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Evening star., 1932-05-01
Women's s City Club Fetes
Candidates for Office

The candidates for election Wednes-
day will be guests of honor at the tea
this afternoon at the Women's City
Club from 4:30 to o'clock. The Nom
mating Committee, including Miss Nell
V. Price, chairman, Nine. Marie Boulay
Anderson. Mrs. A. G. Dodge, Mrs. Frank
Golden. Mrs. Anna H. B. Kinney, Mrs.
Curtis R. Perry. Mrs. Frank G. Stew
art and Mrs. William J. La Varre will
be hostesses.
Annual elections will be held We'd
nesday with the following candidates
to be voted for president: Miss Alice M.
Heaven and Mrs. Grattan Kerans: first
vice president, Miss Elaine Eppley and
Judge Mary O'Toole: recording secre-
tary, Miss Florence Christian and Miss
Martha Lane; members of the board,
Miss Julia E. Coonan, Mrs. William Lee
Corbin, Mrs. Ralph F. Couch, Mrs.
Charles H Curl. Mrs. Patrick CAL
lagher. Mrs. John H. Harwood. Miss
Elva McNamara, Mrs Gladys Ball Mid
dlemiss. MIS- William v. Spaid, Mrs.
Caroline B. Stephen and Miss Roberta
Tull delegates and alternates to Dis
trict of Columbia Federation, Miss Su
san Baker, Mrs. John D. Fitzgerald.
Mrs. Jerome K. Lightfoot, Mrs. Alice
Minch. Mrs. Elijah Van Metre and
Mrs. William H. Whitney.
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her children, Daniel and Florence; Mr..
and Mrs. Andrew Mistretta and their
children, Patricia and Elizabeth; Mr..
Augustine Fiore and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Petit and their children. Saliva
tore and Petrina, Of Oxon Hill, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Domenic Pampillonia and
their children, Tusea, Harry, Lillian
and Junior, Of Washington. Mrs. Mis-
tIetta, the honor guest. and her son,
Mr.. Antonio Mistretta, led the square
dances, and later Mrs. Mistretta sang
a number of old Italian love songs after
which supper was served.
Miss Helen Lyon will be hostess at
o'clock to the Cleveland Park branch Of
the W. C. T. u, entertaining in her
home, 1740 Poplar lane, in Rock Creek
Hills.
Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. w S.
Anderson, Mrs. w. P. Barrows, Mrs.
Harvey Boltwood. Mrs. H. K. Green and
Mrs. L. M. Noyes.
Little Miss Jacquelyn Stearns Gray,
daughter of Capt. and Mrs. George A.
Gray of Chevy Chase, Md, entertained
a group of her young friends to cele-
brate her ninth birthday anniversary
Thursday, April 81. All the guests
we're in Colonial costume. Jane Shoe
maker of Chevy Chase won first prize
for the prettiest costume and Ellen
Notz, also of Chevy Chase, won second
prize. Decorations and favors were in
Bicentennial colors. The guests included
Mary Jane Gott, Patsy Maphis, Jane
Shoemaker, Ellen and Natalie Notz,
Barbara and Kay Hawkins, Roberta
Spidel, Beatrice and Edith Dickson,
Bette Julien, Jean Mcleod, Lois
Lovett, David Diebler, Charles West and
Ralph Williams. Jacquelyn Gray is the
daughter of Jack" Stearns Gray, well
known author of Up"
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Republican Club to Hold
Open House This Afternoon

Another of the teas which have been
so successful in attracting interesting
guests to the Sunday afternoon open
house parties given by the National
Capital Republican Club will be held in
the parlors of the club this afternoon.
Mrs. Arthur r. Robinson, wife of the
junior Senator from Indiana, and Mrs.
Robert Drakely Rood, national COM
n1itteewoman from Oklahoma, now
guest in Washington, will preside at
the tea tables and will have as their
assistants Mrs. Douglas Hatch, Mrs.
Frederick Ballard, Miss Marjorie DAN
iells, Miss Helen Love, Miss Florence
Hooper, Miss Neva Butler, Miss Ethel
Wheaton, Miss Myrtle Patterson. Miss
Gertrude Louis and Miss Gertrude
Rawlins.
No invitations are sent out for these
informal teas, as 1t is the hope of the
directing heads of the various Repub-
lican groups that all Republicans in
Washington come in for a cup of tea
and chat with other guests.
The club house, located at Sixteenth
street and Scott Circle, is the former
japanese embassy and has undergone
many changes which have transformed
it into a most spacious and delightful
setting for the many social affairs con-
stantly in progress there.
The open house tea today will be in
the nature Of an all-States affair, but
shortly it is planned to have State days
at which time residents of the States
will be the featured guests and those
high in governmental position from the
specially designated State in whose
honor and name the tea Is being given
will be guests of honor.
Officers and directors Of the club will
assist in receiving the guests from 4
to $50 o'clock.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
New England States Give
Benefit Ball for Needy

The Congressional and Diplomatic
Charity Ball, sponsored by the New
England Society, to be held at the
Mayhower Hotel May IA, promises to
be one Of the most beautiful affairs of
the late season. Artists from the stage
and radio will appear in person and
contribute their share to the floor re-
view which will last for two hours pre-
ceding the ball
Additional patrons and patronesses,
who have subscribed to the affair are
Senator Frederick Hale, Senator and
Mrs. Wallace H. White, jr; Senator and
Mrs. Marcus A. Coolidge, Senator and
Mrs. Porter H. Dale, Senator Frederic
C. Walcott, Senator and Mrs. Warren
Austin, Senator and Mrs. Hiram Bing-
ham. Senator and Mrs. Felix Hebert,
Senator and Mrs. Henry w. Keyes, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Clark Burdick,
Representative and Mrs. William Tier
ney and Representative and Mrs. Rich
ard Freeman.
Many State societies and local or
ganizations have reserved boxes for the
occasion including New Jersey. New
Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, North
Carolina and Florida. Reservations for
boxes or tickets may be obtained by
calling the executive chairman, Mr..
Lawrence Moran, or from Mr.. Elmer E.
Field, president.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Vicomtess de Spoelbrech
Leaves Soon for Belgium
Former Katherine Kelso Stewart and Husband
Spending Their Honeymoon In
This Country.

present for Music week, and will be
the house guest Of Mrs. Norvel Wilson
Belts. During her stay there Miss
O'Brien will take an active part in
musical affairs, and later will visit
other parts of Virginia and North Caro-
lima before returning.
Miss Elizabeth H. Geto OF Brooklyn,
N. Y. is spending several days in Wash
ington and is at the Broadmoor.
Miss r. A. Grosvenor of New York
City motored to Washington and is at
the Carlton for brief stay.
Miss Julia Pirie of New York City,
who has been visiting in Baltimore,
is at the Shoreham for a week. She
will go to Pittsburgh to visit friends
before returning to her home.
Miss Bertha Richardson OF Spring
field, Mass, is at the Dodge.
Miss Helen Thomas of Boston, Mass,
is at the Shoreham for an indefinite
visit on her way home from Florida.
Miss Lewis R. Smith Of Sutton place,
New York City, accompanied by Miss
Kathryn Brehn, came to Washington
yesterday to spend some time, and have
taken an apartment at Wardman Park
Hotel.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Junior Prom of St. Paul's
Academy Thursday Nigh,

The Junior Prom of st. Paul's Acad-
emy was held Thursday night, in the
Garden House of the Dodge Hotel. The
ball room was decorated with Spring
flowers and japanese lanterns. The
chaperones were Mr.. and Mrs. c. H.
Knott and Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Jackson.
The patronesses each wore corsage
bouquet Of Talisman roses and lilies OF
the valley, a gift from the junior class.
Each senior was presented with a
dainty necklace as a favor.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Washington Bachelors
Select Cotillion Dates

Oficers of the Washington Bachelors
Cotillions have selected December IL
January and February 13 as the dates
for the 1928 series of balls, to be
given at the Mayhower. This will be
the fifth season for these delightful and
successful affairs when it has been the
custom to invite lady from the diplo-
matte, cabinet, senatorial and residen-
tial circles to stand in the receiving line
at each one of the balls
Ohicers of the Washington "bache-
lors" include Brig. Gen. William E. Hor-
ton, president; Mr.. George H. Calvert
jr., vice president; Mr. william Bowie
Clarke, secretary, and Mr.. c. Bascom
Slemp, treasurer. Maj. Gen. George
Owen Squier Is chairman Of the Floor
Committee.
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amusements for both adults and chill

amusements for both adults and chill
dren.
Mrs. McNary wife of Senator Charles
L. McNary, is in charge of the fete for
the National Woman's Country Club,
and Nine. de Mauduit for the Colonial
Danes. The grounds, with the pictur-
esque club house dominating the scene
and furnishing an ideal background,
will be dotted with colorful booths and
card tables will be placed at vantage
points. Reservations for these may be
made through Mrs George T. Marye,
Mrs. j. Harry Covington or Mrs. Frank
Anderson.
Family cake boxes may be replenished
from the table where cakes and pas
tries will be on sale, under the super
vision of Mrs. Hastings, wife Of Senator
Daniel O. Hastings, and Mrs. Barbour,
wife of Senator William H. Barbour.
Mrs McNary has charge Of the arrange
ments for ice cream and Mrs. Charles
Mason Remey is directing plans for tea
and supper. Following the supper there
will be varied entertainment pro-
gram, ending with dance.
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william E. Evans of California, will
leave this afternoon for Los Angeles to
join their daughter, Miss Catherine
Evans, and Representative Evans will
remain in Washington until Congress
adjourns, staying at Wardman Park
| Hotel, where they have been established
during the season.
The alien property custodian and Mrs.
Howard Sutherland have visiting them
their daughter, Mrs. John S. Walker,
jr., of Huntington, w. Va, and also
their little granddaughter, Harriet
Lyon. Mrs. Walker will spend some
time with her brother-in-law and sis
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Harris, in
their new home before returning to
Huntington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse H. Jones have re-
turned to their apartment at the May
flower from brief visit in New York
City Mr.. Jones Is one of the directors
Of the Reconstruction Finance Corpo-
ration.
commandant at Fort Myer, left last eve
AAAS W NAoAb AlCl MISS MAI
Cootes, at Smith College.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. James E. Fechet
will be joined tomorrow by their daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Fechet, who is in Balti-
more over Sunday.
The former commandant of the Army
War College and Mrs. William D. Con-
nor have gone to the formers new post
at West Point.
Col. Leon B. KRONER Is acting COM
mandant of the college until the ar
rival of Gen Simonds shortly.
Lieut.. Goodwin Ordway U. s. A., and
Mrs. Ordway will arrive in Washington
shortly from Fort Benning Ga, and will
spend two months here before going to
West Point, where Lieut.. Ordway has
been transferred for duty at the Mill
tary Academy.
Mrs. George Barnett has returned to
Washington from Annapolis, where she
went to attend the Inauguration of her
nephew, Mr. Douglas H. Gordon, as
president of St. Johns College.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Colonial Fete Champetre
At Woman's Country Club

Charming in conception is the Colo
NAL fete champetre to be given under
the joint auspices of the national Wom-
ans Country Club and the Colonial
Danes Club 1t will take place Tuesday,
May 10, in the grounds of the National
Woman's Country Club, which will be in
full Springtime beauty. The long
stretches of grass and the sloping ter
race will furnish an ideal setting for
this gala festival and the plans Of the
committee include attractions and
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Silver Tea Saturday for
Pavne DIVINITY School

The ladies of the Woman's Auxiliary
of three parishes-St. Thomas, st. Mar
garet and All Souls Memorial Church
will give a garden party and silver
tea Saturday afternoon from 4 to
O'Clock in the garden of Mrs. George
E. Torey, at 3155 Highland avenue, In
Cleveland Park, for the Bishop Payne
Divinity School, American church in
stitute for Negroes. Autos will meet
people at the foot of Newark street
and Connecticut avenue.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Normal School Class
Plans Benefit Party

The June class of 1927 Of the James
Ormond Wilson Normal School will give
benefit card party at the Hotel Roose-
velt Tuesday evening at o'clock The
proceeds are to be a class contribution
to the student loan fund Of the Wilson
Teachers College.
The committee includes Miss Ruth X.
Mahoney. chairman; Miss Alice Van
doren, Miss Florence Richardson, Miss
Ruth Heilig. Miss Irma Gordon and
Miss Norma Boylan.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
1nvitati Issued for
Latin American Concert

The director general Of the Pan
American Union, DR.. Leo s. Rowe, has
sent out invitations for a concert of
Latin-American music by the United
States Marine Band and a group of
guest artists on the esplanade of the
Pan-American Union Building, Thurs
day evening, May l9. at 8 O'clock.
Evening star., 1932-05-01

Tucker, Mrs Ashmeade Fuller and Mrs.
McCook Dunlop.
Mrs. Bishop, wife Of Gen. Harry G..
Bishop. will have charge of the ciga-
rette booth; Mrs. Jarvis, wife of Col.
Marvin Jarvis, the ice cream booth:
Miss Margaret Beale, the miscellaneous
booth, and Mrs. Lutz Wahl is chairman
of the whole committee. Attractive
luncheons and teas will be served each
day, and the proceeds are for the bene-
fit of the Army widows and orphans.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Miss Elsie Hill at Tea at
Belmont House Tomorrow

The National Woman's Party tea will
be given this afternoon at their head
quarters in Alva Belmont House, at
l44 street northeast. Miss Elsie Hill,
Connecticut State chairman Of the
Woman's Party, will preside.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Annual Hunt Ball Will
Be Given In the Au*umn

The annual hunt ball, which has been
given at the Mayflower during the Ma
tional Capital Horse Show the past
three years, has been postponed this
year until october at the time of the
international Fox Hunt Association
meet to be given in Washington.
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Mrs. Herridge has been in their Cana
dian home since early Winter.
The charge d'affaires of Uruguay,
Mr.. j. Richling, will come to WASH
ington Tuesday to spend several days.
The retiring first secretary of the
Egyptian legation and Mime. Ally Ismail
Bey will sail Thursday aboard the
American export liner Exeter, to return
to their homeland
The assistant military attache of the
French embassy, Maj. Emmanuel Lom-
bard, has returned from France, where
he went to settle the estate of his
late father.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Vice President Curtis
Attends Hunt Cup Race
At Worthington Club

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Evening star., 1932-05-01

Mr.. and Mrs. julius Tolson of Piney
Point, Md, entertained Capt. and Mrs.
James w. Webb during the past week
Capt and Mrs. Webb recently returned
from Nicaragua and will be stationed
at Cuantico, Va
Evening star., 1932-05-01

Mrs Anthony j. Zaumeyer of Mil
waukee, Wis, is the guest of her son
and daughter -in-law, DR.. and Mrs. VIII
liam J. Zaumeyer, on Porter street.
Miss Margaret Louise O'Brien went
TO Richmond, Va. last week to be
Evening star., 1932-05-01
Ambassador of Spain
To Fete Navy Secretary

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Evening star., 1932-05-01

Mrs. Calvin D. Paige of Southbridge,
Mass, is at the Carlton for 10 days,
accompanied by Miss Emma L. Dresser,
also of Southbridge.
Evening star., 1932-05-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse H. Jones have re-
turned to their apartment at the May
flower from a brief visit in New York
City. Mr.. Jones Is one of the directors
Of the Reconstruction Finance Corpo-
ration
Evening star., 1932-05-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles j. Sheffield of
New Rochelle. N. Y, will arrive in
Washington Thursday from Miami,
where they spent the season in their
Winter home. They will be at Ward
man Park Hotel for several days, visit
ing their son, Mr.. Charles Sheffield,
jr., a post graduate student at Catho-
lie University,
Evening star., 1932-05-01

Mrs. Harry N. Cootes, wife Of the
commandant at Fort Myer, left last eve
ming to visit her daughter, Miss Mary
Cootes, at Smith College.
Evening star., 1932-05-01

Mrs. S. M. Ransdell and Miss Char
iotte Ransdell spent last week at the
New Chamberlin Hotel at Old Point
Comfort with Comdr. N. B. Ransdell,
U. S. N.
Evening star., 1932-05-01

Mr.. and MIS-. Henry Kaiser of Oak
land, Calf, are at the Shoreham for
a week. They will visit in New York
and Boston before returning TO their
home.
Evening star., 1932-05-01

Mr.. and Mrs j. Paul McCulloch Of
New York City, frequent visitors to
Washington, have been the guests Of
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Walker in
their apartment at Wardnan Park
Hotel for several days.
Evening star., 1932-05-01
President to Be Guest
AT Dinner on Tuesday

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Evening star., 1932-05-01

Maj. Gen. and Mrs. James E. Fechet
will be joined tomorrow by their daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Fechet, who is in Balti-
more over Sunday.
Evening star., 1932-05-01

Irs. Herridge has been in their Cana
ian home since early Winter.
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-30
HEIR TO LARGE
FORTUNE KEEPS
PULLING WEEDS

SANTA ROSA, Calf, Sept. 80.
U.P- George Slaughter, 65-year-
old laborer, plugged away at his
$12-a-week job today, refusing to
become excited over a Windfall
that sky-rocketed him into the
class of a multi-millionaire.
Slaughter's attorney, r. M.
Quackenbush, has just confirmed
a report that the laborer is heir
to one-third of an estate embrace
ing Texas oil lands valued at
$28, 100000.
They tell me it'll take six
months to probate the estate,
Slaughter explained, pulling weeds
in the city park, where he gets
So per day.
ct took me longer than that
to get this job, and I'm not going
to give it up, although it looks
as though I'll be able to ride to
work in a limousine soon."
Qupckenbush declared ne has
positively established the rights of
Slaughter, his sister, Mrs. Lydia
Woodhurst, and his brother in
Missouri, as sole heirs to the ire
mendous fortune.
John B. Slaughter, of Wichita
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-30
CENTURY
MARK In SPITE
OF MUCH COFFEE

ST. JOE, Ark, Sept. 80. U.P)-
Grandma, Mrs. Caroline Arnold
who recently passed her 101st
birthday, and rode horses until
10 years ago." SCOTS at the idea
of some-that coffee is injurious.
why, in my childhood I cried
for coffee" she said, land I like
it black. My lunch basket always
had a bottle of it. And until to-
day I believe it helped me live SO
long.
"You know" she reminisced, cit
wouldn't surprise me if 1 lived to
be 2O0."
Grandma" as she is called can
still read large print without
specs She always has liked
Sweets" including candy, cake
and fruits. She also is an "ad'
for the tobacco companies. She
declared. "I have used tobacco
more than a score of years.
She has ridden in everything
from an OK cart to a train, but has
no desire to ride in an airplane.
She gave up horseback riding 10
years ago, "when automobiles be-
came too thick on the roads,
Grandma" comes from a "long-
lived" family. A brother, Newton
Owens, is 81, and another, zack,
is 30. Both live near Russellville.
A sister, Cynthia, died at 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-30

Future Farmers from Hanford
won about $500 in prize money at
the state fair.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-30
Friends Attend
Gresham Rites

Funeral services for John Gresh-
am, widely known resident of I'M
perial Valley for over Is years,
were held at $50 this afternoon
from the Elks lodge rooms on Main
street.
The Elks' ritual was followed out
during the services. Interment was
in Evergreen cemetery Friends who
have known Gresham during his
many years of private and public
life here attended the services.
Pail bearers selected for the SER
vices were Tom Potts, Mike Year
gin, Tex Cornelisoh, Carl Brown,
Romeo Smith, Dr. H. Hooper,
George Varney and M. o. King.
Gresham came to Imperial Val
ley Is years ago from Los Ange-
les. In a business capacity he was
known for his activities in the
merchandising business. Politically
he was connected with the Ameri-
can Conservation club.
He was born in Mcoile, Alabama,
January /, 1872. His only survivor
is his wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-30
LETTER WRITTEN
BY SOLDIER Is
DELIVERED LATE

SHREVEPORT, La, Sept. so.
| U.P)-Worn and crumpled from IA
years of handling, letter mailed
by his son from an unnamed town
in France Just two weeks after the
end of the World war, has reached
F.. w. FarroW, of New Orleans,
who is visiting another son, George
Farrow, here.
The letter was mailed on Nov
ember IS, 1918, by Cary Farrow,
then a sergeant in the headquar-
tiers detachment, Seth division, A.
E. F. The day was Fathers day
and the message bore greetings
from a son who escaped death in
the war, to the elder Farrow, who
then lived in Victoria, Tex.
Cary Farrow is still alive, and
now lives in Houston, is married,
and has two children.
The letter, which came like a
voice from the past, bore no indi-
cation of what had caused the de-
lay in delivering it. 1t was post
marked "U. S. Army Postoffice,
p. M, November 25, M.P.E.S.,, and
bore the censor's seal: "AEF.
passed as censored, 2466.'
Although the missive was adj
dressed to "F. w. Farrow, Victoria,
Tex, U.S.A., it was delivered to
the son, George Farrow, here,
while the elder Farrow was visit
ing him. The writing was plain
and there were no more postmarks
except one on the back reading:
Shreveport, La, July 81, IL a. M,
1892"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-30
HEART ATTACK
PROVES Fatal.
!. TO 7. ]. TUBB

Funeral services for T. j. Tubb,
we'll known rancher of the Bond S
Corner district, will be held at the
funeral parlors of B. E. Lemons
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
with Rev. @. P. Roger of the CAL
exico Methodist church officiating.
The body will be taken to San Di-
ego for burial.
Death occurred at the family
home seven miles east of Calexico
yesterday following sudden heart
attack.
He is survived by his widow, two
sons, Thomas j. Tubb, Jr., of
South Pasadena, formerly en-
ployed on The Press, and Theo-
dore; two daughters, Hazel and
Marjorie Tubb; four brothers and
four sisters.
The family came to the valley Is
years ago from Lewiston, Montana,
after short stay in San Diego,
and the Tubb ranch was known
throughout the southwest for its
excellent pecan grove, the deceased
having pioneer pecan culture in
the valley.