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VOLUME XVIII NO. 108. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS
FRENCH AND BRITISH CONTINUE TO
AD VANCE AND TAKE MANY TO WNS
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BRITISH CRUSH
CLUB THROUGH
HIHRCLI
GO THROUGH EAST AND SOUTH
EAST OF ARRAS.
Buiiecourt, Which Is On This Fa
mous Line, Was Captured, While
a Number of Other Towns
Fall Intto Allied Hands.
BRITISH PUSHING EASTWARD.
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(Associated Press Summary.)
The British east and southeast of
Arras appear to have crashed clear
through the Hindenburg line. Dis
patches today seem to indicate they
now have begun to roll up the Ger
, lan forces on a front to which the
:'emy is retreating along the whole
Picardy front.
Bullecourt, which is on the Hinden
burg line, was taken this morning,
and the Drocourt-Queant line is now
W'ithin striking distance. Further
south the British have taken Com
bles. West of Peronne they have
captured Clery. Along the line fur
ther south the night passed without
change.
Biaches, on the south bank of the
Somme near Peronne, has been cap
tured by the British. The Britisl
have entered Lesboeufs, and patrols
have passed through Morval to the
southeast. The British this morning
pushed forward easterly from Ba
paume and also made further ad
Vances north of Lens. Le Transloj
on the Bapaume-Peronne high roac
was reported captured this morning.
GREAT INTEREST BEING
MANIFESTED IN SHORT
COURSES OF AGRICULTURI
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 30.— The shor
courses that are being given at th.
agricultural schools to the boys am
, girls of the state are meeting wit!
great success. These one-wee]
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courses have already been held at
Magnolia and Monticello, the one at
Russellville is being held this week,
and the series will conclude next
week with Jonesboro. State Super
intendent J. L. Bond has returned
from Russellville, where he visited
the school this week, and reports
great interest there. The attendance
of the boys and girls from all of the
21 counties is very fine, there being
385 enrolled. The school is in charge
of W. J. Jernigan, state agent, with a
full faculty from the Agricultural
Extension forces. Instructions are
being given in the farm work that
appeals to the individual boy or girl,
and all of them are showing a deep
interest.
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VON HINTZE ID
IKE A TALK
Will Have Something to Tell the For
eign Military Committee, and
Hertling Is On Ground.
(By The Associated Press.)
London, Aug. 20.— Admiral Von
Hintze, the German minister of for
eign affairs, will make a statement
Monday before the foreign committee
of the Prussian diet. Imperial Chan
cellor Von Hertling has arrived in
Berlin from headquarters, according
' to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Ex
change Telegraph.
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BAN PLACID ON
PLEASURE CARS
Cars Operated For Necessary Pur
poses Will Be Given Amount of
Gasoline On Sundays.
(By The Associated Press.)
i Washington, Aug. 30.—The ban oi
the use of gasoline Sundays for mo
tor vehicles and boats will apply on
i ly to pleasure riding, the fuel admin
istration announced today. It i:
j stated that a reasonable use of gas
oline by driven vehicles for necessa
l.ry purposes is not intended to be pro
hibited.
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FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 2f
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The campaign for the Fourth Lib
erty Loan will begin September 2
and close October 19. The result o
the loan will be watched with kee:
1 interest in Europe, not only by ou
associates in the war against th
Teutonic powers but by our enemies
' It will be regarded by them as
> 1 measure of the American people’
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1 i The Germans know full well th
£ tremendous weight and significanc
- of popular support of the war, of th
people at home backing up the arm
* in the field. As the. loan succeed:
our enemies will sorrow; as it fall
■ short they will rejoice. Every do
► lar subscribed will help and encoui
► | age the American soldiers and hui
► I and depress the enemies of Americi
► , The loan will be a test of the I03
► alty and willingness of the people c
► j the United Stated to make sacrifict
► compared with the willingness of 01
► < soldiers to do their part. There mu:
► be and will be no failure by the pei
► pie to measure up to the courage ar
► devotion of our men in Europe. Man
y of them have given up their live:
y {shall we at home withhold ov
y money? Shall we spare our dollai
y while they spare not their lives?
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y GOVERNOR PARDONS LOWER’
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y Little Rock, Aug. 30.—The govern
y or has pardoned Ed Lowery of Ga
y land county, who was convicted la
y September of selling liquor and sei
y tenced to one year imprisonment.
lERICMI EIRE
ROUTS THE HUH
| An Enemy Airplane Is Also Shot
Down When It Attacked Ameri
can Observation Balloons.
With the American Army in France,
I Aug. 30.—An enemy airplane was
shot down today after it had attack
ed several American observation
| balloons on the front east of St. Mi
i hiel. In three different patrol en
! counters in the Vosges last night the
Germans were driven off when Amer
| ican fire became too hot for them.
The number of enemy casualties is
unknown.
WILL BUILD NEW •
EXPRESS OEFIGE
Increased Business Causes Changes
To Be Made At the Missouri Pa
cific Depot.
Agent Copeland of the Allied Ex
press Company announces that work
will begin shortly on a new express
office in Newport, this step having
been made necessary by reason of a
greatly increased amount of business
that has developed here during re
cent months. The new office will be
built on ground where the road mas
ter’s office now stands, and the build
is to be 40 x 60 feet. Work of con
struction will start shortly.
The present express office quarters
at the Missouri Pacific passenger
, station will be turned into baggage
I and mail rooms.
' It is reported, though unofficially,
that arrangements are being made
1 to abolish the Rock Island freight
and passenger stations, and conduct
| all business for that road at the Mis
; souri-Pacific passenger and freight
1 depots. Rock Island trains would
back up to the Missouri Pacific sta
tion to receive passengers, mail, ex
press and freight.
* This step would add greatly to pub
lic convenience, and at the same time
enable the government to operate ir
‘ i Newport at a greatly reduced ex
* pense.
In this connection the Independenl
would suggest that the railroad com
1 panies be urged to add considerable
improvements to the Missouri-Pacifie
' station. The station should be en
! larged, and another improvemeni
' that is greatly needed is a bettei
^ sewerage system in the station whicl
c would prove of great benefit from :
1 i point of better sanitation.
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TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND HUN
WORKERS QUIT
strikes Occur in Westpha
lia, GERMANY.
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Three Hundred Thousand Strikers
Have Been Sent to the Front, and
Eight Thousand Deported
Town Is Guarded.
RIOTS AT BOCHUM ARE FEARED
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(By The Associated Press.)
Geneva, Aug. 30.—Serious strikes,
involving 200,000 workmen, have bro
ken out at Bochum, in Westphalia,
Germany, near the Belgian border,
according to dispatches received
here from Munich. Three thousand
strikers have been sent to the front
and eight thousand were deported
from the region under escort. Troops
, are guarding the town, and it is said
riots are feared.
AMERICAN RED CROSS.
| St. Louis, Aug. 30.—The South
western Division - of the American
Red Cross, composing the states of
Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Okla
homa and Texas, has been asked by
the United States government. to
furnish 1,000 trained nurses in the
j next eight weeks for service in mili
tary hospitals here and abroad.
Persons acquainted with trained
nurses are asked to urge them to en
j ter the government service and to
encourage young women to enroll for
training in hospitals as nurses.
“The women of the Southwest have
not hesitated to do their duty in an
effort to win the war, and I know the
women will meet this greatest of all
demands made upon them,” said Miss
Lyda Anderson, head of the Red
Cross Nursing Bureau of this divis
j ion, today. “Our soldiers in the
trenches look to the women to help
win this war and there is no gi’eater
calling for a woman than to give her
service to'her country in this time of
distress.”
The total subscription to the
American Red Cross War Fund in
the Southwestern Division, including
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Ark
ansas and Texas, has reached $17,
; 662,000, figures compiled on August
■ 15, last show.
i The American Red Cross has given
i $25,000 to the Lord Maor of London
for use of London hospitals.
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NEW REGULATIONS FOR
DRAFT BOARDS AFTER
SEPTEMBER FIRST.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 29.—General
Crowder has announced through Adj.
Gen. Lloyd England, who is in charge
of the registration in Arkansas that
after September 1, all pre-existing
regulations for compensation of the
draft boai’ds will cease and new reg
ulations will be put into effect. The
members will be paid at "he rate of
$1 per hour, not to exceed $10 per
day, or $200 per month, each. Boards
with 1000 registrants or under may
receive a maximum compensation of
$50 per month per member, the top
of the scale being $200 per month
per member where the boards have
7000 registrants and over.
MRS. CLIO HARPER
WILL SPEAK HERE:
Interest of Newport and Jackson
County To Be Enlisted In State’s
Industrial School.
Mrs. Clio Harprer, one of Little
Rock’s prominent women, will appear
at the high school auditorium tomor
row afternoon at 2 o’clock and deliv
er a talk on tho work of establishing
an industrial school for women in
Arkansas. The Independent is re
quested to urge the women of the
'city to attend this meeting with a
view of co-operating with the forces
now at work throughout Arkansas on
this project.
We would ask the ladies, of New
port to get busy with their telephones
and urge each other to give Mrs.
Harper a hearing, as only a short
time was given for advertising the
event here.
NEW RULING
Division of Some of the Rules Regu
lating the Distribution of Flour
And Sugar.
Beginning with September 1st,
1918, the 50-50 substitute rule as to
flour and the limit of sale to 24 and
48 pound sacks has been repealed, the
retailer is to sell Victory Mixed
Flour, which consists of 80 per cent
flour and 20 per cent substitutes; or
if purchaser buys standard wheat
flour, they must buy 20 per cent sub
stitutes along with it.
The retail dealer selling standard
wheat flour is required to carry in
stock either barley flour, corn meal,
or corn flour, or other substitutes,
and with every sale of wheat flour
must sell a combination of some one
or more of these in the proportion of
one pound substitutes to each four
pounds of wheat flour.
The rule as to retail of sugar con
tinues; two pounds of sugar per
person per month; town people may
purchase two pounds at a time and
country people five pounds at a time.
Retailers are relieved of taking
flour and sugar purchase receipts, ex
cept for canning purposes, but must
keep record of each sale. The mer
chants are expected to take care of
their regular customers, and as far
as possible to make fair and equit
able distribution of the sugar allowed
them by their certificates; and to
the best of their ability, see that the
food laws are not violated. They are
requested to refuse to sell to any per
sons attempting to buy more than
their allowance, and to report such
persons to the Food Adminstrator.
It is suggested by the food admin
istration that every consumer pur
chase his sugar from one particu
lar merchant for one month, in order
that records may not become con
fused and for the convenience of both
I the merchant and the consumer.
GEO. B. IRBY,
Food Administrator for Jackson Co.
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GAMBLES FILLS
BRITISHERS CROSS SOMMK"^
RIVER NEAR PERONNE. f.
Canadians Make Favorable Progress
and British Have Advanced On s
Seven Mile Front Between .V,.;
Bullecourt and Scarpe.
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