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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1951-03-10
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Evening star., 1951-04-22

and Sonora de Berckemeyer,
whose Vice President, Hector Boza,
will arrive in Washington this
Thursday or Friday; the Costa
Rican Ambassador and Sonora de
Oreamuno and their lovely daugh-
ter Diana; ex-senator and Mrs.
Millard Tydings. Luvie and Drew
Pearson, Connie Snow, whose
spouse was in Newport News on
business; Count George Lasoscki,
Pat Boswell, whose husband is in
the front lines in Korea, and Cor
don Arnold, the hostess attractive
22-year-old nephew who came
here to live three months ago and
has taken an apartment at the
Berkshire.
- Although the party was planned
for the Davies and exactly to
their tastes, they were not the
stars of the evening. After the
superb dinner Mr.. Davies repaired
to the card room with Andre de
Limur, Julio Huertematte and Alec
Hagner and Immediately plunged
into a serious game of bridge
from which none emerged till de-
parting time. It's a disease, the
four wives said. But Mrs. Davies
and the rest of the company sat
enthralled at the program that
followed.
First the beautiful Catherine
Manning took up the guitar which
she plays with a peculiar verve
and sang some Spanish songs
that gave full range to the ex-
quisite high notes and the excite
ment and fire Of this dark-eyed
musical person.
Next the concert baritone, David
Baker, sang with effortlesS ease
and beautiful quality one song
after another, from "The Foggy
Dew" to 20 Del Mic Amato Ben,
from Irish ballads to German
lieder. plus his own lullaby. Jingle
for Sleepers." Impresario Connie
Snow was beside herself. Their
David and Catherine sang a duet
a Tuscan folk song, with Capita,
guitarist Sophocles Papas accom-.
panying them, and finally, David
Catherine, Claribel BerckemeyeJ
Evening star., 1951-04-22
Cancer Crusade
Tea Wednesday

Members of the diplomatic
division of the 1851 cancer cru
sade will be entertained at tea
Wednesday afternoon by Mrs,
Robert M. Guggenheim, vice
chairman of the division.
This group is aiding the annual
fund raising drive of the District
of Columbia division of the Amer
lean Cancer Society.
Guests at Mrs. Guggenheim's S
tea will see the cancer society's
latest educational film, Breast
Self Examination" and hear a
discussion of the society's cancer
control program by Mrs. Louise
Bushnell, national representative
of the American Cancer Society.
Evening star., 1951-04-22
.issShepherd
Is Married
InHOnoIuIu

| A wedding of particular interest
in service circles here is that OF
Miss Virginia Cartwright Shep-
herd, daughter of 1t. Gen. Lemuel
Cornick Shepherd, jr., U. S. M. c.,
and Mrs. Shepherd, and Capt
James Basevi Ord. jr., u. S. M. c.,
son of Mrs. James B. Ord of
Washington and the late 1t. Col.
Ord. U. S. A.
The ceremony took place yes
fterday in the Parke Memorial
Chapel, st. Andrews Cathedral,
in Honolulu, Comdr. William j.
Kuhn, U. S. NJ, officiating. The
reception was held at the Com
missioned officers Mess at Maka-
lapa. Honolulu.
The brides parents, who are
well known in this city, are now
in Honolulu. The bridegroom is
on duty with headquarters, Fleet
Marine Force, Pacific.
Wearing a gown of imported
embroidered white silk organdy
over taffeta, and a Brussels lace
veil caught with star jasmine, the
bride was escorted by her father.
Her matron of honor was Mrs.
Frank H. Balsley. and the other
attendants were Mrs. Arthur D.
Callacombe, Mrs. Reginald G.
Martin, Mrs. Addison Breckenridge
|Overstreet and Miss Susan Clough.
1t. Comdr. Balsley, u. S. N,
served as best man for the bride
groom, and the ushers were Ma
rine Corps. 1t. Coils. Addison B.
Overstreet, Spencer H. Pratt,
Leslie E. Medford, Joseph C.
Missar, and Its. Reginald G. Mar
tin and Lemuel C. Shepherd III,
who flew to Honolulu from Nor
folk; and 1t. Comdr. Garnett M.
Smithson, U. S. N.
Following a wedding trip to the
island of Hawaii. the newlyweds
will reside at the Tradewinds
Apartments, Waikiki, Honolulu.
Hawaii.
Evening star., 1951-04-22
Senator's
Daughter
Bride-EIect

OF great interest in official and
Legislative circles is the announce
Lment made today by Senator and
Mrs: Ernest w. Mcfarland of
Florence. Ariz., and this city, of
the engagement of their daugh-
ter. Jewell, to Mr.. Delbert r.
Lewis, also of Florence.
The wedding will take place
June Is in the Metropolitan Me-
mortal Methodist Church here.
The bride-elect was graduated
with honors from the University
of Arizona last year where she
was a member of Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority. She majored in
education and was elected to Pi
Lambda Theta, honorary educa-
ton society. Miss Mcfarland is
now working on her masters de-
gree at George Washington Uni
versity.
Mr.. Lewis, son of Mrs. Charles
Hughes of San Jose, Calf, and
Mr.. Clarence A. Lewis of Flor
ence, also graduated from the
University of Arizona last year,
with a degree in civil engineering.
He is a member of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity and of the
American Society of Civil Engi-
neers He is employed as civil
ian engineer in the Engineer Re-
search Development Laboratory
under the auspices of the Army
Corps of Engineers at Fort Bel
voir.
picture on PAGE D-2.)
Evening star., 1951-04-22
Maryland Tour Includes Tea
HEIRLooMs TO BE SEEN.

The Governor of Maryland and
Mrs. Theodore R. McKeldin will
be hosts at tea in Government
House on April q to all holders
of tickets for Anne Arundel Coun-
ty Day Of the 14th Annual Mary
land House and Garden Pilgrim
age. Their home will be open
from 3 until 5 o'clock on Friday
and both the governor and his
wife will stand in the receiving
line.
Many prominent persons from
other States as we'll as Maryland
are expected to attend and ad-
vance estimates indicate that the
total attendance for the 1851
Pilgrimage, which opens on the
Evening star., 1951-04-22
Miss Sullivan
Engaged to
John BruWner

OF particular interest in resi-
dental circles in Washington is
, the engagement of Miss Louise
Price Sullivan to Mr.. John W..
Brawner II. It is announced to-
day by her parents, 1t. Gerald j..
Sullivan, U. S. A., retired, and Mrs.
Sullivan of Washington and Corn
wall-on-Hudson, N. Y. 1t. Sulli-
van, for many years principal Of
the Sullivan School here, is now
heading the Braden School in
Cornwall-on-Hudson.
Mr.. Brawner, a member of an
old Washington family, is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Brawner.
He graduated from Landon School.
attended Princeton University and
is now with the Waggaman-
Brawner Realty Co. Miss Sullivan
graduated from Mount Vernon
Seminary last June.
Their marriage win take place
In September.
picture on Page D-7.J
Evening star., 1951-04-22

and Connie Landa formed quar-
tet in a laughing, rollicking La
Paloma." Comdr. Joseph Manning
never left his wife's audience for
a second.
The humorous climax came
when David Chavchavadze, hand
some young White Russian, sang
"a Calypso song about King Ed
ward leaving the throne, the war
favorite Lilly Marlene," the way
Marlene Dietrich would render it,
then a limey song, a French song
and a mad Russian one. And
throughout it all champagne
flowed without ceasing. III
Eleanor Tydings said that she
and her husband will give an ante
hehnm bali at their Maryland
home Darlington on the Clfesa-
peake under the very fulsorne moon
of June Is for debutante daughter
Eleanor. 1t will be a magnolia and
crinoline affair with the wasp
waists and sweeping hoop skirts of
the pre-Civil War period. Sounds
Virginia Hagner, by the
way, was wearing no less than eight
magnificent coral-color camellias
on her black dinner dress and she
plucked them all off one of the
bushes she grows herself in her
garden at Mclean, Va.
The Vice President of Peru will
bring his daughter, Consuelo, with
him when he comes to the Capital
this week on an unofficial visit.
They will be guests of Ambassador
and Sonora de Berckemeyer
through the week end and they are
the reason for the formal Embassy
dinner Saturday night. Peru's Weep
came to this country for the Simon
Bolivar ceremony in New York this
past Thursday, will return to his
homeland after glimpsing the
beauties of our fair city in spring
At the Women's National Press
Club Wednesday night when the
honor guest and speaker of the
evening was Secretary of State
Acheson, the only table of guests
that didn't rise in tribute to the
Secretary when he stood to make
his address, was the nearby table
at which Senators Bourke Hicken-
looper, Harry Cain and Herman
Welker were seated. On top of
that, Senators Cain and Welker
made a point of conspicuously
smoking MacArthur-type corncob
pipes that were procured in the
middle of the dinner. They must
have tasted awfully bad.
Evening star., 1951-04-22
Judicial Wives
Z oReceiVe
At Embassy
OFF FOR A STROLL.

Mrs. Oscar Chapman, wife of
the Secretary of the Interior, has
received acceptances from wives
Of Supreme Court justices and
cabinet members to receive with
Mrs. Truman and Mrs. Barkley
at the tea at the Brazilian EN-
bassy next Saturday from TO
is, a feature of the annual En-
baSsy tour sponsored by the
Goodwill Guild of Washington.
In the group will be Mrs.
Robert H. Jackson, Mrs. Tom
Clark, Mrs. j. Howard McGrath,
Mrs. Jesse Donaldson and Mrs.
Charles F. Brannan. Mrs. Sidney
Hechinger. president of the guild;
Mrs. Wiley Rutledge. past presi-
dent, and Mrs. Martin Vogel will
also be in the line during the
afternoon.
Among those who have already
accepted to preside at the tea
table during the afternoon are
Lady Berendsen, wife of the Min
lister of New Zealand: Nine. Thors,
wife of the Minister of Iceland;
Mrs. Frank Pace, wife of the Sec
retary of the Army; Mrs. Francis
p. Matthews, wife of the Secre-
Ttary of the Navy; Mrs. James E.
Webb, wife of the Undersecretary
of State; Mrs. Edward Foley. jr.
wife Of the Undersecretary Of the
Treasury; Mrs. William S. Pawley,
wife Of the Special Assistant to
the Secretary of State, and Mrs.
Dale E. Doty, wife of the Assistant
Secretary of the Interior.
The tour hours are from 2 to 5
O'Clock, but the Brazilian Embassy
will not be open for the tea until
4 o'clock. when Mrs. Truman is
due to arrive.
Tour tickets are now on sale
at the Raleigh, Statler and Will
lard Hotels, Goodwill Industries,
1918 New Hampshire avenue. or
they can be purchased at the en-
baSsy doors on Saturday.
Evening star., 1951-04-22
-Harris-Ewins Photos.

9th and closes on May g. will
be between 10000 and $4,000.
Arrangements for obtaining tick
cts and guide books in advance
and for securing information con-
corning accommodations and
transportation can be made by
writing or telephoning the annual
sponsors, the Federated Garden
Clubs of Maryland, 217 Sheraton
Belvedere Hotel, Baltimore 2,
Maryland. Telephone, Mulberry
7481. All proceeds from admission
receipts are turned over toward
the support of the Hammond-Har-
wood House, Annapolis, and other
such worthy Maryland projects.
Evening star., 1951-04-22

the elegant sur
roundings of the
Art Ian d a s.
Kalorama Circle
home. 1t was a
black tie party
that Connie
gave for tn e
Joseph Davies
and the charm
of it held the
guests till 2:30
in the morning.
The S e at e d
dinner for 80
included Peruv-
ian Ambassador
Evening star., 1951-04-22

(see BROOKS, Page D-14)
Evening star., 1951-04-22

picture on Page Day
Evening star., 1951-04-22

Picture on Page D-7J
Evening star., 1951-04-22
Exclusively Yours
Mrs. Art Londo,s Guests Get Gay Treot;,
Senators Appear to Be Unwilling Guests
IN THE COLONIAL MOOD.
By Betty BeoIe

One Of those gay and heavenly
musical evenings that range from
the professional to amateur hour
took place Thursday evening in
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-01-11
Thompson Elected Head
Of Montgomery County
POlicemen'S Association

Private Leslie B. Thompson of
the Bethesda substation has heen
elected president of the Montgom-
cry County Policemen's Associa-
ton. He succeeds bet. Sgt. James
M. Anderson.
The annual election was held at
a meeting Monday night in the old
Argyle Country Club. Other of
ficers elected were: Corp. John
Higdon, first vice-president; bet.
Sergt. Jesse B. Day, second vice
president; Pvt. Daniel Barnes,
third vice-president; Pvt. Harold
Treadwell, fourth vice-president !;
Pvt. Robert L. Smithers, reelected
secretary; Sergt. Alton Harding,
reelected treasurer; Pvt. Lester R..
Lynch, sergeant at arms.
Capt. Charles T. Barnes, Det-
Sergt. Anderson, bet. Sergt. Will
liam M. Whalen, bet. Sergt. Ed
ward R. Barber, Sergt. Leo Day,
Sergt. Charles Peter and bet.
Corpl. Kenneth Watkins were man,
ed to the board of trustees.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-01-11
Give To Fight Polio

= The March of Dimes drive in Montgomery County
begins next week. Evidencing the Importance of this
drive is the fact that eighty five residents Of this
county stricken with POLIO with varying degrees
Of seriousness and after effects in 1850 The families
ofthose stricken know the meaning of polio too WELL
but they also know that there is help for them if
needed, financial help in proportion to their and
the ability of the family to payfor assistance
for years to come in treatments shoes and braces.
Again this year the March of Dimes will be
Quoted by the Montgomery County Council Of the Amer
lean Legion, just as these former members of
armed forces have done since 1887 This county is
probably the only place in the entire country where the
fight against polio-through March of Dimes" funds,
is conducted by Legonnaires-in fact, by anyone
other than chapter of the National Foundation The
Legion has been told by the National Paralysis Foun
dation that it continue administering funds for the
fight against polio in the county as long it wishes"
The fact that the national organization has consented
to permit continuance of the present setup in this
county is indeed high tribute to the Legonnaires.
The county Legion posts have either led or been
the top among other counties of Maryland in the
raising of March of Dimes" funds-on a per capita
basis--for nearly of years. Charles Davidson
of Kensngton is county chairman again this year.
The twelve American Legion Posts in the county,
in this drive deserve the support of every resident The
money raised during the 1861 drive from January Is to
January 81 is money that helps the polomyeltis VIC
tins when stricken and unable to carry the fnan
cal burden necessary for recovery, during the next
year.
Give to fight. polio give in Montgomery County
and give freely.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-01-11
Edward S. Ryan

Services for Edward S. Ryan,
224 Great Falls Road, Rockville,
were held on Monday from Pun
phrey's Colonial Funeral Home in
Rockville. Mr.. Ryan, who had lived
in this county for about IS years,
was buried in the Jamestown
Presbyterian Cemetery. He died
on Saturday, January 6, after an
illness of about three years.
Mr.. Ryan was superintendent for
81 years for Harry Wardman and
Harry Kite, Washington builders.
He came to this county upon re-
tirement and lived for a number
of years in Bethesda, later moving
to Derwood and for the last few
years had made his home with his
son on Falls Road. Mr.. Ryan was
a Mason.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Mary E. Ryan, his son, John E.
Ryan, who is a clerk in the Ad-
ministrative Department of the
U. S. Supreme Court; and two
sisters, Mrs. Nan R. Street and
Mrs. Gertrude Lewis, both of
Washington.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-01-11
OBITUARY
Charles A. Clagett

Requiem mass was said on We'd
nesday at St. Mary's Catholic
Church, Rockville, for Charles Am
hrose Clagett, Bethesda, who died
on Monday, January 8 at Mont
gomery County General Hospital.
Interment was in St. Mary's Gene
terry.
Mr.. Clagett, husband Of the late
Cora A. Clagett, who died about
four years ago, was "a years of
age. A lifelong resident of this
county, Mr.. Clagett was contract
CT for State and County Roads for
many years. The son of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard A. Clagett,
Rockville, he had worked with his
father as building contractor in
his earlier life.
He is survived by three daugh-
ters: Mrs. Ernest Burgdorf, Chevy
Chase; Mrs. Harry Wolfe, Bradley
Hills and Mrs. Robert Jackson,
San Diego, Calf; nine sons, Rich
ard F., Bethesda; j. Leo, Clarks-
burg; Charles c., Potomac; Vim
cent A., Rockville; Ellis A., Viers
Mill Village; j. Liggett, Washing
ton; Louis, Thomas S. and Walter
j., all of Silver Spring. He is also
survived by a sister, Mrs. Carey
Kingdom of Rockville. Twenty-nine
grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren also survive.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-01-11
Board of Education
Appoints Trustees To
Four County Schools

The Board of Education at its
regular meeting this week an
nounced appointment of the follow
ing school trustees: john B. Dia-
mond III, and Frank A. Tyler, ir.,
Rockville Elementary; Leo Stern,
Kenneth Miller and Mrs. Emory
M. Gregg, Mckinney Hills; Mrs.
Robert Kautz, Woodlin; and DR..
Howard Bond, Bethesda Elemen-
tary.
New appointments to up-county
schools include: Mrs. Lillian Son.
ervell, Clarksburg; Mrs. Kathryn
Nicol, East Rockville; Ester Hen
erickson, Gaithersburg. Mrs. May
Nicewarner was named secretary
to the Board of Education. Up
county designations include Mrs
Joan w. Dunn, and Fred Sacco
both Gaithersburg.
The Board authorized the Su-
perintendent of Schools to investi-
gate the possibility, and if it seems
desirable, to inaugurate refresher
courses for former teachers who
might come back to teaching for
the duration of the emergency. A
delegation from the Laytonsville
School. requesting that if possible
the school there be built as origi.
nally planned and without elimina-
tons to bring the project within
the original appropriation, was re.
ceived by the Board at the meeting.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-01-11
Damascus Lions Club
Announce Xmas Home
Decoration Winners

Winners of the Fourth Annual
Home Decoration Contest, spon-
sored by the Damascus Lions Club,
have been announced as follows:
First Prize $4,000, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Snapp; Second Prize
($7.5O), Mr.. and Mrs. 0. E. Will
liams; Third Prize ($5.00) Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Souder and Mr.. and
Mrs. Roger Burdette; Fourth
Prize ($2.5O), Mr.. and Mrs. Ken
meth Watkins; Honorable Mention,
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland Hyatt.
Judging was done after dark on
Christmas Eve by: Sprigg Ward,
President, Gaithersburg Lions
Club; Merton F. Duvall, Zone
Chairman, Lions International;
Carl Smith of Mount Airy, Mary
land.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-01-11
LAYTONSViLLE
Mrs. J. Thomas Howes
Gaithersburg 335.J-6

George P. Fraley, son of Mrs.
Grace N. Fraley, and Paul Morris,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Este Morris,
are now in the Armed Services.
Thursday luncheon guests of Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. Howes were Mrs.
Marion Bolton of Ashton and Mrs.
Eddie Peters of Colesville.
Mrs. Douglas Riggs, Jr. was
an overnight guest on Friday of
her sister, Mrs. Richard Wotthlie,
in Baltimore.
A recent guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Howes was Miss Billie
Cloud of Rochester, N. Y. Their
son, Merhle Howes, an assistant
county agent in Baltimore, was
also at home for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kanardy L. Taylor
and three children of Chicago
moved Saturday into the house
formerly owned by Mr.. and Mrs.
George w. Miller and which they
recently purchased. Mr.. Taylor is
employed in Washington. Mr.. and
Mrs. Miller and their family are
living with Mr.. and Mrs. j,
Thomas Howes until their new
home in the Howard Subdivision is
completed.
Ann White, daughter of Mrs,
Harry White, has accepted po-
sition with the Civil Aeronautics
Board in Washington.
Dick Howes, son of Mr.. and Mrs
J. ". Howes, is attending school
in Chicago for two weeks for the
International Harvester Company
in connection with his work at
Farmers Supply at Washington
Grove.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1951-01-11
Former Student
At Gaithersburg
Injured In Korea

Sgt. William Rodney White, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney White is
now at the Walter Reed Hospital.
Army Medical Center after being
flown from Pyongyang after near
ly six months of Korean combat.
Rodney, who attended Gathers
burg High School until 1916, has
been with the End Infantry Divi-
sion heavy weapons company as a
mortar fire observer. He was
straddling the hood of an Army
truck in convoy retreating from
Sunchon November 30, keeping a
Lookout for .snipers when the convoy
was ambushed by whole mess
of Chinese-thousands of them"
A Red bullet pierced his left thigh
and Rodney pitched off the truck
onto the road. The convoy couldn't
stop, he explained to reporters, be-
cause there was too much shooting.
He crawled into a ditch to get un-
der cover. When the convoy passed
and the firing stopped, two Chinese
soldiers came down to strip his
body" of ammunition and cloth
ing, his wounds ached, but he
played dead.
The Chinese took his ammunition
and rolled back his eyes searching
for life, then started to remove his
shoes while Rodney held his breath.
A tug on the left leg would certain
ly have brought an involuntary
scream of pain. Just as the men
started to move the left shoe, an
other convoy, led by American
tanks, came down the frozen road
and shot the two Chinese.
After being put to Sleep, Rod
ney was flown to Japan from
Pyongyang just before the city was
evacuated by U. N. forces there.
Rodney says he has been recon-
mended for the Bronze Star medal
but doesn't know if he will get it.
He said IL others in a patrol and
he set out to save their company
commander around Pusan in the
first week of the war, but were un-
able to save their captain. The
patrol was voluntary. The officer
and his party were shot and many
were killed in a North Korean
ambush.