Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1941 — Page 13

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1941

‘Mrs. Thornton Sterrett Entertains At Country Club Luncheon-Bridge

THE RIFFLE OF CARDS is almost as prevalent as the cry of “fore” about country clubs these days as - women members while away the summer tedium with

bridge parties.

Among those entertaining at the Indianapolis Country Club’s monthly luncheon-bridge today is Mrs. Thorn-

ton W. Sterrett.

Playing at her table were to be her sister, Mrs. Hilton Burghard, Johnson City, Tenn., Mrs. A, K. Scheidenhelm and. Miss Frances’

White.

At another table Mrs. Chester G. Pike of Plainfield was to have Mesdames F. C. Champe, Richard B. Zeigler and Cecil

Weathers as guests. With Mrs. Pruman O. Ewing Shumaker, E. R. Treat and J. D.

reservations for groups were Mrs,

Arthur N. Curtiss.

Mary Catherine Wright Is In RANDOM NOTES:

were to be Mesdames Fred lL Welch. Among others holding Charles R. D'Olive and Mrs,

East

Miss Mary Catherine Wright, daughter

of Mr. and Mrs. Burrell Wright, has gone east for a month’s trip. After visiting in New York. she will go to Saratoga Springs where

she will study at the studio of Robert Davidson.

Several of her

fellow students at Skidmore College, from which she was graduated last month, will be studying with Mr. Davidson who teaches sculp-

ture at the College.

Coming next week to visit Mary Catherine's sister, Miss Eliege Aiman, will be Miss Margaret Merry of San Antonio, Tex. . .. Mrs. M. C. Kennon is spending a month in Passaic, N. J., where she is visiting her brother-in-law and sister. Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Hodder. House guests of Dr. and Mrs. K. T. Kniode ig South Bend are Mrs. C. A. Jaqua, Miss Dorothy Ellis and Mrs. George Stewart of

Indianapolis and Miss Mary Gorham of Frankfort.

Mrs. Knode,

Mrs. Jaqua, Misses Ellis and Gorham were entrants in the 20th annual women’s state golf tournament being held at the Morris

Park Coumtry Club at South Bend.

Other Indianapolis entrants included. Mrs. W., Hathaway Sim-

mons, Meridian Hills Country Club;

Mesdames J. A. Brower, L. L.

Lykins and Harry Bitner and Miss Carolyn Varin, Highland Golf and Country Club, and Mrs. Nina Keesling and Mrs. George Pfeilschifter,. Indian Lake Golf Club. Miss Gorham and Mrs. Jaqua

play at Highland while Miss Ellis, Meridian Hills,

defending champion represents

Winona Watson to Fete Eloise Foreman

PARTIES for brides-to-be are the order of the day. Entertaining tomorrow night for Miss Margaret Eloise Foreman will be Miss

Winona Watson. shower at Miss Watson’s home.

The party will be a picnic supper and sterling

Guests will be Mesdames William Pert, Henry Decker, Harry Hunt, James Comstock and Gale Nave and Mrs. Harry Nevison, Columbus, Ind., Misses Mary Hull, Eileen Sweeney, Lucile Craigle and Lila Jane Harms. Miss Foreman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Foreman, will be married to Frank A. Hamp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Hamp, on July 25. Last night Mrs. Milburn Hogan gave a linen shower for Miss

Foreman.

Attending were Mesdames Foreman, Hamp and Decker;

Miss Lois Foreman and Miss Ruth Hamp, sisters of the betrothed couple, Misses Margaret VanMeter, Mary Jane Werner and Lucille

Dyer.

Lois will be her sister's maid of honor and Miss Hamp will be a bridesmaid with Miss Watson. Zana Fleming of Barrington, Ill,

will be flower girl.

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" Honor guest at a personal shower given last night by Mrs. Samuel E. Privett at the home of her mother, Mrs. Clair McConnell, was Marguerite Herriot whose marriage to Paul Taylor Roberts will be at 4:30 p. m. July 26 in the First Presbyterian Church. The bride-to-be’s colors of pink and white were used in ap-

pointments.

Guests with Miss Herriot and her mother included

Mrs. McConnell, Mrs. Robert Pfendler and the Misses Rosamond Herriot, Olive Gemmer, Vivian: Gatwood, Dorthea Mack, Sally Hunt, Sally Heilman, Marjory Craft and Marjory McBroom.

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Miss Jean L. Smith and Ensign Myron F. Melvin, whose mar= riage will be Aug. 10 in Washington, have chosen Mr. and Mrs. Robert Copeland of Indianapolis as their only attendants at the wedding. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom G. Smith and Ensign Melvin’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ira E. Melvin,

Take Honors at South Bend Show

DOLORES COVERT, daughter of the Irwin Coverts, this week has some new ribbons for the collection garnered by her pony, Little Buccaneer, and by Holiday Pleasure. In the Reserve League Horse Show this week-end at South Bend, Little Buccaneer placed first in the pony class and second in

the horsemanship class for children below 14 years of age.

Holiday

Pleasure took third place in the five-gaited gelding or stallion class. . The Dudley Willistons’ Willcrest Farms also won a number of awards at the show. Their Lady Willcrest was third in the fineharness class, sixth in the five-gaited saddle horse stake and second

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a bending race for five-gaited mares.: A fourth in the three-gaited saddle class, amateur, and a fifth

. in the three-gaited class were won by their Marie Lawson. ‘Stately Rex won first place in the three-gaited class, 15.2 hands and over,

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and one of their entries placed fifth

in the three-gaited stake.

Earl Marple, another local exhibitor at the show, drove his hackney pony team, Cassilis Elegance and Cassilis Adore, to third place and took a fourth in the hackney pony stake with Cassilis

Elegance.

Other Indianapolis winners were 'N. J. Trevillian, with Intruder, and John Irvine, with Adventure, placing first and second respec-

tively in the fine-harness class.

Y.W.C. A. Will Have Nationality

Dinner Tonight

at Popcheffs

A “Nationality” dinner, the third of a series, will be held tonight

by girls participating in the Hoosier holiday program of the Young .

Women’s Christian Association.

The dinner will be served at Popcheffs, 563 W. Washington St., at 6:30 p. m. Afterwards, Mrs. Charles Mitchell, who lived in Bulgaria for

several years, will speak. Miss Gene Beecher is chairman of the summer program committee, which is sponsoring a series of exploration trips to various parts of the city in an effort to know Indianapolis better. Girls attending tonight’s dinner will meet at the Central Y. W. C. A. at 6 o'clock. Tomorrow a visit to the Continental Baking Co. will be made. The group will leave the Y. W. C. A. at 7:30 p. m. Miss Dorothy Kriel, Miss Thelma Damer and Miss Lucy Schulte ot the ¥. W. staff, who arranged the trip, will accompany the group. Miss Mary Heaton and Miss Bula ' Mae Branson will give a picnic sup- ~ per at 5:30 p. m. tomorrow for memshers of the Association program y council. Attending will be Misses Berneice : Taylor, Lena Cohen, Jane Jenner, Beecher, Betty Bartel, Mary Burks, Gladys Blanton, 'Maggie Clapp, Hilda Becker, Melva O'Reilly, Carol Golderman, Alma Waliman and Elizabeth;AnnBlaisdell.

Cecilia Todd Engaged To Herbert Deeter

The engagement of Miss Cecilia Todd to Herbert E. Deeter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl M! Deeter, 216 Ohmer Ave. is announced by her / parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Todd, 1129 Marlowe Ave. The ceremony will be July 26 in

the rectory of Holy Cross Church with the Rev. Fr. Victor Goossens officiating.

To Elect Officers Officers will be elected by the FedUnit 62, American Legion ig iliary tomorrow in the directors’

{room of the Fletcher Trust Co.

Sponsors Card Party

A card party will be given at 2 p. 1m, Friday in Castle Hall by Di-

vision 128 of the Brotherhood of

Locomotive

Attend Operas In Cincinnati

One hundred and eight miles is no jaunt at all for Indianapolis residents when they want to hear an opera. The fact is attested by the number of persons making the trip for the summer operas at the Cincinnati zoo. ' “Among those who went to Cincinnati last week-end were Misses Barbara Jackson, Nancy Cochrane, Patricia Lukenbill and ~ Patricia Gabe. ‘With Mrs, William E. Gabe they drove down Saturday to hear “Rigoletto.” Mr. and Mrs. B. FP. Swarthout, Mrs. Lorena Aughinbaugh and Mrs. M. C. Moore were in Saturday night's “Rigoletto” audience ‘and also heard “Samson and Delilah” Sunday. They will return for next Saturday and Sunday’s performances. Others at the opera last week-end were George Freers, Miss Mary Westfall, Paul Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Devin, Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs and O. L. Kinder. :Several of these had guests with them. Among those attending recently were Eugene Fife Jr., George New-

ton Jr, Dr. F. R. Hensel, D. M.| §

Meecham and Mrs.. Amy Cleary Morrison, . Additional holders of reservations

and the dates they will attend are:

R. F. Bockenstein and Miss Kath.| |

erine Rubush, Saturday; Harry Calland, W. E., Méhr

who plans to attend Saturday, Sunday and July 25.

land Roseann Fogarty,

and Raymond| Walker, Sunday, and Charles Stoup|‘

Resting A

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fter Game at Meridian Hills

The country club becomes something of a _ mecca to Indianapolis residents .on warm summer days. This trio, resting after a game of golf at Meridian Hills, includes (left to right) the Mesdames Donald H. Ellis, H. P. Ransburg and H. Norwood Sallee.

A.A UW. Aids Refugees Through Fund

More than $30,000 has been raised during the past year for refugee relief by the American Association of University Women, according to announcement by Mrs. R. W. Holmstedt, state A. A. U. W. president, as she appointed Mrs. A, D. Schaaf, Jamestown. as state

chairman of the relief fund activities in Indiana for the coming year. The contributions have been distributed through the various national headquarters of University Women’s organizations as follows: England, $17,150; Finland, $2000; Sweden, $1000; Palestine, $3000; Canada, $1000; Shanghai, $200; Unoccupied France, $225; Istanbul, $200. In addition $1000 has been set aside for use in Lisbon and $2000 for use in the United States. The A. A. U. W. began its relief work last summer when a plea was received from the British Federation of University Women to find homes for their children for the duration of the war. :

to the United States, the American university women turned their efforts to raising funds to be used abroad for the assistance of members and their children who were stranded or in need. Many of these persons were refugees from invaded Poland, Austria, Holland and Belgium. Tke Indianapolis branch will continue to raise its relief funds through bridge groups with Mrs. Homer Grosbach as chairman. -

Western Riding Club Meets Tonight

Circle O Ranch, a new \/estern riding club, will meet at 7:3) tonight at its headquarters west of Speedway City. Del England is president secretarytreasurer. ; The club was organized last week by Jimmy Huff and is named after his horse, Little Buck Circle O.

Also planning to. see later operas| 1 :

are: Mrs, Carolyn Lefkey, July 24; Mrs. C. J. Kelsey, July 25; Miss Lelia Stokes and Miss Helen Webster, July 26; G. C. Wright, Aug. 1; Miss Jean Fear and John Lauck Jr., Aug. 2, and Arthur Ziege, Aug. 8. “Samson and Delilah” with Giovanni Martinelli and Kirsten Thorberg. will be repeated tomorrow night. Friday night the “Barber of

Seville” will be the attraction with

When it appeared that few of | Jthe children could be transported

Girl Scouts Are

Assisting With

City’s Aluminum Drive; Second Camp Period Opens

Interest in defense projects is not confined to the adult population of

Indianapolis. The Girl Scouts, too,

projects.

are active participants in such

Although many of them this summer are busy with camp activities,

others who are staying at home are

School 9 Grads Will Picnic

The School 9 (Clemens Vonnegut) Alumni Association will “have its annual picnic west of the community house in Brookside Park Sunday. A short business meeting at 4 p. m. will be followed by a picnic supper. Miss Agnes Mahoney is principal of the school, located at Vermont and Fulton Sts. Persons have attended the school or former teachers are eligible for membership. Paul M. Stiver, Maxwell, Ind. is the president; Mrs. Florence Cross, vice president; Miss Cecil Ellison, secretary, and Peyton W. Parrott, treasurer.

Mrs. John A. Dyer To Read Story

One of her published short stories will be read by Mrs. John A. Dyer before the Story-A-Month Club at its meeting in Cropsey Hall of the Central Library tonight at 8 o'clock. Stories by both the contest and active members will. be read for criticism. The club, which formerly met at the War Memorial, is meeting at Cropsey Hall on the third Wednesday of each month, Mrs. Ralph R. Meyers, president, has announced. :

On-Ea-Ota Club Will Elect Officers

Mrs. A. E. Cooley, 518 N. Emerson Ave. will entertain the On-Ea-Ota Club at 8 p. m. tomorrow. Bridge will follow. an election of officers.

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. |Jean = Grosback, Evelyn

lending their services to defense activities. Tomorrow and Friday, from 9:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., the Scouts, their leaders and Scout Council members have been invited to the Girl Scout Little House where they will prepare workers’ identification badges for the committee in charge of the Aluminum Collection Campaign for the city. The committee recently was appointed by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and Monday has been set as the date beginning the drive. Mrs. Dorothy PF. . Buschmann, chairman of the Community Cooperation Committee of the Girl Scout Council, will be assisted by Mrs. J. D. Alford and Mrs. W. A. Rieman in arranging the Scouts’ participation in the drive. Mrs. Marvin E, Curle, commissioner of the Council, said today, “Since Service is the keystone of the Girl Scout program, it is fitting that Indianapolis Scouts participate in this defense project or any other such project where the capabilities of girls from 7 to 18 years can be used

“This is one more .instance when Girl Scouts are fulfilling their promise to the people of the United States that they would donate as many hours of service as are needed in the defense of their country.” The promise was made in a telegram sent to President Roosevelt in January. Many Indianapolis Girl Scouts are enjoying a. two-week camping session’ at Dellwood, Indianapolis Girl Scout Camp. The second session of the established camping season opened Sunday and will close July 26. A third session opens July 27 and ends Aug. 9. The season closes with a one-week period beginning Aug. 10.

Large Enrollment

Enrolled for the second session are: Fairy Ring Unit—Misses Patricia Ellen Berry, Jonell Brown, Mary Joe Cassady, Marilyn ‘Cook, Charlotte Lee Dennerlein, Lois Helen Fogle, Betty Gardner, Marjorie Glass, Priscilla. Groves, Melba Lee

Harlan, Sandra Lee Heston, Carolyn Howard, Janet Louise Lewis, Ruth McGilliard, Nancy Graham Miller, Joan Phillips, Nancy Glen Ralston, Jean Roempke. Mary Kathryn Stephenson and Jean Summers.

Barnhill, Jean Ann Bates, Lona Mae Bornkamp, Carol Carter, Joan Fryar, Diana Harvey, Mary Ellen Highburg, Lois Ann Hutchman, Gloria Linsley, Marilyn Mercier, Mildred McIntire, Blythe Mildner, Barbara Ryrholm, Mary Margaret Van Nuys, Dorothy Woerner and Ayleen Wright: Miss Lucy Blanton, Danville; Misses Barbara Bray, Virginia Canon, Mary Jane Heemstra, Ellen Kluth, Martha Owen, Priscilla Pontius and Mary Scarseth, West Lafayette. Sleepy Hollow Unit—Misses Patricia Ann Coate, Mary Ann Compton, Mary Ellen Doreschel, Anna Enders, Dottie Friedland, Mary Louise Friedmeyer, Carolyn Gorman, Mary Jeannine Grinslade, Hynes, Patty - Lewis, Mary Linda Mein, stray, Marcia McMullen, Patricia Page, Ann Pardee, Carolyn and

. | Harriett Vance Smith, Nancy Stern,

Frances Tyrie and Gretchen Vanarsdale; Misses Patricia Kampmejer, Mary Louise and Deborah

- | Wilson, Anderson.

This smart yoang lady uses her Burmel flower, print hanky as a note of decor. Pinned into her pocket with a nail-head gold pin jn schoolgirl fashion, it adds a touch of whimsy and gaiety to her other‘wise simple tailored dress. Her dress of olive green rayon, in ‘a new shirtwaist treatment, and a matching open-crown turban make a perfect ensemble for those afternoons in the sun. Ayres’ has Burmel

Sherwood Forest Unit—Misses Margaret Augustine, Carolyn Bell, Barbara Hutchman, Ann Merritt,

| Deborah - McDougall, Joan Ober,

Phyllis Peterson, Betty Jean Reddick, Geraldine, Schloeman, Lucille

_|Snyder, Maxine Simmons, Martha

Starkey, Jane Wagle, Evelyn Wood and Charlotte Yarnell and Miss

|County Officers Will

Speak to W. C. T. U,

- The Washington W. €. T. U. will hear talks by Mrs. Guy Kelsey and Miss Irene Trueblood, county W. C. T. :U. officers, at its meeting at 11 a. m. tomorrow. Mrs. Monroe Lester, 13 8. Belmont Ave., will be

Mrs. Walter Hogan will give the devotions and Mrs. Raymond Trulock A covered dish

Woodland Unit—Misses Joan]:

Sponsor School For Teachers Of Youngsters

“Children’s Personalities and Their Development as Expressed in Painting, Blocks and Dramatic Play” was to be the subject of Mrs. Rose Alschuler as she spoke today at the third session of a Nursery-Kindergarten-First Grade Conference being held this week at Butler University. Mrs. Alschuler, founder of the Illinois Nursery Schools, is author of “Two to Six.” The conference, directed by Miss Ruth Patterson of the Butler College of Education, is one of a series of special intensive unit courses sponsored by the college as part of the annua] summer session. Miss Patterson spoke at yesterday’s session on problems of health and safety in early elementary education. Laboratory and research work by Miss Patterson and Dr. H. D. Worthy, director of Elementary Education and Reading Clinic, made up the afternoon meeting. Similar

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owe so much.” At the outbreak of war, when the unit was formed, there were just eight “atta” girls. Today there are 50 of these women ferry-pilots ith as many more on the reserve When Pauline Gower wrote her book, “Women with Wings,” she gave an emphatic “yes” to the query: “Would women pilots be of any use in time of war?” She visualized them as aerial ambulance pilots, ferry pilots and in many other capacities. Today Pauline Gower holds the rank. of ‘captain and is commandant at the ATA women’s section. I saw her at headquarters, situated at an important airdrome outside London and there I met the “atta” girls and saw some of them at work. Of the original eight “atta’™ girls, I was fortunate enough to find six at the airdrome, all attractive, all bubbling over with enthusiasm. To begin with Capt. Pauline Gower, a tall, slender, good-looking blond in her early thirties, she strikes you as essentially competent, but there is nothing of the martinet about her.

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PAULINE LEARNED to fly in 1930. The late Amy Johnson was her instructor. Since then she has flown over 2000 hours, carried over 30,000 passengers. She was the first woman to hold the Air Ministry's first-class navigator’s certificate. Since the war she has had less time for flying, most of her work being administrative. Her great ambition is not merely to fly a bomber from factory to RAF station, but to be “in” on the actual bombing of some military objective in Germany. “Why not?” she asked. “I could go as a first-aider.” Capt. Winifred Crossley, equally tall and good-looking, but a brunet, had a day off. But she was there with her 12-year-old son, home from school, who is just as air-minded as his youthful mother. There was Margaret Cunnison, pocket-size Scotswoman, full of spirit and ‘go,” whom I watched take off with two new pupils in the space of an hour. Lois Butler, mother of three, wife of the chairman of the de Haviland Aircraft Co., was also there, with Rosemary Rees, who was *a noted prewar aviation instructor. She, with another co-pilot, had just been loaned to the men’s section of the ATA to instruct the Polish, Czech, French and Belgian pilots in cross-country flying. Another “atta” girl, Mona Friedlander, was one of the first women to qualify as a commercial pilot and second-class air navigator. o EJ ”

LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, came Joan Hughes, the baby of the crowd. Joan stands “five-foot-nothing” in her flying kit, has

work was to be done each afternoon.

enormous blue eyes, took her flying

Britain Says: ‘Atta Girl!’ in Praise of Ferry-Pilots Who AF;

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: Times Special Writer LONDON, July 16.—When Jacqueline Cochran, first woman pilot to fly a U. S. bomber across the Atlantic:to England, recently arrived back in America, she was lavish in her praise of Britain's “Atta Girls"—the women ferry-pilots who relieve R. A."F. pilots by flying planes from one The famed American aviatrix echoed the sentiments of Britons, who feel that these members of the Air Transport Auxiliary should be included in. Winston Churchill's famous “few to whom so many,

Capt. Pauline Gower, comman« dant of the women's section of the Air Transport Auxiliary . , , she foresaw the valuable services women pilots can perform in ware time.

license when she was barely 17, which was six years ago, and is an excellent pilot. Women and men ferry - pilots work on terms of absolute equality, There was some idle talk about the glamorous, wealthy girls, all owning their own planes, who had rushed to join the ATA at the outbreak of war, but were inclined to be more ornamental than useful,

o ” ” ATA AGE LIMITS are 20 to 42 but there are several pilots who have reached the age limit and are still on very active service. The pay is six pounds a week for junior officers, seven pounds, ten shillings for seniors. This is approximately 24 and 30 dollars respectively. Out of this, however, they have to feed, and house themselves as well as supply (all their kit. They thought nothing of a mine imum of 500 flying hours when they started in. ' Now candidates can go on the waiting list with a mere 75 hours solo flying. Naturally, there is a stiff test to be passed bee fore enrollment. Of the many charts in Commane dant Pauline Gower’s office is one to which she points with pride. This shows that during the worst of the “blitz,” the week ending Sept. 15, 15 ATA women pilots ferried 400

aircraft and put in 800 flying hours,

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