Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1917 — Page 1

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ON TWO FRONTS German Attacks Are Suc-cessful-Take French First Line Trenches. RESOLUTION ADOPTED By Senate Asking for Details of the Denman(ioethals Matter. ■ (United Fthrr Perv’re) New York, July 19—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—Germany was vig I I orous on the offensive on two fronts ' today. Official news dispatches showed violent Teutonic attacks I against the French south of St. Quern. l tin on a front of half a mile which} the French admitted had at its outset ( swept over the first line trenches.} Afterward the statement said the po- 1 sitions were won hack by counter- * attacks. 1 *Ber)in reported that the attack was 1 a success on a front of two-thirds of 1 a mile and all counter-attacks were broken down. On the eastern battle front the t Russian official statement admits' . great losses at Novica and retirement from parts of that village. Ber-| 1 lin did not relate this incident but 8 told of Russian counter-attacks be- f ing repulsed. r c BULLETIN. t Washington. July 19 —National im- v patience at the delay caused by the | I Goethals-Denman row broke out in : the senate today when a resolution j ' was adopted demanding from Presi- | dent Wilson full information on de- j. I tails of the fight. Increased irritation has been evi- ( I dent in congress at the GoethalsI Denman affair for several days f I prom lit ed by widespread feeling I throughout the country that the ( t sis ’d for immediate ship construction sis shown by Germany’s tremendous I U-boat successes against allied shipI Ping. e BULLETIN. 1, Petrograd. July 19—(Special to the a I Daily Democrat)—Russian troops r captured Novica as a result of a j nigh tattack. but due to their heavy Josses, withdrew’ to the eastern end of the village, where two enemy at- I tacks were repulsed, according to to- v day’s official statement. v “On Tuesday we captured near f Novica. three machine guns and 228 \ prisoners." the statement added. f BULLETIN. (By William G. Shepherd, United Press Staff Correspondent) Petrograd. July 18, delayed, via j London. July 19—Shooting in the city f was ended late this evening. f The government is arresting all mutineers. Nicholas Lenine, the ag(tutor. charged with being a German spy. is a fugitive. The city is rejoicing tonight over, ‘ pnding of the street disturbances. BULLETIN. I Paris, July 19—(Special to Daily t Democrat)—German troops verter- { day evening attacked on a fiont of a half mile east of Gauchy and sue- , ceeded In penetrating first line ( French trenches, but were hurled back at daybreak by a counterattack, today’s official statement reported. London, July 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The tensity in the German internal situation was increased if anything, today, according to dispatches here, by anxiety as to what policy the new chancellor might indicate in his reichstag speech this afternoon. There was the direct hint in some German Dispatches that if Dr. Michat lis pronouncement was unsatisfactory or if he temporized in the view of the reichstag coalition majority another crisis might be precipitated In this situtation the guesses as to what the new chancellor might have to say covered a wide range of speculation. The reichstag majority holds a very effective weapon as yet-the power to withhold approval of the credit bill. If it refuses this bill the government has only two courses open under the constitution. One is to accede to die majority’s demands and the other ts to prorogue the session. The reiehBtag can only be prorogued for 30 days unless its consent is given. If a longer period of dismissal is sought the law requires disbanding of the parUar ment and new elections. Presumably the Junkerites who man-

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I aged to oust Hollweg and put In Mich ■ aells have figured out some other w.i; | of avoiding the situation. One guess as to Michaelis announce mem today, as received here fron Switzerland, predicted he would hln at world disarmament and compulsorj arbitration to be suggested shortly bj Germany. (By John Grandens, United Pres. Staff Correspondent.) (Democrat) Berlin, July 18 (delnyct I via London. July 19 (Special to Dail) Democrat) Chancellor Michaelis I; expected in his first speech before »h. reichstag on Thursday to demand time for settlement of the issues <.f parliamentarization and peace. leaders here do not look for icimediate changes in the parliamentary situation. The difficulty in the restrictions of the constitutional system will make these of slow development. The new chancellor, as a matter of principle, will seek time for consideration of the mater. BULLETIN. Petrograd. July 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) — An extraordinary session of the cabinet council yesterday morning considered transferring the government to Moscow, it was announced here today. Three serious outbreaks of malcontents and opponents to the provisional government have been reported from Petrograd this week. German money and German agents being largely blam ed for them. These demonstrations may be responsible for the cabinet council’s consideration of a transfer of the governments business to Moscow, where the disturbing elements would be less likely to interfere. With this removal of the capital lining considered, the army chief of staff announced simultaneously evidence had been obtained that Nicholai limine. the pacifist agitator, wasa regularly accredited German agent, sent by the German staff to the sixth army front to discredit the provisional government. Lenine. is was asserted, had been supplied with German money from the German legation at Stockholm. The Russian army staff, also declared that the Maximalist leader, Kosloosky, is the real chief of the German agents in Russia and that he has a credit of two million roubles (approx, iroately $1,000,000) in Petrograd banks London, July 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Recapture of British advanced posts each of Mouchy Lepreux which Field Marshal Haig's men were forced to leave under German attacks Wednesday, was announced in the official report today. __ • GREATHOUSE RESIGNS (United Press Service) Indianapolis. July 19-(Special to Daily Democrat) —Announcement of his determination to resign as democratic state chairman was made today by Charles A. Greathouse. He stated that a formal statement of his resignation will be filed at the next meeting of the state committee. Confirmation by the United States, of Greathouse’s appointment as a mem ber of the board of vocational education. prompted his resignation as state chairman. Democratic leaders this afternoon refused to venture an opinion as to Greathouse’s probable successor. IFAILED^TO “GIT.” Did “Ma” Schlegel and She is Taken to Jail. “Ma” Schlegel failed to get out of the city as directed and the sentence imposed upon her for public intoxication some time ago fell with a dull thud this morning when Mayor Christen issued a mitumus and Mar shal Melchi took her to jail for elev en days. . METHO DI ST ENDOWMENT. Evansville. IndTTuly 19-(Speclai to Daily Democrat)—A strenuous campaign to raise $1,000,000 as ar endowment for the Moores Hill col lege, a Methodist institution which will be located here, is under way Evansville already has subscriber $500.000 —its share of the endowment fund. The Evansville district of th( Indiana Methodist conference will b< asked for $250,000. and Methodists ir other parts of the state for an equa amount. G?A. R. NOTICE All members of the G. A. R. shoub ■ come to the regular meeting at t'l hall at 1:30 Saturday afternoon to se , the fine present that Congressmat Vestel has sent, and to attend to th ■ regular business of the post.

Decatur, Indiana,Thursday Evening, July 19, 1917.

PROGRAM READY p For Great Patriotic Picnic y at Waterworks Park >y Next Sunday. ~ .. — , FOR COMPANY A (I y Getting Seats and Speakers’ Stand Ready—Ed Jackd f son to Speak. Everybody in the county is coming ; to the great patriotic picnic at Wat >rJ works park this city. neXt Sunday, to I be with the boys of Company A. who J soon leave for the training camp at ( Hattiesburg. Miss. The boys of Company A are getting the seats and speakers' platform arranged and R. I) Myers and Cal Peterson have como pleted the program for the afternoon, y The program will follow the dinner - which will be spread at one o’clock. ; and Ed Jackson, secretary of state, •will speak about 2:30 o’clock. The program in full, follows: Music—City Band. Song—Double Male Quartet. I Invocation —Rev. L. W. Stolte. ( Song—Double Male Quartet. Introduction —Hon. J. W. Tyndall. Address—Ed Jackson, secretary of state. Music —Double Male Quartet and . I City Band. WHO PAYS COSTS ■' Os the Recent Registration —Clerk Costs in Adams County Amounted TO SIX-FIFTY A DAY Question of Compensating Help Cause of Worry to Officials Over State. Those in this county concerned. ' with others over the state, are wondering who are going to pay the costs ' of the registration that was begun and , continued for eighteen days, when the law was declared unconstitutional. Help was hired to do the work and ; n Adams county it was costing about $6.50 a day, this being for two clerks at $3.25 a day, the other members of v the board not making any claim. • The two clerks worked for eighteen i- days, making a sum due of $58.50 each y or a total of sll7 for both. A portion I of one claim presented then was al- • lowed by the county commissioners at ? its last meeting, the claim being i v r $16.25. Besides this, a bill was allo vi, J ed Burford in the sum of $171.35 for a books, supplies, etc.; and newspaper .- publishing bill allowed in the total e sum of $6.48. The books and supplies however, are not worthless as they n may be used for other registrations, o An exchange says, relative to the question of who must pay the costs: “This little puzzle is causing much worry among county officials as a rest port from Ihdianapo’lis is to the effect that it is very possible that the county f officials will have to pay the cost. “The question was freely discussed . by men of the law professions as well 1( as politicians in the court house Wedr nesday . r “Many upheld the theory that the f county officials could not be forced io pay for the cost of registration as they were acting upon good faith and upon instructions from election officials who . also accepted the law as a good one. [g "On the other hand, one lawyer n quoted from a case as recorded by ]. Cooley in the 174th Indiana as folp lows: “When a statute is adjudged to jr. be unconstitutional it ’•» as h d never been. Rights cannot be built up it under it; contracts which depend upon ie it for their consideration are void; it le constitutes a protection to no one whe n has acted under it. and no one can ts il punished for having refused obedi ence to it before the decision was made.” , 50 MEN AND BOYS WANTED Id ie We hope that 50 men and boys wil re report at the West Ward bean pat 'l in Friday evening at 6:30 o’clock. Ou ie beans need cultivation. Bringa hoe. Committee and A. L. Brenlinger.

J) GET STOCK OF FISH. I The Adams County Fish, Game and Bird Protective association received a consignment of perch yesterday on p the 1:05 train from the state fish hatcheries at Columbia City. There were about 150,000 young perch In the consignment. These fish were put In the St. Mery's river yesterday by O. H. Odell and Henry Dellinger. Consignments of other kinds of fish L will be received later on. IS VERY SICK. Mrs. Fred Weber is very ill at the homo of Mrs. Maty Weber of Nuttman avenue, the cause of her sickness being paralysis of the bowels. She has been very bad for the past few days, but this morning showed ? some signs of improvement. : HEAR GOOD TALKS t _ 1 Men’s Class of Christian Church Hear Addresses ’ by Attys. I). B. Erwin AND C. L. WALTERS Dr. Mangold Host—August Meeting to be Picnic at Waterworks Park. r I A program that was out of the usual and complete with two unusually good talks was that which Messrs. Buck. Brentlinger and Davison had prepared for the Loyal Men’s class at its meeting at the home of Dr. Burt Mangold, last evening. The old debate of prior meetings gave way to an excellent talk by Attorney D. B. Erwin, in which he contrasted the law of Indiana with that of the Bible, showing how the present-day law is based upon that established in bible days; and the talk by Attorney C. L. Walters on "The Ministry of the Outstretched Hand." Both were very fine . The brotherhood has decided to have its August meeting take the form of a picnic supper at Waterworks park and they will invite their wives to meet with them at that time. The host and his wife were assisted last evening by Mrs. Noah Mangold and daughter, Glennys, Mrs. W. Paul Marsh, Mrs. C. R. Weaver and Mrs. Frank Kern in serving the very appetizing refreshments. q WEDDING SUNDAY Nuptials of Lulu Jahn and Myrl K. Ratliff Will be Solemnized I SUNDAY AFTERNOON At the St. Luke’s Reformed Church — Couple Will i Live at Muncie. r Mr. and Mrs. Marcus W. Jahn of . south of Peterson, announce the api proaching marriage of their daughter, Lulu Mae, to Mr. Myrl Kenneth * Ratliff. The wedding will be solemn- ' ized Sunday, July 22, at two o'clock ] in the St. John’s Reformed church, I north of Honduras, Rev. W. H. Schroer officiating. Mr. Ratliff is a son of John Ratliff. B of Bluffton, a young merchant of 3 that city. They have purchased a grocery store in Muncie, and it there that the young couple will go to housekeeping. Miss Jahn is one of the excellent young ladies of the county and has r many friends and relatives in this ■ city as well as in the immediate i. community where she resides, o _o IS GETTING ALONG WELL II Councilman James Hurst, who was n II called to Rock Island. 111., a week age o by the illness of his son. Will, writes e that he is recovering nicely and get *’ ting along fine, although his case was 18 a serious one. The doctors operated for gall stones, but instead, found a badly decayed appendix, with pus in the gall duct also, but no gall stones. 11 The appendix was removed just in :h time. Mr. Hurst will remain until ir his son is further along on the way tc recovery. The young man is in the hospital there.

ON WEDDING TRIP (l . n 11 Emma Schneider, Nurse p n Well Known Here, Marp t y ried Last Wednesday TO REV. MARTIN SELTZ „ Now on Honeymoon Trip to Niagara Falls and the Great Lakes. t ( Mrs. Martin s Shltz. formerly Miss Emma Schneider,' a trained nurse, writes friend* here of the honeymoon trip which she and her busband, the Rev. Martin Selz, who were married last Wednesday, are now taking. They are at Niagara Falls and will also have a tour of the Great Lakes before returning to their home in lowa, where the Rev. Seitz is pastor of a Lutheran charge. The bride is the daughter of the Rev. Schneider, former pastor of the Magley Reformed church, now at Sheboygan. Wls. She is a graduate of the Lutheran hospital’s nurses’ training class in Fort Wayne, and for a year had been assisting Dr. D. D. Clark of this city. Rev. Seitz was graduated last June from the Lutheran seminary at St. Louis. Mo., and is a pastor of a Lutheran church in lowa. CORBETT WRITES Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Corbett Receive Word of Son’s Arrival in France. WAS SAFE AND WELL Likes Country Much Better Than Texas, Where He Had Been Stationed. From “Somewhere in France” is the letter which Johnny Corbett wrote, June 27 just on his arrival there, which was received this morning by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Corbett. This is the first word they had received from him since that which came five weeks ago as he was passing through the country from Texas, . where he had been stationed with Pershing’s forces, he having joined the army last January first. The letter which was censored, . f course, gives very little about his new place. He stated that he had just arrived there thqn and that he was well and liked the country and place much | better than he did Texas. He stated that Jay Teeple and Alonzo Hooker, two Decatur boys were with him, but did not \iention Glen Neptune, who had been with him prior to going to France. The letter and its word of his well being is very welcome to his parents and many friends. "CARDINAL PRAISES WORK In a letter from Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, tri Mr. Frederick Ullrich, district deputy of the Knights of Columbus, the cardinal praises and commends the order for their patriot et- ' forts and work in the effort to raise one million dollars to be used in the erecting of recreation halls at the six- ( teen cantonment famps where the American boys will be in training. The campaign for the million dollars , will start Sunday. The local Knights , of Columbus will canvass every Catho- . lie home in the city. Other contributions outside will be gladly received. expects' TO° BE CALLED. (United Press Service) s Indianapolis, Ind., July 19 —(Spe- ° cial to Daily Democrat)—Word from s Washington indicates that the Indianapolis base hospital unit may be s called into active training at Fort d Benjamin Harrison within a day or a two. Despatch of the unit to France n is expected in the near future. ’• baTTd concert tonight n il The weekly band concert will be o given tonight on the public square, n Take an hour off and come up to hear l tlie music.

I| “SAVE STOCKING TOPS" (United Press Service) Washingion. July If' —(Special to Dally Democrat) The old stocking ( may have some better use than to hold hoarded gold and to cure the childrens colds. The women's committee of the founcll of National Defense today discovered $1,000,000 worth of old stock Ing tops are wasted every year by i American women and recommend that 11 some method of eliminating this waste be found. They say this waste should | not apply to silk stockings, as silk ' hose should not he worn at Ihis time when thrift and economy are needed. o ■— FOR FIRST TIME In History the Ten Children of Chas. Batten hers Family Were Together. A RARE REUNION Gathering in Honor of Departure of Son, Homer, to the World War. A rare bit of family history was enacted July 17, when Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Battenberg, pioneer residents, of Decatur, called their ten children home in order that the entire family might be together before one of the sons should leave for active service for Uncle Sam. The occasion was one of the happiest for the father and mother, as well as every child, that could possibly be imagined, because of the very extraordinary fact that it was the first time in the history of the family that the entire family had been together. They came at the call of the father as soon as he learned that his son, Homer, a regimental sargeant major, stationed at Gatun, Panama, had left for the states on a special furlough to see his parents before leaving to accept a new and more responsible position in the great world war. The first member of the family to i arrive was Mrs. G. T. Ralls, of Coalgate. who had planned to visit her 1 parents while enroute to her home in i Oklahoma, from Asheville, N. i where she had been attending a > board meeting of the Council of Wo- | men of the Southern Presbyterian < church. Mrs. Ralls arrived Friday | evening. July 13. Mr. Homer Batten- , berg and his wife reached here the ( following day at noon. On his arrival .. when it was learned that he would be granted a special furlough of two f days that he might see all his fam- f lily before going to the front, the message was immediately Hashed across the wires to the remotest child, and they all immediately re- , sponded to the call and came at once. The last to arrive was Mr. James P. } Battenberg, of Durant, Okla., professor of mathematics in the Southeastern State Normal, who reached Decautr Tuesday noon, July 17. He was preceded by his wife and son. (James Crawford, who were called from Muncie, Ind., where they have been visiting for several weeks. Those present were: Mrs. Effie Ralls. Coalgate, Okla.; Mr. Ira R. Battenberg and his wife and son, Paul, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. Floss Hensley of Yorktown, Ind., and her son, Charles; Miss Grace Battenberg of Decatur; Mrs. Francile Mcßride of Okmulgee, Okla., and her son, Thomas; Mr. Homer Battenberg of Gatun, Panama, and his wife; Mr. Jack Battenberg of Kendallville, who has been visiting - his parents for several weeks; Mr. > James P. Battenberg of Durant. - Okla., his wife and son. James Craw- > ford; Mr. Karl K. Batenberg, who is also a teacher in Oklahoma, and had s been spending the summer with his B parents; Miss Elizabeth Battenberg. . the youngest daughter, of Hope hos- . pital, Muncie, Ind. The only granddaughter, and the only grandchild unable to attend, was Mrs Fred Allison of Cleveland. Ohio, daughter of Mrs. Floss Hensley. Mrs. Allison was out, of the city. Every e- - was made to reach her by wire, ’ but not until too late for her. to reach home. 3 Three sons-inlaw, Judge G. T. Rail 1 of Coalgate, Okla.; Mr. Sam Hensley, r of Yorktown, Ind., and Mr. W. A. Mc--3 Bride, jr„ Okmulgee, Okla., were unable to be present. After the last arrival Tuesday noon the festivities began, and the i hope that had long smoldered in ev- . ery heart that all the loved ones • might be together before the family (Continued on Page Two)'

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PLAN ANNOUNCED 1 System of Lottery Which Will Fix the Order of Service for Men IS TOLD TODAY Blindfolded Man Will Do the Drawing from the Huge Glass Globes. +++++++++++++♦ + REPORT IN FULL. ♦ + + + A complete report of the + + drawing will be received tomor- + + row by the Democrat’* special + + press wire. + + + + + 4- + + + 4- + + + +4(United T*reiss Service) Washington, I). C„ July 19— (Special to Daily Democrat)— At 9:30 o'clock Friday morning in Room 226 of the senate building, America's great draft to determine the order in which her men are to respond to the call of demcoracy, will be held. This announcement was made shortly after 1:30 o’clock this afternoon following a visit to the capitol by Provost Marshal Crowder. Room 226 in which the fateful event is to take place is a large committee room on the second floor of the senate building. All details of the drawing are now complete. Owing to the demand for absolute quiet while the drawings are made, only a small number of people will be allowed in the room, and press association wires will be connected outside the chambers. Washington, July 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The war department today announced the system of lottery that will fix the order in which America's millions must step forward for service. The entire registration rolls of more than 9.650.000 men will be drafted and the ordeT of their examination determined at this drawing. The lottery will consume only about an hour. At the end of the drawing every man on the rolls may know the order of his liability for service. Only one thousand numbers will be drawn and eleven others to fix the order of the thousands. t The 1,000 numbers are printed on small squares of paper, black on one side. These are rolled up and inserted in gelatine capsules with the black side out. To insure absolute accuracy the capsules are reposing in ten glass globes—one hundred in each seal 'd and locked in the war department, vaults. At the hour of the lottery the 1.000 capsules will be poured into a huge glass globe and stirred by a blindfolded man. The capsules numbered from nothing to nine will be placed in another globe. Another blind folded man will draw out the capsules one by one, break them and hand to an announcer. He will call the numbers to the tally clerks. Three tally sheets are kept and the numbers posted as pulled, upon a big blackboard. During the drawing the capsules will be stirred continuously. Reduced to its simplest terms this is the method of the lottery as explain--1 ed in a pamphlet issued at the provost Marshal general's office. : The drawing is merely to determine the order in which men must appear for examination in their district. Inasmuch as there are more than 9,000 registrants in the largest district in the nation and only 120 in others, the national drawing must determine the ordej; in the smallest as well as the largest. First the numbers from nothing to nine, inclusive, will be drawn to determine the order of the “thousand groups" on the "master lists." Next a drawing of numbers from one to one thousand to determine the order inside the "thousand .groups." For instance, if the drawing of the “thousand groups" results thus: Eight, five, nothing, two, four, three, one, six, nine, seven, that determines the order of the groups of the thousands. Then if the drawing from the one to 1.000 globes starts the way: 876, 34, 500, 1. 43. etc., through Hie thousand numbers the first number on the muster list would be 8,000 plus 876, or 8,876 the. second would be 8,034, the third (Continued on Page Two)