Evening star., 1921-08-09

President and Mrs Harding Return
Ambassador of Spain to Attend
Midsummer Nights Party.

over by the government Mr.. Dawson
was head of the American Red Cross
during the war and, with Mrs. Davi-
son, made many friends during their
residence here.
Mr.. Gates graduated from Yale
in the class of 1918 and was captain
of the Yale foot ball team and a
member of the Skull and Bones.
Through the war he served as lieu
tenant commander in the naval avia-
tion. commanding the forces at Dun
kirk. France. He was shot down
by the Germans and taken prisoner,
aferward making an escape, only to
be reca aptured and held prisoner until
mended by Admiral Sims for the con-
gressional medal of honor, and
among other honors he received the
British d. s. c., the French croix
de guerre and the Legion of Honor
and United States Navy D. S. M. Mr..
York Press Company. Among his
classmates was MIR. Henry P. Da-
vison, jr., brother of his bride-e elect,
whom he knew before the war. Mr..
and Mrs. Dawson and their daugh-
ter are occupying their country home,
Peacock Point, in Locust valley, l.. l.
Mr.. and Mrs. Heber votaw, brother
in-law and sister of the President,
who celebrated the Ell ghteenth ami
y
were givsn reception last evening
by a group of their friends at the
home of DR.. and Mrs. f. NJ. Woolgar,
in Takoma Park.
Mrs David r. Francis. jr., daugh-
terinlaw of Mr.. David r. Francis,
Secretary of the Interior in the cab
met OF President Cleveland, arrived
at White Sulphur Springs, w. Va,
for a short visit.
ViscOunt and Lady Bryce
Guests OF Mrs. John >. McClennan.
Former ambassador Of Great Britain
and Lady Bryce were among the week
end guests Of Mrs. John Stewart Nc
Clennan at Ashintully, in Tyringham.
Mrs. McClennan entertained at a tea
with music yesterday afternoon and had
among her guests the minister of the
Netherlands to Rome and Nine. van
Roijen and Mrs. William Crawford
Gorgas of Washington. who was visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Beecher Stowe of
Stockbridge.
The president OF Williams College and
Mrs. Harry A. Garfield entertained at
luncheon yesterday. Their guests num-
bered fourteen and included the former
premier of Italy and Signora Tittoni.
SignOr Tittoni has come to this country
to deliver course of lectures at the
School of Politics and will come to
Washington to present a letter from the
King of Italy to President Harding.
Mrs Raymond T. Baker. wife of the
director of the mint. and her children
have returned to Newport from Lenox,
Mass, where they were guests of Mrs.
Vanderbilt.
Count Laszlo Szechenyi and Countess
SZechenyi motored to WilliamStown from
xpil q
week there at the Greylock Hotel They
will attend the lectures at the School Of
Politics which the former premier of
Austria Hungary, Count Teleki, will
give.
Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock is among the
patronesses for the talk which the Very
Rev. Dean Bratenahl Of the Washington
Cathedral will give in Newport Friday
on "Cathcdrals in Relation to National
Life"
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fitz Simons, who
are at Newport, will leave. tomorrow for
st. Regis Lake, N. Y. Mrs. Fitz Simons
was elected president of the. Newport
Improvement Society at its annual meet
ing yesterday. She succeeds Mr.. Law
renee Lewis Gillespie, who has held the
office for four years.
Representative Mann to
Join Mrs. Mann ut Bar HarbOr.
Mrs. James r. Mann, who is spending
the month of August at Bar Harbor.
will be Joined there shortly by Repre-
sentative Mann.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Peter c. Harris
have gone to New York. where they are
at the Hotel Astor for brief stay.
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin B. Laughlin enter
tanned at dinner last evening at their
villa at Newport.
Mr.. and Mrs, Ross Gravener left Sun
day to join Rev. and Mrs. Archibald H.
Bradshaw on a motor trip to Canada.
They will visit Newport, Narragansett
Pier and other resorts before returning
in the autumn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville E. ingalls,, who
have been at Hot Springs, Va, since the
early summer will sail for Europe on
the Aquitania August 49,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Wylie Smith.
formerly of Atlanta, announce the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Esther Kendrick SMITH to Mr.. Ed
ward Mitchell Brown of Washington