Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1937, Page 22

B—4 =xx Residential Washington Social News Mrs. Aldace Walker Goes to Florida for Visit. (Continued From Third Page.) Capt. and Mrs. Larry Skinner at Fort Benjamin Harrison the following week. Mrs. E. C. Brandenburg is spending a week at Hotel Carolina, Pinehurst. Miss Nancy Russell Willis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Willis of Park road, will arrive in Washington this week from Long Beach, Calif, where she has been visiting since be- fore Christmas. While in Long Beach “ Miss Willis was extensively enter- tained by the young Navy set and was a frequent guest for dinner aboard the U. S. S. Tennessee at the in- vitation of Ensign Omar Norman Spain, jr. Miss Willis, with a party of friends, made a tour of old missions in South- ern California recently, and has made several trips in Mexico, visiting Tia Juana. She will return by way of Detroit, where she will visit Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Willis. Mrs. Ella M. McLeod of Portland, Me., is stopping at the Martinique. Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Frisby of Saddle River, N. J., are at the Martinique for an indefinite stay. Mrs. Larz Anderson Hostess at Supper Mrs. Larz Anderson, author of the play “The Gold Madonna,” enter- tained the cast, staff and the Drama Board of Governors at supper at the Grafton Hotel Sunday night follow- ing the final performance. The play Dinner and Program At Arts Club Tonight Mr. and Mrs. James Earle Miller will be host and hostess tonight for the dinner preceding the program at the Arts Club, which will hold & poetry evening this evening under the direc- tion of Mrs. Inez Sheldon Tyler. Mrs. Taylor, who is editor of the Blue Moon, the local poetry magazine, will announce the results of the recent roundel contest conducted by the mag- azine. Readings will be given of the best roundels and of recent poems by poets of this region. Cooper-Blunt Wedding Announced Miss Elizabeth H. Blunt and Mr. Maynard R. Cooper were married Friday in the parsonage of the Doug= las Memorial Church. The Rev. Dr. Corkran officiated. They were at- tended by Mr. James E. Maynard and Miss Beverly Tydings. APPROVAL GIVEN MEMORAL ST Construction at Tidal Basin Entirely Practicable, En- gineers Say. Construction of the Thomas Jeffer- sor. Memorial at the Tidal Basin site is entirely practicable, in the opinion of National Park Service engineers, on the basis of bed-rock information now available, it was learned today. While further borings still are nec- essary, the engineers believe they have sufficient information now to state that the construction can go forward just as soan as funds becorae available from Congress. Today drillers fur the United States engineer office, who are doing the work for the Thomas Jefferson Memo- rial Commission, set up by Congress, was presented Saturday and Sunday nights by the Laboratory Little Thea- | ter of the District of Columbia Branch, | League of American Pen Women, in | its studio in the Grafton. Each of | Mrs. Anderson’s guests received an | autographed copy of one of her nu- | merous books. Those present were | Miss Yerby Pannill, Mr. David Wal- lace, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sholar, Mr. Arthur Ryhn, Mrs. Maude Howell Smith, Mr. Smith, John Rappolt, jr.; Miss Ida Hoyt Chamberlain, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hirshfield, Mis. Peggy Johnston, Mr. Joseph E. Kirby, Mr. ‘Thomas Hickey, Mr. Howard Whit- field, Dr. and Mrs. R. D. Rands, Miss Margretta Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Isador Cohen, Col. and Mrs. Dawson Olmstead, Mr. and Mrs. E. Richard Gasch, Mrs. Theodore Tiller, Mr. Sol Orleans, Maj. and Mrs. James Watson and Miss Marguerite Meri- gold. Mrs. Augustus O. Thomas also gave @ dinner party at the Grafto: Hotel Saturday evening preceding the open- ing performance of Mrs. Anderson's | play. Her guests were Mrs. Ralph | ©O. Brewster, Mrs. Dawson Olmstead, | Mrs. E. H. Pitcher, Miss farguerite | Merigold and Mrs. Inez Sheldon Tyler. Mrs. George Mclvor Hostess to Society | Mrs. George W. Mclvor, assisted by, Miss Sophie Casey, was hostess to | the District Chapter, Daughters of | Founders and Patriots of America, | Friday afternoon at the Cordova. Miss Hazel Neilson, who represented the Commission for the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the For- mation of the Constitution of the United States, beginning September 17, spoke. The national president, Mrs. Thad- deus M. Jones, also ma le a short ad- dress. Among those present were the State president, Mrs. Gains M. Brum- baugh, and officers, Mrs. William B. Bell, with her guest from Europe, Miss King; Mrs. S. B. Woodbridge, | Mrs. Frank O. Bowman, Mrs. Roger Williams and Mrs. M. E. Woodward. Mrs. George Madden Grimes was also present, and Mrs. Frank W. Mahin, Mrs. Thomas A. Dobyns, Mrs. Gary E. Walters, Miss Lillian Norton, Mrs. Redwood Vandegrift, Mrs. Jessie Por- ter Wood, Mrs. Sol Lansburgh and | Mrs. E. L. Whitney. Miss J anet. Richards To Talk Tomorrow Miss Janet Richards at her weekly “talk on public questions” tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at the Sulgrave Club will review the reactions of press and people to the President’s two re- cent addresses on his plan for enlarg=- ing the Supreme Court; also just what is meant by the Lewis “hori- zontal plan” for union labor organiza- tions and why the steel trust capitu- lated. Representative Kenney’'s plan for a penal colony on one of the Aleutian Islands will be analyzed, followed by the high lights on latest European developments and a review of the latest biography of Francis Joseph of Austria and his wife, the beautiful Elizabeth of Bavaria. These talks are not restricted to club mem- ‘bers and will continue until March 31. SRR e Miss Carrie Trivett To Marry in April ‘Miss Carrie Trivett, niece of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Trivett, has selected Saturday, April 17, as the date of her wedding to Mr. Harold Smith, son of Mrs. Sarah Smith of Takoma Park, Md. The ceremony will be performed at the home of the bride-to-be, 808 As- pen street northwest, at 8 o'clock by the Rev. Robert L. Wood of the Pet- worth Methodist Church, assisted by the Rev. Paul Schearrer, pastor of the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church. Miss Trivett has chosen her sister, Mrs. B. E. Trenis of Washington, for matron of honor and another sister, Mrs. Milton Brown of Beaver Dam, Va., for her bridesmaid. —_ Representative O’'Day Will Speak Today Representative Caroline O'Day, vice chairman of the People’s Mandate Committee, will be the speaker at the regular current events hours this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Mrs. O'Day was one of a party of nine dele- gates to go by plane from Wash- ington to Buenos Aires and back. She will tell of her trip and of the results of the Luenos Aires Conference for the Maintenance c” Peace. Mrs. Cecil Ira McReynolds, another delegate, also will speak. Mrs. McReynolds has lived for a number of years in Latin American countries and is familiar with condi- tions in South and the National Park Service, agent for the commission, were working on the fourth hole and had bored down | 102 feet below the surface of the | ground. They encountered gravel an cobblestones and were expetced t reach rock shortly. The ground level is higher at that point than elsewhere. } Next week the officials expect to begin drilling under the water of the | Tidal Basin to ascertain bed-rock con- ditions there. Two more land holes are to be drilled, but the present in- formation has been obtained from widely distributed areas, so that the engineers are now reasonably certain that the foundation can be con- structed without great difficulty. No estimates of foundation costs have yet | been worked up on the basis of the boring data. The drillers have now bored east | and south of the Thomas Jefferson | Memorial proper; some distance south- | east of the memorial on the proposed upper terrace and farther away southeast at the lower terrace. Rock | has been struck at from 85 to 90 feet | in the first borings, but the formation surface is undulating. The next hole to be drilled will be | on the north side of the proposed ex- | tension of Independence avenue, back | of the propagating gardens of the National Capital parks, near the Bu- reau of Engraving and Printing. SUPPORT IS SOUGHT FOR UTILITIES QUIZ Southeast Business Men Ask Con- ! gress Probe Local Com- mission. Support of a resolution submitted at a recent meeting of the Southeast | Business Men's Association criticizing | the Public Utilities Commission was | asked in a letter to be sent to all civic | and business associations at a meeting | of the business men last night. | Th resolution claims the commis- sion is not acting in the best inter- | ests of the public and asks a con-| gressional investigatiou. The resolu- | tion states further that if the com- | mittee finds the commission to be in- | competent, they be removed from office. On a motion offered by Vernis Ab- | sher, the association voted to ask retention in the 1938 District supply bill of an item for $70,000 for an addi- tion to the main building of the Ana- costia Junior-Senior High School. The appropriation has the approval of both the Board of Education and the Commissioners, but was stricken out | by the Budget Bureau. Eleven new members were admitted at last night’s meeting, which was| held in the offices of the pre.sldem,‘ Clarence F. Donohoe, 314 Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast. In the ab- sence of Donohoe, C. Dick English presided. FEWER THE EVENING SINTARY, PARK BOARDBILSPAS Fate of Measures Continu- ing Present Officials Up to Senate. BY JACK ALLEN, Staft Correspondent ot The Star. ANNAPOLIS, March 9.—The fate of the bills to prolong the terms of the Washington Suburban Sanitary and Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commissions’ members —and the fate of some 350 employes— rested in the hands of the Senate today. Bitterly assailed as “unsportsman- like, selfish and iniquitious legisla- tion,” the proposals nevertheless passed the House last night and went to the Senate this morning. Victory for the two bills, which would deprive Gov. Harry W. Nice and his Republican colleagues of the pa- tronage they had expected to appor- tion among their supporters two months hence, was not achieved, how- ever, until after Democratic leaders had whipped their followers into line. The bills—which would save the officeholders their jobs by simply con- tinuing the Democratic commission- ers in office for another two years, in= stead of having them dismissed when their terms expire in May, presents & problem to Democratic members of the Senate. The line-up in the Senate includes 18 Democrats and 11 Republicans and the Democratic array must be kept intact if the bills are to achieve their purpose. Both bear emergency olauses making them effective upon enact- ment, rather than on June 1 as 1t the case of ordinary bills, and the support of three-fifths of the mem- bers of both chambers is required to pass measures of that type. Loss of one Democratic vote in the Senate would spell their doom. A scare was thrown into the ranks of Democratic members of the Mont- gomery and Prince Georges delega- tions, who sponsored the proposals, when the bill dealing with the Wash- ington Suburban Sanitary Commission as considered in the House last ight. The House first voted, 65 to 32, to pass the bill—seven votes short of the majority required by the emer- | gency clause—but the original vote was reconsidered after Kent R. Mulliken of Prince Georges, Demo- cratic floor leader, appealed to Demo- cratic members to pass the bill and it went through, finally, by 79 to 24. A like vote was cast for passage of | the bill extending the terms of the | Maryland-National Capital Park and | Planning Commission’s members. The name of Maj. E. Brooke Lee of Silver Spring, former speaker of the House and one-time Democratic leader in both the State and Mont- gomery County, was frequently men- tioned during the debate on the measures. Delegate Joseph A. Cantrel, Mont- gomery County Fusionist, led the fight against the bills and after terming them among “the most unsportsman- like, selfish and iniquitious pieces of legislation ever to come before the House,” he said: “For 20 years we people of Mont= This Evening Dine at 2400 Drive out to Meridian Hill with a friend or two, and remind yourself that deli- cious meals, well served, are the rule at this famous resi- dence hostelry. Your dinner will be prepared under the supervision of a talented Swisschef. . . . And,ifyou are planning a dinner party or dance, we suggest thac you investigate our_enter- tainment facilities. Phone, Columbia 7200. 2400 SIXTEENTH COLDS- SHORTER COLDS For Thousands Who Followed this Guide to Better Control of Colds’ 1. 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Brooke Lee, the same, who, as speaker of the House, rammed legis- lation down your throats as he rammed it down ours. “So great was his aggression, and 80 rotten was his political machine, that the people got sick of it. Two and & half years ago there was a rebellion and it was decided to estab- lish a Fusion party. I, a8 Democrat, was one of the Fusionists. Though Brooke Lee is dead politically his soul goes marching on. “For 20 years the members of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Com- mission have been appointed for four- year terms. Now they ask the Leg- islature to give them two more years. 1 say it is rotten politics. “Some are very suspicious that all| is not open and above board with | this commission (Washington Subur- ban Sanitary Commission). They feel that the published financial state- ments do not reveal the full situation.” It was then brought out by Dele~ gate Charles C. Marbury of Prince Georges County that the House Grand Inquest Committee, acting on al- legations, brought in a resolution in- troduced by Cantrel two years ago, investigated the commission and filed a laudatory report. Marbury brought out in his speech that the Montgomery and Prince Georges delegations voted 9 to 2 for a favorable report on the bills, with the Fusionists from Montgomery— Cantrel and Walter M. Magruder— casting the only votes in opposition to enactment of both bills. Marbury then made the first appeal for the support of other Democratic members of the House. “There are 180 full-time employa‘ of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission—mostly Democrats—and the Democratic Delegates should vote for them as a matter of party loyalty,” he declared. Miss Ruth E. Shoemaker, a Mont- D. C. 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