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the the the the the the the the STAR, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1940. Those twinkling cinema stars first recognized the chic of suedes in sun-kissed colors. Now smart girls everywhere clamor for them! Santa, this is your cue! THE FINGERTIP COAT. Motoring, or anywhere outdoors, this is the coat she likes best! 19.98 THE LONG SUEDE COAT. if she's luxury-lovTHE ZIPPER JACK- ing! The colours in ET enthusiast.

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THE SPORTS SHOP- Second Floor. A Sequel to "Pitfalls of Love" (Copyright, "Marriage 1940, Meddlers" K.E.S., Inc.) By GARRISON ADELE "INDEED may I be DO," very I lian, that no word of give any clew to what happened to Marion. I every syllable, every some get wrong "I will." "but you really pened we "We told ly. know alive, this man Adele Garrison. she Ticer's Adele Garrison.

hold upon her. terrorized by him. fact is the one that permit anyone to she is safe and you again." "God grant that said brokenly. "Never fear but her, and then knock sounded on Dicky sprang to "For the love 5 SOCIETY AND PERSONAL -PERSUASION! said, and said, "and SYNOPSIS: At Lillian Underwood's New drained her tea cup and her soup Lillian put up her hand pleadsure, Lil- collapse apartment, where Lillian 18 near ingly. after the disappearance of her cup.

mine shall daughter Marion, Lillian's best friend. But Dicky and I needed no urg- "Please," she said, "I don't want has her Madge husband, Graham, Dicky at Lillian's bedside with We to think about it. Will you attend really Graham, announces ing. had had virtually nothing shall guard her intention of questioning not only Ma- luncheon and we to everything, please, just as if look, lest rion's fiancee, Ronald Brixton, now mys- since an early you were in your home, catering teriously estranged from Marion--but Ron- were extremely hungry after our hint might old's mother and stepfather as well. At did to the to your own guests?" into the first remonstrating in the fear that Ma- drive.

ample justice "I shall be glad to do just that," rion's future mother-in-law might learn same delicious cream broth which a hands." of the girl's disappearance, Lillian later had been served Lillian and to the know you Madge's apologizes for her implied doubt of hot chicken sandwiches, the but- Waiting! Waiting! The Hours discretion. "But I'm half mad," she said, she explains, "with the fear that some- tered asparagus, the heated rolls, Drag Toward Midnight When the oh! Madge, thing may come out of this deservedly, the baked and the coffee First Move In the Search Gets said 'what -her lifts you know which Miss Whitlock had provided. Marion's reputation, not apples has hap- damning circumstances can be Undar Way. "Ah-h!" Dicky said, stretching to MarHow can luxuriously he had the nurse said, and went away when finished. tell that?" ejaculated.

"Why didn't you send "That was some swell feed. I think upon the word, taking our emptied for me to help with those I shall be able to survive now until trays with her. can't," I trays?" that midnight dinner you're fixing you her prompt- for Harry." Evasive Sleep. "But we do "Because I didn't need you," He Whitlock di- "Now," I said briskly, when she that she's help now if you wish." you rectly, and she answered quickly. had gone, "it you're going to she retorted, smiling.

"But addressed Miss may any sleep before we start, Dicky, get and that unknown Dicky repeated his favorite sup- "Thank you," she said. "Now you ought to go to bed now. Where with whom per quip with gusto. have you any preferences about do you want him to sleep I appeared at Hungry People, your dinner menu?" turned to Lillian. has some "Card from the "Harry always wants a rare "In Harry's room will be best," evidently is waiter's union steak," Lillian said, "but I'm afraid she said.

"You'll know where to And this last right in my pocket," he said, and he won't have any heart for one." find everything there, won't you?" must never I gave him the dutiful smile which "Probably not," Dicky agreed, "I ought to," he said and then even after all wise wives produce when their "but his insides will need it, so he kissed us both with the injuncback with husbands give utterance to vener- we'll make that the order if you tion to try to get some sleep able japes. don't mind." He looked at me. selves. last," Lillian She had interpreted the "snack" "I think that will be a wise se- "Call me when old Harry gets order liberally for Dicky and me, lection," I said. here, or before," he said, and then will," I told but provided only an appetizing "What about vegetables?" Miss he was gone, and Lillian and I Whitlock's cream broth, a poached egg, toast Whitlock asked.

were left facing each other. door, and and tea for Lillian, and she stood "Anything except broccoli," "You're dead sleepy," she acit. over her patient inexorably until Dicky told her. "I draw the line cused, scanning my face. Heaven!" he Lillian had eaten every morsel and on that." "Not so dead that I can't keep "And carrots," Lillian cut in.

"Harry hates them." "That still leaves me a wide selection," Miss Whitlock Southern Club To Give Dixie Christmas Party The ballroom of the Indianapolis Athletic Club will be transformed on Dec. 20 into typical of a Southern Christmas. Members of the Southern Club, who will hold their annual party there, have been working for weeks on decorations. Snowballs, which signify a Northern Christmas, are replaced in the South by fireworks, where the entire Christmas festivities resemble the Fourth of July celebration. Sky rockets, giant cannon crackers, Roman candles and tiny bunches of penny firecrackers, fashioned in brightly colored tubes of all sizes lacking only the gun powder to decorate the ante club for the party.

An old-fashioned Christmas tree trimmed with long strands of popcorn and cranberries, big gingerbread boys and chains of paper lace will stand at one side of the fireplace. Down the centers of the long tables will be streamers of smilax, holly and poinsettia plants with huge mounds of sparklers and fireworks. Place cards will be trimmed with evergreens, During dinner, Jac Broderick's dancers will present an "Old Plantation Ball" in costumes of the period and the Hallelujah will close the entertainment singing old melodies of the South. Mr. and Mrs.

J. Albert Smith and Miss Martha Louise Smith will entertain with a dinner tonight at the Indianapolis Athletic Club in honor of Mr. Smith and Miss Smith's sister, Miss Mary Jeanne Smith and Robert M. Langsenkamp, whose marriage will take place Jan. 4.

The table decorations will be in pink and blue and silver and covers will be laid for Mrs. J. Albert Smith, mother of the brideelect; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Langsenkamp parents of the bridegroom-elect; Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Langsenkamp and Mrs. Robert Kirby, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E.

Sweeney Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Umphrey and Charles Brown. Mrs.

Catherine Crush, aunt of Mr. Langsenkamp, will entertain tomorrow at the Marott Hotel with a luncheon bridge for the brideelect, Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney will entertain informally for couple and, preceding the Notre Dame Club of Indianapolis dance, Dec. 26, Mr.

and Mrs. Umphrey will entertain for Miss Smith and Mr. Langsenkamp. Miss Mary Jane Hess will arrive Dec. 19 from Hollins College to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. D. C. Hess, 5241 Washington boulevard. Her brother, James E.

Hess, and Mrs. Hess, who was the former Miss Jeanette Campbell of Coatesville, will arrive from Schenectady, N.Y., Dec. 21 for Christmas. Nelson F. Howard arrived last night from Winston-Salem, N.C., to be with Mrs.

Howard for the holidays. They are guests of Mrs. Howard's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Joel Whitaker, 1707 North Pennsylvania street, and her brother, Quincy M.

Whitaker. Mr. and Mrs. C. R.

Woods, 4540 Park avenue, will have a as their holiday guests their son, Charles P. Woods, and Mrs. Woods of Mount Vernon, Lieut. Floyd Dull of Rutherford, N.J., who is stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Miss Peggy Winslow will be hostess for a luncheon Dec.

23 for the 1939 class of Tudor Hall School. Miss Winslow will entertain at the home of her mother, Mrs. Maxwell Coppock, 3224 North Pennsylvania street. Mr. and Arthur Ball of MunMiss Barbara, Ball, daughter of cie, will entertain with a luncheon Dec.

21. at the Propylaeum. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Stevens of Macon, are here to spend the holidays with Mrs.

Stevens's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burke G. Slaymaker, 3058 Washington boulevard. Mr.

Slaymaker will take Mr. Stevens as his guest to the annual dinner of the Indiana Society in Chicago tomorrow night, Miss Margaret Anne Becker will arrive Tuesday from Sweet Briar College for the 50th wedding anniversary of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Pfeiffer. She is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles S. Becker, 3773 Washington boulevard. Dr. and Mrs.

Cleon Nafe entertained 25 guests Wednesday night at a house warming in their new home, 5060 North Meridian street. The marriage of Miss Dorothy Starns, daughter of Mrs. May Starns, 1009 Villa avenue, to Harold Onan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H.

Onan, 1148 Dawson street, took place at 4 o'clock Dec. 11 in the parsonage of the Victory Memorial Methodist Church. The Rev. R. G.

Skidmore officiated. The couple was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Volpp.

Miss Virginia Bruns, 715 North Bolton street, will entertain with a tea Sunday for Miss Eleanor Merritt of Louisville, who will become the bride of Frank Banta of Louisville, 25. The hostess will be fissisted by her mother, Mrs. A. Peterson, and Mrs. L.

H. Theobald. Guests will be Mesdames Naomi Merritt, Ira Banta, Walter Henderson, George Groves, H. T. Bartlett, L.

Sharp, L. R. McDonald, Oldham, P. C. Lakin, Roy, Ward Julian and Misses Doris Mc- vigil with you," I returned and kept my word.

Though after a time we lay down side side, yet she could not sleep, and I not. So with her hand clasped in mine and listening to her occasional mournful speculations concerning her daughter, I lay fighting the impulse to doze off until Miss Whitlock knocked on the door, with the announcement that lacked but half an hour until midnight and Harry Underwood's expected arrival, (Continued Tomorrow.) November Bride Mrs. Robert L. Unversaw was Miss Alberta Neimeyer before her marriage Nov. 21 in the Friedens Evangelical and Reformed Church.

She is the daughter Mr. and Mrs. Chris Niemeyer, 917 Bradbury avenue, (Voorhis Photo.) Prints Authority (Harris and Ewing Photo.) GORDON DUNTHORNE. Gordon Dunthorne, authority on early flower prints, will speak on the subject before members of the Art Association of Indianapolis at 8:15 o'clock tonight in the auditorium of John Herron Art School. He will illustrate his talk with colored slides of 18th century flower and fruit prints.

Dr. Dunthorne has sent examples of the prints from his collection for an exhibit in the auditorium in connection with the lecture. He will be introduced by Wilbur D. Peat, director of John Herron Art Museum. The activities committee of the Art Association, with Mrs.

Noble Dean chairman, arranged the lecture as one of the features of the season complimentary to the membership. Donald, Mary Beth and Lois Oldham. The annual Christmas dinner party of the Paul Coble Post, American Legion Auxiliary will be held tomorrow night at the Woodstock Club. Decorations will carry out the Americanism theme. Mrs.

William F. Clevenger is chairman, and Mrs. Ross C. Ottinger is president. Will H.

Remy will speak. The Misses June Billeter and Mary Scheidler entertained with a bridal shower Wednesday night at the home of Miss Billeter, 5869 Washington boulevard, for' Miss Margaret Jane Hirschman, whose marriage to William St. John Woolley will take place Jan. 1. Miss Nancy Goodrich, who will return next week from Vassar College to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Louis H. Haerle in Golden Hill, will entertain Dec. 26 with a luncheon at the Woodstock Club for Miss Fayette Ann Miller, whose marriage to Nathaniel Crew Hamilton Jr. of Chicago will take place Dec.

28. P.H.N.A. Board Picks Nominating Committee Mrs. Benjamin D. Hitz was appointed chairman of the nominating committee for the Public Health Nursing Association yesterday at a meeting of the board of directors in headquarters.

New officers will be elected at the organization's annual luncheon next month. Other committee members are Mrs. William R. Higgins and Miss Elizabeth Haerle. Offices to be filled are president, second vice-president, corresponding secretary and assistant treasurer and eight directors.

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Finishing is carefully done by hand. All skins are reinforced for service. These coats are ideal for careful budgets. for Furs, BLOCK'S Second Floor, PRESENTLY SPEAKING: IT'S BLOCK'S Isle of Gifts Second Floor SANTA'S REMINDER: "She A MAN'S STYLE RAINCOAT 3.98 She loves the boyish nonchalance of these man-tailored rain coats, with ragIan shoulders and zipper fly front. In sturdy gabardine that's "weather-sealed" against rain, spots, stains, and perspiration.

Sizes 12 to 20. BLOCK'S for Second Coots, Floor. Asks Clubwomen Protest Railroad Board Ruling Affiliated bodies of the Indiana Federation of Clubs yesterday were asked by Mrs. Maurice B. Eppert, safety committee chairman, to protest a recent ruling of the first division, National Railroad Adjustment Board, in Chicago, compelling the reinstatement of a Pennsylvania railroad engineer who was ordered rehired by the road after having been discharged for repeated drunkenness.

In a letter to the clubwomen, Mrs. Eppert declared that "this ruling seriously threatens the splendid safety record which all railroads have maintained over a period of many years. Drunken driving by a railroad engineer should not be tolerated any more than we accept drunken driving on our streets and highways, and a an aroused public sentiment should vigorously protest such a While testimony was introduced that the engineer had reported for work while intoxicated, and that two other instances had occurred in his record, the adjustment board ruled he be rehired because the railroad had ordered his discharge prior to one of two investigations made in the case, Mrs. Eppert said. F.

L. Habig Is Married To Florence L. Barlow Shelbyville, Dec. of the marriage of Miss Florence L. Barlow of Indianapolis, daughter of Mr.

Mrs. Clyde Barlow of this city, and Frank L. Habig, son of Mrs. Minnie Habig, 336 Prospect street, Indianapolis, has been made. The ceremony was solemnized Nov.

30 in the Trinity Episcopal Church at Anderson. Mrs. Habig is a member of Mu chapter, Gamma Nu Sorority. The couple is at home at 340 Prospect street, Apartment 31, Indianapolis. Tickets for "Messiah" To Be Available Monday Distribution of tickets.

for the "Messiah," to be sung Friday night, Dec. 20, at the Murat Theater, will start at 11:30 o'clock Monday morning at the theater. There will be no charge for tickets for the concert, to be given by the Choral Ensemble of the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale and the Indianapolis Mannerchor male chorus of the Athenaeum Turners..

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