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Evening star., 1935-11-29
Parties Enliven
HOLIDAY Season

Col. and Mrs. Joseph Samuel Cecil
will entertain at an informal dinner
dance this evening at the Chevy Chase
Country Club for their daughter, Miss
caroline Cecil, who is a student at the
Ogontz School.
Col. and Mrs. B. T. Merchant of
Kensington, In, will entertain infor-
mally at dinner at the Shoreham this
evening in honor of Maj. and Mrs. W.
r. Gruber of the Naval War College. at
Newport, r. l., who are visiting Lieut.
Col. and Mrs. F. S. Besson in Wash
1ngton.
DR.. and Mrs. Charles Lester Marlatt
will entertain at dinner dance Mon
day, December 80, in their home. on
Sixteenth street in honor Of their
debutante daughter, Miss Constance
Marlatt, who is a student at Smith
College and who will spend the holi-
days with her parents and take part
in the gayeties Of the debutante and
younger set.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert r. Fleming Of
Edgemoor, Md, have issued invita-
tions for q tea to be held Saturday
December 81, when they will present
their daughter, Miss Edar Won
: Iengerke Fleming Miss Fleming Is
q student at wellesley College.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney
: were hosts at dinner and bridge last
! evening in compliment to Mr.. and
. Mrs. Benjamin Thaw.
MIR. and Mrs. John F. Sweeney, son
and daughter-in-la Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sweeney, are now at their home in
Charleston, W. Va. They spent a
few days in Washington the first of
I the week on their way from New York
ito Charleston. Mrs. Sweeney was
formerly Miss Alicia Rodgers.
] Mrs. Francis T. A. Junkin, OF
{ Chicago. who is visiting in Wash
dinner at the Shoreham Hotel ball
, room last evening. Her guests in
cluded the Bishop of Washington and
Mrs. James E. Freeman, the Rev. DR.
and Mrs. eZ Barney T. Phillips, Capt
and Mrs. Vincent M. Miles, Mr.. and
Mrs. John o. Crane and Miss Gisels
BinZ.
Mr. and Mrs. Crane are visiting
. in Washington briefly before return
ing to their home. in Rome, Italy.
Mr.. Crane Is Mrs. Junkin's STEP
grandson, and Is the son of Mr.
Charles r. Crane, former United
. States Minister to China. Mr.: John
o. Crane for several years was
special assistant to the President oi
Czechoslovakia.
Mrs. Junkin and her guest, Miss
Binz, the noted young German pianist,
will return to Chicago this week end
8 but Mrs. Junkin plans to come back
to Washington again next week.
= Miss Jane Fiddler, Of Santo Do
Evening star., 1935-11-29

~HE Secretary Of Labor, Miss
Frances Perkins. was ranking
guest at the luncheon given
Il today at the Mayfiower In
honor of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen.
United States Minister to Denmark,
by Mrs. D. A. McDougal, Democratic
national committeewoman OF Okla
homa, who is now in Washington.
The company also included Mrs.
Daniel c. Roper, Mrs. Joseph O'Ma-
honey, Representative Virginia Jenkes.
the Misses Moore, sisters of Mr.. r.
Walton Moore; Mrs. Harry Blair, Mrs.
Harllee Branch, Mrs. Blair Banister,
Mrs. Patrick ]. Hurley, Mrs. Grace
Bryan Hargreaves, Mrs. William
woodward Cook, Mrs. Paul Walker,
Mrs. John Buford, Mrs. Samuel Her
rick, Mrs. Edward B. Meigs, Mrs. Will
liam Jennings Price, Mrs. Green
Hackwortfl, Mrs. Roy Valance, Mrs.
Bert Hunt, Miss Vina Lindsay, Mrs.
Worth Bagley Daniels. Mrs. Howard
Nichols, Dr.. Frances Moon Butts,
Mrs. James Wolfe, Mrs. June Fickel.
Miss Sue White, Miss Laviria Engle,
Mrs. Newell Blair and Mrs. Harriet
Forsythe.
This afternoon the Assistant Attor-
ney General and Mrs. Harry H. Blair
will entertain at tea in honor OF Mrs
Owen.
The Undersecretary Of State, Mr..
William Phillips, will sail this eve
ming from New York for England,
where he will attend the London Ma
val Conference.
The Undersecretary and Mrs. Phil
lips were house guests over Thanks
giving day of DR.. and Mrs. Percy G..
Kammerer at Avon Old Farms, pre-
paratory school for boys at Avon,
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Also Capt. and Mrs. William B. Pule.
ston, Comdr. and Mrs. Stuart A.
Greig and Comdr. and Mrs. c. q.
Moore.
Rear Admiral Joseph r. Defrees,
commandant Of the Navy Yard, as
chairman of the Floor Committee. was
assisted by IS high-ranking officers Of
the Navy and Marine Corps.
Evening star., 1935-11-29

william Willard, Mrs. A. Chester
Flather, Mrs. j. Robert Grove, Mrs.
Sumner Kittelle, Mrs. William F.
Pearson. Miss Mary Harlow, Miss
Cell Harlow, Miss Betty Nicolson,
Miss Ellen Nicolson, Miss Mona Gill.
Miss Cornelia Bowie, Miss Mildred
Brown and Miss Anne Tuoy.
The charming bud will wear a be-
coming gown Of pale yellow chiffon
with cape effect of ostrich feathers.
She will carry a shower bouquet of
sweetheart roses and gypsophelia. The
orchestra will play song which has
been dedicated to her. Miss Wirgman
will have assisting her Senorita Ame-
lita Alfaro, Miss Alice Clarke, Miss
Frances Glover, Miss Peggy McNeale,
Miss Jean Gilbert and Miss Leonie
Mccoy, debutantes of this year; Miss
Susan Rogers, Miss Nancy Kittelle,
Miss Mary Katherine Bentley. Miss
Mary Elizabeth Damon, Miss Mary
WiniSed Brown and Mrs. William
Crenshaw, formerly Miss Louise Wal
Ter.
Evening star., 1935-11-29

mingo, who Is the house guest Of Miss
Betty Ryder. and Miss Eileen Burke.
who is visiting Miss Mary Senate
Howes, were honor guests at dinner
party given last evening by a group
of members Of the younger set.
Miss Fiddler and Miss Ryder are
students at Eden Hall, Taurresdale, Fs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Linn c. Drake had as
their dinner guests in their home, on
Potomac avenue, Thanksgiving day
DR.. and Mrs. Everett M. Ellison and
their daughters, Miss Margaret Ellison
and Miss Nancy Ellison.
Mrs. Philip G. Walker entertained in
her home. at 1922 @ street, last eve
ming. when she had assisting her Mrs.
Georgia Carter Lafferty.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
Miss Wirgman
Makes Bow Today

Mrs. w. Wayne Wirgman will en-
tertain at a tea dance at the WASH
ington Club this afternoon from S to Z
o'clock, when she will introduce her
daughter, Miss Polly Wirgman.
The hostess, who will wear an Alice
blue velvet gown and viii carry bou-
quet of pink roses, will have assisting
her her daughter. Mrs. Nelson c. FL
gin; Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, Mrs.
Henry r. Elliott, Mrs. Edwin Lord,
Mrs. Albert Pike, Mrs: James Gillian,
Mrs. w. w. Husband, Mrs. Fulton
Lewis. ST.; Mrs. Edward Keys, Mrs.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
The Secretary of Labor !
Attends Luncheon for
The Minister to Denmark
Undersecretary Phillips Sailing Tonight
Other Officials Prominent in
Today's News.
Today's News.

Conn. where Drayton Phillips and
Christopher Phillips are students.
Avon Old Farms reverses the usual
Thanksgiving school custom. In
stead Of the boys going home, parents
and their families are invited to the
school for a general school holiday.
After dinner in the school refectory
the guests were welcomed by DR.. Percy
G. Kammerer, the provost. Imme-
diately following, coffee was served in
the provost's residence, where the
guests met Mr.. and Mrs. John Wal
lace Riddle. Mrs. Riddle Is the founder
of Avon Old Farms.
The Assistant Secretary of Com
merce and Mrs. Ernest G. Draper are
passing the holidays at the Ambassa-
dor Hotel in New York City.
The administrative assistant to the
Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
William H. McReynolds will leave to-
morrow morning to attend the Army
Navy game in Philadelphia that aft
ernoon. They will have with them
Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs. G. r. Eagle
and Mr.. and Mrs. Woodside. The party
will go to Atlantic City after the
game and will spend Sunday there,
returning to the Capital that night.
Chief Justice of the District Su-
preme Court and Mrs. Alfred Adams
Wheat are spending the Thanksgiving
season at White Sulphur Springs.
where they are stopping at the Green
briar.
The air attache of the French En-
bassy and Nine. Champsaur will sail
tomorrow from New York on the
Champlain for France. where they will
spend two months.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
Potomac Boat Club
Thanksgiving Dance

The Potomac Boat Club will hold
its annual Thanksgiving dance at the
club house tomorrow evening for
members and their friends.
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knows the story Of the saving Of his
life by Pocahontas. But what every
schoclboy does not know Is that the
truth of this adventurous episode is
seriously challenged by historians.
Eminent men argue for and against
its veracity. Some point out that the
captain in his earlier writings never
referred to such an incident. Those
who favor the story retort that parts
of his original report were suppressed
at first. True or not, it has become
firmly embedded in the American
tradition.
Pocahontas was the daughter Of
the powerful Chief Powhatan. WASH
ington and all this region were un-
der his sway in those days, as part of
the Powhatan Confederacy. Pow
hatan's father was Of Southern
tribe, said to have been driven north
from f1orida-or possibly the West
Indies-by the Spaniards. The his
torians say that the father of Pow
hatan conquered FIVE Of the local
tribes in this region. When Powhatan
came into his inheritance, he ex-
tended his influence and welded the
Indians hereabouts into the far
reaching Powhatan Confederacy.
Jamestown, Va-which IS now part
of the Colonial National Monument,
embracing Williamsburg and York
town, under the National Park Serv-
ice-was settled in 1907, Is years be-
fore the Pilgrim Fathers landed on
Plymouth Rock, on the Massachusetts,
coast. With an iron hand Powhatan
ruled and those early folk at James
town felt the weight Of it.
In 1909 Powhatan was crowned by
the English, but it was With difficulty
that this savage sovereign was in
duced to kneel to receive the crown.
When his daughter Pocahontas mar
ried the English colonist, John Rolfe.
he gave up numbering the whites and
pillaging them and kept the peace. In
1918 Powhatan died and his brother
Itopatin succeeded him.
IT WAS in the Summer Of 1908 that
Capt. Smith made his memorable
voyage up the Potomac River. From
his survey up the Chesapeake as far
as the mouth of the Patapsco and his
explorations hereabouts, he con-
structed q map Of this region. That
map Is being used today to aid in
settling the boundary dispute between
the District and Virginia.
Some authorities say Capt. Smith
came rs far up the Potomac rs Little
Falls, where they saw the mica, shin-
ing in the rocks. like gold. Others
Gay that he got no farther tha1 In
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This rare old map of the
Virginia area is a copy of
the original made by Capt.
John Smith at the begin.
ming of the seventeenth
century. Upper left: The
Indian Princess Pocahon-
tas, from a painting made
of her in European dress.
Upper right: Capt. John
Smith, one of the first white
men to visit the region that
is now Washington. Lower
left: The Smithsonian In
stitution's recreation of
the Indians at work in their
sreat stone quarry in Piney
Branch. Lower right: c.
Marshall Finnan, superin.
tendent of the National
Capital Parks, examining
Indian relics in Piney
Branch Valley.
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weather, and buckskin was likewise
worn. The days of the Indians were
spent in hunting, fishing and agricul-
ture, with not q little fighting. Corn
was their staple food.
HISTORY says that in his dealings
1 l. with the Indians Capt. Smith
used honesty and good judgment. In
1909 he was injured in an explosion
Of gunpowder and left the Colony OF
Virginia.
Back TN England he aided in colo
nization of the new land and he en-
couraged the fishing industry along
the New England coast. In 1914 he
made q voyage Of exploration ana
drew q map Of the area from Penob-
scot Bay, In Maine, to Cape Cod. in
Massachusetts,, and this he presented
TO Prince Charles. Later he was cap
tured by a French warship and fought
against the Spaniards. Back in Lon
don again he produced numerous DOCKS
and pamphlets dealing with this part
Of the world. Death came to him In
June. 1881. Proud England gave him
the title of President Of Virginia ana
admiral of New England.
But even in death this restless SOL
dier was not to be without adventure,
for his tomb was destroyed IN the
great fire Of London In 1865. And, In
terestingly enough, Pocahontas Is
buried not so far from where Capt.
Smith was laid to rest. This former
Indian princess Of the Old Dominion
sleeps her last in st. Georges Church
at Gravesend, in England. She was
honored at the court Of King James I.
after she had married Role.
observation-disclosures for "the playful
one"-as q young girl turned somer-
saults on the village green with the
children of the colonists. From her
union with Rolfe was born son,
whose descendants to this day are
found in the Old Dominion. Mrs.
woodrow Wilson claims descent from
Pocahontas.
The man who replaced Capt Smith
in Virginia was Capt. Samuel Argall:
jamestown was the headquarters OF
the whites, while Werrowocomoco
(Wicomico) was the principal resi-
dence of Powhatan. Once when
strained relations existed between
Powhatan and the colonists he sent
Pocahontas, whose personal name was
Matoaka, to the Potomac River coun-
try for safe keeping. ThitheT Capt.
Argall followed her.
BRINGING his vessel, the Treasurer.
into the Potomac, he sailed to the jap
azaws and to the King Of Potomac,
where she was residing. The Virginia
State Commission on Conservation
and Development says that from the
old Indian village Of Petomek, which
gave its name to the Potomac River,
Capt. Argall captured Pocahontas. He
induced the Indian maiden to 60
aboard his vessel and then he swiftly
set sail and took her to jamestown.
The old village Of Petomek Is located
at the mouth Of Potomac Run, which
flows into the Potomac River north Of
Fredericksburg, Va, in Stafford Coun-
ty, not far from Stafford, near United
States Route No. !. The Virginia COM
mission recalls that In 1908 Capt.
Smith found IN Indian Kings house
there.
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dianhead, Md. While Powhatan had
ordered the adventures cut off, they
were given assistance by the Indians
at Moyaones, Nacotchtanke and Toags.
The cross on Capt Smiths map tells
how far he was able to 60 himself,
while the points upstream were filled
in from information given him by the
Indians.
Toags, called by Capt. Smith In his
map Tauxenent. is placed by the
commentators at or near Mount YER
non. Moyaones was just below the
mouth of the Piscataway. The settle
ment of Assaomeck was about where
Alexandria, Va, now stands, in the
opinion Of James Mooney, who was an
outstanding anthropologist attached
to the Smithsonian Institution. Be-
low Alexandria was Namassingakent.
Much of this Is planned for the COM
pleted George Washington Memorial
Parkway.
A chief resided at Nacotchtanke-
on the eastern bank Of the Anacostia
River-said Mr.. Mooney, and it was
a seat of warriors.
Capt. Smith found the Indians
dressed in the skins of bears and
wolves, to some of which the heads
were still attached. The women
adorned their bodies with black spots
in the shape of animals and serpents
and wore copper and beads.
The exhibit in the Smithsonian In.
stitution, showing Capt. Smith trad
ing with the Indians, depicts them
wearing ornaments Of copper and
some authorities believe some of the
metal came from the Lske Superior
country. Indians are shown in their
rough-hewn canoes, laden with bas-
kets of corn, bartering with the Eng
lish. The exhibit Is the result Of re-
search made by the late DR.. w. H.
Holmes, curator of the National Gal
lery, and the figures were modelled by
U. s. J. Dunbar. In it, the Indians
are wearing aprons and skins. Orna-
ments Of shell are about the necks
and there are feathers in the hair.
Scientists say that each feather rep
resents a deed Of bravery. Slung over
the backs Of the Indians are arrows
and the bows are carried in the hand
or placed on the left shoulder. Pad
dies were used to propel the boats.
A number Of drawings were made
by the artist John White of the Roam
oke Colony and these are now In the
British Museum. From this rich mine
of information. the students of today
get valuable pointers about the lives
Of the Indians 800 years ago. Their
coarsely-woven cloaks are seen again.
embelliShed with feathers for BE cold
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the nose and red below, or the re-
verse. They lived to q good, ripe old
age.
A SMALL tribe of Indians inhabited
= this section and was known as
Nocotchtanke and Nocotines. The
early Jesuits of Maryland anglicized
the name to Anacostia, and this name
has been given to the river, also termed
the Eastern Branch. The name Ana
lostan Island officially termed
Theodore Roosevelt Island, because
Congress accepted it from the Theo-
dore Roosevelt Memorial Association
in honor of that great President, who
cherished the out of doors-is supposed
to be q corruption of the name of the
tribe, for the Indians were believed to
inhabit 1t. The island, which Is just
downstream of the Key Bridge. was
at one time called Anacasta Island, as
well as Ar1acosties.
Father White was ordained about
1905 and studied at Douay, in France,
having been banished from England
because of his religion. In the So
ciety of Jesus he went through his
novitiate at Louvain, in Belgium. For
a time, in disguise, despite the penal
laws, he worked in England. Then
he went to Spain as tutor for the Eng
lish Catholics. There he was profess
sor of scripture, scholastic philosophy
and Hebrew. Subsequently he taught
divinity at Louvain and then at Liege.
in Belgium.
Such was the man who became &C
ouainted with the Indians of this sec
ton and who, in all probability, trod
what is now the District Of Columbia.
He set down his observations in his
"Relatio Itineris in Marylandiam"
Narrative of . Voyage to Marylan0.
The manuscript of this, which had
been sent to Rome, was discovered by
Rev. william McSherry, s. j., in the
archives Of the Eternal City in 1882.
This American, who became president
Of GEORGETOWN University, brought q
COPY Of the manuscript to the Hilltop
here. But there Is not an authentic
sketch or painting Of Father White
extant, for the former president Of
Georgetown University, DIR. w. Cole
man Nevis, searched In vain for one
for the Maryland tercentenary cele-
bration last year.
Father White was born In London
in 1879 and died In his native city on
January 6, 1857. He compiled a gram
mar of the Indian language, q die
tionary, q catechism in that tongue
and q history Of Maryland. This man.
known as the Apostle of Maryland.
landed with the other pilgrims on st.
Clements Island d March as. 1884
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DOCAHONTAS took the name Of
= Rebecca when she was baptized a
Christian. After she was married to
John Rolfe he took her to England
and there her son Thomas was born.
Early in 1917 she was preparing to
return to Old Virginia in the ship
George, but at Gravesend she became
i'll and died. Capt. Argall, who was
knighted for his services, had earned
renown by sailing straight across the
North Atlantic to Virginia. thus estab-
fishing q short route, instead Of the
customary voyage to the Canaries,
Puerto Rico and up the coast. He
aided Lord Delaware, the Governor
General, in expeditions up the Kappa
hammock and Potomac Rivers to OBJ
tain grain from the Indians for the
needy colonists. The breaking up Of
the French settlements along the
Maine coast was another Of his ex-
ploits. In 1917 he became Deputy
Governor Of Virginia. The Indians Of
those days were compelled by the col
onists to pay tribute in the form of
maize, and Argall saw to it that they
did. Later he became an admiral and
was also q member of the New Eng
land Royal Council.
Still another Englishman became
quite conversant with the Indians of
this section. He was the Jesuit priest,
Father Andrew White, who came with
the Ark and the Dove to st. Marys
City in 1884 and earned for himself q
niche in Maryland tercentenary his
tory. Lord Baltimore had called upon
the general Of the Society Of Jesus for
priests to minister to the spiritual
needs Of the Catholic planters and
settlers Of Maryland. Father White
was among those chosen. In January.
1884, with his fellow voyagers on the
way out from England, he had touched
at the Barbados, in the West Indies.
Early that year the Indians along
the Potomac River saw q great ship,
larger than any canoe they had ever
seen, sailing against the curerut. Fires
blazed on the shores of the Potomac,
passing the word among the tribes Of
the coming Of the strangers.
The chief Of the Piscataway Indians
Is described as the most powerful In
that region In that day. and many
tribes were subject to him. At the
village named Potomac, on the Vir-
ginia side of the river, Gov. Leonard
Calvert In the Dove visited this chief,
whose uncle, Archihu, was powerful
among them. In that early day Chief
Yaocomico was another power.
The natives, said Father White,
were tall and well proportioned and
stained their skins-eSk blue above
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Many Heritqges Of the Red
MANS culture, Dug Literally
Out of the Past Are Pieced To-
gethnrh GivePictMre of Tribal
Life in Nearby Area.

Note-This is the first OF series
OF articles dealing with the grolGth
and future Development OF Wash
ington from its humble beginning
as a network of Indian Dillages.
through the Colonial period, to its
present proud promise as the finest
and most modern World capital.
Another article in the series lpil
folloU shortly.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-08
liners CRASH is
IJNSOLVED MYSTERY

<ror+;nued from page one)
,or SeSbi his position near Chey-
enne. + o.rryino nine
ol. n and a crew Of three,
tras coming in for a landing here
Sc %4s an uneventful trip from San
f. Erancisco. At 2:15 a. M, Pilot
II A, Collision radioed the ship
wa cruising easily through a
clear calm night, about Silver
UPiease delay landing until
westbound plane comes in" the
Cheyenne radio operator advised
Collision.
There was no answer and a few
hours later the broken plane with
the crushed bodies of the dead
was found strewn over a quarter
of a mile on a rocky hillside in
the Crow Greek country west OF
Cheyenne.
Collision, with an accident-free
record of more than 100000
flying miles, apparently was bat,
ting desperately to lift the nose
of the heavy ship when it crashed
into the hillside at more than 10C
miles an hour. One wing was
torn off and both motors were
ripped loose. There was no fire.
Investigation proceeded last
night despite lack of clues either
as to cause Of indicated engine
trouble or the sudden plunge
earthward. So completely was the
ship shattered that all the instru'
ments were smashed, destroying
any possible clues. Whether gaso'
lene had drained out while the
ship was in flight could not be
determined for the tank wa:
broken.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-08
Winter Girl Bid
Dances To Start

Announcement was made TO-DAY
that a series of winter girls bid
dances will be held every frloss
evening, beginning Friday oe''
II, at the Skyland hotel. rrder
These dances will be held al uhd ef
the sponsorship of a girls, T IGiuG sU Oa
the high school, of which Gho MISS RSs que
nsers orchestra, Of Ashev j G,u wil!
viii viii be 1ei under the direction of O.
t. The Tle'o Organization sponsoring r the
dances states that a standlng INV,
tation has been issued to parents
of of'i the high school students to at,
tend any or all of these dances as
e11ests of the club.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-08
Nv Mrs. c. r. McManaway
Society Editor
Phone 50 Before IL Noon
MRS. MYER
ATTENDS LUNCHEON

Mrs. w. H. Davis, president OF
the Saturday Music Club Of Ashe-
vile, entertained at a beautiful
luncheon at the Battery Park
Hotel on Saturday in compliment
to Mrs. J. S. Corvell. Of Raleigh
the new president Of the State
Federated Music Clubs.
! Covers were laid for the fol
lowing other prominent women
Mesdames J. f. Swain, Frank ;.
Smith, C. c. Hamilton. a member
Of the board of the national or
sanization, William Ray Grimm
Crosby Adams and Mrs. o. 4.
Never, who later attended
meeting of the music club wnen
Mrs. Corvell was a specia! guest
and a lovely program was rem
dered. Mrs. Charles Morrow. DIS
trict councillor for the junior
music clubs, was unable TO at
tend. a.