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VOLME XVIII. NO. 36. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS
CANNOT ESTABLISH
‘LOSS OF LIVES OH
THE CAROLINA
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German Momentum Has Slackened—
Both Sides Battling For Im
portant Positions.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, June 4.—German sub
marines operating off the Atlantic
coast have accounted for ten vessels,
mostly small steamers and schooners,
.since May the twenty-fith. While no
definite reports have been given out
ns. to the loss of life and the fate of
tjiree hundred and fifty persons
4»n board the steamer Carolina, one of
the vessels sunk, has not yet been es
tablished. The passengers and crew
of the Carolina took to boats when
the submarine began shelling, and
they are believed to be trying to
reach the Jersey coast. Part of the
crews on other vessels are also miss
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on the Aisne battlefield the Ger
man advance is waning. The offen
sive is turning into a series of battles
for important positions. Sunday the
enemy’s progress was sight, while on
Monday French and Germans gains
on the western wing balanced each
c/wucu. .
The fighting before Forest Villers
Cotterets and between Ourca and the
Marne is most violent. The situation
north of the Aisne is similar. There
the French recaptured Mont Choisy
for the fifth time. Elsewhere be
tween the Aisne and Oise rivers at
‘ tacks were repulsed.
Along the Marne river activity is
alight. Fighting on the British
front is confined to raids and Brit
ish ^viators continue bombing oper
ations. Twenty-two more German
machines have been accounted for.
^rtillery firing in the American
sector, northwest of Toul, is heavy,
but no infantry action is reported.
Another German airplane has been
brought down.
ALL ABOARD THE
STEAMSHIP CAROLINA
BELIEVED SAVED.
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Associated Press Dispatch.
. New York, June 4.—An official
Porto Rican steamship line, follow
ing receipt of a message from Cap
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lina reporting his arrival at an At
lantic port, aboard a schooner with
one hundred and fifty passengers and
nirakty four of the crew, reports the
lamfing of survivors at other points,
and expresses the belief that all on
board the Carolina when torpedoed
were saved.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 4.—The impres
sion is growing here that only one
submarine took part in the raid on
the Atlantic coast. Warships are
scouring the seas for enemy craft,
but the movements of the searchers
are kept secret.
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PETITION FOR NEW ROAD IN
GRUBBS AND BIRD TOWN
SHIPS
To the Hon. County Court of Jack
son County, Arkansas:
W. D. McLain, County Judge:
We, your petitioners, being citi
zens, and Free Holders of Jackson
County, Arkansas, petition your
Honorable Court to lay out and es
tablish a new road in Grubbs and
Bird Towships, in Jackson County,
Arkansas, as follows, to-wit;
Beginning at the Southeast corner
of Section, Nineteen, in Township
Twelve North range one West, run
thence North on Section line, between
1 Sections Nineteen and Twenty, Seven
teen and Eighteen, Seven and Eight,
; Five and Six, to the South line of
Township Thirteen North, Range One
.West; thence North to the North
east corner of Section Thirty-one, in
Township Thirteen Niorth, Range
One West. This road is of consider
able importance to the traveling pub
lic, being a road connecting the New
port and Grubbs road and the Tuck
erman and Grubbs road, and should
be established as a public road fifty
feet wide.
M. B. Phariss, Chas. Holden, Sam.
R. Phillips, Otto M. Bowen, Gustave
Jones, Wm. N. Dunaway, H. Murphy,
S. Heinemann, C. M. Erwin, O. D.
Wo + oyim rion P Wave .Tnn OrApn
haw, L. J. Dunkin, N. B. Wishon, F.
A. Stuart, J. H. Willis.
Sabine Attacked
By U-Boat
Associated Press Dispatch.
At an Atlantic Port, June 4.—The
Mallory liner Sabine arriving today
reported meeting a submarine be
tween Charleston and Frying Pan
Shoals Lightship. Another vessel
came to the assistance of the Sabine
and chased the submarine. •
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF
THE SUN JUNE 8TH
On the afternoon of Saturday, June
8, 1918, the wonderful spectacle of a
total solar eclipse will be visible,
weather permitting, over a track ex
tending from the Pacific (Washing
ton) to the Atlantic (Florida). This
track of the moon’s shadow is 70
miles wide at the western coast, nar
rowing down to 40 miles in Florida.
For about an hour the moon will
gradually encroach upon the sun’s
disk, the daylight will fade, and the
narrowing crescent of the sun will
suddenly disappear, and around the
jet black ball of the moon, hanging in
the northwestern sky among the
brighter stars, will be seen the pearly
radiance of the mysterious solar cor
ona. The remarkable spectacle may
be enjoyed for 122 seconds at the
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in Florida. Then the crescent of the
sun will appear on the other (west
ern) side of the moon, and after an
other hour the full disk of the sun
will shine as usual.
This event happens at any one
place, on the average, only three
times in a thousand years.
May Cotton Crop
82.3Per ct. Normal
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 4.—The depart
ment of agriculture reported the con
dition of the cotton crop to May 25th
82.3 per cent normal, showing the
condition to be better than any year
since 1911, when the production re
j cord was broken.
RETURNS FROM RED
CROSS CAMPAIGN
Special to Independent
Little Rock, June 4—A. W. Parke
of the Parke-Harper News Service,
has returned from Florida, where he
spent two months .directing the drive
for the Red Cross fund. He managed
the whole campaign, and returns
show that the quota was more than
200 per cent over-subscribed. The
state of Florida made the record of
having exceeded its quota by the
largest per cent of any state, and it
is leading all the states in the per
capita amount subscribed. He has
been officially thanked for his “mag
. nificent work." )
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GERMAN U-BOAT "
SHELL LIFE BOATS
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, June 4.—There is evi
dence of German submarine fire on
the lifeboats and liner Carolina, which
was pierced by the fire of submarine
guns.
Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, June 4.—It is 'reported
that another American tanker has
been sunk.
SURVIVORS IRE
PICKED UP
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Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, June 4.—Three hundred
survivors of the torpedoed liner, Car
olina, were picked up by the schooner,
Etta JJ. Douglass. The schooner ar
rived this afternoon. Nineteen oth
er survivors of the Carolina were
picked up by a tramp steamer and
have been landed at Lewes, Deleware.
Mallory
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.
The true story of the Russian Rev
olution and the fall of the Romanoffs,
will be told in “Rasputin, the Black
Monk,” which, with a notable cast,
will be the big attraction at the
Grand Theatre tonight. It has been
staged on a stupendous scale.
AMERICAN PATROL:
FIGHT DESPERATILY
Losses of Americans Slight—Enemy
Patrol Large In Luneville
Sector.
American Army in France, Monday
—An American patrol of combatants
engaged in a desperate fight Monday.
There is a larger enemy patrol in the
Luneville sector today. American
losses were slight, and the German
casualties unknown.
TEACHERS INSTIT
UTE INJRDCRESS
Second Days’ Attendance Is Increased
and Great Interest Is Mani
fested By Teachers.
The second days’ attendance at the
institute, which is meeting in this
city this week, is being much better
attended than the first day.
Monday the main address was giv n
by Prof. D. T. Rogers, registrar of
the Jonesboro Agricultural school.
Today the institute body was ad
dressed by Mr. Du Laney, of the
Government Agricultural Bureau.
The work is being conducted by
County Supt. Fred MOore, of Heber
Springs, who is being ably assisted
by a number of Jackson county’s best <
teachers.
During this morning the silent
reading test was given to the teach
ers. The scores ran from low to
very high.
Miss Lena Latkin, a primary spec
ialist from Little Rock, is conducting
a primary class, and will continue to
do so for the remainder of the week.
The citizens of Newport are wel-1
come to visit the institute during the j
week.
Reporter.
GRADUATES URGED TO
ATTEND COLLEGES WITH
MILITARY CURRICULUM
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, June 4.—Boys gradu
ates from high schools this year are
urged by Dr. P. P. Claxton, federal
commissioner of education, to contin
ue their education and at the same
time serve their country by going to
colleges where military training is in
cluded n the curriculum.
Every educational institution of
college grade enrolling 100 or more
students for military instruction will
have army officers detailed as in
structors. All students joining the
training corps will become members
of the United States army, but under
the present program of the war de
partment, will not be called for active
service until coming of age.
“The youths who avail themselves
of the privilege will be serving their
country’s immediate as well as fu
ture needs” said Mr. Claxton. “They
will be answering the nation’s im
perative demand for trained men in
war and they will be building up a
competent leadership for the work
;hat is to come after the war.’
Washington, June 4.—The state
department has been informed that
;he recent allied air raid at Cologne
:aused the death of one hundred and
forty-six and injury to one hundred
and fifty persons.
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AMERICANS STOP
GERMAN ADVANCE
COUNTER ATTACK
German Troops Which Forced Way
Across Aisne, Were Driven
Associated Press Dispatch.
Paris, June 4.—Americans thrown
into battle on the western side of the
Champagne salient, have stopped the
German advance near Nevillcy Wood
and in a dashing counter-attack
threw back the Germans, the war of
fice announces. On the TVfafne front
German troops, which forced their
passage across the river, were driven
back by the French and American
troops. Between the Oise and the
Aisne rivers the Germans were
checked last night. Between the
Aisne and Ourcq the battle continued
with great violence. The Germans
captured Perpant and also made fur^
ther advance to one point between
the Marne and Ourcq, capturing the
village, Neuilly La Poeria, seven and
one-half miles northwest of Chateau
Thierry.
Submarine Death
Toll Reduced
Latest Reports Show Death List Re
Duced to Fewer Than Three
Hundred and Fifty. .
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Associated Press Dispatch.
New York, June 4.—The possible
death toll from German’s submarine
warfare on the American side in the
Atlantic is reduced to fewer than
three hundred and fifty persons.
With the landing of nineteen surviv
ors of the missing steamship Caroli
na, persons unaccounted for on that
ship, number three hundred and thir
ty-one. The only otliers known to be
missing of the ten vessels, which were
victims of the submarine, is the crew
of the schooner, Samuel W. Hatha
way. All ships destroyed were coast
wise vessels and seven sailing ships.
Passenger Steamer City of Colum
bus, for which much anxiety was felt,
arrived safely this morning.
Ports along the coast remained
closed while naval craft and airplanes
are searching the sea in an effort to
locate the raiders. *
Casualty List
Washington, June 4.—The casual^
ties reported are, killed in action,
three; died of wounds two; of ac
cidents and other causes, nineteen;
of disease, six. Seven were wounded
severely, one slightly, and one was
made prisoner.
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