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FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 191?
EXACT MANNER OF
DEATH IS MYSTERY
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Relatives of Clarence Read Say Cor
oner Clements Makes Statement
Rope May Have Been
.' ..on
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POLICE
Police say too, that Read had no
enemies so far as known and that he
[had no lore affairs. He was not en
I gaged, his brother, Lloyd Read of Jack
sonville, 111., told a reporter.
Held In Esteem.
"My brother's record was good. He
Iwas highly thought of both in Keokuk
land in Franklin, our home," said the
{brother. "He wrote us often, telling
Ins that he would Uke to get In mill
Itary service, so he could not have
[been worried about that. When I
[told him about" a fine new situation I
I
obtained, he wrote to me, giving me
[advice. He was quiet about his per
Isonal affairs.
"I feel certain he didn't-end his
|life deliberately."
Coroner Clements has not yet con
ducted an inquest. He was in the
[city Thursday night and visited the
[undertaking parlors where the body
[has been taken. The coroner could
[not be found today to state if an in
|quest would be conducted or not.
May Employ Detective.
The brother intimated $.bat a private
[detective may be employed to investi
gate the circumstances surrounding
|the death.
Read's watch stopped at 2:45 a. m..
|Thursday, the time when he was
killed, it is thought.
Clarence Read was born and reared
|near Franklin, 111., a town twelve
ailes southeast of Jacksonville. He
|*as educated there and made it his
home until he came to Keokuk three
leare ago last April. After he came
|to Keokuk he graduated from the
ioester school In Chicago.
1
Fraternity Member.
Read belonged to the Woodmen and
3d Fellows lodges in Franklin and
had taken two degrees in the Masonic
Podge in Keokuk.
Surviving him are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred E. .Read, of Franklin,
pi-, and two brothers, Lloyd of Jack
onviiie and Roy, living at borne.
The relatives are planning to take
Jthe body to Franklin Saturday. Fun
leral services will probably be held at
•the home, Sunday.
'EXT WEDNESDAY
IS CLASS DAY
|Holiday fop Other Pi-tollc Schools of
the City—Commencement
Seats on Sale
8oon.
Next Wednesday will 'be class day
F'"e high school and a holiday for
„.r public schools in tLe city.
High school senior students will be
5iven opportunity, Tuesday, to secure
F*o commencement seats at the
h,™?
theatre with the privilege of
Ir/k
ng ten
PfTDDt^C7
Rsnalties""
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SAY ACCIDENT
in the killing of Clarence
Ir.Mystery
Read by a Burlington railroad
train early Thursday morning, deep
ened today when relatives of the dead
iman
said that Coroner Walt Clements
[of B\)rt Madison made a statement to
them that scars and wounds on the
neck of the window decorator indi
cated possibly, the presence of a rope
before he was cut to pieces.
Police had learned nothing more
about the tragic death since their in
vestigation yesterday. They were
still of the opinion that the man's
death was due to accident as there
is nothing to indicate that Read met
with foul play.
Find His Watch.
His watch was found in his clothes,
I showing that rofobery was not a mo
I tive.
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may
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secure seats Wednes-
f. the public. Thursday and Friday.
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Leased Wire Service.]
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message to Mr. McAdoo.
ST. PAUL'S FFLTH
ANNIVERSARY NEAR
Evangelical Church at Eleventh and
Exchange 8treet Has Inter
estlng History to
Revjew.
MANY PASTORS SERVE
Brother of Dead Man States That First Congregation Worshiped In Old
Record Here and in Illinois
Was Clear—May Invest!
gate More.
Court House on /Johnson—
Present Building Erected
in 1874.
The sixtieth anlversary of the St.
Paul's Evangelical church, Eleventh
and Br
change streets, will be ob
served Sunday, June 16. Special serv
ices will take place in the church
tooth morning and evening in com
memoration of the founding of the or
ganization. The chief speaker will
be Dr. John Batlzer of St. Louis, presi
dent of the Evangelical synod. Two
former pastors of the church. Rev. J.
Erdman of Burlington and A. Schem
ner of Primrose will deliver addresses.
An anniversary number of the
Parish paper will be published which
will contain a short history of the
church and its organization. Members
of the church have invited neighbor
ing congregations to join with them
in the observance of the day.
History of Church.
When the church was first organ-!
ized sixty years ago it had a member
ship of seventy-flve people. Now its
membership numbers 700, counting
the children of the congregation and
.communicants. None of the charter
members are living. Several of the
older women in .the church were girls
of nine or ten when the church was
organized. But few men are left who
I saw the first chutch built.
Before the church was organized a
little group of people held services in
the old court house which used to
stand on Johnson street, between Sec
ond and Third streets. Visiting mis
sionaries from Burlington and other
cities used to supply the pulpit
First Pastor Comes.
The Rev. Paul Lorenz came as the
first regular pastor. Dnring his pas
torate the church was organized, and
the corner stone laid for the first
church, erected at Eighteenth and
Eixchange streets June 10, 1858. He
served as pastor for four or five years.
In turn he was succeeded by the
Rev. H. Melli, W. Kirchoff and O.
Niethammer, all off whom did _their
share in building up the organization.
The Rev. W. Gramm was a minister
who came in 1873. He promoted the
Ibullding of the present church which
took place at Eleventh and Ex
change streets in 1874. He remained
in Keokuk ten years.
Outlasting the soldier's love?
Can you glorify it with legends
As grand as their blood hath writ
From the inmost shrine of this land
of time
To the outmost verge of it?
A monument for the soldiers.
Built of a people's love,
And blazoned and decked and pano
plied
With the hearts ve built It of.
And see that ye build it stately.
In pillar and niche and gate.
And high in pose, as the souls of those
It would commemorate
—James Whitcomb Riley.
LIEUT. SAYS
HUNS WILL QUIT
KeokitV Offcer in Depot Brigade,
Camp Dodge. Visits Parents
on Furlough With
Wife.
The Germans will have to quit be
fore the Americans reach the Rhine,
says Lieut. Charles M. Henneman
who is in Keokuk, visiting his par
ents, Chief of police C. H. Hennemann
and wife at 1422 High street. Lieuten
ant Hennemann is assigned to the de
pot brigade at Camp Dodge. Iowa.
Having been a regular armv man for
seven »years, he had no difficulty in
wlnntng a commission when officers
training camps were conducted. The
Keokuk lieutenant is now teaching
machine gun operation to new men in
the cantonment His wife accompanied
him to Keokuk for a visit.
Watch Your Blood Supply,
Don't Let Impurities Creep In
mw4i*fne.
Blood Means Perfect
Health.
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lad ttore than fifty years,
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Many druggists have seen wonderful
results accomplished among their
customers by this great old medicine,
and they know that S. S. S. is one oi
the most reliable blood
purifiers
ever
made. Keep your blood, free of un
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medicine, and if you want mecScaj
advice, you can obtain
cost by writing to Medical Director,
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tory, Atlanta, G«*
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Why We Fight
No. I
BMMM Germany foe. Years Has
Been Making Secret, Treacher
ous War Us
By CLARENCE L. SPEED
Secretary ot the War Committee of the
Union League Club of Chicago.
One of the deep, underlying reasons
—not Just a diplomatic pretext—why
we are at war with Germany is that
for a generation Germany has been
making war on us. Germany has
made this war not openly, bravely or
humanely, but secretly, treacherously
and persistently. She has sought to
create race discord, to corrupt and de
file politicians and officeholders, and
to create separate Gennan communi
ties within our borders. She has poi
soned the minds of children in our
schools in an endeavor to make Ger
mans of them Instead of have them
grow up into loyal American citizens.
She has Invaded the sacredness of the
pulpit Itself in an endeavor to corrupt
our people through the very leaders
of morality to whom they are accus
tomed to look for guidance.
These may be startling assertions,
but they are all true, as you shall see
from the documents of the Germans
themselves. We all knew that It was
a German fleet which stripped for ac
tion when Dewey sailed Into Manila
bay. We all knew it was the Germans
who sought to bring about a European
hlliance against us when we were en
gaged in the war with Spain. Few of
us relaized, however, that all these
years Germany has been busy within
our own borders, through editors,
teachers and preachers, seeking to
break down our national unity, so that
wjien the time came it would be easy
to defeat the United States in open
warfare, to set at naught our cherish
ed Monroe doctrine, and to seize, ln
the Western hemisphere, anything
that the land grabbing rulers of the
Gennan empire might desire.
The climax of Germany's under*
banded war on the United States came
In 1913, more than a year before the
outbreak of hostilities ln Europe. This
was the enactment of what Is known
as the Delbruck law, which provides
that if an emigrant from Germany
who Is about to be naturalized makes
application to a German consul, he
may retain his German citizenship
even after he has become a citizen of
his adopted country.
In plain words, this law, and the Hp
plication of it, mean just this:
A German goes into court in this
country and solemnly foreswears al
legiance to the kaiser and pledges
bis word—the temptation was to say,
"of honor"—that he will become a loy
il citizen of the United States. Then
be slips around to the German consul
ind says:
"You know I didn't mean that, fct
ill. Those Americans are easy marks,
ind they fell for that stuff right off.
But you Just put me down on your list
is a good, loyal German, and If the
rime ever comes when I can prove it,
rou can count on me."
8o the German consul puts his name
town In the little card Index of which
the Germans are so fond, and this
man,—this creature who swears al
legience to the country which gives
dim an opportunity to make a real liv
ing and to become somebody In this
world, and at the same time swears
secretly to be true to Germany—is
turned loose to work his will, while
Americans go carelessly about their
business and refuse to see the danger
in the arrangement.
I
Ernst, Present Pastor.
The church has also had as its
pastors, the Rev. A. Gerke, now of
Cleveland. Ohio Karl Schelb, now of
Burlington and Jacob Neusch, who
was h«re seventeen years.
The present pastor, the Hev. Aug
ust C. Ernst, took up his work here
four years ago.
A MONUMENT FOR THE SOLDIERS
A monument for the soldiers,
And what will ye build it of?
Can ye build it of marble or brass or
bronze
Long before the passage of the Del
bruck law, there was formed the Ve
reiti fur das Deutschtum lm Ausland—
the Union for Germanism in Foreign
Lands. This organization, officially
fostered In Germany, Issued a quarter
ly magazine, which, in its very first Is
sue, outlined Itj aims as follows:
"The purpose of this union Is the
preservation and promotion of the
Germanism of over 80,000,000 people
of German blood dwelling outside the
German empire." All it alms to do,
you see, is to keep Germans who come
to this country from becoming Ameri
cans.
Away back in 1890 the Alldeutschei
Verband, or the Pan-German league,
ttns formed. It now consists of 268
chapters of which two now are—or at
least were immediately before the war
—In the United States, one in New
Tork and one in San Francisco. To
quote from the Alldeutsche Blatter, Its
official publication, "the Pan-German
league Is founded for promoting Ger
man National interests, both in Ger
many and in foreign lands."
A few thinking Americans knew
all the time what was coming—what
must come. But America, as a whole,
went along in that carelessness and
indifference with which It treats all
things unpleasant, and allowed this
German war on our most sacred Insti
tutions to continue unchecked.
So Germany stands today, with one
foot on prostrate Belgium and the oth
er on the neck of poor deluded Rus
sia with a bayonet planted In the
heart of Serbia, and the point of Its
sword at the throat of Boumanla,
while it looks out over the vassal
States of Bulgaria and Turkey to In
dia and the Orient. And as It stands
thus. It cries to its foes on the west
ern front:
"Kamerad! Why go on with all this
killing? Lets have a peace by nego
tiation?" and, under Its breath, adds,
Tve got all I want for the present."
Can we talk of any peace until
such a Germany Is absolutely defeat
ed? Shall we negotiate a peaee and
allow all these Gennan preparations
for world domination to go on until
the time Is ripe for Germany to com
plete Its conquests?
Statistics show that 75,167,672 S*®**
tons of iron ore were mined in the
United States last year.
^.: the daily gate city
'*£Wf
DETERMINED TO
STOP HUN RUSH
That Was Object of American
Marines and Result is
That They Stopped
Them.
HEAPS OF GERMAN DEAD
Defeated 36,000 Prussian and Ba
varian Troops In Three
Days of Hot
Fighting.
[By Lowell Mellett, United Press
Staff Correspondent.]
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES
IN FRANCE, June 7.—(3:30 p. m.)—
"We have obtained our object—not
objective, as we had no objective. We
simply were determined that the Ger
man rush should be Btopped. It's
stopped."
This was the terse summary by an
American officer today of his brigade's
exploit northwest of Chateau-Thierry,
which has developed into one of the
most glorious in the history of the
United States marines.
The lull in the fighting in the mid
dle of this morning permitted a brief
checking up of the results of the four
days' desperate action.
It is now positively known that the
Americans defeated three divisions
(36,000 men) of Prussians and Bavar
ian landwehr for three successive
days. They fook hundreds of prison
ers and left heaps of German dead on
the fields. The marines' casualties,
however, were not disproportionate.
The bitterest fighting last night
came as the result of one of the in
terminable series of German counter
attacks. The Boches started their as
saults as the marines were preparing
for another sortie. The marines beat
them to it and drove them back.
While the marines were thus occu
pied, the Americans on their right
shoved forward almost four miles In
stead of the two and a half that had
been ordered.
The marines are holding Bouresches
station, which Is of extreme strategic
importance. Some machine gun nests
still remained to be cleared out of the
Bolleau wood.
DES MOINES IS
STILL CLIMBING
Two Feet More in Stage Will Flood
Lowlands—Crops of To
matoes and Corn
Endangered.
If the Des Moines river should rise
another two feet the lowlands will be
flooded tomorrow. The stream threat
ens to destroy many acres of to
matoes and corn.
Water is now over tho bottom lands
at Ottumwa and a severe loss of orops
is reported.
The Des Moines river reached 15.5
feet, this morning. The rapid pour
ing in of water from Ottumwa may
cause It to overrun its banks.
German Bluff Called.
[United Preas Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, June 7.—The Ger
man government has threatened to
make reprisals against Americans,
unless this government releases
Captain-Lieut. Franz Rintelen, Ger
man spy serving sentence in this
country now. Answering this threat,
the state department has informed
Germany that any reprisals will in
evitably invite "similar reciprocal
action" upon great numbers of Ger
man subjects in this country.
Italians Make Raid.
[United Press Leased Wire Service]
HOME, June 7.—Italian forces
broke Into enemy trenches on the
Monte Di Val Bella front, taking fifty
prisoners, six machine-guns and a
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The result of their forty yean experi
ence is stjour service.
quantity of materials, the Italian war
office announced today.
Airplanes and airships dropped
more than five tons of bombs on en
emy aviation camps on the Kenetian
plain, on a railway station at Mezoc
orona and on columns marching along
the Quere Feltre road.
Correspondent Wounded,
[United Press Leased Wire Service.]
WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE
MARNE, June 7.—Floyd Gibbons, cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune,
was wounded last night while watch
ing the battle.
He was struck in the eye and arm
by machine gunt bullets. His wounds
are not fatal.
New York Money Market.
NEW YORK, June 7.—Money on
call, 5% per cent.
Six months, 6 per cent.
Mercantile paper, 6 .per cent.
Bar silver, I»ndon, 4S%d.
Bar silver. New York, 99 %c.
Demand sterling, $5.75.35.
Two Aviators Killed.
[United 'Press Leased Wire Service.]
NEW ORLEANS, La., June 7.—
Lieutenants John L. Hogarty and
Travers Lee Hollen were killed here
today when their airplanes collided
and fell.
Lieutenant Hogarty's home was at
Mount Vernon, N. Y. Lieutenant
Hollen lived at San Antonio, Texas.
LEARNING FROM LIFE.
Pittsburgh Dispatch: A man some
what distinguished for his labors in
American .religious affairs a few
months ago went to Prance as a vol
unteer, as he put it to friends, "to
bring Christ to the French," and now
reports himself as a pupil instead of
a teacher. He learned some great
lessons dii^ct from life among the
soldiers of France and frankly
acknowledges tb* source of his new
knowledge. It is a candor not always
displayed foy a man who stands high
in his chosen work when he finds that
all his old views, preconceptions and
theories of conduct prepared in ad
vance were ln error.
To a young American military of
ficer with whom the preacher talked
crossing the ocean, and to whom he
discussed his plans and motives, the
result was non surprising. To the
same young officer the distinguished
preacher said after a few months' ex
perience among the French soldiers:
"I came to teach I go back a pupil.
I was entirely wrong. They have
(aught me more of life's real truths
by their actions than I have ever
thought existed. I was wrong—they
are right."
The preacher who went to France
with a definite idea and specific
course of duty for the good of the
French soldiers, the expression of
years of experience in the field of
ordinary humanity, found the men of
France different than they have been
pictured in pages of frothy fiction.
They live real lives—heroic lives,
but it is necessary to be among
them to learn the force and beauty
of their character. The preacher,
who learned more ot life's truthB
from the simple acts of the soldiers
of France than he thought existed,
has made a substantial gain, although
his original purpose was complete
failure. He won by losing, for he has
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Tennessee style butts 35c per lb.
Sweet pickled boneless pork, all lean 30c per lb.
2 cans milk (large size) 25c
No. 1 pure lard .30c per lb.
•Fresh neck bones 4 lbs. 26c
Fresh country eggs 35c per dozen
Eagle brand condensed milk 20c per can
Fresh liver .5c per lb.
Best compound lard 25c lb.
Our best 35o coffee 2 lbs. 50c
3 lbs. 25c coffee for 50c (tomorrow)
Oleomargarine 2 lbs. 55c
Clark's crochet cotton 3 spools ,25c
Good laundry soap 6 bars 25c
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a high respect for fellow men whom
he pitied before.
ROUND TRIP 35c. MUSIC A.ND QANCING.
MAKERS OF WEALTH.
Farm Life: Food la. "the real
wealth, and money merely the count
ers of exchange," declares an epi
gram maker in our national food de
partment. And the producers of food
are the creators of the nation's
wealth. It took a world war, with its
consequept threat of famine, to make
us realize this important fact.
Politicians and others have been
in the habit of saying "the farmer is
the backbone of the nation." but no
body really believed it. At least,
nobody acted as if he believed it—
not even the farmer himself.
The farmer's response to the war
needs of the nation have been prompt
and patriotic. He has not held back
because his profits were restricted,
and his growing sense of power
brings with it an admission of great
er responsibility.
England will soon have 2,000 mun
icipal kitchens in operation.
PAGE NINE
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Labor unions in Sweden will *t
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Shameless War Rumor Mongers
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The
multitude of false, sensational and
nimble-footed war rumors that have
distressed patriotic citizens and pos
sibly interfered with the success of at
least part of the war auxiliary work
have received the attention of the
grand Jury and the judge of the United
States district court for the southern
district of New York. A woman who
is senior surgeon for a college for
women and children at Boston is
charged with having made a statement
at Vassar college, or to the president
of the college, that "it was a matter
of common knowledge that 200 beds
had been reserved in the Sloane ma
ternity hospital, New York City, for
Red Cross nurses who were returning
from France and expecting immediate
confinement."
I of a sensational and scandalous na
ture and character affecting the Red
Cross and its nurses, for the reason
that such stories and reports not only
seriously interfere with the recruiting
of nurses for service abroad, but also
have a tendency to create public dis
trust in tho American Ked Cross, and
are detrimental to the army activities
it is carrying on to alleviate the on
speakable condition due to the war."
Judge Hand went further and charg
ed the grand jury to summon persons
circulating such rumors, innocently or
otherwise, and to indict persons who
start such rumors or who willfully cir
culate them. He denounced such
1
The grand jury reported that a thor
ough inquiry proved that there was
not an iota of truth in this statement
and that the woman who made it BOW
admits that she was misinformed. She
was exonerated of any disloyal inten
tion. but the grand jury felt impelled
to say In the way of general comment,
"that it deplores the tendency shown
by the public in general to give ready
ear to and repeat stories and reports
stories as part of the "whispering pro
j£rerman propaganda," and declared
that their willful circulation consti
tuted a violation of the espionage act.
The warning to both the credulous
and the malevolent Is timely. Only
part of these stories may be of pr
German origin, but all of them aid
the enemy, to some extent. There is
no excuse for their acceptance or clr
culatlon, for if they were true they
would have been treated by the papers^
No thoughtful loyal person will give
them credence or pass them on and
some way should be found to check
(the Irresponsible or disloyal.
I
••at
J. BREZNER