Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1923 — Page 1

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VISITORS HERE FOR EPWORTH LEAGUE MEET Annual Convention Opens At First M. E. Church Here This Afternoon CLOSES TOMORROW Stunt Night This Evening; Wawasee Banquet Tomorrow Evening Delegates to the annual Epworth League Convention of the Fort Wayne District, being held at, the First M. E. Church in this city today and tomorrow, began arriving in the city this morning. They were met at the trains and traction ears by automobiles and taken to private homes where they will be quartered during the convention. The convention opened at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon with a district cabinet meeting of all district and sub-district officers. The registration and assignment of delegates took place at 2 o’clock. The welcome address was given by C. L. Walters and the response was made by M. M. Friable, of Bluffton. The program tonight will be given in the high school auditorium, beginning at 7:15 o'clock with music by the General Electric orchestra. The six sub-districts of the Fort Wayne district will each give a stunt. Wednesday a Full Day Wednesday will be a full day on the program. Morning watch will be observed at 6 a.m. and the morning session will begin at 8 o’clock. Dr. Luther E. Lovejoy of Chicago, will speak at 9:05 o'clock. Everybody is invited to hear Dr. Lovejoy. The afternoon session tomorrow will begin at 1 o’clock. Election of officers and selection of the 1924 convention city will take place during this session. The drive about the city and to Bellmont Park will start from the church, corner of Monroe and Fifth streets, at 2:30 o’clock. Banquet Tomorrow Night The Wawasee Banquet, always a big affair, will be held in the high school gymnasium at 5 o’clock tomorrow evening. The banquet program will be held in the high school auditorium immediately following the banquet. The evening session will he held in the church, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Dr. W. E. J. Gratz, of Chicago, will be the speaker and a wonderful address is promised. The public is corially invited to attend any or all of the sessions of the convention. Approximately two hundred visitors are expected to be present at the convention. A prize will be awarded to the chapters having the largest delegation present.

Identifies Girl Bandit « (United Press Service) Chicago, June 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Mrs. Frances Thompson, alias Fred G. Thompson, has been identified today as the “smiling, blue eyed girl bandit,” who killed Richard C. Tesmer at his "Gold Coast home Chief of Detectives Michael Hughes announced today. Police said the prisoner was abnormal and posed sometimes as a man and sometimes as a woman. Mrs. Tesmer. the widow, made the identification at the Tesmer home, Hughes said. The alleged "girl bandit” also is known as Francis Carrick, police asserted. The “girl" dressed in feminine attire. was arrested in a raid on a north side apartment early today by a police squad led by Sargeant William Cusack. A man giving his name as John Doe and a woman who called herself Marie Clark were also found in the apartment. When arrested the “girl wore a black beaded satin pumps and black silk stockings. When the police squad entered, she said, according to Cusack: “Well, 1 suppose you want me for the Tesmer murder?” Concert Wednesday Night The second of the summer band concerts by the Decatur General Klee-1 trie band will be given in the Water . Works Park at 8 o’clock Wednesday | evening. A large crowd attended the , first concert given last Wednesday i evening. I

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Swoverland Taken Home W. .1. Swoverland, of Wren, Ohio, who was Injured when an Erie freight train struck the truck in which he and his brother were riding at 1 niondale four weeks ago, was removed from the Wells county hospital at Bluffton to his home yesterday. His Injuries are said to be showing great Improvement. His brother came for him tn an ambulance yesterday. MORE POLICEMEN FOR CONVENTION Five Extras And All Firemen To Enforce Law; Carnival Is Clean Five extra policemen in addition to the three regular officers and everyone of the twenty-one local firemen have been deputized and will see that law and order is enforced during the week that the Great White Way Shows are located here and on Firemen's convention day. Thursday, June 21. Flagrant violations are not expected, but as a precaution against the violation of any law, the extra police, men have been added to the force. The firemen will cooperate and will use every effort to see that the law is enforced, it was stated. The carnival company erected the stands, booths, shows, merry-go-round and other pleasure devices Monday. Although the usual crowd will tj found with a carnival, it is said ny those who seme to know, that a majority of them are good people. It was stated that ten women who are married, are the only women with the show. This information Was given to one of the city officials. No Immoral Shows It was also stated that the carnival did not operate a girl's show for men only or one hinging on the immoral side, nor would any such show l»e permitted by the city officials, councilmen. or firemen. A representative of the show company stated that no such show would be conducted. Some objections have been heard to the fact that the carnival was given the right to place the tents and shows on the court house square and on the streets. This privilege was given them by the firemen, who were given the use of the streets the week for the firemen’s convention. The board of saftey and the street and sewer committee granted the use of

the streets to the firemen, who in turn secured the carnival company and gave the show company the use of the streets. Those opposed to carnivals have expressed dissatisfaction or regrets that the carnival is here. As far as known the carnival representatives and those responsible for the conduct of the shows will cooperate with the firemen and police officials in seeing that order is maintained. In case an immoral show is found in the lay out, it will be closed immediately and prosecution will follow. Anyone caught violating the liquor laws, will also be prosecuted, Mayor DeVoss stated. The firemen are guaranteed $185.00 by the show company and a certain per cent of the proceeds, after expenses are paid, which will be used by the firemen in promoting the city’s welfare. To Have Traffic Policemen Hundreds of visitors will be here Thursday and on tins day traffice policemen will be stationed at the principal crossings, it was stated and everything possible will be done to entertain the visitors in a high class and orderly manner ami at the same time give them a chance to enjoy themselves. — o— Favorites Win In Minnesota Primary {United Press Service) St. Paul. Minn., June 19—(Special to the Dally Democrat)—Governor J. A O Preus, Republican; Mangus Johnson, Farmer-Labor, and James A. Carley, Democrat, are the party nominees in Minnesota's special senatorial primary, it appeared certain from returns today. The trio is to go before the voters July 16 in a special election to deter mine the successor to the late Knute Nelson. , , _ Preus' nomination is a victoiy o the Harding administration. The president endorsed him . against a field of Republican candidates of various views.

BORROW HOUSES TO ( ARE FOR FIGHT CROWD ll - si 4k t i The housing problem is acute in Shelby. Mont., where the Dempsey-Gibbons championship bout.is scheduled for July 4th, and buildings from several miles around are being moved to the .. .Montana town to be used as hotels and boarding houses. SHELBY. Mont.—An advance horde of newspaper reporters, photographers and fight camp followers Indicates to Shelby that they are going tt have gobs of humanity heres next month, when Tommy Gibbons h ‘ n Paul, battles Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, for the title The housing shortage h " s .' . scouts being sent out to borrow wooden houses for the crowds that are expected to come. I hey .will l» used for eating and sleeping quarters. (Pactflc_and_Atlantlc Photo)

RECIN MILLION DOLLAR VOYAGE DE LEVIATHAN “Million Dollar .Joy Ride” Starts today With Lasker As The Host BITTER CRITICISM Six Hundred Invited Guests Make Trip At Government’s Expense Boston, Mass.. June 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) — The Leviathan sailed at 3 o'clock this afternoon on her five day trial voyage. She carries nearly GOO invited guests to whom A. I). Lasker, retiring chairman of the shipping board, is host. The trip is a test preparatory to the liner's entrance Into trans-Atlantic passenger service on July 4 as “Queen” of the American merchant murine. Tti - tri]) started t nder a cloud of criticism. It has been called a “junket” and a “million dollar jot ride” on the ground that such an extensive trip entailing great expense was not necessary to prove the vescel's fitness. Sr bitter did the criticism of the voyage become that President Harding finally intervened supporting Lasker in his determination to go ahead with it. Harding told Lasker that he "would never forgive him" if he abandoned the trip under criticism. ' o — Boy Scouts Marooned Fremont, Neb., June 19—(Special to the Daily Democrat)— Twentythree Boy Scouts, age from 10 to 18 years old, were marooned today on Fremont island, southwest of here, when a bridge connecting the Island with the mainland was swept away by floods. The boy's food supply is said to be meager.

GLEE CLUB TO G!VE CONCERT Girls’ Glee Club From North-western College Coming To Local Church A sacred Concert will be given in the Decatur Evangelical church next Sunday evening, June 24. by the Girls' Glee Club of Northwestern College, Naperville. Illinois. The j concert will begin at 7:30 o’clock. It is being given under the auspices of; the Evangelical League of Christian 1 Endeavor. No admission will be charged, but a silver offering will be taken to pay expenses. The glee club is on a tour which will take them through Michigan,, Indiana. Ohio, and to Niagara Falls. New York. From here they will go to Berne for a concert on Monday evening and to Linn Grove for a concert on Tuesday evening. They will be in Fort Wayne for two evenings. June 27 and 28. There are eleven girls in the club in addition to the I accompanist and chaperon. North-1 Western College is conducted under the supervision of the Evangelical church.

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GIVE ME A NICKEL’S WORTH (United Press Service) London, June 19. —(Special to Daily Democrat)— German marks were at 710.000 to the pound sterling this morning, approximately 155.000 to the dollar.

CARS DAMAGED IN COLLISION L. R. Meyer And Family In Car Struck By Car Driven By Ft. Wayne Man Four people figured in a collision between two automobiles on the Fort Wayne-Decatur road a mile north of the city last night and all escaped with minor injuries. One car was driven by L. R. Meyer, of Monmouth, who is employed in the Schafer Com pany's store here, and the other was owned by Carl Wilhelm, of Ft. Wayne Mr. Meyer was accompanied by his wife and little son. Mr Meyer and family were driving toward Decatur just north of the curve in the road a mile north of city limits, in an Oakland touring car. The other car. a Willys-Knight coupe, was traveling toward Fort Wayne. Mr. Meyers declares that the other car was traveling at a speed in excess of thirty miles an hour when it came around the curve in the road. It struck Meyer's car a glam ing blow on the left side and turned crossways in the road. Both wheels on the left side were torn off. the front axel bent, wind-shield broken, top broken, and otherwise damaged so badly that it is considered practically useless. The Wilhelm car crashed through tlie fence on the west side of the road, across a patch of oats and stopped on the interurban tracks. One wheel was torn off and a few other parts damaged. The driver had one tooth knocked loose and rceived several cuts. Mrs. Meyer also received several small lacerations and Mr. Meyer was badly bruised and jolted. The accident occured shortly after eight o’clock.

— ■ ■ • “ 11 # Mrs. Mary Wilson Dies Mrs. Mary Wilson, of Ossain, widow of John Wilson, who died several I years ago, died of heart disease and complications Sunday morning about 4 o'clock, at tier home. *She had been seriously ill for two weeks and was found dead in bed by a daughter. Mrs. Mark Redding, who had been living with her. Her death is believed to have been partly due to 'an injury received in an automobile accident last fall. ; The children surviving are Mrs. Wirley Smith, Jefferson, O.; Truesdale Wilson. Markle, and Victor Wil.son, Enos Wilson, and Mrs Redding, of Ossain. A brother lives at Auburn. Fifteen grandchildren survive. Mrs. Wilson was a member of the Ossain Methodist church. Funeral services were held at the church of which she was a member, this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Burial will be at Ossain. Weather Continued warm and generally fair tonight and Wednesday.

THOUSANDS OF SICILIANS ARE . FLEEING TODAY Violent Eruptions Os Mount Etna Continue; Many Fresh Explosions 100,000 ARE HOMELESS Thousands Os Fanners Fleeing Before Devastating Flow Os Lava Catania. Sicily. June 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—From the path of five fiery, obliterating avalanches of lava, thousands of Sicilian farmers are fleeing with their families, animals and household goods today while the voilent eruptions of Mount Etna that have rendered nearly 100,t)»»t> persons homeless, continue. Already ten little townships have been seared into oblivion beneath the devastating flow of molten metal, which gains in speed as fresh explosions and earth tremors shake the volcano's base. Over- their shoulders as they flee, the farmers see the advancing lava walls, thousands of feet wide, thirty to forty feet high, carrying along great incandescent rocks weighing tons. A blistering heat precedes the onrushing lava; human life is impossible within a mile. Wells for miles around have dried up; vegetation is withering. Still further up the mountain, like a shroud over the destruction wrought by the fiery streams, a steady downfall of ashes, hot cinders, stones and lava fragments are spreading a gaseous blanket, already th-v.e inches thick, over the entire moi'Etaln as far as Giardini. As the panicky exodus from threatened towns grows in volume, roads are clogged and the tanners drive their cattle, tu .-• s < ad m asts of burden, upon whose backs is everything they could remove from before the lava, across fields and down drying river beds, in their haste.

INSURANCE PAID TO MRS. MORAN Widow Os Late Judge John Moran Gets (’heck For $5,000 Today Mr. A. N. Hepler, president of the Income Guaranty Company, of South Bend, Indiana, was here today and gave a check for $5,000, the face value of an accident and health policy carried in the company by the late Judge John C. Moran who met an unfortunate death a few weeks ago, the check payable to Mrs. Moran, the widow, who receives the amount in full. Mr. Hepler stated, that while there might be some doubt as to the outcome of the contest over the payment of the policy, he did not feel his company should take the attitude of litigating In court u claim which he telt should he paid, that he believes Judge Moran met accidental death, and that the claim is just and should be paid without quibbling or without causing Mrs. Moran the least trouble. He is (Continued on page two)

Open Another Store The Morris Five and Ten Cent Stores Company, of Bluffton, which operates a more in this city, has leased a large room in Fremont, Ohio, for a new store which will lie opened about September first, h will be the twenty-sixth store operated by the company. The room leased In Fremont is one of the most desirable and is in the same block with the Woolworth Company's store. LUTHERANS IN BIG CONVENTION Triennial International Convention Os Missouri Synod At Fort Wayne One of the largest conventions ever entertained by the city of Fort Wayne will get under way there this Week, when the seventeenth triennial international convention of the Missouri synod of the Lutheran church will bring FOO delegates and guests there for a 10-day conference. The convention will begin on Wednesday, June 20, and come to a close on Saturday evening, June 30. Delegates are coming from every state in the I'nicn. from South America. Europe and the Orient. The general sessions of the big meeting will be held in the auditorium ot the Concordia college. The Missouri synod of the Lutheran church comprises 4.540 congregations with a membershiii of 1,041,514. Not including colleges, seminaries, Sunday. Saturday or summer schools, the synod maintains 1,345 church schools where a total of nearly 100,000 pupils receive secular and religious education. A characteristic of the Missouri synod is its "uncompromising insistence on true Biblical principals and practice's. There are no "liberals" or "modernists". Not only are such doctrines as Ibe deity of Christ, the vicarious atonement of the Son of God: tlte doctrine of justification by the grace of God for Christ’s sake; the verbal inspiration ami inerrancy of the Bible; the resurrection of the body, regarded as fundetnentals, but also such doctrines as Holy Baptism, the Lord's supper, original sin. <onversion, and not one of its pastors or professors would think of treating •hem as non essential. Every doctrine revealed in the Bible is accepted as unalterable truth.” To Draft Building Program Drafting of a building program will be the most important business to come before the big synodical eon vention. All of the colleges are over crowded, it is said, and that provisions for new buildings will be made seems assured. There are at the present time 2 663 Missouri synod students preparing themselves for the ministry or teaching profession and the facilities are taxed to the limit.

A large appropriation will have to be provided for the annual expenses of the synod's 1.541 missions at home and abroad in South America. China. Indiana and the Orient. The convention opens with a service at the Concordia church on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, the Rev. G. H. Bernthal, of San Francisco. Cal., one of the vice presidents of the synod preaching the sermon. Immediately after this service the delegates will present their creden'.’als. The pastor of Zion Ev. Uitheran church. Rev. A. 11. Hinz, is the ministerial delegate. and Mr. O. Linnemier, Preble, the Lay delegate, representing the Decatur circuit which comprises th<’ <ix Adams county congregations and several in Wells and Allen county. Business sessions will be held every morning and afternoon, excepting custom, however, a part of each morning session will be devoted to the reading and discussion of religious subjects. Prof. F. Iteate will lecture on "Following the Faith of Our fathers" and Dr. F. Pieper's topic is "The Christian Philosophy of Life." Both are professors of Concordia Seminary. St. Louis Mo. o ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL PICNIC The annual St. John's school picnic will be held on July 1. in the St. John's grove near the church, on the Decatur-Fort Wayne road. Further announcements concerning the picnic will be made latter. Miss Catherine Sent. of Toledo, is here for a visit with her friend. Miss Josephine Archbold.

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FIREMEN TO BE MET AT TRAINS BY COMMITTEES Reception Committees And Decatur Band To XL i t All Incoming Trains WILL HAVE BANQUET Banquet To Be Held Wednesday Evening; Thursday To Be Big Day Amos Fi‘her. chief of the fire department who Is in charge of the annual convention of th" Northern Indiana Association of Volunteer ami Industrial firemen, has announced the reception committees for the big event which begins tomorrow. The entire local company will serve as the firemen’s committee and with the Decatur band will meet every Incoming train and traction car. The citizen's committee on reception includes C. J. Lutz, chairman; Dan Niblick. Judge J. C. Sutton. Milt E. Hower. C. E. Bell, Mrs. F. W. Downs and Mrs. Fred Heuer. These a-e expected to attend the banquet and meeting of officials ami delegates to be held at the K. of P. Home at six o'clock tomorrow evening. The delegates to the convention are expected to begin arriving early tomorrow afternoon. Reception ami registration of officers ami delegates will be held ut the K. of P. home during the afternoon. The business session w'll be held following the banquet tomorrow night. Thursday The Big Day The big day of the convention will be Thursday. The day's program will begin with a reception of visit Ing delegates and • firemen at the headquarters in the City Building. A band concert will take place at 10 o’clock. The big parade will start at 1 o’clock. Those taking part in the parade will include firemen, citizens and floats of various kinds. This parade promises «o be one of the best ever held here. A prize of S2O will be given to the best Industrial fire company in the parade; a prize of S2O to the best volunteer fire company represented; a prize of $lO for the largest industrial fire company in the parade; a prize of $lO for the largest volunteer fire company in the parade; a prize of SSO for the best band in the parade; end a prize of $25 for the next best band In the parade. The various contests between the firemen will start at 2:30 o'clock. The contests will be held on the streets. They include hose laying contests; running and ladder contest; truck and hose laying contest and water battle. Separate contests will be held for industrial firemen and for volunteer firemen. Cash prizes will be awarded for first and second places in the contests. L. A. Holthouse will be marshall of the Day. The order of the parade will be marshall and mounted police, Decatur General Electric band, ofiicers of association in automobiles, visiting and city officials in automobiles. fire company securing the 1924 convention, followed by other fire companies in assigned order. Decatur department bringing up the rear, visiting automobile fire trucks. Carnival Opened Last Night Tlie Great White Way Shows opened to the public last night and a fair sized crowd turned out. The riding dev-ces did a good business. The shows will be in the city all week for the entertainment of the visitors and local people as well. Fewer Inmates Os State Reform School For Boys Plainfield, June 19-The population iff the state reform school for boys is the smallest in thirty years according to Charles A. McConaglo. superintendent. There are now 468 boys in the institution. lie said. The reason for the decreuse in number of boys sent to Plainfield is the efficiency of the state system of probation under which a hoy is given a chance to "come hack" before lie lias the stigma of a reform school sentence attached to bis name. McConagle said. The largest number of inmates of tlie reform school ever reported was 699.