Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1918 — Page 1

I Volume XVI. Number 293.

SOLDIERS GET I FINAL ORDERS | Fifteen Thousand a Day Bcl ing Demobilized—Exped to Double Number WITHIN SHORT TIME ' Wants Peace Negotiations Hurried on Account of Famine. ■ i (United Press Service) ? Washington, Dec. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The demobilisation machinery in this country is now turning out about 15,000 men a day io civil life. The war department hopes to double that number before long. I Announcing this figure today, Chief of Staff March added that 824.000 men in the country have been designated for early discharge while to Dec. 12 a total of 5,600 have been designated for early convoy home from abroad. I In this country 17,203 officers have already been discharged. As for the American expeditionary forces, 1,373 officers and 30,700 men have actuahy sailed. | General March declared nothing had been reported to the war department to substantiate rumors that Brigadier General Loitz was reduced in rank for inefficiency or sacrifice or men needlessly. He explained the war department has concurred in General Pershing's recommendation that Foltz be returned to the United States and also to his regular army grade cf colonel. K. Washington, D. C.. Dec. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Germany will appeal to President Wilson for American assistance in preserving, the integrity of her eastern frontier, it was indicated in diplomatic circles here today. Authoritative advices were that the Berlin government will demand protection aganist Polish advances into Pcsen and reported Czecho-Slovak occupation of certain points in German Bohemia. Berne, Dec. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The interallied armistice] commission is now in session at Treves with Marshal Foch presiding. It is believed the commission will remain there until the peace prelimin-; aries are concluded, when it will be transformed into an administrative body to handle affairs in the occupied territories. — Washington, D. C., Dec. 14—(Spe- — === * * *. + + **♦ + + ♦ + + ♦ + + THE KAISER’S FARE. + + * + Amerongen. Holland, Dec. 14 + ♦ This is a sample of Herr Hohen- + + zollern’s daily menu: ♦ Breakfast: Two cups of tea: + ♦ buttered toast: two boiled eggs; + <• two cups of chocolate. ♦ ♦ Luncheon: Grilled chicken, + or steak; fried potatoes; ome- + ♦ leite; grapes or apples; sweet + ♦ wine. ♦ Dinner: Champagne; hors d’ + ♦ oevre; soup; fish; roast lamb, ♦ ♦ vegetables; coffee. ++++++++ + + + + + **

I THE TUBERCULOSIS MOVEMENT—RED CROSS SEALS g KB 8 The war against htaM I |of the National Tuberculosis associMh• - 1 ), MiMl i„ ns g g state assofint'''" !" a"<l mPf"™ | | Ther^are'also IndMdaal'nd group representatives in « | smaller unorganized c » u " tlt>s ' hi v tbe Red Cross will g I For the support of this machinery. J{ed « § in 1919 appropriate seals, while not sold this | y Cross Seal sale. The Red Cross sea who joins the | | year, will be *" e . vl . den f time will be awarded ten of them h i Red Cross at . chr,stn l aß ? h e fight against tuberculosis. | |to betoken his share in the hgN * t bercu | oßls 1S pre- g | It has been ab « ndß "‘l > re P^at m ent is timely. The g | ventable and , c “ rable to the healing of the na- g | American Red Cross, sj b as leaders j n the fight H I brought"promptly to those who are stricken, and carry pre | I vention to every con ’ m H nlty ' ip „ are joining with the Red | | ""All anti-tuberculosis> agencies Call , w hch | $ Cross to make the e December 16-23, acconip * I ,he R I

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cial to Daily Democrat)—Germany has asked that peace negotiations be decided as quickly as possible because of the famine In Germany. A communication from Germany through the Swiss government today asked the state department as to the place and date of the negotiations. [ In presenting inquiries the Swiss government asked for a prompt re- ' PlyBasle, Dec. 14—(Special to Dally; Democrat.) Hugo Hasse and Richard ’ Barth, members of the German gov- ! eminent are reported to have resigned. London, Dec. 14—(Special to Daily i (Democrat) —British newspapers editorially welcome President Wilson to Europe and give great prominence to (he formal announcement that he has accepted King George’s invitation 1 to visit London. Berlin. Dec. 14—(Special to Dally' Democrat)—The Tageblatt says ,t understands Foreign Secretary Sols : has resigned. Washington, Dec. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat) —-About a dozen ba -, tieships, locked up in the Yorktown Virginia harbor since the war start-( ed, will go to New York to participate ■ in the welcome home of the battleships and destroyers due about Dec.] 23. Secretary Daniels announced this I today adding that some battle cruisers, a number of destroyers and sub-1 marine chasers will be left abroad for I the present. Berlin via Amsterdam, Dec. 14— (Special to Daily Democrat)— The national assembly will be elected Jan. 6 and will hlod its first meeting within a fortnight of that date. The government is anxious to impress President Wilson with the orderly character of the new Germany. Washington. Dec. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Paul Fuller, Jr., I director of the bureau of war trade intelligence has resigned. He will re- , turn to the practice of law in New . York. Washington, Dec. 14—(Special to jDaily Democrat)—Spanish influenza is being disseminated in order to ex-j > terminate the proletarist. This is the discovery made by the t ] Russian bolsheviki, according to offi- [ cial advices here. It was explained! this way: “Long working houVs. short food I [rations and crowded living conditions. I ! all imposed upon the proletarist by 1 the indifferent ’capitalists.’ “In Russia, however, work people deal successfully with Spanish influenza,” said the bolshevik “Izvestiya.” j “The workers and peasant government has given the laltorers a quan- ! tity of privileges. The workers rc- | ceive increased rations They are j moved from damp dreary cellars into light dry quarters.” Brest, Dec. 14 (Special to Daily I Democrat)—The George Washington I will return to the United States itnmediately. Her crow is expected to ] reach home before Christmas. ' Amsterdam, Dec. 14—(Special to "IDaily Democrat) —The allied govern- ’ Intents have separately addressed ‘ notes to the Dutch government re- ' I garding the presence of the ex-kaiser ’'lin Holland, according to a central k News dispatch from The Hague. ► Amsterdam, dY“I 4-(Special to h Daily Democrat) —Dismissal of the I- Ebert-Scheidemann government, givKing the soviets the legislative power, I- (Continued on Page Four)_

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, December 14, 19LS.

CROSS THE RHINE Americans Went Over Famous River About Eight O'clock This Morning. IN DRIZZLING RAIN Crossing Made on Front of 37 Miles—First Division at Coblenz. (By Weeb Miller, United Press staff j correspondent.) With the Americans Across the] I Rhine, Dex'. 13 —(By courier to Nancy) ! —American troops crossed the Rhine about 8 o’clock this morning, in a half light which resulted from lowering clouds and a drizzling rain. Four bridges and two ferries were utilized along the front of sixty kilo[meters (3714 miles) upon which the ( crossing was made. The first division went over at Coblanz on a German pontoon bridge. Brig. General Parker was at the head |of his own brigade. A company ot the 18th infantry was the first to , reach the east bank. The Americans occupied Ehrenbreltstein, one of the strongest fortresses in the world. Gentian guards remained to surrender huge stores of munitions. Two French divisions hurried up in camions to aid occupation of the bridgehead. This was an international exchange of courtesies as an American division was sent to Nai.iz to cooperate with the French in occupying the bridgehead there. ■ . ....... —o- — MRS. FLOYD BUTLER LOW Dr. H. E. Keller was called to Fort Wayne at 11 o’clock last night in consultation with Dr. Kruse in the case of Mrs. Floyd Butler who is at tie, point of death from pneumonia following aiT attack of influenza. Mrs. [ [Butler was formerly Miss Goldal Teeple, and is a daughter of Frank I Teeple. Dr. Keller says that she has a very slight chance to get well. Murray Scherer took the doctor and Mrs. ' Teepie’s sister and David to Fort [ Wayne. VETERAN IS DEAD — Hezekiah Lambert Dies at Age of Seventy-four— Resided on the DAVIS DAILEY FARM For Fourteen Years—lll a Week —Died Early This Morning. Hezekiah Lambert, seventy-four, well known here, civil war veteran, died this morning at 6:30 at the Davis Dailey farm east of this city, where he has been a< tenant the greater part of the last fourteen years. Death was due to obstruction of the bowels and he had been ill about a week. He was

: seventy-four years old last May 9. Mr. Lambert served in the civil 1 war, being a member of Company F I 38th Ohio infantry. He is survived by his wife, who was Luella McConnehey Huston, and by a son, George; also several children by a former marriage. There are also the following step-children: Mrs. Sam Baller. Mrs. Burt Bailer, of this city; and Frank Huston, of Huntington. A half-sister, Mrs. Charles Tucker lives at Huntington. Mr. Lambert's funeral will be Tu ‘Sday afternoon, the place undecided. “NOTICE TO°PHYSICIANS You are again urged to report influenza cases each day as this is necessary to meet instructions and requirements of the state board of i health. Details are unnecessary exi cept we must have the number us i cases In each family, home address, age and sex of patients. Please help ; us to fight the epidemic. Decatur has ; been fortunate but there is danger in ; the next two weeks. If you haven't I time to fill out blanks, telephone me. H. F. COSTELLO, Secretary Board of Health.

I +++++++ + + + + + ♦ + + ♦ THE FLU PUZZLE. + ' + + + Many physicians have been + + puzzled over a peculiar condition + ♦ which arose at a remote place in + + Lake Winnipeg recently. In a + + light house, situated on an is- + + land of the lake there lived a + + man and his wife who have not + + come in contact with any other + + human beings than themselves + + for months. According to the ♦ + Daily Van (louver, of British + + Columbia, when the tender of the + + light house arrived there last + + week he found both lightkeeper + + and his wife down with the "flu." + + The question which British + + Columbians are asking, and over + + which physicians are scratching + + their heads is “how was tire + + germ carried to these unfortu- ♦ ♦ nate islanders’” + + Students of the disease are + + unable to suggest the methods + + of contagion in this extraordin- + + ary case, which destroys, appar- + ♦ ently, all former theories of dis- + + tribution by contact. + ++++++++ + + + + + + + sig ovation FOR PRESIDENT Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Arrive at Paris and Are Cheered by the Thousands. FOR LASTING PEACE League of Nations, Freedom of Seas and Justice to Germany, His Plans. (By Fred S. Ferguson, United Press Staff Correspondent) Paris. Dec. 14 —(Special to Daily I Democrat) —President Wilson arriv-i led in Paris, the present capital of■ ] the world, at 10:01 o’clock this morn ing. His arrival was heralded by the booming of guns throughout the city. Vast throngs in the Champs Elysees set up a tremendous cheer Tremendous crowds lined the entire way from the railway station to : Prince Murat's palace, which will be the first foreign home of an American I president. President and Mrs. Poincare greet[ed the American executive and his I wife on the station platform. The ; two presidents rode in one carriage and their wives in another. Both carriages were decorated with flowers As the presidential party left the station they received a tremendous I ovation from the crowds. The car riages started up the street, preceded by mounted guards and witli car riages containing other members of, the official retinue in their wake. A great cry of “Vive Wilson!" was . raised. The crowds were thickly sprinkled with doughboys and poilus. who shouted and whistled. President Wilson raised his hat as ’ both he and Mrs. Wilson smiled in • acknowledgment of the greeting, s j (By Robert J. Bender— Copyright 1918 by the United Press) ' Paris. Dec. 14—(Special to Daily 5 ] Democrat)—President Wilson's whole

effort will be directed at obtaining a > i “just and lasting peace.” The American delegation to the peace conference in carrying out this | principle, stands squarely on these ■ fundamental contentions: First—The league of nations must be a part of the treaty in order to in | sure a square deal for all the peoples i concerned. The president, lacking support of such a league, would feel J that American participation in the negotiations is hardly worth while. Second—Freedom of the seas must be one of the chief principles established through the league of nations, thus making it unnecessary for America to build a navy big enough to insure her against arbitrary action by any nation. Third—Just claims against Germany for her crimes must be ascertained and then the possibility of pay- ' ment and the method of collection be • determined. ’ Fourth—While the preliminary , conferences may be confidential, the > final conclusions shall bo reached i publicly. i Fifth—All peace delegates should t sit as representatives of the now world, not as masters of any nations. Any other attitude would mean that . (ContlnueiTon Page 6.)

; ONE MONTH'S PM (■ J Soldiers Will be Given a • Month's Pay and Trans- ■ • portation Allowances. I ; UPON DEMOBILIZATION Employment Service Will Exert Efforts to Secure Jobs for Them. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 14—In order to allay existing uncertainties as to arrangements that have been ma ie for the demobilization of soldiers, the Field Division of the Council of National Defense, through the Indiana State Council of Defense, today authorized the following: “Returning soldiers will be given one month’s pay, plus a transportation , allowance of three and one-half cents i i efl mile from the point of demobiliza-; I tion to their home towns Their rail-; i road tickets will cost two cents per mile by direct route. The demobilization will be from the nearest army camp, to the home section of a majority of the men in each unit." As the men are demobilized each 's asked at the demobilization point by a representative of the United States Employment Service, whether he has I a job in sight. In case he has none, he is asked to sign an application: card, which through the state office of the Federal I.abor Director, is forwarded immediately to the office of the Clearance District of the service, nearest his home town. From the Clearance District the application i. sent to the local Soldiers’ Employment Bureau, which in 107 communities in the state, consists of the Community War Labor Board, three in number, representing employes, management and the service, and the local direetor of the United States ; Public Service Reserve. The latter : dfiiciail ( represents the recruiting branch of the employment service.] who througli recent months has be n in direct contact with industrial mat-1 ters within his jurisdiction. This is the Indiana plan for assisting in the readjustment of employment and industrial affairs. YOUNG LIFE ENDS Florence Hitchcock Succumbs After Illness of Nearly a Year. WAS SCHOOL GIRL Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hitchcock, of First Street. — The young life of Florence Isabel; ] aged fourteen, daughter , l of Mr. and Mrs. William Hitchcock.' ; | of First street, came to a close last I evening at 8:15 o’clock after a long 'I illness dating from last winter from ! rheumatic heart. She had been bed-

fast since last June. Miss Hitchcock was born in Van Wert county. O„ April 6, 1904. but the| family has been a resident here during the past six years. She was a student l in the city schols and had she been I able to attend this winter, would have | I been in the eighth grade. She was a ! bright girl and promising, and early iin life identified herself with the I church being a member of the Methodist congregation. The immediate family of relatives, i besides the. many friends she drew . | bceause of her winning nature, includes the parents, a. brother, Hugh, who is a soldier in France; two sis- , ters, Marguerite and Nellie, at borne; and two half-brothers, Wesley in .| camp in Mobile, Alabama; and Clyde, Jot Van Wert county. O. J The funeral of Miss Hitchcock will , be, Monday afternoon at 1:30 from I the Methodist church. The Rev. F. F ■ ' Thornburg will conduct 'he service. ■I Burial in the Decatur cemetery. *i — • i One of the most beautiful calendars r; of the season is “Drifting into dreamland” put out today by the Martint j Klepper Creamery. It is dainty and attractive and a work of art.

LINN GROVE LIGHT QUESTION Harry Mer.hliergor, president of the Linn Grove Light and Power coi’ilany. Mt night stated that the com-. 1 I’tny arranged not to connect the company lines with the Biufl--a.&’,’<> Plum until some later date. They had originally planned to switch this week ] bn they will hold off. owing to the fact that Geneva has not yet arranged i for liKh,1 "R Should Linn Greve disconnect with the M. & B . tractlon | line, it would rut Geneva in darkness j Until Tom Flynn arrives , n d takes care of the situation at Geneva the (Linn Grove company is hoi Ung off. Mr. Me.-hlierger slated that the coni, pany had been asked by the Public Service Commission of Indiana not to r switch their connections until the suit between Flynn and the city of (lenu- ’ va is disposed of. Should the Linn ' Grove company switch over to the ■ Bluffton city line, the transformers . from Linn Grove to Geneva would not do. as they carry a higher voltaic titan the new line carries.- Herne Witness. o FIRST ADDRESS By President Wilson in Eu rope Made Today in Response to Paris Welcome OUR FIRST THOUGH! Is Toward Eternal Establishment of Principles of Right and Justice. (United Press Service) Paris. Dec. 14 —(By government wireless) —Replying to the address of welcome by President Poincaire at the official luncheon at the Palais D’Flysee today, President Wilson said: “Mr. President: I am deeply indebted to you for your gracious greeting. It is very delightful to find myself in France, and to feel the quick contact of sympathy and unaffected friendship between the representatives of the United States and the representatives of France. “You have been very generous in what you were pleased to say about myself, but I feel that what I have said and what 1 have tried to do has been said and done only in an attempt to speak the thoughts of the people of the United States truly, and to carry that thought out in action "From the first, the though’ of the people of the United States turned ] toward something more than the mere winning of the war. It turned to the establishment of eternal prinI ciples of right and justice. It. realized that merely to win the war was not enough. ; that it must be won in such away and the questions raised by it settled in such away as to insure the future peace of the world and lay the foundation for the free-

dotn and happiness of its peoples and nations. “Never before lias war worn so ter- | rible a visage or exhibited more j grossly the debasing influences of ■ illicit ambitions. I am sure that I ] shall look upon the ruin wrought by i the armies of the central empires with i the same repulsion and deep indigna : tion that they stir in the hearts of i the men of France and Belgium and

I appreciate as you do, sir, the necessity of such action in the final settlement of the issues of the war as will not only rebuke such acts of , terror and spoliation, but make men everywhere aware that they cannot ibe ventured upon without the certainty of just punishment. 1 “I know with what ardor and enthusiasm the soldiers and sailors of the United Statqfs have given the best that was in them to this war of ■ redemption. And they have expressed the true spirit of America. “They believe their ideals to be ac1 ceptable to free peoples everywhere; I and are rejoiced to have played the : part they have played in giving real-. ity to these ideals in co-operation with the armies of the allies. We are I proud of the part they have played and we are happy that they should have been associated with such com 1 j rades in a common cause. ' j “It is with peculiar feelings, Mr. I President, that I find myself in France, joining with you in rejoicing over the victory that has been won. The ties that bind France and the I United States are peculiarly close. 11 i do not know in what other comradeship wc could have fought with more zest or enthusiasm. It will daily be a matter of pleasure with me to be (Continued on Page Four;

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FINAL REPORT OF WAR FUNDS Made by Mr. Lutz, County Chairman, Shows Interesting Facts. THE COST WAS SMALL More Than Eight Thousand Subscribers Contribute 1 to the Campaign. 1 s To the Citizens of Adams County, Indiana. a x«? . beg leave to submit the followe • mg statement of the result of the I nited War Work campaign in Adams county recently closed: Total adult subscriptions $34,000.30 k Liberty Boys and Girls .. 2.133.70 * Total subscriptions... .$36,174.00 Or 120 per cent of county quota. Statement of Subscriptions by TownI- ships. Towns and City. Including Adults and Liberty Boys and Girls. Unit Quota Sub. % Adult Union SIO2B $1521.75 93 280 | Root 2464 2346.10 95 378 p No. Preble . 812 429 75 53 102 1 So. Preble.. IQOO 1072.00 107 173 Kirkland .. 1664 1922.05 115 386 Washington 2420 2562.15 105 375 "Ist. Mary's.. 1560 1570.25 100 369 Monroe .... 2680 2686.13 100 375 : French .... 1720 1323.20 70 183 Hartford ... 1872 1874.62 100 364 Wabash ... 2280 1584.74 70 319 Jefferson ...1532 1556.84 101 361 Monroe Cp 280 463.10 165 124 * Geneva .... 764 958.70 125 165 s Berne 1536 2989.47 194 635 B Decatur ... 4220 9657 65 232 1398 s i 1 Boys and girls 2110 Total subscribers 8354 The task of checking up this vast sam has been in away burdensome, t ; but when we consider that more than . 8.000 subscriptions were taken by ! 1,055 solicitors in less than twentyfour hours we must know that mis1 takes were made. In many cases there were apparent duplications which had to be adjusted, then. too. subscriptions were transferred from one unit to another in order that proper credit might be given to the township or town entitled thereto. In this task much credit is due to the < , untiring efforts of Miss Lucile Buhler and Miss Urcile Atnspaugh. who have worked for more than four weeks in making this report possible. The total cash paid on subscriptions at the close of the campaign ’ i was approximately $29,158.73, leaving ' unpaid subscriptions at that time of approximately $7,015.27. Many of ! the last named have since been paid. Under the provisions of the pledge

card all payments were due on December 2. 1918, unless otherwise noted on the pledge, and to that end it is most earnestly urged by the commitI tee that immediate payments he made. Mr. Charles Niblick, tree surer, has arranged for the paymct of these pledges at the following pl. es, | to-wit: Union. Root, Washington. St. Mary's. South Blue Creek and the

City of Decatur, will be payable to Mr Niblick at the Old Adams County bank, Decatur. North Blue Creek payments should be made to Mr. John Hoblit, jr., at his home. - The ' town of Monroe at the Bank of Monroe. The town of Berne at the Bank l of Berne. Monroe township at the People’s State Bank of Berne. Wabash townshiii at the Farmers’ State Bank of Geneva. Jefferson township and the town of Geneva at the Bank [of Geneva. Hartford township at the Rank of Linn Grove. French township at the home of Joseph Graber. Kirkland township at the home of Mr. Rolla Houck. Preble township at the Bank of Preble. Lists alpha- ' betically arranged have been prepar--1 eii and furnished to each of the banks and persons above named of all unpaid subscriptions. If you have not paid your subscriptions do so at once as the money is needed. in the conduct of this campaign the I followi-g expenses were incurred and have been paid: Ip. C. Summers, drayage $ .50 Decatur Democrat, supplies.... 29.25 Decatur Carriage Works, signs 5.53 I Holthouse Drug Co., supplies.. 2.45 F. W. Downs, printing 31.50 ' Western Union . American Express Co., charges 11.78 / (Continued on Page #.) /