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THURSDAY, DEC. 17, 1036 _
BUTLER GREEK LETTER DANCES TO PRECEDE HOLIDAY
Visitors Here for Holidays
Alpha Chi Omegas, Delta Gammas and Tri Deltas Plan Frolics Tomorrow
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Elaborate Hops Arranged by Kappa Kappa Gamma]
and Kappa Alpha Theta Sororities and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
Butler University students are to close the study period before the holidays with a series of dances at their Greek letter chapter houses and at club and hotel ballrooms. After this week-end they are to return to their homes, here and out of town, for a vacation until Jan. 4. Memnvers and guests of Aljfha Chi Omega Sorority are to dance in a setting of mistletoe, holly wreaths and Christmas colored lights at the chapter house tomorrow night. Miss Martha Boyd, chairman, has invited Miss Mildred Blacklidge, a national officer, and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Murnan as guests. Mrs. Minnie Link, house chaperon; Dr. and Mrs, Guy Shadinger and J. Russell Townsend Jr. are to be chaperons.
TE i ove Travel Study Club Chapters Arrange Fetes
Margaret Rohr, chairman, has asked Dr. Irvin Schultz and Dr. and Mrs. | James Peeling to be chaperons. Actives, pledges and alumnae | members are to attend the Delta | Delta Delta Sorority house dance | tomorrow night, A large Christmas | tree is to be the center of holiday | decorations. Prof. and Mrs. Russell | Hammargren, Miss Helen Jane Cade | and Mrs. Sybil Stevens are to be el chaperon Miss Ruth Duckwell is Or. dit An. Sie Travel Study i ; Inc Kapha Rapa Gamma Dante The Venetian Chapter is to have ity Tone bright. with col. | luncheon and Christmas party at ored lights and a large silvered tree | 112:30 p. m. today at the home of for its dance tomorrow night. Miss | Mrs. Louise Trager, 193 Tremont-av. Mary Margaret Ruddell, chairman, | Mrs. Frank McCracken is to be ashas announced that chaperons are | sistant hostess and Mrs. Crystal to be Dr. Tolbert Reavis, Dr. Henry | Kreglo program chairman. G. Nester, Mr. and Mrs. Herman | Hotel Washington is to be the Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.| scene of the Valencian Chapter’s Walters and Mrs. Helen Shimer, Christmas dinner at 6 p. m. today. house chaperon. | Mrs. Elsie Manning's music pupils Misses Louise Rhodehamel and are to provide entertainment. Elaine Oberholtzer are co-chairmen | Those taking parv are to be Misses of the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority | Norma, Hendreson, Mary Ellen Van-dinner-dance to be given at the Co- | Arsdol, Marian and Marjorie Hook. lumbia Club Saturday. A silvered Mrs. G. A. Henningar is to read a tree with blue lights is to be the [Christmas story and carols are to center of decorations |be sung. A gift exchange is to The Phi Delta Theta Fraternity’s | follow, dinner-dance Saturday is to be in | Mrs. H. P. Willwerth, federation the Claypool Hotel Riley room. Rob- | president, is to be a special guest. ert Cash, Thomas MeCray and Rob- | Artman Council entertained with ert Williams are in charge. The |a Christmas party last night at the chaperens are to include Mr. and home of Mrs. Glenna Carlisle, 1940 Mrs. Paul D. Hinkle, Mrs. Blanche | Park-av. Harber, house chaperon, and Mr.| A memorial for the founder, Mrs. Townsend. 5. R. Artman, was given. A gift
exchange followed. Club Meetings | Guilds to Give TODAY
Children’s Beds American Association of University Women speaking choir, 10:30 TO Methodist
to 11:30 a. m. Woman's Department Club. 1908 Club, Mrs. y . . hostess. Twelve Tiny Tim beds are to be Beta Delphian Club. Indiana Na- | SIX White Cross Guilds’ Christmas tional Bank directors’ room. Mrs. | offerings to the Methodist Hospital. Walter S. Jensen, leader, religious | The gifts will enable 12 needy chilgg rn Nosh AW dren to obtain hospitalization on eview Circle, esdames A. " al Bowen, A. A. Zinn, M. N. A. Walker, the hospital 5 Thomas Taggart hostesses, Mrs. Martin Rehfuss, “In | Memorial floor. the Steps of the Master.” The list of denors is headed by Thursday Lyceum Club, Mrs. E. J. | the Central Avenue M. E. Church Shields, hostess. Mrs, M. E. Woolf, | Guild with four. Mrs. Laura C. Messick is guild president. Others giving beds are Temple Sisterhood Guild, three; Broadway M. E, Church Guild, two; Irvington Guild,
“Christmas in South America.” Monday Club and Malay Chapter
Aftermath Club. Mrs. Harrison D. Willeutts, hostess. Mrs. George M. Cornelius, “Christmas Then and Now.” Mrs. Willeutts, ‘‘Carois.” Christmas luncheon, Gift exchange. Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter, | of International Travel-Study Club, D. A. R. Chapter house. Mrvs. [one each. Announcement was made at an executive board meeting yesterday in the hospital nurses’ home. Christ- | mas plans for patients and nurses were completed.
Charles F. Voyles, hostess chairman, Mrs. Lloyd MeInturf, music guild
Yuletide parties are the order of
he week for several groups of the Club,
E. A. Abbett,
Mrs. David H. Laycock and her sons, Read Bradford Laycock II (left) and David Earl Laycock, Peru, are visiting in the city. With Mr, Laycock they are to spend the holidays with Mr. Laycock’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Read Bradford Laycock, and Mrs. Laycock’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Case.
EVENTS
SORORITIES
Rho Zeta Tau, 8 p. m. Today. Mrs. John Oyler, 313 W. 31st-st, hostess. Business meeting. Christmas party. Indiana Alpha Chapter, Delta Zeta Chi. 8 p. m. Fri. Miss Ann Russell, 2111 N. Delaware-st, hostess. Christmas party. Theta Chapter, Delta Phi Beta. 8 p. m. Fri. Mrs. La Vonne Stokes, 932 W. 32nd-st, hostess. Christmas party. Rho Chapter, Sigma Beta. 8:15 p. m. Fri. Mrs. William Balsley, 2345 Broadway, hostess. Christmas party. Delta Chapter, Xi Delta Xi. Tonight. Miss Mary Griffey, 6158 Rals-ton-dr, hostess. Christmas party.
PROGRAMS
Hawaiian Chapter, International Travel-Study Club, Inc. 11 a. m. Fri. Colonial tearoom. Mrs. Mary Abbott, Mrs. J. R. Worthington, hostesses. Mrs. Petrachu Vallscu, “Rumania.” Hoosier Athletic Club Woman's Guild. 8 p. m. Fri. Mrs. Melvin K, Goode, 722 Gladstone-av, hostess. Christmas party. Mesdames Cyril Wainscott, Joseph Farmer, R. W. German, assistants. Woodside Kindergarten Mothers’ Club, 3 p. m. Today. Kindergarten. Business meeting. Christmas party. Indianapolis Bahai Assembly. 8 p. m. Fri. 1215 Spink Arms. “Prayer,” subject. Public invited. Central Studios of Music. 3 to 4 p. m. Sun. Colonial tearoom. Christ= mas tea. Program, Miss Betty Phillips, pianist; Miss Ruth Girton, soloist; Mrs. Madelyn Anderson, accompanist. School 3 P.-T. A. Mothers’ Chorus. Tonight. Mrs. Harry Storms, 428 N. Rural-st, hostess. Christmas dinner. Games. Gift exchange. Social Club 552, Auxiliary to Locomotive Engineers. Sat. p. m. Castle Hall. Christmas party. Mesdames Charles Baird, T. M. Ahl, Pearl Smith, hostesses. DANCE
Hugh Copsey Post 361, 8:30 p. m. Today. S. East, Prospect-sts. Admission, canned goods to be distributed to needy.
Box Party for
are to give a box party at the opera, “Hansel night at the Murat, their Horne.
include Mr. Showalter, Owen Grady and Robert MecCart.
tend the Scottish Rite Christmas
party after the opera, presented by Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Musie.
IN. New Jersey-st, today.
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Auxiliary Is to Fete Children at Theater
Each member of the Garfield Park Unit 88, American Legion Auxiliary, is to bring a needy child to its Christmas party at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Fountain Square Theater Building. They also are to bring gifts to be distributed from a tree by Edward Hinkle and Pauline Rairdon, dressed as Santa Claus and his wife. Mrs. Ellen Brabender has arranged for a dancing program by Kathryn Oliver Dancing Academy pupils, the unit juniors and members sons. On Sunday gifts, candy and oranges are to be sent to the Knightstown Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s home to 27 boys in division 27, sponsored by the unit,
Opera Planned
Mr. and Mrs. Walter T. Horne
and Gretel,” tomorrow in honor of daughter, Miss Rosemary Guests with Miss Horne are to and Mrs. Lee Allan
Members of the party are to at-
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Christmas
In Mexico To Be Topic
Zonta Club to Hear Talk By Mrs. Ines Samper On Tuesday.
The celebration of Christmas in Mexico is to be related by Mrs. Ines Samper to Zonta Club members at a Yuletide dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Hotel Severin. Miss May Shields is to introduce the speaker. Another program feature is to be music sung by School 45, junior high school choir, directed by Miss Olive Funk, assisted by Mrs. Beulah McColgin. The club's service committee, Miss Eva Y. Wiles, chairman, is to have charge of the distribution of books to the Indianapolis Day Nursery. The project was started last year to build a permanent library for the nursery. Mrs. Willa Proctor, president, is to be presiding officer.
Central M. E. Church to Give English Party
Central Avenue M. E. Church members are being invited to take part in an old English Yuletide celebration at the church Dec. 23. Ralph Wright is to lead caroling and is to be one of a quartet, dressed in appropriate English costumes. Miss Marian Sperry, University of Minnesota student, is to read some Old English narratives. Mrs. John C. Barnhill Jr. representing the Mothers’ class, is arrangements chairman, assisted by Mrs. H. W. Southard. C. M., Sharpe's class is in charge of decorations; Mrs. John Dyer, arrangements and children’s games, and Mrs. John B. Barnhill, old fashioned games for adults. Francis Hughes and his class, with Mrs. Byron Woods have charge of a treat. Mrs. George M. Crossland is president of the class in charge of the party.
Club Reports To Be Heard By Federation
A program and club reports are to be on the program of the Seventh District Federation of Clubs at a meeting tomorrow morning in Ayres Auditorium, with Mrs. C. J. Finch presiding. Theta Tau Psi members are to present “Christmas Truants,” a one-act play. The cast is to include Mesdames William Abel, Rex Haislep, Marshall Haislep, Herschell Hause, Paul Kester, Elmer Beanblossom, Ralph Eberhardt, Eugene Wright, Russell Williams and Karl Scholmeyer. The district chorus is to sing carols and Mrs. David Ross is to talk on motion pictures. Club reports are to be given by representatives of the following affiliated groups: irvington Tuesday, Late Book, Magazine, Martha Washington, Meridian Heights Inter Se, Minerva, Monday Afternoon Reading, Monday, Multum-in-Parvo Literary and New Century clubs; Meridian Union W. C. T. U. and Ladies’ Auxiliary, N. A. IL. C. Mrs. Harry Beebe, art chairman, and her committee are arranging an art exhibit to be held Jan. 12 to 14 in the auditorium.
Miss Dorothy Spahr, daughter of Mrs. Ruth Spahr, and Miss Louise Ellen Trimble, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Trimble, have returned from Northwestern University for the holidays.
Chiang Kai-shek'’s Wife Is Wellesley ( Graduate
Many U. S. Women Personally Interested in Fate Of Chinese General and Mate.
BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer
ASHINGTON, Dec. 17—The fate of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, and of her husband, is a personal matter to many American women,
They went to school with her,
Ten years ago she was pretty young Mei Ling Soong, a
student
at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Nine years ago she was mar-
ried to the Chinese general. him.
The story of Mei Ling Soong is a romantic one.
of a family which has bred some of the most prominent figures in the Chinese nationalist movement. She is a sister of Mme. Z Sun Yat - sen. Another sister is married to Dr. H. H. Kung, descendant of Confucius, recently finance minister of the nationalist government, and at present act ing head of its civil branch Her brother, T. V. Soong, mem-=-ber of the Harvard class of 1915, also has been a powerful figure in that government. In 1927 Mei Ling Soong was just 20, and one of the prettiest girls in China. She had known Chiang since girlhood and had been in love with him for two years although he was then 41 and had a son about her age. Her family opposed her marriage to him, but she was determined to choose for herself and she and the general made separate trips to Japan to lay the case before her mother, who was ill there. Gen. Chiang charged that his enemies had arranged to send a woman calling herself Mme. Chiang Kai-shek to America to discredit him. Actually, he said, he had divorced his wife in 1921 and had since set free two concubines.
Mme. Chiang
» ” ” N spite of all obstacles Mei Ling Soong announced her betrothal at a dinner in Shanghai, and on Dec. 1, 1927, the two were married in a double ceremony. The first service was a private one at the bride's apartment, a Methodist Episcopal service because Mei Ling Soong was a member of that church. Later in the day the couple went to the ballroom of the fashionable Majestic Hotel and were married by Chinese civil ceremony, in the presence of some 3000 guests. Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, com-mander-in-chief of the United States Asiatic fleet, was there with his entire staff, At least two members of the family appeared reconciled to the marriage, because Dr. Kung walked with Gen. Chiang Kaishek to the raised platform on which the service was held, and Mei Ling Soong was escorted by her brother, T. V. Soong.
HE newlyweds already had obtained passports for Amer=ica, where they planned to spend a year, when the honeymoon was halted by a swing of sentiment in the nationalist party. After a week's conference the general emerged as the party's new strong man, with complete authority in civil matters. He immediately made known a stand against further co-opera-tion, in any way, with Soviet Russia. Mme. Sun Yat-sen cabled from Moscow protesting that this
Today she is a frantic wife, determined, according to dispatches, to learn her husband's fate and share it with
She is a member
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break violated her late husband's will. Chiang's son, also in Mos- | cow, denounced his father. In 1928 Chiang was named president of China, and his wife became “First Lady.” By 1930 he had joined the Methodist Church. In 1931 he and his wife entertained the Lindberghs. In 1932, when the Japanese were shelling Shanghai, Mme. Chiang cabled an appeal “to the sense of right and justice of the women of America for the women and children of the invaded areas of Manchuria and Shanghai.”
» on ” BOUT the same time she won new fame by disappearing in an airplane from her husband's headquarters, unaccompanied except by her pilot, and reporting on her return that she had conferred with emissaries of rebel chiefs of Fukien Province, who wished to surrender. She spent much time translating her husband's book, “Outline of the New Life Movement,” and
the tenets of this movement resemble in many respects New England's Blue Laws. Soon after her husband became president, Mme. Chiang established, two schools for boys and girls orphaned by the Chinese revolutionary wars. Into these schools she has brought many ideas gleaned from her Western experience. The boys run a model dairy and sell milk in Nanking, and also sell products of a model farm and a workshop. The girls are trained particularly in home duties and care of children. The last three months of their schooling is spent in model apartments, where each girl takes charge of her own quarters and runs them as if she were a housewife, at the same time taking care of a child lent by women in the neighboring city. At the end of the course, girl graduates are guaranteed to be model brides.
Theta Sigma Phi Will Sponsor Lytle Lecture
Theta Sigma Phi, national professional journalistic sorority, is to sponsor a lecture by Andrew Lytle, author of “The Long Night,” Saturday in Ayres’ auditorium. A tea is to follow the talk. Mr. Lytle is to discuss the background of his book, a story of life under the feudal system in the South and present literary renaissance in the South. Mrs. Kathryn Turney Garten is to introduce the speaker. Mr, Lytle’s first book “Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company” was published in 1930. He has contributed to The Virginia Quarterly Review, Fiction Parade, New Republic, Southern Review, American Review and Hound and Horn. This
will be his first lecture in Indianapolis.
thdinng Lake
Yacht Club Wants Snow
Year's ’s Celebration Climax to Winter Sport Events.
New
BY BEATRICE BURGAN Society Editor ROSTY winds which would sweep over lakes and smooth them into shining surfaces of ice
| would be welcomed by the Maxine | kuckee Yacht Club members. Whila | others
are hoping for moderate { weather which will not impede holi= day transportation, a sparkling blanket of snow would add the final | fillip to a gay season for the yacht | club members. The club, which sails weekly dure
ling the summer season, holds ice
boat racing in the winter, The clia max to that winter sport is the trae ditional New Year's eve celebration at the Inn. The dinner and midnight supper are to be held regardless of the weather, but larger numbers join the party when a boat race is ine sured for the following day. If the winds should change and harden the ice enough for the sport, the ice boats of Clayton Mogg, Charles Harvey Bradley, William Munk, Walker Winslow and Fred erick T. Holliday probably will be in action. In addition the Culver Military Academy has three vessels to be sent into the competition. » ” »
While the senior Merrymakers have set Dec. 30 for their dance at Woodstock Club, the junior group has arranged for a New Year's eve party at the Woman's Department Club. Mrs. J. William Wright, spone sor, is being assisted by Jean Bene ham, Mary Scot Morse, Dorothy Rye bolt, Amy Jose, Peggy Burrell, Mars garet Wohlgemuth, Sue Anne Evee leigh and Sally Williems,
Miss Mary Birch Ingra.», who has been spending the winte. with her parents, Capt. and Mrs. Jcnhas Ingram at Coronado, Cal, is to a’e rive Saturday to be with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harvey Bradley, for the Christmas season. Her brother, Midshipman William Ingram, is to come in from Annapolis on Christmas eve.
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Mrs. W. Richardson Sinclair is inviting friends of her daughter, Miss Dora Sinclair, a Vassar College student, to a tea on Sunday, Dee, 27. Miss Judith Chambers, daugh= ter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Laurance Chambers, a former classmate, is to be an honor guest, too. » ” ”
Miss Ruth Tyndall is to have a dinner party before the Traders Point Hunt ball Dec. 26 at the Ine dianapolis Athletic Club, Her guests are to be Miss Dori Dyer, Hoopes= ton, Ill.; Miss Barbara Haines, Cone necticut College for Women stue" dent, to be on vacation; Miss Esther Jane Throckmorton, John Rocke wood, Richard T. Miskimen, John Watson and Victor Hart, ” ” ”n Robert Moore, son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Moore, is to arrive Friday from Culver Military Academy, where he is a student. The Moores are to have Dr. Moore's sister, Mrs, Ernest Force, and Mr. Force, Gary, as holiday guests.
Holiday Party Is Held By De Molay Mothers
The Indianapolis De Molay Mothers’ Ciub entertained members and guests with a Christmas party recently at the chapter house, 1017 Broadway. Mrs. Earl Mother, president, Mrs, C. A. Meloy and Mrs. H. H. Fagin were in charge of arrangements, Miss Grace Creighton and James Brocon led group singing.
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Mrs. Frederick KE. Matson, vicechairman, Tea. Mrs. Edgar Joseph Ellsworth, readings. Ogden Junior Chorale, music. American Association of Uni-|__ _ . versity Women. Speaking choir, president, announced that one-third 10:30 to 11:30 a. m. Woman's De- of the amount needed to purchase partment Club. Mrs. Elizabeth Bo- | a glass boot for the hospital's physgert Schofield, director. Creative | ical therapy department has been writing class. 7:30 p. m. Rauih Me- | | raised through sponsorship of the morial Library. Dr. Allegra Stew- | Indianapolis Concert Guild series art, mstructor, “Characterization. »| and through contributions. Mrs. Leland R. Smith, chairman. a Alice Meier Circle Is Friday Afternoon Reading civ. | To Hear Readings Mesdames W. I. Moore, Charles | Cherdron, hostesses. Mrs. Elizabeth | Mrs. A. R. Madison is to enterSpahr, recitation. Gift exchange. | tain the Broadway M. E. Church Irvington Fortnightly Club. Mus. | | Alice Meier Circle at her home, 2908 fi F.. 'W. Schulmeyer, Mrs.. J.. P. ds Smith, hostess. Christmas party. | Friday Afternoon Literary Club. | os. Mrs. E. G. Prosch, hostess. Mes- im fy | = dames E. A. Trittipo, R. J. Kemper, i y ns J. W. Preston. assistants. | Fielding and musical numbers by . Culture Club. Mrs. William H.| Mrs. J. E. Shaw and Mrs. Roberta ' ih Remy, hostess, Mrs, W. N. Carpen- | Avels. The circle has dressed 14 ¢ ter, program. Ogden Junior Chorale, | dolls for the Fletcher Place Good i carols, Will Industry. gi" wl A 4 rs fl a wi Hil
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