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JAPS TIGHTEN FOOD BLOCKADE I Tighten Blockade Os I'oreiicn ConceMMons In Tientsin Tlent'in. t'hlfia. Jan 2~ 'UP) Japan***.* army aulhorltl.*' »u<l<l.*’i)y tithtonM th<-lr him kn<)> ,>( th.* Hiitl.h and Fun, h <on<»*««i<m« today Mark.** booth* in th.* < on- < • Kwloti* worn ••m|>ti»d of tuo<l <;:ii< kly by aiißlotl* houw hold* rx and |>ri<>*" rnoi<* than donhl.d Japan.**.* authorhimi informed th.* British ronaulat.* that ih.y Int.-nd.-d to .*lm trlfy baitwd wir«* harrtcad*** Nurroun.hna th.* ion<<***ion*. ntattlnK tomorrow Thi* draath tnoaaiire. intend..,! tu prevent "*mngitlit>K' of food in to the , on, ♦■**(,»li* had lieen re. sorted to when Japan first imposed the ld<>< kade laat June 14 hecatme It wa* diaplea*.-.) with Great Brit ■in’a attitude rev.,idins China The blockade had been a henev olent one for many week*, and naturally sipnlficanre wa* atta.hed I to kt* intenaifi, atlon immediately 1 after the ltriti*h aelzure of 21 Get- ■ man seamen from the Japanese liner Asama Marti neat th. Japanese toast Only Italian* and a few white i<r..iri*t> Huaslans were permitted to take small amounts of food into the tom e«*lons for their own use The Japanese explaining their Intention to electtify the barbed wire, said that numerous Chinese had Ireen < to««inK their tiarmades Japanese .nmy elettrielans iiegatt preparing the wire* for id, < trifi < atlon Though the natural assumption seemed to be that the A*atna Maru In, iden’ brottphi about the Intensification of th,- him kade. there was some feeling here that the expiration of the Japanese. American trade treaty, denottn, >-d by the I'nlled Slates lie, au»e of Its dlssatisfscllon with Japanese activities tn China, might have played a part The I’nlled State* had tomplain••d that the com esstotis biot kade Interfered with Amer I, an basin, •« GIVE PROGRAM FOR INSTITUTE Root Township Farmers’ Institute Will Be Held February ti i "Why Farm*” and ' Finding Contentment in Rural laving' are two themes of the Root township farmer's institute opening at t JO a. m February « at the Monmouth high school gymnasium 1.. O Chasey of Marion. Ohio, an agricultural leader of vision and experience, will be one of the principal speakers dealing With these subjer IS. Mrs. K Guy Collings <4 Brainbridge. noted 4-H < lul, leader, in her address ‘Today's Trend Tomorrow's Goal.” will dl«< uss the pnrewt-child relationship "Be a Fly's Eye", the subject of her morning address will touch on perspective* In life. Forty-one classes of exhibits are being offered to restdenl* of Root township this year Entries may include many type* of farm produce grown as well as sewing, baking and tanning achievements. Two judge* will be presen' to decide the winner*. — prites having been donated largely hy local merchants and townspeople. In the evening institute session, a short movitfg picture sponsored l,y the rural safety council will be shown, followed by an excellent amateur entertainment hour Cash prise* are being offered to the school* at Root township and other group* who will compete for presentation of the most popular feature of entertainment and fun chairman of the IHO institute I* Norval Fuhrman; vice chairman, laiw rente Beckmeyer: secretarytreasurer. Mr*. A Weldler The public la invited to attend all sessions of the Root tnwnsh'n farmers institute National ('. Os C. Representative Here W E Harber, representing the national office of the National Chamber of Commerce. Washing ton, H f'„ la In the city calling on friends The C of C publishes the magaxlne. "Nation* Busi neaa," *nd deal* with subject* of currwnt Interest and proposed legislation A number of local individual* and firm* subscribe to the magaxlne. the subscription being one mean* of supporting the Washington office Mr Harber has a num)>er of friends In this city, having lived In Fort Wayne i several gears ago

I . S. Protested This Halting of Liner by British •\ V \ \ \ \ \ \ \

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DEATH CLAIMS WM. MELCHER Retired Farmer Dies Friday Nittht At Home In This City William Melcher. -I reiired Ko,a township farmer ,he<| Ftiday Hight al * 4„ O'clock al the Mel cher residence, 72* North Fifth street lieuih wa* attributed to heart trouble The der eased was born in Adams' ■ oiinty January If, 1 the son of Frederick and 1..,ni« Hager !• Id Meh het He had residrsl in Hoot township his entire life with the exception i of seven year* in Fort Wayne and seven week* ill Itecann lie was' a memls-r of the S' Peter'* Lutheran church Hl.* wife. Louis, Israel Melcher pre, eded him in death In I*l* Surviving at. a daughiet Mr* Fred Ho, kern, yet of Momo.-vllle. route two. ~ son. Herman of TJSI North Fifth street, thre, *|*tets. Mr* Fred Wietfeldt of Merrill. MithiKwn Mt* Min., Hagerfeldt of Fort Wayne and Mis Emm* Bohnke of Fort Waytie five grand children and one great grandchild Funeral service* will In- held Monday afternoon at I o', l<„ k at the resident , and 1 to o'clock at the K' Peter * church Rev I. J Itornseif will offi, late and burial will be in the < httrch cemetery The body will be ret timed to the residence from the Zwi, k funeral home and may be viewed there after 7 o , 10, k - o Accident Victim In Taken From Hospital Richard Fairchild I'i who was! Injured m an auto a< < Ident sixteen . days ago that claimed the life of! Mr* Charles Teeple, wa* dismiss-1 ed last evening from the \dani* county memorial hospital Fnlrchlld suffered a compound | frat ture of the left artn In the two-<at crash cast ol Detatm on federal road 221 He tl«o suffeted a fractured and lai erated right) foot He is abb- to be up and around his home following hi* dismissal | from the hospital BREAK IN COLD IS PREDICTED Fair And Warmer Weather In Bureau Forecaat For Sunday A continuance in the respite from the gero and sulexeto temper ature* that have been so ptevalenf lately was expected over the weekend With the forecast of weathermen that the temperature would continue to rise Hundny and a prediction of not quite so cold for the remainder of today, hopes of a sustained break in the , >ld wave seemed well found'sl For the first lime In several days the mercury in the Haily lieinocrat thermometer did not fall to th* xero mark or below during th* night. This morning at S o'clock the thermometer registered four degree* above The mercury hovered near the two figure mark most of Friday afternoon. slipping only late last ,night and early this morning

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 27. 1910.

Former Local Man Dies In Canada I Funeral service* for <' E Hite* man. a former re*ident of Decatur. I were held today hi Winnipeg. Manitoba t'unadi lit* home III* ,|,-.,th occurred Thnrsduy Mr Hltesnmn al one time was in business in thi- < Ity with the l.iie Al Gerard !!•• and his family , moved io t'ariad.i .1 numln 1 of years .tgo Survivors Includ,* lout son* and his widow who. before he, mar- 1 Gage, wa* Miss Fanny Pennington of Hit* < ity NORRIS FAVORS SEN. WHEELER Sen. Norris Says Wheeler Second Only To Room's elt Wa«hinglon Jan 2? U.F> S< n George W Norris. I Neb , < los, ft lend ~f the new <|,-al announced today that S.-n Burton K Wheel •*r. It. Mont wa* hi* < hoiee forthe presidency f Pre«id,.tii Roosevelt do*-* not *<••■► a third term "If president Roosevelt isn't the Detnoctalic candidate and Wheeler I*. I'd support him. Norris said in an Interview "I think Wheeler i has mad*- a wonderfully fine r-< ord since he's served in th,- *<-n-i ate He is fuQy qualified to ite president '■ Norris previously had annount ed his belief that Mr Roosevelt should seek a third tertn If an internal- ! ional < rlsl* threaten* the pea,,- of thi* <oiintty Norris' endorsement of Wheeler ' came after the Montana senator I was taken under th. pohtiial wing lof President John I. la-wl* of the | cotigress of indiistiial organUa-, I Hons, and after indication* that | high American Federation of Lab- | or official* and 'he Railroad Broth - erhiHMl* independent union* might 1 support him for the Democratli nomination Wheeler addn**sed delegate* at l.ewis' I'nlled Mine Worker* eon-’ ventio nat Columbus <• yesterday He said th>*n that lie wa* a < andldate for reelection to the senate lie did not mention the presl-1 - dential ra, e The Norris statement was hl* ' second during the past week on potential presidential candidate* lit the fir*! he praised the appoint- 1 ment of Robert H Jackson a* at- . I torney general mid said that Jack-1 ' son possesses qualifications not only for the cabinet post "but for ' any other within the gift of the knierlt an people ” Despite the warmth ot that en- I dorsement. friend* of Norris said 1 it was not aimed necessarily at projecting Jackson into the forefront of the l!H0 campaign Nor ' rls I* said to believe that Jackson . could nin a stronger rgee in IM4 Wheeler, whose arrival at the miner's convention wa* greeted by a band and much fanfare, kept the political pot boiling after his address by telling reporter* that "for the sake" of the liemocratlc party Mr Roosevelt should announce his thlrd term intentions now On Thursday, before leaving for t'olumbu*. Wheeler called al the White House following lawto (CTMmWVRP QU FAOR MR) Former Decatur Man In Critical Condition L. A Springer, former Decatur resident, is reported critically 111 al Lima oh o Ills daughter. Mr* Walter Ekhar. will leave tomorrow to be al hie bedside,

I liner Mtinhutian. now buck in Now York, at Gibraltar with the British deatroyei which earn., alongside in th,* foreground On the ea«tbound trip 2T> *a< ks of mall were removed

LOCAL LAWYER ON COMMITTEE Arthur E. Voxlewede Is Named To Aid In Recodifying Laws Arthur E Vog|,*wed<*. Adams county prose, uior. has l»-,-n named to .1 committee to recodify the Indiana <rimin.il laws It was learned hen- today Appointment of Mt Yogi. Wide to the committee Was mad, by David M 1..-wi« of Indianapolis, ptesid.-nt ol the Indiana pros,-, utot's association Foil! prosecutors 111 the «tate w.-re named by Mr Lewis to the < ommitle,. who*, duty II will be ,to compile data relative to proposed • odifi, allot) of the statutes, , to he presented to the state legislature Dth.-r members m tb<* commit tee who will work with the to, al loose, utor are Jallo * O Ballou of For Wayne. Aliwii < minty pro*,- < moi. J S Koontz. Kos, iusko county p,o*e< ular and la>we|| I'effley, Whitley oiinty prosecu- . toi - -o - — Bankers Named As Borah Successor Hois, Ida Jan 27 <u Pj John Thomas, (a a Republican and a banker, prepaied 'oday to assume the s. nat, s, at of William E Borah t'nllke Borah he 1* an old guard Republi, at), but he i* an isolation!*! I pledge myself 10 an undying fight in behalf of Nettatot Borah * often expressed determination to keep oil, nation Olli of w ,r. he said I d„dl< ate my set vices to those ideal* ot good govetnment tor who It he so courageously and - valiantly fought o C. L. Os C. To Give Puhlic Party A public parly will be sponsored by the Catholic laidies of Columbia Tuesday at the Knights of Colu'n 'bus hall An admission of 27, cents Iwlll be charged The patty will start at * p m o URGE CHECK ON REGISTRATION — County Clerk Requests Voters To Check Registration All persons who transferred | their registration at the county clerk's office since the last election have been urged to check on thi* transfer lit the county clerk's Office County Clerk Clyde O Troutner today stated that a cursoty exam Inatlon by the personnel of the clerk a office bad revealed some ot these transfers had not lieett made To be certain that they will he eligible to vote In the apptoaihlng May primary, these person* are urged to stop at the clerk s office a* soon as convenient Other person* who are tint cer- ! tain of thalr registration are urged hy Clerk Trnutaer to call at the office and make a check Registration In tbr clerk'* office b*« Increased thi* week with a nuinl>er of voter* registering and > transferring

Finns Assert Latest Russian Offensive Failure As Attack Is Repulsed; Losses Terrific

LEGION PLANS FOR CONTEST County School Oratorical Contest To Be Held Wednesday The county oratorical cont,* t for high school student*, sponsored by Adam* l'o«t No 43. American la*gion. will be held Wednesday evening. January 31. Ed Bauer, pont commander announced today. The plat e for tin* contest has not been definitely decided, blit will announced Monday. Mt Bauer stated Print tpai* of all high *< hool* in th,- county are asked to conta, 1 Mr the county are asked to contact Mr. Bauer at once in entering names of their students in the <<>nte*t. The winner of th,* rounty tontest will entered in the state <-onte*t later in the year and if HUcceHsful their will be entered in the national tontest. A number of county student* Were entered in th,* contest last year and a greater number 1* ,-x petted to lit* entered this year o - Revival Services Open Sunday Night Sp,-< ial revival services will begin Stind.ty night at th. Nuttmsn \vr. I'c.ltrd Brethren church and continue every night next w,-,-k J V Anderson of Bluffton will < ondu, t th,* «ong servh *• The pastor, Rev L I Martin, will tiring the gospel m<*s«ag>** Ther«> will be special singing ind music every nigh* Th- puldit is invited to attend SCHOOL BOARD TO SELL LOTS Ixjts Formerly Occupied West Ward School Are To Be Sold The lots on Tenth street, where the West Ward school building ' formerly stood, are to be sold it was annoutu ••<! today by Walter J Krick, city school superintendent The decision to sell the lots owned by the board was inad>* last night at th,* Decatur high school in a meeting of th,- group The ground will l>< divided into four equal lots saving Tenth street the hoard de, id>-d . Th,* lots will l»- advertised with- ' in the next few day* and offered 1 for sale within a few week* Sam E Hite and Roy Runyon were 11am- ’ ed by the Imard to appraise the lots. The hoard also r,-appointed Noah A Bixler to the library hoard tor a thtee-year term Mt Bixler's present term expire- February 2S. 0 Os C. Directors Meeting Postponed Th,- meeting of the board of dlt«r» of the Decatur Chamber of Commer, s< heduled for Monday night tor election of new offliers, has been poatponed becauae of ~inflicting eugagenienls The meeting will be held at * o'clock Thursday night at the First State Bunk Thi* will Ire the first I meeting for the newly ele. ted dlI rector*. Georg,* Auer Carl Gerber .■nd James Murphy Three Young Lads Undergo Operations An unusual coim ldeme wa* re1 ported by attaihe* of the Adam* county memorial hoapllal Friday when three young lad* underwent 1 operation* at the institution 1 All three underwent appendectomies ami all three ope-atlon* were emergencies The lads are Richard Peckham. ' 12, of Monroeville; George Paul Morion ft. of Monroeville and Frederick Liechtenslelger. 11. of ’ Ohio City route two Albert Miller Is Home From Hospital I Albert Miller superintendent of t the Decatur cemetery, wa* dismissed from tbe veteran*' hospital at 1 Indianapolis yesterday and return--1 rd to hl* home here He has been I confined there for sometime fol!~wing an operation ,

SCHOOL HONOR ROLLS LISTED Junior - Senior High School Students Are Announced The honor rolls of the third six week* of the fir-t semester at th,Decatur junior-senior high school were annotimed today hy Principal W Guy Brown Thirteen students head the senior school list with four A s each. Eleven students lead the junior high list w ith -lx A * h The roll* Senior High a n Elbert Fuhrman 4 I 111, hard Abbott .... 4 Brrnei, e Barber 4 laos Baughman 4 It Earl Bromer. Jr. 4 Joan Cowens 4 Grace Flattgh 4 Ja> k Graham 4 Grau- Grether 4 Dorothy Hoffman 4 Gerald Kimble 4 Marjorie Millet 4 Anita Stoip 4 Peggy Gaunt . .32 Eileen Bowman 3 1 Richard Goldner 3 I lametta Kaehr I Florahelle Kohl* 3 1 l.eona Wefel 3 I Vivian Hit, brock 2 3 Arnold Martin 2 3 Alice Yost 2 3 Vera Bauer 2 3 Anna Brandyhery 2 2 Virginia Hoffman 2 2 Martha Macy 2 2 Rolien Mann 2 2 H.itry Maaaonne 2 2 Cal Peterson 2 2 Dick Sebnitz 2 2 Thelma Smith 2 2 Mary J. Wilaon 2 2 RotH-! t Yost J 2 Jean Zimmerman 2 I! Junior High Irene Brook* li Patsy Edward* K Roberta Eicher G Joan llantnia « la-ona Hoile « Marjory Linn G Kathleen M< Connell . G Kenneth McConnell g Edna Mae Schultz G Charleen Shackley G John Spahr G Billy Bromer 5 1 Juanita Fruchte r, 1 Rosamond Graham 1 Jane Maddox 5 1 Morris M. ciur. 7,1 Margaret Noel a 1 Alice Owen* & 1 Vera Jane Steury 5 1 Ronald Stu, ky 7,1 Huth Yost .? I Dorothy Brown I 2 Toni Colter 4 2 Don Eicher 4 2 Jean Stiahm 4 2 Frank Young 4 2 H<-len Harin-r 7. 3 Pauline Brintzenhofe 3 3 Marilyn Calms 3 3 Juanita Edged 3 3 Lettore Fuelling 3 3 Dorothy Hammond 3 3 Amelia ta-k.l- 1 3 Joyce Roop 3 Kathleen Sha, kley 3 3 Edward Walters 3 3 Clarice Atispauglt 2 4 fCONTPWKD ON PAOK BIX) , DISTRICT MEET AT FT. WATNE District American l-egion Meeting To Be Held Thursday A delegation from Adams Post No, 43. American la-gloti from this city will altend the fourth dlstru' meeting of th,- la-gion at Lincoln Post No k 2 in Fort Wayne Thursday night. February I A cafeteria suppet will be held from t to 7 o < 10, k preceding the meeting All members Os Adams Post wishing to attend ui>- asked to iontact Commander Ed Bauer before Monday evening Mr Bauer a*t,*d that importsut bu*itte*s will be dlacussod at th* meeting, a* presented by V. 1 Bormann. of this «Ity. district commander A dance will bo bald at the peat after the bueinoa* meettoff AH local post member* are urged to ( atteod-

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Drive Fails To Gain Red Army Any Advance; Loss Os Life And Equipment Reported Heavy. BOMB VILLAGES Helsinki. Finland. Jan. 27 f uP) Finnish sour,,-* who have reported only a series of strong Russian attack* northeast of latke laidogn. said today that they l,elleved the buttle w 1* turning into a Russian defeat Thi* w.i* the seventh day of the Hussian attack It had not gained them .1 mile, a< cording to report* from the front, despite heavy expenditure* in men and ma, hinc*. Considering the apparently careful preparation* which the Russians made and the weight they threw In it hi an effort Io flank the .Mannerheim tin*, ike Finns suggested that th,- ••l|en*ive must now be idptdged a failure. Neutral military observer* ,-x---press,-,) belief that even if the Hussian* continued their attack they would not now be able Io break through since the Finn* had taken and withstood the lit* l sho, k ot attaik They said they believed th, Ru«*l.'in alia, k would continue to lose momentum be. cau*>- ot depleted mall power, ammunition and resetve«, and that th- Finns could replenish their own materials and tn-n lietauso their coinmunication* are better. Men ot the Hist category of th« <las* of |sak. men now 42 years old were ord-red today to r-port to th«- colors February 2 Those affe, t,-d are men wh<> hav,- had militaiy training Fot military reasons th- number was not i<-ve.-il-d. The total number with the color* Is Withheld also lor military reaaons Finland ha* aummoned the great-t part ot 211 < lasses to the color* it was understood, but has by no nv-rins exhausted it* man power. An official statement said that Hussian plane* dropp-d 14« bombs on eight towns and village* In northern Finland yesterday, killing on,- person and wounding three ll was asserted that th,- Ruasiatts used m.idilii, guns again*', civilian* at Several places and that In at least one < as, explosive m.llets were used Bombing ot hospitals contln ied and a' a certain Village bon b« dropped in the hospital grort.d* scored a dire, t hit on an .th laid shelter tren, h. th, siatem, nt add-d "Luckily thet,- were no people tn Ih.lt action <>l *he tren, h ' Pot-tion Difficult Copenhagen. Denmark. Jan 27 - <U.P) Twa Riisaian •-nf-reent, nt division* were repotted to 1,,- tn difficult poNi’ion t-diy north of Lake Ladoga on th- Finnish snuthetii front Pre** dlspatihe* reported that the two divisions whnh might number .mywhef. liom |„o<>- to Ixihhi men each, had lost contact with ea,h other after trying vainly for days to gel through to re. inforce the Russian* who hud !>,-„n attacking th,- Finn* north-a*' of th- lake sot s,-v,-n day* One dHisloii *■* repot'-d to lx--111 'he Atojoki sector th, «the, in the Klllaalijok- *,-<-t,,i Further, the Russian l-o,e ,t- --* talking th,- Finn* was now report, >-<| to be in bad |H>*tlloti with ill Its supply route* at th, me , of Finnish guns ilotig th, ,kw (hor>* It had been reporicl Ilia, a dwindling of ICussbii tombing plane a|t,« k« on Flnnisli towns was due to a ■ al! sot |>laii> iq drop supplies to thi* four The Finn* themselves bad m-14 110 claim to .1 victory Th,-it <o,ll* tuuiliqu,'* still 'old nt heavy It *• stall attack*, though It had b<■ u iinderstoivd that these attio ** w-rt ditnlnlshiiiK In torce In theit communique* yesterday Hl4 Finns told of some success, *, They said that the Russian loss-fl were severe, that several two* panic* of Russian Infatilty hu| ICONTWVKD ON PAOI* fltX) - —...—.—a.— TKMffKRATURI RIADINOk OtMOCRAT THIRMOMtTIR 1:00 •. m 4 tj 10 00 • n>. « ll 00 I » jo WEATHER Qanerally ffl<r tonight and Bunday* not qu<l* *0 cold m central 1 w**t portiana tonight, rising t»**» prratur** Bunday.