Evening star., 1948-11-21
Classic Game
To Dra1V Man1
In Service Set
ArnOlds Hosts
At Cocktails
Br Betty Murphy

ALI rOdQS Will lSdQ 10 FIllldQelpilld
Saturday for the Army-Navy game.
MANY, like Brig. Gen. and Mrs. j. j.
O'Hare, will take the special train
leaving Washington early that
morning and returning the same
night. Others will go up Frlday,
like the Attorney General and Mrs.
Tom Clark, who'll be in group OF
nine motoring to Wilmington to be
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred I.
du Pont. Mrs. Arthur w. Radford
is another in the party, but the
admiral will miss the fun as he's
sailing for England that very day
aboard the British ship, the Duke
of York.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. ]. ].
(Jock) Clark plan to take several
friends in their car, too, which
they've been doing every year since
their marriage. And Capt. and Mrs.
j. w. Pearson, jr., who are coming
up from Norfolk to spend Thanks
giving with their daughter, stu
dent at Mount Vernon Seminary,
and their son who attends Episcopal
High School. will drive up with
them. Completing the list will be
Miss Helen Knox of New York and
Father Maurice Sheehy, who's on
the teaching staff at Catholic Uni
versity.
The Assistant Secretary of the
Navy for Air and Mrs. John Mich
olas Brown had planned to go
along, but instead will spend
Thanksgiving in Newport with their
sons, Nicholas and Carter, and join
the rest of the party Saturday in
Philadelphia. The boys are stu
dents at Groton, where Thanksgiv-
ing vacations have been just out
of the question heretofore.
To Marry in February
One of the things the guests
learned at the cocktail party Maj.
Gen. and Mrs William Howard Ar
mold gave Friday was that Emily
Arnold had set her wedding date,
Both Emily and her sister Betty's
engagements were announced just
two weeks ago. Emily will be mar
ried Saturday, February 26, and
Betty will follow suit in April.
Both girls, with their respective
fiances, Mr.. Parkman Joseph Halsey
Clancy and 1t. James Howard Dali
man, U. S. A., were on hand to
assist at the party Friday.
Among their parents friends In
the gathering were Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. H. w. Blakeley, 1t. Gen. and
Mrs. Raymond S. McLain, the Mil
itary Attache of the British En-
bassy and Mrs. H. E. Taber, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Brian Schofield,
the Air Attache of the Canadian
Embassy and Mrs. R. c. Gordon,
Mai. Gen. and Mrs Arthur w. VAN
aman, Vice Admiral and Mrs. Harry
w. Hill, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Bryant
E. Moore, Col. and Mrs. Lawrence
c. Kingsland. Mr.. and Mrs. Hans
Klassbrur..-, Sir Charles and Lady
Medhurst, Col. and Mrs. Max john
son, Col. and Mrs. John Guthrie
and Col. and Mrs. Curtis Herrick.
Emily's wedding will take place at
8 o'clock in the evening in the
chapel at Fort McNair, with re-
ception afterward in the ballroom of
the Officers' Club. Betty will be her
sisters maid of honor and Mrs.
John Theys, wife of 1t. Comdr.
Theys and sister of the bridegroom
to-be, will be the matron of honor.
The rest of the wedding party will
be named later.
Fefes Ne,c Director
Col. Katherine A. Towle, recently
appointed the first Director OF
Women Marines in the regular serv-
ice, was honor guest at cocktail
party given the other evening at
the Sulgrave Club by Maj. Julia
Hamblet, Deputy Director and OFF,
Ger in Charge of the Women's Re-
serve Program.
The Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. John L. Sullivan, the Assistant
Secretary and Mrs. w. John Kenney
and the Commandant of the Marine
Corps and Mrs. Clifton B. Gates
were among those on hand to drink
q toast to the new director.
Other top-hight Marine officers
and their wives in the gathering
were Mai. Gen. and Mrs. w. j. Wal
lace, Mai. Gen. and Mrs. w. T.
Clement, Brig. Gen. Robert Blake,
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. M. H. Silver
thorn, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Ray A.
Robinson, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. A. E.
Creesy, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. w. O.
Brice, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. M. B.
Curtiss, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. r. H.
Pepper, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. j. 7.
Selden, Capt. Joy Bright Hancock,
Director of the WAVES; Col. Mary
Hallaren, Director of the WAC; Col.
Geraldin P. May, Director of the
WAF; Col. Mary G.. Phillips, Chief,
Army Nurse Corps, and Col. Emma
vogel, Chief, Women's Medical Spe-
cialist Corps.
For the past two and half years
Maj Hamblet has been Director,
Marine Corps Women's Reserve.
Army Capt. and Mrs. Max Meyers
gave a party last evening at the
Evans Coffee Shop in Arlington for
their young son, Donald. 1t was
farewell gathering, for the Meyers
will leave next month for Germany
where Capt. Meyers will be on duty
at Heidelberg
Members of the younger genera
alton at the stag party were Wayne
Bolts, Jack Cornwell, Earl Wells,
Donald Ware. Bill Payne, Donald
Sauers, Charles Sine, jr.; Robert
Engel, Glen Fishel and Richard
Cocker.
Col. and Mrs Samuel L. Myers
will be hosts at cocktails Friday
from $50 until $3.50 o'clock In the
Officers' Club at Fort McNair.