Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1918 — Page 1

Volume XVI. Number 277.

UNFOLDING THE ’ GERMAN PLOT . New Bavarian Government Shows Why Germany Sent Serbia Ultimatum. IN ORDERLY FASHION Are Defeated Huns Retiring Before Yankees—Unrest Throughout Germany. fc (United Press Service) Washington, Nov. 25—(Special to I Daily Democrat) — Germany’s plot against the peace of the world is be- | ing unfolded by the new Bavarir ’ government. iT- Wearied of the domination of PrusL alanism over German oPiairs the 'U-' E varian authorities are now officii.l | relieving documents containing reg! ports of the former Bavarian minister R to Berlin and showing how Germany § plotted with Austria-Hungary to br n.; on the war. The first summary of the countrry Q showed that Germany's ultimatum to S Serbia —which started the war—apparently believing that war would be a good thing for the dual monarchy. The aotion against Serbit, the report shows, was carefully deliberat:d upon by Germany. Washington. Nov. 25—(Special tn Daily Democrat) —German troops are retiring In orderly fashion and In good humor before the American army of occupation in Luxemburg, semi-official dispatches through trie committee on public information stated today. — London, Nov. 25—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Great excitement has been caused throughout Germany by the announcement of the Berlin solpiers’ and workmen council that they would assume control over the government of the entire country. Latest reports indicate that the internal situation there has reached a S critical stage. An independent republic has been formed in northern Germany, according to reports reaching here with Hamburg as the capital. Southern Germany, including Bad on and Bavaria, are declaring that they will not submit to the terriorism of the dictators in Berlin who have replaced the kaiser and militarism. New York, Nov. 25—(Special to Dally Democrat)—The people in Berlin were “dazed and distressed" in the last days of the war according to Fred O. Albert, attache of the Chilean legation at Berlin, who arrived here today aboard the steamer Hollendia. Albert left Berlin Nov. 6, aboard the steamer Hollendia. Wit" starvation starring them >n th* face the news of the peace reaching them hourly, he said, the Ge mar mt: le were »r.r to comrveh id the ‘uation i * ” e c ' Washington, Daily Democrat)— F».»- een men - t.ie » remnant of the crew of the sunken steamer Dumaru-Mve landed on the e-St coast of the Phllippeans. navy jepartment advices said this after noon. j i... The story of the Dumaru and her crew is one of the most remarkable naratives of shipwrecks. The vessel put out at Duam October Only a few miles off this -land the vessel was struck by deotroying it. The crew put off in 'if boats. Thirty-eight day* they r. ■ _ In the open boat, ten days wl Hfood and five without water. Sixteen of the crew died from • • posure and two othrs were drowned while landing 1,20° 1111188 rnm starting place Uashingloj. ( Special tc Oadly Democrat)- Discharge of so diets on this side is expected to rea= a dally rate of 30,000 by the end this week or early next week. Machinery for demobilization of t men has been speeded up now the initial organization work X T!,.white Ulrte Intricate, experienced persounal offictis •> camp and cantonment ajid no • enJty is being e^rlence<^ y " the m Kthan one tn this country

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! tlnn with respect to demobilization overseas Is complicated by the tonnago situation. England la undnsr stood to desire to withdraw some of her truniqiorts from American aer|vice quickly, hence this way slow up homecomings. The eight divisions nl ' ready ordered back should be under Lway fairly soon, however. Army men were of the opinion today that the thirty division limit cn the army of occupation would be quickly reduced after the 13 divisions ! above that limit are sent hack. The [ 110 divisions will l>e stripped of certain : auxiliary units unnecessary to occupation, therefore it Is likely that the ’ strength of the remainder will not .run over 900.000 or one million. — Harwich, Nov. 24—(Night) —"The (Germans will justify the sinking of the Lusitania, because she had mutdi tions aboard; she was given warning 1 not to sail," declared Karl Obser. a 1 machinist on one of the 28 German i (Continued on Page Two) IN 11IS DUGOUT ■I With Candle Continually Jarred by the Big Guns Was This Written. LEON GASS WRITES Germans Were Then on the Run —Met Some of the Boys from Home. Somewhere in Fran"e. October 14, 191 S Dear Parents and All: Will drop you a few lines to let you: know I’m O. K. i This letter lam writing in my dug-' out and by candle light and most of. all large guns sending them over to I the Germans when they shoot they: jat the candle. Sure had good luck* the past week. Ran across a bunch ( of the fellows from my old battery James Ginley and a bunch from Rushville. Jim was sure surprised to ee me. He is in the same division Rsyl is. Looked high and low for him but could not find any trace of his outfit J We sure have got the Huns gucs-1 sing; got them on the run on ailj fronts and talk about prisoners we I sure see a bunch. The other night a[ bunch of wold geese came flying over our heads and one of the fellow's wanted to know what they were, one other fellow said. It is another bunch of prisoners and their boots are squeaking. One of the fellows was down to the Y and brought back a supper of good eats and tobacco, and I got cigars. ; cookies and twenty packages of cigar ettes, so I guess I will be supplied for a while. > Oh. yes, met Sheets one ot the f?l- --, h,.vs tl i' went with th« Ila . tils’v I vision. I w coming *' the! . uH f “‘to Htney | 1 iookeii around «nd seen him. .L' I sure is looking fine. \ Received a letter from a girl it ! i Bryant. Ind., and she was telling me ’ about the letter Pewee Neptune wrote ' home saying 1 looked all in and I ai- - 11 most laughed my head oft. I may have been all in but you can bet I will stick as long as the next one will. .ia. r Mother, I spent this birthday at the ' front and did not see much of a birth- ! dav cake as it I would have been at r nome, but I'm sure my next one will d be back in Indiana. |. l will try and describe my little e I bungalow. We are down in the d ground fivs. feet, and all on top s 11 heavy boards covered with dirt. It 1 is shell proof and good and dry. There Ce three of us together. We have d sou-- bankets under us and six on top ir besides our overcoats so there is no chance of getting cold On the outo ,fde we have a German stove, so if hi have a fry. You can see for yourself J we make ourselves as comfortable as ie '| r T hl< ved the pictures the girls had Junto and they sure are good red n- th em to send some often as Invert u. receive pictures front home. Show J of them to the fellows and all of them „ wanted to know who the good took.u JZ-re ... a < 101 ■ Gh jew year should find mon , S

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, November 2d,

A FINE SERVICE J. 1 f Missionary Ward Hartman, i> from China, Spoke at r Reformed Church JON LAST EVENING ‘i Five Year Old Daughter Sang Chinese Song— The Thank Offering. — ! The annual thank offering service f of the Woman's Mlsionary society of l . the Reformed church was a splendid ,'one last evening Missionary Ward ’: Hartman, who spent seven years in H China, was the speaker of the even--1 ing and brought many interesting i curios to illustrate his talk. He also I , ' explained the pieces Miss Esther Sellemeyer sent heme some time ago j to the school, each piece represnting some occupation of that country, in symbol. The wife of the missionary. : who was also to have given an ad-, dress, was not present, having been prevailed upon to remain in Berne to | take part in a service last evening, she having been principal of the high school there prior to her marriage, when she was Miss Plack. However, their five-year-old daughter was here and took her mother's place on the program, singing in Chinese. The thank offering boxes yielded twice the amount of other years From the boxes was secured the sum of $97 and from the loose basket offering, sl9. making a total of $115.13.1 This afternoon the ladies are making a canvass of the ladies of the church, trying to enlist every one as , a member of the missionary society NURSE SUCCUMBS .1 Miss Lydia Bieneke, Stu- ♦ dent Nurse at Lutheran Hospital, Died — ON SUNDAY MORNING Victim of Spanish Influenza and Spinal Meningitis— Funeral Wednesday. Miss Lydia Bieneke, student nurse ' at the Lutheran hospital. Ft. Wayne, since last M.’rch, was another victim of Spanish influenza. She succumbed Sunday morning at 3:3(1 o’clock after! an illness of several weeks, with com plications of spinal meningitis. Fol-1 lowing iter graduation front the De<»tur high school. Miss Blent ke taught two year* at Magley. and w.is to teach this winter !n thei r-Ktitur schools Fowev*. tight | .'ll > 'go. '"e <l‘ ' ,c *»»'’ l 1 ’ Lii'i,.’. .u ; u Ital ’ a ir*" i! » ■ . ..i' : ' ■ ' ■■ i r> t, S>- did and Itked tint prcfeMiott so well that sne decided to co.ttinue (and complete the course. She had been very low /or several weeks and ' her parents and other near relatives > were with her when she passed away. Miss Bieneke was the daughter of i Mr. and Mrs. William Bieneke, well I known family of near Magley. She . was bora near Magley twenty-two t years ago. During her high school ■ course .in this city, she took a promi|inent part in athletics and her -pleai did constitution, with strong heat I and iungs. were factors in her with , standing Ute ravages of he disease | > for so great a length ot time. < Miss Bieneke was a member of the t Reformed church at Magley, where • she was < n firmed in early youth, e There wet'- utree In her confirmation P class. The two youths, Messrs. Ja-I o berg and” Kreutzmann, who were :■ members of the class, are soldiers in f France and wore in the big battles, e A co-incidence is that a cousin of th? f deceased, Ralph Miller, a soldier, died sos influenzaspneumbnia just five weeks prior, to the very day. Anti other cousin, Miss Della Miller. II daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Milo ler. of Preble township, who went to d Chicago to take a. nurse's training n course, developed ■ -w.• !- cousi Tan mTbest'. lam ,tiler also had sou ! Surviving b Ut ’°Pvt LEON GASS, 'a brother. All th F. A., American E. F.iMrs. Rex And

i a sister. Miss Mary Bieneke. at hont? 1 The body wits taken yesterday aft 1 ernoon to the home near Magley b» tiny. Zwlck A- Myers. Tho funertl will be held Weilnesday afternoon at lone o’clock sun time front the home and Inter from the Magley Reform cd church. The Rev. Englemann. of I Magley; the Rev. I. W. Stolte, of I this city; the Rev. Kratz, of Fort Wayne, and another I'ort Wayne minInter will officiate. The deceased will be buried In her nurse's uniform and ! pall bearers will b - cousins of the deceiised. Interment will he in the Decatur cemetery. —o - A DECATUR VICTORY. Tito W "B."a crew of husky foot-, 1 haliers, defeated the fast Webed SpeFort. Wayne Sunday nt their grounds near the South Ward school by a score of 8 to 0. The local players were in good trim, and they are confident they will put a few more victories to their credit tiefore the season Is over. Watch for the next I game. MISS ROMER DEAD William Harting Received Message of Death of Miss Flora Romer FROM LUNG FEVER St. Henry (O.) Girl Well Known Here—Visited Here Many Times. — William Harting received a telegram this morning at nine o'clock of the death of his niece, Miss Flora Romer, daughter of his brother-in-law and sister. Mr. and Mrs. J. Romer of St. Henry. O. Death occurred from lung fever. Miss Romer was a'siut twenty-four years of age. W hile her home has been at St. Henry, she often visited here at the Harting home, and her’ last visit here was only a few mon’hs ago. She was well known here, es pecially among the younger people. ' The funeral service will be Thursday morning _ —' • —o— ———— — MIGHT BE A “LIFE SAVER” (United Press Service) Indianarolls, Nov. 26—(Special to. Daily Democrat)—That there Is a loop hole in the federal prohibition law by which liquor may be transported into Indiana without danger of federal prosecution, was the contention of attorneys in United States district court today. William Herrod, attorney for Ch is. Mikesell, of Indianapolis, who pleaded not guilty in the charge of bring! tg in liquor into the state when arranged before Judge Anderson today, de dared that there are circumstances j under whi< h intoxicating liquors may be grout)’ into the state without '.io latlon ■>' ae federal law. .OJC circur inces wre not re-; v . 0,1 I z t*-. ' ’it Judge An 'doraott decis' u ha’ he would hear arguments on the point raised. SUFFERS A RELAPSE Raymond Hasting, who had recovered from a long siege of typhoid fev er. sufficiently to lie down town, suf sered a relapse Saturday and is quite ill. Miss Keller Is tho trained nurse in charge. _ i 4>+ *+*+++ + + + + + + * + TEN STAMPS FOR MEMBERS. 44. + + Everyone answering the Christ + + mt” Roll Call for universal + ♦ membership In the Red Cross ♦ ' during the week of Dec. 16-23 will + ' b- I-reive with the membership + + tfin O s the Christmas seals + + which have been sold in past + + by the National Tuberculosis As + + sociation. + This is to be the only method <• + of distributing the seals this + + year, it is announced by W. W + ’ ♦ Wheeler, director of the Red + 1 + Cross Roll Call in the Lake Di + + vision states of Ohio, Indiana and + Kentucky. * + "The America# Red Cross," <■ + says Mr. Wheeler, "has c" + ' ♦ conduct- • '.t: ' ' 1 —» j* t ion und inflam * Cross appre as after-effects. + aid the anti in, Albert Miller, a sal- + the Nations influenza. + elation and besides* the parents 'tie + erto supper bert F. Miller; a sister. <• Christmas ) drews of this city; and + + * * ♦ *

TEACHERS MEET y I (I 1 Select Berne the for 1919 p I- Thanksgiving Meeting— The New Officers. i E. W. SNYDER. BERNE i Elected President — John Parrish, Vice President —Fine Program. At the eighth annual convention of. the Adams County Teachers’ Association nt Monroe. Saturday, it was decided to hold the 1919 conventl >:> ' bi Berne on the Saturday before 1 Thanksgiving. Officers for the new year were elected as follows: President. E. ’.V i Snyder. Herne; vice president. John I Parrish, Decatur; secretary. Miss ■ Mary Mason. Geneva: treasurer. Clyde Hendricks, Decatur. County School Superintendent Ed S. Christen • was named chairman of the legislative committee that will work to secure legislation for the best interests of the schools in the coming state legislature meeting. The program rendered was veiy J line, two speakers of unusual ability being Mrs. Hence Orme, president of (he state Parent-Teachers' organiza- ] tion; and Prof B. F. Moore, dean of the Muncie State Normal. Mrs. Orme gave assurance that (he Congress of Mothers and th- m.'tn- ( hers < f the State Parent-Teachers’' organizations are % behind the bill for the reorganization of rural school.’, hj |to be presented to the state legistsitive body at its next session. o- _ I '

PROTEST IS MADE Decatur and Three Other Communities Frown on Petition ' 11 OF THE GAS COMPANY For Increase of Rates—Attorney L. C. De\ oss Represents City. The Fort Wayne Journal Gaze'te ’ i says: “A hearing by the public service upon a 600 B. T. I . basis, and that the service now Is on a 550 B. T. I’. . basis, considerably less tttan that re ( (luired ey the commission’s ruling. | "A written protest, framed liv ( I commission of Indiana, for the peli- ( I tion of the Northern Indiana Gas AElectric company for an in rease in rates, wes attended yestc la' by repI resentitives of 'll'"'* (omm irtttos othe' t! n Fc-t ay; < lo pro, ' • a .- - t acinic > ”•** ss*<. txa” "Evidence was placed before Paui ! Haynes, of the commission, that the [rates now in eff"Ct. and granted by I the commission, are supposed to be I Councilman King. Snook. Wahrenburg, Buchanan ami Henline of I’ort Wayne, against the possible increase, was presented the commission. L. C. DeVoss, city attorney of Decatur; R. W. Stine. Bluffton attorney, repreIsenting the town of Ossian; Frank I Hunt, mayor of Bluffton, and John Decker, city attorney of Bluffton. ; were present to voice a similar pro-1 test. "The commission stated again that its position, taken some time ago in i [regard to utilities, and profits to be granted them is this: In peace times. ' a seven tier cent profit on the to 'I tai investment is a reasonable figttr’’. ' but that in war times a six per cent ' profit is all 'hat should be realized. •Paul Haynes, representing the said, in regard to the ’ present situation In which the g.n finds Itself, according to its , i petition; "The gas company. I fear, wilt k soon reach the point '' Asso- ♦ er.s is 100 lov. deT which the Red + understand me opriated $2,500,000 to 4- the company ;i-tuberculosis work of + tor the city in al Tuberculosis Asso + aimer a low d aassoclattons hith- + lieliwd make 1 rted by the sale of + dustrial center * W* ll ' ,ar ß t) 1,1 >♦♦♦ + ♦♦♦* ♦course. But I

'onsnnier U bcninnlng to shutc the ,iur ‘l''n of the low rate granted for I large commmers. by laving higher raten,' I* l ' pp'lHon w»h (akvii under <1 t b> Um eornntoskm which 1 | wlll hanil a de isloii at a future 'date." — ——o- _ BEAUTIFUL SERVICES. The forty hour.' devotion services were brought to a close last evening " at the St. Mary's church, marked' with beautiful and impressive cere- 1 monies. The missionary father who , lias been conducting the devotions de livered a masterful and eloquent ser I mon. Eight priests and the nttu> boys and girls of the st Joseph school marched in the pro, ession with the Blessed Sacrament Com munion was given to practical!) ev ery member of the congregation during the three days and the attendance was always beyond the seating capa> itv of the church. ILL A FEW HOURS S. E. Shamp Received Message of Death of Youngest Brother, Chester AT AKRON, INDIANA 111 Few Hours of InfluenzaPneumonia— Wife is Also Near Death. S. E. Shamp received word that ( lis youngest brother. Chester, aged hirty-one. died Sunday morning at I :20 O'clock after a few hourn’ illness t

of influenza pneumonia at his home at Akron, Ind. His wife and two young daughters, aged nine and six years, are at the point of death and word of their succumbing is expected at any time The oldest daughter, aged eleven, who has been ill, i« better and is believed to be out of danger. This brother is the first one of the ( family of Shamp children to pass , away. The father died about seven years ago and the mother last May , Three brothers and three sisters stir- | vive. Tile deceased was born and , spent his life at Akron. , Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Shamp expect . to go to attend tiie funeral which ( will be Tuesday afternoon at two f o’clock. It will be held in the church yard. ( AUTO COLLISION ——.— ( The right rear wheel of the B , frank Kern automobile was broken ; to splinters this afternoon In a col- ( lision with tlve sugar factory runs- . Itout driven by James Westl'eldt. at ( the corner of Monroe and Thi >1 , streets. The sugar factory auto al o ( suffered slight damage. <v GET JOURNALS EARLY Owing to tiie tact tnat the gove • ment will permit enlj a iiiuiu-d ::u'" her of Ijadies Home Journals to I"’ sold In thi.- district it will pay you to get your December copy early Th 'y will be on mile Decetnlter Ist and !' is guaranteed to be the best journal iof the year.

TODAY’S WORLD NEWS FLASHES (United Press Service) Washington. 0. C.. Nov. 25—French Ambassador Jefferand will accom1 pany President Wilso.i to the peace conference, it was learned today. Chicago. 111.. Nov. 25—Elmer Washburn. 84. former banker, chief of poi lice and mayoralty candidate, is dead here today. He waS head of the Livestock Exchange for many years. New York. N. Y„ Nov. 25 —A movement for a great national welcome to nome-coming soldiers who land at this port has been launched by the Fifth avenue association. Plans are under way to turn Fifth avenue into ;he avenue of the United States" by asking each state in the ur:oblock and prepare entertainment features for thr> -'J Washington. Nov 2 ( --Ti> .i n 1 f and ashoi- the r trimeun's" just General Franshet D’Esperey entered ■ ‘ on the battleship Patrie, it was officially announc will find o f 33 officers accompanied him. , pl .nit' ll Inigo i-ollsill 1 1 r. Please do not no Washington. 0. C.. Nov. 25—The railroad admlnlstrat e here; I realize that formal contract with the Santa Fe railroad. An anni is doing a good thing $42,885,310 was awarded. This is the third great system > granting the large conrate: such action has Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 25—Calls have been telegrapht Fort Wuyne a large in- by residents of Smith’s Woods, near here, asking the colon r. and it has attracted head a hunting party to search for a wild beast which has ndustrlal consumers. oC neighborhood for several weeks. The strange anima! I believe that the small farmers, killing and eating dogs and other animals.

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A THRILLING I"? Was That of 139th F ;ld Artillery Going Across--Ship Struck. TORPEDOED AT SEA By Attacking I -Boat—W.'s Sunk. Wife of Colom 1 Believes. That the IMth field a- lllcry. u’ which the old Compan Aof this cit” was a fait, had a thrilling trip acre . ; a«. is evidenced from the followf, « in the lndiana|s>lis News; That the transport which ,arv‘." 'he 139th field artillery, formerly tn * 4th Indiana untie nal -u;trd infantry j regiment commanded l y C>.ionel Hop ert L. Moorhead, to Frsince. was tor pedoed at se. ami that th- tunaUl-t* l'-boat was des 'oyed by a Brt'ldi , warshli which was convoyit-.g tie ; transport, seem? estrHishe-l now In letters from '’oh . Moorhead to his wife, madi |ul a tistay. < .ntirmtni a letter from Chaplain Birchard Brundage. of Anderson, to Mrs. Brundage and recently made public “Mrs. Moorhead has received among the letters from her huslximl. information whicli leads her to believe thi.t bin iegiment was on the firing line in the Meuse sector at least a few days before the cessation f hostilities, a* a letter dated Octolier 2C. indicia, d that the regiment then was und't orders to proceed to the tigliiing line. “Included in Colonel Mooriieal t letter was a clipping tr im an EnglMt newspaper which tells the stor) of

the tight British warshln and a submarine which attacked a "merchantman." She believes ihe ''mercbentiimn" was the tran- ,a>rt that carried the Indiana men across. The < Hoping was as follows: “ ’Tense, but thrilling, is the account given by the commander of a British warship, acting as escort to a merchantman, of the sinking of a German submarine, which had torpedoed his charge. I .ate in the afternoon the ship was struck on the starboard side, near No. 2 hold, the hole caused by the explosion measuring 30x1ft feet. The nearest escot" ing vessel at once altered course I : the direction from which the at'i ;• had been made, and the comma reports the tonsequences thus: “ ’The | eriscope passed down our port side, and just before it ree< "t*d cur stern I gave the order to let go depth charges. The two depth charges went simultaneously. They both ate poured to detonate together, and I hoard only one explosion, which was a very big one The submarine disappeared. and the ship was ImnudJately put under full helm to get her back. \ few seconds afterward the submarine appeared, bow first, at an angle of about Ml degrees, how slightly cut of thi wider and cm Keil up, conning tower just above water, and stern submerge-. •• •g-’tire immediately opened. Ship was headed for the suhma>!no and 1 decided to ram Bammed submarine aft: shock slight and apparent ly lushed submarine down, for pita ICnntlnned nn Page Twnt