Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1928, Page 21

! WILBUR REBUKE ¥ TOPLUNKETT SEEN Failure of Secretary to At- tend Testimonial Dinner At- tacked by Chairman. Rr the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Frbruary 16—Failure of Secretary of the™iavy Curtis D. Wil- bur to attend a testimonial dinner given Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett viewed as & public rebuke by Col. E. A. Simmons. chairman of the banquet committee. The occasion for the dinner was the admiral's retirement from ac- tive service on his sixty-fourth birth- day. Col. Simmons read a letter in which Secretary Wilbur expressed regret at his inability to attend. but the colonel later in a statement to reporters expressed the opinion that the leiter was “but a smoke screen Called a Rebuke. “The real reason why he did not come and which he made known to me over the teicphone.” said the statement, “w ar that his presence at any din- honor of Admiral Plunkett so the world-wide publicity in the admiral ad accepted an r January 16 THE TEVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, will speak on “Musical Education in the Public Schools.” A skit, “How the Par- nt-Teacher Association Functions,” will be demonstrated by the students of Miss Clementine Orr's oral English class. Local No. 2 of the City Employes’ { Association (colored) will hold an open meeting this evening at its new hall on | O street. Cadet Armory. Employes of | the District invited. | The Catholic Daughters of America will have a dinner from 5:15 to 7:30 io‘clfl(’k, at 601 E street. The Rector's Aid of St. Andrew’s | Episcopal Church will give an oyster supper from 5 to 7 oclock at New Hampshire avenue and V street. The Maccabees National Tent and Martha Wsshington Hive will give a dance. 9 oclock. at Odd Fellows' Tem- ple, 419 Seventh street. Ladies' Auxiliary to Brightwood Com. mandery, No. 6. will give a card party at Masonic Temple, at Colorado and Georgia avenues. 8:30 o'clock, for bene- | fit of the kiddies" fund. The Massachusetts Society of Wash- ington will meet this evening in the auditorium of the National Press Club. The feature of the program will be motion pictures of the 26th or Yankee Division in action overseas during the World War. Invitations have been extended to all officers of the Yankee on of Massachusetts Army offi- now in the District. Spectal in- vitations have been sent to disabled veterans of Massa etts at Walter Reed Hospital There will be a turkey dinner in the 2 hall of the Church of the Trans- tin street, from 5:30 Costello_Post. No. 15. American Legion. wil District building. New members of the Welfare Club will be mustered in and plans completed for the Valentine dance to be held Saturday at K. of ing Council. K. of C. wil give a card party at Hall, 918 Tenth n we have st ause we are and par- by 73. B. S. A. 8 o'clock. h Community Center. The British Ambassador. Sir Esme Howard., will deliv an address at a luncheon of the Washington Round Table in the University Club tomorrow at 12:30 pm. Vocal solos will be ren- dered by John H. Marville. director of at the Hamline M. E. Church. Sorority will give a_card 8 o'clock. at.the Hamilton Hotel. Washington University will noust. 8 o'clock, at the Hamil- ton Hotel Th> Association of Private Sc! Teachers will hold its February me ing. 4:30 oclock. at Gunston Hall, 1906 001 meet this evening at the | 1 | Florida avenue. Miss Jessie La Salle, director of the research department of the public schools, will talk about the value of tests in education and the use that is being made of them in the city schools. The Barbers' Union will entertain at a reception and dance at L'Aiglon Club. ‘The Washington Academy of Sciences will meet, 8:15 o'clock. in assembly hall of the Cosmos Club. Dr. Dayton C. Miller, professor of physics, Case School of Applied Sclence, will deliver an ad- dress on “Photographing and Analyzing | Sound Waves.” Address will be illus- | trated with experiments and slides and especially with the “phonodeik” for projecting the “living” waves directly | on the screen. | The Spanish-American Athencum will | hold a social meef 9 o'clock, at the Thayer Studio. 6 nue. Former members vited. and friends in- | FUTURE. | Harmonv Lodge, No. 40, O. E. 5., will | give a _card party and dance Febr 2, at Willard Hotel, 9 pm. | The Stearns Bible Class will meet to. morrow, 1 p.m.. in Mount Vernon Plac: | M. E. Church South. Dr. K. B. Moonx will be in charge. | R The National Fraternity Sigma will give a dance tomorrow at L’Aiglon Club. A card party will be held under aus- pices of the Sodality of St. Peter's of Delta Teacher Assoclation of Suitland School, will be held at Suitland Community Hall tomorrow, 8 p.m. The St. Stephen’s Players will present three one-act comedy sketches February 20 and 21 at 8:20 pm., in St. Stephen’s auditorjum, Twenty-fourth and K streets. Zeta Phl Sorority will give a card party tomorrow at the Thomas Circle Club, 1326 Massachusetts avenue. The annual masquerade Valentine dance of Golden Rule Council, No. 10, Daughters of America, will be conducted in Pythian Temple tomorrow, 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Emma Bowan, chairman. Alpha Delta Phi lunchcon tomorrow, 112:30 p.m., at Hotel Gordon. Employes of the Reg: jury’s Office will give a benefit bridge and 500 card party for Mrs. Alton Car- | vicks, in the Kenesaw Apartment, Six- {teenth and Irving street, February 18 at 8 pm. | Lewis Moneywa will be the gu night of this week, wccting of the Writers' League of ashington to be held at Thomson Community Center at 8 o'clock. short story writer, peaker on Friday | | The Carbery Parent-Teacher Associa- tion will mect tomorrow, 7:45 pm.. in | the kindergarten room of the school | _Columbia W. C. T. U. the thirty-fifth anniversary of the or- canization tomorrow at Church tomorrow, 8 pm.. at the Wil-| lard Hotel for the benefit of the church Lebanon Chapter, O. E. S., will have a card party at the Burlington Hotel to- morrow, 8 pm. A card party will be given Februarv 20 by the Rector's Aid of St. Margaret's Church, at the Willard Hotel. A card party, The Factory Says “The 78 Will Outdemonstrate Any Car at Any Price” YOU DECIDE Marmon Motors, Inc. Pot. 861 February 17, at the | will_celebrate | the_home_of | Mrs. 8. W. Morris, the Oakland, 2008 Columbia road. ~The observance of Francis E. Willard's “heavenly birthday” also will be commemorated. A benefit card party will be given by the Sodality of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart tomorrow, 8 pm, in the parish hall. Proceeds will be added to the fund for the erection of the Chapel of Our Lady in the church. Kallipolis Grotto Band and Drill Corps will give an informal leap year dance tomorrow evening at the Wil- lard Hotel. The Writers' League will meet to- morrow, 8 pm. at Thomson School. Prof. addr wsh : “Forty-fiv inute Course in story Writing.” The Woman's Natlonal Democratic | Club, 1526 New Hampshire avenue, will igive a program luncheon. 12:30 pm,, | February 20. Subjeet: “If I Were Writ- ing the Platform in 1928." Speaker, Miss Gertrude Ely Representativ crick M. Daven- Iport will be the guest speaker at the meeting of the Men's Club of Foundry M. E. Church tomorrow. 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