Evening star., 1933-11-11

A NUMBER OF dlnner parties Will De
given before the ball, which has as its
leading patrons the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt.
The Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. Woodin and the Secretary of
Commerce and Mrs. Daniel G. Roper
are among those In the cabinet circle
having boxes for the evening. Addi-
tional boxholders include Senator and
Mrs David A Reed, Senator and Mrs.
william II. King and Senator Robert
F. Wagner. Other patrons not already
announced are the director OF the
citizens conservation camps, Mr..
Robert Fechner; Mr. Justice James G..
McReynolds, Mrs. Frederick G. Hicks,
the commercial secretary of the British
embassy and Mrs. Mccormick Good
hart, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. William
Crozier, Mr.. William s. Corby and Mr..
Peter A Drury.
Among those on the interesting en-
tertainment program will be Miss Mil
dred Blagdon, mezzo-s soprano, and
Miss Evelyn Scott and Mr.. Arthur
Douglas dance team at Club Michel,
who are giving their services to swell
the relief fund, and Margaret Mary
EdmonSton, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Edmonston.
-Four members of the Presidents cabi-
net have accepted the invitation of the
American Legion to attend the annual
Armistice ball at the Mayfiower Hotel
this evening. According TO the an
nouncement made today by Mr.. Will
liam N Morell, general chairman of
the committee, the cabinet members are
the Secretary of War and Mrs. George
H. Dern. the Attorney General and Mrs.
Homer s. Cummings, the Secretary of
the Navy and Mrs. Claude A. Swanson
and the Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes.
The list Of the box holders for the
American Legion Armistice ball includes
the Assistant Secretary Of the Navy and
Mrs. Henry L. Roosevelt, the Solicitor
of the State Department and Mrs.
Green Hackworth, the Ambassador of
Brazil and Nine. de Lima e Silva, the
Minister of Greece and Nine. Sim
opoulos, the Minister of the Irish Free
State and Mrs. Michael MacWhite, the
Portuguese Minister and Nine. de
Bianchi, the Counselor of the Polish
Embassy and Mrs. Sokolowski, the
Minister of Yugoslavia, Dr. Leoanide
Pitamic; Senator J. Hamilton Lewis,
Justice and Mrs. Peyton Gordon, Justice
and Mrs. F. Dickinson Let's, Associate
Justice D. Lawrence Groner, Repre-
sentative D. G. Dobbins, Representative
G. J. Kelly. Representative <. s. Dirk
sen, Representative Leo W. Allen, Rep
resentative I. e. Thomson, the Com
mandant Of the Marine Corps and Mrs.
B. H. Fuller, the Commandant of the
United States Coast Guard and Mrs.
H, G. Hamlet, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Fred
erick W. Coleman, Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
C%aOrna Tnonh Rrfn
Frank T. Hines, Brig. Gen. William z.
Horton, Maj. Gen. and Mrs Preston,
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Greed F. Cox, Col.
and Mrs. Rufus Maddux, Col. Charles
B. Taylor, Maj and Mrs. Alfred B. Quin-
ton, Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Mrs.
Jacob L. Loose, DR.. B. G. MacNeil, Col.
j. Miller Kenyon. Capt. j. O'C. Roberts,
Capt. John Lewis Smith, Col. Rice w.
Means and DR.. Ivy Albert Pelzman.
Mrs. Charles Edward Riggs, chairman
Of the Debutante Committee, has an
nounced that the following debutantes
from the Army and Navy circles will act
as sponsors for the ball: Miss Betsy
Dern, daughter of the Secretary of War
and Mrs. George II. Dern; Miss Lucy
Fridell, daughter of Capt and Mrs.
w. L. Fridell; Miss Jeanne Louise Mad
dux, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Rufus
Maddux; Miss Helen Quinton, daughter
OF Maj. and Mrs. Alfred B. Quinton and
Miss Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of
Mrs. Hempstone.
OF the States. The participants in this
pageant and parade will be young ladies
who have been designated as the repre-
sentatives Of the various States and
territorial and insular possessions of
the United States
The Washington Shakespeare Guild
Will give nine scenes from THE Mer-
chant OF Venice" IN the Western Pres
byterian Church, at 1906 H street, this
evening. Miss Anne M. Fauntleroy is
the director.
Miss Durham to be Page
at Dedication Tomorrow.
Miss Mary Frances Durham of Mo-
bile, Ala, has been appointed to serve
as one Of the four pages at the dedica-
ton OF the memorial to Alabama SOL
diers OF the Confederacy which will take
place on the Battlefield at Gettysburg.
tomorrow at 2 o'clock.
The monument is being erected by
Alabama u. d. c. at a cost of 1000,
and Will be unveiled in the presence of
notables by Mrs Lewis Sewall of Mo-
bile. Miss Durham Is the daughter of
Mrs. Ruffln Durham, Alabama writer,
| and IS a sophomore at st. Josephs
College at Emmitsburg, Md. She comes
Of family which gave distinguished
service to the Southern cause.
Senator Black of Alabama will pre-
sent the monument and an Assistant
Secretary Of the Interior viii receive it.
Miss Durham Is cousin of Gen and
Mrs. Jefferson Randolph Kean of Wash
ington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan Macpherson
have motored to their home in Chicago
after a brief visit in Washington, stop
ping at the Lee House.
Mrs. william H. Biester of Drexel
Hill, Pa, recently elected president of
the American Legion Auxiliary, is a
guest at the Maydower while In Wash
ington.
Mrs. j. F. Daily and daughter, Miss
M. M. DAILY Of Portland, Oreg., are on
an, extended motor trip through the
East. and are at the Dodge while in the
Capital.
Mrs. Anne E. Murphy Is the guest of
her son-in-law and daughter, DIR. Frank
Kermit Soukup, United States Navy,
Minute Mystery
Solution to
CLASS DAY.
(See Page A-4)
The bullet hit the target
browns head, because the bull
let in the gun before firing moved
in the same direction and with
the same velocity as the target.
Hence there is no relative motion
between gun and target. When