Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1939 — Page 14
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The annual Traders Point Hunt Ball for hunt mem- | bers and their. guests will be given Saturday night, Dec. | 9, at. the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mrs. Samuel B. Sut- | phin and Mrs. Robert ‘A: Adams will be co-chairman of theevent.. '': _ .- i aa 8. Miles Bouton, for 23 years a foreign correspondent | in Germany, spoke today at the Propylaeum on “Hitlerism or CivilMrs, Frederick E. Matson, president of the entertainment com- . mittee, is among: those who entertained at luncheon preceding the Propylaeum Day program. Others included Mesdames Fred C. Gardner, Giles L. Smith, Emmett Hall and Miss Genevieve Scoville. i Mrs. Harmon Voege and Mrs. I, Richard Wagner were luncheon guests of Mrs. George Underwood. In another group attending .together were Mesdames James Watson, Richard Meade, Harry Fit- | ton and Edward Lynn. : Sh Others who were hostesses for*smaller luncheon groups include
Mesdames William E. Gavin, IL. R. Zapf, Joe Rand Beckett, Paul T. Payne and Frank E. Coulter. eta ;
Christamore Boxholders Announced :
Boxholders for the opening night of “Tonight We Dance,” starring Ruth Chatterton, were announced today. The Christamore Aid Soer. is sponsoring the first performance at English’s on Monday n : , : re Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Barnes will ‘have as their guests, Messrs. and Mesdames March Haines, Bennett Bobbitt and Paul H. Durham, all of Kokomo. Mrs. Philip Reed and her mother, Mrs. Albert Sterne will entertain Mr. and Mrs. Paul Matthews and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Baltzell. Mr. and Mrs. W. Jim Roberts will take Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Miller and Mr. and Mrs, Dillon Huder. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Miskimen will be Mr. and Mrs. Piatt Searle, Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Pantzer, Mrs. William Coleman Atkins, Addison Stillwell and William N. Wilson. > Mrs. John Kern will be host to a box party including Mesdames H. M. Gilchrist, J. H. Sternbrecher, Carolyn Atherton, W. W. Critchlow and Samuel Cornell: Carey. Miss Irving Moxley will entertain a group of friends in her box. ;
Dinner Party Arranged
Mr. and Mrs. Otto N. Frenzel will entertain at dinner before . the play. Their guests will be Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ball of Muncie and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Miller. -Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Cole are to have Mr. and Mrs.. R. Emmett Kelly as guests for the . play. Mr. H. H. Arnholter will be hostess to Mesdames Thomas Scanlon, Carl Riefsteck, Alyce LaManna, Edward Zaiser, Thomas Massoth. Mr. and ‘Mrs. W. I. Longsworth have returned from a trip - ‘to California and will be in the first night audience. Mrs. Longs-
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C.Y. O. Units To Be Feted -
The Little Flower Catholic Youth Organization will entertain other local C. Y. O. unit members and their guests at an inter-parochial dance tomorrow evening in the Little Flower Hall. William Flick is general chairman.
Bradshaw (left) and Mrs. Paul Johnson, Delphi, are assisting with arrangement. A supper dance will begin at 10 p. m. in the fourth-floor ballroom.
Western 10-gallon “toppers” and sombreros will add an authentic note to the Indianapolis Athletic Club’s Fall Roundup Saturday night. Mrs. Howard
Activities of Legion Auxiliary Will Be Outlined at National Conference Here This Week-End
Activities of the National American Legion Auxiliary will be outlined this week-end at the annual Presidents and Secretaries’ Conference at national headquarters here. Department presidents and secretaries from every state, Hawaii, Alaska and the Panama Canal Zone ‘will attend. Mrs. William Corwith of Rockville Center, N. Y., national president, will
preside. Conference activities will begin to-
will hold its annual anniversary tea Monday afternoon at the Alpha Chi house on the Fairview
Kokomo Woman Named to Head State War Mothers at Parley; 2-Day Convention Ends Today
Mrs. Frank Willer, Kokomo, retiring first vice president of the American War Mothers, was elected president this morning at the annual state convention in the Claypool Hotel. The two-day convention will close this afternoon. Other officers chosen were Mrs. Mae Edwards, Logansport, first vice
The Alpha Chi Mothers’ Club of Butler University |
| Initiation Set By Lodge Units
A series of card parties, initiation of candidates and a dinner meeting followed by ritualistic work have been planned for lodge group meetngs the next few evenings. The PAST MATRONS AND PATRONS ASSOCIATION OF MAR-
of Highland Park, Ill, national
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more, Charlotte Callon, Ida Meister,
_on alternate Thursdays throughout . the season. Games this month will
~ goeci al parties for the holidays, in-’ cluding
Dec. 30, with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Flood, chairmen.
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ION COUNTY, ORDER OF EASTERN STAR, will present the ritualistic work of 1870 for members and guests of Irvington Chapter at a dinner meeting Monday night. Association. members who will participate include Mesdames Martha Zoercher, Nellie Lehnert, Ida Ingle, Katherine Richardson, Libbie Everett, Mona Thomas, Rhea Koehler, Cora Weiland, Laura Ray, Ethel Payton, Ailene Money, Millie Gil-
Tarda Bolin, Mary Konecke and Clara Lucas, association president; Messrs. Harry Callon and Harry Bo-
The BURNS-WEST-STRIEBECK POST 2909 AND V.'F. W. AUXILIARY will a card party a 8:30 p. m. Sa y in their hall, Denny and E. Washington Sts. Proceeds will be used to fill Thanksgiving baskets for the meedy. Mrs. Pearl Hull, welfare chairman, will
have charge.
Members of the Moosehaven committee, WOMEN OF THE MOOSE, will sponsor a card party at 2°p. m. tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Ray Thompson, 2150 Dexter Ave. The Social Service committee will sponsor a benefit card’ party at 8 p. m. Monday at the home of Mrs. Hazel Novak, 540 E. New, York St. : Mrs. Dorothy Johnson, senior regent of the organization, will preside at a meeting at 8 p. m. today in Moose Temple. Candidates will be initiated and a business meeting conducted. Mrs. Maude Shoults will assist with initiation, owing to the jliness of the membership chairman, Mrs. Kathryn Hansford. The ways and means committee of GOLDEN RULE CHAPTER 413, ORDER OF EASTERN STAR, will sponsor a card party at 1:30 p. m. Saturday in Ayres’ auditorium.
Meridian Hills Dance Planned
A pre-Thanksgiving dinner and bridge will be held for members of the Meridian Hills Country - Club and their guests Saturday evening. Dinner will be at 7.o'clock and a bonus of 250 points will be’ given to those who arrive on time. Mr. end Mrs. George S. Olive, general will be Edward
series of Duplicate Bridge games held on alternate Thursdays at
the club house, according to Mr.|
and Mrs. Edward A. Peterson, chairmen. plans have been altered so that play will continue
pe tonight and Nov. 30. Players who have entered for the season play will continue as usual, but players for a single evening will be
have been notified of
-@a dinner dance on Saturday, Dec. 16, with Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Moffett as chairmen, and a formal dinner bridge to celebrate New Year's Eve on Saturday night,
Members of the Hoosier Athletic Club will open the club's Thanks- ¢ social program -with the anTurkey Trot Saturday evening club. The annual Thanksgiv-
morrow with preliminary committee meetings. The national finance committee of which Mrs. W. Harvey Stegman of Dunkirk, N. Y., is chairman, and the national publication committee,- with - Mrs, James . J. Bromley of Ascutney, Vt., as chairman, will meet that day. Chairmen of other national committees will confer with national officers tomorrow. An address by Raymond Kelly,
open Saturday morning's ‘session. After greetings by national officers, the Americanism program for 1940 will be presented by Mrs. P. I. Dixon, of Thomasville, Ga., national chairman. Mrs. Willard L. Morss, of Howard, Kas., president of the Kansas department, will describe the “Girls’ State” held there this year. - Child Welfare Program Topic
Mrs. A. H. Hoffman, of Des Moines, Iowa, chairman of the national child welfare committee, and Miss Emma C. Puschner, of Indianapolis, director of the Legion's child welfare division, will outline the 1940 child welfare program. Foster home care of children will be discussed by Mrs. L. D. Akin, of Shawnee, Okla. president of the Oklahoma department. A round-table discussion by department presidents, led by the national president, will conclude the Saturday morning session, Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, of Cincinnati, American vice president of the Fidac Auxiliary, will speak at the opening of the Saturday afternoon session. . The. conference then will take up work of the auxiliary for disabled World War veterans. Mrs. Louis Lemstra, of Clinton, Ind, national rehabilitation chairman, and Watson B. Miller, of Washington, D. C.,, the Legion's national chairman, will present plans for 1940 activities. “Hobby Shops” sponsored by the auxiliary for the disabled men, will be described by Miss Minnie Sproesser, of Watertown, Wis., president of the Wisconsin department. Discusses Job Opportunities Efforts fo improve employment opportunities for veterans will be discussed by; Mrs. Frank E. Mathers of Haddon Heights, N. J, national chairman, and Mrs. Roscoe L. Murray of Upton, Ky., president of the Kentucky department. , Mrs. George F. Bamford of Sparrows Point, Md., chairman of {he national poppy committee, 1 present plans for the 1940 memorial poppy program, and Mrs. H:. Hathaway Wright of - Saticoy, Cal., president of the California department, will discuss the program from the sta viewpoint. 3 :
Radio broadcasting activities will be outlined by Mrs. A. A. Pantelis
Parliamentary Law - Club Meets Monday
“Uses And Abuses of Filibuster” and “Debatable Motions’ will be discussed Monday following the 12:30 o'clock luncheon of the Indianapolis Parliamentary Law Club. Mrs. G. B. Taylor will be hostess at the D. A. R. Chapter House, 824 N. Pennsylvania St. : Assistant hostesses will be the Mesdames Herman R. Davis, Thomas R. Booth, C. W. Seet and William E. White.
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chairman, and discussed Ly Mrs. N. J. Danhof of Zeeland, Mich, president of the Michigan department. Mrs. James J. Bromley of Ascutney, Vt., chairman of the national publication ‘committee, will give plans for development of the auxiliary’s national magazine, after which Mrs. Opal Ferguson of Ft. Wayne, -Ind., president of the Indiana department, will speak on securing subscriptions: for the magae.
Legion national commander will zin
‘The annual conference dinner wiil be held at 7:30 o'clock Saturday night. at the Indianapolis Athletic Club with Mrs. Corwith presiding. Sunday Session Outlined
The Sunday session will" begin at 9 a. m. with discussion of community service by Mrs. George W. Vensel, of Phoenix, Ariz, national chairman, and Mrs. Arnold Smith, of Pawtucket, R. I., president of the Rhode Island department. The national defense program for 1940 will be presented by Mrs. Mark W. Murrill, of Scituate, Mass.,, national chairman, and Mrs. Leland C. Hartle of New. Haven, Conn., president of the Connecticut department. Activities of the auxiliary’s 50,000 junior members will be outlined by Mrs. Harry I. Smith of Kansas City, Mo., national chairman, with Mrs. Gladys E. Jameson ‘of Bangor, Me., president of the Maine department, speaking on organization of junior groups. Plans for 1940 efforts to bring educational opportunities to orphans of veterans will be outlined by Mrs. F. W. Bartling of Douglas, Wpyo., national chairman, with Mrs. A. C. Schaefer of Duluth, Minn, president of the Minnesota department, discussing the -student loan fund. The 1940 legislative program will be outlined by Mrs. Andrew Lawo, of Raleigh, Tenn. national chairman, and Col. John Thomas Taylor, of Washington, D. C., the Legion’s national legislative director. Mrs. Ila D. Brennan, of Oak Creek, Colo. president of the. Colorado department, will discuss department work in this program. Advance preparations for the 1940 national couvention in Boston will be described by Mrs. Mark W. Murrill, national convention chairman, Enrollment of the auxiliary’s 500,000 members for 1940 will be discussed by Mrs. James B. Casey Jr, of Philadelphia, national membership chairman, and Mrs. Earl Broeg, of St. Louis, president of the Missouri, department. A telegraphic roll call of departments, to which each will: respond with the number of 1940 members enrolled to date, will conclude the conference. :
Musicale Set ‘For 8 Tuesday
Zeta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, national professional musical sorority of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, will hold its monthly musicale at 8 p. m. Tuesday at the home of Mrs, James H. Lowry. Receiving with Mrs. Lowry will be Mrs. C. Harold Larsh, Beta
Province president, and Mrs. Dorothy M. Fowler, Zeta Chapter president. Special guests will include Miss Rosalyn Phillips and Miss
{Louise Argus, both members of Iota ‘| Chapter, Cincinnati Conservatory
of Music."
Miss Maxine Shrader, soprano, : accompanied by Miss Maxine Rob- |: erts, will sing “When I Have Sung i
My Songs to You,” by Rogers; “Last Night I Heard the Nightin-
gale,” by Mary T. Salter, and “Vielle| §
Chanson Espagnole,”: by: Louis Aubert. Miss Betty McShirley, pianist, will play Ravel's “Oiseaux Tristes” and Debussy’s “L’isle Joyeuse.” Miss Josephine Corwin, contralto, accompanied by Helen Thomas Martin, will sing “Laschia Ch’io Pianga” (Handel); “La Cloche! (Sain ); “Le Mariage des Roses” (Franck); “Ah, Mon Fils— ‘Le: Prophet’ ” (Meyerbeer), ‘and “A Feast of Lanterns” from “Songs
from the Chinese,” by Bantock.
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Civic Theater.
productions this year.
are memers of the cast.
Stempfel and Newell T. Munson.
plays.
showers.
N. Delaware St., will be married on Nov. 29. ? Guests with the engaged couple will include Messrs. and Mesdames Newell C. Munson, Robert Prettyman and Robert Garten, Miss Emily Pond and Dudley: Kemper. 8 = 8 : Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Miss Katherine Combs to Francis Sibly Fieger, Fairfield, Ill, at 2:30 p. m., Dec. 3, at the Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church. Miss Combs is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Combs, 4224° Broadway, and Mr. Fieger’s parents.are Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Fieger of Fairfield. Mrs. Combs will entertain at a tea Sunday afternoon in her daughter’s honor. .Miss Combs attended Butler University. and‘ Marian College. = Mr. Fieger was graduated from the University of Illinois Law School. He is'a member of Sigma Delta Kappa
Fraternity. 2 8 =» : Miss Virginia Helen Straughn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Straughn, 5248 College Ave., will be honor guest tonight at a linen shower at the home of Mrs. Robert W. Straughn, 3433 Central Ave. Miss Straughn will become the bride of Tadd V. Wake, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Speaks Today
worth is an active member of Christamore Aid.
‘J. H. Bowman, field ‘representative for Stephens College, Columbia, Mo.’ in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, will be guest speaker at a meeting this evening of the Indiana Alumnae Club of the college at the home of Miss Mary Elizabeth Benson, 3663 ‘N. Dela-
Mr. Bowman will show coldred slides of the new campus following a buffet dinner at 6:30 p. group will ‘discuss plans for their sixth annual Snowball Hop to be held during the Christmas holidays. :
Players to Dine Before Performance .
Members of The Players are planning dinners and small parties preceding the season’s opening performances Saturday evening at the The club is presenting “Weathered Oak” and “The Cleverest Woman in the World,” both by Arthur Stringer, as its initial
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Richey, Dr. - and Mrs. Albert Seaton, Mrs. Virginia Moorhead Mannon and Percy Weer will be dinner guests of Mr. comb is director of “Weathered Oak™ and Mrs. Mannon and Mr. Weer
Mrs, F. Noble Ropkey, who is directing the second play of the evening, and Mr. Ropkey will have as dinner guests, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ferriday and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moores. Mrs. Ferriday and Mrs. Moores are on the committee for the evening. Dr. G. B. Jackson, who has a part in “The Cleverest Woman in the World,” and Mrs. Jackson also are entertaining guests for dinner. Dr. and Mrs, J. Carlton Daniel, Dr. and Mrs. J. Jerome Littell, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Boozer and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weiss will be dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Orland A. Church. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Willson will include Messrs. and Mesdames Myron R. Green, Carl Wilde, Clemens O. Mueller, Herman Kothe and C. Otto Janus. Another dinner party will be that of Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Sterrett, who will have as guests Messrs. and Mesdames Russell Ayres, Ralph W. Lieber, Claude Jones, Erwin G. Vonnegut,
Also planning entertainment for the opening night. are Messrs. and Mesdames Paul Fisher, Maxwell Cpppock, Harry V. Wade and George C. Forrey Jr. 'A dance at the Athenauem will follow the two
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fox to Give Supper for Miss Alice Baker; Katherine Combs Weds Dec. 3 The prenuptial forecast for the next few days promises a deluge -of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fox will entertain tomorrow evening at their home, 6167 Guilford Ave. with a bridge party and buffet supper for Miss Alice
‘Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ancey E. Baker, 417 E. 37th St. Miss Baker and Howard Kemper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin G. Kemper, 3861
‘Guests will include Mesdames Wil-
-|Ridley, A. W. Kuerst, James P.
- [Paul R. Bruner will be Thanksgiv-
|ner, Dio Brown, Lewis Jones, James
m. Memmbers of the alumnae
and Mrs. John Ray Newcomb, Dr. ‘and Mrs. Robert Wild. Dr. New-
Robert S.
William S. Wake, Galesburg, Ill, Wednesday. : The hostess will be assisted by her mother, Mrs. Walter Pritchard.
liam D. Bain, Jasper Fleming, Thelma ‘Palmer, John Sommer, William B. Smith, John Drewry, R. B. Straughn and the Misses Carolyn Hawekotte, Virginia Burford, ILaville Horn, Mary Davis, Maxine Bayley, Mildred Smith and Eva Johnson. Miss Elizabeth Shade, Dayton, O who- arrives here today to be a bridesmaid at the wedding, will entertain Tuesday night at a dinner and personal shower in the Canary Cottage. The bride-to-be’s parents will give a buffet dinner following the wedding rehearsal Tuesda night. : 2 8 = 2 Miss Grace Fairchild, whose marriage to Jack Courtney Shrader will be Friday, Nov. 24, will be entertained tomorrow night at a personal shower at the home of Miss Maxine Shrader, 6128 Lowell Ave. Miss Rosalyn Elliott and Miss Phyllis Mendenhall will .be co-hostesses and Mrs. Robert Scott Shrader, the bridegroom-to-be’s mother, will assist her daughter at the party. Guests will be the bride-to-be’s mother, Mrs. Frank T. Fairchild; Mesdames Paul B. Elliott, Bess Carter, W. D. Cox, Homer Mendenhall, John Mendenhall, John Cox, Harry Wright, Lewis Spear, Carl Rosnagle, Horace Spencer, Alfred
Tretton, James H. Weyer, P. T. McDonald, Frank H. Fairchild and the Misses Dorothy Mansfield. Mary Alice Kaylor, Marjorie Tretton and Helen Weyer. : SR artes ; ‘Mrs. William Thompson, 3738 Park Ave., will be hostess tomorrow evening at a miscellaneous shower for Miss Mary Jean Pope, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Roy A. Pope, 117 N. Wallace St., whose: marriage to ing Day. : Guests will include Mesdames Pope, Roy A. Pope Jr., Warren Bru-
Janke, Willlam H John Mi
H. Shook, Lafayette, third vice president, and Mrs. John Risch, Vincennes, fourth vice president.
‘| Mrs. Mary Schultz, Kokomo, will be
named corresponding secretary - by Mrs. Willer. Other officers to be named yet today include recording
|secretary, treasurer, chaplain, par-
limentarian, historian and custodian of the records. Resolutions asking that the U. S. Navy, Army, Marine and Air forces be built to sufficient strength to protect U. S. possassions and that the
United States be kept out of war are expected to be ratified this afternoon. Mrs. E. May Hahn is expected to present. another resolution today
{asking for a recreational center for
patients at the U. S. Veterans’ Hospital. The resolution seeks a Congressional appropriation for a building separate from the hospital and large - enough to incorporate a chapel, canteen, barbershop and reception room. Howard M. Meyer, local attorney, spoke ‘last. night at the annual convention banquet. He said that common sense rising out of experience forbids our going into the present war, and the law of self-preserva-tion directs that all who would involve us in the affairs of the old world should be dealt with as those who would infect us with a deadly
plague.
2 and 3 Thread Crepes
better silk
president; Mrs. Fred Kelly, Bloomington, second vice president; Mrs. R.
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Junior Group ~ Symphony Set
. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will present the first children’s concert of the season at 10:30 a. m. Nov. 25 at the Murat. Mrs. Frank Hoke is general chairman of children’s concerts. Mrs. Hoke. today named the following committee chairmen to asMrs. G. H. A. Clowes, contests; Mrs. James F. Carroll, publicity; Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, state activities; Mrs. Samuel Mantell, public schools; Mrs. Robert Ray Bunch, special schools, and Mrs. George A. Smith, parochial schools. On the county schools committee are Mrs. Wallace Tomy, chairman, and Mesdames Jeremiah IL. Cadick, Robert R. Hare, John E. Hollett Jr. and Leonard Solomon. - The speakers’ bureau, which has filled engagements with almost every par-ent-teacher organization in = the city, is under supervision. of Mrs. Bert C. McCammon and Mrs. Chester T. Spriggs, co-chairmen.
Bindner, publicity chairman, and his aids, Fred Conrad, Francis Heid and Jim Kelsch, John Remmetter, refreshments chairman, with Roger Aull, June Sellmeyer and Catherine Bulmer, assistants; Ray "McKinney, music ‘chairman, . assisted by Betty Rochford, Francis Heid and Joan Petit; Louis Kelsch, decorations head, with Mary Frances Rochford, Gene Kesterson and Jim Pox as assistants.
‘Patrons and patronesses are =
Messrs. and Mesdames William Flick, Cecil. McConahay, Anthony LaFata, Carl Simon and Benjamin Loyal. The dance is one in a series which clubs and affiliates of Little Flower, St. Philip’s, Sacred Heart, St. Francis, Lady of Lourdes, St. Joseph’s and Holy Cross parishes will sponsor this winter. John Remmetter is chairman of the social
Mothers’ Club Plans Card Party Tuesday,
Mrs, E. C. Murburger is chairman of the card party which the Pi Beta Phi Mothers’ Club will hold
torium.
J. 'L. Axby, 8S. E. Swails, 8S. L. Aughinbaugh, J. E. Silverman, O. D.
Mrs. Wilson Motherhead is sec-
_|retary for children’s concerts.
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committee of the C. Y. O. Council. .-
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She will be assisted by the Mes- (°: dames Charles Shirk, E. R. Brown, ="