Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 123, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1918 — Page 1

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THE THIRD DRIVE STARTS JUNE IST According to Prediction oi l General Bridges—ConliI dence in Outcome. [ A GERMAN DESTROYER Was Sunk and Seaplane Base Destroyed—This Nation to Aid Rusia. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C.. May 23—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Germany's third and perhaps final great drive on the western front will be launched ' about June 1, according to the prediction of General W. A. Bridges, chief of the British military mission here.' Should Mackensen fail to break j the allied line at his objective in the Ypres sector around Amiens, an Aus-tro-German offensive against Italy, probably, will follow. General Bridges deciareci. He expr|ssed confidence in General Foch's ability to stem the , invaders in all events. London, May 23—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A German destroyer was sunk and the mole and seaplane base at Zeebrugge were badly damaged by bombs which British naval aviators dropped in operations between Mon- 1 day and Wednesday, the admiralty 1 anounced this afternoon. Washington, D. C., May 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —New and vastly important developments in the ' policy of "more help for Russia” are ' I expected this week. President Wilson and Ambassador Reading had a long conference yesterday looking to the furtherance of 1 positive aid to the Russian people. Money, civilian and military relief, figure in the new program. As one small point of the new pro-, gram, American railroad men will probab'y be sent again soon into Russia. !' London, May 23—(Special to Daily > Democrat) —German bombardment .of portions of the Picardy and Flanders ’ fronts and continued raiding operations. were reported by Field Marshall Haig today. | 1 "There was hostile artillery fire in s the Ancre valley, south of Lens, east t of Robecq and east of the Nieppe for- , est during the night,” the statement | said. "We carried out successful raids E at Ayette. Boisleux and St. Mart, in- , dieting casualties and capturing some | machine guns. j ( "The enemy rushed one of our posts ( near Aveluy wood last night and two j of our men are missing.” > Washington. .May 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The house today adopted the Randall amendment to , the food emergency bill. 178 to 137. The amendment holds up appropriations of the bill until the president issues a proclamation stopping manufacture of alcholic beverages from grains and fruits. . Dublin, May 23—(Special to Daily i Democrat)—The conscription question in Ireland may be settled by the formation of an Irish army. The new recruiting operations planned for are under way it was learned today. Recruiting stations will be established throughout the country while regiments will parade. Volunteers will be brigaded with the present Irish brigade, thus forming an Irish armv. BULLETIN Washington. May 23 —(Special >o Daily Democrat) —Eighty-six casualties listed by the war department today Included 14 killed in action: dead of wounds; 11 ill of disease; 39

BETTER CHILDREN IN AMERIC A England and France have realized that work for•bet- | ter children is vital war work and England has prove I the | 0 value of what she has done by bringing down her babj g death rate to the I sense who have determined that 100,000 childrens irves | g shall be saved in Children’s Year. h c?Sg | | tee now has 9,790 local units. A constantly .ncreasmg g C n h egk£to I and health? Let us try to make them not only better, but | •* the best in the world. «

I wounded severely and 9 wounded slightly; 1 missing in action. | Lieut. James Palache, of Farmin’;i ton. Conn., died of wounds; Lieut. John T. JMcGuire; St. Louis and Lieut. I Hugh L. Sutherland. Benoit. Mi: . | were seriously wounded. BULLETIN | Paris. May 23 (Special to Daily Democrat) An air attack on Paris (last night, consisting of two distinct I raids, was officially announced today. The first enemy squadron failed to reach the city being turned back by an aerial barrage. There were no victims from this attack. The second raid was made in several relays of machines. Although met with another violent aerial barrage this attack resulted in a number of bombs being dropped in the Paris area. (By William Philip Sinnns, United Press staff correspondent) With the British Armies in France, May 22 (Special to Daily Democrat) ' —More than 100 women nurses, patients and attendants were killed or I wounded in a raid on a large number .of hospitals by German airmen. In this the latest Prussian air attack. a score of huge Gotha airplan-’s , circled over their objectives where the Red Cross was plainly visible, drop ping a number of bombs of enormous size to smash the buildings and a still greater number of small shrapnel bombs to kill nurses and wounded. The shrapnel was timed to burst at the level of the ground, so as to insure the greatest possible destruction of lives. British aviators and anti-aircraft guns battled with the Hun squadron bringing down the enemy commander's machine. New York, May 23—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Deputy Attorney general Alfred L. Becker today reported to government authorities that he had completed an investigation of reports of huge stores of German-owned rifles, machine guns and ammunition, hidden near New York and found the rumors unfounded. BULLETIN I With the American Army in Franc?. May 22 —(Night)—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The official communique issued at American headquarters tonight says: "Artillery fire has increased in the sectors occupied by American troops, There are no naw developments.” London, May 23—(Special to Dai'v Democrat)—The allies maintain their superiority in raiding operations along the west front, it. was shown in the night official statements. Field Marshal Haig reported another successful raid Tuesday night in tne neighborhood of Hubuterne, in which heavy casualties were inflicted on the Germans. Yesterday morning a second attempt of the enemy to raid British positions southeast of Mesnil was repulsed. The French war office reported heavy artillery fire in the ThennesHailies sector, southeast of Amiens and south of the Avre. on the same general front. French troops took prisoners in raids southwest of Lassigny. in the Verdun sector and in Lorraine. Heayy allied cannonading along the northern portion of the Flanders front and between Arras and Abert was reported by the German war office. It was claimed that allied attacks near Kemmel and Locre broke down. (Bv Henry Wood, United Press stuff correspondent.) With the French Foreign Legion in the Field. May 22—(Special to Dai’v Democrat)— Fifty-seven nations were represented in the famous French for eign legion when on March 26, in one of the bloodiest battles of the German offensive, it retook Hangard wood. This nation, with the simultaneous British attack on the left, which resulted in recapturing Villers-Breton-rTv-ntinned on Page Four)

Decatur. Indiana, Thursday Evening, May 23, 1918.

CITADEL OF LIFE Is the Theme of the Baccalaureate Sermon to be Given —— 1 ON SI N DAY EVENING j » “ By the Rev. Fred F. Thorn- •» » burg—The School , Notes. I’ The baccalaureate sermon will be s given Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock, at the Methodist church by the pastor, ' the Rev. F. F. Thornburg, who has taken as his subject. “The Citadel of Life." Music will lie furnished by Dr. . Fred Patterson. Mrs. Dan Tyndall and ■ by the W. F. Beery male quintet. • There are forty-one graduates. Wednesday afternoon from one to four o'clock, will be the annual school exhibits. Patrons are cordially invited to see the displays at their several buildings. The big city schools spelling match will take place Wednesday night. The fifth and sixth grades will spell at the circuit court room while the fourth grade will spell at the central school building. The high school seniors are taking their final examinations today. Another interesting game of base ball will be pulled off Friday afternoon This time the high school team meets the postoffice, team, of which Ray Smith is manager. The high school team comprises Herman Myers. Dick Archbold. Harold Case. Max Teeple, . John Clark. Harry Knapp, Arthur Hy- , land, Winfield Maddy. Cal Peterson and Charles McConnehev. PREBLE IWRRERS I In the War Savings Drive Held a Meeting Last Night. ANNOUNCE CHAIRMEN Another Meeting for Next Monday Evening is Called. Preble township held an enthusias.ic War Savings Stamp Drive meeting at the Preble schoolhouse last evening. Fred Kolter being chairman of the township drive. The following district chairman were appointed, they to be assisted by captains to be selected later: District 1, Louis Klein, chairman; district 2, Reed Caston; district 3, Victor Kruetzmann; district i, Ernest Worthmann; district 5, Lawrence Linnemeier: district 6. Frank Fruchte. Another meeting will be held next Monday evening at the Rupright school in district number 4, at which Attorney J. C. Moran and Prosecuting Attorney Fruchte will speak. All these assistants and others are expected to attend this meeting. THE FIRST°IN COUNTY ■ The first food club in Adams county i was organized in St. Mary’s township at the Baptist church. Pleasant Mills, i with Mrs. H. M. Crownover as chair- • man for the township and Mrs. I’d • France as president of the club. Mr;.. J. D .Winans, Mrs, Fred Roth and Mrs. - Clyde Green were appointed lieutenants and much good is expected from the newly organized club. FOR TUBERCULAR GLANDS Mrs. John Fuerst, of Toledo, 0., a resident of this city until last June, was operated upon Tuesday for the removal of enlarged tubercular glands. The operation was very serious but the best is hoped for, in spite of her condition which is weakened. Her many Decatur friends will hope for a spoady recovery. A FLOWER SALE A class of the Evangelical Sunday school will have a geranium and salvia flower sale tomorrow in front of the Wlnnes shoe store.

'♦++-F+++ + + + + + + + 1 + WHAT IT MEANS. + ’j* *i + Have you ever stopped to + + think what the Red Cross moans + + for the boy in the army: + + HE has twentynine chances of + I + coming home to one chance of + !♦ being killed. + ! ♦ HE has ninety-eight chances ♦ i + of recovering fuiru a wound Jo ♦ ; ♦ two chances of dying. + + HE has only one chance in + 4- f.iio of losing a limb. + •!• HE will live five years longer + •s because of physical training. + 4* HE is freer from disease in + 4> the army than in civil life. + + HE has better medical care at 44> the front than at home. + 4> IN other wars from ten to fit- + + teen men died from disease to + + one”from bullets. + + IN this war one man dies from + + disease to every ten from bullets. + THIS war is less wasteful of + 1 4- life than any other in history. + ' + GIVE! GIVE! GIVE! * * +++4>+4>+ + + + + + + + ■ ...... — - - _ g SAVE THE BABIES Government Will Devote Several Days Next M eek ' to Important Work. e WEIGHT AND MEASURE a i ii Children Under Six Years \ of Age—Mrs. Lower is County Chairman. ~~ — p Every child under school age in the n United States is to be weighed and I measured next week, by order of the J United States government, this being 1 a part of the movement to save one child out of every seven which statistics show are lost by death each t year. The work must be completed f before June 6th. and the reports sent to the National Bureau of Child We!- I fare. I Mrs. W., A. Lower has been named chairman for Adams county and she has appointed the following: Miss 1 Frances Cole, captain; Miss Ruth Patterson, assistant for first war I; Mrs. Fred Smith, for second ward, and Miss Neta Erwin for third ward. The weighing stations will be mentioned tomorrow and the children are to be weighed Monday, Tuesday and J Wendesday of next week. Watch for further announcements. j HAROLD MILLER ENLISTS Mrs. Barbara Winnes and family received word that their grandson. Harold Miller, aged 19, son of Mr. am! Mrs. Hugh Miller, of Anderson, has joined the colors, and is at present a truck driver in the quartermaster’s de- a partment, at Ft. Thomas, Ky. He p has been a studen at Cincinnati Uni- t varsity, and in a recent army examination. received the highest grade cf sixty-eight who passed. He was prom- c ised a good department. He is much c pleased. TO CIVEIODRESS j —' c Rev. Arthur J. Folsom £ of Fort Wayne is the f Speaker FOR COMMENCEMENT 1 The Seniors Aje Selling Tickets Now—Buy One. Rev. Arthur J. Folsom, pastor of the First Congregational church, of Fort Wayne, will give the address for the Decatur high school commencemcrr, Friday evening at 8 o’clock, May 31. 1 His subject is “Brain Power and Personality.” Rev. Folsom is a forceful speaker, with a good message, and all t are anticipating a fine lecture. r Music will be furnished by the senr iors and by the city orchestra, both 1 under the direction of Miss Anne Rackstraw The commencement will be held at the Masonic hall. The seniors are f now selling the tickets. They are i twenty-five cents. Be sure to go a The senior class contains forty-one members.

HEAR YE! HEAR YE (Liberty Bond Serio-Comic Program is Published. FOR SOCIAL EVENING To be Enjoyed at the Methodist Church—All Invited. On Thursday night a program and social will be given at the Methodist church by a class of girls assisted bv members of other classes, to rai-e money for the purchase of a Liberty Bond. Everybody come and help the girls in their patriotic effort. The following program will be presented : Piano Solo—Dorothy Walters. Recitation —Gertrude Yager Vocal Soto—Cecil Andrews. Recitation —Alta Teeple. Piano Solo —Dwight Thornburg. All-Star Medley—lrene Russell, Esther Burkett, Dorothy Walters, Mae Baker. Victoria Mills. Helen Swearinger. Celebrated Combination Orchestra. An organization of six artists, playing difficult instruments —Gladys Butler, Helen Archer. Lucile Butler. Marguerite Hitchcock, Mae Baker, Dorothy Walters. Recitation —Mary Callow. World Famous Symphony Orchestra not the least part of this excellent performance is the expression of (he players, and the handling of the instruments —Helen Swearinger. Margaret Kinzle. Victoria Mills, Esther Burke, Mary Callow, Helen Archer. Donna Parrish, Marguerite Hitchcock. Indiana Sneeze —The Class. After the program refreshments will be served. Admission, 5 cents: refreshments, 10 cents. ISROUTEAGENT Waldo Brushwiller is Promoted by the Grand Union Tea Co. HAS THREE STATES In His Division —Fourteen Cities —Built Up Big Local Trade. Waldo Brushwiller, of Sixth street, agent for the Grand Union Tea Company, has received an excellent promotion. The promotion is to the position of route agent for this division for the company, which includes fourteen cities iu Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee. Mr. Brushwiller will retain his home in this city. Although he will be away during the week, win oe at nome for the week-nds. His duties will be to check up the agents, place new ones and enlarge the field generally. Mr. Brushwiller has been local agent since a year ago this month. At that time he opened up the Adams county field for the company, and has built up a fine trade for them. Mr. Brushwiller and the company wagon are familiar over the entire county. The company handles not only tea. but coffee, spices, extracts, groceries <.f various kinds, and is adding various foods and other products. Mr. Brushwiller will take the new position in a week or two as soon as he car find and establish a new local agent and driver for the wagon. FACES FIRING SQUAD (Unttea Press Service) Salt Lake City, Utah, May 23—How ard H. De Weese is scheduled to be executed by a firing squad here earlj Friday for the murder of his wife on September 22, 1916. Mrs. De Weese formerly the wife of a New York hah erdasher. was found dead in bed, het head hammered to a pulp with a flatiron. De Weese surrendered to the po lice in Chicago and made a confession, which he afterward repudiated, declar ing he was out committing a burglary when bis wife was murdered. DeWeese’s home was in Canyon City, Colorado. With Mrs. De Weese be came to Salt Lake City from Califor nla.

I + + + 4- + 4-4>4>4* + + + 4<4* ’ + LADIES, ATTENTION! ♦ I* + H* The ladies who are interested 4* + in preparing lunch boxes for the + ( + sixty three men who will leavt + •F here Saturday morning are re + + quested to meet at the home of + + Mrs. H. L Center this evening + 4> at 7:30. It is important. + ** + + •!•♦* t 4 4 + + * + ROOT TOWNSHIP CAPTAINS p C. D. Kunkle, chairman of Root town 1 I ship, has named the following captains for the War Savings Stamp drive to I be conducted next week: Roy Runyon, Charles Bailey. Walter Fuelling. EBis Christen. Charles Getting. Charles j Berning. Samuel Fuehrman. H. E. t Butler. These men will name their assistants and the big drive will he made next Ttjesday. The captains and their assistants are asked to meet y at the Monmouth school house. Monday evening at eight o’clock. THE FOOD CLUBSi Are Being Given Attention by Dr. H. E. • Barnard. FOOD ADMINISTRATORS Will be Conferred With —Wheat and Sugar Saving. i The first of a series of group con- . ferences with county food administ. itors. presidents of county and town i ’ ship food clubs and volunteer work j ers, took place Wednesday. May 22, at Evansville. Dr. Harry E. Barnatd, ! federal food administrator for Indiana arranged to spend the entire day in a discussion of the probems that now confront the local officials. He dwe’t 1 particularly upon the regualtions pertaining to the conservation of wheat products and sugar. * The first conference of the day was at the Hotel McCurdy for the benefit ( of county food administrators in par tit ular. Here technical questions were discussed, and matters that have prov- ( en particularly difficult to local oW cials were ironed out. At 2:30 in tho afternoon a meeting of food club executives and workers was held at the headquarters of the Vanderburg county council of defense. At 7:30 o’clock in the evening there was a public mass ( meeting at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium. ( This meeting was under the auspices of the Evansville hotel and restaurant , men’s association, the retail merch- ( ants’ association aud representatives f of the various manufacturing and mor- f . cantile enterprises whose business is under the control and direction of the ( federal food administrators. The counties in the section are Posey. ( Vanderburg, Warrick, Spencer. Perry, ( Dubois, Martin, Pike, Daviess, Knox ( and Gibson. THE RED CROSS Up to last evening a total of $7,431 * I 1 9(1 had been subscribed in Adams county towards the $15,000 quota which must be raised this week. The results as reported were: Decatur and north ten miles —Quota 1 $6,925; reported, $4,530.90. Monroe and next four miles —Quoit, 1 $1,875; reported $1,500. Berne and next ten miles —Quota, $3,650; reported $538. Geneva’ and south four miles —Quota * $2,550; reported $863. f Total Quota, $15,000; total reported, s $7,431.90. It should be explained that in the v Berne and Geneva sectors the reports s were very incomplete. It is hoped that every branch will more than make their quota. WOULD KEEP THEIR SLAVES (United Press Service) •’■ Paris, May 23—German farmers do e not want an exchange of prisoners of y war with Russia. The exchange was n provided for in the peace treaty vs ’■ Brest-Litovsk. and already has started. I )- There is a general protest among the ■r German farmers, who are getting their t- work done for nothing, or for a nom- )- inal wage, by Russian prisoners of i, war. who practically are slaves of Gari- many. The farmers claim that if they y are deprived of this slave labor bes- fore September the results will be disf, astrous u|K>n the food production. Gere man papers recently received here r- give considerable prominence to tti’s question. |

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EVERY MAN MUSI WOR£OR FIGHT Local Draft Boards Must Summon Idle and Those Engaged Uselessly. DRAFTS FOR SERVICE Will Not Exempt Because of Dependency—Rule Operative July Ist. Washington. May 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) All men subject to draft hereafter must “do a man’s work or fight." , This rule, operative July 1. provides that all loafers and men not in useful occupations listed in deferred dra't classes must be engaged in useful war work or be drafted into the fighting service. Provost Marshal General f’rowdor announced today the plan for this new system. It will seize at once upon gamblers, race track men. waiters, bartenders, chibs, hotel and apartment attendants: persons engaged or occupied in games, sitorts and amusemen's with some exceptions, domestic servants. sales and other clerks of department stores and other mercantile establishments. Dependency exemptions will not protect men thus classified. Local boards will conduct the weeding out process. They are empowered to summon before them the idlers and I the non-essential workers listed above, give them a chance to explain their pursuance of no useful war occupation and if they fail, draft then into the army. Strictly enforced, the new regulation would practically break up professional baseball, officials admitted, as sports Is one of the classes from which the payers now granted dependency exemption are barred. The plan, however. is framed so that practically all of the men thus shifted or sent in o the army can be replaced hy women. Besides the idlers, the following classes of livelihood were named by General Crowder as being closed to draft registrants after July 1: A—Gamblers of all types, employes and attendants of bucket shops, and race tracks, fortune tellers, clairvoyants. palmists and the like. B—Persons engaged in the serving of food or dring in public places, including hotels and social clubs. C —Passenger elevator operators and attendants, doormen, footmen and other attendants of clubs, hotels, stores, apartment houses, office buildings and bath houses. D —Persons, including usehrs and other attendants, engaged and occupied in and in connection with games, sports and amusements, excepting a< • tual performers in legitimate concerts, operas and theatrical performances. E —Persons employed in domestic service. F Sales clerks and other clerks employed in stores and other mercantile establishments. As predicted some time ago hy the United Press, the plan is one of the most drastic and far-reaching steps ever undertaken by the war department. The stope of the regulations will soon be extended. General Crowder states, by adding several more nonuseful occupations to the list. "Men. who are now enegaged as above, or who are idlers, will not be liermitted to seek relief because of the fact that they have drawn a late order number or because they have been placed in classes 2. 3 or 4, on the grounds of dependency.” the regulation states. “The fact that he is not usefully employetl will outweigh both the above conditions.” In addition General Crowder has provided that any local board will be empowered to force draft registrants 1 to work whether it has original jurisdiction over the man or not. A man loafing around a Chicago pool hall, i though registered in New N ork. can be I sent to work or the army by the Chi- ' cago board. In determining idleness, regular vocations are not to be considered. Another provision is that where "ther-i are compelling domestic circumstances that would not permit change of employment. without disproportionate hardship to his dependents, or where a change would necessitate removal of the registrant or his family to an- ' other locality, the board may give con- | (Continued cn~Page Four) A,