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The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
TIME IS SET FOR THE
 FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
CAMP AlGN WILL BE FOR THREE WEEKS FROM SEPTEMBER 28
 TO OCTOBER 1o.

Washington, July 31.-The campaign for the fourth Liberty loan will open Saturday, September 2S and continue three weeks, ending October 19, it was announced tonight by Secretary McAdoo.
 In fixing three weeks as the length of the campaign, instead of the four weeks as in previous loans, treasury officials plan for & more intensive campaign A shorter campaign, 1t was said, will also enable more busi- ness men to enlist as workers. The date of the campaign was an- nounced at this time in order to al low campaign organizations to prepare for the sale of bonds and to prevent the planning of other campaigns which might interfere with the Notation oi the loan.
 Although official announcement has not been made the amount of the loan probably will $6,o00, 100000 and the bear four and one quarter percent. Should the areasury decide soon to place on the market certificates of indebtedness redeemable next June when taxes are paid, the amount of the loan may be reduced.
 Secretary McAdoo has said that he does not contemplate making an cx- tensive speaking tour for the fourth loan, as he has done in previous cam paigns. President Wilson has receiv- ed several invitations to make ad- dresses during the campaign, but as yet has not indicated whether he will make any speeches for the loan.
 Officials in charge of the campaign have announced that a special appeal will be made to farmers who sub scribed literally to the last loan.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
GRADUATED EXCESS TAX ON
 AUTOMOBILES IN USE
TAX WILL BE GRADUATED FROM sto UP TO $6o ON CARS OF
 S3,ooo VALUATION.

Washington, July 3l.-A fedora graduated excise tax on the use ol automobiles running from sl0 a year on cars originally retailed at not ex- ceeding s5e0 to a s60 tax on $3,00( cars and $20 additional for each S50C above $3,000 was agreed today by the house ways and means committed which is framing the new sS,0O0, ,00C rey(nue bill. The tax applies di- rectly to the owners, while the tax of ten per cent on gross sales of au- tomobiles and five per cent on gross sales of auto trucks, agreed to yes terday applies to the manufacturers producers and importers of cars. The tax on use of cars is based on the original retail listed price of the cars, regardless of the year of man. ufacture.
 The committee also agreed to a tax of two cents per gallon on the pro- auction of gasoline and federal ex- else tax of $5 year on the use oi luUlOTCl CitS. MtiuUeTS OI lIlt COH1 mittee stated that while the manu lecturers tax and the owners tax are differentiated it is generally believed that the owners ultimately will have to pay all the tax, the manufa cturers passing on the tax in increased prices
 The automobile and motorcycle ex- cess taxv Is expected to yield ap- proximately st25.000,O0O and the gas oiine tax s45.Gl0,00o War profiteer- ing was the subject of a prolonged discussion today with technical cal culations as to what various schemes would yield in the way of revenue as compared with other revenue plans There was a disposition ultimately to agree upon some additional form ol tax to reach large corporations mak- ng heavy profits that might not be taxed sufficiently under the excess profits and corporation income tax rates
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
RAILROADS CALL ON
 ADMINISTRATION FOR FUNDS
SOUTHERN PACIFIC AND Ms SoURi PAClFC RAILROADS
 WERE LARGEST FARMERS.

Washington, July Thirty seven railroads in July found it nec- essary to call upon the railroad ad- ministration for advances as outright loans as partial payments of govern ment compensation or to help them to pay back wages due empoyes. The aggregate of these advances was $43,2G5,G00, tho railroad administra tion announced tonight, making the total distributed to railroads since January 1. s2O37liO00
 The entire sum, 1t was announced, came from the government revolving fund, except s29,155.000, which was paid out of the s30.777, 900 deposited with Director General McAdoo since April 1, by thirty-three roads from their surplus funds
 Of the advances in July $23, ,269 ,000 was allowed to pay back wages $13,6C7 ,000 as demand loans at six per cent interest and $6,32S. 900 as partial payments of government compensation.
 Among the advances made are the following:
 Southern, S369j,000
 Missouri. Kansas & Texas, S2,f20,- OO0
 Missouri Pacific, Sl.000 GOO
 St Louis Southwestern, $50O.0o0
 Galveston, Harrisburg X San An tonio, s5O0,000
 San Antonio x Aransas Pass $200000.
 New Orleans, Great Northern $120,0G0.
 Kansas City. Mexico and Orient S120,Ga0
 St Louis. San Francisco. $60, ,000
 Thirty three railroads, it was an nounced have been able to pile UT surpluses and have been able to turr over certain sums tc the railway ad- ministration. Among the railroads turning over the largest amounts tC the railroad administration were:
 Southern Pacific, $S.500,000.
 Missouri Pacific, sls000.000.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
When Huns Began Pouring Into the Town of Seringes Americans Opened Fire.
The Americans Used Machine Guns, Rifles, Pistols and Employed Both Bayonets and the Rifle Butt With Great Fife fectiveness, Virtually Ami hilating Two Enemy Companies.

rifles, pistols and employed both she bayonet and the rifle butt with great effectiveness.
 Aerial activity was greatly in- creased owing to the fact the weath- CT, after several weeks of storms cleared. American aviators under took reconnaissance missions chiefly but the pursuit machines also were up.
 Two American flyers attacked two German scouts over Montsec, in the Woevre. and drove one enemy plant down.
 The Germans put over a heavy oarrage in the Woevre sector this morning. It lasted more than half ar hour and it is probable that they sen infantry across behind the barrage But their fire was entiely wasted 9, the positions had been evacuated.
 The destruction of a German bal loon on July 29 hac been verefier and another was brought down yes iterday.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
GERMANS WALK INTO TRAP OF AMERICANS

cans have made the maximum ad- vance, covering IA miles to reaching the positions where they rested to- day preparing for new advances.
 Coming to the army being trained here to support the men at the front General March said he had ordered six divisions created making the fighting elements of two new army corps or twelve divisions which has been added to the military establish ment in the last two weeks.
 Again two we'll trained regular regiments will be used as the center of which each division is built.
 The chief of staff made 1t plain that it Is a monthly program of in- crease upon which the war depart ment has embarked. The circle ap- pears now to be an army corps a month to be shipped abroad, its place 10 be taken at once by new cGrps to be created here. The men, ,qus.r- ters and equipment are available to keep that up for the rest of the year, and longer If necessary
 Present cantonments will house at least 1,750000 men. Already two score new general officers are being sought to command the new divisions and brigades. General March an- nounced also that he had decided upon abandonment of every designa- tion for the troops except that of Unified States army" All other marks than the plain "U. S." of the regulars will be abolished.
 For war department purposes the national army and the national guard are wiped out utterly and the off cers' reserve corps goes with them into the discard The unification plan means more than changing collar ornaments, General March said, for in seeking new general officers pro- motion by selection from the entire army will be employed.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01

With the American Army on the Aisne- Marne Front July 31.-Gen- eral DeGoutte, commanding the arm! on this front, expressed to the cor respondents today his satisfaction al the progress already made and the hope that the advance would con- tinue until the Germans were forced beyond their new positions
 The American forces now occupy the hills beyond Seringes and Sergy One of the fiercest encounters in thf present offensive was brought about by the Americans who occupied Seringes. During the night Ameri- cans pretended to withdraw from the village Some of them withdrew bui others remained in the houses Gn1 other points of vantage
 The Germans begin pouring into the place and the Americans opened fire. Two enemy companies were virtually annihilated.
 The Americans used machine guns
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
CHINA AND JAPAN
 WILL INVADE RUSSIA
FORCES OF THE OTHER COUN- TRIES AT WAR WITH GER MANY WILL BE SMALL.

Washington, July 3t.-Negotiations between the entente powers, Japan and the United States regarding the ex tension of aid to the Czech-Slovaks in Siberia and Russia have advanced another step.
 From unofficial sources comes news that in anticipation of a satisfactory conclusion of the negotiation, Japan and the entente allies are perfecting their arrangements for the organiza- tion of whatever military forces may be necessary for the execution of the joint agrsement.
 Because of their proximity to St- beria Japan and China have been foremost in this work with full un- derstanding and cooperation between the military commanders. though for strategic reasons the exact extent and nature of these preparations cannot be disclosed
 1t is generally realized. however that on these two countries will fall the burden of providing the greater part of any military force that may be employed.
 To preserve the international char acter of the enterprise France ano Great Britain are preparing contin- gents. Both of them will draw upon their nearby colonies, the French hay ing already started five companies o regular French troops and Annamites from Tonquin to the north, while the British probably will send a core spending number of troops from m ldia and Hong Kong.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
GERMANS APoloGlzEs FOR
 SINKING SPANISH SHIP

Madrid, July 31.- Eduardo Dato. the Spanish foreign minister, announces that Germany has expressed regret to Spain for the sinking of the Spanish steamship Sardinero, which was car rying American wheat to Switzerland and has agreed to indemnify the Spaniards who suffered ldss by the torpedoing Of the vessel
 The Sardinero was torp4doed ias' February and Switzerland Idemande1 of Gerinany the return in kind of car go of wheat which went down With the ship.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
MEMPHIS WOMAN SLAYs
 ANOTHER ON STREET

Memphis, Tenn, July S1.-Mrs John r. Kallums at 6:30 D. m. today fatally shot Mrs. Mart Smalley as they stepped from a street car al Bingampton, suburb. Mrs. Smalley was shot in the back three times with an automatic and died four hours lat CT. Mrs. Kallums is held on a charge of murder Mrs. Kallums claims that Mrs. Smalley, whose husband is em- ployed in the government powder plant at Nashville, Tennessee. was breaking up her home.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
JACK DEMPSEY TO BE
 K. OF C. PHYSICAL DIRECTOR

Atlanta, Ga., July 31.--Jack Demp- sey, California heavyweight. who knocked out Fred Fulton. of Rochester Minnesota, in 23 seconds last week in bout at Newark. New Jersey, has signed up with the Knights Of Columbus as physical director, ac- cording to information reaching local officials of the Knights of Columbus, There is a probability he will be as- signed to Camp Gordon here.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
ALLIED ARMIES ARE NOW
 IN ADVANTAGEOUS PLACES
The American Forces That Met the Best Armies of Germany and De- feated Them Was the Third Divi- sion, the Forty second Division and the Famous Rainbow Division, Composed of National Guarasmen.

Washington, July 31.-An odd calm
 fell over the Aisne-Marne battle area
 today with only the thunder of the guns to tell of new and more terrible gusts of the war storm to come. Paris and Berlin both noted it. The infantry had paused for breath while
 the artillery pounded new roads of advance for General Foch's yictori- | ous armies.
 Just what the Hull may prove was | not apparent. Possibly the enemy Is already on the move after the de- cisive defeat he met along the north bank of the Oorcq. Here the Ameri- can third division, and the now fa- nous forty y-second division, the Rain
 bow division, composed of former na-
 tional guardsmen of many states,
 have met, outfought and forced back
 ward by their fierce ardor picked
 Prussian and Bavarian divisions brought fresh to the field with orders
 to hold the. line of the Ourcq at all costs
 Holding the apex of the allied line at the center, the Americans had paved the way for the capture of Chalmont buttee to the westward by the Franco-B British forces. Allied guns now dominate the enemy's lines from this height fortelling new i'm roads to his positions and the strong
 probability that he will be compelled
 to fall back to the Vesle line.
 The victory was given new signifi-
 canoe today by General Foch, chief
 of staff. Putting aside the reserve
 with which he hitherto has com-
 mented on the wider aspects of the
 battle, General March told the news
 paper men at his mid week confer
 ence that each army was now bent
 on the destruction of the other, all
 lesser stratetgetic objectives having
 been swept away on both sides. The
 mission of each Is to kill; to destroy
 the fighting power of the other. It
 is the ultimate military objective
 that both are now seeking and there
 can be no halting short of the goal. Whatever the enemys' objective
 was at the start of the drive" Gen. eral March said, land whatever our hope was in the counter offensive on the flank of this salient. 1t is now
 perfectly evident that those aims have been set aside.
 'The objective of each army is the other army-each of them wants to kin as many Of the other as pos- sible.
 "The holding back of the jaws of the salient by the Germans at Sois- sons and near Rheims has made 1t practically impossible for us to ex- pect bag. They have had two weeks now to withdraw from the dangerous points down on the Marne and the objective of each army is the other army"
 The chief of staff had prefaced this new conception of the great struggle with careful outline of the battle positions, showing that since last l-Saturday another ten miles had been cut out of the length of the battle line by allied successes. It is now barely 54 miles around the flattened salient in which the enemy has massed virtually million men as l against seventy-four miles when the counter assault was set in motion. | From Chateau Thierry, the Ameri-
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
CAVES CONTAINING SKELETONS
 WAS INDIAN BURIAL PLACE

Phoenix. Arz., July 3f.-The caves on the Maricopa Indian reservation, twenty miles from Phoenix, in which were found yesterday, were declared by a coroner's jury today to be the burial place of Papago Indians, who had died on the reservation many years ago.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
COUNTRY IS DIVIDED
 INTO THIRTEEN DISTRICTS
Farm Labor Will Be Protected for the Industrial Program Includes spe- eial Efforts to Keep the Farmer Supplied With Labor--Aim b to Stop Wasteful Turnover of LaSor.

New York, July 31.--The federal government will tomorrow take over in every state of the union the re- cruiting of common labor for the fur therance of the war. Labor require ments for war industries have been apportioned to the various states on d basis of population, and as men are needed they will move forward to meet the. demand, wherever this may be. The aim Is to eliminate the wasteful turnover of labor; stabilize wages; increase the production of essentials and give efficient support to the men in the trenches, who need from six to ten men to work for hin in this country every day he is in France.
 Announcement of this plan was made at luncheon here today by Secretary of Labor Wilson.
 Independent recruiting of common labor by plants employing over 100 men viii be diverted. effective Au- gust to the United States employ ment service and there will be re- strictions upon private advertising for labor.
 At the same time the project be conducted with the least pose Injury to labor as whole.
 Under the methods adopted the country has been divided into thir- teen districts. each district in charge of superintendent of the federal employment service. The states within each district are in turn in charge of a state director who has full control of the service within his state.
 In each community there has been formed local community board which has Jurisdiction over recruit ing and distribution of labor in its locality. These boards will, if nec- esssry, ask employers of non-war workers to give up labor to meet the needed requirements for war pur- poses.
 In order that each community may be fully protected, rulings have been issued that no labor shall be trans ported out of any community by the United States employment service without the approval of the state di- rector: nor shall any lagor be re moved by the service from one state to another without the approval of the United States employment ser vice at Washington.
 Farm labor will be protected, for the industrial program includes spc- cial efforts to keep the farmer sup piled with labor.
 This federal labor program does not at present apply in the following five cases:
 1--Labor which is not directly, or indirectly solicited.
 2-Labor for the railroads.
 S-Farm labor, to ge recruited In acordance with existing arrange. ments with department of agricui- ture.
 4--Labor for non -war z vrk.
 5--Lagor for establishments whose maximum force does not exceed 16V.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
BERLIN CLAIMS 24,000
 PRISONERS SINCE JULY 15
Great Fires Behind the German Lines Indicate the Huns Are Preparing to Further Retire Their Lines--Ger- mans Keep a Close Guard on Their Hanks to Prevent Surprise Alt tacks.
(By the Associated Press.)

A1s lHt fAcHONiaAIA iCoo,t Whether, as result of weariness
 after two weeks of incessant fighting,
 or because of the greatly increased strength in the man. power and po- gitions of the enemy forces before them, the allied armies on the Sois . sons -dtheims front have noticeabiy decreased their efforts to clear the salient of Germans.
 f the pause in the offensive is at. tributable to weariness, the armieg of the German crown prince also
 must be worn out by the pressure
 they have been under for fortnight,
 for notwithstanding the fact that
 them in their hour of dire peril, they
 have lacked the hardness to endeav-
 or to throw back their antagonists
 and recoup their loss.
 The fourteenth day of the great allied offensive which has resulted in
 driving back the Germans from the
 Marne region northward across the
 Ourcq river and in materially beud-
 ing in tho eastern and western side
 of the great pocket with it's mouth
 running cross country 36 miles from
 Soissons to Rheims little activity on
 the part of either contending forces-
 except in the nature of reciprocal
 bomtardments
 Tuesday night witnessed violent attempts by the Germans to expel the Americans and French from the
 valuable positions they hold north of
 the Ourcq in the region of Fere-en T. Tardenois. and along the western side of the salient near Oulchy- -le- Chateau where Scottish troops are holding with the French the wedge that has been driven eastward into the enemy line These efforts were entirely fruitless
 A watchful eve is being kept by the Germans on the battle line near Fere -en Tardenois and the enemy guns are showering their positions with great quantities of high explo- sives and gas shells. The enemy also continues jealously to guard with huge effectives the extreme eastern and western Hanks of the salient to
 ward off possible surprise attacks. The latest Berlin communication asserts that more than 1000 pris oners have been taken by the Ger
 mans in the last few days and that since July 15 in excess of 24,000 al-
 lied troops have been captured. Whether the Germans have chosen the spot where they will face about and give battle to the allied troops l has not yet become apparent. Great fires behind the lines pos silly might indicate the destruction
 of villages it is intended to evacuate With the approach of the com
 meneement of the fifth year of ths war. the German emperor evidently
 realizes the seriousness of the sit
 uation. In proclamation to his
 army and navy he tells his men they
 are facing the hardest struggle Of the
 war. but that they will be abole tt
 foil "the desperate efforts of the enemy
 What may result in aggravitint
 the already serious situation be- tween the Germans and the Ukrain l ans in the assassination of Fiel.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
TROOP TRAIN FIRED ON.

Knoxville, Tenn, July 31.-Johnson City police and special agents of the Southern railway are Investigating to learn the identity of persons who, last night, fired on a troop train between Johnson City and Bristol. Bullets hit the train but no one was injured 1t became known today.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01

Marshal von Eichorn, the German dictator in the Ukraine, and his adju- tant. They were killed by the ex- plosion of bomb thrown by a native in Kiev.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
GERMANS SAY ALL ousET.

Berlin. July 31-"Quief ro1n throughout the daxa< front, says th61 ing.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
w E AT H E R
 FOREC ST

Forecast for Arkansas: Thursday and Friday generally fair warmer In northeast portion.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01

People looking for rooms turn to the classified ads Of the newspapers to see what is offered. An ad in the Sentinel Record may bring a customer.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-03-26
lad TAKES HIS life
Precocious Youth Kills Himself
Over Alleged Theft.
Boy Declared Chemistry 20 Be His
Life's Sole Desire and
Happiness.

London.-Few cases OF suicide In
recent years have attracted as much
attention as that of Master Arthur
Easterbrook, precocious son Of a re-
tired colonel In the British army. The
%youngster killed himself with cyanide
of potassium. He had been experiment
ing In chemistry, to which he was de
voted. He presumably was driven to
his act by the discovery that he had
taken some chemical apparatus from
his school to his home. Although he
had merely borrowed 1t, there was an
inslnuation that he was guilty OF theft.
A letter left by the boy Is as follows:
"To whomsoever shall find this:
To-day will be my last day on this
planet. / cannot stand the prospects
of what Is coming, so good-by, chemis'
try. my life's sole desire and happiness
What will happen afterward | cannot
tell, but | hope that my spirit will
travel to another planet and a God will
forgive and let me have another
chance.
"Since New Year / have not touched
anything, and just as / thought thai
the whole unhappy business was over
this happens and utterly ruins my life
And | hope the verdict will not be TEN
porarily insane because l nm not.
"a last word. I should like my stuff
that does not belong to the school to b'
given to H. w. Teare, In my form, A
at school. IL will help him on In thu
work. that l intended to follow.
"Good-by, mamma, the only friend
had. and I also hope hat Leslie Wilson
will remember me. So. good-by, chem
istry, that I love and adore and oil,
for.
"P. S.-God ave my SOUL
His father asked the authorities TO
permission to preserve the letter, blu
the coroner said:
II think 1t much better IL you do no
have such a tragic document"