Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1917 — Page 1

Volume XV. Number 58.

"WAR DEPENDS UPON PRESWrwILSON” ZIMMERMAN AFFIRMS GERMANY’S DECISION TO CONTINUE RUTHLESS SUBMARINE WARFARE—BELIEVE WIRELESS HID IN MEXICO.

(United Premi Serv* e) I BULLETIN. Washington, I). Mar. 9 (Special to Daily Democrat)— 1 he special session of congress was called today to meet April 16. In connection with the call-1 ing of the extra session. I'resi-' I dent V\ ilson also announced his decision to arm American ships, immediately to protect the lives and property of Americans on the high seas. Copenhagen, Mar. 9—(Special to Daily Democrat)—“War depends upon President Wilson; at any rate we have decided to continue the submarine warfare to the utmost degree,” declared Foreign Secretary Zimmerman in an interview telegraphed here today from Berlin. Zimmerman also declared he has no reasons to expect any change in German relations with other neutrals as the result of the unlimited submarine warfare. Washington. D. (.. Mar. 9— , (Special to Daily Democrat) — The government is probing today a report -that Germany is receiving American information through a powerful wireless .plant in Mexico City. Should it be found that this plant exists this government will doubtless take steps to induce Carranza to close it to any information that might be unneutral. The reported existence of the wireless plant links in with new indications that plotted not alone to parcel out: part of the United States toj Mexico in case of a GermanAmerican war, but also was urging that she invade Gautemala and take a slice ol territory to the south. Washington, March 9.—(Special to Daily Democrat.) A state department message from the American anibassa-| dor in Spain today verified the Ge -| man government’s previously reported intention to end the quarantine of the American Yarrowdale prisoners March 7 and release them It did not show, however, that the release h..<l actually been accomplished The Spanish ambassador at Berlin. verified the existence of typhus | among the foreign prisoners an 1 ( claimed by Berlin in justification <.t the detention. The ambassador proved the quarantine Salonika. March 9. (Special to Daily Democrat.)—Mrs. Harley, a srv ter of Lord French, commander-in chief of the British home defense corps, died at Monastir front a " 1111,1 ( received whtffi a shell struck the ambulance to whicJi she was attache!. Washington. March !).— (Sp" ial 1 Democrat)—What Presided * Oson proposes as. to arming Am<n< J-' (hantmen was still a syst't.' ’°Hc : can act on his own initiative under Secretary Lansing and • 0 - General Gregory’s rulings that ancient do not tie his hands, o can call an extra session ant I • through the armed neutral! y u • Some of his advisers suggea >at an extra session would be 1 * I course and the more so b< l • 1U - K army appropriation bill lai (

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I government cannot pay its Mexican I Isirder forces until It is passed. Passage of the armed neutrality bbl: | would not only amount to a vote of. | confidence and a notice to the world j 'hat America is unified and pariotic, | but it would also provide .money wherewith to operate. I Los Angeles, Cal.. March 9.—(Spe-I • rial to Daily Democrat.) —Alleged to have been connected with plots to destroy the Welland canaLand commit other unneutral acts in America, Captain Alfred Fritzen, a German officer, was arrested early today by agents cf the department of justice. / Fritzen’s recent activity in Mexico and his actions in this country are under investigation. The arrest followed a search of six I months, conducted by the department! 'of justice. Connection between Frit--1 zen and German Consul Bopp, recently convicted in San Francisco, and Captains Boyed and Von Papen, deported a year ago, is said to have been established. He admitted visiting Cuba. I recently. (By John Grandens.) Berlin, via Wireless to Saville, i Match 9- (Special to Daily Democrat.) Picturing America as the glee-, ful beneficiary at the deathbed of ! , European civilization, the Berlin Tag<blatt today viciously assailed Presi dent Wilson’s abrupt change of front | .from his peace speech in December! to his present attitude as revealed in his inaugural address. “None of the state leaders of belligerent countries or of neutrals have spok.en often as President Wilson,' the newspaper asserted. ‘His intention to change'the ideal' of neutrality is evident from each: successive speech. "Tltis is proved in the last speech’ by his statement that America may! possibly be forced to take an active part in the fight.” The Tageblatt asserted the '‘time has past” for argument. — —o 1 " • KILLS HIS GIRL. — (Uniter) Press Service) , Princeton Ind.. Mar. IS— (Special : to Daily Democrat)— Angered be j cause Miss Mary Jones, IS, with whom j he was infatuated was going to leave 1 the city. John Reese. 26, married, and ' I the father of a today shot and I killed the Jones girl and is dying ' from a self-inflicted bullet wound. 1 ■Reese had been separated from his j 1 wife. The Jones girl was staying at the home of Reese’s sister. The 'crime occurred while the two were i alone in the room. STONE TO BE RENOMINATED. (United Press Service) Washington, March 9.—(Special to; Daily Democrat.)—William J. Stone! j will be renominated chairman of the 'senate foreign relations committee,! (Senator Lewis’ administration whip, ; said today. Since criticism of Stone’s! refusal to support President Wilson s armed neutrality plan ahd come large-i ly front administration sources, the statement of Lewis is taken to indi- ( B te that an agreement had been ; reached to retain the present chair man. I o- — A MILLION BOND. (By Fred Ferguson.) Havana. -Cuba, March 9,-(Special to Daily Democrat) —Bond for General! Gomez,’ captured rebel leader, was set I today at a million dollars. No one; has yet came forward with the money, to permit the release of the rebel chieftain and the prospects are that he will remain in prison. RECEIVES fine oranges. j. W. Bieberich, of rural route one. has received a box of luscious oranges 'from Joseph Kohy's gardens at Alham- ■ bra, Cal.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, March 9, 1917.

TO RAISE A FUND Methodists of Indiana Asked to Contribute to Million Dollar Fund for RETIRED MINISTERS I 4 ~ Fund Will be Distributed Among Three Conferences of the State. (United Ffprs Service) Indianapolis, March 9. The Metho I-j ists of Indiana will be asked to contribute to a fund of $1,000,000 for the retired ministers of the three Indiana conferences of the Methodist Ephe! copal church. Preparations were coinj pleted Thursday for the campaign which will be conducted by a commis- ! sion of three members from each conference. • The fund which it is hoped will be obtained will be distributed among, I the Indiana conferences as follows: $500,000 to the conference which includes Indianapolis and southern ln : diana. $300,000 to the northern Indiana district, and $200,000 to the northwestern district. The campaign wiH be held next fall, with September! and October devoted to publicity, and the last months of the year to inten-j sive campaigning. The commission, which was ap- ■ pointed, includes the Rev. R. J. Wade, the Rev. Somerville Light and the Rev. ft. A. Morison, of the Northern Indiana conference. The other Indiana conferences are represented on the commission. M E. CHOhTmEETINGS. The Girls’ choir of the Methodist church will meet this evening at 7 o'clock, and the senior choir at 7:20. Members please take notice. mrsTHOead Former Resident Here, Sister of Mrs. Niblick and Mr. Nick Miller. ILL SEVERAL MONTHS ——. Death Due to Cancer of the Stomach—Funeral Monday Morning. Mrs. Henry Brink, aged 65 years, I sister of Mrs. Christena Niblick and’ Mr. Nick Miller of this city, a native of Decatur, where she was born and | reared, died at 7:30 o’clock this morn-j ing at her home at Fort Wayne. She had suffered altput six months from cancer of the stomach and though everything known for relief was done, the end could not be averted. Though! her condition was considered most serious for several weeks past the message of her death this morning was a shock to the relatives. She was married to Mr. Brink thirty-five years ago and has since made her home r.t Fort Wayne. She is survived by the husband and five children, three sons and two daughters. Mrs. Brink was a faithful mem’oers of the St. Mary's Catholic church at Fort Wayne and: the funeral services will be conducted! there probably Monday morning. MAYOR~ JOHNSTON TO CONTEST. Gary, Ind., March 9.—Hinting of ir regularities and of a possible grand jury investigation, Mayotx R. O. Johnson, who was defeated for the republican nomination for mayor in Tues-' ; day’s primaries, y late today said he i i would demand a recount, contesting: the lead of W. F. Hodges. In adition to many men being kept ■ from voting because of a shortage of ' ballots, charges are made that many i ballots were unlawfully rejected bej cause foreigners voted for every can--1 didate for city clerk; that some bal- | lots were not turned into the election commissioners and that torn Johnson ballots were found in a barber shop.; NOTICE. The Rev. Roy Gaunt will preach on i the subject of "The Second Coming of I Christ” at Calvary church, four and! one-half miles east of Decatur, Sun-' day evening, March 11.

I DEATH OF A RELATIVE. ■ Mrs. I). I). Holler received a televrum lust evening telling of the dettlh of her brother, Andrew <'orbits, al his J home at l/ts Gatos, California, Thin: - jday morning. Death was due to old 1 “i’e Mr. ('orbits bcin n past eighty five years of age. He was a native ot Millersburg, Ohio, and went to California in 1849. He succeeded in business , and was for many years one of the leading men of San Francisco. His home was destroyed in the earthquake I a few years ago and a daughter ws.s I killed, after which be moved to Seat ! tie and later to Uts Gatos, where he has since resided. Miss Elizabeth Corbus, who has made her home with Mrs, Heller for a number ;>f years, is i also a relative. VETO MOVIE BILL Goodrich Struck Out His Signature to the Sunday Movie Bill Today. NO TIME LIMIT For Opening of the Shows Given as Cause for Rescinding Signature. —. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, March —Special to Daily Democrat.) —Governor Goodrich; today struck out his signature to the McCray bill legalizing Sunday moving picture shows and creating a statej censors. He announced he would veto | the measure. The executive toon this action following the discovery that an amend-t ment which he thought was in the) measure was "tampered with" before the bill reached his office. The amendment was supposed i.-> [provide that shows could not be held before 2 o’clock .on Sunday, but th■bill as it reached the governor provided that shows might be held at any time during the day. The governor also signed the I Chambers bill changing the date of I | the primaries from March to May andj eliminating second choice ballots;Hhe j Mason bill, providing for continuous .Registration front April until th i twenty-ninth day before the general ' election. WITN ESSE COOPERATION. Will Darwenhter was at Bluffton I yesterday where he witnessed an operation performed 6n his nephew. Ha vey Close, aged 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Close. The young man was injured some time ago in Canada, the | skull being denied, causing spasms at times. A portion of the skull was removed in the hope that with the | | pressure lifted, the young man will be j : all right again. ILL SHORT TIME Alhion Mauller, Popular Pleasant Mills Youth. Died This Morning. BRAIN INFLAMMATION — Sick But Two Days and a Half —Funeral Will be Held Sunday Morning. The death of Albion Mauller. well: known and beloved son of Mr. andj , Mrs. Albert Mauller of Pleasant Mills, | j died this morning after an illness j iof less than three days with brain! j fever, shocked the many friends of the family in his own community, here j and elsewhere over the county. The boy was but 16 years old, a student in the Pleasant Mills school and verypopular. He became ill Tuesday and grew rapidly worse, death relieving: his suffering early this morning. The! j funeral services will be held at the ! Methodist church Sunday morning at 110 o'clock. Besides the parents, Al-1 bion is survived by one brother and j three sisters. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson and sons, i Duward and Woodrow Wilson, went ■to Fort Wayne this morning for a | visit with relatives.

FAST AIR PLANE 11 l' American Air Craft Company Manufacturing Fast’ War Planes. I 1 TO TEACH HOOSIERS l ■ • For Sen ke in Indiana Militia When Three Are Appointed. *-■ - • ■" May of . our -ttftscribers will be interetsed in The American Air Craft j company, due to lite fact that two of Jlhe officers ate former boys of Decitur. One of them is I). J. Foster, a director of the company, and the other Robert Allison, is vice president o! the company. ■ The American Air Craft company, whose factory is at Anderson, Ind., is manufacturing one of the fastest nv.ii- ! tary tractor bi).lanes, built in America , to date, and Mt. Medos Gravelie, tite publicity and assistant sales manager of Ihe company, has just returned : from New York and Washington j where he was a delegate to the Pan- | American aeronautical exposition, and j the result of his trip was that they are ! now working on specifications for the ! United States, French and British governments. The company recently wrote to the United States government offering to place their plant and its entire equipment at the disposal of the government should the occasion arise, and a ! few days ago offered to the state of ! Indiana to train three enlisted mt n ■ 'in the state, free of charge, and the j governor has been authorized to appoint a committee to investigate the: i advisability of establishing an aeronautical station at Fort Benjamin Harrison. which will proabiy be done in l the near future. JSTATE Eight Tracts of Real Estate Belonging to Lucy .1. Gregory Estate WERE SOLD TODAY Burt Townsend Buys Business Building Lot, at Third and Madison. * • Eight tracts of real estate belonging' to the estate of Lucy J, Gregory,’ of which Mrs. lantha Gregory Townsend' ! is executrix, were sold this morning at public sale at th®east door of the i court house on petition of the heirs. ' John Spuller, auctioneer, secured goo I ! prices for the properties. J. C. Sutton ! and Henry B. Heller are attorneys for the estate. The properties sold to the follow : ing: Vacant lot, Nuttman and Rodd ■ streets, to Ves Peterson, S7O. Vacant j lot on Elm street, Fred Koenig, $75. ! House and lot, Elm street, Charles 1 Hill, $435. House and lot, Grant street,; ! Mrs. Jtwnes Ross, $530, House and: j lot, South Eleventh street, C. L- Wai-, iters, $6lO. House and lot, Indiana: ; street, Jacob Schafer, $Bl5. House and lot, Elm street, Fred Koenig, $425. j Iron clad building and business build-j . ing lot, 22 by 132 feet, on Madison j and Third streets. Burt Townsend, I $2,250. LANDING OF MARINES. (United Press Service) Washington, March 9. —Special to Daily Democrat.)—The landing >.f American marines at Santiago, Cuba, ! was accomplished without loss of life or injury to any of the American forces, the navy department an- ! nounced today. Secretary Daniels said there had been no fightiflg and that the landing of four hundred men had been made at the request of the I governor. o COUNCIL HOLDS SESSION. The city council held a special meeting last evening for the purpose of I passing a resolution authorizing the county commissioners to take over the Third street improvement, known as the John B. Holthouse macadam j road. The resolution passed and ail journment followed.

■ AUTO TAGS SCARCE. ■ a (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind., (Special to Dull': Democrat.)--Auto license tags ur< scarce at the secretary of state’s ofih ■ anil for Hqweral days it has been nece,.sary to supplement the tygs with err ; tificatioil. The scarcity is due to the I fact that the manufacturing firm in i St. Louis is making tags for six other; ( j states and is unable to obtain sut ' flcient material. The shortage may also be attributed, according to thej ; secretary, to the fact that more than! ’; 50,000 tags have been issued so far I this year. TODAY’S HOOSIER ODDITY. (Unitfi) Press Service) MUNCIE. Ind., March •). - While • Mrs. Ora Stout was being examined t i in the trial of her divorce suit against! f her husband. Judge Robert Van At it ■ ordered her to remove the chewing i gum front her mouth so she "could f pay attention to the questions and i make herself heard.”

THE COURT NEWS l Damage Case from Wells 1 Circuit A’ill be Tried l Here—ls Received. i| • OBEDIAH SHIMER Wants $2,000 for Injuries —Carriage Was Struck by Interurban Car. David Ritter vs. Eli W. Steele. Answer by Mary and John Miller. Homer Archbold vs. August SchlickI man. Defendant ruled to answer ab- ■ solute in live days. The People's Lean & Trust company vs. F. M. Gossard, et al. Motion to require plaintiff to separate, nunP ■ ber paragraph. The complaint was overruled to which the defendant exi eepted. The case of Jesse Rupe) et al. vs. 'George Adams was set tyr trial for March 19. Peterson & Moran for Leo Merkle, et al. has filed suit against Jennie Evans, cn note, demand $125. John Stuckey has registered his nine-acre plot in Hartford townshin: as “Sugar Ridge." Real estate transfers: Isaac J. Bowman et al. to Fred Schaefer. 40 acres jot’ French township, $4,000; William; , Durr et al. to Fred Schaefer, 40 acres of French township, $58.42. The case of Obediah Shinier vs. The Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Trrtl- - tion company, asking $2,000 damages : sustained when his carriage was struck by the defendant’s car, Throwing him. was received here on change of venue from Wells circuit court. BARNARD TO GET JOB. (United Press Service) Indltmapojis, March 9,—(Special to Daily Democrat.) —Appointment of Dr. H. E. Barnard, state pure food ami ! drug commissioner, as supervisor ol I oils, and combining the tw<) departj ments, was expected today foliowin;; jthe announcement of the resignation of John O. Behymer, because of ditfrr- ■ ences wit hGovernor Goodrich. MUST REMAIN IN BED. (United Press Service) Wasliiagton. March 9. --(Special to Daily Democrat.)—President Wilson was ordered to remain in bed by his physicians today. While the executive was reported more comfortable it was essential that he obtain a comi plete rest. He has been forbidden to i see callers for several days. REX TODAY. "The Payment” deals with the c t ; reer of Phyllis‘Page. Ihe ambitious : . daughter of a small town tnill-worket and aims its blow at the disloyalty ci married nten who bargain with stri.gjgfing girls. It is an arraignment not of ttov men alone, but of the gills themselves who sacrifice their honot for the attainment of earthly success. “fir e“at~evan S VIL LE. Evansville, Ind., March 9.—(Special Ito Daily Democrat.)—Fire today de stroyed the Orpheum theut(4 here ! with a loss of $40,000. It was,the ol 1est theater in the state, having bet.« | built in 1872.

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HELD BOTH_SIDES Every Person in Crowded House Last Niirht Was Personification TO GAY LAUGHTER Senior Class Pleases All With Well Given Play, “The Colonel’s Maid.” t The play, "The Colonial Maid,” aw presented by the senior class of the high school last evening in Bosses opera house, was very entertaining and every person in the crowded house and gallery was a personification of "Laughter holding both its sides." There wasn’t a dull perio I during the play. During the periods between the curtains the .Misses Mary Fuhrman and Doris DeVoss entertained the assembly with piano music. There were only nine characters in the play but each one was the tank of perfection. The story around the barnelor establishment of Colonel Robett Rudd, a witipwer of North Carolina, and his son, Bob Budd. Jr. Ching-a-ling, their Chinese cook, impertinent, and practical joking, kept things moving along iy the funny plot that tenters as usual, about a complication of misunderstanding, finally cleared .it. last.

The high-tempered, cross-grained old widower. Colonel Rudd, was played by Robert Colter, who portrayed the character well from the crown of his gray head and the ti ; > -• of his gray goatee, to the tip of his angrily flapping coat tails. Boh Rudd, the son. who is in lovo with Marjorie Byrd, the daughter of 1 old Rudd's worst antagonist, and ~*wTidht the colonel wants to marry his millionaire niece. Julia Carroll, wr.s I interpreted by Roy Kalver. Young I Rudd is a typical young American, ami J his refusal to marry Julia, who is also • jin love with somebody else, of course, results in a scheme to bring Marjorie into the household as a maid, and ■ thereby for her to win old Rudd’s favdr. Marjorie, who takes the part of the maid in the Rudd household, was charmingly played by Eva Aughenbaugh. and by her wtnsomeness ami modesty, so wins the testy old colonel that he wants to adopt he’’, and so paves the way for his mo it gracious consent to the marriage with I his son, when all things (inally worked themselves out to that period One of the moving spirits of the whole plot, one who also moves in ‘‘mysterious ways” was Ching, the Chinaman. Billy Linn was a star in this part, and kept the house roaring with laughter. h Miss Vera Eady, as Mrs. J. John Carroll, Rudd's sister-in-law. a very aristocratic and imperious old lady, was perfection in the role. It happened that Mrs. Carroll was the lady , over whom the antagonists. Colomd Rudd and Colonel Byrd had fought a I duel in early youth. Rudd had married her Ulster, but Byrd, who lovel J Mrs. Carroll, or “Emelline." had sup- , i posed that Rudd had married her. and , I when he later learned different, all . i differences between the two colonels were smoothed out, and they became friends. This smoothing out was not done without difficulty, however, and Por>ftha Shady played the wrinkled career i of Colonel Byrd in a most exemplary s manner, the difficulties between the two old gentlemen, who are very much ’[alike, creating much amusement. . Ida Gunsett, as Julia. Mrs. Carroll's • daughter, was a charming character In the play and pleased all. N'e.l j Graydon, the part taken by Roy Goldner. was Julia’s lover, ami his faulty i memory added zest to various conflictling situations in the plot. A part admirably taken by Hubert i Gilpin, was that of James Raskom, [Colonel Rudd's lawyer. The play closed with the singing m* the class song and a yell by the class, with Roy Kalvrr as yell master. ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH. Thefc’ will be a lenten service this . evening at ':3C o'clock. The Rev \v. Bischoff will conduct the servi< ■. . [ Services at Union township Sumi tv afternoon at the usual time. An ImJ portant meeting will be held after the jservice. A. W. HINZ, Pastor.