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The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
Playground Children
GiUe Pageant AmeriCa
City Talent Combines for
Finale of Season at
Garfield.

The growth of Americ and Indi-
annapolis we're depicted in a pageant
Thursday night at Garfield Park by
children from most of the Indian
apolis Fairgrounds under the direc-
ton of Miss Hazel Albeit, city rec
reation supervisor.
America Yesterday and Today
was the title of the play. The chill
dren we're dressed as Indians, wood
nymphs and as foreign immigrants
to carry out the idea of the pageant.
Parks participating we're: Garfield,
School 20. Greer, Fall Creek, Ellen
berger, Riley, Spades, Brookside,
Rhodius, RAIDER and Udell, Munich
pal Gardens. Ringgold. Brightwood,
Indianola and Morris Sqaure.
The pageant Thursday night at
Garfield was a grand finale of TIE
season with all talent of most of
the recreation centers marshalled
by Miss Albeit.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
SCHEDULE FIRST SEMZ-FZNAL FSCOOTER DERBY MONDAY
ORCHARD PLAY
CENTER CLOSES
FROLIC SEASON
Final Program includes
Song, Dance, Novelty
Numbers.

Closing a successful playground
season, children of Orchard school
recreation center gave a program of
singing, dancing, recitations and
novelty numbers Tuesday night for
parents and children.
The affair opened with piano So
los by Violet Hydan, Ruth Hale and
Robert McCloud. and was followed
by vocal solos by John Holland, Ber-
nice Hauser, Marea Dickerson and
FL Rose Thomas.
Edward Dickerson, 3, youngest
child at Orchard school playground
sang School Days"
Give Costume Dance
Costume and solo dances were
given by El Rose Thomas, Dorothy
Gottemoler and Gertrude Carr. Miss
Thomas also game a reading.
THE Tap Dancing Twins" George
and Vernon Harten, who have ap-
peared on Keiths vaudeville circuit
gave an original dance number.
Gertrude Carr and Mary Ann
GOGJcLlOllcI, QIGSoGQ III OFeIdll anu
farm hats. sang novelty song num-
Der.
The feature of the evening was q
mock wedding" Those who par
ticipated were Gertrude Carr, Ruth
Hale, Richard Gottemoller, Virginis
Casmire, Mary Ann Gottemoller
Annabelle Dickerson, Marea Dick.
erson, Marjorie Hewes, Ell Rose
Thomas and Dorothy Mueller.
Girl. IL. Writes Song
A song written by Anna Bel
Dickinson, II, was dedicated to the
playground
At the close of the program, r
Walter Jarvis, superintendent of city
parks, presented the tennis cham
pionship award to Miss Clementine
Casmire, instructor.
The program was under the di-
rection Of Miss Casmire, Fred Gros-
sart, instructor, and Mrs. Katherine
Morland, matron, of Orchard School
grounds.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
Program Stresses Methods
to PreCent Disease Among
Children.

Prevention in public health work
is being accented as the real in
telligent way to eliminate the
necessity of cure. Child health has
come to be recognized as the i'm
portant phase of community health.
This theory underlies the entire
demonstration program of the
Marion County tuberculosis AS
sociation in the field of summer
child health building
The new child nutrition camp at
Bridgeport, which is functioning this
summer for the first time, is de-
signed to show parents Of. Indian
apolis and Marion County how the
average home may become a child
health-buildin center during the
summer.
Because of limited funds of the
tuberculosis association the demon
tration at Bridgeport is being con-
Quoted in but one building, made
possible by gifts of public spirited
citizens and by funds derived by the
tuberculosis association from the
annual sale of Christmas Seals.
25 Boys in Camp
Just now twenty-five boys are
enrolled for the open air regime of
proper food and rest periods, super
vised recreation and elimination OF
physical defects prior to entrance.
DR.. Harold S. Hatch, superintend-
ent of Sunnyside Sanatorium where
fifty beds are available constantly
for the cure of children afflicted
with tuberculosis, pointed out today
that the new preventorium of the
tuberculosis association on the
eighty-acre tract at Bridgeport is
the logical first step of this COM
munity in the prevention not only
of tuberculosis but of many other
diseases.
Our institution at Sunnyside,"
DR.! Hatch said, "is one wherein cure
Of tuberculosis is the goal. Through
years of operation of this institu-
ton it has been shown conclusively
that some cures may be affected"
Stress Body Building
The new demonstration camp at
Bridgeport, in which no tuberculous
children are admitted, but only the
under privileged, those that should
be nursed scientifically away from
possible disease development, is a
long step forward in the prevention
program here.
1t supplements the child nutri-
ton class development in Indian
apolis public schools, the parochial
schools and the county schools
Hundreds of children are being
taught health habits and their
parents are being educated to fight
disease in the home by renewing the
strength of the anemic child.
In summer too often the health
discipline of school is let down and
retrogression sets in. The new child
nutrition camp at Bridgeport has
been designed not only to give new
life and health to certain of the
underprivileged children of the city,
but more Importantly to demon
strate to every Indianapolis and
Marion County parent how easy it
is to develop system of child re-
habilitation in the average home.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
HIGHLAND TEAM WINS

One Of the greatest upsets of the
annual track and field meet held
Wednesday at Willard Park was the
defeat of Brightwood by Highland
in the volley ball championship.
Brightwood has held the cham
pionship for about four years, ac-
cording to Robert Nipper city rec
reation department supervisor, and
this is the first time their position
has been seriously threatened.
The Highland boys played fast
ball and won two games out of
three with a score of 1873 and 1876.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
CHILDREN FROM
s FAIRGROUNDS
IN ELIMINATION
Winners in Districts Will
Compete Labor Day for
City Title.
MANY PRIZES OFFERED
Awards Will Be Made From
Monument Steps at
Close of Races.
MANY PRIZES OFFERED

Children at six Fairgrounds are
practicing today for the first race
of the semi-finals of the Times
Capitol Dairy Scooter Derby which
will be run at 10 a. m. Monday at
Highland playground for District
No. l. Recreation centers in the first
district are Highland, Ellenberger,
Willard, Finch, Christian and School
No. %.
Lewis Skinner, city recreation
department supervisor, and repre-
sentative of The Times, will be at
the grounds at 10 a. m. Monday to
map out the course. Contestants
who won first, second or third in
any of the three classes at the six
Fairgrounds named are eligible to
enter.
Prize List Generous
In the event that a contestant can
not be at the playground at the ap-
pointed hour, a substitute can be
appointed to race in his or her place
by the playground instructor. All
contestants are to report to their
own playground instructors today or
Saturday for final instructions.
All contestants will be lined up at
the start and rules governing the
races will be read by Skinner. The
junior boys will race first and the
girls will race second. The senior
boys race will close the Semi-finals
for the first day.
The winners of first, second and
third in each of the three classes
will be entered in the finals of the
Derby which will be run at 10 a. m.
Labor Day, on the Circle.
Prices for all classes will be
awarded at the close of the finals on
the steps Of the Monument. A prize
of 81 will be given first place win
ners in each of the three classes at
each of the Fairgrounds n the pre-
1iminaries. Semi-f1nal prizes are $40,
first, S., second, and So, third for
winners in each class at each of the
five districts. Final prizes are $25,
first; SIS, second; and $40 third in
each class in the finals.
Loan ScoOterS Free
Children have worked up a great
interest in the Scooter Derby at all
Fairgrounds, and practice races are
being held every morning and after
noon
Rules governing all contests were
printed in The Indianapolis Times
Thursday, and playground instruc-
tors are reading the rules to the
children.
So that every child will be given
faiE> play in the semi-finals and
finals, the Capitol Dairy has do
mated about twenty scooters for use
in remaining races. The scooters
will be brought to the grounds by
Skinner, and all children eligible to
race but not having scooters will be
loaned a racer for the event.
More about the Scooter Derby will
be printed in The Times Saturday
and Monday. Read The Times for
Scooter Derby news.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
HEALTH CAMP AIMS
TO REBUILD BODIES
FIOzger Design

A unique design in flowers
has been worked out by Rob-
ert w. Sanford, custodian, at
Morris Square Fairgrounds.
Sanford formerly was
grounds superintendent on an
estate in Florida and got the
idea there.
The design is in carpet bed"
flowers supplied by the city. A
horseshoe with nails and every
thing is placed on one side of
the design with a heart in the
center. On the three other
sides is spade, club and
diamond.
The entire design is in
various colors with appropriate
backgrounds and edgings.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
VIOLENT ENDS COMMON
WITH L0EWENSTEINS
Many Relatives of Banker Dies OF
Violence.

Many Relatives of Banker Dies Of
Violence.
BIZ United Press
PARIS, Aug. 24.-Alfred Loewen-
stein, the Belgian banker. belonged
to a family predestined to disas-
trouS endings, according to one of
his intimate friends.
An uncle, while watching a mill
tary review on July IA, the French
national holiday, was crushed be-
meath the wheels of a coach. An
other member of the family at
tempted suicide at the age of 20.
and the boys mother became in
sane few days later. A cousin
periShed at sea while returning
from a visit to the United States.
Another cousin, the wife of a dip
lomat who was assasSinated several
years ago at Rio de Janeiro, COM
mitted suicide beside her husbands
bier. Her sister, the wife of a rich
Amsterdam merchant, was found
drowned in the Marne River a few
years later
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
GIRL BETTERS BABE
Knocks 56 Home Runs Dur
ing Season: Wins Medal.

Babe Ruth has a record for knock
ing out sixty home runs in a major
league season. and to date has poled
about forty-six.
But Constance Apostle of School
A playground knocked the ball for
circuits just fifty-six times this sea-
son in the girls playground base
ball league.
Jesse P. Mcclure, city recreation
director, presented Constance with a
medal for her record Thursday aft
ernoon at Willard Park at the an
nual playground track and field
meet.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
NORTH CAROLINA'S TWO
SENATORS ARE OLDEST

Democratic SOlOns Hold Party
By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-North
Carolina has the two oldest Demo-
Gratis in point of service in the SEN
ate and also the two oldest in years.
The two Senators, Furnifold M.
Simmons and Lee S. Overman were
born in January, 1854, and there
fore are IA years old. Overman by
seventeen days is the older, his
birthday falling on Jan. 3.
Simmons is the oldest Democrat
in the Senator in point of service,
having served twenty-seven years,
while Overman is only two years be-
hind him.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
BIRD FLIES 4,20O MILES

PARIS, Aug. 24.-An Arctic tern
has made a 4,20O-mile flight across
the Atlantic. The bird was banded
when five days old at the Red Is
lands, Labrador. Three months
later it was picked up near La
Rochelle, France. The record was
recently announced by the Biologi-
cal Survey.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
EMPTY HOTEL CLOSED
London Denies License to TeetoIler
Refusing Public Service.

BIZ United Press
LONDON, Aug. "a. - Authorities
have refused to renew the license of
Britain's queereSk hotel. 1t is in a
village near Bury st. Edmunds. AL
though fully licensed no one has
been able to secure accommodations
there. The owner is a rabid tee
toller who adopted this method of
asserting his principles.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
GIRLS DRESS RETARDS
T. B. FIGHT, is CHARGE
Blames Flimsy Attire for Slow Rate
of Decrease.


BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24.-Scanty
attire is hindering the suppression
of tuberculosis among the flappers
of today, according to Mrs. Marion
Simonson of the University of Cali
fornia.
tuberculosis is not decreasing as
rapidly among yound women as it is
among young men," Mrs. Simonson
says. This is due to hin1sy dresses,
bad posture, desire for slender figure
and the too gay life of the high
school girl"
If the young fiapper wants to flap
she should come to California, she
says, because f1insy dresses do not
seem to hurt the California girls.
1t is only in the more severe cli: :
ates where it is decidedly dangerous.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
NEW CHURCH GROWS
Denomination Formed Since 1916
Has SO,221 Adherents.
BIZ Enited Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-Ap-
parently new church denomination
has spread over the country since
1915, according to report issued to-
day by the Department of Com
merce in connection with it's census
Of religious bodies. There are now
730 churches of the Church of God
in Christ, whereas in 1916 none were
reported. This denomination has a
reported membership Of 30,22l.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
MODEL TILT ARRANGED
Sand Sculpture Contest to Be Held
at Fall Creek.

Sand Sculpture Contest to Be Held
at Fall Creek.
The fifth annual sand sculpture
contest at Fall Greek playground
will open Wednesday with twelve
children presenting models in
packed sand. The sand pile at the
playground is marked off in twelve
places, and the children showing
the greatest aptitude for the work
are allowed to enter the finale.
A large battleship won the 1927
prize. and replica of the War
Memorial Plaza won first in 1926.
Most of the children are keeping
their designs a secret until the con-
test starts.
Those in charge are: Mrs. Eliza
beth Major, matron; Miss Margaret
Jordan, ir Structor; Mrs Goldie
Finney, matron. and Miss Neoma
Teverbaugll, instructor.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
MUTE FLIES; TALKS
Lad, 8, Receivers Speech After Flight
and Stunts.

BU UNltcd PfCSS
REVERE, Mass, Aug. pa wild
airplane ride has loosed the tongue
of George Porter, Jr., 8, who has
been mute since birth. His father,
Capt. George Porter, says the boy
started to talk right after a thrill
ing trip in the clouds, which in
cluded looping the loop and other
stunts"
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24

Yankees" really means ENG
lish." When the first English set
tiers went to America the nearest
the Indians could get to the name
was "Yengees That was twisted to
Yankees and applied later to
Americans.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
NEGRO ATHLETIC
CONTEST HELD
Fall Creek and Douglas
Girls Win.

Several hundred girls participated
in the Negro track and field meet
last week at Douglas Park, Under
the direction OF Ruth Emhardt,
Lola Pfeifer and Catherine Wolf of
the city recreation department.
SENIOR RESULTS
Fifty-Yard Dash-Cecil Childs, ran
Creek, first: Bertha Cheaton, Christamore,
second; Pauline, Sanders, Douglas, third.
Bertha Cheaton, christamore, third. sNO''N
High Jump-Elolse Steele, Norwood.
first; Cecil Childs.. Fall Greek. second;
Bertha Rsabems Rh5se 5hFe
Cecil ChildS. Fall Creek. first; Clara
Vaughn and Myra Martin, Fall Greek, sec
ond; Thelma Jones and Pauline Sanders,
Douglas, third.
JUNIOR RESULTS
Three-Legged Race-Katherine Stone and
Helen Watts, Douglas. first; Nancy Hayes
and Margaret Hall, Christamore, second
Ernsting Swanigan and Mary Higgins,
Fifty-Yard Dash--Mary Thurman. Doug
and Rachel Harding; Douglas. third;
Iao6ed more first Ma Mary Higgins, Christamore
third.
Maypole Vault--Mary Thurman. Doug
las, flrst; Velma Harvey Camp Sullivan,
second and Ruth White, Douglas, third.
Fall Greek was first in the senior
division with sixteen points, Nor
wood second with ten, Christamore
in tie with Douglas for third with
five points each.
Douglas won the junior events
with twenty points. Christmore sec
ond with thirteen, and Camp Sulli-
van third with three.
Fall Creek defeated Nickel % to
% in the finals of the baseball
league for the city championship.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
AMERICAN STYLE ROAD
SIGNS USED IN WALES

Wise Crack Warnings Popular Near
Cardiff.
BIZ United Press
CARDIFF, Wales, Aug. "a
Americas craze for witty road warn
ings and danger signals has arrived
here. The country side for some
distance around Cardiff is plaStered
with such signs as the following:
"a car on the road is worth two
in the ditch"
Fatal accident here"
Better be slow and sorry"
BE wise in time (Psalms viz"
Remember the fireworks must be
paid for.
Life is short: Don't make it
shorter by scorching when you
didn't oughter."
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
TATTOO BEAUTY SPOTS
Electric Needle Is Latest Fade in
Decorating Women.
BIZ United Press

DIT UWIItU FTt5S
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 24.-Per-
manent beauty spots for my lady
by tattooing are quite the most ad-
vanced step in beautifying. Prof.
George Pennell, expert New Orleans
wielder of the electric tattooing
needle, decorates hosts of women
with indelible beauty spots on their
faces, ne says.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24
GIRLS PLAYGROUND STANDING

seniors-Willard. 27; School No. A, 81;
Brightwood. 4 Greer, g.; Ringgold, S, and
Meikel l.
Juniors-Ringgold 16, Brightwood, IA;
Military, 8; Dearborn. 6; Ellenberger, 5;
Highland. /; Rhodius, l. Christian, 1.
and Indianola, |.
The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-24

Here's the opportunity you've
been waiting for.-FulI jeweled
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or fancy engraved cases-While
they last Observation-Disclosures.
The Washington times., 1928-11-16
HI I
MERGER PLAN

New opposition to the Harley p.
Wilson traction merger came out
into the open today.
The Washington chapter of the
American Society of Engineers has
adopted resolutions opposing it in
its present form. 1t strongly be-
lieves, however. that traction uni
fication in Washington is advisable.
The engineers resolution, stipu-
lates, however, that there should
be no fare increase for three to five
years, at the end OF which time a
fair valuation could be arrived at
and a scientific fare" fixed.
This is the first action taken by
any engineering or scientific body
in the District with reference to the
merger plan now pending before the
Senate District Committee. 1t prob
ably will have marked Influence in
determining the fate Of the merger
legislation in. the Senate
The Washington times., 1928-11-16
Woman Asks D. c. Ban
On Starved Horses
In Streets

An "army of starved, sick and
disabled horses" is plodding the
streets in the shadow of the
Capitol, drawing vehicles on
which there are no license tags.
Such is the complaint received
by the District Commissioners
from Mrs. F. U. Robinson, of
the Grace Dodge Hotel.
Mrs. Robinson wants the com
missioners to do something about
this blot on our Capital"
Many horses are ready to drop
in their tracks from age, starva-
ton and cruelty, Mrs. Robinson
declares, and no one has moved
to stop it.
The Washington times., 1928-11-16

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you will soon realize that an investments
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Capital II ever increasing In value
many good buys are listed for sale n
tOGlay's Classified ads
The Washington times., 1928-11-16
November Meteor Spray
Seen by Astronomers

Naval ObserVatory astronomers
were scanning the sky shortly after.
midnight today to view the annual
meteor display caused by the earth
moving into the astral region Of
the Leonid meteors. The results
of their observations was not made
known.
The Ieonid group, according to
astronomers. whirls around the sun
orbit that crosses the earth's. Each;
November the orbits meet. causing
the display of meteorites as they
speed through space and strike
the earth's atmosphere. where they
generally are burned /. out before
they strike the earth.
The Washington times., 1928-11-16

The subject under discus
sion at 4 conference yesterday
between Representative Fred
erick r. Lehlbach Of New Jer-
sey. chairman Of the House
Civil Service Committee, and
Gen. Herbert M Lord, al
rector Of the Budget Bureau,
was puzzling observers today.
Anv conference between these two
officials is Of interest to the thou
sands OF Government employees In
washington, but neither party to
the conference was willing to dis
cuss what ii was about.
Not About WeIch Act
Lehlbach said before leaving the
Capital for the conference, that he
was going to talk over the Welch
act and its results with General
Lord. The Director of the Budget
Bureau. however, said the confers
ence was not about the Welch act.
Other subjects which might have
been under discussion are the Dale
retirement bill, which is awaiting
the action Of the House, and the
pending classification 70 the field
service Of the Government.
Asks. About Cost
All that is known of the con-
ference is that Lehlbach asked about
the cost Of the WEIGH act and was
told that the various departments
have asked for appropriat total
ling s21 ,0O0. 600 for carrying out the
provisions Of the law.
( The rest Of the conference re-
mains q secret.
The Washington times., 1928-11-16
DR.. William C. Dennis
Addresses Y. w. Groups
~ staft Photo

DR.. William G. Dennis, Of the
Tacna africa Commission, addressed
the World Fellowship Committee
and the legislative committee of the
Y. w. G. A., at the clubhouse,
Seventeenth and X Streets today.
The legislative committee has
planned series of lectures on ma
tional and international law, to be
delivered at the Y. w. G. A. Dates
and speakers will be announced
later.
Miss Helen Hudson, chairman of
the world fellowship committee. and
Miss Elizabeth Eastman, chairman
Of the legislative committee, will
have charge of the arrangements.
The Washington times., 1928-11-16
SHEPHERDS CARY PARTY

Capitol Lodge, No. sSshepherds
of Bethlehem. will give a five
hundred card party at the Odd
Fellows Hall tomorrow night.
The Washington times., 1928-11-16
REOPEN|NG
H|NCES[)N
SURVEY
TODAY

Representative Ernest w.
Gibson Of Vermont, chairman
of the Gibson subcommittee
of the House District Com
mittee, is surveying the local
police situation today with a
view to determining whether
his committee should renew
its investigation Of the depart
ment.
Gibson arrived here yesterday, in
compliance with his promise to re
turn early to look over conditions in
the Police Department.
Today he is comforting with Com
missioner Dougherty. in charge of
the Police Department; Major Hesse,
superintendent of police, and~pfhers
connected with the police admins
tration.
Hinges On Conferences
He is also talking over the situa-
ton with the Bureau of Efficiency
which Gibson instructed to keep an
eye on the situation for him during
the recess.
Whether or not the Gibson sub
committee reneWs its police investi-
cation depends largely on the OUT
come of Gibson's conferences today.
If he finds conditions as bad as they
were pictured to him this summer
when many members of the depart.
naent got into trouble he viii un-
doubtedly urge the COMMITTEES to
make thorough and sweeping in
vestigation.
The subcommittee chairman is
known, however, to be none too
anxious to reopen the police scandal
which almost wrecked his commit
tee last session. Many weeks were
devoted by the committee last win
ter to investigation of charges by
representative Thomas l.. Blanton,
of Texas. concerning alleged graft
in the department
Scandal Fell Down
BY the end of the session Gibson
and, his coIlaborators on the COM
mittee. Representatives William c..
Hammer, Of. North Carolina, and
Ralph Gilbert. Of Kentucky, were
thoroughly tired Of the scandal
which had fizzled badly.
But in its final session the com
naittee called before it Major Hesse
and pointed out to him some so
gambling joints and told him TO
clean them up during the summer.
Major Hesse testified that there
were probably 200 gambling joints
in operation, but denied that he was
responsible for their remaining
open.
Gibson, in his survey today. may
decide to reopen that phase OF the
police situation without attempting
to make an investigation of the en-
tire personnel OF the force.
The Washington times., 1928-11-16

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