Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-03

Maj. Gen. and Mrs. William B. Conner
Mrs. Henry G. Corbin and Col. and
Mrs. George L. Dewitt.
Mrs. Joseph C. Grew. wife of the
United States Ambassador to Turkey,
who has been the guest of Mrs. j.
Alexander Kirk. mother of Mr.. AleXan-
der Kirk. now en- route to his new post
at the United States embassy in Rome.
will go to New York tonight. Mrs.
Grew, who came here from Hancock,
N. H. where she visited in her home.
will sail tomorrow morning to join the
Ambassador in Constantinople.
The consul general at Bucharest, Mr..
Ely E. Palmer and Mrs. Palmer are in
Washington for the week and are stay
ing at the Mayfiower, having arrived
here late Saturday from their former
home in Providence. Mrs. Palmer re-
turned to Rhode Island in June to spend
the Summer with their son, Mr. George
Elliott Palmer, who was in school in
Providence, Mr.. Palmer joining them
there a short while ago. They will re-
turn to Providence for Christmas.
The secretary to the Vice President
and Mrs. E. Ross BARLEY, with their
sons, Edward and Richard, have re-
turned to Washington after passing the
Summer in Evanston, Ill, and have
taken an apartment in the Embassy
for the Winter.
Mr.. BARLEY was entertained at lunch
con Thursday, November %, in Chicago
at the Union League Club. when Mr..
Francis j. Kilkenny, formerly of Wash
ington, now living in Chicago, acted as
host.
Brig Gen. and Mrs. Thomas H. Slav-
ems entertained at dinner last evening,
when their guests included Senator and.
Mrs. James E. Watson, the chief of
staff, u. S. A., and Mrs. Charles P.
Summerall; Col. and Mrs. Charles Mar
tin, Col. and Mrs. William Screws, Mrs.
G. c. Lewis and Mr.. Stanley Slavens,
son of the hosts.
Col. and Mrs. Frank L. Hatch have
with them in their apartment at the
Wardman Park Hotel the formers
daughter, Miss Cornelia Hatch, who
has just arrived from Springfield Ill,
where she makes her home with her
grandmother.
Col. and Mrs. F. B. Keech of New
York, who spent the week end in Wash
ington at the Mayflower, were hosts at
dinner last evening in the presidential
dining room of the hotel, having six in
their party.
Mrs. Lay, wife of Col Harry Lay, U.
S. Marine Corps, who has spent two
months in the Casa Iona, at Braddock
Heights, Md, left yesterday for the
West, en- route to California, where she
will join Col. Lay, who has recently
returned from duty in China and is
now assigned to San Diego, Calf.
Mrs. Lloyd, wife of Lieut.. Col Walter
Kenyon Lloyd, has returned to Langley
Field, Va, where Col Lloyd is station
ed, after spending several days in Wash
ington. Mrs. Lloyd is known profession
ally as Olivia Wineland Lloyd through
her writings.
Maj. Julio Ruiz de Aida of the Royal
Spanish Air Force has arrived in
Washington to attend the International
Civil Aeronautics Conference, meeting
next week, and is at the Wardman Park
Hotel for day or two prior to making
the trip to Chicago which has been
arranged for the foreign delegates.
Maj de Aida is one of SPANS most
noted aviators and made the first air.
plane crossing of the South Atlantic,
from Spain to Buenos Aires, in January,
1926. He is accompanied by Senior
Alexandra j. Spencer.
DR.. Charles Alexander Richmond, the
retiring president of Union College, left
Schenectady with Mrs. Richmond Sat-
urday to take up their residence in