The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XI.
PADUCAH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1918.
No. '42.
McKIBBEN & SWINT GET THEIR KEROSENE OIL IN TANK CARLOADS DIRECT FROM THE REFINERY
WILL TAKE OVER
SHIPS OF DUTCH
COURT IN SESSION
REMARKABLE PHOTO OF AN AIR BATTLE
NETHERLAND SHIPS WILL
BE TAKEN OVER UNLESS
FURTHER AGREEMENT
. IS MADE
County court is hqw in sesion,
the jury having been selected:
Monday for the first week. There
will be three weeks of court, so
we understand, and the docket;
going to be crowded.
SOLD OUT
A deal was consummated last
i week wherein Hall, Scruggs &
Co. has purchased the Womack
- j stock of dry goods in this city
Washington, Mar. 14.-After“d wi" th,e
months of delay and unsuccess- i )Vomack Dry Goods Co‘ ln the
fnl negotiations with The Neth-1 ‘u ’*re'T .
erlands, the United States and I Mr. Hall is well pleased to get
Great Britain have decided to tbls bulld,!l2 and wants ,0 see
take over on March 18 for allied I b's fdd friends and many new
use all Dutch ships in allied portsl0nps b's np" business home,
unless The Netherlands govern-} _ ~ ~~~
merit accepts an agreement to Roofing' Jail
that purpose before that time. j . ~
This will bring practically a I he commissioners of this conn-
million tons of ships to the aid!1-''. are havinf? the Jail re-roofed
of the allies at a time when they ^11S r.00^ *la<* *)e‘
are sorely needed come so rotten that it was leak-1
The Netherlands minister, Au-'in2 whenever we had rain,
gustus Phillips, had an engage-
ment with President Wilson to-
day and it was expected that he
would present from his govern-
ment a final appeal that the ac-
tion be delayed or at least modi-
fied. There are no indications,
however, that the allied govern-
ments will recede from their de-
cision. In fact, a final communi-
cation is understood already to
have been presented at The Ha-
gue by the British and Ameri-
can diplomatic representatives.
In addition to being recom-
pensed for the loss of any ships
the Dutch are to receive liberal
compensations in export privi-
leges of breadstuffs, which they
need badly.
German pressure is expected to
deter the Netherlands govern-
ment from accepting this agree-
ment and the allies propose that
the taking over of the ships un-
der international law is looked
upon as a logical solution and
not an entirely unfortunate one
for Holland.
Officials and diplomats here
have no fears that the taking ov-
er of the Dutch ships will force}
Holland into the war. They are
certain that Holland will con-
tinue her policy of neutrality.
HOBBY SIGNS ENEMY
ALIEN RESOLUTION
Austin, Texas, Mar. 13.—Gov-
ernor Hobby today signed and
filed House concurrent resolution
against the employment of enemy
alien and other persons not citi-
zens of the United States by the
State, counties, cities and towns.
THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
i The third Liberty Bond Loan
I will start in this county on April
■ 15th. Mrs. J. M. Hawkins has
: been appointed county chairman
for this work and will do all she
Icon to see that we “go over the
ItJp" on this loan.
Mrs Hawkins wishes to ask
Jevcrone to support this issue and
help in every way possible to
make t a success.
SAYS UNITED STATES
HUN GAS PLANS
ARE BAOLV UPSfT
PLANS FOR GAS THOUGHT
TO BE UPSET BY UNITER
STATES SOLDIERS <
M irh the American Armv in
ACTIVE IN SIBERIA France, Tuesday, Mar. 12.—Four
—-- groups of German gas projectors
Tokio, Feb. 18.—Viscount Mo- in addition to the group of 200
tono, the Foreign Minister, at a projectors already reported de-
meeting of the general budget stroved, have been discovered
committee of the House of Peers j and likewise blown to pieces by
today was asked whether Amer-j American artillery. Probablv
ica was attempting to gain spe- German plans for gas attacks
cial rights in Russia, such as the on a comparatively large scale
transfer of the peninsula of Karn- against the American positions
| chaka, across the Bering Sea northwest of Toul have thus Men
! from Alaska. ( upset.
I “It is true," he said "that The new groups of projectors
Americans arc active in Russia,, were discovered from aerial pho-
j and not only they, but the .la- tographs taken bv American ob-
panese and English as well. I servers in French airplanes. The
do not care to say anything in effective action taken against
concrete form now, except that} them was due to the quick work
the transfer of the Kamchaka is j of the observers, the intelligence
The French planes appear smaller at the top and is maneuver-1 recof?n'zp<l as a fact by the I ofricers and the artillerists in
ng tor a position preparatory to swooping down on his German! £0Vprnme,1L turn.
adversary. After a short, but thrilling, machine gun duel the French-j Viscount Motono said that the The American artillery on this
man sinve ,ied in downing the German The photo was made by an ^,ie.s^on Russia s large obli- front has been more active than
ol server i,. another French battleplane
‘HELP THE FARMER”
DAYS ASKED
Washington, Mar. 13.—Closing
down to the less essential indus-
tries for fifteen days during the
spring to enable workmen to go
to farms will he necessary in
many places to meet the farm la-
!• ■ shortage, the Senate agricul-
tural committee was told today
by Clarence Ousley, assistant sec-
retary of agriculture.
The closing could be arranged
by the local communities, Mr.
Ousley said, and he asked that
members of Congress communi-
cate with business men in their
states to urge that this be done.
CLARK ARRESTED IN | TENNESSEE VALLEY
THE SPILKER CASE! MAKINGPROGRESS
IS CLAIMED THAT HE WAS | A PROGRESSIVE LOT OF PEO-
THE ONE GUILTY OF THE j PLE WHO ARK DOING
MURDER THINGS
gation to .Japan was very import- °ver in the past fifteen hours
ant as Russia owes two huu-, and its shells also found lodge-
dred million yen for arms, muni- ment in a number of ammunition
tions and other supplies. At a] dump-, which were blown up.
suitable opportunity, he added, j Many extensive explosions are
Japan would take measures to j reported. The correspondent
concert with the other powers. J standing on a hill witnessed one
lump situated in a wood go np
WILL DEPOSIT
$5,000,000 IN TEXAS
Sheriff Combest went to Abi-
tn a brilliant flash and a great
ruff of whitish smoke, a tremen-
duous report following a few
! Washington, Mar. 13.—Secre-1 seconds later. Explosions and
j tary McAdoo advised today the I fires also were caused by our
Federal Reserve bank at Dallas | shells in villages and a number
: that upon its recommendation I in the woods behind the
| the Treasury Department would j front,
j deposit $'>,000,000 in national
enenrv
Tt was the pleasure and special hanks of the drouth stricken
DEMAND DESTRUCTION
OF TOWNS
The taking over of all of the 'T-TtI-struc-1ion't,f four hS
Dutch fleets is the greatest move
of its kind since the beginning
of the war.
The official explanation here is
that Holland obviously is under
a state of duress, terrorized by
the German submarine menace.
The necessity of feeding the neu-
tral nations of the world, offi-
cials add. calls for the use of ev-
ery available ton of shipping.
dred English towns by German
airplanes is demanded by the
Berlin Tages Zeitung “as a re
prisal” for the action of the al-
lies in confiscating 400 German
merchant ships. I11 a long arti-
cle on the subject the paper
adds:
“If we are in a position to de-
stroy the whole of London, it
would be more humane to do so
to bleed to death on the battle
field. To hesitate or to surren
der ourselves to the feelings of
pity would be unpardonable.”
Britain Official?sly gfno^ur- thaU t0 al,ow one raore Germftn
tlier than Holland proposed to
go until German threats prevent-
ed from putting into effect the
voluntary agreement already ne-
gotiated. Holland’s interests win
be safeguarded in every way with
ample food supplies and the
Ilnited States and Great Britain Stockholm Mar i3._Ameri-
will undertake to facilitate the caa Consul Thornwen Haynes
continuance of Dutch sailings to 1 ho fled from Helsingfors with
1 he East Indian colonies and pro- fifteen American residents in
vide bunker coal for such ships,
ifnTi, r- XV ruldty u"d- privilege of the writer to have | area of Texas. I11 a letter to
,..|!ark’ 1S cbal!ged| the opportunity of visiting the Senator Sheppard Secretary Mc-
entr f ° m.K °f Gus Sp'Jker Tennessee Valley settlement last Adoo asked him to convey the
• L 1 tCen .{ear'S ag0- Fjark Friday night and enjoying a! information to Governor Hobby
best xventTo El Paso a few we°eks i Rpb;>°I P™?a*" th®*™*s giYe“ at! loJg'hT **"*'*'
ago to arrest, started back with it,lat U™- T le childmi of that done tonight.
, . , ™ , . ■ community show that they have
him and the El Paso officers had |l(,,n W(.„ trained nnder the pres-
the entire bunch arrested and ... „ ,
taken back to El Paso in order!ent tRa?hers' sMr- “nd Mrs Sharp.
that they might keep Clark there. a* wel> %s torrn.er ttea?be.rs' Tt
was one of the nicest affairs we
in the drouth-stricken area were
Qark had been brought to Abi-! ha”PTwl'the?veU ?“pplied aL. tbf time, wit1}
Icne on a charge of having burned insr ilt n loI1? time. Each student! i™?abb> funds but I am advised
a,.Part »f ‘h,e trapk and property that had a- nart nn the program |that „these have b«en ,ma;
or the Wichita Valley railroad. , , > . . Al_ . , I tenally reduced since the last
He made bond there last Satur- ,s,inw01 A)ar^<>tl?n "‘,tbe.lr call. If you find this to be the
day, and as soon as he was re- LLcase, 1 am willing to deposit at
During a retaliatory shelling
for an enemy bombardment in
which a number of gas shells
fell on our battery positions, the
American guns silenced German
batteries by pouring in a fast
and extremely accurate fire. Our
- | artillery men staid in their dug-
The Secretary s telegram to(outs u)ltil thp pas shpils began
the Dallas Reserve Bank read as to fa]) wbpn thpv. p||t ()I1 their
lollows: The last reports to the i masks and manned the ^runs
Comptroller indicated the banks Some mustard gas shells were
AMERICANS FORCED
TO FLEE TO FINLAND
so that Holland will be relieved
from the apprehension as to the
future of her colonies and her
trade.
Officials reiterate that the tak-
ing over of Holland’s ships in-
volves nothing new in interna-
tional law, but is an exercise of
recognized sovereign rights, such
as have been exercised by Ger-
many herself.
that city, is now at Bjoerneborg,
Finland, according to a message
reaching Minister Morris. The
Germans are reported to be ar-
resting Americans and English-
men of military age whenever en-
countered.
, , , , feature* of the evening was a
leased Combest made the arrest flOWPr drill given by:the girls.
111 t,ie phargp of the SpiUwr mur-:Thpir fraini'ng had been, perfect,
der. (lark is now safely housed am[ this featnre alone was worth
111 one of the best cells in the a person's time for attending.
the'seHnn'nf thV wranlj0^ a"alt There were many, other features
the action of the grand jury. , fjf thp pvpninjr that added mater-
Clark is a notorious character ially to thp pleasure of those at-
thronghout this part of the coun-} tending, such as monologues, dia- American troops on the Oham-
ry, having been arrested many ,0„lip< and readings. pagne front. They wish the folks
,“;i° F-ro- Simpson of the Paducah (at home to understand, however,
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with the killing of Florence Supenutcndent, each
this time $5,000,000 in the aggre
gate, in such national banks in
the drouth-stricken area on the
usual terms as may apply for the
name and recommended to me by
you for such deposits, having due
regard for a fair distribution.
SUBJECTED TO DRAS-
TIC PERSECUTION
..... ... y. f__ __ made speeches before the com-
Brown at Dallas a few years, raenompJlt nf_ the school program.
ago, and lwth the murder of a Superintendent Jones only opened
man at Fort Worth about two wav for Prof. Sim but
years ago so papers and author- 1 {hp op|p of the Valley to
ities of those cities have stated. ,onk wpl, the buildiny of
He turned states evidence 111 the ,
murder ease of Mr. Lions at El , .. , . , ’ ®
Paso only a few months ago, and 'f tbev fished to educate
it was at the elosp nf this trial t'V !" girls and keep
that Sheriff Combest made the th“m.at th*K was the °n,y! .enfof^rroS
first, arrest, having gotten as far waJ‘ °®u,d lle done- . 1 are made’ the P" tCnt °f err0r8
as Abilene with him when they Prof. Simpson followed with a
were taken back to El Paso. * forty-minute speech, in which he
In deciding on a renewed Ger-
man offensive, perhaps Hinden-
burg concluded Petrograd xvould
be a more suitable place than
Paris for that April fool dinner.
Sheriff Combest now has a ,;p.ld lhp !"ldipnpe sPpl,bound and
If the critics would spend the
same amount of energy in the
effort to prevent the Government
making mistakes that they spend
xvould be nmeh smaller.
The fellow xvho is planning a
war garden is likely to take issue
with Mr. Hoover on the wisdom
of prolonging the life of the hen.
man in jail who has turned to!d tbpm ’aorp subat.antial facta
state’s evidence and says that re?ardln? tbe war
. . . , Washington, Mer. 13.-At the Clark is the man who proposed w^vm^ slamjs aidingi To the kicker: “If you must
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greement now have lain for two - j - I dre*< immensely.
months without action. ,»Thai. . -1 a fool may criticise. But criti- The Tennessee
United States and the allies are thst liollaud (has no alternative, eism is not a remedy that re- a set of
represented as not disposed to' A large amount of tonnage stitl quires constructive
»wnt further defaults by The Is left free for Holland's own unless you
Netherlands since it is realised needs.
twee.
mixed with the others that fell
and later 011 a few of our men
walked through this type of gas
xvithout their masks on.
The American artillery also
tore great gaps in the enemy
xvire and leveled various por-
tions of the enemy first and sec-
ond line trenches, forcing the
enemy virtually to abandon them
Details of the recent raid that
have just been developed show
that while numbers of Germans
were killed by shell fire when
the box barrage was in effect
and others later by the creeping
barrage, there were also a few of
the enemy shot here and there
during the time our men were
in the trenches. There were many
Americans among the raid-
ing party of four officers and
seventy men xvho did not see a *
single German soldier. All the v
men in the raid seemed partic-
ularly impressed, with the way *
the American barrage worked.
‘‘It worked like a clock," said
one soldier whose home is in
Texas. “It made you feel like
you could go right on to Berlin <
behind it. The only troi^le 1
about this show was we did hot *
see enough of Fritz. He must,’’
have beat it like a rabbit bcL.'
cause I did not see a single <me-S
all the way back to the second?#
line, although some of the other-i
fellows did.” "
The men went in 150 yards on £
a 100-yard front. None of the-/
Americans were killed and non0/
are missing. It is certain that-'
five Germans were killed in the-
fighting.
Atillery fire of quite a lively
character is also continuing feu
ti»e Sector east of Luneviile. Stef
far aa is habwn, the ~
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Carlock, E. A. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1918, newspaper, March 21, 1918; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth755912/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.