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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-22

ish-Japanese treaty touching far
eastern interests and that II was
designed 10 protect China from ex-
plOitation by any third power and
was not especially directed against
America or Great Britain.
The agreement just concluded be-
tween Sec'y Lansing and Viscount
Ishii though not specially sup
portable by military force. as is the
Russo-Japanese secret treaty. real
ly aimed at the same objects. the
protection Of Chinese integrity. al
though that idea was developed on
more altruistic and unselhsh
grounds than in the secret conven-
tion.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-22
FELL. DEAD

John Walters. 20 years old, a res
ident OF this city for many years.
fell dead Friday afternoon at about
O'Clock at the county inhrmary.
where he had been an inmate for
several months Cancer or the
stomach was given as the cause Of
his demise
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-22
FACING COAL FAMINE.

Wakarusa is facing a coal famine.
Prevailing mild weather has reliev-
ed the tension in the fuel situation
10 some extent
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-22
RED CROSS DRIVE.

The Goshen chapter of the Amer
lean Red Cross Friday reported be
tweei 1000 and 5000 members were
secured.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-22
XMAS GIFTS

Fine assortment OF ferns and
basket arrangements. Williams &
Co.. Florists. 13S s. Michigan ST.
Adv. 656-22
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-22
THE CHRISTMAS MONEY CLUE

Is now open. and you can start an
account with &c. &C or Sc Join
this popular club now. American
TrnSt Co SnE.2A
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-22
IN SERIOUS CONDITION

DR.. NJ. Eva Peck Bruce is in a
serious condition.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-22
500 of the
American People

between the ages of so 10 20
years have rheumatism in some
form or stage. The use of
TrusIers Rheumatic Tablets
will relieve YOU OF that dread
disease. Being purely vegetable
they will not harm the most
delicate. They are chocolate
coated and easy TO take-you
don't have TO bother with bitter
medicine or greasy. messy
salves. While other Rheumatic
remedies sell for much more
money. Trusler's is only soc a
box-a full 80 days treatment
Every box sold under a guaran-
tee. Ask your druggist. and If
ne viii not supply you. write the
TRUSLER REMEDY
COMPANY
Huntington, Indiana.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
RUSSIA'S WAR Chief
HAS SECOND ESCAPE
Kerensky Survives New Effort of
Assassins to Take Life.

Petrograd, July 2O.-His arm still in
a sling, the wound from the recent
mysterious attempted assassination
still fresh, a. F. Kerensky, the
youthful minister of war, had an
other narrow escape from death at
the hand of an assassin today. He
was en- route to the Riga front and
had reached the town of PoIotsk,
about 100 miles east of Dwinsk.
With disaster threatening in the
south. Kerensky proposed to whip
the Northern armies into battle with
the same fiery, irresistible eloquence
with which he started the Galician
drive. The first greeting at. Poltsk
was a bullet. 1t missed him by a
few inches.
The gravest crisis for Russia since
the revolution, is at hand The dis
turbances here and in Moscow are
at an end.
The Ukranian and Finnish prob
lens seem near solution, through
amicable settlement. But a new spec
tire, more terrible in the consequences
1t may spell. has the country in its
grip-sedition by the army. Today's
war office statement shown that the
part of the Russian forces in Cali
cia, In the very reach of triumph.
suddenly weakened. stopped, and
then deliberately turned back in dis
regard of their officers orders. Con-
sequently the whole front began to
crumble.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
SOCIALISTS TO Fight
CONSCRIPTION Law
Open-Air Meetings Throughout the
Country Will Protest Draft.

Nationwide opposition to the con-
scription law will be registered by
the Socialist party. according to Ju-
liam Pierce, secretary of the Wash
ington branch, in a statement issued
last night.
Julian Brill, of 1880 Ninth street
northwest, is one of the local So
cialists drawn in the selective draft
yesterday
He reported to the Socialist head
quarters on f street and was advised
to present himself for physical ex-
animation but to insist upon his
rights before the exemption board
and claim exemption because of con-
scientious objection to war.
The Socialist campaign will be di-
rected towards the repeal of the ex-
euption law. They will not fight its
operation further than to furnish
counsel to test its constitutionality.
They propose to take it to the Su-
preme Court for a final opinion.
Open-air meetings throughout the
country will be held attacking the
law but all speakers have been eau
toned against making remarks with
regard to its operation.
Pierce held the first of a series OF
open-air rallies at which the draft
law will be criticized at Eighth street
and Pennsylvania avenue last night.
There were many plain-clothes men
in the audience, but Pierce was guard
ed in his remarks and made 1t plain
that the Socialists are not going to
advise their followers to attempt eva
sion OF the conscription law.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
German Plot to Dynamite
Water Conduits of District
Police Search for Foreigner Who, With Maps
Inquired Location-Concealed
Battery Found

the Department of Justice. are strong
ly Of the opinion that the man was
a party to a plot against the reser-
volr and that on seeing Fish come
from the direction of the culvert,
where the electrically-equipp box
was concealed. quickly carried the
box away, lest Fish might talk.
This sudden disappearance of the
dynamiting contrivance and the sus-
picious appearance OF the stranger.
confirmed the officials in their opinion
as to the existence Of the conspiracy.
Further clrcumstantial evidence was
added when 1t was discovered that
large quantities Of high explosives are
stored near the quarries, which are
used for dynamiting rock and which,
II is believed. the mysterious inquirer
might have planned TO steal. Persons
living in the neighborhood reported to
the detectives that they had seen the
foreigner in the neighborhood on
Thursday morning. His actions were
suspicious, they said.
The investigation is being conducted
by Central ONCE Detective Pat
o'Brien and two special agents OF the
water department. The box. the dis
covery of which has pointed to the
existence of the plot, was 10 inches
by 10 inches by 2 feet high. 1t was
fully equipped with wires, binding
posts, brass levers and a push button.
Should the large conduit have been
blown up. the downtown section Of
the city, the public buildings and
business houses would have been
without water.
Should fire have been kindled. there
would have been no water to fight the
flames.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
GERMANS FEAR
AMERICAN AID
Fierce Attacks on French
Thought Due to Impend-
ing u. S. Participation.

Special Cable to The Washington Heald
London. July 20-German attacks on
the French indicate to military au-
thorities here the serious misgivings
at the enemy headquarters over the
prospect of a large American army
joining the allies battle front in the
autumn.
The tone of derision which German
military critics affect in referring to
Americas part in the war Is not a
true reflection of the views OF the
haiser's general staff.
Washington dispatches, which pre-
dict the participation of Americans
in the fighting this year, assert that
the number of the United States
forces will be quadrupled by next
spring.
In a military sense. Germany can
not afford to take the offensive at
this time Therefore. II she were not
seeking to offset future developments,
it is argued, she would not be vast
ing men and material by battles such
as have been LAUGHED along the Che
min-des-Dames.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
FIRST SELECTIVE DRAFT MAKES
1,374OOO MEN LIABLE TO CALL
INTO SERVICE OF UNCLE SAM
Every Man Registered May
Be Called by Draft Later

The fact that does appear the list of
1883 drafted for military service does that you
not liable call
If from yesterdays first drawing o26 egbles
covered then the in the order
have been drawn will be called fill
Every who has registered still subject draft
period of the emergency.
The law such the obligation upon individual
his If he fails claims 10
exemption
Although for the accommodation of the drafted
their will be mailed them by the authorities
such notices will them from
for exemption after the
expired.
The period during which claims exemption may be filed
days after the local board has notified
drafted
To find draft number Immediately division
office OF the in which registered get
number the order appears in the list of igbes
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
CLAIM Use OF PULL
in ESCAPING DRAFT
Union Charges Sons of Rich Men
Get Naval Reserve Places.

The long brewing discussion that
college men and sons of the weai-
thy were joining the naval re-
serves to avoid the draft. developed
into open charges at the quarterly
meeting OF the Federal Employees
Union, at the Chamber OF Com
merce. last night.
In no uncertain terms speakers
charged that young men OF con-
scription age have been mustered
into the naval reserve for positions
where there are hundreds OF civil
service applicants, not subject to
conscriptions. available.
Secretary OF the Navy Daniels
will be given names and satisfies
that the union claims will prove its
charges. by a committee to be named
by II. NJ. McLarn today. These
men, according TO the union Of
ficials have through influence,
been appointed to positions in the
navy yards and in the navy DEPART
ment
More than 40 employees now in
the naval reserve will be cited by
the committee to prove its conten-
tion, although they claim there are
aANAANA 'Ne VI eNAlA FlAAlApNFs IN LnG
service Of the government.
In addition to taking this action.
the union decided to have CO.
operative buying to defeat the cost
Of living. Several hundred govern
ment employees agreed to support a
movement to buy food supplies IN
bulk and thus reduce the cost. A
committee consisting Of o. T. Smith
Of the postoffice department: A. r.
Perry, OF the Panama Canal force;
Miss Lille Keathley, of the In
sular Bureau and Raymond S.
Crisp was appointed TO work out
the details.
The high price Of rents in the
District came in for consideration.
and a committee consisting Of W.
r Swsnton OF the Reclamation
Service, George A. Warren. Of the
Interior department. and Charles S.
Davis was appointed TO consider
the subject.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
WORKERS QUIT
over WOMAN
Twenty-Five Pressmen in
Bureau Stop Work for
Half Hour.

Labor troubles broke out fresh in the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
yesterday when what was virtually
strike occurred among twenty-five of
the pressmen in the numbering and
stamping division.
For more than 30 minutes the presses
were stopped Rhile the operators
waited for foreman Charles A. Parent
to order a woman assistant from one
of the presses.
There was no leader to the walk
out, since strikes in the government
service bring heavy penalties. The
men. one after another, left their
machines and business of the division
was temporarily crippled.
According to the men, civil service
regulations and union rules were
violated when an assistant was put
in charge of one of the presses. Civil
service regulations require four years
service as an apprentice and one year
as a jouTneyman before certification
as an operator is granted.
Foreman Parent admits that he
was technically wrong in placing a
woman assistant at one OF the ma
chimes but explained his position by
the stress of business and the desire
to help the government work.
None Of the labor officials connect
ed with the pressmen would COM
ment on the strike last night. They
said the whole matter will be thresh-
ed out at the next union meeting.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, Congress
woman from Montana who has been
active in investigating conditions
among the women operatives of the
bureau, said she would probably in
vestigate the latest trouble.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
GERMANS ACTIVE IN
RUSSIAN DISORDERS
Evidence Found Showing Prussian
Plot After Woman's Arrest.

Petrograd. July 20.-Infantry
troops have arrived from the front,
as have Cossacks. to preserve
order. Only at Kief does it appear
there has been reflection of the
shevikis and Maximalists. The
government demonstrations have
for the most part professed repeL-
tance
Further evidence OF Germany's
hand in these disorders has been
unearth. In searching the office
of Nikolai Lenine's newspaper, the
Pravada. the authorities found a
letter from a German at Hara-
randa. Sweden. expressing salts
faction over the activities of the
Maximalists and the hope they
would acquire a predominating in
fluence at Petrograd.
The authorities at Pavlovsk, on
instruction from the military gov
ernor of Petrograd. have arrested
Nine. Soumeson. who, according to
information held by the General
STAFF, is in close relations with a
Maximalist named Fuerstenberg,
alias Ganedski, resident of Stock
holm.
A search of the woman's house
is said to have led to the dIscov-
cry of voluminous commercial cor
respondence and accounts and
cheque books.
A special congress of delegates
representing all the councils of
Russia has been summoned to meet
here a week from Saturday to de-
termine the future composition of
the cabinet and the governmental
policy.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
FRENCH SMASH TWO
ATTACKS BY GERMANS

Paris. July 2o.-The French have
smashed two fierce German attacks
on their lines south of st. Quentin.
the Germans being driven back with
very heavy losses. The first, which
was delivered on a front of about
half a mile. gained a footing in parts
of the French first line, but lost the
greater part in a counter attack by
the French.
The second attack was made a few
hours later, and was made on a four
mile front. following a heavy bonn
bardment. 1t had for its objective
the same point as the first, the
hillock OF Moulin-sous-ToUtve
This onslaught entirely failed on
both wings. although the Germans
were able to reach some first line
trenches before they were elected.
with further heavy loss, by the
French counter attacks
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21

A German plot to cut OF Washing
toms water supply, by dynamiting the
great intake conduit. leading from the
Potomac River, has been discovered,
it Is believed, by the police depart
ment.
The plot was discovered by accident
Thursday morning when Henry Fish,
colored laborer at the Smithson
quarry, on the Virginia shore near
Chain Bridge, reported to the police
that he had found a magnetic dyna-
mite firing apparatus concealed in a
culvert under the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal, at a point near the Con-
duit road, not far from the reser-
voir, on his way to work, and had
later seen a foreigner, evidently a
German, with a map in his hand.
moving in the direction of the cul-
vert. He asked Fish where the reser-
voir was located.
Immediately on getting the word,
detectives rushed to the culvert. The
box was gone! They found only the
footprints OF the man in the soft
earth and the impression made by
the firing-box in the mud.
Fish said the foreigner he had seen
looked like a German. was about -
years old. with grey hair: weighed
about 40 pounds; wore a part of a
soldiers uniform and carried in his
hand a roughly-drawn map. He ask
ed Fish the location of the reservoir
and when his map was quizzically
looked at, stated that he was on a
walking trip and the map was his
guide.
The officials of the water depart
ment, the police and the agents OF
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
SAYS PAINT WILL SAVE
AVIATORS FROM DEATH
Frenchman Sees Demonstration of
Fireproof Aeroplane Varnish.

New York. July 2o.-Parker r. Brad
ley. a chemist of this city. DEM
Onstrated the use of a varnish which
renders fiTeprOof the highly in
flarmable linen wings of aeroplanes.
at Newark, n. j.. yesterday after
noon AeronautiCal experts who saw
the tests pronounced them success
full.
A flaming torch was applied TO
standard aeroplsne wing that had
been treated with Bradley's prepara-
tion and later smeared with gasoline.
The frame was enveloped in flames,
but the blaze quickly subsided. Ieav-
ing the wings and frame slightly
charTed but intact
MIR. BTadley's paint" said Capt. A.
Nullierme. of the French commission,
who was present at the demonstra-
ton. will undoubtedly save the lrees
OF many aviators."
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
J. D. Rockefeller, Jr., as
Witness in Cruger Case

New York, July 2O.-District At
torney Swami will call John l..
Rockefeller, jr., before the grand jury
now investigating the murder of Ruth
Cruger and the part the police played
in the escape of the murderer.
1t is understood that Henry d.
Cruger, the father of the slain girl.
appealed to Mr.. Rockefeller to in
terest himself in the case and thaI
Mr.. Rockefeller went to high police
officials in connection with the ap-
peal. Whether Arthur Woods, Police
Commissioner was one of these seen
is not known for a certainty. but it
Is said in well informed circles that
he was.
Only two witnesses were heard by
the grand jury today. They were
Detective Frank MCGEE and Patrick
Solan, construction expert, who
picked out the section of the cellar
In which Miss Cruger's body was
buried within fifteen minutes after
he entered the place that had been
searched by the detectives.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
Washingtonian Finds Sport
In Dodging Shells of Fritz -

seing the sights and then were sent
to - (deleted by censor) - Twenty
N. r. c. men came over on detached
foreign service and We were attached
to the British Royal Army MedicaI
Corps. There must be twenty-five or
thirty base hospitals In and around
(deleted by censor) and we
were scattered among them. We
only stayed ther five or six days.
but we certainly did see an enormous
amount of war surgery. The British
officers have all been fine. and they
certainly have done all in their power
to show US things. Inside of two
hours after I had reported I was
giving ether and before the day was
over I was cutting out bits of
shrapnel and bullets.
Care of Wounded.
From - (deleted by censor) we
were sent up here to the front and
assigned in pairs TO various field am
balances. Four Of us were the first
to leave. Paul Zinkhan and Marbury,
Of Washington, another man and my
self. We think that we were about
the first representatives of the United
States army to be actually on duty in
the line. Marbury and myself are to-
gether and the other two are in a
camp just across the road.
The field ambulance headquarters
Is a tent hospital for about seventy
patients. usually about three or four
miles back of the trenches. There
they only treat slightly wounded and
medical cases. Then We have a series
Of advanced dressing stations extend
ing up to the trenches. The severely
wounded are dressed at those places
and then sent directly to the casualty
clearing stations, which are the main
operating units, and are situated ten
CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
RUSSIANS ADVANCE
FARTHER AT NOVICA

Petrograd. July eO.-Russian troops
have again driven into the Galician
village of Novica. south of Kalusz,
and now occupy the eastern end of
that place.
The Russians captured more than
200 prisoners and three machine
guns in Tuesdays fighting near
Novica. They had the entire village
in their. hands at one period. but the
occupying detachments sustained such
heavy losses that they withdrew to
the villages eastern section.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
DISPUTE over Ships
HALTS BUILDING PLAN
Goethals-Denman Row Is No Nearer
Solution.

That the shipping board and Mai.
Gen Goethals, general manager of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation, are still
very far from any agreement on the
Generals program for the building Of
the emergency feet, the building of
two government ship plants, and the
communicating of tonnage building
in private yards. is evident from a
statement issued by William Denman.
chairman of the board, after confer
ences with the General and secret ses-
sions Of the board which have lasted
two days.
Mr.. Denman said the Generals pro-
gram will not be approved or even
acted upon by the board until Gen.
Goethals has given the board further
information as to his scheme and until
the board has time for full considera-
tion of the program.
That President Wilson will be called
upon TO force peace is almost certain.
for there is little doubt that
there will be many important fea-
lures Of the program of which the
Board will not approve.
A motion Of Senator Smoot. calling
upon the President to furnished the
Senate info: nation as to the status
of the ship building program and
the Goethals-Denman fight was passed
by the Senate by an almost unanim-
Gus vote
The Navy Department has estimated
that the present rate OF shipbuilding
in all the yards engsg sged in that work
Is about equal to one-third Of the
annual losses from submarine activity
is about 100000 tons a year.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
WORK ON NATIONAL DRAFT CONTINUES TO EARLY HOUR
GERMANS SUSPECTED OF TO DYNAMITE
SUFFS VICTORY
Adopt French Guns
For American Army

The United States army will be
supplied with the famous French
20 and the French 6-inch howitzer,
as its heavy field artillery.
The War Department announced
yesterday that arrangements HAD
been completed. whereby the foFEinss
for these guns would be made here
and the pieces machined and as
sembled at the Creussot and other
works in France. The department
says this is because the recommended
tions OF the ordnance chiefs have
been neglected for fifteen years and
that there are now, in the United
states, neither the guns nor the
special facilities for making them.
Both nations will use the same am
munition.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-21
Flour Of Rye and Corn
Fed the Armies of 1872

on a bread made Of -four in which
rye and corn were mixed. according
TO yellOwed letter which Secretary
Baker dug from the archives Of the
War Department yesterday.
The ancient document was from
the then Secretary. w. Eustis, TO an
officer in the field and read:
"Sir:-Your letter of November = re-
ceived, and you are authorized to
issue rye -four and Indian -four TO
the troops, in such proportion, in
lieu OF wheat flour. as may be agreed
upon between you and the General
or commanding officers.
(Signed W. EUSTIS."