the French am§
Americans where the line runs n©rti(*|f| 4
from the Aisne toward the St. Gobaik Jg *
massif. These attacks so far haw :
been fruitless. |
(By The Associated Press.) J*
With the British Armies in Franes^'^p Sj
Sept. 11.—The British today galn#d^,|t;\) *
footing in Pieziera and Epehy on &i|l !
railroad between Koysel and Mareenjg*..;:’ 1
(By The Associated Press.) !
With the American Force* on that 4 1
Aisne, Sept. 11.—The Germans
evening are still attacking on
Mont Rouge plateau with deepantfyS ,
determination. The losses of the • ]
emy during the past.three days haw||fj
been appalling.
(By The Associated Press.) 1
London, Sept. 11.—Field Marshal’ i| i
Haig reports the British line wai%^» 1
vanced slightly last night in the 1
gion of Vermand, northwest of S&'V*5 I
Quentin. German counter-attack* |
the region of Ecourt St. Quentin wafcjijji Jj
repulsed in stiff fighting. Shumpf <<§
fighting also occurred at GouarnfM ;
court. The Germans were beattak£p|j| jj
except at one point where one Britip|ra| ;|1
host remained in possession of
(By The Associated Press.) '■
Paris, Sept. 11.—The village of w
Travecy, near the southern end of thftf > 1
main Hindenburg line, has been cap- . I
tured by the French, according
reports received here. If the French, | |
hold Travecy the important enemy po* ; J 1
sition at La Fere, two miles south <|£ .jjl
lravecy, will oe virtuauy outiian*®u.c|«
During the month of August tit* ^
French bombardment airplane* j
dropped 629 tons of projectiles, says
the war office announcement.