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Block Foundation Talk
Given by Boeckel

The Paul Block Foundation lecture
on the place of the press in modern
society, given each year at Yale
University under the department of
government, was delivered last night
by Richard Boeckel, director of Edi-
torial Research Reports. Mr.. Boeckel
spoke on New Influences on the
Daily Newspaper"
Among other Washington news
paper men who have spoken for the
Block Foundation at Yale have been
Ernest Lindley, Felix Morley and
Arthur Krock.
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Geoehon Will Seek
Prisoners Transfer
Hs the Associated Press.

9S the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1e.-District
Attorney william F. x. Geoghan
Of Kings County said yesterday he
would go to Washington today to ask
the Department Of Justice for the
transfer of two Alcatraz prisoners
wanted in the $427,O0O Brooklyn
armored car robbery of 1894.
They are John Oley and Percy
rGeary, serving long terms for the
kidnapping of John O'Conneu Of
q. Albany, N. Y, and indicted on
charges Of participating in the
hold-up. Mr.: Geoghan said he
would request that they be removed
to Brooklyn for trial with others.
The district attorney also said
he would address the Pathfinders
Club of Georgetown University to-
niaht.
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OF a naval sta
ton in the Bay
Of K a u chau,
and on March 6,
1898, the Peking
authorities sign
ed q lease which
gr a n t e d Ger
many possession
Of the region,
for 90 years, in
c lu ng wnat
later became the
t ivi in 6 port
city Of sing
tao, in the prov
ince Of Shan
tunQ. The Kiau-
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entertainment at the Raleigh Ho-
tel beginning at 10 pm. tomorrow.
New officers will be elected prior to
the dance. Entertainment will be
furnished by Rufus Sam Raborn of
Charleston, w. Va, accompanied by
Jewell Spencer, pianist, Of Okmul-
gee, Okla.
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Republican member, John c. Schaf-
er, one-time locomotive engineer,
famed for his fog-horn voice.
One of the high spots of the big
radio investigation just inaugurated
by the Federal Communications
Commission is the revelation that
the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt
was not long ago submitted to one
Of the great networks as its general
advisor on broadcasting policy, with
a sort of Will Hays-Judge Lands
mandate, after January, l941. The
proposal did not originate with the
President
(copyrisht. 193s.)
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m mt to the
press a few min
utes later, about
Americas pla n
to build arma-
m e n t S b l G
enough to pro-
tect the West
;ern Hemisphere.
will make a real
impression in
Berlin.
It is most un-
fortunate that
only the Ian
guage of force
makes itself CON-
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Dealers whose great object Is
the transformation of the DEM
ocratic party into a New Deal
or progressive" party.
At present, it is being widely
forecast that the President will
exile his left-wing advisers and
abandon his effort to transform
his party. 1t is pointed out that
the hands of orthodox Democrats
have been vastly strengthened
by the election returns. And vet,
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The Capital Parade
Disappointment Believed in Store for Those
Who Want President to Bonish Left-Winqers
BY JOSEPH ALsoP and ROBERT K1NrNER.

disclosure of the Presidents mood
other by Frank Michigan after
deprecated and
"progreve" should continue
might hasn't
been into the arms Of the conservative Democrats He
circumstances Murphy must be remembered
proponent Mayor
H. Guadia in New York He
reelection by revuon against the New Deals
tual liberalism which what he
Washington. he also conferred
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has been designed majority
Republican side of the
With both political parties than hosptabe
VOTERS the United States in position to exchange diplomatic
with the Vatican without giving Naion
wide "bgotry" agitation
But this move would be dictated
alone bu by realistic world
position toward the oaltaan
which the Of American Catholic
70 the Holy See and diplomacy italian
permeated with Catholic influences
oner hand are developing antCahoc bias
Communism se The demonstrations against Cardinal 1nnizer
VIENNA the heckng Cardinal Fauhabr
OF bitter which
with Na1 professions Of antCommunis
OF the Rome Berlin
So far as American Catholicism itself
Ing along liberal and democratic Twenty ago
greatest spokesman the conservative
Boston Today the church in America accurately
sented by Cardinal Mundeen Chicago
thought firm friend of President Roosevelt pillar
Justice IN the economic wilderness
has been slow natural and
IN position to offer
the totalaran governments
buton which enables the Vatican independently
shifts in Europes political balance.
In our defense democracy this and
which extends far beyond the
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Billion in Assets.

Figures now available show that
81 1865, ,631 900 are invested in net
tangible assets in United States car
and truck factories. In 1887 the
total taxes on motor vehicle owners
reached the staggering total OF
1884 100000,
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Washington Observations
Jewish Oppression Recalls German Demands
After Missionaries Murder in Chino in 1898
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Extortion Of rich booty as an in
strument of German policy, in expi-
alton Of a crime against q German
subject, is not Nazi invention. It
was practiced as long ago as 1898,
when during the outbreaks which
preceded the Boxer rebellion in
China. two German Roman Cath
olic missionaries were murdered. AS
reparation the Kaiser's government
demanded from China the cession
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CndC II was IN both thelr Interests
to make friends. The New
Dealers also hope to help Lewis
convince the public that the
c. I. o. is not synonymous with
Communism. And they are de-
termined to force some peace
between the C. I. O. and the
A. F. of L.
While they are consolidat-
ing their forces on the labor
front, they also hope to regain
lost ground among the farmers.
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Reich Fucinq
Rising Tide
.OfOpinion
U. S. Policy Means
Intensificution 6f
World Stund
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

rNaN Germany may not understand
the first announcement at the press
conference of President Roosevelt
his denunciation of the barbaric
attacks on helpless minorities in
0ermany-but there need be little
doubt that the second announce
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opinions the oers page their o,pn not
nsces:ary The Stars Such opinions presented n
The Stars eDor to gUe all sides questions its
readers although such opinions nay contradictory amono
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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otal States which have Just gone
overwhelmingly Republican - Ohio
and Massachusetts,. The ticket is
also dubbed an equally strategic al
lance Of conservatism and liberal
ism, William Howard Taft's son be-
Ing described as a conservative and
Henry Cabot Lodges grandson as q
liberal.
Representative j. William Otter.
Republican. Of Pennsylvania, sub
mits an lode to q Landslide" It
runs as follows:
Parties and cliques,
Who betray the Constitution,
Are inviting for their Candidates
Long years of destitution!
As is fitting in the case of the pop
ular branch Of Congress, the incom-
ing House Of Representatives will
be, another typical cross-section Of
the American people, in which all
creeds, callings, colors and races
will find place. Connecticut's first
district is sending William j. Mil
Ter, 39-year-old Republican insur-
ance man, who lost both legs in an
airplane crash In France during the
World War. Fro mthe 14th Illi-
nois comes Anton j. Johnson,
Republican, for IL years a mail
carrier in Peoria. The 18th Illi-
nois elected Miss Jessie Sumner, 39-
year-old Republican county judge,
Smith graduate and first American
woman to study law at Oxford.
From 1ndiana's 4th comes DR..
George w. Gillie, veterinary sur
geon and Scotsman by birth. Rep
resentative-elect Gerald w. Lam
dis, Republican, of Indiana, is a
third cousin OF Baseball Gear Lam
dis. Montana's picturesque young
Democrat, Jerry O'Connell, whom
Mayor Hague banned from Jersey
City, succumbed on November to
DR.. j. Thorkelson, Republican, a
Spanish american War naval sur
geon.
In the new House therell be a re-
minder of the Coolidge admins
tration in Representative Foster
Stearns, Of New Hampshire, son Of
the Boston merchant prince. Frank
w. Stearns, Calvin Coolidge's Col.
House. New Jerseys 9th chose 30
year-old Republican Frank c. Os-
mers. Jr., gem expert and appraiser
and dealer in precious stones. Jer-
sey is perpetuating political fam
lily name in contributing Repub-
lican Representative Robert Win
throp Kean, son of former Senator
Hamilton F. Kean. In House Minor
ity Leader Bertrand H. SHELLS seat
will sit Wallace E. Pierce Of Platts-
burg. N. Y. Marion, Ohio. President
Harding's home town. elected its Re-
publican Mayor. Frederick c. Smith,
to. the House. Canton, William Nc
Kinley's home town. is also send
ing its Republican Mayor. Jim Sec
combe. to Congress. From Pennsyl-
vania's 23rd district there will ar
rive on the Hill, d a new Repre-
sentative, James E. Van Zandt, for
mer national commander of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars. Milwau-
kee returns to Congress a former
Evening star., 1938-11-16

The time element alone forbade
the possibility Of a quick trade
between Mr.. Roosevelt and the
Vatican, for Cardinal Mundelein
reached Rome on the eve of the
elections. So he was in a position
to weave our 1898 election -eturrs
into the world policy Of his
church rather than to inject
ecclesiastical influences into the
American ballot box. This proc
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We, the People
Change Of United Stotes Catholics to Liberalism
Puts Them in Position to Aid Holy See
By JAY FRANKLIN.


German developed interesting disciplined
filters the in Rome Cardinal Mundn Chicago
His mission report the Pope the Euars
Congress at New Orleans -in Naz eyeony blind political
zeal between President Roosevelt and the Holy see The Catholic
vote" is to be delivered to the New will
renew diplomatic relations with the Vatican.
As European analyses
Ieuonic cart before the YANKEE Cathoc
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deliverable in an American elec-
ton and has been eagerly culti-
vated by both political parties.
However, since the social policies
Of the New Deal are in line with
the great liberal Encyclicals of
Plus XII, a majority of Catholics
have favored Mr.. Roosevelt and
have been, historically, members
Of the Democratic party. The
attempt of the G. o. P. to identify
the New Deal with Communism"
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matte relations between Washington
natural extension Of the social liberalism politics
growing influence on the moral
balance of the Old World.
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Stote Society Dance
The West Virginia State Society
of the District will hold a dance and
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In our defense OF democracy this
which extends by the German press
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Taft and Lodge is the 1910 Re-
publican presidential ticket now
widely boosted in certain Washing
ton G. o. P. circles. Its projectors
call it an ideal combination Of IA
nous Republican names and of piv.
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Mrs. Lamar
Honor Guest

Mrs. Walter Douglas Lamar,
of Macon, Ga, PreSident-Gen-
eral of the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy, will be the
guest of honor at luncheon on
Saturday, June 4, at the Shore
ham Hotel. Arrangements for
the luncheon have been made by
Mrs. Ralph Stevens PendeXter,
President of the District of Co.
lumbia United Daughters of the
Confederacy. assisted by Mrs.
Livingston Vann, jr.
A full program has been
planned by the District of Co.
lurnbia Daughters for Mrs.
Lamar's visit in the city. Exer-
cises commemorating the birth
of jefferson Davis will be held
in Statuary Hall of the United
States Capitol on Saturday
morning. These exercises will be
in charge of the Children of the
Confederacy.
Saturday evening, an in
formal reception will be given to
Mrs. Lamar at Confederate
Memorial Hall. at 1922 Vermont
Avenue, from 8 to 10 o'clock.
Mrs. Lamar is expected to at
tend the Confederate Memorial
Exercises and MaSsing of Colors
on Sunday afternoon, June 5, at
the Arlington National Gene.
terry.
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C. Mathews Dicks to Open Ocean
View for Summer Months. T loves
Already in R. |. Residence
Blu Flora Macdonald

Within few weeks now the annual exodus will begin for
those whose places have been put in readiness for
them BY train plane and boat vacatOnists will head
for their destinations anticipating weeks of relaxation IN
their tavorite haunS
Newport has its quota of WashngonanS who journey to
this popular Rhode Island Last week Mr. and Mrs
Eugene Roberts spent day there looking over the hous
ing situation for the coming months Mrs Roberts who
the former Cornea Szecheny has spent her past few
ner with her mother Countess Szecheny The Breakers
the villa of her late grandmother.
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n. E. Days
Honeymoon

Mr.. and Mrs. William Edwin
Day, whose marriage took place
Saturday morning at st. AIMS
Catholic Church. have departed
on a wedding journey through
the West by motor.
The bride, who was the former
Miss Mary Redmond, daughter
of Mrs. James Redmond, OF Kan
sas City, Mo-, was attended by
her sister, Mrs. J. o. Robson.
Mr.. Day, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph E. Day, of Washington,
had his brother, Ralph Day, Jr.,
for best man. The ushers were
Donald Day and John Redmond,
of Kansas City.
Among those who attended
the wedding and the reception
which followed at the West
chester, were Senator and Mrs.
Harry S. Truman, Miss Mar
garet Truman. Representative
c. Jasper Bell, Commissioner
Walter j. Maloney, Mrs. joseph
]. Kennebeck and Mr.. and Mrs.
Phillip Morelock.
Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Tyler
of Tyler, Tex, are spending sew
eral days at the Dodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald E. Han
son of Coronado, Cal, who are
mentioning in the East, accom-
panied by their family, are at
Wardman Park Hotel for several
days while in Washington.
Mrs. Marion w. Clarke, for
mer Member of Congress, OF
Delhi, N. Y, is spending a few
DAYS at the Dodge and is &C
companied by her son, John D.
Clarke.
Representative Henry B. Stea-
gall. of Ozark. Ala, who has
been absent for a short time,
has returned to Washington
and is now at his Wardman
Park apartment.
Miss Adele Black, daughter OF
Judge and Mrs. Eugene Black,
has left for Harrisonburg, Va,
where she will be a guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Lenwill HoIIo'
man.
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Little Clifton Berley, the
Newport residence of Mrs. Dun.
can Cameron and her daughter,
Miss Elsie Rowland Quinby,
will be occupied this summer
by It's miStreSseS. They are at
at present in their home on
Massachusetts, Avenue, having
recently returned from a two
months stay at the Boca Ration
Club in Florida.
They plan to travel north
about June 20. stopping en-
route to see the Consul Cen
eral of the Argentine in New
York and Sonora de Traverse,
Sonora de Traverse is the
former Phoebe Quinby and is
we'll known in Washington,
where her marriage took place
several years ago. She and her
husband spent the past week,
end at Maidstone Arms in
EaSthampton. L. l.
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Usher Ricardo Sri made

Usher Ricardo Sri made
a diplomatic appearance :.
Betty West, of New York,
was glad to see her old pal,
Jock Merriam Society
columns enthusiast, Nora de
With, came with Monty"
Bradley, the distinguished
=. Rufus Johnston looked
quite tired Around 7,
some of those mentioned and
many others went to Ethel
Worthington's picnic party
at Deep Woods" her Vir-
ginia country place, outside
of Alexandria i. . On account
of the penetrating rain, the
excellent food had to be
served inside the lovely lit
tie cottage Mrs. Ralph
Worthington and Mrs. Henry
Flood didn't want to mix
vii h the youngsters too
much, but greeted them all.
Charlie Dick, from Prince
ton and Philadelphia, was
there with his broken arm
and lovely Annie Child
looked very happy Flea
nor Flood was, as usual, sur
rounded by admiring SWANS,
among them young Lawyer
Graham Clayton, Aldrich
Dudley and Bob Waggaman
:. Delightful Patricia Payne
received all possible atten-
lions from glamorous Johnnie
Hamilton Then some in
tellectuals decided to play
cards and bridge, poker
and "21" games were imme-
diately organized Mark
Sullivan broke the bank at
"21" Emily Davis and
Patricia Code played an at
tentive game of bridge ..
while Dick Boiling paid more
attention to some of the
young ladies than to the
cards
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-31
Capital Residents to Occupy Newport Villas *PETI7
By Igor CdSSini

The party the Letters of Dupont Circle giving tonight
for Ma Williams will be lavish and gigantic affair
Mrs Joseph Letter has been very strict about sending out
invitations, and only la de Ia creme of local
society plus addition of oprankng out-oowners will be
present To greet Ma" for her seventy fifth birthday,
the Letters have planned phantasy. 1t seems that
gentlemen with broadcasnglike voices will talk
behind microphone, in very wehdden place. pretend
ing they are after the other the King of England the
President of the French Republic Musson Hitler, Stalin
Pope Plus and hope too, the Negus Halle Selassie in
person. sending their best wishes to MA Queen of Wash
ington It's really touching to the devotion Of
Washington to this dear and beloved Lady!
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Remaining in Budapest

This year it is indefinite just when Countess Szechenyl
will the States for her husband the former Minister
of Hungary this country and later at the Court OF St
James has been very i'll his home in Budapest.
During their brief visit the Robertses the guests OF
Mr. and Mrs 6. Macculloch Miller at the Whitney villa
Mrs. Roberts is cousin of Mrs Miller, who is the daughter
Of Harry Pa1ne WHITNEY,.
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Alfonso Martin Gonzalez,
the popular Colombian hi
dalgo, who had made so
many friends among Wash
ington and New York
younger sets, will return to
his native Bogota June Is to
marry beautiful Senorita He
lena Pelaez, from Medellin,
Colombia There is quite
a romantic and adventurous
story about this young man
:. Son of wealthy landown-
ers in his country, he came
to America less than a year
ago to make a living of his
own and so ask the hand of
the girl of his dreams
Having spent in a few weeks
the 1900 bucks, which was
his all, he taught languages
in New York first, and now
in Washington Recently
he signed a contract for an
important position in Colon
bia and that will permit
him to marry his girl without
resistance from her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. "Jock" Nc
Lean gave a small buffet sup
per party for some old friends
from out of town Saturday
night at Friendship but
Sunday the "merry-go-round"
started again in full swing
The William Arnolds
had a congenial crowd for
the housewarming of their
mansion in Foxhall Road =. e.
Eugene Carusi directed beau
tifully the chorus of young
men, singing all sorts of sad
Southern songs or gay col
legiate marches Sonny
Orme, Nancy Brereton, Tom
my Moorhead and Louise
Alexander were noted" for
their golden Threats .. Just
opposite, Larry Baker was
having some friends for mint
juleps The engaged
couple, Margot Carrot and
Mariana Zuberbuhler, did
not tarry long, as they had
. to take a plane to New York
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To Open Ocean View

The C. Mathews Dicks will
open Ocean View, their villa
at the resort, a little later. At
present they are enjoying their
residence on Sheridan Circle
and probably will not leave for
Rhode Island for week or ten
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Bruce
Howe are firm believers in TAX
ing up their residence at their
summer home early. They left
the first of this month for
Berry Hill, where they will
be joined by their daughter,
Molly, who is a student at Ben.
nington College, Vermont. and
their sons, Bruce and Calderon.
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ICkes, Bride
At KennedYS

The Secretary of the Interior,
Mr.. Harold L. IckeS and his
bride. were among the guests at
the dinner given last evening in
London by the United States
Ambassador to the Court of st.
James and Mrs. Joseph P.
Kennedy.
Prime Minister and Mrs.
Neville Chamberlain were in the
company at the party which
was given in honor of the Duke
and Duchess of Kent.
Among others present were
Viscount and ViscounteSs Aston,
Lord and Lady Stanley. Mr.. and
Mrs. Winston Churchill and Mr..
and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller.
The Military Attache OF the
japanese Embassy, Col. Masa-
chika Hirata, has issued invi-
tations for a reception Tuesday
afternoon. June 7. from $50 to
7:3O o'clock, in honor OF the
new Military Attache, Col. Nasa-
bumi Yamanouchi, who will ar
rive shortly from Japan.
Colonel Hirata will return to
Japan for a new assignment.
Mr.. and Mrs. George N. Peek
have come here from Moline.
III, to spend several days, and
during their visit they are at
the Carlton.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Degen, OF
Philadelphia, who have come to
Washington to make their home
during the coming weeks, have
taken an apartment at Ward
man Park Hotel.
x x X
Sir John and Lady EWart,
who are travelling in this coun-
try, are stopping at the Carlton
while in Washington for several
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Y. David
son. of Houston, Tex. are stop
ping at the Hotel Raleigh while
visiting Washington.
Representative and Mrs. John
McSweeney have as their guest,
Mrs. Frank Cowles, of Worces-
ter, Ohio, visiting them at Ward
man Park Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Green,
who have been visiting in the
city for several days, plan to
leave on Thursday for New
York and a brief sojourn in
Maine before returning to their
home in Phoenix, Arizona.
Mrs. DevereuX Dunlap, OF
Dallas. Texas, is at the Carlton
while visiting in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merle Thorpe
are spending a few days at The
Hotel Biltmore, in New York
city.
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To Wed June 70

Mrs. Simma Elvove, of Paris,
KY, and Washington, announces
the engagement of her daughter,
Kady, to Mr.. Milton Edelson.
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan
Edelson, of this city.
Miss Elvove is a graduate of
the George Washington Uni.
versity Law School and a mem
Der of the Bar of the District of
Columbia. Mr.. Edelson is a
graduate of National University.
The wedding will take place
June &c.
The marriage of Miss Isabel
Bonvillian, daughter of Capt.
Claude A. Bonvillian, U. S. N,
and Mrs. Bonvillian, to Lieut..
Henry A. Renken. U. S. N, took
place yesterday in Bremerton.
Wash. where the brides father
is stationed.
The bride graduated from the
National Cathedral School IN
Washington and attended Welles
ley College.
Lieutenant Renken. who is
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
j. Renken. of WayneSboro, Va,
attended Washington and Lee
University and was graduated
from the Naval Academy in
1881.
After June %. Lieutenant
Rerken and his bride will live
at Annapolis, where Lieutenant
Renken has been ordered for a
postgraduate course at the Ma
val Academy
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Mrs. DrurV
Feted Today

Mrs. F. Mckenzie Dawson en-
tertained at a luncheon today
at the Shoreham in honor of
Mrs. Abner Drury who will sail
the middle of June for Europe.
Guests were Mrs. William
Shearer, Mrs. John Shugrue,
Mrs. L. Edwin Sunderland, Mrs.
H. P. Dram, Mrs. Barge Hartz,
Mrs, Thomas de Lashmutt, Mrs.
Robert Moran. Mrs. Clarence
Grosner, Mrs. Robert L. Patter-
son. Mrs. Brice Norris and Mrs.
J. Newton Brewer.
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Envoy Espil
In New York

The Ambassador of Argentina
and Sonora de Espil left yester-
day afternoon for a brief visit
In New York city. They are eX-
pected to return to the Embassy,
on New Hampshire Avenue, TO-
morrow night.
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Mr.. and Mrs. j. Edward Bur
roughs, jr., are in New York
city, where they are stopping at
the Hotel Commodore.