Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 229, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1919 — Page 1

K'olume XVII. Number 229

■STRIKERS AND I POLICE ENGAGE I IN GUN BATTLE ■workers Fired at When ■Going to Work at Clair- ■ ton Mills Early Today ■TOTE TO RETURN W — ■Reported That 1200 Men I Will Return to Jobs at Canton, Ohio. H — !• !• red S. Ferguson. United Press staff correspondent) Pittsburgh. Pa., Sept. 26—(Special ; Kfo Daily Democrat) —Strikers and and local police engaged in a long range gun battle at Clairton I jiariy today. ■'The firing was between five and bix a. in. when about a dozen strik-| err began firing on men who were on way to the steel plants for the ; day s work, it was dark and only the ! from the guns of the strikers their whereabouts. possible trouble the and local police were lying in ||Kaii: and immediately returned the SBr Giving chase they captured 3 He whose guns, they said, had been inptied and then reloaded. It is not whether any of the strikers ii it. Htkvith plants in the Pittsburgh disMict slowly, but steadily gaining gifcimd, the next step of the union ■Jes lers will probably be an attempt ■H tie up the Big Bethlehem Steel ctfnpany plants. Grace, of the Bethlehem having refused to grant the 9Krl workers’ committee a conferthe union organization is exd to take action between now Hd Monday. The Bethlehem plants ■ ? 1101 included in the last strike ■jl because, negotiations _ were still K. It was understood thal the fieth-■c-bi strike date had been tentative— for Sept. 29. jgThe Bethlehem company employs SpP 'oximately 50,000 men with plants . atlSouth Bethlehem. Steelton. Lebanon, Reading, Titusville, Pa., and Spar-; Point, Md. Foster claims the employes are well organ- 1 izid l ,>rts as the morning shifts went to[ fork, in the Monongahela valley toßay were again that an increasing r of men were reporting. SecFoster predicted that he would the Jones & Laughlin plant, of MBtsburgh, closed by Thursday night Th the biggest independent plant inlthe district. The plant claims to-, UMb’ however, to be operating 100 Bcent. ccording to reports in Clairton, BHe block and Rankin, many t'oreignare ' 111! savoring to leave the dis■t and return to Europe as a reof the strike. strikers’ committee protested to Sljerifi Haddock against the state polite and the orders prohibiting meetings. The sheriff told them they ' JBli'd hold meetings, providing they ured halls, but that open air tings would continue to be pro- ( anton. 0., Sept. 26—(Special to •Dai y Democrat) —Twelve hundred ijSfen employed by the Canton Steel are reported by officials of the plant to have voted in favor of returning to work Sunday. Sept. 26. — (Special to Democrat)—An effort to induce BHbtge Gary and the steel employes W submit to arbitration will be atejfcpted as the second step in the senate labor committee's effort to end the niKicn-wide steel strike, it became kijown today. ■■laving obtained the statement from John Fitzpatrick, strike chairman, that he men would return to work on promise of just arbitration, ending cf tlie strike now awaits a similar promise by Judge Gary, it was stated. SShY''- solution will not be pressed upon the employers until Gary aupears next Wednesday before the senate investigating committee. Hrhe fact that Gary said he would not deal with union leaders will not deter senators from making an attempt to end the strike. Developments between now and Wednesday may put a new face on the situation, it was pointed out. Senator Kenyon, chairman ol the investigating committee, hopes to obtain from Samuel Gompers who is to be questioned, a statement similar

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| TO BE HELD AT ANDREWS At. the close of the Northeastern l Indiana Fire Chiefs Convention held ! here yesterday. Andrews was chosen las the place for holding the next I year’s convention. The election cf I officers will hold over until the spring j meeting, George Braun of Berne, serving as president: and H. E. Romer, of Columbia City, serving as secreI tary and treasurer. STRONG INCREASE In Attendance and Spiritually at Revival Meeting at Baptist Church PROMISE OF POWER Will he Theme Tonight— Singing is a Strong Feature of the Service. There was a marked increase both : in the attendance and in the spiritual ' manifestation at the second service I of the revival at the Baptist church i last evening, an unusually big in- ! crease for so early a period of any revival. The re-consecration service was ati tended with great spirituality and at the close, when the invitation was ex- ' tended, a young lad went forward, in i testimony of his conversion. “The Holy Spirit” was the subject of Evangelist Renn’s sermon built on (he text as taken from St. Luke 11:13. ‘ The service was greatly strengthened also, by the two special songs by Singing Evangelist Henry Backemeyer, his songs being “A Constant Friends” and "Tell Me The Story of Jesus.” The choral singing was also very effective. The Rev. Collett, late of Lockport, i N. Y., who is here visiting with his brother-in-law, the Rev. W. S. Mills, before leaving for India on mission | work for the Baptist Association, 1 took part in the prayer service of the revival. This evening the evangelist, the Rev. Renn, will preach on “The I j Promise of Power.” Announcement is made that the revival services will continue Sunday I evening. This does not indicate that. i the church is not in harmony with the Jewish Relief campaign, in whose interests a union service will be held ' at the Methodist church Sunday evening, as the Baptist church members I have been and will continue to do everything that they have been called upon to do. But they feel that at this stage of the revival when the increase is flowing toward the highest interest, a cessation would prove det- ■ rimer.tal: and also they feet that the church will probably not accomo- 1 ' date all who wish to attend the un-' i ion meeting anyhow and that their I I service will not detract therefrom. | ' to that of Fitzpatrick. It was Kenyon's | questioning that brought Fitzpatrick’s I announceent that the strike could be ended by arbitration. Senator Kenyon was aroused by ! Fitzpatrick’s story of the treatment i of strikers in the steel districts and desires that a special senate committee be sent to the scenes to make an : independent investigation. “These |charges cannot be ignored: they have I been put up to us and we ought to investigate them," Kenyon said today. “The situation is here upon us and congress has to act." Some senators privately stated that FiUsuptrlck’s statement?, called soy tin | explanation from Gary, but they an> holding an open mind, until his side is heard. “This strike is not a private affair between two parties any longer,” Kenyon declared. “The public has an interest in it and we ought to do something besides investigating.” Kenyon hopes for a permanent result from the investigation in the form of a national arbitration board to continue in some modified form the work of the war labor board in adjusting industrial disputes. Kenyon is still opposed ;'to compulsory arbitration but believes that if some public body has been in existence to act as an intermediary between the strikers and their emloyers, a strike might have been avoided. William Z. Foster, secretary on the committee including Philipps. Cc'orado, who was vice president and ■ treasurer of the old Carnegie Steel ' company before the United States . Steel corporation absorbed it are not satisfied wit hthe statements made by j ! Fitzpatrick. They believe he has - painted the working conditions of >! steel employes much worse than they r, are.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, September 26, 1919.

WEDS IN DETROIT 11 , Mark Macklin, Brother of r Phil Macklin, Married to Miss Treva Whiteman OF COLUMBUS, IND. Both Were Born and Reared in Geneva —Will Make Home in Detroit The Geneva Herald says of the . I wedding of Mark Macklin, brother of | Phil Macklin of this city: “Relatives here have received the news of the wedding of Mark Macklin, 18, son of Mrs. Mary Vorchees, of this place, and Miss Treva White- ! man, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Whiteman, of Columbus, Ind., last week. The wedding took place in! Detroit, where Miss Whiteman had! gone ostensibly for a visit. The two ( had been sweethearts for two or three years. “Mr. Macklin was reared in Geneva and vicinity, but has been employed in Detroit during the last few years. He is well and favorably known to Geneva people. Miss Whiteman was born in Geneva and spent the first years of her life here, the familj’ moving from here some ten or twelve years ago. She has a large number of relatives and friends in this vicinity.” GAME SUNDAY — Shamrocks Make Arrangements to Play Pennsy Leaguers of Ft. Wayne MAY PLAY BLUFFTON Next Sunday if Guarantee Can be Reached — Will Also Meet Army Team ri t There will be another baseball game lin this city Sunday afternoon, the Decatur team having made arrangements to meet the fast Pennsy Leai gue team of Ft. Wayne, which was | scheduled for last Sunday, the game being postponed on account of rain. It is not fully understood whether the Ft. Wayne team can be obtained at this time, but all efforts are being made by the management, and if it | is impossible to secure this team, a . game will be played with the Woodi burn (Indiana) team, a bunch of baseballers with some quality. Furthet. ■ announcement as to the game Sun- ! day will be made. Keep your eye I cn it, and come and help the boys , win. Preparations are also being made Iby the local team, to secure a game I with the fast Bluffton Elks team, considered as one of the fastest terms , in the state, for the following SunI I i nay but all arrangements had not yet ■ been made. The Bluffton boys want | a guarantee, which will mean that the I local must have a lot of support. They | also have a proposition to go to Bluff- ; ton. but they desire to play them in . this city, providing they can meet I their guarantee, which will mean a large crowd must he present. Let’s ' show the Blufftonites what Decatur has, and deprive them of a victory in this city. On a week from this coming Monday, tlie Shamrocks will meet the 1 baseball team cf soldiers that is trav eling with the army motor train which will visit this city next week where they will exhibit some trophies and work in the recruiting of men. The team is a first-class outfit, and is noted 1 for speed. The locals are also develop--1 ing the game and are pretty sure the victory will remain in this city. ABOUT TO CROSS RIVER 1 (United Press Service) Columbus. 0.. Sept. 26 i (Special to Daily Democrat) j - Governor Cornwell, of West , • Virginia, today wired Governor! j Cox that 1.500 men from the vi-. » cinity of Steubenville were 5 norted to be about to cross the Ohio river into Hancock. W.| s Virginia anti com ptll workmen! . there to quit their places. 1 “Any such efforts.” Cornwell j 1 warned Cox, “will be regardedj s as an attack upon the soverignt ity of West Virginia.” ■ Governor Cox immediately 3 wired the sheriff at SteubenI ville to use his influence to prevent anv such step if it is conj templated.

PRESIDENT WILL | RETURN AT ONCE; 11l Health Causes Cancella--1 tion of Remaining Engagements in West NERVOUS BREAKDOWN Strain of Last 2 Years Injures President’s Health | —Leaves Wichita. i ‘ (United Press Service) (By Hugh Baillie. United Press staff correspondent) Aboard the President's Train near Wichita, Kan., Sept. 26—(Special to Daily Democrat) —President Wilson suffered from an attack of nervous indigestion today and started for l Washington abandoning his league of nation tour. The president in his private car dictated a statement to the people of Kansas expressing regret that he could not fulfill his schedule. Dr. Grayson, the president's physician spent almost all of last night with him, It was learned before ordering the tour abandoned. When word of the president’s illness spread through Wichita many people rode in automobiles to the remote spot where the special train was parked. Secret service agents about the private car refused to permit any one to approach it. The president is returning to Washington byway of St. Louis and Kan(Continued on Page Four) CLEiOAIfED For Census Department in Washington—Jobs Will Last Year or Two TEST HELD HERE October 18 and November 15—Persons Between 18 and 50 are Eligible - H. L. Confer, district census supervisor, has received instructions that : examinations for the selection of clerks for the bureau of the census. ! to work at Washington, D. C.. will be held in the city on October 18th and ’.November 15th. As there will be sev- • j eral thousands appointments, it is ’ | probable that all who pass will be ' given a job. The places pay from ! S9OO to $1,020 with increases to $1,380 !in a short time. Besides this congress ‘ has provided fcr an additional $20.00 i per month for those whose ability an I ■ qualifications justify. It is expected s the serveie will continue from one to • two years, appointments restricted to! : one member of family, must be be-' t tween 18 and 50 years of age. 11 Eligibles will be placed in groups ’ as follows: ■! (a) Those who have been graduate 1 i from a college or university of recog- :' nized standing. t (a) Those who have graduated from t 1 a standard high school or completed a' ■'course of study equivalent to that rei quired for such graduation, and who | have had one year’s business exper-i . i ience. , | (c) Those who do not qualify under 'either group (a) or (b). J Competitors.will be examined in the > I following subjects, which will have lithe relative weights indicated: Subjects Weights I 1. —Spelling (20 words of more J than average difficulty) 10 , 2. — Arithmetic (fundamental rules, common and decimal fractions. percentage, and their business application) 30 3— Penmanship (the legibility, rapidity, neatness, and general arpearance of the competitor's handI writing in the subject of letter | writing 15 4— Letter writing (a letter of I net less than 150 words or some ( subject of general interest. The competitor may select either of ’ two subjects given) .. 30 5— Copying and correcting manuscript (test in making a smooth. | corrected copy of a draft manu- | script which includes erasures, ■ I misspelled words, errors in syntax, etc.) ..: 15 ■ | Total 100 . I Blank application can be secured at • the Decatur postoffice. Both men and jwemen will be selected.

IHUNGRY TRAMPS I ‘'Hobo Night” Greatly Enjoyed by Rotarians with Feed in Tile Kiln at 1 KRICK & TYNDALL’S J. O. Sellemeyer Looked Like “A No. 1”—Took in the Picture Show. Decatur has infested with more j hoboes of the real “tuff” looking I variety last night than anytime in it’s history. Not a single one was | pinched or placed in jail, however, j for the reason that the honorable! Mayor Charles W. Yager, was num-! bered amongst them and looked just! as “tuff”, and enjoyed the lark as I much any any young man in the crowd. The hoboes were the Rotarians, about twenty-five in number. Leaving | the Daily Democrat office at six-thirty I o’clock, where some donned their I “evening clothes”, they marched to , tho Fisher & Harris grocery, paid . their respects to Johnny Fisher who | was unable to join the crowd, were , treated to seven-cent cigars, picked ! up a large bunch of bananas and then I started south on Winchester street, I winding their way to the Krick & Tyndall tile factory, the rendenvour i of the tramps, known the world over (Continued on Page Six) TO SPEAK HERE Lutheran Mission Workers W ill Assist the Rev. A. W. I Hinz in Conducting — THE MISSION SERVICES At Zion Lutheran Church j Next Sunday—Rev. Rein- : king and. Rev. Lankenau. | The annual mission services of the , 1 Zion Lutheran church will be held j next Sunday morning and evening. The Lutheran churches of the Missouri Synod, to which body the local congregation belongs, employ 194 teachers and catechists, 648 mission- ,, aries, and 42 students in the missidni field, which embraces the following ’ places and peoples: 1 Inner mission in '.North America; 2 Inner mission in razil, Argentine Republic, England, Germany. Denmark, Australia. New 1 Zealand: 3 Foreign language mission rnang the Poles, Letts, Lithuanians. 1 Slovaks, Italians, Esthonians, Finns; 4 Deaf and Dumb mission; Negro mis- ’ sion; 6 Indian Mission; 7 Jewish mission: 8 Mission in India. I The Rev. F. Reinking of Cleveland will preach in the German service, at ,10 o’clock, and Rev. J. F. Lankenau | of Napoleon. Ohio, will speak in the . English service, at 7:30 o'clock. Both speakers have had much ex- , perience as missionaries, Rev. Reink--1 ing having been one of the pioneers of the church in the far-west mission field, while Rev. Lankenau spent sev- ; enteen years as negro missionary, and was president for a time of Luther college, New Orleans. Rev. Lankenau I is the editor of the Lutheran Pioneer, a missionary monthly. _____ CLEARED A GOOD SUM The St. Vincent de Paul society j cleared the sum of $56.30 at their card j and peanut party Wednesday evening. This is above all expenses. CHICAGO MARKETS Chicago, Sept. 26—Close: Corn — Sept. 144: Dec., 123: May 120%. Oats —Sept. 65%; Dec. 68%; May, 71%. C. J. Lutz and Charles Teeple went j to Ft. Wayne this afternoon to attend ! a church meeting. J. Dwight Peterson of the City Trust | company, Indianapolis, is here today I attending to business. Mrs. Fred Patterson attended the! Bluffton street fair yesterday. Nick Miller and Jesse Niblick took in the Pittsburg exhibition at Fort yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Jennie Naugle returned from a visit at Wren, Ohio, to the home of Dr. Burns, for a visit before returning to her home in Beavers Falls, Pa. ' WEATHER I Indiana—Fair and warmer tonight land Saturday.

ON WAY TO COAST — The Rev. and Mrs. C. P. Collett and daughter, who visited a few days with the Rev. W. S. Mills family, left at noon today for Cedar Falls, lowa. This is the last lap of their journey toward the western coast, from which they expect to set sail October Ist. at Seattle, Wash., for India where the Rev. Collett goes as a missionary to India. YOUNG LIFE ENDS Naomi Dugan Morton, Wife of A. R. Morton, of Evanston, 111., Passed Into LONG LAST SLEEP I Succumbed Last Evening— Death Message Comes As Grievous Shock to All. The message that came last evening bringing word of the death of I Naomi Dugan Morton, wife of A. R. Morton, of Evanston, 111., daughter of! Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan of this city, J came as a most unexpected and griev-1 ous shock to her many Decatur! friends. SP passed into her long | last sleep at five o’clock last evening ! at the City Hospital at Evanston, | where she had been a patient for a short time, suffering from septic poisoning. During her illness her little daughter. Margaret Buchanan Morton, was ! here with her grandparents. Mrs. Morton’s condition was such that it was expected that she would be able to go to her own home in I Evanston, tomorrow. Her mother ! who had been with her since TuesI day, expected to come home today, | and the daughter was to come next I week. However, a sudden turn for the worse took place and death came very unexpectedly. Mr. Dugan who had been at the bankers’ convention at Indianapolis came home last night and found a message from Evanston asking him to come at once, owing to the sudden serious turn her condition had taken. Telephoning he learned that she had passed away a short time before. Mrs. Dugan and daughter, Dorothy, I who went to Evanston yesterday, came this afternoon and Miss Frances Dugan who is teaching in Boston ' will arrive tonight. The body of Mrs. Morton will arrive this evening at j 5:13 over the Chicago & Erie railroad. Naomi Porter Dugan, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dug:»n, was born in this city September 22, 1894, and her twenty-fifth birthday anniversary was observed only last Monday. All of her young schooldays were spent in this city, she graduating from the Decatur high school in the class of 1912. She then entered FerI ry Hall, at Lake Forest, 111., a girls’ preparatory school, and later Northwestern university at Evanston. She was bright and vivacious and possessed a very sweet and charming personality, that was especially attractive to both young and old, her friends being numbered by the scores. She was married June 17, 1916, to A. R. Morton, of Evanston, 111., going at once to that city where they have made their home since. Her immediate family includes the . husband, the two-year old daughter,' Margaret Buchanan Morton; the parents, and three sisters: Misses Frances, Dorothy and Helen Dugan. FUNERAL OF MRS. HITCHCOCK The funeral of Mrs. Anna Hitchcock was held this afternoon at Clark's Chapel at 2 o’clock. Mrs. I Hitchcock died Wednesday noon from complications and old age at [her home just across the Ohio line. | Sh'e was the mother of William Hitch- | cock of First street of this city.

WILL WE MEASURE UP? 1 here are six ini Ilion Jews in eastern and central Europe j starving. I his is the plain, unvarnished truth. They are I now being kept from immediate death by bread lines and i soup kitchens and milk stations which AMERICAN JEWISH relict stations are establishing. The conditions which j have lett them starving and dependent are not of their own I making. Cruel and inhuman war made them victims. The problem of their relief must be solved by America. Will America do it? America must and will. Adams county is a small part of America but the best people on earth live here, we have proved that time and lime again the last few years and Adams county will go down m he, pocket and with joy in the giving, generously help t hs< ! miserable unfortunates. Our home relief worKer < J girding on the armour to engage in an earnes. <■> !« .. in this county. Help them to the limit.

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WILL ORGANIZE IN TRIS COUNTY C. E. Bell Named as Chairman for Roosevelt Memorial Fund Campaign WILL NOT BE A DRIVE But Every One Will be Given Opportunity to Help Toward the $1,200 Here Mr. Smith of Indianapolis was here yesterday afternoon and met a number of representative citizens, discussing the proposed opportunity plan for the Roosevelt Memorial fund. Mr. Clarence E. Bell, well known manufacturer and former fuel administrator for Adams county, was selected as chairman and accepted the place, in , a few days he wilil call a meeting of citizens at which time the organizaI tion will be completed, with the selecj tion of a vice chairman, treasurer, i publicity chairman and a cabinet ! formed of leading citizens over the ! county. The memorial plan is, of course, non political. An effort to raise a j sufficient sum for the purchase and maintenance of Sagimore Hill, the old Roosevent homestead at Oyster Bay. The Indiana quota is $200,000. and for 1 Adams county is $1,200. But this is not to be a drive. No one will be I urged to give and no drive campaign will he made. If more than the quota is raised in Indiana the mon<» will ! be used for a state memorial in some j manner to be decided upon. The state organization includes ’ such men as Meredith Nicholson, . i Samuel Ralston, Senator Beveridge, ; Thomas Taggart, George Ade and others of prominence of every pol--3 itical faith. Mr. Roosevelt was an 9 American, proud of it and never lost 1 j an opportunity to fight for such prin- - 91 c.iples as he believed of createst.-guud 'for this nation. His home will be preI served as a tribute to him, and every I I citizen will be given the opportunity . to give as much or as little as he cares ■ toward that end. ' ENTIRE WNT — Os Insurance Policy Carried in Modern Woodman by James Ball ALLOWED BY JURY Returned a Verdict Last Night in Favor of Widow, Cecelia Rail. R. C. Parrish, one of the attorneys : for Mrs. Cecilia Ball, in her suit against the Modern Woodmen, wis informed today that the jury hearing i the case in the Allen Superior Court, j had returned a verdict at midnight, giving Mrs. Ball the full amount of i the insurance policy, carried by her ■ husband, the late James Ball, being $2,000, with interest from February, 1918. The case, after a several days’ ! (rial, went to the jury at five o'clock ! last evening. The lodge, in refusing to pay tho insurance, alleged that Mr. Ball, at the time he took out the insurance, wu» above the accepted age. and that :at the time he took the policy, he misrepresented his age. R. C. Parrish of this city and Guy Colerick of Ft. Wayne are Mrs. Ball's ! attorneys. C .L. Walters, of this city, and E. V. Harris, W. D. Headrick and J. R. Sherwood are the defendI ants' attorneys. The case was venued ■lto the Allen Superior court from the I Adams Circuit court.