Evening star., 1942-01-25

Her VOlum1nOuS veil, WHICH Itll 1IOIIl
q CAP of rare lace, was held in place
by a halo of orange blossoms, and
she carried a shower bouquet OF
brides roses and lilies of the valley.
Miss Martha Louise Short
Serves IS Maid Of Honor.
Miss Martha Louise Short, daugh-
ter of Capt. E. T. Short, U. S. N, and
Mrs. Short, was the maid OF honor
and only attendant Of the bride.
She wore a coral chiffon gown and
carried bouquet of briarclif1 roses.
DR.. H. Russell Mcconnell of Cas-
tonia, N. c., served his brother as
best man. The ushers were LII.
Harold Underhill, 1t. William Voigt,
1t. Harry Rhett. 1t. Frederic Steiwer,
Capt. Alvin Croghan and 1t. George
Stinson.
A reception was held after the
ceremony at the officers Mess IN
the Army Medical Center, which was
decorated with palms, fern and vari-
colored flowers. The bride followed
the traditional Army custom and
cut the three-tiered wedding cake
with the bridegroom's saber.
Those assisting at the reception
were Mrs. Josiah William Bailey,
Mrs. James C. Magee, Mrs. s. U.
Marietta. Mrs. George F. Lull, Mrs.
Arthur johnson, Mrs. Harold w.
Jones, Mrs. Franklin G. Martin, Mrs.
Laurent La Roche, Mrs. Norman T.
Kirk. Mrs. James Kimbrough, Mrs.
George Calender and Mrs. Samuel
Shumaker.
other friends Of the bride who
assisted were Miss Peliz Bailey,
Miss Eleanor Darnall, Miss Mary
Louise Hillman. Miss Mary Ann
Sommerville, Miss Ann Kirk. Miss
Jane Kirk, Miss Harriet La Roche,
Miss Betty Bartlett, Miss Catherine
Estes, Miss Margaret Baker, MISS
Marjorie McAfee, Miss Ruth Nee
han. Miss Elizabeth Shepherd and
Miss Suzanne Randall.
Capt. and Mrs. Mcconnell
Leave on Wedding Trip.
Capt. and Mrs. Mcconnell left
after the reception for a wedding
trip, the bride wearing a cherry red
tweed suit with fur coat, black
hat, cherry red accessories and a
eorsage of gardenias.
Among the out-of-town guests at
tending the wedding and reception
were the mother of the bridegroom,
and Mrs. Charles w. CauSey OF
Greensboro, N. c.; Mr.. and Mrs.
John Van McNair of Richmond,
Va: Mrs. H. Russell Mcconnell and
Mrs. Seely Dunn of Lynchburg, Va;
Mrs. j. K. Powell Of Whiteville, N.
c., and Miss Mary F. Simmons OF
Lumberton, N. G.
The bride was born at Fort
Shafter, Honolulu, and lived with
her parents in San Francisco. Den
yer, Manila, Panama, Boston and
Washington. She was graduated
from the Balboa Junior High School,
Panama Canal Zone; Newton High
School in Newtonville, Mass, and
was a member of the class OF 1943
at Sweetbriar College. Her father
is a native of Graham, N. c., and
is now chief of the division OF
preventive medicine in the Office OF
the surgeon general of the Army
in Washington.
Capt. Mcconnell attended David
son College, Harvard Graduate
Business School, where he was a
Rumrin Award scholar; Harvard
Law School and Georgetown Law
School. He is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa and Kappa Alpha
Fraternities, of the bar of South
Carolina and the United States
Supreme Court. He formerly was
secretary to Senator James F.
Byrnes and counsel to the Senate
Committee on Government Reor-
ganization, and before entering the
service in 1910 was tax attorney
with the chief counsel of the Bu-
reau of Internal Revenue. He is at
present on the staff of the judge
advocate general, Maj. Gen. Myron
Cramer.
Capt. and Mrs. Mcconnell will be
at home after February Is at 1888