Evening star., 1948-11-23
w W0men's Press Club
Fetes Mrs. Truman
And Margaret
By Frances Lide

fresh lTOIll IIlciI pOSt-clcCIlOll va
cation trip with the President, Mrs.
Truman and Miss Margaret Tru-
man were welcomed back to Wash
ington at tea given yesterday at
the Statler Hotel by the Women's
National Press Club.
More than 300 members and their
guests turned out for the fete, which
was the largest given by the club
this season. And every one, includ-
ing a few staunch Republicans, had
a word of congratulations and good
wishes for the diStaff members of
the Presidents family.
Looking happy and rested from
their week at Key West, Mrs. Tru-
man and Margaret received with the
club president, Miss Dorothy Will
liamS, and then remained for
half hour or more to chat with the
guests.
Mrs. Truman had chance to
admire the tea table while she
graciously posed for number of
pictures. A Democratic donkey,
nodded in white wax. and a glazed
booklike scroll, inscribed with the
greeting, Mrs. Truman, Welcome
| Home" set the keynote for the
occasion.
While photographs were being
made some one recalled that the
Presidents name for the photog
raphers is the "One More Club"
Mrs. Truman laughingly retorted:
ITS the Two More now"
Both Mrs. Truman and Margaret
wore black dresses, the former COM
pleting her ensemble with gold
metallic hat with feather trim.
The orchid corsage presented to
Mrs. Truman was an unusual ma
genta shade, while Margaret re-
ceived green orchids.
/ The Presidents daughter was
pleased when several guests COM
mented on the tan she had acquired
under the Florida sun. The press
women also noted that she was
wearing her hair shorter, in a very
becoming style.
Chatting about her recent vaca-
lion, Mrs. Truman revealed that
she had gone deep-sea fishing and
proudly reported that she got a
strike"
The guests yesterday included q
number of women from Official
circles, among them Mrs. Jesse M
Donaldson. wife of the Postmaster
General: Mrs. Tom c. Clark, wife
of the Attorney General, and Mrs
Charles F.. Brannan, wife of the
Secretary of Agriculture.
Mrs. John R. steelman. wife of
the assistant to the President: Mrs
Clark Clifford. wife of the special
counsel to the President; Mrs.
Charles G. Ross, wife of the Presi-
dents press secretary, and Mrs
James M. Helm, social secretary of
the White House, were others in the
group.
Still others included Nine. Bon
net. wife of the French Ambassador: /:
Mrs. Kenneth Royal, wife of the
Secretary of the Army; Mrs. John
L. Sullivan, wife of the Secretary
Of the Navy, and Nine. Prabhailak-
shana, wife of the Financial Attache
of the Siamese Embassy.
| Miss Frieda S. Miller, director Of
the Women's Bureau of the Labor
Department, and her predecessor,
Miss Mary Anderson. were glimpsed
in the crowd. while others from
Government circles were Mrs. Ellen
8. Woodward. Mrs. May Thompson
Evans, Miss Frieda Hennnock, men,
ber of the Federal Communications
Commission, and Mr.. Leon H. Key
serling of the Council of Economic
Advisers, and Mrs. Keyserling.
Mrs. Palmer Hoyt, wife Of the
publisher of the Denver Post; Mrs.
Paul Magnuson, Mrs. Marquis
Childs, Mrs. George Allen, Mrs.
George Holmes, Mrs. Stanley Horn
beck. DR.. Sarah Wambaugh, au-
/ thority on plebicites, and Miss
Brenda Lawson-Jones were others
on the guest list.
Mrs. B. Harrison Lingo and her
| daughter, Miss Jane Lingo, also were
there and still others were Mrs. Roy
st. Lewis, Mrs. George c. Thorpe,
Mrs. Dorothy Partridge, Baroness
Stackleberg and Rhoda Low. New
York artist who is planning to ex-
hibit some of her paintings at the
Womans National Democratic Club
on December for the benefit of the
Thrift Shop.
Mrs. William J. Murphy, who as
Helen ESsary served as president of
the Women'S Press Club several
years ago, was down from New York
for the party and took turn at the
tea table. And the masculine men,
bers of the press who braved what
was predominantly ladies' party in
cluded Mr.. William Randolph Hearst,
t jr and Mr. G}a dStODa Williams