Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1918 — Page 1

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10LD COMPANY A IS COMING HOME ■general March Announces I It Will be One of First Three Divisions. 1*36,117 IS THE TOTAL Os American Casualties— I Yankees Face Prussian I Frontier Across Moselle. (United Pres* Service) I Washington. I). ('.. N<>\. 23— (Special to Daily Democrat)— Indiana troops in the 38th division will be among the first to •each home, under the demobiKation plans of the war department, announced by Chief of Staff March today. fThe 38th division was formed at Camp Shelby, and contains many former Indiana national guard men. The troops went to Camp Shelby in the late summer of 1917, and left for France in August of this year. , Washington, D. C.. Nov. 23—(SpeC j 3 i to Daily Democrat)—More than 504)00 American soldiers died during the war. Nearly 180,000 were wounded. The total c.-.sualties were 236.117. These figures were announced by Chief of Staff March today. At the same tune. March announced that the following divisions were slated for an early J-eturn to the United States: 31st. 34th, 38th. 76th. 84th. 86th, 87th, and nine regiments of coast artillery and two field artillery brigades. besides aero squadrons from England. HEarch has authorized General Perthing to send home such units as are not needed for occupation, to the extent of available transportation facilities. These units include railroad artillery, gas, tank and air, and a part of the divisions wnich have been used for replasement.

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flag, must alto expect world roceqnl tton of trade and economic privileges , in China and Siberia. (By Webb Miller. United Press etaff correspondent) > With the Americans Advancing Toward the Rhine, Nov. 2J~(Speei»l to Daily Democrat i—The Americana are facing the frontier of Prussia across the Moeelle. They halted today on the weit bank of that river, where ] j they will remain for an indefinite period. The sth, 89th and 90th divisions ' have been brought up. The latter la guarding the French frontier, wheie it it picking up and caring for thousands of prisoners who sre streaming back from Germany. They ore providing food for these men, at well *s for the population of reoeeupied towns Harwich. England, Nov. 23—(Spc- j cial to Daily Democrat)—The crew of ( the submarine which had been ope"■ting off the American coast and which was surrendered to the British here, claim they sank 47.000 tons of shipping. Th craft carried 42 mines and torpedoes London, Nov. 23—'Special to Dally » Democrat) — The Bavarian govern- j ment has notified Berlin that It in- , ' tends immediately to publish docu- , ments dealing with the origin of tne I war, according to the Munich dispatch ; I today. The situation in Munich is , said to be good. The authorities de- i Clare there is no chance of bolshevik- | i ism succeeding in Bavaria. Washington. Nov 23—(Special to ' ' Dally Democrat)—The war has not ' defeated European competition in Sou'h America, the department of I I commerce today wanted American . business. Prices must lie low. qualI ity must be high and the servve i rendered the Ixttin-American custom-! ['ere must equal that of the Europeans . before the war. if this nation is going i to compete successfully, the depart- : ment declared I Rome. Nov. 22-< Delayed)- Prom- ’! let- Orlando In an address before the •chamber of deputies, paid tribute to, tho allies for assisting Italy in 'he hour of h.r great**, dtutgnf. purti.u-j j larly the United States^JTWs*^ wBBtu&Sk HUS

W'Y Democrat- J=pan hopes for a big place in the sun as a result of the world peace conference, according to diplomats today. The Mikado, it is believed plans not only the retention of Kiau channel and other German island possessions in the Pacific, now under the Japanese + + **** + 4. + + + + + + + 4 AUSTRIA HAS ONE. J Washington, ». 0„ Nov. 23- ♦ ♦ Clarence W. Young holds a world ♦ ♦ record \ . 4> A statement issued. by the <!• Cross today contained thi ■" ♦"■rmaticn: ' ♦ f“ Americans held prisoner hy + ♦ Austrians: . + + Young is the one. The Red + ♦ Cross is arranging for his repa + tlon, along with the 2,452 Anted- + ♦ can prisoners in Germany s + ♦*++ + + + ♦** * * :

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GRANT G. OWENS Commissioner-elect — - rx.r SuS' Z* n Z '«■ has been engaged in E*V J- -^rai^t: U g U e nty He C w°ill succeed Williaml R.£ pert as county commis.-oner for t second district, serve will be the first republican the county in many years.

ALIVE AND WELL Relatives in Cando, N. D., Who Made Trip to Berne Aftei a Telegram HAD BEEN RECEIVED That “Joe Miller Had Died Monday" — Found Him Well—A Mystery. Th« Berne Witness say*: "Expecting to find their brother and father a corpse and attending hi * funeral Henry Miller and family and timer Miller of Cando, N. liuk., strived here yesterday morning and instead found their brother and father, Joe Miller, of northeast of llemc, hale und hearty. They received -■ telegram slating that Joe Miller had died Monday They Immediately wir-t ed that they would come home, ami yesterday morning they arrived As soon a* they arrived. Outer Miller, a' son of the supposed corpse, went in Dierie A- Yager's undertaking roomand inquired when his father hud died ami of what cause. Mr Bieri«-.' naturally enough, did not know aa;-. thing aliout the death and Mr. Miller received the agreeable news that .its father was still living and In apparent good health They say that th-y were not a bit disappointed that they were forced to take the trip on a ••false alarm." How they happened to get the false message is a mystery. , Omer Is Joe Miller's son. while Henry jis a brother to Joe. Henry's wife and child also accompanied them here.' JUNIOR LEAGUE The Junior league wilt meet at tne | Methodist church at 2 p. m. Sunday. USUAL WIND-UP

vyiiri *hc Aateruans Advancing inward the Rhine. Nov. 18— (Delayo i -Lieut. Wilhelm Schmidt and three; 1 other Germans remained in Boaligny ',o surrender military materials covered 20 acres. . upon the arrival of the Americans ! Schmidt walked out Into .he road and waved a white Mag. After checking up the lists, the colonel signed a re"••Tam glad it !» over, but 1 ant sorry it ended this way." Schmidt sad. 1 -The Americans were the deciding factor in the war. ’ -They are good 1 ha,< ’ fought against them and I n,,w- --' Before going Schmid, thanked j ‘ pencil women with whom they had I been billeted, then saluted the Am leans, and rode away to a chorus or "Good luck-” from the Americans. ( ► Services at salem h There will be evangelistic v '^ ► at Salem Sunday evening, with R u K. R Thomi-son In rharse.

— $ ■> I ; HUGH D. HITE Treasurer-Elect Decatur, I. «>’■<“" " =2. sr. s=~ - - ~ ness two years and has been me ! ;” m o/vance & Hite ciothlej,. . , inht years. Will succeed Mr. Kinz ! a. county treasurer, taking hi. office January 1, 19*°-

Decatur. Indiana, Saturday Evening. November 23. PUN.

Mijain ivt»t: , bers hilled While Resistin* Ollicers - — t IN LOS ANGELES, CAL. ; This Complete Round-up ; of Famous Lewis Gang i of Robbers.

el Dale Jones, the last of the three; bank robbers who last summer looted r the hank at Bryant. Jay county, ofj e< about $4,000, was rounded up this s week at l»s Angeles. Cal., ami was, killed in a lmttle with officers His j wife was killed at the same time, i They were wanted for murder as well I j as robbery. | ■ j The story of the roundup of the 1 gang which previously has generally been taken lor granted to have be *n 1 ithe Bryant robbers is told in tlie following dispatch from Indianapolis: • "Dale Jones, alias Charles Forbes. ! notorious auto bandit, highwayman!

and murderer, who, with Frank and Roy Sherrill, help up officials of j the South Side State Bank, in Indian-, : spoils, on Auugst 6, and escaped with . a 1 l.lllrwl tlthibl I*o- 1

HB.BXO was shot amt killed while re j listing deputy sheriffs in a suburb of | l.os Angeles, a message received in, Indianapolis by V. B. Miller, superin-, tendent of the local branch of the Pinkerton detective agency, says. | -Mrs. Jones, alias Margarte Dean. 1 who was with Jones war, also sho,. and j killed. The light occurred at a gaso-j Ine lining station where Jones had stoppisl to buy gasoline for his auto-, mobile. One of the deputy sheriffs j who participated in the light was shot above the heart and is believed! to I*' fatally wounded. “The death of Jones completes the roundup of the gang of train and tMtnk robbers, which had been | operating throughout the counfy for 'i he last, year or more. Dewis and j Sherrill were captured in Colorado in ! September, after a desperate revolver Imttle with police officers and deputy sheriffs. Jones escaped at that time and went to Canada, where lie remained until a few weeks ago. •Lewis, alleged leader of the gang died of iniluenza in a jail at Topeka . Kas.. a short time after his arrest ■ and Sheriil. whose home Is at Terr ..Haute, was recently sentenced t< : twenty-flvo years In a Kan 1 "” pent |tentiary for his part In a Irak’ rob

berv there In July. Two other mamhers of the gang, the lutiiraster hrotlier». were shot and killed In a revolver buttle with detective* and iwdice in Denver shortlv after the roundup of Lewi* and Sherlll.” PERSONAL ESTATE $41,964.06 The personal property of the late John A, Morris I* estimated at $41.964 i)6, according to an invenioty tiled today following a petition asking that all personal property he turned lover to the widow, Marry K. Morris. l Tho children waive Inheritance rights .The Invpntroy shows that Item*, I such a- household article*, two auto- • mobiles and cash on hand a mount a lo $2,053, while the stocks an- listed as follows: Three hundred and thirty-one shares of Morris f> k 10 cent slote stock. $33,100; 231 share* of J. A. Mnrri* Co , $2310; 23 share* of Studrltaker bank stock. $4600; I’, r bond*. $1000; two shares of H. Hay slock. S6O; thirty-lire share* of \V, H. Brown stock. sß7s.—Buffton Banner. SPECIAL SERVICE Os Braise Will Call All to Reformed Church on Thursday Morning. THANKSGIVING DAY This Year Means More Than Ever Before —Ministers Issue Call. __ Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day, the natinoa! holiday set apart hy our president as a day for a spe•cial recognition of the mercies and love of Almighty God. to us as indl I vidual- M a tuition, and as a worts

IN THE HOSPITAL Rufus Roop. Came in from the Front on Account of the Grip. IS BETTER NOW Raining .lust About All the Time When Letter Was Written. Mrs, S, A, Roop has the following letter from her soldier sou: Some* here in Frame October 16. 191$ Dear Mother and All: As I have finally found some writing material I will try and answer your most welcome letter. I would have answered sooner but was leaving for the front when I got it, and I have just came off. Would not be uff yet hut took sick at the front and was sent back to the hospital. I have j been in the hospital over a week now. but sure am feeling better now. Will be cut 111 a couple of days. Well I suppose you wonder whai was the matter with me. Well. I had some thing like the grip with a had cold (connected with it. We sure arc having some blooming weather here now. raining jttsl aliout all the time. I suppose you will be Usiking for snow before-long. Sure wish I could be there for the winter, ino doubt I could if the kaiser would give In soon or we could wipe him off the earth in a week or two. but if \.e do not that soon. I don’t think it will take much longer Well as it Is getting time for supper I will close for this time, hoping this letter tinds you all well. Your son. RUFUS.

» victor, iiiaf has meant the down fail of autocracy and the rise of a better condition of affairs, which when properly worked out will make the j world "safe for democracy." If we should attempt to count up the manifold blessings of God, we would find them more than can be , numbered. So let us all gather in the Zion Re j I formed church on next Thursday : morning at 10 o'clock for a special ! service of praise to God. and anew to ; ' pledge our loyalty to God, to our I i country, our people, and to the prog ress of humanity to higher ideals of

-ivilizat ion. The sermon will he preached by llev. C. J. Miner, pastor of the Unit»d Brethren church, ami special mu- j itc will he rendered. W. S. MILLS, | ' President Ministerial Association a FROM OVER THERE Hubert I’. Schmitt Writes His Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dyonis Schmitt, Here. —— ENCLOSES A LETTER - From Kins George of England, Welcoming Him as One of Allied Army. Mr. and Mrs. Dyonis Schmitt havej received a letter from their son, Hu-1 hert P. Schmitt, a member of the engineers' corps of tlie national army, who went oversea In August after a j long period of service at Washington, li. C. He encloses one of (he letters ! from King George, given to each American soldier who lands and ' which reads as follows: i “Windsor Castle. 1 "Soldiers of tlie United States, tlie r people of the British ißles welcome ' you on your way to take your stand 1 beside the armies of many nati ms r now fighting in the old world the y great battle for human freedom, e "Tlie allies will gain new heart anr - spirit in your company. "I wish that I could shake the bant of each one of you and bid you God l, speed on your mission. t "GEORGE It. I. ■e "April, 1918.” :o i). Prom your son, k. HUBERT P. SCHMITT.

COMMITTEE REELECTED f “ A * * *»»• > tin* of Reg t'ro* mentis .- ’ I la. i evening, the executive committ'«a* re-elected TUI* committee In' ™ ,ur *' v M mda 1,, the officer* of ti„. Adam „ U'rna* chapter Tho executive . i , > V. Connell; Mrs. D. \v p^ ry Vhv Noah Mangold, MU* Adelaide Debt inrer. \li - Annie Winn. -m,. t - •• France ROOT BALL BUNOAv] l* The Decatur Wx football team wIU meet the crack Fort Wayne Weber Specluls, champs of Fori Wayne. Sunday. November 24, at 2;ini p m sharp. The game will be held at the' South Ward football held Come out K and help the boys win. This will probably be ihe last game of the sea $• f»on. GOING OVER SEA j ( Mr. Roy Bat ten burg Hereto Sav Good-hve to Barents i Before Sailing. ! ORDERED TO BARIS z i As Secretary of Y. M. C. A. —To Train at Columbia for a Week. ii Mr. Roy Hattenberg and family of I Pittsburg, i’a.. are here for a few days f ; visit with the formers' parents, Mr, “ and Mr*. Charles Hattenberg. Mr. I Hattenberg will leave Monday for New j York where he has been ordered to i- report for oversea duty with the V ? M. C. A. lb- ha - Iwm 'i hi., ■ fqmlhe I I i—w-yjftfvTAjj

ru h isiiiiv UlhU - - 1 * i Major E. P. Miller Writes i to Tennessee Soldiers' i Home and LEARNS THE FACTS Bobo Hied There October Thirtieth of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Tlie supposition that Rollin T. Bobo, former Decatur boy. was dead. Inferred trom a letter returned to Ills mother and so marked, is true, according to substantiation received in a letter today by Major Ed P. Miller, i Major Miller wrote to the National Home, for Disabled Volunteer Sol (iiers, Tennessee, and received the following letter: "Nall. Home, Tenn., Nov. 20. ’lB. •Mi Ed P. Miller, t>n:i Adams Street Decatur, ind.:

"Dear Sir: -Refering to your lei ter of the 18th Inst., I am directed _ by the governor to state that Mr. RolHu t. Bobo was transferred to Hits home front the Central Branch October 11, 1918, and died at 7:45 u. m.! October 30, 1918. Cause of death. Pulmonary tuberculosis. “He was buried in the home cente- 1 tery with full military honors and a i marble headstone will mark his rest- , ing place. “Respectfully, “L. M. CARKER. “Acting Adjutant." I The deceased was a son of the late Judge James It. Bobo and of Mrs. Al i ntira Bobo, who liv’d h«*rn until a few months ago wne>. die went to 1 j Oklahoma to spend the winter with a daughter. When Mrs. Bobo hud re- *, turned lo her a letter sent to her son, ! and marked "dead," she appealed here 1 j for direction in learning tie- facts rej K Hrding the matter, with the result ’ that Major Miller took it upon hime self to write to the home. Both he R ami Bobo served in the Spanish d American war. s — — e YOUTH’S COMPANION CALENDAR d Thu publishers of The \oaths I Companion will, as always at tins id season, present to every BUb«crlb“i rt- whose subscription Is paid for 19!9, | a i aleudar for the new year. It is a gem of calendar-making The dec ir ative mounting Is rich, but the main purpose has been to produce a calendar thal is useful, and that purpose has been achieved.

PAUL GRAHAM AMONG MISSING War Department Reports That He Hus Been Missing Since, Sept. 26. FATHER IS NOTIFIED Had Bchmi in France Since January and Under Fire Over Nine Months. Washing ton, n c„ Nov. 22. 18. Mr William 11. Graham, Monroe, lnd : | ' ><>). ■ egret to ~ yon that Sergeant Paul it Graham, signal | corps. Is officially reported as "misaI lag in action -.m> September 26th, i i uriher Information when received HARRIS, The Adjutant General. The utsive me nage lias caused ■ it uneasiness among tho i y friends of Paul Graham, one of the Adams county hoys, who has been in j the thick of the tight lor r any months In several of his lettc abe l stated that lie would not iierrait capi ture. though this i* now the hope of : relatives and friend*. He enlisted at Fort Wayne June 29. 1917. with the regular army, was ‘ i sent to Fort Thomas, and from there *! to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where lie spent several months., going from there to Fort Wood. New York, and I landed in Frame last January. t‘n- > j der date of September 22nd he said I:.- had le-. a under ~h> ' • >■ .cbt

is now manage, for the Pittsburg district where he has been for several months When the r ail for ex|>er-‘ fenced business men was marie earlyi in August he. filed application and a few days ago was urged to accept be cause of the great need for men of his calibre oversea as secretaries diring the next year or two. He wired acceptance and was ordered to report at New York December 2rd for a week's training at Columbia university prior to sailing He expects to ■ea4—Christmas dinner in Paris • His wife and son will make their home at Cincinnati during Ills ah-, , sence. BEN MOYER DEAD. Mrs. Tom Fisher reeeivi d word to day unnouneinß the death of her un ele. Ben Moyer, of Bluffton. Mr. Moyer had been ill for some timesufI ferlng from complication of diseases , He was sixty-nine years old. TO GIVE PASTRY SALE The Christian laulies' Aid society 1 will hold a pastry sale at the gas office next Wednesday. Do your shopping there for Thanksgiving day. A lot. of gtsid things to eat. Don't overWifkU t hlu

TODAY’S WORLD NEWS FLASHES (United Press Service) Camp Snermnn, Ohio. Nov. 23—Movement of a part of Ohio soldiers to their home from this camp, scheduled to begin today, has been postponed i n tTTMonday or Tuesday of next week. Orders holding up the movement arrived last night. Some confusion in Washington resulted in the delay of im portant blank forms wheih must be signed by the men before they can ieceivc their final discharge. New York. N. Y., Nov. 23—Nc w Fork -ar.hlnists today di*r r. I thr proposition Jf going on strike in protest againot the execution of Tnori. s J. Mooney, sentenced to death December 13 for alleged participation in the San Francisco preparedness parade bomb murders. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.. Nov. 23-The final review of the 12.000 engineers stationed at this camp was held this morning. They will be mustered out within a short time. New York, N. Y , Nov. 23—Suit against the government is planned by Clarence H. Mackey, president of the Postal Telegraph-Cable company, if a ' merger of the Western Union and the Postal is attempted, he announced 1 today. . Washington, D. C.. Nov. 23-Marshal Petain. commander In chief o. the French armies, is coming to America, to thank the American Red Cross for its aid .n France, according to Red Cross case! a here today. r Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 23-Football interest ircay centered in the N # tre Dame-Pu-due game at Lafayette. The championship of Indiana will or oei oided by the game. Wabash and Depauw meet for their annual scrap Ut Crawfordsville. j . - Nr v York, N. Y., Nov. 23- V. A. Troxell, an attorney from Dayton, Ohio, (jp-d suddenly in an Italian restaurant Here today. He wr.a stricken ty heart failure. . l

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ser.t almost immediately to the front after landing He is a member of Hie 101 signal corps, 2<th New England division, and has bepn a most excellent soldier. He is a son of Wlli tlam H Graham of Monroe and a brother of L. A Graham of this city. 1 F’rlor to enlisting in the army lie had been employed by the government at Panama. The fact that he has been reported missing indicates that lie has perhaps been taken a prisoner and may have been wounded and confined ill a German hospital. Further details are , anxiously awaited. ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON Mrs. Lulu Swearengcr received a telegram Hits morning that her daugh ter. Anita, arrived ale in Washington, It C where she was met liv friends who -aw her safely settled. She goes to take a government office position in the ouarterma tor’s dtpurtment. NO HUNTING ALLOWED. Notice is hereby given that hunting of trespassing is forbidden on my Tarms in Kirkland township, as l have - stock out. and hunters are liable to , shoot -attic. Violators will be prose- - cuted. 27lit:! P M F t:LK