Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1929, Page 22

22 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1929. MARY CULBERSIN WEDS AR VETERAN Only Daughter of Late Sena- tor From Texas Notifies | Kin of Wedding. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 4.—The New York | Herald Tribune said today that Miss | Mary Culberson, only daughter of the late United States Senator Charles A.| . Culberson of Texas, has informed rela- | P | Little is known here of Miss Culber- | son’s movements since her departure about two weeks ago on & H. M. Read of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington. Ky. She went to New York later and it was learncd | last night that she had telephoned Maj, Read of her marriage to young Robert- son the day before. Reports that the couple were coming here today could not be verified. Mr. Robertson is said to be connected with a brokerage firm in New York, but the local offices in Washington knew noth- ing about him. Mr. Jurney, also, who has followed the course of the seven- vear romance through its trials and tribulations, was unable to give any information concerning the young man'’s personal affairs Caused Sensation 7 Years Ago. The shattering of Mary Culberfon’s d marriage with Rober caused a s 1 | | | 2. Jua. v was gt s b et ke e e 3t o | OPPOSES ABOLITION Boston for which his passage had been | paid. The matter was dropped after | sit to Maj. [ he had left home with them upon re- ceipt by detectives of an unrevealed wire, according to reports at the time. Aunt Becomes Alarmed. | Manor Park Association Objects to Robertson’s aunt, in the meantime.| Consolidatio it Wi alarmed at his disappearance. uppvnlvd} tion of That Unit With ta, the British embassy in Washington : to intercede and the embassy staff here Police Department. “watched” the progress of Robertson's | ekt case for some time. In their efforts to | 4 break off the matoh, Senator Culberson | Replying to a communication from sent his daughter abroad for an ex- | the Southwest Citizens' Association pro- tended tour. Since Senator Culberson’s | posing the abolition of the Traffic Bu- death in 1925, little or nothing Was|reqy gs an jndependent unit for reasons | known here of Mr. Robertson’s where= abouts. Miss Culbersbn, in the fneantime, was | of economy, the Manor Park Citizens' Association, meeting at the Whittler o 5 antin School, Fifth and Sheridan streets reported to have “broken” with her[nciin R, G SUCTHRT SUeRts family as a result of the affair and in | nd"oUECTE JATL IERL OOt recent years has been living an inde-| Trafc Bureau and the Police Depart- pendent life. | ment. In January of this year her name n of the |in the development of that branch n|MISS BOOTH RECOVERING.) | education A resolution urging permission be re- fused for erection of fire engine houses, police stations and pumping stations f | neighborhoods zoned residential was | | tabled. | “The public utilities committee was instructed to conduct an Investigation into the street car service on Georgia | avenue. A five-minute schedule is fa- | vored by the assoclation to overcome what was described as slow downtown | service. It was moved that a postal box be placed at the corner of Seventh ana Peabody streets, and the matter was | referred to the public utllities commit- tee for further action. ‘The meeting was the last to be hela by the association until September. President John D. Smoot occupied the chair. | WE CLEAN BLANKETS ! And absolutely guarantee against any [ shrinkage Physician Reports Brain Concus- sion Buffered Has Disappeared. HARTSDALE, N. Y., June 4 (@ — Dr. Walter Clark Tilden announced to. dey that the slight concussion of the Evangeline braln suffered by Comdr. h of the Salvation Army had en- tirely disappeared. Booth, who was injured when '.Wllh Your Parker Pen Bring it to us and let us show you how you can change it from a Pocket Pen (as it is now) int neat, taj Set Pen or vice versa. ck and forth, fromone to the other as you choose in a jiffy. | | thrown against the top of her suto- mobile 10 days ago, told the phyaician today that pains in her head wefe mo longer noticeable. It' was expeéted that she would be ur in two ar three days. Fears were feit for a time that she had fractured her skull. Offsec the effects of warm days by dining st Blossorn Ina. Tempting food served in a most pleasing environ- tives she wi ried in New York L. J. Cantrell, principal of the Brig Sunday to Alexander E. Roberston, J English World War veteran, after a courtship of seven years Mr. Robertson in 1922 charged that private detectives were attempting to e when the young wa 's | again appeared in the press when she | wood Junior High School, was unar s called upon the British em- |was arrested on Pennsglvania avenue mously indorsed for the principalship | in Washington to intercede in | following an automobil> chase of six|of the new A. E. Paul Junior High his behalf when ator Culberson’|blocks. Miss Culberson was ta 0 | School to be opened in February. for imstance, to own a Complete threatened to have him deported. |the first precinct station and detained | The association also went on record Berker Dotk et for $695 hat drive him from this country because of They had met in Austin, where the |there until Mr. Jurney arranged bond | reaffirming a previous resolution, adopt- | B il o his affection for Miss Culberson. adsome young Britisher, fust Ye- [for her to the'extent of $1,000. She|ed some five years ago, favoring the c H priorapint s“"" n’ 19, " from the army, had gone to|was charged with driving while intoxi- | establishment of a junior college for | E - ave a . Save $4. HERIEIS SISIDRATICTaT 4 'Th: % culate at the University of Texas |cated and with leaving the scene of a | the District of Columbia. A lengthy | XQUISITE DRY CLEANING o y $ and seek a fortune in America. collision. Miss Culberson said she had | discussion was held on the subject, and | Corner 11th & H Sts. N.W. THE PARKER PEN DEALERS on a charge of kidnaping, but an in- k Mary Culberson’s first love aflair, Later, | taken only a few cocktails before her |1t was pointed out that the West and | . . N.W. dictment that was returned, in Newark, Robertson went o Syracuse. N. Y., with | ride. The case is still open Middle West are far ahead of the East | Phone National 2704 T an_automobile firm and Miss Culberson was {nformed Robertson had refused to B e e Y | ——— | parents in Washington, where she en- The courtship started when both he D . end Miss Culberson were students at|the late Senator Culberson and mow the University of Texas at Austin. M. |secretary to Scnator Royal S. Copeland | When Senator Culberson gained his Robertson had come to this country in | of New York. To Mr. Jurney, who had | first intimation of the romance he held 1919 after serving in France with figured in breaking up the romance in|a conference with the penniless young land's “first hundred isand” 1922, Miss Culberson revealed a while | Britisher, which terminated in reports | volunteer after the outbreak o go that voung Robertson had suc- that Robertson avowed his _mt(-nunns was gased and shell shocked ereded in the business world, during an | of marriage. despite limited finances 5 ‘esterday. | absence abroad. so he was not surprised | Soon after, in June, 1922, the Eng- | Supposed to Go to Work Yesterday. | 5 'G T iird of their wedding. lishman instituted legal proceedings | Maj. H. M. Reed. professor of Eng-| " \ics Culberson was well known in | against Senator Culberson, charging lish at Virginia Military Institute, & ywachington, where her father for many | that the family had attempted to coerce cousin of Miss Culberson. told the| omg in the House and Senate had | him to leave the country. He kept up & Herald Tribune his wife was informed | jieq gince the days when he served as | lively correspondence with Miss Culber- of the marriage by Miss Culberson. BUt | governor of Texas. Since the death |son by mail, telegraph and long distance that she did not say where it had been | of ‘poth of her parents she has been | telephone. 'He later charged that he performed. At the Municipal Bullding | poying her home at 1712 Sixteenth | had been visited in Bloomington by Jiere there is no record of a mAITiage | street with a Kinswoman, Mrs. Lillian | three strange men who hinted at e O Kafka’s - Robertson was to have come to this | 10th and F Sts. 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