Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1918 — Page 1

Volume XVI. Number 21.

REPORTS FROM VIENNA TODAY Are Rather ConflictingRevolution is on, Says One io Petrograd. DENIED IN LONDON Emperor Karl Insists onFull ! Recognition of Belgium —Steamer Asks Help.

A . (United Service) BULLETIN b(By Joseph Shaplen, United Press staff correspondent.) Petrograd. Jan. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat)—A wireless message received by the bolsheviki today announced a revolution in Vienna. Tilt* dispatch was received by Sniolny institute, headquarters of the Trot-! sky Lettine government. It declared that the revolutionists have named a provisional cabinet. B Under Foreign Minister Nelotsky made the message |.ubli< He declar I ed the report as received, did not give the names of the provisional ministry nor any further details than the bare mention of the revolution. | The bolsheviki from the very fir-' have sought unceasingly to overthrow the Teutonic governments by a movement of the people—precisely as the Russian people overthrew the czar. They went a step farther than President Wilson has urged. Bolsheviki prop.ar.au dists began sowing the seed of a social upri- ing immediately after the armistice became effective on th.northern fronts. The closest fraterniMttion between Russian and Austria /. was n< f; ■ c . ■ ■ Kolutionary literature was spread broadcast. London, Jan. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat) —An official denial of the report that the Austria-Hungary gov ernment has been over thrown, was issued from Vienna today according to dispatches received here. BULLETIN An Atlantic. Port. Jan. 24—(SieciaL ■W Dally Democrat)—S. O. S. calls’ fioun the steamship Eaykerrnn, of the I Day Steamship company of London., were picked up by ships off the coast > late yesterday, it was learned today. | According to the messages, the Baykerran bad lost her lifeboats and wa~ “in distress." A strict naval censor -h : .’ ; •.•.•vents further details being made ; u lic. No information was available as to what measures have been taken to aid the Baykerran. The vessel’s calls for help were picked up by ships at widely separated points. (By J. W. Pegler, United Press staff correspondent. • * With the American Army in 1 rat' 1 • Jan. 24— (Special to Daily Democrat i —Major William Thaw, of Pittsburgh, member of the French Lafayette escadriile. will apparently have the honor of having been the first uniformed American fighting air pilot to Uy ovct German lines. According '

| AN APPEAL TO THE FARMERS. ■ „ ' B To Indiana l' arrn * rs ' in .k. United States and other ts E The sugar sl '"“,' h , , " z ..in "forceful wav the need | 8 waning While active steps will. g 0 for increased suga (s o f the country where sugar J; no doubt, be taken m?a. same time :i § production is an important maun y vear will depend in a g | the hope tor niecl,n J h h hp)p that can be given by the farm- •• 5 large measure upon the P wh ich is well adapted to sugar » | ers of such states a* In < hag fa( . tories which can handle {j I beet production and ' wav . r j s understood that !; h these beets in a satl ® f ‘. iana contain a high per cent of P H sugar beets grown in I . jtions ca n be marketed to a 8 fi sugar and under present conmuor | good advantage. j aman ds of the U. S. Food Adminis- £ In response to the l * )armcrs to give serious conI tration we are urging In. a J ome SU gar beets in 1918. 8 sideration to the prodm ' hin supplying the prod§To raise this crop will mean m* of people bus of g I uct to meet the urgent n • crop may be new , but i | the people of Europe. ■ whjch win make the produc- I i instructions can be urn l . ’ lv hope that you will study I I tion of it successful. • a reason able acreage of 1 • the situation and decide s vcar tbiH offlce can g j ve s sugar beets during the << • very ]a(J (o bear f rom yOtI . | • you any further help s r nMMITTEE ON FOOD IE ouXnfIfTIONIAN l> CONSERVATION. PRODI < « Christie, State Food Director. |

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[lately transferred from the French h: the American air service, recently don nod his new uniform and carried out ' numerous aerial patrols. So far as known, Thaw is thus the first lighting American airman to g.i aloft under battle conditions. • ( Py John H. Hearley, United Press staff correspondent.) Rome. Jan. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Emperor Karl of Austria Hungary is insisting on full recognition of Belgium’s rights against German militarist efforts, to prevent tin unequivocal Teutonic statement as to that nation before trial of an unprecedented west front offensive, according to word received by the Vatican today. The Holy See regarded the reply of King Albert of Belgium to the ponti-

fical peace appeal of last August, just announced, as of the highest diplomatic importance. It was held in some quarters that such a firm statement might force some clear definition of Germany’s position as to Belgium. '1 he Osservatore Romano today declared King Albert’s note “a splendid vindication of the high and noble motive inspiring the Holy See in the present world conflict.” King Albert’s reply emphatically set forth that Belgium would demand comI lete territorial, political and economic independence and integrity. Petrograd, Jan. 24 —(Special to Drily Democrat)—Twenty organizers of a plot against the bolshc.iki, accused of inspiring the famous “battalion cf death” to pledge allegiance to the .’’ensheviki were arrested today. One of the murderers cf former, Kerensky Ministers Singareff and Kokoshkin was arrested today. The bolshe viki autlio (ties declared the identity of all the assassins was known and other arrests might be expected lyBULLETIN London, Jan. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Up to 10:15 o’clock today there was no confirmation here of the Smolny institute wireless reports of a revolution in Vienna, as reported in United Press dispatches. Lindon, Jan. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —-Field Marshal Haig had nothing special to report from the western front today. London, Jan. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Premier Orlando of Italy, accompanied by M. Crispi, arrived today for a conference with Premier ! Lloyd George. | Rome, Jan. 24 —(Special to Daily | Democrat) —A small party of Italians : made a successful surprise attack at L'ape Sile. driving back the enemv from an advanced post and capturing a quantity of arms and ammunition, today’s official statement asserted. BULLETIN Copenhagen, Jan. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Austrian socialist | leaders are "experiencing difficulty in controlling the extremists of their party.” according to delayed messages received today from Vienna. The dispatches reported 200,000 Viennese still striking. At Budapest the strike partially continues. BULLETIN Copenhagen, Jan. 24 —(Special to Dally Democrat)—The German socialist organ Vorwaerts in its issue of Wednesday evening received here today, printed the remarks of Dr. Ebert before the German main reichstag (Continued on Pace Two'

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, January 24, 1918.

OPEN SATURDAY Fuel Director Bell AuthorJ izes Picture Shows to Reopen Their Doors. i 1 CLOSED ONE WEEK 1 Situation is Improving and Schools Will Probably , Open Next Monday. The picture shows which have been • closed in Decatur for a week will reopen Saturday afternoon and evening and Monday afternoon and evening and if the fuel situation continues to improve, will be permitted to keep on going after that time. Fuel Administrator C, E. Bell notified the proprietors of the Rex ahd Crystal this morning and they are planning to open at the time mentioned. The picture shows have suffered quite a loss from the closing orders as much cf their expenses went right on but they have borne it uncomplainingly and will now appreciate a renewal of your patronage. They promise you good programs. The schools will also probably open next Monday, but official notice of this fact will be given tomorrow or Saturday. The fuel situation has been great ly improved here during the week and | with a few days of moderate weather , would be sufficiently normal to permit business to become regular. The order affecting clubs, lodges and other business concerns and pubI lie places has not been otherwise 1 changed. Mr. Bell went to Ft. Wayne 1 today to attend to business matters. ' NEEDS THEM NOW I ] General Pershing Issues a Cali for Skilled Motor Mechanics. VOLNUTEER REGIMENT Good Pay for Those Who Enlist—Major Ryan Re1 cruiting Indiana Quota. I Indianapolis. Jan. 24—General Persh ( ing, commanding the American forces in France, has requested that two 1 regiments of motor mechanics of exceptional skill for service in France 1 be organized by voluntary enlistment ; at once—HE NEEDS THEM NOW— i for the purpose of the upkeep and repair of aeroplanes. The United States Public Service Reserve of the Department of Labor is co-operating with the military authorities and Mr. M. E. Noblet, secretary of the Hoosier Motor Club, and the Hoosier State Automobile Association, 9th floor. Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis. Ind., has been requested to assist and co-operate with the United States army authorities in the raising of two regiments in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps for this purpose. These two regiments will be concentrated at Camp Hancock. Ga., until such time as they are sent to France, and all men enlisting in these organizations will be sent to that place. These regiments are to be made up wholly of volunteers. Therefore, no man can be accepted for them who is within the draft age. and who has registered under the selective service law, hut men between the ages of 18 and 21. between the ages of 31 and 40, and those who have become 21 years of age since June 6th, 1917, only can be accepted. Those two regiments will comprise 3,500 men each, sixty per cent of which will be non-commissioned officers. Every man will have the opportunity of taking advantage of the government insurance, and those who are married will be paid the family allowance authorized by the government. Married men enlisting are required to allot half of their pay to their wives, and when this is done, the government will pay, in the case of a wife only, an additional $15.00. In the case of a wife and one child, $25.00. A wife and two children, $32.50. and wife and three children, $37.50, a wife and four children, $42.50, and a wife and five children, $50.00, but in no case will the government pay as a family allowance more than $50.00 per month. It will therefore he seen that if a man is re-

I j celvlng a sergeant's pay, $44.00 per month, and has u wife and two children she would receive monthly $32.50. plus $22.00, or a total of $54.50 per month. Every married soldier is entitled to allot as much over half of his pay as he may desire, but the government insists that be must retain nt least $7.50 a month of his pay. A man (without a wife, but who has a dependent parent or parents, can receive an allowance from the government of SIO.OO per month for one parent and $20.00 for two parents, and an addition al $5.00 for each brother or sister who is dependent, but in order for him to receive this, he must allot an equal amount. The term of enlistment is for the duration of the war only. The pay per month of the various grades in these regients is, Master Signal Electrician SBI.OO. Sergeant Ist class $53.00; Sergeant $44.00; Corporal, $36.00; (Continued on Page Four) A BIC CHRISTMAS Was Record of the Boys in France—Letters Now Coining. i HAD SOME SNOW, 1 1 But Not Enough to Speak/ of—Work More Inter- 1 esting Every Day. < — p Burl Johnson, with the Rainbow Di- 1 ' ...... . 1 vision, in trance, writes interesting! Christmas letters to his parents which! nave just neen received. He also! sends a hand-painted menu of their )( Christmas dinner. The menu is tint- t ed and at the top of the partially unrolled scroll, hearing the menu, which is wreathed in holly in colors, is paint- j ed a soldier boy in uniform. The menu included roast turkey, dressing, cranberries, mashed potatoes, gravy. I r bread, butter, cold slaw, apple sauce, peach butter, sour ■ >ckles, layer cak<, doughnuts, mince pie. mixed nuts, hot chocolate and cigarettes. The letters: December 25th. 1917 j j Merry Christmas and a Happy New, Year. Dear Mother: — !i I know you had a happy Christmas and so did we. 1 am enclosing the menu. I am all O. K. and I do hope you are the same. We had an ideal day. You ought to have been here and saw our entertainment, it . certainly was'great. If Tell Chauncy to write me. Haven’t heard from him for some time. Fred I p was telling me that you have not been' . I 1 hearing from me. 1 have written to’ you several times. Don’t wait for me i < to write. | ] How is everything around Decatur?.! Have you seen any of my friends' lately? Have you seen Eulalia and Lavina lately? Must close for this time. Sincerely yours, BURL. <j December 22. a Dear Father:— Received the letter from home yesterday and certainly was glad to hea v from you. You say you have not heard from 1 me. I have written about 15 letters | home. The mail service is very slow.! 1 I am all O. K. and getting along the ’ same. How is the weather around the ’ good old berg? We have had some 1 snow, but not enough to speak of. ’ I wrote John Parrisli a letter recent- * ly. Ask him if he received it. if he did not, tell him to write me. So you are at the Holland-St. Louis 1 Sugar Co. How do you like it? Our ' work gets more interesting every day. We had some time Thanksgiving day, and by the looks of things we are going to have a bigger time Xm is which is not far away. Have you been over to Uncle Franks lately? How is grandpa? Is his health any better? Say, what ever you do, don’t delay . writing to me. Don’t always wait for an answer from me. , Well, papa, this is all 1 can think of at present. Sincerely yours, BURL JOHNSON , Headquarters Co., 150th F. A., via I New York, A. E. F. CO-WORKERS TO MEET j Co-Worker’s meeting Friday, Jan- ? uary 25, at 7:30 o’clock at the home . of Miss Celia Andrews on Madison I street. Important business and chorus - practice. |

OFF FOR SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. A. IL Sellemeyer Left This Afternoon on Trip. GO TO CALIFORNIA After a V isit in the Central Southern States and in Texas. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Seilemeyer will soon be escaping the rigors of tile severely cold northern weather. They left this afternoon at 1:05 o’clock over the G. R. & I. for Cincinnati!, and Chattanooga, and thence to Hatties- | burg, Miss. They will see the soldier boys at the various forts near these places, and will then go to New Orleans. From New Orleans they will go to Dallas, Texas, where they will visit with the Jacob Schafer family. Houston. San Antonio and other interesting cities of this state will lie visited by them, and they also expect to spend some time in Arizona. Their ultimate destination, if plans materialize, will be California. Here, also they have relatives, the George Spangler family at Los Angeles. San Francisco and other California ‘owns will be included in their trip in California. G QUARANTINE TO BE LIFTED. The small pox quarantine on the I: tClaude Burkhead and Farr homes will be lifted tomorrow. A NEW SCHOOL Trustee Graber of French Township Orders Bond Issue FOR NEW BUILING i In District One—One-story < Brick Modern School Building. A new one- story brie’; schoolhouse < for district number 1, French township! will be the order soon. Trustee Jo.>-| eph L. Graber and his advisory board.! including Joints Neuenschwander. Ben 1 ! Gerber and A. J. Reynolds, have ord ered a bond issue of $9,009 for the pur ] , pose of building and the bonds will! f be sold Februar'' 19 at the office of Trustee Graber. , Oscar Hoffman, of this city, is the architect and the plans for the build- } ing show a modern structure me ting the requirements of the present up-to-date method of school teaching. Attorney D. B. Erwin of this city, is attorney for the trustee and his boatd ’ () t NOW MAJOR HINKLE Frankfort, Ind., Jan. 23— C. L. Hinkle, general superintendent of the Toledo. St. Louis & Western railroad, has been granted a leave of absenc' to accept a commission as major In the American railroad engineering forces in France. His salary will be $12,000 a year. Mr. Hinkle left last evening for Washington. Mr. Hinkle has been employed by the Clover Leaf for years and is well known in Decatur. PORTLAND SOLDIER DEAD Major C. O. Mitchell called a meeting of the citizens of Portland on Wednesday morning at. eight o’clock at the Baird & Doty undertaking parlors to make arrangements for paying fitting tribute to the late Arthur Hunt. a member of Battery B, 137th Field Artillery, who died of pneumonia last Friday morning at the cantonment hospital at Camp Shelby, Miss Rev J. H. Nall Was named chairman of the meeting with Paul C. Jnqua as th« secretary. — Portland Sun. — o FAMILY HAS SMALL POX Three of the family of Monroe Besser of First street has small pox. This includes Mr. and Mrs. Besser and daughter, Esther. They were quarantined yesterday noon. The greater number of cases of small pox have | broken out in this community. ,

I FUNERAL SUNDAY. 'Services for Mrs. M. E. Reed Will Probably b eSunday. _ A telegram was received this morning by Mrs. Will Whines from her sister, Mrs. Harry Ward, of Sanford, Fla., in response to word of the death of her mother, Mrs. M. E. Reed, which occurred hcie yesterday. Mrs. Ward states that she cannot come on L account of the weather and the uncertainty of travel conditions on that account. It is thought that a nutnI her of the other relatives who reside nearer can be here, and the funeral service will probably be a simple one conducted Sunday afternoon from the home. The body will be placed temporarily in the vault in the Decatur I cemetery until the weather permits of burial arrangements. MAKING UP DATA. The local military board and Chief Clerk E. B. Adams are now making records and data relative to the classifying of the fifteen hundred and fifty registrants. A record of every registrant containing the answers and information in his questionnaire must be copied in special cards for that purpose and sent in to the war department at Washington. Other notices are also being gotten out and details looked after. The examination of the men in Class one will begin week after next. Only one registrant. was classified yesterday, he being Benton C. Durbin, Geneva. Ind. He was placed in Class 5. BEN HUR NOTICE The Ben Hurs are requested to meet at the home of Mrs. John Burk tomorrow evening, when important business will come up. On account of the fuel conservation order, closing lodge rooms, it is hoped that the business can be disposed of at this meeting nt the home, in such away that no more meetings will be necessary until the lodge rooms are open again. All officers and members are urged to come. They should also be prepared to pay the monthly dues at this time. By Order of the Chief. STORK MAKES STOP. Mrs. Lulu Swearinger went to Linn Grove this afternoon to nurse Mrs. Harry Meshberger. at whose ! home the stork made a stop last night. Mrs. Meshberger was Miss Glen Bierie, of Berne, and is a sister of Mrs. Dr. Hoffman. Mr. Meshberger in a telephone message to the Hoffman home this morning stated that tile stork left twins —a boy and a girl—but whether he was in earnest is not known here. W. R. C. TO GIVE DINNER l A public dinner will lie given by the W. R. C. at the G. A. R. hall tomorrow. I | Friday, the day of the stock sal?. |l Vegetable and noodle soup will be ‘ < served. The public is invited to come 11 Later advice is that a complete din > ner will also be served with the soup. < Anyone wishing an excellent dinner should come. o ] ROTARY AT HOTEL MURRAY < The luncheon-meeting of the Dec i- 1 tur Rotary Club will be held this eve-'t ning at six-thirty o’clock at the Hotel 1 Murray. Rev. Masters of Fort ■ Wayne will he the guest of honor anil! will address the club.

| GERMAN ALIENS MI ST REGISTER. | g Pursuant to the laws of the United States and by the H ;i authority and proclamation of the United States, dated No- H k vember 16,1917, relating to the registration of all Germans H who have not taken out their second naturalization papers, ;; ti I, Robert E. Springsteen, postmaster at Indianapolis, Ind., y M and as such Chief Registrar for all the non-urban districts H throughout the State of Indiana, do hereby notify ail Ger- B H man aliens in said non-urban areas that they be required to ♦? y register at the nearest postoilice in their respective coun- » m ties at sometime between Monday, February Ith, begin- g r. ning at 6:00 a. in., and continuing to 8:00 p. m. each day to jj H and including Saturday, February 9, 1918, at 8:00 p. m. H Every male German who has not taken out his second •* i: naturalization papers must apply to the postmaster at the H nearest postoffice to his place of residence for blank forms y of registration affidavits which he must fill out in triplicate H H and return to the postmaster and sign and swear to the g H same. The postmaster will then take his description and y H finger prints. No personal notices will be given and no g y forms or notices will be sent by mail. i Each registrant is required to furnish four unmounted i 5 photographs of himself not larger than 3x3 inches in size, t | on thin paper with light background. All the photographs | I must be signed by the registrant across the face of the pho- : i 1 tograph. so as not to obscure the features if the applicant g : is able to w rite. g Every registrant should carefully read the forms of y j registration affidavit handed him and ask for explanation g I g on all points not clear to him before attempting to fill out H 1 the blanks. ROBT. E. SPRINGSTEEN, § | Chief Registrar a H Non-Urban Area, Indiana, g 1

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SENATE SCRAP IN FULL SWING Senator Chamberlain Addresses Senate and Great Crowd Today. ANSWERS PRESIDENT Says President Does Not Know the Truth and World is in Danger. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C., Jan. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat' —"President Wilson is resting in ignorance of the truth about his war government while calamities face not only America but the whole world.” This was the answer sent back to the white house by Senator Chamberlain on the floor of the senate today ina dramatic reply to President Wilson who had charged the senate today in a dramatic reply truth, in criticising the war department’s work. “The president,” he said, "does not know the truth from the lips of those kin.’’ He cannot learn it, because he is too busy to get fit or remember it if they do get it.” .He charged that Baker did not tell the whole truth before the military committee. Chamberlain demanded that America retire men in the military establishments who have failed Io come up to the needs of the situation. “With the nation at war, they actually neglected accepting any [machine guns until June. We will have to experiment and change this gun before it is of real value to us. I asked Secretary Baker how many machine guns there were ready. He answered at the middle of December: ‘We had completed nine machine guns, and will, with only a small collection of army rifles on hand begin experimenting and changing the Enfield rifles before we adopt it, al. though our factories are equipped to turn out any quantities.’ Our ordnance department changed the rifles, necessitating changing of machinery to make it. In short, while the house was burning, the ordnance department was determining what effort should be made to put out the fire.’’ (By L. Martin, United Press staff correspondent. I Washington. Jan. 24 (Special to Daily Democrat)--Senator Uhanibclain was to slash into the Baker war machine on the senate floor today. He pro|>osed to rise to a question of personal privilege at the opening of the senate, to answer publicly President. Wilson’s charge that he bad distorted the truth to batter the present, war administration and to back his own bill for a war cabinet of throe The barrage directed against the war department through Chamberlain’s committee had lifted. Republicans and a few democrats were ready to go over the tor in what they characterized an effort to rid the war <l--of inefficiency and to speed America’s war work. Chamberlain’s speech drew enor(Continued on Page Two)