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SOCIETY
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friend* In Washington are Invited to
attend.
The seventh annual social gathering
of the local conference of the Catholic
Students’Mission Crusade will take the
form of a Midwinter formal ball to be
held in the main ball room of the
Shore ham Hotel Friday evening. Last
Sr 500 couples attended, represent
all the local Catholic high schools
and colleges, and it is expected that
many more will be present this year.
This is the outstanding Catholic stu
dents’ event of the year.
The committees in charge of the ar
rangements are headed by the officers
of the executive board: Mr. William
Spates of St. John's, floor chairman;
ML'S Catherine Dargon of St. Cecelia's,
ticket distribution chairman; Mr.
Joseph Keegan of Gonzaga, decoration
chairman; Miss Ulrica Donohoe of Im
maculate, patron chairman; Miss Mary
Dunn of Notre Dame, printing chair
man; Mr. Edward McLarney of the
Vaeth Unit, hotel chairman, and Miss
Mary Brenton, chaperon chairman.
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair or Joplin,
Mo., former vice chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, will
be the honor guest at the weekly tea
which the Woman’s National Demo
cratic Club will give Saturday. Mrs.
Blair is spending a month in Wash
ington, staying at the club house.
Mount Pleasant Chapter. No. 34,'
Order of the Eastern Star, will hold its
annual reception and dance Wednes
day evening, January 27. at the Shore
ham Hotel.
Bridge will be provided for those who
do not dance, with prizes for every
table and a general door prize. Mrs.
Clarence Reiser is in charge of the
bridge party.
Mrs. Sarah Williams is in charge of
the Committee on Arrangements and
Mrs. Winifred Grant is vice chairman.
The committee assisting are Mrs. Ed
ward Roberts. Mrs. Marie Hardback,
Mrs. Nelson Goodacre. Miss Edith Ann
Jones. Mrs. Nelle White. Miss Christina
Campbell. Mrs. Claude Cook, Mrs.
Charles Taylor, Mrs. Elizabeth Black
and Mrs. Jean Allen.
The worthy matron. Miss Harr^tt
Potter, and the worthv patron. Mr.
Norman Campbell, will receive the
guests informally previous to the dance.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. George E. leach
will be the guests of honor at a recep
tion to be given by the Minnesota State
Society Saturday evening. January 30,
in the Washington Club, at Seventeenth
and K streets northwest. The reception
will be followed by dancing.
Gen. Leach, who recently was ap
pointed chief of the United States
Militia Bureau, served with the 151st
Field Artillery in the Rainbow Division
in France and later was mayor of
Minneapolis. It is' expected that all
official residents of Minnesota in Wash
ington, including Army and Navy
officers stationed here, will attend this
meeting.
The active officers of the society are
Mrs. W. H. Hunter, recording secretary;
Miss Klara Kammerud, Mrs. Robert H.
Merriam, Miss Esther Erickson and Miss
Elan Anderson, assistant secretaries:
Mr. A. F. White, financial secretary;
Mr. Oswin W. Menk. treasurer, and Miss
Bede Johnson, president. 1931-32 mem
bership cards may be obtained from the
financial secretary. Mr. White, at 1703
Twenty-seventh street southeast.
The congressional reception will take
place at the next meeting. Tentative
plans have been outlined for the society
to take part in the George Washington
Bicentennial ball, to be held at the
Mayflower Hotel February 22, which is
being sponsored by both the National
and District Commissions, Inaugurating
the celebration in the District of
Columbia.
Mrs. Charles F. Spots wood of Norfolk,
Va.. is at the Shoreham for an in
definite visit.
Mr. C. G. Larkin was host to a party
of 22 young people at the Club Chan
tecler "supper dance Saturday evening.
Miss Mary Gruos Smith of Phila
delphia was at the Carlton over the
week end. accompanied by Miss M. L.
Beall and Miss D. E. B. Grubb of Lan
caster, Pa.
Mr. Robert E. Findlay, with his
brother, Mr. Joseph P. Findlay, enter
tained a small company at the supper
dance at War dm an Park Hotel Satur
day evening.
Mr. John Donnelly entertained a
company of 14 at the Club Chantecler
supper dance Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. William Godfrey, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Taxis and Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Major of Woodbury, N. J„ mo
tored to Washington and were at the
Shoreham for the week end.
Miss Edith M. Creighton of Elmira,
N. Y., is at the Dodge for several days.
Miss Creighton came to attend the
Cause and Cure of War Conference
being held this week. She is connected
with the department of romance lan
guages of Elmira College.
Miss Katherine Kloman entertained
at the dinner dance at Wardman Park
Hotel Saturday, later taking her guests
to the supper dance In the gold room
of the hotel. Covers were laid for 14.
Mrs. Childress Buckner Gwyn was
hostess at a bridge tea Thursday after
noon for the benefit of the dental
fund for the Florence Crittenton Home.
Those playing were Mrs. William Mac
donald, Mr. John L. McGrew, Mrs.
Charles Bassett, Mrs. A. H. Smith, Mrs.
W. E. Triem. Mrs. Helen Cranston, Mrs.
Robert Shorter, Mrs. G. S. Colison, Miss
Corine Tobias, Mrs. Eshelman, Mrs. H.
H. Hall, Mrs. M. T. Hall, Mrs. B. B. Mc
Mahon, Mrs. H. P. Wells, Mrs. H. M.
Byerly, Mrs. S. M. Reed, Mrs. Frederick
Imine, Mrs. Frank D. Smith, Mrs. James
B. Huss. Mrs. Louise F. Speich, Mrs.
H. C. Cole, Mrs. A. G. Love, Mrs. Paul
G. Broch, Mrs. W. G. Galliher, Mrs.
Holliger, Miss Sensner, Miss Sterling,
Mrs. Anna S. Christman, Mrs. Joseph
Harris Key, Mrs. J. Buynitzky. Mrs. Pol
lard and Mrs. Ralph Stodder. Mrs.
Shorter and Mrs. Galliher assisted Mrs.
Gwyn In serving tea.
Dr. Nollen Honor Guest
At Alumni Dinner Tonight.
Dr. John Scholte Nollen of Grinnell,
Iowa, is at the Dodge for a brief time.
Dr. Nollen is president of Grinnell Col
lege and is in the Capital to attend the
dinner to be given in his honor at the
Dodge Hotel this evening by the alumni
of the college.
The speakers at the dinner will be
Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa.
Dr. J. J. Heeren of Shantung Univer
sity. China; Dr. Charles Noble, head of
the English department of Grinnell Col
lege for 26 years, and Dr. Nollen.
Constitution Chapter of the National
Society, Daughters of the American
Revolution, will have as its guests three
distinguished women at its regular
monthly meeting at Stoneleigh Court
tomorrow. The guests will be Mrs. Nina
Swalm Clark, wife of Vice Admiral
Frank Clark and also first vice presi
dent of the National League of Ameri
can Pen Women; Mme. Louise Coutinho,
well known pianist, a graduate of the
Royal Conservatory at Lisbon, and Mrs.
Clifford Lewis, national treasurer of the
Soroptimist Club, who will speak on
“The Original St. Distaff's Day." The
meeting will be presided over by the
chapter regent, Mrs. E. Richard Gasch.
and hostesses who will assist will be
Mrs. Harry B. Denham, Mrs. John W
Moore, Mrs. Luther Munson, Miss Mae
Helm, Mrs. Adelaide Beard, Mrs. C. B.
Stephenson, Mrs. Edw’ard W. Raab and
Mrs. Joseph Baumer.
The Newcomb Club of Bethesda en
tertalned at a colonial tea Saturday
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MARRIED SATURDAY
MR. AND MRS. LAWRENCE COOLIDGE
Leaving Bethlehem Chapel Saturday afternoon following their marriage cere
mony. Mrs. Coolidge was Miss Victoria Tytus of Washington and Mr. Coolidge Is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jefferson Coolidge of Boston.—Underwood Photo.
afternoon in the Battery Park Club'
House for the president of the Mary
land Federation of Women’s Clubs,
Mrs. John L. Whitehurst of Baltimore,
in honor of the members of the board
of directors, including the State presi
dents and the national officers of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs,
which was in session in Washington
last week. Many cf these officers are
remaining to attend the Conference on
Cause and Cure of War, which con
vened this morning.
Mrs. Benjamin G. Potter, president
of the Newcomb Club, and Mrs. White
hurst were assisted in receiving by Mrs.
John P. Sippel, president of the Gen
eral Federation; Mrs. B. Peyton Whalen,
president of the Montgomery County
Federation, who also is a member of
the Newcomb Club; Mrs. J. Enos Ray
of Chillum. the Maryland director to
the General Federation, and Mrs. Earl
W. Chafee, vice president of the Mary
land Federation.
The members of the club w-ore colo
nial costumes in recognition of the Bi
centennial. and a short program was
given including the dancing of the
minuet.
Included among the guests were
members of the official board of the
Maryland Federation and of the Mont
gomery County Federation, and the
women from Montgomery County who
are members of the State executive
board. Alternating at the tea table
were the presidents of the four neigh
boring clubs. Mrs. Carl Fenning, Mrs.
E. M. Willis. Mrs. Emory Bogley and
Mrs. Irving Day.
Tire junior class of Georgetown Uni
versity gave its annual tea dance Sat
urday afternoon in the gold room of
Wardman Park Hotel. Those in the
junior class who served on the commit
tee and assisted in making the party
a success were Mr. Thomas A. Galla
gher, Mr. John A. Coakley, jr.; Mr. Paul
W. Connelly, jr.; Mr. Alexanderd Hes
terberg, Mr. Herbert G. Hutchinson
and Mr. Alfred H. Smith. Many of the
students’ guests, who came for the
prom the preceding night, remained for
the tea dance. Among them were Mr.
and Mrs. C. J. Sheffield of New Ro
chelle, N. Y.; Mrs. John A. Coakley of
Cleveland. Ohio; Miss Peggy Colombo
of Mary Mount College in New York;
Miss Sally De Vine of Allenhurst, N. J.;
Miss Sara Frances Field of Huntington,
W. Va.; Miss Patricia Raymond with
Miss Mary Virginia Coakley of Cleve
land; Miss Helen Reilly and Mr. E. J.
Maguire, jr.
The University Club this week will
celebrate “Ladies night” Thursday
evening with a musical program of un
usual interest, when a joint recital
by Mrs. Emerson Meyers, pianist; Mr.
Paul Brightenburg, violinist, and Mr.
Robert Ruckman, accompanist, will be
given.
The monthly musicales of the Univer
sity Club, and the ladies’ nights .con
nected with them, are a long establish
ed custom of the University Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Smith of Lee,
Mass., are passing some time at the
Carlton.
Mr. E. E. Carter entertained at the
Club Chantecler supper dance Satur
day evening.
Mrs. Franklin W. Rice of Morris
town, N. J., is at the Carlton for a
few days.
Mrs. Julia Blake spent the week end
as the guest of the Misses Harris at the
Warwick Hotel, at 65 West Fifty-fourth
street, in New York.
Miss Anna V. Rice of New York City ,
Is at the Dodge for several days. Miss
Bice is general secretary of the National
Board of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association and 1s attending the
Conference of the Foreign Division and
will remain through the Conference on
the Cause and Cure of War, which is
meeting this week.
Mr. W. G. Gardner entertained at the
Club Chantecler supper dance Saturday
evening.
ALLEGED RUM PLANT
FOUND IN THIEF HUNT
Policeman Discovers Still While
Searching for Burglar in Otis
Place House.
Suspecting a young man wanted on
a burglary charge might be found in a
house In the 1200 block of Otis place,
Sergt. J. R. Leach and Pvt. R. M. Mc
Carty of the tenth precinct went there
early yesterday and said they were sur
prised to find an alleged whisky plant
on the premises.
When they appeared at the house
they were greeted by a young woman,
who quickly left the front of the house
and hurried to a rear room. The offi
cers found a door unfastened, entered
and went to an upper room, where
they found the still.
Examination of the upper floor re
sulted in finding 230 half-gallon Jars of
colored liquor and 29 barrels of peach
mash, The mash was destroyed and
the still and liquor seized. The young
woman had no connection with the
plant, the police said, and she was not
arrested.
Occupants of the portion of the house
in which she still was located were not
there.
EDUCATION HELD NEED
Representative Beedy Deplores In
difference Toward Schools.
Representative Beedy of Maine, in a
radio broadcast yesterday frcm the Na
tional Education Association, declared
the welfare of society must be safe
guarded through education if a general
breakdown of America's national life is
to be avoided.
Deploring the increasing tendency of
the home to allow the schools to fight
their own battles, Mr. Beedy said it
would be difficult to estimate how far
such an indifference has contributed
toward “the present chaos in which we
find our public thinking of today.”
Ninety-eight per cent of the railways
in Czechslovakia are government owned.
FEARS FASCISM IN U. S.
Prof. Dewey Says It's Inevitable
Unless Legislation Trend Changes.
America is being plunged overnight
into state capitalism. Prof. John
Dewey, president of the People's Lobby,
declared in a statement today.
"We shall have a full fledged Fas
cism in America Within six months
after the next President is inaugur
ated,” he warned, unless the members
of both branches of Congress now start
an effective blockade of all the ad
ministration's legislation.
King Will Speak From Throne.
BELGRADE. Jugoslavia, January 18
(/P).— King Alexander, for the first
time in the history of Jugoslavia, will
open Parliament with a speech from
the throne in a Joint session of both
houses today.
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