Evening star., 1928-04-15
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Senator Walsh's Name Pronounced Differently
East and Wcst-John J. Raskob Keeps Tab
on pan.Amcrican Union Building.

authentic sales have been made In the
peSt 10 years,
Mrs William Smith Calbertsan. wife
al the Minister to Rumania. has been
spending some weeks In Washington.
her home for almost 10 years. and has
hAen associated with Mime Simopoulos.
wife OF the envoy from Greece, In the
recent ba1aars ana other activities OF
the Neer Fest Relief Fund. During her
three years residence In Bucharest she
has become familiar with the many
varieties Of ~n,hroideries and laees and
has collected an unusually fine aSSort-
mcnt which will do good service when
her pretty daughters, Jane Josephine
and June Culhertson. return to their
own land and take part In fancy dress
parties, The ordinary peasant costume
Of Eoumanla is glorious creation OF
deen Brown linen so thickly embroidered
il bright silks that the foundation
fabric is almost hidden, There are won-
derful aprons and scarfs which are part
Of the festive attire of the Rumanian
women and these are often used as
orapings and ornaments In livinnG rooms
after they have played their part In
fancy dress pals or taoleaus. Mrs
Culbertson was Miss Mary Hunter of
Frat, KanS and the marriage oc-
Cured In i9ll and 1t was In 1917 that
Mr. and Mrs. Culbsrtson first became
residents OF Washington, after the for
mer had heen appointed tariff COM
missioner by President Wilson. AL
though the Minister to Rumania Is a
Pennsylvania by birth he is now a
devoted son OF the Sunfower State and
has been A citizen of It since 1907, He
organized the first Kansas State So.
cistv and was It's first president and
filled this Office until his appointment
TO Bucharest IN 1928.
The Secretary Of State will gladly
grant leave of absence 10 those men,
bers of the Lafayette Escadrille now
in the foreign service who wish to par
tlcipate in the reunion planned this
Summer in Paris OF the f39 survivors
Of that heroic band wainwright Alb
hott OF Pittsburgh. who went almost
from the Yale campus in 1914 to offer
his services TO the French airmen, is
at present serving III Washington after
having recently come from Caracas.
Alien F. Winslow. who lost an arm In
an affray with an enemy plane and
who married Miss Rosamund Castle of
this city, is another diplomat who made
an enviable record In the Escadrille
He is at present secretary of the en-
baSsy in Mexico City Mr.. Pierre Boal,
an American son of distinguished
French parents, is secretary of the em-
baSsy in Lima The historian of the
Eecadrille and its coTnYiiandant during
the three years before this Republic en-
tered the World War. Mai. Georges
Thenault, has been military attache for
aeronauticS at the French embassy Tor
three wears and has been asked 10 Ioin
the comrades in Paris and take part
in the deliberations regarding certain
details of the memorial which is TO be
dedicated outside of Paris in August 10
the heroic dead Of the squadron. Be-
sides the three In the diplomatic serv-
ice. Washington has three survivors of
the conflict In civil life, Thomas M.
hewitt. lr.; Robert B, Hoeher ana
Charles T. Malone. Thomas Hitchcock
ir.. and Frederick II. Prince. IT.. nave
been for some weeks In Paris preparing
Tor the reunion in the Summer The
Lafayette EScadrille Memorial ia ccn-
ceded TO be one of the grandest nionu-
rnents erected on French soil To The
dead of this republic.
The japanese Ambassador and Nine
MatSudaria were formally asked To A
celebration. which all the eastern coast
OF Long Island held on April /. Ac-
coroing 10 local traditions. well forti.
fed by log books and the ledaers Of
shipping companies. Capt. Mercator
Cooper, skipper of the Manhattan.
sailed out OF Sag Harbor and. after an
adventurous voyage. put into Yeddo Bay
on April i, 1923. the first American To
set foot on japanese soil. and that sew
eral years before Commodore perrv'a
more famous cruise. This Long Island
skipper was descendant of long line
OF intrepid sailors from near Southamp.
ton, England, and later he interested
20 other sean1en to join fortunes with
him IN founding the popular resort OH
the Sound called for his old home. The
first Cooper. John, came To the Ply
mouth colony In the late seventeenth
century and he acquired land near
Lynn and was soon sailing a feet of
craft bearing tobacco and Indian curios
10 Europe and the Orient.
Capt. Mercator was the fourth gem
Grafton OF the Coopers. who went 70
Long Island. and he inherited fine
feet Of sailing craft and land which
soon nuadrupled In price Southanlp-
ton at the time the Manhattan made
the maiden voyage TO Japan was a cas-
ually built. rambling village all on one
street, But when artists, attracted by
the picturesqueness Of the place, began
10 erect Summer cottages. the New
York world Of fashion discovered the
treasure at its door and Capt. Cooper
became so rich that he made no more
voyages. His daughter Martha mar.
/ ried Capt Ellis Cook OF Hertfordshir.
/ England. who was the guardian OF the
/ young orphaned Belmonts. Long Isl.
and honored It's famous skipper In Law.
ish fashion when the hundrcdth anni-
/ versary of his arrival in Yeddo was
/ commemorated but the japanese AM
basssdor was unable To attend.
DR.. Herman Luppe and Or. Walter