Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1931, Page 15

!. Features for | Part 3—8 Pages e SOCIETY SECTION he Sunday Star. WASHINGTON, MISS ADELE JAH NCKE AND MISS CORA JAHNCKE, Daughters of Assistant Secretary of Navy and Mrs. Jahncke, living at the Mayflower. Underwood Photo. Society Ranks of Capit;fl 3 Depleted by Customary Departures for Labor Day Larner-Banks and Criffln-Quiggle Weddings Are Among table of Events Last Week. By SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. Labor day always depletes the soci- ety ranks in Washington and even those who perforce have returned to| the Capital for the season, have taken themselves off for a few days' holiday in some pleasant resort, or joined house parties in Maryland and Vir- ginia. The President and Mrs. Hoover are comfortably settled in their Rap- idan Camp until after Labor day, Mrs. Hoover preceding the Chief Executive to Virginia by a day or two to place everything in readiness for him and his guests. Bociety will continue at various re- gorts much later than usual this season end while the throng shifts from Sara- toga, where the liveli>st racing in this country—except Louisville, Ky.—takes place, to Sands Point Club on Long Island, prepared to witness tomorrow the benefit polo match between the Argentins team and a high goal Amer- ican team, the North Shore annual autumn horse show also enlists not only the attention of those who have spent the season in that vicinity, but of many others who will journey cross country to attend. There are many Washing- ton residrnts still on the North Shore who show no signs of returning to the Capital. |ter of a naval officer. {pr. . Phillip Miller, assistant professor | | her mother, Scptember 26 will mark an all-im- | portant day to the horse lover for that | date has been sclected for the running of the historic Meadow Brook Cup race. As in past years, the race will | be run on the steeplechase course of | the estate of Mr. and Mrs. F. Am-} brose Clark at Westbury, L. I. Mr.| wedding, while thrills untold have been afforded the friends of Miss Griffin in hearing of & ship-board wedding with everything carried out in military fash- jon, and the captain’s launch used for the dash from the ship to the shore following the reception. Virginia, Maryland and the District are all affording a wealth of material in the wedding line and charming Beth- lehem Chapel at the Washington Cathe- dral will form the setting for the wed- ding Tuesday of Miss Belmar Lee Shep- ley and Lieut. Clarence H. Gunderson, U. S. A, the bride peing the daugh- Saturday the | Ansell-Sturgis wedding will engage so- clety. The following Saturday inter- est will cluster about the weading of Miss Mary Stuart Clark, daughter of | Mrs. Lewis Washington Clark, and Dr. | Eric Percy Somers of Toronto, which | will take place in St. Judes Church, at Oakville, Ontario. Of more than usual interest among | the engagements recently announced is | that of Miss Florence Lowden, eldest | daughter of the Tllinois war Governor, | Mr. Frank O, Lowden of Oregon, Tl to | of medicine at the University of Chi- | cago. Miss Lowden is & namesake o(l who was Miss Florence Pullman, daughter of the late George | M. Pullman and Mrs. Pullman, and through her mother is heiress to part | of the fortune left by the founder of the Pullman Car Company. Dr. Miller was graduated from the University of Chicago in 1917, and from the Rush Medical College in 1919. He | was a member of the staff of the Rocke- | iliam G, Tangley, of Westbury, is | feller Institute for Medical Research for | i e The | several years and also studied in Ger- chairman of the race committee. The |2 s [ many before returning to the University v Brook Cuyp was first won in 1;4:;0:“ Mr. Sn'r:lcv Mortimer, <z | ©f Chicago as a member of the faculty . . a yeir ego. Hobson’s Choice, and the event has become one of the outstanding events on the Long Island calendar. Last year the cup was won by Mr. Walter O. Brigg's Temple II, which will be en-| tered again this year. ‘Nothing could be more charming and unusual than some of the weddings of last week, that of Miss Larner and Mr. Banks, at Mifflintown, Pa., the Sum- mer home of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Larner, of Washington, yssterday; that of Miss Anne Young Griffin, a Chevy Chase girl, and Ensign Lynne C. Quig- gle, on board a ship in a California harbor, yesterday, end one in nearby Maryland when Miss Dorothy Norwood Worrall and Mr. James Edward Doug- lass, jr., were married. An interesting historio setting was given the lattex Interesting will be the return to | Washington of Mr. and Mrs. Wade H. | Ellis about the middle of September, after a residence abroad of some | months. Just now Mr. and Mrs, Ellis are at Ripon, England,—Ripon spelled with two p's before the 18th Century,— and it will be hard to leave there in time to sail from PFrance on the Paris, Thursday. At Ripon they are quartered in a charming little hotel right on the city square and opposite the oldest house in Ripon, built in 1604. It is the “Wakeman's” house and from it The Wakeman stps out and from each of | the four corners of the square blows | his horn at 9 o'clock at night, just as the bells of beautiful old Ripon Cathe- dral tell the hour. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis | Reeder Y Juy D. SUNDAY MORNING, MRS. OMAR H. QUADE AND OMAR, Jr., Recently arrived with Maj. Quade from Den- ver, and now at Walter Reed H ospital. C. R. Wood Photo. Debutante daughter of €. MISS LOUISE HARRISON GWYNN, Gwynn. Underwood Photo. MISS ESTE Dr. and Mrs. William SEPTEMBER 6, Daughter of Col. and Mr Mr. Francis Thuney, tennis fans. Harris-Ewing Photo. 1931. Capital’; Social " Highlightfisfii | IER PICK, Walter H. Pick, and ‘Mai. Gen. Guy ¥. Henry Is in Capital After Long Stay in North ‘Mrs‘ Henry. Miss Patricia Henry and Mr. John Hen- ry Return With Him. The chief of cavalry, Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry, with Mrs. Henry, their daughter, Miss Patricia Henry, and their son, Mr. John Hgnry. have returned from an extensive stay in the North. Miss Mary Henry, who has been in the West through the Summer, is a member of a house party this week end in Montana ani the first of next week will start East. She will visit at West Point and join her parents in Washington at the end of this month. Maj. and Mrs. Thomas Q. Ashburn left yesterday afternoon to spsnd Labor day with Col. and Mrs, W. H. Peek, at Hampton, Va. Maj. Gen. and Mrs. R. C. Davis re- turned to Washington late Friday and are at the Mayflower. Real Admiral and Mrs. Joseph Strauss with their daughter, Miss Helen Strauss are spending a short time at the Cham- berlain at Old Point Comfort and will return to their home on Massachusetts | avenue the middle of the week. Admiral | |and Mrs. Strauss and their daughter have spent the Summer at Newport. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, U. 8. A, retired and Mrs. Summerall, arrived at Charleston, 8. C,, the end of the week and the general will take up his duties Tuesday on the faculty of the Citidel near there. Russell P. Reeder, and Mrs. have returned to Fort Leavenworth, Kans., where the former is on duty, are spending much of the Surmer with their son-in-law and daughter, Lieut. Charles P. Summerall, jr., and Mrs. Summerall in their quar- ters at Fort Myer. 7 Col. Lieut. Col. Edward Butcher, and Mrs. (Continusd on Fage & poumn 33 (Continued oa Fage 3, Column 13 ‘Mr. Ahmet Muhtar Is Host | ''To Visitor Mew Yorkj Japanese Ambassador and Mme. Debuchi Sailing | ‘ From San Francisco for Home on October 1. The Ambassador of Turkey, Mr. Ah-| and joined Senor de Bayle at his post met Muhtar, has as his guest at the| in Baltimore. | embassy, Miss Basri, daughter of the| Turkish consul general in New York,| The Minister of Rumania, Mr. Charles | who will remain through this week. | Davila, who is in Newport for the sea- | son, will return to Washington at the The Japanese Ambassador and Mme,! end of next week. | Debuchi will sail from San Francisco | | ‘Thursday, October 1, aboard the Chichi- | bu Maru, for their Japanese home. They will return to Washington near | the end of January or early in Febru- | ary. The Ambassador and Mme. De- | buchi will come to Washington the first| The charge d'affaires of Poland, Mr. of next week from Blue Ridge Summit.| sokolowski, has returned from Cleve- where they have a cottage for the sea- | jand where he attended the air races. son. The charge d'affaires of Prance, M. Jules Henry, who returned from his | vacation in PFrance early in the week, | has taken an apartment at Wardman | Park Hotel. The charge d'affaires of Lithuania, The Belgian Ambassador, M. Paul| Dr. Mikas Bagdonas, is spending the May, will go to New York at the end | brief holiday st Long Beach, N. Y., and | of the week to meet Mme. May and | will return Tuesday. their three daughters, who will sail to- morrow aboard the Belginland for this| The counselor of the Italian em- country. | bassy, Conte Marchetti, is spending the | week-end and Labor Day in the country. 1 | The Minister of the Netherlands and | Sl Guban Mme. van Royen, who are in their | homeland for the summer, will sail Oc- tober 12, aboard the Europa from Bremen and are expected to arrive in New York October 17. The Minister of Lithuania, Mr. Bro- nius Kasimir Balutis, who has been in his European home for the Summer, is now in Geneva where he is attending the sessions of the League of Nations. The Minister is expected to return to ‘Washington at the end of September. The Minister of Nicaragua and Se- nora de Sacasa are spending the brief holiday in Baltimore as guests of the Nicaraguan consul general, Senor Luis Manuel de Bayle, and Senora de Bayle, embzssy and Senora de Prieto are spending the week-end and Labor Day on a short motor trip in New Jersey. The military attache of the French embassy and Mme. Pillon will go to West Point the middle of the week for a short visit. The air attache of the French em- bassy, Maj. Thenault, is expected to re- | turn frcm Cape Cod this week, where he is spending a short vacation with | Mme. Thenault and their small family. The assistant naval attachs of fhe British embassy and Mrs. W. C. Horton are spending a few days in Virginia. ‘The second secretary of the Spanish who has just arrived from Nicaragus (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.), Out-of-Town Weddings Of Interest in Capital Betrothals at Round Hill and | torney General and Mrs. Mitchell have | East Orange to Engage Society. The marriage of Miss Sarah Ann ‘Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Lee Wililams of Round Hill, Va, and Mr, Edwin Bookmiller of Grand Rap- ids, Mich., son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Bookmiller of Detroit, will take place Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Round Hill Baptist Church. Rev. Charles Thomas Taylor, pastor of the church, will officiate. Miss Margaret James of Purcellville | will .be maid of honor. The bride's other attendants will be Mrs. Verne Simmons of Washington, Miss Virginia Poole of Poolesville, M Norman of Purcellville, and Miss Phyl- lis Bookmiller of Detroit. Mr. Harry Briggs of Grand Rapids will be best man. The ushers will in= clude Dr. Francis T. Willlams of Mus- kogee, Okla.; Mr., Samuel McMichael, of Round Hill, Mr. J. Stuart Smith of Lincoln and Mr. Otis Lee Williams, jr., of Washington. The bride will be given in marriage by her father. A reception will follow the ceremony at the home of the bride’s parents for the bridal party and out- of-town guests. The marriage of Miss Frances Brown- lie Newton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver G. Pratt, of 158 Harrison Street, East Orange, N. J,, to Dr. Clifford N. Rodlun of Washington, son of Mrs. Cecelia Rodlun of Minneapolis, Minn., will take place September 12 &t the Hotel Palmer, East Orange. Miss Newton has chosen her fiance’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Troy Rodlun of Washington, as matron of honor. There will be six ribbon bearers, Mrs, Jack Dudley of Washington, Mrs. Perry Crane of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mrs. Emma Buchanan of Stafford Springs, Conn.; Miss Lois Lyon of Carbondale, Colo.; Miss Marion Cooper and Miss Mary Crosby of New York City. Mr. Troy Rodlun will be his brother's (Continued on Page 3, Column &), Miss Alma | MISS JANE THORPE, Debutante daughter of Col. and Mrs. George C. Thorpe, in town for the Autumn season. Underwood Photo. Mr. Stimsonfi Attorney General The Secretary of State, Mr. Henry L. Stimson, is expected to return to Wash- ington Tuesday. He is now with Mrs. Stimson at their home, Highhold, on Long Island, where they went immedi- ately after their arrival from England. Mrs. Stimson will remain on Long Is- land for a longer stay before return- dral avenue, ‘The Attorney General, Mr. William De Witt Mitchell, will celebrate his | birthday anniversary Wednesday aboard | his yacht Chelsia, on which he and | Mrs. Mitchell are making an extensive tour in New England waters. The At- !been entertaining small parties over the week end on the yacht and will un- | doubtedly have guests with them for qme former’s birthday anniversary. | The Postmaster General and Mrs. | Walter F. Brown who are in San | Francisco will return to Washington the first part of next week. The Secretary of Interior, Dr, Ray Lyman Wilbur is now with Mrs. Wil- | bur at their home on the campus of Leland Stanford University. He will make several other inspection tours on the coast, returning to Washington in several weeks. The Secretary of Commerce. Mr. Rob- ert Paterson Lamont will be joined the latter part of the month by Mrs. Lamont who, is at their Summer home in Wisconsin. The Secretary returned at the end of the week after spending a vacation in Wisconsin. Willlam N. Doak are expected back at their Fairfax Virginia home the mid- dle of the week. They are motoring to- | day from their farm “Three Trees"” | near Wytheville, Va., to Jackson City, | Tenn., where the Secretary will de- | liver the Labor Day address. Senator and Mrs. William E. Borah are expecting to have with them for part of the Winter season their niece, Miss Mary Borah Luddemann, Miss Luddemann is of debutante age and while no plans for a formal debut in Washington have been made, she will undoubtedly take a prominent part in | the festivities for the buds. Senator Borah will arrive in the | capital this week from Idaho and join | Mrs, Borah in their apartment on Con- | necticut Avenue. ‘The special assistant to the Secre- | tary of the Treasury, Mr. David E. | Finley, and Mrs. Finley, returned to ‘Washington last evening from a wed- ding trip in Europe. Mrs. Pinley was before her marrisge Miss Margaret Mor~ Mitchell Birthday Wednesday Aboard His Yacht Chels;a. ing to Woodley, their home on Cathe- | The Secretary of Labor and Mrs. | Is Expected Back in Capital Tuesday Will Celebrate ton Eustis, daughter of Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis, and the late Mr. Eustis, the wedding taking place at Oatlands, the country home of Mrs. Eustis near Leesburg, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Finley arrived in New York & few days ago after spending some time in Paris and other European capitals. Mr, ahd Mrs. Finley will occupy an | apartment at 1721 H street where Mr. | Pinley has lived for several years. The | house has an interesting history and | has been the scene, in other years, of much festivity and entertaining. It was (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) Italian Envoy Host in Honor of Dr. Villari | The Italian Ambassador Nobile Gia- como de Martino entertained at lunch- | eon Priday at the embassy in honor of | Senor Dr. Luigi Villari, who arrived in Washington from Williamstown, Mass. where he conducted a series of lectures on Italy, at the Institute of | Polifics. The guests were Dr. Constan- | tine Brown, Father Walsh of George- | town University and the counselor of the embassy, Count Alberto Marchetti and the counselor for emmigration, Slg- nor Eugenio Bonardelli. ;Daugl-ner of Cuban Senator To Atiend Capital School Senora de Vazquez Bello, wife of the oresident of the Cuban Senate, Clemente | Vazquez Bello, is arriving today at the | Mayfiower accompanied by their daugh- | ter, Senorita Magda Vazquez Bello, who | will attend school in Washington this season. | S e ‘Daughters of Army Officer Plan Double Wedding A double wedding of more than usual interest in Army circles in Washington | will take place September 26, when Miss | Winifred Nancy Ross and Miss Dorothy S. Ross, daughters of Maj. and Mrs. | Frank K. Ross, who arrived in the Capi- tal recently, will become brides of young Army officers. Miss Winifred Nancy Ross will be married to Lieut. William Clack Forse, U. 8. A, and her sister will become the bride of Lieut. George E. Lynch, U.S.A., Field Artillery. Maj. Ross, Who was formerly stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., is now on duty at the Army War College, and with his ! family is established at 2612 Woodley place. Maj. and Mrs. Ross have a host of friends in the Capital. The marriages of the Misses Ross will take place in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church at noon, and will be followed by a reception for relatives and a few close friends at the home of f