Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1915 — Page 1

'olumeXlll. Number 198.

WHITE STAR LINER ARABICTORPEDOED FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX PASSENGERS ON BOARD WHEN STEAMER IS SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINE NO LIVES BELIEVED LOST

(United Press Service) London, Aug. 19. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The White Star liner Arabic, carrying 435 passengers and crew, and bound for New York, was torpedoed and sunk otf the southwest coast of Ireland near Fastnet this morning. The Arabic was torpedoed at 9:15 a. m. and sank in eleven minutes. Eleven boats were quickly launched and were picked up by a salvage steamer and- brought to Queenstown. The first despatches from Queenstown carried contradictory reports. It was impossible to determine how many it any, lives were lost, it was believed however, that the majority at least jyere saved. Tiie first despatch said all the passengers and crew had been saved. The same report was received here immediately after the Lusitania was sunk. Shortly aftrward. Liverpool said a report was in circulation that some lives had been lost. Unconfirmed reports said practically all the 435 persons aboard the Arabic were taken off by another saemer. The Arabic sailed from Liverpool yesterday. She was following the usual path for trans-Atlantic liners and was about 50 or 60 miles west of tne spot where the Lusitania was torpedoed on May 7, when she was attacked by the German submarine. New York N. Y., Aug. 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The NewYork offices of the White Star line gave out the following at 2:25 this afternoon on the sinking of the Arabic: “The Arabic sailed Wednesday afternoon with 131 cabin passengers and forty-five steerage passengers and with cargo and mail. She was sunk by a German submarine at 9:15 a. m. off the south coast of Ireland. We arc hopeful all passengers and crew were saved. Fifteen boat loads have been accounted for. This is all the information we have.” The figures on the passengers given out by the company, added to the 260 members of the crew, makes a total of 436 persons on board. If fifteen boat loads have been saved, it is evident, the company believes that a very great majority aboard were saved. The statement given out was cabled by the White Star agent at Liverpool. Two sticks of dynamite were found aboard the Arabic on July 27, the night before she sailed from NewYork on her last trip to Liverpool. This news was withheld until several days after the liner had sailed. A report reached London in March that a submarine had pursued the Arabic on her trip from New York, but that she escaped. Because of her great cargo capacity, site was used largely for the transportation of war munitions to the allies and it was because of this fact that she was reported several times to have been marked for submarine attacks.

Queenstown, Aug. 19. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The White Star line received a message this afternoon stating that a rescue steamer is bringing 400 of the Arabic survivors into this port. This accounts for all but about 3fi passengers and crew, if the report is true. Washington, D. C„ Aug. 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The state department this afternoon took immediate steps to ascertain whether any American citizen was aboard the liner Arabic when she was torpedoed and whether any warning was giver. the liner. These were the final issues made by Wilson in his last note to Germany. Government officials were much concerned this afternoon at news of the Arabic s loss. They were deeply anxious to know if there were any Americans aboard and whether any of them perished. If there were Americans and the ship was torpedoed without warning, it was owned that the situation might be serious even if nobody was killed. (Continued on Page 2.)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

AUTO COLLISION Fred Braun’s Jackson and a Ford Driven by Ike Archer Ram Each Other ON TUESDAY EVENING Along Road in Front of Meyers Home---No One Hurt—Cars Damaged. At about eleven o'clock last evening two automobiles one a five passenger Jackson car driven by Fred Braun who was coming to Decatur and the other a Ford driven by Ike Archer who was going south ran into each other along the mud pike just in front of the Pete Meyers home two miles south of the city. The road at this point is a little narrow which prevented either one of the drivers to mak° a sudden turn out. The Jackson car rammed the Ford in the side, badlybreaking the body, one wheel, the fenders and the wind shield and bumped the driver out of the machine. The Jackson didn’t receive many ill effects from the collision although the hood was bent ana one of the fenders and lights were smashed or broken. About ten dollars worth of damage was done. Fred LaDelle and Will Johns who were riding with Braun received a little bumping up but were not hurt. The accident was unavoidable and neither party was to blame. - oHAVE GOOD OPENING If the patronage of the Martin At Joseph restaurant continues as it did on the opening day, Tuesday, and all Indications are most favorable for this condition, the case will be one of the most popular and properous to be found in the state. With every thinß spick and span and new, the doors were thrown open to the public Tuesday and so large were the number of patrons that it was almost necessary to close the doors in order to take care of them satisfactorily. The large steam ovens with a capacity of 400 loaves, are going continuously under the management of Charles Reinhart and already five of the local grocery stores are handling the steam baked bread with indications that many more of the stores will be added to the list. Many of the surrounding towns are also being supplied with the bread.

DECATUR WOMAN ELOPES Hillsdale, Mich.. Aug. 18 —Three Indiana couples who eloped to this city to wed, have been married here within a few days. Fred G West, of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Ada R. Canrod, of Decatur, Ind., and Claude H. Teegarten and Miss Blanche M. Dahuff, of Pleasant Lake, Ind., were married at the court house by Justice C. M. Weaver. John R. Cary, of Angola, Ind., and Ruby A. Riehm, of Kendallville, Ind., were married by Rev. Louis Del<atnerten at the Methodist parsonage. REBEKAHS TO BE GUESTS Mrs. John Bolinger of West Monroe street has invited the members of the Rebekah lodge to her home this evening where she will entertain them. The social affair promises to be most enjoyable one. SPECIAL CAR TO CELEBRATION A special interurban car from here left at eleven o’clock for the German Reformed Orphans’ anniversary celebration at Fort Wayne. The Decatur band accompanied the delegation and will play for the celebration.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, August 19, 1915.

COMING_FRIDAY Mayor R. O. Johnson and “Boosters” Coming Friday—Launching His BOOM FOR GOVERNOR Will be Here Friday Morning at 10 O’clockCourt House Square. Decatur will royaly welcome an Adams county boy tomorrow morning, in the person of Mayor Rosswell O. Johnson, of Gary, who is candidate for the nomination for governor of Indiana on the Republican ticket. Hon Shafer Peterson today received from Mr. Johnson’s secretary an announcement that Mayor Johnson and his party of "Boosters" will arrive here Fridaymorning at ten o'clock. They will be met by the republicans of this city and town, as the committee in charge, and by all other friends, and an interesting time is anticipated. There will be an open air gathering and speech on the courthouse lawn and a rousing ovation will be given. They are making a tour of northern Indiana and are enroute to Monroe, where on Sunday, they will attend an after-harvest festival.. Other prominent politicians will take part on the program also, besides Mayor Johnson and his "boosters.” Last night they were in Kendallville. A despatch from there says: R. O. Johnson, mayor of Gary, with a bodyguard of forty Johnson enthusiastics, was in Kendallville tonight to launch his ( boom fqr governor on the republican ticket. He made a brief address dur- . in the evening, but refused to discuss 1 national issues. Tomorrow he will visit Rome City, Wolcottsville, La- < grange, Orland, Angola, Waterloo, Auburn, Garrett and Fort Wayne, where he will spend the night. The party ’ is traveling in nine automobiles and calls itself the Lake County Harrison ‘ club.

HORSE ISFOUND Outfit Belonging to G. W. Miller Found in South Part of County. WANDERED AWAY Animal Taken Care of by J. L. Graber Until Claimed by Owner. The horse and buggy of George W. Miller, which disappeared between S and 10 o’clock Tuesday evening from its hitching post near the interurban station, was found yesterday and at once restored to the owner. Tommy Durkin was driving about in the south part of the county, when he came across a buggy standing alongside of the road, and inquiring at the C. C. Beer home he was informed that J. L. Graber, who lives near the Beer residence, had seen the horse hitched to the buggy early in the morning and had taken the horse to his barn until some one claimed it. Mr. Graber and Mr. Beer then notified Sheriff Ed Green, who got the animal and restored her to the owner, Lou Miller, a son of George Miller, had driven the horse to town Tuesday evening and hitched it to the post near the interurban station. When he went to get the horse to start for home it was gone. It is believed that it got loose and wandered into the country.

BIG FEATURE TOMORROW Manager Parent of the Crystal theater takes pleasure In announcing that he has secured for tomorrow’s program the big three reel feature entitled "The Face of the Madonna, in which Alice Joyce and Guy coombs take the leading parts. This is the feature that was billed several weeks ago but which failed to arrive. In connection the single reel entitled “Mabel’s Busy Day’’ a Charlie Chaplin reel will be given. Todays program consists of a Vitagraph comedy entitled “The Park Honeymooner’s” an episode of The Hazzards of Helen entitled “The Box Car Trap” and a Biograph drama entitled "The Master of the Sword.”

TO TAKE AUTO TRIP Ray D. Christen; his mother, Mrs. John Christen and granddaughter, Miss Naomi Christen, her sister, Mrs. Annie E. Magley of Kenton, Ohio, and niece, Miss Jesse Magley, will leave Friday morning on an auto trip to Toledo, O. They will be guests c.f Mrs. Christen’s son-in-law. the Rev. B. B. Uhl and family and of Mrs. Magley’s son, Lawrence Magley and family. They will be gone a week and expect Io visit in Detroit and at Cedar Point, Ohio, also. CARD OF THANKS M.r and Mrs. Otis Poling wish to thank all the neighbors and friends and tiie Ben Hurs for the kindnesses shown them, and the beautiful floral offerings given, in their bereavement, the deatli of their little babe. APPRECIATE HER Read This About Mrs. Cow and Then See Whether You do Her Justice IN YOUR THOUGHTS

She is a Very Useful Beast Says One Who Knows Her Well.

The following was a toast relivered at the banquet of the graduating class of 1915, Indiana Veterinary College, by Dr. Emett Davis, Associate Professor of Cattle Pathology of that college: This glass of slued, this life-sustain-ing God-given beverage, Is a product of the cow, man’s best friend. You arise in the morning, seat yourself in your easy rocker, encase your feet in shoes made from her skin. You go to your morning meal and are there served with your choice of over forty different varieties of breakfast cereals that are made in massive mills whose machinery is driven by belts made from her skin; the threshers that threshed the grain were driven by belts that were laced together with whang made from her skin; the plows that turned the sod were drawn by huge tugs made from her skin, and the fields where the grain was raised were fertilized with bone meal made from her bones. And you also have a plate of hot sour-milk biscuit, breaded veal cutlets taken from her baby calf, cream for your coffee, butter for your bread taken from her milk. You go to your office and there you enter your daily business transactions in huge’ legers whose backs are made from her skin and are bound together with glue made from her hoofs. Arriving at your home in the evening. you hang your wraps on the halltree that is equipped with her horns. The first course of your dinner Is o! soup made from her tail; the second a delicious pot roast taken from her loins, and your desert is a frozen delicracy made from her cream. And this glass of milk, product of the cow, man’s best friend, not only quenches your thirst and satisfies your hunger, but reflects in the bright faces of your children health, happiness and proper nourishment.

The Hindus worshiped the cow as their God. She was the gilded stairway leading them to the heavens, the bright and shining star, guiding them, leading them on to eternal happiness and plenty.

The cow was first known to us at Plymouth Rock. There she was used by our forefathers as an instrument of survey, not as the bright, shining, pointed-steel instrument of to-day, but as two sturdy oxen yoked to a primitive plow and turning a furrow around the greatest given area of ground from dawn till the setting of the sun. The cow tided the little colony of Quakers over the long, dreary winters, when their meager crops had failed. With famine and starvation staring on every hand, it was her milk and the sacrifice of her carcass that enabled them to withstand the privations and hardships alloted to early settlers. From the east the cow blazed the trail to the west, clearing the forests, rolling the logs and transforming the wilderness Into the fertile fields and happy homesteads that we enjoy today. The cow goes forth in the mountain, on the meadow and on the plain, gathering the grasses and the herbs, turning them into milk to fill the mother’s breast that she may nourish her baba, (Continued cn page 2)

ALL IS_ READY For Big Sunday School Picnic to be Given by Calvary Sunday School ON NEXT SATURDAY Many Visiting Schools Will Attend—Everybody is Invited. The following announcement for the big Sunday school picnic is made by the committee in charge: All arrangements for the Large Sunday school picnic to be given by tiie Calvary E. V. G. Sunday school east of this city, Saturday, August 21, ire now complete and barring bad weather will, we believe be a grand success.

There will be visiting Sunday schools galore present. The ground committee have made all arrangement to handle the immense crowd admirably, they have a large number of comfortable seats erected. The program will be filled from top to bottom with good speakers, good music, declamations and bo forth. The committees in charge have decided on a real picnic and have in one sense of the word made arangements for a real profitsharing picnic as a very large percentage of the profits derived from the lunch and refreshments will be expended for the visiting people's pleasure. A large band and every man a real musician will brighten the corner where you are (which we admit has been somewhat blue for us all. There will be visitors present from Lima Van Wert, Daisy, Ohio City, Glenmore, Wren, and Willshire, Ohio. Bobo, Pleasant Mills, Decatur, Berne, Peterson, Preble and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Lunch and refreshments served on the ground. Come early and stay late, at the grove one-half mile south of Calvary church, Saturday, August 21 Evening social.

A GREAIJVENT W T as Seventh Annual Reunion of French-Runyon Families Sunday AT LINN GROVE Judge Smith and Rev. Heil Spoke—Linn Grove Band Furnished Music.

The Seventh Annual Reunion of the F rencli and Runyon families was held , in the Meshberger grove Sunday, August 15th. There was a large gathering ' of relatives and friends present. There was appropriate speaking by the Rev. Heil and Judge Smith, and the Linn Grove band rendered some good music. There was a great dinner and a general good social time. The following officers were elected for the next reunion. Mrs. David Runyon, President; Mr. Eugene French, vice-president; Mr. William Hall, treasurer; W. C. Yonell, secretary; Mrs. V. W. Hornada, correspondent secretary. Committee on preparing grounds, Alonzo Runyon, Mr. Earl French, Ely French. Committee on entertainment, Mr. A. Y. French, Miss Minerva French, W. C. Vornell. Decorating committee, Miss Cleo Har nada, Miss Grace French, Miss Hildred Runyon, Mrs. Minnie French, The Eighth annual reunion of the French-Runyon families will be held in the Meshberger grove the third Sunday in August, 1916. W. C. VORNELL, Sec. o ACCIDENT NOT NOTICED While the Music Makers were playing the "Anvil Chorus ’ at one of the Chautauquas recently a head came off one of the hammers of the mirimbaphone and smashed a bulb in the footlights. It was so realistic that the audience thought it a part of the program. o ATTEND MILLINERY OPENING Mrs. A. Boese and daughter, Marie, and Miss Clara Weiland went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend the millinery

WILL VISIT PORTER HOME Mrs. Gone Stratton Porter, authoress, is confined to a Ft. Wayne hospital suffering from a fractured ankle, and will be unable to be at her Geneva home at the time of the Northern Indiana Dental meeting here, and as the result, the trip to her home by the wives of the dentists will not be as complete as it has been hoped for. The trip to Mrs. Porter’s home by automobile will be made, however, and there will be women there to emtertain the visitors. Nearly one hundred women are expected here on the date of the convention and they will take the trip to Geneva and through the Limberlost by automobile. The picnic supper at Geneva in which the dentists are expected to join their wives, has not be°n made a settled plan.—Bluffton Banner.

CUT OUT GRAFT Wisconsin Passes Law to Prohibit the Practice of Fee-splitting BETWEEN COUNTRY Physician and the City Specialist—Heavy Penalty is Attached. 1n1913, following considerable dis-, cusslon of the fee-splitting evil, the; Wisconsin legislature passed a law, making it a fraud for a surgeon to! offer or to pay a commission for surgical patients refered to him. No penalty was imposed by this law on the receiver of the commission. An amendment recently passed by the present legislature provides that “any physi-' cian or surgeon— who shall — demand, receive or retain any money or other consideration directly or indirectly from the physician or surgeon treating or operating on the patient so induce I or advised shall be guilty of a criminal fraud." The penalty for either giving or receiving a commission for surgical cases is fine or imprisonment, while conviction is made an automatic anulment of the license to practice The law as amended should be broad enonugh ami strong enough to pu< a stop to whatever fee-splitting evil there may be in Wisconsin.

The above article from the “Journal A. M. A.” shows how the progressive state of Wisconsin is trying to clean up the “fee-splitting’’ evil. “Fee-split ting" means the secret division of med ical fees between doctors, the one usu ally a surgeon in a city the other a physician in a small town. When surgeons became two numerous in the city, they began to buy patients—that is they offered a big bonus to the “little-town doctor" for any cases that he might refer them. The patient is charged a good round fee and the surgeon slips part to the doctor. It is easy to see that an unscrupulous physician might rush every pat ient possible to the surgeon for hipart of the fee. Now the family doctor usually earns all he gets but the back handed secret division of fees is to be condemned. I The people are fast learning that ' the so called big specialist in the city , is only a man and that In most cases the home doctor can do most of the work himself. Doctors also are beginning to see that the specialist In the city is getting fat from work that they should do themselves and are prepar- j ing themselves for any work that may fall to them. So that in many small towns there now are found men who are as well educated and prepared to do surgery as those In the cities. These men will soon do all the local work and the “fee-splitting" evil will be thus nipped in the bud.—Contributed by Adatns County Physician.

_ „ , WIN TENNIS TOURNAMENT A lively and enthusiastic tennis tournament was held yesterday afternoon on the south end tennis courts in which C. Holthouse and R. Ehinger won the laurels. On account of getting a late start the finals were postponed until this afternoon. The teams and scores are as follows: C Holthouse & R. Ehinger vs. A Sutton & Stephenson, 3-6, 6-4. 8-6; I. Macy & C. Coverdale Vs. Enos & Davison, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5; Holthouse & Ehinger vs. Williams and Coverdale. 6-1. 613: The finals were played between Holthouse & Ehinger and Macy & Coverdale with the following results, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.

Price, Two Cents

DEATH LIST IS GROWING I Total Number of Known ■ Dead Reaches One Hundred Thirty-one. COMPLETE LIST OF Casualties Will Not be Known for Days—Government Sends Relief. Dallas, Aug. 19,—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The death toll of the three day hurricane that swept the gulf country from Lousiana to 'the Rio Grande will not be determined for days. The known dead early this afternoon totaled 131. New Orleans, Aug. 19,—(Special to Dally Democrat) —Twenty persons were drowned at Virginia Point, in Lho collapse of the Causeway Hotel with sixty guests, according to reports reaching here today. The life saving station at Surfside, Texas, is reported to have been demolished. Abbeville, La., Aug. 19, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —One hundred and ninety persons, including many women and children, have been marooned on Marsh Island, 30 miles from here for 72 hours. All efforts at rescue or to convey food to them so far have failed A fleet of rescue boats sent under the personal order of Gov. Hall was driven back by high winds. Another attempt was made this morning. Berlin, Aug. 19, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The first definite announcement from the government that Poland will not be restored to Russia when a peace treaty is signed was made today by the German chancellor on opening the session of the Reichstagg. The chancellors speech pledging a brighter future for the Poles was interpreted by his hearers as a promise that an independant Polish nation, perhaps under Austrian or German power, will emerge from the war.

El Paso, Texas, Aug. 19, —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Replying to tho Lansing Pan-American request to join a conference with other factions and establish peace in Mexico, Gen. Villa promised all assistance m his power. His note was made public today. Washington. Aug. 19, — (Special to Daily Democrat)—The war department today arranged to send food, bedding, and tents to storm sufferers at and around Galveston. The supplies will go from Fort Still and Leavenworth. Army officers will co-operate with the Red Cross. Huston, Texas, Aug. 19, —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Shereeveport base ball team, with three hundred other refugees reached here from Galvveston today. Jo Kneaves, manager said that between 50 and 100 lives were lost there. D. L. Carroll estimated the number of dead at much less. The water at one time was six feet deep in Galveston. Nine big oil tanks burst spreading oil over the city. A dance was held at the hotel Galvez, when the storm was fierciest Monday night. Candles were used as- , ter the power house went out of commission.

HINTS FOR THE WISE A timely tip to the auto driver when approaching a street intersection that may only prevent a serious accident that may result in a loss of life but will also greatly aid the traffic officer in better serving the public, is to sound a warning and by sticking out the hand, indicate to the officer or other cars that may be approach ng or following you, just what direc t on you are going and whether or not you are going to make the turn. The traffic officer is not a mind reader and does not know your intentions and may at some time give you the right of way when another machine coming from the opposite direction also gets the go-ahead signal. In mailing tae turn you are therefore liable to collide with the other machine with serious consequence. It not only takes but a second’s time to stick out your hand but Is also one of the most important “safety first” principles.