Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1918 — Page 1

Volume XVI. Number 38.

THEEXBHfINGE OF PRISONERS Has Begun Between Russia and Germany-First Thousand Men Have Arrived — I 1 RUMANIA STANDS PAT ' ’ Refuses to Accept German Ultimatum-— Americans Triumph In Gun Duel ' — 7.., (United Press Service) I Berne, Feb. 13—(Special to Daily I Cemocrjt.)—Exchange of Russian and: < GeFP**’i prisoners has begun, accord-’ , ing to Berlin dispatches received here today. One thousand German prison-! era have already arrived in Warsaw jv enroute to Berlin. Except in cases of I men wholly incapicated for service,'a the German prisoners will probably <■ be imediately registered into tne army. j p I s Rome, Feb. 13 (Special to Daily v Democrat)—. Premier Orlando addrea- ! s sing parliament declared the Central ~ Powers in their recent peace programs t had “affirmed nothing but the most obstinate, irreconcilable termination j to carry out a previously formed plan of Imperialistic domination.” ; The premier declared Italy is facing'l a dilemma, in that she is now exfiosed i a to invasion from both land and sea. 1 ° Regarding the interallied conference: 0 at Versailles, he said the council found <1 I peace impossible and had decided to] direct its whole attention energetical-' 0 ly to the continuation of the war.” 1° \V. T. Mason. Written for the n Unitfft Press.) I c ji| New York. Feb. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat) —America's rapidlv' growing army along the Alsace-Lor- 1 rgine border is responsible for Ger- 8 many's heavy concentration of trpot»s ” near the Swiss frontier described in 0 William Philip Simms dispatch to the ! United Press. The Swiss government recently re-| v quested the United States to give as- b durances that Swiss neutrality would ’ not be violated by General Pershing's 1 forces. The United States replied f that if Germany and Switzerland as, weil, respected the neutrality of Swiss, jterritory, so would America. This ~ plain intimation that the area of liostilities might overwhelm Switzerland j has since been followed by the increas- p ing dispatch of German iroops to th; t j. Vegion. It is there that the allies front , most nearly approaches the Rhine, a which is about 15 miles distant. if ven Hindenburg orders an offensive near the Swiss frontier, his sole; objective would be to try to force back 1 the allies line lx;fore General Pershing: b is fully prepared to strike. Apart |J. from this there is nothing that could r reach such an offensive, which would be in any way commensurate with s Germany’s heavy casualties. It would be a risky proceeding for -on Hindenburg to take the initiative near the Swiss area even to try to safeguard the Rhine from American occupation. Von Hindenburg is in the ' unenviable position of not knowing , definitely whether General Pershing really intends making a drive dose to Switzerland. The American section _ of the French front centers at present at Xivray. which is one hundred and fifty miles north of the Swiss border If General Pershing moves forward ircm Xivray his objective will probabIlv be Metz and net the Rhine at all The fall of Metz would be brought appreciably nearer if von Hindenburg ’ had previously caused his resources, to be slaughtered in useless offensives ♦o save the Rhine, at a point far from tlie main American position. i German troops near Switzerland are keeping the Swiss uneasy but t ey are being kept far more uneasy them- : selves by the secrecy which is « u ‘” cessfully veiling General Pershing’s , forthcoming offensive. Washington, m" 13-(Special to Daily Democrat)— Rumania has igm> ed Germany's 24 hour ultimatum to ’ “conclude immediate peace.’ According to a message flashed by wireless from Jassy to Salonika and relaved by cable today to Dr. Constantin Angolasca. Rumanian minister, here. Rumania has “disdainfully ignored” Germany's threat and wi sur vive or perish with the allied cause. With Teuton divisions on one si 1 ■ the bolshevik! on the other and many miles away from a friendly force, ng

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Ferdinand’s plucky nation is lighting harder today than ever before, according to official dispatches received here today (Uy J. W. Pegler, United Press staff correspondent.) With the American Armies in France, Feb. 12- (Delayed) (Special to Daily Democrat) American artillery triumphed over the Germans in the gun duel which began with yesterday’s blood-red sunset and continued until today’s dawn. It is not yet permissable to announce the object of the Aiuerienu firing but the bombardment entirely accomplished its purpose. (Copyright 1918 by United Press) (Uy Robert J. Bender. United Press staff correspondent.) Washington, Feb. 13—'(Special to Daily Democrat)—Peace between the United States and Austria can come only when the Austrian people break with the German junkers. Possibility of such a peace is strong To drive home the fromer statement while convinced of the latter one, President Wilson made his momentous address to congress, the United Press' can state semi officially today. The president wants the Austrian | people to know that this is not a! swash buckling nation. His address was designed to answer the peace note spreading throughout the world—and it the same time to serve notice on | the German junkers that America is not gulled by the vagaries of von Hertling.

London, Feb. 13 —(Special to Daily , Democrat) —British troops conducted a successful raid southeast of Hargicourt last night, taking eleven prisoners, Field Marshal Haig reported today. “Casualties were inflicted on the enemy," in jatrol encounters southeast of I-ens. Tn the neighborhood of Epehy and 1 northeast of Ypres there was hostile cannonading. 1 Paris, Feb. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Three civilians were kill- ■ ed and five wounded when two German airplanes dropped several bombs : on Nancy last night, the war office re- < ported today. There was mutual artillerying northwest of Rheims. The French took prisoners in raids' east of Auberive, in the Vosges region. An attempted German raid east of Embermesnil was frustrated. ] Washington, Feb. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Six deaths among the American expeditionary forces in France were reported in a cablegram from General Pershing today. Included among the dead was Sergeant 1 Kent S. Ritchie, gunshot wound. 2001 North Pennsylvania street. Indianapolis. 1 BULLETIN Rome, Feb. 13 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The pope is reported to be pressing the Central Powers, especially the Austrian and Bavarian rulers, for an "honest and unselfish consideration of (President Wilson's speech.” o WILL HAYS ELECTED (United Press Service) St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Will Hays of Indiana was unanimously elected chairman of the republican national committee this afternoon. No other name was before the committee. Hay's election followed the withdrawal of John T. Adams of lowa, •'ormer!y Hay's chief opponent. Adams announced tnat he would support Hays and urged all of his followers to do the same. Indianapolis. Feb., 13—(Special to Daily Democrat)—When Will Hays was informed this afternoon that he had been elected chairman of the national republican committee, he announced that he would acept the office. Hays awaited official notice of his election before issuing a formal statement. MADE DARI°NG RESCUE (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Feb. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat)—At the risk of his > own life. Ray Wilson, twenty, made a - daring rescue of his young brother, > Elmo, from a cake of floating ice when a piece in which he was standing broke off. The ice was quickly aughet 1 in the current of the river and carried down several blocks below. Rav i- heard the screams for belp from the river. He jumped in and, dodging between the Ice cakes swam to the boys . side. He then was first cognizant of .. the fact that the boy was his brother, y The brother shoved the cake of ice g baring his brother to shore in safety.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, February 13, 1918.

GIVEN A SURPRISE Mrs. Margaret Meibers Was Pleasantly Remem* membered on EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY By Her Children, Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren. Mrs. Maigaret Meibers. highly esteemed pioneer resident of the city, was given a very pleasing surprise last evening for her eightieth birthday anniversary by a number of her children and grandchildren. The party was given in the form of a six O'clock dinner at the home of a son. C. L. Meibers. on Third street, and hostesses were Mrs. C. L. Meibers, Mrs. C. S. Clark. Mrs. Anna DroppleI man and Mrs. Joe Tonnelier. Mrs. Meibers had as guests yesterI day, two nieces. Mrs. Ella Snyder ! and Mrs. Mary Stellar, of Fort i Wayne. On pretense of taking her to the C. L. Meibers home to call, they went there at the appointed hour and as the aged lady entered, the light were turned on. showing the dinner table, unusually pretty with its profusion of cut flowers and the pendant decorations of hearts from the chandeliers above; and not least, the children and grandchildren and three great-grandchilrren surrounding it. A lovely gift or three dozen carnations and a pretty potted flowering plant from the grandchildren; congratulations from a daughter. Mrs. B. Uhl. of Toledo, Ohio, and others who could not be present, were received. Among those present besides the hostesses and their families already named, were Mr. and Mrs. Mike Meibers. Fort Wayne; Henry Voglewede and daughters. Bert and Rose; Mr. and Mrs. Dick Boch and babe. Mr. and ?>l»s. Otto Giteen and children. Rose Tonnelter, Dick Tonnelier, Mrs. Veronica Smith. SUGAR IS NEEDED

If You Have More Than Ten j Pounds on Hands, Dispose of it Now. i CALL S. E. HITE I I Serious Violation of Law to Hoard—Besides This, Supply is Exhausted. ■ i Do you realize that every grocer in , Adams county is practically out of sugar and that he cannot buy any from the jobbers, whose supply is also completely exhausted? Do you know that doctors cannot even buy sugar with which to make their syrups and medicines and that this means suffering tor those ill? Do you know that if you have more than ten pounds of sugar on hands you are a hoarder, that if you have more than a quarter barrel of flour in town or a half barrel in the country, you are a hoarder? Do you know that a hoarder is liable to a fine of $5,000 and a prison sentence of two years? Do you know that investigations are now being made and that S. E. Hite, the county food administrator, has been asked to report? W( are not scolding or threatening hut simply calling your attention to toei-e facts that you may realize the seriousness of the situation. Many people do not realize that if they have more than their allotment of sugar and flour on hands they are liable to prosecution under federal authority. Ir. this county up to this time there has been no effort to cause any trouble and it is hoped there won’t be, but no cittizen should allow himself to willingly violate the laws. It you have more than your share of flour or sugar, notify S. E. Hite, Decatur, at once, and he will take ever your extra supply, leaving you plenty, pay you for it, and thus relieve you from any liability to the government. At the same time you will be helping your neighbors for 1 this would relieve the situation con- • siderably. It is known that several people have on bauds as much .“.s > several hundred pounds of sugar and tuny barrels of flour. Your atten-

t. is called to the fact that it is i serious violation of the law and u. from this fact there is an urgent need for these articles. Bvnrvbody must help, and we uro sure everybody wants to. Be sure to report nt once to 8. E. Hite, if you 4>ave more than the amount of sugar or Hour stated. Indications are that the famine will soon be over. The supply of sugar from Cuba and Porto Rico will bo coming in soon now and this will relieve that situation. For the present you should share with those who are out -- ' . ■—o- - - — ————— REVOKES MONDAY ORDER (United Press Service) Washington, D. C., Feb. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Monday heatless holiday order was revoked by Feul Administrator Garfield this afternoon. THE THIRD LOAN Will be Explained at Meeting of Second District at Ft. Wayne Thursday. DELEGATION TO GO

From This County to Attend—State and National Representatives There. A delegation of bankers and others interested in the success of the Third Liberty Ixian drive will go to Fort Wayne tomorrow to attend a meeting of the second district, composed of Adams, Wells, Huntington, Allen, Whitley, Noble, Dekalb, Ixtgrange and Steuben counties. Representatives of the Liberty lx>an organization from Chicago and Indianapolis will be present and tire plans for the next big drive will be announced and explained The meeting is a very important one for the time has come when every person who can must put his shoulder to the wheel, when the sacrifices begin to hurt and when the spirit must be of the brand that has carried this county and this country through previous critical times. Just when the drive will be mails or what the quota will be for this county, has not been announced but it will come soon and will be for an amount large enough to tax the efforts of every person in the county. It is hoped that an organization for Adams county can be perfected at the same time.

LENT OPENS TODAY The season of lent begins today and will continue until the Saturday noon before Easter instead of closing Saturday night, this being a new ruling or decree. Easter Sunday falls on t March 31 this year. HAPPILY MARRIED 1 Otto Kieffer and Miss La- * vina Kern Were Married ■ — I ON LAST EVENING Rev. Hinz of the Luthean Church Officiates —Well Known Couple. Otto Kieffer, of the Kalver-Noble garage force, and Miss Lavina Kern, daughter of the late Mrs. Rachel Kerri, of Eighth street, were married last evening at 6:30 o’clock by the Rev. A. W. Hinz, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church, at the parsonage, on West Monroe street. The wedding was very quiet, the only witnesses being Mrs. Hinz and the guest in the Hinz home, Richard Starke, of Cleveland, Ohio. The newly married couple left after the ceremony for Fort Wayne and other points where they will spend a part of their honeymoon. They will be at home on South Eighth street. Mr. Kieffer is a sou of Jacob Kieffer, prominent Preble township farmer. He is a mechanic of ability and is an employee of the Kalver-Noble garage. Mrs. Kieffer is a graduate of I the Decatur high school, and Is well • liked by all her many friends. i

WANTSTOGOOVER But Dr. Hamilton of Fort Wayne, is Still at Montgomery, Ala. EXAMINING HEARTS Os Aviation Corps Men— Few Deaths in Camps, Pneumonia. Etc. Dr. D. I). Clark received the following interesting letter from Dr. Hamilton, formerly of Fort Wayne, well known here, now in military service, being an officer in the medical corp.-:; Base Hospital, Camp Sheridan. I Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 31. 'lB Dr. D. D. Clark. Decatur. Ind. Dear D. D.: — I have been wanting for some time to send you a line and tell you I am I still alive. 1 was in training camp at Ben Harrison for two months and then was sent to Camp Pike at Little j Rock, Ark., to organize the T. B. ! board of examiners. When that was i started they sent me here to finish the heart examination of the camp and turn in the reftort. At the same time I was put in charge of the pneumonia cases in the hospital. Ten days ago the head of the medical service got sick and when I got him on his feet he went home on leave so now 1 have the job of looking after the medical service till he comes back and it's some job at that. We have 1 any amount of measles and bronchitis 1 with quite a lot of pneumonia, but tiie i deaths have been few, less I thins , than at any other camp. Ten days ago there was a fire in our quarters and while my things did not burn. I had a good lot of damage from 1 smoke and water. You see the army ' life is not an unmixed joy. The chief thing I am anxious for now is to get'' to the other “ide and 1 don't gee mm lij '

(Continued on Page Four) O VICTORY TO W!Ni ! We Mho Are Here at Home Fighting Behind the Lines. TRY OUT RECIPE That Has Worked so Well With Uncle Sam’s Soldiers. The United States Food Administra- ' tion says: The streets were cleared, and along either side of the road was a solid wall of people anxiously waiting. The laughing and talking grew dimmer and gradually faded into silence, for in the distance was heard a steady even, marching. Then around the corner into full view swung a small army of five hundred boys in citizen’s clothes. This army seemed small, but it was practically the entire young manhood of the town. They were the very finest boys in your town and you knew each one of them. As they passed you recognized the boy who delivered meat at your house, whose irrepressible spirits could never be dampened, the boy who kept the news stand at the corner and never brought your paper on time, but who never by any chance was at fault and so on. Until at length all the other faces faded from the ranks and you saw only your own son. the finest and biggest of them all. You had sent away to camp the young men you had known from babyhood and watched grow up. And you were proud of them. Four months later you visited your son in camp. You saw again practically every one of the five hundred young men who marched in that parade late in the fall. It seemed inconceivable to you that four months could make such a difference. They were no longer boys, they ; are no longer young men, they were > most unmistakably Uncle Sam's sol- ’ diers. Their shoulders were erect I and broader, they had literally grown, their faces and eyes were clear and

11 Strong, and the very awing of their [j bodies bes|;okc perfect health and fine spirits. Within four monilm | I ncle Sam had remade nice young | men into a wonderful army. This was no miracle; he had but followed out a simple recipe for good health, using work as the basis of the recipe, adding plenty of simple food, sufficient and regular sleep, seasoned with a generous amount of recreation. 1 Perfect health is as essential to the army behind the lines as to the soldiers. We too have a light to fight and st victory to win. It is a fight in which every patri.dk citizen will need every ounce of good health and strength that he can muster together, for in this emergency America requires every atom of the productive power of her people. Let us who are fighting behind the lines try out the same recipe that worked so wonderfully well for the boys in camp. WHERE ARE THEY? — Local Military Board Places ! 41 Men in Class One for Failure to Fill OUT QUESTIONNAIRES A Number Are in Military Service—W ould Like to Have Their Addresses. For failure to fill out and return their questionnaires the local military board, acting upon the interpretation of the selective military law governing such cases, has placed for-: tyone men in Class one. This action was necessary because the law reads that any registrant who fails to fill

out or return his questionnaire within the limited time, he must be placed in Class one and certified to the adjutant general as being in that class, ft is the desire of the local military board, before they certify the forty-one men to the adjutant general, that the registrants themselves or their relatives notify the board of there whereabouts, giving their addresses, where they can be reached. A number of the men are already in the service, but for some reason have not filled out or returned their questionnaires. If the parents know that they are in service they should notify the board in what company or regiment and camp they were last stationed and if they can-i not be located at that particular camp or fort, the case will be ex-' plianed to the adjutant general. If | they are “'over there” the case will ! be likewise noted and recorded. Fol-j lowing is the list that of the men who , have not filled out or returned their: questionnaires. The board must ! Jiave official notice that they are ir. Service before they can transfer the men from Class one: Ruel Wiswell. Geneva. J. Henry Miller, Monroe. Chester C. Bryan, Monroe. William Reed, Geneva. Raymon O. Gass, Decatur. Clem Kortenbrer, Decatur. Otto F. Miller, Magley. Albert A. Buckmaster, Decatur. Thomas D. Dean, Decatur. Harold B Wegmiller, GeUeva. Mach Luznac, Magley. Clarence L. Passwater, Pleasant Mills. Chalmer D. Miller, Monroeville. Herbert B. Fullenkamp, Decatur. Gust M. Borne, Magley. Frank Gallas, Kornoa, Greece. Herbert L. Kern, Decatur. S. W. Carey, Decatur. ..Charles Baldwin, Howard City, Mich. George F. Schultz. Decatur. Paul H. Graham, Monroe. Ervin R. Butler, Decatur. Harry W. Steed, Geneva. Glen Workinger, Berne. Samuel R. Roop, Decatur. Herman E. Emery. Berne. Nick Main, Columbus, Ohio. Clarence J. LaFountain, Decatur. Clifton O. Duer, Monroe. August Anastasion, McKeesport. Pa. Chas. Messina. Wadsworth, Ohio. Warren W. Wilkenson, Decatur. Lawrence Lopseter, Magley. Amos H. French, Linn Grove. Jack LaCosta. Wadsworth, Ohio. Mark Parise, Magley. Wm. H. Johnson, Magley. Frederick W. Hoile, Monroeville. Lester G. Robinson, Hattiesburg I Miss. i John J. Muntz, Monroeville. Evan A. Robertsi Detroit, Mich.

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IS THE TREATY SCRAP OF PAPER? Is Question People of Switzerland Are Now Asking After German Moves WHICH INDICATE IT Wm. Simms Says it Looks as if Germans Would Enter France There. (United Press Service! (By William I*. Simms, United Press Stuff Correspondent) (Copyright 1918 by United Press) Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat) —After Belgium—is Switzerland's turn next? Hindenburg is massing troops against the French right flank with vast stores of ammunition and many guns. The people here are asking whether the treaty of 1815 will be the next “scrap of paper.” Germans in Zurich are openly boasting that Ludendorff could smash the Swiss army in 48 hours. The Prussians, while gorging themselves on little republics could occupy the city the first day. They declare Switzerland’s 1,500 machine guns, 16 6-inch cannon, 18 batteries of 3-inch field guns and small stock of ammunition is insufficient to cause much trouble. They say there are only 100,000 troops under colors and that of these but 45,000 are on the German border, which could be swept aside and France entered before the remainder of the Swiss could be mobilized.

. I The concensus of opinion of peo- ! pie I have talked to is that if Hinden- , burg does not attempt to cross Swit- . 1 zerland in an effort to turn the i * French flank, it will be because he considers that strategically unwise. I am told the Germans have plan- . ned the invasion to the last detail; , i even skeleton governments for the ’ cantons (Swiss states) exist. At the trial of a number of suspected spies at Vevey. documents placed in evidence named a certain I tailor as the mayor of a town upon ; Prussian occupation. Today Switzerland is struggling ' valiantly not only to maintain its neutrality. but for- independence itself. [ German agents are threatening the ! staunch republic with revolution, hopi ing the revolution will spread into Italy and France. The Prussians ! boast the German people are better I disciplined than the rest of the | world; that if revolutionary doctrines I are scattered broadbast, other nations will succumb while Germany will remain unscathed. i Switzerland is swarming with the agents of the Prussian war party. Discussing the question of what the i Russian bolshevik! movement has j hoped to accomplish in Switzerland, ! France, Italy, England and even - America, the celebrated journal, i De Geneve, declared: “A great revolutionary wave, com- | ing from the Orient and crossing j Germany, is now swirling at the foot iof the Alps. Concerted, methodic, ! internationalist agitations are growing in our cities. These tend to pro- , voke by violence a revolution, which ! from Switzerland would gain neigh- ‘ boring countries.” Labor troubles are increasing. Purely political strikes have already occurred. Others are breeding. I am told they are all inspired by “forJeigners, not belonding to allied countries.” The latest menace came from the radical laborites, foreign-led, in the shape of an ultimatum to the government, demanding withdrawal of certain war measures, immediate release and indemnification of deserters who are forced to work and complete demobilization of the army by May 1. The laborites declared that if within 48 hours after the ultimatum was t, ratified by labor unions and socialists, the terms were unheeded a general strike would be called . .The best element of labor is generally against the ultimatum but German agitators, aiming at a revolution, are busy day and night. Meantime, German troops are gathering near the Swiss border. All true Swiss are crying a warnj, ing, demanding: “What is the connection between the menace of a Swiss revolution and Hindenberg's offensive?”