The Washington times., 1924-11-22
JEAN ELIOTs NEWS AND GOSSIP OF CAPITAL SOCIETY:
ANNUAL LEGION BALL
TO BE HELD TONIGHT.

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TO BE HELD TONIGHT.
The annual American Legion ban
will be held tonight under the aus.
pieces Of the Department OF the Dis
trict Of Columbia Of the American
Legion in the bali room Of the New
" Hard Hotel The President and
Mrs. Coolidge head the list Of pa
irons. Others on the list are the
Secretary Of State and Mrs. Hughes,
the Secretary Of War and Mrs.
Weeks and the Secretary Of the
Navy and Mrs. Wilbur.
Among the guests who have &C.
cepted invitations are Justice James
Clark McReynolds, Justice Butler
and Mrs. Butler, the Ambassador OF
France and Madame Jusserand, Wis
count d'Alte, the Minister of Portu.
gal; the Minister of Panama and
Sonora de Alfaro, the Minister Of
Egypt and Madame Yousry Pasha,
the Charge d'Affaires OF Brazil and
Madame Oracle; lsaburo Yoshida, the
Japanese Charge d'Affaires; Con
stantin ID. Xanthopoulos, Charge
d Affaires of Greece; Dwight H..
Davis, Assistant Secretary Of War;
General Frank T. Hines, Director Of
the Veterans Bureau, and Mrs.
Hines; Cuno III. Rudolph, Chairman
of the Board of Commissioners of the
District of Columbia. and Mrs. Ru-
dolph; Isaac Cans, president Of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce,
and Mrs. Cans; General Norment
Doniphan Hawkins, Brigadier of the
District of Columbia Division, United
Confederate Veterans, and Mrs.
Hawkins; Daniel j. Hussey, Depart.
ment Commander of the Disabled
American Veterans of the World
War, and Mrs. Leon Arnold, Presi-
dent of the District Of Columbia De-
partmert, American Legion Auxil.
larry.
Occupying the box of the Bureau
OF Engraving and Printing Post. as
the guests of that post, will De:
Charles f.. Dewey, Assistant Secre-
tary of tire Treasury: r. Schoene-
man: Major Wallace w. Kirby, Di'
rector of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, and Paul Twymann,
John Deviny and II. j. Long, AS
sistant Directors of the Bureau.
| Mrs. Pembroke Thorn, Mrs. Fran
COTS Berger Moran, Captain John
Thomas Taylor, Captain Watson B.
Miller. Captain Paul j. McGahan
and Doctor B. c. MacNeil are
among those who have subscribed
for boxes.
Boxes have been taken by the Dis
trict of Columbia, American Legion
| Auxiliarv: the George Washington
Post Unit of the American Legion
Auxiliary; Grand Voiture Of the
District of Columbia of La Soeiete
des 40 Hommes ct Chevaux, and
the following posts of the American
! Legion: George Washington Post,
lU. S. s, Jacob Jones Post, Jane A.
Delano Post, McGroarty- o Connell
Post, Kenneth H. Nash Post, QUEEN
tin Roosevelt Post, Henry G. Speng-
Ter Post, Sergeant Jasper Post, Vim.
cent B. Costello Post, Augustus p.
Gardner Post. Tank Corps Post,
National Press Club Post, Cooley
Mccullough Post, Bureau of En-
craving and Printing Post and the
! Edward Douglas White Post.
Included among the guests will
be fifteen representatives of the
Tampa Post Of the American
Legion, of New York City, who are
4 on visit to Washington to pay
their respects to the commandant
! of the United States Coast Guard.
in which branch the members OF
the Tampa Post served during the
world war. The visiting Legion
naires will be accompanied to the
| hall by Lieutenant Commander
1 Stephen Stafford Yeandle. aide t.
Coniinandant of the Coast Guard, anc
other officers of the Coast Guard.
Invitations have been sent to
veteran patients at the Walter
Reed General Hospital, Mount Alto
Hospital and the United States
Naval Hospital.
| Dance music will be provided by
the orchestra of the Navy Band and
the newly developed jazz orchestrs
OF the Army Band.
Congressman Albert johnson o.
| Washington returned to the Capita
| yesterday after a campaign triI
which covered. all of the Western
States. With him came Miss Kath
leen Peterson, Of Hoqulam. Wash.
| school chum of Mr.. and Mrs
Johnson's daughter, Dorothy, wh'
/ will visit them for the winter.
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The British AmbassadoEAand Lady
Isabella Howard will be the guest.
of honor at the reception of thu
Southern Society on Saturday eve
ming, November 49, The reception
will begin at o'clock and viii be
held in the ball room of the New
Willard. There will be dancins
afterward.
The concert to be given Thurs
day evening December 4, by the
| Manor House Chapter, D. A. r.
promises to be one Of the mos
brilliant events OF the season.
i number of lad'as prominent in Sof
fetal and social life of the Capita
are serving as patronesses, and tn,
program will be given by some o,
the leading local artists. Miss Lii
Ian Chenoweth is regent of tn,
chapter.
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