The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-29
CLUB DANCES.
DINNERS MARK
MEMORIAL DAY
City viii Divide Hours Be-
tween Services for Dead,
Joy for Living.
FR0LICS ON TONIGHT
Many Social Events Carded
on Holiday; Theaters Give
Midnight Shows.

on Holiday: TheaterS Give
Midnight Shows.
Indianapolis and that portion Of
the world that has crowded inside
the citys gates Will begin a thirty
siX-hour play day tonight in cele-
brating Memorial day.
Dances. doubled header ball
game between indianapolis and
Louisville. lunches at clubs. fireworks
displays, will be the lighter moments
of the annual May day vacation
from work.
For the boys who gave their alp
in var. the city viii pay tribute with
: memorial service at Soldiers and
Sailors monument at 8 a. m. Thurs
day, 2 parade Of O. A. r. veterans
and patriotic organizations at Q
p m. ana general Memorial day
services at Crown Hill cemetery at
s .. m. Services also will be held
a. other cemeteries in the city.
Decoration dav is unoficially
opened tonight at city clubs and
bathrooms.
Aviation Ball Scheduled
The Columbia Club will give an
ev.atlon ball and buffet lunch to-
nght. with an informal speedway
dinner and sweepstakes dance
Thursday night.
A
c2nce VIII be given In the clubs
ballroom tonight. With the Indian
apolis Athletic Club adding to the
pre- -Decorat ton day amusement with
4 dinner dance.
Announcement is made by the In
diana ballroom officials that the
speedway ball tonight will he a
dance till dawn"
Several theaterS will usher in the
plsy-day tonight with midnight
slows.
While amateur baseball games
gather their quotas Of spectators
THURSDAY. the Indians and the
Louisville Colonels will tangle at 2
2. N. in a double-heade
Boxing fans will find plenty Of
punches swung during the ensuing
twenty-for hours with q show
scheduled for Cadle tabernacle to-
night, coupled with q fight mara
thon opening at Pennsy park and
on Thursday night another card Of
bouts at Broad Ripple park.
Parks to Afford Fun
CITY amusement parks will spread
= CARPET Of fun for Memorial day,
with 4 fireworks display at Riverside
park tonight and z balloon ascen-
sion and parachute leap Thursday.
Broad Ripple will duplicate in
stunts. Both amusement parks will
broadcast the returns OF the 500
mile race to afternoon picnickers-
The order Of march for the Me-
mortal day parade is: South on
Meridian street to Monument Cir
Gle. around the monument TO Mar
ket street. east on Market to Penn
svlvania. street, thence south to
Georgia street.
George Hawkins secretary of the
General Memorial Association, an
nounced today that cars to carry the
G. A. R. veterans from the parade's
end TO the services at Crown Hill
cemtery we're needed.
The parade will be headed by a
police escort and band from the
KnightstoWn Orphans home.
The Parade Lineup
In the first division Of the parade
will be the Sons of Union Veterans
Of, the Civil war. G.. A. r., q firing
squad the United Spanish War Vet
rams and the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars. The drum corps Of Hill
ton U. Brown post, American Le-
zion. will head the second division
Of the parade. composed OF Arnerl-
car Legion and Disabled Veterans
Of the World war.
Cadets from the city high schools
will form the third division, with
Bov Scouts. Girl Scouts. Camp Fire
Girls and school students in the
<ourth rank.
All members Of the veterans OF
Foreign Wars have been requested
bv Ralph R. Canter. adjutant OF the
department Of Indiana. fall IN al
Delaware and Ohio streets to take
part in the parade
A dirigible. the Puritan. from the
Goodvear Tire and Rubber Com
panv's hsngars at Akron. O., vii
shower flowers on the Soldiers and
Sailors monument during the morn
ing service Decoration day.
Committees have been named by
the Elks lodge to decorate the 325
graves of deceased members OF the
order in city cemeteries.
A preliminary Memorial day serv'
ice was held at Broad Ripple high
school auditorium this morning un-
der auspices of the General Me
mortal Association. Lloyd D. Clay
combe. state representative OF Ma
rion county. spoke.
Memorial services were held this
afternoon at the Grove OF Remem-
brarce under auspices OF the Service
star Legion and at Enmerich Man.
-sl Training high school, in charge
Of r. Q. T. Y. officers.
Hourly Temperatures
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