Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 250, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1916 — Page 1

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DENNEY PROVED U. /Judge Jacob F. Denny Tells National Issues in Wonderful Speech AT THE COURT HOUSE » roved Neutrality of the United States With all Belligerent Powers. S One thousand people crowded the Ktourt room last night to hear Judrei F. Denney speak. He did not . *<.<!i- ppoin’ them, but on the contrary Krarried to them a surprise. He is j easily one of the best speakers that ba-- graced the platform here this i Campaign. ■ The meeting was opened by a ch.irus of twelve voices—The “Wilson V tarblers," an organization from Port-* Bai ml that made the welkin ring with Etively, catchy campaign songs. They ■pened the meeting with several rous- ■ Ini’ songs about John A.dair, Judge Denney, and the national leader. Woodrow Wilson, they found they ■had to answer several encores before I they were allowed to stop. Their j ■Krork was one of the acceptable features of the evening. ■ Judge J. T Merriman presided and ' in i few well chosen remarks prejtented Judge Jacob F. Denney of Portland, democratic candidate for representative from the eighth distri. r. ■ Judge Denney discussed national isSu< iat length. He discussed the World War and the situations it placets the United States in. When Windrow Wilson was inauguarated on March 4th. three and one half fears ago the monarchs of Europe Wei ? on their thrones. They were higiily gratified at the selection of Wilson as America's executive. Soon Burope was plunged into war, but Wilson asked no man to leave home, bm to remain there and attend to their affairs, their farms their business. When men assemble in this ’.Country today there is no fear of a Zeppelin dropping bombs upon the jaecting, we can gather together in •Safety. i, ■ Judge Donney reviewed the legisFilat ion the democratic party gave to the people of the United States. T'le jkdamson law, giving an eight hour day is an act designed especially for tlie people's benefit. It is a good lavz gHkmi just. * | Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison two of America’s greatest inventors ami thinkers, always republican in their tendencies, hftve come out Strongly for Wilson. They have a'*-Btroii.; reasons for doing so. 1 am going to ask you to vote with us as they do. Nine-tenths of the laws the , pisMemocrats promised have been enacted Business is booming. Mr. Hughes ■Break, vacillating, ever-changing from one thing to another says business | must change. Why? |- Tn 1907 under a republican tariff the country faced a panic. Money Sfc was scarce. If you had money in the E bank you could not get it out. You '. Were limited in the use of your own Bioney. .The Federal Reserve act enacted by the democrats does away, with all of this. There cannot be a panic, because Wall street can never gayrow big enough or strong enough to corner the cash. Wilson asked con / Areas for the currency bill and got it. Hbmes J. Hill, foremost railroad builder in the nation said it was the great-1 est law passed in fifty years. I The rural credits law will do mi.ro| r for the farmer, in financing his pro-| ■..jecis, than any other law ever enact- ; End. He can go to a Federal bank, and get money on his mortgage. He , I will get it at a much lower rate of I interest than he has been used to. He will be able to get money when he ■ Meeds it, and not when the banker has Kt to loan. It sees the improvement :’ ! of land, under safe and sane conditions. | The democratic congress passed an |I income tax law. It is safe to assume that not one man in this court room pays income tax. It is essentially a Kr> tax on the rich —on those who can I afford to pay. 1 don't pay income tax Kj—and if you want me to you'll have R to elect me to congress wljere my I, salary will be large enough that I'll have to turn some of it back to Uncle Sam. We earned one hundred and twenty million dollars by the income tax law last year. It came from

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John I), and railroads presidents and other financiers yon didn't pay a cent of It. The democrats have also taken the > tai iff out of politics. The newly au thorized tariff board will handle the tariff on a solid sane basis, adjusted I to the needs of American business, and not designed to protect trust manufacturies who grew rich from the Increased prices they could charge at home under a protective tariff. Down in Portland the other day I was standing near a railroad crossing when a dozen or so men passed me on wheels, their dinner pails strapped to their handle bars. When they went over the tracks their pails rattled as if empty, and I wondered about the “full dinner pail” cry of past years. Pretty soon another bunch passed the railroad and their pails didn't rattle like the others did. , so I asked a man standing there how I it came that one set of men had empIty dinner pails while the others had (Continued on Rage z~i ATTACK WILSON Richard Cullen, Believed Insane Attempted to Attack President Wilson AT PITTSBURG TODAY I Police and Secret Service Men Overpower Him— Had Knife and Gun. (United Press Service) (By Robert J. Bender.) r Pittsburg, Penn., Oct. 20 —(Special to Dally Democrat) —During President Wilson’s ride about Pittsburg today a man carrying a satchel made determined efforts to jump on the running board of the President's car. He was finally overpowered and hustled off by police. At the police station the man gave the name of Richard Cullen. He said that he was dissatisfied with the president’s handling of European affairs but did not admit that he intended to attack the president. In the satchel, the police say, was found a large knife and several tools. After examining the man the police expressed the belief that he was insane and held him for investigation. The attack occurred in the heart of the city. While the president’s body guard twice threw Cullen from the running board the president, remained very calm. Mrs. Wilson shared his confidence that tlie secret service men would take care of tlie would be assailant. During the scuffle between Cullen and secret service men a loaded revolver fell into tlie street. Whether the gun belonged to Cullen or to one of the detectives the police were unable to say. 1 The president’s car was halted when a secret service operative leaped from the auto and struck Cuilen after the latter made his second es- , fort to reach the president. The crowd closed about the car and it • was several minutes before fifty policemen gathered from all directions, lifted clulis and drove it back. Bleeding at the nose and mouth Cullen broke away from the detectives. Cullen made unsuccessful efforts to ' escape by running away. BAKER MISREPRESENTED (Unite<i_press Service) Detroit, Mich., Oct. 20—-(Special to Daily Democrat) —Secretary of War Newton D. Baker was “misrepresent--1 ed" he declared here today in state- [ nients credited to him, comparing Washington’s colonials to Villisia I bandits. “I did not make the com--1 parison I have been charged with I making,” Baker declared hot ly when 1 lie asked if lie cared to comment on the charges, “Mr. Hughes is like a drowning man when he seizes on such garbled misrepresentations as those which have been made.” HOLD UP FREIGHT TRAIN (United Press Service) Buffalo, N. Y„ Oct. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—A New York Central freight train, heavily laden with merchandise hound for Chicago, was held up by armed robbers near Blasdell early today and the cars looted. When the train was stopped an auto truck was backed up, a car door pried open and the truck loaded with overcoats, shoes and other wearmg epparel. As tlie robbers departed ;i. the direction of Buffalo they fired . several shots from their revolvers, i members of the crew said.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, October 20, 1916.

: WIFE WAS CRUEL And Slovenly and Lazy and Had Many Other ‘ Faults Says 11 JAMES HOCKENBERRY i I- “ 1 He Lived in Constant Fear s i of Her and He Sues for ] a Divorce. f I That his wife, Vera M. Hockenberry Uwas cruel and inhuman in her treat•[ment of him, threatening him bodily' I injury, so that lie lived in constant i ' | fear of her and was obliged to leave ] I I her in June, 1915, is tlie allegation of James E. Hockenberry who sues' II for a divorce and the custody of their five minor children —Tina. JPrry. Edna, Archie, and Clarence. They werei married June 5, 1901. Her cruelty and inhumanity to man I | * were set out in detail in the following. He charges she was possessed of a violent temper which she did not control and that she was either pouting or sulking, or swearing and cursing him, calling him “vile, vulgar, , vicious and unchaste names," too indecent to set out in the complaint. He says she also accused him of i being intimate with other women and - at one time threatened to strike him with a club. At another time he says I she threatened to get a gun and shoot him, and on another occasion, threatened to get an axe and split his head open. He further sets out tliat she was 1 “lazy, indolent, dirty and slovenly," I • in her care of her children and her j ; home. When he suggested that she, > try to keep the house clean and tidy. > he charges that she would either sulk . and pout and fly into a rage. He sets' . out that he is a laboring man. and i i that his wife refused at times to get i > his meals. When he asked their eld-, I est daughter to get irp and get his > breakfast, he says his wife told her . not to do so, telling her to lie in bed. . I He alleges that she is unfit to have I the custody of their children, for i whom he asks. VILLA IS ACTIVE Bandit Villa Attacked San Andres Near Chihuahua City Tuesday. J EXPECT MORE ATTACKS Pershing Expedition Stands Pat But is Out of the Zone of Activity. (United Press Service) El Paso, Texas, Oct. 20 —Special io Daily Democrat) —The entire western and southern portion of the Mexican I I state of Chihuahua is now under con|trol of Villa, according to admissions made by Mexican officials at Juarez, as details of the bandit chiefs bold i raid last Tuesday on the town of San Andres began to reach the border today. The town of San Andres is only twenty-five miles west of Chihuahua City. Despite protestations of vigorous pursuit of the Villistas, refugees at Juarez declare that Carranza troops are making no effort to chase the bandits and are avoiding contact with them. i , Thousands of . Carranza troops , brought from southern Mexico are be- , ing held in Chihuahua City to rein- ! force the garrison there as. military . authorities expect another attack upon that city by Villa. Juarez, Mex., Oct. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—A battle is now raging twenty five miles outside Chi- , huahua City between Villa Bandits $ and a heavy force of Mexican defacto . troops according to reports wired to General Carranza’s military headquarj ters here this afternoon. . —— 1 SCHOOL VACATION Thursday and Friday of next week . will be vacation days for the city | 1 school students, school dismissing to i, allow the teachers to attend the state teachers’ association meeting.

RESCUER ASPHYXIATED. i (United Press Service) Barrackville. West Va., Oct. 20 — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Superintendent James of tlie mine rescue car from Pittsburg, was asphyxiated while trying to reach entombed men in the Jamison mine today. Hope for the nine or ten men believed to be sealed in one of the mine chambers has been abandoned. The workings are filled with gas. Six bodies were taken from the mine early today. WEAR NO COSTUMES The Hallowe'en ball to be given nt the K. of C. hall on Monday, Oct. 'lO, will not be a costume affair as first announced, the committee on arrange- ' ments making tlie change in plans last evening, owing to protests made , by a number who were anxious to a'.tend but who did not want to wear j costumes. Tlie hall will he decorated lln Hallowe'en style for the event. | Wear any suit you have in stock. FIRST SNOW FELL First Snow Flurry of the Season Occurred at Noon Today. AND COLDER WEATHER Is Promised for Tomorrow —ls Tail End of Big Gulf Storm. Decatur citizens began to realize at noon today that we are fairly in | the grip of the first winter flurry. ' Snow fell. It didn’t drift up against the doors much, but it fell just the , same. If you were on tne streets a' noon you could see it. Yesterday’s weather bureau report 'gave a hint of what was coming wn?n ' it posted storm warnings around the 'great lakes region and along the Atlantic coast. The gulf storm was I working northeastward with lesser ing fury. We’re enjoying it now. I At eight o’clock this morning tlif I temperature was fifty-two degrees, nt ' ten o’clock it had dropped to forty degrees and at one o’clock the tern perature was thirty-six degrees. What it will be tonight is a matter for conjecture and weather sages to det *rniine. Today’s weather bulletin promises colder weather, or rather “lowering temperature” which amounts to the same thing. DOLLAR SEVENTY WHEAT (United Press Service) Chicago, Oct. 20 —(Special to DailyDemocrat) —Wheat jumped over the dollar seventy cent mark tod\y and reached the highest figure since the Civil War with the exception of the high level in the corner of 1898. De cember wheat sold at $1.71%. Grain men freely predicted $2 wheat within a few weeks. Canadian wheat has been snowed under, reports indicate, and may not get to market this sea- i son. Threshing has been discontin- i ued and the estimates, already low. l were reduced still more. IS VISITING DAY 4 ( The Teachers of St. Mary’s i Township Dismiss for Day—Call on Schools 1 IN FORT WAYNE * i Large Delegation Left Here * on the Eight-thirty Interurban Car. i Today was visiting day for the j teachers of St. Marys township. In ( full force they went to Fort Wayne where they will visit the schools , there and gain new points and methods of interest and profit to them in , their work. Each will visit the department of special interest to them, ( or which deals witli some problems , peculiarly their own. Among those who left on the eightthirty interurban car this morning, were Lucile White, Fanny Cowan, Gladys McMillen, Job Champer, Ralph Fuller, Mr. aryl Mrs. Ben Teeple, H. M. Crownover. j

COUNT IS ENDED Parcels Sent Out from Local Postoffice During Period This Year ARE MUCH GREATER Than Last Year—Parcels Received Less, Because of Catalogue Influx. The figures on the count of all parcels handiet, rind delivered at tlie Decatur post office, from Oetohfr second to October sixteenth, inclusive, ;re available, for publication. They show that the total number of parcels handled was 2971. The total number received for delivery was 2354. This is less than the number handled during the same time last year, but is accounted for by tlie fact that last year, at that time, the many catalogues were received during that time, thus abnormally swelling tn>> number. The number of parcels sent cat during tills time was 633, which is one hundred and one more parcels than were sent out from the local office last year, showing a big growth in tlie past year in this department. The parcels sent out this year, according to weight, were 2618 pounds. WILSON STRONG IN OHIO. The straw vote being taken ni Ohio by the Columbus Dispatch indicates that President Wilson will carry that state by about a half million. In the vote published last evening the employes of the Overland company voted 468 to 61. a federation of labor convention voted 155 to 53, The Toledo Railway company voted 111 to 21. In the eighteen bunches of votes shown, Hughes leads in one by two votes and in the other by sixteen, while in all the rest Wilson leads. The total vote is: Wilson. 25.283, and Hughes, 16,380. Cox for governor leads Willis by about 2.500. A PRIZE_ BABY Half-year-old Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams Wins THE SECONDI) PRIZE In Baby Show in Indianapolis—Granddaughter of Auditor Baltzell. Adams county is always at the front, whether at home or abroad. Decatur came out strong on the state map. when a Decatur baby won the second prize in a baby show in Indianapolis. The baby who thus came out with heavy honors was born in Indianapolis just a half year ago, but she can well be called a Decatur and Adams county baby, because her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams. Mr. Williams is a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Williams of Blue Creek township, this county, and Mrs Williams was formerly Miss Ruth Baltzell. She is a daughter of County Auditor and Mrs. T. H. Baltzell of this city. The prize-winning baby, Harriet Jean, was just six months old October fifteenth. The winner of the first prize was a boy baby nine months older. The show was inaugurated by a pure food concern. IN THE WAR ZONE. (United Press Service) London. Oct. 20—-(Special to Daily Democrat)—ln the face of stubborn Bulgarian resistance, Serbian troops have pushed two miles forward in their advance on the Bulgarian base at Monastir, occupying a village, it was officially announced today. The .Serbian claims of further successes are flatly contradicted by the German war office. Fragmentary message), from Athens indicate that the situation was again more critical, despite the severe military measures reported yesterday. On the western front heavy rains continued to impede operations throughout yesterday and last night. The Germans report the I capture of trenches north of the Somme from the British.

| SIX CONVICTS CAUGHT. ( (United Preus Service) I Ossining, N. Y„ Oct. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—All of the six ■ convicts who escaped from the Sing t Sing prison yesterday on a motor truck are behind the bars today. The last of the prisoners was captured shortly before noon. He was surrounded by guards near the estate , of John I). Rockefeller before noon , * today and surrendered. One of the convicts was injured. ; TROOPS MUST STAY. ’ (United Press Service) Washington. D. C.. Oct. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—No further relief of border troops is contern plated by the war department until . alter the American Mexican commns sion at Atlantic City reaches a decision. it was learned today. If this is ' satisfactory, the troops, it is said. ’ ? will return in a body. Otherwise I all will probably be left at their presr ent border station. HONOR_A£SUKE t The Honor of the Progres- ' sives is at Stake in This Campaign. CRAWL BACK IN 1 Progressive Must Recant “Lunatic Heresies’’ if He Desires to be Back. i (By George Creel. Written for the i National Democratic Committee) In this election nothing is so ’ much at stake as the honor and self respect of the men and women who . made up the progressive party. They . banded in the name of humanity. > raised the standard of social justice, ’ and woved their lives to the defeat J of the sinister figures in control of , the republican party. What is the situation today? . Roosevelt hobnobs with Taft and ' Root and Cannon, and Perkins, Robbins and Everett Colby sit in councils with Penrose, Crane and Hitchcock. Behind Hughes is Wall street, the German-American alliance, child labor exploiters, reactionary employers and every Tory influence that . hopes to restore the days of Hannaism. Search through the republican platform, line by line, and not a single deference to social justice will be found. Read the speeches of Hughes and it will be seen that it is the humane legislation of President Wilson [ that he attacks bitterly. Watch Hughes as he journeys from state to state. In not one has ho , failed to consort exclusively with the bosses and reactionaries aganist whom the progressives fought in 1912, even going so far as to ignore Hiram Johnson in California on the eve of an election. In his repeated declaration. “I desire a reunited party," he betrays utter inability to grasp progressivism as a spiritual revolt, viewing it as nothing more than the expression of disgruntled factionalism. The progressive who goes back to the republican party must crawl on his knees. He must recant his “lunatic heresies.” He must swallow his condemnation of Cannot, Root, Hemenway, Crane and Penrose, and ( acclaim them wise, good and all-pow- ( erful. In plain words, lie must confess that he lied in 1912; in plainer ’action he must admit that he is not a free American citizen, but a chat- ( tel to be bound and delivered when- ; ever Theodore Roosevelt finds a price • that suits. BREMEN OVERDUE. . (United Press Service) Baltimore, Md.. Oct. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Carl G. Hilken admitted today that the German merchant submarine Bremen is a month overdue; that he feared the vessel had met with an accident and that she had been lost with all her crew. This is the first time that anyone in a position to know the German side of the story of the Bremen has permitted his name to be used in con- ■ nection with the belief that the ship i is lost. Hilken is the American mani ager of the company owning the Brei men and the Deutschland. He return- - ed today from New London, Conn., s where lie had been awaiting the Bre- ,- men’s arrival. Hilken has advices t from Germany tliat members of the i- families of the Bremen’s crew are 1 mourning them as dead. He said that b the U-boat 53 probably had been sent bI to this side to search for the missling submarine.

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GRANT PATENT O. L. Vance is Given Patent on Perfect Combination Auto Lock. WILL MANUFACTURE The One Lock That Can Shut Off Both Gas and Spark—Patent Today. Tiiis morning’s mail brought a letter to O. L. Vance that would he mighty acceptable for a Christmas present, if it had come six weeks later. It was a letter from the United State Patent office enclosing patent papers for his newly [H-rfec’-'d automobile lock. More than a year ago Mr. Vance conceived the principle upon which lie would build tlie perfect automobile lock. He began work on it and a month ago finished up three locks. They met every expectation and every need of the motorist. He received the patent without an objection. The locks work on the well known combination principle witli a three tumbler disk. Any combination of three letters may be set for the lock, and the separate dials may be so arranged for any combination. The lock can be operated with gloves er mittens on. can be locked with magneto on or off, witli gas on ✓ off. or both. Mr. Vance will take up the manufacture of the locks immediately either by forming a stock company or by having tlie locks made and handling the proposition himself. Several Fort Wayne financiers are anxious to get in on this lock. COURT HOUSE NEWS. In the case of Martin Reppert vs. William A. Bauman, et al Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff for $213. David Gerber was found to be a surety but the property of Bauman was ordered first exhausted. The case of tlie State on the Relation of Nettie Deen vs. William Lee, which was set for October 26, wns continued. In the case of Frank Lano vs. Emma L. Daniel, the plaintiff filed a cost bond which court approved. All depositions on filed in thp case of Christian Hocker vs. Joseph P. Johnson, were ordered published. The final report in tlie case of Eliza Hofstetter vs. Alma Hunzicker was approved and the commissioner discharged. The divorce case of Inez McVeigh vs. George McVeigh was heard today. The bond in the Irwin vs. Irwin case was approved. The case of Edward Berling vs. Henry Bremerkamp was dismissed and costs paid. In the case of William H. Teeple vs. P. L. Macklin, et. al motion bv Parrish, et al to strike out part of the complaint, was overruled and (X* ceptions taken. In the matter of the claim of John M. Wells, guardian, vs. the J. T. Ault estate, summons was ordered for Samuel Teeter, Jos M. Peel and Joint T. Kelly, returnable October 31. The report pf the inheritance ’ax appraiser in the Peter Roth estate was approved in tlie amount set out therein. William Frazier, appraiser, was allowed allowed $11.70. The cause was ordered-left off hte docket. In the estate of Robert Allison, the current report was approved. The county commissioners continued the hearing of the remonstrances against the deepening and widening of Borum’s Run as petitioned for by Marion Andrews. Tlie guardian of Alma Harding et al filed inventory. Sheriff Green went to Columbia City to serve an attachment on Verne Smith, to phow cause why lie should not be punished for contempt of co irt in failing to pay allowance to his wife as per order of court. Mr. Green did not find him there and on his return here, he found that Smith had been here and paid the same.