Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1923 — Page 2

rKUUD OF THIS LEGION HERO Mourned as Dead, “819 Jim" Haibery Return* and I* Accorded Honor* for Bravery. They mourned “Big Jim” it* dead, and In Pittsburg, Kan., Enid. Okla.,

and Tulan. Okla., there were memortal ser »• tew. The new*p n pe r * carried tttorlc* of "Big Jim’s bravery, of hl* sacrltice on the country'* altar—all In the past tense. “J t m ! s n't dead.” Mrs.. “Big Jlin" insisted, and refused to at-

tend the aervlcei “He’ll route back to me. I know it." “And "Big Jim” did come back. "Big Jim,” otherwise Lieut. Janies W. Hunfiery, came back, through wars worst hell, to the woman who waited at home for him. He’s a newspaper reporter now. In Omaha. And the other day “Big Jim" wus summoned to Fort (’rook, near Omaha, anti In the presenci- of a thousand or more American Legion buddles and Hanford MacNldor. national commander of the American Legion, and other notables, I the Distinguished Service cross was pinned on his brenst. — A letter from Gen. John J. Pershing, and one from Gov. Henry Allen of Kansas, were read, praising "Big Jim’ for magnificent heroism. And the story was told again of how he fought his way back, dangerously wounded, to life, anti back home again to the wife who held to the faith he would return. Lieutenant Ilanbery’s net was cleantug out a German machine run nest nt Chateau Thierry. He and hl* men went forward in bayonet charg ■. All hut 12' of the platoon were killed or wonnth-d. "Big Jim" was wounded in the head, nr* I his right arm paraljzed. but he kept on going, refusing medical ' attention, but Insisting that his womfoml-meii be looked after. He led ; a.britflaln .charge, personally captur-, Ing two'‘of fhd Germa'n guns. He sustained wounds in the head, right thigh and left arm. He crawled, into a shell hole and was unconscious eight hours. When he recovered coniscious#»’ss he bound up his own wounds and tried to help two other wounded men in the same hole—-but they were killed by shells. Then he tried to “dig In.” But he was seen by a German gunner, and . was hit a few more times. He “played 'possum,” until the firing ceased. He tried to signal the attention of an American flyer, but a German air-' man. instead, saw him, and came swooping down, opening fire on the wounded officer with a machine gun. He “played.’possum” again.’ And two hoijrs later he crawled out of his hole and started, slowly,' in agony, to crawl to the American lines.' He (Wouldn't walk. He rolled, crawled, pushed his way along inch by Inch. A | German sniper shot at him every time I he roiled over, and added more wound* to his total. Finally the sniper got him with a bullet through the right thigh, and "Big Jim” fainted He was picked up the next day and sent to a hospital. He was unconscious 52 hours, and for a month his. Identify lost. The War department cabled his wife In Pittsburg, and parents in Enid, that lie was dead. Then Uie services were held. BUt two months later Mrs. Hanber.v received a letter from “Big Jim," from a imepital in France. After being brought back to the States he was many months In the hospital. When he was able to get out he went to Omaha and became a newspaper reporter. When he enlisted, at the very start of the war, he was a teacher in the State Normal school at Pittsburg. It-was with Company L, Fifty-ninth infantry, lie tvent to France, and from the start he was called "Big Jim" because of Ids height—6 feet 2 Inches in bis bare feet. LEGION MEN AS POLICEMEN Portland, Oregon, Post Responds When . the Call Is Made for Traffic Officers. Glenn FL Tlcer, one time infantryman and director of the employment

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bureau of Portland (Ore.) post of the American Legion, received a call from Portland’s police comm i h s 1 o n e r one morning asking for ex-soldiers to as policemen. The longshoreanti water front employees’ lock o u t was In full blast at the time mid the regtraffic police

,"ere detailed for special duty. The majority of the veterans donned 'Mr war time uniforms and wore '"’"re officers’ badges on their O. D.’s wbers many of the men might have ' , " ni iwro’s medals. Fifty-two vetWere sworn in as "specials." Bv' l \ U 1 *" 1 is pictured here. He's . '"Mtson. who, with other servthe "stop agd go' tw " months the lockout Four suta Gr ** t Vißitors - • hers Os the' end four tuemof the Louisiana', ‘^ el,r 7‘’ nt, f veH appointed havP I,<?PU mlttee to greet "J corngto the American wUlt®ri» gmr™ %

Ztucio IsTRiKEjx-S. HAVE NARROW ESCAPE / / Warren Men Get Thrill When NitroGlycerin Truck Is Wrecked The thrill of bumping against a culvert and smashing a wheel of an automobile loaded with 60 quarts of nitro-glycerin, and then skidding into J a ditch with the machine loaded with I enough explosive to have blown them ' to atoms, had it let go, was the hairraising experience Wednesday after noon of Fred Cunningham and Garl Tam. two Warren men. who were givi en the scare of their lives and probably brought them closer to death's door than they will ever again experience until they get the final summons. The two occupants of the machine loaded the sixty quarts of explosive . from a magazine of the American ; Ni-tro Glycerin Company, .situated on the Tom Foust farm near Warren, and started to drive to a point near Eaton, where Cunningham, a professional shooter of nitgo-glycerin, was Ito use the sixty quarts to shoot an , oil well. They were about six miles south of I ; Warren, in Jackson township, at a ; ' point on the highway between the Bert Jones and Elmer Luckey farms ; when Cunningham's Ford car skidded on the slippery road afid whirled completely around and was headed north. One rear wheel was crushed, and this permitted the machine to slide into the side ditch, where a cushion of 1 snow also was an aid to keep the maI chine from upsetting. The machine came to a stop without any damage other than the smashed wheel. Mr. Jones, from his home about 100 feet distant, witnessed the accident, and hurried to the scene, and he placed his own Ford car at the dis- ■ posal of Cunningham to take the load lof nitro-glycerin back to the maga--1 zine, the trip to Eaton being aband- ' oned tor the time being. Cunningham and Tam admit they had the scare of their lives. Had the 'car turned over the shock doubtless would have caused i an explosion. —.—_ * 1. RABBITS ATTACK TREES Hundreds of Small Fruit Trees Being Destroyed in Northern Indiana Warsaw. Ind.. Jan. 15. —Wild rabbits are attacking fruit trees in i Northern Indiana, destroying hundreds , of the smaller trees, according to Tom Parker, county agricultural agent. Their food supplies covered with snow and destroyed by recent severe winter weather, the rabbits have been , eating the bark off the fruit trees. Parker and tree surgeons are ad- ; vising orchard owners to cover the bases of the trees with newspapers. Peat bogs in Canada are said to hold the equivalent of 5,400,000 tons I of coal. / iff!*" > i • > ■ w / \ 7 A TERRIBLE DIS-EASE Timidity, false modesty or false pride is a dis-ease which has no equal. !It robs one of health, wealth and pleasure. If you are ailing, try CHIROPRACTIC. DR. S. J. ZURBUCH, D. C., M. C„ Ph. C. I Office phone 189—Residence, 590. ■ 10UX f Ashbaocher’s furnaces LlfiHlWiG RODS SPOUTING SLATE ROOFING ’ PHONFW or 739 b „ — ! i ■> 1 J U I /

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Monday Woman's Auxiliary of American ( Legion—Legion Hall, 7:30. Research club—Mrs. Bon Rice. Delta Theta Tan Sorority with 1 Mrs. Georgia Brown, 8 p. m. I’hi Delta Kappa Initiation in club rooms, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Psi lota Xl—Mrs. W. E. Hoffman, 7:30. 1 Pythian Sister Needle Club—K of P. Home. Young Peoples Meeting at home of Lawrence Linn. Tri Kappa—Miss Vivian Burk, S ’ o'clock. K. of P. Dance—At K. of P. Home; 8:30 p. m Shower for Miss Emma Keller by < C. L. of C.—K. of H. Hall at 8 o’clock. Mary and Martha S. S. Class of M. E. Church —Mrs. Chas. Yager. Wednesday Auction Bridge—Miss lx>ls Connell, at S o'clock. "500” Club—Mrs. Fred Fullenkamp. Ladies Aid Society of Reformed Church —Mrs. Wm. Beineke. Historical club with Mrs. Heber Humbarger, 2 p.m. Thursday Bachelor Maids —Mss. Dick Boell, 6:30. Phoebe Bible Class—Mrs- Fred Ashbaucher Ladies Aid Society of Presbyterian; Church—Mrs. Ruby Durkin, 2:30. Loyal Daughters’ Class of E. V., Church —Mrs. Roy Gaunt. Friday I). Y. B. class of U. B. church, with; Mrs. Roy Mumma, 7:30 p.m. I Mrs. Ruby Durkin will entertain: .the Ladies Aid society of the Pres' i byterian church, at her home on South First street, Thursday afternoon at 2:30. A good attendance is desired. 13t3 A shower will be given for Miss Emma Keller, bride-elect of this, month, .Tuesday evening at the K. of C. Hall with the C L. of C.’s as hostesses This party will take the place of guest night. + The Mary and Martha Sunday School Class of the Methodist Church will meet at the home of Mrs. Charles Yager on Adams street, Tuesday evening. January 16th. The election oof officers will take place and a good program is being prepared. Members are asked to be present at this meeting promptly at 7:30. Assistant hostesses are Mrs. Charles Elzey, Mrs. Patten, Mrs. DeVoss and Anna Mallott. + The I). Y. B. class of the United Bret hern church will meet at the home of Mrs. Roy Mumma, 808 West Adams street at 7:30 o'clock Friday evening. ' A good attendance is desired. + On Friday evening, Jan. 12th W. N. Steele, acting as installing officer. Tlie foilowing officers were installed by the Ben Hur lodge: Chief, H. N. Daniel; past chief, Adam Weis; judge. Fern Hoeneteen, teacher. Ona Springer: Scribe, Mary Artman; keeper of i tribute, Emma Burk; captain, Walter Sponger; guide, Emma Pennington; inside guard; Rosa Venis; outside guard. Emma Smith; pianist. Ruby . Bakes. After the installation a short program was given as follows; Readi ing. Mrs. Art man: music, Margaret i Haley; recitation, Dortha Haley; preaching, lodge rhymes, by Mary V. t Blossom; song. I>y Miriam Haley. A pot luck supper was served at the close of program- A good time was enjoyed by all present. The balance of evening spent in music and games. ♦ The Ladies Aid society of the Reformed church will meet with Mrs. William Beineke, Wednesday afternoon. The meeting will be in the form of a dollar social and each mem-' her of the church is requested to bring a dollar. A good program has ’ been prepared by the entertainment • committee with a reading by Mrs. 1 Ben Elzey; piano solo, Miss Lulu . Gerber; vocal solo, Mrs. Ben Schroyer. + The Evangelical League of Christian Endeavor will hold their regular ; monthly social and business meeting at the home of Lawrence Linn on Mercer Avenue tomorrow evening. The officers would like to see a goodly number of the members present. ♦ Mrs. Dick Boch will entertain the , Bachelor Maids at her home on North Filth street, Thursday evening at G:3or ' f •F Mrs. Fred Ashbaucher will entertain the Phoebe Bible, class of the Reformed church at her home on North Third street. Thursday evening. 4> ' z Degree work will he given by the I

Phi Delta Kappa fraternity tonight, the MecWng will start promptly at 7:30 o'clock and all members arc urged to attend. + The "Work ami Win Class of the U. 11. church will give the following program, Thursday, January 18th at 7:30, to which the public is cordially invited. Hong—Audience, page 218. Prayer Rev. Dotson. Welcome Address— Ralph Okely. A Sunday School's Greatest Need (). L. Vance. Solo —Mrs. C. E. Bell* Recitation —Jeanette Sudduth. Inslrunmental Solo Gertrude Chronister. Solo —Raymond Baker. Song—Page 14. Offering. Solo—Miss Zoina Stevens. A Class’ Greatest Need—K'harlcs Teeple. Song —Mixed Quartet. Piano Duet—Laurinda Johnson and Mrs. Earl Meyers. . Solo—Miss Lucille Conrad. Song —Juniors. Music —Orchestra. Solo —Niles White. Closing Song—Page 284. * The banns of matrimony between ‘ Mr. Peter Loshe, well known young ; farmer of Adams county, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Loshe and Miss Susan I Ullman of Trinity, Indiana were pub- ! lished for the first time at the St. ' Marys church yesterday. The wed- 1 I ding will occur the latter part of thej j month and will take place in the. i Catholic church at Trinity. Mr. I Loshe is a well known young man and his many friends extend their congratulations. + Miss Lizzie Schraluke entertained at dinner yesterday for Dale Smith. and Eldora Adams and Mr. and Mrs. I ; Bart Schraluka of Fort Wayne and Will Schraluka and her grandchil dren Robert and Bernadine Schraluka and Mrs. Sophie Smith, of this city. ♦ In the office of John T. Kelly, clerk of the Adams circuit court, at 2 o'clock this afternoon, decured the marriage of Miss Blta Alberson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Alberson, of near Geneva, to Lewis Renhart, of Jay county. The ceremoney was read by the Rev. B. N. Covert, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Renhart is engaged in farming. ♦ The Loyal Daughters’ Class of the Evangelical Church will meet with Mrs. Roy Gaunt, corner Seventh and Marshall Streets. Thursday evening. * Mrs. Heber Humbarger will be hostess to the Ladies’ Historical club at her home on South Third street, at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The members of the club are urged to be there promptly at 2 o’clock on account of the fact that trays are to be made. * U. S. COAL COMMISSION < Report of Probers Blames Prifiteering for Present Prices I'nited PresM SluflT CorreM|»on«lciit Washington, Jan. 15. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Widespread profiteering. over-development of the mining industry and recurrent strikes during the last few years were blamed for the present high prices of coal by the United States coal commission today in its first report to congress on the national coal problem. The commission warned that unless the industry reforms itself through the elimination of frequent, strikes and surplus mjners, fededral regulation will be necessary. S—S_S_WANT ADS EARN—S—S—S W ol’fl P • BABY’S BATH means a lot to baby and a lot to ..you too. Therefore why not put in one of our sanitary, up-to-date, snhwwhite, spotless, tubs? Baby’s bath will be an event then. Let us show you the real economy and added pleasure from having a sanitary bathroom such as we fpstall and eulp. The cost is nothing when the cowtort i i considered. I . J. HYMJW West Monroe Street .v. A 4M«J« lu

DIED IN FORT WAYNE SUNDAY Mrs. Otto Kleine Died With (ienerai Peritonitis Following Child-birth Mrs. Clara Schottman Kleine, age 27 years, whose home was on the I* t. Wayne-Decatur road ten miles north; of Decatur, died at the SI. Joseph hospital in Ft. Wayne at 1 | Sunday morning. Death was ‘Miked by general peritonitis caused child-birth. A child was born to Mrs Kleine last week and her condition I became serious. She was taken to the | hospital on Thursday morning. Funeral services will be held from the home at 1 o'clock and from the| St. John's Lutheran church at 1:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. R. M. Bolman, officiating. Burial will, be made in the St. John s cemetery. , Mrs. Kleine was the wife of Otto; Kleine, who survives, The baby born | last Monday is named Wanda. One other child. .Norbert, survives. One ■ brother. Martin Sohoppman, mid her 1 mother. Mrs. Wilhelmina Schoppman. - also survive. They reside northeast ■ of Fort Wayne. The deceased was t married to Mr. Kleine two and one-halt ■ years ago. $ Myers Will Filed for Prohate Today I The last will and testament of the late William J. Myers, whose death occurred last Friday afternoon, was filed for probate in the circuit court this morning. The entire estate, both real and personal, with the exception ! of a few articles of personal property, was bequeathed to the widow, Eliza Jane Myers. Mrs. Myers was named 1 executrix of the will. The document ’ was drawn up on February 3, 1913. RED PEPPER HEAT ZNDS RHEUMATISM Red Pepper Rub takes the “ouch” from sore, stiff, aching joints. It cannot hurt you, and it certainly stops ■ that old rheumatism torture at once. I When you are suffering so you can ■ hardly get around, just try Red Pepper Rub and you will have the quickest re- ' | lief known. Nothing has such concen- '' trated, penetrating heat as red pep- ’ | pers. Just as soon as you apply Red • j Pepper Rub you will feel the tingling B j heat. In three minutes it warms the ■ II sore spot through and through. Pain B ; and soreness are gone. 1 Ask any good druggist for a jar of M Rowles Red Pepper Rub. Be sure to fi get the genuine, with the name Rowles g , on each package.

■ I I■— ■ | ——l—i WW * _ I —^>———*—."■■■■l ■ — ~~ ,1.1 I | 1 . CRYSTAL TWO DAYS TODAY AND TOMORROW Tji -fcv_ , Special Music i* enc ®t Ladies of Moose Lodge - uy • vour ticket °t them. ■9v \ ; JkvfpW EoNa'\ W< : IWPo W|sKg^< : f. Id [®L j l hHB jP j dAi 3| Ifti; .fl ?; [ t - ; Ann .'■••; * - ■■' y ?®Wsi?4gfeA>> - - -j ■<; igEroagwMatinee Monday and Tuesday notf- ■ 10c 25c Fort Jayne’s leading theater 1 of F dJ. Jitili Wivcs ” I,ere » »t wil * be Bhott . n in « me week of i- el). Atk at a muoh tagi wr pncc . See it hene. *

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