Evening star., 1934-08-13
Engagement Of Wide Interest
Announced Here Today.

Engagement of Wide Interest
Announced Here Today. ---
Senator and Mrs. Alben w. Barkley
of Kentucky announce the engage
ment Of their daughter, Laura, to Mr..
Douglas Macarthur, second son of Mrs.
Arthur Macarthur, and nephew of the
chief Of staff, U. S. A., Gen. Douglas
Macarthur. The wedding of Miss
Barkley and Mr.. Macarthur will take
place August 81 at o'clock in the
afternoon in the home of the brides
parents in this city.
The engagement of Miss Barkley
and Mr.. Macarthur Is of more than
usual interest in the Capital, where
they are prominent members of the
younger set. The bride-elect was one
of the most popular debutantes Of
her year. She graduated from Holton
Arms in 1929 and attended the Sophie
Newcomb School at New Orleans, La;
American University and George Wash
ington University, here, and for the
past year has been studying law at the
National Law School. She is an ac-
complished equestrienne and, like her
future husband, is fond of all sports.
Mr.. Macarthur graduated from the
Milton Academy in 1928 and from
Yale in 1882. He recently passed the
foreign service examination and is
now waiting for his assignment. He
is q lieutenant in the Reserve Corps
and is on active duty at the War De-
partment. Mr.. Macarthur played on
the Yale foot ball team and is one
of the outstanding tennis players in
this city. He is a member of several
fraternities. including VOLTS Head
Senator Robert A. Wagner is the
and Psi Upsilon of Yale University.
guest of DR.. and Mrs. Harold j. Har-
ris, at Westport, N. Y, where he is
convalescing from injuries received in
q recent automobile accident.
Mrs. Copeland, wife of Senator
Royal S. Copeland, is spending today
in her apartment at the Shoreham
Tomorrow she will 60 to her lodge at
Venice, Fla, to spend month. Sen
ator Copeland is on q fishing trip
with friends in Maine.
Representative and Mrs. Robert
Low Bacon and their daughters, Miss
Alexandria Bacon, Miss Virginia
Bacon and Miss Martha Bacon, have
gone to Newport and are guests of
the chief Of protocol and Mrs. James
Clement Dunn.
The charge d'affaires Of Switzerland,
M. Louis H. Michel, returned today
from Hot Springs where he spent
the week end. The secretary of the
Italian embassy, Signor Giuseppe
Tommasi, also was at Hot Springs
over Sunday.
The attache of the Belgian embassy
and Nine. Walravens are remaining
IN washington through the mid-Sum-
mer and the formers parents, M.
Alfred Walravens and Nine. Wal
ravens, have come from their home
in Brussels, Belgium, to spend a. part
OF the time with them. M. and Nine.
Walravens. sr, are staying at the
Shoreham.
Dean and Mrs. Justin Miller of
Duke University, Durham, N. c.. are
now settled in their apartment at the
Wardman Park Hotel for the coming
season. Dean Miller is the new
special Assistant Attorney General.
The United States Ambassador at
large and Mrs. Norman H. Davis en-
tertained at luncheon yesterday in
their Summer home, Oronoque, at
Stockbridge, Mass, in compliment to
their house guests, Lady Drummond,
wife Of the British Ambassador to
Rome, and their daughters, Miss
Drummond and Miss Margaret Drum
1nond, who left later in the afternoon
for Long Island, where they are guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt in
their Summer home at Oyster Bay.
Former Secretary Of the Treasury
and Mrs. Ogden L. Mills who are
cruising along the cost aboard their
yatch Avalon, spent the week end at
Bar Harbor and had with them aboard
Mr.. and Mrs Courtlandt D. Barnes
and Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin A. Fish.
Mr.. Victor OsiaS, son Of the resi-
dent Filipino commissioner and Mrs.
Camilo Osias, will celebrate his sew
enteenth birthday anniversary this
evening in the home Of his parents at
3157 Eighteenth street. Mr.. Osias
recently returned from the Peddie