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Newspaper
Dermott News
Location
Dermott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
2
The June 27 drawing here determined the order youths born in 1900 will be called into military service. Each registration number shows its draw order, guiding when a recruit will be called. Numbers range across dozens of sequences with many entries, indicating a systematic sorting by class and number, with early numbers likely called within the year.
A quirky summary-angled item notes Minnesota becoming the latest state to bar alien teachers amid wartime era chatter.
The storage battery or Faure accumulator was first shown in London years ago and has been steadily improved by Edison and others. It is now successfully used to power street cars and other applications.
Quote from Bacon stressing that steadiness in war is more crucial than in peace because errors in war may cause irremediable harm.
Arkansas Constitutional Convention debates sweeping reforms including reducing legislature to 53 members, creating an upper house with one member per chancery district and a 54 lower house, plus plans for an intermediate court of appeals, eight to seven Supreme Court, and unified statewide taxes. Also proposed are public utility oversight, four year terms, aviation section in state militia, initiative and referendum, and reorganized educational administration.
Miss Tarkington longtime manager of the Kimbrough hawk store in rey area moves to New Lown for Red Cross training in France. Tomato canning grows along the White River. Omaha Canning Company to start operations when tomatoes ripen. Louie Moneycutt finds an antique Indian ax in a cave near his farm. An empty box car rolled from Mineral Springs two miles before stopping on an incline. John Butler, Benton County native now LAPD chief, visits Bentonville. Franklin County jail empty for six months. Ozark lacks a marshal. First National Bank of Mansfield chartered after several months’ organization.
The Llandovery Castle, a British hospital ship homeward from Canada with 258 aboard including 80 Canadian medical staff and 14 nurses, was torpedoed 116 miles southwest of Fastnet on June 27. One boat with 24 survivors reached port. search for others continues amid outcry over the attack and the submarine’s actions.
Washington reports Mexico gathers a large coal stock in Tampico from Mexican mines in Coachalla to fuel ships plying between Europe and ice, aiming to avert American and Finnish bunker coal regulations.
Zurich dispatch reports Berlin preparing to intervene in Russia with troops to restore order and with Maximilist forces aiding. The German government, according to German newspapers, is taking preparatory measures for possible intervention.
Chairman Jones reports the woman suffrage resolution stalled by a filibuster and unlikely to be debated again before August as Congress contemplates a possible recess or adjournment.
Washington announces a credit of 720000 to Greece, the first under a new financial agreement. The move brings total credits to 5970340000 dollars, reflecting ongoing lending relations between the United States and Greece.
The Senate passed a treaty with Great Britain to reciprocal operation as army draft laws for Canadians and others, approved without a dissenting vote. The accord aims to align defense mobilization and provide mutual legal grounding for conscription-like measures.
Indefinite postponement of a four vote in the Washington Senate on the women suffrage resolution, reportedly decided upon by Senate leaders.
Washington reports the new bond act passed the House providing eight billion dollars for domestic needs and one and a half billion for loans to the allies. The measure was approved by the Senate Finance Committee and reported favorably without amendments.
In Paris German prisoners express a partially unanimous fear of American forces, reflecting concern at the perceived strength and resolve of U.S. troops as the war progresses.
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