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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
Hindu PL0TTER TAKEN
By FEDERAL OFFICERS
san Francisco Editor. Ram Chandray
Charged With InStigating
Revolution.
Associated Press Service

49, A'-f
SAN FRANCISCO. April Ram
.Chandray, editor OF the "Hindustan
Gadar' said by federal authorities
10 be the leader OF the Hindu rev
olutionists in the United States.
was arrested today by federal agents.
Ram Chandray's arrest came aft
er the arrest OF u other Hindus.
The government is said 20 have OBJ
tanned evidence showing that he has
sent 500 men into India within the
last two months 10 start the revolu-
ton"
Ofcials said Chandray would be
charged with conspiracy 10 set afOot
Ia military expedition against a for
eign country CIndia) and 10 foment
revolution in a country with which
the United States is at peace.
Chandray is 80 years old and a
former associate OF Har Dyal. once
Stamford professor. upon whose
head the British government is said
10 have set price. Chandray came
20 this country in 1915.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
Alarm Is Felt at Ell PaSO De-
spite Announcement That
Carranza Seeks to Stop
Revolution.
CAVALRY CAMPS OPPOSITE
LAREDO, TEX. ALONG BORDER
De FaCto Government Official
Says Efforts to Be Made to
Prevent German Agents
Activities.
Associated Press Service

Associated Press Service.
CHIHUAHUA CITY. Mexico. April
7.-General Francisco Murguia has
begun his active campaign TO destroy
revolution in northern Mexico. send
ing troops 70 pursue Villa and to
head off his retreat
Government troops came into
contact with Villas main band at
San Andres. about so miles west of
here. The band made a hurried
withdrawal toward the Casas
Grandes district, the territory for
merly occupied by Gen. Pershings
expedition.
Gen. Murguia, ordered a column
of cavalry, commanded by Gen.
II. Hernandez TO keep in close pur-
suit while he despatched a second
force of more than 5000 men by
train 10 Juarez. there 10 be sent
southwest of Casas Grandes.
Meantime the expected reinforce
ments from central Mexico have
reached Jiminez and Santa Rosalia.
in Lower Chihuahua. and are NOV
ing on Harral.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
REPORT MOVEMENT.
.atlonal News Servlce:

International News Service:
Ell PASO. Tex, April Reports
OF a general movement of Carranza
infantry and cavalry detachments
toward the American border were
received here this afternoon.
A detachment of Mexican soldiers
from the CarranaZa stronghold at
Chihuahua City reached Juarez, just
across the Rio Grande, at about the
same hour that a special train drew
up at Laredo Tex, several hundred
miles away. with 800 Carranaza
cavalrymen. The Carranaza consul
here denied that any large body Of
Mexican troops is enroute to Juarez.
though il was persistently reported
that Gen. Murguia evacuated Chi
huahua City last night and would
arrive opposite FL Paso with force
of 1000 men.
Prominent Mexicans here said
that the troop movements probably
were ordered to minimize the dan
ger of bandit raids, inspired by Ger
man agents, against American bor-
der towns The commander of the
Carranaza force arising at Neuvo
Laredo offered a similar eXplana-
ton.
Despite these explanations. some
uneasiness was felt here. Because
OF recent reports that Gen. Obregon
had allied himself with a pro-Ger-
man faction that intended 70 over
throw Gen. Carranza, there were
persistent rumors that Gen. Murgu-
las forces at Chihuahua City had
been bribed by Obregon leaders 10
march to the border and make a
demonstration that would force the
assembling OF more American troops
along the Rio Grande.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
CUBA IS AT WAR with GERMAN
Panama viii Help Country
In Defense of Canal Zone

and the moment has arrived for the
executive 10 act in accordance with
the declarations of the supreme
body. /. therefore, declare that the
Panaman nation will lend emphatic
cooperation 20 the United States
against enemies who execute or at
tempt TO execute hostile acts against
the territory Of the canal or in any
manner affect or tend 20 affect the
common interests.
The government will adopt ade-
quate measures in accordance with
the circumstances. 1 consider Il the
patriotic duty OF all Panaman citi-
zens to facilitate the military oper-
atoms which the forces of the
United States undertake within the
limits OF our country. Foreigners.
resident or transient viii be obliged
TO submit TO the conditions OF this
declaration"
1t is announced that Germans
present in Panama will be informed
if they give any evidence OF being
involved in plots.
The proclamation was issued aft
er Pres't Valdez had sent "A mes
sage TO Pres't Wilson endorsing the
American action in declaring a
state Of war with Germany, after
the United States had given un-
equivocal proofs of its love Of peace
and had made efforts 10 save west
ern civilization from the horrors OF
war and had borne with Datfence a
long series of provocatiOns as irri-
tating as they have been unjusti-
fable"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
Army Plans Are
Taken up With
Congress Body
Associated Press Service :

Associated Press Service:
WASHINGTON, April THE ad-
ministration took before congress
today It's plea that the war army be
organized along the lines laid down
by the general staff, after an ex-
haustive study. as meeting the de-
mands Of sound military principle.
At an executive session of the
house military affairs committee,
Sec'y Baker. speaking for the exc
cutive branch of the government,
charged with prosecution Of the war,
made an earnest appeal for quick
passage Of the war department bill,
providing for the training OF an
army Of million men. raised by Sc
lective conscription. within the next
year.
Several members OF the commit
tee questioned the secretary closely
regarding the bill but the only out
ward show of opposition 20 the ad-
ministration plan was an announce
ment tonight by Rep. Anthony of
Kansas, a republican committeeman,
that ne would not support compul-
sorry service.
Outline Plan.
Detailed consideration Of the
measure will be taken up Monday,
when Mr.. Baker. supported by Mai
Gen. Scott. chief of staff, Judge Ad-
vocate Gen. Crowder and other high
officers of the department., will out
line the plan for raising the army
Of a million in year TO be followed
up at on accelerated rate by the
training Of as many more as may
be needed. The secretary solemnly
assured the committee today that il
was the judgment Of the entire mil
itary arm of the government, of
himself, and Of Pres. Wilson, that
10 accomplish this purpose conscrip-
ton must be applied from the very
outset.
Members Of the committee sug-
gested various methods of providing
an army by voluntary service and
Mr.. Baker pointed out that ample
provisions was made in administra-
tion bill for absorption Of all vol
.unteers of suitable age and physi-
cal qualifications in the first ele-
ments of the army TO be raised, the
regulars and the national guard. He
indicated that the face of the adj
ministration was firmly set against
any proposal 10 enlist volunteer or
ganizations as companies, regiments.
brigades, or other units. There is
no place in a modern army, he in
sisted. for such forces.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
RELIEF SHIP is SUNK
Associated Press Service f.:

-hcoNNtdAtN russ NtTNlte.
LONDON. April THE Nor
wegian steamer Camilla, with a car
go of corn for the Belgian relief
commission. according to a Reuter-
dispatch from Copenhagen has been
sunk without warning, with the loss
OF two lives.
The vessel was sunk Off the coast
Of Jasderen, south Of Stavanger.
Norway, and nine survivors and the
the two dead have arrived at Skud-
esnaes. Norway. The survivors were
120 hours in a boat before they were
picked up by a steamer.
The Norwegian steamer Camilla
Of 2.273 gross tons was owned in
Bergen. Maritime reports do not
record her recent movements. The
Camilla was built in Havre I'm 1908
and was 2S1 feet long.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
Eight Tons of
BombsDropped
Onthe Germans
Associated Press Service /:

Associated Press Service:
LONDON, April Tn terrific air
fighting during the last two days
and nights in northern France,
British aeroplanes carried out nu-
merous raids and dropped more
than eight tons of bombs. Twenty
eight British machines are missing.
says the official statement from
British headquarters in France to-
night. and Is German aeroplanes
were seen 20 crash 10 the ground
and 81 German machines we're
driven down damaged. Ten German
balloons. the statement adds, were
brought down in flames.
Field Marshal Haig's efforts 10
outfank ST. Quentin on the north
continue. Between JeancOurt and
Selency the British have advanced
and have reached the outskirts of
FresnOy Le-Petit. less than four
miles northwest of St Quentin and
less than two miles from the Cam
brai-St Quentin road. There has
been no infantry action on the
French portion Of the front south
of st. Quentin, but artillery bonn
bardments continue in that region
and near Rheims. into which city
the Germans are reported to have
fired $500 shells in "a hours, kill
ing and wounding civilians.
Only minor activity by Russian
raiding detachments near Stanislau
are reported from the Russo Ger
man theater OF war.
Unfavorable weather is interfer-
ing with operations along the Aus
tro-Italian front.
Refusing TO surrender their yes
sci TO the American authorities the
crew OF the German auxiliary cruis
er Cormoran blew UP and sunk the
vessel in the harbor of Apra, island
OF Guam, Saturday, killing one
German officer and one enlisted
man. Twelve officers and 321 men
were made prisoners.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
ARREST GERNIA~e
.ssociated Press Service:

Associated fress service.
TUCKERTO\. y. J.. APRIL :. -
Five Germans who formerly repre-
sented the German imperial govern
ment az the big radio station here
until the federal authorities as
sumed charge OF it a month ago.
were arrested here by federal agents
early today.
While the agents declined 20 dis
cuss the arrests. il is believed the
men were taken into custody on
suspicion OF being implicated in a
conspiracy 10 destroy the plant
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
DISTRIBUTES AUTO TAX
Ninety-Two Counties Of State Will
Receive S73.795.O9 From Licenses.
Associated Press SerrIce !:

INDIANAPOLIS. April T.-Sec'y
of State Jackson today began the
distribution Of s73. $500. collected
for automobile licenses. The money
Is apportioned among the % coun-
ties in the state and is the money
collected for automobile licenses in
the last six months Of 1915. The to-
tai amount exceeds by about SIS. 600
the money thus collected in the same
period in 1915.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
MORE LABORERS
NEEDED ON FARMS
Manufacturers Will BE Asked
Not to Employ Rural Resi-
dents in Factories.

NO manufacturer is loyal
American. who will at this time hire
man who has left the farm, or
who will make attractive offers in
an effort TO take away men who
are needed for work on the farm. q"
This statement, made yesterday
afternoon by L. p. Hardy at a
meeting of the agricultural commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce and
representative farmers of the COun-
~, expressed both the grievances of
the farmers and the solution of a
probIem-now nation wide - for
which Gov. Goodrich in an effort to
solve, called meetings in every
county similar 20 the one at South
Bend
That the farmers have a just
grievance was not doubted by any
memb Der Of the committee. Instances
We're cited where manufacturers
have offered farmhands 50 a day
while the farmers could offer no
such salary. The farmers contend
that they are willing TO pay a just
wage but declare that they cannot
get sufficient labor TO care for their
crops.
Lack of labor.
Because they cannot get sufficient
labor. they refuse to SOW more than
they alone can care for. having
learned from past experiences that
help failed to materialize when most
needed.
The problem. as stated in the let
ter which was sent 20 the different
counties. deals with the "conserva-
ton of food products and an increas-
ed production" To insure this in
creased production il was clearly
shown at Yesterdays meeting that
stringent measures must be taken
at once 20 insure a labor supply
which may relieve somewhat the
enormous demand.
r. B. Barnes suggested that high
school students might be dismissed
a few weeks earlier this year in view
OF the present unusual circum-
stances. This appeared possible 10
the committee until William Mel
owner Of a large truck farm near
Crumstown, said
'Tf YOU would teach the children
10 work when they were about seven
years old--if you would give them
less education and more desire TO
work-their help would be valu
able. AS the average high school
boy is nowadays. he would be no
good"
Attack Students.
The farmers applauded their
spokesman and one added:
A high school boy would be what
we call a 'boarder'. He might get
along all right until the middle Of
the day. but when the sun came out
he'd be looking for shade"
Then L. P. Hardy spoke, voicing
sentiment which were in the
heart Of every employer during war
time. would go far toward the solu-
ton OF the present economic diff
Guilty.
ST shall go through my printing
plant next week" he said 20 the
farmers. "and If there is a m1a who
wants 70 60 20 the country or who
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
THE WEATHER

Indiana; Probably rain in south and
rain or snow in north portion sunday
colder Monday rain ana continued cool
Lower Michigan: Overcast ln north
and probably rain OF snow in south
portion sunday, Monday fair.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08

CcoNTISUED OK PACE TAREE9
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08

CONTINUED on PAGE THREE
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
Third Ward

FIRST precinct. yes, 60; no, 5. sec
ond. YES, 10: no. 8 third. yes. g.:
no. 25: total. yes. 101. no. So.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
Second Wari

First precinct. yes. q; no, 20;
second. yes. p; no, is; third, YES,
10: no. 6S. fourth. YES. 6; no, 90:
total. yes. 81. no. 122
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08

CONTINUED on PAGE THREE)
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08
First Ward

First precinct, YES, 81. no s; sec
ond. YES. 10: no. u. third YES.
as: no. 10; fourth. yes. 5S: no. 10;
NTH. yes. %; no, Is; totals yes
333: no. s..
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-08

First precinct. yes 63. no. 9.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-05-31
CHAPTER XXI.
At Sleepy Cat.

Nothing in nature, not even the
storm itself, is SO cruel as the beauty
of the after calm. In the radiance of
the sunshine next day De Spain, deli
rious and muttering, was taken to the
hospital at Sleepy Cat. In an adjoin-
ing room lny Nan, moaning reproaches
at those who were torturing her reluc-
tantly back to life. Day and night the
doctors worked over the three. The
town, the division, the stagemen and
the mountain men watched the out
come of the struggle. From as far as
Medicine Bend railroad surgeons came
to aid In the fight.
De Spain cost the most acute anxi-
ETY.. The crux of the battle. after the
three lives were held safe, centered on
the effort to save De Spain's arm-the
one he had chosen. to lose; II he must
lose one, when he strapped 1t to the
whiffietree. The day the surgeons
agreed that If his life were to be saved
the arm must come Off at the shoulder
gloom fell on the community.
In lifetime of years there can come
to the greater part of us but few
days, few hours, sometimes no more
than single moment, to show of what
stuff we are really made. Such crisis
came that day to Nan. Already she
had been wheeled more than once into
De Spain's room, to sit where she
could help WOO him back to life. The
chief surgeon, in the morning, told
Nan of the decision. In her hospital
bed she rose bolt upright. "No" she
declared solemnly. "You shan't take
his arm off |"
The surgeon met her rebellion tact.
fully. But he told Man, at last, that
De Spain must lose either his arm OF
his life. "No," she repeated without
hesitation and without blanchlng, "you
shan't take of his arm. He shan't lose
his life."
The blood surged into her cheeks
better blood and redder than the doc.
! tors had been able to bring there-such
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-05-31

Of tragic day that no one ever knew
just when the Lady reached the door
or how long she and her unconscious
master waited In the storm for admis-
sion. A startled exclamation from
John Lefever, who had periodically
and nnxiously left the red-hot stove
In the office to walk moodily to the
window, brought the men tumbllng
over one another as he run from his
companions to throw open the outer
door and pull the dropping horse into
the barn.
1t was the Indian, Scott, who, read
ing first OF all the men everything In
the drend story, sprang forward with
stifled exclamation, as the horse
dragged In the snow-covefed log
whipped knife from his pocket, cut
the incumbered arm and white hand
| free from the whlffletree, and, carry
ing the stiffened body into the office,
began with insane haste to cut AWAY
the clothing.
Lefever, percelving 1t was De Spain
thus drawn to their feet, shouted,
while he tore from the blade of Scotts
knife the frozen garments, the orders
for the snow, the heated water, the
warm blankets, the alcohol and bran
dy, and, stripped to his waist, clafed
the marble feet. The Indian, better
than staff of doctors, used the cum
ming of q sorcerer to revive the spark
Of inanlmate life not yet extlnguished
| by the storm. A fearful interval Of
suspense followed the silence into
which the work settled, silence bro
ken only by the footsteps Of men run
ming to and from the couch over which
Scott, Lefever and McAlpin, hnlf-
naked, worked In mad concert.
De Spain opened his eyes to wander
from one to the other of the fnces. He
half rose up, struggling In q frenzy
with the hands that restrained him.
While his companions pleaded to quiet
him, he fought them until, restored
to its seat of reason, his mind reassert-
ed itself, and, lying exhausted, he told
them in his exquisite torture of whom
he had left, and what must. be done
to find and bring them in.
While the relief wagons, equipped
with straining teams and flanked by
veteran horsemen, were dashing out
of the barn, he lapsed into uncon-
seriousness. But he had been able to
hold Scott's hand long enough to tell
him he must find Nan and bring her
in, or never come back.
1t was Scott who found her. In their
groupings through the blizzard the three
had wandered nearer Calabasas than
any one of them dreamed. And on the
open desert, far south and east of the
upper lava beds, 1t was Scotts horse
that put foot through the bottom of
the overturned wagon box. The sus.
pected mound of snow. with the buried
horses scranbling to their feet, rose
upright at the crash. Duke crouched
half-conscious, under the rude shelter
Lying where he had placed her, snugly
between the horses, Scott found Nan
He spoke to her when she opened her
staring eyes, picked her up In his
arms, called to his companions for the
covered wagon, and began to restore
her, without moment of delay, tc
life. He even promised If she would
drink the hateful draft he put to hei
lips and let him cut away her shoes
and leggings and the big cont frozer
on her, that in less than an hour she
should see Henry de Spain alive ant
well.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-05-31

horse's shoulder, examined each buckle
of the collar and every inch of the two
strips of leather, the REINFORCED fns-
Jennings on the whihletree, rolled all up
again, strapped it, and stood by the
head till De Spain swung up into the
saddle. He bent down once to whls-
per last word of cheer to his wife,
and, without looking back, headed the
Lady into the storm.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-05-31

Lady Jane, pushing on and on, en-
lightened by that Instinct before which
the reason of man is weak and pitiful,
seeing, as 1t were, through the I'm
penetrable curtain of the storm where
refuge lay, herself slow-moving crust
of frozen snow, dragged to her jour
ney's end-to the tight-shut doors Of
the Calabasas barn-her unconscious
burden, and stood before them patient
ly waiting until someone should open
for her. 1t was one of the heartbreaks
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-09-27
Da Vinci's Curious Writinq.

Although Leonardo da Vinci was a
voluminous writer, he never published
single line during his lifetime, After
the masters death in France his manu-
scripts were taken back to Italy. His
heirs proved unworthy, and the pre-
cious writings were gradually dispers-
ed. Loose pages were often detached
and were either given away as relics
or stolen. No attempt was made to
publish any of his treatises, except that
on painting, for more than 300 years
after his death. This was partly owing
to the great difficulty of deciphering his
handwriting. Da Vinci was left hand
ed and always wrote in oriental fash
ion, from right to left. Besides this,
his orthography is peculiar to himself
He abbreviates some words and joins
others together and employs neither
stops nor accents.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-09-27
How Hiuh Birds Elv

An officer of the French flying corps
has taken exceptional opportunities to
record observations on the flight of
birds and the height at which they fly,
especially when migrating. Some of
his notes are published in the Pail Mall
Gazette (volume II, 1916. Swallows,
lie says, seem to prefer an altitude of
1000 feet, whereas the wild ducks usu-
ally Gy at 5000 feet. They are remark
able also for the marvellous uniformity
with which they follow their leader.
The turns and twists are taken with
such simultaneity that flock appears
TO turn and wheel automatically. so ex-
-traordinarily together do they move
When climbing they fly at about sixty
five miles an hour and are good for
seventy once they have got their
height and have spread out to let them
selves go Cnce he met some Elovers
at $500 feet. which is the highest alti-
tudc that he has seen a company of
birds.-Biri Notes and News
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-09-27
The Takinu of Urbrace.

Raryie's famous story in when a
Mans Single about the taking Of
Umbrage' is said to have been by no
means fictitious. The incident" was
actually the work of practical joker
on the staff of a well known provincial
paper in England. 1t was in 1864, at
the time of the famous Seven Days
war Waged by Austria and Germany
on Denmark, and this journalist, know
ing how late news was dealt with at
the Office of Il certain other paper, con-
trived that message should reach
that paper early one morning announc-
ing, under the heading of THE War In
Denmark THE Enemy Have Taken
Umbrage." "Umbrage' was given as
a place in the North sea, and full par
ticulars about it were supplied. The
plot succeeded. the momentous news
item was published, and the taking
of Umbrage" WAS the talk of the town
for several days s.--Argonaut.