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SDCTETY. Nev: York Society Foresees | Activity in the Sports Field Tnternational Polo Tournament an Outatnndindl ‘Attraction—Home Teams to Meet British Play- ers at Meadow Brook, Long Island. NEW YORK, August 30.--One week from today the first of the international polo games between Great Britain and . ‘the United States will be played at Meadow Brook, Long Island, and more interest has been aroused in the games this year than ever before. The advance sale of boxes and seats far exceeds that of any other year, Enough tickets already have been purchased to indi- cate that for tHe first game there will be an attendence at least & third more than attended the last game of the Ar- gentine tournament two years ago. Added stands have been built along both sides of the field and the center inclosure has been entirely covered over with a new pavilion. ‘There will be much entertaining dur- Ing the week or 10 days the tourna~ ment will be on, sponsored by owners of the large estates that mark the northern and Wheatley Hills section of Long Island. Members of the Long Island set are returning every dl¥ by motor, airplane, yacht and train from the various fashionable resorts, and by boat from abroad. On the evening be- fore the first match, Friday, there will be a dance for the British anéd Ameri- can poloists at. Kiluna Farm, Manhas- get. The hosts will be Mr, and Mrs. J. Cheever Cowdin, who are occupying the Ralph Pulitzer place, Mr. and Mrs. Pulitzer having gone to Africa on hunting trip. Mr. Cowdin was a mem- ber of two international teams, but re- cently announced his retirement from sompetitive polo and snld his ponies. On Priday evening, September 12, the night before the third polo game, Mrs. Q@raham Fair Vanderbilt will give a bail | o8 Fairmont, her Manhasset, estate, for- | erly the Frank A. Munsey place. The | tertainment will be a “white costume | bell” and will be a notable event of the Fall season. On September 6, after the first polo game, Mr. and Mrs. *George F. Baker, jr, will give a dance Aor their debutante daughter, Miss Flor- ience Baker, at their country place at ®Peacock Point, Locust Valley. Miss Baker, who is a granddaughter of iGeerge F. Baker, philanthropist, and of “Mr. and Mrs. Granville Kane of Tuxedo Park, was educated in France and re- turmed to Locust Valley in the late Spring. On Thursday_evening, September 11, Mr. and Mrs. Morris W. Kellogg will | give a small dance at their Brookville lace for their debutante daughter, Miss elen Winthrop Kellogg. Mr. and Mrs. ermit Roosevelt will give a supper #ance Friday evening, September 12 fithe same night Mrs. Vanderbilt gives /er dance), for their niece, Miss Grace Green Vanderbilt. It will take place at Mohannes, the estate of Mr. and Mrs, ermit Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay. Miss velt is the eldest grandchild of the ident Theodore Roose' rars. Miss Roosevelt will be honored at a dinner dance which Clarence H. .mk.’ will give for her at his city e Priday, January 30. On Wednesday evening, September . Mr. and Mrs. J.‘Henry Alexandre of en Head, also an owner of a large| tate on Long Island, will give a dance Miss Mary Corning, daughter of Jepresentative and Mrs. J. Parker Corn- of Albany. Mr, and Mrs. Corning ve occupied the Alexandre place dur- part of the season. £ Among the 500 or 600 prominent box- ders are Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Hitch- k, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whit- ney, Mrs, Payne Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt ‘Whitney, John Hay Whitney, rs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt, Harold 8. ‘anderbllt, Mr. and Mrs. W. Goadb} W, Mrs. Cheever Porter, Mr. and rs. Charles E. F. McCann, Horace vemeyer, Mr. and Mrs. F. Ambrose | Clark, Sidney W, Fish, /1. 8. Firestone, Mrs. Walter 8. Gurnee, Paul D. Cra- vath, Mrs. Thomas Hastings, Percy R. Pyne, 2d; Theodore Douglas Robinson, Mrs. Robert Bacon, W. F. Grace, Harris Fahnestock, Charles Auchincloss, Clarence H. Mackay, Capt. Prederick E. Guest, L. Gordon Hamertley, the Under- secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. t Iselin, Theodore A. Havemeyer, Wll\(-(: P. Chrysler, Edwin Gould, Pelix ‘Warburg, Harold I. Pratt. Otto H. Kal Mr. and Mrs. William Woodward, How: ard C. Brokaw, C. Oliver Iselin, Charles L. Tiffany, E. D. Morgar, R. Livingston Beeckman, George D. Widener, John McEntee Bowman, James C. Brady, ir.. Fulton Cutting, Harvey 5. Ladew, James A. Burden, Mrs. John T. Pratt, W. H. Vanderbilt, Willlam B. Leeds, Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady, F. 8. Von Stade, Miss Eleanor: Sears, Mrs. Mary H. Rumsey and many others. An interesting engagenient announced from abroad a few dayi ago was that of Miss Louise Clews to Andrew Nicholas Armstrong Vanneck of lo;?an, brother of Lord Huntingfield. Mis< Clews is a daughter of Henry Clews, author and Hillingsworth Morris Clews of Baltimore and Biarritz. Miss Cle modernized the financial system of Japan. Mr. and Mrs. Clews were sepa- rated in Paris in 1009. Among Mr. Clews’ books was his “Mumbo Jumbo,” a satire or. modern life, urt and politics, published in 1923. Mr. Vanneck is connected with &, London Stock Excharge firm. During| th. World War he was with the S(,‘D',&X Guards, receiving the military cross. ! He is the third son of Willlam Arce- | | deckne Vanneck, second son of the third Baron of Huntingfield. is mother was Mary Armstrong of Toowsomba, Queens- land. Mi-, Clews has been living with her mother in Biarritz. By her first marriage her mother was Mrs. Frederic Gebhard. The wedding, will teke plage September 1 at the Chfteau de la 17a- poule, near Cannes, Frabce. Mrs. E-ward M. Weld of Tuxedo Park announces _the engagement of her daughter, Miss Anne King Weld, to William_Crawford, jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. William Crawford of 580 Park avenue. Miss Weld is the daughter of the late Edward Motley Weld of Boston and New York, who died in December, 1929. cles here and in Boe! He served as a member of the board of .managers of the New York Cotton (Exchange from 1902 to 1925, and was at one time presi- dent of the New Y 'k Cciton Exchange. He also was a member ¢f the Liverpool Cotton Association, I ", Mr. Weld, a widely known horseman, played on the Dedham polo team, which won the United States championship in 1900. For a number of years Mr. Weld and the late Temple Gwathmey owned s racing stable, and upon the death of Mr. Gwathmey, Mr. Weld became & trustee of the Temple Gwathmey Memo- rial Steeplechase in the list of races of the United Hunts Racing Associa- tion, of which Mr. Weld was treasurer. Miss Weld attended Miss Chapin’s School, and was graduated from the Oldfields School in Maryland. Mr, Crawford attendsd St. Mark's School. He is a brotaer of . George Crawford, Harvard, '28. His father is 2 member of the Metropolitan, Engi- neers’ and Riding clubs, St. Nicholas y | Society, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Huguenot Society and the Sociei; of the War of 1812. No date has been set for the: wedding. Late Summer Season : Society Notes From City of Alexandria Residenu Retuming From| ¢ Holiday O'Mindl—Crosa-k ¢ Country Trips for Pleasure Scheduled—Guests Enter-| { tained in Homes. * Lieut. and Mrs. Ralph B. Hunt, who Beve been in Bar Harbor for a part of e Summer where Lieut. Hunt has Been taking part in the Navy tennis fhatches, were guests last week of Mrs. $unt's mother, Mrs. Catherine Pulman. Mrs. Hunt is remaining with her mother until Lieut. Hunt's return trom Wampton Roads. Mrs. George W. Welch and her chi 'en are at home after a visit to rela- | res in Westover, Md. { % Mrs. Jenkins of Seattle, Wash,, is a | t‘arcn of her brother and sister-in-law, | | and Mrs, Harley Payton Wilson at | eir country place, Hollin Hall, near wm. + Superintendent of Public Schools and | . R. C. Bowton and their children | ve returned from a visit to relatives | gear Chicago. © Mrs. C. B. Spilman is back from a Misit to Urbarna, Va. * Mr. and Mrs, J. C. Dunn and Mr. | vin Dunn have returned from a visit Mrs. R. L. Reid in Stafford Count; Mrs. Belle Jones is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Allen in Passapa- ganzy, Va. Miss Florence Schofield of Charlotte, N. C. is the guest of her uncle and | nt, Mr. and Mrs. William Kleysteuber. | The marriage announced of Miss Ruth 8. Bowman of this city to Mr. Albert M. Nickelson of Chester, Pa. y, August 26, with Rev. Henry L. | ‘Tuesda) Hout officiating. * The Misses 1 weeks at White Sulphur Springs, 5 Mr. Gardner L. Boothe and Mr. Gerdner L. Boothe, jr., left recently for 8 trip to Yellowstone Park and the Pa- Cific Coast. Mrs. Boothe lefi earlier in the season to join her older son, Mr. Armistead Boothe, a Rhodes scholar at | Oxford Universi !!(her they are spending the Summer raveling through Europe. Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor Stephen- son and Miss Polly Stephenson are back trom y in Atlantic City. Miss Jean Slaymaker is a guest of | Miss Elizabeth Puryear in Lynchburg. | The Rey. and Mrs. Pierce 8. Ellis | have returned from a trip to Ocean | City and Pccomoke, Md. Mrs, Alice M. Kelly announces the | marriage of her daughter, Bridget Agnes, to Mr. Paul A. Robey, Wednes- day, August 20, in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Leo P. Harlow and their daughter, Faith Herlow, are spending the Summer in Bur and will not .return home until about October 1. Miss Agnes Amold and Miss B Arnold of Unionville, Conn., are guests their sister, Miss Esther Arnold, on uke street. Mrs. J. D. Logan has returned to gr home in Rosnoke after a visit to r son-in-law and desughter, City Manager and Mrs. Wallace Lawrerice, an Cameron street. Miss Elizabeth Sherrier entertained &t bridge Friday evening, August 22, o honor of Miss “Kathleen Douglass, who recently returned from 8 Euro- nnn trip with her parents, Mr. and rs. Macdonald Douglass. _The prizes re won iss Frances Buddin. Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Kiger and ~ir two n are guests of Mr. heson are spending jand Mrs. Charles J. England, and - [N York City. Miss Elizabeth Nicholson is s guest of Miss Katherine Wingfiel¢ in Lynchburg. Miss Virginia Dinwicidie of Char- lottesville is visiting her cousin, Miss Louise Dinwiddie, on North Alfred street. Mrs. Arthur Gibbons of Charlottes- ville is a guest of Mrs. Milton Cornell, Invitations have been received from Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Leek for the mar- riage of their daughter, Annette Lovi lace, to Mr. Harold Muiray Wells, son of Mr. George W. Wells of Alexandria, Monday evening, September 8, at o'clock in their home 1503 Genoa street, in Coral Gables, Fla. Mr. and Mre. Thomas H. Bayne, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A Bayne and Thomas A. Bayne, jr., are spending several weeks at Colonial Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gorham, Miss Roselyn Gorham and Miss Mary Bry» ant motored to -Strasburg, Va. and spent the past week end with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph JRemington and Mr. and Mrs. Scott Humphries were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Herndon in Frederizksburg. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Willlams and Miss Vivian Williams have gone by mo- tor to Niagara Palls anc Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Orlando H. Kirk and Mr. John Harrison Kirk are guests of relatives in Harrington, Del. Mrs, Vincent Bayne and her small son left Monday to join Mr. Bayne in Waterbury, Conn. Miss Kathleen Watson, who has been attending the Summer vard, is a guest of M Miss Watson lived in Al eral years ago, when her father, the late Rev. Dr. William Franklin Watson, was pastor of the First Baptist. Churc Miss Evelyn Brown of Covington, Ky., is a guest of Mrs. Martin P. Green on North Royal street. Miss Virginia Stone of Richmond is visiting Miss Ruth Jones and Miss Mar- garet Jones. Mrs. F. Ervin Ludwig and Miss Gret- ta Ludwig are paying a visit to Mr. and Mrs. C. F. M. Lewis in Manassas. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop Arnold and their small son. Billy Arnold, are at home after a stay at Colonial Beach. Mrs. Manly Broaddus of Newton, Va, spent the past week as a guest of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Wheat. Mrs. Edwin H. Pierce and her two chidren are with her perents, Mr. and Mrs. William Darden, in Suffolk, Miss Catherine Kirkman is at home after a visit to relatives in Liberty, . Mr: R. L. Whittemore of Richmond was a week end guest of his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. ard Mrs. W. . Whittemore, who also had as their guests Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Alderton of Fredericksburg. Rev. and Mrs. Salem, Va., Rayniond Wood of of the latter’s Willilam W. Kid- well. Mz, 5. Wood and Mis Gertrude Kidwell spent the past week end with friends at Chapel Point, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Knight are guests of the latter's mo her, Mrs. Mat- ter, at Colonial Beach. are & guest of her uncle anc aunt, Mr. and |Mrs. W. H. Brown. Mr. Brown and |Mr.” Thomas Brown soent the past week end as guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Brown, in | Shipman, Va. Mrs. J. W. Varney and Mr. Jack | Varney are visiting the former’s sister, | Mrs. Woolley, in Fort Wayne, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cole of Balti- more were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zoven and their young daughter of Washington are the guests of Mrs. l.oven's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Thomas U. Fairfax. Miss Mary Curtis of Prince 'William County » et Helen Cannon . and | s been a guest of Misi Ethel Fairfax, % Mrs. Tedder and Mr. William Teddet o piata’ wiil pegin op - Barly of Madison, Ve, pacitg, of Deland, Fla, visiting in home of Mrs. H, ‘Mise Prances are E. Bturtevant, Ogden L. Mills, Robert L. Gerry, John | J. Raskob, C. K. G. Billings, Adrian | o | artist, of New York, and Mrs. Louise | grandfather was the late| Henry Clews of New York, banker, who Kiger, in New | Miss Prances Martin of Roanoke 1s |4 | i | { to society § MISS DEVEREUX GREEN, Daughter of Mrs. Devereux Green of Georgetown, D. C., who will present her ember at the Mayflower Hotel. ~—Underwood Photo. - ik is & guest of her aunt, Mrs. G. H. Walter, Mr. Frank Deane and his young son Bobby Deane of Charlottesville were fuests over the past week end of Mr. &nd Mrs. Charles Brown Sullivan, Mr. Garpett Francis will leave to- morrow for Meadeville, Pa., to enter Allegheny Uniersity, to which he re- cently was awarded a scholarship. Miss Hilda Fairfax, Miss Ruth Mich- elbach, Miss Helen Michelbach and Miss Sarah Dettor spent the past week end at Colonial Beach. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Reid have re- turned from a visit to Mrs. W. D. Brenner in Smithsburg, Md., accom- panied by their three children, who have spent the Summer at the home of Mrs. Brenner. Miss Mary Vos is a grandmother, Mrs. C. W. Island, near Lynchburg. Mrs. James R. Harman, Mrs. J. M. Harman, Calvin and Erleene Harman and Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Prancis have gone to Piney Point, Md., to remain for several weeks. Mrs. F. J. V.case is & guest of her daughter, Mrs, Fifer, in Lexington, Va. Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Major are guests of relatives in Middlesex County. Mrs. R. J. Snell and her small daugh- ter, Barbara Jane, have returned from |3 visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Snell in | Bowling Green, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Plerson enter- tained Saturday evening, August 33, to celebrate the birthday anniversary of the latter’s mother, Mrs. J. B. Davis. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Colbert, Miss Eunice Colbert and Miss Irene Davis of Sllver Spring; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Davis of Takoma Park, Mr. MacBruter Thomas of Char- lottesville, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Colbert and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Davis. Miss Pauline Woodward is at home after a visit to relatives in Denver, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Lobban are visiting the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Lobban, in Waynesboro, Va. Mrs. Anna Jackson Sloan is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilson in_Philadelphia. Mr, and Mrs. Paul Hayward are at home after spending a month with the former’s mother, Mrs, Mary Hay- ward, in Terre Haute, Ind. Mrs. William Noe of Parkersburg, W. Va., is a guest of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A, M. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Paul t of Phila- delphia were week end guests of the latter’s brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs, E. W. Beckwith, Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Connerly have gone to Wytheville, Va., where they will make their home. Mrs. Harry E. Blackman of Trenton. N. J.; Mrs. Horace W. Van Cleve of Plainfield, N. J, and Mrs. Tallman Nutt of Morrisville, Pa., were guests last week of their sister, Mrs, James 8. Sheehan. Miss FPlorence Sheehan is| now paying a series of visits in the homes of her aunts. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Darby and Miss Sarah Darby of Milton, Del, and Mr, and Mrs. Clay Williams and their two children of Philadelphia are guests of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Townsend. Mr, Raymond Wells left last week for Canton, Ohio, where he will make his home in the future. Billy Dillard, son of Mrs. Frank M. Dillard, and Rozier Clagett Bayly, son of Mrs. Jean Carter Bayly, are at home after spending the Summer at Camp Greenbrier, W. Va. Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Dawson, Miss Virginia Cooper Dawson and Miss Louisa Washington Dawson of Lynch- burg are guests of Mr. and Mrs. 8. Cooper Dawson. Mrs. Philip Dawson was formerly Miss Louisa Poote Wash- ington. daughter of Mrs. Lawrence Washington and late Mr. Washington of this city. Miss Evangeline Griesemer is at home after a visit to her uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs, Willlam Griessmer in_Chicago. Miss Thelma Ferrell has returned from a trip to Bar Harbor, Me, Bride-Elect Honored By Numerous “Showers" Alpha Delta Theta, Lamba Ch: Sorority of George Wllhlnmnl’ll’l:;; versity, gave a miscellansous shower Monday evening at the home of Miss Elizabeth Miller, 220 Maryland avenue northeast, in compliment to Miss Oneda Maybelle Brown, who is to be married Wednesday, September 3, at the Church of Reformation, to Dr. Hazen Eugene Cole of Washington. Mrs. Herbert Dornin entertained at a bridge shower last Thursday evening in honor of the bride-elect. Miss Elsie Keyes, who is to be maid f honor at_the wedding, entertathed a shower Friday evening, August 29, t :mr home, on Twelfth street north- eas Mrs. Luther H, Brown, mother of the bride, will give a tea and reception at hei home on East Capitol strect this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock in honer of the coming wedding. g:olt of her ker, at Big | | 1 Mrs. A. Wiley Kluttz, 86-year-old grandmother of the bride, from - bury, N. C, and Mrs. H. W. Jeffcoat, great aunt, from Boone, N, C, have ar- rived to attend the wedding. Full Time for Paint Plants. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 30 (#).- The Sherwin-Williams Co., paint man- yeaterday [ capacity immediately. Th ting 2t 40 1o 80 oant, ot erinc COX’PS Schools At Quantico Listed To Open September 4 Field Officers’ and Company Oficef“ G’“r.e! to Beg;n Same Date—Post Rapidly Gaining in Population. QUANTICO, Va., August 30.—Due to the fact that the field officers’ course and the company officers’ course at the Marine Corps Schools open Thurs- day, September 4, the post is rapidly filling up. Among the recent arrivals are Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Randolph M. Berkeley. Gen. Berkeley is to command the schools. He and Mrs. Berkeley haye come here from the Marine Barrack: Portsmouth Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. Others who have arrived during the week include Capt. and Mrs. J. P. Adams, and Mrs, Thomas E. Bourke, Capt. and Mrs. Daniel E. Camp- bell, Capt, and Mrs. George T. Hall and their two children, Capt. and Mrs. Louis R. Jones and their daughter, Capt. Jesse L. Perkins, Lieut. and Mrs. Brady L. Vogt, Lieut. and Mrs, Samuel L. Grifin, Lieut. James R. Hester, Lieut. and Mrs. Harrold D. Harris and family and Maj. George A. Clark, United States Army, with Mrs. Clark and family. | Capt. and Mrs. Robert H. Pepper had as guests at an informal dinner Thurs- day evening Mrs. William S. Pellers, wife of Lieut. Fellers, who is in Nica- ragua, and Maj. and Mrs. James L. Un- derhill, | Lieut. Roswell Burchard of the avia- tion fleld at Quantico won first place in the squadron race at the Chicago Na- tional Air Meet, with Lieut. Lawson H. Sanderson winning the second place. Capt. Charles T, Brooks, who has been cruising the New England Coast with Maj. John Potts, in the latter's boat, the Quien Sabe, has returned to the post and will leave shortly for the Army Infantry School at Fort Ben- ning, Ga. Capt. Franklin T. Steele, Capt. C. H. Brown and Chief Marine Gunner Tal- bot were judges recently of the several m and bugle corps of the American Legion at Harrisburg, Pa., at the annual convention of the American Legion of the Department of Pennsylvania. Miss Vera Cronquist, who, for several weeks, has been the house guest of Chaplain and Mrs. W. R, Hall, left this week for her home in Shanghai, China. BANKER URGES STANDARD CHINESE CUSTOM DUTIES Also Suggests Board to Ald in Reformation of Judicial Sys- tem to Senate Group. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 30.—Im- medlate standardization of Chinese ous- toms duties, revision of duties every seven years to meet changing exchange rates and creation of a board of refer- ence to aid China in reformation of its entire Judicial system was suggested to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations here yesterday by E. W. Wilson, former manager of the Philippines National Bank. Mr. Wilson is vice president and general manager of the Pacific Inter- national Bank and has had 40 years' experience in Asiatic trade. He said c':mn chief fear is of foreign aggres- slon ‘The Senatorial Subcommittee, com- posed of Senators Pittman, Nevada, chairman: Johnson, California: Ship- stead, Minnesota; Swanson, Virgini and Vandenberg, Michigan, all tended sessions yesterday. A 50 per cent drop in American trade with China ;:l the chief concern of the commit- . In one month recently Ecuador ex- ported more than 2,500,000 pounds of cacao, from which chocolate is made. ouse ) 16th & H St NW Opposite White House Furnished & Unfurnished Resetvations Now Being Made Prom one room and bath to 1 rooms and 3 baths. Electric re- frizeration. ‘rumning ice "water, Washington's most moedern. fnesi 4 convenlent apartment THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, AUGUST 31, 1930—PART THREE. DEBUT E OF 1930-31 Chevy Chase Record Of Social Activities, Gcneral and Spec;al Motor Trips for Pleasure and Visits to Pleasure Re- sorts Feature * Season. Trips Abroad Also Listed. Dr, and Mrs. John A. Logan and their children, Bronson, Elizabeth and Wilson of Connecticut avenue, will leave tomorrow by motor to spend sev- eral weeks at their cottage at Ship Bottom, N. J. Mr, and Mrs. Burton Corning and their little daughter Margaret of Leland street left Saturday, the 23d, by motor for- Whiteford, Md., where Mrs. Corning and Margaret will be guests for several weeks of Mrs. Corning's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Morgan White- ford. Mr. Harold De Veau and Mr. Warren Bouve motored to Cumberland, Md. where they spent several days during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. De Veau and their sons, Mr. Harold De Veau and Mr. Donald De Veau, left yesterday by motor for Ocean City, N. J. | Mr. Rowland Lyon returned Wed- | nesday to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs, G.-A. Lyon, on Rosemary | street, after taking the Summer course | in painting at Provincetown, R. L | Mr. and Mrs. James Wall of Ger-| mantown, Pa., are week end house | guests of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam T. Pollard. Mrs. G. B. Likens and daughter, Miss | Miriam Likens, and her house guest, Mrs. Adams of Louisville, Ky. are spending & week in their Summer cot- tage at Edgewater, Md. Mrs, Guy Baker Stephenson enter- tained at luncheon and bridge Thurs- day in her home on Elm street. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. McKnew of Virgilia street are spending a month at Point Pleasant, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Milton E. Lowry and their children, Eugene and Florence, of McKinley street, accompanied by Mrs. Lowry's mother, Mrs. E. S. Beall of ‘Washington, left yesterday by motor for a tour to the Thousand Islands, Quebec, Canada, and the New England States. They will be gone several week Mrs. Donald Reed MacLeod and her children, Donald, Jean and Jack, re- turned Monday to their home on Leland street after spending a month at White Point, Md., where they occu- pied a cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston B. Campbell motored to Boston, Mass., where they are spending a week. Mr, John C. Barcalow of Huntington street has gone to Ventnor, N. J, to bring his small son, John Barcalow, home. The son has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hynson in their Summer home. Mrs. J. Douglass Jones and her chil- dren have returned to their home, on Magnolia g!l’k‘lly. after spending a month with Lieut. Comdr. Jones at Jamestown, R. I. Mrs. Karl D. Loos and her sons, Howard and Dixon, are spending two weeks at Ogunquit, Me. e Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Burton and their family of Magnolia parkwi Rehoboth Beach, Del, to spend two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. King Hoagland and their family of Taylor street will leave Tuesday for their new home, at Nor- walk, Conn. Mr, and Mrs. J. G. Whiteside and their daughter, Miss Jean Whiteside, returned Friday to their home, on Crevy Chase parkway, after a month's visit at Little Roek, Ark. Miss Peggy Wolcott have returned to their homes alter spending the Summer at Camp Owaissa in the Adironacks. Mr. Julien Winnemore of New Jersey is visiting his brother, Mr. Lawrence Winnemore, in his home, on Rosemary street, while their parents are at Reho- both Beach, Del. Mr. and Mrs. Frank 8. Wastbrook and their family returned Tuesday after spending a month in North and South Carolin: Miss Marian Bates of Livingston street had as her house guest the past week Miss Mary K. Medinger of Balti- more, Md. Miss Medinger and Miss Bates were classmates last year at the University of Maryland. Mrs. Carden F. Warner, who has spent the Summer in her ‘cottage at Boothbay Harbor, Me., has returned to her home, on Melrose street, with her daughters, Miss Mary Warner and Miss Julia Warner, who recently returned from Europe, where they spent the Summer. Dr. Warner and his mother, Mrs, Warner of Philadelphia; his daughter, Miss Catherine Warner, and her guest, Miss Sarah Louise Potbury, will motor home from Maine this week. Comdr. and Mrs. C. . Dunn and their little daughters, Elizabeth and Phoebe, of Coronado. Calif., motored across the continent and are the house guests of Mrs, Dunn's mother, Mrs. Allan E. Walker. on Hesketh street. Comdr. Dunn will be stationed here, and he and his family will make their home at the Legation Apartment. on Connecticut avenue. Miss Betty Walker and Miss Margaret Walker re- turned Monday to their home after spending the Summer at Camp May Flather, Stokesville. Va. Miss Dorothy Selby returned Monday from Camp May Flather, where she spent two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Wylie are spending several weeks on their farm near Watkins Glen, N. Y. Their nephew and niece, Mr. George North and Miss Marian North, and Mrs. | Wylie's sister, Miss Emily Himrod of Chicago, TIl, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. | mont, Angel and Miss Helen | 2D Wylle. Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Smith and “The Music You Want—When You On the Victor - Radio - Electrola With Orthophonic Victor Records ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED MISS GWENDOLYN G. WILLIAMS, Daughter of Mrs. Leonard Williams, who announces her engagement to Mr. Arthur C. Baur. The wedding will take place in November. their sons returned Monday from = motor tour of the Middle Western States. Mrs. Smith’s mother, Mrs. Emma Moorehead, 1is visiting her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Moorehead, in New York. 3 Mr. and Mrs, J. Craig Peacock and their son Jack have returned to their home, after spending the Summer in their country home, Bishop Gate, Blue- Va. Mr. and Mrs., J. Frank Kelly and their son Jack have returned to their home, on Ingomar street, after. spend- ing three weeks at Eagles Mere, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon E. West and their sons, Vernon E. West, jr., and Billy West, left Wednesday by motor for Scotland Beach, Md. where they will stay until the middle of Sep- mber. qua. George Goetzman of Nevada avenue was entertained by some of her friends Tuesday evening in honor of birthday anniversary. he;ll!‘. and yMrA. Russell T, Edwards have returned from a three weeks' trip through Yellowstone National Park and the Glacier National Park. Mr. and Mrs. George King enter- tained Mr. King's brother and sister- in-law of Baltimore, Md,, over the week d. mMr‘ and Mrs, Robert E. Quirk of Irving street msve usonewbyvx:owr to hite Sulphur Spri , W. . le.ss lm\lllella Peurs‘%l Clinton, Wis,, d Miss Gladys Whiting of Belvedere, 11, are house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Orville 8. Peters on Chestnut street. Dr. and Mrs, J. H. Dellinger returned Sunday to their home after a three months’ trip abroad. : Mr, and Mrs. Kenneth Forbes, Miss Lucille Forbes, Miss Mary Pearce and Miss Esther Pearce returned Saturday, August 23, from a tour of the South. Miss Esther Pearce accompanied her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs Forbes, to their home in Baltimore, d. Md. Mr, Wainwright Dawson of Akron, Ohlo, is a guest of his mother, Mrs, Clarence Dawson, on West Woodbine street. Mr, and Mrs. Kibby Munson of Meadow Lane left Thursday for New York, whence they sailed yesterday on the S. 8. Republic for Paris and Berlin. They will spend several months in Continental . Europe. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Swope and their family of Huntington street left by motor today for Eaglesmere, Pa.: Niag- ara Falls, N. Y., and Atlantic City, N. J., where they will spend 10 day: A very quiet wedding took place Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock in All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal Church, when Miss Dorothy Stokes was mar- ried to Mr. Julian Noel Branch. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Prederick Herbert Stokes of Elm street. Mr. Branch, whose home has been in Chevy Chase recently, Batiste Noel Branch of Christ Epis- copal Church in Mexico City. The bride, who was unattended, wore a very graceful gown of white chiffon with Jarge white hat and carried pink roses and delphinium. A reception for the immediate family was held at the home on Elm street. Mr. and Mrs. Branch have gone on a motor trip. The bride wore a traveling dress of brown tweec with accessories to match. Miss Eva Wellesly Cummins will ar- rive in New York tomorrow on the S 8. Gripsholm from Stockholr. Sweden where she has spent the - ast three months as a guest Kau Eva Thelberg. Miss Cunimins will ar. rive Tuesday at her home on McKinley stréet. Want It” There’s One Thing You Cannot Do —no matter how good your piano or how proficient your musicianship! You cannot imitate the tone colors of differ- ent orchestral instruments. The timbre (meaning the tone quality) of each instrument’s voice is different and it is only through balance and blending of different sounds that orchestral music is so pleasing. —Where good music is most appreciated, the Victor-Radio-Electrola with Qrthophonic Records finds permanent lodgement. everything in music by the This combination gives you foremost organizations and artists for permanent pleasure and recreation. Familiarize yourself and your children with all that’s worthwhile in music. Hear it in your own home every day when the shades of evening begin to fall. P The Cost Is Insignificant-ypg Compared to What You Get Out of It—Spiritually is the son of Rev.| | | News of the Clubs Writers’ Rendesvous — Betty Wad- dington Wells, assistant editor of Vir- ginia number of Troubadour; Murieu Wright of the Writers' League, and Ed J. Irvine, president of the Ergatocrats Club, are on the program at the Win- ston Hotel Septeml 6 at 8 pm. ‘,Yt":ieu' artists and Ergatocrats are in- vited. The Soroptomist Club of Washington wil] resume regular weekly meetings September 3, when the president, Mary Catherine Lewis, who has just returned from Europe, where she attended the International Soroptomist Convention, and visited Soroptimist clybs in seven different countries, will entertain the organization at “An Italian Knight in the Kitchen,” to be held at the Lewis Hotel Training School on Washington Circle. Weekly luncheons thereafter will be held as formerly at the Lafay- ette Hotel each Wednesday. Mrs. Sadle Trapp, one of the direc- tors, entertained officers and members of the board last week end at her Sum- mer cottage, The Gem, at North Beach. Md. Members of the party included Mary Catherine Lewis, Miss Nora Huff- man, Miss Gene C. Bearmore, Miss Rosa Place, Miss Daisy Reed, Mrs. Eva J. Turner, Miss Grace Goodpasture, Miss Belle Logan, Miss Mary Bourke, Miss Bertha Trapp and Mrs. Ethel Knight Pollard. Miss Rosa Place and Miss Grace Goodpasture won first place in the original skit contest. Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle, ‘Wash., newly elected president of the American Federation of ~Soroptimist Clubs, has named Mary Catherine Lewis of Washington chairman of the Na- tional Magazine Committee. Mrs. Lewis stated that her committee hopes to have definite plans to announce for the launching of a national Soroptomist publication by the first of the year. The University of Michigan Women's Club will have a luncheon September 5 at the American Association of Univer- Ill,‘{ ]\:Vomen‘l Club House at 12:30 o'clock. The Iris Social Club of Washington will give a dance September 24 at the National Press Club from 9 to 1 o’clock, sponsored by Morris Shuken, Joseph Bryan, Ellis Korson, Harry Steffel and Joseph Coopersmith. The Women’s Home Club of North Beach, Md., will hold the annual elec- tion -of officers September 2 at their club house on Sand Beach. All mem- bers are requested to attend. Curlc, Club.—At a3 meeting of the Membership Campaign Committee at the residence of Hugh McGarvey, 502 A street southeast, Monday, arrangements were completed for a membership drive that will be held during the early Fall, Eight teams under the leadership of a captain will conduct the drive. Those appointed as captains are Miss Gretchen Baden, Miss Ethel Ammon, Mr. Luke O'Retlly, Mr. John Donnelly, Mr. Wil- llam Boyd, Mr. Albert Sweeney, M Roland Hyland and Mr. Joseph McGai vey. The drive will start with an e tertainment following the regular meet- | ing at the Gordon Hotel September 11, and will continue until October 11, when a dance will be held at the Gor- don in honor of the new members. At an executive meeting of tne club, 2t the residence of Roland Hyland, 20 ¥ »%wwe, northeast, Thursday eve- ning, Miss Pauline Donnelly, chairman “The Richest Child Is Poor Without Musical Training” Movie Show Listed At Hotel Opening Diplomatic Sunday night motion pic- tures will start the fifth season at the opening of the Shoreham Hotel in October by an arrangement of Mr. L. Gardiner Moore, the managey, with the Bureau of Commercial Economics, the organization controlling the films of the various foreign governments. ‘The Shoreham Hotel grand ball room, among its novel features, has a huge electric organ to play music of the nation when the films are shown. The Ambassador or Minister of the coun- try to be exploited is the honor guest, an official address is given by a mem- ber of the staff, debutantes act as ush- ers and admission is by special cards of invitations with the flag and seal of the nation, which are sent by the Bureau of Commercial Economics to members of the House and Senate, as well as the officially and socially prom- inent of the city. The bureau has ready films of Great Britain, Peru, Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Spain, France, Chile, Belgium, Germany, pan. Switzerland, Hungary, Finland, Colom. bia, Panama. Austria, Egypt, Bulgaria. Dominican Republic, Siam, Ruman! Canada, Netherlands, Bolivia, Lith ania, Poland, Serbia and Latvia, as well as those of the Army, Navy and Marines. Dr. Anita Maris Boggs is director of the Bureau of Commercial Economics. Associated with her is her brother, Randolph M. Boggs, and they have been carrying on this work of showing educational motion pictures for the past 16 years throughout the world in schools and churches, having motion plcture trucks equipped with electric and sound for visiting rural communi- ties, and the coming season will in- augurate these diplomatic films on the rl}of of St. Regis Hotel, in New York City. of the Entertainment Committee, an- nounced that arrangements had been completed for a series of weekly eard parties, which will be held at the resi- dence of members of the club, the first party being held at the home of Harry Candee, 1800 Potomac avenue south- east, October 6. There also will be & serles of monthly dances, the first of which will be held at the Gordon Hotel September 20. An initiation will be conducted following the regular meet- ing, September 125. Albert Sweeney, chairman of the Dramatic Committee, reported that the second annual min- strel extravaganza will be held Novem- ber 17 and 18, while John Leahy, chair- man of the Athletic Committee, re- ported a week end party held at Cal- fornia Beach, Md. Owing to his in- | ability to devote time to the Athletic | Committee, Mr. Leahy tendered his | resignation, A representative of the Conference of Catholic Charities will address the | members of the club September 11, the | club having voted to co-operate with | the former organization during the | convention which will be held in Wash- ington from September 28 to October 4. KNIFE VICTIM'S MEXICAN ACTIVITIES ARE PROBED | Conlon and Fiancee of Los Angeles Had Been Seen at Various Resorts Below Border. | By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 30.—Author- | ities investigating the slaying of Francis Conlon and Lois Kentle, his 23-year-old flancee, near Ensenada, Lower Califor- nia, today were working on the theory that knifing of the couple may have grown out of Conlon’s associations below the border. Private investigators learned Conlon had been a frequent visitor at Tijuana and other resort cities during the past two years, on some occasions accom- panied by Miss Kentle and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mahan, Pasadena. Mrs. Sylvia Otis, a Norfolk, Calif., school teacher, reported to police a Rus- sian farmer living near Ensenada told her a “Gringo-hating Mexican” threat- ened to knife United States citizens camping on the beach. Police will be sent to Mexico to question the Russian. The slain couple was buried yesterday. Belfast Boasts of Health. 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