Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 82, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1919 — Page 1

Volume XVII. Number 82.

THIRTEEN TO ONE IS PROPORTION Allies Have Greatly Superior Military Strength Over the Central Powers. BRING HOME THE MEN — At Rate of 310,000 a Month Plans for Discharge of Rainbow Division. (By Raymond Clapper, United Press l staff correspondent) Washington. April s—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Indicating the help less condition of the enemy after anplication of Marshall Foch's armistice rules, General March today revealed that allied military forces now total | 13,300,000 men as against a total of I 1,125,000 still under arms in the Cen*I ral Powers, Allied demobilization has been only' 25 per cent, he said, while the Central Powers has been compelled to reduce 85 per cent of their strength at the i time of the armistice. General March also announced his ; aim of bringing 310,000 men home I I monthly, instead of 300.000 originally planned. This rate of return will exceed the rate of which American soldiers were sent to Europe when t'.e transport facilities were at their best. The Rainbow division, March anI nounced cannot be paraded in Wash- « ington. Units will be landed at New York, sent to Camp Meade, Monday, then to their home state for discharge Local parades can be arranged for the various regiments of the Rainbow division however, March said. Touching on reports of pending disaster to allied forces in Northern Rus eia, General March declared it was incredible that the force there now could be driven into the sea by the bolsheviki, as some have predicted unless aid is sent. The United States is sticking to its announced intention of bringing the troops back as soon as weather conditions permit. According to present expectations they will be withdrawn from the Archangle section by June. Budapest, April I—The Soviet government today promulgated a new electoral law. giving all workers of both sexes over the age of 18, the right to vote. The law also deprives employers, merchants, clergymen, monks and persons living on incomes of the franchise. All building materials have bcm seised by the government, insurance companies have been socialized and the universities are being reorganized. Paris, April s—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The “Big Four" resumed Its sessions today in a room adjoining alit occupied by President M ilson in the Paris white house. The president, who is suffering from a severe cold, was still confined to his bed by Rear Admiral Grayson s ■, orders. Colonel House represented him on the “Big Four," which held its meeting in the president's residence in the interests of economy of time. His colleagues, the cry was. that if any points came up on which his advice was needed, could easilj consult him. Bg ' Coblenz, Apr. 4 (Special to Daily Democrat)—lnformation was said to bo in the possession of the American army officials that Foreign Minister Brockdorff-iUntzau proposes to insist on the following principles for Germany: A negotiate peace. Union of Germany with Austria. Admission of Germany to the League of Nations on the basis ol equality. A return of the German colonies m their value deducted from the indem nitiee , , A referendum for Alsace-Ixirrainc It was also reported that there s less opposition in Germany to giv mi up Danzig, the Saar Basin, Upper Bil esia, Malmedy, and North Sehlesw.BMrs" - C Whipple and daughter B Ruth of Portland, drove here toda; “ .Uh Mr* C Ipanyirn: them, continued then y Fort Wayne. . Mrs. to For Wayne this afternoon to )isi relatives and to remain or ' hontas initiation Saturday evening.

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MRS. LEWIS SETIZ DEAD Mrs. Ruth Seitz, wife of Lewis I Seitz, aged seventy-one, died at her home three miles south of Berne i from heart trouble. Funeral services i were held from the home yesterday I and burial took place at Middlepoint, U. Mr. and Mrs. Seitz celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last December 27. Surviving her besides her husband are the following children: Mrs. D. j W. Allspaw of Berne; William Seitz, La Porte; George Seitz, Bremen; I Henry Seitz, Geneva; Ora at home and Lyman in the service in France. THE DEATH TOLL David Heller, 88, Dropped Dead This Morning at Home at Berne. GEORGE GAY DEAD Nancy Parrish, 15, Died from Spinal Meningitis —lll a Short Time. The death angel took a big toll of (lives again today from the ranks of | Adams county residents. David Heller, aged eighty-eight, a pioneer of Berne, died this morning at 9 o'clock his death occurring very suddenly. He was sitting in his chair when an attack came and as he was being helped to bed, he fell over, | breathing his last in a very few mo-1 ments. Coroner D. D. Clark was call-: ed to the home this afternoon. George Gay. aged eighty-one. a I prominent farmer living five miles east of this city, died this morning at nine o'clock after a long illness from tuberculosis. He is survived, by the ‘ widow and several children —Edward, Harvey, Eda, Ida and others. The ' deceased was a brother of Mrs. John | t Green of this city and of Ben Gay, of! i LaGrange. Brothers and sisters de-! i ceased are Andrew Gay, Margaret Barr. Hiram Samuel Gay and' i Sarah Ayres. Nancy Parrish, aged fourteen. ! daughter of John W. Parrish, who I took the county diploma examination ] here three weeks ago today, died this! morning at four o'clock at the home iof her parents, four miles east of Monroe. The girl had influenza last summer but had recovered: The day she took the examination here for county school diploma, she went to Monroe and stayed all night at the home cf her grandmother. The next morning she suffered from headache! and cold, and an abscess developed in her head, and later spinal meningitis , came on. Had she lived until next July, she [ would have been fifteen years of age. She is survived by the parents and : two brothers and sisters —Ixda Par--1 rish, Kenneth. Geraldine and Kermit. The family formerly lived near : Craigville, moving to their present 1 home one year ago. The funeral will ’[be Monday afternoon, leaving the 1 home at one o’clock for the Zion I j church at Honduras, where the. service will be held at two o’clock. o VAN NUYS FLAYS ’EM. 1 Indianapolis, Ind., April s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Frederick . Van Nuds. democratic state chair- , man today charged that senators New and Watson are touring the state against Hie proposed league of na- , tions for biased political reasons and nothing else. He said the local rc publicans “hurried Cel. George liar vey into Indianapolis” to s peat against the league. Van Nuys citec the position of Taft, Root and Lowel e on the league and upbraided Harve) II and the two senators for their con trary stand on the proposition. “In ” diana seems to be possessed of tw< lV United States senators who are un able to emerge above the plane o e - selfish party affiliations on this cru is cial and world-wide proposition, lg Van Nuys said. i! o Earl Shalley stopped here a fei hours this morning, enroute to hi |V home at Berne. He is now in bus J ness at Fort Wayne, opening a fee t 0 store in a modern plan. Mrs. Shalle is serving as postmistress at Bern temporarily. An examination will b irt held April 23rd at Portland and ther th are about fifteen applicants forth :a - place. The Shalleys will move to F Wayne sometime this summer.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, April 5, 1919.

MEXICAN ORDER Contract With CaliforniaMexico Land Company is Cancelled Today. BY OFFICIAL ORDER Grant Made Forty Years Ago for Purpose of Developing Territory. (United Press Service) Mexico City. April s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat) —On account of fail- j ure to comply with the original stipulations, the government today an-1 nounced cancellation of the concession to the California-Mexican Land company of Los Angeles. The concession granted the com pany lands in Lower California aggregating 13,486,356 acres in the northwestern portion of this territory, between the 29th and 32nd parallels. A large portion of the property was in the Delta of the river and the extension of the Imperial Valley of California. The tract was granted to General Andrade, Mexican, by President Diaz, upward of forty years ago, under the stipulation that the land would be colonized by the settlement of a certain number of families annually. This agreement was never carried out, the! government contends, and the land > was devoted to cattle and other live-: stock. ABOUT THE SICK — Mrs. Ivan Talbott, Formerly Jennie Cook Baker, Was Operated Upon at LUTHERAN HOSPITAL Annah Laman Undergoes X-Ray Examination—To Have Operation Later. Dr. Elizabeth Burns was at Fort. [ Wayne this morning where she as-j l slsted at the operation performed on' I Mrs. Ivan Talbot, formerly Jennie Cook Baker, at the Lutheran hospital for the removal of gall bladder and the appendix. Two large gall stones' were found, the gall bladder was found to be infected and to be much ] enlarged, being about eight or ten ; ! inches long; and the appendix was! found to be imbedded in a growth of! ! Cat. She was awake when the doctor , I left and was getting along very well.! Mrs. Annah Laman, of Battle Creek ' Mich., accompanied Dr. Elizabeth ! Burns to the Lutheran hospital thisl ' morning, where an x-ray was taken.! 'Mrs. Laman has been ill of append!-! • | citis but the x-ray showed no stone in I '' the kidney as feared. If Mrs. Laman 1 : is able she will go to her home tomor- j I row and arrange for the care of her - daughter, Neva, who Is in school I I there. She will then return to Fort ' Wayne for an operation If she is not able to go Monday she will enter the hospital tho first of the week at Fort Wayne for the operation. !-, Mesdames Mollie Deßolt and Merle It Laisure, patients at the hospital in -1 Fort Wayne, are getting along nicely, v [ J Homer Ruhl, auditor of the Fort ‘ Wayne-Decatur traction line is on (j I duty today for the first in nearly > ! three weeks, he and his family hav-r-1 ing undergone a heavy siege of lull ! fluenza. Mr. Ruhl returned yesterday d from Burrows where he and his fam--11 ! ily became ill while visiting with an ,y uncia raid aunt The aunt became ill n-1 of influenza a day after their arrival n-1 there, and the Ruhl family then be--o 1 came ill. Mrs. Ruhl will not be able n-1 to come home until Monday, when of 1 she and her daughter will return here U Misis Edna Mock, of Monroe, went to Fort Wayne this morning to be (with an aunt, Mrs Lizzie Bollman , w i who is seriously 111. ds BIG DAMAGE CASE Si- (United Press Service) Pd Lansing, Mich.. Apr. 5 (Special to ey Daily Democrat)—The Henry Fordne Chicago Tribune libel suit will be be held in Mount Clemens beginning re May 12th, following the refusal of the he Michigan Supreme Court to order the ft. change of venue granted the Tribune vacated.

IS IMPROVING — Beatrice, the five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Archbold, cf I Nutman Avenue, who has been very jlow for several days, suffering from n, j bowel trouble that was battling the! | physician,s isi reported to be some-' | what brighter this morning, and is I expected to be out again. BUY HOME ON MARSHALL ST. Attorney L. C. DeVoss and family I will move in two weeks into their newly purchased residence on Marshall street, being one of the Gregory houses, the third west of the Joe Helm residence. WmTHEMHOME New Hungarian Government Issues Invitation to Their People in U. S. HAVE NEW POLICIES — Want Peace With World and Promise a Home for the Working Classes. (By Edward Bing, United Press staff correspondent) Budapest. Apr. I—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The new Hungarian government through Foreign Minister Bela Kun, today issued an inviation Ito Hungarians in America to return : and enjoy the fruits of the ccmmun- | istic revolution. He said they would find here a “socialistic fatherland.” Bela Kun also declared that Hungary wants peace with the world and will fight to maintain it. “Our foreign policy is one of peace,” said the foreign minister. “We mean this sincerely. But as we have done away with imperialism, we shall ; not bow to It again. “Our internal policy is the basis j for our foreign policy, which relies. entirely upon international solidarity ! of the working classes. | “We have the friendliest feeling to- | ward all nations, especially America, j which is showing the most impartial I and just attitude toward every counI try. To the Hungarians living in I ] America, I send this message through I ' the United Press: “ ‘The circumstances which forced ' you to emigrate have disappeared. ■ ! You will find here a'socialistic fatherland, offering a home to workers, I while the old Hungary had a home | for no workers.’ “We have the warmest feeling for I the German fcroleterist, which taugat ! us the theory we have put in practice. Nothing binds us to Russia except, the j international solidarity of the work- [ ing classes. “I sincerely hope that all pending questions with the entente will be [ settled peacefully. But if the allies [ j entertain a spirit like that of General | Hoffman at Brest-Litovsk — basing their action on the power of the [ sword—the population will rise in ,I arms just as the Americans did in I Washington’s time. “Every working man in Hungary now enjoys the greatest freedom. J There ia no exploitation of men by: . I men. You ask whether establishment [ of our system may not be interpreted as a political maneuver against the ) allies. 1 reply we were working for 1 this system long before the allies ] • started their maneuvers against us. “Our program provides for mono-1 ’ polization of internal commerce by the state. Internationally, it is free! [trade; the exchange of goods on a com P p n sat tonal basis. i “This misery in Russia has deliberately been greatly exaggerated. ’ Colonel Robins, of the American army 1 j whom I met there can corroborate 1 this. (Bela Kun formerly was as aide ' to Leon Trotsky). “We will try soon to send our rep--9 resentatives to all foreign governI ments including the allies." 0 —oIS AT CAMP DES MOINES e Mrs. Minnie Teeple received a letII ter from, her son, Jay, at Camp Des Moines, lowa, where he is in the hospital and also attending school. He is getting along fine and is well, al o I though he and others are under quar I-! antine on account of diphtheria in the c j ranks. He has gotten the artificia g arm for the one which he lost in bat e tie and is already becoming quite ai t expert in its use. He is getting aloni ie well in his school work and everj thing is O. K. in all departments.

JUST NOSED OUT Daily Democrat Basket Ball Champs Lost Tough Game at Fort Wayne BY A SINGLE POINT Final Score Was 43 to 42, Senators Leading by Lucky Margin. The Democrat All-stars, of this city I j went via automobile to Fort Wayne i | last night where they met the fast I Senator basket ball team, one of the' best junior fives of that city. The] game started off like a whlrlwnd and | the All-stars ran up 15 points while! the Senators were getting together! but when they did get together they j jeatne hack strong making the score. ‘ for the first half 18-19 in favor of Decatur. The All Stars came out in the second half with all their fighting blood up. First one team would lead, then the other would scramble to the front. When the whistle blew the score was 42-43 in favor of the Senators. The game was fast and furious throughout and the All Stars 1 just had hard luck with their shoot 1 ing. The Senators will probably play i a return game here Friday night so ; everybody come out to the game and , ■a real scrap will be assured. The line up and summary: Democrat Senators Myers F Vondran Staffer F Boylan Keller C De Van Horn Baltzell G Nehr Heller G Kaehl Field Goals —-Myers, 5; Staffer, 7; Keller. 5; Baltzell, 3; Vondran, 1; Boylan. 6; De Van Horn. 1; Nehr, 9; i Kaehl, 3. Fouls—All Stars, 2; Senators, 3. JUDGELEWISHERE President of Public Service Commission Considers Rivarre Crossing. PUSH CONSTRUCTION Grants Light and Power Companies the Right to Sell Capital Stock. Judge Lewis, of Indianapolis, presl ident of the Public Service Commis- [ sion, was here this morning and met I with several bodies and corporations, [ relatives to matters of public improve j : ment in the county. ! The old matter of the Erie railroad! and public highway crossings at Ri-j ’varre came up. In 1913 the petition came up for a change of two cros-, sings which were very dangerous, in [ one instance an overhead crossing | I was agreed upon; but in the other, it ■ was found that a subway would be I [very expensive. It was finally agreed [upon that in the latter case, the ! course of the highway would be turned in such away as to finally cross 1 the railroad a few hundred feet away at a level grade, and in a place j i where the danger would be greatly 'lessened. The meeting today was to [thresh this out again, with the result that the crossing change, which was I delayed on account of the war, will pn-bably be built this year. The matter of who is to pay the cost, and the proportion thereof, will be taken up by Judge Lewis with the other members of the commission. H. B. Heller, county attorney appeared for the county commissioners, D. B. Erwin for the petitioners for the crossing; and Fred Barth, of Chicago, for the railroad. Attorney D. B. Erwin, In behalf ol the Preble Light and Power Companj . and the Farmers' Light and Powet s Company, of Root and Union town j. ships, appeared and a grant was madi e to these companies to sell their capi ]. tai stock. r ‘ presbyterlans INVITED ie s.l A cordial invitation is extended b: ,t- the Methodist Sunday school to th m members of the Presbyterian schoc ig to meet with them In class tomorrow y- morning, as well as for the regula church services.

“AUNT" JANE MILLER DEAD Aunt Jane Miller, a well known | | lady of this community for a great ] j number of years, died at the home of I I C. F. August, Wednesday night, April! 3, aged about 80 years. She is surviv-1 ed by three children, Andy, at home; Mart of Gary, and Mrs. Frank Durst of Marion, Ind. Funeral at 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon from the M. E. i church, with burial in Willshire ceme-tery.—-Willshire Herald. Memmers of the Presbyterian and ’ Methodist congregations are urged to i | attend Sunday school and services at the Methodist church tomorrow. Rev. Saunders will preach. A WHIPPET TANK — Will be Here Sunday. April 13, All Dav —Program is Being Planned. I SPEAKER IS PROMISED t Effort Being Made to Se- 1 cure Mr. Bernard, Silver- I I tongued Orator. i Sunday, the 13th of April, will be , an interesting day in Decatur for up- , on that date the whippet tank, the - same class used to drive the enemy 1 back on the western front of the 1 great war field, will be here. Infor- ' matio-i received today from head- 1 quarters confirms the date and says 1 that ft crew of two men will accompany the tank. Herbert Ehinger who has just returned from Chicago says he saw the ' tanks on display there and where ever they go they attract great attention and interest. You will want to see this whippet and you will want i to learn just how it works. A splendid speaker for the occasion j has also been promised and D, N. j Erwin, in charge of the speakers bur;eau, has written for Mr. George Berj ward, brilliant orator from New I Castle who has a message you will I long remember. It should be a great day and It is believed that thousands I will come to see the tank and hear !the speech. IS RESTING WELL President Wilson Hod Good Night and Believed to be Out of Danger. -(■■■'*• IS STILL IN BED Absence from Peance Conference at This Time is Deplored by Many. c II - - (By Carl D. Groat, United Press staff correspondent) (United Press Service) Paris, April s—(Special to Daily ! Democrat)—President Wilson narrow 1 I ly avoided having a serious attack of influenza, it was officially announced this afternoon. It was added that he "apparently has escaped." “The president came very near having a serious attack of influenza," said a statement signed by Rear Admiral Grayson, but by going to bed at once under my directions, he apparently has escaped il. He still ‘s necessarilly confined to his bed. (By Carl D. Groat, Unite Press staff correspondent) Paris, April s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat) — President Wilson rested . well last night and his condition is . now improved, Admiral Grayson, his ! personal physician announced today. Grayson said the president, howg ever, has been ordered to remain in bed today and probably tomorrow. it is not anticipated the president’s ls ! cold will develop into anything mor« y I serious. Despite rumors which have :r been in circulation since he was tak en ill Thursday night, there are n< symptoms of influenza so far. 'i' Wilson’s absence from the peace conference at this time is deplored bj all the delegates, but they agree then is nothing to be gained in takint >y chances with a severe cold. The lie ie lief prevails that the president wil ol be able to resume his work Monday w An official statement issued at nooi ar said the president was a "little bettc: this morning". «

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A BRISK CONTEST Three Hours Were Consumed in Thinning Spelling Ranks to Fourteen. A DIVISION CONTEST Team of Fourteen Secured to Represent North Half of the County. | “One hundred per cent better than | the contest last year, in skill and enI thusiasm, and the conditions in the I spelling department are very encouraging,” said Prof M p Worthmann. chairman of the north spelling division of the county, in speaking of the contest held at the courthouse last evening in which forty-nine picked spellers, from the public schools of the north half of the county battled for the right to be one of a team of fourteen to meet an equal number from tlie south half of the county, next Friday evening to spell for the county championship. The contest began at 7:45 o’clock and lasted three hours. During that time the forty-nine tried and true, spelled word after word, with skill, from the regulation speller, and it was feared for awhile, that a new spel ling book would have to be secured to make a thinning of the ranks. However, a break in the ranks came at last, and finally, after the three hours the following fourteen were left stand ing on the floor, no one having missed a word, and being thus declared members of the team to take part in the county contest. The team comprises the following spellers, with the township they represent and the teacher of the school in which they are students: Justine Stuffs. Kenneth Zerkle Root township (teacher, Esther Zerkle); Nellie and Lena Hawkins, Washington township, (teacher, Alice Gerber); Hjoier Boineke, Preble township, (teacher. Dortha Shady): Bernice Brodbet-k, Union township, (teacher, Zula. Steele); Edna Nuttie, St. Marys township, (teacher, H. M. Crownover; Vera Liggett, St. Mary's township, (teacher, Lucile White); Florence Biggs, Mary Poling, Kathryn Dorwin, Mildred Fisher, James Downs and Dick Smith. Decatur, (teacher, Guy Brown.) The words were pronounced by E. S. Christen. Albert Sellemeyer and Miss Sue Cook. Judges were C. L. Walters, Miss June Ossenburg and Mrs. Roger Gipe. Words as Spelled The following are a number of the words which were mis-spelled and the way in which they were spoiled: Sence. valauable, awkard, raisen. surly, risk beleive, conoe. captia, cheif. nobel, vessal, furnice, aught, parnet, poision, practis, presedent, sythe. wheather, pwblemn, propotion, analize, disapoint, servent, quanity, cosy, louneh. manufacture, diease, alchohol, enterance. —., .. —<> — ■— WE GET ENGLAND'S COIN. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C., April s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Spending more than one billion dollars a year on goods made in America, according to United States commerce department reports, the British dependencies are paying into the pockets of American concerns nearly one-sixth of the $20,000,000 that is flowing dally to the United States from foreign customers. Canada spread her purse wide open in January to spend 1 nearly $58,000,000 acres sthe border. Some other British possessions and f their average monthly purchases are: East indies. $4,300,000; West Indies, $2,000,000; Africa. $6,700,000; New- ' roundland and Labrador $587,000; '' Guiana, $640,060; Gibraltar, $500,000; s Egypt, $720,000. s — o OUR AIR FORCE (United Press Service) n Washington, April s—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Twenty-one aero s squadrons will be retained as the flye ing arm of America’s peace army, the e w’ar department announced today 4' Demobilization will continue, it was 10 announced, until the enlisted personnel is cut to 15,000. :e , —o >y K. OF C. NOTICE " e Regular meeting Monday at Bp. m. Important business. Also arranger' J ~ ments will be made for the initiation " of candidates G. K. y. -o >n Mrs. Anna Harding returned to Ft. ?r Wayne after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Myers,