Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1919 — Page 1

me XVII. Number 168

FKSM'S BODY | AMES TODAY Hl. Pierson, Who Drowned Near Newcastle, is &on of Joseph Pierson OF FIRST STREET , I —' — i Ffrmerly Lived at WillAire — Deceased Was mlember Rainbow Div. ■'' < BHK-e parents of William I. Pierson. twenty-seven, late member of Rainbow Division, whose body recovered yesterday from Shivel« Lake, near Newcastle, where he drowned while bathing Sunday ; ;4Ait. live in this city. They are Mr.! ‘and Mrs. Joseph Pierson, who live on First street in the first house! soßh of the Decatur Lumber ComP**’>' s P lant - The body will arrive hefe this afternoon at 3:22 over the j G.IR & I- and will be taken to the "■■ten fa I home, The funeral service will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o’clock fram the Methodist church at Will-' Ohio, with Rev. Chas. Tinkharr officiating.! Burial will be in the cemetery at Willshire, Ohio, the '■frrer home of the family. l/L.-te decreed strangely that Wil-! flSjrn I. Pierson, aged twenty-seven, a member of the Rainbow Division, ga| through the thick of the fighting 'MI the World war f-ont, perfectly unonly to drown in Shively Kce, near Newcastle two months afterlhe was honorably discharged from j the army. body of the young man, which; was recovered Monday morning "at o'clock, from Shively Lake.) |Ewcastle. where he had gone down toj death while bathing at 9:30 o'♦foe* Sunday night, arrived in this city this afternoon on the 3:22 train) on! the„G. R. & I. and was taken to the hobne of the parents. Mr. and M r s. Msfnh Pierson on South First street, Mio moved here four months ago ■*Wm Willshire, 0., where they had -drived fourteen years. ■ About the same time that the acKunt of the death of the young man jjppe.ired in the Decatur Democrat, last evening in a Newcastle dispatch Frank ’ Pierson, of Newcastle, ■pole of the young man, who had seyjMjud him a position as machinist at ||the Maxwell Motor Company, New■■stle, six weens ago, arrived here on the 3:22 on the G. R. & I- bringing With him the word of the death of pie boy. to break to the family, who so recently had rejoiced over his return home after twenty-two months went in military service, nineteen of Which were in France in active serv‘’Sice in the Rainbow Division. | The uncle stated that the young man, with his room-mate had gone to the park to bath, Sunday evening and (during the bathing they became sep■grated. About nine or nine-thirty o - block the bathers noticed a man go '-(down and he failed to come up again. SaThe alarm was given, but it was not »mtil the bathing suits were finally .checked up at the time of closing the ;jSpark. that the mangager found the ||missing number and traced the name Spf the missing man in this way. Pier-. ’son was found to be the missing one, so proved when the body was lErecoyered from the lake with hooks about a quarter till one o’clock Monday morning. No one who happened to be near him at the time he went down, knew him. However, his roomKnate, who was among the bathers, ■rw. I.arned that his companion, was the missing man, and hj in turn no tified the brother, Charles, who is also employed at Newcastle, and the i uncle, Frank Pierson, and then the | other members of the family in this ® city. The lake where the tragedy occtt- | red is about six hundred by four hun- | dred feet in dimensions, and an avI erage depth of ten or twelve feet. ! The body was recovered about fifty | feet from the east bank of the lake, I where the water was not more than ! twelve feet deep. It is supposed that i the boy suffered an attack of cramps. He is said to have been the very picI ture of health, and had not been subject to heart trouble. The deceased was born In Oh.o (Continued on Page Four)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

A LIFE ESTATE In the Realty is Bequeathed by Him to the Widow of George Crist THE PERSONAL ESTATE I Is GiVen to Her—Widow is • Named the Executrix of '• the Will. 1! I I ; ( Letters of administration, as exe- < j cutrix of the will of her husband, the ' [ late George Crist, were issued this morning to Martha J. Crist, the wid- J , dow named such in the will which 1 i was probaled this morning. Her | bond was $2,000. The personal es , I tate is valued at one thousand and the real estate, which includes one' hundred twenty acres of land, tit' ] SIB,OOO. The will was written May 11. 1912,! and witnesses were T. M. Gallogly I and Dan N. Erwin. Mr. Crist makes the sual provision for the payment of debts, and then directs that the real estate is to go ' to the widow for use during her life, , while the personal estate is to bei longn to her. She is given the power , to dispose of the personal estate as ! she sees fit. all of the proceeds thereI of to belong to her. Direction is. made that the will is i to be read to. the family at the family I home, within five days after his leath Mr. Crist’s death occurred July 11. j e A POTATO FAMINE: : — r Exists in the Country-— 1 c Many Groceries Have t / s Not a Potato — r la THE FARMER BUYING ■ £ WQ H p' . "P As Well as the City Man— a € Rains May Help the i ‘ r Late Crop. — ’ 1 ■: ft - i< 's The practice gained in "substitu- r ting” during the war-days cookery g will doubtless stand the houswife in t good stead in thebe days. For with j so very few potatoes as to render the j market almost potatoless, it will be- T hoove her to get something so take , their place. j Old potatoes have nearly dtsap- ( peared and what new potatoes ap- f pear at belated intervals, are shipped < in. Farmers of this community, who ( otherwise'sold large quantities of j early potatoes in June .are now ap- ( pearing to buy. It is said that late- • potatoes may make a good crop if we j I can get the much longed-for rains, l ; but unless these come, the late crop f , ■ will be as short as the early. Very I i few early potatoes are found in a , . hill, and, these are of comparatively j : small size. • A number of the groceries had not : a potato to sell this morning, but i promise them soon, as shipments are i expected at any . time. Potatoes sold , recently for seventy-five cents a peck, .■ or five cents a pound. The ones to ;! come in the next shipments it is said, i will sell from eight-live to ninety , • cents a peck, while some merchants I prophesy that they will go to a dollar l a peck within the week One merchant had old potatoes to . sell at forty-five cents a peck, but t these he had in very small quantity, n —Foiatocj now on—Hie, market are - from Virginia and other southern : 1 states. ■ The potato shortage is in direct s contrast to the very plenteous surply of last year, when bushels after bushels went to waste, not only geni- erally but locally. That the potato shortage exists :. over the local territory is evident y from the following from the Celina :,: Standard: n “Celina is in the grip of a near-po-j t tato famine. Customers who went- ;. forth to market Saturday morning - found the sales restricted to an al-, j- lowanceof 25 cents worth to each eon-, sumer. • o “We forgot to count whether our (Continued on Page Four)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, July 15, 1919.

+♦+++++♦++♦+++++♦ + TEXAS' NEW MILLIONAIRE + + ♦ + Corsicana, Tex., July 15—(Spe- + + cial to Daily Democrat) —Texas + + latest "oil millionarie” is a very + + black, white haired, old negro, + + who lives in a two room shack ♦ + near here. ♦ + A deep test well in Green + + Springfield’s 400-acres is ex- ♦ + pectad to come in this week, ad- + + ding a cool million to the half + + million dollars oil and careful + + farming have already provided. + + Given doesn't know what he will + + do with the new money. Most of + + his savings now are in liberty ♦ ■A* bonds and he sort of hopes the + + government will be able to use ♦ + the remainder ♦ + Green is highly respected in ♦ + this county—honest, a good + + farmer and a valued citizen by + + his ‘‘white folks friends.” + I++++++++++++++++ FACE AN EMSARGO Possibility is That Embargo on Railway Freight Will be Placed ON INTERIOR POINTS Seaman’s Strike Given as Calise — More Than 400 Vessels Are Held Up. (United Press Service' New- York, July 15. —(Special ti Daily Democrat) —Possibility of an embargo on railway freight from interior points because 0 the sithatlon created by the seanidrt’k strike: foreseen in shipping <-lTcles today. Spread of the strike to the Great' Lakes as well as along the Atlantic coast was also considered possible, because of the refusal qf the United States shipping board and private steamship owners to grant the demands of the firemen, water tenders and oilers. , . . A joint meeting of, ,the American association,members of the sljipjjiig board, the Masters, Mates, and" Pilots union and the Marine' Benefit association was to be held today in aq attempt to reach some agree1 I i ji merit. Unless a settlement is reached at this mieeting it is believed a general strike may be called, increasing the number Os ships now tied up by the strike of the marine firemen tawer tenders an doilers union. Following the refusal of the shipping board to grant in full the demands -of the strikers, a number of vessels operated by the United Statesshipping board were tied up. Officipls of the seamen’s union re fused tb estimate the number of men out, but Oscar Carlson, secretary of the firemen’s nion, haid more than 15,000 were on strike and more were quitting as ships arrived. Pickets were patrolling the water front and a number of coastwise vessels, scheduled to sail Saturday and yeslerday, were at their docks. It was said by union officials that more than 400 vessels are now held in port by the strike. ABOUT THE SICK Will S. .Bowers, who has been ill since Friday of appendicitis, is better. but is still confined to his bed. Miss (Esther Bowers was operated . upon this morning for the removal of adenoids.

, ■ -x========== Organization Is Formed To Reduce Floor Stuffs ■ (

Chicago. July 15— (Special to Daily Democrat)—A new organization, des I ignated to reduce the price of flour- ' stuffs in the United States was in existence here today, the result of an all day session yesterday of millers ! from all parts of the country. The organization, the Millers Export association. was formed according to James F. Bell, vice president I of Washburn, Crosby company, a deal with foreign buyers who are already organized. More than 300 millers, some ot them among the country’s

: GEN. PEDSHINB | • IS IN LONDON I- ► ► Arrived at Dover on Dek stroyer and Then Pro- ' ’ ceeded to London ’ ON A SPECIAL TRAIN ► » ' Will be the Guest of Honor ■ at Many Court Functions —Staff With Him. ' London, July 15—(Special to Daily . Democrat) — General ‘ Pershing and ; his staff arrived her! from Dover » at ' 12:38 3. m. Dense crowds blocked the Victoria station when the special train carrying General Pershing arrived. A guard of honor composed of Welsh guards;* General Fielding, in command of the London district; War Minister Lord Churchill; Representatives of Field Marshal Haig and the chief of the general staff, formed part of the British welcoming contingent. Practically all of the American colony in London joined in the greet- - ing. . j As Pershing's train pullen in at the royal platform silken colors were dip- j - ped and the band played “The Star Spangled Banner.” General Pershing stood at salute at the door of the railway carriage. | After Churchill had shaken hands with the American commander num- , erous presentations folioweii . and Pershing inspected the guard of honor. Three itojfal : conveyed Pershing amd Jfls staff from - Mie station through Grosvenor gardens, pa#t Buckingham palace, through Ma 1 ! borough gate'and Pall Mall jto the Carlton hotel where the American officers will make their headquarters. General Pershing will engage tn a round ot calls this afternoon and tonight will dine at the American em- j bassy. Toummtow morning Ambassador Davps will present him to a number of distinguished civilians Including Lord Milaeiu-secretary for the eoJ.onjes and Viscount Peel, tmder-secre-, tary for war. General Pershing will be entertained at luncheon tomorrow by American Luncheon club. In the ast 1 ! ernoon he will attend the king’s garden party and in the evening he will , be the guest at a dinner given by i British government officials at the Carlton hotel. Plans for Thursday include luncheon with King George at Buckingham ' ! palace and a reception in paliament AU the afternoon with War Minister 1 Churchill as host. After reviewing American troops | Friday morning at Hydg Park. Genor- ' al Pershing will proceed to Guild hall where he will be accorded a civic , 1 welcome and presented with a sword of honor. He will have luncheon with the lord mayor of London and will dine in the evening in the house ‘ of commons with War Minister 1 Churchill presiding Dover, England, July- 15 —(Special 1 to Daily Democrat)—General Persh--1 ing arrived here on a destroyer at 10:30 o’clock this morning He will j visit several days in Loudon and par ticipate in the peace celebration baturday. 1 ♦ Harold Miller, of Anderson, is here visiting with his grandmother. Mr.:. | Barbara Winnhs and family; and with 1 his uncle and aunt. Ed and Ruby Mils ler. He returned a short time ago from oversea military service.

[largest flour makers, will have mem-‘ bership In the association, Bell said. “It costs proportionately less to make 1,000 barrels of flour than it does 100,” said Bell. A miller likes to attain maximum production regardless of whether domestic demands call for all his stocks. The association will set the price to foreign buyers—enough to make up for loss at home —and Europe will have to meet the price. I “This done, we will be enabled to give domestic buyers a more equiti able share in price reductions.”

+++++*+++* + + + + + + 4 t ! ! + NO TRUTH IN IT. + ‘ + * + Washington. July 15 *— (Spe- + + cial to Daily Democrat) —Asked + ■ + about a report that he will sue- + i + ceed Postmaster General Burle- + I + son, Secretary Tumulty today + ♦ said: + ! + “There is not the slightest bit + + of truth in it.” ♦ +++++++++♦+++++++ UNDERWOOD IS OUT FOR LEAGUE Came Flatly Out in Support of it Today—The senate , Fight Increases 1 A CABINET MEETING , — ( Was Held This Afternoon i by President—Clash is Expected in Senate. (United Press Service) Washington, July 15—(Special to t Daily Democrat) —The senate fight i 1 over the league of nations and the • | peace treaty increased in bitterness i today and was hotly waged. Senator Norris attacked the Shantung settlement feature of the treaty. 1 Senator Underwood came out flatly in support of the league A direct clash between President Wilson and the senate is rapidly ap- ! proaching in the opinion of many senators. They expected this clash to ' come over the question of giving the senate a record of secrete deliberation of the peace conference. Development included: Passage by the foreign relations committee of the Johnson resolution requesting transmission of all confidential data regarding the league of nations debate and negotiations at Paris. , Disclosures to the senate by Senator Norris of correspondence between Japan and the allies pledging the latter to uid in the dismemlrerment of China. , Virtual announcement that President Wilson is unwilling to submit to Examination by the foreign relations committee at the capitol and that if the committee wishes to question him it must go to the White House. I Washington, July 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Government own fnrsliip of railroads or the extension of federal control beyond the end of thf ! calendar year will be given little con sideration ot this session of congress Chairtnan Esch ot the house inter--state qmmerce committee said today, j Esch in opening the hearing on the bill tA regulate the railroad after their return to the owners on Decemj tier 31. 1919, by the president, said the plans of republicans are to get the roads back as soon as possible with legislation regulating them bet- | ter than before the war. i r I Washington, July li-(Special to i Daily Democrat)—President Wilson I 1 today called a meeting of his cabinet for this afternoon. . Attorney General Palmer was to . 1 see the president in advance of the ! general meeting of the cabinet. He t was "expected to discuss th appoint c - ment of Federal judges in St. Louis Atlanta and Cincinnati. j j Palmer may also talk to the presi r dent about prohibition, since the t president is guided by Palmer's inter f pretations of the law. j s Washington, July 15—(Speciay to t Daily Democrat)—With every move f to repeal or modify the war time pro- , hibition act quckly defeated by the drys, indications' today were that the ( drastic prohibition enforcement bill will pass the house in practically the same form it was reported lioiik the - committee. The drys apparently have a safe 3 to 2 majority on any move to modify the stringent provisions. Efforts of liberals and anti-prohibi-tionists today were to be directed at decreasing the penalty for violation of the wartime act. Scores of amendments were waiting. With the wets using parliamentary means to delay consideration of the bill, its passage in the house may be delayed until next week. | Interesting the cloak rooms centi ers in the plan of representative Gal- - livan, wet, Massachusetts, to force (Continued on page two)

LAST CALI COMES For Miss Pearl Purdy — Well Known Young Lady Passed Awav AT 2:15 P. M. TODAY Was 11l Long Time—ESnploye of Telephone change Ten Years. Following a decline of two and a ! half years. Miss Pearl Purdy, daughter of Mrs. L. H. Purdy, of North First street, passed away this afternoon at 2:15 o’clock. Miss Purdy was one of the best i known and best loved girls of the city. For ten years she was employed at the local telephone exchange, hoth as an operator and as an assistant In the bookkeeping department Miss Gusta Cramer, chief telephone operator, under which Miss Purdy' was employed during that time, paid a high tribute to her. She said that j she had never worked with a girl of sweeter disposition, and one who was inclined to be so co-operative in all i ways, as Miss Purdy. It is with sincere sorrow and regret that all of her friends note her passing. Two years ago last October her! lungs became affected and a rest was I advised. She took what she expected was to be a six months' leave of! absence. But the time lengthened and while she seemed to be gaining; and had nearly recovered from that complications arose last fall, when she suffered an attack of influenza, which later developed into appendicitis and then peritonitis. This was too much for her weakened system and the lung trouble recurred with' greater force, hastening her demise. Miss Purdy was thirty-two years of age last June 11. She was born in 1887 in Williams, a daughter of Mr.! and Mrs. L. H Purdy. Nearly all of (Continued on page two) SUNKBY A MINE United States Trawler in Effort to Sweep Up Old Mines Was Hit SEVEN MEN KILLED Accident Occurred in the North Sea Off the Coast j of England. — i: (United Press Service) 11 Washington, July 15.—(Special Daily Democrat) —One officer and six 1 , men of the United States trawler I ] Richard Buckley were killed when! t •heir ship was sunk by a mine theyL were trying to sweep np in the North i tea off the coast of England Friday, i, Admiral Knapp at London reported | ( ‘o the navy department today. Two officers were slightly injured but were saved with the 16 other men comprising the crew. The dead were: Commander Frank R. King; Engineman Floyd E. Har-'l men. Roann, Ind.; John Vincent Mel- I ton. seaman second class, Brooklyn, I i N. Y.; Aiitimq Porfido, cook, Brook-1 lyn, N. Y.; Homer Purdue, seaman second class, Washington Courthouse, Ohio; George Paul Rezabu fireman, Waterman, Minn; George I Mallie Sowers. Knoblich, Ky. Lieut. Frederick C. Keyes, executive officer and Lieut. Walter I. Sharon were slightly- injured. The trawler was .sweeping up its mine net when a mine was discovered entangled In it. The crew started tc let out the net again but the mine exploded a few feet clear of the stern. The trawler sank seven minutes later. Commander King and six men who died with him were believed to have i been carried down with the ship, one r body, that of Perfido. the Cook, has s been recovered and is being taken 1 ashore. It will be sent later to the United States. King, the report stated, remained - on the bridge to see that all the crew e!were saved and went down with the I ship.

Price, Two Cents

:ARE JEALOUS OF HIS VICTORY Senate League Opponents Forseeing Complete V ictory for President MAY START AN ISSUE ; I. To Have The United States Withdraw From League —Campaign Issues. (By L. C. Martin. United Press Staff Correspondent) Wa-shington, July 15.—(Special to 1 Daily Democrat) —Forseeing complete * ■ ' I victory tor President Wilson in the senate, some of the league of nations opponents today were discussing a plan to make withdrawal from the ! league by the United States an isi sue in the 1920 campaign. Ths proposal was nebulous. No | one was openly sponsoring it. Those i who favored it will be ready to an- ' nounce it, however, the amount they think it will receive party support. Senators who have talked this idea ! over point out that two years is re- ! quired for actual withdrawal and the issue in the election would be the giving of notice to the league of this ' country’s intention to withdraw, which would get us put in 1923 By that time, these senators say, I the United States will have done its I share towards stabilizing Europe and ! will have a right to resume its indiI vidual nationalistic policy. Developments expected today in connection with the senate’s discus--1 sion of the league and the treaty , were: Meeting of the foreign relations i committee at 10 o’clock at which | Senator Johnson, California planned |to urge adoption of his resolution Icalling of the president to give the committee testimony and data from ; the peace conference and drafts of all league of nations plans offered. Discussion of the senate of the Lodge resolution requesting that the I senate be gixen a copy of a reported treaty between Germany and Japan j and all iulormaton the state department has concerning German and Japaneses negotiations during the war. A speech by Senator Norris, repubI lican, Nebraska, denouncing tit e Shantung settlement as "robbery.” A speech by Senator Underwood, democrat, Albania, announcing his ! complete support of the treaty as it i stands. A call by Senator Hitchcock at the white house. Hitchcock had no definite engagement with President Wilson, but planned, if circumstances would permit .to spend some time discussing the league situation with him. Completely disapproving reported friction between Hitchcock and the president, it was stated today at Hitchcock's office that he has been informed "the. white house lafch string will be out to hint nt any time.” WILL FLY TO INDIA ' (United Press Service) London. Ju)y 15—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The British dirigible R. 33, sister ship of the R-34, which completed a round trip trans Atlantic voyage Sunday was to begin its final tuning up today for a flight to India. It was expected to leave some time "this week. ■ The trip will be made byway of 1 France, Switzerland. Italy and Egypt. A landing will be made in Romo . and probably in Cairo. The flight . is expected to occupy 15 or 20 days i three-quarters speed fr —— ■= WAS UNAVOIDABLE . I The acrident that occurred Sunday !- when Donald Fee and William Ayres | met in a collision at the corner of c, | First and Madison streets w* une i avoidable. The Fee boy was riding e his bickcle and Mr. Ayres was dris ving a Ford car when the two collidn er, the Fee boy suffering from a e! slight injury to the leg, while the ' bicycle was somewhat damaged. Mr. llAyers staled that he tried to avoid Jthe smash-up and in trying to turn > out, the bicycle ran in front of the car.