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torate looked and reacted in four
other presidential campaigns.
To make such study or investiga-
tion one does not go out in the high
ways and by-ways and take hit-or-
miss opinion. That is sometimes help
full, but it Is more often confusing. The
job Is really one that any reporter
can do If he has had background of
political and economic affairs and
knows how to get at sources of infor-
nation in each State that are reliable
In other words, it is task of investi-
CATION plus judgment so as to deter.
mine who is deliberately or innocently
deceiving you and who is really trying
to give you an honest and disinter-
ested judgment.
In most of the States have sources
OF information that are of the latter
kind and these sources have proved
reliable and accurate in the past.
AS consequence of my trip, I feel
rather, definite about certain things.
One OF them may sound paradoxical,
but shall state it nevertheless-I can
understand how the Literary Digest
poll may be right and yet how Jim
Farley may be right.
Zeal May Upset Poll.
I have seen enough of certain situa-
lions in the 40 States to understand
why the Literary Digest, which call
IN unccerced and uncontrolled vote
taken by mail between the first week
In September and the 18th of October,
may be upset on election day by in
tensive organization work on the part
OF 81 different State political machines
controlled by Jim Farley.
have seen also how $4,000 900 900
OF public money can help to entrench
the 81 different State political ma
chimes plus many city machines and
give them vote-getting power not
possessed hitherto by any group of
Republican political machines in the
heyday of the "Old Deal" I have
also observed how contributions of
money forced from the pay checks of
Federal and State Office holders have
built up the largest single campaign
fund in the history of the United
States. the largest in any campaign
not excepting the far-famed campaign
financing by Mark Hanna or the
sslush funds" OF the Harding days.
have noted also how some of these
city political machines with their local
bosses have padded registration lists
and how they have intimidated the
relief and the Negro vote. AS for the
labor vote, this was obtained directly
by President Roosevelt himself by
pushing through Congress three laws
that violate the Constitution of the
United States-the N. R. A., the Guf-
fey act and the Wagner labor act.
Workers Coerced.
Labor organizations unlike other
years have this time collected dues
from their members and have formed
q huge campaign fund as well as put
into the field a corps of intensive
solicitors and canvassers so that the
American workingn1an does not go to
this election uncoerced no matter how
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he voted in the Digest poll. Regret
ably, too, employers have sought to
influence their employees, the worst
offenders being the Federal Govern
ment itself and the various State
governments which have in effect
threatened their employees with loss Of
jobs unless they contributed money
as we'll as campaign work in getting
out votes for the Roosevelt ticket.
Never before has there been such
widespread use of coercive tactics and
this time the New Deal party has sur
passed all other Republican efforts by
the Nationwide character of the
effort to control the outcome of q
presidential election.
In the first 13 States that visited
those west of the Mississippi River
I found that more than So, 600, ,000, 900
of Federal checks had been distrib-
uted. If this was not done deliber-
ately for political purpose then the
New Deal by its published pamphlets
and the speeches of its prominent
spokesman should not now be boldly
asking votes on the basis of the money
spent-the so-called gratitude" ar
gument which has been worked over
time from coast to coast in this cam
paign.
Four-Part Electoral Table
To determine the outcome of this
election, it is not necessary to look
beyond the States where Federal
spending per capita has been heaviest.
1t is hardly necessary to enter into
the big Middle Western and Eastern
States so many of which are doubtful
and close. 1t is necessary only to
examine the true sources of New Deal
strength in the West and South and
border States, where the bulk of the
Federal money has been spent in the
last three years. I shall divide the
electoral table into four parts:
Solid South-Alabama, IL; Arkan-
sas, 9; Florida. z; Georgia, 70; Louisi-
ana, 10; Mississippi, 9; Texas, %, and
South Carolina, 8-Total, 80 electoral
votes for Mr.. Roosevelt.
Border States-Missouri, Is: Okla
homa, IL; Kentucky. IL; Tennessee,
IL; Maryland, 8; Virginia, IL, and
North Carolina, 13-Total, 80 elec-
toral votes for Mr.. Roosevelt
Thus we start with a total of 1859
votes for Mr.. Roosevelt, which I am
absolutely sure will be cast for him.
West Of Mississippi Outlook.
We now come to group of States
which I have called 'west of the
Mississippi group. I shall discuss
later the ones in each column that
may be classed as uncertain and
alongside which I have put question
mark. but here is the way the group
looks to me:
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happen to be very much puzzled.
Partisanship has nothing to do with
it because editors who are support
ing Roosevelt have in some instances
expressed the belief to me that their
States would go in the Landon column
and certain men who are supporting
Landon have expressed the belief to
me that their States would be In the
Roosevelt column.
Information Conflicting.
But in any event the information
from Minnesota and Indiana Is con-
flicting. My own impression, based
on careful study first hand Of the
conditions in the two States men,
toned is that Indiana with its huge
New Deal patronage and public funds
machine and the State Democratic
machine together with the work done
on the colored vote and the relief
vote would make the State appear to
be a Roosevelt electoral vote by a
relatively narrow margin.
AS for Minnesota. the Lemke-
Coughlin vote makes me uncertain.
The New Deal played a smart piece
of strategy when it suppressed the reg
ularly nominated Democratic ticket,
and thus endeavored to get the whole
hearted Farmer-Labor support, but
nobody knows how far the Lemke-
Coughlin ticket will make inroads into
the Farmer-Labor vote. My own feel
ing is that Minnesota will 60 for Mr..
Roosevelt but by a very small margin.
I do not expect the electoral table
to be 270 for Mr.. Roosevelt and 26l
for Landon, though I would not be in
the least surprised If it really turned
out that way. Landon supporters have
just as much right therefore to their
impression as to what may happen in
Indiana and Minnesota as I have, for
the race in these two States Is close
and may be the deciding factor in the
whole election with the possibility of
recount of ballots in each instance
if the majority is won By narrow
margin.
Landon's Weaknesses Scrutinized.
Now let us look at the weaknesses
in the Landon table of States and we
must examine both divisions-the east
of the Mississippi group and the west
of the Mississippi group.
We find that Iowa with II, Nebraska
with 7 and North Dakota with 4, or
total Of % votes. hang in the balance.
I was uncertain when I visited those
States and am uncertain today.
North Dakota depends on how much
Lemke vote turns up ut the polls as q
detection from Roosevelt. Since Lemke
lives in North Dakota, expect him
to take away enough votes to give
Landon the State.
AS for Nebraska, 1t Is toss-up, and
SO Is Iowa. and while have some well
informed friends in both States whose
judgment I value and who insist that
Mr.. Roosevelt will carry both but by
a narrow margin, have left that for
purposes of calculation of my ratio
of-doubt theory it wasn't necessary to
put those States in the Roosevelt
column in order to figure out an ire
ducible minimum for Roosevelt. AS a
matter Of fact, 81 out Of the 40 Iowa
editors who replied to my kilograms
put Iowa in the Landon column, while
of the editors in Nebraska
and North Dakota were about fifty.
nifty.
Let Us now take the east Of the
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PLANS SEAL SALES
tuberculosis Association Board

tuberculosis Association Board
Approves Preliminary Program.
Preliminary plans for the annual
sale of Christmas seals for funds for
an expanded 1897 health program
were approved at the regular monthly
meeting Of the Board of Directors
of the District tuberculosis Associa-
ton yesterday. A Seal Sale Com.
mittee was appointed by DR.. william
Charles White, president of the as
sociation, under Wallace Hatch,
chairman.
A committee also was named to
Judge the sixth grade public school
health essay contest under DR.. Joseph
A. Murphy, chief medical examiner OF
the public schools, along with . new
Children's Health Camp COMMITTEES
under DR.. White.
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Conclusions: The occasions for
a great war in Europe are far more
numerous than in 1914. The will
to war is lacking. People still look
at the graveyards and the cripples
rather than at the trophies and
medals, and are afraid of gas,
planes, bacteria, etc. So Germany
will be allowed to win lot more
of Central Europe before it becomes
worth England's while to renew an
eHoctivo military alliance with
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Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Baby Derby Promoter
Enjoyed Debating
Human Nature.
RY LEMUEL F, PARTON.

BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.
OSSIBLY the news is late In
- reaching this corner, but 1t
does look as If the late Charles
L Vance Millar had been engaged
In some preposterous ribbing in setting
up that Toronto baby race; as II, in
his 74th year, he had read Mark
Twains THE Man Who Corrupted
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Hadleyburg," had
smiled a sly, cor
rosive smile and
sat him down to
sabotage the al
ready somewhat
grotesque comedie
human.
The race ends
t o n | 6 h t. with
$500, 900 from Mr..
Millar's will as
the prize. The
League of Nations
is standing by,
having the last
word on legal
L., ~1-;rt~A
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We, the People
Democratic President Can't Boom "War Scare
Because Nobody Will Fight.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

URING the closing Of the political
g. O. publicity taunted the President
rabbit" a European
- while friendly Democratic journalist
listed cgn affairs the items which favored
the New Deal leader.
There fact period in the campaign when
self limited that international complications
toneering far from Washington this quickly
conclusion Of the stabng
exchanges during the French devaluation crisis.
Howerer the b0 European scare trick not used for
the that the State Department
danger OF b0 war In Europe for quite time
present talk ers mainly the minds propagands
haze foreign fish to FRY.
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cially the COM
pulsory feature Of
1t, and the man.
ner in which the
tax on the work.
ers Is to be COL
lected. If this re-
sen t m e n t did
not exist, the
New Deal speak
ers, ! n C lu ding
President Roose-
welt, would have
no occasion to get
as irritated as
they are, OBJ
viously, it is the
effect on votes
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men around the White House did
not want to hold them. Mr.. Roose-
welt was not trying to avoid ques-
tioning about his N. r. A. purposes,
1t was said.
The blame for the President
finally holding a press conference,
the presidential press secretary an
nounced. rests squarely upon the
stopped shoulders of a certain nom
partisan columnist who indicated
the President did not want to be
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Balkans will apple
MuSsoln Minor always possible
and Abysn early conference Of the great
wa s considered likely for
chuckng noise hear from King
invited the last royal wedding
British royal family objected his friendship for
Lupescu.
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right, grass roots diplomatic OBJ
servers report the following state
Of affairs:
Russia, far from stabilized in
ternally, economic and industrial
equipment still inadequate for q
major war on two fronts, Is wor.
ried because the Kremlin believes
that any false move would lead
to q simultaneous German and
Japanese attack. leaving Russia
without allies The latest yy,ove t<,
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News Behind the News
Rumor of Labor Amendment to Constitution Viewed
as Campaign Propaganda.
BY PAUL MALLON.

supposed preparing advocate
we-informed Dealer will tell
storyh OF semo6ca
would suggested
interstate
theory npraonasts President
his reelection campaign fought the
other accomplishing
o
reasonabness Of
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they doubt that It will come to
pass.
y
There does not seem to be q
chance in the world for Mr.. Roose-
welt to put over the constitutional
amendment, even If he undertakes
it. No one doubts that he would
have advocated 1t long ago II there
had been a reasonable opportunity
for success. But he needs two.
thirds Of Congress and three
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asked N r. questions
Houeuer it is only for three days
uH return its normal potency
Radio listeners thought they
the Republican presidential candidate the other night AH H.
COL Knox the presidential candidate
"Af Knox
Lehman nomno the named Hoover
instead.
Copyrsht
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By MARK SULLIVAN.

TIME commotion over the New
Deal social security act arises
from the fact that workers
a have just learned about It. two
before 1t takes effect, on Janu-
ary /. 1t is clear that many workers
resent details Of 1t. They resent espe-
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HE opinions OF the crers this their on,
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented In
The Stars effort to giDe all sides OF questions OF interest
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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Nazi Enemies
Classed as
"Hyenas."
Destruction Asked in
Article by DR..
Freisler.
BY WALLACE r. DEUEL..

~ ERLIN. Germany, October 81
* &C. D. N).-Dr. Roland
Freisler. undersecretary Of
state in the ministry of
justice, today called on all the prose-
cutting and judicial authorities of the
Reich to treat as criminals, traitors
and "hyenas" and to destroy" all
those who oppose or interfere with
Nazi policy, especially those who
impede the four-year plan to make
Germany as independent as possible
of foreign raw materials.
In an article in German Justice.
official organ of the ministry, DR..
Freisler said, among other things:
Whoever still today dares to shake
the foundations of our racial COM
munity, whoever is deluded by the
Communist doctrine, and speaks to
destroy the compact life-force Of the
people, is to be regarded, not as mis-
led and seduced. but as a criminal
whom We must render harmless.
"whoever defiles the race of the
German people "a reference to the
Nuremberg laws forbidding sexual
relations between Jews and "Aryans')
Is an enemy whom We must destroy.
Whoever disturbs the peace, the unity
and thereby productive labor in the
German factories and shops is no mis-
guided victim of Marxist dogma but
a criminal we must destroy.
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Treason in Speculation.

"Whoever in times Of a shortage
seeks to grow fat at the cost Of the
hunger of the German people, Who
ever withholds goods for speculative
purposes, is traitor to his people
whom we must destroy. Whoever,
like a hyena on the battlefield Of (the
nation's) life struggle tries to grow
rich and to raise prices. is a traitor to
his people whom we must extirpate."
Officials are not to worry lest they
are being too harsh in dealing out
justice to such criminals" DR.. Freis-
Ter emphasized, but must remember
| today more than ever before that
whatever is profitable for the German
people is just"
Dr.. Joseph Goebbels, minister Of
propaganda and peoples enlighten-
ment, in a speech last night also
stressed the even greater intransi-
geance which the Nazis will now adopt
in dealing with their enemies not only
within but also outside the Reich.
Specifically, he threatened the Ger
man Jews with new disabilities, which.
he said, they richly deserved because
of what he describes as their "impu-
dence."
Turning to what he said was the
hostile. world outside Germany, DR..
Goehbels renewed the recent uncom-
promising Nazi demands for "a place
in the SUM-" Any one who is counting
on the collapse of national socialism
is making gross miscalculation, he
said. II am convinced that before We
are eliminated all the rest of the world
will be nationalist, Fascist or national
Socialist"
(Copyright, 1850
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Lawrence

Continued From First Page.)
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Miss Marian Martin of Boyce, Va,
has arrived in Fairfax, Va, and is a
visitor at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ronald Blake. Mr.. Blake's sister-in-
law, Mrs. Harry Blake, is spending this
week in Frederick, Md, where she is
attending a Presbyterian convention.
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Mrs. Edwin Rowland
To Give Luncheon
For Lady Broderick

MRS. G. EDWIN ROWLAND will
A'A entertain at luncheon at the
Shoreham Saturday for Lady Broder-
lex, widow of the late Sir John Joyce
Broderick, former British Minister to
Cuba, and for Mrs. Rowland's daugh-
ter, Miss Katherine Darling Rowland,
whose wedding to Lady Broderick's
son, Mr.. Maurice Joyce Broderick. will
take place Monday. Lady Broderick
is visiting Miss Eleanor Connolly
while in Washington for the wedding.
She will leave shortly after the event
for Cape Cod to visit her sister, Mrs.
Frederick Tabor, and will sail August
Is to return to her home in Dublin,
Ireland.
The luncheon will be only for i'm
mediate relatives of the two families.
Mrs. Rowland will entertain at tea
on Sunday from 4 to Z o'clock to see
the wedding gifts.
Lady Broderick, was the guest of
honor at luncheon yesterday of Mrs.
Walter R. Tuckerman, who enter
tanned at Pierre's.
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MIR. and Mrs. Lesley
On WASHINGTON Visit

Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Lesley came to
Washington by plane from New York
City and are stopping at the Shoreham
before going to the Summer home OF
Mr.. Lesley's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Glenn F. Lesley, in the mountains
near Clayton, Ga. Mrs. Lesley, who
was formerly Miss Kathryn Williams,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Pliny A.
Williams Of Atlanta, Ga, was married
to MIR. Lesley in Atlanta on June 16 at
the Druid Hills Baptist Church, Rev.
Louis D. Newton oficiating. Mr.. Ies-
ley was q student Of Georgia School
of Technology and Mrs. Lesley at
tended Agnes Scott College in Decatur.
Ga. Mr.. Lesley, who is connected with
the Eastern Air Lines, will arrive with
Mrs. Lesley around July Is In Miami,
Fla, where they will reside.
Mrs. Lesley's uncle, Mr.. George l..
Williams Of Washington. gave q din
ner Monday night on the Shoreham
terrace in honor Of Mr.. and Mrs. Les
ley.
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MIR. and Mrs. Burke
Home From Trip to
Florida and Cuba

Mr.. AND MRS. THOMAS BURKE
Az are again in their home on
Massachusetts, avenue, after some time
spent in Florida and Cuba. Mrs.
Burke will leave shortly to visit her
parents, Senor Santiago del Pulgar
and Sonora del Pulgar, at their estate
near Babylon. Long Island. where her
sisters, Senorita Freesia del Pulgar.
who has visited Mr.. and Mrs. Burke
here, and Sonora de Azacarate. wife Of
the military attache of the Mexican
Embassy, will join her later in the
season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burke spent some time
in Miami, where they were enter
tanned by the branch Of the Pan
American Union there. During their
stay In Havana they were guests Of
Mr.. Burke's cousin, Mr.. Dayton
Hedges. and Mrs. Hedges at Cayo Ma
Ia Rosa, their 5,000-acre estate.
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dacks, and expect to return to their
present home in New Orleans around
the last Of October.
Mr.. Thomas Bell Sweeney spent
yesterday In Washington and will
leave today for Bar Harbor to join
Mrs. Sweeney in their Summer home
there. Mr.. and Mrs. Sweeney arrived
Monday in New York aboard the
Queen Mary after visit in England
and Mrs. Sweeney went at once to
their Bar Harbor home.
Mrs. Goodwin, wife Of Judge Clar-
ence Norton Goodwin, went to Phila-
delphia yesterday for the sessions Of
the Democratic National Convention
and joined Judge Goodwin, who went
to the Quaker City earlier in the
week. Mrs. Goodwin will return to
Washington Saturday and will be the
assistant marshal Of the torchlight
procession Saturday night preceding
the Democratic rally In the Grifith
Stadium,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ward Cutler
announce the birth Of q daughter,
Ann Pemberton, Saturday at the
Georgetown University Hospital. Mrs.
Cutler was before her marriage Miss
Ellen Ramsey, daughter Of Mrs.
Charles Ramsey Of California.
Mrs. william Y. Handy and her
daughter, Miss Jean Y. Handy, are
among the passengers sailing today
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Reception Planned
At Quantico Post
Tomorrow Evening

DLANS are being completed for .
= reception at the Oficers' Club at
Quantico tomorrow evening honoring
the wives of the delegates attending
the National Sojourners annual meet
ing, tomorrow and Thursday, at the
Mayflower Hotel.
Maj. Gen. Charles H. Lyman, COM
mandant at Quantico, will receive the
delegates and their wives at Quantico
Thursday afternoon, at which time
a parade and review of the fleet
Marine force will be given. Supper
will follow in the Marine Barracks,
after which the ladies in the party
will be entertained at the Ofncers'
Club.
The Sojourners are made up OF
officers of the United States Army,
Navy and Marine Corps, Coast and
Geodetic Survey and Coast Guard who
are Masons. More than 500 delegates
from all sections of the country and
foreign countries are expected.
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MIR. and Mrs. Porter
Give Reception

Mr.. and Mrs Harry Whitaker Por-
ter will entertain at reception Sat-
urday from $3.50 o'clock until 10
O'Clock at their apartment in the
Roland in celebration of her 25th
wedding anniversary.
Among the guests from out of town
who will attend the event will be Mr..
and Mrs. Charles M. Wilhide of
Walkerville, Md. parents of Mrs. Por-
ter, and Mr. and Mrs. Curbie E. Cro-
lise of Florida.
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NJ a ryl a n d
And Virginia
In theNews
The Ronald Blakes
and Their Daughter
Entertain.

KR. AND MRS. RONALD
M BLAKE and their daughter,
wv Miss Mary Blake, Of Fairfax,
4 i Va, entertained at dinner
last evening in honor of Miss Marian
Martin of Warrenton, who is their
house guest, and Mr.. Alexander Gibson
Green, jr., of Markham, Va, and Mr..
B. A. Rucker, jr., Of UpperVille and
Washington
Mr.. and Mrs. Townley Gamble OF
Silver Spring, Md, entertained at an
al fresco supper party on the lawn OF
their home Sunday evening. The guests
included Mrs. CANDLES sister, Miss
Rebecca Griffith of Baltimore, Nd.
who passed the week end here; Mr.. and
Mrs. Hawes Davies and Mr.. and Mrs.
j. S. Davies of Manassas, Va; Mr.. and
Mrs. Gerald Conklin of Washington,
Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Livingston, Mr..
and Mrs. Morrison M. Clark, Mr.. and
Mrs Howard Griffith, Miss Phyllis
Richardson, Mr. Charles Griffith and
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Griffith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Mather of
California and their daughter, Miss
Nyca Mather, who attended Chevy
Chase School the past year, are pass
ing the Summer at Falkland Manor,
Silver Spring, Md. Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Budd of New York are also
guests at Falkland Manor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy r. Graves and
Miss Eleanor Graves of Kensington,
Md, are passing week at Penn State
College.
Miss Betsy Ross, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence S. Ross of Takoma
Park, will leave tomorrow for Bound
brook, N. j. where she will be dele
gate from the Mount Pleasant Con-
gregational Church attending the
Middle Atlantic convention of the
, Congregation Young Peoples Society.
Mrs. Howard A. Morse of Los An
geles, Calf, is the guest Of her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard T. Morse, at their home in
Takoma Park She will spend several
weeks in the East, visiting points in
New England and Virginia before her
return to California.
Mrs. Harry w. DIETRICH of Takoma
Park. Md, entertained at bridge
party last night in her home.
The guests we're Mrs. Leonard Boyer,
Mrs Arthur Q. Tool, Mrs. Alfred Ray,
Mrs. Albert Spear. Mrs. John r.
Adams, Mrs NJ R. Adams, Mrs. Dean
Judd, Mrs. Harry P. Dodge, Mrs. Ed
ward Wilson, Mrs. Joseph Wilson. Mrs.
j. R. Magness, Mrs. Frank T. NOEL,
Mrs. Frederick Johnson. Mrs. H. j.
Ealstrick and Mrs Conrad H Hoover
Miss Marian Martin of Boyce, Va,
has arrived in Fairfax, Va, and is
visitor at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ronald Blake. Mr.. Blake's sister-in-
law, Mrs. Harry Blake, is spending this
week in Frederick, Md, where she is
attending Presbyterian convention.