Evening star., 1949-10-30
|Gen.CroWford
To Be Feted
ByEngineers
By Betty Murphy

All engineer officers stationed
in Washington and at Fort Bel
voir probably will be on hand next
Friday for a huge reception and
buffet supper honoring their re-
firing deputy chief of engineers,
Mai. Gen. Roscoe c. Crawford.
and Mrs. Crawford. The party
will follow a review of troops by
the general at 3 o'clock.
The Engineer Commissioner OF
the District and Mrs. Gordon r.
Young are planning cocktail
party for the Crawfords on the
11th. Following his retirement
the 1st of December, Gen. and
Mrs. Crawford will go to Bards-
town, KY, to spend the holidays
with her father. former Repre-
sentative Ben johnson. After
that their plans are uncertain.
The Civil Engineer Corps of the
Navy and civilian personnel of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks are
staging a large reception and buf-
fet supper on November 20 for the
retiring chief of the bureau, Rear
Admiral John j. Manning, and to
introduce his successor. So far
no one seems to know who his
successor will be but President
Truman is expected to make the
appointment in early November.
The informal party will be
given in the presidential room Of
the Statler Hotel from 6 until 8
o'clock. The Secretaries of the
Navy, chiefs of the various
bureaus, their wives and/or hus-
bands and guests have been
invited.
Mony Fetes Over Week End
The party pace continues on its
merry way. Today 1t. Gen. and
Mrs. Edward H. Brooks are giving
a cocktail party, tomorrow there
will be a children's Halloween
party at 4:30 o'clock in Hop Hall
at Fort Myer, and yesterday there
were several gatherings.
Col. and Mrs. Horace Smith
entertained for 1t. Gen. and Mrs.
Wade Haislip, Col. and Mrs. Will
liam L. Wilson feted Sir Jack and
Lady Drummond, Col. and Mrs.
Floyd v. Kilgore were hosts at
cocktails and Comdr. and Mrs.
Steven Kasper gave a cocktail and
smorgasbord party.
On Thursday Mrs. Jesse B. Mat
lack and her daughter, Mrs. Henry
j. Hughes, are giving a shower
for Gladys Collins and Shirley
Schuyler. and on Saturday Mrs.
Charles Lawrence Bolte is giving
one for Gladys. Patty Moore.
daughter of Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
James E. Moore. will give cock
tail shower for Shirley next month.
the date to be determined later,
and Mrs. Robert j. Davenport's
shower for her also will be in
November. Mrs. Davenport Incl
dentally will be entertaining for
her husbands mother, too, Mrs.
Clyde Davenport, vino Is arriving
from Valentine, Neb., on Novem-
ber to spend a month.
The Naval Academy class Of
1928 will have a cocktail buffet
at the Army and Navy Club FRI
day, and Maj. Gen. and Mrs. A.
B. Quinton, jr., will entertain on
the 10th at the same club for Maj.
Gen. and Mrs. Everett s. Hughes
and the formers successor as
chief of Army ordnance, Maj.
Gen. E. L. Ford. The Hughes will
go to New York on the 18th, Incl
dentally, to be guests of Gen. and
Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower until
they sail on the 14th for Europe.
Col. and Mrs. George w. Cocheu
plan to give a large cocktail party
at the Army and Navy Club on
November II, and among the
guests will be Mrs. Cecil Hogan Of
Summit, N. j.. who will spend the
week end with them. Maj. Gen.
Frank S. Cocheu will entertain at
dinner on the 11th in Mrs.
Hogan's honor.