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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
German Troops Keep up Com
tinuous Bombardment Of
French Positions on Both
Sides Of River.
RAIDS ARE REPUISEn
British Front Rather Qufet WhiA
Torpedoes Continue 10 Sink
the ships OF tho
AllleA.

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PARIS, July 8o.-German troop1
kept up a continuous and violent bom-
bardment of French positions around
the Bray-En-Laonnois ridge, at Crew
regny, In the region OF Monument,
Hurtebise and ON both banks Of the
Meuse, today's official report de-
clared. Various raids throughout tha
front were repulsed.
Small Patrol Encounters.
LONDON, July au.-Small patrol
encounters in tue neighborao.l Of
Bullecourt and Acheville, wa-e all
that Field Marshal Haig had to re-
port today nom the British 'front.'
Torpedoed and sunk.
LONDON, July 30.-The British
cruiser Ariadne has been torpedoed
and sunk with loss of thirty-eight of
those aboard. the admiralty an
nounced today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
FOOD CONTROL
LEGISLATION
Congress May Act on the Bill
Within Twenty-four Hours,
After Many Weeks
Debate.
AGREEMENT IN SIGHT
Food, Feed, Fuel and Farm impIs-
ments to Como Under the
Measure 20 BE-
AGREEMENT IN SIGHT

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WASHINGTON, July 30
S Sweeping food control legis
EE lation probably will be ready
- for final action by congress
within twenty-four hours.
President Wilson today was asked
by Chairman Lever and Chamberlain
Of the house and senate conferees
on the bill, to agree to modification
of tho 80 called congregational wal
committee-the only big obstacle re-
manning In the way OF final agree
ment on the measure.
The conferees' draft of this amend
ment changes 1t 80 as to reflect In
no way on the 2resident's manage
ment OF the war. 1t would provide
that the vice president and Speaker
Clark name committee Of five In
each house to 90 over all government
war contracts.
Virtual agreement on all other
matters in dispute between house
and senate had been accomplished 81
was in sight today.
The senate amendment foD foot
board OF three members instead o.
the house bills one member, Will be
modified to provide a one-man foot
control, the man to be nominated BY
the president and confirmed by the
senate.
The prohibition section finally
agreed to forbid the use Of fruits
cereals, or other edibles in the man
ufacture Of distilled spirits. forbidi
importation OF spirits and authorizes
the president to seize all spirits Ii
bond or stock, paying fair price.
1t further authorizes the president
to stop or curtail the manufacture OF
beers or wines and to prevent theil
Importation.
In the agreement on q minimum
price for wheat the 81 minimum es
tablished by congress will be effec
tive only on crops harvested between
June /, 1918. and May. 1919.
Powers for handling the present
crop probably will be placed with the
food control department. Further
drastic provision for preventing
boarding and speculation in food
stuffs is embodied. The Pomerene
coal price fixing amendment has
been agreed upon.
Under the definition Of food con
troll will be included food, feed, fuel
and instruments and equipments
used in their actual production.
Frowns on War Board.
WASHINGTON. July 30.-President
Wilson again frowned on congression
al demands for a senate war board
to wise government contracts. he
still believes such committee would
reflect on his conduct Of the war
Senator Chamberlain carried this
message back to- the conferees this
afternoon, following talk with
the president. As a result 1t ap.
pears likely tho food bin either will
be held up further In conference OF
this particular feature sent back To
the house and senate for recSnsider
alton.
The president also stood firm for
a one-man food control board.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
Germs in Court Plaster.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. July 3o.-That
the court plasters distributed in sew
eral Kansas towns by John Lying and
others impregnated with tetanus
Clock jaw germs, was established
when the last of the twenty-five
guinea pigs inoculated by DR.. Frank
Breed and w. R. Smith, governments
chemists with cultures from the plas-
ters, developed tetanus today.
Prosecution of Lying will be started
Immediately according to District At
torney Fred Robertson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
|one in Hospital With Bullet
Wound and Three Others
Slightly Hurt.

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WACO, Texas, July 30.-Will Jones.
nesro trooper, OF the Twenty-fourth
United States infantry, Is In hospital
toaay with bullet wound in the head
ana three white persons were slightly
|wounded as the result of clashes be-
Tween negro soldiers and white citi-
lens mere last night. At an early hour
F'ooay Captain Higginson with Lieu
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
WILL SWALLOW POISON
RATHER THAN BE PRISONER

now constantly increasing, agreed
that death was to be preferred to the
fate they would probably meet at the
hands of the Germans.
The Legion of Death fighters are
good killers" l learned this today
when l talked to five Of them now
in a hospital near here. suffering
from shell shock. From woman's
fps | heard how she had run Ger
man through with her bayonet, firing
the rifle at the same time. From
others l heard how these women and
girls, fresh from comfortable homes
ana universities, went leaping over
mangled, bloody bodies in the charge
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
RESPONSE
; To DRAFT
TODAY
Americas Gall for Men for
Her New National Army
is Being An
sWered.
EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED
Heavier Percentage Of Requests Than
Anticipated, TIghtens Up Re-
strIetlons on Being
Excused.
EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED

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WASHINGTON, July 80
4A America began calling out
a men for her new national
army today. All over the
country prospective sammies are at
attention.
The nations capital, ono Of the flrst
to be ready, called its initial group for
examination at a. m The response
was without hesitation.
Other eastern cities also had their
first calls.
In other parts Of the country. exani-
nations will start as soon as local
boards get their official lists checked
up and their notices mailed. BY the
end of the week this step should be
accom- plished all over the land.
As men came up for physical ex-
animation, early reports Indicated
heavier percentage of exemptions
than anticipated.
AS a result, exemption boards have
been instructed to be especially care
full as to freeing men. Each case must
be carefully vised and there must be
no favoritism.
There has been no change, how
ever, in the general plan OF exempt
ing those with dependent families or
those indispensable to industries vital
to prosecution of the war.
It Is doubtful whether the first
army will be encamped before Octo-
Der 1 as cantonment construction
started so late.
Supplies for New Army.
WASHINGTON. July 3o.-As ten
million men began their march to
examination headquarters today, the
war department wrestied with the
problem of supplying Americas great
national army.
BY the time the men are in camp.
the department believes there will be
enough supplies at least for the pre-
liminary training.
Food and money problems promise
to be on their way to settlement
this week.
Having organized Its work under
board of seven to control all govern.
ment purchases, the national defense
council is prepared to rush contracts
for supplies.
There was peace talk in the air
today, but little hope is seen In the
possibility of conferences suggested
by the Germ an and Austrian premiers
now. The senate. however, Is ex-
pected to break out with lengthy
discussion of Americas terms.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
Each Russian Woman Soldier
Carries Capsule Which
She Agrees to Take.

IBy William G.. Shepherd, United
Press Staff Correspondent
PETROGRAD, July 30.-Russia's
women soldiers have pledged them
selves to take their own lives rather
than become German war prisoners
Each woman soldier carries
ration Of cyanide Of potassium to be
swallowed in event of capture. The
members Of the women regiments,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
Named Commander In Chief.

Named ComnuhueF III Vh10s'
limited Press Leased Wire Service
DIES MONIES. Iowa. July 30.---A.
B. Dale. of Fargo. N. D.. this after.
noon was named commander in chief
of all Y. M. c. A. buildings and or
ganizations 1t Camp Dodge" canton
ment camp.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
Corn Likes Hot Wave.

Corn Likes Hot Wave.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. July 30.-Ohio
corn is growing by leaps and bounds.
Farmers all over the state are cele-
brating the advent OF sweltering
heat wave that is making the corn
Plump foot night"
The heat wave followed rainy
weather.
Call Il Hot at 90.
NEW YORK. July 30.-New York
faced another scortching hot day to-
day. The weather bureau reported
a temperature of SO at 10 o'clock and
still rising. The hottest day of the
year to date was last Friday when
the maximum temperature was 80.
Facing Ice Famine.
CHICAGO, July 30.-With Chicago
In the wise of another baking day,
the city was brought closer to an
Ice famine which may endanger the
lives of many infants.
Meat markets. dairies. restaurants
and hospitals were exerting every
Influence to obtain ice today,
THE death rate among infants Is
bound to climb in the congested dis
Itricts with the continuance of the
heat wave," said J. H. Boyle of Chi
|cago district ice committee, but If
scarcity Of ice is added to this con-
sdlt1on, the death rate will be ter
Fible- Only settlement Of tho strike
can save the situation"
Temperature OF 96 was indicated
f1or today.
Three Deaths From Heat.
CHICAGO, July 3O.-Three deaths
from heat were reported to the police
Foday as Chicago .entered its third
straight day of sweltering weather.
wo deaths were reported Saturday.
John Lokaszyk. %, died last night.
rWo hours after he was married. Two
|oid women. unidentified. were found
|oead In rooming house.
me temperature reached 90 shortly
pe1ore IL o'clock. The weather bu-
Feau expected the season record of 96
established at o'clock yesterday
Hlternoon-to be surpassed.
The threatened ice famine was
RVerted by settlement Of the switch
mems strike.
Boston SweIterIna.
BoSTON, Mass, July 3O-Boston
foaay sweltered in temperature
which reached 81 before noon and was
i .
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
Full Speed Ahead Today ALI
over the Country is Report
Wherever There is a
Thermometer.
bH1o CORN IS T1cK1,ED
cbIe,oo Has Three Deaths From tho
Heat and Threatened Ice Famine
Made Matters
Worse.

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/ CLEVELAND, Ohio. July 3d.
|Cleveland's kiosk registered a tenn
|perature Of 101 at 1880 today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
Pressure 10 Lessened.

PETROGRAD, July 30.-Russian
and Rumanian troops have put such
force behind their offensive in the
Putna sector that today the pressure
of the German advance into Russia In
the Tarnopol region noticeably less
ened. In Galfcta, the Rug sian troops,
forced back at the outset Of the
breakdown In Tarnopol, have retired
IN good order across the Russian bor-
der.
Premier Kerensky was at the front
today comforting on the military
situation. On account Of these con-
ferences and the inability to gather
together all elements for the all-Rus-
sian assembly, this latter conference
at Moscow, scheduled for tomorrow
has been postponed 1t will be held
at a later date, when all parties are
expected to attend, when It is certain
that representatives OF all civic or
ganizations can send delegates.
Extensive preparations are now un-
der way for Russa's first constltu-
tional assembly.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
Yesterday was 1o3.

Yesterday was 1o3.
DETROIT, July 30.-The govern.
|ment thermometer registered SO at
|lO:3O o'clock and its guardian said
tins was only a starter. Yesterday
was the hottest day Of tho year with
the mercury at l03.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-30
STAMPING OUT
OF TRAITORS
Russia Intends to Get Rid Of
Every Objectionable
Person In the
Country.
FOR COALITION CABINET
TodAye NewD From Front Indicates
Considerable Improvement In
Morale OF the
Soldiers.

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PETROGRAp, July 30.-Ruseia's
government will take counsel .tomor-
row with the Russian people on the
crisis at homo and at the front. Out
Of these deliberations may be ex.
pected to como more unity in COM
plete stamping out Of traitors and in
granting dictatorial powers to govern
mont heads.
Tomorrow's conference at Moscow
Is between the provisional ministry
and representatives of two great as
semblies who come nearest to repre-
senting the voice of the people in
Russian affairs. They are the work
mems and soldiers' congress and the
peasants congress. Both are volun-
teer elective bodies OF men chosen by
the plain people.
A coalition cabinet is regarded as
certain to result from the meeting.
Re-entry of the cadet party has
been forecast and there will be COM
piete adjustment Of the ministerial
power. Premier Kerensl1y was today
reported as ready to turn over the
posts Of army chief and navy head to
two army and navy officers. He was
at the front today, comforting with
various commanders and considering
this plan of putting Russia's military
power in the hands of trained mill
tary officers.
Today's news from the front fndi-
Gated considerable improvement in
the morale Of the soldiers-even OF
those most likely to be affected by
the dtsgraceful retreat of the Elev-
enth army. A strengthening out OF
the Russian line to offset the wedge
driven into the front around Tarnopol
and relieve the dangerous situation
there is under way.
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our own leased wire.
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THE WEATHER.
Generally fair. Cooler Tuesday.
Local temp p. N. 90; an
70. B
The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-29
OLD VETERANS WANT
 INSIDE QUARTERS.

Washington, May 2S. - Southern storms yesterday and today prompted a number of requests from old -oldiers expecting to attend the Confederate veterans reunion here next week for quarters under roof rather than in tents The local reunion committee announced that all would be accom- modated according to their individual wishes. Rooms for 10000 persons in hotels boarding houses or private homes already have been listed.
 Work was started today on he wooden barracks and mess hall which Nill be the center of several hundred tents on the D aga between the union station and he capitol and f. IS pan ned 10 complete these and pich the tents before the arrival of the earlles veterans Saturday or Sunday.
 Robert N Harper, chairman of the local comm ttee on arrangements, n statement today, said hotel and boarding house accommodations for the reunion would be ample
The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-29
SCIENTIST PREDICTS
 CURBING OF SUBMARINE
DECLARES THAT SINCE AMERICA INVENTED THE uNDERsEA BOAT FROM SAME SOURCE WOULD
 COME ITS DESTRUCTION.

New York. May 2S.-Protesso, Michael T. Pupin Of Co,umba a Univer- sity, presiden of the New York Acau emy of Sciences, at the centennial meeting of the society tonight predict ed the German submarine meust l. wou be solved effectively and rhar the American public soon would realize The value of the men of science i4 meeting the ruthless underea war fare"
 Recalling that Germany had widely advertised othe world that the SUD. marine was her last tramp card. Pro lessor Pupin said the inventive genius or the Yankee which had given to the world the submarine. the tele. graph, the telephone. the flying ma. chine and the rap'd fire gun. soon would demonstrate 70 a waiting world tha the same genius would nullify and obyate the submarine
 The Germans' asserted Prole or Pupin "thould have known that the same inventive gentvs that gave them .the submarine weapon Woad also knock t out of their hands They did not kaow t owing Co their utter lack Tor subtle psycholoeical discrimination. but they will know il very soon
The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-29

CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE. ton ss soon as the pendinb regulatory food measure becomes a law
 Tie survey bill passed virtua ly as 1t came from the committee Miss Rankin. the woman representative from Montana, inserted an amendmen. which would require the department of agriculture to use women in the gdrvey work whenever practicable An amendment by Representative McKen- zie of Illinois w0Hid make all persons employed under the bill liable 70 mIli tary service and another would Der nit citizens to refuse to go more than 300 mile from their homes or places of business 10 testify in a food ID. quiry
 As orlslna y drawn the bill carr ed more than slS,000O00, but committee chanles reduced the total. These are the principal amounts appropriated;
 For seeds. $5,77S,000; education for increasing production by waste eliml- nation and conservation, sh34S, foo; otuNidl 'AA ", f-s -'UVVi tiduINdN 'OH Of livestock diseases and livestock i'm provement work, sSS5.000; miscellan. eous tens $547.A00. and eradication O plant diseases and insects, $il,O00.
 Many republicans, including iormer Speaker Cannon, repeatedly attacked the measure as wasteful, particularly as 10 Ihe survey feature. Chairman Lever of the abrculture committee oe- clared heatedly in closing debate they were raisinb a ia SC issue.
 ',it ts not economy that these genue men desire to propagate he said. 'lt nay be that ihe opposition can be ac. counted for because We are carrying power In the bin to go into storage concerns and find out who Is hoardng and who k speculating"
 The senate devoted the day 10 de batting and adopting an amendment oy senator McKellar reducing the apprp priatiou for the eradication Of the ca tle tick and other live taek disoasea from S2US3,0o0 10 SS25,0N0. \ motion to eliminate an appropriation of S2,5o0. O0o for soeds lo be sold Co The Maaer at cost by he department ol agricul
The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-29
ALkBAMA'S DEATH LIST
 IS PLACED AT 45
GREATEST LOSS OF LIFE WAS AT BRADFORD WHERE TWENTY.
 SIX WERE KILLED.

Birmingham, Ala. May 2S,--Forty. six persons were killed and at leas l15 were injured in the torm which swept over Walker Jefferson, Blount and several other counties of this sec ton Of Alabama late Sunday night, ac cording to repor.s reaching here 10 n ght, white the property damage will run we into the hundreds of thou sands of dollars Some estimates say 1t win reach as high a. $l0000g).
 Of the Killed, l6 were wdlte peopi. and The remainder nagroe mosth mine workers. 26 Of the latter losing 'their lives at Bradford a small mining town in the northern part of Jefferson county. the others being scattered among Carbon Hill, Sayra, Nilag, sprn" aud Sylacauga
 The greatest .oss of life oovurrcu lat Brad ord, where 26 negroes Ner a mes. instantly killed and 3G other. were injured, many fatally. Two white people also were injured thls place Ben Higginbotham, 70 years old. onJ .oi the few white inhabitants. and h !. granddaughter
 Nine of the white people who losr their lives were killed at Sayre. four lat Carbon lInl and hree at Kansas lear Carbon Hill.
 Many of the 3 white per. ons lnJuceu Ia, Salre were in Birmingham hospital tpnioht and cavaral o-o ron,r4o,l to h, in a serious condition, some or 1r-m expected live but a few hours.
 Majestic, another Of the places most seriously aff icted by the storm, re ported L white people and six negroes injured, while five white people were injured at Sylacauga.
 The property damage in Sylacauga was estimated at $250,000 At Carbon Hill 250 houses were reported demon ished.
 The fury of the wind as described by those who capped with their lives is youched for by the clean path left by he tornado. At Bradford, Il ,r said, t is impossible to tell just where a cabin or house stood. only by those who were familiar with the location prior to the storm. The scene as de scribed by hose who aided in t.a rw-. cue work is one or extreme suffering for those who were not instantly kil ca
 At Village Springs, while there was only one killed, negro infant, the town is practically pile Of debris, almost everything in tn eform Of 8 str cture( having been razed and strewn all over the section. Only one store and dhree house stand in the villege today.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-29
.BALFOUR ADDRESSES
 CANADIAN PARLIAMENT I
DECLARED THAT THE BRlTtaH EMPIRE HAD srAkED ITS LAST
 DOLLAR ON DEMOCRACY.

Ottawa, Ont, May 2S.-Artnur James Balfour, Britieh minister Of foreign affairs and head of the mis- sion sent to America in an address ate day before the two houses of the Canadian parliament. declared that the British empire had "staked it's last dollar on democracy" and that
 if democracy failed. England and her por sessions would be "bankruDt in-
 deed"
 Mir Balfour added, however, that he knew democracy would not fai 'I know the democracies of the old world and the new will come cut or this s ns%le not merely triumphan in the min 9ry sense, but strength ened in their own inner life, more firmly convinced that the path of freedom is the on ny path to national greatness" he said.
 'l do net believe" continued MT.
 Balfour, that anything more, unex- pected to the outside world ever oc- cured than the enthusiastic self-sac- rifice with which the great self-gov- erning British dominlons have thrown themselves into the great contest at the side of the mOtherland." Mr Balfour charged that autocracy
 enthroned in the central powers, pre- cipitated the war to gain domination of he world '
 Premier Borden, in introducing Mir. Balfour, paid a tribute to the United States
 'The people of Canada, the pre- mier said, welcome the advent of their great neighbors into the fight for the liberties cf the world. As the streams from both countries the trih- utaries Of the St. Lawrence cast their waters into one great river that flows forever to the sea, so l am sure the sympathier, ideals and efforts of both countries will join in the mighty scheme of united endeavor in the great cc mmon purpose of this war
 Speaker Rhodes asked Mir. Balfc UT to take to Eng and with hlm on his return the message that Canada IS in the war to the end" Sir WilfFed Laurier the opposition leader, de- Jared that Canada today stand prouder of her British allegiance than she was three years ago
The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-29
POWDER MIL EXPLOSION

Oakland. Cal May 2S.-Two euI. rloyes of the Giant Powder Company were killed late today when the nitro glycerine house at the companys plant near Richmond was destroyed by an explosion which was felt for radius Of 20 miles
 Although thep lant Is engaged in tho manufacture of munitions for the gov ernment, there is no suspicion that ;ae explosion was the work of an alien enemy.
 Investigation showed that the two men Killed were the on'y ones in or near the building destroyed when the explosion occurred. The structure was of frame material and the loss was said to be slight.