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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01
MAN WHO STARTED WAR
DIES FROM TUBERCULOSIS

shot the arch duke and his morgauatic
wife. the Duchess Of Hohenbsrg. on
the main street Of Sarajevo Bosnia,
an automatic pistol, firing into the
royal automobile as 1t passed. The
arch duke was shot through the head
and the duchess through the throat.
The shooting closely. followed an
other attempt at assassination. A
bomb was thrown into the arch dukes
automobile, but he warded 1t off with
his arm and it fell under the machine
following
The assassination resulted tn an
Austrian uitimatum TO Serbia. which
WAS accused of instigating the plot
Before Serbia could reply. the gem
eral mobilization Of the EuropsaA
a.UkaS hoOnl
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01
TAKING BOUNCE
OUT OF RUBBER
Government Assumes Com
plete Control Over Sale and
Prevents Any Increased
Prices.
FIX STANDARD PRICE
IN yis - % sps..sns
Figure Which Had Been
Boosted ~ specu-
4iation.
FIX STANDARD PRICE

United Press Leased Wire Service j
WASHINGTON, May THE gov
ernment today fixed standard price
on crude rubber and assumed COM
plete control of the sale and manip-
ulation OF all the stocks through an
order issued by the war trade board.
The order is effective today. 1t at
ifects not only the hundreds of rubber
importers, jobbers manufacturers and
dealers, but also every man. woman
and child In the United States be-
cause of the widespread use of man.
ufactured rubber products.
Officials also said it will prevent
an increase in the cost OF automobile
tires.
The prices fixed are ten per cent
below those of yesterday, but this
does not mean the government has
acted to jam down the market.
Speculation in crude rubber began
ten days ago and prices scared when
dealers had learned OF the order. The
government prices. determined by
the war industries board, are the
same as those prevailing before spec
ulation began, sixty-two cents a
pound for standard quality smoked
sheets, sixty-three cents for standard
quality first latex crepe and sixty
eight cents for fine para. All prices
quoted are c. /. Z. New York.
The price fixing and control order
IA only incidental to the real purpose
OF the government. This Is restric-
ton in the import of crude rubber to
conserve ship space, the order says.
It is announced rubber will be put
In list OF restricted imports soon
to be issued by the war trade board.
When 1t was decided to restrict
rubber imports, officials saw the
need Of preventing speculation and
boarding of rubber which was sure to
come through decreased stocks.
The war trade board therefore de-
c,ded to force every importer to put
Il, all sale contracts OF crude rubber
a clause which gives the government
the option of buying the rubber at
It's own standard price. This is the
price fixed in today's order.
The option clause thus gives the
government complete control Of all
crude rubber from the time 1t reaches
an American port until It is deliver
ed to the manufacturer.
Under the option clause the gov
eminent can take over crude rubber
at any time speculation is forced.
The option clause plan OF price con-
troll was first used in fixing wool
prices. But the rubber clause goes
much farther than the wool clause
because the governments option In
the wool contracts was for a limited
time. Also rubber Is 100 per cent
imported, while wool is not.
Ohicials say the action taken will
prevent any attempt OF manufacturers
to raise prices because the price at
which they buy raw product is fixed
and not subject to fluctuations.
That II why II is denied the order
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01
Non Partisan League President
ays Hi3 0rganixation
Bought S., 600 Liberty
Bonds.
ARE NOT BoLsHEv1K1
League Passed Resolutions lndorsing
Nations War Aims and PIedg-
ing Support to
War.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
| WASHINGTON, May IA. c.
Townley, president OF the non-2art-
| isan league, today denied before the
senate military affairs committee
that the organization is reasonable
| or that he or other officials are trait
ors.
Townley who is under Indictment
| in state courts, appeared at his own
request to answer charges recently
made by Judge ]. e, McGee, Mime
sofa. that the @'non-partisan league
man is a traitor and the league is a
treas opable organization.
| The committee bluntly refused to
allow Townley to discuss the aims
and purposes of the league. when Sen
ator Reed raised the point that Nc
Gee had not accused the league mem
bership, but had specifically stated
that the majority of the members,
though loyal. are misled by officers.
Committee members kept up fire
OF questio designed to show wheth-
er Townley and other league officers
had displayed loyalty to the United
States.
did the league buy any Liberty
bonds?' asked Senator Weeks.
1--WE bought $1,000 of the third
loan and none of the first or second"
said Townley He testified the league
usually had on hand from $4,000 to
$50 900 in cash In its treasury.
Reed read resolutions adopted by
the league last September in which
the aims of the Russian Bolsheyih
were praised He quoted from resoiu-
tions passed at the league convention
in March to show that the league had
then continued to indorse the aims
of the Russians in behalf OF political
and Industrial democracy.
Townley denied the league supports
what the Bolsheviki have been doing.
I'VE favored their efforts to obtain
political and industrial democracy"
said Townley, "but that effort has
been q failure thus far"
Pressed for q definition OF indus
trial democracy. Townley illustrated
with his brother-in-law's calf, which
died and the hide brought 1927. The
man then bought set OF harness
which cost him 800.
st used to be possible to get SIS or
Sc for a calf skin and get back the
harness made from 1t for s65," said
Townley.
This brought on a lively argument
as to the value OF calf skin and
whether harness is made from it.
The hearing rapidly developed into
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01
lBy L. G. Martin. United Press staff

lBy L. c. Martin. United Press Staff
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 1.-Betofe
congress authorizes broad guage e1-
pansion Of the American army, sv1-
tlence must be submithsd to show The
war departments ebiMky to onncer.
clothe, equip and arm the new levies
with no delay.
Members arc determined. they
said today. that there must be no
more failures to provide adequate
equipment on time.
But once satisfied as to this, mem
bors Of both houses Will vote for any
number of men the war department
wants.
.The submiseson Of &ho new amy
estimates provides . capital oDDof-
tunity to see whether war department
organizations have been for the good
OF the service said Q member OF
the senate today.
Secretary Baker will appear before
tie house committee -'in E+fOw uxyss'
with his estimates and plans for the
increased army. No hint has been giv-
en-. however. concerning the number
of men he will ask authority to add
to the forces.
Taking the position that II would
be discourteous 10 congress 10 let
the nation know what he proposes
before he tells the military commit
tee, Baker insisted today his figures
will be made known only when he
goes there.
That he and the war department
are planning for an army of 100000
to 5000 900 or more Is certainty,
however The department Is studying
carefully the problem Of increasing
cantonment space and particularly
what it shall do with the national
guard camps. Lord Reading. British
ambassador, has guided Baker con.
siderab1y in framing his plans mas.
much as these plans depend to con
siderable extent on British shipping
facilities. The quartermaster corps
is making it's preparations with the
"sky as the limit" though no figures
have been presented yet.
General thought here is probably
500 900 men will be in the field or
in camp by the end OF the year.
American Prisoners In Germany.
WASHINGTON, May Germany
abusing American prisoners of war
Not at all, according to reports OF
Spanish prison camp inspectors.
Germany not giving the prisoners
what they need?
Absurd-by the same source.
One camp has SO much water that
the prisoners can have one bath a
week. Elsewhere conditions are quite
satisfactory, say the official reports
of these inspectors, as forwarded to
the American government. They
boasted about the one bath a week
camp Did that not conform to the
old established custom of bathing on
Saturday night. even though the
American army does teach a man
that daily cleanliness is health as
set?
All American inquiries as to treat
ment Of prisoners. 1t became known
today, have invariably been answered
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01
CONGRESS TO ACT ON BIG EXPENSE.
American Prisoners in Germany are Being
Well Treated, is Report of Spanish
Camp Inspectors.

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01
Herald Combines With Exami
ner and Will be Printed
By Hearst.

United Press Leased Wire Servicel
NA1iuAGO, May 1.-The Chicago
Mx,erad was combined today with the
eefst morning paper here and will
e Issued hereafter as the Chicago
herald and Examiner" !" The paper
WlH abandon the Herald plant, being
issued =. from the Hearst building under
sSe editorship Of Arthur Brisbane.
SnaoSo now has two morning papers
1ne 1f1nuAs aAd the nsw cosnbinar
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01

CONTINUED on page 30
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01
BUY ANOTHER
BOND CAMPAIGN.
President Starts Scheme by
Taking One to be Paid For
in Monthly In
stallments.
HIS MILLION PARTNERS
EToanase it2eoc, 600 esslzsa. HAN. sab
scribed, But Quota
Has Not Been
Reached.
HIS MILLION PARTNERS

United Press Leased Wire Service]
WASHINGTON, May President
Wilson today called upon 1000, ,O0O
Americans to match him with q $50
Liberty bonds down and SIS q
month
Inaug1rating 'buy another bond
campaign starting today, the presi-
dent. after purchasing all the bonds
he felt he could, got another $50 one
on the installment plan, providing a
million people in the country would
go with him on the proposition.
With about a half billion dollars
yet to go, the president believes that
at least $4,000 900 can be raised
through the cooperation Of million
Americans willing to get ANOTHER
bond" with him,
To date 100000 Americans have
purchased bonds-three million more
subscribers than in the second loan
But the per capita subscription owing
TO the failure Of the wealthy TO re
spond, has failed to put the loan
"over" to date.
The field has been combed for ali
except the banks, who so largely
floated the first and second loans
Only extra effort and further sacrt
fee by individuals will prevent turn
ing to banks for most of the balance
now.
This loan with It's vast subscription
list Ia leaving the country in splendid
financial condition. according to Off
GERS of the federal reserve board.
Reaches its Quota.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.-The
twelfth federal reserve district has
apparently" subscribed its minimum
quota in the third Liberty loan, ac-
cording to an announcement by Cam
paign Manager Geo. K. Weeks today.
The smallest amount on which the
district could pass muster is S210,-
900 900. Last night the federal re
serve bank had received $199, ,9SS, 900.
Besides this about $15,0o0,000 is en-
route to headquarters from various
parts Of the district. Weeks figured
the total subscriptions to date at
$21o,2ss,9oo.
Railroad Men Subscribe.
CHICAGO, May Western rail
road workers subscribed an average
of 1881 each to the third Liberty
loan, according to figures announced
here today Santa Fe railroaders
led with a total subscription Of over
"a, 600, 600. almost seventy per cent OF
Santa Fe employees buying bonds.
Eight roads are in the $4,000, 200
class and three more are over the
million mark.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01

mans arc regarded a. ine1DncaOic
by Germany. according to the Cologne
Gazette.
Nermany IL sorry that shells 1rom
the 220 millimoter guns struck
church on Good Friday, the com
muniQue states, but inquiries sarcas
ttcally how Partsians could expect :
gunner 10 hlometerS away to diner
entiate between churches and ofheI
structures.
-Our piety Is evidenced by the fact
that there was no bombardment on the
day the victims Of the Good FRIDAY
incident were buried" the Gazette
stated. eve certainly committed nc
|sacrileges-"
Cardinal Hartmann II preparing
full report on the Incident to be sub
mitted to the vatican shortly.
es
| Won, Hfndenhurp STAGGERING.
I.TBy y. w. II. Mason. United Pres.
r11 Il III Z sss -
NEW YORK May i. .f fIffSAenburi
is staggering before the most stu
pendous German, failure since ths
battle Of the Marne.
General Foch's enticements o
death are proving more terrible thar
even the kaiser can pay for The
slaughter OF German man power oy
order OF the German high command
has come to an abrupt end: but . re
newal Of the painting effort to break
through the allied lines is inevitable
me vlctor1ous efeinan epili.' huweye
mas been e1,lhsulsneo anu lily. rnuen y,
ourg can NO longer prosIess eA.ep. =
an even more gnasuy COS. 'nen he i'e.s 1S
previously palo.
me morai aIlect oi .Ie ans es.nas SUI
cessfui STAND peIore the iast oeiensss
OF fpres IS enormous Aieer ia nay
won the most difnCull paris oi lhs ~
proach 10 1pres lhe ulnsans III nsss
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01
7hirfy-Six Thousand Men
IN Class One - Iolua
Thirteen Thousand Have Already Beer
Uice, According to Figures Just


o
vount nation orces
81 3 Is FTFrEENY YEAR RsENrEN
May / h r Z an sh flee. ty " nnecu.nh him
Camp h y
Lax ~
Prva Georges hena M ohsv sheen nd 10
charges dN
mrs q Campo
NtMb y e off med ttn
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01
Railroad Men Subscribe.
German Intrigue In Mexico.

| United Press Leased Wire Servicel ]
LONDON, May German in
trigue In Mexico is attempting to
force American Intervention. 1t is re-
Mably reported Ne. The situation u
booocn1n9 serious, & = said
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01
Youth Who Fired Shot at Aus.
trian Arch Duke and
His Wife.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servioe1
TILE HAGUE, May 1.-Gabreel Prfn-
cipe, whose assassination Of the Aus
trian Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand at
Sarajevo, was one of the causes of the
great war, died Tuesday of tuberculo-
sis at the fortress OF Theresienstadt.
day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-01
CONFIDENCE NOW FOR THE FUTURE
.Voo Hindenbarg's 225,O 600 Men Ran Against
Stone Wall and are Peaceful and Quiet
Today.

xN n u Xsoa, United Press Staff
Cosraspondeutl
LOND0N Nay ! Although
Hi i too early for anything ded-
Nits, and notwithstanding the
drive in Flanders may be re-
Inewsd any moment, military
Aoffcials arc more optimistic
than for several days.
4 whatsoever follows, the allies
have won ons phase Of the
battle IN the Flemish hills.
They hsve smashed tho Ger
mans u : trial o. sheer
strength; havs inflicted . Sc
3Ivers costly Jolt and have won
n0tsbis s4enstve viceUfy,
1 Although the Germans hurled
rs least 81, 900 men into the
hills around Ypres.
The press, while cautious,
has ! brighter aspect than for
|weel1. It believes Mondays
slstonewall defense warrants q
confidence In the future and
speculates as to whether the
Germans will now strike else
where in pursuit Of their recent
tactics.
Entire FROM 10 Outlet.
81 LONDON, May 1.-The entire west
IN battle front was quiet yesterday,
Dllowing the severe defeat inflicted
on the Germans in the Flanders as
Bault Monday
4 Field Marshal Haig, in his official
report last night said that except for
local fighting at different points,
there had been no infantry action to
day.
He added that further reports con-
nrm the fact that the enemy's losses
& were very heavy in his unsuccessful
8 attack yesterday.
The French. in a successful counter
attack near Locre, Monday night, took
ninety-four prisoners.
III "A violent bombardment in the re-
F/gion OF Hangard- EnSanterre, south
OF the Somme yesterday. was reported
by the French war office. A German
attack was repuIsed In the Noyon sec
Ine German war office admitted the
recapture OF Locre by the French, and
4 claimed the capture OF British
trenches north Of Vormeezeele and
yierstraat. Artillery activity in the
hemmel region continued throughout
tne DAY. the Germans said.
6onhar3mcnt Of Churches.
fAHIS, May 1.-lrotests against the
ION moardment of churches by the Ger.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-07-19
FROM
THE SHOULDER
Waite Gives Springdale
People Some Real Facts About the
Great War and the Seriousness of it.

One of the most forcible talks on
the war situation so far heard in
Springdale was delivered at the Au-
ditorium Monday evening by Ex-Gun-
ner Waite of the British army, who
came here under the direction of the
State Council of Defense, primarily
in the interests of the War Savings
Stamp campaign, and also to awaken
the people to the seriousness of the
war and the necessity of every one de-
voting their energies to the winning of
the war. He was accompanied to
Springdale by VIM. j. Hamilton of
Fayetteville. The meeting was pre-
sided over by Mayor Chas. L. Smyer
The Auditorium was filled.
The speaker has seen active SER
vice on the battle front, and carries
a number of wounds as mementos of
his contact with the Germans. He
gave it as his opinion that the war
would not end under five years, and
cited as a basis for this belief the
fact that the German army largely
outnumbers the allied forces How
much longer than five years the war
might continue under certain condi-
lions the speaker would not venture a
prediction.
He cited numerous instances of the
inhuman practices of the Germans,
and said in all this wide world there
are but two races of people-the hui
man race and the Germans. It is
hardly conceivable that a sane per-
sons bearing the form and features
of human beings could perpetrate the
atrocities the speaker charged to Ger
man soldiers, but there is much evil
denee from other sources to substan-
tate the truthfulness of his asser-
lions. He said the average German
soldier is a coward and has no initia-
tive-that he has been taught to do a
thing one way and he always does it
that way. That is why the Ameri-
can boy is superior to the Germans,
and is one of the things which will
finally win the war
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-07-19
WASHINGTON COUNTY
ROY IN HUN HANDS

Fayetteville, Ark, July l5.-Lieut.
Byrd Cunningham of Summers, this
county is prisoner in German mil
itary camp in Germany, his mother
has been advised. His relatives Will
be permitted to communicate with HIM
through the Home Service section OF
the Red Cross. Cunningham was tax
en- prisoner April l and is the first
Washington county boy to fall into the
hands of the Germans.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-07-19
AWFUL ATROCITIES
OF GERMAN SOLDIERS
Incidents Are Not Isolated, But Are
Part of the kaiser's System of War
fare, Says Brooklyn Minister.

(From Democrat.
"Inculcation of the philosophy of
and actual -blooded, scientific
practice Of inhuman atrocities upon
civilians of invaded countries has been
the most terrible and most effective
weapon Germany has employed in the
great war;" said DR.. Newell Dwight
Hills, successor of Henry Ward
Beecher in the Plymouth Tabernacle,
Brooklyn, in an interview e. the Jeff
erson Hotel yesterday.
.The practice of unspeakable atroci-
ties has destroyed the morale of
more armies than all the liquid fire,
poison gas and arms that have been
employed by the Germans during the
war.
Atrocities ruined the morale of the
Belgian soldiers, who fought like lions
n the first two weeks Of the war.
The rape and slaughter of their wo-
men, the manning and slaughter OF
their children and old men utterly in
capacitated even the strongest and
most valiant Belgian soldiers, so that
they were gibbering and helpless
idiots for many months. Even now
only the Belgians who have not ac-
tually seen their parents, wives, SIS
tiers and children ravaged, mutiliat-
ed and murdered are capable of really
fighting. So, too, with the Ruman-
ians.
Tt was the practice of atrocities
that destroyed the morale of the ltal-
ian Army on the 1zonzo.
Incapacitated by Terror.
"The sight of their ravaged, mutt
Lated. desecrated and murdered faith
ers. brothers, mothers, wives, Sis
tiers. daughters, old men and little
children, even unborn babes, so stun
ned the Italian soldiers that they were
totally incapable of offering any re-
Esistance to the German attacks. II
required the infusion of English and
French soldiers and many months OF
time to restore the morale of the
Italians.
Germans in America and elsewhere
have denied that these atrocities were
committed. The German Govern
ment has not denied them. 1t ha:
admitted them. German prisoners dc
not deny them or think that they die
anything wrong in committing them
They say, All war is atrocity. What
ever wins war quickest is kindest
And atrocities win quickly.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-07-19
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