Evening star., 1945-07-01
Montgomery
COA,aty Ne1Ds

Il IOW bildb bhlC iiCWS CCiinUtSlup Has
been lifted somewhat, bits of infor-
nation come trickling In OF Be-
thesda girls on duty In foreign
service, Of what they do and how
they live under wartime conditions
abroad.
In q recent letter to her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman,
Miss Laura Tuckerman writes of
her assignment to duty In Caserta,
Italy, of her interest in the inn
portant events that have taken
place there during recent months.
Working with the Office OF Stra-
tegic Services, Miss Tuckerman was
sent first to Cairo and later was
transferred to Italy
Life in the European capitals is
not new to Miss Tuckerman since
she was educated in Switzerland
Pand she has travelled through
nearly every European country.
One OF Miss Tuckerman's sisters,
Mrs. Robert H. Williams, whose
husband, 1t. williams, is overseas
with the Marines, has been at the
Tuckerman home in Edgemoor for
several months. She left Friday for
Wisconsin to spend the summer
with her father-in-law at Bryn
Mawr, the williams summer place
near Oconomowoc.
Another sister, Mrs. Draper L.
Kaufman, the youngest of the
Tuckerman daughters, will be in
Edgemoor during the summer while
her husband, a commander In the
United States Navy, Is on duty
elsewhere.
From Teheran have come frequent
letters from Miss Martha Mckay,
former Somerset girl who is now
In the Far East with her father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Mckay. Miss McKay's letters tell
of sightseeing trips, the pleasant
social life OF the American colony
there and the several Washingto-
mans she has met since going to
Persia.
Stories OF another kind of life
abroad come from William AM
drews, grandson of former Repre-
sentative Quinn williams of Texas,
now with his mother, Mrs. Lucille
Andrews. at her apartment on Chevy
Chase drive.
In Manila on business at the out
break Of the war, Mr.. Andrews
and his young wife were interned
for over three years in the Jap
camp at Santo Tomas, near Manila.
There were 3,700 people, they say,
men, women and children, in the
camp in an area not larger than
so acres. Mr.. and Mrs. Williams
spent the daytime in the camp on
little jobs that were assigned to
them, and they lived for the most
part on the food rationed them,
largely rice. They reached the
States May Q, and after month at
North Hollywood, Calf. with Mr..
Andrews uMcle, Mr.. Quinn Williams,
jr., they came East to visit Mrs. An
drews, who went to Los Angeles to
meet them.
After month with relatives here
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrews will return to
San Francisco and then, they hope,
will go back to Manila to re-estab-
lish their home there. Except for
the years that she was In school in
Switzerland, Mrs. Andrews has lived
in Manila since she was q child.
Another guest at the Andrews
home is Miss Betty Andrews, who is
home for her summer vacation
from Ward Belmont College, Ten
r1essee.
Miss Imogene Ficklen, a Wash
ington resident with many friends in
Kenwood, Is back home again after
a three-year term of duty at the
United states Embassy in Madrid,
Spain. Miss Ficklen is sister Of
Mrs. Francis w. Hill, jr., of Ken
wood. She will be here for 30-day
furlough before going to her new
assignment In Mexico City, Mexico.
Interesting stories of life on the
Red Sea have been brought back by
Mrs. william A. Eddy, sister of Mrs.
Philip Chaffn, and Mr.. Norman
Garvin, both of Bethesda.
Mrs. Eddy has been in Jidde,
where MIR. Eddy, one-time president
OF Hobart College, is United States
Minister to Arabia.
Her letters to relatives here have
been full of stories of parties at
which she was the one unveiled
women present She Is one of four
or five unveiled women in the whole
city OF Jidde, she says. Mr.. Eddy, the
son of missionary family, learned
the Arabic language when a child in
Syria and in his official capacity as
Minister to Arabia he was the inter-
prefer for King Ibn Saud at his con-
ference with the late President
Roosevelt last spring.
Mrs. Eddy arrived In New York
last week with her daughter Carmen
and went directly to Hanover, N. H.,
to spend the summer with her
daughter, Mrs. Robert Costello. She
will be In Bethesda some time In
September.