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The state herald., 1917-07-20
Chamberlalns Collie and
Diarrhoea K med

Now Is the time to buy . bottle Of
this remedy 20 as to be prepared In
case that any one of your family should
have an attack of collie or diarrhoea
during the summer monthe. 1t is worth
hundred times its cost when needed.
The state herald., 1917-07-20
Cause for Dependency

Dependency is often caused by ind
gestlon and constipation. and quickly
disappears when Chamberlain Tablets
are taken These tablets strengthen
the digestion and move the bowels.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
CHARGE BANKER FAXED
FINGER PRINTS AS MEANS
OF "PROVING" STRUGGLE
unconditional News Service

International News Service.
PEORIA, Ill, Dec % An eve
witness TO the movements OF Edgar
a. Strause president of the state
Trust and Savings bank of Peoria.
after he shot and killed Berne NJ
Mead. cashier of the bank will
testify at the inquest 10 be held to-
day. according to announcement
made by Coroner Elliott. The cor
oner refused to diyulge the name Of
the witness.
Finger prints found ON Strause's
collar Chief of Police Rhoades de-
clared, were made 10y Strause him
self. Strause is said to have as
serted the finger prints We're made
by Mead in the struggle for posses
sion of revolver The state will
attempt to show the finger prints
were made 10y StrauSe ass a suhster-
fuga.
Strause spent Christmas day iu
Jail. apparently in good spirits and
gave no sign Of concern over the
inquest or the outcome OF the case.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
Japs Fooled in Attempt to
Sell Fleet of Tubs" on u. S.

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WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.-The
story Of how certain japanese COM
mercial interests We're foiled IN
keen witteC attempt TO unload on
the United states government one
million tons Of old merchant ship
ping. at a fancy figure viii provide
a sensa tional chapter in the senate
committees shipping probe. The
pa blic may never get the complete
history OF the deal as the state de-
partment has clamped down The lid
on certain portions which have a
diplomatic connection. Members -
the senate investigating committee
are being importuned by department
officials 10 place "a veil over the facts
Report ships a. "Old Tubs"
Officials today admitted that had
the Japanese ship deal gone through
along lines planned by the japanese
promoters. il would have developed
a scandal o. serious proportions.
Naval experts. who were called 20
the aid of the shipping board AND
made Il -. .e3 OF the tonnage which
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26

n Shelton Williams is Slated For Rail Dictator
Want Bricklayers
to Build DrOmeS
For u. S. Airships
LL.-IaLI.n.- - -.

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WASHINGTON. Dec -6- Brick
lsyers among the men selected i'm
the first draft but not Yet called in-
to military service. are 10 ue called
90 the colors at once 10 BALD the
great aerodromes that Will house
America 5 air fleets i'm France.
Provost Marshal Gen Crowder
sent today Geographic instructions
to an governors quoting an APP
peal from Gen. Pershing for H.
600 bricbIayers Immediately Local
boards ara instructed carefully 20
examine all questionnaires and 90
single ont an bricklayers from
among the men chosen in the first
draft for immediate service.
Bricklayers who waive exemption
under the second draft are 10 be sent
with the others to Kelly field at San
Antonio Texas for instruction. As
soon as a sufficient force has been
raised these workmen viii be trans
ported 10 France.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26

X was proposed 10 sell this country
reported that the ships In question
were nothing less than lot Of old
tubs OF obsolete type" which Japan
had practically discarded in her race
10 maintain supremacy IN the Pa
cidc
stevens 10 Explain.
The japanese deal may be exc
planned during the testimony of
Raymond b. Stevens. vice chairman
OF the shipping board who has been
summoned as the arst witness when
the committee reassem bles tomor-
row A fuIl report covering the
transactions was being whipped into
shape today 1g Chairman Hurley
and his associate on the board
They were forced 20 f1reeo the
Christmas holiday yesterday because
OF Sen. Fletcher's insisteuce thar all
data bearing upon the proposed
Japaues contracts should Tee before
the senate at the earliest possible
moment. in order that committee
may hurry its investigation % "a
conclusion.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
REVOLT SPREADS
IN To SIBERIA
of Fighting Say Co.'S
sacks Suffered Small Re-
verse at BieIgorod.
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COPENHAGEN. Dec. 26.-Rus-
sia's civil war has extended TO the
interior Of Siberia and reports of
hard fighting in that district were
received here today.
(The former car and his fam
lily are at present confined in q
monastery at Tobolsk. Siberia, but
whether hostilities between the boil
shevik and anti boIshevik forces
are in progress in that vicinity was
not stated)
The Cossacks have suffered
slight reverse near BielgorOd. i'm
Ukrainia. sailors from the Black sea
fleet having reinforced the bolshe-
vik troops.
Germany has begun to mass
troops on the Roumanian front de-
spite the terms of the armistice that
there shall be no troop movements
during its existence.
A dispatch from Petrograd today
said that Ensign Krylenko. the boil
shevik COMMUNICATIVE chief has is
sued an official statement saying
that Germany is rearranging her
troop formations on the eastern
front is transporting men 20 the
western fronts and TO Roumania.
(Roumania adjoins that part Of
Russia known as Ukrainia which
recently declared war against the
bolshevik government at Petro
grad.)
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
ITALIANS REGAIN
MANY HEIGHTS
Terrific Assaults of AuStrO-
Germans Cost Invader
Heavily in Lives.
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International News Service:
While a comparative luIl contin-
ues upon the western front. the
invaders in northern
Italy have renewed their tremendous
efforts 10 break through the Italian
line.
gain was made on the Asiago
plateau AZ a frightful cost in human
life and some mountain heights
were captured. but the Italians inn
mediately began a series of furious
counter assaults which put them
again in possession Of most OF the
terrain they had lost
The power OF the bolshevik gov
eminent at Petrograd has been
severely shaken and the radicals
have been compelled to remodel
their cabinet taking N seven mem
hers OF the moderate social revolu-
uonary parts
Strong French patrols penetrated
German trenches near st Quentin
and i'm Upper Alsace. capturing
some prisoners. the war office an
nounced today.
AT BezonvauX. on the Nerdun
front the Germans gave a heavy
bOmbardment of the French posi-
ton. but French artillery silenced
the German batteries.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
PACKER s RECORDS
ARE NOW OFFERED.
Trade Commissions Threat of
Court Action Against
Swift Bears Fruit.
Internatlonal Ncws Service

International News Service.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.-The
threat of court action by the federal
trade commission when Swift and
Co. Chicago packers. refused to per
nit examination Of their records i'm
the presidents high cost of living
investigation bore fruit today
kilograms from Chicago 10 the
federal trade commission today said
swift q CO. now sees no objection
tC an examination of their books
p. representatives sf the commits
SION 'SIe examination will be made
at once.
Francis j. Heney. the commits
sion's chief investigator. will go to
Boston tomorrow to examine dunn
my officials" stockholders and r.
nanciers involved in the deal where
by the Chicago Stock Yards Co. was
reoreanized i'm such a way as TO
bring the prohts of the Chicago
Junction railways into the pockets
Of the packers
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
COL House, Political Consulta,1t, Makes
Impression on European Statesmen

knowledge of how TO handle them.
In both respects Col. House has
ability of the first order. He is one
Of the shrewdest judges of character
and capacity l have ever encounter
eu. He sits and listens and appraises
saying next TO nothing himself He
is master of sympathetic silence.
EOresaw War Clearly.
col. House foresaw the war more
clearly than any other American.
From the very first moment Of its
outbreak. or at least since the sink
ing of the Lustania, he foresaw al
so where duty and honor and self
interest would lead the United
States. His visits TO Germany. France
and Great Britain. during its prog
resS, have brought him i'm contact
with all Of the chief actors in the
drama: as head of the American
mission he is at this moment playing
an invaluable role; and a still great
or part is reserved for him when the
time comes for framing the final
settlement at the peace conference
table"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
u. s. Controller of
Currency Likely
to Direct Roads
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. -
John Shelton Williams. con-
troIIer of the currency. Will To-
night be named railroad dicta-
tor, according 10 good authority
this afternoon. IT was stated
that the president has determ-
ined taking this step without
consulting congress.
The entire operation OF the
railroads viii be placed i'm vii
liams' hands and ne Will be
given power through use of
which ne will be expected TO
bring order out of the existing
transportation chaos
Whea the railroad represeu-
tatives here learned Of the i'm
pending appointment they made
no effort to conceal their Oppo-
sition. From experience" with
Mr. Williams the railroad mag
mates have "a conviction that the
appointment will not prove a
satisfactory one to them. They
base their antagOnism ON the as
sertion that Williams is purely
a financial expert and in no
sense a practical railroad man.
The situation demands an oper-
ating railroader. the railroads
insist.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
Staying Of SENTRY
HARDEN TROOPS
German AtrOCity Against
American Will DiSpeII TOl-
eranCe of u. S. Soldiers.
InternatIonaI So Service

IN teI national News service.
WASHINGTON. Dec % r. Gen.
Pershings publication i'm official or
ders of the fact that Germans muir
dered. after capture. a lone Amer
lean sentry 10y cutting his throat
was capable of only one interpreta-
ton TO American officials here today.
That was that the American COM
manding general intended that his
men should know right from the
start what they may expect ar the
hands of their enemies 1t will not
be followed by any open reprisai
Americans will not fight that way.
But if the number of Germans taken
prisoner shall be small-hereafter-
the fault will not be that OF the
American troops
The significance Of the German
murder. officials said today. is that
Americans can expect 10 be treated
as are the Canadians. The Germans
have murdered Canadian prisoners.
subjected them 10 unspeakable tor
ture. and In every way tried 10
crush the morale OF the dominion
forces from the first moment they
entered the fray
Publication In general orders of
the killing of a prisoner of war by
Gen Pershing viii have the effect
naturally OF hardening the American
soldiers who have been prone 10 as
sumo tolerant attitude toward
their enemies.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
CAlIEL TR ANSPCR = ,
International News Service

International News Service:
LONDON, (By maiD. Dec. 10
Col. +. NJ. House, head of the Anne
lean mission to Europe has MADE a
deep impression upon European
statesmen.
The we'll known British publicist
Sydney Brooks. writing the Daily
Chronicle. says of Col. House:
There are very few Americans
more discussed and less known than
Col. House. I have watched public
life at close range for 20 years but
] cannot recall anyone like him. His
personality, his position and the use
he makes Of it are all unique.
Holds Unique Post.
col. House could hold, I suppose.
at this moment, any post he pleases
in the Wilson cabinet but he perfers
TO remain a private citizen He has
established "A new professionalism
Cf political consultant; and the con-
ditions on which alone he could
make a success of it were that he
should be absolutely disinterested.
should owe nothing TO any man,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
RED CROSS SECRETARY
BRINGS NEWS FROM RUSSIA.

international News Service:
AN ATLANTIC PORT. Dec. 20
Carrying important dispatches from
American Ambassador to Russia
Francis 10 the state department. G.
7 Williams, secretary of the Amer
lean Red Cross in Roumania. ar
rived at this port today on a liner
from Archangel, en- route 10 Wash
ington. Mrs Butler Wright. wife
Of the counsellor of the American
EN- bassy in Petrograd. arrived on the
same liner.
The dispatches brought by Will
liams carry detailed account of the
true situation i'm Russia and are Of
the utmost Importance. They give,
il is believed. an accurate account
of the strength Of the bolsheviki
and also give an idea of just how
much help may be expected from
Russia in the world war
Tell What Francis Did.
Recent advices from Petrograd
were to the effect that the leaders
of the bolsheviki We're bitter because
of the alleged activities Of Am bass
ador Francis against their cause.
The documents brought by Wiz
hams, it is believed. tell just what
Francis has done
An idea of the importance of the
dispatches was furnished by the
fact that Williams carried them i'm
a mail pouch chained 10 has wrist
and that he slept with the mailpOuch
under his pillow throughout the
night.
Mr.. Williams started 10. Rou-
mania in July. Twenty days were
consumed in making the trip and
the train was frequently attacked
by armed bands representing various
factions Williams stated that
Russia's internal affairs were IN "a
CONTINUED Ok PAGE FOURl
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
CAMP TAYLOR GENERAL
Is NOW IN FRANCE

International News Service:
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 2s.-Mat
Gen. Harry c. Hale commander OF
the satin division at Camp Zachary
Taylor. has arrived in France. &C
cording TO word received here to-
day He will make tour OF the bat
tie fronts
His departure from camp Taylor
had been kept secret
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
WOULD CUT RED TAPE
TO SUPPLY OVERCOATS
TO MEN IN CAMPS
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International News Service.
WASHINGTON. Dec % -
The senate military affairs com
mittee unanim ously adopted a
resolution calling upon the sec
rotary Of war TO cut away ALI
red tape and take immediate
steps TO supply every enlisted
man i'm the training camps with
necessary overcoats and wooden
blOuses. The action was taken
after inquiry by telegraph indi-
Gated "A shortage of at least 20
900 overcoats and 1900 blouses
10 the various camps
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
COTTON BALL WEEVlL
Is IMPERILLING CROP
!nternational News Service

WASHINGTON. Dec % - The
have become so damaging that the
production of long staple cotton in
the United States is imperilled. Of
fcials Of the department OF agricul-
ture announced today. At the same
time. powerful and resourCeful in
dustrial interests are experimenting
with cotton stalks with a view 70
converting them 10 industrial uses.
If successful, il is declared that the
cotton plant Will be more valuable
for its stalk than for its cotton.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
PACKERS AND EMPLOYEES
WILL SIGN AGREEMENT
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IUtpTUuIIOUdI NeWS NeFNIHb.
CHICAGO. Dec. 26.-An agree-
ment between packers and their EN-
ployes. calling for a wage increase.
shorter hours and pay for overtime.
is 70 De signed here today. before
Max Lowenthal. assistant secretary
OF labor. with Pres't Wilson's com
mission on labor unrest, which has
effected a settlement OF controversial Is
between packers and their employees
in many central and middle western
states. The agreement is designed u
prevent any friction i'm the packing
industry during the war.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
BRITISH FLIERS DROP
BOMBS ON FACTORIES
IN MANNHEIM, BADEN
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international News service
AMSTERDAM. Dec 26-Heavy
damage was done to factories man
ufaCturing war materials when Brit
ish airmen bombed Mannheim. Ger
many. on Monday it was learned
today from German source
One bomb narrowly missed the
statue Of Bismarck. the Iron Chan
cellor' in the public square
Mannheim lies in the grand duchy
Of Baden and contains many manu-
factories Of chemical and iron and
steel plants II is 325 miles from
the British aerial base at Dunkirk
although the fight may have been
made rom some other starting
point.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26

should never appear i'm public and
should offer his advice and make his
recommendation with a single eye
TO what was best for his party. his
state ana his country.
Honesty Cardinal Point
Some things are very requisite in
a man who should play such a part.
He must be an honest man; and Col.
House is honesty itself Another re-
quisite is an ear for men and the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
MEXICO is BECOMING
PR0-ALLY IN SENTIMENT
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CHICAGO. Dec. 26. - Mexico is
becoming more prO-ally i'm sentiment
each day, according 20 c.. Farias.
private secretary to Adolpho de La
Huerta, recently appointed Mexican
consul general at New York Huerta,
who passed through here on his way
TO New York. refused TO make
statement but his secretary declared
Germans i'm Mexico are receiving
little attention and sentiment in ia
vor of the allies is gaining
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
MILLION AND A HALF
WOMEN IN MEMS JOBS

International News Service
LONDON. Dec. IS. - 9ince the
beginning Of the war f421.000 Eng
lish women have taken up mems
work increasing the number OF en-
ployed women 10 4.716.000 the
Labor Gazette stated today Abou:
$4,000 Of them are working ID mu-
nitions factories.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
CHICAGO is BECOMING
PORT OF MISSING GIRLS

CHICAGO. Dec. 26.-Chicago.
noted for its bank robberies Of the
past few months, is also becoming
known as the port OF missing girls
Police records show p girls missing
Dee. 4 and %. most Of them between
the ages Of l. and 17-mOre than a
girl a day.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
RAISED PRICE
To STIMULATE
PRODUCTION
Fuel Administrator Says In
CreaSeS Have Been NeCeS-
Sary to Obtain Maximum
Supply of Coal.
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international News Service.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Amer
lea faces "a coal shortage OF 90 mil
lion tons today because of the war
This was the answer of Or. Harry
A Garfield. fuel administrator, to-
uay 20 the inquiry OF the senate SUB
committee investigating the coal
shortage
Coal operators have made mgh
prohts, DR. Iarueld ADMITTED o1l
he declared IL was Impossible 10
check high prices without at the
same time checking production
"Produ,rioH rather than prices,
br- Garneid detiaft' - mas Poii,s-
lie testified that ne mad granted IN
creases 10 operators ON Jhe iheoI
that higher prices are necessary TO
maintain production
Same Can't see. Policy
There are people "n" car see
the reasonablenesS of such pro
cess. the tuei administrator ao-
mltfed.
DR. Garfield testIhel tnai pi''ue-
ton is 10 percent greater anus year
than last.
This IS nor SUM
90 meet the war aelhahu> lho"-ii
Dr. CARRIED added
IT'D" 2reat shortage ls l0
Gus GOA. me witness sd'' ''' 'l,'
ea maj e ,-'i'''''.'t 80 .,''. ,5,s
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
RRITIsH FRONT orET.

international News Service.
LONDON. Dec. 26.-Nothing Of
special importance has occurred on
ths British front the war Office an
ReunSed to-day.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26

PETROGRAD, Dec. A
compromise has been effected
between the bOlsheviki and the
and the social revOlutionaries
and a coalition government is
being formed. the Telegraph
Agency announced today. Seven
members of the social revolu-
tionary part will be included in
the new cabinet il was said
The bolshevik and social revo
lutionaries have been at odds
over the radical program Of the
bolshevik government and its
peace plotting.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
PLAY
FOR TIME IN
RUSS PARLEYS
Ask POStpOnement of Peace
Conference to Consult With
AIIieS-COaIition is Re-
ported in PetrOgrad.
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News Service:
cop ENHAGEN. Dec. -6.-
Germany has asked the boIshe-
Nik government TO postpone the
next session OF the peace dele
gates until Jan. - in order Ito
give the German government
time To study the Russian peace
terms and 10 consult with her
allies" SAID a dispatch from
Petrograd today The informa-
ton was given out semi-official-
~ in the Russian capital. the
dispatch added.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26
THE WEATHER

Indiana and lower Michigan
Probably SNOW and NOT quite so
cold ton -Et and Thursday
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-26

CONTINUED - PAGE FOURl
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-04
cAPT. SMITH EXoNERATED

Capt. Jos. c. Smith, who with
Capt. VIM. O'Brien was suspended
when the city administration cast
about for goats" in the short vice
crusade of last summer, was eXoneT-
ated by the civil service comm to-.
day. He will resume his positionSas
captain Immediately. This is taken
to mean that Capt. O'Brien will re-
ceive the same treatment.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-04
PAT o,poNNELL INDICTED

PAT ODONNELL TNUIC TED
Atty Pat O'Donnell, Max Kleiman,
Harry Green and Max Weisbaum
were indicted by the grand jury to-
day for conspiracy to dsfame and
conspiracy to suborn perjury, &C
cording to reports around the Grim.
inaI courts bldg. The charges came
through O'Donnelrs accusations
against Asst States Atty Henry
Berger. O'DonneI and Charley Erb-
stein are soon to be tried on indict-
ment growing out of the Capt. Stor-
en- case.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-04

CHICAGO DADS HAVE GOT TO
DIG DOWN FOR SIS FOR SONS
SCHOOL TRAINING SUIT
Has JinraI Jake Loeb's public
school military training struck
snag? How many parents will feel
like blowing-in SIS for a soldiers
uniform? That's what Cap. Steever
says auniform will cost. Uncle Sam
isn't going to buy the uniform.
Neither is the state nor the city. So
every school boys dad will have to
dig down and bring w the Is.
Cap. Steever says the uniform can
be used as an evening suit and also
worn to graduate in--and he thinks
it will last the four years. No doubt
the boys would like that uniform for
evening dress, because the girls sure
do fall for a soldiers uniform with
brass buttons on it. But mother will
have to do some tall patching to
make it last four years; and if the
boys sit down<in it much one of the
patches may be on the seat of the
pretty pants.
There's another problem, too. One
of the papers indicates that Jake
Loeb's first lieutenant, John Eckhart,
chairman of the military training
commission, is getting cold feet on
the rife thing. Cap. SteeYer, U. S. A,
says Uncle Sam will drop the whole
thing if the school soldiers don't drill
with rifles rifles, too-the kind
Uncle Sam supplies.
Anyway you put it, the boys must
drill with regular rifles, and Cap.
Steever thinks they ought to have
uniforms SIS a throw. Uncle
Sam will furnish the rifles, but Dad
must dig for the uniforms. Mebbe
Jake Loeb could get the uniforms at
cut rates from Sears-Roebuck by US
ing little pull with his brother Al
bert, who works out there.
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