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| ieriect :1e regular army reorganiza-
 jon. Whether prblc hearings on the
 hcw army bjll and ifs selectiye draft
 feature will he held mas not been de cided Many requests for hearings
 have been received.
 After 4 D ca today by Senator
 fIughes O double the pay of enlisted
 men. tho committee decided to ask tie war department for suggestions and cost estimates regarding increase Of the enlisted personnel from $l5 a month to $2o, $25 and $30
 Virnal y all changes in the national defense law suggested by the army general staff were accepted by the committee, and bill incorporating them will he reported to the senate Monday. The amendments include authority to increase the general staff Co 92 members, to increase the num-
 Der of machine companies in each army division from ten to 23 and Ii increase the number of non-commis- toned oItjrers in each army unit
 The war department was asked also to submit suggestions regarding ad. dition Of armored motor car companies l Ike machine gun squads. 10 each mt. Separation" allowances for sol. diers depe1dent- in time Of war, rec commended by the general staff in lieu Of the $50 monthly allowance given fly congress 10 dependents Of national IAuardsmen during the Mexican bor- der service, were approved hy the committee and incllded in the bill. These provide thar during war depend. ents of enlisted mnn shall be paid Sl5 monthly If soldiers were killed in ection. from wounds or disease, the depeadents would receive an equal amount to their pay for six months, and if in aviation service, q years pay.
 The committee is divided on the selective draft proposal, with a ma,
 jority, however, understood to favor
 the administration plan.
 Many senators tre personally pp- rosed to conscription but are loath
 to oppose the administration plans. Chairman Chamber ain and others I, Of the committee feel little can be sained and much time wasted by lolding public hearings. The arglt
 nlents are 70 well defined on both
 sides of the issue that t is believed
 hey can and will be aGFquately pre-
 sented by senators on the commit ltee.
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.Nill finance some yards, although prs Fate capital already is offering mi hons for construction of the vessels.
 Major General Goethals, who has agreed 10 supervise building of the ships. will come to Washington 10 take charge of the work as soon as he can arrange to leave his task Of building New Jersey highways. F. A. Eustace, a Boston mining engineer, who with F. Hunting Clark, d New Ycrk engineer. conceived the idea cf wooden ship fleet, probably VIII be associated with him.
 The 70o,000 tons of German shippin, taken over by the government un. Gouhtedy will be put und tfie cur poration, as will the Aktrian ships now in custody of the United States The general opinion is that the Ger man and Austrian owners will be pald for their use during the war and fu
 the ships themselves. if they are lost ] or retained
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this afternoon pressing toward the city from III directions
 From the northern slopes of Nimy ridge, recently captured from the Ger mans. t wa possible through the brilliantly clear atmosphere to see tha spires and chimney5 of Douai. still a German stronghold Ne@er, Lens seemed to lie almost at the very foot of the ridge, with its suburb. Iievin, spraBling well into the new British lines. Lens presents striking con- trast 10 the usual gray white towns of northern France. 1t appears in the distance as one great splotch of red red walls, red roofs, red chim- neys-out of which loom the gray walls anG gray towers of the cathe- dral
 Nine towers dot the surroundlue country almost as tnickly as oil der ricks in the petroleum districts of America Great slag heaps rise here and there like so many Egyptian pyra- mids In and around these red build. inss and slag heaps shells exploded
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National Gttdfd Is
 to Be Increased
NeW Ruling Will Permit States to Add Additional Regiments
 10 Present Quot0.

Washington, April l4.--Against the judgment o. military experts as to tho wise curse in the present emergency the war department was compelled to reverse a previous raiing today and announce under existing law states have the fright Co organize new units of the national guard. This opens the door to expansion of the eNistine guard for ol about i25,00o men to 400,0 a peace strength. or more than 600000 on war footing
 The department had plan1"d to draft into federal service only existing Cnits of the guard plus such auxiliary tr9oTs as might be needed Twenty states have applied for permission to raise new regiments. however and Secretary Baker ordered a new study fo the national defense act to deter mine whether the acceptance of new units up to the limits set in the act vas mandatory. Judge Advocate Gen cral Crowder took this view and his ruling was approved by the secretary.
 An effort to prevent immediate or ganization of pew regiments was made smu eol-ly however. The gover- nor swere asked to SC, to 1t that ex- ieiing unts were filled mp to peace etrength before any new ones were or ganized Shortage of equipment pre- vents the immediat acceptance of such new regiments, as the department has rot had applications for reserve sup pies for, and it will take from two to three months to provide even for eN. istng units at war strength.
 Secretary Baker made it plain that the department wol.d in no circum- stances recognize skeleton oreaniza- tions, but would require reasonably full complement of officers and men for each new unit.
 IL the state forces were raised to frll strength. the pre- ent total of more than 10000 national guard officer would have 10 be expanded to more than 30G00 to provide he officers per.onne for the full twelve national guard divisions contemplated by the national detense act The war depart ment has felt disinclined to add in thi. way .o 'ts already heavy burden in training officers for the wartime ar mics that ara to be raised.
 Tho senate military committee to day cleared the way for taking up the war army legislation Monday hy com pletns consid ration Of way amend ments to the national defen(e lt tc
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From a Staff Correspondent ol tho Associated Press With the British Armies in France Via London, April II, 9:20 D. m.-Heavy, high explosive shells were pouring into Lens late to. day and undoubtedly were giving inn petus to the German plans to fall back from that central mining city. which has been in the hands of the Germans since the autumn of 1914, together iwth the mineral wealth represented in the surrounding district Fires in Lens, seen for the first time ycster- day afternoon were smouldering to- day There apparently wa no gen eral conflagration Time and time again explosions could be seen with in the city.
 Lens stretches over several miles, however, and in far distant parts ol the city smoke could be observed pouring from tall chimneys as If the industrial actiyitie5 or the Germans in the French factories were progress. ing as usual British patrols were
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SEVEN BILLION DOLLAR
 LOAN FUR THE ALLIES
Discussion as to the Details of the Loan Was the Only Matter Before the Congress as There Was No op- position to Furnishing the Money to Allies of This Country.

Washington, April Without dissenting voice the house, amid plaudits of members and the galleries, late today passed the seven billion dollar war revenue authorization measure. One man, Representative London of New York. the only social. ist in congress. voted present"
 Owing 10 the general pairs and ab- sentees onl y3s9 votes were recorded for the bill, but both Democratic Leader Kitchin and Republican Lead. CT Mann announced that all of tho members would have voted affirma- lively if they had been present. The formality of a roll call would have been dispensed with if several mem-
 hers who voted against the war reso. lution had not insisted upon having
 the opportunity of reeorsirs --4s5a. selves in favor of prov n.Ing money to carry on hostllities now that the na. ton is al war
 The bill authorizes five billion dol. lars in bonds, of which three billions will be loaned to entente countries. and the issuance of treasury certlfl- cates for two billion dollars ultimately to be met by increased taxation. Pass age of the measure never was in doubt during the two days it was un- der consideration in the house. and favorable action by an overwhelming
 vote is assured in the senate, where it will be taken up Monday. It probably will be signed by the president by the middle of next week.
 Discussion in the house was con. fined chiefly to proposed amend ments Part of these were added four of which were agreed to by the ways and means committee and none of which materially changed the intent of the bills tramers. The two most important amendments, drafted by Representative Lenroot of Wisconsin, and accepted by the committee, would confine the proposed three billion dol. lar allied loan 10 countries at war with Germany and permit loans only during the war.
 Others would prohibit the sale of the United States bonds at less, th2
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THE WAR IN BRIEF

The nill authorizing the issue O. seven billion dollars worth of bonds and certificates to finance the United
 States part in the war and to afford a three billion dollar loan 10 the en- tente allies was adopted unanimously by he house of representatives Sat urday The measure had been q. scrPbed as the greatest authorization for bonds ever contained in a bill eub-
 mItted to any legislative body in the world.
 Mcmontoue natlco iuvoving in ,
 late Of Lens and st. Quentin are be ing fought in northern France, wi!h the fall of these two important towns before the onrushing British and French indicated as probabilities Of the near future
 Mos vital in the series of engage. ments are those occupying the Brit fish offensive in the Arras region, now describel as a real 'pu-h.7" General Hale's edge hammer blows here so far have been too molch for the Ger mans to withstand The top of the famols Hindenburg line has been turned and along the frcrt from Loos, north of liens to a point well 10 the southea-t of Arras the Germans are reported in retreat, fighting as they go to delay as best they can the British
 advance and give time to complete the lpreparation o, defensive positions in
 the rear.
 Not only Lens. with it's important coal fields. is at stake in this move
 ment. Correspondents at the iron, lint at expectations of possibly great er things The uhrelenting British pressure is cauaing the Germans to abandon guns and other equipment iand apparently there is hope on the part of the British of keeping up the | nurauit at sucl a pace that their foe
 may be caught unprerared at some point and real break in the line ef. fected
 At St. Quentin not so much is ai stake for the Germans, but the loss
 of the town would create another SC
 rious breach in the southerly sector of their present defensive lne By capturing the town Of Fayet the Brit. | ish have worked to within a mlle of St Quentin on the northwest. while
 to the south the French, close by are hammering 1t with artillery. The Berlin report mentions serious damage within the town uaused by the French guns.
 In Mesopotamla the Turks have sustained another defeat at the hands
 of the British General Maude. the
 British commander, by the employ ment of superior strategy, spoiled
 their hopes of inflicting q blow that would check his further advance up
 the Tigris and Diala, north and north
 east of Bagdad.
 A nigh march across country by
 the British on the Tigris after Gen eIal Maude had made strategicai re. tirement on the Diala, drawing the Turke after him, enabled a quick blow tJ be delivered whcih drove the Turks rorthward with heavy losses. They were still in retreat with the British following when General Maude sent his report on April 13.
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throuehOut the afternoon throwing un dense clouds of brick dust. which caught up by the April storm wind spread a pinksh yellow pail over tho lower sections of the city.
 Above Lens occasional shrapnel shells broke. with the usual British white puff balls were mingled dense ly black puffs, the latter being the German 59 shrapnel recently cap tured and turned against the Ger mans. Several times previous dur
 Ing the war German light field pieces have been turned against them. but this was the first time tho heavier callbres were loosed.
 Some of the points surrounding Lens already occupied by the British, were thorus in the side of these same soldiers during the famous battles of the Loo, salient II was impossible then to blow the Germans out of their strong positions. but now this is changed The difference between the bomhardmcnt with which the often siye began last Monday and that which the British inaugurated tho battles of the Somme last July was eo great that it is difficult to realize they came from the same army.
 A the time set for the Somme bonn bardment to begin some of the Brit ish artillery officers were seeing large shells fired from their guns for the first time. When the battle Of Arras began the British officers and gun crews handled the weapons like veterans. Behind them lay six or seven months Of constant training not only in the schools, but actually in the field with the German positions as practice targets.
 All winter long the British guns have roared in order that when the offensive began every artillery man would have a thorough lnowledgef of the various phases of the modern school of gunnery. The rapidity and precision with which the lombard. ment was carried out has been one of the distinct features of the new success. The small losses suffered were due largely to the cooperation and effective work of the artillery. Every step forward now finds guns of all calibres merely waiting for the word to place destructive fire or a protective harrage wherever the in. Iantry desires
 Canadian patrols pressing far east of Vimy ridge today rescued from the Germans two British officers gr the Royal Flying Corps captured five days ago when forced 10 descend in the German lines. One had a fractured leg. The Germans had kept them in a dueout and had given them small bits Of food and water. but did not have time to remove them to the rear.
 A Canadian brigadier patrolling with several of his men entered German dugout further along and per sonally captured two prisoners.
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Washington, April l4.- President Wilson personally began today formu. lation of definite program for the great war conferences to begin here next week with official representa- tiyes of Great Britain and France.
 The subjects to be discussed are eX- pected 10 extend further than ma. terial cooperation between the Unit led States and the entente allies The presidea- believes the greatest result which can come from the world war is an agreement under which con flicts can be avoided in the future and guarantees of the right of self govern ment to every nation. large or small, and this ideal is certain to find its way into the conferences.
 In welcoming the foreign delega- tions headed ny Arthur ] Baltour. foreign minister Of Great Britain, and Rene Yiyieri minister of justice of France. the president is expected 10 point to the aspirations of the United States
 The president had no engagements today and did not leave the White House-a course followed by him only when engaged in framing the most important plans. Usually he deyotes Saturdays to golfing and automobil- ing.
 The character of the delegations coming here from France and Great Britain has generally been taken as an indication that they will be em- powered to discuss broad questions of policy as well as to outline to the American government war plans of the entente allies and aid the United States in avoiding the mistakes made by them in the past
 Possible means of assisting Russia and thus building up the newest dem. ocratic government in the world are receiving consideration from the ad- ministration. It was admitted at the state department that serious atten. ton was being given to suggestion that a commission be sent to Petro- grad.
 When the time comes for discussion of financial questions with the French and British delegations and with the Russian governments the senate is eX. .pected to have acted on the bond sue bill passed today by tho house. Representatives of the state depart ment, army and the navy will leave Washington probably tomorrow for an unnamed port to welcome the British visitors.
 Rear Admiral Frank r. Fletcher and Commander D. F. Sellers of the navy and Colonel Robert F. l., Michie of the army general staff. Lieutenant Colonel Spencer Cosby of the army war college and Captain John C. Quekemeyer, cavalry, were appointed today to represent the army and navy in the party,
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cARRANzA MAKES
 HIS ADDRESS TONIGHT

Mexico City. April H. President elect Carranza will deliver his mes sage 10 congress tomorrow night The message probably will be a resume of General Carrauza administration since the signing of the plan of Guad3 mpe and Nill include an indication of Mexicos policy in the present inter national situation
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to the German authorities and re- lated what he had told me-" Mir Ger ard said. the only answer I received was Why, this is because most of the Belgians are Catholics and the Catholics always stick together
 Senator James declared he wanted Ito see Americans fighting for the de- mocracy of the world "so that we might pay a debt to the French people who fought for us; to the Italians who discovered us, and 10 the British who have helped to make our govern ment'
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LIGHTS AT RESORTS
 NOT ORDERED OUT.

Washington, April li.--Reports that the war and navy departments had decided to have lights at resorts and other coast points eXtinguished at night for fear of German submarine attacks led to definite Announcements today from Secretarigs Baker and Daniels that neither department had the slightest intentiorTof issuing any such order"
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FRANK ROCKEFELLER
 IS CRITICALLY ILL

Cleveland, Ohio, April 14.--The con- dition of Frank Rockefeller. youngest brother of John D. Rockefeller, be- came worse tonight and physicians declared his death near. He became ill several days ago. the result of an operation he underwent a month ago.
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NOTED FRENCH AlRMAN ''
 ATTACkS PARIS POtICF
SEEDED THROUGH STREETS KNOCKING DOWN EVERY POLICEMAN HE
 SAW.

Paris, April H. - Sub-Lieutenant Jean Navarro, the famous French avi- ator, is being sough, by police on 8 warrant charging him with attempted homicide. Since he was wounded severely last June Jean Navarro. ac- cording to the Petit Parisien. has act ed in a most eccentric manner but was punished lightly in view of the splendid services he had rendered his country.
 Recently he had a dispute with the police in which he was worsted This appeared to anger him and few nights ago he set out in an auto mobile and speeded through the prin- clpal streets of Paris, knocking down every policeman he saw As a result
 five patrolmen were taken to hos
 pitals and several others were bruised severely
 The aviator's friends, the Petit Pa risien adds, believed that he is not fully responsible for his acts. Navarro is one of the most famous French airmen. Officially, he is re- ported to have brought down at least eleven German machines, and Paris newspapers attribute to him the de- struction of l9 German airplanes.
 Last fall he was awarded the grand ecld medal of the France Aero Club. In october it was reported that he had been arrested for fighting in a Paris theater.
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GERARD TELLS OF OPINIONS
 GERMANS HOLO
BELIEVED THAT UNITED STATES FEARED GERMAN REsERVtsTs
 IN THIS COUNTRY.
RELATES ACTIVITIES OF
 BASEMENT IN GERMANY

There Is Not Soldier in German
 Army With an American Passport lrshmen Resented Easements Ef. forts 10 Induce Them 10 Join Ger. man Army.
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UNNAMED PORT
 WILL RECEIVE ARMY COUNCIL
QUESTION OF WORLD PEACE TO ENTER INTO THE NeGoTiA.
 TONS BETWEEN NATIONS.
4 DELEGATION WILL BE
 SENT TO RUSSIA SOON

Heads Of the Army and Navy and Big
 Officials Win Meet With Balfour and Others 10 Lay Plans for the
 Future Relative to War on Germany.
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DESCRIPTIVE STORY IF THE
 TERRIBLE BATTLE OF LENS
Associated Press Man Observed Pour ing of Great Shells Into City Two
 Years in Hands of Germans.

All Winter Long the British Guns Had Roared in Order That When This Last Stroke Was Undertaken Thay Would Have Better Understanding of the Topography
 of the Country.
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A FOR RENT WILL
 RENT THAT VACANT ROOM

People looking for rooms turn to the classified ads of the newspapers to see what is offered. An ad in the SentmelRecord is almost sure to bring you a customer.
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Forecast for Arkansas--sunday in- creasing oioudiness, warmer; Monday showers,
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-02-24
GLYN is
MINUS FLOWERS
WEALTHY AND DISTINGUISHED W0M-
EN- ARE FORCED 70 DENY THEM
SELVES MANY PLEASURES.

LONDON. Feb. 24.-We.dthy and h.-
tinguished women of England are rs cog
infant Of the sacrifices required Of them in
less fortunate sisters. Hence they are
forced Ia give up many pre-war tcmpia-
tons which make them want to buy things
they should not in The interest Of econ
'omy. This temptation turks in motorcars
and taxicabS. IN books. flowers. theatre
parties, pretty dre~~e~-all the pleasant
things Of life that every woman likes.
Anxious to find out The biggest wartime
temptations Of leading women. 4 local So
cieiy reporter found them al giving mp
omeihIne FOR economy sake.
Mrs. John Robertson. formerly Maur
Mo~her. an American woman. the wife oi
the widely known parliamentarian said
that music was her greatest temptation.
Il want 10 hear good music she said.
III can economic without much trouble in
everything cleSe. mis- a good concert. 4
|rcciial or the opcra more than anvthn.
else"
NiScouutcss Cowdray. wife Of Count
Rft vi thf " IAA~ilt~~ lltlI
of England. said that her hospital work
kept her 50 occupied she didn't have time
10 regret the Injuries Of peace times. II
miss our horses most Of ALL" she sand.
We have given up all ours ON account ct
the war. For the twelve motor cars We
had before the war we have one now. but
that means nothing. Only the loss nf the
horses counts
Lady Swaythling. wife Of Lord Swavth-
lint, the banker. said:
My greatest temptation was To- CON
time thcatre-going. which | am passion
atcly tone Of. hut ] have given il up for
the war. We do not forbid out children
going ont ii they wish, but We want them
to realize that We have given il up because
we think il wrong nj this time. and to re-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-02-24
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LIKE DYNAMITE ON
YOUR LIVER.

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yer. Calomcl Is danacron@. Ii crashes i'm
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and should never be put into your system.
When Won feei bilious. sluggish. consii-
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need q dose Of dangerous calomel just re-
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side. and can not Sahvatc.
Don't take calomel! It makes Won sick
the next day; il loses Won Il days work.
Dodson's Liver Tone Straightens Won right
up and YOU feel great. GIVE il 10 the
children because il il perfectly harmless
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