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Evening star., 1940-05-18
Pledges Of Support Pour In
Answering Red Cross Plea

Pledges of support for the war re-
lief fund drive of the American Red
Cross continued to pour in today
following a statement by Chairman
Norman H. Davis that every hour
brings new and agonizing details
of human destruction and misery
In Europe"
In a telegram to Red Cross chap
tiers, Mr.. Davis said that millions
Of helpless victims of this human
carnage, widowed mothers, father
less and homeless children, cry for
our assistance"
The Red Cross announced that
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has been
making a monthly contribution to
the Red Cross for war relief since
hostilities broke out and has now in
!. formed Mr.. Davis she would double
her monthly contribution. Mrs.
woodrow Wilson and Mrs. William
Taft are among the contributors,
the Red Cross said.
The largest individual contribu-
ton came from the International
Harvester Co., which gave $4,000
through the Chicago chapter of the
Red Cross. The national organiza-
ton is seeking $10,O00,0O0.
Among organizations which have
notified Of their intention to support
the fund are the Daughters OF the
American Revolution, Civitan Inter-
national, B'nai Birth, National
Council of Jewish Women, National
Social Work Council and the Order
of the Owls.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Bakers Entertain
Horse Show Guests
At Buffet Supper

Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Baker en-
tertained last night at their home,
Bakers Acres, on Foxhall road, at
an informal buffet supper for the
out-of-town guests here for the
Washington Horse Show. Among
the few Washington guests were
Miss Cecil Lester Jones, president
of the Junior League: Mr.. and Mrs.
John A. Selby, the latter being chair
man of the horse show: the mem
bers of the Washington Horse Show
Association Board, and the members
OF the Fort Myer team.
Among the out-of town guests
were Mrs. Angler Biddle Duke of
Tuxedo Park, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Haggin Perry of Gotham, Va; Mrs.
Cary Jackson of Kenswick, Md:
Miss Ann Miller of Long Island, Mrs.
Austin Jennings of Westport, Conn;
Mrs. Wormel Hyde of Armenia, N. Y;
DR.. L. M. Allen Of Winchester, Va;
DR.. E. H. Marsteller of Manassas,
Miss Elizabeth Lloyd of Charlottes-
vile, Va; Miss Patricia Boiling of
Greenwich, Conn: Mr.. Harry Jonas
Of Richmond. Va; Miss Nancy
Marie Shaw of Chester Springs, Pa;
Mr.. Robert S. Walters of Johnstown,
Pa; Mr.. George G. Lee of Norfolk,
Va; Miss Betty Couzins of Pontiac.
Mich; Mrs. James c. Hamilton of
Warrenton, Va; Mr.. George Watts
Hill Of Durham, N. c.; Miss Alithea
M. B. Cary of Boston, N. Y; Mr..
c. M. Greer, jr., of Upperville, Va;
DR.. and Mrs. Walter T. Kees of New
York, Miss Peggy Carpenter of New
Rochelle, N. Y. and Mr.. and Mrs.
E. Gardner Prime of Warrenton.
Evening star., 1940-05-18

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Evening star., 1940-05-18
Mrs. Jay P. Conger
Gives Luncheon

Mrs. Jay Porter Conger enter
tanned at luncheon at her home at
5000 West Beach drive. Rock Creek
Park Estates today. The guests in
cluded Mrs. Ernest Humphrey
Daniel, Mrs. William H. Hessick, jr.;
Mrs. Frederic Newburgh, Mrs. John
Frizzell, Mrs. c. Y. Stevens, Mrs.
John r. Phillips, Mrs. Woodson T.
Birthright, Mrs. Wyrth Baker, Mrs.
Carlton Duf1us, Miss Ruth Madden,
Mrs. Yvonne Knapp, Miss Annie
Lee Chisholm, Mrs. Albert Wendell
Davis, Mrs. Roland Dulin, Mrs.
Albert Lance, Mrs. Daniel c..
Wathey, Mrs. Mary Battle Bowman,
Mrs. Arymond Fenton. Mrs. Betty
Jane Purifoy and Mrs. Edward
Stevens.
Mrs. Conger is president of the
Junior Alliance.
The table was decorated with
spring flowers. Assisting the hostess
were Mrs. Woodson T. Birthright
and Mrs. Mary Battle Bowman.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Recital Tonight

The District of Columbia Fedora
ton of Music Clubs, Eva Whitford
Lovette, president, and Gertrude
Lyons, State junior counselor, will
present members of the junior de-
partment in recital this evening in
the Sale de Recital at 8 o'clock.
This will be the last recital of the
fifteenth season. The music will be
by composers of all countries. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
The following juniors will take
part: Dolly Ashby. Virginia Baker,
Gwen Brubaker, Lillian Chandler,
Joanne Dillon, Dorothy Fielder,
Anita and Eloy Fominaya, Bernice
Geraci, Nora Ann George, William
Glew, Elisabeth Graeff, Barbara
Harter, Eleanor Hoffman, Gordon
Linke, Joan Moore. Ruth Orr,
Nancy Ellen Repass. May Seligman,
Ruth Sieker, Peggy Smith and Eve
lyn Jean Thomson.
The Junior counselors represent
ed on the program are Virginia
Bestor, Lillian Harmon Burke,
Thelma Callahan. Elizabeth Car
penter, Mary Park Clements, Mrs.
Gene w. Crist, Grace McPhail
Espy, Iva Loughlan Guy, Gertrude
Lyons, Sarah Tacker and Florence
Vincent Yeager.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Wife of 1t. Black
Gives Luncheon

Mrs. Francis Loudon Black, wife
OF 1t. Black, U. S. NJ, Astrological
officer at the Naval Air Station,
Anacostia, entertained at luncheon
yesterday at the Mayf1ower Hotel.
1t. Black has been ordered to Homo
lulu for duty and he and his wife
are leaving Washington June pre-
paratory to sailing from Los Angeles
June 81 aboard the Furline.
Mrs. Samuel P. Ginder, wife of
Comdr. Ginder, who is in command
Of the station at Anacostia, was the
ranking guest in the company COM
posed largely Of wives of naval off,
GERS.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
100 Girls Expected
Here for Conference
OF Venture Clubs

A two-day conference Of Venture
Clubs from the North and South
Atlantic district is opening here
today with more than 100
girls expected from New York, Penn
sylvania, Delaware, Virginia and
Maryland.
The purpose of the conference is
to make decisions regarding pin,
pledge colors, constitution and by
laws in order that they may be
presented and voted on at the ma
tional convention of Venture Clubs
to be held in Salt Lake City in June.
Washington members of the Ven
ture Club will be hostesses to visit
ing delegates tonight at a spaghetti
dinner to be served at the Lewis
Hotel Training School. A business
meeting will be held tomorrow at
the Dodge Hotel
Mrs. Dorothy Herring is chairman
Of the Conference Committee, as
sisted by Miss Jeanne Meara, presi-
dent of the local club; Miss Margaret
Jamison, Miss Helen O'Shaughnessy,
Miss Carol Torreyson and Miss Mary
Helen Kinnear.
All Venture Club members must
be sponsored by members OF Sorop-
timist Clubs.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Mrs. Roosevelt Guest
At Junior League
Horse Show

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is q
special guest today at the second
Of the three days OF the Wash.
tngton Horse Show being spon-
sored by the Junior League Of
Washington for the benefit OF
the social welfare department
Of Children's Hospital. The
Meadowbrook show ground al
ways draws an enthusiastic crowd
from Washington's many social
circles for the Junior League
show.
Many Of the patrons arrived in
time to enjoy luncheon at the
little tables set up before the re-
freshment booths. The ever
popular little tent Of Mrs. James
Hamilton Lewis, who Is the
Junior Leagues oncial fortune
teller, is another spot continually
surrounded by customers. Green
clad Junior Leaguers wander
purposefully about the grounds
each day, hawking their wares
Of pop" hot dogs. cigarettes,
and other articles always found
at such outdoor affairs.
Today's gay 90s" entries, with
the awards based on originality
and comic ideas, is particularly
interesting to the audience, many
OF whom watch with awe the
antics of their friends in the ring.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Cartoonist Percy Crosby
Remarked in Florida
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VENICE, Fla, May 18.-Cartoonist
Percy L. Crosby and his bride, the
former Carolyn E. Soper of Littleton,
N. H., are honeymooning here.
Mr.. Crosby, creator Of q news
paper comic character, gave his age
as 48 and Mrs. Crosby's was listed on
the license as 80 when County Judge
Forrest Chapman performed the
ceremony at Sarasota, Fla, yester-
day.
The ceremony took place only a
short time after MIR. Crosby was
granted q divorce from his first wife,
Alice Dale Crosby of Washington,
d. c. They were married in 1929 and
separated last year.
The four children Of the first mar
riage will remain in the care Of the
first Mrs. Crosby, attorneys said.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Scientific Congress
Delegates Feted
At Luncheons

The Chilean Ambassador and
Sonora de Cabero gave a lunch
con yesterday for the delegates
from their country in Washing
ton this week for the Eighth
American Scientific Congress.
The Brazilian Ambassador and
Senhora de Martins entertained
at luncheon yesterday for the
Brazilian delegates to the con-
gress, who are spending today in
Yorktown and Williamsburg, Va.
The Charge d'Atfaires of Vene-
Zuela, Senor DR.. Don Jacinto
Fombona- Pachano, was host to
the delegation from his country,
entertaining at the Mayf1ower
Hotel. Later this afternoon he
will go to Blue Ridge Summit to
join Sonora de Fombona-
Pachano and their children who
are occupying cottage there for
the season.
Evening star., 1940-05-18

The solution of every crisis in
marriage is common sense, and that
goes for men as well as for women.
Give every situation a first-aid
treatment of that and you will never
need to call in a divorce lawyer.
If something comes up over which
you must either laugh or cry, COM
mon sense will bid you make a joke
Of it instead of tragedy.
II your husband or wife Graves
to be petted and flattered, for Heav-
ems sake have enough common
sense to jolly him or her along, and
1t will be money in your pocket and
peace in your home.
There isn't a problem in marriage
that you can't solve by using a
pinch Of common sense. And the
girl who has that has what it takes
TO make a happy marriage.
DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Newspaperwomen
Hear Lady Young
Talk on Trinidad

Lady Margaret Young, aviatrix,
wife Of the Governor of Trinidad,
who Is visiting the Australian Min.
lister and Mrs. Casey, made an in.
formal talk yesterday at a tea given
IN her honor by the Newspaper
Women's Club at the Raleigh Hotel.
Inadequate airports and landing
fields have handicapped the develop
ment Of aviation In Trinidad, she
declared. and explained that until
the present Governor took over
direction of island affairs neither
the ofncials nor the natives were
"air-minded." In this connection
she also spoke Of difficulties pre-
sented by the trade winds and the
so-called rainy season.
In answer to questions, Lady
Young also gave an account Of her
own early experiences in flying.
OF newspapers in Trinidad, she
said there are only three, with few
woman writer's employed. The
women tend to specialize in society
reporting and women's and arts
pages, she said.
The guest of honor, who had hur-
ried from engagements in Baltimore
to attend the tea, wore blue gray
tailored costume with felt hat of
the same shade which had a band
Of bright red feathers matching her
belt and bag, She was met at the
door by Alice Eversman, entertain
ment chairman. and presented by
the club president, Katharine Brooks.
Presiding at the tea table were
Mrs. Charles Stanley White and
Betsy Caswell, while the honorary
club president, Kate Scott Brooks,
served punch.
Josef Ranald, who has inter-
preted tendencies and characters
tics of many of today's leaders
through a study Of their hands, was
the guest Of Helene Livingston
Kravadze and spoke briefly. He
took an impression Of Lady Young's
hand to add to his collection.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Congressional Club Tea
And De Araujo Party
Mark Social Calendar
Wives of Supreme Court Justices
Honored at Musicale, With Mrs.
Burke Heading Receiving Line

several delightful parties marked the social
claiming much OF the spotlight the afternoon functions
tea at the Congressional Club gala cocktail party
Atache of the Brazilian Embassy
The tea at the club which made
members OF Congress- given to
wife the Chief Justice associate justices the
Supreme Court Mrs Edward member
the Senate from headed the receiving
guests to the Supreme Court ladies' the
and during her regime
events the avenue
terday party revival Of the musicale receptions the past
popular with the membership of the club
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Dorothy Dix Says >>>
Common Sense Greatest Virtue
Any Wife Can Possibly Have

Dear Miss Dix: What do you think
Is the most desirable quality wife
can have? What particular char
acteristic should man look for
in the girl he marries? PHILIP.
Answer-I rate common sense
above every other virtue in a wife.
I put it above devotion, amiability,
domesticity even above intel
ligence in its highest form. Love
doesn't solve the problem of COM
munal life, for many a woman who
loves her husband enough to be
willing to die for him is impossible
to live with. Amiability isn't enough
because you can get fed up on that
as you can on a diet of chocolate
creams. There has to be something
more than sweetness in woman to
make her a good wife. Domesticity
isn't enough just OF itself, because
1t costs less to hire a competent
housekeeper than it does to marry
one.
But If you marry q girl who has
good, hard, horse sense, you've got
the answer to all of your require
ments. She will know how to meet
every situation. She will take the
ups and downs of marriage without
whining or complaining. She will
laugh misadvantures of instead of
having Mysteries. And, best of all,
she will know how to manage you.
If you marry girl with common
sense. you won't get nagger. She
knows that man listens to his
wife when she says thing once,
but he turns off the loudspeaker
when it becomes her theme song.
She knows that by the time
man is old enough to get married
he has acquired ways and habits
and tastes that are as much a part
Of him as his skin, and that wife
interferes with these at her peril.
She won't be green-eyed cat,
jealous of every woman you look
upon. She will have enough sense
to know that if you hadn't preferred
her to any other woman you
wouldn't have married her, and that
in the end a woman has to trust
her husband, so why not do it at
first and save all the headaches?
Furthermore, she will argue that
II you have so little principle and
sense of honor and responsibility
that you can't be faithful to your
marriage vows, you are not worth
bothering about.
Common sense is also the only
antidote for what we are pleased
to call the disillusion of marriage,
and If you marry a level-headed
girl you will never have to 20
through that awful adjustment pc
riod that comes coincident with the
waning of the honeymoon and find
ing out that domesticity is a chore
and not a picnic.
The common sense girl will not be
disappointed in marriage because
she didn't expect too much of it.
Nor will she go to pieces over dis
covering that you are not a fairy
prince because she knew it all the
time.
She will just go loving you with
all your faults and trying to make
you a comfortable home and keep
you glad she was your pick.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Cuban Ambassador
Luncheon Host

The Cuban Ambassador. Senor
DR.. Pedro Martinez Fraga, was
host at luncheon yesterday at the
Embassy, entertaining In honor
Of the Secretary Of Defense for
Cuba, Senior DR.. Domingo Ramos;
the Secretary for Sanitation, DR..
Juan J. Moya; DR.. Finlay, DR..
Chato Guzman, DR.. Abertini,
DR.. Guerra and members
OF the Embassy staff, in
cluding the Minister Counselor,
Senor DR.. Jose T. Baron; the
Counselor, Senor DR.. Vicente B.
Valdes Rodriguez; the First Sec
retary, Senor DR.. Alberto Muxo;
the Naval Attache, 1t. Rolando
Pelaez, and the Second Secretary,
Senor DR.. Raoul Herrera-Arango.
Evening star., 1940-05-18

during the afternoon was Mrs.
Henry Allen Cooper, whose husband
was a member Of Congress from
Wisconsin for many years. Mrs.
Cooper is one of the IL original
founders of the club.
Mrs. Cordell Hull arrived at the
party early and she was accom-
panied by her close friend, Mrs.
Joseph McMillin Gardenhire of
Nashville. Tenn, who, with her
husband. is spending some time in
the Capital.
Bright red tulips were used on the
tea table and taking turn about at
the coffee and tea urns were Mrs.
Elmer Thomas, Mrs. Carl Hatch,
Mrs. James Byrnes, Mrs. Edwin M.
Schaefe, Mrs. William H. Larabee
and Mrs John w. Boehne.
De Araujo Garden Party
Attended by Diplomats.
Comdr. and Senhora de Araujo's
party was in the garden of their
home on Macomb street. The host
and hostess received in the drawing
room, where tulips and lilacs were
used in profusion to enhance the
already beautiful setting. The young
SON OF the house stood with his par
ents and guided the callers out on
the lawn, where a buffet table was
set and where refreshing drinks
could be obtained.
The attractive English born
hostess wore black gown of moire
with brief jacket and diamonds
at the neckline. Her shoulder
corsage was of red roses.
Military and naval attaches and
their ladies predominated among the
diplomatic guests, who included the
Mexican Ambassador and Sonora de
Castillo Najera and their daughter,
Senorita Irma Castillo Najera;
Sonora de Escalante, wife of the
Venezuelan Ambassador; the Ecua-
dorean Ambassador, Capt. Colon
Eloy Alfaro; the Brazilian Ambass-
ador and Senhora de Martins and
the entire staff of the Brazilian
Embassy; the Portuguese Minister
and Nine. Bianchi; Capt. L. c. A.
st. j. Curzon-Howe, the British
Naval Attache; Mrs. Anthony Cole
by, wife of the British Assistant
Naval Attache; the German Naval
Attache and Frau Witthoeft- En-
den; Nine. Lombard, wife of the
French Military Attache; the Cuban
Military Attache and Sonora de
Munilla, the Japanese Naval Attache
and Nine. Ogawa and the Argentine
Air Attache and Sonora de Zanni.
Gen Frederick Boschen and his
daughter, Mrs. Edgar Morris, jr.,
were present with Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Morris, ST., and others seen
were Mrs. Thomas Dawson and her
daughter, Miss Lolita Dawson.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Drapers Hosts

Mr.. and Mrs. Claude l.. Draper
were hosts to a group of friends at
dinner last evening in the Shoreham
blue room
In the company we're Senator and
Mrs. Joseph c. OMahoney, Senator
and Mrs. H. H. Schwartz, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Frank o. Horton,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thurman Arnold, Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Chapman, Judge and Mrs.
Claude Porter, Mr.. and Mrs. John
E. Denton, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Nc
Ninch, Col. and Mrs. Howard Snyder,
Mr.. and Mrs. Avery Hagard, Mr..
Paul r. Walter. Mr.. and Mrs. Leland
Olds, Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde l.. Seavey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Basil Manley, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Scott and Mr.. and Mrs.
Adrian Busick.
Evening star., 1940-05-18

TWO 10ung Artists Give
Program Before Reception.
Before the reception and tea q
program was given by two gifted
young artists. Miss Rose Berkshire
mezzo soprano, charmed the au-
dience with group of songs, and
Miss Beverly Cole received no less
acclaim with her piano selections
Mr.. August King-Smith was Miss
Berkshire's accompanist. The youth
ful artists wore blue afternoon
dresses and after their performances
they were presented with old-fash-
Toned nosegays of sweetheart roses
and forget-me-nots. Mrs. Charles
F. Mclaughlin introduced the artists
to the guests, making a gracious
speech in which she told of the re-
vival of the musicale teas at the
club.
The clubhouse was at its best yes
terday, and with the guests, repre-
senting all sections of this country,
wearing their most becoming en-
sembles and striking hats the
scene was pleasant one. Tall vases
holding great clusters of fame-color
gladioli were placed about the club
house and in the ballroom there
were palms. AS the guests arrived
for the affair the Marine Band
Orchestra played lively selections.
1t was after the appearance of the
artists that the reception line
formed. Mrs. Hughes stood next to
Mrs. Burke, wearing an exquisite
gown of figure silk. 1t was of a
black background with a flower de-
sign in soft lilacs and green hues.
With this she wore white straw
hat and a cluster of beautiful white
orchids. Mrs. Burke chose for the
occasion a dark blue gown with a
hat to match, the crown having a
blue and pink flower motif at the
front. Mrs. Hugo B. Black was a
striking figure in her gown of figured
silk and her flower hat was of lilacs
and rose buds. She wore two hand
some silver fox and her corsage was
of yellow roses.
Mrs. Stanley Reed had on a red
ingote dress, the frock of blue and
white polka dot and the coat of dark
blue crepe. She wore straw hat
of London tan straw, her accessories
matched her hat, and she wore
orchids. Stately and handsome Mrs.
Felix Frankfurter was in spring.
like green and white figure jacket
dress, worn with light tan straw
hat, and her bouquet was of Belmont
gardenias.
Mrs. william 0. Douglas costume
was of dusty rose crepe, the gown
made with jacket, and she wore a
pancake straw hat in a champagne
color. A spray Of white orchids COM
pleted her becoming costume.
Holding an tmpromptu reception
Evening star., 1940-05-18
VeneZuelans Feted

The United States Ambassador
to Venezuela, DR.. Frank P. Corrigan,
was the ranking guest at luncheon
given yesterday at the Mayflower
by the Charge d'Affaires of the
Venezuelan Embassy, Senor DR.. Don
Jacinto Fombona-Pachano, in COM
pliment to the delegation from his
country to the Eighth Scientific
Congress.
Evening star., 1940-05-18
BY BARBARA BELL.

Let's all stand up and cheer the
return of the dirndl! That gayest
and most becoming of all peasant
styles Is coming back with a bang!
You plainly see its influence in this
piquant day frock, with peasant
snug bodice, tiny waistline, and
very full bias skirt. Two big pockets
definitely mark it decidedly new, and
add to the gay gallantry of a frock
Evening star., 1940-05-18
Minister of Thai
And Wife Honored

The retiring Minister of Thai
and. Nine. Rajamaitri were the
guests Of honor at the party
which Mrs. Thomas Richard
Cowell gave last evening. Mrs.
John Creighton, who will leave
soon with her husband, Comdr.
Creighton, for his post in China,
shared honors at the party. She
Is a house guest of Mrs. Cowell.