Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1919 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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NEW TIME CARD TOMORROW

Ob the Monon, and Two New Trains Are Added. A new time card will go into effect on the Monon tomorrow, Sunday, and the two new trains, or the reinstated trains which were taken off last summer, Nos. 37 and .38, will start Sunday instead of April 5, as previously announced. They run on about the same time as formerly, south at 11:18 a. m., and north at 2:51 p. m. The time or No. 35, the early morning train from Chicago to Cincinnati, will'be one hour earlier, coming at 2:31 a. m., Instead of 3:31, and No. 6, Louisville to Chicago, will be 20 minutes earlier, reaching Rensselaer at 3:34 p. m. The official time card has not been received at this writing by Agent Beam and therefore there may be a few minutes difference in the figures given above and that of the official schedule, but this is approximately correct. Trains 1 and 2 on the Michigan City division will also be reinstated on practically the same old schedule.

IS LIBERTY FUEL A BIG FAKE?

Government So Alleges; Inventor Being Tried by Court-Martial. We note that deposed "Boss’’ Charles J. Murphy, at one time Democratic chairman of this district and who later gained some notoriety as a member of the Indiana public, service commission, is now secretary-treastirer of the Liberty Fuel Co. of Indianapolis, a corporation with an authorized capital of $10,000,000, according to literature of the company, which proposes to make a substitute for gasoline at about one-fourth the cost of John D’s. product. At ent the dear people are being<fjivited to buy stock in the concern, none of the fuel having been put on the market to any extent as yet, it is .understood. L. This so-called “liberty fuel" is an invention or discovery of Captain EJdwin C. Weisgerber, "captain of engineers U. S. army, division of research and development," and >?ho is one of the directors of this company, who, by the way, is now being tried by government courtmartial in New York, charged with criminal offenses involving alleged disloyalty to the United States and sympathy with Germany. It is alleged that his so-called "liberty fuel” is deterious to motors and consists of a solution of gasoline and picric acid, and that the acid is dangerous and destructive; that the mixture would ultimately destroy any "internal combustion engine or motor” and seriously impair the operation of submarines, motor trucks and other military and naval equipment. It is contended by the government that analysis of the mixture submitted by the defendant to the British war mission as a substitute

ter gasoline and purporting by him to consist of 95 per cent water and five per cent chemicals, was in reality "a saturated solution of picric acid and gasoline.” . Prof. Adams, who is,, on the faculty of the University of Illinois, and war. recently discharged as a major in the chemical warfare service, testified that his analysis showed the mixture to contain 6-10 of one per cent picric acid and ordinary commercial gasoline. Dan W. Sims of Lafayette, and a particular friends of ’Charles J. Murphy, is one of the attorneys defending Weisgerber in this courtmartial. v While, of course, “liberty fuel” may be all that the beautiful prospectus of the company claims for it and the defendant —the Inventor may be innocent of the charges on which he is being tried, the fact that the government 'has taken the action that it‘has in the matter is prima facia evidence that the fuel is NOT what is claimed for it, and The Democrat advises its readers to hang onto “their money and not invest it in stock in this company, at least until some evidence has been adduced that the fuel is practical. Stock salesmen have been traveling about over the state —and one was in Rensselaer last week —pushing the sale of stock in thjs company. The Benton Review states

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■ jXsk your grocer for Blue Ribbon jlour, equal to any other brand of gour sold on the market or money if you are not pleased.— IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS.

GOURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal Nows Epitomised —Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. George H. Gifford of Tipton was in Rensselaer on business Wednesday. "Commodore” O’Connor was down from Kniman a few hours on business Wednesday. The supreme court Tuesday held the Indiana anti-trading stamp law of 1915 unconstitutional. Claude W. May has been appointed administrator of tihe estate of his father, the late Jacob A. May, of Remington. New suits, filed: No. 9031. Albert Long vs. William C. Dooley et al.; suit on note. Demand SB7. No. 9032. Amzie S. Laßue vs. Edward G. Sternberg; suit for commission on sale of real estate. Demand $2,000.

The Victory Liberty loan, drive will start April 21. C. G. Spitler has been appointed chairman for Jasper county; George L. Robey for Benton; Mort Kilgore, Newton; W. B. Henry, Pulaski; M. D. Falvey, Starke; W. K. O’Connell, White. Bert Llewellyn, the Demotte school teacher who was found guilty of assault and battery upon a pupil of bis school in Squire Irwin's court a few months ago, and fined $1 and costs, but who appealed the case to the circuit court and then took a change of venue to Newton county, was found not guilty by a jury in that county Tuesday, the jury being out only 10 minutes.

ON WHITE SLAVERY CHARGES

Rensselaer Man Arrested Thursday But Released on SI,OOO Bond. It is said that a federal officer was in Rensselaer Thursday and arrested a young man of this city on "white slave” charges, and that the latter gave bond for SI,OOO for his appearance in the federal court when wanted. t As the for the young man was out of town yesterday and no reliable information could be ihad, The Democrat refrains from giwng the young man’s name or an' of the alleged details of the matter of this time.

NOTES FROM COUNTY HOSPITAL

Orville Johnson of Wolcott underwent an operation Wednesday for appendicitis. Mrs. Leonard Rhoades entered the hospital Tuesday afternoon, suffering from influenza. She is improving. Mrs. John Anderson of Mt. Ayr entered the hospital Tuesday for medical attention. Verna Hurley, who had been very sick with pneumonia, is improving nicely now . Mrs. Robert FrOhreich of Goodland, who was brought to the hospital Wednesday and underwent a major operation the same night, died at 2:30 Thursday afternoon. She was 28 years of age and is survived by her husband but no children.

FARMERS’ STATE ORGANIZATION

Perfected at Meeting Held in Indianapolis Tuesday. On March 25 at the assembly room of the Claypool hotel in Im dianapolis a body of several hundred farmers met for the purpose of perfecting an organization, or Indiana Federation of Farmers. There were 53 organized counties represented, according to P. .H. Hauter, who represented the local Jasper County Betterment association at this meeting. Lewis Taylor of Newburg was elected Chairman of the meeting and E. E. Reynolds of Tippecanoe county was elected secretary. Mr. Taylor opened the meeting with a very brief speech in which he asserted that the solution of the farmers* problems must be made, on a basis of justice and fairness

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THE TWICB-A-WBEK

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1919

THE PASSING OF A FINE MARCH

Weather Was Remarkably Good All the Way Through Month. But two more days of March remain and, taken as a whole, it has been one of the most remarkable March months we have ever seen. The average temperature has probably been considerably above normal and the weather during the entire month has not been typical of March at all. The ground-hog sign failed utterly, and we have had no zero weather since early in January and there was not over four or five inches of snow on the ground at once during the entire winter. Thousands of acres of oats have been sown this week and the ground is reported to be in excellent shape, except some' 7 of the lower ground which is still wet from the excessive rains of early last week. A few farmers report having finished their oats sowing. The past couple of days have been somewhat cooler and there was a heavy white frost Thursday night. Buds have started on the trees and vegetation of all kinds has started quite vigorously, following the warm rain of Wednesday. Yesterday was a beautiful sunshiny day and the mercury at 2 p. m. registered 50 degrees in the Shade.

COURT DISCHARGES HARTNETT

Evidence Insufficient to Connect Him With I»eath of Earl Hughes. Dan Hartnett of Lafayette, who was arrested at Frankfort March 20 on a charge of murder in the first degree, preferred by Mrs. Edith Hughes of Monon, whose husband’s mangled body was found on the' Monon tracks near Pleasant Ridge on the morning of October 25, 1918, was discharged at a proceedings to bind him over to the Jasper county circuit court held here Tuesday before Justice of the Peace S. C. Irwin, the court holding that there was no evidence connecting Hartnett with Brakemian Hughes’ death. Edith Hughes, widow of Earl C. Hughes of Monon, who was found dead and who it was claimed came to his end by foul play, testified concerning the body of her late husband being brought home. John Weinhart, who was a Monon detective policing the railroad yards at Monon last October, stated that he met Hartnett about 8 o’clock on the night of October 24 and that Hartnett said he had had some trouble with "Curley” Hughes and that Conductor Fred Ball had knocked Hughes off the rear end of the caboose. Weinhart also testified that Hartnett said: "Keep it under your hat for he .might have croaked that fellow.” Harry Mason and Luther Lutes testified that they found the body of Hughes at 7:15 o’clock on the morning of October 25 last, about one mile east of Pleasant Ridge in the center of the track, with the head toward the east. Also that the ground in the center of the track had been freshly raked up

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THE 1919 WHEAT CROP

If weather conditions in this country are favorable there will be a record wheat crop in 1919. And every bushel of this wheat under the government guarantee will bring the farmer $2.26. This guarantee has back of it an appropriation of a billion dollars made by congress for the purpose of supporting the wheat price. It is possible that the loss to the government may not be as great as anticipated. Mr. Hoover informs us that Europe will need more wheat than the estimates have called for. There will be no wheat raised in Russia, Serbia or Bulgaria, so these countries, which are usually exporters, will be obliged to import wheat, The Australian wheat crop for 1919 will be small, and the Argentine crop will not exceed the usual amount.

PASTURE FOR 1919 SEASON We are now booking pasturage of stock for the 1919 season on the J. J. Lawler pasture in Newton and Jasper counties, in the vicinity of Fair Oaks, and request that all* wanting pasture let us know at 'once the number of cattle or horses they will have, that we may make plans Will take horses, steers and cows. —JAS. E. WALTER, Foreman, phone 337. ml Special sale on onion sets Saturday at court house square, I need the money —GEORGE W. CASEY.

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Gonntry. SHORT DITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. RABBI WISE AT FT. WAYNE Decries Opposition to World League Without Offer of Substitute. . Ft. Wayne, March 25. —It is cowardly for anyone to criticize t'he league of nations and the work of the peace conference when they have nothing to offer as a substitute, declared Rabbi Stephen A. Wise, in an address here tonight. In part Rabbi Wise said: "President Wilson is the foremos£ man in the world. 'He did not draw ujp the league of nations, but he is attempting to put it through for the future peace and happiness of the world. The people of Europe are in accord with him and they cannot understand why his own- people in America oppose him. Those who do so are actuated for the most part by politics and I am sorry to know that politics has crept into this great American and world question.’’

He predicted that the American people will compel the United States senate to ratify the league of nations. Rabbi Wise believed the formation of the league would make certain the establishment of a Jewish republic in Palestine. He said there should be a just criticism of the proposed league, but that such criticism should not be dictated in the spirit of political partisanship. "In the end,” said Rabbi Wise, “the American people will have scant patience with any group of min who seek to make it impossible for us to reap the fruits of the last great war. The league of nations means not a surrender of American Independence, but the extension of the sovereignity of American ideals over the Whole world.”

NEW DEPUTY OIL INSPECTORS

Charles G. Mauzy of Fowler Will Have Rensselaer. Deputy oil inspectors appointed under the new oil Inspection law, to serve until October 1, when the department will be absorbed by the state food and drug department, for this section of the state Include the following: Charles G. Mauzy, Fowler, for Fowler, Rensselaer and Boswell. Frank J. Miller, Oxford, for Oxford, Remington, Wheatfield, Kentland, Roselawn, Brook, Goodland and Morocco. W. A. Beining, Delphi, for Delphi, Frankfort, Monticello, Rossville and Flora. John Hillman, Hobart, for Hobart, Lowell, Crown Point, East Chicago, Gary, i W'hiting and Hammond. John E. Osborn, Knox, for Knox, Medaryville, Monon, North Judson and Hamlet. ■

MEETING OF WOMAN’S SECTION

Of the State Connell of Defense to Be Held April 17. The reports of the work of the woman’s section of the State Council of Defense for the year and a half of its existence are so gratifying, and the work ranks so high in comparison with that of other states, that it has been decided to hold a meeting ini Indianapolis on Thursday, April 17, to celebrate the successful termination of this work. At an open meeting at 10 a. m. reports from the members of the executive committee will be given, and a luncheon will be served in the Riley room of the Claypool hotel at 12:30. After the luncheon an address will be given by a national speaker. The county chairman of the woman’s section Is asked to extend •an invitation to every woman who worked with the woman’s section, and to all women who did war work of any kind.

Blacksmith shop to former GrantWarner lumber building. Horseshoeing, plow work and repairing. Shop managed by A. J. Doan. al

INSURANCE RATES ARE RAISED

In M. W'. A. to Meet Large Increase in Death Losses. At a special meeting of the head camp of the Modern Woodmen of America held in Chicago this week the insurance rates were raised to meet the abnormal death losses resulting from the influenza epidemic which reduced the beneficiary fund from $12,000,000 to $700,000. On the present membership the increase is a flat advance of 50 per cent and all new members hereafter will have to pay materially Increased rates. Two tables of rates were adopteu at the session, one for new members is based upon the experience of the Modern Woodmen of America and is materially lower than the national fraternal congress table of rates. This will meet the requirements of the adequate rate laws ot the order. The table of present members increases the present rates 50 per cent beginning with 75 cents per SI,OOO of insurance at ages of 17 to 18, increasing by 5 per cent steps until $1.50 is reached at the age of 35.

BOUND OVER TO CIRCUIT COURT

Men Charged With Running Over Monon Woman Are Held. Mike Mellon and Alex Cota, the two Wolcott men who are alleged to have run over Mrs. Graves of Monon with their auto Saturday evening while they were under the Influence of liquor, injuring her so badly that she died a short time later, had their preliminary (hearing before Justice of the Peace Catlin at Monoh Wednesday and were bound over to the circuit court without ball. . . There are many conflicting statements regarding the accident, some people alleging that the car was running at a speed of 35 miles per hour and that the occupants were intoxicated; it was reported by others that the car was moving slowly and that Mrs. Graves stepped from between two cars, which were parked/ on the east side of the street and that when she reached the middle of the street she hesitated and started to return to t'he sidewalk from which she had come, and that the driver of the car applied the brakes and momentarily decreased the speed’ of t'he car, but that Mrs. Graves started forward as the car started forward, causing the accident.

Several people who talked to the occupants of the car Insist that at least two of them were intoxicated and expressed an opinion t'hat the others might have been. Few people say that Mellon was under the influence of liquor and some say they think 'he was not and that be was driving the machine which belonged to the mother of Cota, because Cota was unable to control it on account of his condition. Mellon, whose wife recently died of Anfl'uenza, resides with his broth-er-in-law, George Hanna, north of Wolcott. He formerly lived near Monon and is well spoken of. Cota is a son of Joseph Cota, north of Wolcott and has always had a good reputation and was recently discharged from army service at Camp Taylor.

NO CLUE TO BANK ROBBERY

So far as The Democrat is able to learn no clue is had to the cracksmen who entered the Farmers’ State bank of Morocco Monday night and got away with about sl,000 in cash and some 130,000 in Liberty bonds. The fact that the telephone cable was cut by the robbers, rendering communication with the town impossible, makes it difficult to secure an authentic report of the precise amount taken. The robbers broke off the combination on, the first door of the safe in the outer office, but did not complete the job. They then entered the vault and here secured -their booty. The bonds were of the unregistered kind, and were not insured. The bonds that were registered were left strewn over the floor where they had been sorted out. The money taken was also in this vault. The bonds were property of patrons of the bank, and it is reported that Dr. Triplett is (the heaviest loser. The vault containing the safety boxes was not disturbed. »

'Armour’s Stock Food on track within the next day or two. Boy it off the' cars and save. —IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS.

Vol. XXI, No. 104

SCHEIDEMANN IN PACT PROTEST

Gorman Chancellor Attacks Al* Had Terms in Address ■ to the Assembly. ■ • 1 WORSE THAN BREST-LITOVSK w Refers to Semi-Official and Non-Of« ficiol Reports l-Yom Pariit—lie. dares Germany Cries Out in l»o spate—Food In Received. Welmnr, March 28. —Speaking In the national assembly, Chancellor Philipp Scheldemann said send-ofllclal and nonottlctal reports were Increasing dally that "fresh aggravation* In the peace conditions are expected to be announced; that unprecedented sums In compensation are to be imposed j that wide stretches of purely German territory are to be tairen, and that crushing restrictions are to be Imposed In financial and military mutter*. "Assuredly a large part of these ah leged conditions,” the chancellor con* tlnued, "are Invented In order to cre« ate an atmosphere which will surtocat* protest even against a peace of via hence. “Our peoples, who were 111-treated. by the armistice more cruelly than by the war, recognize this method. A cry, not of chauvinist nature, but of tiie deepest despair, which appeals tc the highest—to the conference ol humanity—ls going up throughout Germany.” | Appeals for United Front. Herr Scheldemann said the against the alleged conditions were] due to patriotic fears. The governs ment knew thl? loyalty to the was the most valuable possession en-<| trusted to its sontrol and would notj permit It to be Intrenched upon ad home or abroad. The chancellor apJ pealed to the people to stand adding: "The so-called radicals of the left) have np right to protest against actß of oppression, for we are responsible under the treaties of Brest-Lltovsk and! Bucharest.” Declaring that Great Britain had re-* jerted a proposal to establish an In-* ternational tribunal to Investigate sponslblllty for the war, Herr Scheldt mann said: “Even if Germany were responsible for all the crimes she Is accused of* has she thereby lost the right to pro-J test against fetters? Fetters which throttle her? Spa? Spa was worse than Brest-Lltovsk, because Spa show*! that it learned nothing from Brest-LI-J tovsk.”

[The agreement of Spa referred to by Scheidemann is the one involving; the delivery of German shipping to Hie allies and food relief for Germany.] Food Arrival Timely. Berlin, March 28.—The arrival at German ports of the first American food ships was just In time to meets the crisis in the food situation. The potato ration in Greater Berlin) was reduced this week to three pound* and no fresh meat is available. With the arrival of the ships and tpe conference of German financial experts at Weimar preparatory to goings to Versailles Sunday, Germany seem* to feel that peace Is nearer than at any other time. The feeling of depression which had! been growing In every part of the country at the continued disorder* and the Increasing Spartacan riots lifted slightly at the news that concrete results finally were at hand after -much waiting.

YANK BODIES TO COME HOME

Attorney General Gregory to Inquire Into French Law. Washington, March 28.—Secretary Baker disclosed that former Attorney General Gregory, now in Paris, is charged with a special mission in connection with bringing home the bodies of American soldiers. Mr. Baker said he had requested Mr. Gregory to inquire into the Frnech law and to assemble all possible information. Secretary Baker now plans to sjdl for Europe about April 6, but expects to be gone only a few weeks.

LATE BERTH ANNOUNCEMENTS March 27, to Mr and Mrs. Frank T. Radway of Newland, a daughter. March 27, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fon«cannon of north of town, a still-born babe. One lot of nifty $4 Hats for Saturday special, $1.98. Now is your chance to get your Easter Bonnet very reasonable.—DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP.

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