Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1932, Page 19

SOCIETY ed From Second Page.) ARLINGTON FIRST 0 GET TELEPHONE C. & P. Co. Official Addresses County Kiwanis Club at Weekly Meeting. (Cont! for their acts on the circus program. Groups have been organized and plans laid for the training of the different classes by the officers of the 3d Cavalry. With only three weeks remaining befofe the opening of the entertainment, prac- tices have been scheduled for every day in the week except Saturday and Sun- day. Each afternoon from 2 to 4 the young horsewomen have an engagement at the post riding hall, which takes precedence over concerts, teas and other ligations. SD;/’!slln,\?bnEw names have been addes | to the list of participants this year, for | of the 60 who will take part in the By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va, March 10— li County had the distinctior A e g e frst telephone in Vi |rides, less than 20 were in the 1931 | ginia, Edwin P. Hill, information di- |show. Those who will ride this year | rector of the Chesapeake and Potomac |are Dorothy Anderson, Josephine An- | Telephone Co. of Washington, told |drews, Betty Balsley. Maxine X_Behne_\: members of the Arlington County | Mary Bradley, Suzanne Bradiey, Mafy Kiwanis Club at their weekly luncheon | Stuart Birdsall, Mary Bus o "l;tt meeting here vesterday. | Camp Jane Cassedy. Bowie Clagett, This telephone, the speaker declared, | Caroline _ Craft, Rebecca Davidson, | was operated on a private line and con- |Jeanne Darby, Meredith Hainss Bac- | nected Fort Myer, then known as Fort | lona Hamilton, Mary Henry. e Whipple, with the office of chief signal | Henry. Josephine Henry. Louise ] erc- officer of the Army in Washington. It |Ton, Phyllis Hight. Margaret Honeycutt, was placed in service in October, 1877, | Nancy Jones, Elvira Johnson, Jane about 18 months after the telephone Kromer, Sallie Mitchell LeFevre, Nancy Lee Luttrell, Mollie Mattis. Jane Mc- | was invented by Alexandria Graham Bell | Harg, Bambie McKenna, Martha Mc- | i | Kenna, McKenney, Betty | Belsies Fhome Histecy: | McNatiy, Tarser Mitchell, Janet Mur- Mr. Hill related the history of the ray, Grace O'Hara, Beatrice Patton, | telephone from the time of its inven- jeanne Patterson, Gertrude Pearson, | tion to its present state of develop- | Isabel Perry. Elizabeth Pillsbury, Jeanne ment, explaining that the first con- | Richards, Ruth Riley, Helan Robbins, versation over the telephone was held | Virginia Rogers. Frances Stearns, Ger- March 10. 1876. in Boston between the | aldine Schuh. Helen Smith, Margaret inventor and his assistant, Thomas A.)Swing, Marjorie Talman, Jane Thorpe, Watson. | Barbara Truby, Ruth Tuckerman, Sarah The speaker stated that telephone |rgujse Turner, Evelyn Walker, Helen communication today can be held with | walker, Mary Louise Watson, Betty 40 countries on six continents. '1‘]1ere" are now 19,600,000 felephones operated by or connected with the Bell system and users of the service in this country | new average sbout 80,000,000 calis daily. Continuigg the speaker said: Cities Are Connected. connected with Baltimore June 1883. Washington and New York and Boston were con- nected December 31, 1885. Subsequently long distance lines were connected witit every section of the country.” The program, which was under di- rection of John Webster, vice president of the club, included solos by Mary Francis Glenn. soprano, accompanied by Alice E. Elliott. OCEAN AIR TRAVEL SEEN IN FEW YEARS Bociety for Testing Materials Told “Washington was Prospects by Goodyear- Zeppelin Official. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio. March 10.— ‘Transoceanic airship lines will be in operation within 2 few vears, if en- abling legislation now before Congress. is given favorable consideration, Dr. Karl Arnstein, vice president in charge | of engineering of the Goodyear-Zep- pelin Corporation, told the American | Society for Testing Materials at a din- | mer here last night | Dr. Arnstein, designer of the U. 8. 8. | ‘Akron and its sister ship, Macon, now | || under construction, spoke at the con- | clusion of a symposium on rubber manufacturing, in which engineers and meientists engaged, discussing the mer- schant airship bill, introduced in both thouses, to extend to airships the pro- | 'visions' of existing legislation governing steamships. | The propased law does not include | the construction loan feature of ma- rine legislation, however, he . pointed out ‘,“The rigid airship has succeeded | fhroughout a long term of practical | application and has proved to be the| practical type for large commercial ships,” he said. BROOKLYN PAPER SOLD NEW YORK, March 10 (#) —Sale of the Brooklyn Standard Union by Paul Block to Fremont C. Pack, owner of the Brooklyn Daily Times, was an- nounced yesterday in formal state- ments carried in both newspapers. Effective today the two papers will be consolidated as the Brooklyn Daily Times and Standard Union. The Times was established February 28, 1848, and the Standard Union 15 years later. West, ‘Wheeler and Anne Wyant. Frances Miss Grace La Mar will arrive from New York City today to be the house | guest over the week end of Mr. and \ THE EVENING Visits Maryland MISS ALMA ROBINSON, Who is spending some time with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. James S. Carr, in their home, Pine Shadows, in St. Marys City, Md. Miss Robinson, whose home is in Parkers Landing, Pa., is a graduate of Wellesley College in the class of Shanghai and her rambles among the Chinese people. £ | ‘The meeting will be held in the home of the vice regent of the chapter, Miss | Frances Crossman, at 1789 Lanier place northwest. The lecture will be fol- lowed by tea, with Mrs. Andrew J. San- ford presiding at the tea table. Mrs W. W. Case of Detroit, Mich., is at the Dodge during her brief stay in the capital. Mrs. Walter Nash. Miss La Mar will be the guest artist Sunday evening at a recital to be given by Mr. and Mrs. Nash, at 9 o'clock, in the Caroline McKinley Studio, at 1731 I street northwest, when she will re- peat the program she gave recently in “The Family Album” Wil Town Hall in New York City. Miss La Mar will be the guest of Mrs. Dunlop and her daughter, Miss Maud Dunlop, Monday and for several days next week. Mrs. Benjamin B. Wallace, who lived several years in China, where Dr. Wal- lace was adviser to the minister of fi- nance, will be guest of honor of the Irvine-Welles Chapter, D. A. R, Sat- urday afternoon, March 19, at 2:30 o'clock, when she will give a talk on Garfinckel’s Announce This Amazing Opportunity FOR FRIDAY ... ONLY! A SPECIAL PURCHASE OF FRENCH CREPE SLIPS AT THE EXTRAOR $2.95 Keen interest to give you tunity made this special purchase possible and we are passing the savings on to costume slips in White or Tea Rose, made in sil- houette styles, lace trimmed and tailored. They come in all sizes from 32 to 42. A Distinctive Offering From Our Famous Jurius Garrineker & Co. F STREET AT Mrs. D. 8. Iglehart of Westbury, Long Island, accompanied by her daughter, came to Washington yesterday to spend | 8 short time and are staying at Ward- | man Park Hotel, Be Given Tomorrow Evening. The Chinn-Colhoun Circle of the Ladies’ Ald Society of the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church will pre- | sent “The Family Album” tomorrow | evening at 8:30 o'clock in the Sunday school Toom. Mrs. Claude Keiper and Mrs. Ram- | say Nevitt will appear in the leading | roles of this unique entertainment. “Thumbnail Sketches of the Orient” will be the subject of an address by DINARY PRICE OF a very remarkable oppor- you. They are beautiful Fifth Floor. FOURTEENTH Waste Baskets Leatherette, with gilt Bi- centennial motif. $| .00 For guest room, te Wizard Mops 3-cornered, washable. Fits into corners; radiators. Large $2.00 size— colors and mirror trays. DULIN @ MARTIN Connecticut Ave. ana l” SPRING HOUSEWARES SALE Adjust-o-Matic Westinghouse Electric Iron with heat control at your fin- ger tips—from low to high. Formerly $8.75— SPECTAL $ 5 95 Allowance on Your Old Iron—$§1.00 Net Cost.... 54.95 Special! 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Luellen and his | daughter, Miss Alberta Luellen of New Yor{. are at the Shoreham and have with them Miss Rosanna Wilson of Los Angeles. They left New York the middle of February, stopped on their way South n Washington, then visited in St, Au- gustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Miami Beach and Edward Bok's Singing Tower and Bird Sanctuary. Mr. Luellen re- | turned to New York by motor last night and Miss Luellen and Miss Wilson will | return by airplane tomorrow. Many prominent Washington wome: will entertain box parties at the May flower Hotel tomorrow night when at 8:45 oclock the A Capella Choir of Washington will be heard in its annual ? oncert. e suests. of Mrs. Ellis A. Yost in her box will be the wives of West Vir- ginia’s membess cf the House of Repre- | sentatives, including Mrs. Carl G. Bach- man, Mrs. Frank L. Bowman, Mrs. Lynn S. Horrer, Mrs, Robert L. Hogg, Mrs. Hugh Ike Shott and Mrs. Joe L. Smith. Mrs, Thomas Sterling will entertain Ernest ssistant | tothe Attorney General: Mrs. Theodore Risley, wife of the solicitor of the De- partment of Labor; Mrs. Edward Dixon Hayes, wife of the former Representa- | Dodge, lin and Miss Kate Weaver. tive from Missourts Mrs. W. W. McCas- | Mitchell and Miss Una V. Cross, all ofI Mrs. Ernest Daniel's guests will be the Baroness von Loewenfeldt, Mrs. Alice Nibley Smoot. Mrs. Gertrude Douglas, Mrs. Nannie Green Jobe and the Misses Young. The event is attracting the attend- ance of soclal and musical Washington. “The Right of the Little Man tq Live" Will be the subject of the address which Gov. O. Max Gardner of North Caro- lina will make at a dinrer to be given in his honor tomorrow evening by the Woman’s National Democratic Club. Mrs. William Henry White will be the guest of honor at the weekly tea, which the club will give Saturday, when she will give a dramatic reading during the afternoon. 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