Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 72, 4 February 1920 — Page 8

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THE 31GHM0ND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4, 1920.

FORWARD MOVEMENT TO BE EVANGELISTIC, SAY MEETING HEADS

That evangeism la a central feature of the Forward Movement of the

Friends In Its co-operation with the

inter-Church world Movement, , was

expressed by the group, of Yearly

Meeting superintendents, missionar

ies, and other interested workers who

gathered at the Forward Movement headquarters in the Colonial building

Tuesday night. Plans for promulga

ting the financial side of the move

ment were also discussed. Sylvester Jones, former . foreign missionary and associate director of the Forward movement, presided and explained the plans of action for February, March and April. He outlined Yearly meeting activities which will be necessary. The general sentiment of the conference wafs that the Forward movement is not a thing apart from the real message of the Friends Church, but a definite method of representing the church's message on a broader and more comprehensive scale. Better organization, sufficient education, and enlistment of members of the church in active religious work were set forth as the big needs. The conferees explained plans for their individual yearly meeting. Meetings are Planned. v Albert J. Sheppard, superintendent of New York Yearly meeting 6tated that they were planning a number of evangelistic meetings for the spring and summer not gatherings to create unnatural enthusiasm, but meetings of bible school, and church workers for the purpose of "getting at the real needs and perfecting plans to meet them." Mr. Sheppard left for home following the first session of the conference Tuesday night, because of his wife's illness. Members of the conference include Ihe following, who met Wednesday morning, and were to meet again Wednesday afternoon and evening: Chrales O. Whitely, of Okaloosa. Ia., superintendent of Iowa Yearly Meeting; Richard R. Newby, of Wichita, Kas., superintendent of Kansas Yearly Meeting; Enos Harvey of Noblesville, lnd., superintendent of Indiana Yearly Meeting; R. Aaron Napier, of Richmond, superintendent of Indiana Yearly meeting; Murray S. Kenworthy, Wilmington, Ohio, superintendent of Wilmington Yearly Meeting; Emory J. Reece, missionary to British East Africa; R. Solomon Tice, missionary to Mexico; Raymond S. Holding, missionary to Cuba; Alsina M. Andrews, missionary to Jamaica; Kdna Goodwin of Bloomingdalo, lnd., Herbert. Huffman, of Winchester, Ross A. Hadley, J. Willis Beede. of the American Friends board of foreign

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SUB-DEB ELOPES WITH MAN FAMILY SNUBBED AT PARTY

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Fifi Widener Leidy. A few hours before she was to be

presented to society, Miss Josephine Widener, affectionately known in Philadelphia society as "Fifi," eloped to Knoxville, Tcnn., with Carter R. Leidy and was married to him there, according to dispatches. rj " VVidop.er family had failed to invite Leidy to the coming-out ball, it is said. The bride is seventeen i.i.d prominent in society athletic circles.

F. TOWNSEND KILLED AT GREENSBURG IN FIGHT AFTER THEFT

Frank Townsend of Richmond, 27 years old, was killed at Greensburg, lnd., about 11 p. m. Tuesday, in a gunfight with Sim Lindville, a railroad detective, following a robbery. His companion, Harvey Yazell, of Hamilton, O., is In jail at Greensburg, charged with robbery. According to information from Greensburg officials, Townsend and Yazell entered the home of Harry Hamilton, there, getting away with several thousand dollars worth of

jewelry. They overlooked $5,000 worth of government bonds. They entered the Big Four railroad station,

where they were asked by Lindville what they were doing in the station.

An altercation followed, and Townsend fired at Lindville, who returned the fire and Townsend fell to the floor dead, with a bullet through his brain. Yazell was apprehended in a Greensburg restaurant Wednesday. None of ihe jewelry alleged to have been stolen had been found, and Yazell told police officials that he threw it away in trying to make a getaway. Townsend Has Record.' Townsend is the son of James Townsend, living three miles west of Richmond, and has a long criminal record. He was first arrested here when a boy, for robbing his parents, and served a sentence in the Indiana Boys' school. Since that time he has been convicted of a number of robberies, and has served time in the Jeffersonville reformatory. He was arrested and convicted here last fall for a series of liquor thefts, and was sentenced, with Yazell, to 60 days in the State Penal farm. The two were released from the farm on Jan. 28, according to information received by local police. Besides his father, Townsend is survived by his mother. Mrs. Lulu Shank, 616 North Twelfth street, and a sister. Mrs. John Leonard, who is now in Florida. When questioned by the detective at Greensburg, he gave his home address at 15 North Fourth street, Richmond.

At The Richmond Theatre

missions and members of the Forward Movement staff; Samuel L. Haworth, of High Point. N. C, head of the spiritual resource department of the Forward Movement; Roy Woolam, of Spiceland, director of field work; Sumner Mills and Mahlon Harvey, office work directors.

FIGHTS IN TURKEY fBy Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 4. A dispatch to

itne .Exchange Telegraph company I from Constantinople under date of j-Jan. 30 report important engagements I in the region of Marsha and Aintab,

Turkey-in-Asia, between national forces and French troops. Marash is

i seriously endangered, the dispatch

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Earlham Notes j

Dr. Lincoln Wirt, well known for years on the Chautauqua platform, and an authority on conditions in the Near

East, spoke before faculty and students

or Larlhara College, Wednesday morning on the "Redemption of the Garden of Eden." Dr. Wirt represents the Near East Committee of Indiana. Miss Ruth Harvey was elected president of the Classical Club at the bi-annual election meeting Tuesday night Other officers for the spring ere: Katherine Haviland, vice-president; and Josiah Russel, secretarytreasurer. Officers for both the freshman and senior classes were elected at their respective meetings this week. Senior officers are: Donald Kellum, president; Robert Glass, vice-president; Cebren Joyner, treasurer: Vivian Kendall, secretary; Ruth Stanley, chairman of the social committee; Ralph Nicholson, marshal, and . John. George Baker, vice-marshal. Freshmen officers include: Charles Kellum, presidenl ; Madge . Herringlake, vice-president; Vernon Hinhaw, treasurer. President l.vid M. Kd wards met Wednesday with members of the facul-

lv to discuss means for Dresentinz the

Near East campaign in the college.-5 1 Julius Tietz will preside at thb

Y. M. C. A. meeting In Bundy Hall Thursday morning. The young women of the college will meet for their first Christian association session of the cemester Thursday morning, also. The shooter fish brings down Insects from a distance of from one to four feet by squirting them with wa--ter from its mouth.

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The Greatest of Productions Starts Wed., Feb. 4th Continuous Showing, 1:30 to 11 p. m.

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She is the Armenian beauty who escaped to America after two years of unspeakable adventures in the hands of the Kurdish raiders, slave markets and Turkish Harems. Although the newspapers have given her story pages of space, the National Committee chose the screen as the most vivid medium of bringing home to the American people what their Christian sisters endured in ravished Armenia. The resultant screen epic has been truly called

AUCTION OF SOULS"

From the book "Ravished Armenia" on the martyrdom of Christian Armenia, which is Aurcra Mardiganian's own story, substantiated by facts from the official reports of Viscount Bryce, the British investigator; Henry Morgenthau, the American ambassador, and the American Board of Foreign Missions

SPECIAL MUSIC Mr. Chas. Pascoe, organist from the Orpheum Theatre, Fort Wayne, lnd., at

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