Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1942 — Page 13

‘Typical examples of clothes and toys for young-

By MARGUERITE YOUNG Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—The marines have landed. And likewise eommandos, the WAVES and the WAACS, the air force and the navy. They've captured Toyland for the duration, and they're capturing the interest of Christmas-minded mamas and youngsters. Their military strength suggests that U. S. youngsters, when they get their Christmas 1942 toys at home, will start an assault that will make all the past battles of all the realm of make-believe look like tinsoldier stuff. ” ” 8 ” » ” TIN SOLDIERS are out and outdated. This year, the toymakers

J offer instead troop transports of plastic, scaled to U. S. specifications.

This year ‘it’s jeeps, submarines and sub-chasers for kids hardly old enough to hold ’em; it's cardboard soldiers, aviator training cockpits,

{ rifles, tommy guns, air spotter kits, and, above all, uniforms. Dolls are

with a camouflaged range finder, while sister, in

sters this wartime Christmas are shown above. The her WAAC uniform, examines a piece of mobile army lad at le’t locates his navy companion’s plane artillery.

Soc ~jety—

Herbert Todds to Entertain Niece: Dinner Planned by Albert Wards

FAMILY CELEBRATIONS of the Thanksgiving holiday wili highlight the social scene this week. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Todd'of Golden Hill will entertain Thursday with a family dinner at which Mrs. Todd's niece, Miss Constance Nauman, will be the honor guest. Miss Nauman will arrive tomorrow from her home in Grosse Pointe,

Mich., to spend the remainder of the week with the Todds. Mr, and Mrs: Albert Ward will entertain with a Thanksgiving dinner at their home for relatives and out+<of-town guests attending the wedding of their son, Palmer Kohls Ward, and Miss Geraldine Getz, which is to ake place at noon Thursday in McKee chapel of

Tabernacle Presby erian church.

Miss Getz is the daughter of Mr.

yy and Mrs, Carl J. Getz. The out-of-town guests wll include Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kohls and Mr. and Mrs. Corbett Scott, Logansport; Mr, and. Mis. Leroy Wildman, Mr, aid Mrs. Arthur Ward, . Mrs. Elmer Hatch and Mrs. Mary Purvis, Macy; Dr. and Mrs. Roscoe Wildman, Messrs. and Mesdames W. C. Benton, Harvey Simpkins and Russell Wildman and the + Simpkins’ son, Noel, Peru. Others will be Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Q, Hardy, Niles, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Noel A. Wird, Ft. Wayne,

and Mrs. George Kobel of Kokp-

mo who will be Miss Getz's only attendant at the ci:remony,

In a Personal Vein

MRS, KENNETH L. OGLE and her daughter, Virginia, will leave

late next week for San Diego, Cal.,

where they wili be for an indefinite time. . , .. John Frenzel Miller will be in New York for the Thanksgiving holid:y. . . . Ward Hackleman Jr, is n Springfield, Mass.

a xl» Miss Helen Barry a sophomore at Saint Mary-of-t/\e-Woods col- ® lege, recently becam: a member of Le Salon Bleu, can pus organization for outstandinz students of French. She is th: daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charli s L. Barry.

Children's Bureau Meets

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Children’s bureau o' the Indianapolis Orphan honiz was to be eld at 12:30 p. m, today in the green room of the Indianapolis Athletic club, Ofticers were to be elected. ® 8 i» Mesdames Wayne 7arrick, Keith Johns, John A. Kelley and Thelma Lushbaugh, members of the Womj an’s Contract club, this week-end became the first vomen’s team ever to win the Kintucky state bridge tournament. "he event was sponsored by the Louisville Bridge association in Louisville, Twentysix Indianapolis pe sons participated in the tournaiaent.

I. T.-S. C. Unit Furnishes Room at Camp

. The furnishing of a day room at Camp Atterbury was completed recently by the Adelia chapter, International Travel-Study club, as its major Christmas project this year. The: group worked with the Indianapolis Council of Women which is sponsoring the furnishing of approximately 300 day rooms for soldiers at the camp. The 184 organizations aftiliated with the council, as well as other groups and individuals, are participating in the me ect. “Adelia chapter,” Mrs. Edward C. Grande, president, said, “is fone) to have been the first of the I. T.S. C. chapters affiliated with the! {council to have furnished a day room at the camp.” Mrs. N. D. Richardson, chairman,

of the chapter's special committee ‘named {o obtain the furnishings, together with Mrs. Charles Kelly and Mrs. Grande supervised the installation of the furniture at the camp. Mrs. Donovan A. Turk, council president, has urged other local organizations and individuals to make the furnishing of a camp room one of their Christmas projects this year.

Thanksgiving Party A Thanksgiving party for pupils of the Little Shepherd kindergarten and their mothers will be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow at the kindergarten, 3301 W. Morris st. Four of the upils who will celebrate their fifth Pr onoae: at the event are Anita Sloan, Barbara Joan Cantrell, Ann Lynn Shepherd and Michael Hen derson.

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Clubs— Zetathea Club

Books Meeting

"Tomorrow

The appearances of speakers are featured on club programs in the news. , “Our Northern Neighbors” will be the subject of .a talk by Mrs. F. S. Hassler tomorrow before the ZETATHEA club meeting at the home of Mrs. J. W.. Knipp, 2140 Central ave. Mrs. Pearl Jordan is to speak

on “This Is the Land I Love.” Roll call responses will be on patriotism.

Mrs. T. E. Evans will speak on “What Religion Means to the Individual and to the Home” tomorrow when the TWENTIETH CENTURY club of Greencastle meets. Hostesses will be Mrs. E. A. Dougherty and Mrs. Ben T. Riley.

Mrs. George Melvin, 4109 Rookwood ave., was to be hostess today at a 12:15 p. m. luncheon for members of the COLUMBIAN chapter, INTERNATIONAL TRAVELSTUDY club. Mrs. C. J. Ancker was to speak. The assistant hostesses were to be Mesdames . Larry Branden, Carrie Wray and F. A. Harris.

The CON MOTO MUSIC STUDY club was to meet at 1 p. m. today in the home of Miss Gertrude Gutelius. A Paderewski memorial program was to be directed by Mrs. Norvin Strickland and Mrs. A. A. Deardorfl was to preside at a business session.

in uniform too. The big excitement in Toyland is the battle suit and the battle toy that puts the child into action. Spectacular samples of Toyland’s “conversion” to non-essenttal materials are good-sized wheeled pieces, once of iron or steel, now of wood. There are big hickcry and maple wood scooters—commando cars, tanks, jeeps, pursuit planes, big enough for the youngsters to get in and go with, hardy enough to last out many an imaginary Guadalcanal. There are -not too many of those toys, but you may be able to find some if you shop early enough, which means immediately. Outstanding news of 1942 toys is the fact that supplies will ‘change strikingly as you get nearer Christmas—that is, most departments will run out of certain toys quite a while before Christmas because re-orders cannot be obtained from manufacturers. This 1s true of both new, non-priorities toys like the wood scooters of which there are few, and of toys made before the crackdown on strategic materials came in July. There are large stocks on hand of these “pre-war” toys—but not nearly enough to meet the expected demand. s » # ® » »

THOSE TOYS which are displayed have Uncle Sam’s full sanction —in fact, some were made with the special co-operation of the armed forces. Typical: a three-dimensional stereopticon kit with an assortment of pictures of army and navy training and action. * Public relations officers at actual training points wrote the descriptions of the scenes. The photographs were taken by special permission of the war and navy departments. More plentiful are sizable big guns and other military playthings. A wooden anti-aircraft gun with black muzzle and orange wheels is big enough for junior to get behind, completely concealed. A wooden “range finder” is shoulder-high for the average 10-year-old, and it has a pretty convincing telescope through which the target is sighted. Even wooden rifles, using no metal for barrels, are painted and .shaped

realistically.

Mrs. Mary Ann Kullmer Dickson To Be Speaker at Tea Friday For War Bond Sales Workers

Mrs. Mary Ann Kullmer Dickson of the office of war information will be the principal speaker at a- “mystery tea” given Friday in Ayres’ auditorium under the sponsorship of the county war savings staff and Ayres’. The tea, from 3 to 5 p. m,; will be in recognition of the bond selling drive being conducted this week in connection with national “Women at

War” week. W. D. C. Plans A ee Prayer Service At Clubhouse

broadcasting system and Newsweek magazine, She was one of the few A patriotic prayer service will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the

American newspaper women In 4 Berlin during the 18 months pre- § ceding Hitlers declaration of war on the United Woman's Department clubhouse States. She was under the sponsorship of the W. D.|interned in BadC.’s general war service committee. nauheim and reMrs. E. C. Rumpler and Mrs. Myron turnsd to America Jay Spring are co-chairmen. in June. i Appearing on the program will be] A violinist and the av Fr. Charles Ross of SS. conductor, Mrs. Mr Dickson Peter and Paul cathedral; the Rev. Dickson went to Germany in 1937 Sumner L. Martin of Roberts Park Methodist church, Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht of the Indianapolis Hebrew congregation; Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel, secretary of the church federation; the Rev. Virgil D. Ragan of Fairview Presbyterian church;

to give concerts and continue her studies. After three years’ work in Mesdames Hezzie B. Pike, Clayton! H. Ridge, George A. Bowen, John

Europe, the war diverted her into W. Thornburgh and E. H. Niles,

news coverage. She will be presented at the tea Card Party Planned A card party will be sponsored at

by Mrs. E. O. Noggle who was appointed tea chairman by Mrs. R. F. 2,p. m. tomorrow in St. Philip Neri parish auditorium, 535 Eastern ave.,

Grosskopf, county chairman for by the church’s altar society. Mrs.

Women at War week. Timothy O'Neill will be chairman.

Honors War Workers

The tea, which is to be invitational, will honor women serving their country in home, factory, business or with the armed forces. Honor guests will include three women who have made outstanding

Benin Smelling | Salts Come Back

By ALICIA HART + Timves Special Writer SMELLING SALTS are back again, and not because anybody has a notion that this is a time for sentimentality and swooning.- Quite the opposite. Today’s busy woman, looking at charm with a realistic eye, takes the practical attitude toward looking fresh all throtigh a long working day. Much more aware than ever of the health angle of beauty, she knows that looking braced-up requires first of all feeling that way. So grandmother’s affectation becomes a sober refresher. Of course, smart women know that feeling and looking zestful call for good physical condition, and they realize that there’s no tonic to compare with. an eight-hour snooze, a brief rest before dinner, a good and appetizing diet, and some exercise every day. They know, too, it’s foolhardy to expect any kind of stimulant to overcome fatigue for an extended time. ” ” ”

BUT A STIMULANT can be very useful for clearing the mind, quickening the flow of ‘thought, and lifting body energy—as every afternoon-coffee drinker knows— and the smelling salts are mighty pleasant, too. Hence, you find them in the desk drawer, the locker, the dressing table drawer of the woman whose schedule rules out a 4 o'clock slump nowadays. One of the nicest new smelling salts has the brisk aroma to revive you and, too, the delightfully gentle spiciness for which a whole group of toiletries from this house is famous. ; The attractive ring-shaped bottle has a spill-proof cap of nonprioritied wood. It’s in a pretty box, and conveniently small—a nice “under the tree” gift for the unexpected guest or the acquaintance who drops in during the Christmas holidays.

To Review ‘The Robe’

Mrs. Russell J. Sanders will give the second in a series of book reviews sponsored by St. Catherine’s guild of the Advent Episcopal church at 1 p. m. Friday in Ayres’ auditorium. She will talk on ‘The

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contributions to war activities and the “mystery woman” will be one who. has sold the most bonds. Women's organizations which have sent in affidavits that their members are regularly buying war stamps and bonds will receive treasury de-

Girl With Dove

partment merit award certificates from Mrs. Henry F. Schricker, the’ governor’s wife. Key women: headed by Mrs. Susan M. Ostrom, chairman of the county women’s division of the war savings staff, and the special day chairmen: will be hostesses for the tea. Special guests will include Mrs. Charles Dawson, wife of the lieutenant governor; Mrs. Arcada S. Balz and Mrs. Brandt T. Downey,

elect, respectively; Mrs. Mabel Lowe and Mrs. Frank E. Downing.

Special Days

Housewives for Victory day was observed today with members of the ccunty homemakers’ clubs serving at sales booths in downtown department stores. Miss Janice Berlin and Mrs. C. R. Gutermuth were chairmen for the day, Tomorrow members of the Ameri can Legion auxiliary, the National League of Service Women, the D. A. R. and the auxiliary to the | Veterans of Foreign Wars were to serve in the sales. booths. | On Friday, clubwomen, members: oi parent-teacher associations, Girl’ Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Girl Reserves and other youth groups will serve. Mrs. Marvin E. Curle and Mrs. William R. Shirley are chairmen for the day. Mrs. E. L. Burneit will serve as chairman Saturday, American Family day, when booths will be staffed: by members of the philanthropic, and hospital auxiliary organizations in the city. The national celebration of the week is being conducted by the, women’s’ division of the treasury | department’s war savings staff and’ the National Retail Merchants’ association,

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Salon Patrons Group

To Sponsor Show The eighth annual exhibition of art work by students of Catholic high schools and colleges in. the state will be held in April at the Centra] Catholic high school in Pt. Wayne under the direction of Sister Mary Joan, principal. The exhibition is sponsored by

“Girl With Dove” (above) is an example of Sculptor Robert Laurent’s work on exhibition at John Herron Art museum through Dec. 13. It is considered among his outstanding accomplishments inasmuch as it is of plaster which dries in 20 minutes. Laurent also works in alabaster, wood, bronze and stone, carving from the block.- The Herron exhibit includes a figure done in aluminum. The artist is living in Bloomington this winter as sculp-

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Sturdy wooden scooter toys like this tank, or the jeep shown in background, are going to be scarce. So you'd better buy them early.

ANOTHER NEW KIT enables the youngsters (and elders, too, no doubt will have fun with and learn from this game) to color and cut. out silhouettes of planes that look, from the distance at which they're used, exactly as real ships would look to plane-spotters on the ground. The popluar mechanical construction kits are pretty much out this year, but there are others, using cardboard or wood with which con-structive-minded junior can make tanks, planes, ambulances and ships, including aircraft carriers and a sub that actually shoots tor-

pedoes.

One set takes shape as a T72-piece “army” of mobile units and infantrymen in authentic battle scenes.

These stand in slotted wood

bases and can be shifted accurately,

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THEN THERE'S THE AVIATOR'S training cockpit of cardboard, complete with steering wheel, which has all the dials a real pilot uses

on his flights, in flying.

A 25-page booklet that comes with it is almost a course .

Even nursery-age toys are infused with military realism. Pushpull toys, many of which come apart and are designed to encourage

the = toddler's muscular battleships.

P-T A News—

Miss Bertha Leming of the social service Hepartment of the public schools will be the speaker, at 1:30 P. m, tomorrow -in Crispus Attucks high school, for a meeting of the Indianapolis Council of ParentTeacher associations.

She will talk on the proposed plan of foster day care for school

* (children in the city whose mothers

are ‘employed and will discuss other methods in which parents and teachers can co-operate with the schools in wartime activity, A short program by the school’s pupils will precede the business meeting. The week’s schedule of individual P.-T. A. meetings follows.

TOMORROW

School 7 (2 p. m.)—Thanksgiving program; film, “Middletown Goes to War,” to be shown by the Marion County Tuberculosis association;

play, “The Symbol of America,” by 4th and 5th grades directed by Miss Efa Mahoney; patrioiic songs by 6A and 6B children directed by Ellen R. Grubb; tea. 31 (1:30 p. m.)—Business meeting; Thanksgiving program by classes of the school. 39 (2 p. m)—“Defense Begins at Home,” by Mrs. C. B. Durham of county - civilian defense council; patriotic program by 1B pupils directed by Miss Laura Sutz; special music. by Technical high school string quartet. 81 (1:45 p. m.)—Citizenship program by teachers and pupils.

co-ordination,

include jeeps, tanks and

Wood is used for the tank model (above) and for the realistio tommy gun (below).

Junior can easily conceal hime self behind this wooden anti aircraft gun.

Trianon Sorority’s 14th Annual

Convention Will

Open Here

Friday at Hotel Lincoln

The 14th annual convention of Trianon sorority will be held Friday through Sunday at the Hotel Lincoln. The theme of the conventiom program will be “How Trianon Can Help the War Effort.” 4 Following registration Friday evening, delegates from Cincinnati and Ohio State universities will be guests of the Butler university

chapter. Meetings Saturday will include an open forum conducted by a Red Cross speaker. Saturday evening the delegates will be entertained at an informal dinner and’ party at the hotel. The convention will close after a short business meeting Sunday morning. Mrs. Lucille Boardman of Indianapolis is the first national vice president of the organization, Other national officers are Mrs. Virginia Duston, Cincinnati, president; Mrs. Mildred Corlett, Cincinnati, second vice president; Mrs. Helen Snyder, Cincinnati, secretary, and Mrs. Pauline: Ellmaker, Columbus, O., treasurer.

Committees Listed

Miss Dorothy Elder, Indianapolis, heads the national nominating committee for the convention. Miss Eloise Christman, chairman, Miss LaVone Ostermeyer and Miss Dorothy Speicher form the auditing committee. Miss Speicher also is publicity chairman. Butler university active members, pledges and alumnae who .will attend are Misses Alice Barkas, Edith Barbour, Doris Brabender, Christman, Winifred Davis, Donnie Douglas, Elder, Virginia Hartmann, Lois and Rose Mae Lichtsinn, LaVerne and LaVone Ostermeyer, Bettye Poppenseaker, Mary Jean Sayles, Dorothy Schlessinger, Kathleen Shockley, Mary Spalding and Clarice Townsend and Mrs. Boardman.

Sororities—

Omega Phi Taus | To Hold Supper

This Evening

A social meeting and a supper ape pear on sorority calendars, BETA CHI THETA'S BETA chap~

ter will have a social meeting toe morrow evening at the home of Mrs, Jean A. Baker.

A covered dish supper will be held

‘at 6:30 p. m. today by BETA chap=

ter, OMEGA PHI TAU, at the home of Mrs. Barney Burnety, 1101 River ave.

PHI DELTA BETA will meet at

8. p. m. today in the Hotel Lincoln

with Mrs. Thomas McConahay as hostess.

Sorority to Entertain

Upsilon chapter, Sigma Phi Gamma sorority, will observe guest night with a “casino” party at 8 p. m. today in the home of Miss Marie Wilde, 3956 Boulevard pl Miss Mary Jane Schenck heads the committee for the party, assisted by Mrs. Lawrence Corlette and Miss

Wilde.

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