Evening star., 1939-06-04
Residential
And Official
News Notes
s8"ss
Woodr;ngs Take.
Part in Benefit
Carnival

The Secretary of War and Mrs
Harry H. Woodring took part in
the Wolf Trap Carnival held last
evening at the farm of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jouett Shouse in Vienna, Va.
Mrs. Woodring was an assistant
at one of the attractions where
games were played, and the Secre-
tary acted as trumpeter for the
horse-racing events of the evening
Many other officials, diplomats and
prominent members of Washing
ton society attended the gay affair,
proceeds from which are to 90 to
the benefit of the occupational re-
search of the Institute of Womens
Professional Relations.
Mrs. Ernest Lundeen, wife of
Senator Ernest Lundeen of Min
nesota, will entertain at an early
morning breakfast party Wednes-
day, having as her guests the
Executive Board of the Congress
sional Club. Mrs. Lundeen is the
third vice president of the organiza-
ton.
Representative and Mrs. Parnell
Thomas entertained informally at
the Shoreham last evening in honor
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Powell of
Overbrook, Pa, who are visiting
them for the week end. Mrs.
Thomas, who has spent most of the
congressional season at her home
in Allendale, N j., with occasional
visits to Washington, arrived in the
Capital Friday and will remain for
several days.
Representative and Mrs. Harry B.
Coffee will entertain a company at
dinner at the Shoreham tomorrow
evening.
The Assistant Secretary of Labor
and Mrs Marshall C. Dimock, with
their children, Mark, Milton and
Maryann Dimock, have left for Ver-
mont, where Mrs. Dimock and the
: children will spend the summer near
Manchester. Mr.. Dimock will re-
turn to Virginia in few days and
will Join his family in August for a
, vacation.
q Mr. and Mrs. Dimock and the
children have been at Rixey Man
sion on the Glebe road in Virginia
during the winter and spring
months.
The Chairman of the Board of
Toyorv1Nrc nf tho EaIora1
System and Mrs. Mariner S. Eccles
have issued invitations to 200 for
cocktails and reception from to
7 o'clock this afternoon in the west
ballroom of the Shoreham in honor
8 of Mr.. Eccles' two brothers. Mr..
Spencer S. Eccles and Mrs. Eccles
and Mr.. George S. Eccles and Mrs.
Eccles, all Of Ogden, Utah.
Mrs. Eugene w. Ong and her
debutante daughter, Miss Virginia
Bacon Penfield, are visiting the for
mer's mother, Mrs. William Mark
Conrad, at the Shoreham Mrs. Ong
Is president of the alumnae of the
Chevy Chase Seminary and is at
; tending the various class day and
commencement activities of the
school. Last evening Mrs. Conrad
had a few guests at dinner at the
Shoreham terrace, with Mrs. Ong
and Miss Penfield among the COM
, pany.
Miss Gloria Garcia, daughter of
the late Cuban Consul, Orestes Gar
cia, entertained at a luncheon yes
terday at the Shoreham for IL of
her classmates at the Holy Cross
Academy.
Guests included Barbara Clayton,
Lois Jennier. Nancy Hayes, Betty
Styer, Betty Lynn, Mary Anne Lynn,
Betty Saffell, Helen Woolfe, Hester
WEIGH. Mary Jane Maher, Betinna
Brosnahan and Irene Watkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Escavaille, jr.,
OF 2230 California street will leave
June 7 for an extended motor trip
to the San Francisco Exposition.
: They will visit en- route in Chi
eago, Fort Worth, Phoenix and in
Mexico going on to Hollywood,
Calf, where their son, w. S. Esca-
vaille, will join them for the trip to
the fair.
They will return to Washington
carly II, SeNfeyober