VOLUME XVIII. NO. 4. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY. APRIL 23. 19U. PRICE FIVE CE
HUN SUB BASES
Admiralty Announces Raids Were
Made On Ostend and Becbruggs
Today.
Associated "Press Dispatch.
London, April 23.— British naval
forces raidid German submarine
bases at Ostend and Zeebruggs to'day,
the admiralty announces.
The admiralty reports that, ac
cording to incomplete information,
the raid met with a reasonable meas
ure of success. Five old cruisers
loaded with concrete for blocking the
channels, were run aground, blown
up and abandoned by the crews.
Sir Eric Geddes, first Lord of the
Admiralty, announced in the House
of Commons that in all probability
the entrance to the Bruges Canal has
been blocked effectively in conse
- quence of the naval raid. Geddes an
nounced while the operation was in
progress British parties were landed
to distract the enemy. The officer
w|)> developed the scheme of attack
was killed. Two of the blockading
ships were sunk at the entrance of
the canal. Piling behind a mole at
Beebrugge was blown up by an Os
selte submarine filled with explosive.
One enemy destroyer was torpedoed
at Zeebruge.
Late Wire Briefs
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, April 23.—After a
spirited debate in the senate to favor
the declaration of war against Tur
key and Bulgaria resolutions design
ed to initiate such declarations went
over without action until tomorrow.
Washington, April 23.— Leading
representatives of the automobile in
i dustry were in conference today with
'tfc» fuel administration and war in
dustries board, discussing a propos
al for the further curtailment in the
manufacture of pleasure cars.
Washington, April 23.— The Fed
eral Trade Commission today made a
complaint charging unfair methods
of competition to the American To
bacco Company. It is alleged estab
lishment of resale prices is the basis
of complaint.
Jefferson City, Mo., April 23—Gov.
Gardner announced today that the
appointment of David R. Francis,
now' ambassador to Russia, to suc
ceed late Senator Stone, had been
decided upon, but said Secretary
Lansing advised against such action.
No ^election has yet been made.
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PROPOSALS HE
BEEN COMPLETED
Com mt tees of the State Constitution
al Convention Are In Session On
ly Five Days.
Special to Independent.
Little RocL;, April 23.— The com
mittees of the Constitutional conven
tion $er,e in session just five days.
Their proposals have been completed,
and submitted to President Tom Me
haffy, to be turned over to the com
mittees on codification and phrase
ology, which will put them into shape
for the consideration of the conven
tion when it reassembles in July.
President Mehaffy says that he con
siders the work done by the commit
tees as very thorough and conscien
tious, and that the proposed constitu
tion has many improvemnts over the
present document.
There are a few outstanding feat
ures of the constitution upon which
all appear agreed. Chief of these is
a change of the term of office for all
county district and state officers
from two to four years. The judi
ciary Committee provides that jus
tices of the supreme court shall serve
eight years and chancellors six
years.
■f Among the features of the propos
als in the hands of President Mehaf
fy are the following: .
For quadrennial sessions of the
legislature, the sessions to continue
at fin.rfnvs ami the members to re
ceive $6 a day for their services
while in actual session.
That the senate be reduced from
35 members to not less than 18 nor
more than 25, and the house of rep
resentatives from 10o to not less than
35 nor more than 50.
Until otherwise provided for, one
senator is to elected from each of the
present judicial circuits as now con
stituted, and one representative from
each of the present senatorial dis
tricts.
The office of comissioners of mines,
manufactures and agriculture is to be
divided, and provision is made for the
commissioner of mines, mining and
manufactures, and commissioner of
agriculture and horticulture.
No restriction shall hereafter be
placed upon the right of suffrage or
holding office on account of sex.
Strict regulations are provided
that, it is believed, will make state
wide prohibition absolutely puncture
proof.
The contract rate of interest is to
be reduced from 10 to 8 per cent, but
whether illegal contracts shall be
penalized by the forfeiture of inter
est and principal, as now provided, or
of interest only, is still a mooted
point.
A law for the protection of bank
deposits shall be passed.
Provision is made for a board of
pardons, consisting of state officers,
also a budget committee of state of
ficers.
The Oregon plan of initiative and
referendum is adopted with a few
minor changes. Counties are not
given the power of initiative. The
recall was rejected.
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rruviDiuii la tiicAv*v,
ment of laws providing for a gradu
ated land tax.
The salary of the governor is rais
ed to $7,500, and the salaries of
other state officers are raised, until
they may be fixed by the legislatuie.
Cities are given the power of is
suing bonds for internal improve
ments, upon vote of the people.
All warrants hereafter issued shall
be numbered consecutively and re
deemed in the order of their issuance.
Taxation for highways connecting
county seats shall be assessed
against both personal and real prop
erty. , ..
The legislature is given authority
to enact a workmen’s compensation
law.
Provision is made for the office 01
lieutenant-governor, who shall be
president of the senate, and become
governor in the event of the disabil
ity of that official.
Absolute prohibition of all local
legislation, where a general law will
serve the purpose is provided.
The operation of no general law
shall be suspended for the benefit of
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MEN NEHR (PIES
Belief Is Expressed That the Ger
mans Will Not Delay the Resump
tion of Fight Much Longer.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, April 23.—New thrusts
by the Germans are still held in
abeyance, but it is believed the Ger
mans will not delay the resumption
of fighting much longer.
Meanwhile the allied forces are
making ready for defenses.
The enemy is massing large bod
ies of troops southwest of Ypres.
Continuing their raids in several
sections, both on the northern and
southern battlefields and in the cen
ter, the British have further im
proved their poisitions around Ro
becq.
On the Picardy battlefield the Ger
mans are showing increased activity
north of the Somme river to Albert.
It is not improbable that the Ger
mans will attack simultaneously
against the British lines in Flanders
and those directly north of the Som
me river in an effort to wipe out the
strong Arras positions.
The Anglo-French continue to ha
rass the enemy. Thirty-seven air
planes of the enemy have been ac
counted for by allied aviators.
The Germans have not repeated
their attack on the German lines.
Fighting operations in Macedonia
are active, but evidently not on a!
large scale.
Relations between Germany and;
Holland are again reported to be near
a breaking point.
Don’t be a dead one. Advertise.
BRITISH LINES i
ABE IMPROVED.
Win In Local Operation and British j
Make Great Attack On Enemy
Positions In 12 Hours.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, April 23.—• It is officially
announced the British last night im
proved their line and took sixty pris
oners, by a local operation on the
Somme front, north of Albert. The
British also took prisoners on the
Flanders front and in the Robecq
Wytschaete and sectors.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Canadian Army Headquarters in
France—The Canadians during the
last twelve hours’ raided German
lines at seven places. They gassed
the enemy with thousands of shells,
swept his trenches with machine guns
and hammered their front line with
trench mortars.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, April 23.—A Reuter’s cor
respondent at the front reports the
British last night attacked on a front
o fa thousand yards north of Albert,
advancing to a depth of two hundred
and fifty yards.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, April 23.—A diplo
matic dispatch from France reports
serious food riots in Galicia, Austria.
Railroad men working on the
White River division of the Missouri ,
Pacific have bought $52,000 worth of
Liberty Bonds. Of this amount sec- ■
tion men, bridge men, station agents ;
and pumpmen bought $22,000 of the
bonds. 1
ARGENTINA AND
URUGUAY TO WAR
Are Expected to Declare War Against
Germany At An Early Date
According to Berlin.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, April 23.—• Uruguay and
Argentina are expected to declare
war against Germany at an early
date, according to Berlin advices, for
warded by the Amsterdam corres
pondent to the Exchange Telegraph.
CASUALTY LIST
HAS 43 NAMES
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, April 23.— Today’s
casualty list contained forty-three
names. Two were killed in action,
one died of wounds, four died of dis
ease, nine were severely wounded
and twenty-seven slightly wounded.
A Rome dispatch reports another
wholesale mutiny of German U-boat
crews.
The government is arranging to
test a concrete ship which has been
completed.
Gautemala has followed the exam
ple of the United States and is at
war Avith Germany..
A plot is being hatched in Berlin,
a report says, to deliberately force
Holland into the war.
Rains during the past week have
greatly aided crops in the northern
section of the state
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DGAINST BTS
State Council of Defense Approves
Model Ordinance For Use In
Cities and Towns.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April ia.—The cam
paign against the vagrants and the
idler, both white and negro, is being
continued by the State Council of De
fense. The common report is that on
account of the unprecedented high
wages that are being paid, many ne
groes make enough in three days to
last them a week ojr two weeks and
that they will not work until that is
gone. J
Frank Pace, a member of the state
council, has drawn up a model ordi
nance, which town and city councils
throughout the state will be request-,
ed to pass. It provides that any per
son found within the city of T. it tie
Rock, who is able-bodied an.; . ore
than 14 years of age, who hj. no
regular home and no visible met ns of
support and who has no regular em*
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employment, be treated as a vagram.;
that all keepers or exhibitors o: any
gaming table, bank or gambling de
vice and that all personB v;ko go
about from place to place tr. 'he
purpose of gaming be treatec to
grants. The fine for any or
guilty of vagrancy shall be net
than $10 and more than $20 r im
prisonment, in case this is i ': . , ';«d
shall be for not more than ^ s.j:. J
In default of payment, or W,c: • ;!
punishment by imprisoning; \.hc
mayor shall order the vat ‘.t t>v
work on the streets of the c y, "‘1.. i
vagrant to be paid $1 a day vn il I;
works out his sentence or pays he
fine and the costs in the cas- tbs
follow upon conviction.
HIGH SCHOOL CELEBRAT 3,
A jubilee meeting was held be
high school auditorium yes . \y
morning by the pupils of the .. , .trV
grades for the winners in the i; . r
school contests that were held here
Friday and Saturday. This associa
tion comprises about 20 of the best
schools in this section of the state.
Pupils winning for Newport were:
Helen McDonald in reading; Free
man Irby in declamation; Eleanor
Sink, in piano; Kate Reamey in
violin; Miss Clyde Wood in voice;
Adeline Pate in map drawing; Min-. ^
nie Frank Hays and Myrtle Farmer i
in spelling; Elizabeth Gregg in com? ' 'VM
position, and Buckler Patton, Free- '
man Irby, James Grubbs and Joe
Chase in athletics.
W. C. T. U. PROGRAM.
A meeting of the W. C. T. U. will
be held with Mrs. M. A. Dorsey Wed
nesday afternoon at 3:30. The socie
ty has adopted a French orphan and
its care is one of the principal feat
ures of business to be gone over. It
is also a time for paying of dues.
The following attractive program
has been arrangel:
Piano—Miss Rowena Campbell.
Violin—Miss Minnie Bee Sink.
Song—Mrs. Adam Lockard.
Song—Miss Elise Hooker.
Talk—“The Care of an Orphan.”—*
Mrs. M. A. Dorsey.
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