The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-01
Washington Women UP in the Air.;
Several TTy for Pilots Licenses

7 Goodwin and Lady Mu-
I riel Paget Hop Off to
Il Florida
UTASHINGTON women
w are not behind their
sisters in "going up in the
air.
! Offhand, one can name
half a dozen who are prac-
ticed filters, but the latest
! development is that a num-
Der of lovely ladies are
learning to fly at Hoover
Field, just across the Po-
tomac, with a view to secur-
ing their pilots licenses.
They are students at the
Berliner school Of aviation.
NEIsS ELIZABETH WAR
IVA NER, sister of Edward F:
Warner, Assistant Secretary of
the Navy for Aeronautics, is
the latest to matriculate.. Be-
lieving that it will soon be as
natural for a woman to pilot
her own plane as it is now for
her to drive her own car, she
intends to meet the new era
more than half way. Miss
Warner, a Vassar graduate, is
her bachelor brothers official
hostess in Washington.
a MOTHER undergraduate in
~ flying is Mrs. Alvin E. Dodd,
one of Harvart's few alumnae. A
daughter of A. Lincoln Filene, Bos-
ton merchant prince, she has made
q pleasant niche for herself in so
ciety in Washington since her
marriage to Mr.. Dodd, until re-
Gently an official of the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce. The Dodds,
however, are soon to desert Wash
fngton for New York, Mr.. Dodd
having become associated with a
great national organization of dry
goods merchants.
Mrs. Hanford MacNider. wife OF
the former Assistant Secretary OF
War, has done a great deal OF
flying with her husband, who used
to make all his inspection trips by
airplane. Mrs. r. Trubee Dawson
and Mrs. William P. MacCracken,
wives of the flying Secretaries"
Of War and Commerce, ara no
novices at the sport. One reInem.
bers that Mrs. Edward Beale Nc
Lean made the front pages of
some of the newspapers a year or
90 ago, when she flew to Cincin-
natl to be in time for an irnpor-
tant engagement. And only last
week Mrs. Clarence Goodwin, of
Chicago, and Lady Murie1 Paget,
who had been visiting her in
Washington, picked up and went
by air to Florida, where they were
to make some visits. Their host
had sent zone of his planes" to
the Capital to pick them up.
The Ambassador of Cuba and
Nine. Ferrara, who have been in
Havana. will return on March 9.
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The ambassador Of Turkey,
Ahmed Mouhtar Bey, was the
guest in whose honor Capt. and
Mrs. John P. Jackson entertained
at dinner last evening.
THE Speaker OF the House and
i Mrs. Longworth will be the
honor guests at a reception to
be given by the Congressional
Club on Thursday evening, March
Is, at 9 O'Clock at the club house
on New Hampshire Avenue.
The minister of Canada, Vim.
cent Massey, who has been in OF.
tawa, arrived in New York to-
day, where Mrs. Massey has
gone to meet him. They will
remain there for several days.
Lady Parkin. mother of Mrs.
Massey, arrived yesterday from
Toronto and will pass . several
weeks at the legation.
The Undersecretary of State
and Mrs. Robert E. Odds, who
have been visiting DR.. and Mrs.
Herbert Adams Gibbons in Prince.
ton, n. J., were the guests for
whom DR.. and Mrs. Gibbons en-
-,
u
Mrs. Ira Nelson Morris, wife
Of the former American minister
TO Sweden, arrived in town and
is at the Carlton.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Atherton
Du Puy announce the engage.
msnt of their daughter, Celene,
to Edward Nelson Dingley, jr.,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward n.
-Dingley, of Chevy Chase. The
wedding will take place early in
April.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Lang
horne are guests at the Princess
Hotel, in Hamilton, Bermuda.
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Mrs. s. Hallock DUPONT, Of viii.
mington, who arrived in Wash
ington yesterday and Is guest
at the Mayflower, will return to-
day to her home in Delaware.
Mrs. duPont's mother, Mrs. Harry
Lee Wrenn, is with her at the
Mayflower.
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