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OLUME XVII. NO. 297. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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GERMANS GAIN SOME GROUND
AT GREAT COST.
German Purpose Now Seems to Be to
Close In Within Angle Formed
By the Somme and Ancre Riv
era With Point At Amiens.
(PARIS IS AGAIN BOMBARDED.
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fWith the southwesterly thrust of
the German wedge into the allied
lines stopped short at Mont Didier,
the German purpose now seems to be
to close in within an angle formed
by the rivers Somme and Ancre
with point at Amiens, the allied sup
ply base. The Germans seem to have
gained some ground since yesterday
in their westward push toward Am
iens between Mont Didier and the
Somme, but Paris declares the enemy
was held firmly on the line at a point
which is less than twelve miles from
Amiens.
The gigantic conflict between the
Scarpe and Oise rivers has entered a
new phase. Repulsed in their efforts
to break through the center, the Ger
mans have turned attention to wings
of the salient in the allied lines, but
heavy fighting continues on most of
the fifty mile front. On the northern
1 flank Haig, although giving some
T ground, repulsed completely, es
pecially between Boisleux and Albert.
On the southern flank German gains
around Mont Didier were offset by
the French offensive south of Ngvon
and the repulse of heavy enemy at
tacks on the Oise.
Attention is divided between the
German attack along the Scarpe to
ward Arras and the probability of a
French movement south beginning a
counter offensive on a large scale.
Arras i3 one of the strongest points
on the British line. It is guarded on
the north by Vimy Ridge and on the
south by Wailly Ridge, while there
are strong hill positions to the east.
The attack continues with the British
withstanding enemy efforts gallant
j ly. East of the Oise, where along
the Scarpe the Germans were thrown
f back with heavy losses.
American troops are reported in
this sector and London newspapers
hint at a joint Franco-British com
mand on the western front with Gen
eral Foch given an important role.
Other fronts of the situation are
unchanged.
Associated Press Dispatch.
British Headquarters in France
March 29.—The Germans were able
to penetrate Marcelcave, twelve miles
east of Amiensr only by means oJ
heavy massed attacks late yesterday
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which forced the British back.
While intense fighting yesterday
and last night along the extended bat
tle front gave the Germans some fur
ther gains south of the Somme, and a
slight advance east and southeast of
Arras, along a greater part of the
line the assaulting enemy troops were
hurled back with heavy losses.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, March 29.—The war office
announces the British have main
tained their positions on the Somme
and gained ground at some places
by counter attacks. After holding
the line all day in the face of repeat
ed assaults they retired at some
points. The Germans suffered ex
ceedingly heavy losses.
The British retirement was only
a short distance from some advanced
positions. A number of prisoners
! and machine guns were captured by
, the British.
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[Associated Press Dispatch.
I Paris, March 29.—The offer of |
j Pershing placing the American ar- j
I my at the disposal of General Foch!
i has been submitted to the council at j
i the front according to ’L Information. J
Pershing is quoted as saying on his
[ visit to Foch yesterday, “I come to ]
! say to you that the American people J
j would hold it a great honor for our j
; troops were they engaged in the
I present battle, I ask it of you in my j
name, and that of the American peo
ple. All we have is yours to dispose
of as you will.”
' Associated Press Dispatch.
Paris, March 29—The war office an
nounces violent fighting continued ■
last evening and last night in the
region of Mont Didier. The French
held villages taken yesterday. De
I spite German counter attacks the
French captured Moncel. North of
| Mont Didier the French and British
held up the enemy thrust. The Ger
j man losses were extremely heavy.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Paris, March 29.— Gen. Pershing
was called to headquarters yesterday,
I according to information, and placed
j the disposal of the whole resources
of the American army for employ
ment in the battle now in progress.
<ssociated Press Dispatch.
Amsterdam, March 29.—The Ger
man supreme command is about to
deliver a new and mighty blow on an
other part of the front, according to
the Vossiche Zeitung of Berlin.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Paris, March 29.—Long range bom
bardment at Paris was resumed this
afternoon.
OVERTHETOPWITH
THE BESITIF LUCE
Two American Officers and Four
Men Remain In Enemy Trenches
Four Hours and Return Safely.
Associated Press Dispatch.
With the American Army in France,
Thursday—Two American officers
i and four men went over the top at
, daylight today, remained in the en
i cmy trenches four hours, gained in
, formation they sought and returned
, safely, a feat seldom accomplished.
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► Associated Press Dispatch.
, American Army in France, March
, 29.—Four prisoners were captured
► by Americans on the Toul front l^st
► night.
► PRICE CIRCULAR ISSUED.
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y Special to Independent.
► Little Rock, March 29.—The fuel
y administration yesterday issued an
» important price circular, fixing the
y rate that can be charged for coal
y throughout the state.
Salvation Army Girls
Work Nearest Trenches
(By George T. Bye, A Special Cor
respondent of the St. Loius Star.)
Paris, (Via London), March 20.—
Thp American general who first in
troduced me to the work of the Salva
tion Army was gracious enough to
have me for dinner before I spent a
night in the American trenches. The
dinner was a fair one and ended with
a fine applepie —the first pie I have
found in all Europe with the* crust
crisp and neatly kneaded, just like
mother’s kind back home.
“You must have conscripted the
chef of the Waldorf-Astoria and
brought him over with you,” I 3aid.
smacking my lips.
“No, we owe that pie to the Sal
vation Army,” he smiled, “just as we
owe a great deal of the contentment
of our men to the Salvation Army.”
“The Salvaton Army—from back
home—with tamborines and bass
drums ? ”
The general was smiling broadly
now, with the pleasure that goes with
telling good news. “That same Sal
vation Army,” he said. “Our men
in the trenches up here have found
their best friend in the Salvation
Army, and I say this without preju
dice against any other organization.
Their attitude toward the boys is that
of a mother. When it grows it’s go
ing to be the army’s “Big Mother.”
They treat every fellow, rough or re
fined, as if they loved him. You
have only to read the soldiers’, as we
do here in censoring the mail, to real
ize how deep in the hearts of our
men is the Salvation Army.
“Captain -, before you go
up frint with Mr. Bye tonight, take
him over to the Salvation Army hut,
please and let him have a talk with
the ensign and Miss Morgan.”
This was brigade headquarters, in
a deserted Lorraine village, where I
was stopping. Here the men in the
trenches came for a rest during their
relief periods. As we tumbled down
the road in the black night, the earth
shook occasionally with the violent
shock of an American battery going
off “in a bunch.” Ugly splashes of
light came with these gun bursts.
The Huns were sending nothing over
at the time so the road was not de
serted. We found clusters of Yanks
strolling along in the same direction
we were going. Intermittently we
could hear a sullen throbbing of dis
tant bombs. German bombs and the
English ones the Americans use.
In a large wrecked barn, covered
over with canvas and queerly lighted
by two large oil lamps, we found the
Salvation Army host to a chattering
crowd of our boys. David Belasco
could not have found lamps or rough
tables or devised a setting as grip
ping as this scene, nor could he imi
tate the realism of that disturbance
in the trenches just down the road*
Too close to the firing line to be
comfortable, here was a happy party
in full swing. The hut was nearly
filled to capacity with soldiers, each
telling of his trench experiences. Be
hind the counter were two smiling
women—American women undoubted
ly, joking with a dozen of our boys.
The talking near the door stopped
when we entered, then there was a
bit of chuckling. The captain left
me for a moment, and one smiling
Yank pressed forward and said, “Good
evening, sir, but would you mind op
ening your overcoat, sir. The boys
here would like to see how a human
figure properly dressed looks once
more. If you don’t mind—” I, of
course, quickly obliged them with a
fashion show.
“And how long is this place open?”
I asked them.
“All the time,” they answered.
This was their club. They could
come in at any hour and light up the
lamps. It wasn’t very classy, they
said, but it would be better when the
Salvation Army had more money to
spend.
“You ought to tell what fine work
these people are doing over here,”
one private from Brooklyn suggested.
“I don’t know what we would do
without them. Did you know this
was the last place down the road.
The Salvation Army is closer to the
trenches even than brigade headquar
ters.”
There were a number of “pans” in
sight. In them the two women make
cookies, doughnuts and pies for our
boys—the kind of things they like
to eat back home and that you can
not send over wrapped in packages
—and these Salvation Army huts are
the only places where they can be
found in Europe. On the day I was
there the two women had found time,
when not ministering to the men to
make 1,500 doughnuts, 2,500 cookies
and fifty pies, including countless
cups of coffee.
“The boys are just dear,” said the
Salvation Army lassie. “Of course,
they haven’t a very happy lot, poor
souls. It’s all so strange and horrible
to them. The ensign and I act to
ward them just like mothers.”
HOME GUARD HELD
MEETING AT COURT
HOUSE LAST NIGHT.
There was an enthusiastic meeting ol
the Newport Home Guard at the court
house last night, assembled to con
sider the perfection of a permanent
organization. A large number of the
members were present and all inter
ested in making the organization per
manent.
Short addresses were made by
Captain Hillhouse and Lieutenant
Martin, of the company, and a very
interesting, patriotic talk by Captain
| a. Kranz, of St. Louis, Mo.,* who ex
tended a special invitation to all the
members to attend the lecture by Dr.
Charles Wheeler at the court house
j tonight.
The meeting adjourned until Sun
day afternoon at 2:30, at which time
I every member is requested to be pres
I ent.__
MAJOR MASSIE IS
TO APPEAR HERE
Canadian Officer Just From the
Front Will Speak At Court House
Night of April 2.
Joseph M. Stayton, chairman of
the Council of Defense, announces
that Newport has been fortunate in
having secured the services of Major
Massie, who will deliver an address
at the county court house here Tues
day nigh, April 2.
Major Massie has recently returned
from the western front, where he was
wounded and gassed. Wherever he
has appeared in public since coming
to this country he has been a figure
of no-little interest, and Newport and
Jackson county should furnish a good
audience.
GOV. BROUGH IS
FORCED TO DECLINE
INVITATIONS TO SPEAK
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 29.—-Governor
Brough is declining many invitations
to speak outside of the state, on ac
count of the great demands upon his
time for official and. patriotic duty
at home.
He has just declined an invitation
from E. S. Stephen, chairman of the
committee on arrangements, for a pa
| tnouc ceieorauon lo ue item npru
j 6, at Columbia, Mo. Mr. Stephens
i wired that he was to be the principal
speaker, and he added: “At no place
could you do more good and no where
your efforts will be more greatly ap
preciated than in Columbia, the edu
cational center of Missouri.”
W. S. Gifford, chairman of the
Council of Defense, wired the gov
ernor as follows: “Following the
Americanization conference called
by Secretary Lane for April 3, the
Council of National Defense asks that
you meet with it, if possible, at 10
a. m. April 4, at the office of the
secretary of the navy for a discussion
of State Council work.”
The governor as also forced to de
cline this invitation. It is probable
that Gen. England, chairman of the
State Council, \yill attend.
SCHOOLS WILL AD
JUST SCHEDULE TO
CHANGE IN TIME
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 29.—On Sun
day, March 31, all watches and
clocks will be turned up throughout
the United States one hour, under
the Daylight Savings Act recently
passed by congress. State Superin
tendent J. L. Bond says: “Our schools
will quickly adjust their schedules
and programs to tTiis change in time.
Our teachers, school children and
people in all business will be able
with the extra time before dark to
look after home garden work.”
BOY SCOUTS OF OSCEOLA
WIN FLAG PRESENTED
BY PRESIDENT WILSON
Special to Independent.
Ljittle Rock, March 29.—Mrs. C.
II. Brough, chairman of the Liberty
Loan organization in Arkansas, has
received advices from Osceola that
the troop of Boy Scouts at that place
won the flag presented by President
Wilson for the largest number of
Liberty Bonds sold in this state by
the Boy Scouts.
WILL TURNER PARDONED.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 29.—The gov
ernor has pardoned Will Turner, who
was convicted of forgery at the Octo
ber term, 1916, of the Lee county
circuit court, and sentenced to two
years imprisonment. He has served
more than 18 months of his term, and
has a good prison record. His par
don was recommended and urged by
the circuit judge, prosecuting attor
ney, and many representatives. The
crime consisted in raising a check
only four or five dollars more than
the amount for which it was drawn.
Mr. and Mrs. O. Bratton, of Lit
tle Rock, were here yesterday, en
route to Mountain View to visit her
mother.
THREE ARRESTS
IRE IUMDE HERE
Dies For Counterfeiting Silver Dot*
lars, A Dagger and Many Papers
Found Among Their Effects.
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T*he men referred to in the srticls
below were given their liberty this
afternoon, after officials were con
vinced of their loyalty and innocents
of anything incriminating. The dies
referred to are said to have been In
possession of the boy, who explained
satisfactorily how he came to ha**
them.
E. V. Hamalornen, who has a certif
icate to indicate that he is aiginister
in the Congregational church with
membership in Illinois, Herman V. 1
Palenius and the latter’s young son, . V
were taken in custody here last night 4 |
after they had driven into the city *
while making an overland trip *
through the country in an automobile.
A search of a grip belonging to
Hamalornen disclosed a pair of alum- j
inum dies designed for the counter
feiting of American silver dollars. A.
dagger was also found, together with fj
Finnish newspapers and numerous vfi
letters and literature, some of Fin- 3
nish version and others of American
print. Hamalornen was placed in
jail and Palenius and his son are de
tained at the postoffice while an in- T
vesti^ation is under way.' Jog. Mi ^
Stayton, chairman of the council of ^
defense, and Postmaster George R.
Hays will turn the caSfrand evidence
over to federal authorises, it is said* ij
The men were first Been on Front k|
street near their car. When north- ;Sj:
bound passenger train No. 6 cam* ^
one of the men bought a ticket for
j St. Louis. After he boarded the traftr *
he was taken off by H. C. Patton, atMk
the arrest of the entire party follow- ;
H. C. Patton and C. R. Pate spent
a short time at Swifton yesterday, \jg
where a woman is reported to hava
made a house to house canvas, mak- v;!j|
ing considerable talk against thd t.
government in defense of socialists. ^ v*|
The woman was not detained, bofc
bought a ticket for Texarkana, leav
ing on No. 3, and Messrs. Pate ajA,|g||
Patton wired authorities at Texar- 4 «|
kana to watch for her, explaining tho ' n
talk she was engaged in making,
CONFERENCES OF j
EDUCATORS ARE
WELL ATTENDED :
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 29.—A. B. Hill, 1
high school inspector, has held con
ferences of superintendents andprln- ,||
1 cipals during the month at Darda- ,<|
nolle, Fort Smith, and Rogers. He re- ,
1 ports that the meetings were well
! attended and unusual interest wa*
ILL IS OVER NOW,'
SAYS GEN. DELL
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—
Tells Senate Military Committee That /
Allies Knew of German Plans v
For-Present Drive.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, March 29.—The Britr
ish withdrawal before the German
advance was made according to pre
arranged plans and “all is over now,
General J. Franklin Bell told the sen
ate military committee today. He
said the allies knew the German prep
arations for the present drive and
made preparations to face it. Bell
recently returned from the front.
The friends of Walter Darling re
gret to learn that his condition is
v^ry critical with pneumonia, with
little hope of recovery. He lives at
the corner of Second and Pine.
To advertise your goods i' to get
the attention of the man or woman
who might otherwise never hav*
known it at all.