Evening star., 1945-10-29

played yesterday by the orchestra
Taking honors also was Miss Mar
garet Truman, daughter of the
President and Mrs. Harry S. Tru-
man, who was accompanied by
Mrs. Thomas johnson Strickler of
Kansas City, a guest at the White
House. Miss Truman Is honorary
chairman Of the Young People S
Committee Of the orchestra.
Mrs. Beale stood in the small hall
at the head of the gracefully wind
ing stairs to receive. She wore par
ticularly becoming gown OF rose
beige crepe draped to one side and
caught with flowers. Sables were
about her shoulders and a string OF
exquisitely matched pearls about
her neck.
The low gas light in the chan
deliers and the glow of lighted can
dies on tables and mantels added
warmth to the rooms where fires
burned in the age-old fireplaces. DR.
Kinder gave hand now and then
to the fires and stopped to brush
back ashes when they got out of
bounds on the fireplace screen.
The former United States Minister
to Norway, Mrs. j. Borden Harri-
man, was among long time residents
of the Capital at the party. She is
back in her apartment on H street
next door to the house she first
occupied in Washington in the early
days of the Woodrow Wilson admin
tstration.
Uplands, her home on Foxhall
road, is leased until spring. Mrs.
Walter Bruce Howe, chairman of
the Womans Committee of the
orchestra, and other leaders in that
association, diplomats and officials
were present. Also many from the
armed forces, including Col. John
Pugh, aide to Gen. Jonathan M.
Wainwright and with him a pris-
oner of the japanese for three years.
Members of the National SYM
phony Orchestra Association at the
fete had much conversation about
the Wednesday evening subscription
series, which will open this week.
No tickets for single concerts in
this series are sold and there are
some seats still available. Last sea-
son and the year before all seats
were sold some time before the first
concert. The committee for this
series is under the able chairman
ship Of Mrs. Peter Belin. She is
spending 10 days with Comdr. Belin,
who is about to sail for England.
The Legation of Finland again is
established in this Capital and the
chancery is at 2144 Wyoming avenue,
where the personally popular HAL
mar Procope and his family lived be-
lore diplomatic relations were severed
between the two governments. The
newly appointed Minister, Mr.. Kalle
T. Jutila, arrived last week and tenn
porarily is staying at the Statler.
Mrs. Jutila did not accompany him
and is not expected to join the
Minister until next year.
The news that DR.. Sigurd Won
Numers is coming back to Washing
ton Is very welcome to those in the
very wide circle of friends which
he and Mrs. Won NumerS made dur
Ing his four tours of duty here. DIR.
Won Numers Is expected to reach
Washington in November and will
assume his new duties as counselor
by the middle Of the month. Mrs.
Won Numers is expected to join him
later in the year. DR.. Won Numers
came here in the middle 1930s as
secretary of the Legation and was
here about 10 years.
The Legation staff also has First
Secretary, Mr.. Olavi Munkki, who
is staying at the Colonial Hote1
temporarily, and a Commercial At
tache, Mr.. Ragnar Smedelund. The
latter was accompanied to Wash.
ington by Mrs. Smedelund and they
have taken an apartment in the
Proa adn1oor