Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1929, Page 6

6 15 WOMEN CHOSEN FOR NAVAL PARLEY Efficiency Decides Selection, by State Department of London Conference Aides. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. Efficiency has been recognized and rewarded in the selection of 15 young women from the State Department, chosen to accompany the delegation which will attend the Naval Arms Con- ference to meet in London next month. “Every one of the women who will accompany the delegation,” declared Mr. McDermott, chief of press office, Department of State, “has been chosen because of the excellent work done by them in matters of extreme importance | and responsibility. Most of them have been doing work of a very confidential | nature over a period of years." | Mrs, Pearl L. De Maret, private ste- | nographer to the secretary of the Secre- | tary of State, is a native of Ohio, edu- cated in the public schools and business | college there. Mrs. De Maret speaks French. She has been in the office of | the Secretary of State since 1925. Miss L. Adelaide Watson occupies a confidential position with the Mexican division and has been with the State Department since the beginning of the World War. She came from Pennsyl- vania, but was educated at Business High School in this city. Joined Department in 1915, Miss Eileen McKenny, born in Rich- mond, Va. has been with the State| Department since 1915 and for the past 6 or 7 years has been occupying a po- sition of responsibility. Before ent ing the service of the State Depa ment she was employed for a time stenographer for the Federal Reserve Board. Miss Vernita Bronson is a graduate of the high school and business college of Waterloo, Jowa. Before her position | as stenographer with the State Depart- | ment Miss Bronson was with the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Miss Hurley S. Fisk reports all press conferences of the Secretary of State. She was born in Keokuk, Iowa, and came to Washington only last year. ‘Mrs. Dorothy Kilkoff, chief of one of the sections of Bureau of Indexes and Archives, is a graduate of Notre Dame of Baltimore with the degree of bache- lor of arts. Dhll‘l Butler speaks French and has extensive information on diversified sub- ects. | : Miss Beatrice L. Comeau was born &n‘ . Mass., and was educated in | School Business College of her home ecity. She has been in the service of the State Department since 1926. Miss Lueas Is. District Native. Miss Alice R. Lucas is a native of this city and a_graduste of St. Patrick's Academy. Before emtering the service of the State Department, in 1917, Miss Lucas was employed by a business firm in Alexandria, Va. She accompanied the delegation sent to the disarmament conference in Geneva in 1927. Miss. V. Deike is a native of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She was educated here at the Washington Mis- sionary College, Takoma Park. Miss Deike has heen with the State Depart- ment since 1817 and now occuples the of confidential secretary to the Personal Foreign Miss Anna Belle Némn;b, who is Ohio, but was educated in Northampton, Mass, Before coming to Washington, in 1924, Miss Newcomb was stenographer at Smith College. Is Graduate of Business High. Miss Blanche Rule, assistant chief of the Bureau of Co- ination and Re- view, one of the two State Department divisions whose chiefs are women, was born in Washington and was graduated from Business High School of this city. Miss Rule is now rapidly convalescin, form a severe fliness, and is confiden she will be fully recovered in order to accompany the delegation when it sails from New York next month. | Miss Adele Dix, who has been with the State Department since 1914, is a native of Baltimore. She was & student | at George Washington University, where | she specialized in English. In addition to those at present serve lnfuwflh the State Department will be , Miss Grace Alexander, who is now in, Europe, and Mrs, Barni, also in Europe, | who was formerly secretary to former | Secretary of Evans ) Hughes. Miss Esther 8. Schucker, private sec- retary to Senator David Reed, one of the envoys, will also accompany the delegation and will continue in her present capaeity to Sengtor. Reed, who r'm be dne of the delegates to the con- ference. State Charles Er f HELENE COSTELLO TO WED MOVIE ACTOR IN APRIL Sister- of Mrs. Barrymore An- nounces Engagement to Lowell Sherman and Honeymoon Abroad. | By the Associated Press. | LOS ANGELES, December 18.— Helene Costello, daughter of Maurice | Costello and sister of Mrs, John Bar- | accompany the American delegation to the arms conference. motion | Fight: Adele E. Dix, Vernita Bronson and Hurley S. Fisk. Back row: L. Adelaide | Watson, Mrs. Pearl L. De Marat, Beatrice L. Comeau and Mildred V. Deike. rymore, and Lowell Sherman, picture actor, will be married during | the latter part of March and will spend a honeymoon abroad. | Announcement of the engagement and the tentative wedding date wax | made Monday by Miss Costello, screen player. The wedding will culminaw & romance of many maonths in the film colony. “It’ will be a_very quiet affair, witn only Mr. and Mrs. Barrymore and few intimate friends present,” Miss Costello said. “At present we do not plan a church wedding, nor have we any plans as to who will stand up | with us.” | Miss_Costello is the former wife of John Y. Regan, member of a prom- nent New York family. Her divorce became final & short time ago. Sher- | man is the former husband of Pauline Garon, film Responsibility Use Yellow; Cabs Black and White Cabs Owned and Operated by Brown Bros. 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