Newark Journal
$1 Per Annum
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, July 18, 1918
Vol. 18, No. 16
DRAFT RESiSTERS
FEAR MACHINE GUNS
Cleburne County Gang Gives
Up Fight and Surrenders
to Officers Sunday
Searcy, July 14.—Awed ana
cowed by the presence of over
whelming forces of soldiery,
hot on their trail, and the ma
chine guns which they had
stationed at the Atkinson home
Jim Blakely and his two broth
ers, Jess and Lum, and young
John Penrod, members of the
Atkinson gang of draft resist
ers, who have been fleeing be
fore troops and posses since
Sunday, June 7, came into
headquarters of the Searcy
Judsonia Home Guard at Rose
bud early this morning and
were taken to Searcy and gave
themselves up to Captain Gus
taferson, commanding officer
of the company, who has been
on the trail since last Sunday.
Tom Atkinson and his son.
Bliss, were said by members of
the gang were on their way to
their home with the intention
of giving themselves up to Cle
burne county officers after
they had seen their families.
“We might have stood off
the posse,’’ one of the gang
said,“but we couldn’t go again
st the sol fliers, and with the
machine guns against us we
knew we didn’t have a chance.’
All three of the Blakely
boys and young Penrod are
classed as deserters for their
1 failure to respond to the draft
call.
The four members of the
gang who came into Rosebud
and surrendered were carrying
their ammunition, but said they
AUGUST CALLS FOR
1300 MEN RECEIVED
Three Hundred White Men to
Go to Austin, 1,000 to
Hattiesburg, Miss.
Little Rock, July 15.—Two
draft calls, the first for 300
white men and the second for
1,000 white men were receiv
ed at the adjutant general’s
office Saturday morning from
Provost Marshal Gneral Crow
dbr.
The first call asks for 300
white men with grammar
school educations and an apti
tude for mechanical work. The
| men will entrain on August 22
and go to the University of
Texas at Austin, Texas, for a
I course in auto mechanic’s in
struction. Men may volunteer
and if the quota has not been
'reached on the day of entrain
men from the 1018 class of
i
registrants will be inducted in
to the service.
The second call is for 1,000
white men to go to Camp Shel
by, Hattiesburg, Miss. They
will entrain for five days be
ginning August 5. This call also
will be voluntary, but if enough
have not been secured, Class 1
men from the 1917 class of
registrants will be inducted in
to the service. If the 1917
j class is exhausted then regis
trants from the 1918 class will
i be inducted
had thrown their rifles and re
volvers in a creek. Two revol
jvers wer| found later in a tree,
however, after their hiding
place had been revealed by a
member of the gang.
If a good business chance were offered
you today, are you in position to grasp it?
You would be if you had banked the mon
ey you have spent on the things that you
really did not need. Begin NOW. Open
an account with our bank. Pile up your
dollars and it won’t be long until your
opportunity will come again.
Put YOUR money in OUR bank.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
NEWARK, ARKANSAS
OWEN FETZER WRITES
OF WAR IN FRANCE
Says Many German Soldiers
Are Mere Boys Only 14
Years of Age
Squire and Mrs. J. H. Fetzer
ot Logan township received a
letter Saturday from their son,
Owen, who is with the Ameri
can Army now in France. This
is the first letter they have re
ceived from the young man
since his arrival at the battle
front.
One interesting feature of
the young man’s letter is the
statement that many of the
German soldiers captured are
about the age of his brother.
Carl, who is a mere lad only 14
years of age. This would indi
cate that German man power
is at a very low ebb or else the
German war lords have entire
ly lost their reason, as no na
tion can afford to take its boys
of this age into the army and
send them upon the battlefields
to be mowed down like weeds
before a cycle. His letter fol
lows :
Somewhere in France, June
22.
My Dear Parents:
Will write you a few lines.
This leaves me well and doing
fine. How is everything in
good old America by this time?
Everything over here is old
fashioned- Some of the houses
have grass roofs. But I have
seen some very fine wheat and
oats growirlg and the soil seems
to be very fertile.
1 have seen some German
soldiers here who have been
taken prisoners. Many of them
look to be about the age of
brother Carl.
If you folks at home could
see what I have seen, you could
see why Germany needs to be
wiped off the map. I am
wanting to go after the dirty
devils.
I will close, with best wishes
for all.
Your son,
OWEN FETZER.
5th Co. Camp Beauregard
June Replacement Troops, In
fantry, A. E. F. care of Adju
tant General’s Department,
France
—o
SUSTAINS BROKEN LEG
Charlie Shown, who had
been employed as section hand
on the railroad lor some time,
fell from a hand car last Thur
day afternoon and sustained a
broken leg.
He fell from the car while it
was in motion and it ran over
his right leg, breaking it just
above the ankle.
Shown was taken to the rail
road hospital at Little Rock
Friday night.
--o
CANNING FACTORY BURNS
The old canning factory
building which had been used
for some time by F. -C. Hoyt &
Co., as a warehouse, was des
troyed by fire Friday night.
The total loss is about $(>00,
with $400 insurance. It is not
known how the fire originated
—-o
A good picture show at the
Skydome Saturday night.
NEW CONSTITUTION
AND STATE POLITICS
Writers of New Constitution
Seek to Throttle Ambition
of
aspiring
Politicians
Little Rock, July 15.—Next
year’s politics is already com
ing to the front, while the con
stitutional Convention has been
wrestling with the problem of
spiking the long-distance polit
ical guns. The Convention has
endeavored to bust up the time
-honored political machine by
throwing a monkey-wrench
into its vitals, prohibiting any
/nan in office from succeeding
himself or anybody else after
he has served four years.
Of course there is another
side to it and not all the mem
bers of the Convention are ful
ly satisfied over the action of
the majority. While there is a
growing opposition to offiecrs
perpetuating themselves in of
fice, there was strong argu
ments made on the floor of the
convention against the tenden
cy to deny to the people the
right and privilege of electing
to office any man whom they
might desire, whether he hap
pened to be in office or out;
and that it is unjust to those
men who are ambitious to suc
ceed in this world to say that,
they shall not aspire to other
offices after they have served
faithfully in one.
“The remedy is worse than
the bite of a snake,” is the way
one of them put it in opposing
the new principle which it is
sought to write in tlje organic
law of the state- However,
that is the way it is now writ
ten, and there appears to be
no movement at the present
time toward a reversal on the
subject.
The prohibition against an
officer succeeding himself or
becoming candidate for ano
ther office during the term of
office, has been made to apply
only to those who are elected
after the new Constitution is
adopted.
This opens up several inter
esting conjectures and circum
stances in which the “ifs” loom
large. If the Constitution is
submitted at a special election
before the general election in
November, and if it is ratified
by the people, then the offi
cers who are elected in Novem
ber will have been elected af
ter the adoption of the Consti
tution and will be barred. But
if the Constitution is submitted
at the General election, for
which there seems to be a
growing sentiment, then the of
ficers will not be elected after
the adoption, but at the same
time, and the prohibition could
not apply.
During the state convention
there appeared above the sur
face some political periscopes
that seemed to indicate some
interesting developments wdth
in the next twelve months.
There was open talk about the
probability of Gov. Brough be
coming a candidate for the U.
S. Senate against Senator W.
F. Kirby, although this rumor
was neither denied nor con
firmed by Governor Brough
Incidentally, it is held by many
that the plank in the Constitu
tion could not be made to ap
ply to this office anyway, since
the Senate is itself the judge
of the qualifications of its
own members. However, that
is one of the interesting possi
bilities of the future.
And it has been an open se
cret among his friends for some
time that T. J. Terrell, Secre
tary of State, will be a candi
date to succeed Governor
Brough. He has been quitely
laying his fences, and is rally
ing to his support some strong
and influental political leaders
of the state.
Of course there will be other
candidates. That is to be ex
pected. With the term of of
fice increased to four years and
the salary raised several thous
and dollars as it will be by the
Constitutional Convention,
there are likely to be several
candidates. But Tom is not
concerned about his opponents
and says he is going to win
anyway. He is not ready to
announce his candidacy yet, in
fact, he is not talking it around
generally, and is not seeking
general publicity of the fact.
But this inside dope is just be
tween the writer of these truth
ful chronicles and the reader
Tom Terrall is a coming po
litical leader who will have to
be reconed with.
-o
OIL TROUGH MAN
REPORTED MISSING
John W. James formerly of
Oil Trough who was with the
American Expeditionary Forc
es in France, is reported miss
ing which probably means that
he has been captured by the
Germans.
James is about 25 years old
and enlisted in the army about
a year and a half ago. He is a
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan
James of Oil Trough. He was
formerly employed in the post
offiec at Newport.
THE LIMIT WILL
EXPIRE JULY 22
AH Buyers of Sugar are Urged
to Give Attention to Their
Reports at Once
The time limit for statements
to be field by all buyers of
sugar, except the householder
for private consumption, which
was originally fixed for July
15, by special order from State
Food Administrator, Hamp
Williams, has been extended
to July 22. No further exten
sion, it is declared, will be
granted.
All buyers of sugar except
the private consumer, whether
they have sugar sufficiently for
July or not, must fill out a
statement on blanks to be se
cured from Mr. William’s of
fice. Those who have made a
sugar statement for July are
not required to fill out another
report.
“We have extended the time
limit one week,” said Mr- Wil
liams, “in order that no one
in Arkansas might be penaliz
ed. Failure to make the prop
er report will deny delinquents
any sugar for the remainder of
the year. If you are in doubt
about these reports or do not
know what to do,write me. Pos
itively no sugar will be given to
any who fail to report, and no
further extension of time will
be made. Remember, if you
buy sugar for any purpose oth
er than private consumption,
you will have to file a report.”
BALLARD-HUNTER
Ernest Ballard and Mrs. May
Hunter were married at the
home of Squire M. E. Burt
Monday afternoon, Squire
Burt officiating.
lllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllWWilWMI
IF YOU WANT A
Real Good Buggy
AND A SET OF
Extra Good Harness
GET THEM FROM
C. W. Maxfield Co
BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS
amnniiiiiiiiiiiiitiiniiiiiiiiiitiitiiiiin