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Evening star., 1934-04-08
Masked Ball Last Night
At Italian Embassy Cav

Mrs. Curtis B. Dali, daughter Of
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, was
among the several hundred guests
at the italian embassy when the three
bachelor secretaries, Signor Bartolo-
meo Mignone, Signor Giuseppe Tom
mast and Signor Andrea Ferrero, gave
brilliant masked ball. Many din
ner parties preceded the ball, the
guests arriving about IL o'clock and
unmaSking took place at 2:30 o'clock,
after which buffet supper was
served.
Among those who entertained at
dinner last evening before the party
were the counselor of the French en-
baSsy, M. Jules Henri; Mr.. and Mrs.
DemareSt Lloyd, Mr.. and Mrs. Vim
ton Chaplin and Mrs. Tracy Dows.
The Undersecretary of State and Mrs.
William Phillips had guests dining
informally with them before the ball.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Capital and Other
ENGAGEMENTS Are
Formally Listed
DR.. and Mrs. Gregg Birdsall
Announce Betroshal of
Daughter to Ebert ].
Howell.

DIR. and Mrs. Gregg BirdSall an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Mary-Stuart to Mr.. Elbert
Jerome Howell, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Arthur H. Howell.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. Wallace w.
Hanger of Washington and New York
announce the engagement of their
daughter Harriet Turner to Mr.. Rich
ard Hickey Lott.
Miss Hanger is a graduate of Hol-
ton Arms and attended Smith College,
and is now in New York with her
parents.
Mr.. Lott is a graduate of Swarth-
more and Penn State College. He is
member of the faculty of Columbia
Preparatory School, New York City.
No date has been set for the wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas E. Turner
announce the engagement of their
daughter Martha Garner to Herbert
Harry Denham of Miami, Fla, for
merly of Washington. The wedding
will take place in early June.
Col. and Mrs. William r. Phelps
Of Bedford. Va, announced on Friday
Continued on Page 3, Column ID
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Mrs. Dali Heads List for
Gentlewomen's League

Arrangements have been completed
for the annual card party to be
given for the benefit of the Gentle
women's League at the Shoreham Ho-
tel Thursday afternoon at 2::30
o'clock. Mrs. Curtis B. Dali heads
the list of partonesses, which in
cludes Miss Mabel Boardman, Mrs.
Alfred P Thorn, Mrs. Frederick De-
lano, Mrs. Helen Kay Hagner, Mrs.
William H. Baldwin, Mrs. Dewitt Tai
madge, Mrs. Daniel Devose, Mrs. Perry
Heath, Mrs. Beale R. Howard, the
Misses Sedgley, Mrs. Henry Alvah
Strong, Mrs. B. L. Hardin, Mrs.
Dwight Chester and Mrs. Gary
Grayson.
The league is a philanthropy of
long standing here and is for the pur-
pose of ai6ing gentlewomen to sup
port themselves. Mrs. James c.
Cumming, 2801 Thirty fourth place
northwest, has charge of the tickets
for tables.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Wright-Lone Wedding in
London O. Interest Here

The marriage l. Miss Esther Long,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. G..
Long of Denver, Colo, to Mr.. Mi
chael Robert Wright, former secretary
OF the British embassy in Washing
ton, took place yesterday in London.
The ceremony was performed in
Christ Church before a large COM
pany and Mr.. Wright and his bride
left later for a wedding trip. They
will return to London, where Mr..
Wright is on duty at the foreign
office, having been transferred there
from his post in Washington.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Senator and Mrs. Bulow to
Receive at New Deal Ball

The receiving line for the New Deal
ball, which is being given by the Dem
ocratic League at Wardman Park Ho-
tel on Tuesday, will be headed by the
president of the league, Mr.. Arthur
Clarendon Smith, and Mrs. Smith.
The presentations will be made by
Mrs. Benjamin Soule Gantz and 9TH
ers receiving will be Senator and Mrs.
William j. Bulow, Representative and
Mrs. Tilman B. Parks and Mrs. J.
Borden Hartman,
Evening star., 1934-04-08
BY SALLIE V. ii. PICKETT.


4 great treat awaits Washington
society Tuesday evening, when the
Ambassador of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics and Mrs. Troy
anovsky open the doors of the old
imperial Russian embassy for their
first reception. The new guiSe of
the handsome building is not less
attractive than in the former regime
and better arranged to meet the de-
mands OF a pulsating new republic.
And, strangely enough. While AM
bassador Troyanovsky is preparing his
sumptuous embassy here, the United
States embassy in Moscow is turn
ing back to the days of Jeffersonian
simplicity. Monticello is said to give
the plan for the embassy proper, and,
of course, that will call for the sub
stantial but elegant Colonial furni-
ture of Jefferson's day. But whether
the Soviet embassy here is to the
liking of the new diplomat or not, he
is making the best of it, and, speak
ing worlds for his simple tastes is
his reception and work room, which
shows elegant simplicity. A large,
roomy desk-table, comfortable chairs.
plenty Of light and in convenient
touch with the Offices of his embassy
staff. As in all the rooms of the
embassy there is a priceless Bokhara
Ng on the highly polished floor
The first or ground floor of the
house, ornate in Louis XIV and Louis
XVI decoration, is having its vaStness
somewhat disturbed, since rooms are
being taken off on either side of the
entrance for office use or cloak rooms
while for the ladies there is the
quantity called powdering room, where
my lady may take as prolonged a
squint at her makeup as she likes
before ascending the broad and elab-
crate stairway to the chambers OF
state. The stately drawing room
stands almost in it's original furnish
ing, the French furniture being copies
while the concert grand Steinway
piano was chosen by the Ambassador
himself, as were the rugs that cover
the drawing room floor.
In this vast and stately chamber
SS10 oNA-SAAAN
are large vases and ornaments, largely
antiques, from the Union of Soviet
Republics and few of the rarest
museum pieces, sent by the Soviet
government as a tribute to the gooo
taste in art of the people Of the
United States. Forty or more paint
ings are being hung, the work OF
contemporary Russian artists, includ-
ing Kustodieff, Aiwozowsky, Rerick
Kuinge and others.
However, it is the State dining
room that appeals the most in its
richness and grandeur. The paneleo
walls give a fine setting for the mas
sive buffet, ponderous table and chairs
and several side tables of a period
fitting the rest of the room. In this
room there hangs the antique Rus
sian lighting fixture of the sixteenth
century done by Venetian workmer
and covered by one of the larges
blown globes in existence, its orna'
ments are of the most brilliant Rus.
sian quartz that outshine the famou.
crystal chandeliers of the White
House.
Mrs. Troyanovsky-an she prefer
the American prefix to the MADAME
of the French-selected the colorinl
for the entire mansion to correspond
with the predominating shades O
red in the Bokhara rugs and wal
panelings, but for her own boudoi
there are soft blues and wood colors
with rugs chosen to correspond
Showing her domestic tastes, too
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Mrs. Morgenthau Receiving
Wednesday Afternoon

Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., wife
of the Secretary of the Treasury, will
receive Wednesday afternoon from 4
to o'clock.
Mrs. David A. Reed will give a tea
Tuesday afternoon, April II, in honor
of the delegates to the annual con-
gress, Daughters of the American
Revolution from Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Navy Unit Red Cross
Omits Weekly Meeting

The usual Tuesday morning meet
ing of the Navy Red Cross unit, of
which Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife
of the Secretary of the Navy, Is chair
man, will not be held Tuesday of
this week. The next meeting of the
unit will be held Tuesday, April II,
and subsequent Tuesdays.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

Continued on Page 3, Column 10
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Wedding
Surprise to Society

Mrs. Martha C. Griggs announces
the marriage of her daughter, Charlie,
to Lieut.. Comdr. M. r. Browning, u.
s.. N, Friday, April 6. Comdr. and
Mrs. Browning have taken an apart
ment at the Shoreham.
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parently well, but who have had the
disease at some time, and who con-
tinue to discharge the typhoid germs.
If such persons are careless in their
personal habits-that is, if they neg
lect to wash the hands thoroughly af-
ter visiting the toilet and before hand
ling or preparing food-they will be
likely to contaminate any food they
touch. Flies carry germs from sew
age to food, and are another source of
danger.
Typhoid fever is contracted by way
of the mouth-through water, milk or
other foods contaminated by typhoid
germs.
Departments of Health, State, City
and County, are waging constant war
fare against typhoid. Careful medi-
cal supervision of persons suffering
from the disease; protection Of pubic
water supplies from pollution; pas
tcurization Of milk; inspection and sup
ervision of food supplies; and indivi-
dual and community cooperation in
the sanitary disposal of sewage, have
greatly reduced the danger from ty-
phoid, but there are still sources of
infection to which individuals may be
exposed, for which vaccination affords
the only protection.
80, go to your doctor-if you hav-
emit been protected recently aainst
the disease-and have it done. 1t
takes some little time for the vac
cine to take effect-therefor don't
wait until you are ready to start off.
"The State Department of Health
furnishes the vaccine to physicians
without charge. Your only expense
will be the doctors fee"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-05-18
BE- INNOCULATED
BEFORE STARTING
SUMMER TRIP

If you are jotting down some of the
things you want to take with you, or
attend to, before you start on your
trip this summer put at the head of
the list-if you haven't been vaccinat-
ed against typhoid within the last
two or three years-as Item l,
"Go to my doctor for the three inno-
culations that will protect me again
st typhoid fever"
The advice to do this comes from
DR.. r. II. Riley, Director of the State
Department of Health-and is given
to boy and girl scouts, and to all other
prospective campers, mixers and va
cationists, by automobile, boat, bus,
train, or even by air plane. "Have
yourself protected against typhoid
first" DR.. Riley says, land then go
on with your other preparations.
Three shots of typhoid vaccine, week
apart are necessary to complete the
protection against the disease.
"Typhoid fever is filth disease,
and every case comes either directly
OF indirectly from some previous case.
The germs that cause the disease pass
out of the system of a person who is
i'll with it, or who has had it at some
time, in the dischares from the bowels
and bladder. Unless great care is
taken to disinfect these discharges
before they are disposed of, the germs
spread into the soil, and pollute it,
or pass into streams or wells and
contaminate the water supply. An
other source of danger is to be found
in human carriers of the disease.
Carriers are persons who are ap-
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Mrs. E. w. Long and Mrs. Wallace
Covington spent Wednesday with
their mother, Mrs. Annie Merrill who
is a patient at the Salisbury Hospital.
She fell last week and crushed her
hip bone.
Mr.. George Merrill, of Baltimore,
Md, spent part of the week here with
relatives.
Miss Ann Mariner and Miss Ger
trude Mariner of Morristown, N. j.,
were dinner guests in the A. P. Long
home last Saturday.
Miss Florence Covington, of Drexel
Hill, Pa, is visiting at her brothers
home, Mr.. Wallace Covington.
Mr. and Mrs. w. V. Taylor visited
Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Taylor at Oak
Hall, last Sunday.
Mrs. Leonard Birmingham spent
last week at Milford, Del and Cam
bridge, Md, visiting her sister and
mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Byrd, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Dennis and Mrs.
May Dennis spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Clarke Smith at their home
near Beaver Dam, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Taylor visited
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bloxom, at Oak
Hail. Va, last Sunday.
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Snow Hill News
Continued from Page %

\SOilllHucu 1IOHl age ~
Miss Louise Duer of Ocean City,
spent the weekend with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Duer.
Mr.. Ray Blackboard of Baltimore
spent the weekend with his family
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Colvin Redden, of
Harrisburg, Pa, spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Burbage.
Mr.. r. Aida Jones entertained at
dinner party on Sunday. His guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Herman Adkins,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Jones, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Cash, Mr.. Wilbur Jones,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Burbage, Miss
Almeta Jones, Mr.. Stranger Sturgis
and Mr.. Harry Jones.
Mr.. Howard Hill of Washington,
spent the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles +. Hill.
Mr. al Mrs. William 0. Dckerson,
Mrs. Herman Parsons, Miss Mildred
Parsons spent the weekend in Phil
adelphla. They were accompanied
home by Mrs. Sarah E. Parsons who
has been in hospital there for sew
eral weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Taylor and
children, Mildred and Howard, Jr.,
spent the weekend with relatives in
Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Taylor en-
tertained the following at dinner on
Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs. M. Yllen and
children of Lewes, Mr.. and Mrs. Vic
tor Strickland and two daughters, Mr..
and Mrs. Marion Taylor of Berlin,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Birmingham and
two children, of Denton and Mr.. and
Mrs. Vaughn Taylor of Spence.
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LOVE POINT ROUTE
Autos Trucks Passengers-Freight

Observation-Disclosures
BALTIMORE and LOVE POINT
BY Steamer Philadelphia. Drive on and Drive on
Lv. BALTIMORE pier Light ST.
Mt MI, Daily except
DAV Dahy Saturday
700 A. M. $50 p. M. $50 p. Nj.
Lv. LOVE POINT (B. and E. r. r. Pier)
Daily except Douv Do,iv
Sunday
100 A. M. 1910 A. Nj. $50 p. Nj.
Autos 9nci. dhvcsl $3.50 each. ifueks
65 cents. Round Trip u0-day limit 800
SHORTRNS the WAY
~ TO and from the Eastern Shore
Baltimore and Eastern Railroad
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Cokesbury News

Mr.. Lyman l.. Long of Washington
d. c., visited relatives here last Sun
day morning.
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A CLASSIFIED AID GETS GOOD
RESULTS.
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glance at the U. S.
Cogwheel Tread will
convince you of IFS
rood-sripping qUoli-
ties.
Evening star., 1934-02-01
Magnetic Field Traps Studied
To Prevent Alcatraz EscaDe
U.S.. Considering Alarm Installation Thai
Viii Sound if Conrict approaches
Unguarded Wall.

the new San Francisco Bay prison for
hardened criminals.
A demonstration Of the device took
place recently at headquarters here of
the Prisons Bureau. When a person
approaches within several feet of the
charged area. Bates said. body capac-
ity'' caused disturbance of the mag
netic field. setting of an alarm. The
system would be controlled in such a
way that guards on their regular duties
would not affect the alarm.
U. S. Answer to Kelly.
The move on the part of Justice
officials to make the Federal prisons
more secure is the Government 5
answer to such desperados as George
machine Gum Kelly. who boaSted as
he entered Leavenworth some months
ago that he would be free before
Christmas Kelly and his companions
III the Urschel kidnaping-Harvey
Bailey and Albert Bates-are to be
transferred to Alcatraz when improve
ments" are completed there about two
months hence.
The police dogs. Of the breed used
as guides for the blind. are known as
"one-man dogs" because of their habit
Of attaching themselves to one master
and thereafter refusing to make
friends with any one else. Possessed
OF a keen sense of perception, the dogs
have been put through a special course
OF training to fit them for detecting
and attacking prisoners in the act of
attempting to escape.
Evening star., 1934-02-01
STANDARDS BUREAU
REDUCTION LIGHT
House Committee Cuts Only $794
From Budget, Fearing I'm
pairment.

The House Appropriations Committee
found that funds for the Bureau of
Standards had already been cut to the
danger point and so reduced the amount
only $794 under the budget recommen-
dations in reporting the annual ap-
preparation bill to the House yesterday.
This item was in the amount for sugar
testing apparatus.
In its report the committee empha-
sized that economies in operation have
resulted in such curtailment that it
did not feel futher economies would be
in the interest Of wise scientific prog
ress. The estimates therefore, amount
ing to $1,437,702, were approved, save
for the adjustment reductions of $794
resulting from an underestimate Of
funds to be transferred from other de-
partments of the Government.
charge Of the bill. said that the amount
granted will permit a continuation of
present investigations and will afford an
increase of about $4,000 under the
heading Investigation of Public Utility
Standards for studies of electrical haz-
ards and dangers connected with elec-
trical power supply as a part of the
safety code work, as we'll as an addition
Of about $4,000 under the heading
Standardization of Equipment" which
will allow work on simplified practice
and commercial standards and for ia
cilitating the use of specifications.
Evening star., 1934-02-01
HOUSE GROUP lAUDS
: PATENT OFFICE HEAD
Appropriations Committee Terms
{ Administration Busi-
: nesslike.

The House Appropriations Committee
strongly commended the new commits
tioner Of patents. c. p Coe, in report
ing to the House yesterday the appro-
priation bill covering the Patent Once
budget
THE Appropriations Committee was
much impressed with the busineSSlike
administration of the Patent Office un-
der its able commissioner c. P. Coe
and was pleased to note that the Office
will again be on more than self-sus-
tanning basis" said Chairman Oliver OF
the subcommittee that drafted the
report.
The only change made in the budget
estimates OF s4070.23l for the Patent
Once involves a reduction of IS 900 In
the amount estimated for the purchase
OF legal and other books of reference.
According to the testimony, the esti-
mated receipts for the Patent Office for
1885 are s4,60000O. On the basis of
the recommended appropriations. there
will be a net return of revenue over ex-
penditures of approximately s535.000.
The money carried in the bill will
provide 81 additional positions to be
used in the work of classification of
patents, both foreign and domestic.
Evening star., 1934-02-01
DE7RO|IR(|
AT&fN Low TIDE
2578 Families on Roll Best
lShowing Since Depres.
i sion Started.
n. the Associated Press.

D. the Associated Press
DETROIT. February General re-
employment, coming on the heels OF
Civil Works Administration projects,
has reduced the number Of Detroit
families actually needing relief to the
lowest point since the depression
started
AS recently as April 25. 1888. there
were 5l,6ll families on the welfare list
That meant, averaging four persons to
the family, that approximately one
seventh of Detroit's population, based
on the 1880 census, was dependent
upon the city.
Now there are 25.178 families on the
rolls. The number was lower in Au-
gust, 1882, and September, 1881, but in
both OF those periods. the department
explains. many hundreds of deserving
families were kept off the rolls because
the city had no money to care for them.
Demands for help reached their peak
last April but a second peak. almost
comparable. came November 29, with
1890 families receiving help.
A precipitate drop started in Decem-
ber when the transfer of potential wage
earners from welfare lists to c. w. A.
pay rolls began.
Evening star., 1934-02-01
FAVOR IMPROVEMENT
: OF BEN MURCH SCHOOL
Planning Committee Members of
G. W. A. Favor Plans for Four
Rooms of Second Story.

Improvement of the four rooms of
the second story of the Ben Murch
School has been approved in principle
by the Planning Committee of the
District Civil Works Administration
but action was postponed to await de-
cision by Congress on requested ad-
ditional funds for extension of the C.
w. A. program.
q The four class rooms have been used
by pupils although they are in a rough,
unfinished state. Because of their con-
dition, heat has not been adequate dur
ing the current severe weather and the
classes have had to be dismissed.
= There is considerable question as to
whether a fund of $4,000 can be raised
for the finishing of the rooms unless
Congress approves the request for ex-
tension Of the Civil Works program,
District officials said.
Evening star., 1934-02-01
By REX COLLIER.

In q further move to defeat the an
nounced purpose of several notorious
prisoners to escape at the first op-
portunity. the Federal Government is
considering the installation, possibly at
Alcatraz Island, OF an invisible. mys-
sound an alarm If a convict ventures
too near unguarded gates or walls.
If such contrivance Is adopted,
Sanford Bates, director of the United
States Bureau of Prisons, said today,
the mere entrance of human body
into the unseen electrical field will be
sufficient to notify prison officials that
unauthorized prOWlerS are in certain
area.
Esca pe -PrOOfneSs Sought.
Serious consideration is being given
to the device in connection with the
determination of the Department of
justice to make Federal penitentiaries
as nearly eScape-proOf as human in
genuity can make them. Already the
Government has ordered all steel bars
and barritrs at Alcatraz replaced by a
special steel that cannot be cut by
saw or chiSel, and, in addition the
department has purchased six Swiss
police dogs, trained for special prison
guard duty.
While details of the proposed cleo
trical installation are being withheld
pending further study of the plan,
Bates explained that the system oper-
ates somewhat on the principle of the
old-fashioned unshielded radio set,
which howled and sqealed when the
hand or other part of the body came
too close to the tubes.
A representative Of Federal Labora-
tories. a firm of protection engineers"
recent precautionary mea sures against
prison breaks, has gone TO AlCatraz To
study adaptability of the apparatus to
Evening star., 1934-02-01
Boys MOTHER LOSES
SUIT AGAINST CORONER
Directed Verdict Given Macdonald
in $4,000 Case Involving
Misplaced Heart.

A directed verdict in District Su-
preme Court yesterday cleared Coroner
A. Magruder Macdonald in a $4,000
charged with removing the transposed
heart of 17-year-old Michael Callas
Justice F. D. Let's directed the jury to
find in favor of the coroner
street in 1880. An autopsy revealed
that the boys heart was on the right,
instead of the left, side of his body.
His mother. Mrs Cleopatra Callas,
brought the suit, claiming that the
boys heart had been removed from his
body without her consent, and was not
returned with the body for burial.
Evening star., 1934-02-01
D. C.. VETERAN HONORED

The War Department has awarded
Purple Heart decoration to Michael B.
Driscoll, 2115 C street. in recognition
Of his services with the Army in France.
He is an employe in the Interstate
Commerce Commission and a member
of Ace Rasmussen Chapter Disabled
American Veterans, and Of Vincent
Costello Post. American Legion
The bestowal was made by his friend
and war comrade. Capt. Robert L.
Nesbit. U. S. A.. who is on duty at
the University Of West Virginia.
Evening star., 1934-02-01
DESTROYER HULL GIVEN
CHAMPAGNE LAUNCHING
Brooklyn Ceremony First Of Kind
for q. 3. Fighting Vessel
Since Pre-Prohibition.

BY the Associated Press.
BROOKLYN, February 1.-THE United
States Navy destroyer Hull became the
first fighting vessel In the Brooklyn
Navy Yard to be christened with real
champagne since pre-prohibition days
yesterday. Eleven-year- -old Patricia
Louise Platt smashed a bottle of the
beverage across the ships bows
The new destroyer slid down the ways
safely into the East River. When COM
pleted the vessel will cost $3,000,000.
Little Miss Platt is the great-grand-
daughter of Capt. Isaac Hull. who COM
manded the historic Old Ironsides in
the War of 1872, and for whom the
fighting craft was named.
Attending the ceremonies were Rear
Admiral Yates Stirling, Rear Admiral