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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
PLENTY OF 16
INCH GUNS
Peace Time Capacity Expanded Ter
Times In Gun Making
Facility Of v. s.
:. Navy.
lBy United Press.l

WASHINGTON. Dec. IAN ex.
pansion of ten times the capacity OF
peace times was necessary In the gun
making facilities Of the navy. Rear
Admiral Earle's annual report today
shows.
Earle, the man chiefly responsible
for mounting the 14-inch navy guns for
army use in France, points out that
this vast expansion was accomplished
with Comparatively satisfactory" re-
suits, though he suggests 1t was sur
rounded by important difficulties.
Concerning the 16-inch guns to be
supplied battleships, Earle says:
During the past year, the bureau
has proved (tested) the 16-inch So
caliber gun. The test proved sue
cessful beyond expectation and this
gun promises to be an exceptionally
splendid piece OF ordnance The pro-
duction program of the 1O4 guns of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
OF
A YEAR AGO
Thermometer was Moving UP and
Down Past the Zero Mark
and Sometimes Far
Below.

| Tuesday of this week the Their
mometer at Keokuk reached SO de-
grees and 1t was fine early summer
weather A year previously, the mer-
curry made 6 degrees above zero as
Its highest attainment, and that night
| It went down to below zero, as COM
I pared with 3S above zero as the cold
| est for the same night this year.
! last Monday, the thermometer
mounted to. &c degrees, rather too
warm for comfort, while exactly a
wear previously 1t stood at 5 above
zero. and 5 below zero that night, a
wear before it went to AZ above zero
in the night.
! Last SUNDAY, beautiful June day
in December. the mercury was UP to
So In the daytime and down to AZ
during the night, far removed from
thoughts of radiators freezing. On
the same date in 1917, the thermome-
ter dropped to degrees below zero
at night, and got up to 10 above by
hard work during the day.
December 6, this year, the highest
Temperature here was AZ degrees. and
the lowest at night was 38 degrees,
far above freezing. Just year pre-
viously, it was zero at night and 10
above in the heat of the day.
A year ago, Keokuk was frozen up
tight. with temperatures around zero.
This year, December. for the first two
weeks. has been balmy as the south
seas and warm enough to go without
p collar at the dinner tah'e.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
EMPLOYMENT
FOR SOLDIERS
Government Plan Of - Per Day Job
Turning Waste Lands Into
Good Farm
Site1.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
/, WASHINGTON, Dec. IA re-
/! quest for immediate action by con-
gress on Secretary Lanes plan for
reclamation Of arid, swamp and cut
over land, including an appropriation
of not less than $5O.00O,000, will be
presented soon, 1t was intimated to-
day at the department of the interior.
| If jobs are to be provided in recla-
nation work for returning soldiers, a
definite program must be mapped out
at once, 1t was said.
While 1t Is considered improbable
that the present session will result
in the necessary appropriations for
the reclamation work, inter-depart-
ment officials say that they have been
assured that a sufficient number of
republicans and democrats are friend
ly to the proposed measure to see 1t
through at the special session ex-
pected to follow.
/ Secretary Lanes plans call for vast
government irrigation projects in the
west, for the clearing of extensive
tracts Of cut over timber lands in
various sections of the country and
for the drainage and clearing of large
swamp areas.
He proposes to put as many SOL
diers as may desire to go into the
work on the job at 81 per day each
for common labor.
When the land is cleared and made
ready for habitation and cultivation,
1t is to be made available for settle
ment by the soldiers and to be paid
for from the farm profits. such pay
ments to cover period of forty
years or whereabouts. Lane also
plans government aid in protecting
the soldier-farmer to obtain modern
farm machinery, housing and the
necessary farm livestock and poultry
The reclamation service already
has made a preliminary survey of the
lands that can be reclaimed and these
are estimated at between $4,000, 900
and 100000 acres. 1t is estimated
that the proposed reclamation work
will provide employment for every
returned soldier who cannot find
other work and also that most of
the men can be employed in their
home states.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
GAVE HER LIFE
FOR.HER FAMILY
Mrs. Rose BeaIl Contracts Influenza
and Pneumonia While Nursing
In Her Fathers
Home

A very large concourse of people
gathered in the yard when the fun
leral services of Mrs. Rose Beall were
held at the home of her father, 8.
T. Butcher. The services were con-
Quoted by Rev. Frank J. Young. of
the Methodist church of Wayland,
and burial was in the Hill cemetery
north of that town.
Mrs. Beall was nursing relatives at
the home Of her father when she
contracted influenza followed by
pneumonia. She was Miss India May
Butcher, and was born in Clark
county OVER twenty-nine years ago.
She and Mr.. Beall were married in
March, 1912, and had two children
who survive her with her husband.
Her father, two sisters, Misses Rose
and Verna Butcher, and three broth
ers mourn her loss, and all three of
the brothers are in the army in
France. They are Fred. Ray and Will.
liam Butcher.
Mrs. Beall had beautiful charac.
ter which won her many friends, and
her death is q shock and grief to that
entire community.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12

An excessive secretion from the
nostrils is an unsightly misery. A
breath tainted with the odor of ca
tarrh is an offense against all health
and decency. A stomach filled with
droppings from diseased nasal caya-
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clogged with strings of ropy mucus
indicates body literally reektng
with catarrh, causing pimp1es,
blotches and other skin eruptions.
The blood, swarming with millions
of catarrh germs. entails upon the
kidneys a labor that may break
them down; the lungs and bronchial
tubes, scourged with the destructive
Influence of systemic catarrh, can
lead to anemia and the most serious
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
Lecture on Socialism.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Jurors in the
Berger trial today heard a lengthy ex-
position Of socialism. Seymour Stead
man, head counsel, defending Berger
and four others on charges Of violating
the espionage act, explained for them
the differences between socialism and
anarchism.
"The meaning OF socialism will be
made clear in the evidence to be Of
fered," he said Now as to bolshe-
vism and labor conditions in London,
France"
The prompt objection that labor nor
bolshevism are on trial was sustained.
Steadman told jurors very little evil
dence would be offered for the de-
Tense and that probably the defend
ants would not take the stand.
1t would devolve upon the govern
ment, he said. to prove the charges.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
Americas Navy.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12:-America
should have navy equal to that OF
any other country in the world. Ad-
miral Badger told the house naval af-
fairs committee.
THE general board recommends
that we have navy equal to the
most powerful maintained by any
government in the world" said the
admiral.
Badger, who is a member OF the
general board was explaining the
naval appropriations bill to the COM
mittee. He urged building program
that would make the American fleet
equal to anything afloat by 1925.
Had the United States been fight
Ing alone in the present war, its lack
of ships would have been serious and
perhaps fatal. explained Badger.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
Abert J. Schwartz, Of Fort Madison.
pislnterred In Oklahoma and
Buried Permanently in
Home Town.
disappeared TEN YEARS
Mystery Of His Actions Not Solved,
and He Had Fortune Coming
to Him, II He Claimed
1t at Home.

Heir to a fortune Of considerable
size. and diligently searched for all
over the country, Albert j. Schwartz
OF Fort Madison, was lost for ten
Years and recently was found in a
crave at Toto, Okla.
His relatives spared no efforts to
find him and ran down several false
rails during the ten years. lie I'M
&oubtedly knew money and property
Tas his, X he would appear and
tnke it, but he never mentioned the
matter to the new friends he made
IN Oklahoma. He was employed by
the war department as a horse buy
er during the war, and died year
ago in the Oklahoma town, where
he was buried by friends.
After the search had been aban-
doned as hopeless, his sister, living
in Brooklyn, got q tip OF a man in
oklahoma answering the description
Of Schwartz, and followed the clue.
The Mystery Of His Life.
At Toto she established the iden-
tity of her brother with the horse
buyer who had died there not long
before, and everybody there recog-
nized photograph of Schwartz as
their fellow citizen.
The sister brought the body back
to Fort Madison, where it was re-
inferred in Gethsemane cemetery.
Why the man disappeared and re-
NAMED in hiding is still mystery.
The last heard from him directly
was decade ago, in letter from a
little Kansas town. He had every
- hno oil hi q
inheritance, and no reason is known
why he should stay away from Fort
Madison or his relatives.
How Double Identity Acts.
The explanation of double person
atty, in which state there is entire
forgetfulness of the past, and the
beginning of a new identity entirely
disconnected from the. old one, is
negatived in this case by the friends
of Schwartz in Toto, who say he was
entirely normal In mind and action.
But against their arguments Is the
well known fact that in cases of
double personality the man is really
normal in mentality in every way,
the only change in his mental pro-
cesses being that he has no memory
OF things before certain date when
the change came suddenly. Such
man finds letters in his pocket which
are as strange to him as any other
letters he might find in the street.
His wife, family and friends are as
strangers to him whom he never met
before and about whom he knows
nothing. Whatever he knew about
any vocation is forgotten and he is
no longer a physician, a lawyer, a
bricklayer or a merchant. as the case
may be. But in his new identity he
is as bright, brainy and companion
able as he ever was. He simply is
another person than he was before,
It seems the best explanation OF
the disappearance. of Schwartz that
his was a case of double identity.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12

this type required has now been
started, and 1t is anticipated that the
guns will be ready to meet the build
ing program"
Earle points out the navy was able
to lend the army 12-inch. 10inch, g.
inch, 7-inch and 6-inch pieces
Several new kinds Of mines were
evolved by the ordnance branch
during the year. and the production
was in enormous quantities. Still an
other important development OF the
year was that of making depth
charges for anti-submarine work. The
American variety proved particular
ly effective.
Earle SCOTS at use Of long range,
small shell freak" guns such as the
one Germans used against Paris
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
Editors and Einanniers

Aberdeen Newsi: You never
tell. Carter Glass. the new secre
of the treasury, started life as pI
er. Then he became q newspaper 4
and then congressman, and nov
has been chosen to head the finan
affairs of the government. There
a lot of news paper men who
quite competent to give the secrd
of the treasury advice on the sud
of conducting the governments
nances, but few Of them who ever
the opportunity to put their thed
in practice. Probably that is the
son the government finances are]
conducted as smoothly as they I'd
he sometimes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
Russian Takes His Life.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Present
chaotic conditions in Russia are be
heved TODAY to be responsible for the
suicide of Eicholas Semerenikoff,
commissioner OF ways and communi-
cation under the Kerensky govern
ment. Semerenikoff. according to the
police, was sent here to study Ameri-
can railways, but when the bolsheviki
ousted Kerensky the commissioner
left his Job.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
board of con.ervatloIn.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servi
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Dec. 12.--1
now has board of conservation.
executive council today annou1
the appointment OF Mayor John p
OF Fort Dodge; Professor l. n. (
mel, Of Ames, and Joe Kelso, OF
vue. as members of the board.
The board which serves without
enumeration, will aid the historical
partment in conserving the natura:
sources of the state. The board
hold its first meeting here a
Christmas.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
|PATR|ARCH|AL
NEGRO PREACHER.
Rev. /. A. Joplin Dies at End Of Eighty
Years, Half Spent In Hard
Work and Half In the
Ministry
Is FOUND DEAD IN BED
Had Held Most Important Pulpits in
Chicago Conference and Often
Preached Hero, But
History Unknown.
Is FOUND DEAD IN BED

A dignified, white haired, old negro
Methodist preacher who had preached
and exhorted for over forty years IN
Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. was found
dead in bed in his home at Sixteenth
and Fulton streets, last evening.
Rev. l.. A. Joplin was over eighty
years old, superannauated by the
Chicago conference of the A. M. T..
church to which he belonged, and no.
body here knows where he was born
back in 1888 when hardly anybody dis
cusSed slavery and everybody but q
few New EMglanders accepted 1t as q
permanent institution beyond argu-
ment.
Although he had married many cou-
pies, he never took wife to himself.
He lived the latter half of his life in
his church and was most concerned
about his sermons and his class meet
ings and the conduct Of his congrega-
ton.
Was Important In His Church.
He was given for years the import
ant A. M. p. charges in the Chicago
conference which includes large ter
ritory. He never was placed in charge
of the church here in keokuk, but he
frequently occupied its pulpit by In
vitation Of its pastor.
He was not talkative about his own
affairs and as little Is known of his
family connections here as about his
early life. for the forty years he lived
and worked before he entered the min
istry.
He leaves niece, Miss Sallie
Thompson, ct Sedalia, Missouri.
He will be given a funeral common
surate with his long service in his
conference as a preacher and will be
buried in Oakland cemetery here.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
CHARGES Politics.

United Press Leased Wire Service ]
DIES MONIES. Ia, Dec. I2.-Charg-
ing politics was being played, Dwight
N. Lewis, Iowa state railroad COM
missioner. this afternoon announced
his disap2roval of Director General
McAdoo's recommendation that the
government continue operation of
the roads for five years.
Lewis said extension OF govern
ment control will not take the roads
out OF politics, as McAdoo claims,
but will put them in further.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
Daily Stock Letter.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Serv
NEW YODK, Dec. 1.-THE
York Evening Sun financial rel
today says:
Trading throughout was on
rather limited scale. The lea,
industrials were fraction to a .
down, although there were inter
also when firmness was displa
Marine issues were inclined to
strong.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
In Complete controI

United Press Leased Wire Servi
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 12.--The
sheviks are in complete control
the duchy of Brunswick, according
reports received here today. ri
dent Merries, d former tailor, has
pointed a washwoman as ministe1
education. The red guard is quar
ed in the royal palace.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12

banks the larger buyers. There was
little demand for call money, which
ruled at 6 per cent. AS to the for
eign exchange. sterling demand held
at 1850 and the cable at 476.45;
francs demand, 545M: Swiss francs
demand. 493. New York bal silver
was unchanged at 101M.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
Killed Beneath Train.

NITIed BeNedth ram.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Dec. 12.-Pri-
vate R. S. Whitman, of the Second in
fantry, stationed at Camp Dodge, was
killed today when he fell beneath the
wheels OF train that was to carry
him to Camp Dodge.
Whitman's home is in Montpelier,
Idaho
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
.CATARRH O|STORTS
FACIAL EXPRESSION
Spreads the Nose, BIurs the Eyes,
Puffs the Face, Dries the Lips.
How to Get Rid Of
Catarrn,
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
AssIstance Is offered.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12:-The
United States government Stands
ready to tender alone" or with other
American countries lend "all possible
assistance in settling the Chile-Peru
difficulties
This is the offer made in the state
department note to the two govern
ments under direction of Acting Sec
retry Polk.
The offer was interpreted by Peru
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
seeers Resignation Accepted.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-The resig-
nation of G. B. Seger, president OF
the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line
and the Oregon and Washington
Railroad and Navigation company
was accepted here today at a meeting
of the Union Pacific directors. Robert
u.s. Lovett was elected to succeed
Seger, whose resignation is effective
February one
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
Quiet Money Market.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE money
market continued quiet today. Bor-
rowers of time money bid per cent
for loans of all dates on both classes
of collateral. There is little change
in the commercial paper situation.
A fair volume of the better names
continues to move at 6 per cent for
LONGER maturities with country
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12

as being an offer Of good Offices. The
note pointed out that this country
would view gravely any conflict be-
tween Peru and Chile at this time.
when the world peace session is about
to convene.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
Decorated Grand KNIGHT.

Decorated Grand Knight.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
ROME, Dec. 11.-Oelayed-
dlnal Gibbons of Baltimore, has been
decorated by King Victor Emmar uel
as grand knight of the order of
the crown Of Italy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-12

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New-York tribune., 1918-10-10
Mass for Joyce Kilmer
Memorial Services for Poet Sol
dier To Be Held Monday

"A solemn memorial mass for Joyce
Kilmer, the poet soldier who was
killed July 80 at the Ourcq, will be
held at St. Patrick's Cathedral at 10
a. m. Monday. The Rev. John D.
Roach will be celebrant; the Rev.
John j. Burke, c. S. p, editor of the
catholic World,' deacon, and the
Kew. Richard Tierney, S. j., editor of
America" sub-deacon The Rev.
John B. Kelly, director of the Catholic
Big Brothers League, will be master
Of ceremonies and the Very Rev. John
=. Donlan, president of the Catholic
Summer School of America. will de-
liver the funeral sermon.
Delegations from the various clubs
and organizations with which the late
poet was identified will be present.
including The Authors Club. the
Poetry Society Of America, Columbia
University Club. the Dickens Fellow
ship, the Nagabonds, Rutgers College
Alumni, Knights of Columbus. repre-
sentatlves from the 6yth ana .th rasc..
ments. Dante League o. America. New
York University, members of the stats
or the "Literary Digest" "Standard
inlctionary,' Warmers Library of the
Worlds Best Literature" "Catholic
Encyclopedia" "The Churchman."
converts League, The Catholic Big
nrothera' League and "The New York
Times"