Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 127, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1918 — Page 1

Volume XVI. Number 127.

ALLIES WIN GREAT COUNTER BATTLE

RETAKE THE TERRITORY LOST DURING MONDAY RESERVES ARRIVE ON THE SOISSONS FRONT AND GERMANS ARE PUSHED ■ BACK-ALLIED MILITARY EXPERTS CONFIDENT OF RESULT.

(By William P. Simms, United Press Staff Correspondent) With the British Armies in Trance, May 28—(Special to Daily Democrat)—British and French troops are counter-at-tacking southwest of Ypres. The lighting was still under way at the time of cabling this dispatch. At that time they had already retaken practically all the ground which the enemy gained yestreday. There is a stupendous amount of shelling. A counter-attack captured two woods, together with a ridge which the Germans overrun. A group of machine gunners who were cut oil on this ridge refused to surrender and fought like devils all day, and until the French took the position in the evening. Heavy gas shelling also is under way in the Amiens region and along the Aisne heights, where the British and French are engaged in heavy fighting. There is every indication that the enemy is putting everything he has into the third and perhaps the fata! drive of his offensive. It is believed that large masses of German troops are concentrated near Feromme and ■ Noy on. I The allies calculate that more than one hundred fresh divisions are at the kaiser's call- By the usual rotation system others can be brought into the offensive. London. May 28—(Special to , Daily Democrat)— Although the British losses are admittedly , considerable, the latest reports . from the front today indicated , that the enemy’s casualties are ( extremely severe, as a result ot some of the fiercest fighting s ince March 21. While appreciating the situation in view of crossing the Aisne. military circles are calmly confident that the enemy w ill be unable to accomplish its obvious purpose of weakening the other front, where the main attack undoubtedly will be projected. Washington. D. C., May 28 (Special to Daily Democrat)—. Allied reserves have arrived on the Soissons front and °e-, ing thrown into action. received by the British military, offices here today state . . the sector between Locre Loos the Germans early today gained considerable terr ’ t but counter-attacks restored the situation, the report sai • The Germans still pressing, their offensive today on both the Aisne and Flanders front. After forcing their way across the Aisne at various points on the four-teen-mile sector between Va.lly and Berry-Au-Bac last night, the enemy was attacking furiously along the whole Aisne front this morning. The French war office declared the British and French were greatly outnumbered on this front, but reported the arrival of reserves behind the Aisne plateau. On the Flanders front the fighting today was •entering east of D.ckebuach lake where the French repulsed the Germans yesterday. BULLETIN (By Henry Wood, United Press staff correspondent.) With the French Armies in the Fielc May 27—(Night)—-(Special to Dail) Democrat)— Resumption of the Ger

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man offensive had not developed sufficiently tonight to establish whether* the attack between Soissons and Rheims constitutes the principal assault, or is a covering operation for the real attack farther north. American troops which occupied positions in the Chemin Des Dames sector earlier in the year had been replaced by | British, against whom the Germansi launched a portion of their attack. The attack involves the German crown prince's group of armies, which were not engaged on the March offensive and which a few days ago consisted of four armies—one commanded by von Hutier, between Ailly-Sur-Noye and Noyon: von Boehm’s army, between Noyon and Craonne; von Belew's between Craonne and Auberive and von Binems between Auberive and Avocourt. London. May 28—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Germans are pushing their offensive on both the Aisne and Flanders fronts, Field Marshal Haig reported today. Along the Aisne. which was crossed to the left of the British sector last night, Haig said that enemy attacks of great strength are developing on the whole forty mile front between Soissons and Rheims. The fighting in Flanders, he said, i is centered east of Dickebusche lake, where the Germans made temporary : gams against the French troops in the resumption of their drive yesterday morning. i London, May 28—(Specail to Daily Democrat) —Three hundred casualties resulted from the recent bombing of the hospital at Etaples, France, by German airmen, Chancelor Bonar Law announced in the house of commons this afternoon. He said a full report has been requested. With the American Army in Lorraine. May 27—(Night)—Three American aviators defeated four German airmen in a spectacular battle over the lines today, destroying one enemy plant and driving the others back behind their lines. THE G. O. P?°CONVENTION (Uni.ad Press Service) Indianapolis, May 28—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Horace Ellis today withdrew from the race for republican 'nomination tor superintendent .of public, instruction. This leaves ' Linneaus Hines of Crawfordsville the | only remaining candidate for the ofI fice. I A flurry was caused among the dele'gates when Shoffer Peterson of Decatur arrived at the scene with nine delegates when Shaffer Peterson of Decanounced his candidacy for judge of the appellate court from the northern Indiana district. The nomination had previously been uncontested with Willis McMahan of Lake county and Alonzo Nichols, the only two candidates with two to be selected. HAS REACHED ORIENT ! The first word received from their son. the Rev. G. H. Myers, who left 1 April 11 enroute to the Orient on edit- ’ cational and missionary work, came In 1 two letters to Mr. and Mrs. W. J. My--8 ers of Fifth street this morning. One I was written on the boat between ’ japan and China, and expressed the " fact that he is enjoying his work much, d and is happy-in it. " BABY is BETTER ff The baby girlTTVr. and Mrs. Felix Holt house which has been very low d is reported as being a little better y today, a fact which is encouraging to r- the litany friends of the family.

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THE EXHIBIT IS ON The Manual Training Display Will he Shown Tomorrow AT THE LIBRARY The Boys Will Take Orders for Special

Pieces. Come to the south basement room of the public library and see the display of work which will be shown there tomorrow afternoon. It will greatly encourage the boys if you will show an i interest in their work. Probably no I phase of school work is so much ent- , phasized by our government as the vocational and industrial lines because of the great need of workmen skilled along technical lines. While we do . not expect to turn out expert workmen. we can give the boys a good start jso that it will not take so long to prepare themselves when they have finished their high school course. The projects you will see on display are representative of the quality rather than the quantity of work done. Most of the work turned out in the earlier part of the year is practical use and so will not be available for this exhibit. In the grades, for the most part all the boys have made each of the different projects shown. The seventh grade boys have made six pieces in the one and a half hours per week devoted to this work. Tne eighth grade boys have made about five pieces. The high school boys have made a varying number of pieces depending upon the kind of projects selected. If you have any praise, it will make the boys feel good to hear it: if you have any adverse criticism to offer, or any suggestions as to how the course may be bettered, the instructor would appreciate it if you would come to him rather than talk among yourselves about it. We are here to meet the needs of the community as far as possible. If you see any pieces yon would ’ (Continued on Page Two) FROM DISTRICT Mrs, A. D. Artman Will Represent Eighteen Counties AT NATIONAL MEET Os the Ben Hur Lodge in Crawfordsville Next Week. Mrs. A. D. Artman will leave next Monday for Crawfordsville where she will represent this, the first Hen Hur district of the state at the supreme, or national convention of the Tribe of Ben Hur. This district indludjes twenty-six lodges in the following eighteen counties: Jay, Adams, Allen, Blackford, Wells, Wabash. Fulton, Huntington. Whitley, LaPorte, Kosciuska, DeKalb, St. Joseph, Noble, LaGrange, Elkhart, Steuben and Marshall. The matter of being a representative of the district is quite an honor. Mrs. Artman has also served for the past two years as a member of the appeals and grievance committee of the district. She is quite active in the affairs of the district and state, as well as the local court of Ben Hur, of which she is scribe. The national convention will open with the degree work Monday evening and the convention will continue i through Tuesday and Wednesday. Her daughter, Mrs. Olen Baker, will also attend. GET YOUR MEAT EARLY t Meat maikets anounce that they .- will be closed Thursday, Decoration r Day, from nine o'clock in the morn- ) ing. on through the remainder of the ! day.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, May 28, 1918.

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( + NO PAPER ON THURSDAY. + * + + Agreeable to previous custom + + there will be no publication of + + the Daily Democrat on Thursday + 4> of this week, Decoration Day. + ♦ However, the news dispatches + + will be received and bulletined + + that the public may be thus in- + + formed as to the happenings ❖ 4> over sea and at home. + +++++++ + + + + + + + NEUMANESE RAISE BIG FUND. Mr. Ernst Isch. splendid citizen, loyal worker for every right cause, today reported to O. L. Vance, county chairman for the Red Cross, that the Neumanese had raised a total of $230 for that society. Os this amount $72.00 is credited to Hartford township. $149.50 to Monroe and $8.50 to Kirkland, pro rated according to the number living in each township. The work done by these good people is splendid and is appreciated. ■ i 'O , i. i —

IS CORPORAL NOW Raymond Gass Gets Promotion—Writes in Dugout With Shells Bursting ALL AROUND HIM Tells Difference in Sound of Shells —Says He Will Come Through Safely. A report circulated last evening and this morning that Raymond Gass of this city had been badly hurt or killed in action in France is absolute- * ly without foundation. Raymond is or. the Ixattle front and is doing his all i for his government but that he is getting along and expects to get through i all right is shown from the following letter just received from him: i In My Dugout, France. , May 1. 1918 i

Dear Mother and All: < Received a letter from Helen dated : 3-27; Naomi. 2-17 and your letters. 3- 1 20, also two papers this week and in spite of the shells bursting all around, enjoyed reading them and looking for i more. I received your letter of 3-25 about ten or twelve days ago so you see how irregular the mail comes and . goes, as it is more a matter or making the connection at sea-port. Received the pictures Naomi sent in her last letter of Ray Keller and Miller, and have put them in the photo book which 1 still have with me. I am writing this about six feet under the sod. but have a door way to get out any time 1 desire to, so do not think 1 am In here to stay. ha. ha. This is sure a lively front and plen ty of doing all the time. 1 go on my shift at eight tonight and when off you generally find me in my front room, and can see oodles of shells burst around me. As long as there Is not too much noise you can hear them coming through the air, for it sounds like two cats yelling at. night, and gets plainer as they come nearer, then at the end—Pling. The gas shells have a more wobbly sound and do not explode with as much force. So we are pretty well trained to most every thing in modern warfare now. I received the box of cigars, cigarettes, and Durham, also the box of candy just before we came up here, and still have the greater part of the smoking left. Was made corporal just before we came to this front, so have a little more to look after now. and be responsible for than before. Well Mother, just because 1 am writing you these few lines I do not want you to worry for or about me at i all. for you can bet I'll take care of : myself, and you see if it is not just : like I said. I will go through it all without a scratch; and 1 am not going I to hide either. Will try and mail this with someone who is going to headquarters, so if you happen to not hear from tne II every week or so do not be worried, i but will try and write regular. Lover to all, write often. 3 Your son, RAY.

WEDS AT LANSING I I ■ Louis A. Kintz, Former Decatur Boy, Takes Bride. ELIZABETH McKEONE The Bridegroom is Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Kintz. Ixtuis A. Kintz, formerly of this city now of Lansing Mich., was married at that place last week to Miss Elizabeth S. McKeone. of Lansing. Mr. Kintz is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Kintz of south of the city. The Lansing State Journal says: “One of the early summer weddings of interest is that of Miss Elizabeth S. McKeone and Louis A. Kintz, which took place May 21. at 8:30 o'clock at St. Mary’s Catholic church, Rev. Father Leo Szybowic performing the ceremony. “The bride was attratetively gowned in white georgette and wore a picture hat. She carried a bouquet of white roses. Andrew Kintz, brother of the groom, of Decatur. Ind., and Miss Alice McKeone, sister of the bride, were attendants. Miss Alice McKeone wore white crepe de chine and carried pink roses. “Special music was given by St. Mary’s choir. After the ceremony .a ' four-course breakfast was served to'4o guests at the home of the bride's parents. Mr .and Mrs. James McKeone. 705 North Walnut street. The table i was beautifully decorated in pink and i white, favors were tiny pink baskets filled with orange blossoms. “Mr. anti Mrs. Kintz left on an aft- i ernoon train for an eastern trip. They I will be in their nicely furnished home < at 824 Seymour street, after June Ist. 1 “Guests present from out of the i city were: Mrs. H. H. Lankenaw. of Fort Wayne, Ind.; Andrew Kintz. De- ' catur, Ind.; Miss Mabel Dwyer anil John Dwyer. Carson City. Mich.; Eliz- < abeth and Jeanette Maculgunn. How- < ell. Mich.: Sergeant Major Joseph I Steavle, stationed at Camp Custer: > William Bath, of St. Paul. Minn.''

STOLE HIS DEANS And Also His Shoe Strings is the Charge Husband Made AGAINST HIS WIFE He Took Gymnastics in Nature’s Garb — Wife Wants Divorce. Because her one little charge of failure to provide seemd so meagre in the face of many things, Mrs. Jennie Drew, plaintiff in a divorce and alimony suit against William Drew, has filed a second paragraph in which she sets out a whole long list of things under the head of his habitually cruel treatment of her. The complaint is filed through her attorneys, Sutton & Heller. Mr. Drew Is an aged attorney of Geneva, and his wife is also over fifty years of age. They were married May 30, 1914 and lived together until last November 21. Both were married before and each had children from their former marriages. Mrs. Drew says that she as a widow had owned two lots and a dwelling in Geneva, on which Mr. Drew held a mortgage. She says that he stated that he would have to foreclose the mortgage if she cUd not marry him. and that her desire to keep the home, and not have it broken up for her children, coupled with her great reaped for Mr. Drew, and upon his frequent importuning her to marry him. caused * her at last to marry him. She stated that, she had great re sped for him, and his knowledge, as a practicing attorney, and she being an inexperienced woman, who had (Continued on Page Two)

AMERICANS GO FORWARD INFLICT HEAVY LOSSES YANKS FIGHTING BRILLIANTLY CAPTURE GERMAN TRENCH—BOCHES USE ELECTRIC GAS DOMES BACK OF DDR LINES.

(United Press Service) Washington, I). C., May 28— (Special to Daily Democrat)— American trops occupied a German trench sector, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy and taking many prisoners. General partment today, in his statePershing cabled the war dement. Hempstead, N. Y., May 28— (Spesial to Daily Democrat) — Flying Cadet Charles B. Passwater, of Noblesville, Ind., was instantly killed at Mineola aviation field today in a two thou-sand-foot fall- At that altitude he made a tail spin, but lost control of his machine and crashed to the ground. (By Frank J. Taylor, United Press Staff Correspondent) With the American Army in Lorraine, May 27—(Night)—The Germans made a heavy gas attack in the , Lorraine sector today, setting off 500 large phosgene gas shells, each containing more than three gallons of" liquid phosgene. The shells were all discharged simultaneously by elec- j tricity. The result of the attack is . not yet known. ( The projeectors used in this attack * were recently brought to this sector. They are believed to have been part of the outfit which was used in the gas attack north of Toul on May 9, part of which was destroyed by an American bombardment. American gas officers, who have I been watching the movements of this ; German "gas circus” warned the | troops in this new sector to expect an f attack. i i This new attack undoubtedly was A in the so-called Luneville sector, £ some distance to the east of the Toul sector. BULLETIN t (By Fred S. Ferguson, United Press staff correspondent) With the Americans in Picardy. May . 27—(Night)—(Special to Daily Demo- t crat)—Three determined attacks, in j the nature of large scale raids, were . delivered against the American lines ( this morning. The first, between Fon- ( taine-Sous-Mont Didier was at 6:15. j The second and third were launched . simultaneously at 7:30, one to the right of Cantigny and the other again before Fontaine-Sous-Mont Didier. All were repulsed with heavy German losses. Not only vFere the attacks repulsed, but the Americans drove the boches from their trenches in a counter-at-tack, holding the captured positions until they were ordered to withdraw to their original line. The first attack was preceded by a barrage and followed the pounding of the American rear positions by enemy artillery all through the night. The boches advanced in two waves, in the face of heavy machine gun and artillery tire. They succeesed in entering our lines, but a counter attack was immediately organized and they were driven out. The retreating Germans were taking an American prisoner with them when several of his comrades leaped from the trenches, caught up with the boches. killed the entire party guarding the prisoner and brought him back. Washington, May 28—(Special t > Daily Democrat)— American troops are in the thick of things on the west, ern front. | This was shown today by General Pershing’s communique, declaring the enemy was completely expelled after

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entering the American lines in Picardy and that United States forces entered , the German lines through counter-at-tacks. The same statement said that in the Woevre. a strong hostile raiding party was repulsed with "losses in killed and wounded." Intense gas attacks occurred in the Lorraine. While these occurrences are not in the region of the German drive, new activity against the Americans was demonstrated. Enough American troops have reached France in the last few weeks to constitute a formidable reserve force. But, according to best authority here, our men will not be used in large numbers in the fighting unless the cri .is becomes much more acute. BULLETIN Paris, May 28 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —"The Germans aided by i the arrival of new forces, have crossed the Aisne between Vailly and Ber-ry-Au-Bac,” the French war office announced today. “The French and Rritish are facing very superior forces but are drawing back progressively. The battle is going on furiously between Lavesle and the Aisne plateau sector, behind which reserves have arrived. "Active shelling is going on on the Champagne and Woevre regions and along the right bank of the Meuse. “A heavy German raid on French positions near Chambrettes failed.’ Washington. May 28 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —That Major General Leonard Wood will carry his fight for service abroad directly to President Wilson was indicated today when if was learned at the white house that Wood would see the president at six o’clock tonight. Wilmington. Del.. May 28—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Lightning early today struck a nitro glycerin mill at the Repanno Chemical plant, a Dupont subsidiary, at Gibbstown, N. J. Three tons of nitro-glycerin were in the building and as it exploded a huge crater was torn in the ground. The mill was not in operation at the time and no one was injured. Several buildings were destroyed. Total loss is estimated at $75,000. +*+++++ + + + + + + + + $2,500 BEHIND QUOTA. + Adams county is still short $2,500 on the Red Cross fund. At 2 o’clock this afternon. according to all reports in the hands of Chairman Vance, there had been subscribed and reported $12,481.30. Preble township and Root are below their quota, but are working hard and will go over. Decatur is several hundred dollars over. Monroe is coming good, the Berne district is $1,300 short and Geneva over $1,500 from making their quota. The workers are busy and there are still hopes of meeting the quota. The reports up to noon showed: Decatur Chapter. Quota Subscript. Union $ 66d.00 $ 663.30 Root 875.00 705.15 Preble 725.00 568.00 N. Kirkland 425.00 370.25 N. Washington .... 625.00 650.00 N. St. Mary's 500.00 440.00 Decatur 3125.00 3500.00 , Total $6925.00 $6897.30 Monroe chapter ... 1875.00 1780.00 Btune chapter 3650.00 2308.00 Geneva 2550.00 1500.00 Grand total ....$15,000,00 12,485.30 We Must Make Our Quota.