Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1918 — Page 1

Volume XVI. Number 178.

ENEMY RESISTING ALONG WHOLE LINE

PROGRESS OF ALLIES IS SOMEWHAT CHECKED GERMANY SENDS PRIZE ARMYTO STOP THE DRIVE-FRENCH TAKE ROMIGNITODAY—SERGY STILL IN HANDS OF THE AMERICANS. (By Lowell Mellett, United Press Staff Correspondent) With the French Armies in the Field, July 30—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Germans continue their desperate resistance along the whole line of new positions established by them in their retreat. It is impossible to tell yet whether this is the place they have chosen to make a stand, or whether they are sacrificing a great number of men merely to save vast quantities of materials. The hardest fighting is around lleugneux, behind which there is an elevation from which Fismes, twelve miles distant, is visible. London, July 30—(Special to Daily Democrat) —French troops have captured Romigni, a mile and one-half southwest of Fere-en-Tardenbis, it was learned this afternoonElsewhere there is little change in the battle line, which is fluctuating as the fighting progresses.

Washington, D. C., July 30—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The state department today cautioned against placing too much credit in the reported break between Germany and Turkey. It was recalled that there had been many former reports of Turkish dissatisfaction with German domination. No official report regarding the break were received here today. Amsterdam, July 30 —(Special Ito Daily Democrat) —A strike in Kalk, near Cologne, was suppressed by machine guns, dispatches declared today. The leaders were arrested and the police dispersed the crowds. Washington, D. C., July 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The draft treaty between the United States, Great Grltain and Canada was ratified today, making it effective immediately. Washington, D. C., July 30—(Special to Daily Democrat) —General Pershing declared today that “Beyond the line of the Ourcq heavy counterattacks made by fresh troops of the enemy has resulted in severe fighting. Sergy. taken by our troops yesterday, after having changed hands four times, remained in our possession. (By William P. Simms, United Press Staff Correspondent) With the American Army in France, July 30—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Australian troops captured Merris by a surprise attack early today. The Australians quickly surrounded the village shortly after midnight. After a few minutes of snappy words the place was cleared of Germans and outposts were established to guard against surprise attacks. Washington, D. C., July 30—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Doubling of the tax on admissions to amusement places, and the placing of a tax on club dues in the new revenue bill was decided upon by the house ways and means committee today. The present tax is ten per cent, and the tax on club dues is ten per cent on all in excess of twelve dollars per year. The committee went on record in favor of more than doubling the rate on tobacco. Washington, July 30—(Special to . Daily Democrat) —A new demand for an air ministry to manage the country's aircraft program bobbed up in congress today. “I think the air service has eome to be of such vast importance that it justifies the venation of a new cabinet position," said Senator Reed, of Missouri, member of the senate aircraft investigating committee which Is doomed, to issue a report on the whole aircraft situation. While Reed emphasized that he was speaking only for himself, three members of the committee agree with him that evidence more than justifies the action recommended. Reed’s statement closely follows charges that the DeHavirandje airplane is not a success. Many members of the investigating

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committee are not ready to declare the DeHavirande a total failure however. London, July 30—(1.29 p. m.) —The Germans have launcheda heavy coun-ter-attack on the whole SoissonsOurcq front, it was learned this afternoon. The Americans have been driven out of Cierges (four miles southeast of Fere-en-Tardenois), while the French have been compelled to fall boe* trom Begneu. ; The French have advanced to the crest of the plateau between the Vesle and the Ourcq (southwest of Rheims). The enemy so far has engaged sev-enty-one divisions (852,000 men) on this front, ten of which belonged to Crown Prince Rupprecht's army group. Washington, July 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The food administration today issued a rule prohibiting purchase of grain for marketing purposes before October 1. The present stock will last until January. l(By Frank j. Taylor. United Press Stac Correspondent) With the American Armies in France, July 29—(Night)—Two evermoving streams of traffic over the roads of the Ourcq and the Marne testify to the intensity of the struggle of north of the former river. Fresh troops, guns, ammunition and supplies are advancing, while the back wash of this stream consists mostly of ambulances carrying the wounded. At hastily established dressing stations in villages, in woods and at crossings, the wounded are laid on the ground, quickly attended to and “sorted out,” then sent on to the rear in larger ambulances. Doctors and attendants who have not slept for forty-eight hours remain at their work. Most of the wounded are reaching hospitals, fifty miles behind the lines, within four hours of the time they are hurt. American girls, comprising a unit for the relief of civilian war victims, who were near the front, hastily manned Fords and. speeding to the front, carried wounded from dressing stations to hospitals over roads that were constanty under bombardment. German airmen attempted to hamper the Americans by pouring ma- ' chine gun fire into the roads tonight. A number of doughboys in charge of 1 a sergeant, turned their automatic 1 rifles upward and lite-ally got “two f birds with one stone" They wound- ’ ed the pilot of on«> machine, who lost 1 control and drove his plane into ans other. Both machines dropped near » the Americans. The courage of the Americans is ale most incredible. In the face of a rain e of bullets from machine guns, one h lieutenant led a group against a boche s machine gun nest, but was trapped in a position surrounded by a score s of guns. The Americans were mow- ■. ed down untl only the lieutenant and a corporal remained unhurt. The 0 (Continued on Page Two)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, July 30, 1918.

ANNDAL PICNIC I The Presbyterian Sunday School Will Hold MidSummer Outing. 1 AT THE JONES GROVE Will Leave Church at 8:30 a. m.—Bring Dinners— Refreshments Free. The annual picnic of the Presbytertan Sunday school will be held Thursday of this week in the Jones grove, between Bobo and Pleasant Mills—which means a great day for the folks of that congregation. The picnic was held at this same beautiful spot last year and every one enjoyed j it so much, that it was decided to re- ■ peat it this year. All the members of the Sunday school and church and especially the children are urged to attend. Meet at the c*ntrch at 8:30 Thursday morning ahd automobiles will be there io convey you to the grounds. Bring your dinners. All the other refreshments ice cream, pop. melons, etc., will be furnished free. There will l>e swings and games and the finest kind of a day for the young and old. This is the mid-sum-mer day for the children. Help make them enjoy it. If you can’t come yourself, don't keep the children at home. There will be plenty < of older people there to chaperon and care for the children. Fix up the basket at once and join the picnic i crowd on Thursday. It's tp be a happy day. TO BE AUDITOR * Miss Agnes Krick Appointed One of State’s Four I Auditors for I INSURANCE COMPANIES i By Indiana Auditing Bureau—Boes to South J Bend District. i i Miss Agnes Krick, daughter of Mr. , and Mrs. Henry Krick, stopped here for a short visit with her parents, en- t route from Indianapolis to South ' Bend where she will be located as ’ one of Indiana’s four auditors for the Indiana Auditing Bureau in the ' insurance department. Miss Krick < will have the counties of Lake, Jasper, Porter and Newton in her dis- ' trict. The other three auditors are located at Fort Wayne. Evansville I and Terre Haute. Miss Krick spent two years in the Gallogley & Johnson insurance office of this city, before going to Gary where she was four years with the Johnson Brothers, the firm comprising Chester Johnson and his brother, Rosswell, former mayor of Gaty. Miss Krick went to Indianapolis three months ago where she has taken a special course of training to fit her for this work of auditing, which is a very creditabe recognition of her ability. EARL HAIN WAS ACQUITTED. Earl Hain, who lives on the Albert Gage farm in Root township, was given a hearing last evening before S. E. Hite, federal food administrator for Adams county, a charge hav- ■ ing been brought against him on the ' ground that he was allowing his wheat to be exposed to the rats, mice - and chickens. Nearly two hundred 1 farmers attended the hearing and s after Mr. Hite had examined eighteen ’ of the witnesses, found him "not 1 j guilty,” and he was therefore acquits ted. The charges were brought - against Hain by Albert Gage, owner I of the farm, who alleged that the s' tenant allowed the wheat to lay and '[be scattered on the floor of the bam.

I TRACTION COMPANY SURGEON I Dr. Noah Zehr. police surgeon, and Dr. Lyman K. Gould, were yesterday appointed surgeons for the Fo.’t ' Wayne and Northern Indiana Traction company. This action of the company has met with the approval of all its employes, and is looked upon with great favor by all who are in any way connected with the road. Drs. Zehr and Gould will take the place of the late Dr. Edward McOscar and of Dr. L. P. Drayer. now in the service. They are physicians and surgeons of wide ability, and are known throughout the state as very competent members of the profession.—Ft Wayne Journal-Gazette. Dr. Zehr was a former Berne noy and attended the Decatur high school. o ONE THIRD LESS Is Indiana Allotment for Sugar in August Over That for July. TWO POUNDS EACH Is the Limit and Dr. Barnard Urges That Every Citizen Meet Demand. Indianapolis. Ind.. July 30 —For the month of August Indiana’s allotment of sugar totals 8.883,000 pounds. Th>s is a reduction of practically one-third over the allotment for July, when certificates issued by the federal food administration covered a total of 14. 021.855 pounds, upon which the distribution totaled 13,012.750 pounds. In reference to the reduction. Dr. Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana, today issued 1 notice to county food administrators and others interested, that certifiaates to retailers for the month of August should be based on 2 pounds per cap- r ita per month, and that hotels, restaurants and public eating houses shall make similar retrenchment by making 2 pounds of sugar sufficient for 90 meals. Heretofore, the per capita allowance has been 3 pounds per month and the same quantity has been permitted for each 90 meals served in public eating houses. Certificates for canning purposes J will be issued subject to the same restriction that has obtained heretofore —that each purchaser be required to present a certificate upon which appears the O. K. of the local food administrator, or his authorized deputy. After this concession has been c made effective, the Italance remain- , ing will be distributed among other ( sugar consumers, but. on account of the seriousness of the situation now a obtaining, Dr. Barnard has announc- ( ed that "for the present” the issuing a of certificates to manufacturers in I class ‘A’, which includes soda fount- t ains, soft drink manufacturers, candy ■ manufacturers, bottlers and various other less essentials, will he elimin- t ated entirely. 1 The federal food administration In- I dorsed. by making it a general order, I the plan already in vogue in Indiana, of removing from the restaurant and I public eating house the common sugar bowl. Hotels and dining cars i are subject to a limitation of "t .vo lumps, or one teaspoon of granulated sugar to each patron, giving a choice of either but not both.” The increasing difficulties of securing sugar are said to have impelled many manufacturers, bottlers, soda fountain operators, and others normally using sugar, to resort to the use of saccharin, Dr. Barnard has issued to health officers and food inspectors' in addition to the county food administrators and their deputies, a special bulletin quoting the bureau of chemistry of the U. S. department of agri- , culture, in reference to the use of sac- , charin; that it is deleterious to i health, and Its use is in violation of I the laws of 14 states, including Indiana. Dr. Barnard says, "there must ; be no weakening of our excellent ■ food laws during the war ” He savs that there will be vigor•'ous prosecutions in any cases where- ( ! in it Is found saccharin has been used in an article intended as food for human consumption.

NO ONE REJECTED Twenty-five Men Pass Examination for General Military Service—Two FOR LIMITED SERVICE Five Men Will go to Fort Thomas Over G. R. & I. at 7:03 August 7th. Chief Examiner Dr. E. G Coverdale and members of the medical advisory board examined twenty-seven men this morning, the majority of them being of the 1918 class of registrants. Not a single man was totally repected on account of physical disqualifications, twenty-five passing for general military service and two for limited military service. The men examined today were: For Military Service. Douglas M. Haney. Decatur Vernon M. Brodbeck, Decatur Elmer Moeschberger, Berne Herman H. Gilliom. Monroe Aaron Kipter, Bluffton \\ illiam Kleine, Decatur Roy F. Kessler, Monroeville Martin Ostermeyer, Decatur Luster R. Erhart, Monroe August F. Macke. Decatur George E. Yake, Decatur Ralph Miller. Decatur Wm. H, Neadstine, Decatur Marcus Roy Moser, Berne Walter Baker, Berne Ezra Wanner. Berne Paul Butcher. Rockford Jonathan D. Steffen. Bluffton Richard N. Glendenning, Geneva Lee A. Mitch. Pleasant Mills ' Sylven A. Tonner. Monroe (Continued on Page Three) TO GO TO CHINA j ■ ■ ( Two Berne Young Ladies Arranging to Secure Pasports to China. < ( GOING SEPTEMBER IST t ( As Missionaries for Men- s v 1 nonite Church—Will be i at Kai Chow. i Miss Christena Habegger, daughter 1 of J. P. Habegger. and Miss Metta * Lehman, daughter of John Lehman, , both of Berne, were here yesterday ] afternoon at the office of County ( Clerk Will Hammell to take steps to secure passports to China, where they hope to go about September first to take up work as missionaries for the ' Mennonite church. i They expect to go first to the lang- < uage school at Pekin, and later to i Kai Chow in the Chili Province to , the mission station where they will become teachers. Both are graduates from the college at Bluffton. O. Miss Habegger was graduated there two years ago and has been a teacher for the two years following graduation, at Monroe, this county. Miss Lehman was graduated from the college this spring. Both are consecrated and able young ladies who will be a great help to the cause. 0 NO HOPE EXTENDED Mrs. Ed Kurt who was taken to the hospital in Huntington yesterday was submitted to an examination which showed she was suffering from cancer and that nothing could l.e done for her. She will either be brought to her home here or taken to the home of a daughter at Liberty Center. LAMPHERE FUNERAL TODAY. The funeral of Francis Earl Lamphere, the young man from near Chattanooga. Ohio, who was instantly [killed Sunday evening when struck by lightning, was hold this afternoon 'from the Methodist Protestant • church at Chattanooga.

I KAISER’S GRAVEYARD | The Kaiser, Von Hindenburg, the Crown Prince and the several sons of the Kaiser and many of the "Vons” well known in Germany, are dead. And they are hurled right in this 'city. If you don’t believe it just take a walk i»ast the Jesse Niblick vacant lot on North Second street, northeast of the Interurban station. Sixteen ' mounds of earth hauled in there and I dumped preparatory to being leveled I off to fill up the lot, were marked i - with large white placards this morn-1 ing. each bearing the name of a G«-r-| man "high.” Someone in the dark I and quiet of the night had "snuk” in, and in the kindness of their heart, not wishing the enemy to go down in unmarked graves, had "epitaphed" each one of the mounds. Early passersby smiled in amusement as they noted the prank and many others during the day made a special trip to view the “graveyard" before the leveling process was complete. 0 FRENCH QUINN MOVES OFFICES The Bowers Realty company offices tare being moved to the rooms in the Niblick block just over the Vance <i Hite clothing store. These rooms were for many years occupied by Mr. Schirnteyer. former owner of the business but when the Bowers Realty company was organized the Monroe street quarters were secured. The new quarters are being made ready today and by the latter part of the week Mr. Quinn and his force will be at home there. The Monroe street rooms are being used by the Berne Overall company. o BERNE HEALTH OFFICER Lawrence Yager Elected by Town Board to Position. Gawrence Yager was elected health officer for the town of Berne by (he Town Board of Trustees. He succeeds Dr. C. H. Schenk, who resigned to enter the Medical Corps of :’.ie[ United States army There was one other applicant for the position—Mis ] C. H. Schenk, wife of the resigning [ official. She received one vote and Yager two. BORN AT"PHOENIX. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Sholty receiv- t ed announcement of the birth of an i eight-pound son. July 16, to Mr. and j i Mrs. 1,. Schroeder, at Phoenix. Ariz. i Mrs. Schroeder was Miss Vera Moore , and is a daughter of Charles Moore. j| once residents of Decatur. Mr. Schroeder is a well-to-do young I ( rancher, of near Phoenix. | MISSION FEAST° AT FREIDHEIM The annual mission feast will be i held all day Sunday at the Freldheim , Lutheran church. In the morningp the Rev L. W. Dornseif of Root town- 1 ] ship will speak: and in the afternoon < the service will be conducted by the | Rev. Walter Klausing. of Columbia City. EDWARD WILSON ILL Edward Wilson, of Fort Wayne, is very ill of typhoid fever. Mr Wilson is a son-in-law of J. D. Hale of thin ( city, his wife having been Miss Lucile Hale. |

| WAR SAVING STAMP DRIVE, JUNE 24, 1918 | Cash Pledged Quota | Union $ 15,805.00 $ 17,174.69 I Root 22,700.00 24,200.03 | I Preble 15,360.00 16.526.06 Kirkland 15,325.00 15,221.37 g B Washington 22,315.00 21.710.00 H St. Mary’s 15,665.00 16.950.50 8 Blue Creek 16,960.00 16,953.68 S Monroe 29.226.97 29,298.89 8 French 20,105.00 18,113.92 g Hartford 19,351.00 19,340.51 B Wabash 20.906.00 22.891.13 S Jefferson 15,296.00 15,796.53 8 Monroe Corporation 4,443.00 3,995.57 g Berne Corporation 16,410.00 15,304.63 I g Geneva Corporation 10,175.04 10.175.02 t g Decatur Corporation 52,475.00 52,030.46 8 Total $312,519.13 $315,682.64 H § RECAPITULATION a Cash sales at postoffice $ 33,103.87 H g Cash sales at banks 22,420.00 « g Drive May 27. 1918 66,400-00 g g Drive June 24, 1918 312,519.13 g Total sales and p1edge55434,442.90 g u Quota for Adams Countys436,Boo.oo g Balance to be pledged ? 2,357.10 H a::;:::'.:::

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NEW DRAFT LAW WILL PASS SOON Is Belief of Members of the Senate and House Militray Committee Today. NINETEEN YEAR OLDS Will Probably be Used for Reserve Force Not to be Taken Out of States. (United Press Service) 1 Washington. July 30—Special to Daily Democrat) —Senate and house military committee members believed 1 today congress will pass draft age , extension proposals and that regis- , tration will be accomplished in time to avoid drawing upon classes two, three and four. Opposition to lowering the ages is gradually disappearing, but a house attempt to prevent men below 21 from being sent abroad is certain. Many ' members would be agreeable to some form of universal training for men below this age. making them available as trained soldiers when they came of age. Though no word h is come from Secretary Baker to indicate what limits he will asl: there is a general feeling on the bill that he will request registration of men 19 to 40, cr possibly 45 years of age. Men in touch with the war department, however, think the upper limit will more iikely be around 35. in this connection, it is ]>ointed out that for the older men the draft law would ‘develop largely into a work nr fight j proposition, giving the war department considerable control—without Iso lalielling it—over the industrial [disposition of available men. This, the department is anxious to avoid. Th eoriginal class one will lie exhausted in September but there are the June 5. 21-year olds to draw upon and it is expected that a new registration of 21-year olds will be held in September so that it is likely the nation will tide over until congress acts, without taking deferred class men. This means, however, that adoption of extension must lie made and registration done before the first of the year, according to lhe general views. Secretary Baker is working on a survey of the industrial situation with a view to determining what effect age extensions would have on vital war plants. He will lx* ready with his conclusions by the time congress returns. o ICE CREAM SOCIAL SATURDAY. The Sunday school class of the Pleasant Mills Baptist church will give an ice cream social Saturday I evening. August 3rd. at the church, ! the proceeds from which will be used in the buying of a piano for the | church. The public is invited.