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VOLUME XVII. NO. 286. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Sjj
GERMAN PEACE
B TET_KIHT
Final Action On Peace Treaty Has
Not Been Taken By the Russian
, Congress of Soviets.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, March 16.—Final ac
tion on the German peace treaty ap
parently has not yet been taken by
the All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
While Petrograd dispatches Thurs
day reported the congress had decid
ed overwhelmingly to ratify the
treaty, Moscow advices of Friday
said there had been a division of the
council of peoples commissaries, in
dicating Russia has not yet com
mitted to the German terms. The
congress is meeting at Moscow. So
cialist revolutionists, it is reported,
threaten to resign from the council if
the treaty is ratified. An Associated
Press dispatch from Moscow dated
Thursday said the Bolsheviki party
in a caucus voted to approve the
course of the Lenine government,
which-, nevertheless, they condemned.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Moscow, March 16— President
Wilson’s message of sympathy to the
Russian people was read tonight at
the opening session of the Congress
of Soviets with marked applause.
The congress adopted the resolution
of appreciation.
FORCED TO GO
INTO GERMANY
Swedish Travelers Are Captured By
Submarines and Taken to the
German Empire.
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Associated Press Dispatch.
London, March 6.—A number of
Swedish travelers and one of the
largest Gothenbcrg steamers were
captured by German submarines off
of Skaw, in the northern extremity
of Jutland, Denmark, and were forced
to go to Germany, according to a re
port printed in the Gothebcrg Ship
ping Gazette and forwarded from Co
penhagen by the Exchange Tele
graph.
TO SPEED UP WORK.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 16.—The war
department is calling upon the local
boards to speed up the transcription
of occupation cards as rapidly as pos
sible. Attention is called to the fact
that delay “is sure to result in se
rious embarrassment to this office in
its efforts to complete an effective
industrial index in time to meet the
urgent needs of the army.” Gen,
Crowder says. “Some of the local
boards have been prompt in report
ing their progress in this work and
others have been most dilatory, not
seeming to realize the vital impor
tance of the immediate operation of
ie industrial index.
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WILL ENDEAVOR
TO CETJECRUTS
Sergeant Lambert and Private Daw
son of Helena and Private Tims
of Tuckerman Open Office.
Sergeant Lambert and Private L
E. Dawson, of Helena, and Private
T. J. Tims of Tuckerman have put up
a tent in the park near the Missouri
Pacific passenger depot and will re
main here an indefinite period in an
effort' to secure recruits for the reg
ular army. The young men in
charge of the station are from Camp
Beauregard, are manly fellows and
will receive a warm welcome in New
port, and, it is hoped, a large num
ber of recruits.
Private Tims is well known here,
being a member of Company E when
it was formed.
The tent has been placed at a mos^
advantageous point and its location
should be a means of inducing a
great many fellows to gain a view of
duty.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grammar were
I here Thursday night, on their return
to Camp Beauregard. Mr. Grammar
j is home on a few days’ furlough.
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WHEAT III SOUTH
TO BEJJMITED
Consumption of Wheat Products In
the South Will Undergo Fur
ther Limitation.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, L. C., March 16.—Fur
ther limitation in consumption of
wheat products in the south will be
asked by the food administration if
the experiment of confining the flour
ration to six pounds a month, which
i began in Texas today, proves a suc
larger us
| er of other cereals, the curtailment of
! wheat will not work a hardship, it is
declared.
Late Wire Briefs
Associated Press Dispatch.
Dublin, March 16.—Owners of the
Steamship Rathmore, which collided
with a trawler Thursday night, stat
ed that no lives were lost on the
Rathmore.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Truro, N. S.t March 16.— Twenty
persons were burned to death last
night in a fire which destroyed a
lumber camp at Albin Siding. The
dead include the wife and six chil
dren of one of the lumbermen.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, March 16.—Daylight
saving now awaits only the presi
dent’s approval. House amendments
to the bill requiring all time pieces to
be advanced an hour, beginning the
last Sunday in March was today ac
cepted by the senate.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Amsterdam, March 16.—The Asso
ciated Press hears through excellent
authority that the Dutch government
| has accepted demands of the allied
j governments relating to the use of
Dutch ships in the danger zone.
Associated Press Dispatch.
El Paso, Texas, March 16.—Infor
mation was received here today that
! revolutionists have captured and oc
cupied Durango City, Mexico, but
: there were no details. Villa’s main
force has been campaigning in the
! state of Durango and it is believed
jthat the capture was made by his
command. The report is unconfirm
ed.
Assoiated Press Dispatch.
Washington, March 16.— Intima
tions in official circles are that Pres
ident Wilson might make an early
* declaration on the Russian situation.
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MANNERS AT LITTLE ROCK.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Little Rock, March 16.—Guy Man
ners, the English poet, author, and
soldier, who has been in the state
several months recuperating from
his experiences at the front, was in
Little Rock yesterday with his sister,
Miss Grace D. Manners. They had
just arrived from Northwest Arkan
sas, and were enroute to Pine Bluff,
where they will spend several days,
and return to Little Rock later. Mr.
Manners was one of the Immortal
88,000 of the British army that with
stood the brunt of Prussian power at
Mons, Ypres and Amiens, and suc
cessfully checked the onward rush of
the Huns. He was wounded and in
valided home, and is now in America:
lecturing on the war.
JAPS KILLED
IN SIBERIA
WHARTON APPOINTED.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 16.—Gov. C. H.
Brough has appointed Major John H.
Wharton of El Dorado as lieutenant
colonel of the Fourth Regiment.
Lieut.-Colonel Wharton was about
sixty days ago commissioned as ma
jor in the new regiment, and has
since been serving in that capac
ity. He is in the wholesale grocery
business at El Dorado, has had eight
years continuous military experience,
and served as commander and in
structor in military tactics at Ouach
ita college one year. He has had
charge of the southern part of the
state in the recruiting work for the
Fourth, and his battalion was given
Federal inspection this week. It is
expected the Fourth Regiment will be
Federalized in a very short time.
SITUATION IS
NOT CHANGED
DEMAND RELEASE
IF CROSBY EMERY
American Captured By Germans Is
Well Known Citizen of the
United States.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Stockholm, March 16.—An attache
of the American legation has been
sent to Finland with a demand from
Minister Morris that the Finnish
government obtain a release of Hen
ry Crosby Emery, who was captured
by the Germans in the Aland Islands.
The American attache was accom
panied by a member of the British
legation conveying the same demand
regarding sixteen Britishers in the
same party with Emery.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, March 16.—Minister
Morris, in reporting the arrest of
Henry Crosby Emery by Germans,
Henry Crosby Emery by Germans
with a party of British as he was
leaving Finland on a neutral ship, dis
closed the fact that he is a major in
the reserve corps of the American
army. In Russia he was representa
tive of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New
York. Emery is a former Yale pro
fessor, and chairman of the tariff
board during the Taft administration.
Recent Stockholm dispatches report
ing arrests of civilians said Ameri
cans and British of military age will
be sent to German internment camps.
Minister Morris said nothing of the
final disposition of the prisoners, but
press dispatches said they had beeH
taken to Dantzig, Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Dyer are re
ceiving congratulations over the ar
rival of a ten pound son, born last
night. _
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I Maximalists Are Reported to Have
Murdered 150 Japanese In Sibe
rian City.
Associated Press Dispatch.
London, March 16.—The Maximal
ists in Siberia have murdered 150
Japanese at Blagoviesht-chensk, cap
ital of the Amur province, according
to reports printed in the newspapers
at Hochi Shimbus, and forwarded by
Reuters.
FEDERAL AID ALLOTTED.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, March 16.—The State
Highway commission yesterday
voted to allot $300,000 from Federal
aid to the Arkansas-Louisiana High
way. This is the largest road dis
trict in the world, and will cost about
$2,788,000.
American sectors ttemain iNormai
and Raids and Artillery Fire
Feature British Front.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, D. C., March 6.—
The situation in the American sectors
on the western front is unchanged.
West of Montcarnillet, in the Cham
pagne, the French have recaptured
trench elements and taken forty-two
prisoners. Raids and artillery fire
are active on the British front.
UNITED STATES NOW
HOLDS PRACTICALLY ALL
OF DUTCH SHIPPING.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, March 16.—With the
exception of two steamers, the United
States is holding all Dutch ships in
American ports pending probable re
quisition Monday.
Copyright 1917
Th* Hou»e of Kuppeuhemier f
We Are Ready With Our New SPRING SUITS for
The Season of 1918
Kuppenheimer, $25.00 and Up
Ma\estic - - - $ 15.00 and Up
We ask that you come in and see them, not that you may buy, but that i
' you may see for yourself what substantial quality and superior value it is
possible to get in these times, when good quality and good value are not so
common. You will find an attractive display of these suits.
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ADAM LOCKARD, Manager. “THE APPAREL STORE FOR MEN”
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TO FORM C. OF '
C. NEXT WEEK j
Committee About to Complete Plana J
For Permanent Organization
In Newport.
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tee appointed to perfect plans for
organizing the Newport Chamber of J
Commerce is about ready to render |
their report. At a meeting one night
next week this committee will make
their report, at which time the organ- ' l'-V|
ization will be placed on a permanent J
SELL 1TREMMEL j
Citizens Buy to Ameount of $910— |
Crowd At Tupelo This Afternoon
and Auvergne Tonight.
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food administrator and approve* th*;5f|||
prosecutions when such action is no* c
cessary. It does not like to prose- ||j
cute any one, but will not hesitate to Si
invoke the full measure of the law if
to command obedience in food con- ;|
servation regulations. Furthermore*
there is ample power given the State 4|
food administrators. The time for ||
food admistrators. The time for
many things being done is past, r'm
Washington stated. If necessary,
make arrests to get results; was 'M
the suggestion,” said Mr. EbcL
“Another feature of interest to
Arkansas bakers is this: If all bak- J
ers have not obtained substitutes for
wheat flour by March 10th their I
stores will be closed. The govern- i| |«
mcnt has given bakers ample time to
get substitutes. Some bakers haW|ga'JI
made no effort to comply with tM 1
rules and regulations and mako -a
bread as the government specifies. ;
Those who neglect to provide them- ' i
selves with substitutes by March 10th * ;|
will not be allowed to bake bread u»-V|
til they get the required amount of 4 jj
substitutes for wheat flour.” ||
Secret service men have been sent 11
out by Mr. Williams to various parts
of the state where hoarding of flour
and other food products has been re-J |
ported. Some interesting develop
ments are looked for as a result of J|
their investigation. Those caught ||
hoarding flour will be promptly ar-|||
rested. The penalty is two year* to ||
the Federal penitentiary, a fine of !
$5,000, or both.
Your* very truly, Jj
-?■ Hamp William*. |