Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1918 — Page 1

Volume XVI. Number 132.

AMERICANS FIGHTING ON THE MARNE

FOUR GERMAN ATTACKS BRILLIANTLY REPULSED ENEMY CROSSES MARNE BUT IS SOON DRIVEN BACK-FRENCH AVIATORS DROPPED TONS OF BOMBS ON ADVANCING HUN TROOPS. I (By Fred F. Ferguson, United Press Staff Correspondent) With the Americans on the Marne, June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat)—American troops since they entered the Marne line, have brilliantly repulsed four German attacks and have delivered several successful counter-attacks-Infantry and artillery, and all organizations of the service are engaged in the fighting on both sides of the Marne.

(Unheu Press Service) I (By Henry Wood, United Press staff correspondent) With the French Armies in the Field June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) — French aviators, regaining complete mastery of the air, dropped sixty-three Btons of bombs on German troop concentrations back of the Marne battle front, Saturday and Sunday, it was learned today. _ The principal attacks were directed agamst marching troops in the concentration region. One squadron commander sent more than fifty machines against a column of marching Germans, three miles long. Charging light cavalry, the airmen descended to within thirty feet of the ground, raining bombs and machine gun bullets on the column until it was completely routed. BULLETIN Paris. June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The new battle of the Ma me was raging with great violence, over the entire western portion of the} front yesterday evening and last night the French war office reported today.. Slight gains were made by the Germans at some points. The Germans crossed the river south of Jaulgonne. midway between Chot-eau-Thierry and Dormans. The Franco-America'n force took a hundred prisoners. After the bodies K had been hurled back, the French and Americans destroyed the bridge. An American force also stopped the German advance before Neuilly wood, hurling the Huns back by a magnifiK cent counter-attack. BULLETIN Paris, June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) — American troops have struck their first blow in the new battle of the Marne. Fighting side by side with the French, they hurled bac* a German force which reached the southern bank of the river—the first time the Marne has been crossed by the enemy since early in the war. Tzmdon. June 4— (Special to Daily Democrat)—The Germans' efforts 'o advance south west ward down the valleys of the Marne. Oureq and Oise oward Paris, are still checked accord ■ ing to the night official reporta. Elsewhere on the new Marne front they appear to have fared no better.

NEW EGG RULING. Announcement is made today' b/the United States food administration that the requirement of licenses for all eggI andl poultry de ers, includes all retail and country grocers and all hucksters" h ° bU J eggs from farmers for sale to shippers or comm.ss.on men. Dr Harry E Barnard federal food administrator for Indiana, today adv s county food administrators to see to it that all such dea er, secure licenses from the License Division. Law Department. U S. Fo d Ad ministration, immediately or suffer themselves to be put out "'"Dr. Bam,rd further advises county administrators ‘hat by an Il q of Agriculture and the Food agreement between the U, D‘P“‘ eflgs 9 which when shipßed Administration a e bearing the license number, the name 7t‘le C X a dUr’: egg dealer. wiU not of candier a un | ieen ,ed dealers, nor will case eggs Je subject! to consignment without certificate. Certificates are being printed for distribution by the Secretary of the Indiana Egg Dealers ASS The t of bad eggs, Dr. Barnard 'points out. is furthermore a vlo.ati7 * ’ state laws For that reason and for the protection of the iXse without which none can do business iegal.y, it behoove, farmers to exercise extraordinary care in the qushty.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

The German war office claimed "fresh progress" hut all of the gains described were admitted by the French war office forty-eight hours < r more ago. Berlin reported the arrival of "fresh French units, from far distant fronts.” "The Germans have been cheeked west of Soissons,” the Parity communique said. "We recaptured Faveroll's (24 miles southwest of Soissons. I” All Franco-British gains on the eastern flank were maintained, according to the communique. On the Flanders front, Held Marshal Haig reported the repulse of hostile raids near Bailleul by French troops. Washington. D. C., June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Germany has failed to gain any military advantage from her spectacular U-boat raids off the American coast. If she intended to terrorize the Amsterdam, June 4—(Special io Daily Democrat) —German newspaper correspondents claim that 175.000 allied prisoners, 2,000 cannon and '‘innumerable" machine guns have been captured since the start of the present offensive March 21. BULLETIN New York, June 4 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—A hospital ship was anchored off Quarantine today, with a fleet of smaller craft nearby ready to dash out if patrolling airplanes reported drifting lifeboats. The United States coast guard kept in constant communication with the patrol fleet. Four hundred persons are reported missing from the liners City of Columbus and Carolina. ■"BULLETIN” 'T’niter* Press Service) , Norfolk, Va„ June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Report brought in by fishermen today say seven American sail[ors were killed in a battle fifteen (miles oft Cape Charles lightI ship yesterday between two American war vessels and German submarine. Sailors were killed by shot from American vessel at U-boat which struck ' other warship. Fishermen said submarine escaped.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, .lune 4, 1918.

BRIDGE LETTING Commissioners Award Contracts for Building of l our Bridges. LOCAL FIRM IS GIVEN Two of the Contracts— Notes of the Commissioners’ Court. The county commissioners devoted the second day of the June session mostly to bridge matters. The proof of publication giving notice to bidders that proposals would be received and the contract let in the matter of several proposed bridge improvements was placed on file and bids opened. The following contracts were awarded: Butler bridge, two miles east and a half mile south of Berne: Burk Construction Co $3865.00 Fisher & Butler 4250.00 (7>n tract awarded to Burk Construction Co. Huser bridge, two and one-half miles east, one and one-half miles south of Berne: Burk Construction Co $3755.00 Fisher & Butler 3697.00 Berne Artificial Stone C 0... 4384.00 Contract awarded to Fisher & Butler. Moser box culvert, 2 miles north, and two and one-half miles west of Berne: Hisey & Bebout $3800.00

Berne Artificial Stone Co. .. 2850.00 Contract awarded to Berne Artificial Stone Co. Bunner bridge, three miles north, and two miles west of Berne: Fisher & Butler $1469.00 Hisey & Bebout 1912.80 Contract awarded to Fisher & Butler. The commissioners, together with the county treasurer and auditor, rechecked the annual report of the school funds held in trust for the county, approving same as correct. STANDS HIGHEST In Grades —Charles Holthouse Graduates With Honors at ST. JOSEPH COLLEGE Finishes a Three Years’ Course in the Commercial Department.

Charles who will be ( graduated from St. Joseph s college. Collegeville, where he completes a , three years' commercial course, has the honor of standing the highest in ' his class, according to word received here by his mother, Mrs. Minnie , Holthouse. He made the highest ' grade of any in his class in the recent annual test, upon which graduation is based; and he also had the honor of having the highest in the monthly and in the other period tests during the year. The commencement will be held. Wednesday. June 12, and Thursday] June 13, and will be the twenty-third annual event. The awarding of medals and diplomas will be made by The Right Reverend Joseph Alerding. D. D„ bishop of Fort Wayne. The Columbian club will present “The Merchant of Venice” Wednesday ev-, ening; and the baccalaureate address' will be Thursday morning by the Rev. John F. Noll, L. L. D„ of Huntington. Mrs. Minnie Holthouse and daughter, Florence, will attend. NEW OFFICERS IN CHAIR The executive board of the Presbyterian congregation met last evening, this being the monthly meeting. IThe new officers were in the chair for their first time, they being: President. Jacob Atz; vice president. Wilson iLee: secretary. Hugh Hite. The regular business with allowance of bills, came up.

DECATUR BOYS VOLUNTEER

Thirty-five or forty young men left Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon for Indianapolis and those who pass there will be sent on today to Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Among these were several from this county, including Dan Sostello. son of Dr. and Mrs. H. F Costello, who enlisted as a clerk in the medical corps. He is a stenographer and has been working at Fort Wayne for some time. In the crowd also were Paul Ramsey and Dwight Sheets. The hoys preferred to volunteer rather than register for draft tomorrow. Joe Burdg. who is with the Ra’nbow division writes that he is now in the thick of things on the western front and has been up for duty five different times. He is feeling fine and doing his “bit” with the courage of an Adams county boy. God bless him and keep hitn safe. FINISH COURSE One Hundred and Ninetyfive Complete the Study of THE COMMON SCHOOLS

Os County — Commencement Will be Held Friday, June 14th. A young army of one hundred nine-ty-five boys and girls will receive diplomas for completing the course of the common schools of Adams county. The diplomas will be awarded ; t the county commencement, Friday. June 14. instead of June 12, as stated through error yesterday. The class has nine more graduates than last year, when there were one hundred eighty-six. The central school campus will be given over to the commencement exercises if the weather is favorable, and the address will be delivered .y Dr. W. W. Martin, of Fort Wayne, disI trict Methodist superintendent. Music will be furnished by the Decatur orchestra. The highest grade in the recent test for diplomas, was won by Richard Schneider, of Hartford township, he being a pupil of A. M. Stauffer. County School Superintendent Ed S. Christen is completing plans for the commencement exercises which promise to be very good. The list of graduates follows: Union Township—Helen L. Erhardt, Elsie Bleeke, Paul Lehrman. Amelia Ulhman. Henry C. Lehrman. Root Township—Clara Gerke, Margaret Louise Christen, Marlow Schieferstein, Erma Rabbitt, Mary Reinhart, Albert Cramer, Orrin Russell Stults, Grace Baxter. Fay Gunder. Maurice Fuhrman, Le Roy Mann. Preble Township— Hellena Koene-

mann, Oscar W. Hobrock, Clara Koene mann, Malinda Schieferstein, Emma Reiter. Lawrence Scheimann. Ella Weber. Alvin Englemann, Rosa Belneke, Walter E. Scherry, Frances Borne Arthur Bieberich. Edna Grandstalf, Everett R. Tullis. Doras Werling. Kirkland Township—Gladys Goldner Lloyd Bryan, Malcolm. Roy, Floyd Ehrman. Gladys Marie Carson. Myrtle Manley. Mae Shoaf, Jennie Timmerman, Vivian Kreiselmeyer, Sadie I Dreitzler. Albert F. Dick. Edward William Hesher. Washington Township—Wilbur E. Hawkins, Everett Hawkins, Minnie Brandyherry, Edith Mallonee. Clarence W.-Miller, Marien Stoutenben y, ' Anna Stoutenberry, Alfred Beavers, j Herbert Carper, Ruth Stalter- Oscar ■S. Yost. Irene Weldy, George Davis, Francis Spuller. Martha Jacobs. St. Marys Township—Flossie D. Everett, Merle Craft, Bernice Masters, Gerald Aspy, Harry Fortney, Deila Longenberger. Janera Humbarger, Wilma Strickler, Russell Strickler. Velma Hilyard, Stanley Samples. Mary M. ■ Shell. Edwin R. Ehrsam, Daisy Roop. French Township —Albert Kipfer. Helen Gertrude Atz. Cecil Meyer, ■Walter Bollinger, Gladys Baumgart- . ner. i [ Monroe Township— Marie Reffey. . Leota Smith, Priscilla Stauffer. Freida Sprunger. Edna S. Liechty, Albeit (Cimtiiiued - oiiPage Two)

IS A GRADUATE Miss Marcella Kuebler of This City Finishes Five Years’ Course. A CALIFORNIA TRIP Miss Bessie Boyers Also Goes to California to University. Miss Marcella Kuebler. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler will be lone of the graduates of the Sacred I Heart Academy, Fort Wayne, this I spring. The commencement will be held next Tuesday. On account of the war the exercises will be very quiet this year. Miss Kuebler has been a student at the academy five years. Miss Kuebler will be accompanied home by two guests, Miss Celia Kiley, of Marion; and Miss Catherine Carroll, of California. With Miss Carroll. Miss Kuebler will leave Wednesday for Ix>s Angeles. Cal., for an extended visit. She will be the guest of her aunt, Miss Mary Crawford and her cousin. Miss Edna Crawford, and will also visit at the Carroll home at Venice. Cal. The trip will be a most delightful one and Miss Kuebler will be gone indefinitely. They had expected to gt a week later but word from the Carrolls advised them to start Wednesday of this week. Enters California University Miss Bessie Boyers, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Boyers, teacher of domestic science in the Decatur high school, left yesterday Tor Berkley. Cal., where she will enter the Univer- ! sity of California for the summer. She will take a course along the line of , domestic science and teaching. She j will join her brother. Dr. Luther Boy- j ers and family who will be there also. I < Miss Boyers left yesterday, going by | wav of Chicago. Omaha and Denver. CAMP ON LAKE I Dwight Peterson, Decatur j Boy, at Fort Sheridan. j Chicago, in ‘ THE TRAINING SCHOOL’. ' Will Take Military Train- l{ < ing at State University, Next Year, Also.

Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Peterson had a letter today from their son. Dwight,] who is in tile officers’ training school at Fort Sheridan. Chicago. Dwight, j who has one more year to complete } at Indiana University, is with college students in military training. The camp is made up wholly of college' boys, those in his regiment being from Wisconsin. Mississippi and Indiana. The fort is located on the shores of Tjake Michigan, and is most beau! i-1 ful. many stating that it is the most beautiful fort they have seen, the lake adding much thereto. He will be in the training camp six weeks, after which he will return here to wbrk until school opens in the fall, when he will return there and complete his military training along with his school work. He will be given the opportunity to gain n commission therewith also. He will be graduated from the state university next spring. , — o PURDUE COMMENCEMENT LaFayette, Ind., June 4 A long list of patriotic events will be included in the Purdue university commencement program. Chief among these will be a visit to Camp Purdue and the AutoMechanic’s school. Lieut. Perigord, of the National Council of Defense and Hon. Albert J. Beveridge will be the principal speakers. A spectacular parade, and a University Sing are included In the list of novelties planned.

NEW YORK TO RE DARK UNDER POLICE ORDERS SURVIVORS OF LINER CAROLINA LAND TODAY—BODIES WASHED ASHORE -FIRING HEARD-GERMANY CLAIMS PORT IS BLOCKED. (United Press Service) New York, June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The liner Carolina was sunk by a German submarine, according to survivors who were landed today. Practically all the passengers and crew have been accounted for. The sinking took place Sunday night, survivors declared. There were 180 passengers and ninety-four members of the crew aboard a government dredge off Barnegat, where they were found in life boats. Forty survivors landed at Atlantic City. Nineteen additional survivors came ashore at Lewis. Delaware. It was reported that bodies had been washed ashore at Beach Haven. New Jersey, but it was not known that these were from the Carolina. Washington. D. C.. June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat)— The navy department today announced that a mine had been picked up off the Delaware coast by a mine sweeper. The announcement indicated that the German submarine off American shores are putting into effect the threat made by one of their officers that Germany would utilize every effort to blockade this country’s ports. New York, N. Y., June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) —New York will be dark tonight for fear of airplaine raids of bombardment- The order was issued today by order of Police Commissioner Enright. Lewis. Delaware. June I—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Firing continued all this morning off Cape Henlopen in what is believed to be a battle between the U-boat that sank the tanker Herbert L. Prapp and United States naval scout vessels, it was officially stated here at noon. Earlier reports today from Delaware breakwater stated that a fight seven miles off shore began at six o’clock last night—several hours after the Prapp had been sunk—and continued until daybreak.

fUnited Frets Service) New York, June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Germany has established a permanent submarine blockade of the American coast and withm a short time a fleet of U-boats capable of operating against every important Atlantic port will be over here, according to the mate of the submarine U-151 The mate, made this statement to Enoch Rocker, of the schooner Edna. After the Edna was destroyed, Rocker and others of the crew were imprisoned in the submarine more than a week. New York, June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Germany’s submarine raid on shipping off the American coast has destroyed probably 12 vessels, including two liners and more than 450 persons are missing, according to the best information early today. I There is a report that one of the ] U-boats, captured hear Boston, has been brought info New York harbor i and its crew taken to Brooklyn navy 1 yard. New York. N. Y. June 4—(Special to Daily Democrat)—After having been captured by a German subma- | line, detained aboard her from May j 25 to June,2. while she attacked shipI ping on the American coast, and finally turned loose in small boats with bread and water for sustenance. 23 American seamen are in New York today. These men comprise the crews of : the schooners Edna. Hattie Dunn and : i Hauppauge. The story was told by I Captain Holbrook, of the Hattie Dunn !jnd Captain Gilmore, of the Edna. ‘ | Their vessels were destroyed May 25, near this coast, by a big U-boat, the commander of which was invariably suave and studiously polie to the Americans. In each instance the submarine sneaked upon the schooni er. displayed the “stop immediately” signal, then placed bombs aboard | and took the Americans into the sub I mersible. I Captain Holbrook, the first capI tured. was detained below decks until i the Edna had been destroyed. Later • they were allowed to go on deck and - smoke. The commander, who spoke perfect English and wore the Ger-

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man naval uniform, appeared highly pleased with himself at all times. Occasionally the U-boat spent long periods at the bottom of the sea. On May 27th dinner was served the prisoners while they were on the bottom, under twenty-eight fathoms. It took forty-five seconds to submerge to that depth. The commander informed the prisoners that he had enough provisions and supplies for a month’s cruise on the American coast and intimated lie intended to spend that period attacking American shipping. There was a wireless on the submarine and at times'long conversations were held with other vessels or a land sending station, the Atneciran prisoners were not certain which, but i they said the wireless made such a .' noise it kept them awake at night. It was also used to pick up news by wireless from the United States. In this way the Germans learned of the offensive in France, and of the blow- ' | ing up of a torpedo works in Aus- . tria. It was hinted the submarine might have been in communication I 'with a secret base of operations on , (he American coast. ’ j Most of the time was spent on the surface hut the U-boat quickly subF * I merged when American or British ' warships were sighted. The Germans 1 1 ate canned food and were evidently ~ very, much pleased with the work they were doing on this coast. They I also were fond of arguing about the .. war and demanded to know why America entered it. v i When conditions aboard became too crowded, the boats of the Winneconne —sunk—were taken and the v prisoners put aboard them and turn- ’ j ed adrift. >| BULLETIN °. An Atlantic Port. June 4 —(Special e to Daily Democrat)—Three important '■ liners are overdue at this port today. They include two big trans-Atlantic ships and one in the coast trade. One ’'.carries more than 300 passengers. On ’account of submarines operating o's ’’ the coast. some anxiety is felt for their '' safety. r , ri BULLETIN e New York, June 4—(Special to (CbntinueTon Page Two)