The Washington herald., 1918-06-29

ing of the sstar-spangled Banner"
and the "Marseiiiaise," accompanied
by the French government band.
The British Ambassador and Lady
Reading will be hosts at dinner
next Wednesday evening. July Q.
The British Ambassador was
among the distinguished company
at the dinner which Gen. Bridges
gave on Thursday evening at his
home. Lady Reading was not pres
ent as she was indisposed. Some
of the other guests were Miss Helen
Woodrow Bones. Mrs. Charles Dana
Gibson, who came to Washington
from New York for the occasion.
also Mrs. Mitchell Henry. OF New
York, who came here just for the
one evening; Maj. Phipps, likewise.
of New York; Sir William Wiseman
and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Chad
bourne.
Nine. Ekengren, wife Of the Min
lister from Sweden. has returned to
washington from her cottage at
Edgartown, Mass. She will return
to Edgartown on July and will
be accompanied by the Minister, who
will take a short vacation.
On the occasion of the Serbian
national festival Kossovo Day.
Lioubomir Michailovitch. the Ser
bian Minister, held q reception at
the legation at noon on Thursday.
The Serbian and Jugoslav colonies
of Washington were present to pay
their respect to the representative
of Serbia.
In the evening a dinner was given
at Congress Hall in honor of NJ.
Michailovitch by the Jugoslav Ma
tional Council, q representa- tive body
Of unredeemed Serbs. Croats and
Slovenes from Austria Hungary. who
demand their liberty and their un-
ion with their brothers-in-race of
the Kingdom of Serbia. In addi-
tion to the minister, NJ. Michailo-
witch and the secretaries of the ls-
CATION. A. v. Georgevitch, Yefrem
Simitch and DR.. George V. Todoro-
witch, there were present: Prof
IVoyslav NJ. Yovanovitch. head of the
Serbian press bureau; Captain Cor
don Gordon-Smith, of the Serbian
IN 6hlVutCds toNob
Miloshevitch. Serbian commercial
agent in Chicago, H., and Vladislav
Savic. The Jugoslav National
Council was represented by the Rev,
Niko Gaskovic, president Of the
Croatian League Of America; DR..
Bogumiz vosnjak. member Of the
Jugoslav committee in London.
Sadjan Tucic. DR.. Drago Harusic, r,
Trosht. Peter Mladineo, ]. J. Grgu-
revic, Mr.. Dreshler. Mr.. Bonacic,
FLIP Kovacevich. and Mr.. BlAsevic,
After the dinner, q concert in
which Serbian, Croatian and Slo-
vens music predominated. was given
in the ball room of the hotel.
The Chief Justice and Mrs. Ed
ward Douglas White have closed
their house in Rhode Island avenue
and have gone to New London, Conn.
where they have leased q cottage
for the summer.
Mrs William C. Redfeld. wife of
the Secretary OF Commerce who is
in New York will return to Wash
ington today.
The Secretary Of Labor and Mrs.
Wilson, accompanied by their
daughters, Miss Mary Wilson and
Miss Jessie Wilson. have left for
their home at Blossburg. Pa, max
ing the trip by motor. Mrs. Wilson
and Miss Jessie Wilson will remain
there until the autumn. but the Sec
retary and Miss Mary Wilson will
return to Washington on Monday.
The Secretary will go to New York
to make an address on the Fourth
of July.
The Solicitor General and Mrs.
John w. Davis will leave WASH
ington tomorrow for Kentucky.
where the Solicitor General will ad-
dress the bar association meeting
next week at Lexington. Mr.. and
Mrs. Davis have given up the cot
tags they had taken at Nantucket,
and will remain at Washington un-
til some time in August, when they
will go North for a while.
The Commercial Commissioner
from Sweden and Nine. Nordvall
have returned to Washington from
their home in Sweden, and are again
established in the house Of Miss
Sophy Siebert at 1925 Eighteenth
street. Mr.. Nordvall has a large
staff whose headquarters will be in
the Eighteenth street house.
Baron and Baroness Korff are the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. David Fair
child. who are occupying the home Of
Mrs. Fairchild's parents. Prof. and
Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell, in Con-
necticut avenue, during the summer
months. Prof. and Mrs. Bell are at
their country place at Bedeck. Nova
Scotia.
John v. A. MacMurray, of this city,
who has been counsellor of the Ameri-
can embassy at Toxic, will go shortly
to Pekin. China, to act as charge
d'affairs at our legation there.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. william Crozier
will entertain a large and distinguished
company at dinner at the Chevy Chase
Club on the evening Of July l.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Wallace will be
hosts at dinner on the evening of
suly 3.
Mrs. Arthur Willard. wife Of Capt.
Willard. U. s. N, is seriously ill and
is in the hospital
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Chadbourne
have returned from a short trip to
Pomfret, Conn.,. where they attended
the closing exercises at the school
there which their sons attended. Mr..
and Mrs. Chadbourne plan to remain
in Washington all summer.
Senator Charles Henderson, who
went to Pomfret, Conn, to attend the
closing exercises of the school there.