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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29
Duncan Phillips to Marry.

Duncan fniILps 10 Marty.
Mrs. Charles e. Acker, of Ossining,
N. Y, announces the engagement OF
her daughter. Miss Marjorie Acker, to
Duncan Phillips, son Of Mrs. ID. c.
Phillips, OF Washington.
Miss Acker is an artist whose paint
ings are to be exhibited in New York
during the coming season. Mr.. Phillips
is a writer on art, author of THE En-
chantment OF Art" and a collector
whose paintings recently have been
incorporated in Washington for public
benefit as the Phillips Memorial Art
Gallery" He graduated from Yale in
1908. He is member Of the Yale,
University and Century Clubs Of New
York city.
Mrs. Bernard M. Baruch has gone
from London to the Hotel Ritz in
Paris, where Miss Belle Baruch has
been stopping since her arrival sew
eral days ago from Italy.
r
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger j. Whiteford
have returned to their home in Chevy
Chase after a motor trip to Philadel-
phia and New Jersey. They spent
some time at Ocean Grove, N. j.. and
afterward visited Mr.. Whiteford's
father at his home in Maryland.
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Mrs. Summers, wife OF Congressman
John w. Summers, of Washington, ac-
compan MED by her daughter, Miss Jean
Summers, and her son, Burks. return
ed yesterday to her home, 1918 Kill
bourne place, after devoting a month
to visiting in Illinois. Mrs. Summers
was also accompanied by her sister,
Mrs. George r. Johnson, of Los An.
giles, Cal. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs.
Summers will go to Camden, n. j.,
shortly TO attend the launching of the
now srperdreadnought now in dry
dock there.
Mrs. George Barnett and Miss Anne
Gordon. who are visiting Mrs. Irving
Chase at arragansett Pier, were the
guests in whose honor Mrs. Chase en-
tertained at dinner, followed by dane.
ing, at the Casino Saturday night.
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Mrs. John B. Henderson and her
granddaughter. Miss Beatrice Hend.f-
son, have returned from Southampton
TO their home on Sixteenth street.
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Major Blackburn Hall, United States
Army Air Service. and Mrs. Hall are
the guests OF Major Halls parents,
Dllks zen. ana w. +. ltdlI.
marriage of Major and Mrs. Hall. the
latter formerly Miss Hazel Cain. took
place at the home OF the brides par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles IL. Cain, at
San Antonio. August II.
Miss Janet Richards has sailed on
the Finland for Antwerp, TO visit Co.
blenZ, Germany, before the recall of
the United States troops. Miss Rich.
ards will also visit Metz, Nerdun-
Rheims, the Argonne. Belleau Woods.
and Chateau Thierry on her way back
to Paris from Coblenz. She will re.
turn to the United States October 90.
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Return From Newport.
Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs. J. II. Hoff.
man have returned to their apartment
in the Chastleton, from Newport.
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Or. and Mrs. p. ]. Lennox, who
spent the early part OF the summer
at Cliff Haven, n. Y, on Lake Cham
plain. and the last few weeks at
Asbury Park, y. j., have returned to
their apartment at the Toronto.
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DR.. and Mrs. Everett NJ Ellison,
with their Young daughters. Alice
Elizabeth and Margaret Isabel, spent
the weekend on a motor trip to
Gettysburg, Pa.
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Miss Hughes to Return.

Miss Catherine Hughes. daughter Of
the Secretary OF State and Mrs.
Hughes, who has been abroad since
early summer, is now in London. She
will sail for home on September Is.
The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr..
Wallace, will leave Washington to-
morrow for a tour OF the West. where
heswill make addresses at several Of
the larger cities. and will arrive in
Des Moines in time for the marriage
OF his son. James Wilson Wallace, to
Miss Virginia Stubs, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. d. T. Stubbs, which will take
place Saturday. The Secretary will
return to Washington September 6.
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Senator and Mrs. William s. Ken.
yon of Iowa are occupying a cottage
at Sebasco, Me. They will entertain
a number Of Senators and their wives
during the recess Of Congress.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Fairfax Stuart Land.
street, who have been visiting his
uncle, Thomas Beall Davis. at South
ampton, will start tomorrow for their
home i'm Huntington, w. Va. Mrs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29

luncheon yesterday at their apartment
in Wardman Park Hotel for Com
mandante Don Luis Aubry, naval at
tache OF the Peruvian embassy, and
Nine. Aubry. Commandante and
Nine. Aubry have but recently re-
turned from Europe and will sail
shortly for Peru TO be absent until
early in the winter.
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The Argentine ambassador, Dr.
Thomas A. LeBreton. who is due to
land in New York tomorrow from the
Olympic, will come at once to Wash.
ington. He has been abroad since
early summer. Nine. LeBreton and
her niece, Miss Manuela Lloveras.
will remain in Paris until late in the
autumn. The Argentine consul gen.
eral in New York will meet the am
bassador at the pier.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29

Mrs. William Claiming Johnson will
leave town today for a fortnight's stay
at the Marlborough Blenheim, Allan.
tic City.
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DR.. Cora Smith King has left Wash
ington for a motor trip to Maine with
a party of friends and will return e
town on Labor day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29
playing" in Virginia Mountains.

Andrew w. Mellon, Secretary OF
the Treasury. who has been play
ing" for a brief few days at Bar
ton Lodge, Hot Springs, is back
again at his desk. Miss Ailsa Mel
lon and Paul Mellon are again at
Barton Lodge after the pleasantest
sort OF a visit with relatives at
Southampton, and Miss Craigie Mac
Kay, daughter of Albert Mackay.
OF Pittsburgh, is visiting Miss Mel
lon. Miss Alice Sylvester, close
friend as we'll as chaperone OF the
Secretary of the Treasury's pretty
daughter, accompanied her TO South
ampton and has returned with her
10 Hot Springs.
At White Sulphur Springs, over
the line in West Virginia. the sum-
mer colony is kept stirred up by the
visits of Lieut.. Comdr. Patrick Bel
linger, who lilies down from Wash
ington as often as he can be spared
from his duties to be with Mrs.
Bellinger. who is visiting Miss Mary
Frederick. The daring flyer reach
ed White Sulphur with his plane
on Saturday and will return this
week. Miss Carolyn Nash. who is
now at the Springs with her mother.
Mrs. Francis S. Nash. was a guest
of Miss Frederick earlier in the sea
son.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29

,Landstreet was formerly Miss Eleanor
Hoover, OF Washington.
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Former Senator and Mrs. James A.
O'Gorman, of New York, and theic
daughters. Mrs. Dudley Field Malone,
and the Misses Anne and Agnes
O'Gorman, have returned to the Hotel
Lutitia, in Paris. after spending the
season at Letoguet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29
Dutch Charge Entertains.

Jonkheer de Beaufort, charge d ar
flares OF the Netherlands legation, en-
tertained the staff of the legation at
dinner last evening prior to his depar.
ture for Mexico, where he will repre-
sent the Netherlands at the centennial
celebration TO be held in Mexico City,
September 4.
Guido Sabetta, counselor and
charge d'affaires of the Italian en-
bassy. has gone to Atlantic City
and is at the Ambassador Hotel lie
will remain ten days.
Brig Gen. Charles MCCswley, u. s.
NJ. c.. and Mrs. McCawley have gone
to Bar Harbor to visit Mrs. Edmund
Pendleton.
Mrs. George Howard has returned
to Newport from Southampton, l.. l.,
and is staying at the Hill Top Inn.
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Mr.. and Mrs. George /. Hubbard, of
Hartford, Conn, are being congratu-
lated on the birth of a daughter on
August 3. The little girl will be called
Jane. Mrs. Hubbard was formerly
Miss Isabel Moves, Of Washington.
Mrs. Henry F. Dtmmock, who has
spent the summer with her son-in.law
and daughter, the Italian Minister to
Venezuela and Nine. Catalina. will sail
from Caracas September and return
at once TO her Washington home.
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Miss June Davis. OF Council Bluffs,
Iowa, who has been visiting DR.. and
Mrs. e. A. Merritt for the last month.
has returned to her home. Miss
Davis accompanied DR.. and Mrs. Mer.
rift and their children, Virginia and
John. on motor trip to Ocean Grove,
n. ]. They spent several days at the
Shelbourne hotel and have but re.
Gently returned to town.
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DR.. Cora Smith King has left Wash.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29

Or. and Mrs. p. ]. Lennox, VIII,
spent the early part OF the summe
at Cliff Haven, n. Y, on Lake Cham
plain. and the last few weeks a
Asbury Park, y. j., have returned {,
their apartment at the Toronto.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29

\" THIN lew weeks proihf
" nent persons from all over
the country will be coming
TO Washington to work and play.
Just at present. however, Washing.
tonians seem to be playing-and
possibly working a wee bit-pretty
much all over the country.
In the Berkshires. for instance,
there Is an unusual degree OF &C
tivity largely because the session OF
the Institute of Politics at Williams
College has drawn together so many
notables. both domestic and foreign.
Yesterday there were a number OF
festivities on the calendar in which
men and women well known to
Washington were included. Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry White. who are back at
Elm Court after having made a
series OF visits at Newport and
southampton, gave one of their de-
lightful dinners there last evening
with Senator Tomasso Tittoni, for
mer premier of Italy. and Signora
Tittoni, as the special guests--the
Tittonis. as everybody knows, hav-
ing come to attend the Institute OF
Politics. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman II. Davis
Auis DdNlS, Dc IL ItTflcIIptlcu, wa
Cndersecrtary of State In the VIII
son ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS had a din
ner party at Lenox last evening.
their guests being asked to meet
cambridge Colby. former Secretary
of State, and Mrs. Colby, who are
staying with them. Mr.. Colby lee
tured before the Institute of Politics
one day last week. Another of the
days pleasant events was the
luncheon which Mrs. Joseph Choate
gave for Baron and Baroness Serge
korff. They are by way of being
''of Washington for the present. as
they have been spending the greater
part Of their time here with her
parents, Rear Admiral and Mrs. VIII
liam X. van Reypen, since the Rus
sian debacle drove the baron from
his great estates in Finland.
The exodus of the personages who
have been attending the conference
in Williamstown is now beginning.
Viscount James Bryce and Lady
Bryce have left the Berkshires for
Northeast Harbor. where they are
visiting DIR. and Mrs. Charles w.
Eliot. And Count Paul Teleki, once
the Hungarian premier. and countess
Teleki have started for Newport
with Count and Countess Laszlo
Szechenyi. They are making the
trip by motor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29

DR.. and Mrs. Everett NJ. Ellison,
with their Young daughters. Alice
Elizabeth and Margaret Isabel, spent
the weekend on a motor trip to
gettysburg Pa
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Brig Gen. Charles McCawley, L. S.
NJ c.. and Mrs. McCawley have gone
to Bar Harbor TO visit Mrs. Edmund
Pendleton.
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Mrs. George Howard has returned
to Newport from Southampton, l.. l.,
and is staying at the Hill Top Inn.
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Return From Newport.

Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs. j. II. Hoff-
man have returned to their apartme mt
in the Chastleton,. from Newport.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29

The Ambassador of Peru and Nine
de Pezet entertained informally at
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did not wish to hold back. When we
got to the bottom oil the stairs we
found stranger there watching the
falls. We then turned and went up
the stairs again. The rest of the day
Birchall scarcely spoke to me-"
II think it was providence that put
that man on the bottom OF the stairs.
That unknown man saved your lite.
man, or else you would not be here
to tell me what you have. Birchall
meant to push you in for certainty
commented the detective.
Murray advertised in all the Ca
madam and American newspapers
begging this stranger to come for
ward. But he never did. But the
Old-Never-Let-Go" was not to be
discouraged. He finally obtained
the unexpected link i'll his chain OF
evidence against the murderer which
clenched his guilt as perhaps nothing
else would have done. He received
cable from Scotland Yard saying
that Colonel Bentwell, the father OF
the murdered man, received letter
from Birchall which must have been
written about three days after his
son had been murdered and his body
hidden in Dead Mans Swamp"
Birchall wrote to his victims faith
er in London:
81 have been talking to your son
today about arrangements, and he is
so we'll satisfied with the prospects
here that he is ready to go into i'm
partnership"
Business as Murder.
when Birchall wrote those lying
words his victim had been dead three
days." wrote the famous Canadian
detective later in relating his ex-
periences as crime hunter through
out the continent of North America.
''The post mark and the date Of the
letter were only too damning evil
dences of Birchall's guilt.
"Birchall had embarked in busi-
ness as murderer. For year he
had planned his crimes and he Sc
lected Blenheim swamp as his cham
Der of death. He conceived the
idea of taking rich young men and
bringing them over to his imaginary
farm, first of all getting them to pay
a sum down to invest in the iarm.
"Birchall had no grudge against
Bentwell or Pelly. They never had
wronged him. 1t was purely mat
ter of business. To the murderer
the life of each young man was
worth so much cash, and he was a
murderer only for what there was
in it.
"He went about it in quiet, prac-
teal and methodical way. Who
knows how many other young men,
from different corners of the earth,
found their graves in Dead Mans
Swamp +
However, fate finally turned
against the murderer. Providence at
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Worlds Greatest Detective Cases

Murray then went to Mr.. Virtue
Mr.. Virtue was not quite sure, he
could not tell much. II only casually
noticed there were two rather obvi.
ously British looking persons on the
train. They both got out at East
Wood. | saw them 60 in the direc-
lion OF Blenheim, Dead Mans
swamp" ..
The Canadian detective then went
to see Miss Lockhart. She also re-
membered them because of their
English look. "They were still in
their British clothes and that made
ME notice them," she remarked. "I
remember them both. | heard their
conversation which amused me.
Their conversation gave me the i'm
preston that they were green in
these lands. One of them was tell
ing the other what magnificent
fields we were passing. l spoke
about it to my friends afterwards.
! have lived here all my life and l
know the fields around h>-e do not
grow anything, they could not grow
anything
Remembers One.
Gould you identify the two
strangers if you saw them?" asked
Murray.
II can visualize one of them even
now, as he wore an astrichan cap.
Murray instantly remembered that
Birchall wore an astrichan cap.
For days Murray, the great "Old-
Never-Let-Go," persued his inquiries
patiently. He traced the movements
of Birchall and Bentwell hour by
hour until Birchall returned alone
without his companion. Just after II
they reached East Wood station. He
had witnesses to that. Just before
midday farmer who was driving a
cart met them on the road to Dead
Mans Swamp" He found a girl who
saw them shortly after that still
nearer the swamp. He continued his
inquiries. He talked to everyone who
had been within three or four miles
of Dead Mans Swamp" on the day
of the murder. He found still an
other witness who saw the pair
shortly after II on their way to-
ward the fatal spot. Finally he To-
Gated farmer who was cutting TIM
Der with two men about | in the
afternoon only mile or two from
the swamp. The farmer told Chief
Inspector Murray that he heard two
pistol shots in quick succession, but,
at the time, attached no Importance
to them as he thought it was some
hunters in the forest He discovered
still another woman who had seen
Rirchall at half-past two on the road
between East Wood and Beinheim.
Another witness saw Birchall alone
at East Wood station at ; o'clock.
At East Wood Birchall had taken
train to Niagara Falls, near where
he was stopping.
Murray had now enough evidence
to convince the jury. He had further
found out that Birchall meant to
murder Pelly as was pretty evident
from what Pellv told him.
"A few hours after our arrival
Birchall invited me to visit the Falls
Pelly related. "He told me there was
a stairway down the cliffs where we
could watch the water better.
going down. I noticed it
was very unsafe, and a slip might
have meant falling into the roaring
waters. However, / was game and
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last guided the woodsman's step to
the very spot where the body other
wise would have remained undis-
covered and crumbled away. And
in Pelly's case. the same Providence
placed a stranger at the foot of the
stairs at the Falls"
And again the same fate, or Provi-
depce, whatever you may call it,
made Birchall's detection in the long
run a certainty by putting the "Old-
-Never-Let-G Go" on his trail.
During the trial it came out that
Birchall had made visits to Canada
posing as Lord Somerset, with a
swindling scheme whereby he robbed
thousands of people and suddenly
disappeared, leaving his unfortunate
victims to their tears. 1t was also
brought out at the trial that he had
been seen in the neighborhood of
Rlenheim frequently. Perhaps he
was laying his plans for murders
which he intended to commit in the
future, or again, who knows how
many others he led to that Blenheim
swamp.
The trial OF the murderer not only
evoked great interest throughout the
United States and Canada but even
caused an immense sensation III
Britain, Germany, France, Italy and
Poland. Through cable connections
were made from the court in Wood
stock to London, and from there
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Mother in Court
TOForce Chorus
Girl to Behave
Irate Parent Seeks Legal Judg'
ment Ordering Her 49,
Year.Old Child to Re.
turn to Her Home.

New York, July 16.-Has young
woman of 18, whose beauty, talent
and hard work have brought success
upon the stage, the right to order
her own life as she chooses?
Or must she live as her mother de-
cides-even when, as she asserts,
she has been her mothers chief
means of support for seven. years?
This question right now is the
most important of all questions to
charming Miss Ethel Hallor, late
of the Ziegfeld "Follies also
to her mother, Mrs. Annie Hallor,
this city.
Court to Decide. :.
A legal answer will be given to it
by Magistrate Silberman in the Es-
sex Market court at an early date.
The magistrate issued a summons
sworn to by the mother, charging
the daughter with disorderly con-
duct. 1t directed Miss Hallor to ap-
pear in court.
The "disorderly conduct charge
was explained in court by represe-
sentative of Harry Saks Hechheim-
er, counsel for Mrs. Hallor.
Among other items, he explained
that the mother, who was with him
in court, considered that the daugh-
ter smokes too many cigarets. asso-
ciates with the wrong sort of per-
sons, and should not be living in
an apartment hotel at No. Fifth
avenue.
Wants to Live Own Life.
Arthur T. Eagan, who, with his
wife and his mother, is proprietor OF
No. 7, was mentioned by the moth
er's lawyer. Said Miss Hallor, who
is tall and blue of eye, and who
wears her wavy blond hair bobbed,
to representative of the New York
American:
II will be in court all right. My
father, who lives in Washington,
where he is detective in the police
department; Mr. and Mrs. Eagan
and many friends, among whom, !
hope, will be Mr.. Ziegfeld himself,
will be there, too, to help me.
"My father believes as do
that as long as l am not doing
wrong l have the right to live my
own life as I see fit. Any number
of friends, / am sure, will be glad
to testify as to my character. There
cannot possibly be the slightest crit
icism against No. 7 Fifth avenue.
Couldn't Live at Home.
II expect to show that when l
tried to live at home my mother
told me to leave and not to come
back.
"Since this is the United States, I
believe that European ideas of ma
ternal authority should lot prevail.
When she asked me to leave the
apartment uptown, in which had
paid for the furniture and for which
I had paid the rent, / nearly cried
my eyes out. / love my mother.
Mrs. Hallor,. as she informed Mr..
Hechheimer, only had the best in
terests of her daughter at heart
when she sWore to the summons.