Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1922, Page 21

LESTWEFORGET” |ARRANGE WEDDIG{STREET CARLIES | COMMITTEEPLANS| DROP FROW SGHT Prominent Women Will Work . to Provide Aid for Needy ! Veterans. The members of the committee of the “Lest We Forget” organization, formed as an emergency committee to work with the American Legion and the Veterans' Bureau to provide clothing for the needy men, is com- posed of a group of the most promi- nent women in the city. Mrs. John Allen Dougherty is chair- man, and assisting her are Mrs. Coolidge, Mme. Grouitch, Mrs. Joseph T. Robinson, Mrs. William C. Calder, Mrs. Miles Poindexter, Mrs. Frederick A. Britten, Mrs. Samuel E. Winslow, Mrs. Frederick C. Hicks, Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, Jirs. Charles Boughton Wood, Mrs. George Ehle, Mrs. Robert Lansing, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs. Edwin T. Meredith, Mrs. Charles C. McChord, Mrs. Theodore W. Noyes, Mrs. Armis- tead Davis, Mrs. Louis Titus. Mrs. H. Wilfred Du Puy, Miss_Gwynn, Mrs. Alexander Stewart, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Mrs. James Carroll Frazer, Mrs. Charles Wood, Mrs. Willlam Eric Fowler, Mrs. Wiicox, Mrs. Peyton Gordon and_Mrs. Cuno Rudolph and a number of others. Theater Collecting Station. Keith's Theater will be the perma- nent collecting station and a drive will begin February 14. Mcore's thea- ters and the Shubert Belasco Theater will also be collecting stations for one week beginning next Sunday. Mr. Roland Robbins is the treasurer of the fund. The committee will co- operate with the business and profes- sional men to get work for the veter- ans and the other aims of the organi- zation include the formation of a fund with which to send the men who have been in the hospitals for long periods to the country for a va- cation in the summer and to help dis- pose of the work made by the soldiers in the hospitals. There will be no overhead expenses and the distribu- tions will be made through the legion headquarters to insure only the worthy and needy men receiving aid. The families of the veterans also will be cared for. Clothing to Be Mended. Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh will have the mending and repairing done, and the clothing will be cleaned by alocal firm, so that when it reaches the men it will be in perfect condition. Two friendly cobblers will do all the repairing of the shoes sent in. Mrs. Douglas Robinson of New York will speak in_the ballroom of the Shoreham at 3:30 o'clock Thursday, February 16. No cards will be issued, and all are invited who are interested in the welfare of the veterans. Mrs. Robinson will tell of the work and the results of the “Lest We For- get” committee in New York. Mrs. Arthur Terry, who was the first to begin the work under this name, will accompany Mrs. Robinson. KILLED BY TRAIN. Edward Price Meets Death in Freight Yards. Edward Price, fifty-eight years of age. who resided at 709 C street southwest, and was in the employ of the Merchants’ Transfer and Storage Company, was killed by a railroad train at the freight station at 4% and E streets southwest yeste afternoon. Police of the fourth precinct were unable to find witnesses to the acci- dent. Price was pronounced dead by & physician from Casualty Hospital. Coroner Nevitt held an inquest at the morgue today, and the jury re- vorted a verdict of accidental death. / ) TS .(;—-—_—N.'.‘ e T By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 3.—Mrs. Marion B. Stephens, Chicago heire and Anastase Andrevitch Vonsi- atskoy-Vonsiatsky, Russian, employed |Saturday. Only one line of the Wash- as a chemist by the Baldwin . Locomo- tive Works, both of whom came to New York for the announced purpose of being married tomorrow, this morning had dropped mysteriously from sight. Mrs. Stephens, who yesterday denied herself to reporters after deploring the publicity given her engagement, suddenly changed hotels about mid- night. Her flance, who was to have come to New York today, slipped out of Philadelphia late last night. Call at Church. The pair were seen this morning at the Russian Orthodox Church, but ef- forts to find out whether they al- ready had been married or whether they simply had gone there to.com- plete arrangements for the ceremony tomorrow, were fruitless. They drove away from ‘;he church in an auto- ile together. mgxtler {t°was reported at the church that Mrs. Stephens, forty-five, and the Russian, twenty-three, merely had gone there to sign the required marriage docu- me-z'-'n'g young Russian, who is about a head taller than Mrs. Stepnhens, was smartly dressed in a blue suit with white pin stripes, a light green covert coat and a gray fedora hal and carried a cane. Mrs. Stephens was clad in a brown velvet costume trimmed with gray squirrel fur. Her small velvet toque of brown was trimmed with the same fur. At the church they were met by Father Turkevwitch, the rector, who conducted them at once to his library on the ground floor of the building. The bridegroom addressed the rector in Russian, and all three went into the library, remaining there only a few minutes. When they reappeared, re- porters, prompted by the rumor of an earlier marriage, ‘sought to get some confirmation from Mrs. Stephens and the young Russian, but they declined to utter a single word. Flexible Spring it until your W s il before iving them the support ey need? The flexible—spring hidden in the arch of every pair of Dr. Kahler shoes gives support to the arc without binding the foot in any way. DR. F. J. PIERCE Foot Specialist in Attendance Jra— CONSULTATION FREE DR. KAHLER SHOES T N f\.‘gl o N YR THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY LR D 0y R > i 7>k T 3, 1922. through from their terminus near ‘Washington barracks to Chevy Chase. For the first two days after the tracks were cleared Chevy Chase cars were run south only as far as the Rock creek loop. TO DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR. NEW YORK, February 3.—Luther Boddy, who killed two police detectives on January 25, today was sentenced to die'in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison during the week commencing March 13. mission; Maj. Julla Stimson, chief of the Nursing Corps of the War De- partment; Miss Lenah S. Higble, chief of Navy Nursing Corps; Miss Lucy Minnegerode, chief of public heaith nurses; Lieut. Mina C. Van ‘Winkle, chief of the woman's bureau of the police department; Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the woman's bur- eau, Department of Labor; Miss Anita Phipps, director of woman'’s relations morrow, as gangs of mer are Now working to clear away the snow. The Washington Railway Electric Company reported today that all four of the lines partly out of service yesterday had been cleared and that cars were running through on both tracks. The Rockville line was opened up today, and the Droit Park, City and Suburban, Takoma Park and Anacostia lines were running on schedule. Because of the infrequency of cars on the North Capitol street line, however, hundreds of persons used other lines. Guests of the Government Hotels Wz’e received in ecreation Hall by thé Plaza Council yesterday evening andyfollowing the reception Mrs. Har- riet Taylor Upton spcke briefly about th vcnmplllhmentn of women. ;h hall was decorated with palms, ferns and similax, and an orchestra played at intervals. Punch was served in the dining room. 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