Evening star. [volume], May 07, 1937, Page B-2, Image 20

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In the Hunt Country
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Activities Among the Horse-Lovers of
Virginia and Maryland.
BY NINA CARTER TABB.
HE Foxcroft Horse Show at
Foxcroft School, near Middle
burg, will begin Monday at 10
a.m. This annual show will
draw a crowd of prominent sportsmen
from all over the country. Parents of
the schoolgirls are filling up every
available room in the neighborhood,
for this will be one of the best sporting
events in Northern Virginia.
The show is run by the girls of the
school, assisted by Miss Charlotte No
land. They say the 18 classes will be
well filled.
Alumnae come back each year to
Watch the progress of the younger girls
and many of them take part in the
show. The Davis Challenge Cup, for
which only alumnae can compete, is
always an interesting class. Among
those who will ride for it on Monday
are Miss June Haines, Miss Nancy
Whitney, Miss Dorothy Goodyear, Miss
Laura Sprague, Miss Carol Metcalf,
Miss Teresa Shook, Miss Mina Jones,
Mrs. James Van Allen, who was
Eleanor Langley; Mrs. Barney Bald
ing. formerly "Dot" Davis; Mrs. Wil
liam Beverley Mason, formerly Doro
thy Willing Randolph, and Miss Helen
Bedford of Connecticut, who will come
here from the Washington Horse
Show, where she is showing this week
end. As there are post entries, there
will undoubtedly be many more en
tries in this class.
Three open classes in which people
outside the school can enter are pony
class, green hunters and ladies' hunt
trs.
a luncneon lor chanty will be served
on the grounds at 1 p.m.
\/|ISS GRETCHEN BIGLOW
THOMSON, Queen Shenandoah
XTV of the Apple Blossom Festival,
talcing place in Winchester today and
tomorrow. Is the happiest and most
enthusiastic young lady I have ever
seen. Gretchen is a slender blond
With very golden hair and a perfect
complexion. She is thrilled at taking
the part of queen, is natural and ap
preciative of all the fuss that is being
made over her and is altogether
charming. Entertainments are being
given in her honor by Winchester's
most prominent people and they are
giving this girl, who has grown up
among them, a perfect time.
Miss Thomson is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Thomson of New
Orleans and her grandmother is Mrs.
A. Pembroke Thomson of Summit
Point, W. Va. Gretchen attended the
Cathedral School for Girls in Wash
ington, graduating last June, and
made her debut in New Orleans the
past Winter. Miss Thomson is the
guest in Winchester of Mrs, Richard
Evelyn Byrd.
This morning at 10:45 there was a
rehearsal of the coronation. At 1
o'clock Mrs. Byrd is giving a luncheon
for the queen, to which 50 of her
young friends are invited. At 3:30
this afternoon the coronation takes I
place in front of Handley School. It j
always is a lovely and impressive cere- j
mony. The queen and her court will j
then pose for photographers among 1
the apple blossoms. At 5 o’clock they
will attend a tea dance at the Win
chester Country Club, then home to
dress for dinner, after which the
queen receives the princesses at a re
ception at the George Washington
Hotel. A dance winds up the day.
Tomorrow the queen will get a little
rest in the morning before attending
a luncheon given by the Apple Blos
som Association to her and her court j
at Miss Ann Brook Kern's house. At j
2 p.m. the queen will be seated upon I
her throne, built high on a white float, !
After reviewing the parade from the
queen's stand, Miss Thomson will at
tend a tea dance at the Winchester
Golf Club. At 9 o’clock the queen’s
ball will be held at the George Wash
ington Hotel, and there will also be a
dance at the Winchester Country Club
PATRIOTS DESCRIBED
Word pictures of the 10 leading
members of the Constitutional Con
vention were given to an audience last
night at the Wardman Park Theater
by Fred Taylor Wilson, historical
writer, lecturer and author of “Our
Constitution and Its Makers.”
The speaker urged a new reverence
for the fundamental law of the land
end a new appreciation of the great
patriots who drew up the Constitution.
Wilson, who spoke under auspices of
the T. Arthur Smith Bureau, was in
troduced by Representative Randolph,
Democrat, of West Virginia.
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Queen Shenandoah XIV will go
down in history as one of the loveliest
queens that Winchester has enter
tained. Among her predecessors have
been Mrs. Kenneth N. Gilpin of
Boyce, Va.; Mrs. John Hay Whitney
of Upperville, Va.. Mrs. Lee Boat
wright of Washington, formerly Miss
Suzanne Pollard, daughter of the late
former Governor of Virginia; Mrs. J.
V. Arthur of Winchester, then Miss
Elizabeth Speck; Miss Priscella
Bridges of Maryland. Miss Mary Wise
Boxley of Roanoke, Miss Mary Jo
Mathews of West Virginia, Miss
Patricia Dacre Morton of Winchester,
England; Miss Helen Ames Washing
ton of Philadelphia, Miss Francois
May of Belgium, Miss Nella Veverka
of Czechoslovakia and Miss Cornelia
Larus of Richmond.
SIX TO FACE COURT
ON GAMING CHARGE
Grocery and House Are Raided
Simultaneously—Two Women
and Three Men Freed.
Six men arrested yesterday on gam
bling charges were to be arraigned be
fore United States Commissioner Need
ham C. Turnage today.
Simultaneous raids on a grocery
store in the 1700 block of Seventeenth
street and a private home in the 1600
block of R street resulted in the arrest
of three of the men. Two women and
three other men seized in the raids
were released. Those held are Fred J
Neam, 39, of the 1700 block of Seven
teenth street; Wadie Aed, 40, of the
1400 block of Monroe street, and Ar
thur Bruscino, 45, of the 1600 block
of R street.
Armed with warrants not served on
previous gambling raids, Detective J.
J. Comiskey arrested John A. Clem
ents, 38, of the 900 block of New York
avenue; Benjamin Traub, 26, of the
1100 block of Seventh street, and
Roland W. Dorsey, 35, of the 700 block
of Ninth street southeast, when he en
countered them on the street.
URGES NATIONS’ AMITY
BOSTON, May 7 (fl5).—Mrs. Herbert
Hoover, wife of the former President,
last night said, “The more you develop
friendship among different nations,
the less apt they are to cut each oth
er’s throats.’’
She Is here for the thirteenth annual
conference of New England Olrl
Scouts. She Is national president of
the group.
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JOINT U. S. ACTION
URGED FOR JOBLESS
Security Board and Labor Depart
ment Must Combine Efforts to
Aid, Altmeyer Says.
Placement and insurance problem*
for the unemployed can be solved only
through Joint Federal action between
the Social Security Board and the
Labor Department, Arthur J. Altmeyer,
chairman of the Security Board, told
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Security Board, through the Bureau
of Unemployment Compensation, will
act as a single agency with respect to
all matters affecting State employment
services.
Altmeyer explained that the State
employment service must be regarded
as a single unified service, comprised
of activities financed by Federal and
State fund* and of activities financed
through funds granted by the Security
Board in accordance with the social
security act.
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The Senate yesterday ratified a
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