VOLUME XVIII. NO. 7. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1918. PRICE FIVE CE' Via
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ENEMY GAINS FOOTING AT KEMMEL Nil .
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ALLIED FORCES
MEET SUPERIOR
NUMBERS THEBE
FIGHTING IN THE KEMMEL
AREA CONTINUES.
Flanders Again Is the Scene of the
Battle Now At Its Height—The
Germans Move Battle Front
to Northern Area.
FIGHTING SOUTH OF SOMME
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, April 26.—The war office
announces the Germans have ob
tained a footing at Kemmel Hill, on
the northern battle front. Allied
forces were engaged all day yester
day on this front from Bailleul to
; Holbeck, a distance of ten miles,
against superior enemy forces and
finally were compelled to give
ground. The fighting continues.
Associated B*ess Dispatch.
Paris, April 26.—The war office
reports heavy artillery fighting
south of the Somme.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, April 26.—Flanders is
again the scene of the full tide of
battle. Unable to make appreciable
progress against the British and
French and American forces in Pi
cardy, the Germans swung their at
tacks to the northern battlefield.
The enemy is hurling thousands of
troops against Mount Kemmel and
other hills to the east and north of
Ypres. The British are standing on
0 the second defense line fighting the
Germans tenaciously.
South of the Somme the Germans
were driven from the village of Vil
lers Brettoneaux with a loss of five
hundred prisoners. Further south
the enemy is holding Hangard.
In Woeve, near Reginieville, the
French repulsed a strong German at
tack. Reginieville i$, five miles
northeast of Seicheprey, where the
enemy attacked Pershing’s men Sat
urday.
Paris last night reported the arriv
al of 128 American wounded and sick
at a hospital near the. rear lines,
showing that Pershing’s men are
bearing their share of the burden in
the great battle.
It is announced complete success
attended the raid into the German
submarine base at Zeebrugge. The
channel was blocked and enemy de
fenses and shipping were damaged.
A change of the wind, enabling the
Germans to discover the raiders be
fore the task began, prevented a like
success at Ostend.
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EVERYBODY IS TO
CELEBRATE TODIT
i Big Parade and Speaking Program
Will Be Enjoyed When Business
Is Suspended This Afternoon.
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At 12 noon today ail the business
, houses of Newport closed their doors
and everybody made ready for the
big celebration of Liberty and the
: fact that Newport and Jackson coun
; ty have gone over the top in sub
scribing to Liberty.
At 1:30 o’clock the big parade will
form on Third street between the
court house and Episcopal church and
end at the high school campus, where
| a speaking program will be carried
out. Judge Dene H. Coleman and
Hon. Jos. M. Stayton will deliver ad
dresses.
Get in the parade, be patriotic and
celebrate.
THERE WAS NO FIRE— '
WAS JUST TESTING
A FIRE ALARM WIRE.
This morning about 7 o’clock when
the whistle at the electric light plant
let out its weird blasts there was a
wild rush for connection with the tel
ephone exchange, anxious voices in
quiring for information concerning
the location of the burning building,
etc. Relief came when it was an
nounced there was no fire.
You see a wire at the fire depart
ment connects the electric light plant,
so that when an alarm is turned in
at the station a switch is thrown
which notifies the plant of the fire.
An electrician at the station was
testing the wire this morning, hence
the erroneous blowing of the whistle.
There was no fire.
The Junior Auxiliary of St. Paul’s
church will meet with Mrs. T. J.
Gregg Saturday afternoon at 3 p. m.
All members of the Woman’s Auxil
iary and the mothers of the Junior
Auxiliary members are cordially in
vited to be present at the meeting.
Mrs. W. B. Hays, who attended the
annual conference of the Woman’s
Missionary society of North Arkan
sas, just held at Conway, is expected
home tomorrbw. The next confer
ence will be held at Batesville. Mrs.
Charles P. Bandy, who accompanied
Mrs. Hays, has gone to England to
visit her mother, Mrs. S. F. Marion.
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Great Wheat Stocks
Isolated.
It's the shortage in ships that
is putting the Allies ant! the
United States on wheat rations.
Great stocks of wheat are iso
lated in India, and Australia. At
great sacrifice in ship space and
use the Allies are forced to se
cure some wheat from Argentina.
On January l, Australia had
stored 100,000, (XX) bushels of
wheat that was ready for ex
port—but there were no ships.
Then came Ibe new crop with
an exportable surplus of 80,000.
000 bushels. Now Australia has
approximately 180,000.000 bush
els waiting for ships.
India, at the same time, had
70.000. 000 bushels of wheat
stored for export. During April
50.000. 000 bushels more out of
the new crop pill he added to
the pile.
Argentina closed the last ship
ping season with 11,000,000
bushels of wheat left in the
stock available for export. The
new crop will add 135,000,000 to
the left over.
It Is not a problem that the
wheat does not exist in the
world-4-!* is entirely a problem
of shipping, which has thrown on
America the obligation of divid
ing our stock with the Allies.
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FIGHTING PARSON
COMING SUNOIT
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Chaplain E. M. Reves Will Deliver
Address At the Methodist Church
At the Evening Hour.
Chaplain E. M. Reves of the 346th
Infantry will reach Newport Sunday
and deliver a sermon at the Metho
dist church at the evening service
hour. His subject will be “Lights
and Shadows of Camp Pike.”
Chaplain Reves, who is known as
the “Fighting Parson,” and who al
so is an Arkansas product, of whom
all Arkansas is proud, is remembered
as a member of a party of officers
who visited Newport some time ago
and delivered a brief address at the
court house. He is a convincing and
enthusiastic talker, and his coming
to Newport will be a welcomed treat.
Miss Novella Kirkland is at home
quite sick.
WILL REGISTER
IS REICR IGE
—
i House of Kepresentatives Passes Bill,
Which Will Go to Conference
At Once.
Washington, -April 25.—The house
late today adopted the senate reso
lution for the registration for mili
tary service of young men who have
| reached the age of 21 years since
June 5th last.
The measure now goes to confer
ence.
An amendment offered by Repre
sentative Hull of Iowa, and adopted
119 to 81, provides that men regis
tered under the bill shall be placed
at the bottom of the classes to which
they may be assigned.
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SANDY MILLED IS
KILLED DBENGINE
Porter On White River Railroad Pas
senger Train Is Horribly Man
gled Here This Morning.
Sandy Miller, a negro porter on
the White River railroad passenger
train, was killed here this morning
about 6 o’clock when the engine of
the passenger train ran over him,
cutting both legs off and otherwise
horribly mangling his body.
Miller was throwing a switch to
bring the engine out on the track
on which his train was waiting. The
engine struck him, knocking him
down, mangling the body in such a
manner that brought almost instant
death.
Washington, April 26—Today’s cas
ualty list shows 9 killed in action, 5
died of wounds, three of disease.
Thirty were wounded severely and
twenty-five slightly.
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.
Today’s Independent contains very
little matter of news interest on ac
count of the force having to rush
through the morning in order to cele
brate the half holiday this afternoon.
We will come back at you tomorrow
with a better paper.
Miss Bessie Watson, after attend
ing the National convention of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion at Washington City, is now en
joying a visit with Miss Ray Bran
denburg at Baltimore.
Miss Nita Belle Mock, of the East
Side school, has been Quite sick for
several days and unable to be at her
school work.
Max Gregg, of Harrisonville, Mo.,
is spending several days in our city
with his brother, T. J. Gregg, and
family.
Mrs. M. B. Hare, of Auvergne, was
here Wednesday night, going to Hot
Springs.
Dr. L. T. Slayden, of Tuckerman,
was a pleasant visitor to our city
yesterday.
Roy Barrett left last night for
Jonesboro to visit his parents.
To advertise it in the Independent
is to sell it—if it is something for
which live people find a need.
ALLIED FOOD SHIPMENTS
REACH LARGE TOTAL.
A general Idea of the quantity of
food sent to European allies by the
United States from July 1, 1914, to
January 1. 1918, is given by figures
just announced by the U. S. Food Ad
ministration. In that period the Unit
ed States has furnished eomplete year
ly rations for fw, 100,(133 people. In
addition there was enough extra pro
tein to supply this portion of the diet
for 22,194.570 additional men.
The total export of wheat and wheat
(lour to the three principal allies is
equivalent to about 3S4.000.000 bushels.
Pork exports for the 3>i years amount
ed to almost 2,000,000,000 pounds. Ex
ports of fresh beef totaled 443.484.41X)
pounds. Tlie amount of food exported
to Russia is negligible compared with
that sent to the western allies.
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SHIPMENT MADE
BY RED CRIES
A Total of 966 Knitted Garments
Have Been Shipped Thus Far
From Newport Chapter.
The following knitted gar. „nts
were shipped from the Newport Hen
Cross Chapter to St. Louis on April
‘24th, 1918, making the seventh ship
ment to go forth from here:
Auvergne, Mrs. Forrest BleukL”
chairman; 17 pairs socks, 10 swen,
crs, 3 pairs wristlets.
Olyphant, Mrs. Fannie Calhoun,
chairman; 9 pairs socks.
Eight Mile, Mrs. E. D. Ring, chair -
man; 5 pairs socks, 2 sweaters.
Tuckerman, Mrs. Joe Graham, chair
man; 26 pairs socks, 1 sweater, :.
pairs wristlets.
Shoffner, Mrs. 1). L. Shoffner,
chairman, 3 sweaters.
Newport, Mrs. O. W. Scarborough,
chairman, 43 pairs socks, 39 sweat
ers, 36 pairs wristlets.
1 195 garments in this shipment,
j makes a total of 966 knitted , .;ar
| ments sent to St. Louis fretn tho
' Newport Red Cross Chapter.
Mrs. O. W. Scarborough,
Chain-’.";-..
Mrs. T. J. Watson, Instru. tQt.
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Harmon Younger arrived ho as th
morning from Detroit, Mir iga
where he spent several days with, h 3
wife. He reports almost ev* fai
tory of any kind, and espec av
tomobile factories, m the h" 'g-hr
the government, making s lie
He also says the shipbuilding : ar'^
are especially active, all being liv
ed for two blocks around by soldier
and no one allowed to enter witiiou
a pass.
Aaron Rosenthal, of the dress
goods department at Wolff-Gold
man’s, is one of Jackson county’s se
cond selective draft boys, ani will
leave this evening for Camp ka.
He is a splendid young man i:
quite an artist at window decc ftg
and will be very much missed t'.i
employers as well a^ his fri' o
the store. He is one of fo who
have gone out from this hou m i
ell have proven patriotic young in*, n. ■
Lieutenant C. M. Revcs, the
j “Fighting Parson,” of Camp l ike.
| will conduct services at the Methodist
church Sunday night. Lieut. Roves,
who is one of the chaplains at Camp
Pike, is a very popular soldic
preacher, and is doing much wa.
J work over the state. ^
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