Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-26
Capitals Official Circle
Lists Numerous Absentees
Consress and Cabinet Members Noted In Throns
Headed for Pleasure Resorts-Society
Notes of Interest.

The Attorney General, Mr.. Sargent
las joined Mrs. Sargent in their home
| In Ludlow. VT, and Is not expected to
return until after the LIST of August.
| The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. VIII
| bur, will return tomorrow morning
| from Syracuse, n. Y, where he will
address the New York State Christian
Endeavor Society today.
The Secretary of Commerce, Mr..
Hoover, left Washington Thursday for
| the flooded area. His son and daugh.
| ter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Hoo
YER, jr., and their tiny daughter, Peggy
| Ann, arrived this morning from Cam.
| bridge, Mass, where they have been
throughout the Winter. Mr.. and Mrs.
| Hoover were accompanied by Miss
Ames of California. who has been Wis
| iting them in Cambridge. Miss Ames
will return shortly to California and
| Mr.. and Mrs. Hoover are expected to
| remain here through the Summer.
The Secretary of Labor, Mr.. James
J. Davis, will arrive in Louisville, KY,
this morning from New Orleans and
will leave this evening for Chicago.
He will join his family later this week
to spend the holidays with them In
their cottage at Montauk, N. J.
Senator and Mrs. James A. Reed
left Washington yesterday by motor
for Kansas City, where they have pur-
chased home. They have given up
the house here on Biltmore street and
are moving their furniture to Kansas
City.
Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom
and their daughter, Miss Vera Bloom,
have given up their apartment at the
Mayf1ower and are in New York at the
Hotel ST. Regis until Saturday. when
they will sail aboard the Leviathan to
spend the remainder of the Summer
abroad. On their return to Washing
ton in the Autumn they will take pos.
session Of the apartment at 1922 Six:
teenth street, which they have leased
for next season.
Representative and Mrs. Fred A.
Britten will close their apartment at
Wardman Park Hotel Friday and will
sail from New York Saturday aboard
the Leviathan to spend the Summer
in Europe. They expect to return the
middle of October.
The newly appointed United States
Robert Woods Bliss, who have been
at the Mayf1ower for several days,
will close their house on Massa-
their parents before sailing for the
Ambassadors post in Buenos Aires.
The Ambassador recently returned
from Sweden, where he has been
United States Minister for some time.
Mr.. Stephen Mather, director of The
NYof LyS Ioc h !,
him at the Wardman Park Hotel for
a few days his daughter, Miss Bertha
Mather, and Miss Gilbert Of Harris.
burg, Pa. Miss Gilbert returned yes.
terday to her home, accompanied by
Miss Mather, who will be her guest
for the week.
Mrs. Thomas F. Woodlock. wife of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
Elizabeth Byrne, left yesterday for a
trip to Atlantic City. They will re- i
turn to the Wardman Park Hotel for !
a short stay before they leave to sail |
on the Arabic July Is for Europe.
Mr.. Woodlock will sail on the Celtic J
July 80 to join them in England.
Capt. Frank Barrows Freyer has
gone to Georgia to visit his relatives
IOT several WEEKS anu IuTS. rTcyeE |
will close their house on Massa-
chusetts avenue the 1st of July and |
will go to California for the Summer. !
Mrs. Freyer will not be at home this !
afternoon and has discontinued her |
Sunday afternoons at home through |
the Summer
Maj. and Mrs. Leonard c.. Sparks
are visiting at the home of Postmas.
ter and Mrs. William M. Mooney. !,
Mrs. Sparks Is a niece of Mrs. |
Mooney and before her marriage to
Maj. Sparks was Miss Bessie Speer.
She win be remembered by the must
clans of Washington as an accom-
plished pianist. Maj. and Mrs Sparks
n1otored to Washington from Fort |
Leavenworth. Kans., where the major
has been stationed for the past four
years in the Field Artillery, and at |
the conclusion of their visit viii pro-
coed to New York city. where the
major has been assigned az instructor |
TO the National Guard.
Col. and airs. ,Wiilian Mitchell and