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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
KING GEORGE ACTS LIKE
MAYOR OF KANSAS TOWN

four years in the navy while boy,
perhaps made him at once find the
subject upon which we were both
best informed. He discussed the sub
ject with much interest and under
standing.
The committee came away with
the impression that the king is
most human fellow. He knew how to
meet the committee as just ordinary
Americans and make them feel easy.
He treated US f1ne-iust as if he Were
the mayor of a small Kansas town.
The king is rather small of stature.
not so tall as the queen. He enjoys
a good story. He expressed the hope
to us that after the war the Ameri-
cans will not think the Briton stuck
up and that the Briton will be more
tolerant toward the American dfspo-
sftion to boast.
The queen is fine appearing. She
talked interestingly about the work
to be done for wounded soldiers. She
Is most active in this work, going
personally to various hospitals. She
incurred about the interest of Anert-
can women. She had read OF their
activities in the Red Cross and along
other lines of relief.
I Princess Mary. the only daughter
! Of the king and queen, has four or
five brothers in military service
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
Forty two Killed in Action,
Forty-eight Dead of Wounds
and Six Missing.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. = General
pershing's casualty list today, one Oh
me largest thus far reported, totaled
zSS, including:
Killed in action, forty-two.
Died OF wounds, fortyeight-
Wounded severely, one hundred
and twenty-six.
Dead of disease, seven.
Dead Of accident and other causes,
Seven.
Missing in action, six.
Wounded degree undetermined
two.
; The list was featured by the heavy
iosses from Pottsville, Pa
Killed In Action.
Captain
w NJ. Gearty, Philadelphia, Pa.
Lieute7ants-
NJ Dunbar, Walnut, n. C.
u ". w. Field. N Windhan, Me-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
Shakes Hands Same as Ameri
can and There is no EN-
barrassment at Meeting.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1 ]
LONDON, Aug. 22.-King George
acted like the mayor OF small Kan
sas town, in the opinion of Represen-
tative John r. Connolly, Of Colby,
Kansas, editor of the Colby Free
Press, who today wrote his impress
sions of British royalty on the occa-
sion of the reception of congress
sional committee, as follows:
TBy John R Cohnelly, Kansas Con
gresham; Written for the
United Press.1
We Americans are not used to
meeting royalty and naturally had
some feeling when we met the king
and queen of England and their
daughter. The king, queen and the
princess Immediately removed this
embarrassment. Their greeting was
most cordial.
The king gave US a regular Kansas
hand shake and then we talked tol
! half an hour. The fact that he spen
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
WATER
POWER
CONTROL
Authority for President to
Take Over and Construct
Lines and Plants, Will
be Asked.
SHORTAGE OF POWER
High Tension Wires to be Strung In
East to Carry Electricity
to Big Munitions
Plants.
SHORTAGE OF POWER

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Aug. Authority
for the president to take over and
construct power transmission lines
and water power sites will be asked
of congress directly after the recess.
Judge Thetus Sims, chairman Of
the house interstate committee was
to meet with officials of the war in
dustries board today to draw an
amendment to the water power bill,
granting the president this power.
A serious shortage of power in the
great munitions and ordnance CEN
tiers, particularly in the east, makes
/ the step necessary, officials of the
war industries board have told Sims.
| Two plans to furnish these centers
more power through long distance
transmission have already been
worked out
! The first Is to build electric gener
ating plants at the mouth Of Pennsyl
yania coal mines to make power
which would be carried two hundred
miles or more on high tension wires
! to the great munition centers OF
Pittsburgh and the small arms fac
tories in Connecticut. These plants
would use mountains of refuse Goa.
which has been piling up for years
because it is improbable to transpor-
it
The second plan is to take ovel
existing water power sites or buflc
dams and create new ones to gene
rate long distance power.
There are sites which can be taker
over in Ohio, Minnesota, and Arkan
sas, but it is doubtful If sites coulC
be built in time to be Of use in th'
present war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
Further Progress Made All Along Line, Hun
Forces Being Steadily Driven Back
Day and Night.
bOCHE MAKE BRAVE STAND FOR WHILE
Bombarding Rheims in Effort to Destroy
Cathedral Which Still Stands, Mock
ing German Efforts.

Every now and then one would drop
In Rheims. Twice great clouds Of dust
rose up in front of the cathedral, OBJ
scuring the structure for several min
utes.When the clouds cleared away
the building apparently was I'M
soathed.
The cathedral, as a whole appears
intact, but those who have visited it
recently say il Is only hollow shell
which rises In shostly magnificence,
mockins the Huns efforts
To the right Of the city, shells fell
regularly on fort De La Pompeile,
from which the Germans have sought
since 1914 to ouss the French. To the
| left the village of couiormes was be-
i ind resiiattered, While the forest OF
lvrigny, on = low hog-baek hill, seemed
/ fairly heaving and rocking under bonn
| bardment.
Further to the left, Bliany, three
kiIometers distant, was erupting like
volcano.
! Persistence of the bombardment
eliminated the theory that this might
!, be only the. usual evening hate" sug.
gestina instead a coming attack. This
| idea was supported by several hun
dred shells falling from the town al
most to our feet
! The attack came soon after, the
Germans attempting to retake Blisny,
but French colonials drove them off.
| The amount of metal the Boches arc
expendinq hereabouts proves the
restlessness with with they view the
allies possession of strong positions
eneroachIna upon their lines, which
the enemy must hold to avoid com
plete evacuation Of the pocket.
Three-MiIe Advance.
! LONDON, Aug. (2:1S p. MI
The allies, advancing three miles on
a five-mile front, captured all
of the watershed commanding the
territory north of the Crise river. it
was learned this afternoon. (The
7 Crise flows from the vicinity OF
I4aunoy northwesteward into the
Aisne, at Soissons.)
Il CAPTURE of this ridge between the
I Ourco and the Aisne endangers the
j German retirement in the center as
well as on the entire west flank
se4 Enemy Airplanes.
LONDON, Aug. Eight hundred
and fortv-four enemy airplanes were
brought down by the allies during
July. while 325 allied machines were
lost during the same period.
: British aviators accounted for 4iV
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
TODAY'S CASUALTY LIST
CONTAINS 238 NAMES

P. K. Jones, Meade, Kas.
]. A. Pigue, Nashville, Tenn.
]. C. Smith, Rochester, N. T..
r II. Turner, Statesville, n. u
Sergeans- Nv
HI, Herman, Sheepshead Bay, Ny.
ri. T. Newman, S. Manchester, Con.
a. G. Pappas, Ipswich, Mass.
p X. Stofflet, Alburts, Pa
II. G. Hayes, Flint, Mich
]. Mueller, Andalusa, Pa
R. Porcelli. Fayetteville, N. G.
Privates- %,
w. P. Atkins. New Brighton, Ia
r. Auto, Detroit, Mich.
d. Bannister, Cumming, Ga
W !. Bauhof. philadelphia, Pa
], C. Bolton, Schuyllill Haven "a
r ]. Bushwell. Dunmore, Pa.
". Forrnan. Brooklyn, n. 7.
NJ D. Fulghum, Watertown, $ D.
T e Kane, Jr.. New York CITY
r. Koppiin, Jr.. Webster Groves
Mo.
F Kutch, Pottsville, Pa.
]. II. Leach, Charlestown, W. va
Ievanovitch, Oliphant, Pa
G. Link, Thomasville, \, c.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
Entire Right Wing Moves Forward During
Night, Sweeping Hun Forces Out
of the Way
GAIN DETECTIVES WITHOUT PAUSE
Enemv Consists of Young Troops, Good
Machine Gun Fighters, but No Match
for Yankees.

rpv Fred S. Ferguson, United Press
Staff Correspondent
WITH THE AMERICAN
ARMIEs IN FRANCE, Aug. 2.
E(noon)-The German with
drawal has been resumed.
Bloody sacrifices at seringes,
Sergy and Cierges were vain,
in face of the steady Franco
American pressure.
The advance Of the Amer-
cans since the capture of Cierg-
ny has reached a depth of fouz
hlometers 1.-TWO and a half
miles) at some places.
Steady pressure is pushing
the Boches back and has given
the French and Americans con-
troll Of the plateau beyond the
Fere-E En- -Tardenois line which
commands the country to the
northWard.
The next German defensive
line is likely to be the Vesle
river.
The Americans are persist
emily following up the retreat.
ing enemy.
[By Frank J. Taylor, United Pres!
STAFF Correspondent
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES
| IN FRANCE, Aug. 2.-S:45 a. m.)-
American troops advanced their en-
tire right wing during the night as fai
as sompley.
They hold cierges and all OF Meun
ieres wood. intense fighting Is pro
eeedine beyond cierges where th'
Americans gained dominating heights
from the Germans by sudden heaN2
attack.
The American uains were made u
the face Of stiffening opposition. Yes
hrdsy n-ornins. our left wing attack
ed northeast OF Serinqes "a mile al
half east and north Of Fere En- Tar
denois) following smoke clou'
which partially concealed their ac
vance from enemy machine sunr'ers
Which were planted thicIely In th
fields.
The douehboys went forward 4
groups, fiitering through the Germa
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

positions and gaining all their first
objectives without pause. Fighting
centered in Nesles forest northeast
Of Sernges and north Of Sengy). Our
infantry quickly dis, ersed the outer
line of German machine guns in hand
to hand combat. The advance WAS
discontinued here during the after
noon, owing to the sharp. salient Gre
ated.
The American right wing, adHanc-
ing simultaneously, moved eastward
in a flankins movement around Meun-
ere wood (southesst of Cierges).
French troops co-operated in this as
sault. BY evening the German resist
ance had been wiped out and the wood
was cleared, the allied troops pro-
crossing almost to Gorssancourt ttnree
miles east of cieraes).
Fighting in Meuniere wood was In
tense, artillery rakine the Eoehes
while infantry charged up steep hill
into row Of machine guns, driving
out the defenders with the bayonet-
American artillery continues te
! pound German stroneho'ds along the
roads leadino nortFward, exaetins
heavy casualties.
soches are massina in increasing mum
bcrs to oppose further advances. al
! thouoh no additional defenses nave
been encountered other than wideiy
scattered sections Of half dug trenches
and increased barbed wire entaheie
n,e1ts. The wire is not continuous
but is used as barriers for machine
gun posts. ~.
The Germans now opposite the
Americans are mostly young troops
and good machine gun fighters. ne.
show increased courage in hand q
hand combats, but no German ye. en-
countered has proven the cquai o, tn'
! Yankees in the style OF = Imagining
that ooes with the bayonet
Our men are exceptionally equip
ned now having in addition to the'
usual outfit, field glasses and DAGGER
.aken from captured German onoer
and shock troops.
While lying inside the America
ines in Neses wood yesterday morn
ino 4 sergeant remarked that n
needed a pair of glasses. he ~s,se'
into the wood and encounfered Se'
ma, officer and three men. re klles
IN. officer. chased the men and return
cd u,ith the formers glasses ana re
voiver. fine
+h;ckIv dotted with vehicles car
rxino quantities of German am"un
.io, and supplies. Much OF II is u'
<c.,.;rrad m page p
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
lBy Lowell Mellett, United Press Star

CBy Lowell Mellett, United Press Stan
Correspondent
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD, Aug. 2-(2:a0 a. my
General Mansin's army was still ad-
vancins early today, utilizing every
advantage gained in yesterdays inn
petuous assault along ten mile front.
Beating down stubborn German re-
sistance, the allied troops had the sat
isfaction of seeing the enemy wildly
fleeing at some points.
The completeness of the allied sue
cess is evidenced by the fact that
Franeo-British batteries were Installed
! shortly before eight a. m. on ground
from which we had only begun to
drive the Germans at four a. m. =
The Germans were able to use their
own artillery only on the smallest
scale, being compelled to rely upon
machine guns These were taken one
by one, notwith staining the Boches'
dogsed resistance. The enemy's cas-
uaities during the day were extremely
heavy. The bravery of their defense
could not be questioned, up to the
point where it seemed hopeless. II
they disobeyed these orders to resist
to the death, their commanders know
why.
Hin 2o5 (four miles northeast OF
Oulety-Le-Chateau) was conquered at
six O'Clock Courdoix Ga mile west OF
Hill 2o5) Servenay (two miles east OF
courdoux) and Cramoiselle. IA mile
south OF Servenayl fell SOON after
giving up many prisoners.
The Germans violently counter at
tackled from Buzsncy (eight miles
north of oulchy-Le-chateau) anc
L'Eveque wood iust south Of Blu
zancy), but French infantry broke uf
their efforts.
BY evening Crsmaoille "a mile ano
a half south Of Cramoise'Ie) and the
hills to the northward had been oc
cupied.
AS the result Of the allied success
German positions UP to and including
Fismes Twelve miles northeast O
Cramaiile) are renaced. Railroad
lines and other communications rad
latina from that city are subject t.
direct fire from our artillery. Els
mes has been a great storehouse 70
German supplies. The extent to which
the enemy has been able to evacuat'
this, if at all, is not known.
The Germans yesterday began
| bor1ba rdment of Rheims, which still
institutes a thorn in the enemy
| side.
| stood on spur OF the MontaSn'
De Rheims and watched hundreds o
shells exploding in the ruined town
between the mountain and the city
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
B0CHE GIVE GROUND BEFORE YANKEES
United Press
War Summary

1,46oth day of the war; 10th day OF
the counter offensive.
Soissons-Rhsims front-AlIied troops
continuing their advances on the
southwestern portion and center of the
Soissons-Rheims salient over a double
front totaiing nearly twenty miles,
have occupied high ridge southeast
of scissors which dominates the whole
center and western part of the pocket
Starting at daybseak yesterday,
the allies fought their way forward all
day and at some points battied through
the night and were still driving the
Germans before them today
The principal allied attack was
made on front Of about ten miles be-
tween Hartennes and Fere En- Tarden-
sector but the allies overcarns the en-.
emy resistance in about half of tho
front and sureed forward three miles,
capturing the watershed between this
ourco and the Aisne on which the
Crise rises.
Southeast of Fere En- Tardenois,
Americans and French attacking BE-
tween Serinees and Viilers Agreon
captured Goussancourt north of Men,
iuiere wood and pushed farther north
Of Sieraes. They also took Bompiery.
Picardy front-Eritish troops made
= successful raid north of Albert
German artillery was active south OF
the Somnne.
Flanders frcnt-Prisoners were tax
en- in a British raid near Festubert.
Hostile artillery bombarded British,
positions south of Yyres, north OF
| sethune and east OF Hazebrouck.
Russia-Western Siberia has beer
practically cleared Of 6olshevik forces
and in eastern Siberia they hold only
; Trkutsk.
| the kaiser he would be able to put
| down the revolt in Ukraine withou'
the aid of German troops.
Avoiding Dangerous Pockets.
TRy i w. It. Mason, United Pres!
/ War ExpertJ
/ NEW YORK, Aug. Won Hinden
burg is conducting his slow retrea
toward the Vehle in such a manne
! as to avoid the dangerous pocket
! which the Americans were creannl
by their advance along the main ran
way to Fismes. The German, ives
flank. south OF Soissons, IS at tn
eane time. slowly bending befor
form diagonsily straight line Wit
the southern front. By rcctifyin!
his defensive positions in this mar
ner. Won Eindenburg is trying Z
eliminate all salients and to compe
the allies to continue their pressur
by means of frontal attacks. Thes
tactics are only temporarily OF az
vantage to the Germans and are l
the nature of an expedient to gal
time for the further retirement
German heavy artillery and mum
tions. The present position of tn
allies west OF the Fismes railway
seriously threatening the Germa
communications along the Crise
river. and the important railwa
which runs along the bank OF tha
stream. This is the only defensfv
posiiion remaining in Won Hinder
burs's possession south of the Eehl
!. and in the western arc OF the Sol
} sons-Rheins salient.
r Today's fighting, however, is pr,
. ceeding to the central area. direct
/ south OF Fismes. General Foch
purpose in bringing renewed 7ressuE
.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
Here's a Sure Patriot.

Here's Sure Patriot
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-Harry c.
Northcott, enrpute TO training camp
today, rejected three chances for
exemption from military service
Northcott is married, is an ordained
pastor and theological student.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
ALLIED
AID F(l[
RJ,S|A
President VIII Give Out Pro-
gram Himself, Announce
ment Not Long De
layed.
TROTSKY TOLD TO ACT
German Ambassador Urges Him to
Destroy Hot Beds Of Anti Hun
Intrigue in That
Country.
TRoTsKY TOLD TO ACT

rUnited Press Leased Wire Service] ]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2--President
Wilson today held long conference
with Acting Secretary OF State POLK
and Secretary of War Baker indicat-
ing that the long expected announce
ment on the allied project in Russia
may not be much further delayed.
Oficials. however, declared they
could make no comment until the
president himself gave the word
There was also some speculation
that the conference might have con
cerned Turkey.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

Gate City Want ads
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
anndreds Of German Police.

Hundreds of German Poiice.
ZURICH, Aug. 2.-Seyeral hundred
secret German police have been sum
moned to Warsaw to receive instruc'
tions prior to their departure for the
Ukraine, where they will form the
nucleus OF a future Ukrainian secret
police force.
WIN Help Kaiser.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 2.-Hetman
Skoropadski, commanding Cossacs
troops in the Ukraine, has telegraph
ed Kaiser Wilhelm that he will crush
the revolt in Kief, according to
copies of the Cologne Gazette receiv
ed here today.
@If his power is insufficient" the
newspaper comments, there are
enough German troops in the Ukraine
10 help him. We shall not leave the
Ukraine until order has been reestao
lished."
The Berlin Morgenpost wonders
whether Germany is really gettlne
ANYTHING from its peace with th'
| Ukraine and with Russia.
! Word From Francis,
WASHINGTON, Aug 2. = Fres'
news from Ambassador Francls "
dav dated July so, said he had lei
Archangel for Murman on the zoul
accompanying him were the chielI
of the British, italian, japanese
chinese, Serbian and Brazilian mis-
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Word From Francis,

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The Telegraph Service of The
Daily Gate City and Constitu-
tion-Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-02
Potato Pens Prove Dismal
FaiIure-Did Not Produce
Their Seed, Christie Says

Last year people all over the country
we're building potato 'pens." Some
body, somewhere, it was said, had
raised enough potatoes to last an or
binary family whole year in an open
work box eight feet square. The box
was filled with soil and seed potatoes
sn the spring, and that was all there
was to it. The vines grew out through
the cracks all around, and the bin
was full of good tubers in the fall. Fine
business it was.
The only trouble with this grand
scheme was that it didn't work. Pro-
fessor Christie of Purdue university
says that in Indiana most of these sky
uscraper potato gardeners didn't get
back their seed. Of 40 pens tried in
Indianapolis, according to City Garden
Supervisor Osborne, not one succeeded.
Experiments by the United States
department of agriculture were equally
disappointing. In potato pen at
washington 20 pounds of seed were
planted and eight pounds of potatoes
were harvested. The barrel plan
was just as bad. The crop from two
barrels weighed less than two pounds.
1t doesn't pay to be mossback, Of
course, but it does pay to stick to ap-
proved methods of farming.-Farm
Life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-02
WATERS DRUGCED
Hotel PATRONS
Mickey Finn" Powders Fed to
Those Who Failed to
Give Tips.
GET STUFF IN RAID
Chicago Officers Unearth Packages Of
Poison at Headquarters of Union
and Place Maker and Dis
penser Under Arrest.

Chlcago.-Four persons were arrest
ed and more than 100 walters were
taken into custody at the HEADQUARTERS
OF the chicago Walters union, in con-
nectlon with the alleged wholesale
drugglng of patrons of leading hotels,
restaurants and clubs by walters
whose displeasure the patrons had in
Cured by their neglect or refusal to
leave tips on the table after being
served. The raid on the headquarters
OF the union was made by detectives
from the state attorneys office. Three
persons were held, the others being re-
leased after questioning by the states
attorney.
The men held were w. Stuart Wood,
waiter, and Blake Powell and John
Milliam, day and night bartenders at
the walters union headquarters. Wood,
it is alleged, manufactured the drug
which was sold over the bar to all
members of the union applying for it.
Evidence against the walters was OBJ
tanned by detective agency after a
number of guests of one Of the city's
leading hotels had become suspiciously
Ill.
Powder Known as "Mickey Finn"
A taSteless and Odorless powder,
known as mickey Finn" which caused
the victim to become sick at the stom-
ach and left him in a nervous and
weakened condition, was the drug
used, the powder being what is known
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-02
Name "America" First Used
in Book by a Professor of
the University of St. Die

The story of how the new world re.
received the name America is a strik-
ing example Of what publicity will
accomplish, notes a historian. Amerigo
Vespucci, a highly educated Floren-
tine, was head Of business house In
Seville, Spain, probably as agent for
the great trading firm of the Medicis.
and helped to fit out one Of the ex-
petitions with which Columbus sailed.
When the latter's monopoly was re-
voked, Vespucci undertook several
voyages of exploration on his own ac-
count, during which he claimed in
many letters to have been the first
to reach the mainland of the new
continent, giving the date as June Is,
1897.
On April %, 1907, the learned heads
of the University Of st. Die, in Lor-
raine, decided, incorrectly, that he was
entitled to the honor Of discovery, Co
lumbus having only reached the is