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Evening star., 1940-03-09
News Notes of the Official
And Diplomatic Sets
In Nations Capital
Mrs. Roosevelt and Hostesses of
Cabinet Circle to Be Guests
Of Women's Press Club Tonight

Mrs Roosevelt with hostesses
Congress National Press Club
this evening party the Willard Hotel
number of small and informal parties the
dinner will
Associate Justice Black was hostess at
ncheon yesterday Alexandria
Mrs Harry H. Wooding and her sister,
Connecticut who spending Secretary
Mrs William Bankhead Mrs j. Fred
Essary and Mrs Clarence L. Miller
The Latvian Minister host this evening
AZ dinner entertaining company of honor of M
Wright American member of the
mission.
Netherlands have been in Cuba
for several weeks
Minister also represents his government the Island
The Bolivian Minister
today to spend several days.
Secretary Breckenridge Long represented
Secretary of State Corde Hull yesterday
held The ommandnt Of Fort Nye Mrs Patton
the guests
The Assistant Secretary A. hosts
this afternoon the cocktail entertaining
ing home Cathedral which they
Secretary OF State
about so and will include diplomats
OF the fourth estate who the activities the
Mr. and Mrs Bere plan similar small
Commercial Secretary of the British
Embassy had unching
afternoon Mrs sumuescae group guests
tea hour
The Attache of the Legation
guests with them yesterday afternoon entertaining
informally in their home on Bancroft place.
Brig Edwin M Watson Secretary to the
President will be hostess Informally Wednesday
IN hel apartment In the KennedyWaren
known in the pianist soot with
the Philadelphia Orchestra evening" April
has appeared In Washington other with
phony Orchestra.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Mr.. and Mrs. Bliss
To Give Dinner for
Archduke Otto

Archduke Otto will be the
guest of honor tonight when Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss
entertain at dinner at Dunbar
ton Oaks.
The Archduke and his brother,
Archduke Felix, were received
at the White House yesterday
afternoon by the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt. Earlier in the
day they had visited the Senate
gallery and following the White
House visit the brothers went to
the Carlton Hotel for an informal
visit with the Secretary of State
and Mrs. Corden Hull.
The visitors were accompanied
to the White House by the United
States Ambassador to France,
Mr.. William C. Bullitt, and they
met Miss Luise Rainer, stage and
screen actress, who had tea with
Mrs. Roosevelt earlier in the aft
ernoon.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
From the Social Washington and Its Envrons
Mrs. Nathaniel Dial
Hostess at Luncheon

Mrs. Nathaniel B. Dial was hostess
today at the third of a series of
luncheons she is giving this season.
Her guests included Mrs. Ellison
D. Smith. Mrs. James H. Hughes,
Mrs. Hampton P. Fulmer, Mrs. Gar
land Ferguson. and her sister, Mrs.
Virgins; Mrs. Eldon p. King, Mrs.
Edward Pou, Mrs. Davenport White,
Mrs. Strickland Gillian, Mrs.
Charles j. Williamson, Mrs. H. H.
Sheen, Mrs. Frank Morrison, Mrs.
Benjamin D. Hill, Mrs. Peyton
Green Jobe. Mrs. Joseph Graham,
Mrs. Absalom Waller, Mrs. Ogilvie
Shumate, Mrs. Thomas A. Walden,
Mrs. George Shafer, Mrs. Eugene
Woodson and the two daughters of
the hostess, Mrs. Matthew White
Perry and Miss Rebecca Dial.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Coast Guard Retirement
Change Wins Approval

0S tue hoSOCldI6Q eI6SS.
The House Merchant Marine Com
mittee yesterday approved a bill to
modify the system for involuntary
retirement of Coast Guard officers
with more than 80 years service.
The measure would do away with
the right of an officer designated
for involuntary retirement to ap-
pear in person or by counsel before
the retirement board and cross
examine the officers who made un-
favorable fitness reports on his
service.
The officer named for retirement,
however, would retain his right to
appeal his case, which would auto
matically halt his retirement until
the boards finding was confirmed
by the next annual board, the com
mandant and the Secretary of the
Treasury.
Rear Admiral R. r. Waesche, COM
mandant of the Coast Guard, urged
the change, saying the present sys-
tenn resolved itself into trial OF
the officer who made the fitness re-
port on which the boards decision
was based"
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Hearing Awaited on Dairy
Injunction Extension

The Agriculture Department today
awaited decision by the District
Court on the date for arguing the
Holbrook Farms Dairy's suit for a
permanent injunction restraining
the department from applying the
Washington milk marketing agree
ment to the operations of the
dairy. Chief Justice Alfred Wheat
Yesterday granted a temporary in
junction.
Holbrook attorneys argued that
since the dairy's business was almost
all done in Maryland, where it has
its headquarters at Brentwood. that
1t was exempt from the agreement
which sets minimum prices for
dairies to pay farmers for milk
Justice Wheat agreed with this view
A permanent injunction would ex-
empt all dairies in nearby Mary
land from the agreement, but it
would still be applicable to diaries
operating in Washington.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Removal Of U. S. Flag
Choreed to japanese
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. -.
SHANGHAI, March 9.-Removal
by japanese troops Of an American
flag over the American Baptist Mis-
sion School on Chusan Island, OH
the coast Of Chekiang Province, was
reported today by British and
French Catholic missionaries.
They said the Japanese threat
ened to "cut OF the heads" Of any
Chinese who might try to replace
the flag when 1t was taken down Q
fortnight ago.
The mission school was closed late
in 1898 when the japanese invaded
Chusan. The japanese later with
drew from the property following an
American protest.
It was reported the new incident
had been protested here, with the
japanese replying that they would
investigate"
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Writer'S Club
Host Today
.TOAid Firms
Guest Book
To Be Available
For Signatures

Members of official, diplomatic
and residential society will attend
the Finnish Coffee" which will be
given by the Professional Writer'S
Club in the Y. w. C. A. administra-
tion building this afternoon. The
proceeds of the affair will go to the
Finnish relief fund.
The following ladies will pour
during the afternoon: Mrs. Frank
j. McSheery, winner of the Dun
boyne Cup Plate and prominent
Army horsewoman, who will drop
In after the Redlands point t-to-point
race; Mrs. E. C. Hanford, wife Of
Col. E. c. Hanford, U. S. A.; Mrs.
Robert LIE Fevre, member of the
recently organized Antilles Feminine
de France; her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Edwin K. LIE Fevre, whose brothers
are now with the French army on
the western front, and Mrs. Helen
Orr Watson, wife of Maj. James
| Watson, U. S. A. Mrs. Watson is
the author of "Chanco," one of the
100 best books of 1889" president
OF the District League of American
Pen Women and first vice president
OF the Professional Writer'S Club.
Wife of Cuban Attache
To Assist at Luncheon.
Sonora Felipe de Munilla, wife Of
the Cuban Military Attache; Mrs.
Leon Cochrane, the Polish-born wife
of our former Commercial Attache
at Warsaw; Mrs. Elizabeth Young,
Nine. Felian Garzia, Miss Carrie
Sutherlin, president of Arlington
Hall Junior College for Girls; Miss
Dolly Smith, principal of the Henry
Clay School of Arlington, Va, and
Mrs. Roland King.
The committee in charge plans
to have a guest book available for
signatures of those in attendance
who wish to be listed as contributors
to the Finnish civilian relief fund.
Miss Mary Jane Brumley will be in
charge of this book, which will later
be presented to Finnish Minister
Procope.
Mrs. H. Trendley Dean
Heads Committee in Charge.
The committee in charge consist.
Of Mrs. H. Trendley Dean, chair
man; Miss Margaret Coin, Miss Alice
| M. Miller, Mrs. Juanita Dewberry,
Mrs. Julia Carpin and Miss Wanda
johnson. Senorita Julia MacLean
Vinas of the Pan-American Union
staff is assisting with general ar
rangements.
All proceeds of the afternoon, in.
Guiding monies realized from the
sale of homemade cakes and candy
and from the fortune tellers' booths,
will help to swell the Finnish relief
funds, as all of the materials used
for the coffee" have been donated
by local and nearby Virginia
merchants. The Y. w. c. A. is CIV
ing the space and the Professional
Writers Club is assuming all Incl
dental expenses.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Gardner Trial Is Set
On Dies Perjury Charge

The trial of Fraser S. Gardner,
research expert, 1924 Wisconsin ave-
nue. NV, accused of perjury before
the Dies committee is scheduled to
begin in District Court on April IS.
Justice Peyton Gordon set the trial
date today.
Representing the Government are
United States Attorney David A.
Pine and Assistant United States
Attorney John w. Fihelly. Gard
ner pleaded innocent to the charge
of perjury in the indictment yes
terday.
Gardner is accused of seeking a
position as investigator with the
Dies House Committee on Un-
American Activities, in order to OBJ
tain information from groups under
inquiry by that organization. Ac-
cording to the committee, Gardner
denied he had ever worked for the
Silver Shirts, which is headed by
William Dudley Pelley. Chairman
Dies of the Committee on Un-Amer-
ican Activities contends that Gard
ner worked for six months for the
Skyland Press, which published the
Liberator. Silver Shirts magazine.
The District grand jury indicted
Gardner on charge of perjury on
October 2. alleging that he had tes-
titled falsely under oath as a wit
ness before the Dies committee Au-
gust %. Counsel for Gardner, F.
Hunter Creech and James F. Reilly,
in demurrer challenged the legal
ity of the Dies committee, but JUS
tice Gordon recently overruled this
contention.
United States Attorney Pine, 1t
was learned, received yesterday from
the Dies committee a number of
transcripts of testimony dealing
with David Mayne, alleged seller of
letters designed to show a link be-
tween Chairman Dies and Pelley.
Gardner Jackson, legislative repre-
sentative for Labor's Non-Partisan
League, through his attorney, VIII
liam A. Roberts, has asked that q
warrant, looking to a charge of
forgery, be issued against Mayne.
Such q warrant has not been issued.
The Government is still investigat-
ing the circumstances of the case,
| 1t was said today.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
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Evening star., 1940-03-09
Suburban
Social
Notes
New York Woman
Guest of CARROTS
In TakOma Park

Mrs. r. w. Davidson of New York
is the guest for a week of her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank T. Garrett, in their home
IN Takoma Park, Md. Mr.. Davidson
has gone to South America on busi-
ness.
1t. Col. and Mrs. j. H. Garvin
entertained at supper party last
night in their home in Beverly Hills.
Va, for Mrs. Davidson. Among
others who will entertain in honor
of the visitor are Mrs. H. j. Baker,
who will be hostess at supper party
tomorrow evening in her home in
Alexandria, Va, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Garrett will give dinner party to-
night for the latter's sister.
Mrs. Earl Hamm of Falls Church
gave dessert luncheon yesterday,
using the st. Patrick's Day motifs
in an interesting manner. Her
guests were Mrs. Thomas Harring-
ton, Mrs. Lawrence Brown, Mrs.
Donald Jones, Mrs. Millard Rice,
Mrs. Albert M. Day, Mrs. Walter
Phillips, Mrs. Dale Dillon, Mrs.
Charles Pendleton, Mrs. Clarence
Shotwell, Mrs. William Browning
and Mrs. Felix Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Dahl enter
tanned at dinner last night, when
their guests were Miss Shirley Fred
erick Of New Orleans, La; Miss
Dolores Dahl of Washington, Miss
Betty Fleishell of Sligo Park Hills
and Mr.. Irving Shuler. Mr.. James
Kavanaugh and Mr.. William Shell
don Fleishell, jr, of Washington.
Miss Elizabeth Dinges, Miss
Juanita Carson and Miss Elsie Nit
chell motored to Williamsburg to
attend the weekend dances at Will
liam and Mary. They were accom-
panied by Miss Dinges' mother,
Mrs. Harold r. Dinges, who will visit
her son, Mr.. Harold r. Dinges, jr.,
who is an instructor of chemistry
at the college.
Miss Ella Jesse, whose marriage to
Mr.. Robert Edward Latham will
take place March 16 in st. Marys
Episcopal Church in Arlington, Va,
was the guest of honor Wednesday
at a bridge tea given by Mrs. Park
Ticer in her home in Alexandria.
Tuesday Mrs. E. Taylor Chewing
entertained IL guests at luncheon
for Miss Jesse and this afternoon
Miss Elizabeth Nicholson will give
tea for her at the Belle Haven
Country Club in Alexandria.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Mrs. Herbert Hoover
To Attend ReceptiOn

Mrs. Herbert Hoover will be the
honor guest at reception being
given for the Baltimore Citizens
Committee Of the Goucher College
building fund in the home of Mrs.
Francis M. Jencks, 1 West Mount
Vernon place, at $3.50 pm. Monday.
Mrs. Jencks Is a member Of the
advisory cabinet of the Goucher
Committee.
Mrs. Hoover and Judge Emory H.
Niles, president of the Goucher
Board Of Trustees, will speak briefly.
DR.. David Allan Robertson, presi-
dent of Goucher, will preside.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Mrs. James Baity
Luncheon Hostess

Mrs. James L. Baity was hostess
at luncheon yesterday during the
fashion promenade in the blue
rom of the Shoreham.
Her guests were Mrs. M. A..
Romjue, Mrs. Clarence Cannon,
Mrs. Clyde Williams, Mrs. Rich
ard M. Duncan, Mrs. Dow w.
Harter, Mrs. Emil Schram, Mrs.
Claude Porter, Mrs. Ernest w.
Brown, Mrs. Vincent C. Burke,
Mrs. Cleveland Newton, Mrs. Carl
L. Ristine, Mrs. John B. Gordon,
Mrs. Edward c. Shields, Mrs.
Oman A. Hydrick, Mrs. Nietah
King, Mrs. Wesley A. Zane, Mrs.
Adam Weir, Mrs. Albert Evans
and Mrs. William Ramseyer.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Harrisons Staying
At Miami Beach

Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Har-
rison, whose marriage took place
Friday, March /, in the little
sanctuary of the Washington
Cathedral, are spending some
time at the Pancoast Hotel in
Miami Beach, Fla. Mrs. Harri-
son, before her marriage, was
Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, widow of
Rear Admiral Grayson.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
D. A. r. Meeting

Mrs. Frederick william Pennoyer,
jr.. will address the Army and Navy
Chapter. Daughters of the American
Revolution, of which she is a men,
ber. at its meeting Monday at 2 pm
at the Army and Navy Club. She will
base her talk on research done by
her husband, Comdr. Pennoyer, U
S. NJ, when on an inspection tour OF
Sicily while he was assistant naval
attache of the American Embassy
in Rome.
A luncheon for members and
guests of the chapter will precede
the meeting.
Evening star., 1940-03-09

tiles you find enhancing now will
bore you to tears then. Not many of
our fancies survive 10 years.
OF course, people often do marry
at the end of long engagements, but
in most cases it is merely the paying
of debt of honor on the mans
part. He feels bound to marry the
girl he has kept from marrying
some other man, while on the wom-
ans part it is desperation. She has
given up all other men for this one
and it is her last call to the dining
car.
Don't put yourself into this un-
fortunate position. Don't cut your
self out of all the pleasures of girl
hood. Don't give any man a 10-year
option on your heart and hand. Tell
the young man to go on with his
studies, and that when he is ready
to talk business to call around again
and if you love him then as you do
now, that you will say "yes."
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Waltons Announce
Birth of Dauehter

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H. Walton
of 3207 Twenty-second street NE.
announce the birth of a daughter,
Mary Patricia, at Providence Hos
pital Wednesday. Mrs. Walton is
the former Gertrude Rita Colliflower
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. c. Ernest
Colliflower, jr.
Evening star., 1940-03-09

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Evening star., 1940-03-09
Dorothy Dix Says >>~
Long Engagements Quite Often
Result in Sorrowful findings

Dear Miss Dix: am q girl
OF 20 in love with boy of the same
age. He is studying medicine and
will be seven more years at school.
Then it will be two or three years
more before he will be we'll enough
established in his profession to be
able to marry. He lives in another
city, and do not see him often.
He wants me to wait for him and
to promise that 1 will not go out
with any other man during all o.
that time. 1t seems to me that 10
years is long time to ask a girl to
wait. What do you think?
A CONSTANT READER.
Answer: I think that nine times
out Of ten a long engagement works
out disastrously for both the man
and the woman, and that any girl
is very foolish who goes into one.
Try to take cold. dispassionate,
appraising view of the proposition
that this young man makes to you.
He asks you to deny yourself all
of the pleasures of girlhood and
to spend the 10 teSt years of your
life sitting on the anxious seat on
the chance that he will come back
and get you. You are to have no
beaux, no parties. no dates, no good
times. You are just to sit at home
with mother and father and suck
your thumb instead of running
around having good times with the
other boys and girls. You are ex-
pected to get all the happiness you
require by just thinking about him
and wondering what he is doing.
Nice, cheerful prospect, isn't it?
Worse still, you are to give up
every opportunity of marrying any
body else, with no certainty that he
will marry you. The 10 years be-
tween 20 and 80 are the years
woman is prettiest and most at
tractive. They are her matrimonial
harvest time, and if she doesn't
make her hay while the sun of
her girlhood shines, she is apt to
gather in a very poor crop.
Now when the 10 years are up, in
which you have done your patient
waiting stunt, the man may want
to marry you, and he may not. In
the long years in which you have
been separated the chances are
that you will have grown very far
apart. Environment and associa-
ton will have changed and nodded
you both.
You will not come together as the
ardent boy and girl of 20, but as a
mature man and woman, who have
learned to think different thoughts
and have different viewpoints, diff
ferent habits. Each Of you may have
lost the characteristics that ap-
pealed to the other, or your tastes
may have changed 50 that the ollal-
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Benefit Luncheon

A benefit luncheon for the promo
ton of temperance education will
be given Tuesday at 1890 pm. by
Mrs. H. E. Rogers, 124 Carroll ave-
nue., Takoma Park. Md. The lunch
con will take the place of the
monthly meeting of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union of Ia
koma Park.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Beta Phi Alpha

Proceeds from a buffet supper
to follow the monthly meeting OF
the Washington City Club of Beta
Phi Alpha will go to the Mary Cor
don Holway fund. The meeting and
supper will be held with Mrs. Mar
garet Van Evera, 2124 I street NV.
who also is taking reservations.
Hostesses will be Mrs. Van Evera
Miss Ruth Thomas. Miss Wilma
McCullock and Miss Anna Bell
Mcintyre.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Returns Home

Miss Virginia Bacon Penfield has
returned to her home in New York
after a short visit to her grand
mother, Mrs. william Mark Conrad,
at the Shoreham. Miss Penfleld was
on her way North after stay in
Palm Beach.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Dents Have Son

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Addison
Dent, jr., announce the birth of .
son, Edward Addison Dent, Sd, on
March at Georgetown University
Hospital Mrs. Dent was before her
marriage Mary Elizabeth Cox,
daughter of Mrs. Daniel Joseph Cox.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Guests in Richmond

Mrs. Howard Lewis Hyland of
Buckingham, with her two children,
Dick and Dell, are guests of Mrs.
Thomas H. Krug in Richmond for
an indefinite visit.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Wilson Group to Meet

Election of officers and making Of
plans for the coming year will be
features of the annual business
meeting of alumnae and former
students of Wilson College for
Women, Chambersburg. Pa, this
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Charles w. Kutz.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Back From Visit

Mrs. John H. London and Miss
Inder London have returned to their
apartment at 1000 Connecticut ave-
nue. after a visit in Raleigh, N. C.
Evening star., 1940-03-09
Mrs. Tenney Here

Mr.. and Mrs. H. Alexander Walker
of Honolulu. who are spending some
time at the Mayflower, have as their
guest Mrs. Vernon Tenney of New
York City.
Evening star., 1940-11-05
Dr.. Barnes Conducts Broadcast
Of |RigoIetto' for Students
School Music Official Talks on Composer
Verdi and the Operu During Program

Thousands of District junior and
senior high school students and
many others in schools in nearby
Maryland and Virginia enjoyed an
other half hour of operate music
yesterday as DR.. Edwin N. c. Barnes
conducted the fourth of series of
special school broadcasts arranged
in cooperation with The Stars
opera appreciation program.
The music heard during yester-
days broadcast over Station WMAL
was from the popular "Rigoletto," +"
by Giuseppe Verdi. This work is the
fifth offering of The Stars cam
paign, which is featuring the dis
tribution of recordings of II of the
worlds greatest operas.
The students not only enjoyed the
glorious arias of "Rigoletto," but
also learned a little more about
grand opera in general by listen
ing to the interesting and informa-
tive talk given by DR.. Barnes, who
Is director of music in divisions l to
8 of the public schools.
They learned that Verdi, the last
and greatest of the old school
italian opera composers. composed
in four periods, as DR.. Barnes ex-
planned it. The first period, he ex-
planned, was the long, hard one,
when success seemed far off and
hunger and the pawn shop very
near" Verdi's most successful and
best work of that period was
"Ernanni."
Then came the period in which
melody and drama were most i'm
portant in the mind of the COM
poser. Sometimes this is called the
Evening star., 1940-11-05

"melodic period" DR.. Barnes said,
adding that it was during this
period that "Rigoletto" set Verdi's
feet on the road to success. "Tro-
vatore" and "Traviata" also were
written then. and Aida" was COM
posed during the transitional
period.
Most grand opera is tragic" Dr.
Barnes told the students. "I am
very fond of opera, but sometimes
wish we could get smile out of it:
I would like to see you smile. There
is, however, bit of humor in grand
opera. Have you ever noticed that
the characters are always singing?
They sing when they are happy
and when they are sad; when they
are sane and when they are mad;
when they are well and when they
are sick Do you remember Mar
guerite sang when she was dying in
prison; Aida when she was buried
alive; Butterfly when she stabbed
herself, and Mimi while she wasted
away with fatal disease.
Wonderful thing, this grand
opera Dr.. Barnes added, but
sometimes we just have to smile at
the make believe of it ALL
Selections from "Rigoletto" played
by DR.. Barnes by means of The
Stars recordings included the
beautiful Dearest Name" a great
favorite with opera sopranos; the
Vile Race of Courtiers";; "On
Every Festal Morning; Woman Is
Fickle one of the operas most
famous songs, and the magnificent
quartet aria, "Fairest Daughter Of
the Graces."