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entertainment committee have made
arrangements for the affair. and
quite a large ate ndance is expect
ed at this meeting.
The Ladies OF the Maccabees will
attend the public installation of Ma
tional Tent officers of the Macca-
bees
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Army's Wash" Is Extensive.

A total of 5.565. 3is pieces Of cloth
ing were Numbered in government
owned and operated laundrics during
November. the War department an
nOunces. The operating cost was
sl56.5N.
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Big Coal Profits.

sydney. y. :. w.-The report OF
the Royal commission on the coal in
dustry shows that the coal owner
profits in som" INSTANCES reach IL
per cont
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Fraternal News

Arnory as headquarters for all the
camps has been referred to the de-
partment council for approval and
will be considered at its next meeting.
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SPANISH WAR
VETERANS.

The department commander has an
nounced a meeting of the council Of
administration for tomorrow night Mt
Pythian Temple to complete arrange
ments for the public installation jan
uary s.
The New Year eve reception and
ball at Pythian Temple will include a
special number for at midnight all
comrades present will rally around
the nag and renew their oath of aIle-
glance to their country and its flag.
Petit Camp held a business meet
ing Tuesday night and was addressed
by Charles W. McMaffrey, Junior vice
department commander. and Comrades
Harvey. Gallagher. Graefr, eleven
stein and William O'Brien.
The committee on legislation an
nounces that the Sells bill providing
pensions for invalid comrades will be
considered shortly after the holidays
by the House.
The Maine Memorial Committee will
meet again Tuesday afternoon at $50
In the Offices Of Capt. John Lewis
Smith.
The offer by Gen. Richard d. Simms.
Of quarters in the National Guard
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Georgetown Tent will give a ban
quet at its next meeting in January
when 1t also will install its Of
ficers.
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Mount Vernon Tent. No. 4, will in
stall its newly elected officers on
January 6. at Northeast Temple,
Eighth. and 3 streets northeast, The
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE FIVE

there will be a sale of homemade
cakes. candies and fancy articles for
the benefit Of the home.
Miss Estelle Murray will give a mas
querade ball in honor of her pupils
tomorrow night at Pythian Temple
auditorium. The pupils will come
masqued and a grand prize will be
given to the child wearing the pref
test costume. a second grand prize
to the child wearing the most original
costume and third prize to the child
wearing the most unique and comical
costume. Three judges will be Sc
lected to award the prizes from adults
attending the ball. After $50 p. m.
the dancing will be given over to the
parents Of the pupils and their friends.
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NEWS FROM
PINEHURST.

This is a lively season at Pine
hurst-the best the resort has ever
known-and very few people went
home for Christmas. On the other
hand. a surprising number went
down for the holidays. The ma
jority OF the latest arrivals are not
golf fiends, and a lot of them neither
knew nor cared anything about the
big Midwinter Golf Tournament that
opens there on Monday next. They
just went down TO spend Christmas
and to put in a week or two having a
good time in the open air.
In addition to the usual Christmas
festivities at the Carolina resort. a
couple Of dances were held at the
Country Club during the week. and
with handicap trapshooting tourna-
ment at the Gun Club on Tuesday;
the Pinehurst Jockey Clubs Race
Meeting on Christmas Day: a clock
putting contest for women on Satdr-
day; a rifle contest for women. I'M
der the direction of Annie Oakley. 60
ing on all the week: some exceptional
ly fine days for quail shooting. and
golf unlimited at their disposal every
day. the visitors have had a busy
time of il.
ATTlNalS or the past few days there
from Washington include David Dick
inson. IF. Col. r. a. Jones. William
Stewart Reyburn. Mr. and Mrs. C.
p. Townsend and Blake Townsend.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Boyd have is
sued invitations for a hunt breakfast
to be held at Weymouth on New
Year Day.
White Sulphur Springs is aclow
with the Christmas spirit and all the
week preparations have been under
way to make this happy season for
every one. The Methodist and the
Presbyterian churches held child
ren's Christmas parties on Christ
mas Eve at White Sulphur Village
and the toys and gifts given by the
White Sulphur Springs Company
were distributed. AZ Emmanuel
Church. Oakhurst. Mr.. and Mrs Lat
inner luke. of Greycliffe. were in
charge OF the children's party and
the Rev. ]. w. LegGett presided at
the party at whatcoat. at Anthony's
Creek
Many members of the Greenbrier
colony attended the midnight mass
Wednesday night at the st. Charles
Roman Catholic Church. where Mr..
Blatchford Kavanagh sang Can
tique de Noel"
The Greenbrier management issued
invitations to several hundred peo-
pie in the community for the annual
Christmas tree entertainment held
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The offer by Gen Richard D. Simns,
Of quarters in the National Guard
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Brentwood Review. Brentwood.
Nd. will hold its annual installation
January g.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24
CHICKEN THIEF
MEETS DEATH
Raiser Of Fancy Fowls Catches /;
Seven-Pound Postum That Has
Been Raiding His Hen
BOOSTS.

One chicken thief has been caught,
and it wasn't any burglar getting
ready for Thanksgiving dinner,
either. The culprit this time was a
seven-pound 'possum, whose hide
measured one foot and ten inches
when 1t was skinned.
H. A. Anderson, who lives on Sec
ohd and Palean streets and raises
White Leghorn chickens and Red
Belgian Carneaux rabbits of which he
is very proud, caught the 'possum
last night in his pigeon coop, killed
the animal, skinned 1t and then sold
it today.
He says he thought he might as
well try to get something out of it,
since the little parasite had on
sumed four of his Leghorn hens and
five pigeons in the last two weeks
without even saying thank you.
The raiser of fancy fowls has been
missing a bird now and then for some
time, and has been on the watch for
ats which he supposed were the Of
tenders. Last night when he went to
the chicken and pigeon coops to lock
them up for the night, he discovered
Mr.. Postum quietly engaged in one
dark corner eating a Belgian Car
neaux pigeon, but it was his swan
song"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24
EIGHT HOUR A
IN LEAGUE LAW
international Labor Conference De-
bates Asking This be fncorpor-
ated in Constitution Of
Organization.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-Debate
on the proposition of asking members
of the league of nations to incorporate
in their laws provision for an eight
hour day and f~orty-eight hour week
was taken up today by the interna-
tional labor conference.
The committee on hours OF work,
composed of representatives of Great
Britain, France, Italy and Canada, and
seven smaller nations, prepared the
following draft as a basis for such
legislation:
1.-THE working hours of employed
persons shall not exceed eight hours
in the day and forty-eight in he week.
"2-The limit of hours may be ex-
ceeded in case of accident, actual or
threatened and in case of urgent work
TO be done in machinery plants, but
only so far as may be necessary to
avoid serious interference with the OIL
binary working of the undertaking.
"3-The limit of hours of work may
also be exceeded in these industries
which are required by reason of the
nature of their process to be carried
on cautiously by a succession of gifts,
subject to the condition that the work
ing hours shall not exceed Sc in the
week on the average.
"4-In exceptional cases where it is
recognized that the eight hour day or
.forty-eight hour week cannot be ap-
piled and only in such cases, agree
ment between workers and employers
organizations may be given force OF
regulation, if the government to which
the agreements must be submitted SO
decide. The government may extend
the daily limit of work, but the aver
age number of hours worked over the
number of weeks covered by the spe-
cific arrangement, shall in no case ex-
coed forty-eight."
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Stock Market Notes.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.

NEW YORK, NOV. I4.-1ne stoch
market opened irregular.
U. S. Steel opened at 104b.(off ";
Anaconda, 62M. of rs; S~tudebaker,
116A, up Is; American Sugar, 1889,
up "; U. S. Rubber, 1888. up rs;
Bethlehem B, 95, off Il; Crucible, 21S,
up "; Sinclair, 5OA. up Is; General
Motors, 335k, up 5A; Republic Steel,
.1O7, up ~.
The whole list frmed up before the
end of the first half hour. Pierce Ar.
row sold at 81, up nearly 20 points
over the low two weeks g General
Motors sold at 1888, an advance OF 81
over recent low.
United Fruit advanced 10 points net
on an active turnover in the early
afternoon. Baldwin ran above ITO.
Highest prices for the day were
made during the last half hour. Mexl-
can Petroleum sold up to 205A. Bald
win went above Ill and Pierce Arrow,
after an early high at 81, reacted
about three points. NWortnington
Pump featured the list and at its best
was UP about nine points over Satur-
days close. Steel common held
around 105.
The close was strong.
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Date Of Trial lis Set.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
MARYSVILLE, Calf. Nov. a.
Superior Judge Il. p. Mcdaniel today
set January rs rs the date for the
trial Of Mrs. Gertrude Wilson for the
murder Of Charles A. Brown, sheep
raiser. on November /. Frank A. Nc
Cormick, brother of Mrs. Wilson, will
be tried on the same charge follow
ing the conclusion of his sisters
trial.
The petition of the attorneys for
the defense that the court appoint a
commission to go to Des Moines
Iowa, former home of the defendants
to take dispositions from prominent
people there. was granted by Judge
Mcdaniel
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MAYNARD After Reeorl.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-In an at.
tempt to shatter the worlds nonstop
flight record, Lieutenant B. w. May
nard, the flying parson," who re.
Gently won the trans-continental air
race expects to hop off at dawn
Thursday from Mitchell field, Mineola.
Maynard will pilot the Grey.
hound" q remodeled De Haviland
plane, and will have as his mocha
nician Lieut.. Bradshaw. "Trixie," the
dog which made the flight across the
continent, will be taken.
Colonel Archie Miller, commander
of the field, said he thought Lieuten-
ant Maynard had a "fifty-fifty'
chance to break the nonstop record.
Officially, the flight is a one-stop
trip to San Diego, Calf, by way OF
Dallas, Texas.
The course planned by Lieutenant
Maynard is to Park field, Memphis.
Tenn. in a straight line. then toward
Texarkana, Texas, and thence to
Dallas.
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Claims He Was Dreaming.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
IRVINGTON, N. j., Nov. 24.-James
Sapienza, successful in his work as a
concrete builder, received several let
tors from the black hand demanding
payment of large sums under threat
of death.
Last night Sapienza told the police
two men entered his bedroom and at
tackled his infant son He drew a re-
volver from beneath his pillow and
fired at them. /.
The crack of the report awakened
him-for it was a dream, he told the
police-and he found his wife lying
by his side, shot through the head.
Sapienza, crazed with horror, sum-
moned the police and then accom-
panied his wife to a hospital where
he pleaded with the physicians to save
her life. But she was dead before she
could be placed upon the operating
table.
Sapienza, who Is thirty five years
old. was arrested pending investlga-
ton Of his weird story.
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CITY NEWS

Sunday was unusually quiet for
both the police and fire departments.
Parcel delivery and light hauling.
Prices reasonable. Prompt service.
Ed. w. Kiser. Phone Red 1870.
Sophie Hanson has sold to Charles
Bailey property located on Eighteenth
and Main streets.
The schools will close Wednes,
day for the Thanksgiving vacation.
The school children and teachers
will have Thursday and Friday for
vacation days.
"A ruling on demurrer in the case
of B. G.. VanPapelendam against j.
W. Raber has been sustained by the
district court. The cause coming on
for hearing on the demurrer Of the
plaintiff to the second, third and
fourth paragraphs of the defendants
answer.
On Tuesday evening, Nov. 25, al
"a o'clock, a supper will be served In
knights OF Columbus hall to members.
After supper, the regular meeting will
be held, and as business of importance
is to De considered, all members are
earnestly requested to be preent.
The Iowa supreme court on Satnr
day affirmed the decision of Judge
Bank in the case of Bennett VIZ. the
Santa Fe Railroad company which
was tried in Keokuk and resulted in
"a judgment against the railway fol
$4,000. Bennett was a track walker
for the railroad company and was
killed on the rails.
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LEAGUE Of Nations Efforts.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
PARIS, Nov. 24.-Plans for the
conference of all associations formed
in allied and neutral nations to pro
mote success of the league of nations
are in progress, despite the refusal
of the American senate to accept the
league.
The conference is scheduled to be
held in Brussels beginning December
/. France. Great Britain, Italy, Bel
GUM, Norway, Portugal, Greece, Pol
and, China and Japan all will send
authorized delegates, 1t is announced,
Calling of the conference is respon-
sive to the lead of the French Asso.
citation for the League of Nations"
headed by Leon Bourgeois. and the
League of Nations Union" sponsored
by Lord Grey and Lord Robert Cecil.
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In Defense of Y. M. c. A.

United Press Leased Wire Service
DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 24.-John
4 Mott, general secretary of the Y.
y, Z. A.. declared here today that the
linal answer" to adverse criticisms of
lne associations was given in the gen
erai International convention by the
representatives of most of the nations
Of the world.
declaring that he would think it
presumptous to further answer critics
~ the "Y", DR.. Mott said zone OF the
sreat inspirations OF the convention
was the way responsible leaders of 1he
u,ations showed their confidence in
'he work of the Y. NJ. G.. A."
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Daily Stock Letter.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-The New
York Evening Sun financial review
tdoay said:
While there was nothing k an &C
tice resumption of operations for the
advance In today,s stock market, the
majority of stocks moved toward
higher levels. There was no special
news to account for the further i'm
%provellent made. Call loans renewed
at ven percent anG held at this
level most Of the season Most of
today's market was a rather narrow
traders affair and small price swings
we're utilized for realizing purposes.
Gains somewhat above the ordinary
were scored by Worthington Pump.
Continental Can, Pierce Arrow, United
Fruit, Baldwin Locomotive. and a few
others but even these stocks did not
fully hold the ground gained. Railroad
stocks sagged from neglect. In the
second hour a concerted drive was
launched against the copper stocks
and these issues were forced down
from / to 3 points before the selling
subsidized.
Equipment stocks were favorably
influenced by estimates that Europe
will have to spend half a billion dol.
lars for rolling stock Of which it is in
dire need. Stockholders of the Stude'
baker corporation today ratified the
plan to increase the capitalization
from $4,000 900 to $780, 900, 900. Gen
eral Improvement was shown by for
eign exchange rates. Sterling recov'
cred about two points with demand at
4.05A.
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Royal Decree.

United Press Leased Wire Service.1
ROME, Nov. ga royal decree is
imminent entirely reforming the army
and extending Consumption to all citi-
zens, the Giornale D'Italia declared to-
night,
The decree will reduce the standing
army to minimum peace time
strength, according to the newspaper.
The infantry. artillery and engineer
ing corps will be increased and the
cavalry decreased, the newspaper
SAID, adding that under the new plan
Inc army will be considered a sort of
great military school for the whole
nation, each citizen receiving personal
instructions.
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Mine sweepino SQUADRON.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK, Nov. z4.-More than
3 $500 officers and men of the fifty
nine vessels in the United States
mine sweeping squadron, known as
che suicide fleet" were paid high
honors today in an official welcome
and review in the Hudson river.
These men, who, throughout the
war and for nine months after the
armistice, were quietly engaged in
making the seas safe for allied ship
ping, have been arriving home in the
small, squatty vessels for a number OF
days without a whistle being blown or
a flag waved to welcome them.
Today. however, Secretary Daniels,
other high naval officers, and state
and city officials participated In a
welcome party for the men who re-
moved fifty thousand mines within an
area of $50 miles under great danger.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24
MANS
SYRUP RECIPE
William Heer Has Process for Max.
ing New Corn Syrup Which
Will be Manufactured by
Decatur, ILL.,, Plant.

A Keokuk mans product in the line
of corn syrups, is going to be turned
out by a Decatur manufacturing plant.
William +. Heer, who formerly lived
here, and who is now in Decatur, is
the expert who discovered this syrup.
Mr.. Heer left Keokuk September first,
this year.
The syrup will be manufactured by
the Staley Manufacturing company.
The glucose will be made from corn,
and the complete process has been
approved and on its first try-out has
been successful.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24
Turned Over to British.

rIJnited Press Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-The FOR
mer German liner Imperator recently
used as an American transport, today
vas taken from the army piers in no
boken to the Cunard piers in MAN.
haitian. where she was formally turn
ed over to a British crew.
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Found Not GUILTY by Jury.

United Press Leased Wire Service
eNRANTON, Pa, Nov. 24.-Wil-
KUN w. lngIis. vice president of the
tyseiaware, Lackawanna and Western
ns.liroad. and General Manager S. d.
tp.nmick, indicted for involuntary
[~aanslaughter In connection with the
nam Of Robert Warburton. II year
y boy, in a mine cave-in in West
Paanfon. August IL, were declared
1ol guilty by the grand jury.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24
PERSONALS

Mrs. Frank 3. Singleton returned
home Saturday evening after a ten
days visit at Ottumwa, Iowa.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ross returned to
keokuk today after a two months
lecture tour in the east and south. to
make her home with Mr.. and Mrs. E.
l.. Aldrich
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As Ordinary conviets

United Press Leased Wire Service.l
DUBLIN, Nov. 24.--The govern
|Ment today issued a proclamation
lsooiishing the special status of
,ollllcal prisoners. In future such
prisoners will be treated as ordinary
ohylcts, the order was interpreted
Q mean.
scores OF prisoners + affected by
ne Proclamation when was tacen
Euie as a direct challenge to the Sim
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Peoria Grain.

PEORIA, ILL.,, Nov. 24.-Corn-Mar-
ket / to &c higher. No. 4 white,
new. s1.34@1.34h; No. 5 white.
1874; No. 3 yellow, S1.51; new,
s1.3S; No. 4 yellow. $1.50; new,
s1.34@1.35; No. 5 yellow, new, $1.34;
No. 3 mixed, new, $1.36; No. 4 mixed,
new, s1.33@1.35.
Oats-Market 1kc higher. No. 8
white, 74c.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24
e.ver,v.eioht Machine Guns.

TJTnited Press Leased Wire Service.I
BERLIN, Nov. 24.-Seventy-eight
machine guns, believed to have been
intended for use in a proposed PAN
Germanist uprising. have been dis
covered at Kiel, according to the
I.olSal Anzeiger today. Authorities
have started an investigation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24
Old Guards with No Weapons. .
YOUR BoDYGUARD"- SOC 500 I2e

Old Guards With No Weapons
United Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-Congres.
sional legislation preventing guards
1T Ellis island immigration station
from carrying arms, is alleged to
have been responsible for the escape
pf thirteen prisoners recently.
This was brought out at the first
sitting of the johnson congressional
committee at Ellis island today
where inquiry is being made into
alleged failure of immigration
authorities to deport proven anar
chists who are in the country il
legally.
insufficient inspectors at the island
has greatly hampered the immigra-
ion department. in expeditiously
handling the cases sent here. Byron
II. Uhl. chief deputy inspector, in
formed the committee. Most Of the
guards p~rocurable, he said. are be-
tween 10 and 80 years old. and can
only carry night sticks.
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Conviction Upheld.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.--The su-
lpreme court today by refusing to re-
view decisions OF lower courts upheld
the conviction under the espionage
act OF Frank Shaffer, Everett, Wash
ington.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24
Parade o k Up.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. Nov. PA
parade of several hundred steel strik-
ers during the funeral of a striker
killed during disturbances here was
broken up by police today on orders
of Mayor CraveT.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24
St. Louis Cash Grain, Close.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Nov. 24.-Corn-
No. 8 white, s1.40@1.45; No. 4 white,
s1.45; May, s1.2SA; December,
l$1.32B.
Oats-No. 2 white, 76c; No. 8
white, 75@76c; No. 4 white, lac;
May, old, 76&c; December, old,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24
Parents Day at Garfield School.

tomorrow afternoon, and again on
December 3, the parents of the Gar
Held district are invited to visit the
schools in the annual observance OF
parents day. Tomorrow afternoon
parents having children in the first,
second and third grades are invited
to visit the regular classes. On De.
cember 3 the parents of children in
the fourth, fifth, sixth an d seventh
grades are invited to inspect school
work.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24
w. r. c. Inspection tomorrow

w. r. c. Inspection Tomorrow.
Mrs. Allinger of Burlington will Wis.
II the Relief Corps tomorrow after
noon at 1880 o'clock for the annual In.
spection. All members are earnestly
urged to be present. Mrs. Allinger
VIII be the guest Of the president,
Mrs. Catherine Jones, while in Keo-
kuk.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-24

Fashion note:-A gold wrist watch
Is out of place on an unwashed wrist.