Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1917 — Page 1

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GERMAN PLAN IS DISCOVEREE Were to Make War Against U. S. After Defeating France and England. THREE GREAT DRIVES Are Assailing Teutons on Three Sides—Much Territory Taken. (United Press Service) With his reply to Pope Benedict's peace proposal eminent, President Milson today seized the occasion of the meeting of the Russian conference at Moscow to cable to the new democracy a firm assurance that America was in the war to achieve democracy’s superiority. He promised to give Russia every material and moral assistance in “our common cause." Os relative interest was the state departments announcement that the United States government was in possession of a document that Germany planned to make war on the United States after defeating Prance and Great Britain in the great war. BULLETIN Washington, August 27—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Evidence which made American government officials believe Germany planned to war on the United States after defeating j Prance and England is in the hands of j the administration, the state department announced today. The state department confirmed Lord Robert Cecil’s statement th it Germany had so plotted. Secretary Lansing refused to be specific as to what evidence there was. London. August 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Three great allied drives assailed Teutonic lines on three fronts today. British and Prench troops resumed the offensive which they started last Monday. Italy continued her fierce drive uninterruptedly. In a week the Italians have taken approximately 90 square miles cf Austrian territory, close to 25.000 pris-| oners, a vast store of guns, munitions and supplies and inflicted stupendous I casualties on the enemy—estimated in semi-official Rome advices at 75.000. ■ The fighting today was comparatively | open, on the Bainsizza plateau. The ■ rugged points of the mountains hav-j ing been successfully passed, Rome' looked for even more rapid progress as the troops pressed on to Laibach. Suddenly changing his point of attack from the left bank to the right of the Meuse, General Petain was striking another blow at the German defenses out of Verdun. The initial shock carried the Prench fighters nearly a mile forward on a two mile front. On the British gront Field Marshal Haig also mixed his blows. He drove successfully against German positions north of St. Quentin in a where there has been little fighting in two months. Powerfully fortified German posts of the “Hindenburg line” were stormed and taken and the British front advanced half a mile over a mile front. BULLETIN Paris, August 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat)— German counter-attacks of the most violent nature tailed to make the Prench relinquish any of the ground they gained in yesterday’s new offensive around Verdun. The war office reported today all such attacks around Beaumont had been “broken up.” , . .. Elsewhere on the French front the Germans were busy. The official report told of great enemy activity east of Noisy and west of Carny in the region of Monument and Hurtebise were a series of attacks. These yere all by specially picked storming troops m dicating a general and determined of fensive move. They were all repulsed Washington. D. C-, Aug. —(Spu cial to Daily Democrat)— A new■figh in congress to preserve the rights o married men under the draft is pen ing Fearful lest the soldiers insur ance bill be regarded as Bufflci “ grounds for nullifying dependency claims from the head of a household amendments will be offered clerly ti define this point. The provost marshal generals ol flee holds “there is no ground for e> emption of married men except d<

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1 I pendencies.’ If a law is passed providing for the dependents both before and after the death of the men I supporting them, the claim for exemption would he weakened. "We must safeguard the married man under this bill,” Senator Weeks , said today. “The danger is very 1 great that a tremendous injustice will be done if the act is construed by the provost marshal general’s office.” BULLETIN. Washington. D. C., Aug. 27—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Expressing American confidence in the trial of 1 democracy, President Wilson has sent the Moscow conference a pledge of "both moral and material assistance to Russia.” New York, N. yT Aug. 27—(Special o tDaily Democrat) —The rights of Belgium enter into the very heart and conscience of the whole war and t every claim of justice must be not f | to satisfy the conscience of human- . ity. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, f declared today in a statement to the United Press. Commenting on the amplification of the pope’s peace appeal published last week, the Cardinal further expressed the opinion that it “will 1 give a new impulse to civil liberty, the whole wide world over.” The cardinal's statement wired to ' the United Press from Deal Beach, N. J„ follows: ' “I read with great satisfaction in the cablegram of the United Press the amplification of the pope’s peace 1 proposals published with the approval of the cardinal secretary of state , and though they are given to the public only now, still I have reason to believe that they formed an integral part of the pontificial mind from the ; very beginning. No plan of society emanating from the Holy See can be i considered complete that does not recognize every claim of justice as far as the ripeness of the times permits. Though it must be evident to every thinking man that no peace can be possible after a war as great and terrible as the present one, without a spirit of conciliation and of mutual willingness to make concessions and condonations, still I think it i must be held that rule applies only to matters of detail and of secondary ' importance, nor do I believe that anybody will be disposed to consider the rights of Belgium as a question I of that kind and not rather as one of the first importance, entering into , the very heart and essence of the ’! whole conflict, wherein in order to satisfy the conscience of humanity, every claim of justice must be fully , , met and satisfied. “Further the clear statement of I the cardinal secretary of state that the form of government is to be left • : to the free choice of every people, ■ marks the very cornerstone of civil liberty and it is by impression that I that strong confirmation of the Holy ■.See of the old American principle ' will give a new impulse to civil liberty, the whole wide world over. •j "Signed, I "JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS.” BULLETIN. Washington, D. C„ Aug. 27—(Spe- ’: cial to Daily Democrat) —A new appropriation of at least $350,000,000 for destroyers will be asked of con!I gress this week by Secretary Dan’iiels. Supplementary plants in pri- '[ vate shiy pards for destroyer manufacture. Daniels said, wiuld be built. 1 He declined to say hoy many de- ? stroyers would be sought. He added that the appropriation might be made more than $350,000,000. This is the first step toward assembling great numbers of destroyers to beat S the U-boat, announced by Secretary Daniels recently. e l v .(By William G. Shepherd, United ’-I Press Staff Correspondent) si Moscow, Aug. 27—(Special to the ii[ Daily Democrat)—Russia will mainI tain her democracy at all costs. She e 1 intends to use the weapons of the >-! old regime against those who would t have the old autocracy overthrow the new freedom e Os outstanding significance in the v i deliberations of the all Russian con- , i ference today was this emphatic dec- ’ laration by Premier Kerensky. He , insisted the new nation “was passing through a period of mortel danB- ger,” and warned enemies within it that the government henceforth if I "would be implacable” in pursuing d-1 in “crushing with blood and iron all r-; attempts with armed force against iti the people's power.” ■v l “Those who once trembled before d, the government of autocrats now to boldly march aganist the government with arms in hand,” he continued, if- "But let them remember that our pax’ ' tience has its limits and that those le- ( (Continued on Page Two)

Decatur, Indiana,Monday Evening, August 27, 1917.

JURIES__DRA WN Both Grand and Petit Juries Drawn for the September Tenn. OF CIRCUIT COURT Grand Jury Will Probably Not be Called—Court Opens Monday. The September term of court will open next Monday. In accordance with the law fixing the date for drawing the names of the jurors, the commission, including Engene Lindsey, of Linn Grove, D. M. Hensleyj and County Clerk Will Hammell, met this morning at 10 o’clock and drew both grand and petit, juries. The grand jury will probably not be called to report. The call for the petit will be issued by the judge later. The names drawn follow: Grand Jury. Morton Andrews —Decatur. Martin Hoffman—Monroe. Floyd B. Aspy—Geneva. Herman W. Sellemeyer—Washington. Frank Gass—Decatur. Christian Macke —Preble. Petit Jury. Henry Decker —Wabash. J. P. Christ—Kirkland. Barney Wertzberger—Decatur. Ezra Reber —Monroe. Joseph Graber—French. Robert P. Davies —Blue Creek. Walter Whitenbarger—Union. Orlen Fortney —St. Mary's. John E. Wechter —Blue Creek. Christ Eicher—Hartford. Grover Baumgartner—Berne. Fred Ostermeyer—Preble. George Kintz —Washington. Henry Getting—Root. DEATH IS RESULT Os Auto Accident Friday— Billy McQuay Died Late Saturday Night. THIRTY-SIX YEARS OLD Funeral Will be Wednesday at Brice, Ohio —Body Sent There Today. As a result of injuries received when the automobile he was driving turned over Friday afternoon, Billy McQuay passed away at the Decatur hospital' about 11 o’clock Saturday night. The injuries he received in the accident were of such a nature that small hope was given for his recovery, and death was no surprise. The deceased was born in Ross /county, Ohio, in 1880, and was thirtysix years of age last November. He came to Decatur about five or six years ago and was employed during most of this time at the Holthouse garage, as a mechanic. A short time ago he set up in business for himself, operating a small repair shop on South First street. He was never married, but leaves a father and several brothers and sisters. His father, Daniel McQuay, lives at Brice, Ohio. He leaves three brothers, C. D. McQuay, of Carrol, Ohio; (T. B. McQuay, of Barberton, Ohio, and John McQuay, of Brice, Ohio. The sisters are Mrs. Frank Huntsbey, of Barberton. Ohio and Mrs. Ralph of Duemontsville, O. There are also three half-sisters, Misses Margaret and Elizabeth McQuay and Mrs. Fred Oswald, Cincinnati. One sad feature of the death is that his relatives have not seen him for five years, his last visit home being about that long ago. McQuay was well known in Decatur and was liked by all who knew him. It was indeed unfortunate that death should claim one who was just in the prime of life. The deceased was a member of the Evangelical church and was a faithful attendant. The body was sent over the G. R. & I. at 1:05 this afternoon for Lan- ■ caster, Ohio. The funeral will be > held Wednesday at the home of his brother, C. D. McQuay, at Carrol,

14444444444444-1 + SEND YOURS IN. -I 4 Have you paid your subscrip- 4 4 tlon to the Company A fund? If <1 • 4 not, please do so al once. We •! 4 are anxious to turn the money 4 4 over to the company before they 4 * leave and the money should be 4 ♦ paid this week. Please send it 4 4- in and if you haven't subscrib 4 , 4" ed, It's not too late. 4 44444444444444 i Ohio. Burial will take place in the Forest Rose cemetery. MRS. HALE'S FUNE RAL TUESDAY Funeral services for Mrs. John D. Hale, whose death occurred Saturday morning, will be held Tuesday morning at ten o'clock from the Methodist church. Rev. F. F. Thornburg will officiate. The Eastern Star, of which the deceased was a member, will attend in a body. OIEO LfiSTNIGHT Miss Clara Mangold Died at Fort Wayne After a Long Decline. BODY BROUGHT HERE For Funeral Tuesday—Deceased a Daughter of the Late Jacob Mangold. Miss Clara Mangold, who has made her home in Fort Wayne for several years, died there last evening at 6:45 o’clock. She had been in failing health for more than a year and *or a week her condition has been most serious. Miss Mangold was in her fortyninth year. She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Mangold and was born in this city. The greater part of her life was spent here and in this county. The parents are both deceased and but two sisters survive. They are Miss Catherine Mangold, of this city, who has been at the bedside of her sister during her serious illness; and Sophia, wife of Earl Taylor, of Portland, Oregon. The body was brought to this city and taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. Kirsch on N. Second street until tomorrow afternoon when funeral services will be held at 2:30 o’clock from the M. E. church . The Rev. Thornburg will officiate. Burial will be 4 n the Reynolds cemetery. Friends and relatives may call to see the body at the Kirsch home Tuesday from 9 to 2 o’clock. - O— ■ BOARD WILL MEET The Board of Children’s Guardians will meet tomorrow at half past two at the library. This is a regular meeting and all of the board are requested to attend. EASTERN STAR NOTICE. All members of the Eastern Star are requested to meet at the Masonic hall Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock to attend the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Carrie Hale. 4.4. 4. 4-4.* + 444444 + 4. SENDS A MESSAGE. 4 4 + 4> John T. Myers, chairman of 4 4. the military afjpirs committee of 4 4 the council of defense, recently 4 4 invited Lieut. Harry O. Jones, 4 4 formerly of Berne, now in the 4 4> regular service, to come here and 4 4 address the boys of Company A 4 4. in a farewell service. He receiv-4 4 ed the following answer Satur- 4 4 day: * <■ Allentown, Pa., Aug. 24. 4 4> Regret very much that I can- 4 4 not accept your invitation but I 4 4am assigned to duty with the 4* 4 next over-sea contingent and 4 4 there is a great deal of final work 4 4to he done. I request that you 4 4 tell the boys to keep their service 4 4- records clean and the memories 4 4- that they will leave will be cher- 4 ■ 4- ished many years after Father 4 4 Time has healed the most severe 4 1 4 griefs of the war. 1 know that 4 i 4 they will never be whining curs 4 I 4at the tyrants’ feet, but that 4 S 4 their deeds of heroism will be 4 r 4 symbolical of their size. May 4 1 4 God guide them to successful is 4 4 suz and return them safely to 4 .. 4 their loved ones is my earnest 4 i- 4 thought. •* e[ 4. Respectfully, 4 s 4 LIEUT. H. O. JONES. 4 I, *44444444444444

‘MOVING OFFICE 4 »—■■■, , 4 4 Military Board Will Here 4. after be Located in the • City Building—To 4 • KEEP HEADQUARTERS Work of Securing Quota is f Nearing End, But Much 1. Work Yet. r , Tlie military board moved its headquarters today from the court room , to the mayor's office in the city t building. The move was necessary so that the court room can be prepared for • the regular session of court which convenes next Monday. Though the heavy part of the work is over for the first call, the board will still have much work to do and it is necessary that they maintain headquarters. From this time on they may be found at the city building on Monroe street. The examination work and the reports of the first 513 men called in this count is about over. There are about fifteen or eighteen yet to be passed on and this will be done this afternoon or tomorrow. According to orders from the war department there will be five per cent of the draft army from this county ordered to report September sth, which means six men. The original order was for thirty per cent, and it is believed the change was made so that the men can he better cared for. The first six will report the sth. and the next squad the 19th. The Ladies’ chorus of the Methodist church will have its regular business meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Every member is requested to be present. JAPAN IS WILLING To Offer Use of Ship Yards to United States to Build Ship Bottoms. MAY ASK IN RETURN Relaxation of Steel Embargo—America May Accept the Offer. (Untied Press Service) (By Carl D. Groat, United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, August 27—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Japan is willing to grant use of her ship yards for building bottoms to be used either in tne Atlantic or Pacific trade. Viscount Ishiil will offer these yards in conferring wrth American government heads probably this week. In return Japan will seek relaxation of the steel embargo but will not urge too strongly the case of the Osaka , shipbuilders who have been making , fortunes from the war. , Japan, it was stated, will pass up the , questions of the open door in China, , permanent possession of the German ■ islands in the Pacific and Japanese > immigration to America untl after the • war. Whether she will offer a share > of her big trans-Pacific tonnage tor • trans-Atlantic service depends on al- • lied requests. ’ Japan has cast her lot with the ’ English speaking people and the rea ’ mission of the commission is to co ' operate with Great Britain and Amer ica—now and in the future—said on« 8 of the mission men today. What America’s position toward th< proffer is unknown though it is assum ed some shipbuilding agreement maj • be made, if Japan’s terms are satisfac tory. [ Meanwhile the Russian situation—- . pictured by Kerensky at Moscow at passing through a period of danger- . gave added signs of "looking up.” Hi) (, fighting tone and the enthusiastic re 1, ception of his inspirng address in creased the faith of the American of 4. ficials. 4. As for peace, it seemed likely that <■ the week would develop President Wil--4 son’s reply. Should it develop that 4 the pope has actual knowledge of 4 Teuton willingness to surrender Al-

Esaee-Lorralne. Trent and Trieste tint to restore Belgium, the answer mlgh be far different than otherwise. Thi reply now, however, will he a rejec tlon of the pope’s offer with a now dec i* laration of principles that would givt Germany 11 chancojo get peqce on til lied terms if she chose. —o ■ DEATH MARS REUNION The Tester-Stewart reunion, which S is held annually the last Sunday in August, was somewhat marred yesterday by the death of one of the oldest S relatives, Mrs. Sam Tester, aged 73. who succumbed to paralysis. The reunion was held yesterday at Liberty Center, Ohio, and there were about 150 people present, the attendance being cut down on account of the death of 1- Mrs. Tester, many people going to the a home of the deceased instead of ,he y reunion. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Tester and Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Tester and t two sons, of this city, were In attenr dance at the gathering. ) —o-—— : LEADS THE BAND Harold Wegmiller of Geneva Leads Ambulance Corps Band. GETS THE HONOR I Now at Allentown, Penna. —ls Nephew of Eli Myers of This City. “Harold B. Wegmiller, of Geneva, Ind., a member of the Indiana nnivor sity ambulance unit, is the leader of the newly organized forty-piece band : of the Uniter States army ambulance 1 corps camp in Allentown, Penna.” says 1 [ a dispatch from that city to the Indianapolis News. Wegmiller is 3 nephew of Eli Myers, the late John D. Myers and Mrs. John Giancy, of this city. • The dispatch says further: "The lack of a band at the camp has been felt for some time and nuuiy ceremonies of military life have been omitted or only half done on this account. Colonel Persons recently apiwint -d Lieutenant William Rakin, of Philadelphia, manager of the "unorganized" , band. Lieutenant Rakin lost no time , and in twenty-four hours he had signed twenty-five men for it. Wegmiller , showed such good spirit and initiative ■ in the part of organization that be was appointed leader by Lieutenant 1 Rakin. 1 "The next step in organization was to obtain instruments. To have obtained them through the government would have meant delay possibly and the Moose lodge of Allentown kindly offered the instruments of their band for the use of the United States, army 1 ambulance corps. The whole thing 1 was accomplished in remarkably shott order and the organization now plays , like a finished symphony orchestra." “Sunday afternoon a week ago, the band made its first public appearance in an open-air concert at the fairground. Leader Wegmiller and his nr.t- --( sicians were warmly commended. , “Colonel Persons is much pleased t with the result and has declared that , the band will be continued as an ambulance corps organization in France. . "Two members of the Indiana unit are enrolled in the band, in addition ! to Leader Wegmiller. They are Frank 3 Scribner, formerly of Indianapolis, and e now of Berkely, Cal., and A. E. Decke er, of Erie, Pa. r “The members of the band are from p the following schools: University of Pennsylvania, Brown university. Unie versities of California, Maine, Texas, jl Arizona, Paradena, (Cal.) Lafayette, 0 . Michigan. Harvard. lowa, Penn State, r- University of Washington. South Caroie lina, Hamline university and Illinois. "Wegmiller had his musical experience as leader of his home town band. n . and as a member of the University n. y Indiana band, in school, and on the c- Mexican border last summer. Wegmiller's sister. Miss Julia Meg- _ miller, a trained nurse is in Franco, is having enlisted with a hospital unit. — His mother resides at Genvea. o — 18 RETURNS FROM CALIFORNIA a1- Miss Helen Sheets, daughter of Mrs. f- Nancy Sheets, of Tenth street, returned Sunday from Los Angeles, Cal., art riving unannounced, and surprising 1- her many relatives and friends. It t has been four years since she went >f west and this is her first visit home 1- in this time.

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FATEFUL FRIDAY : PROVED LUCKY e r , 1Miss Fredcricka Hubbard Writes of Safe Crossing of the War Zone. !1 1 TWO SUBMARINES Were .Sighted—Sailed on Mongolia on Which Two Nurses Lost Lives. One of the most interesting letters yet published, telling of the crossing of the Atlantic during war time( ts the following written by Miss Fredcricka Hubbard, (laughter of F. H. Hubbard, of the Ohio Sugar company. The fact that it was not written for publication, just a chatty “school-girl letter home,” gives it that personal touch that makes it more interesting. Reading between the lines, one can tell that several pages have been cut out by the censor. Miss Hubbard was enroute to France with a hospital unit from Detroit. Mich., going as a physician’s laboratory assistant. Her many friends will be interested in reading her letter: Pier 58, N. Y. City. S. S. Mongolia. July 12, 1917. Dear Mom. Dad and Ruth: Today is the first day on board—we’re still here, loading ammunition. This is my first taste of military discipline. New York is ten blocks away—and a guard stands at the gang-plank. It is getting dark now and the only place we can really see is the dining room and cabin. In our rooms—everywhere else—are very dim blue lights: the port holes are all painted black; after we get out to sea. uona will be allowed on deck after nine o'clock, and smoking on deck after dark is not allowed. There is a good deal of superstition about our ship—<iiis trip is the thirteenth since we declared war and tomorrow is Friday, the thirteenth. We will probably be able to get away in the morning but there is some doubt as to whether or not our sailors will go on Friday—so we may be held up until Saturday. We hear that the Germans in New York are betting that we don’t get across. If they win you'll never get this letter. It's just one of the sporting chances, it you win, makes life very much more vivid and desirable. I plan to write a little every day—this will be my diary. There goes the bugle for supper. Friday, July 13; 12:25. A few minutes ago the gang-plank was pulled in amid the tearful farewells of the few officers’ wives and the strains of “Oh. Say. Have You Seen?” and "Good-bye, God Bless You,” we pulled out. And now we have all been ordered off deck until we get out of the harbor -no one must see our uniforms. I think I’m a little afraid of what may be ahead of us —I’m trying to be disappointed in myself if I prove a coward. Atlantic Ocean. Tuesday. July 17. We are four days out and everything has been peaceful—it is hard ' to believe that we are actually in 1 danger. The first two nights and 1 j days we were in the danger zones, ’ 1 you see. they say there are two dan--1 ger zones—one very close to the ' American shore and the other near England. 1 Two submarines were seen just out f of New York the day we sailed. The - captain of the ship has offered SIOO to the person who sees the first sub- . marine. I’m sure of one thing—few people ■ have crossed the ocean under the circumstances that 1 am. The first two nights we were not allowed to have our port holes open—it was horribly hot even with electric fans, but since then all lights are turned out about 10:30 and then we can open the port-holes. They’ve put on extra guards and now you meet one about every six feet at night. It would go pretty hard with any-one caught lighting a match even. They say that the glare of a match in a Slate room can be seen exactly one mile. It has been very warm so far. Today we are getting out of the gulf stream and for the first time I'm wearing a coat in the day time. It is a wonderful trip—we have had no ■ rough weather at all —just see (Continued oh Page Three)