South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-30

that Gen. Pershing. with 81 aids,
has arrived there safely.
June IL.
Lord Northcline, chairman of the
British war mission. arrives in New
York.
June Is.
Gen. Pershing hailed by vast
thrOngs on his arrival in Paris,
France.
Elihu Root and the American
war mission to Russia, arrive in
Petrograd.
June 10.
The first Liberty loan of 1917
closes heavily Oversubscribed.
Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkman, anarchist leaders, are ar
rested in New York charged with
conspiracy against the draft law.
June IL.
The Belgian war mission arrives
in Washington.
June -.
Announcement is made from
Washington that thousands Of
American regulars and marines
have landed in France in defiance
Of the German submarine cUldon.
June 80.
Eighty-seven ships seized by the
United States government are turn
ed over by Pres't Wilson to the
shipping board.
July 4.
The American steamer Orleans"
the first American merchant ship
TO brave the submarine war zone,
is sunk by a German submarine.
July 8.
Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkman are convicted OF con-
spiracy to violate the selective draft
law and are sentenced to two years
Imprisonment.
Pres't Wilson issues a proclama-
ton drafting the entire national
guard into the federal service.
July IL.
The house of representatives
passes S64O,OOO.OOO aviation bill.
July 20.
Drawing of the draft numbers of
registered men takes place at Wash
ington.
July "a.
Mai Gen. GOethals, general man
ager of the emergency fleet cor
poratiOn, and William Denman,
chairman of the shipping board, re-
signed.
Edward y. Hurley succeeds Dem
man and Rear Admiral Caps takes
the place of Gen. Goethals.
August s.
The United states senate by a
vote of &c to Z, passed the admin
istration food bill.
August 10.
Pres't Wilson signs the food bill
and Immediately appoints Herbert
c. Hoover as national food admin
istrator
August If.
The war department appoints
Maj. Gen. William a Mann TO com
mand the first division of national
guard troops, known as the rain
bow division" TO go to France.
August 23.
Pres't Wilson appoints DIR. Harry
a Garfield, president of Williams
college. coal administrator, and
fixes the price Of coal at the mines
from $500 to $3.50 a ton.
August IS.
Pres't Wilson. i'm a note TO the
vatican. rejects the pOpe's peace
plea, asserting that the present gov
eminent of Germany cannot be
trusted.
August 81.
Pacifsts of the peoples peace
council, having been refused per-
mission to hold meetings in Mil
waukee and seveTpI other cities. ar
rive in Chicago for a convention
there.
September 1.
National guardsmen and police Of
Chicago under orders from Gov.
Lowden of Illinois. ~ break up a
meeting of the peoples peace
council.
September ..
BY a vote of y TO the senate
placed a 32-percent tax on all war
profits.
September s.
Sec'y Of State Lansing reveals
Swedish diplomats as secret aids TO
Germans in sinking merchant ships.
Copies of communications from
Count Won Luxburg, German envoy
10 the Argentine, transmitted TO
Berlin through the Swedish lega-
ton at Buenos Aires, are made pub
lie.
September 10.
The senate passes the war tax bill
levying a gross tax estimated 10
provide $2.406,67O, 1000.
September Is.
Sec'y OF state Lansing. In new
disclosures, reveals that the Swed-
ish minister to Mexico had fur
nished information regarding allied
activities 10 the German legation
there. il being planned 10 present
him with an imperial decoration as
reward.
September IS.
A grand jury at Chicago returns
blanket indictment against 166
leaders of the I. W. w. charging
nationwide conspiracy 20 hamper
the government in the war.
October ?.
The senate adopts tie war reve-