Evening star., 1935-09-15
M 'AD00 AND BRIDE
|DEPART IN SECRET
Senator, II, and Nurse, 26,
Married in Historic
Landover Home.

Slender, gray-haired william Gibbs
McAdoo, 71-year-oId senator from
California, was married quietly yes
terday afternoon to Miss Doris I.
Cross, rs, Public Health Service nurse,
in the library of his son-in-law's his
toric home at Landover, Md.
Following a brief wedding supper,
the couple left on a wedding trip. Not
even the Senator's children, five Of
whom were present for the ceremony,
knew their destination.
A more serene setting for the nup-
tials scarcely could have been found
than the old Colonial brick farmhouse,
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Brice Clagett.
The house is situated on broad, tree
studded lawn and is called Beall's
Pleasure. The land is part Of a grant
made in 1706 by Charles Lord Balti-
more to Col. Ninian Beall, large
landowner Of his day. From 1894 to
1913, it belonged to Benjamin Stod-
dert. first Secretary Of the Navy.
Small Group at Wedding.
Only select little group of guests,
besides members of the grooms imme-
diate family, witnessed the wedding.
1t included Secretary of State and
Mrs. Cordell Hull, Secretary Of Com
merce and Mrs. Daniel c. Roper,
George Creel, writer; Admiral and
Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, j. F. T. O'Con-
nor, controller of the currency; Mrs.
]. M. Holton, friend Miss Mary
Cowles, a relative; Miss Mary Addison
Ingle, friend Of the brides mother,
who gave the bride away; Surg. Gen.
and Mrs. Hugh s. Cumming; Nine.
Emmanuel Lombard. wife Of the
French naval attache; Col. Robert c.
Ebert Of New York, Col. Edwin A.
Halsey, Secretary of the Senate, and
Senator McAdoo's secretary. Miss
Vera Ward.
Half an hour before the ceremony,
the Senator and his bride-to-be
emerged from the house and posed
on the front lawn for newspaper and
newsreel camera men. Senator Nc
Adoo, dressed in a double e-breasted
blue suit of the latest cut. was jovial,
joking with the photographers. Miss
Cross, who scarcely comes to his shoul-
der, smiled and said nothing. She
was dressed entirely in dark blue,
wearing a rough crepe travelling dress
composed of long tunic and pleated
skirt. an off-the-face hat with brief
veil. gauntlet gloves, 9 purse and
pumps.
License Issued at Home.
Now you stand on the hillside"
said the Senator jokingly, guiding her
to a small mound beside him that
seemed to lessen somewhat the diff
ference in their heights, as they posed
for last picture.
After the guests had begun 10 ar
rive, Brice Bowie, clerk of the Circuit
Court at Marlboro, hurried up with a
marriage license blank and issued the
license at the Clagett home.
Rev. Russell J. Clinchy Of the Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church Off
ciated at the ceremony, which lasted
just five minutes, beginning at 5:07
pm. There were no attendants for
the bride and no best man. The room
was decorated with Fall flowers and
plants The bride carried q bouquet
of lilies of the valley and yellow
roses.
After their wedding trip. the couple
plan to fly to the Pacific Coast to be
present during the forthcoming visit
of President Roosevelt. They will
spend the interval before the re-
convening OF Congress at their home
in Los Angeles.
Brides Father Disapproves.
The bride is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. r. j. Cross. Mrs. Cross. who
is in San Diego, Calf. said her daugh-
ter met Senator McAdoo when she en-
tered his home as nurse to attend
his family.
In Oakland. Iowa, her 55-year-old
father, an auctioneer said he does not
approve o. her marriage.
II don't care If he is a Senator and
a Democratic party leader" Cross
said. according to the Associated Press,
Il don't like the idea of Doris marry
ing q man II years old"
1t was the third marriage for Sem
ator McAdoo and the first for his
bride His first wife died in 1912. He
was divorced July. 1884, by his Sec
ond, the former Eleanor Wilson,
daughter Of the late President Wood
row Wilson, whom he married while
he was Secretary Of the Treasury and
her father was in the White House.
News Men Barred From House.
Members Of the Senator's family
present included two sons, Francis H.
and Robert H. McAdoo, of New York;
three daughters, Mrs. Edward S.
Cowles of New York. Mrs Clayton
Platt of Philadelphia and Mrs. Clag-
ett; Mrs. Cowles' husband and her
daughter, Miss Ferdanda de Mohr-
enschildt.
Newspaper men and photographers
we're barred from the house because of
lack of space, and only those specially
authorized were allowed within the
grounds.
Mr.. Clagett. once a newspaper man
and now a lawyer, prepared a press
release for the marriage under a
Landover. Nd. date line and in ac-
cepted newspaper style.
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