Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 202, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1932 — Page 11

JAN. 1, 1932

Open House Fetes Usher in New Year According to time honored custom of open house on New Year's day, several Indianapolis hostesses win receive their friends this afternoon at their homes. Governor Harry G. Leslie and Mrs. Leslie will hold open house from 3 to 6 at the executive mansion. Assisting them will be Messrs. and Mesdames Harry Lynn Miller, Frank Welsh, Charles Q. Erisman, Samuel Barnes, William Marshall, Clyde Davis and Evan Sherry, all of Lafayette; Miss Dorothy Cunningham and Fred Cunningham. In the dining room, Misses Betty Burrell, Marjorie Hockman, Helen Bancroft, Frances Woody and Marty Dillard will assist. Jamesons to Entertain Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson will receive for her cousin, Judge Fenton Booth and Mrs. Booth, Washington, D. C., from 4 until 6. Judge Booth is chief justice of the court of claims. Those who will assist Mrs. Jameson are Mesdames James Ogden, Demarchus Brown, Donald Jameson, Booth Tarkington Jameson, Samuel Runnels Harrell, Edgar Evans, Miss Caroline Hendricks and Miss Katharine Brown. Mrs. Ogden and Mrs. Charles N. Williams will preside at the tea table which will be arranged with a centerpiece of red carnations and lighted by red tapers. The house will be decorated with garlands of smilax. The drawing room will have a yellow and white motif in clusters of yellow and white Chrysanthemums and lighted yellow tapers. The library will have red roses and lighted rer tapers.

Tea at Myers Home Mr. and Mrs. William A. Myers will entertain members of the Nature Study Club, of which Mr. Myers is president, at tea from 3 to 5 at their home, 561 Highland avenue. Officers of the club, Mrs. C. H. Lloyd, Miss Dorothy White and Arthur Lloyd, will receive with the hosts, also C. J. Buchanan, a past president, and Miss Maude Kerr and Robert Arnold, former officers. Mrs. Buchanan and Mrs. Robert Geddes will pour, assisted by Mrs. Arthur P. Thomas, Mrs. J. W. Marks and Mrs. J. W. Noble. Miss Margaret Knox, Helen Noble, Reva Thompson and Miriam Krauss also will assist. Mr. and Mrs. Russell A. Clift will receive their friends at their home, 923 East Fifty-seventh street, from 3 to 5. They will be assisted by Miss Dorothy Fife, Mrs. A. F. Hook, Mrs. C. Morrison Davis and Mrs. A. L. Johnson. Open House at Club Meridian Hills Country Club will hold open house for members and their families from 3 to 5, with officers and their wives in the receiving line. Mrs. Harold E. Sutherlin and Mrs. Howard S. Morse have made arrangements. The tea table will have a silver tea and coffee service at each end. It. will be centered with a bowl of red roses and lighted by red tapers. Holiday decorations will be used in the club house. They include a eath of silver poinsettas over the fireplace, silvered cedar boughs and red lights, flanked by red candles on the mantle. Silver poinsettas are arranged throughout the rooms. Side lights are tied with red tulle bows. Arbor vitae and southern smilas complete the decorations. Wives of board members who will assist in the dining room are MesAMUSEMENTS

KIDDIES--LYRIC-RKO FREE DANCE SCHOOL 1932 Season Starts TOMORROW--Join at Once. Three Classes Every Saturday, 10, 10:30, 11. Louis Stockman, Director

BIGGEST SHOW IN INDIANAPOLIS HAPPY NEW See This Holiday Show TODAY! in Zane Grey's "THE RAINBOW TRAIL" 6 BIG ACTS RKO VAUDEVILLE Doors Open THE GREAT KORAN Crystal Seer Supreme He Sees--Knows--Tells All--Your Past. Present and Future Like an Open Book. BRING HIM YOUR TROUBLES AND YOUR PROBLEMS Ask Koran--He takes the doubt out of your life. Extra--NBC Radio SUMMERS & HUNT PETER IN "After the Ball" Harold-Mack & Bobbie HIGGINS "Three Maniac Steppers" KERR & ENSIGN in "Women" marian not old enough to know WARREN better! Here is drama of WILLIAM budding life! It will bring a tender sigh for half-forgot-ten joys, and happy tears in REGIS TOOMEY remembrance of its heartache!

dames A. O. Hltz and E. H. Kemper McComb, who will pour, and James Murray, George S. Olive, Hugh J. Baker, Carl F. Eveleigh, Ora H. Minnick, H. E. Sutherlin, Benjamin C. Stevenson and Harry R. Wilson. Officers of the Propylaeum Club will have a reception and tea for stockholders and their families from 4 to 7 at the club house. Mrs. Arthur V. Brown, president, and her board members, will receive in the southeast parlor. Tea will be served in the club room. Miss Julia Louise Guess, harpist, will play during the receiving hours and from 5 to 7 there will be an orchestra in the ball room for dancing. At John Herron Art institute, association directors will entertain at tea on the occasion of the opening of the exhibit of Modem Masters from the Lizzie P. Bliss collection. Mrs. Robert B. Failey, chairman of the entertainment committee, has announced that tea will be served from 3 until 6 in the west gallery on the second floor.

RANDOLPH RITES SET Funeral to Be Held Saturday for City Woman. Mrs. Nancy Randolph, 68, died of pneumonia Thursday at the home of her son, Frank Randolph, 1416 North Mount street. Funeral services will be held at 2 Saturday at Tuxedo Park Baptist church, of which she was a member. Survivors are three sons, Frank and Seth Randolph of Indianapolis and Earl Randolph of Los Angeles; a daughter, Mrs. Bessie Pear of Springfield, Mass; a brother, George Howerton of Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Anna Waters of Bridgeport and Mrs. Mary Sharp of Stilesville.

INDIANA ROOF DANCING DANCERS COMING SUNDAY ONLY Bobby Grice and Her Original 14-BRICK TOPS-14 America's Greatest Girl Orchestra AND FRANK TERRY'S GINGER SNAPS The Season's Best Entertainment Buy C'mon Everybody 35c BEFORE 8:30

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DRIVE ON RETURNED GOODS BEARS FRUIT

Campaign against return of merchandise inaugurated in May, 1930, by the Indianapolis Merchants’ Association, has been unusually successful during 1931, according to W. E. Balch, manager. Rules adopted by the Merchants’ Association have been generally accepted as fair and equitable by the buying public, Balch explained. Since the effort to mitigate abuse of the privilege has been in effect, return requests must be made by the customers within six days.

Open Until 9 o’Clock Saturday New Winter 2nd DRESS For the first dress that COATS you select from this ready low price--then Sacrificed! this group of the same value and pay only 1 cent for the second dress. A GORGEOUS ASSTORMENT NEW WINTER $25.00 COATS $14.90 January Clearance of New DRESSES Sale Price! $4.44 Metallics--Gold Brilliant, flattering, new frocks for Straw Bandings--Silver-- “after five,” Sunday night, afternoon Ribbon Black or street wear. Every new high shade, Combinations--Brown-- blacks and new prints. You will be Novelties--Combinations-- amazed at these marvelous dresses priced so sensationally low. “SAVE” “SAVE” “PAY CASH AND SAVE!”

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“The number of requests materially have lessened,” Balch said. “This is proof that the buying public has accepted the rules as fair and are abiding by them.” All flagrant returns have been placed in the credit record of the customer in the office of the association and has had a favorable effect, according to Balch. “Not only has the system curtailed abuse of return privileges in the city, but it has attracted national attention,” Balch stated.

“No less than fifteen trade journals of national circulation have carried in detail the plan of the local association.” Rules adopted by Indianapolis retailers do not prohibit a return when it is legitimate and reasonable or when the store is at fault. The loss entailed by promiscuous and unwarranted return of merchandise grew to such proportions that stores actually were suffering direct cost, Balch explained. In larger stores, from five to six departments are concerned, entailing bookkeeping, receiving, remarking and other duties before the transaction is closed, all of which mean a financial loss.

SERVICE IMPROVED Street Cars, Busses Reach All Sections of City. Repairs and replacements of tracks during the last year have made possible improved street car service for Indianapolis. Every section of the city is served either by busses or street cars of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company and the Peoples Motor Coach Company and transfer privileges are extended. “Thrifty people who are preparing their budgets for 1932,” said D. E. Watson, manager for the re-

ceiver, “can save by using public transportation for all city purposes, saving their private cars for more extensive trips. “There is no question concerning the economic need of street car operation within large cities. It must be augmented by busses extending into remote sections. Together these carriers handle about 63 per cent of all those who are daily sojourners between their homes and places of business.” Frank Lahm to Rest in Ohio PARIS, Jan. 1.--The body of Frank S. Lahm. who died Thursday, will be sent to Mansfield, O., for burial next week. No services will be held in Paris, where he lived for many years.

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Aged Woman Kills Self By United Press ALBION. Ind., Jan. 1--Fear of becoming a burden to other members of the family caused Mrs. Sarah Ray, 70, to end her life at her home here, authorities believe. Mrs Ray covered the kitchen floor with papers, placed her head on a pillow and slashed her throat with a razor. A farewell note lay nearby.

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