Evening star., 1934-04-17
SOCIETY.
President Roosevelt Host at Lunch
Today in Honor of President
Vincent of Haiti.


Herr Gerrit Won Haefton, attache of
te German embassy in Washington
and son of Frau Eli Won Haefton of
Berlin and the late Emo Ernst Won
Haefton, former German Minister to
Colombia. Fraulein Luther was born
in Berlin and after the death of her
mother she made her home with Prof.
Edmund J. Koerner and Frau Koerner
in Essen, Germany. where she was
educated. She took her degree at Vic
toria School in Essen and became a
student of philosophy at the Univer-
sity of Bonn. Fraulein Luther came
to this country last September to
join her father and was presented to
society by him last Winter. She and
her flance met in Washington.
Herr Won Haefton was born at Wei
mar and educated there while his
father was abroad, making his home
with his uncle, Gen. Won. Haefton He
studied law at the Universities of Ma
pies. Goettingen and Berlin and after
receiving his degrees was appointed as
assessor to the Juridical Court in
Prussia. He entered the foreign Office
in 1928, where he served until he
came to Washington as attache of the
embassy in 1881. He served in the
cavalry during the war.
Fraulein Luther and Herr Won
Haefton are both in Germany. where
the former went in the late Winter
and the latter is on leave for a month
BE will return to Washington early
in May. Sunday Prof and Frau
Koerner, who visited in Washington
last Winter, gave a dinner party in
their home in Essen for Fraulien Lu-
ther and her flance and Saturday
Gen. Won Haefton, uncle of Herr Won
Haefton, was host at dinner in their
honor in his home in Pottsdam.
The wedding will take place in the
Autumn in Washington.
The Minister of Denmark and Nine
WadSted were hosts at dinner last
evening having among their guests
the Minister OF Finland. Mr.. Astrom;
the Minister of the Irish Free State
and Mrs. MacWhite and Senator
Royal S. Copeland.
The Minister of Canada and Mrs.
Herridge will entertain a company of
"A at dinner tomorrow evening in
compliment to Mr.. and Mrs. j. w.
Defoe of Winnipeg, Canada. Mrs.
Herridge has been at White Sulphur
Springs for brief visit.
Mrs. Steiwer, wife of Senator Fred
erlck Steiwer of Oregon will be hostess
tomorrow afternoon from 4 to s
o'clock in honor of Mrs. John Rich
ardson, State regent of the N. S.
D. A. r. from Oregon, her other
guests being members of the Oregon
State delegation to the congress of
the D. A. R.
Mrs. Royal S. Copeland, wife of the
Senator from New York, has returned
to her apartment at the Shoreham.
where she is convalescing from a re-
cent illness.
Representative and Mrs. John H.
Kerr have returned to the Hamilton.
after visit to their home in War
renton, N. C. Mrs. Kerr will remain
in the Capital until May, when she
VIII return to Warrenton for a brief
visit and continue to San Francisco.
Calf, to visit her son, Mr.. James
Yancey Kerr, who is Pacific Coast
manager for the Brown Williamson
Tobacco Co. Representative Kerr will
join them in San Francisco later in
the Summer.
Representative Virginia E Jenckes
OF Indiana will be guest at the din
ner to be given this evening at the
Mayfower by the Daughters of the
American Revolution of Indiana. To-
morrow morning Mrs. Jenckes is en-
tertaining at breakfast at 8 o'clock
In the House restaurant in compli-
ment to the entire D. A. R. delega-
ton from Indiana. and tonight they
nave been invited to attend the meet
ing Of the Indiana State Society.
Mrs. Roscoe c. O'Byrne, State re-
gent of Indiana, will be guest of honor
at tea to be given for the Indiana
delegation on Thursday at pm. by
Mrs. w. E. Ochiltree, national presi-
dent Of War Mothers.
Mrs. Martin L. Sweeney of Cleve-
land, Ohio, has arrived in the Capital
to join her husband, Representative
Sweeney, for week at the Hamilton,
where he resides during the con-
gressional session.