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The Sentinel=record., 1917-12-21

Washington, Dec. 20--Eyidence of a German plot to align he nations Of South America against the United States is revealed in telegrams sent to Berlin by the notorious Count Luxburg, former German charge in Argentina, made public today by the state department
 In one O the messages, Of which there are some forty, Luxburg reports that he induced President Irigoyen. e Argentina. to enter into q secret agreement with Chile and Bolivia, f1nlfual rapproachment for protec- tion versus North America" and did his utmost to have Peru included in such an agreement
 Translations Of the dispatches were given out by the state department in agreement with the Argentina minis ister of foreign affairs, who in an ac- companying statement gave general denial to T!uxburg's account of the ne gOtiati0ns with his government
 The telegrams show q number or inaccuracies so surprising that no epithet will fit them" said he for eign minister's statement, as they are at complete variance both in sub 8 ance and form, the terms in which the negotiations were entered into. carried on and brought to 8 concu- sion"
 The message referring to the South American alliance merely said that he president at last had made up his mind to conclude such an agreement with Chile and Bolivia, and there was Tothing in the correspondence to clear up just what negotiations were car riod on with those countries
 A telegram dated July 20 last an- n0unced the completion of a "receiy- ing plant and asked for The wave length of the great wireless station at Nauen.
 The concluding message dated July l9, said:
 As long as Chile is neutral Ger many will be able after the war, to carry out her South American policy just as well, if not more easily in opposition to an infatuated and mis- guided Argentina. as with Argentina On her side"
 Today's disclosures complete the stony of Luxburg's intrigues which be- gan when the state department gave
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AMERICAN SOLDIERS
 WILL BE SANTA CLAUS
HEARTS OF CHILDREN REFU- GEES WILL BE MADE GLAD
 CHRISTMAS.

With the American Army in France, Tuesday, Dee 1S-The purchase oi thoUsands of dollars worth of Christ mas toys and clothing for the children in this section of France was begun today by the army One purchase consisted of 300 overcoats for the children of refugees. Everything has been bought, from drums to toy rifles and dolls, and all the gifts will he presented on Christmas Day.
 One American air squadron will set up a Christmas tree in hangar for the children of nearby town. Ii will be lighted with candles and there will be a present on It for every boy aud girl Bach child will get the gift most desired, the officers having made a list of the names and written beside each what that particular child wanted.
 All over the zone it will he a Christ mas long remembered if the Ameri- cans can make it such. Some of the towns will have community trees set up in he public squares while others will have theirs in the city halls.
 The presents for the children are alI being paid for ont of the soldiers own pockets and one division has raised go far nearly $7,00o for the pur- pose.
 For the army itself, there will be football games in the morning and q dinner at midday that will surpass even the one served on Thanksgiving Day
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Pershing Issues
 Warning 10 Men
Should Garry No Writings or Maps or Their Person That Would
 Aid Enemy

toned. Every bit of military infor- nation you give your captors is q danger to you and to your comrades left behind to fight your battles,' he said.
 Don't carry with you maps, docu- ments, private papers of military nature and a daiary or notebook con- taining military secrets of value to the enemy. except when it is your official duty to do SO. These would be a danger to your comrades in case you are captured.
 "On the other hand if any of the enemy information comes into your possession turn it over to the com pany commander who will deliver i' to the commanding officer
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DnMMY OFFICERS AND SHAM
 TRUSTEES PART OF SCHEME
Chicago Stock Yards Company Was Operated to Provide s Legal Method for the Payment of Millions In PielCings to the Packing Combine.

Washington, Dee. 20--From the seclusion of corporation records the federal trade commission today drew sensation disclosures Of high finance, dummy offic CTS and sham trustees in it's effort to determine the ownership of the Chicago Stock Yards and the Terminal Railroad Facilities at the big packing plants there.
 Establishment of ownership of the stock yards is only the first of the tasks before the commission, which plans to continue it's investigation into branches of the country's meat supply and the alleged control of the meat food of l0O.0O0.000 people by five principal groups of packers. The com- missions report will be made the basis for recommendation that addf-
 tional legislation be enacted if found necessary and evidence of law break
 ing will be turned over to the depart
 ment of justice.
 1t has been stated that subpoenas will not be issued for representatives | of the packers, step which might give them immunity in any subse- | quent prosecutions.
 Organization of the Chicago Stock Yards company, under the laws of { Maine alleged to have been for the phrose of providing a legal method 1 for the payment of millions in pick ] |ings" or rebates to the packing plants 1 by the Chicago Junction Railways and { Union Stock Yards company of New 1 Jersey, occupied Francis J. Heney, | special counsel and the witnesses l called today at the first of series of open hearings. Other witnesses tomorrow will be asked to tell what they know of J ogden Armour and
 r. H. Prince, of Boston, obtaining control of the Junction Railways company which was organized by
 Prince and turning 1t over to the Stock Yards company.
 F. w Croll, confidential secretary to Mir Armour Is expected to testify.
 Richard Olney and other citizens of New England appeared fin today's testimony as sponsors for the plan of
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With the American Army in France Dec. 20-A card signed by General John J. Pei shing, commander in chief of the American army in France eX- blaming why the censorship is neces- sary, giving directions concerning let ter writing, stating why 1t is danger ous to talk too much especially to women, telling the men what to do 1T captured and also informing them concerning what not to carry on their persons has been issued to every member of the American expedition ary fonce
 "lt you are captured don't remem- Der any more than you can help. Try Particularly to forget organizations and places at which they are sta
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CHRISTMAS PACKAGES FOR
 SOLDIERS ARRIVE IN FRANCE

A French Port. Dec. 2U.-A special ship carrying 10000 sacks of Christ has mail for the American troops ar rived today from the United States. The army postoffice has special freieht cars and an extra heavy de- tail of men here to handle the mail whi. h will be rushed to twenty branch postoffices, whence 1t will be distributed on or before Christmas day Another steamer arrived on Monday with l,G00 sacks of army mail comprising for the most part Christ mas presents.
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PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINE IN. pUCED TO ENTER INTO A SECRET PLOT AGAINST
 UNITED STATES
ARGENTINE MINISTER
 GIVEs GENERAL DENIAL

The Messages Were Decoded by the State Departments Agents and Are Made Public on Account of the Ef forts Being Made to Array Some Of the South American Countries Against the United States.
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COMMITTEE TODAY WILL TAKE UP SHORTAGE OF CLOTHING. TRANSPORTATION AND
 CONTRACTS
BROWNING MACHINE GUN
 IS TIE BEST IN EXISTENCE

One Witness Tells of Men in a Pri. Vate Plant Having a Government Contract Playing Cards and ldling Away Their Time While the Cues. ton of Deciding on Rifles Was Be- ing Considered.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-12-21
Thirty-Eght Killed
 in [. C. W. Collision
AND NEW ORLEANS TRAIN CRASHES INTO ACCOM- MoDATloN TRAIN, NEAR
 SHEPEROsVILLE, KY.

Locomotive of the Heavy Train spIin- tered the Two Wooden Coaches All Those Killed and the Thirty. Nine Wounded We're on the Accom-. modation Train.
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modation Train

Shepherdsyille. Ky. Dec. 20.- Thirty eight persons were killed and about thirty nine others iniured to- night when Louisville & Nashville passenger train number seven, from Cincinnati to New Orleans. crashed into the rear of a Bardstown Louis vile and Springfield accommodation train just south of the station here early tonight. according to w. P. Sheridan. superintendent of the Lou isyille division.
 The first reports, apparently au- thentic, had placed the number of known dead at sixty and the number of injured at between forty and fifty, but this was reduced when an official check of the figures was made.
 No cause for the wreck was as- signed by MT. Sheridan. who would make no statement pending an inves- tigation of the tragedy.
 From other sources it was learned that the accommodation had left the station after making stop when the fast train came in sight, running at high rate of speed and plunged into the rear end of the train ahead. The two wooden coaches and tho baggage car making up the lighter train were splintered.
 A relief train was started from Lou isville at once, but by the time 1t arrived the injured and the bodies of the dead had been recovered from the wrecked train.
 Thirty five of the injured were placed aboard the relief train and rushed to Louisville. Three or four others were taken to private homes in Shepherdsville.
 None of the passengers aboard the fast train was killed and none re- ceived more than minor injuries. Another locomotive and train crew was sent here from Louisville and alter detaching the baggage car the New Orleans train went on as the track was cleared
 Jesse Weatherford, the telegraph operator at the station here, said that after the accommodation left the sta- ton he had thrown his block to show tl , track was clear and left the office to help handle baggage When he got outside. he said. he saw the fast train approaching, ran back to the office pulled his block to show red, seized a lantern and rushed to the platform to iiag it. He reached the side of the track just as the heavy locomotive thundered by.
 About twenty passengers who had been discharged by the accommoda- tion when it stopped here were still on the station platform and were eye witnesses to the tragedy they had so narrowly escaped Several women among them fainted
 Within five minutes Of the crash volunteer rescuers were at work and local physicians administeded first aid before the arrival of the relief train from Louisville. Many were uncon- seious and were at first thought to be dead,
 o-~~~~%cscSccScS>-e than compensated for by the procur- ing Of greatly superior arm.
 Efforts toward high standards of in- terchangeable parts in the Enfield rifles. Fred H. Colvin, q rifle expert testified. caused three months delay in tleir production, He also declared that during the period of negotiation and indecision, men in a private plant having government contract played chec kera and cards. took maps and otherwise idled while their pay went on at soYerhmeat expense.
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sunk by French torpedo boat destroy CTS off the southern coast of Italy.
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4 FOR RENT 40 WILL
 pENT THAT VACANT ROOM

People looking for rooms turn to ,he classified ads of the newspapers to see what is offered. An ad in the eentinel-Record is almost sure to bring . customer.
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" FATHER
 REC S1

FORECAST FoA ARKANSAS: FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, FAIR. COLDER FRIDAY.
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course. other towers are sprinkled
along both Atlantic and Pacific coasts
for commercial and government serv-
ice. but they are neither SO gigantic
in size nor as powerful in equipment.
What it Means To Build A Radio
Station. ''' a.
The general scheme Of construction
of all radio stations Is the same. How
ever. from such variety Of form and
size as these towers reveal. II Is to be
presumed that a great difference Of
opinion exists among authorities as to
what constitutes a most efficient plan
for them. This Is bound, to be true;
whenever we penetrate the1intricacies
of any construction which concerns
that subtle and elusive quantity-elec-
tricity-opihion invariably differs.
Though the steel beams. which con-
stitute the tower, are used solely to
support the aerial wires. some author
tiles insist that II Is preferable to
use small framework supported by
Understanding wire rope guys be-
cause 1t absorbs less energy. =. Since
great height has been found Jndispens-
able for long distance work, ~ has
been practically decided that the self
supporting type of tower Ia the best
for many reasons. 1t takes up less
ground space and insures less loss Of
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new activity In a remarkable line OF
construction. Hitherto. we have re-
marked upon the size Of the Eiffel
Tower at Paris with bated breath and
upon that of the Washington Monu-
ment at our own capital with awe:
but nowadays. we hear with equa-
nimity that a new wireless. station is
to be erected In South America which
will have towers of even greater
height. :
Verify. wonders will never cease
CULVER in the land Of the Brobding-
nagians was not more surprised at the
hugeness and massiveness OF every
thing he saw than the average Ameri-
can citizen may be when he views the
great edifices which are being reared
by his own government to support the
international spokesmen which have
revolutionized the art Of long distance
communication. -"
One Of the greatest building opera
lions In which our Industrious Uncle
Sam is engaged at present Is the erec-
ton OF chain of high-powered
radio stations. The links Of this
chain. when all are completed, will
give vessels in both oceans direct
communication with all of our con-
tinental and insular cities. The Ar
lington towers at Washington are the
primary link In this chain. The 9TH
ers. all In course Of construction. are
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IT San Diego, California;: Pearl Har-
Dor. Hawaii. the Island Of Guam and
Cavite in the Philippines. All are be-
ng constructed on the general plan
of the Arlington station. with the ex-
ception Of those on the Island Of
Guam.
Proportions OF The Chain.
Think for a. moment what such a
hahn means. The mere statement in
figures Of their proportions signifies
little; the mere statement Of their
electrical power lie equally uni,lumina-
tive to the lay mind. Sufice to say
that they will rank among the highest
cdifices In the world and that they
will permit direct communication
from Arlington-the base Of the adj
ministrative Offices of the naval radio
service-to our far-off island Depend
ency. ;: 80
The Giant OF Today.
Many towers besides those men,
TONED are to be found In the United
States. which qualify for tho giant
class. The facts about them are sur
prising enough to satisfy any. wonder
loving individual. The highest Is at
Tuckerton, N. j., where daily COM
munication 10 carried on with Eilvese.
Germany. Here single tower. 500
feet high. scars aloft. The naval radio
service of the United States has charge
of the '1ork at Tuckerton due to the
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we're coming into their own and that
rebellions were over. Anarchy, how
ever. was not dead and Alexander the
Liberator met his death at the hands
of an assassin on March 1, 1881.
Unhappy Reign OF Nicholas II.
In 1895 Nicholas the Second his
son was crowned. His coronation was
marred by an accident in which three
thousand persons were killed, being
crushed to death on the field of Kho-
dynka. 1t is said that the new Gar
took the accident lightly and made
himself unpopular in the beginning of
his reign which ended a short time
ago. Anarchy began to show its red
flag once more and coupled with this
came the disastrous so-Japanese
war. 81"
On January the nth, 1905. came the
great. Red Sunday calamity. Led by
Father Gapon twenty. thousand I'M
armed workmen marched to the win
ter palace to ask for political and
civil rights. Almost before .the.'. knew
what was happening machine guns
were turned on them and hundreds
were killed. Again the Car had
shown his dislike for the common peo-
pie and they in turn organized So
cieties against the government. These
spread over. the land and riots and
strikes followed, Programs in which
hundreds of helpless Jews were muir
dered followed and the world looked
on aghast at the ORGY Of blood. Final
ly in 1906 the Duma assembled and
for time the revolutionists were
quiet. Then the Duma was dissolved
and there was a revolution and mu-
tiny in Sveaborg, mutiny In Kron-
stadt and revolution In Sevastapol.
These were followed by the assassina-
ton Of Prime Minister Stolypin. and
perfect riot of executions. In 1907
the second Duma met only to meet
the same fate as the first.
All this time revolution smouldered
and when Russia entered the great
war in 1914 1t was almost ready for
the overthrow of Nicholas the Seconds
regime. Now 1t has come and the
people Of Russia claim that they will
be rid of the interfering pro-German
Czarina as we'll as have something to
say as to their rights. Bureaucracy Is
not easy to throw off in day after it
has been the, rule for centuries and
whether Russia is ready for this new
form Of government at the present
time remains to be seen. 80
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fact that france ana Germany are IN
a legal dispute over Its ownership.
At Sayville. N. Y. are four towers
for daily communication with Nauen.
Germany. Each tower Is 400 feet in
height. These two stations represent
the sol, means Of direct telegraphic
communication which this country has
with Germany. due to the fact that
the German cable was cut at the be-
ginninr of the European War.
South Wellsfeet. Mass, has four
towers. each $50 feet high. which COM
municate nightly with ships at sea
at limit of 1900 miles out. These
towers and those OF the first high
powered station erected in this coun-
try mark an important step in the de-
velopment of wireless for the famous
IS" was transmitted from this point
and heard on the other side. After
the erection OF these towers at South
Wellsheet those at Sayville and Tuck
erton followed. Then came the eleven
towers at Bolinas. California. all 400
feet high, for commercial communi-
cation with Honolulu. At Belmar, N.
J., are six receivin.. masts. each 433
feet high. At I'ahuku, Hawaii, Is a
mighty station at which twelve trans
hitting masts each 47S feet high carry
80 aerial wires 5000 feet long. These
are the real giants Of the country: Of
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killed by the Cars soldiers. Foreign
ers came to the city and one section
soon became known as the German
suburb. These people intermarried
with the Russians and their descend
ants are today the German influence In
Russia.
After ten years Of misrule Peter the
Great, came to the throne and be-
came one of the great rulers Of his
tory. The record of his reign Is we'll
known. He gained the confidence Of
the people by lessening the burdens
Of taxation. He went among them
disguished as peasant and found out
their needs. He learned wisdom from
other rulers-in short his reforms
were far ahead Of the times. Peter
the Second came into power and was
followed by Anna Ivanovna. This
royal lady seems to have taken Ivan
the Terrible as her model. for her
cruelty to her subjects knew no
bounds. Again rebellion was threat
ened. A German party had grown
up to some influence in. court circles
but during the reign Of the Empress
Elizabeth this party fell into disrepute
and she turned the German nobility
out of court Peter the Third was an
indolent licentious man and his rule
brought little Joy to Russia.
Paul the First was. the next ruler.
He at once began to reverse a number
Of reforms made by his mother. Cath
crime. who ruled thirty-three years.
and as usual there was trouble. AL
ways of suspicious nature he lived
in terror of assassination and turned
his palace into a veritable fortress, but
even 18th this precaution he was
strangled to death when he refused
to sign an abdication to the throne.
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Real money goes into their construc-
ton and plenty of it. Maintenance 10
also large item. though this Is. more
than repaid by the safety insured to
ships at sea and by the convenience OF
direct communication with all points
Of the globe.
The cost Of tower depends on Its
type, but those like Arlington, and
these are favorites. cost in the neigh
borhood Of $4,000 each. The rate per
word for a wireless message through
Sayville or Tuckerton IL fifty cents.
which includes delivery to any part of
Germany. The Bolinas rate per word
Is twenty five cents to Honolulu. Dis
lance. 1t will be seen, Is a gauge for
rates in wireless as well as in ordi.
nary telegraphy.
In June, Commander d. w. Todd.
Y. 8. N. was given the superintend-
ency of the naval radio service. sue
ceeding Captain w. II. Billiard, U. S.
N. The naval radio service has had
its name changed and win hereafter
be known as the naval conmunica-
ton service" and all, systems. radio.
telegraph and cable. will be accounted
for by 1t. The duties formerly as
SiSu0uN w thS SuPSA ihSSuNoht VI eAAS
naval radio service will be performed
by Commander Todd under the title.
Director of Naval mmunication."
The New Plan 81 Intcrlocking The
49, .4 Americas. ~,
.,There Is a plan afioat to .interlock
every portion OF south America with
the United States by means of high.
powered radio stations II IL in line
with the general desire to promote
closer social and business relations be-
tween this country and Latin America
At the last Pan American Scientific
Congress. preliminary steps were
taken to combine the radio services
Of all the American republics into one
homogeneous system. A, plan Of COM
munication was developed by the u.
8. naval radio service. which has been
presented to the various countries, An
international committee 'wilI shortly
meet in Washington to consider the
suggestions. New zone stations are
proposed which will have torAmuni-
cation. with other distributing. stations
and, these in turn Will comnunicate
with the local stations Of the various
countries. Any place that hAl tslo.
graphic communication can be
reached and the whole system will BIZ
mutually interlocked.