Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1918 — Page 1

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ANOTHER STRIKE SHAKES AUSTRIA Movement is Growing and Many Factories Are Forced to ('lose. GEN. GORGAN ACTS Appeals Over Head of War Department—Ludendorff Says We Must Fight. (Unitud Press Service) Copenhagen, March 15—(Special to Daily Democrat)—A new strike is uhder way in Austria, it was lea-nei here today. Austrian wontere in the northern railway, and several otht railways have struck, according to Berlin papers. The movement is growing. Most of the factories in several cities have closed. The military men ordeied the strikers to return but they refused. German newspapers are raging regarding the allied shipping demands from Holland. In copies received here today they urged Germany to take the most drastic counter measures if Holland yields. Amsterdam, March ls— (Special to Daily Democrat) —“If toe ener-iy rices not want peace they Tint fight the most tremendous battle of the oar c»i the west front," Quarter nas* -r General Ludendorff declared n an nter view received here today. Petrograd, March 15—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Twenty thousand casualties have resulted from the civil war which has broken out in Turkertan, between the Soviets and the natives, according to dispatches received today. Fierce battles are being fought. Washington, D. C., Mar. 15—(Special to Dally Democrat) —Going over the heads of his superiors in the war department, Sergeant General Gorgan today appealed direct to congress for aid in giving the army medical corps powers for safeguarding the health of the army. Gorgan, appearing before the senate military affairs committee, disclosed. friction between the medical corps and officers of the lines which he declared has many times seriously impeded hospital construction and in other ways interfered with efforts to keep the new army in good health. Line officers have not hesitated to ignore entirely recommendations of the medical officers regarding sanitation, Gorgan testified. He further revealed that President Wilson and the war department have clashed on the «‘ bject. Secretary ''•fter, the general staff, and the war

' ’ —n.iwwg'Wgm— 3 ® **• * I I WHL S I I M MRS IDAH M'GLONE GIBSON iust returned from the battle front of Red Cross nurse, w uati „ ns w j|| be of exceptional interest. She is bleeding France. Her o ser interesting speaker. She will speak to the a well known writer and a court house jn the evenina> schools, at the library dunn thday and Be sure to hear this wonderful worngreat war.

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college all oppose a bill designed to remedy the condition Gorgan complained of. President Wilson championed the bill, however, and is in I favor of its passage, according to I Gorgan and Senator Owen. BULLETIN I Petrograd, March 14 (Special to Daily Democrat)—Representatives of all professional unions quit the party, following the bolshevik! vote ratifying the German dictated peace, prior to the pan-soviet congress at Moscow, i called for today. "Professional unions" is the usual , Russian designation of the organizations corresponding to American trades unions It should not lie confused with the organizations of what Americans usually regard as professional men —doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. These are designated by Russians as "intelligent ia." (By Ralph Turner, United Press staff correspondent) Tokio, Marc’-., .’5--(Special to Daily Democrat) —dtp--*'- .., .ntervention in Siberia Is be'ictT to be merely a question of tt:.-'- Ail indications and the Japanese mobilization increase this belief, although government officials have not disclosed their policy toward Siberia. America is beginning to agree to intervention. The allies favor the action. It was learned today that Japan intends to mediate between north and south China, unifying all factions to meet the Russian crisis. Washington, March 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The American casuallty list will be soon issued only , once or twice a month and then with addresses of victims. 1 I Acting Secretary of War ( rowell is 1 I known to incline in favor of that plan. 1 IHe and General March will consult soon over President Wilson’s suggestions as to the casualty list situation, relative to changing the nresent daily . system of names without addresses. It is said that the bi-monthly issuance t with addreses would not furnish th° 1 Germans with any information as to ‘ identity of the units. At present,'military men hold that the addresses tend to aid the enemy 1 if printed daily, though the committee . on public information disagrees with that viewpoint. The actual suggestions made by- - president have been concealed j thus far. It is understood he does not 'make specific decommendations as to ■ 1 what changes should be made but favors an alteration of the present 1 plan. i London. March 15—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Hostile raiders were repulsed in the neighborhood of Passachendaele and Poelcapelle last night. Field Marshal Haig reported today. j Wesl of Villersguislain. British ranlers entered the enemy’s lines and took a few prisoners. There was mutual artillerylng (Continued’ on Page Four)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening,

SUBJECT IS “HELL” I - - Evangelist Renn Will Give Sermon on This Theme Tonight AT BAPTIST CHURCH Business Men Were Guests of the Church on Last Evening. 44444444444444 ♦ REVIVAL PROGRAM. ♦ 4 4 Tonight. 7:30 Subject of ser- 4 + mon. “Hell.” 4 + Sunday Morning—" The Holy 4 4 Spirit.” 4 | 4 Sunday, 2:30 p. m.—Women’s + i + Service. 4 4 Sunday Evening — "Prodigal 4 4 Sons and Daughters.” 4 4 44 + 444444444 + latst evening. Evangelist Renn, at the Baptist church, had a service lor the business men, who were present in a body. The service was well attended. Prof. Bachmeyer. who is in charge of the singing, sang two beautiful songs: "The Judgment” and “The Sweet Will of God.” ,’The Judgment” was the subject of the sermon. Evangelist Renn chose for his text Daniel 7:10, "The judgment was set and the books were open.” Each day makes a part of the record of your life. What an awful thing it’s going to be for you to face your record! The day is coming when you will stand before God. Your disbelieving it will not change it. You believe in other things, why not in the judgment? No skeptic will deny th° first part of Hebrews 9:27. "And it is appointed unto men once to die.” All of us admit this. The writer was trying to explain to the people a thing they did not understand. They understood that-. like all men. they would die. but he added “but after this the judgment.” Why not accept the latter part of the verse. As sure as you die you must stand before the judgment. All evangelical churches differ in some things, but all believe in the judgment. There are two points in which they agree, first the return of Jesus, second the final judgment. Civil law- has its bar which is necessary to the good of humanity. Associated with the ideas of laws and courts are the ideas of judgment and (Continued on Page 6.) DIED IN THE SOUTH George Lambert, Born and Reared Near Honduras, This County DIED IN NEW MEXICO He Was Attending School There—lni ended to Practice Law. Mrs. Aaron DeVinney received word from a cousin. Frances Lambert, of Cleveland, of the death of her only brother, George Lambert, which occurred in a Red Cross hospital in New Mexico, from tuberculosis. The deceased was born and reared near Honduras, in this county, being a son of John Lambert and Anna Carpenter Lambert. He had been attending school in New Mexico when he contracted tuberculosis, when he had not yet fully recovered from a wound when he was shot through the foot by a student about a year ago. The deceased also leaves two halfsisters and a half-brother, John Nelson of Monroe, former principal of the south ward school. BOOK IS SUPPRESSED (United Press Ser»ice) Indianapolis, March 15—(Special to Daily Democrat) —L. Ert Slack United States district attorney today ord f ered suppression of “Tile Finished s Mystery," a book circulated by the ■ followers of Pastor Russell, declar . ing that it was prc-Germ <n No one : is allowed to circulate the book or any portions of it.

|4..|..|..|..|..f. + .f. + + + .|..|.4 4 HELP PERFECT IT. 4 ♦ + 4 Notice Ihe list of Adams coun- 4 4 ly soldiers on page five edi- 4 -.4 toriul -in today's issue. No + + doubt many have been omitted + + and in many instances we have 4 + not the assignment. We want it 4 + and you should help us get these + + names just right. Remember + ' 4 we do not want the camp ad- 4 4 dress, but the regiment or bat- 4 ' + tall ion, for instance John Brown, 4 . 4 Co. B. 151st Ind. Inst. Please 4 4 send in the address of any men 4 4 you know- in the service so we 4 4 can print the list corrected with- 4 4 in a week. 4 444444 4 4444444 MEN OFUUOTA ARE SELECTED Local Board Selects the Eighteen Men Who Will be Sent to CAMP ZACHARY TAYLOR Farmers Are Skipped in Making Up the List— Leave March 29th. 44444444444444 4 Fred D. Beery, Decatur. 4 4 Homer Winteregg, Berne. 4 4 Melvin Hirschy, Berne. 4 4 Arthur P. Clark, Decatur. 4 4 Peter Stucky, Berne. 4 4 Frank Aumiller, Berne. 4 4 Ira Sprunger, Berne. 4 4 Fred Walchle, Fort Wayne. 4 4 Harvey Neusbaum, Berne. 4 4 Adolph Reichart, Berne. 4 4 John R. Wemhoff, Decatur, 4 4 Noah N. Soldner, Berne. 4 4 Hiram Leichty, Berne. 4 4 Claude M. Foreman, Berne. 4 4 Enoch E. Carpenter, Monroe. 4 4 Floyd F. Marbaugh, Pleasant 4 4 Mills. 4 4 Jasper Ireland, Decatur. 4 4 Noah Zurcher, Berne. 4 4 SUBSTITUTES. 4 4 Oscar Sprunger, Berne. 4 4 Ira Jones, Decatur. 4 44444444444444 The above named men were selected by the local military board as Adams county’s quia of the new 95,000 draft call just made by the war department. Indiana’s share is 2,977. These eighteen men. together with the two substitutes, will be notified today by the board of their selection and they must prepare to leave on orders to be later received by the board. The entrainment of the first men will start on Friday, March 29th. but it is not known whether or not the entire squad from this county will leave on that day or whether the entrainment will cover a period of five days. The men will be sent to Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville. Ky. In making the selection of the above eighteen men, the local board, on the instructions of the war department, skipped the men who were actually engaged in farm work. In all. eleven men were skipped by this board. In following out the instructions of Provost Marshal General Crowder relative to the selecting of the men for the new quota and the rules governing the skipping of agricultural workers, Srate Conscription Agent Major Robert C. Baltzell sent out the following wire received from General Crowder: The Selective Rule. “The situation arising front the scarcity of farm labor demands that the call to the colors of men actively. completely and assiduously engaged in the planting or cultivation of a crop but who are in Class one, and within the new quota, should be . (deferred until the end of the new quota. Please instruct your local , boards therefore that the president directs that, in filling this emergency call, they shall pass the order numbers of such men and defer their call for the present. It must be borne in mind that this step is taken solely in the need of the nation, and not to the benefit of any individual. Therefore, while boards should consider it a grave duty to exercise this power to conserve and augment the agri--1 cultural production, they should observe closely the conduct of those ' deferred and immediately upon be<l coming convinced that auy person so e deferred is not giving his entire time r- and earnest attention to agricultural e duty or that he is trifling with the y deferrment thus granted him the (Continued 'em’ Page Four)

March 15, 191<S.

: UP ON YOUR TOES 4 j. h Adams County is Asked td £ Contribute S4OO to War Camp Recreation, r k J ONE DAY CAMPAIGN ► ' Will be Made Next Week by » ‘ Hi«h Schools —Give Dime ■ Or a Little More. I Adams county has been asked by the War Recreation Fund association to raise S4OO for Adams county an.l tre Rotary club of this city has promised their support to the effort. Similar campaigns have been made ’<ll over the country and we do not doubt it will be successful here. The mon ey Is sued to provide various forms of entertainment for the boys in camp and investigation shows that it is a very important part of the great wotk being done by this country to keep the l>oys clean. Every person in the county should give a dime, ten cents, or more for this fund. You won’t miss it and the l>oys will derive pleasure and benefit. The work here’is in charge of Mayor C. W. Yager. George Krick. C J. Voglewede and M. F. Worthman. who were named at the suggestion of Hon. Carry Wordenburg. of Cincinnati, a member of the national organization. The various high schools of the county are asked to assist in the work. The literature explaining the work will he distributed in this city next Wednesday, March 20th and the canvass will be made the following afternoon and evening. March 21st. The apportionment for this county follows: Pleasant Mills $ 10.00 Linn Grove 25.00 Monroe 50.00 Geneva 60.00 Berne 75.00 Decatur 180.00 This makes the total of S4OO and should be raised next week. o COUNTY DIPLOMA EXAMINATION The first examination of the year for county diplomas from the county common schools will be held tomorrow. Each township will hold its own examination at some central school, and will be in charge of the trustee or some teacher appointed by him. BELIEVES IN GOD As Sure as Hell After Seeing Great War, Says Mrs. Idah M. Gibson OF THE RED CROSS — She Will Tell You All About It at Court House Next Monday Evening. “I’ve come back from the war believing in hell," says Idah M’Glone Gibson. Red Cross nurse, who wril speak at the court house Monday evening and will talk to the school children and Red Cross workers during the day. Sho -.7111 tell you all about it. Mrs. Gibson is a wonderful woman, author of "Confessions of a wife” anti other stories of note. She has just ( returned from "Everywhere with the American Red Cross," She says that I just now the American Red Cross is : binding up the crimson sound of the ’ warring world. Just before leaving ‘ for France Mrs. Gibson talked to 1 Captain Lathan a member of the CanI naught Rangers who entered the war ' eleven days after it started and who 1 told her a wonderful story. He said, “I don’t care what your religion is Mrs. Gibson, whether you are protest--1 ant, Catholic or Jew, but I do know this, that if you go over there and you e see what you will see with the Red Cross as your guide, and friend, you 0 will come back believing in God—BEe LIEVING IN GOD AS SURE AS 1 HELL.” And she did. e Be sure to hear her tell it Monday e evening at the court house at the pub"jlic meeting.

X 44444444444444 \ 4 BIG BASKET BALL. 4 *4 + 4 Bloomington, lad., Mar. 16- 4 4 (Special to Daily Democrat) 4 (> 4 The state tournament of high 4 4 school basket hall is on here. 4 4 It opened last night at the big 4 4 gymnasium with a packed house 4 4 to root. At the opener Martins 4 4 ville and Bloomington eliminat 4 ’ 4 ed Richmond and Rockville. The + 4 score up to today noon were: 4 4 Martinsville 35; Rockville. 2(1 4 4 Bloomington 39; Richmond 12. 4 4 Montmorenci 24; Muncie 14. 4 4 Columbus 2; Franklin 0. 4 4 Rochester 18; Plainfield 15. 4 4 Anderson 30; Gary 9. 4 4 This afternoon Vincennes met 4 4 Kokomo and Huntington bump 4 > 4 into Washington. 4 1 44444444444444 DEATH TAKES TWO 1 .John Anderson, Former Monroeville Farmer, Died at Shoals. . BURIAL ON TUESDAY John Hoffstetter of Willshire, Ohio, Died at Edon, Ohio. A telegram from her sister-in-law. Mrs. H. M. Brothers, of Minneapolis, was received by Dr. Elizabeth Burns this morning, from Shoals, bringing word the death of Mrs. Brothers’ father. John Anderson. Mr. Anderson spent the greater part of his*life on a farm near Monroeville. He sold the farm about ten years ago after the death of his wife, after which he went to Shoals to live. He was about seventy years of age. He is also the father of Mrs. Amanda SellsHamrick. of Fort Wayne: Emmet Anderson, of Iowa; and George, who lives in Michigan. The body will be brought to Monroeville for burial Tuesday. The funeral car of Buchanan & Sons of Willshire. 0., was here today to meet the funeral cortege of John Hoff stetter, aged about sixty years, well known Willshire resident. His death occurred at Edon. 0., where he and his wife had been several months at I the home of a son-in-law. Clell Jame- ’ son. BOOST IN SALARIES (United Press Service) Washington, March 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The salaries of government employees now eamtiig less than two thousand dollars per y ai were increased one hundred and twen ty dollars a year by the hou.-'e ti,i afternoon, in adopting the recomtr.-en dation of the appropriation committee

| TODAY’S WORLD NEWS FLASHES~| (United Press Service) Marinette. Wis., Mar. 15-Former U. S. Senator Isaac Stephenson, Wisconsin. died here early today following a long illness. Washington. D. C.. Mar. 15-Award of a war cross to Col. Douglas MacArthur for bravery, in action delighted military men here. MacArthur you g strong and popular, has been chief of staff of the Rainbow Division, but the dispatch may indicate a shift in his position inasmuch as he was in action. MacArthur was on the general staff here at the outbreak of the war. New York N. Y„ Mar. 15—Colonel Roosevelt today through the United Press, sent the following message to his son. Captain Archie Roosevelt, who has been wounded, and decorated with the French war cross “Archie: We are very anxious, but are more proud than you can imagine. Grade and baby all right. Your cross is the greatest possession this family has.—Theodore Roosevelt.” This was cabled to Fred S. Ferguson, United Press correspondent at the , American front, who will personally deliver it to Captain Roosevelt. Harrisburg, Pa.. Mar. 15—Two women were killed and 22 passengers and i members of the train crew were injured, only two seriously, early today when Pennsylvania train No. 19, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago ex P r * Bs ; ' westbound, from Philadelphia, was struck by a huge boulder, which rolled ’ from the side of a deep cut near Elizabethtown. The dead: MISS RETA PALMER, Morgantown, W. Va. r UNIDENTIFIED YOUNG MAN. apparently about 24 years of age, whose ’ body is in the morgue at Harrisburg. .... . Train No. 19, on May 10, 1905, figured in the disastrous Lochiel wreck, s when it sideswiped a dynamite train some miles east of Harrisburg. In the ' resulting explosion 23 persons were killed and 125 injured. 1 Cincinnati, Ohio, Mar. 15—The Ohio river continued to rise slowly here :1 today, though reports froiTi up the river said water was receding there, a Water was 43 feet here this morning. The crest will reach 55. flood !■ stage, it is predicted, but no damage is expected. S Most of the damage in eastern Ohio and West Virginia was along creeks that rose rapidly and fell again. y However, some reports from West Virginia state that due to another heavy rainfall, Charleston is being confronted by one of the worst floods lit many | yaars. — — , - -— . tbasaa.

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jTO MEET HERE ■I TUESDAY NIGHT ► [. Bankers of Decatur Will be j Hosts for Bankers and Directors of County. ; MR. O’BRIEN COMING ’ Liberty Loan Captains NamN ed — German Speaker i- Here 26th and 27th. k - I The directors and officers of every i bank in Adams county will bo entertained at a supper to be given at tho Hotel Murray at 6:45 next Tuesday f evening, at which time short talks will be given by C. H. Worden, a well known banker of Fort Wayne, and W. H. O'Brien former auditor of .state and a banker at Lawrenceburg. Indiana. ' who will tell his friends, the bankers of Adams county, some of the plans used by him which made. Dearborn ‘ county lead all the others of the state i in the second Liberty Loan drive. U. L. Walters, a director of '.''e Peoples Loan & Trust company of this city will preside as toastmaster and the evening will close with a round table ' | discussion of the affairs of interest to ’.these men as bankers and citizens of ’ the best county on earth. A commit- ; tee from this city left at noon to ex- ’ tend a personal invitation to every director and it is expected that the attendance will be 100 per cent perfect. The Decatur bankers are to be hosts for the bankers outside the city. The organization of the city of Decatur for the Third Liberty Ixtan drive is in charge of Chairman Schirmeyor and the advisory committee. The following captains have been named: First ward A —Avon Burk. First ward B—Charles W. Yager. Second ward A—Dick Townsend. Second ward B —O. P. Mills. Third ward A—O. L. Vance. Third ward B —John C. Moran. These captains will select a lieutenant for each city block, making a wonderful organization for the big drive. Dan N. Erwin, chairman of the speaker’s bureau for the Liberty Loan campaign is arranging for a two days’ speaking campaign in this county, March 26th and 27th. by Nicholas Michales, assistant attorney general of Cook county. Illinois, who will speak in German and will explain his views on the all important subject ust now—the’ winning of the w?.r. Other speakers are being arranged for -nd a thorough campaign along that ine will be made.