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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-26
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Joe Cans Wilma

United Press Leased Wire Servfcel
KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 26.-Joe
Cans won a decision over Kid McCul
Tough after twelve rounds Of tame box
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Bostonians have volunteered about
$500 motor cars and trucks for war
uses, and many of the owners offer
to do the driving on call. That brand
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Games Today.
Cleveland at Chicago.
st. Louis at Detroit.
Philadelphia at New York.
Washington at Boston.
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Results Yesterday.
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Boston, 6-11-3; Brooklyn, 6-13 .
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Games Today
Boston at Brooklyn.
New York at Philadelphia.
Chicago at Cincinnati.
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Washington, 1853; Boston, 5-7-2.
Philadelphia, 4-S-1; New York, 80.
St. Louis-Detroit, rain.
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Games Today.

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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
GOVERNOR WITHYCOMBE
CALLS CONFERENCE. ON
Y. M. c. A. WAR WORK

Governor Withycombe has issued ]
call to the leading business and pro
fessional meR of Salem and Marion
county to confer with him Friday af-
ternoon at O'Clock in the house of
representatives on war measure. 1t is
supposed to relate to the Y. M. c. A.
war campaign about to be launched.
Last night 6S kilograms were sent
to men outside of Salem requesting
their attendance and today letters are
being mailed by the governor to hum
dred or more prominent men in the
city to attend the conference, to be
held behind closed doors, and it is sup
posed campaign for funds will be
organized.
In the letter to these prominent cit
izens, Governor Withyeombe states the
meeting is called to discuss matters per
tanning to the army. The statement is
also made that the government has
prohibited the publication of the mes
sage to be delivered at this called meet
ing and that the method Of dissemina-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
Scattering Opposition
To Food Conservation
From German Adherents

Portland, Or, Nov. Scattering op.
position is appearing in the northwest
to the food card pledge campaign now
being conducted, according to United
Press reports today.
The most serious opposition is de-
veloped in Adams county Washington.
According to statements of Adams coun-
" workers, not card has been sign
ca IN some sections Of the county, and
the opposition to campaign is general.
In Portland, according to reports to-
day, lSl out of 1869 homes visited re-
fused to sign.
In Salem one German man who is
declared to have said Wilson is trail
tor is under federal investigation to-
day as a result of his statements.
Food admiistration officials in
Washington, however, are much pleased
with the success of the campaign.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
Jealous Woman Kills
Lover and Wounds Rival

Dallas, Tex, Nov. Miss MYRTLE
Cunningham, stenographer, was be
lieved dying in hospital today because
she tried to protect Fthe man She loved
from jealous woman.
She was shot last night by Mrs. P. E
Travers when she. threw herself in front
OF Paul E. Tucker, business man, who
Mrs. Travers said, had promised to mar
ry her. Tucker was struck by a bullet
after Miss Cunningham fell and was in
stantly killed. The shooting occurred
on crowded downtown corner.
Mrs. Travers, who gave herself up, is
alleged to have admitted that she shot
Tucked Intentionally, but declared that
the wounding of Miss Cunningham was
accidental.
AT Miss Cunningham s boarding house
1T was SAID she came from Indiana. The
name OF the town was not known.
Mrs. Travers, who formerly lived at
Shreveport, La, had met Tucker in that
city, where he promised to marry her,
she said. Recently, the woman told the
police, Trucker has had nothing to do
with me. The taunts and jibes of both
Tucker and Miss Cunningham prompted
me to shoot.
Tucker was shot through the heart,
dying instantly. Miss Cunningham was
shot through the body.
Miss Cunningham and Tucker both
worked at the offices of the Four States
Brokerage company here. Tucker was
general manager and Miss Cunningham
was stenographer.
Mrs. Travers was waitress.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
Strike Not Authorized.

San Francisco, Nov. If the strike
Of telephone operators and other EN-
ployes Of the Pacific Telephone and
Telegram company in Seattle. Portland
and other northwestern cities is not
called off. Werner z. Reed. United
States mediator, may leave here for
Seattle tonight. Although no definite
announcement to this effect was made.
the statement was made on high author
ity.
Wires were sent tn Seattle and Port
land this morning by representatives Of
Reed and officials Of the electrical
workers union, urgin0 the strikers in
these cities and Tacoma to resume work
under old conditions rending the out
come of further conferences between
Reed and representatives Of both sides
in the controversy.
Reed and the conference committee of
the emploves met early today to dis
cuss the situation.
Despite the agreement reached by
federal Mediator Werner 2. Reed and
officials Of the electrical workers union
that the proposed ast-wide strike Of
electrical workers would be deferred,
the strike against the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph company went into effect
early today in Seattle, Portland, Spo-
kane, Walla Wsila, Tacoma and other
northwestern cities.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
Japan Cannot Send
Army to Help Italy

San Francisco, Nov. LIT is not only
a physical impossiblity but strategieally
inadvisable for Japan to send her ar
mics to the European battlefields, in
to opinion of Baron Megata of Japan.
head of the special financial mission
to America.
"If, in the face Of physical impos-
sibility, Japan should be foolhardy
enough to make superhuman effort to
send troops and if she speedily became
exhausted-then who would protect the
Orient if Germany still remained un-
defeated7" was Baron Megata Is ans
wer today to the question Of Japan
sending an army to aid Italy.
Lack of tonnage, difficulty Of com
muI cation and need of the army at
home are the problems which would con
front Japan, Baron Megata declared.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
Master of Washington
State Grange Is Dead

Spokane, Wash, Nov. &c. B. Keg-
ley, master of the state grange, died
IN a hospital here Monday night of
pneumonia. He was GA years of age.
Mr.. Kegley was serving his 18th
successive term as master of the state
grange and had been national dele
gate in the organization fer many
years He was an appraiser for the
federal farm loan bank here
He is survived by his widow, one
son and two daughters.He was born in
Ames, Iowa, and came to this state in
1891, residing at Pullman and Palcuse
until he became connected with the
land bank here last May, when be NOV
ed to Spokane.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
STRIKE LEADER INDICTED
ON CONSPIRACY
George TOrnpkins Of Butte
Caught While Fleeing from
Justice

Butte, Mont, Nov. L. Indicted on
charges Of conspiring to hamper the
government by curtailing the output of
copper and bringing about an internal
revolution, George Tompkins, prominent
in the recent miners strike here, has
been arrested at Poeatello, Idaho, ac.
eording to word received by authorities
here. today.
Tompkins Is said to have heard that
an indictment had been returned
against him and tried to get away.
Tompkins is alleged to have issued
the 'tstrike bulletin, " said to have con
tanned seditious utterances and to have
been instrumental in L W. W. activ-
tiles in the copper field.
Others indicted on disloyeity charges,
it was announced today, are A. just,
Ashland, Mont, banker; Richard Van
Uleave, Yes Hall and Adciph and
George Moody.
just is alleged to have declared Ger
many was justified in sinking the Lusi.
tania and that If the United States
entered the war :" she should be blown
to hell" Furthermore, according 10
Just's alleged statements, President
Wilson WAS the richest man in America,
having made enormous sums from the
war.
Five counts were returned against
Van Cleave, who is said to have told
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
GERMAN WOMAN IS
OUTSPOKEN FOR KAISER
Food Conservation Workers
Listen to Remarkable Out
burst---Mcers Notified

Outbursts of language of the mos
violent, inf1ammatory and seditioul
Character, coupled with the declara
tion that information concerning the
true situation of the war; was being
received directly from Germany thru
the medium of German papers distrib.
uted by German missionary com
ing from the woman of a German
household when canvassed to sign q
pledge card in the national food ad-
ministration campaign for the saving
of food led the local food administra-
tion representatives to the belief that
pro-German propagandists were active
in this locality an the case has been
reported to the United States district
attorney for investigation.
The case in question, names being
for obvious reasons, is one
Of the most aggravated that any of
the volunteer workers in the pledge
card campaign have encountered and
the admission tnat German papers
were being received direct from Ger
many and through a German mission
ary seems to indicate that this in
cendiary German literature is being
into the country and given
wide circulation in spite of the cov-
precautions to prevent
Wilson is a traitor declared the
woman head Of this particular German
when the worker asked her
10 sign a pledge card. 81 will not hang
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01

tion is only from mouth to ear With
out going into details as to the i'm
portant matters to- be discussed, ths
letter from the governor concludes as
follows:
"Your council and advice will be
necessary and unless we hear from you
to- the contrary, we shall expect you
to be present. :"
This conference viii be addressed by
E. H. Pence of Portland, formerly Of
Michigan, He will make personal APP
peal TO those fpresent outlining for
what special purpose the meeting has
been called. There has been consider
able speculation among the prominent
men of the city as to just why the
governor should call this secret session
but as yet, there has been given no
publicity as to the subjects to be dis
cussed and as to why the cali was
made.
However, the letter of the governor
intimates that the call is a war CON
ference.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
Largest Air Fleet Yet Sent
Out by Germans Raids
England
BRITISH SAY LOSSES
WERE NOT VERY HEAVY
Home Defense Fleet Gives
Battle but Clouds Prevented
Decisive Results

London, Nov, 1.-The most pictur-
esque and noisy raid London and its
envircns have yet seen and heard took
a toll Of eight lives and injured 2I,
according to official announcement to-
day. The casualties cover the whole dis
trict bombed, from the coast to London.
More than 80 German planes, in seven
groups, were sighted late last night over
the Kent and Essex coasts, and the
Thames estuary. All endeavored to fly
up the Thames to London. At least three
penetrated the capitals s air defenses
and dropped bombs in the heart of the
city. They went through the hottest fire
of anti-aircraft guns that the British
have ever loosed against aerial assas-
sins.
Everywhere the material damage
was slight, the official announcement
asserted. "Our machines all returned
safely.n
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
American Lieutenant
Wounded In Action
General Pershing Reports

Washington, Nov. 1.-First Lieuten-
ant Devere Fl. Hardin, signal officers
reserve corps Of the American expedi-
tionary forces, suffered a moderate
shrapnel wound In the lower left leg OF
October eS, General Pershing eabled
the war department today. Private
William J. johnson, infantry. died
October 80, from natural causes
Hardin may have been the lieutenant
reported to have been wounded in the
first line trenches Hardin's mother is
Mrs. Josephine Hardin, B'z-lingtcn, Vt,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
AMERICAN TRANSPORT
IS TORPEDOED But
NOT BADLY CRIPPLED
Officially Announced There
Was No Loss Of Life On
Beard Finland

Washington, Nov. 1.-The American
transport FINLAND was torpedoed in
foreign waters, homeward bound, Sec.
retarv of the Navy Daniels announced
today.
There was no less Of life and the
transport returned to foreign port
under her own steam The damage to
the ship was slight.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels state
men was as follows:
The navy department has received
dispatches stating that the transport
Findland was torpedoed while return
ing from foreign waters.
"The damage to the ship was slight
and she returned to port under her
own steam. The Finland was under es.
cort but no sign of the torpedo or the
submarine was seen.
The Finland is the second transport
to be attacked While returning from
its mission to Europe.
The Antilles on October II was tor.
pedoed with the loss Of 67 lives.
The dispatches to the navy depart
ment regarding the attack on the Fin.
land, stated that no submarine was
seen, as was the case in the attack on
the Antilles
Whether. the Germans are using n
new system in hiding their assaults on
transport ships is a question puzzling
naval authorities.
The Finland is 12,700 ton steamer,
commanded by Captain Jensen. She
was formerly Red Star liner and was
built by Cramps in Philadelphia in
1909. She is $50 feet long.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
SAYS ARMY WILL RESIST
BY H. o. Hearley

United Press staff cOrrespondent) =
Rome, Nov. 1.-The army is deter
mined TO resist and conquer-to avenge
the cry of pain issuing from the coun
try S sacred soil, General Cadorna, Ital
ian generalissimo, declared today in a
message to Premier Orlando. His tele
gram was evoked by the new premier Is
message appraising Calorna of union
OF all elements and of Rome S support
and confidence.
:" Let the country have confidence, "
General Cadorna concluded.
Italian newspapers all ever the eoun-
try today commented on the nation Is
extraordinary calm under the threat
Of the Germanic invasion.
The evacuation to the new battle
lines has been carried out without ser
ions losses. Every report from the
front declared that the army was still
of fighting efficiency.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
Six Hundred Operators Walk
Out In Portland Early This
Morning
SERVICE INTERRUPTED
| TO NO MATERIAL EXTENT
Seattle and Tacoma Report
Similar Conditions In
Those Cities

Portland, Or. Nov. although 6OC
girls walked out of Portland exchanges
of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company at midnight this morning, ser
vice was uninterrupted today.
Former operators, girls learning how
to operate a switchboard and others
were lured into service as strikebreakerS
by the company's offer of bonuses.
The girls threw picket lines about the
principal exchanges today and the com
pany moved cots into the building, in
dicating that the company is ready fol
seige.
The company intimated that their
principal cause for worry was the strike
of linemen and that if service was in
terrupted it would be for lack of re.
pairs.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
ADVANCING IN MUD.
BY William Philip Simms

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
With the British Armies in Flanders,
Nov. LA drab landscape; yellowish
gray mud in undulating oozy stretches;
Shiny greenish, reddish water pools;
spattered muck an naked twisted trees
and underbrush--that is Flanders to-
day around Paddlebeek bog.
Imagine this setting and then stick
into the picture bedaubcd figures plas-
tered with the same all prevailing mud
dy drab on the ground.
They look like animated statues Of
clay. They are British Tommies. They
might Just as well be Germans as far
as any recognition from outward ap-
pearanee went-exeept the difference in
shrapnel helmets.
United Press readers can visualize tho
sort Of conditions in the British drive
in Flanders today if they can imagine
just the sort Of a general scheme Of
mire and bog thus indicated. In yester-
dey,s fighting for instance, British
troops crossed the Shiny, slippery, stink
ing, bottomless pit which is Paddlebeek
bog, under the fire Of the Bavarians--
and got what they set out to get.
The barrage fire squirted veritable
wall Of mud up ahead of these troops
rs it struck the quavering swamp. Be
hind It the Tommies holding their guns
aloft, have swum thru the same viscid
ness They twisted and fell as they leap
ID from hummock to hummock. Many
men lost their footing, plunging face
lown in the mud. Some were so in
mired that their comrades
lad to yank them out. Gun barrels were
.hoked with mud; cartridges gummed
With 1t. Through it all the Tommies
vent on philosophieally, but swearingly
leaning smeared up guns and fighting
Doth and nail when they came to
linehes with the enemy.
The British held all their gains today,
lespite Bavarian counter attacks, where
he fighting at times was Of the bitter
fConffnNad On naoa oirhtl
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
SURGICAL DRESSING
SHORT COURSE.

(Reproduced by United Press
from Official Red Cross Surgical
Dressing War Manual.
TRIANGULAR BAN ID AGE
OF MUSLIN. (Used as sling and
as convenient covering for dress
ing on various parts Of the
body.) Tear muslin one yard by
one yard. Fold and cut diagon-
ally, making each triangle 36
inches by 81 inches. Hem (hs=S
or maehine) raw edges.sew / 1-2
yards Of inch tape on each point
of the long side. Fold in triangu-
lar manner four times.
TO PACK. Place five in pack
age and tie with string OF sci.
wage. No covering. Stamp and
tie tag: AMERICAN RED
CR0S4-oHAPTER FIVE TRI-
ANGULAR BANDAGES.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
Partial Service at Tacoma

Tacoma, Wash, Nov. 1.-The union
telephone operators employed by the Pa
cific Telephone and Telegraph com
pany here went on strike at midnight
and were still out AZ 10 O'Clock this
morning. Partial service is being main
tanned by the company, few of the
operators having reported for duty at
their switchboards for the regular day
shift.
When te girls filed out Of the tele-
phone building at midnight crowd Of
150, including linemen and other en-
ployes, cheered them. The operators and
electricians then adjourned to their hall
for final midnight conference.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01

Berlin, via London, Nov. 1.-Sixty
thousand Italian soldiers "laid down
their arms east of the lower Taglia-
mento,' the official statement an
nouneed today.
The war office announced the total
OF prisoners taken in the great Italian
drive had now reached 10000 men
and 1900 guns were taken.
The sixty thousand men who "laid
down their arms, y east of the Taglia-
mento river, probably refers to a big
body of the troops Of the third Italian
army. which dispatches haze Indicated
were likely to be trapped near the
coast.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
900 out In Seattle.

Seattle, Wash, Nov. With 900
telephone operators on strike in Seat
tie, local labor leaders today estimated
that 5000 operators and electrical work
ers employees of the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph company had walked out
in the northwest since midnight.
The strike began at 12 O'Clock des-
pite attempts Of rational union Off
cials at San Francisco to delay it.
AT noon squads Of striking telephone
girls were sent about the city to per-
suade exchange operators in the various
hotels to go out on strike.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01

London, Nov. 1.-The most violent
aerial battle london has yet seen mark
ed the raid of German air craft over
the British capital last night.
Three hostile aircraft penetrated to
the heart Of London Lord French an
Inourced today. ''Bombs were dropped
southeast and southwest. About thirty
machines engaged the invaders.
The commander-in-chief Of home de-
Tense forces reported that six groups
Of air raiders had been sighted over
the Thames estuary and along the Kent
and Essex coasts. Clouds prevented de-
cisive engagements with British air
craft.
Our assaults were comparatively light,
considering the number of the machines
and the nature of the attack.
can seven groups of the German
machines followed a systematic course
along the Thames, apparently aiming to
reach London by sighting their way on
the banks of the river.
ffBritish aircraft and air guns hor-
rassed the German visitors all along
their route of flying. The roar of shells
was continuous and ear-splitting."
London official statements do not
give the number of machines in each
group. On other occasions, however, the
Germans have been accustomed to fly in
groups of from five to ten machines
This would mean that the total of the
air armada which Germany sent out
on her latest baby killing expedition
might run anywhere from 80 to 20
planes.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
Mem strike al spokana.

Spokane. Wash. Nov. 1.-sixty- five
men employed by the Home Telephone
and Telegraph company walked out here
at midnight this morning. The girls are
still at work and communication is not
interrupted.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01

Washington, Nov. british
and French reinforcements have
arrived at the Tagliamento front
IN Italy, Rome cables today
stated. The allied troops were
enthus- astically welcomed by the
Italian populaee and soldiers.
The dispatches gave no indica-
tion of the strength or nature
of the reinforcements.
Italian correspondents at the
battle front were quoted as
firmly of the belief that the in
vading AustroG German Turkish
Bulgarian horde will be stopped.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
ITALIANS 1!AY DOWN
ARMS AND e 900 ARE
TAKEN, BERLIN SAYS

Rome Advices Still Maintain That Army VIII Fight to Bitter
End-EngGsh View Is That Germans Are Being Checked
I'm Line Of Iagiamento River, But Uncertainty AS To
Exact Conditions ExistsOfciaIs In Washington Believe
Cr1sls Will Not Be Reached for Several Days
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-01
italian Official Report

Rome, Nov. Deluding the enc.
my's plans by OBTAINING his advane-
ing troops, the Italians withdrew to
the Tagliamento under difficult condi-
tions, today's official statement as
serted.
"The third army is nearly complete -
the war office said, describing the It
allan forces which have been pinched
hardest by Mackensen's g nut cracker
tactics in the southern Tagliamento re-
gion.
The London View
London, Nov. l. - Austro German
forces have reached practically the line