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AUTOMOBILE PLANTS
WILL DO WAR WORK AF
TER FIRST OF THE YEAR
Washington, Aug. 9.—Manufactur
erg of passenger automobiles wen
advised by the War Industries Boari
today to convert their plants to 10(
per cent war work as rapidly as pos
sible and to place them on tha
basis not later than January 1, 1919
in a letter addressed to the Nationa
Meat Market Opens
I will open a cash meat market \ugust 10 at
the place formerly conducted at 702 First street by
W. A. Fike & Sons. While Mr. Fike and sons were
here I was connected with them, and believe I
know what the public demands in the meal line,
and promise to meet my customers’ expectations.
Will have fresh and cured meats at all times and
will sell only on days prescribed by government
regulations. The patronage of the public will be
appreciated. Telephone 68.
J. T. MASHBURN
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“GOOD LUCK, FRIEND,” SAYS TOMMY
A British R. A. F. man wishing good luck to French cavalrymen on their
way to combining with the British.
Automobile Chamber of Commerce. .
In no other way, the letter said, could ,
they be assured of the continuance of j
their industry or the preservation of i
their organizations.
The letter was in response to a pro
posal made yesterday by Hugh Chal
mers, on the part of the manufactur
I ers, voluntarily to curtail the passen
' ger car industry 50 per cent. The!
| War Industries board said that the
' present situation regarding steel and
other materials needed for war work j
gave little assurance of material re-1
quired for the manufacture of pas
senger automobiles, even after pro
viding for war requirements.
Pending receipt by the board of
sworn inventories of materials on
hand requested last July 16, no ma
terials will be permitted passenger
car manufacturers, the letter says.
NORTH ARKANSAS
NEWS NOTES.
—
There are 17 inmates of the Ran
dolph county poor farm. Seven are
men and 10 are women.
A team being diven by Will Rut
ledge and his wife ran away lately,
throwing Mr. Rutledge and his wife
and baby from the buggy. Mr. Rut
ledge sustained several broken ribs
With Our Boys On
the Battle Fields
With the American troops in
France, June 29.—(Corespondence of
The Associated Press)—Though the
American troops have had three en
gagements in the Toul sector during
the past three months men in the di
vision say “there has been just one
fight.”
The big raid on Apremont in April
they call “the Apremont affair”;
They refer to the attack on Seiche
prey, ten days later as “the Seiche- j
prey thing”; but, the morning of
June 16 at Xivray, they say, “there;
was a fight.”
This distinction does no wrong to
the defenders of Apremont and Seich- j
eprey. The men did their best there, j
and that best was as good as could be
expected under the circumstances,
but their best then was not so good
as their best at Xivray. That is the
sigmncance given to me distinction
by French officers. They say that it
was at Xivray the men holding the
sector showed they had learned how ;
to do what must be done in the front j
line. '
Xivray has a similar meaning to
the Germans in that sector if the
■ n.i.lnn,-n r.f pri«mnors may he trusted.
The men captured there show in
creased respect for the fighting
qualities of the Americans and be
tray a deeper awe of the American
machine gun.
, It is now disparagement of the
work the ordinary rifle did there to
say that the quick-firers decided the
issue. Two companies of infantry,
without dugouts to shelter them
held their grounds on the right of the
! position through a heavy artillery
preparation and kept the enemy from
bringing up reinforcements through
out the fight. Meanwhile, in the
• center at Xivray and on the left, the
. machine gunners did the rest,
i The enemy’s plan according to
■ prisoners, was to force the village,
; destroy the defence works, make the
, place untenable and take prisoners.
The effort was well organized and
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might have succeeded but for the
work of the quick-firers.
Six hundred men advanced to the
attack in no less than a dozen differ
ent columns, led by two hundred
picked Bavarian storming troops.
They came up on the right flank, on
the left and on the center under cov
er of smoke, making a dark night
still darker. They crept up the ra
vines and slipped through the hol
lows. The sharp ears of sentries
alone prevented a total surprise.
Their guns laid down a heavy box
barrage that prevented the reinforc
ing of the front line. One platoon,
led by Lieutenant Doan, from Maine,
got through the first curtain of fire.
Doan even went through the second
with some volunteers, but that was
all the help that could be sent to the
225 men that were holding the line
attacked. They were only one to
three but they fought in a way to
surprise and dismay the six hundred
Germans.
One machine gun section in the
village was reduced to two men, Mon
fort Wyckoff and John Flynn. Their
gun jammed and Flynn kept the Ger
mono wifVi VllQ VPVnlvPV wVlilf*
Wyckoff got the quick-fire going
again. They held their ground to the
end. Two other, men, unable to get
a sight at the Germans from their
trench climbed the parapet and stood
there erect firing their automatics
from the shoulder. Two infantry
men crawled out of a shell to get a
better aim.
The Germans had lost a third of
their GOO men when growing daylight
impaired the effectiveess of their
smoke screen and they began to re
tire. The fifty odd unwounded
Americans left out of 225 went over
the top after them.
Two hundred is a conservative es
timate of the German losses for our
men buried forty-seven of them on
the field and there were more corpses
in the tall grass facing the position,
out of reach. Thus the Germans lost
j nearly as many men as they had fac
I ing them during the fight.
One of the heroes of the day was
a cook who had been dismissed from
service on account of loose habits
with respect to drink. When sober
he was possessed of an astonishing
amount of perseverance. lie had
foiled all efforts of the officers to
put him out of the division. He left
one lbgiment to appear in another.
He passed from one company to an
other until he had reached the last
one. If he was thrown out of that it
was all over with his soldiering. He
was one of the volunteers that went
though both barrages and he stayed
through the fight giving first aid to
the wounded under the sharpest fire
from the assailants.
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and a fractured collar bone. J
Three penitentiary sentences were
imposed in Randolph circuit court,
which adjourned at Pocahontas last j
week. Ben Dame was sentenced to j
serve 30-days for dynamiting fish,
and E. V. King annd his wife of Reyo
were each sentenced to serve a year ^
on the charge of selling whiskey.
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At a sawmill near Strangers’ Home
one day last week George Leonard
and Zack McGuire became engaged
in a fight and Leonard shot McGuire
with a shotgun at close range, pro
ducing a very dangerous wound.
Leonard was jailed at Walnut Ridge. ^
Mrs. Becky Dillard of Melbourne,1
aged 65 years, died suddenly one day
last week. She was in her usual good
health and went to the garden to
gather some vegetables for dinner, j
Not returning in a reasonable length
of time, members of the family went
to search for her and found her dead,
in a sitting posture leaning against
the garden fence.
WOMEN WORKERS.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Aug. 10.—Women employed
in all branches of industry in France
number 626,000, according to an of
ficial report. This compares with
487,000 employed in normal times.
This increase is due almost entirely
to the employment of women in metal
industries, chiefly in munitions
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WUriVS. JL lit? WCigai wmtxi vv umvu
can be required to carry in factory
work is limited by law to 55 pounds.
Women are widely employed for the
inspection of finished goods, they ex
amine separate parts for automo
biles; verify light shells, fuses annd
grenade plugs. They inspect big
shells externally and internally by
the use of electric lamps and they
test the caliber using complicated
measuring apparatus and micro
scopes. They nail up cases of all
kinds, even cases for airplanes and
automobiles. The women supervise
the buildings where men are at work
and keep them clean.
GUARDED IMPERIAL FAMILY.
(By The Associated Press.)
Berne, Aug. 10—Repeated reports
'of the assassination of the former
Emperor Nicholas of Russia have
brought out a statement in diplomat
ic quarters that the German authori
ties took care to guard as far as pos
sible against the eventuality of an
assassination of any of the members ,
of the former imperial family, by a (
secret article in the Brest-Litovsk
treaty providing for the treatment
of the former emperor and his family.
This article, as discussed in diplo
matic circles, required that the per
sonal safety of the imperial family
should be safeguarded by suitable
military and police guards, and that
their future surroundings should be
in keeping with the dignity of their
former position. It was in accord
ance with this provision it is said
that the Red Guard, which formerly
had charge of the imperial family ■
was changed to a guard of Letton- j
ians in whom special confidence was
reposed. The change of the place of ;
imprisonment to Yekaterinburg is j
also said to have resulted from this j
same provision requiring safeguards j
against personal danger to the im
perial family.
The pevailing diplomatic view here
is that the interest of the German
authorities in Nicholas and his fam
ily was something more than human
itarian, and foresees the possibility of
German support, for an imperial re
storation in Russia, if that should
eventually prove an effective part of
German policy in Russia.
WARNING ORDER.
In the Chancery Court of Jackson
County, Ark.
Ernest Adams, Plaintiff,
vs. No. 3324.
Kinnie Adams. Defendant.
The Defendant, Kinnie Adams, is
warned to appear in this court withip
thirty days and answer the complaint
of the Plaintiff, Ernest Adams.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said Court this 13th day of July, 1918.
(Seal) R. W. BANDY, Clerk.
G. A. Hillhouse is appointed attorney
for Non-Resident Defendant.
69dl 14w4t
NOTICE.
Sale of School Lands.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, as Collector of Jackson
County, Arkansas, will on
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7TH, 1918
between the hours of 12 o’clock M.
and 3 o’clock P. M. sell at public out
cry, at the Court House door of said
county, the school lands lying in Sec
tion Sixteen (16), Township Thir
teen (13) North, Range One (1)
West. Said lands will be sold in
forty-acre tracts to the highest bid
Jer for cash.
J. M. IVY,
Sheriff and Collector of Jackson
County, Arkansas.
This July 20th, 1918. 15w4t
STRAYED OR STOLEN
$10.00 Reward.
From my farm 3 miles north of Me
Crory, on or about July 22, 1918, two
black horse mules, six years old past,
one has a round body and neat trim,
will weigh about 950 pounds; other
a more blockier or heavy set, v?ill
weigh 1,000 pounds. Both work
mules, have heavy mane and tale and
are unshod. Will pay $10.00 reward
for return of each animal or infor
mation leading to their recovery.
A. COMER,
17w2t McCrory, Ark.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP. V
Notice is hereby given that by mu
tual consent and agreement the
partnership of Huff and Isaacs, com
posed of A. W. Huff and J. V. Isaacs,
has been dissolved, and neither of
said persons have any authority to
contract or enter into obligations
under the said partnership name.
Witness our hands this the 1st day
of August, 1918.
A. W. Huff,
17w2t. J- V. Isaacs.
FOR SALE.
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sewing machine and one davenport*
practically new. 618 Main street.
Phone 409. 85d6t w3t
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per head per month. I will not be
responsible for stock. For informa
tion apply to H. G. Mantooth. 54wtf
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at crib five miles west of Newport.
Crib open only on Saturdays. See
Mack Bros. 48dtf lOwtf.
666 cures Headaches, Biliousness*
loss of Appetite, foul breath, or that
tired aching feeling due to Malaria
or Colds. It removes the cause.
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