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Rv Flora Macdonald

With our ear tuned to the
broadcasts in connection with
| the Coronation, it was interest
ing to hear the announcer, CIV
ing sidelights on the big event,
tell how Mrs. Hart Mitchell and
her daughter, Ann, happened to
be at the Essex landing field
when Dick Merrill and Jack
Lambie dropped out of the skies
for a brief time to inquire the
way to Croydon Field and take
off without even stopping for
a drink.
1t so happens that the
Mitchells' home is in Greenwich,
Conn, and just before they
sailed for England they came
down to Washington for a visit
and were guests at the parties
of a number of the embassies
and legations during their stay.
When the "City of Newport
News" pulls away from her
dock in Baltimore this after
noon and heads for Europe,
there will be a number of Wash
ingtonians aboard, and among
them will be Mrs. Edgar E.
Hume and her son, Edgar E.
Hume, jr., who plan to join
Major Hume, who is Secretary
of the Congress Of International
Military Medicine, which is
meeting in Bucharest. They
plan to remain abroad about
two months and a half before
returning to the Capital.
Also sailing on the same ship
will be Kenton and Christopher
Kilmer, sons of the late Joyce
Kilmer, author of the famous
poem, "Trees." They will be
accompanied by their cousin,
Miss Faith Harlow.
Several eligible bachelors
about town have sent out
rather tricky invitations for a
bockbierabend Cheer party to
you) to be given this Saturday,
weather permitting. The hosts
are Gordon Brown and Charlie
Gaylord, assisted by Mr.. Nc
Kenny" the invitations read
We presume that the assistant
| is Charles McKenny. Guests
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League Plans
Two Tees

The Georgetown and the Alex
andria committees Of the newly.
organized Washington League Of
Women Shoppers are giving par.
ties this Friday-the fourteenth
for old, new, and potential mem
bers in those parts Of town. In
Alexandria, tea will be served
from 5 until 6 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. Charles Wood Collier, 215
jefferson st. The Alexandria
Committee includes also Mrs. John
Collier, Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler
Colman, Mrs. Jerry Voorhis, Mrs.
Howard WeStwood and Mrs. Alex.
ander Zabriskie.
The meeting in Georgetown will
be held at 4::30-rather promptly
in Mrs. Gordon Dunthorne'S
house, 1904 N st. Assisting Mrs.
Dunthorne will be Mrs. Catherine
Filene Shouse, Miss Sylvia Meyer
and Mrs. Dean AcheSon.
The age of the Washington
League of Women Shoppers can
still be measured in months, but
it has attracted q distinguished
list Of sponsors - among them
Mary Anderson, Emily Newell
Blair, Mrs. Lester Buchanan, Mrs.
Edward P. Costigan, Mrs. Worth
Daniels, Dorothy Deter, Mrs.
Mordecai Ezekiel, Mrs. Ernest
Gruening, Marion Harron, Gene
We've Forbes Herrick, Mrs. Leon
Henderson, Representative Caro-
line O'Day, Mrs. Clifford Pinchot,
Mrs. Donald Richberg, Josephine
Roche and Mrs. Huston Thomp-
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are requested to wear old
clothes, and the time is from
3 80 in the afternoon until the
invited give out"
The "Shorty" Jamesons are
to be congratulated upon the
birth of a son, who made his
appearance in the world on
Tuesday afternoon. Attractive
Mrs. Jameson is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. P. Lee Phillips.
Mrs. Eugene Woodson has
dashed up to Atlantic City for
the weekend to get herself
soaked with sun and refreshing
salt air.
The last time we saw her,
she was wearing most becom-
ing outfit, a turquoise blue
jacket of light weight wool
with a black skirt and hat,
Out at Brooke Johns Old
Barn" last night, So young
ladies, students of the Chevy
Chase School, celebrated the
approaching close of the term
with a dinner party. We hear,
on good authority, that Brooke
had applications from all Of the
young men he knows about
town to offer their services for
the evening as bus boys and
walters.
Swinging down Massachu-
sets Avenue near the British
Embassy, Representative Edith
Nourse Rogers 10 k e d ex-
tremely pleased with life when
we spied her a day or so ago.
She was stepping out with zip
and pep and attractively at.
tired in a dark blue coat, and
her matching Breton sailor had
a touch Of white ribbon trim
ming.
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Dorothy Fell
Weds June II

Society here will be interested
to learn that, according to Cholly
Knickerbocker, Dorothy Fell will
become the bride Of Howell van
Gerbig on June IL.
Dorothy, who is the daughter Of
Mrs. Ogden Livingston Mills, made
her home in Washington when
Mr.. Mills was Secretary of the
Treasury and has a host of friends
in the Capital. Their home was
at 1915 Q st. N. w.
The marriage will be the acme
Of simplicity, with none but the
members Of the two families in
attendance at the ceremony, to be
solemnized at the country estate
Of "Dottie's" mater in Woodbury.,
Long Island.
Even the usual reception is to
be dispensed with, and immedi-
ately after the ceremony "Dottie"
and her bridegroom will sail for q
honeymoon in Bermuda.
The bride-elect is a daughter of
the late Mr.. John r. Fell and a
granddaughter of the late Mrs.
Alexander Van Rensselaer,, who
was Miss Sarah Drexel.
Through her maternal grand.
father, Mr.. Philip s. P. Randolph,
"Dottie" can trace her ancestry to
Mr.. Edward Fitz Randolph, the
first Of the Randolphs to come to
this country and who settled in
Massachusetts, in 1880.
"Dottie" made her debut in the
fall of 1880 at a large supper dance
given by her mother at her Long
Island country home. She is a
sister of Mr.. John r. Fell, who
wed the lovely Eff" Laimbeer,
and of Mr.. Philip S. P. Fell.
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Dolly Cameron Says:
CORONATION GARDEN PARTY GIVEN
Diplomats, Officials and Members Of Residential
Society in Capital Attend Large Reception
Given by British Envoy and Lady Lindsay

Upon entering the British Embassy yesterday afternoon
Immediately of the udercUTent of excitement which
nian in
beyond the the Emperor
o
Well
length
A black imousn
Portraits of Former Kings and Queens Adon the Walls
imposing figure outfit His
confronted by practically fesze portraits King
VandQu
Alexandria or the other side of the stairway
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WdV-lS a dellgnt TO the eye.
The Ambassador and Lady Lind
say received their 1900 guests on
the terrace which ends in a car.
pet of green lawn, with both for
NAL and informal gardens on
either side. Lady Lindsay had
chosen a simple beige crepe gown
and a matching broad brimmed
hat framed her sweet face. About
her neck she wore rope of pearls.
Sir Ronald-by far the talleSt
man in the diplomatic corps
was dressed in conventional for
NAL attire.
Mrs. v. A. L. Mallet, willowy
blond wife of the Counselor of the
Embassy, toured us through the
gardens. She was wearing a dark
blue sheer frock striped in white
and a wide white straw hat COM
pleted her costume. AS we re-
marked upon the beauty Of the
rows upon rows of yellow, deep
mauve, and bright red tulips, she
remarked:
Eyes they are lovely. And you
know Lady Lindsay tends to so
many of these flowers herself
it's sort of a hobby with her"
Hulls Are Guests
The Secretary of State and
Mrs. Cordell Hull wandered
through the many intriguing
paths ending in wisteria-hung ar
bors where a delectable punch
was being served. A band played
tunes ranging from 1.-The Blue
Danube" to the latest Swing" hit
throughout the afternoon.
Promptly at 6 o'clock they played
"God Save the King" and guests
began to depart.
Pungent white lilac bushes,
Sprightly clumps of azalea bushes
and imported English heather
ran riot over the place. Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, wearing a smart
black net frock embroidered in
white, and sporting black and
white shoes, was among the
guests.
At the end of the broad ex-
panse of emerald lawn under a
marquee table, centered with
snapdragons, iris and roses, had
been set up. Innumerable buffers
some in red satin ivery-scur-
ried about, helping the guests to
mounds of strawberry and coffee
ice cream, cakes and iced tea.
Chic Suzanne Wilson
The bewhiskered Chief Justice
and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes
were among the crowd. Mrs.
Hughes wore a soft lowered chif-
fon frock. The Secretary of Com
merce and Mrs. Daniel C. Roper
chatted gaiIy with their numerous
friends. The Secretary of Labor,
Madame Perkins, was accompa-
MED by her terribly chic daugh-
ter, Suzanne Wilson. Blond Su-
Zanne, whose fair locks were
turned under in a page boy bob,
wore an all-black outfit with
canary yellow gloves as the only
dash Of color. Her broad brimmed
straw hat boosted of waist-length
streamers.
Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr.
chose gray for the afternoon as
CONTINUED on Page 80, Col. u
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DiDLOy,nfic and Official Notes:
NEW AMBASSADOR ARRIVES TO-DAY
DR.. Hans Dieckhoff Of Germany
Expected at Embassy This
Evening by the Staff

The newly appointed German Ambassador,
Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, who landed in New York
today will arrive at the Embassy on Avenue to
assume his duties late this evening.
The retiring Ambassador Herr Hans Luther, will remain
the Capital for several days. However his two daughters
left Washington today New York City, whence they will sail
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The Air and Military Attache
Of the italian Embassy, Lieut.. Col.
Vincenzo Coppola, is staying at the
Ritz Carlton in New York City.
Former Governor E r. Nor.
gan, Of West virginia, and Mrs.
Morgan are again in their apart
ment at the Mayflower after q
few weeks vacation in Florida.
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Envoy Feted

The Minister of Norway and
Nine. Munthe de Morgenstierne
will entertain at a dinner this
evening at the legation on
Massachusetts Avenue in honor
of the newly appointed Minister
to Norway, Mrs. ]. Borden Har.
riman,
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DR.. Rowe Host At Luncheon

mission Of Fine Arts, DR.. Charles
Moore; the Chief Of the Latin
American Division, Department of
State, Mr.. Laurence Duggan; Mr..
Sidney E. ODonoghue, of the De-
partment of State, and the Chief
of the Bureau of Public Roads, Mr..
Thomas H. Macdonald.
The daily independent., 1937-07-21
CLIPPER SHIPS
END ISOLATION
ON TINY ISLE

San Francisco, (UP)-The eX-
tension of the Pan-American clip
per service from Manila to Hong
Kong has brought relief to what
is. probably one of the most be-
leaguered groups of men in the
world.
The group consists of so Chinese
on the little island of Pratas,
some 200 miles southeast of Hong
Kong and directly on the line OF
fight of the Clipper service.
Pratas has become famous in
Asiatic waters for two reacons,
first as a graveyard for more
ships than probably any other
spot in the world, and secondly
as occupying the pathway OF
virtually every typhoon that
sweep the China seas.
Because of the constant and Sc
rious menace of the reef to Chi
nese coastal trade the Chinese
government established there
radio and weather station operat-
ed by SO Chinese. They had the
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Elizabeth City
Transportation Schedules
NORFOLK SOUTHERN
Bus Line

NORFOLK SOUTHERN
Bus Line
Northbound-Lv. 1885 a. m; 100,
4:40, 8:45, 1926 p. m.
Southbound -Lv. 1880 q. m;
lao, ''5:40, HOO p. m.
-Manteo connection.
Raleigh connection.
Railroad
Northbound-Lv. 3:07 p. m.
Southbound-Lv. 11:17 a. m.
Nj. teyS-EdentOn Ferry
Leave Edenton: TOO. $3.50 a. m;
(Southbound loo, 500 p. m.
Leave Mackeys 800, 11:00 a. M,
CNorthboundJ 2::30, 600 pm.
Cape Charles-Little Greek Ferry
Leaves both points: TOO, 900,
Ills a. m; 1:30, 3:45, 5:45,
7:45, 1000 p. m.
Norfolk, Old Point, Cape Charles
Ferry
Northbound: -Lv. Norfolk 9:20
a. m; 800 p. m.
Southbound -Lv. Cape Charle3
6:10 a. m; 1920. Ais p. m.
BOAT LINES
Norfolk:
Elizabeth City Carolina Line
Foot Colonial Avenue
Eldora -Ni-Lvs. 100 p. m. Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Wanchese, Manns Harbor, Stumpy
Point:
The Wanchese Line
Ms Dock Foot Burgess Street
Hattie Creef and o. T. & Lloyd,
Jr.-Lvs. II noon daily except
Sunday and Monday.
East Lake, Buffalo City, Gum
Neck:
Alligator River Line
MS Dock Foot Burgess Street
Bessie M. Lewis - Lvs. Friday
mornings.
Columbia:
Columbia Boat Line
Foot Colonial Avenue
Nancy Lee-Lvs. IL noon Thurs
days.
Hatteras:
Foot Burgess Street
Kathleen and c. H. Mallison-Lvs.
800 p. m, Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays.
ROdanthe, Avon, Buxton:
Foot Fearing Street
The Jones-Lvs. 800 p. m. on
Wednesdays.
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CHAPTER VII

Later. when the West was bril-
liant with sunset. the Maid cross
ed the boundary between Alaska
and Canada.
When the lonely yellow Gus
tomhouse flying the Union Jack
came into view. some one COM
mented. We move from the Land
of the Eagle into the Land of the
Maple Leaf"
Denny. watching with the eyes
of the South, the eyes of another
nation. said to herself, The coun-
try of my father! the flag of my
father"
Dusk deepened. Poplars turned
to black-velvet vagueneSS on the
banks between which the river
flowed like glinting ink.
The pilothouse was dark. but
Denny could make out the dim
figure of Captain Bourne at the
wheel. Near him. on a seat against
wall. TongaSs sat on his haunch-
eS. looking straight ahead. She
was surprised when one of the
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memorable, not because Of the
meeting, but because she and
Murray had left the studio to join
their own crowd at a yacht-club
dance, and there they had realized
that they were in love with each
other.
They planed an immediate mar
riage and a honeymoon trip
around the world. But they reck-
oned without Sylvia, who was not
only appalled, by their haste, but
deeply hurt.
Denny" she cried. ''You know
how your fathers haste deprived
me of the greatest wish of my
life-a cathedral wedding! You
know how I, have. planped, ever
since you were born, that you
should have all that I missed!
Oh, how can you be so cruel to
your own mother! So selfish! So
disappointing!"
BY dint of tears and cajoling,
Sylvia worked on Murray until
he, always prone to avoid contro-
verSy, capitulatcd.
(To Be Continued
There is no fool like an old
fool, except a young one filled
with alcohol and driving a car.
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double duty of making weather re-
ports and reports on every ship
that found it Davy Jones locker
there.
Under the arrangements with
the Chinese government, the SO
men were obliged to remain on
the island for six months at a
time without postal communica-
tions from the mainland, except as
a wrecked ship left them a few
old newspapers or other docu-
mentS.
With the Inauguration of the
Clipper service from China t bum
die of the latest Chinese neWSpa-
pers is dropped to the men on
every weekly flight.
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SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
According to the terms OF hei
fathers will, Denis and Keith a
voung San Francisco Soclallte
must visit his hunting lodge. RIVER
House. on the Stikine River IN
Tarnigan. Canada. before dlSpoS-
ing of it. Larry Keith. an out
filter for big game hunters. loveo
the place and had lived there
alone for years because his sell
fish. pampered wife. Sylvia, re-
fused to spend even one month a
wear there. When he would not
give it up. she divorced nm ana
remarked. Aboard Captain
Revclry Bourne'S Stikine Maid en-
route to Tarnigan. Denny meets
q varied lot of individuals en- route
10 River House for the hunting
season. Among them are Dr.. Pool
Van Cleve. who is suffering from
a nervous breakdown: Rio Carew'
wealthy divorce: Derek Haskell,
I.arrv's half-breed guide. WITH
whom Rio is enamoured, ana
Harp MacFarlane, foreman OF
River House. The beauty OF the
surrounding country appeals 10
Denny and she wonders why her
mother hated it so remembering
her words: The Stikine-lt'S a
witch river. Dangerous. Cruel.
1t puts a spell on you. 1t won your
father from me-" Soon Denny
would know for herself. Harp
had spoken about the treachery
of the Stikine. praiSing Bourne S
skill as a navigator. saying he was
swift to see and lightning 10 act.
Although Harp's praise had pre-
judiced Denny against Bourne.
there was something about the
blond captain which attracted her
even though she preferred dark
men like her fianCe. Murray Hart.
Denny had a glimpse of Bourne'S
character when his dog. TongaSS,
would have killed Rios police dog
in a fight had not Revelry inter-
vened and knocked his own pet
senSeleSS. Not every man has
the courage to be a brute to the
things he loves" Harp remarked
to Denny.
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WTHE CAPTIVE'sBRIDE"
hu JARRETT W/LLOUCH5I

Emembered it still; and the dark
haired, green-eyed child in the
mirror. who had looked graVely
back at her smoothing down the
Jacket with both hands.
In the pocket she had found a
snapshot of a tall, bareheadeo
man in riding breeches and flan-
el shirt. He stood beside a horse
that was drinking from a river
shallow. One arm was upflung
in a hailing gesture; the vino
was blowing his thick hair back
from his laughing face; and there
were poplars in the background.
Denny, whose ideas of her faith
er had already been nodded by
Sylvia's careless remarks, studied
the picture in pleased surprise
Here was no uncouth trapper. He
looked like a polo player. And
he's young!" she said to herself
Younger than Uncle Paul!
Child though she was, she felt
the allure and vitality of that
pictured face. 1t was almost as
if he were calling. beckoning-to
her. And she knew that must
be the Stikine flowing at his feet
The witch river that had taken
him from Sylvia.
Denny, the woman, looking now
at the living waters of the Stikine
a vague sense of uneaSe as she
flowing past in the twilight, felt
recalled how the river had held
him during all those years he had
waited for word from Sylvia. And
how. when she had at last call
ed to him, it had kept him from
answering by taking him to itself
forever.
She went swiftly over the events
that had led up to the tragedy
of his drowning six weeks ago.
A year ago Denny had met
Murray Hart, dark. good-looking,
two years her senior, and the
most carelessly delighteful COM
panion any girl could wish. Muir
ray was the matrimonial catch of
her particular set. If at times he
drank too much. there were many
in Denny's young crowd who did
likewise. and Murray was always
affable in his cups. He was a
driver of swift foreign-made cars,
a seeker for all that was new
and lively; and Denny, thanks to
Sylvia's training, was always
ready for any diversion he pro-
posed.
Murray fancied himself in the
role of patron of the arts. Not
that he cared a hoot for art, but
he did enjoy the whole-hearted
way in which the younger intelli-
gentsia of San Francisco aban-
doned themselves to pleasure
when they did play; and the orr
ginality they brought to their
gaiety. He was eager that Denny
should k n o W his bohemian
friends.
Chief among these was Madon-
ma BaggS.
Murray was no end amused by
Madonna. who was several years
his senior. Shes the darndest
most foul-mouthed, most exciting
female I've ever met" he tolo
Denny, laughing. She wrote erotiC
fiction, none of which had YET
seen print.
Denny met the woman one night
at the studio of a sculptor or
Telegraph Hill. The evening was
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Picketing Her Profession

st. Louis -U.R)- Mrs. Edith
Brockman, member of the wait
resses' union here, completed
slightly more than eight years of
consecutive picketing and iInme-
diately planned to resume the
work after a short vacation. 1t
was estimated that in her eight
years of picketing she earned a
tota lof $9,440 at the rate of 81
an hour.
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engineers told her that the Malo
would soon tie up to the bank
No one can run the Stikine al
night" he explained. Too dang
erous, even for a skipper like Re
velry Bourne"
Danager! All day long she had
heard that word applied to the
Stikine; yet it was plain that all
these NorthernerS loved the river
From the galley now came the
voices Of Ted and Boom and Harp.
singing a river song. The chord
ed harmony of the chorus drlited
out on the dusk.
oh, send me up the Stiklne
past the Boundary!
Set me down and leave me there
alone.
Let me laze along bar
In the golden CaSSiar.
It's the only land I want to call
my own
The words made her think Of
her father. This. in truth, was
the only land that he had cared
to call his own. 1t had been the
cause of all the bitter quarrelS
and passionate reconciliations that
had marked each of the five wint-
ers he had spent with Sylvia in
the San Francisco home. Sylvia
kept insisting that he sell River
House and what she called his
ridiculous business there, and go
into her fathers investment con-
Germ. He kept refusing.
He had gone north the last time,
vowing he would remain at River
House until she consented to spend
at least one month of the hunt
ing season with him there each
year. She had retorted that he
might go-but he need never come
back to her until he was ready
to live permanently in California.
Denny knew now that these
must have been foolish words
spoken in the heat of anger, with
no intention of fulfillment; but
when Keith failed to come home
that winter, Sylvia, in a high
handed effort to bring him to his
senses. as she put it, had prompt
ly divorced him. The move fail
ed. After six months silence On
both sides. she had married easy
going Paul LOTUS.
As long as Larry Keith lived.
he forwarded a monthly sum to
Denny: a sum which Sylvia re-
garded as pin money for her own
use. During the first five years
ne had also sent packages of raw
furS to his daughter-ermine.
beaver, silver fox and white.
Sylvia had these fashioned into
magnificent wraps for herself, ex-
cepting only the beaver. which she
left for Denny'S little coats be-
cause she fancied the fur was un-
becoming to her.
But there was one gift which
Sylvia could not use. 1t had ar
rived on Denny's tenth birthday
a small. fringed and beaded buck
skin suit. snow-white and soft as
velvet. "A barbarous outfit" was
Sylvia's laughing comment. Up
in her room Denny had tried it
on. The tang of alder smoke clung
to the buckskin, a strange. pun
gent odor oddly pleasant. She re-
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There is no fool like an old
fool, except a young one filled
with alcohol and driving a car.
Evening star., 1937-03-18

pleted by next Winter or the following
Spring, he said.

pleted by next Winter or the following
Spring, he said.
Bloom Appears.
Representative Sol Bloom OF New
York appeared before the board, prior
to the regular order Of business, in
behalf OF one OF his constituents, the
District Wholesale Drug g. Liquor
Corp, whose application for transfer
Of liquor license to So o street school
officials recently disapproved, due to
its nearness to tie Margaret Murray
Washington Trade School and the
Dunbar and Armstrong High Schools.
Bloom asked for reconsideration Of
the matter on the basis of ne evi-
dence. There is brewery next to the
school now, he said He also pointed
out that all transportation of the
liquor could be handled through back
alley and that from the traffic hazard
angle was less dangerous than any
other industry with larger trade and
which could not be kept out Of the
premises.
John A. Wilson, a lawyer member
OF the board, who investigated the
premises, found the building goes
through to the next block and that
the board would have no control over
the problem had the license been ap-
piled for at the address on that block.
Bloom agreed to have the company
furnish the appropriate officials with
the new matter and said that no sign
would be used unless required by law.
Evening star., 1937-03-18

had suffered a stroke and later 4
heart attack.
Mr.. Woodson, son Of the late Judge
John c. Woodson, at one time men,
Der OF the Virginia Legislature, pre-
viously had been active in political
affairs in Virginia. At one time he
was Mayor of Harrisonburg, and after
ward served in Virginia as a deputy
United States marshal.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Dora
F. Woodson, and daughter, Miss Gene
We've Woodson, this city, and sister,
Miss Kate Woodson, Harrisonburg, Va
Funeral services are being held this
afternoon in Hysongs's funeral parlors,
1900 N street. Burial will be in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.