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Evening star., 1950-12-18
Mexican Envoy
Is Luncheon Host

The Mexican Ambassador, Senor
Don Rafael de la Colina, enter
tanned at luncheon Friday in
honor of the new Deputy Assist
ant Secretary of State, Mr..
Thomas c. Mann.
Others at the luncheon were
Dominican Ambassador Thomen.
Honduran Ambassador Vale,
Guatemalan Ambassador Gou-
d-Carrera, Panamanian Am
bassador Herbruger, Costo Rican
Ambassador Echandi Jimenez, Ell
Salvador Charge d'Affaires Siri,
Haitian Charge d'Affairese Coli
mon, Assistant Secretary of State
Edward G. Miller, jr., Mr.. Nufer
and Mr.. Roy Rubottom of the
State Department. and members
of tiGn Mexican Embassy staff.
Evening star., 1950-12-18
Plan Premiere
NextMonth

The American premiere of the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
will be given in Constitution Hall
on Sunday. January 7. Many
members of the Diplomatic Corps
and other officials plan to be
on hand for the first appearance
anywhere in the Western world
of this musical aggregation. The
orchestra will be conducted by
Serge Kousevitzky, who has as
sumed the musical direction,
along with Leonard Bernstein, of
the organization on its American
tour.
The orchestra, whose premiere
is being sponsored by the Louis
D. Brandeis Zionist District, in
association with the American
Fund for Israel Institutions, will
visit approximately so cities in
this country and in Canada.
Among those indicating their
intentions of attending are the
Indian Ambassador, Nine. Pandit;
the Secretary of Agriculture and
Mrs. Brannan, Senator and Mrs.
Herbert Lehman. Associate JUS
tice and Mrs. Felix Frankfurter
the Assistant Secretary Of State
and Mrs. Willard Thorp, the Meth
erlands Ambassador and Nine.
van Roijen, the Chairman Of the
House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee and Mrs. John Kee, and many
others.
Evening star., 1950-12-18
Miss Akers
Is Married
In Rome

Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd D. Akers
announce the marriage Of their
daughter, Shirley Elnor. to Mr.. s.
Poll Sheahan, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter H. Sheahan of New Haven,
Conn.
The ceremony took place today
at II o'clock in st. Peters Cathe-
dral in Vatican City. Msgr. Hem
mick of the American College Of
ficiating. A small reception fol-
lowed.
The bride wore a Christian Dior
blush pink satin dress and a fin
gertip veil of rosepoint lace.
Marchesa Lily Gerini, aunt of the
bridegroom. was matron Of honor
and United States Ambassador
James Clement Dunn served as
best man.
The couple will go to Florence,
Italy. this evening and tomorrow
evening will leave for Venice,
where they will be until the 22nd
From there they will go to St
Moritz. Switzerland and on the
30th will leave for Paris. They
will be home in New Haven, Conn.
the first week In January.
Evening star., 1950-12-18

tor and Mrs. Owen Brewster, Mr..
and Mrs. George Ray who have
the top floor apartment at 2S39,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dewey
who will soon take over the first
floor apartment in this building
where there's only one dwelling to
6. floor. The Deweys have sold
their Capitol Hill residence which
has been their home for some
years.
coonleys Hosts
Mr.. and Mrs. Prentiss Coonley
entertained at a buffet supper last
evening. Their guests were Sena-
tor and Mrs. Joseph c. O'Mahoney,
Senator and Mrs. Ralph E. Flan-
ders, Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court and Mrs. Robert H.
Jackson, the Assistant to the
President and Mrs. John B. Steel
man, Governor of the Federal Re-
serve Board Mariner S. Eccles,
Secretary of the Senate and Mrs.
Leslie Bif1e, Mr.. and Mrs. Leon
H. Keyserling, Mr.. Archibald Cor
don, Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer, Mr..
and Mrs. Cyrus S. Ching, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Joyce, Gen. and Mrs.
Wade H. Haislip, Gen. Sir Neil
and Lady Ritchie. Gen. and Mrs.
Anthony c. McAuliffe. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest A. Tupper. Mr.. and
Mrs. William R. Hearst, jr., and
Mr.. William C. Stolk and Mr.
Edward K. Walsh Of New York.
Evening star., 1950-12-18
DoteChonged
For orWeddinQ

The wedding of Miss Carolyn
Louise Wood and Mr.. Charles
White Halleck originally scheduled
for June has been moved up to
December % due to the forth
coming induction of the groom
elect into the armed forces.
The ceremony will take place
in the Cathedral of the Incarna-
tion in Garden City, Long Island,
with the Rev. Hubert S. Wood,
cousin of the bride-elect and the
Rev. Edmund Bacon Wood, rector
Of st. Timothy's Church, Roxbor-
ough, Philadelphia, officiating.
The brides attendants will be
Miss Mary M. Frandenberg, maid
Of honor, and the Misses Mar
guerite J. Bennett, Joyce M. Ben
nett, cousins of the bride; Con-.
stance Ann Carpenter, Marguerite
A. Herrying and Mrs. Robert w.
Miller, also a cousin of the bride,
bridesmaids.
Best man will be the groom's
brother-in-law. DR.. Jerome N.
Matthews. The Messrs. Kenneth
T. Hoeck. Henry c. Rogers, Sidney
L. Workman, Gilbert Mason. Paul
E. Shorb, jr., and William Halsey
Wood III, brother of the bride,
will be ushers. The groom is the
son of Representative and Mrs.
Charles A. Halleck.
A supper party December %
has been planned for the bridal
party at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Halsey
Wood in Roslyn, Long Island.
Evening star., 1950-12-18
Miss Buoy to Wed
Lawrence Wood

The engagement of Miss Mar
garet Kreitzer Buoy to Mr.. Law
renee Wood has been announced
by her mother. Mrs. Robert B.
Buoy.
Miss Buoy, the daughter of the
late Mr.. Buoy of Milton, Pa, at
tended Bucknell Uniyersitys and
graduated cum laude from Gettys-
burg College. At present she is an
analyst with the Government.
Mr.. Wood is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eben Wood of Peekskill, N. Y,
and Orlando. Fla. He is a graduate
of Hamilton College where he was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and
received his Ph.D. in physics from
Cornell University. He is now
Chief Of the Rubber Division of
the National Bureau of Standards.
Evening star., 1950-12-18

Mrs. Randolph S. Carlson, of
Mount Rainier announces the en-
gagement Of her daughter, Bar
bara Jewel, to Mr.. Stanley Emer-
son Niebruegge, son of the Rev.
and Mrs. Amos j. Niebruegge of
st. Louis.
Miss Carlson is a graduate of
Radcliffe College, Class of 1850,
and is now studying religious edu-
cation at Andover Newton Theo-
logical School in Boston. Her
fiance is a graduate of Harvard
University, Class of 1850, and is
a student at Episcopal Theologi-
cal School in Cambridge. Plans
are being made for wedding this
summer.
Evening star., 1950-12-18
Exclusively Yours
Traffic to Europe Bound to Increase;
CopitoIites Toke Houses, Send Cards

to ECA Administrator Bill Fos-
ter, was plotting jet planes as far
back as l943, says the biggest
thrill is going TOO miles an hour
so feet above the ~ground. He
knows because he tested them for
sea-level performance that way
down at the Patuxent Naval Base.
I'll take vanilla.
George Burgess returned from
his two months mission in Pakis-
tan and India for the World Bank
last week in time to move into
new house. He and his wife are
now ensconced in the Hoban road
dwelling that formerly housed
Count and Countess Moltke- HUT
teldt of the Danish Embassy. =.
The Grosvenor Chapmans are
whipping off on the 28th for three
sunny weeks in Hobe Sound, Fla.
Jack Logan will spend the
Christmas season with sons John
and Jerry In the Orange Blossom
State. . The Robert Schencks
will move next month into the
house they have bought on Bel
mont road; it's next to the Bill
Fulbrights' abode. Tasha Mayo
has leased the Tracy place house
CT Brig. Gen. and Mrs. William
Borden who moved to Boston
few years ago. Laura May
Norris and 11-year-old sister
Shearer have returned to the home
fold from Paris where the younger
one stayed with French family
and picked up the spoken language
in three months while Laura May
took off for various and interesting
spots. =.
Christmas cards: A handsome
one from Julian and Joyce Gas
coigne showing the generals regi-
ment's headquarters, the Horse
Guards, "hoodlit on the occasion of
the state visit of the President of
France. March, 1880" An ele-
gantly white embossed horse on
red background from Emma and
Connie Bretsch; named The Pie,
the horse is one of Emina's fine
racers. An amusing one of a
palm-surrounded pool that OBJ
viously contains Santa cause his
clothes have been shed by the
edge, from the Randolph Kidders
who have a penchant for the
tropics. A formal white one
bearing the gold seal of the Sec
retary of the Treasury from the
John Snyders. And a green
and gold-edged engraved one from
the Postmaster General and Mrs.
Donaldson bearing his seal of the
fast-galloping horseman. The card
Just happened to arrive on Friday,
the day that mail had slowed down
% a walk! :.
Evening star., 1950-12-18
Society News
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rediker Entertain
Numerous Friends at the Cocktail Hour

The large, handsomely fur
nished apartment of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Rediker was the scene of
a late afternoon party yesterday
Occupying an entire floor of the
apartment house at 1899 Massa-
chusetts avenue. the spacious
quarters were only recently moved
into by Mr.. Rediker and his wife,
the former Egyptian Princess
Hahn. whose daughter. Princess
Nevine, is rumored engaged to
King Farouk Of Egypt.
Around 100 friends dropped by
yesterday between the hours of
and 8 to sip cocktail and sam
pie an excellent buffet that in
cluded crisp roast sucking pig
with the usual apple between its
lips, a turkey, ham. hot chicken
livers and numerous other deli
cacies. 1t was, in fact, a COM
plete supper. Jerome Zerbe, noted
fashion photographer, came down
from New York for the party and
spent the afternoon busily snap
ping pictures.
Mrs. Rediker received wearing
q gray-blue taffeta gown high
lighted with diamond clips. The
guests no sooner greeted her than
they cast admiring glances around
at the oyster-white walls, dark blue
and silver brocade hangings. the
Gobelin tapestry and upholstery
the European air created by the
French and Italian pieces of fur
niture.
In the gathering during the
party hours were Nine. Bonnet, the
Peruvian Ambassador and Sonora
de Berckemeyer. the Colombian
Ambassador de Zuleta-Angel, and
three diplomatic neighbors, the
Turkish Ambassador and Nine
Erkin and Greek Ambassador
Athanase Politis. Mrs. George
Holmes had only to cross the street
to attend. while from Upper Marl-
boro. Md, came Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Smith Of Dover House and
Mr.. and Mrs. j. s. Holloway.
Others invited to drop by were
Gen. and Mrs. Omar Bradley,
British Counselor and Mrs. B. A.
B. Burrows, who knew Mrs.
Rediker several years ago in
Cairo; Mrs Morris Catfritz, Sena-
Evening star., 1950-12-18
By Betty BeoIe

From now on traffic will be
stepped up between Washington
and Paris, and/or Weisbaden,
Germany, where 1t. Gen. Lauris
Norstad is expected to go first
when he leaves in January for his
new European post as USAF boss
in Europe. Fontainebleau is being
mentioned as Gen. Eisenhower S
choice for headquarters outside
Paris. AS chairman of the West
ern Europe Military Chiefs, Field
Marshal Viscount Montgomery is
now based there but Ike" who
would outrank him, might decide
that that's the best spot for the
No. military headquarters.
With the concentration of brass
abroad will go among other news
men ace reporter and historian
Bob Sherrod, whose wife Betty
will accompany him when he sails
on February Is. They'll 60 first
to Italy for a vacation, then to
wherever the big military story
is. Betty will return here in a
months time but her husbands s
plans are not so definite.
X X
The Frederick Lees young son
Ricky came down to be presented
to his parents dinner guests Fri
day evening. Just as he was max
ing the rounds tray of martins
was being passed about in the
company. On the tray reposed a
solitary soft drink. Ricky took
one look and exclaimed, Nom,
who's the lucky stiff getting that
one?" Najeeb Halaby, the at
tractive and able young man who
was recently appointed a deputy
Evening star., 1950-12-18
Portrait Viewed
At Cocktail Fete

Friends of DR.. and Mrs. Stephen
Verges gathered at their house
yesterday to see the newly finished
portrait of Mrs. Verges painted by
the Spanish artist, Alberto Duce.
Since his arrival from Madrid Mr..
Duce has painted several ladies
of the diplomatic corps and has
completed some murals at the
Spanish Embassy.
Ambassadors and their wives
from Spain, the Dominican Re-
public, Cuba, Ceylon, Panama,
Paraguay and Colombia were
among those who accepted the
invitation to this 6 to 8 party
which also drew number of
Washingtonians.
Evening star., 1950-12-18
Emily
Post

Dear Mrs. Post: I recently in
vited my mother and father to
come and spend a week at my
house. While they were here, a
friend Of mine called and invited
my husband and me to dinner
and did not include my parents.
I declined and explained that
did not want to leave them alone.
Mother was very much hurt over
this and thinks I should have &C
cepted. She said that a house
guest does not keep one. from &C
cepting invitations. I feel that
every house guest should be in
cluded in invitations, and if not,
the hosts should refuse to go and
leave their guests to look after
themselves. Will you please give
me your opinion.
Answer: For the hostess to have
omitted an invitation to your par
ents was not necessarily rude.
She may not have known they
were staying with you, or maybe
she could not seat two more at
her table. On the other hand you
are right in your belief that you
should not have left your parents
alone. excepting under very spe-
cial circumstances whom thav
were staying with you for only
one week.
Dance Question
Dear Mrs. Post: After I've fin
ished a dance with a boy who
has cut in on my partner, how
do I manage to get back to my
own friends who are on the far
side of the dance floor?
Answer: Ask him to take you
to them.
When should place cards be
used? Where should salt cel-
lars and pepper pots be placed
on the table? Mrs. Post is sorry
she cannot anSDer personal
mail, but her leatlet ESQ gipes
details for table setting arad
serUice. To obtain a copy, send
10 cents in coin to her, care of
The Evening Star. P. o. Bor 80.
Station G, NeD York 19, N. Y.
Evening star., 1950-12-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Franklin
Hodge, formerly of Houston, Tex,
announce the engagement of their
daughter, Joyce Lee, to Cadet
Robert William Milburn, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Andrew Mil
burn of Washington, D. c.
Miss Hodge attended Wilson
Teachers College. Cadet Milburn
served two years in the Air Force,
attended the United States Mill
tary Academy Preparatory School
and will graduate from the United
States Military Academy in June,
1851.
The wedding will take place in
the Holy Trinity Chapel at West
Point, following Cadet Milburn's
graduation In June.
Evening star., 1950-12-18
Horris-WuIther

Mr.. and Mrs. Ivey Earle Harris
of Williamsburg. Va, announce
the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Dorothy Earle, to Mr.. John
Michael Walther, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Walther of La Cross,
Wis. The wedding will take place
in June.
Evening star., 1950-12-18

Springs, N. Y, last June, and is
now with the Reassessment Board
in Arlington. Mr.. Carish is a
graduate of the University of Vir-
ginia and is associated with the
Old Dominion Bank.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Evening star., 1950-12-18

Preston A. Conover, also Of Ar
lington.
Miss Brown attended the School
of Nursing at Emergency Hos
pital. Mr.. Conover served in the
Navy for two years.
Evening star., 1950-12-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin T. Holland
of Arlington, Va, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Sallie Lee, to Mr.. J. Robert
Carish, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert E. Carish. also of that city.
Miss Holland was graduated
from Skidmore College, Saratoga
Evening star., 1950-12-18
ArIinqton Couple Are Enquqed

Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar w. Brown
Of Arlington announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Shir-
ley Lois, to Mr.. John William
Conover, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Evening star., 1950-12-18

Mr.. Roy H. Miller announces
the engagement of his sister,
Suzanne Miller, to Mr.. Joseph l..
Roach.
The bride-elect attends George
Washington University and is a
pledge Of Kappa Kappa Gamma
sorority. Mr.. Roach is a graduate
of American University and is en-
ployed by the American Psychia-
trio Association. The wedding is
to take place In the fall.
Evening star., 1950-06-17

and Cancelled check. provided. the en-
closed Indemnity Agreement and waiver
of claim are signed by Mrs. Sam and
returned to this office"
But" argued John, "the duplicate
payment was made by me. not by Sam,
And what in the world has Mrs. Sam
got to do with it. anyway"
That. it seemed. was an irrelevant
question. If John did not want the
money returned to Sam. why did John
send to the Water Department the re-
fund voucher signed by Sam? And why
did he submit the Cancelled check from
Mrs. Sam?
Thereupon John read the form he
was supposed to send to Mrs. Sam, la
beled. Indemnity for Lost Collector s
Receipt. District Of Columbia" 1t said ::
Dear Sirs-I. having made diligent
search for Collectors Receipt No.
155/1S8 for payment of water rent on
Premises xxx and having been unable
to locate same for surrender that re-
fund may be made as required by
regulations of the District of Colum-
bia
Mrs. Sam will never sign that. She
never got Collectors Receipt No. l55fls8,
and, never having received it, she never
Evening star., 1950-06-17

ANIMALS, some perennials. The whole
gamut of growing is met, adding garden
interest.
He or she who likes to read will find
few hobbies with better literature, or
more copious. Books about this garden
ing speciality run back for centuries,
and have been added to tremendously
during the past so years. Our protected
poSition-at least to date-on the globes
surface has given the herb gardener his
chance. He can plant with assurance of
success. The only thing he need fear
is wandering dog or cat or child. So
many herbs resemble weeds, at least to
the uninitiated, that there is some chance
of danger here. But the very fact Of their
inconSpiciousnesS is q help, too. They
are disregarded by many who might
be tempted to walk Of with tulip or
peony This is their small-yard saliva
ton. that few persons not 'tin the know"
will pay any particular attention to
them. Like many other small things
in this large world, they possess the
faculty of increasing the day by day
enthusiasm Of those who are faithful to
them and their destiny. Humble they
may be, but their praise has come from
many lips, and their beauty has ap-
pealed to both mighty and humble. He
who grows them today puts himself in
line with the heartbeat Of centuries of
good people. who. thought that healing
was better than hurting, living better
than killing.
Evening star., 1950-06-17
I AMT GOT NO
RECQRD OF III
brothers. wife. pays the bills with checks

brothers. wife. pays the bills with checks
she signs.
Sam moved away from Washington.
leaving Johns house vacant. Mrs. Sam,
being meticulous person, had all the
utilities representatives come to the
house, check the meters. turn them OF
and submit their bills.
The private utilitieS-gaS, electricity,
telephone-eflciently submitted their
bills and were paid forthwith. The pub
licly-owned utility, the District Water
Department, said its bill would be for
warded to Sans new address in Florida.
The house was vacated on April 5.
The water bill was paid by check from
Florida, dated May 2. The Water De-
partment records now show that the
bill was marked paid on May 8.
John decided to sell his house. About
May l, real estate dealer found a
buyer. The sale was approved by John,
and eventually the transaction was put
into the hands of title company, which
set the date to close the deal on MAY Is
In the week before May is, the title
company attempted to obtain from the
Water Department a record that the
water bill had been paid. The Water
Department said it had not been paid.
A few days before May Is. the title com
Evening star., 1950-06-17
Letters to The Star
A pseudonyn is permissible only
Uhen letter carries correct name
and address of 1Uriter. Please be brief.

has been done with the consent of the
Government.
Take the last coal strike for instance.
There is strong circumStantial evidence
that John L. Lewis knew all through
that strike exactly where he stood with
the powers that are in Washington.
The attitude of the Government is
shown by its support of labor leaders.
whether right or wrong, the gifts to the
farmers and to the ex-Service men; the
sympathy for the Negro race, which has
everything the whites have now-and the
efforts to bring more and more emigrants
here from all over the world. These
ana many other actions of the same
kind mean just one thing-that we are
on the road to American communism.
Russian communism and American
communism are the same, and when and
II this country goes completely Commu-
mist 1t will not matter to us whether it
has an American or Russian name The
main point is that we will have lost all
the freedom our forefathers fought, bled,
and died for. and have an absolute die
tator over us.
or course, before this occurs, labor
unions, as such, will be destroyed, to-
gether with the churches. the fraternal
orders and everything else that stands
in the way of this revolution.
S. J. Thompson.
Greenwood & q
Evening star., 1950-06-17
Ice Cream Complaint

Now that the subject of milk is fore
most in peoples minds, how about start
ing little agitation in regard to some
other related dairy products around here
notably the quality of ice cream. This
area around here puts out about the
worst ice cream found anywhere. 1t
can't be that the people of this metro
politan area don't know any better. be-
cause they come from all sections of the
country.
Why not sell it by the pound? Then
the maker can blow into it all the air
he pleases, but at least we will not be
paying for a bunch of wind. Further
more. make him certify to the minimum
butter-fat content of the stuff he sells.
Set up minimum standard before he
can call it ice cream. and if it doesn't
measure up to the standard, label it
what it is-iced skim milk, for instance,
and price it accordingly. We have too
much emphasis on the purity of foods
around here and not enough on quality.
Just Fit for Human Consumption"
seems to be the criterion in this COM
munity.
John Kaluf.
Evening star., 1950-06-17
By Charles E. TroceweN

actually the aborigines merely added to
the English herbal systems
The Britishers always have loved their
herbs.
The kitchen garden, filled with rue
and rosemary and thyme and countless
others, served as both provider of food
and medicine.
There were many published herbals, in
which the authors, who were one part
gardener and nine parts doctor, told of
the virtues" of herbs and combinations
thereof.
For certain type Of person today,
herbal lore provides endless fascination.
For its medical and cosmetic uses,
herbal knowledge is still interesting,
though the former has been discounted
in recent years, with some exceptions
For eating purposes, various we'll
known herbs give an added fillip to GER
tain types of dishes.
To all this. many persons will say,
We'll. so what?" They have no interest
in herbal medicines, herbal cosmetics
or herbal seasonings.
Since herbs are fundamentally flowers,
however, they have certain appeal to
countless thousands Of gardeners.
Spring Is good time to think Of them.
Not only can the potted plants be
easily secured. but the seeds may be
sewn with much assurance at this time.
Some OF them are ANIMALS. others BIZ