Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1917 — Page 1

Volume XV. Number 98.

VOTE ON ARMY BILL TO COMESATORDAY ADMINISTRATION LEAH SORE BILL WILL PASS-REPRESENTATIVE MASON HISSED AS HE ATTACKED SUPPORTERS OF BILL.

(United Press Service) Washington, April 26—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The house will let on the army bill tomorrow. Conscription seems certain to win. The long drawn out debate on the question of raising two million men ty draft or volunteering will end tonight. This was decided today by unanimous, consent Immediately the house convened. Dy the agreement, the house is to continue to talk as long as it can. stand it today and this evening. Then I tomorrow, Chairman Dent, of the military committee, who opposes the president's draft plan, and Representative Kahn, ranking republican member of the same committee, who is leading the president's fight, will make concluding arguments. “The house action speeded the senate. Shortly after the unanimous consent agreement was reached in the house, the senate acted similarly, agreeing to vote some time before mid-Saturday. An agrement was reached in the senate to vote on the bill Saturday. | Representative Mason of Illinois in , the debate in the house demanded that Colonel Roosevelt be permitted to raise an army for immediate serv j ice in France. , “The man in the white house,” Ma- J son said, “hasn't the courage or political sagacity to permit Colonel Roosevelt to enlist for fear he will profit politically." Violent hissing greeted this statement by Mason. Mason bitterly attacked the selective draft plan. He said: “Nothing would please the kaiser more than to see an army of conscripts go to Europe to fight." Mason charged that keeping Roosevelt out of the army is a part of the plan of oppositionists to the volunteer system. Representative Frearof ( Wisconsin denounced the selective draft plan as undemocratic. Senator Chamberlain offered the resolution in the senate at the beginning of the fifth day of debate, to set the time for a vote. At one o’clock Saturday a rule will go into effect limiting speeches on the bill to ten minutes and to five minutes in amendments. Senator Overman attempted to bring up the spy bill sidetracked for the army bill. With a plea for sending an expeditionary force to F rance , Senator Hale of Maine, just returned from the French front, spoke in favor of the conscription bill ( Washington, April 26— (Special to Daily Democrat)— What may prove to be one of the important moves to sweep aside German autocracy and replace it with a German republic were reported officially to the state departraent today from several sources. According to a message the secretary of state, from Minister Stavall. at Berne, an open movement is on tn Switzerland by a commission of Germang to spread the propaganda of republicanism and democracy. From other sources this government (earned that the German people are increasingly anxious ior peace. Sueh a message was received from a traveler arriving in a neutral country from Germany, by state officials. It was that the strike of *’so 000 laborers in Beilin the growth of the desire for peace. (By George Martin) Washington, D. C., Apr. 26-(Spe-cial to Dailv Democrat)-That some one—American— possibly Herbert Hoover or Secretary of Labor Wilson within the next few months will come food dictator of the world was indicated today by developments s the international war conference the allies here today. More and more the war council proceedings are crystallizing into monumental campaign to lies. Finance and shipping p >

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are coming to be considered comparatively collateral though, of course, vital* It was taken for granted today that it will be the policy of the allies, after America has made her preliminary contributions to her fighting sister nations in men, money, food, shipping and other things, to entrust the I'nited tSates with absolute control of certain phases of the war. That food will be one of the problems left entirely in American hands is believed certain. | This will mean that one man, or group of men. will be named by Pres-' ident Wilson absolutely to dominate; I the production and distribution of all J food in the I'nited tSates, England. . France, Italy, Russia, Cuba and the pther allied countries. It is deemed probable that this step will involve the formation of an inter-j ally food commission, comprising a • director general of food for each na-1 tion, with the American dictator as the head of the commission. This, it was officially pointed out, : has been the allies’ method of handling all its problems. England dom- [ inates war finance. Other phases i which it is desired shall not be dis-( cussed as they are not generally iknown, are under the respective di- j 1 rection of some one or other of the | 'pther allies. , ] ' Domination of war divisions other ihan food may be allotted to the I'nited States, hut food will be the most important. j The real crux of the conferences today is the international reorganiza- | tion of the war since the United J States is in. much on the same prin-I ciples that an army of field fighters is organized. 1 Premier Viviani. Field Marshal Jof- ■ | fre and Admiral Choceprat called on j President Wilson at the white house during the morning. The Frenchmen were with the president only a fewminutes. After greetings had been 1 exchanged, Viviani left for the capii tol to call on Vice President Marshall, and Marshal Joffre left on foot for the war department to talk with American army offeers. (By George ~ Martin, United Press I Staff Correspondent) I Washington, April 26—(Special to; Daily Democrat) —America today; made war plans with a firmer hand tYian at any other time since the declaration against Germany. The conferences between French, British and American commissions plunged into the details of putting the I I’nited States on a firm war basis as soon as possible. ' Every phase of the day’s developments tended to make this task easy. Congress opposition to the conscription bill was gradually crumpling under onslaughts of the administration. Officials in a position to know . expressed belief that the bill, only slightly changed, will be before the ’ president for his signature by the first of next week. Today’s program of organizing the three cornered world war parley was . simplified by the cooperation of , j French and British commissions who : have dovetailed in similar conferences J frequently in London and Paris. . I One result of today's parleys bet tween the final line up of the allied .' conference may be an immediate $50,- < 000,000 loan to Italy. Plans also were perfected for immediate, preliminary minor loans like this to any of our allies, who need them. B i Not much time will be used by Vi- ’’ 1 viani and Joeffre in paying their ofli " cial compliments to the president, ” Lansing and cabinet members today % Meanwhile all government depart ments began actual work putting th< plans of the allied conferees imc s effect. a An armv of laborers is rapidly be I. mg mobilized by Secretary of Labor is —"(Continued on Page Two)

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, April 26, 1917.

DIDN’T SHOW UP ’ Former Geneva Girl Who Wanted Marriage License in Fort Wayne JIDIDN’T COME HERE • As She Said She Would— I. Says It’s a Lot of Trouble to Get Married. The Fort Wayne Sentinel says: "A pretty, guy young miss dad in the style-decreed mustard colored coat came tripping into the clerk's office in the court house Monday morning. She wanted a marriage license. She had t j the affidavit of her husband-to-be with 1 her. She said he lived in Chicago. . 1 She told the clerk she had lived in r I Chicago for the past four years, but | that she wanted to get married at her ■ parents' home in Geneva, Adams county, Indiana. She had not resided in j Allen county for thirty days as prescribed by Jaw. She wanted to know it the marriage would he legal if she swore to the fact that she had llv“d in the county tor thirty days when , she hadn't. , After much dallying about site d-> I cided she would meet her beloved one at 12:35 o'clock and then go to Decatur. the county seat of Adams county, and get the license there. She was inj formed that the same law of thirty days was in ruling there also. She said that was alright, she would swear to a lie because she was bound and doi termined she was going to get mar- ! ried Monday, April 23. 1917. As she left the office of the clerk ■ she said partly to herself but audibl ■, nevertheless, “Well, believe me. 1 . wouldn't want to get married every week because it is too much trouble.” THE com NEWS Elizabeth Borne Sues Clover Leaf for Damages for Death of Stock. DEMAND IS $350.00 Sale of Land Granted in Meyers Estate—C. & E. Brings Suit. • Attorneys J. C. Sutton and H. B. Heller, for the Chicago & Erie tailroad have filed a suit against Dallas G. M. and Flora B. Trout, in which the railroad seeks to condemn 185 J square feet of real estate near Oak i and Mercer avenue belonging to the Trouts, for railroad purposes. Elizabeth Borne, of Kirkland town- . ship brings suit against the Clover Leaf Railroad asking $350 damages ' for the death of two cows, October 3, ; 1914, and a roan colt, May 1, 1915. ! They are valued at $125, SIOO, SIOO re- -, spectively. Peterson & Moran arc ■' her attorneys. I In the John H. Meyer estate, sate of real estate was granted, the same to Jbe private after notice, for not less .■than appraisement. Terms are one- , third cash; one-third in nine; and onet third in eighteen months. Bond was fixed at $6,000, which is filed and tipa proved. Elizabeth Meyer is found to . have a first lien of $1913.19 on the J property. 3 In the Woeste-Arnold case, separate 3 demurrer was filed by E. C. Arnold and D. C. McKinzie. ]| Upon petition of Victoria Stcne, plaintiff, the Stone partition case was postponed and i twas resat for May 17. Exception was taken by the de- ,, fendant, Robinette. 11 Real estate transfers: John Judty to Catherine Eckrote, lot 278, Geneva *' $250; Franklin W. Mosure, admints- '■ trator to Edgar P. Hunter, 40 acres of French township, $5,850; William '■ Schaffter to Amos Schaffter, quit claim deed to realty in Hartford e township. o _o . Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Lyons arrived e- from Fort Wayne on the 1:05 trail r, this afternoon to be guests of Mr. and ~ Mrs. Amos Yoder.

| SWITCH BURNS OUT It made a spectacular appearance, but not a dangerous or disastrous one, )this morning at 6:25 when the pump switch or u fuse of some kind burned out 111 the inotorman's compartment of the new interurban car 103, while standing at the station here this morning. The motorman's room which was unoccupied at the time, was lighted up considerably and the women scurried - from the car. The mon. however, knowing the Insignificance of the burn-out, remained quietly In their places and the blaze subsided when the trolley was lifted. However the car was put out <f commission and it was necessary to 1 wail for the arrival of the len o'clock 1 car, the 8:30 car being annulled. 1 Car 103 Is the last one of the three B new cars to be equipped and was put i into service yesterday. i o ATTEND FUNERAL 1 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller, of Marshall street were in Fort Wayne today where they attended the funeral of Mr. Miller’s half brother, Jacob 1 Weber, held today. PROF, W. WENNER ■ Head of Ashtabula Harbor School to Give Address for Graduates of I LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL Commencement is Friday, May 18—Rev. Marsh to Give the Sermon. Friday evening, May 18, is the date set for the commencement of the De-1 eatur high school, when a class of about twenty-five will be graduated. ; The commencement exercises will be held in the Bosse opera house and I the address will be delivered by Prof.| W. E. Wenner, superintendent of th* schools at Ashtabula Harbor, O. Prof. Wenner is one of the live wire educators of Ohio. The baccalaureate services will be held Sunday evening, May 13, and will, be at the Methodist church. Rev. W. Paul Marsh, pastor of the Christian church, has been chosen to deliver the sermon. Prof. Worthmann and the seniors are rapidly completing plans for the entire series of festivities incident to the closing of the work. o * A SOU ON BOND In Which Wells County Men Are Bondsmen Will be Heard in Court Here APRIL TWENTY-FIFTH Jackson & Gordon Who Threw Up Huntington Contract Defendants. ’ Huntington, Ind., April 25 —The suit! ’ of the county on the bond of Jackson! & Gordon, who threw up the contract 1 for the George W. Young road in Polk ' township, has been set for trial in the ’ Adams county circuit court at Decatur ’ May 25. The suit was originally filed in Wells county because the bondsmen lived in that county, and was takj en to Adams county on a change of venue. S. H. Palmer got a contract last . summer to finish the Young road s and succeeded in making it passable f for a time. The floods of last, win- '• ter, however, cut a channel between the bridge and the high hill on the south side of the river. The coiny missioners will let a contract at the a May term for a protecting wing to ’’ the east end of the south abutment and Mr. Palmer will make another 11 fill. The road probably will be tin- , ished early in the summer. —o —- PARENT-TEACHER CLUB d The Parent-Teachers club will meet n this evening at 7:30 o’clock at the d west ward to hear the reports of the committees on (day grounds.

.. SING IN CONCERT ( Mrs. Kathryn Egly Tyndall it of This City to be Vocal Soloist s IN BOUILLET CONCERT p . At Fort Wayne Tonight—- *’ Forty Stringed Instru* n ments Accompany Her. f An important musical event in Fort t Wayne this evening will be the Bouillet concert at the Majestic theatre. N Mrs. Kathryn Egly Tyndall, of this ' city, will tak<- a prominent part in the 1 concert and the Journal Gazette of I this morning uses, with a picture of 1 this well known young lady, who is 1 director of tile Methodist choir of this I city, the following complimentary notice: "Mrs. Kathryn Egly Tyndall, soprano, is the vocal soloist for the II Bouillet concert at the Majestic thealiter this evening. Mrs. Tyndall, who: ;Is a pupil of Kay M. Spencer, possesses a very beautiful voice and: I plenty of temperament. Her singing! appeals to every one because it is nrI tistic, and her style Is most earnest ! and plaasing. “She will be accompanied by the j string orchestra of about forty pieces | I under the direction of Emile Bouillet. : Her numbers will be the Bertuse from Joselyn by Godard, and the Baeh- ' Gounod “Ave Marie.” Music lovers of i all countries have been thrilled by, j these numbers for many years and i doubtless will be for ages to come, es; they are the kind of compositions I which reveal new beauties as they j become better known." o TALK OF INTEREST Rotarians and Their Guests Greatly Enjoyed Intelligent Talk bv i 1 HON. SAM’L M. FOSTER < On the Needs of a New Constitution for Indiana at Hotel Murray. i The interesting and intelligent talk (given by the Hon. Samuel M. Foster, I (the well known banker of Fort Wayne, | to the members of the Decatur Rotary I club and their thirty-five guests at the luncheon meeting held at the Hotel, Murray last evening was greatly enjoyed and appreciated by all present. I After everyone had partaken of the dinner and the tables were cleared,! Avon Burk, president of the Rotdry, club inertoduced th" honored guest. I Samuel M. Foster. Mr. Foster spoke at length about : l the present constitution of Indiana.: the formation of it in 1857, and told why he thought the state needed a i ■ new one, and was one of the advo-i j cates for it. Mr. Foster went, on to, | tell how difficult it was to amend the present constitution, and why it was almost impossible to enforce some oi’, the basic laws contained therein. He stated that the new constitution was I (needed as a means of making a new ■ i tax law and for court procedure. ! He also laid stress on the fact that f the different counties should be very i careful In the selecting of their delet gates to the constitutional convention that they should choose the man 9 who was broad in mind and one that •jdid not stand for just one particular II (hobby all his own, or in the interest 0 of any one class. ■'l Mr. J. Herman Bueter, who accomc; panied Mr. Foster, was then called on °!to speak. In a very dignified way he A' thanked the club for their invitation r ; to the meeting and stated he was very ’’ sorry he was not an orator. Hon. D. B. Erwin, of this city, was called on for a tew words and upon the motion of Hon. J. T. Merryman a standing t vote of thanks was voted Mr. Foster e for his excellent talk. e The club will meet in another two weeks.

■ COAL DEALERS MEET il'nlted Press Service» Indianapolis, April 26 —(Special t.t I Daily Democrat)—Speakers at the : first meeting of the Indiana Reatil foal Merchants’ association, at the ' Hotel Severun today deplored the fact (there probably will be a serious coal i shortage next winter despite the fact | that 70,000,000 additional tons of coal '( were mined in 1916 than the previous ’ year and that there has been an in- | creased supply this year. Powder plants and munition factories are us- ] ing an unusually large amount of coal which accounts for the shortage, cording to speakers. FOUR CHILDREN KILLED (I'nited Press Service) Owenville, Ky., April 26—(Special! io Daily Democrat) —Four children ( ’’ j Salt Lick, near here, were killed withj in an hour today. The three year old daughter of Lacy I (Ingram, fell into boiling water; the four year old son of Charles Swimm. was drowned In Triplett creek; the! six year old daughter of John Jago, burned to death in a brush fire and the nine year old son of George Gray-, son was kicked by a horse. MERCHANTS GAME —— Decatur Merchants to Play High School Faculty Tonight in BASKET BALL GAME — Sophomores and Juniors Will Play—Proceeds for Play Grounds. The big game will be tonight. The ball will be thrown up between the| | Decatur Merchants and the High ( | School Faculty basket ball teams at| 8:45 this evening at the Weber hall I and at once the big battle for supremacy will be on. Both sides feel pretty confident over the victory but the work to be done by the two teams will show which five will carry the laurels and which one meets her Waterloo. Much interest is being centered in the result of the contest. The game will be called at 8’45 and the proceeds derived there from will go towards the expense of equipping the play grounds al the different public schools. A preliminary game between the Juniors and the Sophomores will ';e staged at 7:45. Everybody is invited. Come up and do the boosting. o DIED UST WEEK Death of Mrs. Mary Nunemaker, 96, Occurred at Whittier, California. WELL KOWN HERE Sad News Received in Letter from Relatives to Mrs. Robert Blackburn. j Mrs. Robert Blackburn is in receipt I of a letter from relatives in California telling of the death of Mrs. Maty Nunemaker, a woman well known here and in the vicinity of Whittier, Cai., and widely beloved. She was ninety-six years old last ■ November and until the last few ■ months had been in excellent health. 'I Her husband, a Lutheran minister, 'j died in lowa many years ago and later. ’ the family came here, her son Will • Nunemaker, formerly being employed as a compositor in this office. Die) • moved from here to Fort Wayne and ' Will was for years baggage master on ' tlte G. R. & I- l - ater they movei! tu ' California where they have since . lived. Mrs. Nu..smaker is survived by the , son, Will aud two daughters, Mis. Joseph Hart and Mrs. George Richard, her death occurring Tuesday of last week at the home of Mrs. Richards. She will be remembered by many of the older citizens here.

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FIFTY SIX MEN ■ BEADY TO SERVE 11 p It Only Nineteen Have Been t Rejected Out of Total of Seventy-three Recruits. MUSTER LN TOMORROW i ' Major Davis Will be Here to Complete Work—Minimum Company Sure. z Thirty-eight recruits out of fifty. 1 three successfully passed the physical examination yesterday afternoon and ' were given the o. k. by Lieutenant . Green, examining surgeon. Fifteen | tailed to pass out of that number but of these, seven were rejected becauso ! they were under weight and it is believed the most of them can be adnii*I ted by securing a waiver from the idI jutant general. The ratio of about | seven to three maintained here the first day is said to be as good shoving as has been made anywhere in the state. Four Bluffton men out of six applicants passed. They were Hixon, Harden, Smith and Stout, it is said several other Bluffton men will come ' here today to enlist. The examining continued until ten : o'clock last night and was resumed at I eight o’clock this morning. From the ! results of the first day there seems no ; doubt that a fair sized company will i be mustered here. Those who have passed so far arej Charles Dunn. | Fred Gay. I Robert Peterson. Glenn Venis. Howard Hixon. : Richard Harden. Harry B. Smith. | Roeeoe Stout. William Johnson. Virgil A. Cross. Dewey Hooker. James H. Ward. Edward Yahne. Donald C. Patterson. Bernard Ullman. Floyd Cook. Leon Gass. Cass Bacon. Clarence Stalter. Fred Sheets. Fred McConnell. Frank Bacon. Lawrence Lord. Carroll Bacon. Leo Bogner. Dallas Brown. Bernard Keller. Clarence Stevens. Walter Hammond. | Charley Wise. Leroy Cable. ! Ixtyd Shackley. | Clarence Weber. Herman Haag. Vaughn Weldy. Hugh Hitchcock. Race Burrell. Floyd G. Enos. Edward Jaberg. ! Ernest Dettinger. Hubert Miller. Marion Watkins. Alfred Jaberg. Edward Kiruetzmann. Adolph Colter. Carlisle Flanders. Chalmer Porter. John Deßolt. Garth Hoover. Otto MiUer. May M. Knavel. Russell C. Dull James Ginley. Joseph Laurent. Glenn Johnson. Harry Parr. At three o’clock fifty-six had been accepted and nineteen rejected. It is I believed that by evening the minimum i number of sixty-five will have been ac- | cepted. Mustering Officer Tomorrow Word was received by Captain Dunn this afternoon that Major P. A. Davis of Indianapolis, had been assigned as mustering officer and will arrive tomorrow morning for the purpose if completing the examination and swearing the men in for service. XII those who have passed are requested to be on bands tomorrow for that purpose. The students of the high school are planning several field meets to be held soon.