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The Sentinel=record., 1917-04-12
REVOLUTIONISTS RIDDLE
 TRAIN WITH BULLETS.

Laredo, Texas, April 11.--Three coaches attached to the constitution. aist lines of Mexico train arriving in Nueyo Laredo this afternoon were riddled by bullets as the result Of the train having run the gauntlet of a heavy fire from several hundred revolutionists who attacked the train near San Fedipe. state of Hidalso on Monday night, according 10 pas sengers surviving.
 Aboard the train were fifty Carran. ga soldiers, all of whom were killed in the battle which followed the halt ing of the train
 Several passengers who hid them selves in the coaches were also killed and a number wounded. At least twenty of the revolutionists are said to have been killed, while many oth- CTS were wounded, il is thought.
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Argentine Sides With
 the United States
Costa Ricd Endorses the Course of President Wilson, and Is
 Ready to ProUe 1T

Washington, April 1l.-W ithout formally announcing abandonment ot their heutrality two more Latin Amer ican epublics-Argentina and Costa Rica-haye given assurances of their moral support for the United States in the war against Germany. Argentina, choosing a middle course between tdo.e of Brazil and Chile, her sister nations in the lulm ltial A B c trio, has notified the sti e department that she recognizes the justice oi this country's y'and against German az gression." The communication con- tains no intimation, however, that the Argentina authorities contemplate an actual break wit's Berlin. and it is as sumed here that for the present, at least. neutrality will be observed.
 Little Costa Rioa, just emerging from the throes of a revolution, sent word to her diplomatic represehtatiyes
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vice president and general manager of the company, was placed at 11G, and of these only 52 had been identi- fled Identification is proceeding slowly because Of the charred and mangled condition of most of the bodies. Reports of missing today placed the number at 36. but it was thought many of these will have been accounted for when the confusion at tending the disaster calms down. Be tween 60 and 7O injured still were in hospitals and at Ridley Park, near the scene of the explosion.
 The present belief that the eXplos- ion was deliberate on the part of 3 fanatic or an employe who believed he was doing patriotic duty for a foreign nation now at war is shared by Alba B. Johnson, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Corporation. and Smuel W. Vauclain. president of the corporation.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-04-12
International War
 \~~ Council to COnDene
State Department Announces That q British Commission IS E2-
 pected in q FeW Days

Washington April l1-Assembly in Washington within few weeks Of d great international WAT council was foreshadowed by an announcement from the state department today that a British commission headed by Ar thur ]. Bali0ur, minister of foreign affairs, is expected to arrive within ten days to discuss with the govern ment here questions connected with the conduct of the war In addition to the foreign minister, the commis- sion will include Admiral DeChair of the British navy; General Bridges Of the army, and the governor of the Bank of England, attended by a nl- merous staff
 This was as far as the announce meme made by the state department goes, but it was learned authoritative ly that a French commission com posed of officials equally as distin- guished as the British representatives also will be in Washington aboAt the same time. This commission wlll be headed by M Viviani at present min lster of justice in the French eabAe. and formerly premier ~
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GERMAN SUBMARINES
 REPORTED IN PACIFIC

San Francisco April 1l-Warning that German submarines are operat- ing in the Pacific were sent to all steamship captains at sea late today by wireless by order of Lieutenant Commander r. C. Woods of the Twelfth naval district here
 The warning said
 Information has this day been re- ceiyed that German submarines are operating in the Pacific. Please noti- fly all ships under your control and ask that they spread the warning broadcast"
 Instructions from the navy depart ment on which the warning was based said:
 Get in touch at the earliest possi- ble moment with captains and masters of all merchant vessels operating in your district. especially off the coast and at sea, and urge upon them the necessary of keeping a very bright lookout for German submarines and of reporting same immediately by radio to the nearest radio station Urge upon them the necessity of giy- ing as much detailed information of locality where submarines arc seen and any other data that will be of value to the naval forces in search. ing for these vessels"
 Where the submarines are operat- ing was not disclosed.
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DRAFT WILL BE APPLIED
 IF VOLUNTEERING FAIL
Many Congressmen Favor Recruiting the Men Through the National Guard Organization Before Putting in Force Other Plans for Securing the Army Desired.

Washington, April President Wilson, in a conference with Speaker Champ Clark and Majority Leader kitchin at the capitol today insisted on the terms of the administration plan for rising a large army on the principle of selective draft. At the same time, however, it was learned that the war department virtually had decided on plans under whl,eaop- portunity would be given for approxi. mately 50000O men to volunteer for service for the term of the war.
 The net result of the new plans would be to make the total national guard and regular force to be organ ized first independently of the selec- tive draft plan approximately 724.000 men, making room for the absorption of half million volunteers No at- tempt to enlist men to accomplish this will be made, however. until con gross has acted and .sqthstity $ granted to enlist such 'Volunteegs for the duration of the war only.
 The president talked for nearly an hour with Speaker Clark and Repre- sentative Kitchin and discussed the administration army plan in detail, making clear it had been drawE dp only the most thorough consideration at the war department and after 1t had been decided that it was the only way to meet the demand for great and efficient fighting force.
 Both Speaker Clark and Mir. Kitchin told the president that much senti-
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here tordy that she endorsed tda course of President Wilson and was ready To prove it f necessary
 Arg atinas position was defined in @ note reaching the sate department today in answer to the notification by this government of state of war. The communication is regarded here as de. lining a status just short o' a break. Diplomatic and state department off Cials be ieve 1t would have been diff ticult for Argentina to go further at this time. The position Of that govern ment is different from that of the United States and Brizil. who have suffered directly from the submarine campaign.
 Her outspoken approval Of the Unit. cd States course may go far, in the opinion of many here, toward influ- encing some of the smaller Latin American nations.
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Chester, Pa. April IA statemen, today by a high official of the Eddy stone Ammunition Corporation placed the blame of yesterdays disastrous explosion, the worst in the history Of the state. on a disloyal employe who is thought to have sacrificed his life with the 1l6 known dead, most of whom were girls and young women.
 This amazing development late to- day spurred on the investigations Of the catastrophe alreeady under way Numerous suspects were rounded up hare, In Philadelphia. ic Filla Nova, Pa. and in Camden, N. J., and in each case the disposition Of the prisoners was placed in the hands of agents of the department of justice at Phila. delphia The arrests so far, however, have apparently furnished no tangi ble clue to the perpetrators of the alleged plot, if such was the case.
 The statement of the companyy responsible representative, who da- clined to permit the use of his name, said the tragedy was the result of a diaboliCal plot conceived ill the de generate brain of q demon in human guise" and that the triple explosion was due to a bomb manufactured by one of the employees from shell. Be yond this information the official re- fused to disclose further details which "ould tend to clear up the cause Of the disaster.
 It is pointed out that it would have been possible for workman to carry on a plot in the midst Of unsuspect. iAg employees particularly the women engaged in the packing of time fuses in the structure, which was wrecked.
 Unless the bomb was timed, it was explained, the plotter must have met the same fate as the rest of the vic tips.
 / The number of the dead announced Hate today by Captain W M Wilhelm.
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THE WAR IN BRIEF

A violent snow storm has served for the moment to hold in leash the British forces which since early Sun day morning had been hammering he Germans hard along the Arras-Lens front Low lying clouds and thickly falling snow greatly impeded the movement of the troops Wednesday.
 In the early hours of the mornng the village and heights of Monchy-le- PreuX, east of Arras, fell into the hands of the British and were held, despite two counterattacks delivered by the Germans, according to Lon don. To the north of this position Berlin reports the repulse with heavy casualties of British infantry and cav airy attacks near Fampoux and RoeuN.
 The London communication says that in the neighborhood of Bulle- court, west of Cambrai Field Mar shal Haig's men penetrated a German position. but later were counter attacked by superior forces and com pelled to return to their former posi- tions Of this fighting and also of a
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MUNITION EXPLOSION CAUSED BY DISLOYAL
 EMPLOYE WHO SACRIFICED HIS LIFE

terior combustiblo engines, oloomar- gerine. refined sugar, fermentcd liquor, candy glucose, talking ma chimes and their records, copper, pig iron and petroleum, distilled spirits and denaturcd alcohol also Is again receiving close scrudny.
 Liquors and beer probably will be taxed millions of dollars and soda fountains and other soft drink dis. peusarles including the near beee" parlors, are virtually certain to be assessed share Members of the committee are considering taxing places of amusement including nov ing picture theaters on the number of tickets sold.
 Probably the most far reaching pro- posal yet suggested is that the postal charges be raised. It has been pro posed that the present 1-cent rate 'oc drop and circular letters be raised ,o ] 12 or ? cents and the regular 2 cent rate to cents No tax sugges.- ed it is argued, in favor of this pro posal would reach so many persons and be objected to by so few,
 Tn connection with this postal plan is another to tax newspapers and periodicals in proportion to the amount of advertising they carry.
 Suggestion that cold storage foods be taxed heavily also Is receiving much discussion. It is argued tha this would tend to bring in revenue and at the same time discourage the operation of food speculators.
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It is not known definitely whether any of the other allied powers will send commissioners to Washington, but it is assumed that owing to the difficulties in passage and tho prob able delay the interests of the gov ernments will be confided to their resident ambassadors.
 Beyond the statement that the ob- ject of the commission is to discuss generally questions of policy connect ed with the war, no information was given at the state department. It was made clear, however. that in no way will the United States govern ment depart from the traditional policy of avoiding anything in the na- ture of political alliances. though, of course, that does not exclude full and intimate military and naval co-opera. tion in the prosecution of the war.
 While 1t is by no means carts that there will be joint me the visiting commissions
 department should desire appearance of an allie
 certain to be concert
 some way.
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London, April -4Ilerbert C. Hoov- CT, head of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium, after eonsulta- tion with his colleagues on the com mission, has accepted the chairman, ship offered him by the National De- fense Council of the new food board in the United States
 Mr. Hoover made a statement to the Associated Press outlining his plans, saying in part
 T will at present continue a. chair man of the Belgian Relief Commi5- sion, but will return to the United States shortly. The Dutch have talk en over control of relief inside Bel eium and northern France and opened reltions with the German government, the activities of the Belgian Relief Commission now being confined to fi- nancing the purchase and delivery of supplies at the Belgian frontier My very able and long experienced col leagues, Messrs Honnold, Poland, Brown. Grey and Kellogg, are entire ly able, any one of them to carry on the direction of the relief work. shall, however, give them such as- sistance on the financial side as may be necessary.
 "Beginnng today ! am initiating a wide inquiry in France, England and Italy in cooperation with govern ment departments into the existing food situation, the prospects of the coming harvest. important necessi- ties and the methods of regulating food control as at present in opera ton and their working results in al lied countries. One important feature of this inquiry will be the methods used to control prices for the elimi. nation of speculation, for Europe has been vast experimental labortory in this particular. The staff of the relief commission. which recently evacuated Belgium has volunteered to undertake the details of this investi- aation They alredy have arrived in England and France for the work which starts immediately and by yir- tue of the complete data in the hands of the various governments, it should require but q short time for the co, relation of all essential matters.
 "The foremost duty of America toward her allies in this war is to see that they are supplied with food. France, Enpland and Italy in ordin- ary times depended largely on Russia. Rumania and Bulgaria for a large DOT ton of their breadstuffs. With tho isolation of these areas they were thrown wholly upon the Western Hemisphere The bumper western harvest of 1915 was able to carry the load without strain, but the more normal or in places short harvest of 1916. coupled with the fact that our allies are today giving whole and able bodied manhood to arms and the manufacture of munitions has brought the whole allied world face to face with a shortage of breadstuffs.
 Their women are in the fields but production in their territories is bound to be much below normal. If they are to continue to Fight, a much larger burden of the food supply must rest upon America. From the neoes- sites of the case we can put but few soldiers in tho field. but every spade ful of earth turned hy our farmers,
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SfCly oetu Wc pldHls every ounce or wste we eliminate is just as much a contribution to the joint cause as that of man in the trenches.
 "We must increase our production by every device of our able farming community, with the stimulating ad- vice and guidance our agricultural in stiutions can event, but beyond this we must stop waste in every scrap of foodstuff We must even be pre- pared to deprive ourselves, if neces- sary in order that our allies may be supported. They have eliminated waste and are depriving themselves today and it is no less our duty than theirs.
 If America will only eliminate waste and extravaganza in food, it will go far to help the whole prob lem. Now that we are in the serious and terrible conflict the very exis,. ence of our national ideas of waste and extravaganza in public places and among certain classes in America is a public scandal. Beyond public places S5 per cent of the American food is consumed in the household Tho women of America thus really control America's food consumption.
 Among our allies the women arc as hard as the men. There is no body of women in the world so capable of rising to an emergency as American women; nor is there any problem so peculiarly capable of so- lutiou by them as the elimination of waste and eXtrayagance Much can be done by the substitution of the more abundant commodities for those that our allies need most. For in- stance, every person in America who eats corn bread instead of wheat helps iu the present wheat shortage, for the English people have never learned how and have not the equip ment to make corn bread.
 Tt is obvious that our allies must have first call on our food surplus. If we are to divert Sur man and Wom- an power to furnish foodstuffs to neutrals. they must be compelled to give some equivalent service to our allies They can furnish shipping or or manufactures which our allies need in return for food from us.
 Moreover, in this war against Ger many we should allow no products of our labor or soil to go to any country or any peoples who assist Germany directly or indirectly. The supply of American corn to states on Germany, which is con- yerted into meal. for German use, is depriying our allies of just that much food and benefiting our enemies.
 The war probably will last an- other year and from the present out look of the worlds food supply we shall have all we can do, by the ut most elimination of waste and the ut most stimulation of production to carry our allies through with their full fighting stamina
 Nor can We allow speculation of to burden our own peo- pie with high prices. We must de- wise and enforce methods to reduce and maintain more reasonable prices, both for our own people and the allies.
 All these are problems in which the capacity and high ideals of self sacrifice of the American people can accomplish smoothly and efficiently. Legislation and sumptuary regula- tions can accomplish far less than the voluntary selfdenial and deyo- ton of our people
The Sentinel=record., 1917-04-12
BOND ISSUE BILL Is
 INTRODUCED IN HOUSE
Bill Is Expected 10 Pass the House ny
 Saturday Nght-Republicans Will Offer Amendments, But Win Sup port the Measure on the Final Vote.

Washington, April H. Assurances that the seven billion dollars war revenue measure will pass the house quickly and that consideration of "ew taxation plans for raising part of the money will begin immediately were given President Wilson and Secre- .ary mcAdoo today by congressional leaders al the capitol.
 Introduction in the house of the revenue bill, authorizing five bil- lion dollar bond issue and two billion dollars in certificates of indebtedness preceded an unexpected visit of the president to the capitol by 8 few min utes. Democratic Leader Kitchin in- troduced the measure with a favor able report from the full committee and announced that debate on it would begin Friday morning at II o'clock. It is hoped to pass the bill before Saturday night and possibly on Friday.
 Various republican members of the committee will offer amendments, which were defeated in committee, but they have pledged themselves to vote for the measure whatever may be the fate of their proposals.
 Little opposition is expected to the principal features of the five billion dollar bond issue-the provision thot not more than three billions from the proceeds shall be used to extend credit to the allies and the remaining two billion applied to expenditures incurred in the prosecution of the war by this country.
 In evolving a new taxation plan for raising revenue to meet the certifi- cates of indebtedness, however the administration leaders realize they face a serious problem, Not oniy will much trouble be experienced in get ting republicans and democrats to- gether, but each side is possessed of many different ideas that will be diff ficult 10 reconcile. Mir Kitchin said tonight that he expected that at least two weeks would be required to frame a bill.
 The first pig question is what amount of revenue shall be raised by immediate taxation. The generally accepted plan has been to divide equally the cost of the first year Of the war, roughly estimated at from $8.750, 100000 to $4,OOO,OOO.0O0 be tween bonds and taxation, but the president has expressed himself as desirous of placing as much of the burden on the present generation as possible and some members of con gress are advoctlng the raising of 75 per cent of tho first year needs bJ taxation.
 Administration and congressional leaders generally are determined that the tax, hall not be of class char acter regardless of the amount. His tory they say, shall not designate this as either a poor or a rich mans war.
 House financial authorities are care fully considering proposals to raise new revenue on increased income and stamp taxes and taxes of excess prof- it's, inheritances, distilled liquors and beers, cigars and tobacco, amusement places, the postal service, soft drin1 and newspaper. billboard and CT advertising, A list of sugge ,ions submitted to the last congress by Secretary McAdoo for taxes on in-
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Representative of the Ann munition Company De- Clared the Explosion Was the Result of a DiaboliCal Plot

Triple Explosion is Belived to Be Due to Bomb Manufactured By One of the Employees From a Shell Numer- ous Suspects Are Rounded Up in Near By Cities Where the Explosion Occurred
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HERBERT c. HOOVER ADVOCATES CUTTING OFF ALL FooDsTUFFs TO NEUTRALS BORDERING
 ON GERMANY.
URGES AMERICANS TO
 ELIMINATE WASTE OF F0OD

Urges That Americans Adopt the More Abundant Commodities for Those That the Allies Need Most Urges the Use of Corn in Place of Wheat Bread.
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A FOR RENT WILL
 RENT THAT VACANT ROOM

People looking for rooms turn to the classified ads of the newspapers to see what is offered An ad in the SentinelRecord is almost sure to bring you a customer.
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Forecast for Arkansas-T showers, colder; Friday generally fair.
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-11

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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-11
NOTICE

The undersigned. the school City Of
South Bend. Indiana. hereby gives notice
that n win on the twenty fourth day ~
Septem ber 1917 receive scaled bids 81
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offices in the said City II South Bend Tor
the loan 90 said School city - the fol
lowing several sums Of money for the
time stipulated as o. each loan.
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ninety days
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al bidders viii De- required 20 supu-
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and also o. submit with each bid the
bidders affidavit showing that no coliu-
sion exists between such bidder and fnv
other bidder FOR such loans or any ~
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Tho undersigned hereby reserves the
right 10 reject any and an bids OF part
| thereof
school CITY ~ south Bend Indiana
Bv Ernest + EupeI President.
BIS William Gem. Treasurer
b. Charles J. Drummond. Secretary.
Dated this 4th day OF September. 1917
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-11
LEGAL NOTICES.
NON-RFSIDTNT NOTICE.

NoN-hkNlDt-Nl bAAA H.
STATE OF INDIANA. ST. JOSEPH
COUNTY. ssh the - Joseph Supe-
rior Court. May Term. 1917
EDNA VI, RODERICk
vs.
FLOYD +. RODERICk
Divorce. cause No. .lei2
BE n known. that the above named
plaintim has filed en- the Office Il the
Clerk ~ said Court her complaint
against said defendant in the above
cause together with proper affidavit
that said defendant FLOYD r. Roderick
is not resident OF the state of Indiana
Said defendant IS hereby notified that
said cause will stand for trial on the ist
day Of November. 1917 the same being
the 40th day Of the next term ~ s0id
Court % commence az the City 81 South
BEND ON the 3rd Monday in September
next on which day said defendant If re-
Quired % appear % said action.
GEORGE 81 RAAB, Clerk
BY STANLEY II TOBOLSKI
DEPUTY
JAMES HENNESSY. Atty FOR Plaintiff
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