Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1939 — Page 6

MISSIONARY SOCIETY MARKS 50TH YEAR . . . «

The Indianapolis District, Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, held a tea yesterday at Robert’s Park Church in celebration of the 50th anniversary of its founding. At the tea table are

(left to right) Mesdames J. W. Meyers, J. N. Greene and C. W. Roller.

Character Revealed by Hand Reading to Be Theme of Talk To Propylaeum Club Sunday

Mrs. George Philip Meier, Who Has Written Book On Subject, to Be Speaker; Lecture to Follow Monthly Supper.

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON Fascinating quirks in the characters of well-known people, as revealed in the lines of their hands, will be the theme of Mrs. George Philip Meier’s discussion of “Famous Hands” at the Propylaeum Club Sunday evening following the monthly buffet supper. The walls of the little study at “Tuckaway,” Mrs. Meier's home on N. Pennsylvania St, are lined with photographs of celebrities whose hands she has read and whose traits she has described in her book, “Lions’ Paws.” Among the musically famous are Mary Garden, Lily Pons, Lucretia Bori, Deems Taylor, Lawrence Tibbett and George Gershwin. Stage and screen luminaries include Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Mary Pickford, Anna May Wong, Frederic March, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Walt Disney. In the galaxy of fliers are Amelia Farhart, Ruth Nichols, Amy Mollison and Maj. Al Williams. Among the others are Roy Chapman Andrews, Ida M. Tarbell, James Montgomery Flagg and the late Lady Ishbel, Countess of Aberdeen. Mrs. Meier is now preparing a second volume to be called “Palms of Victory,” which will include handprints and character sketches of such distinguished visitors here this winter as Mr. and Mrs. Linton Wells, Irene Kuhn, Neill James and the Chinese actress, Soo Yong. The Library of Congress has honored Mrs. Meier by selecting and accepting 137 autographed hand impressions of famous people, together with their character sketches, which is known as the Nellie Simmons Meier collection. Dr. Herbert Putnam, librarian of Congress, and V. Valta Parme, curator of the rare book room, agreed that since “there was nothing else like it in the world” it belonged in the rare book section of the library. Included are the handprints and character analysis of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Miss Landi Here Tonight

Highlight of the mid-week social calendar is the Contemporary Club’s guest meeting at 8:30 tonight at English’s when Miss Elissa Landi, stage and screen star, is to discuss “The Difference Between Stage and Screen Acting.” John P. Collett, club president, and Mrs. Collett will give a dinner party at Woodstock Club for Miss Landi. Mr. and Mrs. G. Vance Smith will have as their guests for dinner and the meeting Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Scheidenhelm and Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Kersey of Muncie. Mrs. Kersey was formerly Miss Margaret Evans of Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. McDermott’s dinner guests will include Mr. and Mrs. Newell C. Munson and Percy H. Weer. Mrs. Meier will have as her guest Miss Eleanor Bowman of Trenton, N. J., who arrived yesterday for a visit at the Propylaeum. Southern cruises continue to attract Indianapolis folk. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ruddell and Mr. and Mrs, Irving W. Lemaux are to sail May 25 on the S. S. Monarch of Bermuda for a trip to Bermuda. Mr. and Mrs. Ruddell will leave May 20 to spend a few days at the New York World’s Fair and Mr. and Mrs. Lemaux are to leave May 23. Mr. and Mrs. Austin H. Brown, who will go to New York today, will sail tomorrow on the S. S. Queen of Bermuda and return May 14. Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Bigler, who recently moved to New York, also are to sail tomorrow for Bermuda. Mrs. Stanley M. Timberlake will entertain at luncheon tomorrow at Willowbrook Farm in honor of Mrs. Sam I. McCants who, with Col. McCants, will leave in July for Ft. Benning, Ga.

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Plan Visit in South

Miss Gertrude Tuttle will leave tomorrow for a motor trip to Fredericksburg and Richmond, Va., where she will visit relatives until the middle of this month when she is to go to her summer home at Pinewood on Burt Lake, Mich. Mrs. Thomas R. Kackley and her children, Sally and Fritz, will be home today after spending the winter at Naples, Fla. Also back from Naples are Mrs. Thomas Madden and her children. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Todd have returned from a 10-day trip to Charleston, S. C., and Augusta, Ga. Mrs. Lyle Moore Jr. has returned to Newport, Tenn., after a two-week visit with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Eberts. . The board of directors and associated members of the Indianapolis Home for the Aged, Inc, will meet at 11 a. m. tomorrow at the Home, Miss Juliet Bryan is president. The last Arlington junior riding department of the season will be held Friday evening at the Robert H. Brown Stables. Mrs. Smiley N. Chambers will read a paper entitled “Under Pressure” at the Indianapolis Woman’s Club meeting Friday afternoon at the Propylaeum. The second paper by Mrs. Albert M. Cole will be on “Narratives of Personal Experience.” New officers of the Northwestern Alumni Association elected Monday night at the association's annual candle-lighting ceremony and meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. Vance Smith are Leland K. Fishback, president; Mrs. Smith, first vice president; M. Kirk Coleman, second vice president; Mrs. Herschel Davis, secretary, and Leland A. Kirkpatrick, treasurer.

Visiting Bankers’ Wives Plan Hospital Visit, Musical Tea

A tour of the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital, a luncheon in the nurses’ dining room of the hospital and a musical tea and fashion show are special events planned for wives of men attending the 43d annual convention of the Indiana Bankers’ Association today and tomorrow.

The hospital tour will be held tomorrow morning with the luncheon Southern Club Meets Friday

following. The musical tea and fashion show will begin at 3 o'clock this afternoon in Ayres’ auditorium. Music will be provided by a trio from the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music.

Mrs. Toner M. Overley will give a book review Friday afternoon at

Mrs. Harold C. Cross is chairman of the hostess committee. Her assistants include Mesdames Morse P. Bowen, Hugh V. Bradley, Volney M. Brown, Garrett T. Browning, Pau! C. Buckler, H. Foster Clippinger, William P. Flynn, William C. Grauel, Neal Grider, E. M. Lutz, Frank E. McKinney, Felix M. McWhirter, E. D. Moore, G. H. Mueller, John E. Ohleyer, G. W. Patterson, W. H. Polk, T. A. Ressler, J. 8. Rogan, William B. Schiltges, G. W. Snyder and Don E. Warrick, all of Indianapolis; Mrs. Robert H. Myers, Muncie, and Mrs. A. J. Wedeking, Dale.

Meeting Postponed

The meeting of the Sewing Circle of Myrtle Temple Pythian Sisters, which was to have been held Jouses hitely,

a meeting of the Southern Club Auxiliary. Mrs. J. D. Smith, 3201 Ruckle St. will be hostess for a 1 o'clock luncheon. Assistant hostesses will include the Mesdames J. F. Wilson, H. Emory Thomas, J. L. Wilson and Miss Helen Smith.

Announce Marriage Of Pear! Erma Todd

Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Todd, 4224 Graceland Ave., have announced the marriage of their daughter, Pearl Erma, to Lester Kenneth Knapp, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Knapp, Zionsville. The wedding was last Saturday, with the Rev. Lester Ford offi ciating.

The couple will be at home after May 15 at 3606 Balsam Ave,

Mrs. J. E. Andrews will review

Mrs. J. H. Smiley (left), district president, wore a gown designed for Mrs, Rutherford B. Hayes, first national president of the W. H. M.. 8. Mrs. William T. Randall headed the arrangements committee.

Circle 1 of Central Methodist Planning Program for Friday; Temple Sisterhood Will Meet

A tea and book review, a luncheon, talks and one all-day meeting are scheduled for meetings tomorrow and Thursday of women’s church organizations. One group will nominate officers.

“The Wine of Good Hope” (David

Dame) at the meeting at 2 p. m. Friday of Circle 1 of the Central Methodist Church at Banner-Whitehill auditorium.

Mrs. C. T. Myers will present two piano numbers. Mrs. Bert Kilbourne, president, will be in charge. Mrs. Robert Ramsay and Mrs. E. B. Winsted will preside at the tea table, assisted by Mesdames T. H, Beecher, Walter Hitt, R. A. Nowlan and R. L. Pierce. Members of the arrangements committee include Mesdames Forest 8S. Cartwright, J. C. Hamilton and P. C. Snively. Mrs. C. J. McCor~ mack will have charge of a candy sale.

A musical program will be presented at the meeting Monday of the Temple Sisterhood at Broadmoor Country Club. A luncheon at 12:30 p. m. will precede the pro-

gram. The Sisterhood Choir will sing “Daniel,” a cantata by George Root. Soloists will be Mrs. Robert Blake, contralto; Farrell Scott, tenor, and Paul Krauss III, bass. Mrs. Albert G. Dannin will be narrator and Mrs. Dorothy Knight, director. Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs is choir leader. Members of the choir include Mesdames Louis Traugott, Sidney Mahalowitz, Samuel Hagn, Arthur Fairbanks, Harry Glickman, Meyer Efroymson and Miss Ruth Medias. Mrs. Fairbanks, organization president, will preside.

Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht will give the invocation and Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt will present a resume of Sisterhood activities. Mrs. A. H. Kaufman is in charge of luncheon reservations and Mrs. Lawrence Lapinska will have charge of transportation.

Mrs. L. T. Freeland is chairman of a program to be presented at 11:30 a. m. Friday at the May breakfast at the Fletcher Place Church for members of the Methodist City Council Auxiliary. The breakfast will end the year’s program.

Mrs. Eleanor Fraser, hospitality chairman, will have charge of arrangements, assisted by Mrs. Imo McKenzie and Mrs. Jerry Belden. Mrs. F. F. Kohlmeyer, chairman of sewing, will present a demonstration of her department’s work. Mrs. Margaret Foster and Miss: Ruth Davis will conduct a program of Girl Scout and Campfire Girl activities. Mrs. John R. Benson will lead the devotions.

Dr. E. Millard Dill, superintendent of the Boys’ School at Plainfield, will talk following a luncheon of the Woman’s Association of the Irvington Methodist Church tomorrow at

the church. He will discuss “Coordination of Welfare Agencies in the Prevention and Treatment of Delinquents.” The association board will meet at 10 a. m. and a general departmental business meeting will follow. Nominations for department officers will be made by Mrs. C. H. Castor, chairman of the nominating committee. Mrs. Karl Wolfe, leader of Circle 2, will have charge of the luncheon and social hour. Mrs. Oria Gauker and Mrs. W. E. Varin will be hostesses for the day.

Miss Helen Elliott will talk on “Historic New Harmony” at the annual union meeting of the Indianapolis Church Clubs of Businesswomen at 6:15 p. m. Friday in the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church.

P.-T. A, Leader Urges Parley To Keep Peace

CINCINNATI, May 3 (U. P)~— An opinion that a substitute for war must be found at a conference table to settle “the mess we're in” was given to the National Congress of Parents and Teachers yesterday by Mrs. C. C. Clark of Columbia, Miss. Mrs. Clark explained that she did not mean “another League of Nations.” “It must be another kind of conference table—one where everybody sits down on an equal basis,” she said. She contended that America must take the lead in such a movement. Dr. S. Gale Lowrie, University of Cincinnati political science professor, told delegates that American foreign policy had been “pretty well established” through the years. “It could not be called a vacillating policy,” he said. “It always has been based on three points—the open door in China, the Monroe Doctrine for South America and no alliances in Europe. “Our policy has been good. has not been bungled.”

Both Mrs. Clark and Dr. Lowrie spoke at an international relations group conference.

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400 to Attend

Mothers’ Club Spring Party

More than 400 reservations have been received for the annual spring luncheon to be given by the 21 Mothers’ Clubs of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow. Members of the executive board will be honor guests. Mrs. Walter S. Stockton, general chairman, will preside at the luncheon in the North Methodist Church. A musical program will be presented by the Madrigal Singers from Tech High School, under direction of J. Russell Paxton and Miss Florence Izor, xylophonist, ac companied by Mrs. Oren T. Arbaugh. Honor guests will include Mesdames Gideon W. Blain, Francis

W. Dunn, Charles P. Emerson, Robert A. Hendrickson, Henry H.

Hornbrook, Daniel I. Glossbrenner,

William H. Insley, George A. Kuhn, Eli Lilly, Addison J. Parry, James M. Pearson, Russell J. Ryan, Edward B. Taggart, Ernest D. Wales, Paul H. White, Larz A. Whitcomb, Miss Gertrude J. Baker and Miss Marguerite Dice. Additional guests will be Mrs. George L. Clark, president of the Indianapolis Council of ParentTeacher Associations; Mrs. Carl J. Manthei, member of the Board of School Commissioners, and Dr. Frances T. Brown, Department of Public Health.

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Costumes and accessories of the Eighties and Nineties worn at the time of the organization’s founding in Indianapolis were inspected by (left to right) the Mesdames S. D. Clark~ John P. Robinson and C. H. Castor. An annual meeting and banquet for Queen Esthers is being held today.

Harrison Chapter of D. A. R. To Install Officers Tomorrow; State Regent's

Itinerary Listed

Officers will be installed at the meeting tomorrow of the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter, D. A. R., while the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks unit of the organization will hear a speaker. The May itinerary of Mrs. Willam H. Schlosser, state D. A. R. regent, has been announced.

Mrs. Gustavus B. Taylor will be installed as regent of the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter, D. A. following a covered dish luncheon meeting at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow in the chapter house, 824 N. Pennsylvania St. Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter will conduct services.

Others to be inducted include Mrs. James A. Sutherland, second vice president; Mrs. Henry C. Ketcham, recording secretary; Mrs. B. F. Lybrook, membership secretary; Mrs. Jasper P. Scott, historian, and Mrs. Heathcote R. McIlvaine, historian.

Mrs. William H. Insley will talk on “Mary Lyon” at the meeting tomorrow at the Propylaeum of the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Hostesses will include Mesdames Bernays Kennedy, Woodbury T. Morris, William H. Coleman and Miss Anna Knubbe.

Mrs. William H. Schlosser, regent for the Indiana Society, D. A. R., has announced her itinerary for this month. Mrs. Schlosser will attend a group meeting tomorrow at the Hillside Hote! in Madison. Members of the State board will attend. Tomorrow evening she will be honor guest at a meeting of the French Lick chapter.

On Friday, the state regent will

attend a group meeting at the Rockport Methodist Church and

will go on to Mt. Vernon for a guest

R.|meeting and dinner. A meeting

will be held Saturday at the home of Mrs. C. C. Hamilton in Linton at which Mrs. Schlosser will talk with prospective D. A. R. members regarding a chapter in Green County.

Tracts for the D. A. R. memorial forest will be inspected by Mrs. Schlosser cn Sunday. A broadcast on mountain schools supported by the organization has been scheduled for 10.30 a. m. Monday over WIBC. She will present a report of the Continental Congress to the Alexander Hamilton Chapter in Franklin on Thursday, May 11. That noon the Irvington chapter will entertain Mrs. Schlosser with a luncheon at Oifaldi’s. Mrs. Roscoe O'Byrne, former vice president general, and Mrs. Oran E. Ross, state chaplain, will be luncheon guests. Other meetings included on the regent’s tour include one of the State Board at Turkey Run State Park, May 17th, Central District meeting at Turkey Run, May 18; and North District meeting at Lake James, May 25. She will be guest of the Marion Chapter, May 26; Michigan City Chapter, May 30; Fowler Chapter, May 31; Kentland, June 1, and at an anniversary luncheon with Hammond Chapter and a meeting in East Chicago, June 2.

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Methodists’ Home Mission Group Elects

Mrs. J. H. Smiley was re-elected president of the Indianapolis District, Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, this morning at the organization’s 50th annual meeting in Robert's Park Methodist Church. Other officers named to assist her are Mrs. Walter Gingery, first vice president; Mrs. Warren A. Fox, second vice president; Mrs. William C, Hartinger, third vice president; Mrs. Edgar Blake, honorary vice presie dent; Mrs. Oscar Burghard, corre sponding secretary; Mrs. H. C. Cas= tor, recording secretary, and Mrs. S, D. Clark, treasurer. Other aids named include Miss Mildred Couch, secretary of young people; Miss Alice Krause, assistant; Mrs. .C. L. Shrode, secretary of june ior work; Mrs. F. B. Heagy, assiste ant; Mrs. Charles T. Alexander, spiritual life secretary; Mrs. Theodore Pence, assistant; Mrs. P. E, Powell, missionary education; Mrs. L. R. Jones, assistant. Additional executives are Mrs, Norris Wardell, christian citizen ship; Mrs. Clifford Yoh, mission supplies; Mrs. William T. Randall, thank and lenten secretary; Mrs. E. E. Aldrich, mite box secretary; Mrs. J. N. Greene, conference memes bers; Mrs. R. K. Brown, permanent missionary fund; Mrs. L. D. Weath= - ers, parliamentarian; Mrs. C. W. Roller, telephone; Mrs. W. FPF. Holmes, historian, and Mrs. Clifford McMurtrey, organist. A Queen Esther banquet will be

held tonight at the Broadway Meth odist Church.

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