Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1918 — Page 1

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No. 88.

LINOLEUMS a ■ Will have to advance in price in a short time. We still have a number of patterns in 12foot width that we are selling at the old price. 1 , ’’ . '• W. J. WRIGHT

MONDAY LOCAL MARKET.

Oats 81c. Corn 95c. Wheat $2.00. Rye $2.00. Butterfat 41c. Eggs 30c. Hens and spring chickens 20c. Old roosters 12c.

Every potato hill is a rap at Kaiser Bill. Mrs. A. F. Long and Mrs. C. W. Hanley went to Brookston today to attend a missionary meeting. Mrs. J. Karnowsky returned to her home in Chicago, after visiting at the home of Sam Karnowsky. Ed. Oliver returned to Chicago, after looking after his interests at Newland. Ray Michaels, of Monon, came today foi - a visit with his father, W. F. Michaels. 1 Miss Lorene Warren went to Lafayette, where she will enter Lafayette Business college. * Mrs. Jud Adams went to Reynolds today, having been called there on account of the serious illness of her nephew, Jud Michaels.

Misses Gladys Reeve and Bertha Daniels returned to Chicago this morning, after spending Sunday with relatives here. Mrs. Nellie Brown, who had been visiting with her brother, Walter Lynge and family, returned to her home in Windfall, Kansas today. Arthur Bissendon went to Paxton, 111., to see his mother, who is very sick. From there he will return to Camp Shelby. Thomas Cox left this morning for Chicago, where he" will probably be assigned at once to the Canadian army. John Morgan, who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Morgan, returned to his home in Elwood today. Gravalous Hanson arrived home after an absence of two months. He has been working for the Pennsylvania railroad, doing valuations work. Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania were some of the states he worked in. Gravalous is back in Rensselaer to remain for a time at least.

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The Evening Republican.

PLAN TO REGISTER MEN BETWEEN 18 AND 50

A plan to register every man in the United States between the ages of 18 and 50, designed by the provost marshal general’s division of the war department with a view to enlisting the man power of the nation in war work, is reported to be meeting with opposition among some members of congress and the administration. ‘Whether the president has approved or disapproved it has not been announced, but there were indications last night that it may be rejected. The plan involved two prime considerations : Adjustment, through military channels, of the labor situation which now constitutes the greatest menace and handicap to America’s war preparations. Provision for putting into the army every able bodied man in the country wheh needed, with due allowance made for necessary industrial and agricultural workers. The scheme was laid before the president about three weeks ago. It was studied by the general staff of the army, and, it is understood, met with approval. In substance the idea proposed: To have congress enact legislation requiring registration of all men between the ages of 18 and 50, to have these men fill out questionnaires as did those between 21 anti 30; to classify them as to their employment in effective or noneffective industries and to their conditions of dependency; then to give the war department authority to dispose of these men as it sees fit, putting those engaged in noneffective industries into effective industries or into the army. The plan would give the war department absolute control of the labor situation in the United States, and it would also give the military authorities an almost inexhaustible reservior of supply for future armies. V

It is not intended for the present, at least, to put men between the ages of 18 and 21, and between 30 and 50 into the army. The scheme is primarily intended to adjust the labor situation. Under the plan the war department would be able to shift labor to meet any situation, to provide every single man necessary for war work, arid to put to work every man in the United States not engaged in an effective occupation and who might be needed for war work.

Under the proposal the war department would be able to say to a bartender, for instance, “Go across the street and wojk in the munitions factory, where you will do the county some good, or else, we will put you in the army.” It would be able to take, idlers, loafers, men who do not support their wives, I. W. W’s.. parasitic socialists, and all that class and either force such men to go to work in useful occupation or else put them in the army. Furthermore, in many industries in which men are now employed it would be possible to substitute women.

SCHOOL CLOSES WITH PATRIOTIC PROGRAMME

The South Meadow school in Newton township and taught by Miss Oka Pancoast, closed Thursday with a well rendered patriotic programme, which was greatly enjoyed by the patrons and visitors present. Conservation of food was patriotically observed by the teacher as she especially requested the patrons to omit the usual big'dinner on account of the great Waste of broken food. As the first step in the teaching of conservation and thrift, Miss Pancoast presented to each pupil his first thrift stamp at the close of the programme.

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’ RENSSELAER, INDIANA, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1918.

GUILD STILL A BIG MAN

THE CHICAGO ACCOUNT OF MEL GUILD’S CONVICTION IN AUTO CASE.

The Chicago Evening News of Saturday contains the following account of the conviction of Mel Guild, Medaryville, on the charge of stealing automobiles: Down around Medaryville, Ind., there are more than 100 farmers—• good, respectable men in their community—who are today riding about in automobiles stolen in Chicago. These farmers were innocent purchasers of stolen property. They did ; not know their cars were stolen. They bought them in good faith from Mel Guild —at a price, of course, much lower than they could have bought them at the factory—but then Mel Guild is a member of one of the best families of the county; is a director in their bank, a member of the Farmers’ alliance, and, even since his indictment as an automobile theif, has been elected aiderman, of Medaryville. Guild was con-j victed and a motion for a new trial; was to have been'heard by Judge R. E. Crowe of the Automobile court today, but on account of the labor I liberty loan parade the courts were j closed. The motion will be heard 1 later.

The conviction here of Mel Guild as head of a widespread automobile stealing gang is considered in Medaryville as persecution. Members of the gang went to Medaryville and attended a meeting of the citizens and told them that “Mel” did not know the cars he bought from them had been stolen. So the citizens elected “Mel” as aiderman even after his indictment as a thief. On Tuesday night the Cook county jury returned a verdict of guilty against Guild and fixed his punishment at three years in the penitentiary and a fine of $3,000. Harry Raymond, a Chicago postoffice clerk, was convicted with him and sentenced to three years. Their. attorneys have asked for a new trial. This is the first big conviction in automobile stealing cases in Cook county and it is hoped by the authorities that it will be the means of breaking up various organized gangs of automobile thieves whose activities are so interwoven as to really form one large combination covering the entire country. Mel Guild, big man in his community, saw an opportunity to sell many automobiles at a big profit if he could get them at a price, according to the testimony brought out at his trial. He first conspired, according to court testimony, with Julius Zibberman, ex-Chicago policeman and former resident of Medaryville, to get the cars. Zimmerman is now under arrest in Kansas. City and will be brought here for trial. Zimmerman, it is said, hired men to steal cars and the roads to Medaryville were “burned up” by Zimmerman’s aids taking cars to Guild until Mel called a halt and said he could use only fice cars a week, the testimony showed. When members of the gang were arrested here and confessed. Guild defied the Chicago police to take him away from Indiana. “My peo pie own Medaryville,” Guild is quoted as saying, insolently, jumping upon the running board of an automobile containing Chicago officers. “We own the banks, the courts of the county and the whole works. I defy you to take me out

of the county.” j And so it appeared to the Chicago authorities who tried to obtain stolen cars through replevin proceedings. They were defeated and laughed out of town. Guild was finally arrested at Valparaiso, Ind., where he had)

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LONG USEFUL LIFE ENDS

GILLAM TOWNSHIP PIONEER SUCCUMBS AFTER LONG ACTIVE CAREER.

Had William F. Stevens lived until April 26 he would’have been ninety years of age, having been born in Champaign county, Ohio, April 26, 1828. He has lived in Jasper county since the fall of 1864, he and his wife having moved here at that time. His death occured Sunday, April 21 and funeral services will be held at Independence church in Gillam township Tuesday, April 23, at 2:30 .p. m. i The deceased is survived by his daughter, Mrs. William E. Culp, of Lee, White county and his son, James Stevens, the trustee of Gillam township. William Stevens was a man of loveable character and was one of the character one was always happy to be with. He will long be remembered for the splendid life he lived among his friends and neighbors.

ibeen induced to go to confer with members of the gang as to the trial of cases pending against them. Guild’s cake became mere dough 'when Detective Sergeants Sullivan and Carton arrested Ross Hardesty and a man named Massey at Lake Parke avenue and 51st street Aug. 17. They had been watching the home of Julius Zimmerman, former policeman, who was known to have handled a number of cars believed to have been stolen. On the date the detectives saw the two men leaving Zimmerman’s home on the west side in two cars. Each detective followed a car until they came together again on the south side on the road to Medaryville. There they were arrested. One of the men “squealed” and the trial led to Medaryville. Sullivan and Carton went to Indiana. They learned that Zimmerman - was paid S3OO each for every car he sent there. They picked up Harry Ferrill driving a stolen car near Medaryville and brought him back to Chicago. He “squawked,” implicating Karl Rohrer, who confessed, Zimmerman, Elmer Farmer, John Ryan, John Brisboy and a man known only as “Bluie.” Farmer and Gannon were convicted on Rohrer’s testimony and are now in the penitentiary; Brisboy is in the army and “Bluie” has never been apprehended? Raymond’s entry into the game came after Ferrill, who had worked for Zimmerman, conceived the idea that he could make mor® money by operating for himself. Ferril, it was testified, made a deal with Guild to take all the cars he could steal. Then he went to Raymond to finance the first operation. The testimony showed further that Raymond agreed to pay $75 to Rohrer and the others who stole the cars. Ferrill delivered them to Guild in Medaryville. Guild wrote out a check for each car, payable to Raymond,\for S3OO to insure Raymond that he was not being double-crossed by Ferrill, and Raymond cashed the checks in west side saloons, splitting the money with Ferrill. But Ferrill insisted upon having newer cars. He declared they must be cars run only a short time, fully equipped with self-starters, electric lights and all the usual trimmings. The gang stole them faster than he could sell and he tried to call a halt, according to the state’s evidence. Then followed the arrests of Farmer, Ryan and Rohrer, after a pistol battle on the west side with Policemen Woodrich and Miller, which was followed by more confessions to be used in the trial against Guild. Ferrill and Rohrer

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BUSINESS COURSE TO TAKE PLACE OF GERMAN

Winamac Democrat. After this year there will be no teaching of the German language in the Winamac high school. The decision to discontinue it was reached some time ago, but owing to the fact that a number of classes had already started on it for the school year, it was deemed inadvisable to stop the work during the term. Similar action is being taken all over the country, and it is likely that _ no school in this country will teach it next year. In its place in the Winamac school' a mufeh more practical course is being provided for—no less than a complete business course, including bookkeeping, stenography, typewriting and kindred studies. A teacher has already been engaged by the school board, and it is believed that many students will avail themselves of this opportunity to fit themselves for real office work on the completion of high school. Under a new ruling by the state board of education, the study of anguages in the high school if now entirely elective with the pupil. Fig-, ures show that only about 5 per cent of the high school graduates go. to, college, and the prevailing idea now I is to get away from the older theory i of the high school as mainly a preparation for college, and to provide more for the 95 per cent unable to jursue their studies after completing high school.

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probably will receive light sentences when they are brought before Judge Crowe soon.

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NATION SEIZES WOOLEN MILLS

MANUFACTURERS TOLD TO HOLD LOOMS FOR GOVERNMENT— CLOTHE SOLDIERS. Mr. Hilliard of Hilliard & Hamill has received word from the government to the effect that Acting Quartermaster General Goethals has notified all woolen mills located in the United States to hold their looms at the service of the government from now until July Ist in order to insure adequate supplies of cloth for uniforms. . This means that manufacturers of , civilian clothes will have to get ’ ‘special government permits before :they can obtain any cloth of any 'kind.. No comment was forth-com-ing as to the amounts of cloth the government might release to private manufacturers. But it is probable ithat this commandeering order will make cloth scarce in the fall, as well as very high priced. Trading in wool was completely stopped in Boston by the government and all unsold stock was taken over at pravailing values. Albert W. Elliott, representing the War Department, told the Boston wool trade association that there was a decided and urgent need by the government for more wool and that nex twinter’s uniforms will be made out of 20 oz materials in place of 16 oz cloths. ' Mr. Hilliard suggests that this commandeering order will unquestionably cause Fall Suits for men to be from edght to ten dollars higher than they are now, as well as actually cause a shortage in the latter part of the season of all wool clothes.

FARMER —Let us have your order for that silo now. Rensselaer Cement Product Company. Mrs. T. F. Brusnahan, of Garden, Wis., who is visiting her daughter, Mrs. S. E. Richardson, went to Monticello today accompanied by her daughter.

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