Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1936, Page 25

SOCIETY. Postmaster General Making Short Trips In New York State Minister to Sail Tomorrow for Switzerland—Other Diplomatic and Official News. THE: Postmaster General, Mr. James A. Farley, will leave New Swiss York today for Catskill, where he will dedicate a new post office. Friday he will go to Jamestown, N. Y., to attend a conference of postmasters and other postal officials. He will re- turn to New York Monday and expects to spend most of his time during the campaign in that city. The Swiss Minister, Mr. Marc Peter, is in New York prepara- tory to sailing tomorrow on the Normandie to join Mme. Peter in their home in Switzerland. The Minister and Mme. Peter will return to Washington in the early Winter. The Swedish Minister and Mme. Bostrom were among the guests at dinner Sunday evening of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foster Skillman of Cincinnati, who entertained at the Bar Harbor Club, Bar Harbor, Me. The Minister and Mme. Bostrom are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Langhorne. The Minister of Albania, Mr. Faik Konitza, was host at dinner Sunday evening in honor of the retiring first secretary of the Egyptian Legation. Nicolas Khalil Bey, who left Washington yes- terday for New York City. He will remain there until Wednes- day, when he will sail on the Normandie for Europe. After spend- ing a few days in London he will go to The Hague to assume his new duties as charge d'affaires of Egypt there. The Bolivian Minister, Senor Don Enrique Finot, is in New York and is staying at the Waldorf Astoria. He went to New York to see Senor Don Carlos V. Aramayo, former Bolivian Minister in London, and Senora Aramayo, who are on their way here from California to London. They will sail tomorrow on the Normandie. Senator David I. Walsh is now at his home in Clinton, Mass. It is possible that during the Summer he will go to the West Coast and visit the United States fleet and the navy yards on the entire coast. Senator Walsh is chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. Senator and Mrs. Harry Byrd have gone to Skyland, Va., where they plan to spend about a week The chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Rear Admiral Adolphus | Andrews, is now at the naval training station at Great Lake, IIL | He will also inspect Naval Reserve organizations in Chicago and | the vicinity before returning to Washington. | Mrs. Andrews and their daughter, Miss Frances Andrews, are at Blue Ridge Summit for the Summer months. The chief of Army chaplains and Mrs. Alva J. Brasted and | their sons, Donald and Robert, will leave Washington August 1 for Crooked Lake, Mich., where they will spend a month. During his sojourn Col. Brasted plans to visit several Army posts. i Justice and Mrs. D. Lawrence Groner will leave the last of the | week for Canada, where they will spend the remainder of the | Summer. | Miss Marion Shouse, daughter of Mrs. Groner, has gone to Kentucky, where she will join Mrs. 'Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Volunteer Frontier Nursing Service and a group of women who care for and give aid to the mountain people of that district. Miss Shouse has worked with them on previous occasions. | The counselor of the Netherlands Legation and Mme. Mole- kamp have visiting them Miss Aletha Harcourt, who returned yes- terday from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where she painted a | portrait of Mrs. Bernard Tweedy. Frank P. Lockhart and their son, Frank, have arrived in Washing- ton and have taken an apartment at the Kennedy Warren. Mr. | Lockhart is on leave from his post and his son recently gtaduated‘ from Webb School in Claremont, Calif. The first secretary of the French Embassy, M. Roger Gauch- eron. is spending a few days in New York, where he is stopping at the Waldorf-Astoria. Col. and Mrs. Harry R. Lee and their daughter, Miss Josephine Watt Lee, will leave Washington Monday, July 20, for Wickford, R. I, where they will remain until the middle of September. The engagement of Miss Lee to Mr. Edward Cowley Radue, son of Mr. H. C. Radue of this city was announced by her parents yesterday, the wedding to take place in the Fall. Miss Lee attended Sidwell's Friends School and graduated | from Wheaton College, in Norton, Mass. Mr. Radue received his | bachelor and master degrees from the Washington College of Law | gnd isl now with the chief justice of the United States Court of | ppeals. | of her project. Three years ago the | = camp was opened and since then | Dinner at Camp |over 2000 underprivileged children | % | have been vacationed under her su- | For Children | pervision. In groups of 88, they are | B/IRS' JOHN S. BENNETT will be|Selected every two weeks until late hosetss to 200 prominent women | September. from Washington, Baltimore, Mont-| Assisting Mrs. Bennett will be Miss gomery County, Md., and Alexandria, | Ella Werner, Miss Gene Bearmore Va., on Saturday at dinner at 6:30 | and Dr. Elizabeth Sohon of Washing- o'clock at Camp Bennett, Md. ton; Mrs. Dorothy Klemm Warren} Mrs. Bennett is the founder and |and Miss Edith Reinhardt of Balti- | director of the camp—the Summer | more; Miss Helen Shaffer and Mrs‘ unit of the Children’s Emergency | Lucille Miller of Montgomery County, Home—and her guests are women | Md, and Mrs. Mae Bowman of Alex- who are identified with the progress | andria, Va. Mrs. Bennett Plans summer-=into-fall! . . in a .,e\? BLEACK SHEER g 16.95 Cool as an ice cube, because it's an airy sheer . .. because its short- sleeved . . . because it's that chic hect- ‘defeating black! Foreshadowing a néw season with the flaring TUNIC _that Vogue pre- dicts will “flood the arfl\:’ this Fall! es for misses. . . every floor AIR-COOLED AIR COOLED o@w o THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, Vacation Plans of Society in Capital Include Travel Here and Abroad Married in Georgetown Church Miss Offutt MRS. FRANCIS HEBER KNIGHT, Who was, before her marriage Saturday evening in St. John'’s Church in Georgetown, Miss Betty Ruth Allen, daughter of Mrs. Russell D. Talbutt. the home of the bride’s mother. A reception followed the ceremony at ~—Brooks Photo. Armyi Ofiich;s Arrive Maj. and Mrs. Kenner Here From Philippine Islands. AJ. A. W. KENNER, Medical Corps, with Mrs. Kenner and their young son, Albert, have come from the Philippines M | and are occupying temporary quarters in Fort Myer, preparatory to taking possession. July 27, of the quarters now occupied by Maj. and Mrs. Clyde McKay Beck. Ma). and Mrs. Beck, with their son, Mr. James Alston Beck, will leave the Fort Myer post July 27 and will sail August 1 for Fort Randolph in the Canal Zone, Maj. Beck's future as- signment. Mrs. Beck will go tomorrow to New York to meet her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Free- man Kerkam, the latter before her marriage June 29, Miss Eleanor Beck, when they arrive Saturday aboard the Queen from their wedding trip to Bermuda. They will return to Washington Sunday. Miss Katherine Brown and her brother, Mr. Dean Brown, of this city, will also go to New York in company with Mrs. Beck to greet the returning bride and bridegroom, and will visit with friends until Saturday, after which they will go to their parents’ Summer home at Spring Lake, N. J. July Sale Capt. Harry W. Johnson has come from Fort Riley, Kans., and is now on duty at Fort Myer with the 3rd Cavalry, having relieved Capt. Claude 0. Burch. Mrs. Johnson, with their three children, Pauline A, Helen Catherine and Harry W., jr. who is visiting her parents in Lewisburg, Pa., will join Capt. Johnson in the next few days. X {Boswell-Tyler Mar- riage Announced Mrs. Frederick Grifith Newton an- nounces the marriage of her daugh- ter, Lucy Tyler, to Mr. William Ward Boswell yesterday. The marriage took place at the home of the bride’s mother, with the Rev. James H. Miers officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Boswell will be at home in Orange, Va., after Au- gust 1. Miss Groves Bride Cards have been received in Wash- ington from Mr. Asa Biehl Groves announcing the marirage of his sis- ter Regina Eunice to Mr. Earl Wingert Bernhart Saturday, July 11, in Chi- cago, IIl. Women's Spring and Summer Walk-Over Shoes from Regular Stock. Several Styles of Our Famous Main Spring Arch Shoes Are Included $5.95 56 - $7 45 8 8.95 Wolf's Walk-Over 929 F N.W. 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In the Autumn of 1931 she was in- troduced to Chicago society at a tea given by her aunt, Mrs. Nelson Thom- asson, jr., in her home on Astor place and at a ball given by her mother at the Palmer House. Mr. Chesley attended Staunton Mili- tary Academy and Georgia Institute of Technology, and is now studying law at the National Law School. ‘The wedding will take place in mid- August near Oakland, Md., at Monte Vista, the beautiful estate of her late grandfather, now the Summer home of her aunt, Mrs. Nelson Thomas- son. jr. Mrs. Offutt and her daughter are | spending the Summer at their home, Hazelhurst, in Oakland, Md. Mr. and Mrs. William C. FitzGib- bon of Indianapolis, Ind., announce the engagement of their daughter Regina to Mr. H. Earl Sangston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Sangston of Washington, D. C. Miss PitzGibbon received her educa- tion at Evansville College, Evansville, Ind, and Mr. Sangston is a graduate of the University of Maryland and a member of the Theta Chi Fraternity. The wedding will take place early in September. Miss Kimball Bride Of Mr. Holland Miss Mary Frances Kimball, daugh- ter of Mrs. Franklin Reed Kimball of Lexington, Mass, and the late Mr. Kimball of Salem and Boston, was married in Lexington Saturday to Mr. Kenneth Holland of Washington, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Holland of Los Angeles. Only immediate families and a few | intimate friends were present. Miss | Margaret A. Kimball was her sister’s | maid of honor. Mr. Edward Murrow | of New York served as best man. Mrs. | Holland attended the Northampton | School for Girls and was graduated | from Smith College in 1935. Mr. Holland studied at Occidental College in California and Princeton University. - « At present he is associate director of the American Council on Education in Washington. After a honeymoon tour of Europe the couple will reside in Washington. JLY 14, 1936. Bride of Naval Officer MRS. FRANCIS WORTH SCANLAN. JR., Who was, bejore her marriage last month, Miss Karina Erickson, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Hjalmar Erickson. Ensign Scanlan is assigned to place at Walter Reed Chapel. duty at New London, Conn. SOCIETY. Residential Washington Social Notes Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield Summering Near Saranac. ORMER United States Ambas~ sador to Mexico and Mrs. James Rockwell Shefield will spend the greater part of the Sum- mer at their camp near Saranac, N. Y, Mrs. Rudolph Max Kauffmann has returned from New York, where she '| went to see her sons, Mr. Rudolph Kauffmann, 2d, and Mr. Godfrey W. Kauffmann sail for a Summer in England. She will close her house in Chevy Chase today and leave to join Mr. Kauffmann and their younger son John at their Summer home at Percy, N. H. Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock and Miss Dorothy Soller will return to this | country August 1 after being in Eng- |land and France since the early | Spring. They will go directly to Mrs. Fahnestock’s Summer home, Harrison House, at Newport, for the late Sum- | mer and Fall During their stay in England Mrs. Fahnestock and Miss Sollers were |guests of Mrs. Fahnestock’s son-in- law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. | Drummond Wolfe, who have & home outside of London. In France they were the guests of Mrs. Fahnestock's son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock. Mr. and Mrs. L. Corrin Strong had a8 number of guests over the week end at their home on Gibson Island. Mrs. Strong left yesterday for New York. Col. Henry H. Armstead and Mrs. B. Armstead Davis were hosts at din- ner Sunday evening in the Colonial |room of the Homestead at Hot rings, V. The wedding took BRthes Va M. 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