Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1916 — Page 1

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YEGGS BLEW THE MARTIN-KLEPPER SAFE LAST NIGHT Securing Forty Dollars in Cash and Five Hundred in Checks. MAKE AN ESCAPE ■■ — On Clover Leaf Eastbound Extra—The Safe Was Demolished. Yegors blew the safe at the MartinKlepper creamery last night at twothirty o’clock securing forty dollars in mony and over five hundred dollars in cream checks, leaving general checks amounting to as much more in the drawer they threw away. Discovery of the robbery was not made until five o’clock this morning. The robbery was consumated by two men. one a ‘ peg-leg”. Both were seen yesterday at several times, and at five-thirty they entered the creamery building and bought some milk.; At this time, it is believed, they laid I their plans for entrance. Ed Thompson, night operator at the Eric railroad station, heard the blast at two-thirty o'clock and ran out of . his office. He saw the two men running away.. They ran west from the | creamery alongside the Burk elevator where they caught Clover !>>af east bound extra number lfi2 which left Decatur at 2:32 a. m. Thus the time of the blowing is established. Entrance to the creamery building ’ was gained through an east window forced with a jimmy. Entrance was ' direct into the offices. Here the yeggs first jinrmed a door so that escape could be made quickly and without hindrance. Two desks of the clerks, containing books and records were broken open and ransacked. Nothing of value was kept in the drawers or cupboards bt the desks and the search proved of no avail. Then the yeggs evidently turned their attentio nto the Gary safe. Puttying up the seam of the door with, roap they poured glycerine in the ca-, vity, placed a detonator and lit the fuse. The resulting explosion was what Thompson heard. The door of the safe was demolished. Parts of the castings lay all over over the room. Several windows were pierced by flying fragments. The fireproofing material of the safe was thrown over the office. The interior of the safe and its contents were rcorched. Only one charge was necessary to force the door. Portions i f the glycerine that did not explode still clung to the safe door this morning. The books and records in the safe were not ransacked. The thugs devoted their attention strickly to the cash box. This they tore from the safe bodily. Grabbing the cash drawer they ran. The yeggs ran west alongside the I P.urk elevator building. Here they stopped a moment and rifled the casli drawer getting forty dollars in currency and silver and over five hundred dollars in milk checks of small denom-| fnations that were to have been mail-, ed out today. Leaving five hundred dollars in general checks in the, drawer they threw it away. Clover Leaf extra number 162, east I bound, which arrived in Decatur at 2:10 a. m. and left at 2:32 a. m. was just starting out and the yeggs got on this. The conductor of the train saw them get on but did not know of the robbery. Discovery that there had been a robbery was not made until the creamery was opened this morning, when the police were called. Melchi went to the building at once and then notified police east and west, particularly east, to be on the look-out for the two suspictioned men. A night man is kept at the creamery building each night until twelve and when he left no one was lurking around, and tjje building was closed tight. Just a week ago Hr. Klepper. manager of the company, sold the safe, and ordered a new and larger one. Dozens of marks were left by the yeggs in their hurry to get away. That it was a professional job is

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conceded by ull. Il bore all the earmarks of expert work. In many respects it was carried out by the thugs almost identically like the Knox five and ten cent store robbery In Fort Wayne last fall. It Is believed by the police that the thugs spent several days in the city sizing up various places of business for a ‘ job" and finally selected the creamery. Ohio police are on the look-out today and any efforts of the burglars to cash the creamery checks will likely result in their arrest. They may be able to cash some of them, but the majority wil be worthless paper in their hands. TAGGART TalkS Senator Thomas Taggart Opens Indiana Campaign With Speech. TO SAVE MONEY, ■ I Recommends Using Common Sense in Making Appropriations. (United Press Service) Washington. D. C., Aug. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Senator Thomas Taggart virtually opened his Indiana campaign for election to the United States senate when in a set speech on the floor of the senate today he announced himself as an enemy of “pork” and the new “watchdog of the treasury.” Senator Taggart vied with Charles E. Hughes in his attack on what he termed “extravagance of the worst sort” in the rivers and harbors bill and the public buildings bill. The senator from Indiana, who was , appointed to his present seat, and who is to campaign against James Eli Watson to retain it, did not men- 1 tion foreign relations, but confined , himself to domestic legislation, praising many achievements of the administration. but denouncing congress as extravagant and unbusinesslike. "It is unfair, unbusiness-like to pass I items in pork-barrel bills like the rivers and harbors and public building bills at this session or any other session of congress,” said Taggart in his peroration. “To do this, those who pay income and other taxes in the state of Indiana and elsewhere 1 must have their tax rates almoust doubled.” Taggart went on record as against a further increase in taxation of incomes and corporations, but favored instead issuance of the remaining $191,000,000 in Panama canal bonds in order to meet the extraordinary j expense of preparedness. He said ' that by this means, which he declar-I ed was business-like, coming generations would bear their share of the burden, which would not fall with its full weight on the country at this time. i "Instead of squandering money in catching cattle ticks, killing coyotes, poisoning ground squirrels, doctoring wild squirrels, doctoring wild ducks. > treating goats suffering from Malta fever, sending out useless garden and vegetable seeds, passing porkbarrel public building bills, would it not be better to get down to rigid bed rock I economy?” asked Senator Taggart. | I “Let us cut off these useless expenditures; save the people from the never-ceasing visits of 'the tax gath-‘ erer; or if it be the fixed and determined purpose of congress to go on ! yearly increasing these appropria--1 tions, would it not be better that we ' turn these wasteful appropriations to the things that will improve the counI try, that will help the people, that I will bring them peace, prosperity and happiness in the future?” Taggart then suggested it congress must spend money, that it turn it to vocational education, “so that every farmer boy graduating from high . school could have a scientific education of intensive agriculture, or so that boys in cities leaving high school I will be first-class mechanics." j The Indiana senator served notice ( on the senate that lie will watch the treasury in these words: “Mr. President, I have been a mem- ’ ber of this body for a short time, but > be my stay here long or short, I shall always be found using my best efforts ■ and judgment in curtailing and cut- « ting off what I consider useless or ex-' : 1 travagant appropriations.” 1 Taggart declared that $200,000,000 should have been saved in the rivers ' and harbors bill and then threw a chill into the solons by asserting that the rivers and harbors bill could not j be compared with the public buildings bill, the latter being "so much 9 ~uuKuued on Page 2.)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, August 12, 1916.

MUST JAY UP Papers Over the State Facing a Paper Famine — No Supply of PAPER IN SIGHT Many Indiana Publications Cut Off Delinquents— Pay or Quit. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Sherman was right about war—so say the Indiana publishers in harmony with publishers all over the United States. The cost of everything, except news, that goes hit othe make-up of a newspaper, has increased so tremenj dously as to take the profits out of “the game” as the newspaper business is called. Indications are that the Indiana newspapers will be forced to raise their subscription price and their advertising rates. Many Hoosier pubi lications already have done this, i White paper alone has more than doubled in cost, in some cases. i Among the Indiana publications that have increased the -revenue either through increased advertising rates or circulation price are such papers as the Hammond Times, two papers at Elkhart, two at Goshen, the Kendall ville News-Sun. and the three weekly I papers at Lawrenceburg. The La- ' doga Leader has creased the size of its paper, and this has become quite the common practice of publishers, who now refuse to print anything but I the most up-to-date local and telegraph news. I A paper at Knightstown has cut off delinquent subscribers, and many pa- , pers are now accepting only paid-in-advance circulation. sufferings Ind Death Releases Spirit of J Mrs. George Ruckman —Passed Away i AT MIDNIGHT FRIDAY I 11l More Than Five Years— Funeral Will be Held Monday Afternoon. — After more than five years’ intense suffering from a cancerous affection, death at twelve o’clock last night sev'ered the body and spirit of Mrs. Geo. , j Ruckman aged 61 years, one of the most highly respected ladies of Root township, at her home northwest of this city. ( 1 Five years ago she underwent the first operation for relief from cancer. This arrested the disease, but later its course continued with increased severity, and the second operation was resorted to. For the past several months I her condition has been very bad, and ' for weeks, death was thought to the , matter of moments. i Her maiden name was Sarah Lenora , Ball. She was the daughter of Jere miah and Elizabeth Ball and was born in this county, May 28, 1855. Forty years ago last May she was married to George Ruckman. Five children were born to them. One. a daughter. Dora, died at the age of two years. I Surviving are the husband and four ' children, William and Delma Ruckman, Addie, wife of Charles Knodle, all of Decatur; Ethel, wife of Fred Okely, who moved from this city io the Ruckman farm, to care for the mother during her illness, | A. C. Ball, James O. Ball, of Decatur, I and Mrs. William Elzey of northwest of Decatur, are brothers and sister. ' One brother and two sisters are deceased. Mrs. Ruckman was said by those who knew her best, to be a most I loving and faithful wife and mother, i a most helpful friend and neighbor, ■ and a lady of truly fine characteristics. • ! She was nearly a lifelong member ‘ of the Methodist church, being aflllia- • ted with the Mt. Pleasant church. 1 j The funeral will be Monday after--1 noon. The procession will leave the - j house at one o'clock for the Methot dist church in this city, where the " services will be conducted at two 1 ! o'clock standard time. Burial will be | in the Decatur cemetery. |

ON BASTARDY CHARGE Miss Nellie Dean, daughter of Geo. Dean, living on Line street, filed an affidavit Monday against William Lee, now employed at the Berghoff brewery at Fort Wayne, but formerly of this city, charging him with being the father of her unborn child. Chief of police Melchi has held a warrant for Lee’s arrest since Monday and yesterday went to Fort Wayne where lie caught Lee on the streets. Lee returned without trouble. Melchi had asked the Fort Wayne police to make the ari*st but evidently they did not care to do so, for they allowed Lee to run around the city wto days without action. This morning Lee made overtures of marriage to Miss Dean, which it is said will be acceptable to the young woman. Upon granting of the license and performance of the marriage ceremony Lee will be released, the police said. The case is in Justice E. B. Lenhart's court. Appointment of New County Agent Will be Made in September AT REGULAR MEETING Os the County Board of Education—Resolutions Ask for Agent. At a meeting of the county board of education this morning commencing at nine o’clock, it was determined to delay until the first meeting day in September the selection of a new county agent to supercede A. J. Hutchins who will leave here for Allen county September 1, where he will assume the duties of county agent for Allen county. The county board or agriculture passed a resolution asking for the ap pointment of a county agent here. This means that the opinion of the majority of farmers of the county Is that we should have a county agent. Most all of the trustees are in favor of continuing the work, and it is pro liable that a selection of a new county agent will be made at the next meet ing, if recommendations from Purdu* university are in hand at that time Six trustees were present at the spec ial meeting this morning. EPWORTH LEAGUE PROGRAM. Miss Helen Walters, leader for the Sunday evening service of the Epworth League at hte M. E. church announces the following program: Song. Song. Scripture Lesson, —Gen. 32:24-30. “The Story of Jacob at Penlel”— Charles Thornburg. “The Battlefield of Prayer”—Nola Snyder. Exeracts from the Meaning of Prayer. Round Table —Minute Talks. Piano Solo—Ruth Mayer. Vocal Solo —Cecil Andrews. Piano Solo —Mrs. Thornburg. Benediction. WED IN DETROIT _ I Miss Marie Shults, Head Trimmer at Burdg Millinery Store, Married ON LAST WEDNESDAY To Ernest Rapp of Toledo, Ohio —Groom is Toledo Business Man. Decatur friends of Miss Marie Shults, who for five seasons has been head trimmer at the Burdg millinery store, will be pleased to hear of her wedding which took place last Wednesday in Detroit, Mich. The bridegroom was Ernest Rapp, of Toledo, Ohio,a prominent business man of that city, Mr. and Mrs. Rapp are now visiting with Mr. and Mrs. James Collett at Van Wert, Ohio Mrs. Collett being a daughter of Mrs. Burdg. They will reside in Toledo, Ohio, The wedding, coming at this time, will be a surprise to many here. Miss Shults has many acquaintances here, who admire her justly, because of | her mhny fine characteristics.

ON TRUE BEAUTY 1 f , Will be Program for Christ tian Endeavor at Chris- > tian Church ON SUNDAY EVENING John Schultz, Leader, Announces Splendid Program for Service. John Schultz, leader of the Christian Endeavor society service at 6:30 Sunday evening at the Christian church, announces the following good program : Subject—True Beauty. Prov. 31:1031. Selection by Orchestra. Song. Prayer. Reading of lesson. Solo—Frank Kern. Talks on Lesson. Selection by Orchestra. Talk. Bible Kinds of Beauty—Rev. Mavity. Violin Solo —Miss Thelma Williams. Song. Solo —J. E. Anderson. Selection by Orchestra. Appointment of Delegates to State Convention, which will be held on August 24-27. Benediction. FUNERAL AT CHURCH. The funeral of Andrew Moyer will be held at th United Brethren churcii, Sunday afternoon at two o’clcok. The body, accompanied by members of the funeral party, arrived this afternoon from Fort Wayne over the G. R. & I. and was taken to the hofne •: his father-in-law Tobias Myers, until the funeral. The Red Men will conduct the funeral. JITNEY LOAVES Price of Five-cent Loaves Remains Same in Decatur in Spite of THE RISE OF WHEAT Marion Bakers Raise Price —Cheaper Wheat Expected by Some. Although the price of wheat is soaring higher and bakers in other cities are considering doing away with the time honored five cent loaf of bread as a result of the sky-rocketing cl wheat, no action, or even consideration has been done by the Decatur bakers, who are continuing the jitney loaves The present high price of wheat is not expected Io remain long. At Marion the bakers have practically determined to bake only ten cent loaves of bread. They claim it will he impossible to continue to make the present five cent loaf of bread without ruining themselves, for the price is based upon a flour cost of $4.50 per barrel. The price of flour yesterday went to SB. o LEAVE FOR ST. LOUIS Mr. and Mrs. Rollo Pifer and daughters, Anna, Isabel and Alice late of Dayton, 0., who have been guests of Mrs. Pifer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W J. Myers, left last night for their fu ture home at St. Louis, Mo., Mr. Pifer is the new state secretary for Missouri of the Young Man’s Christian Association. They go to St. Louis byway of Fort Wayne, South Bend. Chicago and Abingdon, 111., where they will visit before reaching their final destination. IS SOME CARP David Teeple may now claim to be a fisherman. Yesterday while fishing in the Saint Mary’s river he landed a fourteen and three quarter pound carp after a hard tussel. He caught the fish within fifteen minutes from the time he started fishing. The fish was two and one half feet long. RED MEN, NOTICE. , The Red Men will meet at the hall i at one o’clock Sunday afternoon to , make arrangements for attending the f, funeral of Andrew Moyer, at two I o’clock.

) HASH SAYS "NOT GUILTY" Sheriff Green returned last night from Frankfort bringing with him, Robert Hash, 70. wanted here to answer . to the charge of rape. Hash was brought into Justice 1/enhart's court this morning and pleaded "not guilty” He will be given a hearing next Monday afternoon at two o'clock. REAL ESTATE DEALS Erwin Q Michaud have purchased the Frank Lichle home on North Third street. Herman Ehinger has bought the Edge property on North Fifth St. . and will remodel the same. The deal was made through the Erwin & Mich-, and agency. UP TO HIS KNEES Hughes Wading in Prosperity Up to His Knees and Preaching Panic. SOME LIL’ TRIP i Over Country With $1.50 Wheat and SIO.OO Hog Prices to Explain. (By Willis S. Thompson) Indianapolis, Aug. 12—(Candidate Hughes is having a pleasant trip across the country. The prosperity parades of the farmers who came in their automobiles to hear the Candi-, date speak must be particularly cheer-j ing. With wheat better than -1.50, with hogs at SIO.OO and better, with cattle at SIO.OO and better, with no-1 body out of work and with everyltody , receiving good wages, with signs on all manufacturing plants pleading for more men to work, he is having a splendid time telling the people they . have no prosperity and that the coun-j try is going to the himnition bow-wows under democratic rule. The candidate must also be making some discoveries as he journeys on ‘ his way wading through prosperity knee deep at every jump. In his speech of acceptance he told how the democratic administration had “mt only failed to reduce the high cost >f living but had made it impossible for a man to make a living.” One thing he has learned on his trin is that "the American working man is a human being." To Candida, ■■ Hughes who lias heretofore in his public career given no signs of knowing this fact, the discovery must ha ■ ■ been an awful shock. The New York World comments on this event in tie life of the Candidate after this fashion: I “The discovery of Mr. Hughes at Detroit that the American workingman is a human being would be more thrilling if the Democratic Sixty-third Congress had not seen and j reclaimed the fact, with President Wilson's ap-| provai. on the 15th of October. 1914. , “In the Clayton amendment of Hr', Anti-Trust Law’, which became effective on that date, it is written that “the labor of a human being is not a commodity or an article of commerce.” This enactment was made necessary by a decision of the Supreme Court I of the the United States, of which M r . I Hughes was a member fnr six years. The law has been truly called 'labor's Hill of Rights." “When that great, measure was pending, the parly which Mr. Hughes , represents did not in the main feel about, it as he does now. Most of its I representatives in Congress denounced the Democrats and President Wilson I for surrendering' to demagogues. On the passage of the bill in the Senate only seven republicans out of a membership of forty-five, and in the House only forty-one Republicans out of a membership of 127 voted witli the Democrats. “Some courage was needed to pass tlie Clayton hill. It eorected many a politician, gave new law Io every law- ■ yer and reversed the practices of a reactionary party almost two years after the fact to admit condescendinglabor Is human, but Mr. Hughes > has law to back him up, and the Demo- , crats, led by Woodrow Wilson, wrote I the law.” ’ SPECIAL G. R. & I. TRAIN t 1 Those who wish to attend the Jay It county fair at Portland will he pleased to hear that the G. R. & I. will run special evening trains Thursday. August 31. The northbound will leave I Portland at 8:30 o’clock for Ft. Wayne a and Intermediate stations; the south b bound, will leave Portland at. 5:30 > I o’clock for Lynn and intermediate staj tions.

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. RAILRUAD MEN READY TO QUIT 1 ( - - ! Mediation Has Failed and Trainmen Refuse Arbitration. A NATIONAL STRIKE Indications Today Are That Neither Side Will Give In. (United Press Service) New York, N. Y„ Aug. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat) --Members of the executive board of the trainmen’s brotherhoods will accept an invitation from President Wilson to intervene in an attempt to settle differences between the brotherhoods and the railroad managers, A. B. Garret ' son. brotherhood official, announced this afternoon. Garretson said he had not yet received any offer from the president. He indicated the brotherhoods will delay any attempt until they confer with the president, if the latter so | desires. Settlement of the controversy this afternoon appeared impossible without an appeal to President Wjlson. Members of the federal mediation and conciliation board have not aban- ’ doited hope They were endeavoring I to persuade the employes to consent ' to arbitration this afternoon. I The railroad managers insisted they ' arc ready to face a strike if the men 1 refuse to arbitrate. The employes just as firmly reiterated that arbitration had failed before and consequently they cannot consent to it now. j While continuing their work the , mediators are dubious of their sucl cess. After a session with six hundred representatives of the trainmen which lasted several hours it was admitted no progress liad been made ( toward bringing about arbitration. . One of the brotherhood officials, leaving the hall, stated that arbitration had been rejected. Garretson, of the conductors union, cleared this up ■ when he emerged by declaring that > while the brotherhood still maintained the position announced at the opening of negotiations aganist arbitration. further meetings with the mediation hoard will be held tomorrow. "1 have nothing to report” said Garretson. "other than that the efforts of the mediators were of no avail. The I next step thi n was arbitration. The mediation board is trying to induce the employees to consent to this. Representatives of tlie trainmen will meet with the mediators again tomorrow for further discussion. | Tlie heads of the brotherhoods and ! the railroad managers were really further apart this afternoon than when 1 negotiations opened. With the failure of mediation they were left the choice between arbitration and a strike. (United Press Service) BULLETIN. New York. Aug. 12 —(Special to Daily Democrat) Mediation has failed in the controversy between 400,1)00 railroad employes and the managers of 225 railroads acted. This was tlie formal announcement made today by Judge Martin Knapp of the United States board of mediation and | conciliation, in a communication to tlie trainment. { Judge Knapp’s communication read: “In our judgment, after two days of consideration of the differences between the railroad managers and the employes, there is no prospect of a settlement by mediation, and therefore, we suggest arbitration as the means of reaching a settlement." Immediately after they were handed Judge Knapp's communication, the executive board of the brotherhoods, which lias been empowered by a ninety-four per cent vote to call a strike, if in their opinion such notion is essential to success of their fight for an eight-hour day and time and a half for overtime, went Into executive session to consider the suggestion. From statements made a short r time before, the hoard declared - unanimously and uncquivically that i they would never consent to arbitra- ■ tion. - “It la now a question of whether , the big brotherhoods will arbitrate," said one official, who is acting with the railroad managers. You can state that the railroad managers will not (Continued on Page 2.)