Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1946 — Page 14

x 121 Fashion Writers Attend the Event

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have a $300,000,000 apparel industry in the Los Angeles area alone. Over the state, the clothing industry employs more persons than any other ‘except foods.” 121 Writers Attend ‘The reasons for this success story were obvious to the 121 persons aboard the Cole of California fashfon press special train that arrived here yesterday morning. The kind of garment that the market would produce was dictated by ‘the sun that turned early fall woolens into instruments of torture. Its golden brilliance seeped into your bones and made work seem a figment of devil's cunning. Here, indeed, the play was the thing. And to tell the world so, the men of Los Angeles had borrowed from the men of Hollywood. The fashion press was about to see a production.

Week of Shows

The fashion special was the prolog All of its equipment from the Santa Fe's luxurious Super Chief, the l4-car train was the first to make a non-change, cross-country run. with all the rights and priv{leges of a presidential special. (Except the President's, of course.) All along the way from New York, hospitality was lavish and news cameras clicked. Life was not real, but dreamlike—just as inthe movies. And that was only the beginning. The week ahead will be filled with fashion shows, complete with Kleig lights, starlet models and detailed

staging. With that kind of showmanship, how can the world be deaf to the California: story?

Inspired by the Grand Can. yon, California designers have created an all-over print of the canyon. ‘n vivid reds,: golds, urples and pinks on a white Back round for this full-backed boot coat which tops a chalkwhite sunsuit.

By NAOMI BLACK NEA Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Sept.-17.—With a forward look to the American woman's fashion needs for next spring and summer and a backward glance at the West's most fabulous era, California textile designers take the Santa Fe trail as the theme for the most spectacular fabric and fashion showing this market has known. Hand-screened prints comprising 50 designs, created by California Authentics and depicting the various phases of Santa Fe trail history, were shown Sature day on the very rim of the Grand Canyon. Lending themselves readily to textile interpretation were fabrics from famous mills including such textures as one-denler rayon crepe and 75-denier weaves of canton crepe, shantung rayon, superlative novelties and celanese Jersey. 3 ® = TWENTY - FOUR top - name

California designers have turned these fabrics into play clothes,

I. U. Legal Sorority ' To Initiate :

Eta chapter of Iota Tau Tau, national legal sorority at the Indiana university School of Law, will ini- ~ tiate Miss Lucile Martin at a dinner meeting - tomorrow night at the RY Sotlage. a pet wil

national northern chancellor, will report on plans for the national convention to be held in Baltimore next month. Mrs. F. 8S. Stephenson

Hoosier Tourists

Hold Meeting

The Hoosier Tourist club met today in the home of Mrs. Dwight Murphy, 415 E. 50th st., for installa,{tion of officers. Mrs, W. G. Holt discussed “Ocean Voyage” and Mrs. E. B. Cracraft talked on “The U. 8. and Latin Ameriea.” New officers are Mrs. Harry Kroeger, president; Mrs. C. W. Graves, vice president; Mrs. F. T. Reed and Mrs. H. E. Fairweather, recording and corresponding secretaries; Mrs. A. F. Lewis, treas-

Jr., and Miss Joanna Hinman will be hostesses for the evening.

urer, and Mrs. H. K. Fatout, parliamentarian.

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casual wear, swim suits, noon dresses, ‘teen-age garments, blouses and slack suits. . Flashing through the collection are vibrant colors and unconventional designs. Prints are largh and small, widely scattered; bayadered and bordered. Borders—often 14 inches deep —depict such colorful scenes as the buffalo hunt, a brilliant sixcolor print of feathered Indian warriors on galloping ponies charging a buffalo herd against a backdrop of purple mountains. As spectacular is “Santa Fe Train Time,” a finely-drawn panorama of the early days complete with travelers, covered wagons, ‘friendly Indians and the historic “trail” posed against a backdrop of the early Western town. : “Zumi war dance” is another motif used. This is an action pattern of elaborately costumed Indians in various motions of the historical dance.

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Auxiliary to Install

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WIDELY SPACED prints include “Kachina masks,” authentic reproductions of ceremonial dances. The masks are in brilliant blues, reds, greens and yellow on a mat-black background. -“Indian war bonnets,” reproduces a series of famous bonnéts on a dark background. Other wide-spaced designs include the flowers of the west, Indian pottery motifs, wagon wheels and the fantastically beautiful designs found in Indian bead work and sand paintings. > "8 wn STRIPES throughout the group of Banta Fe trail-inspired prints are mostly broken and tend to give the effect of an all-over design. An example is the broken ‘stripe used in the pattern called “Kachina dolls,” small wooden images made by Hopi Indians. Faithful to the natural willowroot color is the motif of the doll, dressed in colorful red and blue costumes and feathered headdresses which the tribe favored for ceremonial dances.

Junior D. A. R. To Assemble

The Junior D. A. R. will hold its midwest regional assembly on Sept. 28 in the Marott hotel. A tea will be given from 4 to 6 p. m. by the Golden Wheel committee of the Caroline Scott Harrison chapter, D. A. R,, in the home of Misses |" Anne and Harriet Holmes, 5945 Washington blvd. | Representatives from Indiana, Tlie nois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio will attend the first post-war meeting, which will ‘acquaint members with projects sponsored by the Junior D. A. R. assembly, Miss Mary Helen North is chairman for the event, and her cochairmen are Mrs. Howard W. Miller, Attica, and Mrs, Gerald T. Watterson, Connersville.

Committee Heads Miss Anne Holmes is luncheon chairman, and she will be assisted by her sister, Harriet, and Mrs. Joseph K. Taylor. Mrs. Emsley W

tions, will be “assisted by “Mrs. Benton T. Lowe, Mrs. Kenneth Speicher and Miss Eleanor Semans. Mrs. C. K. Paulus, North Manchester, is hospitality chairman. She will be assisted by Miss Helen Clever, Miss Esther McCord, Miss Mary Ellen Ewbank of Kingman and Mrs. Robert A. Porter, Connersville. Mrs. Rollin C. Johnson Jr. Martinsville, will direct registration. Her assistants will be Miss Lise Edge of Gary, Mrs. William Beard

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TUESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1948

Women’ s Club

Cleans Up Japanese City

Labor Contributed By 58,000 Members

By SIDNEY WHIPPLE Soripps-Howard Staff Writer "YOKOSUKA, Japan,' Sept, 17.— When Capt. Benton wi Decker, U. 8. N., of San Diego, took the destiny of this former Jap naval base into his hands four months ago he found the city officials stunned and passively resisting reform. «If the men of this town won't clean it up,” said Capt. Decker, “I'm going to get the women busy. Perhaps they can do something with the new freedom we've given them.” He found that there had been a women's club abolished by the Jap navy officials in 19043. He called in its former president, grandmotherly Mrs. Kazuko Mabuchi, and described to her the part he expected the women of Yokosuka to play in uplift and welfare. Club Collects Garbage With Mrs. Mabuchi and Mrs. Aiko Takaoka, English - speaking and American-educated, as a driving force, he soon had 10,000 active members on the rolls. Today there are 58,000 members, each of whom has contributed six yen and many hours of labor, to the cause. Capt. Decker scarcely believed it until he had the books audited—by American system., Japanese assOciations never before had submitted to audits. That would have impugned .the honesty of the treasurer. : The first thing these women did was to assume control of all garbage collection, which had been in the hands of a monopoly. This waste, coming from American galleys and mess halls, was valuable. It contained hundreds of pounds of edible bread, meat and vegetables. Pigs vs. People The garbage monopolist howled when he lost his concession. He wanted to know what would happen to the poor pigs he was feeding. He argued, in fact, that pigs were more important than people. Capt. Decker rejected that theory and

{gave the business to his women’s

club. Today, volunteering in rotation for service, the clubwomen collect the waste, sort it, send it to distribution centers, and actually feed 3500 indigent persons a day from it. That is only one activity of the women’s club. Under Capt. Decker’s guidance, it has established an orphanage which now houses 120 war waifs, most of them discovered wandering homeless and starving by our G. I's. The orphanage, in turn, is supported in part by a toy factory in which the women are makrig” salable articles out of discarded tin cans, Town Cleaned Up They also have established a large laundry to employ the widows or dependents of war casualties, making a living wage for the workers and a profit for the asylum. The women’s club, moreover, has physically cleaned up the -town. It has cleared away debris, dug drainage ditches, filled in and covered over insanitary pools and drains, graded roads, repaired sidewalks and | mmm in general constituted itself a muBo. public works, construction, roads and sanitation department. The clubwomen are so happy in their work that scarcely a day goes by without a delegation trying to visit Capt. Decker with a testimonial of thanks and appreciation for him. The scrolls are sometimes 20 feet long. But when they wanted to hold a parade and rally in his honor, the navy officer put his foot down. Thanksgiving Day “If you want to thank anyone,” he told them, “wait until November. Then, when America holds its own Thanksgiving festival, you can hold one, too. And on that day, don’t give thanks to me, nor to Gen. Mac-

‘| Arthur, nor to any man. You can

give thanks to America.” The Women’s Club of Yokosuka has requested the Tokyo diet to have the last Thursday of November set aside as a national Japanese Thanksgiving day.

Hostess at Shower

Miss Rose Ann Heidenreich, 5768 N. Delaware st, was hostess last night at a kitchen shower for Miss Betty Jo McIlvaine. Miss Mellvaine will be married to Dr. John Sherwood Fifer on Sept. 28. Approximately 24 guests attended the

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Jean Norton

To Be Feted

A number of parties are planned to honor Miss Jean Norton who will be married to John Adrian on Oct. 5. Mrs. Lynn LaFave, 233 N. Mount st., will entertain 25 guests tonight at a personal shower for Miss Norton, and Mrs. Roland Kramer, 5601 E. Washington st., will entertain at a dinner party next Tuesday for the bride-to-be. Miss Norton will be honor guest at a miscellaneous shower to be

Mary Noonan, 5720 Lowell ave. Co-hostesses will be Mrs. Robert Fox and Miss Mary Lou Norton. On Okt. 1, Mrs. Galen Boller, 5720 E. Washington st., tertain 20 guests at a miscellaneous shower for Miss Norton. Miss Maxine Hinds will assist the hostess.

Church Women Meet

The Lutheran Women's Missionary council had its quarterly business meeting, this afternoon in the Trinity Lutheran Parish hall. Plans were made to celebrate the council’'s 20th anniversary.

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THE GAY BLADES ICE SKATING club today had mailed’ membership applications for its eighth season which will open'$h the state fair grounds Coliseum-at 5:80 o'clock the afternoon of Oct. 3. The club is the scholarship project of the Indiana Vassar club. The committee in charge includes Miss Constance Lewis, chairman, Mrs. Louis Haerle, Mrs. H. Maurice Angell, Misses Harriet Jane and ‘Anne Holmes and Margaret Pierson. » ” u » u ” Mrs. Howard W. Pieber will preside at a general meeting of the Indianapolis Junior league at 10:46 a. m. tomorrow at the Woodstock club. The meeting will be followed by luncheon, bridge, golf ‘and tennis. Mrs. Louis Huesmann is bridge chairman, Mrs. William Jungclaus is golf chairman and Mrs. A. 8. Woodard Jr. is tennis chairman. The Indianapolis Country club will have a ladies luncheonbridge at 1 p. m. tomorrow. Res-

and Mrs: Frederick Lockwood of Coldwater, Mich. The wedding will be in the Central Methodist church at Traverse City, Mich, at 4:30 p. m. Sunday. The Rev. Eaden Davis will ‘officiate. The bride« to-be attended Michigan State college at East Lansing, Mich.

Entertains for Guest MRS. CARL VANDIVIER entertained -this afternoon with a

tables. Mrs. D. A. McMahill is chairman.

Miss Carlisle Engaged THE APPROACHING marriage of Miss Geraldine Claire Carlisle and Gerald Leonard

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