Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-07-19
Wife Of State Department OfficioI
And Three Others Die in Air Crash
Continual From First Pare

NOhsAAoC0 EAOAn EAS age
from LaGuardia Field at 2:lO
pm, the pilot radioed back to
the control tower that q door
of the plane was open and he
was returning for an emer-
gency landing.
EyewitneSseS said the plane
faltered and plunged almost
straight down, turning into a
ball of flames when it smashed
into yard. It narrowly missed
a school playground teeming
with children.
Mrs. Metcalf apd Mrs. Alt
schul, who was expecting her
third child in October, were
en- route to their summer
homes at East Hampton when
the crash occurred.
Mrs. Metcalf's husband is
board chairman of the Column
bian Rope Co. of Auburn, N. Y.
She was the aunt of State Sem
ator George r. Metcalf Of
Auburn. The family maintains ,
q residence in New York, also.
Mrs. Altschul's husband is q
nephew of former Democratic
United States Senator Herbert
H. Lehman. She was the
mother Of three children. Her
body was identified by a
brother-in-law. Robert Ora
ham, Of Stamford. Conn.
For the Altschul family it
was the second tragic aviation
accident. Mr.. Altschul's BROTH
er, Charles, was among II
American Airlines passengers
who persisted January IA, 1885,
in a crash near Goodwin, Ark.
He was % years old.
Mrs. Duke, the former Maria
Luisa de Arana of Madrid, was
the granddaughter of a Spanish
Grandee. She met her hus- :
band when he was special as
Sistant to Stanton Griffis,
United States Ambassador to
Spain. They were married in
Mexico City in 1852. She was
Mr.. Dukes third wife.
Mrs. Duke and her husband
had two children, the seven
year-old Maria Luisa and a
son. Drexel Dario, 4.
Mrs Duke, who was known
as Lulu, was the daughter Of
Don Dario de Arana and Donna s
Isabel Zurita de Arana. (
She was the maternal grand
daughter Of the 10th Marques
de Campo Real of Jerez, who
still maintains his family estate Y
there. It dates back to 1900. Z
Mrs. Duke was also a cousin of !
the former Spanish Ambass- I
ador here, Jose Maria Areilza,
Count of Mortrico.i
Reared in the aristocratic S
tradition of Basque nobility,
Mrs. Duke broke precedent by n
taking job after the Spanish +
civil war brought hard times b
to her family. n
mo female in our family for a
500 years had ever had a job" y
she once told an interviewer. Il
my family was Mortified"
She worked in the Madrid Y
office of the Readers Digest, :
then Joined a Spanish air line y
as an office worker. She later y :;
became a hostess and served =
Tor eight months on the lines =
Spain-South America routes. a
She met Mr.. Duke in SPAIN
and married him in Mexico v
City on December IL, 1852, r
when he was Ambassador to Ell s
Salvador. Two months earlier. =
MIR. Duke had become a Roman
Catholic convert.
When the Dukes returned to
the United States. Mrs. Duke
became a prominent hostess in
New York and Washington.
She also assisted her husband
IN working with cold war
refugees. c
= Besides their summer home !,
Duke Farm, in Southampton, Il
Long Island, the Dukes main >
tained a Washington residence
At 2400 Foxhall road NV. S
: Anthony j. Drexel Biddle, t
United States Ambassador to
Spain and uncle of Mr.. Duke,
is flying to New York from
Spain today with Mrs. Dukes i
mother and other members of I
her family. 4
: Mr.. Dukes office said funeral :,
arrangements are in the care
of the Leek-O'Connell Funeral
Home. Little Plains road. /
southampton. A high requiem
mass will be sung at 80 am.
Friday at Our Lady of Poland
Church, Southampton, with
burial in Southampton Gene