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The Telegraph service of The Daily Gate City andL Constitu tion-Democrat 0 ar own is received over leased wire. VOL. 123. NO. 40. East Room'Today to Hear President's Appeal. ANOTHER WAY IS OPEN Understood Wilson's Appeal to Presi dent Is Net Considered "1 Final, by Any rinw, ay wny Means. WASHINGTON. Aug. 17.—The'first of the 640 members of tbe railroad brotherhoods' general committee be tas filing into the east entrance of the white house at 2:45 this afternoon. A large crowd witnessed their arrlyal. Although A. B. Qarretson, of the gttb-commlttee had a copy of the presi dent's proposal—ten lines in length— written on white house stationery by the president himself-—none of the general committee had read it. Lee, Carter and Stone of the sub-commit' tee had- duplicates. It was not dis cussed,. it was declared, at the meet ing of the general committee at the Bijou theatre which lasted from one o'clock until two. "The president himself Is to it," The expression "ultimate authority" was used by Chambers. Exactly what the president has in mind is not known, but it was thought possible that he may appeal over the heads of the railway presidents to the -stock holders themselves, or aSk a new ref erendum vote by the employes on the proposals he has' made for a settle ment. Immediately folowlng his conference with Judge Chambers the president returned to bis library to complete the proposals he Is to make to the 640 representatives of the railway brotherhoods when they gather in tho historic east room of the white house this afternoon. Are Out of Town. CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 17.—Western railroad heads invited to a confer ence with President Wilson at Wash ington were out of town today with the exception of E. P. Ripley, presi dent of the Santa Fe. Ripley said he had not made up his mind as to whether he would accept the invita tion. A. J. Earling. of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, was reported In California and R. H. Aishton of the Chicago and Northwestern, and Samuel Pulton, of the Chiqyso Great Western, were "out of town." John M. Glenn, publisher of the Manufac turers News, today directed an ap peal to manufacturers to send a mes sage to President Wilson upholding the attitude of the railroads. "The unions took advantage of the situation existing at the time of the breaking out of the European war and were given concessions and they now take advantage of the peculiar conditions which our country fiaces. "Right must be maintained. The is sue is a principle. It may cost some thing to enforce it but it must be en forced sooner or later," the appeal reads. ri 'T Member Hospital Corps Says Bfcgiy Oases of This Kind^ Gome to Lights -r z,& DAIXAS, Texas, Aug. 17.—National Tuardsmen are being driven to des peration by their enforced idleness on the border and are choosing the two ttost precarious methods to get home —desertion and self inflicted wounds. This was the statement today of ®oy uambrell, former city fireman *®d now connected with the hospital torPs of the Texas national guard. He in Dallas to take deserter hack to, camp. »v «4rC SS^T*! len Tile Into Historic present said Lee. Not Final Appeal. v. That the president In summoning (he railway heads by telegraph did not consider that he has yet appealed to the "ultimate- authority" was learned after a long conference he had with Judge W. I*. Chambers of the United States board of mediation and conciliation this Afternoon. i. t*V ,"*• Battles on Somme 8tlll Have Favor able Turn for Allies— Similar contradictions are con tained in official reports regarding re cent operations in the Balkans. A delayed Bulgarian official statement today claimed the repulse of strong French attacks extending along a wide front, wfcllrf the French war of fice announced successes. More Prisoners. PETROGRAD, Aug.'17.—The cap ture of 7,506 more prisoners by the Russian armies under General Sakba rofT ttras officially announced today. Since the beginning of the Russian offensive Sakharoff has taken 94,754 ProuTeerrSadditional -V •5 tf BEIN6 CHECKED For First Time in Two Weeks ,,, No Further Advance .in the East is Recorded. THE OFFICIAL REPORTS 1 Berlin Reports Repulses. LONDON, Aug. 17.—Strong Austro German counter attacks have halted the Russian and Italian offensives temporarily, though the great battle of the Somme continues to progress favorably for the allies. For the first time in more than a fortnight, the official statement from the Russian war office today recorded no further gains. Petrograd dis patches carried the admission that enemy counter attacks have checked General Brusiloffs armies. The Ger man war office reported not only the repulse of all Russian attacks, but the capture of a dominating height in the Carpathians. The arrival of Austrian reinforce ments and the necessity of straighten' lng out the Italian front have halted General Cadorna's march southward against Trieste. Official dispatches from the German, French and British war offices regarding the outcome of severe fighting on the Somme front yesterday and last night cdntalned sharp contradictions. The Germans admitted the loss of 500 yards of first line trenches to the French, south of the Sonimfc, 'biit iafin«Ml»c««'thSt Jboth the British antf French were driven out of trenches they had penetrated north of the river. General Haig in his first report on yesterday's fighting on the Somme front, announced the capture not only of positions around Guillemont, officially reported from Parts last night, but also the taking of three hundred yards of German trenches to a depth of 300 yards. The French war offic mentioned violent artillery struggles on the Somme front last night, but said the Germans made no attempt to reconquer positions cap tured by the allies yesterday. booty taken by Sakharoft's forces include 29 light and 17 heavy guns. The Paris Report. PARIS. Aug. 17.—Beaten back by the heavy French assault on botb banks of the Somme, the Germans made no attempt to counter attack against the newly conquered French positions last night. An official statement from the war office today reported a lull Jnfan try fighting on the Somme front, but renorted violent artillerying especial ly near Maurepas and Bell°y-En-Sin- terre where the French advanced yes terday. .' The Berlin Report. BERLIN, Aug. 17.—The Germans drove back Anglo-l?Tench troops who succeeded in penetrating Positions west of Foureaux wood and south of Maurepas. Inflicting heavy losses on (continued on page 2) IDLENESS MAKES SOLDIERS DESERT OR WOUND THEMELVES "There are between sixteen and twenty men in the Texas national guard hospital at Marfa with bullet wounds in their legs, feet and hands as a result of their trying to get their release from border duty," said Gam brell. "Since I have been down there a large number of men have been sent to the hospital who shot a finger or toe off, but none of them have been re leased. The officers decided in most of the cases that the shooting was not accidental. We have had a large num ber of desertions lately. I know of one having deserted four times. "The Idleness and sameness of ev erything is deadly. I am ready to Dade myself." J" VW u*j *A Jf 1 J7 "A** •fc.-t'r. OPELOUSAS, La., Aug. 17.—Hilaire Ci was arrested early today following a three hoi of Opelousas parish. Carriere was woipided, Carriere, who killed Sheriff Swords ai by Sheriff Fontenot, who was elected Mon/* Swords, who was sheriff of this pi to the state penitentiary farm, whence ders, has killed six persons in a little President's Suggestions, as Well as Those Concerning Second Annapolis, Are Out Out. MAY COMMENCE VlGHT Opposition to Curtailment -of Cer tain Recommendations, Ex pected by the Leaders. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—The sen ate this afternoon passed the naval bill as agreed to in conference early in the day without a roll call. The Provisions of Bill. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—House and senate conferees on the naval bill this afternoon agreed to retain tho $C,000,000 appropriation to improve and equip the navy yards at Puget Sound, Philadelphia, Norfollf, Boston, Portsmouth, N. H., Charleston and New Orleans for construction of bat tleships. The bill will be reported to both houses to morrow or Saturday. The senate amendment providing for investigation by a commission of advisability of establishment of a sec ond naval academy was stricken out. The item providing $500,000 for a suit able site on the Columbia river for a submarine and torpedo base also went out A $500,000 appropriation for con structing a thirty-five foot channel through Hell Gate, New York, one of President Wilson's recommendations. was taken out. A hot fight on the floor may develop over this item. AFTER MAN WHO SHOT SHERIFF Posse in Kansas Has Surrounded Un known Thug Who Was Handy With Gun. EMPORIA, Kansas, Aug. 17.—The unknown thug who shot and killed Walt Davis, sheriff of Lyon county, and wounded three members of a posse trying to arrest him, was be lieved* surrounded In a corn field near VViggam, nine miles southeast of Em poria, this morning. Sheriff Davis was killed late Tues day night when he and two Emporia officers attempted to arrest two sus pected hold-up men. While the offi cers were searching them one of the men ran. In an exchange of shots, Davis was shot through the heart. He died instantly. His companion, Wm. E. Smith, who says he does not know tlie murderer's name, Is held by the officers. The unknown murderer opened fire on a posse of one hundred men £s he neared Wiggam. Three were wound ed. The thug escaped into an adja cent corn field. Committed Suicide. CHiCAGO, ni., 'Aug. 17.—Henry Paspopel, a carpenter at Park Ridge, I1L, near here, committed suicide to day by shooting himself, after driv ing his wife, daughter and son from the house by threatening to kill them. i—ffubecrtbe tor The Gate City. 4." atf'OmHhiftii Btiiaftpt. ••'JMi* KEOKUK, IOWA. THUBSDAY, AUG. 17, 1916 g|p Negro "BadMan", Who Killed in tfes Man Was Caught By *Sheriff Who Was Elected Last Monday To Do Job GERARD'S NOTE PEEVES TEUTOHS American Ambassador's Com ment on German Censor ship Criticised in Editorials. HOW DID IT LEAK OUT? The Suggestion Regarding German Surveillance, Was In Confl j, id^ntial Communication to State Department. BEiRLiN, Aug. 17.—A vigorous at tack on Ambassador Gerard was made today by the Berlin Morgenpost and the Cologne Gazette, two influ tial German newspapers, for the atti tude toward the German censorship he is alleged to have displayed in a confidential communication to the state department. American correspondents In Berlin recently handed to the ambassador a protest against British censorship of cable dispatches and mail matter they had sent to the United States. They pointed out that British censors badly ^mutilated many of their dis patches and that a large percentage of their mail stories failed to reach America at all. In transmitting the report to the state department. Ambassador Ger ard is reported to have sent along a confidential note recommending that no action be taken .by the American government unless Germany removed the censorship on news sent to America. How this alleged confi dential note became public property i3 not known but the contents of the message soon became known In newspaper circles. "The American government and its organs already have endured many brutal English infringements," said the Morgenpost, even Americans re proach their officials. They have de graded themselves by giving up their neutrality and 'honor as accomplices of England, eo it is presumable that they will also endure this infringe ment and the attitude of their am bassador whereby the British in fringement is supported. 'We doaibt whether the German foreign office will be satisfied with Gerard's conduct. We hope the gov ernment will find means to correct this strange attitude. The German censorship does not concern him and he has no right to criticize measures necessary for the safety of German interests." The Cologne Gazette editorial was in similar vein. Ready to Pay Penalty. MARYVILLE, Mo., Aug. 17.—Calm ly declaring "I know what I have done and I am ready to pay the pen alty," Mrs. Clemma E. Oilmore indi cated today Bhe would make no de fense for the killing of Mrs. Ella Shipps at the Burlington station. Her husband, over whom Mrs. Gil more shot the "other woman," a ten ant, plans to aid in the defense of his separated mate. An inquest will be held today. Crusade on Beer Camps. DES MOINES. Iowa, Aug. 17.—Fol lowing a crusade against beer camps and disorderly taxicabs by the Des Moines News, the taxi cab owners held a meeting today and decided to lead a fight for a clean business. They promise to discharge drivers who have been introducing their passen gers to women and taking them to beer camps. News reporters who visited the re sorts and wrote up their experiences were today subpoenaed to appear in the case of Grace White, charged with selling beer contrary to law. TALK TO BOTH SIDES gro bad man, and escaped convict, with a sheriff's posse, in the marshes shoulder. He will live. onth ago, was taken just south of here bring about the negro's capture. killed when he sought to return Carriere .aped. The negro, who boasted of his mur a year. French Drive on the Somme Resembles Gigantic Multi plied Sledge, Press Cor respondent Says. ^^5 RAIL LINES TO DEPOT Veritable Network of These Carry Supplies and Munitions to Put Punch Into Blows. [By Henry Wood, United Press Staff Corresponflent.] WITH THE FRENCH ARMY ON THE SOMME, Aug. 17—Like a gigantic multiplied sledge-hammer, the French army is smashing away at the German lines on the Somme battle front. The new French offen sive in no way resembles the Rus sian steam roller. Instead it hammers continually with blow upon blow at any given point until eventually the French officers believe, it must break down both the German defenses and the resistance of the German army. The success of this steady hammer ing. is demonstrated both by the actual advance, and the influx cf prisoners who have surrendered in large num bers. Berore going to tho nghting rront I inspected the vast organization he hind the lines for feeJ'ng the offen sive. It is this incredible preparation on which apparently everything has been forseen and nothing overlooked that puts the punch into the French sledge hammer blows. I first visited one of the eight muni tions and material depoto established last May, miles behind the line. The depot covers a square half mile into which France's northwestern network of railways daily pours material com ing from all parts of the world. If the French offensive has carried ter rible destruction in advance of the armies, it has wrought equally incred ible progress in the rear. The eight munition depots have been connected with the battle front by a veritable mystic maze of railways of both broad and narrow gauge. In peace times it would have required a year's work to construct them. Approach ing the battle front these lines con verge even thicker and even more in tricately. So perfected is this rail way system that each of the eight depots can pour out upon the Somme battle front its entire square half mile of munitions and material every thirty-six hours. Carry Guns by Trains. On other specially constructed rail ways, all of broad gauge, guns are being carried to the front. France does not lack neavy artilerly on the Somme front, but is making constant additions for the purpose of increas lng the power of her punch. From the depot, the way led to one of the four aviation camps which pro tected every depot, but which are only a small part of the aviation ser vice on the Somme front. During the visit scarcely a minute passed that armed aeroplanes either did not re turn or depart for the German front. (ContlnnaA on page 2) A.-' 1 MYSTERr STORIES INTEREST HUGHES Candidate Has a Day of Rest and is Spending iit With Thrillers, His Manager Has Procured. FEW SPEECHES TODAY Candidate Hits Philippine Situation in His Appearance at Portland Last Night. [By Perry Arnold, United Press Staff Correspondent.] ROSEBITHG, Ore„ Aug. 17. Charles E. Hughes, republican presi dential candidate, today took the toiggest "jump" in his transcontinent al trip. He was enroute from Port land to San Francisco with only one stop of more than a few minutes scheduled for the day at Shasta Springs tonight. Three or four points were scheduled to hear the candidate for a bare three or four minutes but no formal speeches had been arranged, not even at Shasta Springs. A day of almost solid ooanfort was in prospect for Hughes. Solid com fort, be it known in the governor's opinion, consists in a place to stretch out and time in which to rest his mind by reading horrendous, hair raising detective stories, dime novels, to be exact. It is only a trifle less restful to read heavy historical essays. Carl D. Shepherd", Hughes' person al representative, went out In Port land last night and raided the news stands for sufficiently" thrilling liter ature, accumulating one of the larg est libraries of lurid detective nar ratives ever assembled. But stuck away in this pile of paper 'bound volumes was a copy of "The Rdse and Fall of the Roman Empire," from the Hughes library. In his speech tit the Ice Rink in Portland last night, the candidate delivered another broadside at the democratic policies, concentrating his fire particularly on the Philippine 'situation. He declared the United States undertook to govern the is lands properly and that "we assum ed obligations there which we are 'bound to' discharge." "We ought not to consider the suggestion of scuttling out of the Philippines," he said, "to leave them in the predicament which you know perfectly well without my describing it." 'Hughes made a pronouncement on the tariff and attacked the adminis tration's attitde, asserting that tbe democratic party has opposed reg.1 progress. He said: "If I were a member of that party and looked through the platforms of the past I should feel that I was going through a cemetery richly em bellished with monuments." He declared that he wanted to see the "empire of Alaska'' developed right. "If I am charged with the high of fice for which I am a candidate," he concluded, "to put irfy principles to the test, I am not afraid of that test. I have no ambition to hold high of fice, but I have an ambition to try, so far as it lies within me, to have efficient American government." Millionaire Is Better. CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—The condition of Alvin Daniels, Coronado, Calif., millionaire, at the Presbyterian hos pital here, was reported "much bet ter" today. Specialists say it will be several days before a complete diag nosis of the diseaso in one of Daniels' legs is finished. "We are sure, however, that it is not blood poisoning," said Dr. Arthur Revan, Chicago. '"Nothing alarming has arisen and we do not anticipate it doing so." Outbreak of Diseace. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 17.—An outbreak of bacillar dysentery, a sum mer disease is reported from Fulton county, Illinois. An inspector has been sent to investigate. Quartermaster is Allied to Have Been Senorita's Assailant. BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Aug. 17.— James Clement, a corporal in Com pany C, Second Virginia infantry, was dead today because he tried to save the honor of Sofia Valdez, a .Mexican girl.* THE WEATHER Fair. Continued Trarm. Local temp—7 p. m. 83 7 a. m. 74. EIGHT PAGES HAIL HEADS «,V.: President Asks Men Who Di rect Nation's Big Lines, to Meet Him at Once. THEY WILL ALL RESPOND Reason for Conference Is Believed ta be Their Attitude on Reject lng Eight Hour Suggestion. [By Robert J. Bender, United Press Staff Correspondent.] WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 —Reaching what apparently was a deadlock in the attempted settlement of the threatened strike on the railroads. President Wilson today eent a tele gram to the presidents of the great railway systems of the country, ask ing that they come to Washington at onoe for a conference. The telegram says: "Discussion of the matters involved In the threatened railroad strike has reached a point which makes it highly desirable that I should personally, confer with you at the earliest pos sible, moment,and with the president, of any other of the railways affected who may be immediately accessible. Hope you can make it convenient to come to Washington." Before sending the telegram the president talked with President Wil lard of the Baltimore and Ohio, by long distance telephone and was as sured by Willard that the railroad heads would come to Washington im mediately. The president's action resulted from the attitude taken by the railroad managers in a statement left at the white house last night by Eltsha Lee. chairman of their committee. In this| they strongly indicated they wouldj not concede the eight hour principle, even for the proposed trial period and that the strongest concession they] would make would be to submit the* whole matter to arbitration, the presi dent to name the arbitrators. Claim There Is PolKlcs. Today the managers showed no dis position to recede from this position., Several of them declared they saw politics in the president's efforts* since accepting this plan would meanj putting the whole matter over until after the elections. The commission could not accomplish anything tan gible before next spring, they said. X* a, The managers apparently are un moved by arguments of the president that his proposal would result in a system that would probably enable! them *to avoid sudden strikes in the1 future. Three ballots have been taken in the past two days, it was said today, and each time the managers have voted down the president's proposal. The railway presidents tc whom the president addressed his message to day were: Daniel Willard, Baltimore and Ohio Samuel Rea, Pennsylvania A. H. Smith, New York Central F. D. Underwood, Erie William Trues dale, Lackawanna Howr.rd Elliott, New Haven Hale Holden, Chicago. Burlington and Quincy W. J. Hara han, Seaboard Air Line" L. F. Loree, Delaware and Hudson B. F. Bush, re ceiver Missouri Pacific E. E. Calvin, Union Pacific: William Sproule. Southern Pacific George W. Stevens. Chesapeake and Ohio Samuel M. Fel ton, Chicago and Great Western Fairfax Harrison. Southern Railway E. P. Ripley, Santa Fe II H. Aish ton, Chicago and Northwestern A. J. Earling, St. Paul. Hurrying to Washington. NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—A dozen (Continued on page 2) VIRGINIA COPORAL KILLED TRYING TO PROTECT MEXICAN GIRL Carl Dunches, quartermaster cor poral, Is alleged to have attempted to assault the girl last night. Clement, hearing her screams, rushed to her assistance. He was shot and instant ly killed by Dunches who then shot and probably fatally wounded the girl- Dunches was chased two miles by a posse, but eluded them. He later appeared at the county jail and sur rendered. Clement lived in Warrentown, Va^ land was married- ill :M