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Photo by Campbell.

aroused greater interest in the Ameri-
can Ambulance. Before you ask me
I know you will, everyone doeB-this
Is not the same institution as the
permanent American Hospital at
Neuilly. That is much smaller and
has no named wards. Through the
efforts OF Mrs. Granville Fortescue
and Mrs. Benet's sister, Mrs Larkln
w. Glazebrook, q Washington ward
committee was recently formed to Sc
cure funds for the further maintenance
of the ambulance, and has already
raised some $4,000.
Mrs. Fortescue is chairman OF the
committee, and Is working very hard,
Indeed. Others on the committee are
Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, Mrs. Mont.
gomery Macomb, Mrs. Charles w.
Fenton. Mrs. Thomas N. Wood, Mrs.
William E. Harvey. Mrs. Leroy Her
ron, Mrs. Blaine Beale, Mrs. John Bid
die, Mrs. Murray Cobb. Mrs. Gibson
Fahnestock, Mrs. GlaEebrook, Mrs.
Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs. Archibald
Hopkins, Mrs Reginald HuidekopeF,
Miss Caroline Ogden Jones, Mrs. w.
w. Mathewson, the Misses Mccain
mon, Mrs. Fleming Newbold, Nine.
Pippard. MSS Marie Redfern, and Mrs.
William Slater.
Raise Funds Through Pledge Cards
And Through Local Clubs.
This group OF women have raised
81. 900 through pledge cards and sub
scriptions, $4,000 through the Metro
politan Club, to be used to install
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rins. Everybody was hustled into
was all manner Of excitement Olive
seemed to take II all very calmly
and quietly, but for myself I can
imagine no more helpless or hope
less feeling than standing about won
dering whether or not your ship Il
going to be sunk.
harcellG Smith IL now at st. Ives
working hard at her painting and q
little later she is going up into the
Cotswolds to do some sketching. She
has exhibited q number Of canvases
and her work has been exceptionally
favorably criticised
-
spIek and span Naval Officers
Forced to wade Through Mud.
Can you imagine a group Of our
dignified naval. officers, all dressed
up IN their spic and span white uni
forms. wading through seven miles Of
mud in their bare feetl That, how
ever. Is what happened to q number
OF officers not long ago. They weren't
alone; In their misery, either. for q
number Of Jaekies' were In the same
predicament
They were all returning to their
ship. somewhere" on the coast. after
passing the weekend In q nearby city.
The railroad stops q good seven miles
from where the ship was lying Al an
Choir and the roads were in such
frightfal condition from the contin-
uous rains that the usual complement
Of jitneys couldn't meet the train.
Indeed. the roads were quite impas
n -
TAO men Just had to be aboard ship
bySG certain time. so there was moth
ing to do but walk. OFF came their
shoes, baggage was gathered up and
In they wadsd. I'd like to have that
picture.to paste in my memory book!
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Had Brush with . subna-
rine On the Way over.
But-to return to our muttons-
Olive Smith came home on the st.
Louis, the nrst OF the armed mer-
chantmen, and on the way over the
Runners had a brush with q subma-
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-05-03
FRENCHMEN TO make TRIP
FRENCH MISSION WILL VISIT SEW.
ERAL AMERICAN CITIES.
itinerary Include Cities in Eastern and
Middle Western States and Will
Last Week or Ten Days.

Washington, May 2.-France's war
mission will leave Washington Thurs
day on a tour of Eastern and Middle
Western states, arranged to give it's
members an opportunity to see as
much of the country as possible within
a limited time. The distinguished
Frenchmen will go directly to Chi
cago and later will visit Kansas City,
st. Louis, Springfield, ILL.,, Philadelphia,
New York and Boston. The tout prob
ably will last a week or ten days.
As Governments Guests.
Members of the mission will travel
on a special train as the guests of the
United States government. The party
will include among others the men,
bers of Marshal Joffre's staff, headed
by Colonel Jean Fabry, the Blue Devil
of France" who says he is half Amer
lean, because he has an American
wooden leg, replacing a limb shot
away in action.
The department says that the pro
gram now has been definitely and fin
ally decided upon and cannot be
changed"
This announcement apparently
means that Minneapolis will not see
the French commission.
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RUSSIA WANTS PEACE ON
U. S. TERMS, LEADER SAYS
Minister Of Justice Denies Rumors Of
DISCRIMINATION Which Have
Been Circulated.

Petrograd, April 3O.-Minister of
Justice Kerensky in an interview has
given a clear presentation of the pres
ent status of political and economic
affairs in Russia and contradicted as
sertions and rumors of alarming disor-
ganization in the army and factories,
generally circulated and credited in
Petrograd in the last few weeks.
Regarding peace, the minister said:
Russia wants peace on the terms pro.
posed by President Wilson. The revo-
luton and the entrance Of the United
States into the war have somewhat
changed the objects for which we are
fighting. We want peace restored
without annexation or indemnity and ia
vor a conference with the Allies to de.
termine how this car be obtained"
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10 J.. S. GUNhERS MISSING
AMERICAN ARMED STEAMER VA.
CUM SUNK BY U-BOAT.
Sixteen Of Crew, Including Captain and
Part Of Gun Crew, Are Reported
~unaccounted For.

London, May 1.-America has lost
it's first fighting force in the wal with
Germany in the torpedoing of the
American armed steamer Vacuum, re-
ports received here indicate.
The lieutenant in command of the
gun crew and nine of his men were
among the missing.
Three naval gunners were among
those saved. Those rescued included
the chief mate and II men in all. The
captain of the Vacuum and some of the
crew are still unaccounted for.
One Life Boat Missing.
Captain S. S. Harris was in the one
lifeboat still missing, with the Ameri-
can b~luejackets and their lieutenant
and other members of the Vacuum's
crew still unaccounted for.
The Vacuum was of 1892 tons. It
carried two guns, forward and aft, in
charge of a naval gun crew. The
Vacuum had a crew of "a. 1t has
been carrying oil to Europe since 1914.
j. I. Epolucci, a boatswain's mate,
United States navy, is still missing
from the Aztec t%orpedoing, and he nay
be the first Of Americas fighting men
to be killed.
Sixteen Of "a Believed Lost.
New York, May 1.-Only three Of
the American gunners aboard the
American oil tanker Vacuum, sunk by
a submarine, are listed as saved in a
cablegram received at the oil CON-
pany's Offices here.
The cablegram indicated that 16
men, including Captain Harris and
most of the American gun crew, prob
ably were lost. The Vacuum's crew
numbered "a, and IS were reported
landed in the reports from London. Fiji
teen members of the crew were Amer
leans. With the gunners and the lieu
tenant in command the Americans
aboard numbered 25.
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NO SHORTAGE OF FLOUR:
PRICES TO GO LOWER
Spokesman for MiIIers of West Says
War Time Prices Are Not to Pre-
vail and Supply Is Ample.

Chicago, May There will be no
shortage of flour in America and no
war time prices. The Allies also can
have all they need.
This message to alarmed housewives
is delivered by B. A. Eckart, promi-
nent Chicago miller, who was speak.
ing for many of the largest millers in
the West. At the same time he an
nounced a reduction in the price of
flour of $3.50 a barrel for September
and October delivery.
Mr.. Eckart said the present high
price is due to hysterical buying and
boarding which has created a tempo.
rary shortage. He asserts that all the
millers in the country are backing him
in his offer to lower prices for flu.
ture delivery.
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VISIT TOMB OF WASHINGTON
ENJOYS OF ALLIES PAY TRIBUTE
TO PATRIOT.
Wreaths Laid On Tomb of Hero in
Memory Which Joins Hands of
Three Nations in Revolution,

Mount Vernon, May 1.-The flags
of Great Britain, France and the Unit
ed States fioated together over the
tomb of George Washington. Beneath
them, Spokesman of the three great
democracies paid homage to Americas
soldier and statesman and pledged
themselves, each to the other in the
name of the dead, to prosecute the
present mighty struggle against autoc-
racy on the lines he himself had fol-
lowed in bringing America into being.
In groups of twos and threes, an
eminent gathering, including the men,
bers of the French and British war
commissions, the Presidents cabinet
and members of Congress had strolled
up through the sloping grounds from
he river bank until perhaps half a
hundred people stood with bare heads
in a semi-circle before the tomb.
Place Bronze Wreath.
Two French officers came forward
with the bronze wreath from the
French nation, the highest mark of
honor which the French nation can
accord the dead. Bending over the
marshal passed through the narrow
entrance and solemnly placed the
wreath upon the stone coffin.
AS Marshal Joffre passed back, Mr..
Balfour came forward with the British
wreath of lilies and oak leaves tied
with the colors of the three allied ma
tions. He, too. entered the tomb and
placed the British token beside the
French.
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ROOSEVELT WOULD HELP
RAISE FOUR DIVISIONS
Is lnsistent That u. S. Soldiers Be
Sent to France at Once and Offers
Aid in Raising Troops.

New York, May 1. - Colonel Roose-
welt upon his return from Chicago de-
clared that the House and Senate con-
ferees should Immediately agree upon
Senator H%arding's amendment passed
by the upper body, leg~islating a volun-
teer force.
Roosevelt said it would be "a most
evil thing if Marshal Joffre's request
for an American army at the front as
soon as possible was disregarded.
IF l am permitted l will help raise
one, two, three or four divisions com
posed of regiments substantially like
the regiment l commanded in the
Spanish war" the Colonel said,
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-05-03
PLOT TO KILL PRESIDENT
Is BELIEVED REVEALED
Wilson, Taft and Roosevelt "Picked"
to Die, According to Note Found
On Dead Man.

Trenton, N. j., May 1.-Assassina-
ton plots against President Wilson,
Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft
and Senator Tom" Taggart Of Indi.
ana are believed to have been re-
vealed through the death of Charles
G. Mueller, indianapolis architect, who
dropped dead Of heart disease in a
hotel lobby here.
Coroner Bray and United States
Marshal Snowden found in Mueller's
pocket a notebook in which was
memoranda stating that Wilson,
Roosevelt and the others we're pick
ed" for death.
A loaded revolver was found in
Mueller's hip pocket. Two double
barreled guns in cases were found in
his trunk. The assassination memoir
anda was written in pencil. It had no
details of how the murders were to
be committed or who was to make
the attacks.
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DRAFT ARMY BILL
PASSES CONGRESS
CONSUMPTION MEASURE CAR.
RIES IN HOUSE 3e7 TO "a AND
IN SENATE 81 TO 8.
MINOR CHANGES TO BE MADE
Age Limit Supplies Discrepancy to Be
Settled by Conferees From Both
Houses-RooseveIt Plan
Another.

Washington, May 1. - The Ameri-
can army in the war against Germany
will be raised by conscription. The
fight in Congress for the administra-
ton selective draft measure was won
after days of the hottest kind Of de-
bate, when the House passed the bill
by a vote of 397 to "a. The bill, in
somewhat different form, was passed
later by the Senate, 81 to 8.
Ages Of Service.
AS passed, the House bill would
draft single men between the age of
81 and 40 years, with the President
having authority to designate which
ages shall be called to the colors first.
The Senate measure would conscrlpt
single men between 81 and q years
inclusive. This difference in the pro-
visions will make it necessary for the
to be sen to a joint confer
ence of House and Senate members
where the ages prescribed may be ar
ranged together. 1t appears certain,
however, that the Senate ages will
finally be adopted with a modifying
clause leaving to the discretion of the
President as to what ages shall be
called upon to form the first big army.
Representatives Davis, Van Dyke,
Lundeen and Stevenson of Minnesota,
voted against the bill, as did Senator
Gronna of'North Dakota
Support for Roosevelt Plan.
Senator Harding's amendment to
the bill designed to permit Colonel
Roosevelt to raise four infantry divis-
ions for service in France was adopt
ed by the Senate, Sc to 81. Many
Democrats voted for it. A similar
amendment had been rejected by the
House recently.
BilI's Main PROVISIONS.
The army draft bills main provis.
ions call for:
A total armed force of 1000, 900 men.
An army of $4,000.
A national guard of 625, 900.
Filling the gaps in the militia by
volunteer and forced enlistment.
In additions the raising of 1000, 900
in two groups of 500, 900 each by Sc
lective CONSUMPTION.
Liability to service of all male citi-
zens between the ages of 81 and 40
years, inclusive.
Exemption from service of those be.
longing to religious organizations
whose creeds oppose war, clergymen
of recognized religious denominations
and federal and state officials.
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FINAL DRAFT OF MEASURE AS RE-.
PORTED BY SUBCOMMITTEE TO
BE MADE BY FULL COMMIT.
TEE IMMEDIATELY.
PLAN TO RAISE LARGE
SUM BY DIRECT TAX.
Measure Still Short Of Amount
Named As Necessary BY secre-
tary Of Treasury-Reduction Of
Income Tax Exemptions and
Increased Taxes Sought.

Washington, May "A war ven
measure designed to raise not less
than $780, 900, 900 by direct taxes
during the coming year will be report.
ed to the House Ways and Means com.
mittee at once by a subcommittee
which has been drafting the bill in.
secret session.
Reduction of income tax exemptions
from $4,000 and $4,000 to $1,000 and
$4,000 for single and married persons,
respectively, and an increase of the
excess profits tax from eight per cent
to 16 per cent IN all amounts over
$4,000, are a few of the subcommit-
tees proposals.
Others are increased taxes on liquor,
beer, cigars, cigarettes and tobacco,
e taxes on automobiles, soft drinks,
amusement places, freight and passen.
ger traffic and a stamp tax of wide
scope.
Short of Necessary Amount.
The bill is millions short of the ST..
800, 100000 urged by Secretary Nc.
Adoo.
Opposition of Representative Ford
ney of Michigan, ranking Republican
member of the committee, to raising
more than 1000, 900, 900 by direct tax
es is largely responsible for the situa-
ton.
Only part Of the recommendations
OF the bill meets with the approval of
the full subcommittee. A normal tax
of 2 per cent would be levied by the
proposed bill on all incomes above the:
proposed exemptions. Above So, 900
and $4,000 and up to $4,000, 5 per cent
would be levied.
Surtaxes would begin at $4,000 and
continue upward, nom being higher
than 80 per cent.
Doubles Tax On Beer.
Decision to recommend increasing
the tax on whisky from $1.10 to So a
gallon and that on beer from $3.50 to-
$3.50 a barrel was reached after de-
termined efforts to make it higher had
failed.
In an effort to protect the manufac-
turer and smoker of cheap cigars it
was decided to fix a graduated tax on
all kinds of cigars. Cigarette taxes
would be doubled. Wholesale and re-
tail ~tobacconists would be taxed s25
and Sc respectively annually.
On both freight and passenger
transportation proceeds rates higher
than 4 per cent on passenger tickets
are recommended and 4 per cent on
freight charges.
Automobiles Hit.
A S per CEN tax on the factory
cost of automobiles and musical in
struments is recommended.
Amusement places, including mo-
ton picture houses and baseball parks.
would pay stamp taxes equal to 10 per
CEN of gate receipts. Other stamp
taxes would be levied on bonds, GER
ti1cates of stock, agreements OF sale.
promissory notes, certificates of profit.
memorandum of sales, conveyances,
entries forthwith of goods from ware
house invoice, power of attorney, par
Tor car seats, and telephone and tele-
graph messages.
Refined petroleum taxes are recon-.
mended.
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FOREMAN GIVES LIFE 70
SAVE FELLOW WORKERS
Boss Burner in Charge of Gas Tanks
at Buffalo Dry Docks Instantly
Killed in Explosion.

Buffalo, N. Y, May 1.-George Weld
niger, boss burner in charge of gas
tanks at the Buffalo drydock, has given
his life to save the workmen under
his charge.
One of the men engaged in attaching
a burner accidentally ignited the gas
in a tank. When Weidinger saw the
cylinder begin to smoke he yelled a
warning to the others and, grasping
the tank, began to drag it out of the
building. At the doorway it exploded.
Weidinger was instantly killed.
Three other men were seriously
burned.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-05-03
lLOYD-GEORGE DECLARES
ALLIES VICTORY IS NEAR
Premier Sounds Confident Note in
Guild Hall, London, speech-Im-
portant Positions Taken.

London, April 28.-"Victory is be-
coming increasingly assured" was the
confident note sounded by Premier
Lloyd-George in a Guild hall speech.
Before June, 1915, we lost "a guns
and a number Of prisoners; thereafter
we have not lost a single gun, while
we captured 400 and have taken pris-
oners at a ratio of 10 Of the enemy for
IN of ours"
Important positions between Roeux
and Gavrelle and near the Arras-Cam-
brai road have been captured by the
British, the war Office announces.
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Colonel SAGE Co~.e
To Conserve Cans

washington, May ITO Increase
inc supply OF tin cans for perishable
products, the Department of Commerce
Is seeking to have paper, pastehoor I'd
grass or containers substituted for this
oy manufacturers of non-perishable ar
''cles' such as tobacco, coffee. tea.
Spices baking powder, powdered paint.
syrup cocoa lard, cheese, butter and
soap powder. The department has an.
nounced that many manufacturars bav.
agreed TO do their bit" to conserve
inc Tin can stocks. which will mean a
great saving on the present supply.
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EXPECTED BATTLE IN CHAM
PAGNE REGION OF FRANCE
FOLLOWS SEVERAL DAYS
REST FOR INFANTRY.
LAUNCH STRONG DRIVE
ON FOUR-MILE FRONT
Gains Of SEQ to 1000 Yards Are Made
in Attack Coincident With Less
ened Activity On Arras Front
BY British and Fierce Battle
Is Raging.

London, May 2.-The expected bat.
tie in the Champagne region of
France, following several days of acute
gun preparation by the French, which
was answered almost shot for shot
by the Germans, at last has broken.
Seemingly synchronizing it with the
somewhat lessened activity on the
part of the British against the Ger.
mans on the Arras front, the French
launched an attack over a front Of
about four miles eastward from
Rheims, from the south of Beine to the
east of Mont Carnilet and captured
several fortified German trenches.
Delivered at midday, the offensive
was sharp and at it's conclusion the
French line had been driven forward
into territory previously occupied by
the enemy to a depth ranging relative.
ly from 500 to 1000 yards.
Gain Two-thirds Mile.
simultaneously to the eastward
a thrust by the French northeast of
Mont Haut netted them a gain of
about two-thirds of a mile and placed
them virtually astride the Moronvil.
lieres-Nauroy road.
That the fighting in this region has
not yet been brought to a conclusion
is indicated by the official statement
of the Paris var Office, which an.
nounces that artillery duels of VIC
lence are still going on. There also
has been a continuation of the great
artillery activity from St. Quentin to
Disc and along the observation-disclosures,
northeast of Scissors.
Little News From British.
Little news concerning the situa.
ton along the front from Lens to St.
Quentin, where the British for sew.
eral weeks have made notable gains,
has been vouchsafed in the latest Of
fetal communications. The official re.
port merely mentioned the repulse of
a German attack east of Arras be-
tween Monelly-le-Preux and the Scarpe
river.
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COMES TO TAKE CHARGE
OF BIG TRAINING CAMP
Co'. Sage to Be in Charge of School
for Officers at Fort Smelling
Is the Report.

Chicago, May Modification has
been received at Central department
army headquarters here that the Pres
ldent has ordered all officers of the
cavalry, field artillery, coast artillery
and infantry sections Of the Officers
Reserve corps into active service. ef-
1ective May 8. Officers residing in
the Central department will be as
signed as instructors at the training
camps.
Colonel Sage Comes.
Minneapolis, May 2.-Hardened bv
three years vigilant efforts to protect
the southern border against maraud-
ing bands of Mexicans, Colonel Will
liam H. Sage, Twelfth U. S. Infantry.
mas arrived in the Twin Cities to take
charge OF the officers training camp.
which opens at Fort Smelling Nav TX
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Would Exchange War Speakers.

Winnipeg, April 28.-Letters have
been sent by the Industrial bureau to
the presidents of the chambers of
commerce at Minneapolis and Chica-
go suggesting an exchange Of speak
ers to address the people on war top.
les. The idea is to have prominent
western Canadians speak in those
American cities weekly in return for
similar speeches from prominent
Americans sent to Western Canada.
The idea grew out of the recent dis
play Of the American flag with tho
Union Jack v e a marching regiment.
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Believe In

London, May 1.-The British are
taking many prisoners, all of whom
continue to profess an absolute faith
that the submarine warfare will bring
victory to German arms. Some of
them also are confident that Russia
will make a separate peace. 1t is
evident that the German higher COM
mand is c%ultivating these ideas in or.
der to keep up the morale of the
troops. The prisoners also appear to
be convinced that Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg is or was preparing a
great offensive on tho western front
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MEXICO WARNS GERMANS
AGAINST ANTI-U. S. ACTS
Government Threatens All Teutons
Who Concentrate on Border With
Immediate Arrest.

Washington, April 2S.-Onicial dis.
vices to the State department TODAY
said the Mexican government had
warned Germans in Mexico that any
concentration of Germans near the
American border will be followed i'm.
mediately by their arrest.
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Stranded Americans at New vork

New York, May IA Norwegian
steamship, the first passenger liner to
leave a Scandinavian port for the Unit
ed States since February, has arrived
here with a large number of Ameri-
cans stranded in Denmark, Norway
and Sweden when sea traffic was in
terrupted. Among the Americans on
the ship were a number Of physicians
who had been working in German and
Austrian hospitals. One passenger
said he learned just previous to sail
ing That the reported labor troubles
were widespread.
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EARTHQUAKE WRECKS TOWN

Shocks Fatal to Many In italian Dis
tricts, Report.
Rome, April 30.-The entire village
OF Montechi has been destroyed by an
earthquake, according to word received
here. Complete lists of casualties are
not available.
Ten persons were killed in Tuscany
and Umbria, an official statement as.
serted. Thirty persons were severely
injured.
Citerna was almost completely
wrecked, 80 persons being caught in
The wreckage and injured.