Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1929 — Page 24

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SWIMMERS TO BE PROTECTED ' AT CITY POOLS Free Lessons to Be Given and Life Guards Will Be on Duty. Summer and swimming. Beth words mean the same thing to thousands of Indianapolis children even’ year And this year another •vord is added with emphasis— Safety. Fre swimming lessons are planned in all public pools and beaches. Competent life guards, matrons, and instructors will be on hand at all times to see that any member of young Indianapolis learns how to swim correctly and a fely. A’ McClure beach during week days two life guards will be in attendance at all times during daylight, and after 6 in the evening the number will be increased to four. During Saturday and Sunday five life guards will be on full time duty. Two matrons will be at the beach at all hours. According to Joe Sullivan, head life guard at McClure beach, swimming lessons will start in several days. Time will be announced later. Fred Grossart will be supervisor ©f all beaches this summer and w’ill work with Bruce Hunter, in charge of al Red Cross work, swimming instructions and swimming meets. Plans call for teams at every beach and pool in the city to engage in competitive meets, Grossart said. Learn to Swim Week The week of July 8 has been set aside at city pools and beaches as “Learn to Swim week.” Francis T. Hodges, director of life saving for Indianapolis chapter of the Red Cross, will supervise activities this week in a concentrated effort to teach as many young boys and girls of Indianapolis how to swim as is possible. The Brink system of instruction w’ill be used. Age limits Will be 7 to 16, inclusive. Two groups of classes will be held At Ellenberger and Willard pools the instructions during this week will be given at 4 p. m. At Rhodius and McClure beach the time has been set at 2p. m. Hodges will open classes at Ellenberger and Rhodius pools the first day, and w’ill reach each pool every other day of the week. Award Badges Beginners’ and swimmers’ badges of the American Red Cross will be given all who qualify at the end of the week. The course is progressive from day to day and it is essential that those wishing instructions report the first day and go through with the program as outlined. Courses in life saving will be given later in the season, Hodges said, by the Red Cross, to anyone desiring instruction No charge w’ill be made for this program. Life saving, water safety and better swimming methods will be taught.

DOUG’S FIRST WIFE IS MARRIED TO ACTOR Become Bride of Jack Whiting. Musical Comedy Star. Su United Press NEW YORK. June 28.—Mrs. Beth Bully Fairbanks, first wife of Douglas Fairbanks, is the bride of Jack Whiting, musical comedy actor. They were married Thursday at the Algonquin hotel in the presence of the bride's father and the parents cf Whiting. The names of the former Mrs. Fairbanks and Whiting were linked in theatrical gossip when they attended the wedding of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mrs. Whiting's son, to Joan Crawford of the modes. In July. 1907, Fairbanks married Beth Sully. They were divorced in 1918 and she subsequently married James Evans Jr., a Pittsburgh broker. That marriage also ended in divorce. Whiting, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is featured in the musical comedy, "Hold Everything.”

DEPTH MARKERS ARE GIVEN CITY BEACHES Pokaotor Squad Offered by Power and Light Company. Depth markers for city beaches have been donated by the Indianapo lis Power and Light Company, it was said today at the office of the city recreation department. The signs will be painted by the Indianapolis Safety Council. Another safety step taken by the power and light company was the offer of the pulmoter and crew kept at the Morrris street plant at any time of the night or day. This squad will be available at all beaches Instructions are to call J. j Steurwald when the pulmotor is needed at the Morris street plant. ‘NAME-MAKER 7 SOUGHT Tire* of Farming. So Youth Comes to City to Earn Fortune. of farming. I’m going to make a name for myself in the big city," Alfred Sharp, 16. wrote befor he left his home near Lewisville. Ind. r. I£. Sharp, his father, today asked Indianapolis police to search for the boy. Ke is 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighs about 15C pounds and wore a leather coat and felt hat. his parent said. approve charity drive 513.500 Campaign of Volunteers of America Gets C. of C. O. K. The campaign of the Volunteers of America for $13,500 to reduce mortgage indehtednes and replace wo r nout equipment continued today with approval of the Community Fund directors. The approval was voted at a luncheon at the Indianaphh* Athletic Club Thursday.

•5K tJ* T ■■ 1. Jessie McClure, recreation director of city parks, and his staff ‘ PFImSmIK ” % >ll . _ Os supervisors, instructors and matrons who will direct children’s activ- mtir I rODftHf 11111 l ril Tn ities in city parks this summer. Tjl J \/p I p^SONS k and ♦ % ?/ ' Ils4 I tfiKFllllrHJ 111 2. Jacqueline Chrisman. daughter of Mrs. Cora Chrisman, 255 North I U UltL LLVUUIU W % m $ W "■ 1 tn I VIIVVIIV Arsenal avenue, demonstrating the latest idea in keeping cool at Willard \£m >- Ik fL m. % ari AAOIPnOSE R® park. Her only trouble, she says, is sunburn. . , , .. _ 6 Jgl&v n * ... PI ill \f l (4i”illll F 3. Little Joan Marie Delaney, daughter of Thomas Delaney. 38 Swimming Instruction Fret * : BL iLnil UUIItUULL Parkview avenue, makes her first visit to Willard park and tries out JUT ~ ~u Dorb ULimnc Rhodius park pool. The summer schedule for fre MkiJt S i l | ; WijMP bOUin olae rarK wairorib 5. Dorothy 'White, 3. in the cart, and her sister Russella taking a swimming lessons to be given by lif w 1 | ■■ .1 Aofiwitioc little jaunt through Fall creek playground. They are daughters of guards at pools and beaches unde 'f m 1 wap many ACIIVIIieS. Ernest White, 418 East Twenty-fourth street. city recreation department was an v 4 & \ \ V fH 6. One version of a high dive caught at the Rhodius park pool. nounced today by Jessie McClure ■- I A preliminary program to be fol- recreation director. The Brink sys Jr 4 lowed until playground activities , tern, used by the American Re • h- Schedule Is Outlined *** * been formed by the matrons and * Where a large number of childre: instructor at the South Side Turner j 9 ~r\ 1 1 ‘ATI are in attendance, they will be di LSpfc’* ’ - playground. ff)l- ( tITLS Bd U 1 CUIUS vid.d into two cIM Children 1 f " : v ' A story hour will b h.M -d, JOJ_KJUM UU U, ± ~ .... v . Atoa * iw .v.v.w.v..V.VAV.’.VW..’3 m/vrrnner of 10 A>lork RflTWl ...iu m .„;n u

Many Pageants Planned for City Playgrounds

First Offering to be at Fall Creek Grounds. A much more comprehensive program will be followed this summer in holding pageants on the city playgrounds. Miss Hazel E. Abbett, in charge of pageantry under the direction of the city recreation department. said today. The first offering of the season will be given by children at the Fall creek playground. Wednesday. July 17. ‘‘The Enchanted Garden” is the name of the first project. About: 150 children will take part. The pageant will be in five episodes, outlining sports and recreation activities of many nations. The pageant opens with a portrayal of holiday activities of early : Greeks and Romans, featuring a j chariot race. Other scenes in show: j Robin Hood, of early English fame, and bow and arrow matches; Japanese wrestling; Chinese kites; Irish ■ jiggs; dances peculiar to Slavic I countries; singing games from Ger- ! many; a vineyard dance typical of France; an Italian horse race: j American Indians, and one inning i of baseball as the contribution of j modem America. The idea of the pageant. Miss Abbett says, is to bring home to theh children the truth that everyone may find health and happiness in his own community. The seoond event. "Pageant of Play.” will be given July 24 at Finch playground. Fairies, fireflies, wood nymphs will be portrayed by the children. Mother Goose rhymes will be interpreted in pantomine. About 100 children will take part. A story-telling festival will be given at Orchid playground later in the season. The pageant will be "The Dearest Wish." showing the three things a little girl would wish for if given the chance. They are candy, stories and play. A mock wedding in which fiftychildren will appear'is scheduled for the Christian playground later. At Rad^ 1 and Udell playground. Aug. 2. the offering will be "The Lost Sheep.” About seventy-five children will take part. "Through the Portals” will be given at Hawthorne with about fifty children taking part. Fish Fin Causes Wound. Bn Times snrrint COLUMBUS. Ind.. June 28—Sergeant W. A. Sebastian, instructor I for national guard units of this section, is in the county hospital here suffering from a severely infected hand, due to the prick of a fish fin.

Playgrounds Hold Hot Weather Interest of City Youngsters

POOL TO BE OPENED Camp Dellwood Will Have Ceremonies June 29. Two thousand Girl Scouts, parents and persons responsible for money gifts, which made possible the new concrete swimming pool at Camp Dellwood, will be present Saturday, June 29, when the pool is dedicated. The program will begin at 2 p. m. Mayor L. Ert Slack has been invited to give the principal address. Mrs. E. Blake Francis, Girl Scout commissioner, who w r as responsible for raising the $17,000 necessary for the pool, will have charge. A swimming meet will be held on the opening day. Camp Dellwood is on the Girl Scout reservation three miles northwest of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the Crawfordsville road.

BOYS ACT AS COPS . Keep Order in Playground; Get Jobs as Reward. A merit system has been originated at Rader and Udell playground by Miss Betty Bagnoli and Miss Opal Foster that puts four boys daily on their best behavior and at the same time preserves order among all the other children at the playground. Four boys are selected each day to act as police. They are given badges, whistles and small billies, ornaments only, to carry in their belts. Their job is to see that children behave. As every boy wants to be a policeman the merit system works perfectly as the boys with the best records are made policemen most often. BUILD $150,000 PLANE English Craft Carries Eight Passengers: Has $5,000 Ceiling. Eu I'nitrd Prc*t> LIVERPOOL. June 28.—Probably the most expensive airplane ever constructed was recently built in this country. It has a ceiling hand decorated, that cost $5,000. Accommodations are for eight passengers and include a lounge and bridge tables, electric kitchen and electric refrigerator. The total cost of the plane was (150,000.

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PLAYGROUND TQ PUNSCHEDULE South Side Park Matrons Map Many Activities. A preliminary program to be followed until playground activities are definitely decided upon has been formed by the matrons and instructor at the South Side Turner playground. A story hour will be held each Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Sand pile contests, in which children will build castles, bridges, houses and other models, will be held Tuesday and Wednesday of each week. These contests will be divided into groups of four children each. A girls sewing class is planned for Thursday morning’s program. Another activity at this park will be the making of picture books for the children in city hospital. Playground children will cut out pictures at home or at the grounds and then paste them into books. Matrons at the park are Mrs. Minnie Blodgett and Mrs. Doshia Dennison. Miss Hilda Rabb is instructor. i

TABLET WILL HONOR FUND DRIVE GIVERS Subscribers of SI,OOO or More to Have Name Placed in Theater. A bronze tablet inscribed with the names of persons subscribing SI,OOO or more to the new Civic theater of Indianapolis fund campaign, will be placed in the lobby of the theater, it was announced today at drive headquarters. The subscribers will be designated as “Founder Members.” More than 200 persons compose teams making an active canvass for the fund. Between $150,000 and $200,000 is needed for the theater.

Enjoy healthful fruits and vegetables... * Flavored with sugar they are delicious

“My first rule for healthful eating* said one of the foremost food scientists in this country, “would be to insist on at least one dish of raw vegetable salad and at least one raw fruit every day. “My second rule would be very similar to eat at least one cooked vegetable and one cooked fruit every day. You can vary the fruits and vegetables according to the season,

their price, and your taste.” His next remark emphasized the value of sugar in making fruits and vegetables so palatable that people would eat them, not simply for their beneficial results, but for general enjoyment of their flavors. “Sugar,” he explained, “is the greatest of all condimental foods. It brings out the natural flavor of fruits and vegetables.” It is important that people enjoy the food they eat. Otherwise they will not eat a varied enough diet. Sugar, nature’s most perfect flavor, plays a part in making almost all the foods we eat more inviting. A pinch of sugar improves the flavor of nearly every vegetable. Remember a dash of sugar in cereal, in tea or cpffee, in all milk drinks. Most foods are more delicious and nourishing with ' sugar. The Sugar Institute

1. Jessie McClure, recreation director of city parks, and his staff of supervisors, instructors and matrons who will direct children’s activities in city parks this summer. 2. Jacqueline Chrisman, daughter of Mrs. Cora Chrisman, 255 North Arsenal avenue, demonstrating the latest idea in keeping cool at Willard park. Her only trouble, she says, is sunburn. 3. Little Joan Marie Delaney, daughter of Thomas Delaney, 38 Parkview avenue, makes her first visit to Willard park and tries out one of the swings. .4 A hot afternoon with a group taking advantage of a dip in the Rhodius park pool. 5. Dorothy White, 3. in the cart, and her sister Russella taking a little jaunt through Fall creek playground. They are daughters of Ernest White, 418 East Twenty-fourth street. 6. One version of a high dive caught at the Rhodius parK pool.

Schedule Is Outlined for Girls' Ball Teams

Semi-Finals Will be Held Early in August. The summer schedule of girls baseball leagues, teams and games of city playgrounds was announced today by Miss Lola Fleiffer, supervisor, of the city recreation department. The leagues and team numbers are: League 1, East; team 1, Oak Hill; 2, Brightwood; 3. Brookside; 4. Spades; 5. Christian; 6, Ellenberger. League 2. South; team 1, Greer; 2, Ringgold; 3, Finch; 4, Highland; 5, Garfield: 6, Willard. League 3, West; team 1, Kingans; 2, Kansas and Meridian; 3. Rhodius; 4, Meikel and Wyoming; 5, Bye; 6, Riley. League 4, North; team, 1, Indianola; 2, Camp Sullivan; 3, Schcool 44; 4, Hawthorne; 5, Bye; 6, Fall Creek. The schedule of games will be'1 vs. 2, at 1. July 2. Return, at 2, July 23. 3 vs. 4, at 3, July 2. Return, at 4, July 23. 5 vs. 6, at 5, July 2. Return, at 6, July 23. 1 vs. 3, at 1, July 9. Return, at 3, July 25. 2 vs. 5, at 2, July 9. Return, at 5, July 25. 4 vs. 6, at 4, July 9. Return, at 6, July 25. 4 vs. 1, at 4, July 11. Return, at 1. July 30. 6 vs. 2, at 6, July 11. Return, at 2, July 30. 3 vs. 5, at 3. July 11. Return, at 5, July 30. 5 vs. 1. at 5, July 16. Return, at 1. Aug. 1. 2 vs. 4, at 2. July 16. Return, at 4, Aug. 1. 6 vs. 3. at 6, July 16. Return, at 3, Aug. 1. 1 vs. 6. at 1, July 18. Return, at 6. Aug. 6. 3 vs. 2, at 3, July 18. Return, at 2, Aug. 6. 4 vs. 5. at 4, July 18. Return, at 5, Aug. 6. Semi-finals will be held Aug. 8, at Garfield between East and West

teams, and Aug. 9. North and South teams will play at Willard. HOLDUP STATE TIRE BIDS Road Board Neglects Meeting, so SIOO,OOO Bride Waits. State highway commissioners failed to appear at their meeting scheduled for Thursday and the tire contract, which runs about SIOO,OOO a year, was not acted upon. Bids for the tires were recieved early in the week from fifteen companies. Bids for junk scattered about the state were opened today, but the award was not made.

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TO GIVE LESSONS Swimming Instruction Free by City. The summer schedule for free swimming lessons to be given by life guards at pools and beaches under city recreation department was announced today by Jessie McClure, recreation director. The Brink system. used by the American Red Cross, will be followed by city instructors, McClure said. Where a large number of children are in attendance, they will be divided into two classes. Children 10 years old and under will receive instructions from 10:30 a. m. to 11:15 a. m.; children over 10 years will be taught from 11:15 until 12 noon. Adult swimming classes will be held from 2 to 3 in the afternoon and 7 to 8 in the evening. Pools and beaches where swimming instructions will be given are Rhodius, Ellenberger, McClure, Warfleigh, Douglas (Negro', Willard (children only), and Ringgold (children only). Negro Film Star Weds HOLLYWOOD, June 28.—Stepin Fechlt. Negro who came from the racetracks to wni a SI.OOO-a-week contract in the movies, was married to Dorothy Stevenson. 17-year-old New Orleans negress. in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church here Thursday.

.TTST 28, 1920

KITTEN BALL AGAIN CLAIMS FANS’ FAVOR Riley, Last Year Champs, Show Top Form in Game. The smack of light ash bats connecting with official playground baseballs accompanied f **y shrill yells and whistlees notified Indianapolis this week that “Ivitten” ball was again king on the city recreation grounds. Riley, champions of last year,* were the favored players as the city leagues started play Wednesday afternoon. With Jessie McClure, city recreation director, behind home plate, and Henry Goett, secretary to the mayor, pitching the first ball, Riley hostilities with the Kingan aggregation and walked away w r ith the long end of the score. The tally at the end of the game showing Riley 18. Kingan 10. Other scores throughout the city for the first day's games: Juniors Garfield 18, Kansas and Meridian 5. Spades 26, Brightwood 4. Fall Creek 22. Oak Hill 10. Seniors Garfield 27, Kansas and Meridian, 13. Brightwood 9. Spades 8. Oak Hill 15, Fall Creek 6. BROWN LEGION POST AIMS FOR DRILL PRIZE Body Purchases New Uniforms to Compete for $1,500. In new uniforms of black and gold, bought from profits of the recent rally at Broad Ripple park, the drum and bugle corps of Hilton U. Brown Jr. post, American Legion, will compete for $1,500 in prizes at the state legion convention in Richmond Aug. 24 to 27, and at the national convention in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 30Oct. 4. Mrs. W. H. Gray. R. R 3. Box 263. was the winner of the automobile given by the post at the Broad Ripple rally Saturday. Second prize, a 800 merchandise certificate, went to Mrs. Helen Skelton. 714 North Illinois street.

POLICE. FIREMEN WILL AWARD SCHOLARSHIPS Prizes Worth $250; Will Pay Butler University Tuition. Two $250 Butler university scholarships will be awarded to a boy and a girl from Indianapolis high schools by the Policeman and Fireman's Benefit Association for next year. Applicants for the scholarships must be children of members of the benefit association. A committee appointed by Mayor L. Ert Slack, composed of Lawrence McTurnan. Meredith Nicholson and Professor Gino Ratti of Bulter university, will make the awards. Lists prepared by high school principals will go to Mayor Slack today, to be turned over to the committee later. PROMOTE PHILLY MAN' Mathews Raised to High Traffic Post by Pennsy Railroad. Appointment of C. H. Mathews Jr., now assistant general fraffle manager at Philadelphia, to the newly created position of general passenger traffic manager, headed a list of promotions and transfers in the passenger traffic department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, announced today. In the new position, Mathews will have general charge under the traffic vice-president, of passenger traffic matters over the entire Pennsylvania system.