Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1931, Page 22

OFLONG LRSS Sister of Late President Roosevelt Passes Away at Age of 76. By the Associated Prese. PARMINGTON, Conn, August 26.— Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Cowles, sister of the late President Theodore Roosevelt and widow of Rear Admiral Willlam Shefleld Cowles, died last night at her home here. She was 76 years old and had been in poor health for several years. Funeral services will be held tomorrow. Mrs. Cowles was born in New York City January 18, 1855. She was in- terested in the Orthopedic Hospital, founded by her father; the New York Children’s Aid Soclety and the move- ment for the establishment of news- ‘boys' lodging houses. She was one of the members of the New York Com- mittee for the Chicago World's Fair. Her wide acquaintance in diplomatic circles dated from the appointment of her cousin, J. R. Roosevelt, as first sec- retary of the United States embassy at London in 1893, when she acted as his official hostess. She remained in London_three years and married Ad miral Cowles, then naval attache the embassy there, on November 2§, | 892, Mrs. Cowles leaves a son, William | Sheffield Cowles, and a grandson, Wil- | liam Sheffield Cowles, jr, 9, of New | York. | POPULAR AT WHITE HOUSE. Bhared Honors With Mrs. Longworth As Soclal Favorite, Mrs. Cowles was one of the scintillat- ing social personages of th: Roosevelt administration, constantly appearing in | the Blue Room st the White Hcuse ail during her brother's residence there. The home of Admiral and Mrs. Cowlesy brilliancy of the little scarcely second to that of her favcrite | niece, Alice Longworth, now Mrs, | Nicholas Longworth. } Admiral Cowles, as naval aide to his | brother-in-law, assisted largely in con- | ducting the brilliant social reign of President Roosevelt and aside from their | social life they took part in the many | events arranged for local charities. | ‘They were with the President and Mrs. | Roosevelt in their entertalnment of | Prince Henry of Prussia and during the visits to Washington of other royal personages. | While her husband was naval attache in the Diplomatic Service of this coun- try. Admiral Cowles found a powerful | t in his wife, who spoke a | number of foreign languages. “Aunt ‘Anna” was the truly beloved fairy god- mother of the Roosevelt children, at- tending all of their little parties in the | White House and entertaining for them in_her N street home. Through the order of the President | and Mrs. Hoover flowers were sent to| ! the Parmington home of Mrs. Cowles today. HAWKS RACING HERE AGAINST 9 RECORDS | Flyer, Escorting Mother, Seeks Meark for Each Atlanta-New York Leg, All in Day. Racing ageinst time in an effort to | establish nine new air speed records i one day, Capt. Prank M. Hewks is due to arrife st Washington-Hoover Air- port at about 3:30 o‘clock this after-| noon, leaving soon afterward for Bal- | timore. Hawks, fiying as an escort to his mother, Mrs. Ida Mae Hawks of | Hollywood, Calif., on her first long flight, will attempt to shaiter existing ' recards on the nine legs of the cosstal airway between Atlanta and New York. | Lawrence A. Richey, secretary to President Hoover, will be a passenger | on the plane with Mrs. Hawks from Richmond to Washington. He is re- turning from a vacation trip to Panama and is fiying up from Miami. i Mrs. Hawks is traveling on the pas- | senger airlines from Los Angeles to New | York and is fiying today from Atlanta | to New York as e passenger on ern | Alr Transport. Capt. Hawks ex] to Wave her off st each stop, take off aft: ppeared from sigh then land at the 18 to Jeave for Baltimore Between Atlanta and N are to be made at Greenvil tanburg, 8. C: Charlotte and Greens. © boro, N. C.: Richmond. Va. Washing ton, Baltimore and Philadeiphia { Bpeed records for eight of these nine hops now are held by night airmail | pllots. The ninth, between Philadelphia | and New York, Hawks already holds, | having made the trip in 20 minutes last | October. He expects to lower that mark | FAVORS U. S. WAGE CUT GARNETT. bill <alling 1 Ka time Erase 20 | - Years of | Your Life | ober vour hair by Experts North PE009000000000000 TRUTHFUL ADVERTISING Tl ER. 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Piske Mar-|in 1903, the year of the artist's dea , chief of the Commerce Depart- | and is ncw being shown at the galle division of ilcensig ‘for eom- | exhibition of Pissarro oil paintings tournament. HALL NEAR RECORD IN NEW ORLEANS HOP | Flying Broker Makes Flight From | By the Associated Press. Capt. James Goodwin Hall, New York broker, and Andre de Coppet landed | nyier of Turkey, here on their non-stop flight from New | in Switzerland to consult doctors. York today at 10:15 am, Central Hall Jeft New York at 4:01 am, to- day, making the non-stop fiight in between the two cities. The fiyers beat their way through stormy weather in the wind-up of their and slighted in New Orleans in a| . The return trip will be held up pending clear weather, New York in Little More Than Seven Hours. ‘Traveling incognito as the Prince of Mosul, King Feisal of Irak, who has| been Visiting Mustapha Kemal Pasha, in_Constantinople, is NEW ORLEANS, La., August 26— GIRL ASKS HEART BALM OF FRANCE’S GRANDSON tial Aspirant’s Xins- man. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, August 26.—A breach of promisz sult for $50,000 damages was flled today against Joseph Irwin France Nesbitt, young'grandson of former Sen- ator Joseph 1. Prance, by Miss Kath- erine Betty Warner. Nesbitt, son of the Rev. Willlam R. Nesbitt, pastor and Bible Institute head, All Purchases Made on a Charge, Entered on Bills Rendered October Ist “COTY’S” Double Compact Square Shape— Reg $2.50 $1.00 —An attractive platinum finished, square shaped compact—filled with natural powder—medium or light rouge. Kann's—Street Floor. 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