Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1916 — Page 1

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PARKER_TALKS Parker Wants to Concentrate Progressive Fight for Electors. BALANCE OF POWER Is the Ambition of the Bull Mooscrs—Patching Up the Machine. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Aug. 3—(Special to the : Democrat) —Cheering every mention of a national ticket and every i denouncation of the “delivery" of the ' progressive party to Charles Hughes, t by the national committee, the prog- I ressive national conference got under • way at noon today—one hour behind < schedule time. > Definite action and any statements that may he made probably will not 1 come till late this afternoon or tonight 1 The conference recessed at 1:30 to meet again at 3:00 o’clock. Upon the demand of a large majority of the dele- 1 gates the meeting was open to all comers. As the conference convened John M. Parker, the vice presidential candidate , made known his plan for the first time for the party. “My plan,” he said in an interview," is the concentration of the progressive fight on a few states where there is the best chance to eelct presidential electors. We would not have a pres- ' dential candidate so these electors could swing to the candidate ready to make the most concessions to the progressives. If neither side ‘conceded enough and if we held the balance of power in the electorial college we could then swing the election of the president into the house of representatives. “There are only two possibilities for this conference to decide: shall we j have a national ticket or shall we not" c said John M. Parker, the conventions ( nominee for vice president, when <te was seen by a United Press man at k breakfast with L. A. Laughlin of Kan- I sas City. 1 “There is no possibility that we , shall endorse Wilson or Hughes,” he . , continued. Parker then said in an-! swer to a question that there would not be a national ticket because the ( party had no suitable man to head it. £ He said he would refuse the nomina- ( tion for president it it were offered t him. < Parker refused to give advice either to Wilson or Hughes as to how to cap- t ture the progessive vote. He then launched into a vigorous bit of advice , for President Wilson: i “If Wilson sees his opporunity he , will get a double barreled shot gun , and go after Kitchen and Hope Smith, who are opposing his child labor bill, he said. “He should tell these two leaders that they aren't fit to be in congress. It is my shame that the J southern men are the only ones oppos- i ing this legislation.” i (By Dan L. Beebe.) , United Press Staff Correspondent. Indianapolis. Aug. 3—(Special to the Daily Democrat)— Progressive party I I leaders who are gathered here today, for the national conference that will lay down the policy for the party for this campaign will decide not to place a national ticket in the field, but will arrange for party conference to be called soon after the election in No-1 vember to make aggressive four-year plans for 1920. This was the opinion expressed by several of teh leaders before the conference opened at 11:00 a. m. There is no chance that the conference will go on record as favoring cither Woodrow Wilson nor Charles E. Hughes for president, according to these same leaders who pointed out that this conference was called as a protest against the action of the national Progressive committee, which favored the election of Hughes. Progressive leaders from every state were arriving during the early hours today from nearly every state, coming in twos and threes. Many came in yesterday and last night. Probably fifty progressives had arrived at 9 a .m. The conference started „■ 11:00 o’clock in the Claypool hotel.] A point of contention before the eonferefpm onened was whether it would be open to the press and public The general impression was that it would go into executive session and reach the public through formal statem Bainbridge Colby’s statement issued

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in New York last week was taken today by many as the key note for this conference. “My idea the country, rehearsing the hidden strategy of our convention, the traterous action of our national committee and its subsequent repudiattion in all the states where there was free expression and action. I think we should place the responsibility for'the party’s unhappy plight just where it belongs, and take such stet>s as are possible for assenjbling the party's representatives after election day, and then taking measures for the continuation and renewal of the party. “Should the conference give up the idea of holding a convention the action of the individual progressives on the presidency will be left where it belongs— to their judgment and conscience.” Edwin M. Lee. progressive chairman for Indiana, said that no matter what action the conference takes as to a national ticket, the plans of the progressive party in Indiana will remain the same —there will be an aggressive campaign in every county''for the state and county tickets. Asked which of the two major parties this campaign would be likely to hurt most Tx>e replied. (Continued on - Page z.)

WILL TAKE HAND President Wilson Asks for Conference in Order to Learn About TRAINMEN’S STRIKE Threatening to Tie Up All the Nationally Big Railroads. (United Press Service) Washington, Aug. 3 —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —President Wilson today requested a conference with Commissioner Chambers of the United States board of Mediation and Concilliation presumably to discuss the threatened strike of the four big brotherhoods of railway trainmen which would cause a nationwide tieup of transportation. A problem, “tremendiously dangerous in both its economic and political aspects" faces President Wilson in the threatened strike of 400,000 railway trainmen according to administration officials today. The matter is now directly before the president as a letter from chairWheeler of the railway commission, United States chamber of commerce, urges an “inquiry in behalf of the administration" to investigate the impending crisis.

VICTIM IS WORSE (United Press Service) Bluffton, Ind., Aug. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat)—William Lugar, the eight year old son of Samuel Lugar residing in Jackson township in the south part of the county and who was discovered to have infantile paralysis yesterday is worse today. Yesterday the boy could move hands and legs today he lies inert. It is believed he will die. A HUNDRED DOWN. Any one can have a Ford now. The Kalver-Noble Garage company today started to give out Fords on a hundred dollar payment down and a twenty-dollar payment each month. This will let anyone that can raise a hundred dollars and meet a twentydollar a month payment have a car. There will be a lot sold, a dozen or more sales being about ready to be cdosed at this time. TRUTEES MEET. The regular monthly meeting of the township trostees was held this afternoon in the office of County Superintendent E, S. Christen. Report of the teachers will be made and the matter of the opening of the schools i decided YEOMEN SOCIAL Attention is again called to the Yeomen social which will be given tonight l on the streets. Look for the lodge | and its bevy of workers willing to wait upon your wants. ‘ ’wanted. at the Bobo M. E. church Saturday evcial and parcel post sale to be held at the Bobo M. E. church Satrday evening, August 5. Bring your friends. COMMITTEE.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, August 3, 1916.

National Association of Osteopaths in Convention at Kansas City. TELL OF NEW CURES Claim that Infantile Paralysis Can be Cured by Special Treatments. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 3 —(Special Dispatch)—A campaign against infantile paralysis was announced at the twentieth annual convention of the American Osteopathic association when it met here today. Claiming that the malady is distlnclv a disease of the spinal cord, and that it falls particularly in their field, the osteopaths intend to cure the dread scourge that is sweeping the nation and snuffing out the lives of hundreds of children. The sessions of the association are being held in Convention hall, three thousand delegates being in regular attendance. Announcement of other important treatments of serious diseases were made. The technique for the newly discovered cure for cataracts was made public for the first time by Dr. R. H. Dunnington of Philadelphia “Twilight sleep,” without the use of drugs, was also explained. Continuous clinics were held all week under the direction of specialists. A new cure for malaria was announced, which includes a diet of raw or rare beef in connection with osteopathic treatment of the spine. High blood pressure may also be cured by osteopathic treatments, according to Dr. S. V. Robuck of Chicago, who announced to the convention that he has succeeded in often reducing or curing many of the cases of paralysis from high blood pressure.

FOR Goo£ ROADS Government Experts Are Busy Helping to Get Good Roads. ISSUE MANY BULLETINS Telling How to Maintain Roads After They Are Built. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C„ Aug. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat)— “Although it will be impractical for many years to come to improve more than a small per cent of the roads of the country with hard surfaces,” said the United States office of public roads today, "roads should not be neglected, and with a little care may in many cases be made adequate to the needs of the communities they serve.” Many country roads, the government experts said, may be greatly improved by judicious grading and systematic maintenance. Earth roads should be at least 20 feet wide and preferably 24 to 30 feet; they should be crowned with a rise of one inch to the foot toward the center; they should have side ditches; through swampy land the road bed should be raised above the general level of the country to secure drainage. For grading and crooning the road, a drag made of the two halves of a split log is in general use. The split log drag is made by joining the halves in a vertical position and attaching chains and doubletrees so that when drawn by horses it moves along the road at an angle ot 45 degrees, the foremost end to the side of the road so that the earth may be directed toward the center. The drag should be light enough to be lifted by one man. Dragging is simple and inexpensive, says the government bureau, and when used in conjunction with a road machine, helps much toward the construction of a good road. Dragging often costs but 50 cents a mile. A mile of road can be dragged in a few hours. CHURCH SOCIAL An ice cream social and general entertainment will be given Wednesday . evening August 9th at the Salem church Everybody is invited and a good time assured.

KIPFER LOSES EYE Ulrich Kfpfer, son of Ephraim Klpfer. who resides east of Vera Cruz, had his left eye put out Tuesday afternoon when a splinter from a broken drill bit penetrated the eye ball. Young Kipfer has been working with a threshing outfit and was making some repairs. drilling a hole with a small hand drill when the bit broke and flew upwards, one large splinter striking him fairly in the center of the eye-ball. The humor which extends the eye-ball escaped, allowing the eye-ball to collapse. Mr. Kipfer was taken to Berne, where oculists and physicians worked with him all last night but at the conclusion of their efforts gave no ho_pe of saving even a remnant of his sight. The accident happened at the John Kipf'r farm one and one-half miles east of Vera Cruz. Young Kipfer has been followed by misfortune in the las few months. He only recently recovered from a broken leg, suffered in a motorcycle accident last spring.—Bluffton News.

PICKETS FIGHT Indianapolis Union Barbers are Fighting AntiPicket Law. A STRIKE IS ON And Union Men Have Been Carrying Banners on the Streets. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Aug. 3 —Special to tlie Daily Democrat)—Five union barbers charged with violating the anti-picket-ing ordinance rested their defense in 1 t police court today on the pea that the ordinance is unconstitutional. The] court was to act today on a demurrer filed by the defense in its attack on the ordinance. The picket of the bar-1 bers, being on the downtown streets,! has attracted much attention and for that reason has focussed the efforts of those for and against the union barber principles. Th eanti-picketing ordinance prohibts the carrying of playcards, banners, advertising posters, of any kind, and hand bills in the streets of Indianapolis. The demurred contains the statement the ordinance is contrary to section one, article fourteen; section nine; article one, and section twenty-three, article one of the constitution of the United States. It also states the wearing of a shirt displaying a statement does not constitute the carrying of a placard, and that the ordinance does not effect everyone, but only certain classes of persons. E. S. BOLINGER HURT. John Bolinger is in receipt of word of injury sustained by his brother, E. S. Bolinger, of Columbia City, a mason well known here, having worked with his brother much. Tuesday evening, while descending a ladder while carrying down a scaffold, he slipped when twelve feet from the ground and was forced to jump. He alighted on his feet in such away that the left ankle was broken and a small bone in the right ankle was also broken. Mr. Bolinger had been ill two years, and spent one winter in Florida. He was just recovering sufficiently to return to work when this accident befell him. He is also a brother of Mrs. W. H. Myers of Adams street. ALL ABOARD FOR BIG PICNIC If you want to nave a great big day, enjoy a delightful outing and see many interesting sights, join the M. E. annual excursion to Walbridge park next Thursday. Fare for the round trip is $1.25 for adults and 65c for children. Special train leaves here at 6:30 a. m. arrives at park at 10:30,Baggage and baskets will be taken care of free. Its a chance for a big vacation in one day. _ —- O ... - — I. BUY YOUR CHAUTAUQUA TICKET The tickets for Chautauqua week j are now on sale at various places | down town places and by the seventy guarantors. Buy yours now and save the boys a lot of worry. If you haven't promised anybody, we would be glad to have you buy your ticket at this office,. We have ’em for sale, $2.50 for the season. Come and get yours or telephone us and we will deliver them.

AT THEJIOSPITAL Miss Gusta Cramer Taken to Lutheran Hospital for Operation Last Night. GASTRIC ULCERS Has Been 11l Eight Weeks —Came Out Strong from Anaesthetic. Miss Gusta Cramer, one of the chief telephone operators, was taken to Fort Wayne last evening to the Lutheran hospital, where at 8:30 o’clock she underwent an operation, connecting the samll intestine with the stomach. For eight weeks Miss Cramer has been very ill of ulcers of the stomach. About four o’clock yesterday afternoon she suffered an attack, the nature of which led to the belief that the ulcers might have produced, or would be about to produce, a perforation of the stomach. She was taken to the hospital at once. Perforation had not resulted yet. and the operation will relieve any trouble of that nature. She came out strongly from the anaesthetic and is doing very well. Miss Cramer had been getting along well from her several weeks’ illness, when last Saturday, in swinging, she suffered an attack of nausea that brought on vomiting, and complications. She grew better from that attack again, until she became worse yesterday afternoon, before the operation. SON IS BORN In Fort Wayne birth reports is noted the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Blossom, at St. Joheph’s hospital. Mr. Blossom is a former Decatur boy and is a brother of Mrs. Ansel Bremerkamp, this city.

BAND JJONCERT Band Will Play Entire Evening Friday at the Park for Social. A GOOD PROGRAM Mite Society Will Serve Refreshments of Ice Cream. Candies, Etc. The city band will play the entire evening Friday at Waterworks park, for the social to be given by tlie Mite society of the Methodist church. Ice cream, both in dishes and in cones, crackerjack, etc. will be sold by the ladies and a delightful evening’s entertainment is assured. The following is the excellent program for the band concert: March, Transatlantic —St. Clair. Overture. Three Merry Knights— Hayes. March, Three Rings—Talbot. Waltz. Elona—St. Clair. March Coming Ruler—Knoch. Two Step, lola—Johnson. Overture, Magneta—Huff. March, National Emblem —Bagley. REFORMED PICNIC At Steele’s Park Tomorrow —Meet At Church. The Reformed Sunday school will hold its annual picnic tomorrow at Steele's park. A fine time is anticipated. All those who have no way of riding to the park, should meet at the church at 9:30 tomorrow morning, and automobiles will be there to convey them to the park. WANT FORTY MORE RECRUITS Company D. light artillery now being organized at Fort Wayne can take in an additional forty men to bring the roll up to 175. They now have 131 and met last night electing officers. They would like to have a bunch from here and if any number wish to enlist I will send a recruiting officer here to I examine them. The headquarters are at the Empress theater at Ft. Wayne.. MENNONITE MISSION PROGRAM A mission program of unusual interest will be given next Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the Mennonite church, Berne by the children of said church.

JOINS MACHINE GUN SQUAD “Pay day and everybody happy" is what Schticks Schumacher writes us fro mills camp at Llano Grande. Texas. He nlso adds that he has been transferred to the machine gun service and thinks he will like it. He says the barrel of goods sent from here caused a lot of joy in camp and made Decatur a favorite with tlie boys. They made a ten mile hike a few days ago and the next hike will take them to the border. He says they hear all kinds of stories as to when they will get home, some believeing it will be in September and otiters not until after election. He says also that the reports that the boys are all against Wilson is untrue and that most of them on the contrary are for the president. | 160TH. REUNION Invitations have been received here for the 16th annual reunion of the 160th I. V. I. to be held on Monday, August 21. at the resort of John Rapp at Blue Lake 2% miles from Churubusco. Jitney service has been arranged between Blue Like and Columbia City and Fort Wayne and all preparations are complete to make this reunion a very enjoyable one. A i number of tlie members of the Wells County company will be in attendance. |

BEWAREJAD EGGS Inspector Likely to Drop Into Decatur Any Day— Keep Them Good. THE INDIANA LAW Forbids Sale of Bad Eggs— Candling is Necessary —The Rules. The Indiana law forbids the sale or offering for sale eggs unfit for human food. Section 3, Shap. 104, Acts 1907,] “If it consists in any proportion of a filthy decomposed, putrid or rotten animal or vegetable substance,” etc.] Fine first offense $lO to S3O. Second offense, $25 to SIOO. Third offense* SIOO and 30 to 90 days imprisonment. To avoid the penalties of this pure food law. all dealers are required to’ candle all eggs after May Ist. 1916, J and to throw out all spots, blood ring| and rots. Inspectors of this department and all public and police and health officers of the sta’te are instructed to en-j force these provisions of the law. Sell eggs on a loss oft basis meaning all rots out. Provide plenty clean dry nests for the hens. Gather the eggs daily in cool weather and twice per day in hot or rainy weather. Use the dirty and small eggs at home. Keep eggs in cool place free from odor. Don’t sell incubator eggs. They are bad. Market your eggs daily if possible. If not,, every other day. Don’t sell eggs which were found in a stolen nest. Keep the eggs out of the sun when taking them to town. Kill or sell roosters as soon as hatching season is over. A great many more bad eggs are being sold this year than formerl ”. Precaution should be taken by the] farmers, dealers and storekeepers to see that bad eggs are not marketed. State inspectors are now on the job making inspections in different parts of the state and will drop into Decatur and surrounding small towns most any day. If you know of violations of the law or wish information write to H. E. Barnard, State Food Commissioner. State House, Indianapolis, Indiana. NO MORE STOPS. In compliance with a recommendation ot the city council the driver of the fire truck in the future will not stop at intermediate points, when answering a fire alarm, to pick up firemen, because of the delay in answering the call and also because of the danger of having firemen jump on the rapidly moving truck. Should a fireman get hurt in catching the truck, the city would be liable under the workmen’s compensation act. The • firemen at their regular meeting last night adopted resolutions thanking ' the public for their patronage at the social given at the waterworks park a week ago.

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LINER IS SUNK Britannic, Three Thousand Ton Steel Steamer, is Sunk Today. NO DETAILS GIVEN First Feared Great White Star Liner Was Caught in Mid-ocean. (United Press Service) BULLETIN London, Aug. 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Tlie unarmed liner Britannic owned by tlie W. H. Cockerline & company has been sunk it was announced today. The ship was a steel screw vessel of 3487 tons and not the big liner as was at first feared . BULLETIN London, Aug. 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Tlie liner Britannic lias been sunk, it was announced today. The vessel was unarmed. —Lloyd's register lists three vessels named Britannic, one of them the huge White Star Liner of 47,500 tons displacement, one of the biggest passenger ships afloat. The other Britannica are owned by W. H. Cockerline and company and a Norweigian firm. Two are under British registry but the last named boat flys the Norweigian flag. London. Aug. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Roger Casement paid the penalty for treason today with his life. He was hanged at Pentonville prison at 9:07 today. Ten minutes later his body was cut down life being pronounced extinct. The Irish leader’s last words, spoken while he waited fearlessly for the drop to be sprung, were: “I die for my country.” o . - - COURT HOUSE NEWS. A. J. Moser & Company have brought suit against John S. McCrory & Son, for $125 for hay purchased by the defendants from Carl Murphy, on which the plaintiffs claim to have had a chattel mortgage. The mortgage was on one-fifth of twenty acres of growing hay. C. J. Lutz is the plaintiff’s attorney. Fishers licenses have been issued to Lawrence Smith and Leßoy Crable. Real estate transfers: Jesse Koos, et al to James F. Arnold, et al 126.4 acres of St. Marys township, $18,270; Michael Finnerty et al to Charles Buhler 80 acres of Jefferson township, $6400. NINE DEAD IN STORM. (United Press Service) Middleborough, Ky„ August 3—• (Special to Daily Democrat)—Nine bodies were recovered and thirty persons were missing as the result of a cloudburst in Barren valley, Claibourne county, Tennessee, today. Blair’s creek became swollen from a rain, starting at 8 o'clock yesterday and following a cloudburst at 2 a. m. swept everything before it. Nearly every house in an area of six miles by one mile wide was washed away. About one hundred fifty persons lived in homes bordering that stream. LOCAL OPTION ELECTION. (United Press Service) Pierceton, Ind., Aug. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat) —This town, which voted wet two years ago by two votes, held another option election today. Following the other election the drys won some legal victories and the saloons remained closed. This election was a result of a wet petition. Much bitterness has been in evidence in the. campaign leading up to today. The election was to decide the liquor question for Washington township. ON TRIAL. (United Press Service) Vinvennes, Ind., Aug. 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Dr. C. W. Benham, one of the city's most prominent physicians, went to trial in city court charged with violating the state antinarcotic law. which provides that doctors shall not prescribe narcotics to habitual users of the drug. The law was passed by the 1913 legislature. CELEBRATION TODAY. (United Proas Service) , Petersburg, Ind., Aug. 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Pike county today celebrated the centennial of the state and county with a pageant which will take two nights for its presentation. ELKS TO MEET The Elks will meet this evening and a social session will also be held.