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LAWS
Civil Service Pleas Will Be
Heard at Joint Congress
Hearings January 14.
Amendments to the civil service
retirement bill will be submitted st
joint hearings of the House and Sen
ate Civil Service Committees begin
ning January 14, Senator Stanfield
of Oregon, chairman of the latter
committee, announced today.
The amendments include large in
creases in the various annuities and
Changes in retirement ages. The
maximum in the present law is
g 1720, and the amendment proposes
to increase it 11.200. The minimum
annuity is 1860, and under the pro
posed amendment it would be in
creased to approximately S7OO.
The present retirement age is sev
enty years, and the proposed amend
ment would reduce it to sixty-five
years. The present provision per
mitting a Federal employe to retire
after thirty years of service is un
changed.
Stanfield Is inclined to favor the
amendments provided the funds cre
ated under the law are sufficient to
meet the proposed increases.
The hearings will be expedited
and the amendments reported in
both the House and Senate at an
early date, according to Stanfield’s
Plan.
STILL FIRST TO APPEAR
WITH HORSE AND SLEIGH
BLOOMSBURG, Pa., Dec. 31.
Maintaining a record that has been
broken but once in forty years,
William A. Hartsell, of this place,
Was the first to appear with his
horse and sleigh this winter.
Three inches of snow fell during
the night, and at midnight the vet
eran horseman appeared with his
Sleigh, behind Cliff Moquette, a
racehorse he owns. Most of the
snow had disappeared by the next
dhy. Only once in forty years nas
any other horseman beaten him in
obtaining the first sleigh ride.
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Society to Dance
Old Year
Out
By JEAN ELIOT.
WATCH parties in many of
the churches will give a
serious aspect to New
Year Eve in Washington. But
society will dance the old year
out at a score of merry parties,
and it would seem probable that
the close of New Year Eve will
be as damp—whisper it—as its
beginning.
The ball which Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Leiter are giving will be
the most brilliant of a grist of
private balls and will take the
place, in a measure, of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Beale McLean’s New
Year Eve ball, an annual event
for many years—the McLeans be
ing in Florida this year. Mr. and
Mrs. Leiter will entertain perhaps
200 guests at their home in Du
pont circle, which has been the
scene of many colorful festivities.
A number of dinner parties will
precede the dance, among those
who will entertain being Mr. and
Mrs. A. Garrison McClintock.
Their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Ellis, will
also gtve a dinner and take their
guests to the Leiter ball.
The informal buffet supper
which the Charge d’Affaires of
Austria and Mme. Prochnik are
giving and Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Alsop’s buffet supper are two of
the most delightful small parties
on the calendar. Each hostess Is
entertaining about thirty guests,
who will dance the old year out.
One of' the most picturesque
celebrations of the festival will
take place at the Shoreham Hotel,
where the Counselor of the Jap
anese embassy and Mme. Saburi
are entertaining sixty guests at
a buffet supper. A number of the
diplomats will be included' among
their guests, and others, of course,
are attending the Prochnik’s party.
Dances for the younger set are
numerous, among the most de
lightful being the dance which
Mrs. Anne Archbold is giving at
Hill and Dale, her beautiful new
home on Reservoir road, for her
schoolgirl daughter. Miss Lydia
Archbold, and Mr. and Mrs. James
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES • • The National Daily • • MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1923.
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W. Carmalt’s dance for Miss Teresa '
Carmalt, a student at Holton
Arms, and perhaps seventy-five
of her young friends. Mr. and Mrs.
Carmalt have as their guest their
niece, Miss Hildegarde Morris, of
Georgetown, S. C. Mrs. Archbold
is entertaining perhaps 250 young
people. Dancing will be the order
of the evening, and supper will be
served as the bells ring in the
New Year.
—4*—
GAY PARTIES have been ar
ranged at the various clubs
and hotels and at the Chevy Chase
Club extra tables have been added
in the big dining room. Numerous
Dutch treat parties have been
organized at the club, in addition
to the usual grist of dinners, and
one of the prettiest parties will
be given by Mr. and Mrs. James
B. Reynolds, who are entertaining
for Miss Laura Winder Marshall.
They will have forty guests, all
young people. Miss Marshall’s
parents, Gqn. and Mrs. Richard C.
Marshall, will assist in chaperon
ing the party.
A dance has been arranged at
the new Wardman Park Saddle
Club, with Mr. and Mrs. James
Hobbs, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Bones and Mr. and Mrs. Edmund
B. Rheem as hosts; and a merry
group will assemble before the
great stone fire place in the
lounge to welcome the New Year.
New Year Eve will be cele
brated with exceeding gayety at
the hotels especially elaborate
preparations having been made at
the Willard, the Shoreham, Ward
man Park Hotel and the Hamil
ton. A number of the members of
the smart Monday Evening Sup
per Club are celebrating the holi
day at the last .hotel.
Mrs. Coolidge to Receive
a Group of Ladies.
Mrs. Coolidge will receive a num
ber of guests by appointment this
afternoon at 5 o’clock.
Mme. de la Torriente, wife of the
Ambassador of Cuba, and their,
daughter, Mlle. Luisa de la Tor
riente, arrived yesterday from
Havana to me with Dr. de la
Torriente at the embassy.
The Secretary of Agriculture and
Mrs. Wallace have as their guest
Miss Margaret McKee, of Des
Moines, la., who is passing through
Washington on her way to New
York. Henry A. Wallace, of Des
Moines, son of Secretary and Mrs.
Wallace, is also with them for a
few days.
The Secretary of Labor, James
J. Davis, has gone to Rochester.
N. Y., where he will make addresses
He will return to his apartment at
Wardman Park Hotel on Wednes
day. .
The Undersecretary of State and
Mrs. William Phillips entertained
at luncheon yesterday.
Mrs. J. Butler Wright was hostess
at an informal luncheon today at
her home in Q street.
■ —4*—
The children of the Chinese Min
ister and Mme. Sze are entertaining
at a, party this afternoon at. the le
gation. There will be a large Christ
mas tree lighted for the guests.
Baron Plessen, third secretary of
the German embassy, has returned
from a visit in New York City.
Miss Lindsay Wood has rone
to Greenwood, Va., for a visit of
several days.
Mrs. Morris Ernest Locke is enter
taining the children’s dancing class
at the Playhouse this afternoon.
Washingtonians to Attend
Wedding in Baltimore.
Several Washingtonians will go
to Baltimore Saturday to attend
the wedding of Miss Eleanor Wil
liams and W. Wallace Lanahan.
Among them are the Charge
d’ Affaires of the British Embassy
and Mrs. Henry Getty Chilton,
Congressman and Mrs. John Philip
Hill, Viscount and Viscountess
Henri de Slbour, Mr. and Mrs.
George Angus Garrett, Miss Lind
sey Wood, Samuel Amoedo, Mr
Traverso, of the Argentine em
bassy; Mr. Leander McCormick
Goodhart and Mrs. Thomas M.
Chatard, aunt of the bride-to-be.
Last evening Mr. and Mrs.
Spalding L. Jenkins gave a_ dinner
in Baltimore for Miss Williams and
Mr. Lanahan.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter Field are re
ceiving congratulations upon the
birth of a son on Saturday, Decem
ber 29. The baby is to be named
David.
Mrs. Leon Arnold and her daugh
ter, Miss Dorothy Arnold, will be at
home on New Year Day from 4 to 6
o’clock in compliment to Miss Louise
Collins and Miss Ellen Bruce, of
Richmond, Va., who are visiting
them.
Miss Kimmel Hostess
At Luncheon Today.
Miss Atala Kimmel was hostess at
luncheon today at the White Pea
cock in compliment to Miss Madalen
Dingley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Nelson Dingley, whose mar
riage to William Dougall Leetch will
take place tomorrow night at the
Church of the Covenant.
The luncheon guests, with the ex
ception of Miss Dorothy Kimmel, In
cluded only the bride’s attendants,
who are Mrs. E. S. Salzman, of New
Haven, Conn., who will be matron
of honor; Miss Dorothy L. Gregg, of
Kalamazoo, Mich.; Miss Ruth M.
Ladd, of Boston, and Miss Edna
Ruth Coleman and Miss Aurelia
Worsham.
—4*—
Dr. Merriam, president of Carne
gie Institute, will speik on the
"Pathway of Creation” before the
Twentieth Century Club at its meet
ing on '/hursday morning at the
Cosmos Club.
Lieut. Col. and Mrs. George Ham
ilton are at the Lee House while
in Washington. Colonel Hamilton
is here doing some special work at
the War College.
Carl Joerissip’i has arrived in
Washington a .’er spending two
years in . Europe and Is at the Rac
quet Club. Mrs. Joerissen, who is
in Paris, will probably join him here
early in February.
Mrs. Charles Van Cise Wheeler
and Miss Elinor Wheeler will be at
home on Wednesdays in January
from 4 to 6 o’clock at their resi
dence at 1609 Sixteenth street.
Joel Townsley Rogers, literary
critic of Brentano’s Book Chat,
whose novel, "Once in a Red Moon,”
has attained remarkable popularity
this fall, has come from New York
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to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Otis J. Rogers, of Florence Court,
over New Year.
Baroness Wrangel Guest
of Mrs. Robert Lansing.
Baroness Wrangel, who has come
to this country in the interest of
the Russian refugees in the Bal
kans, will come to Washington this
week, and will speak, January 3, at
the home of Mrs. Robert Lansing
to a group of women who have been
working for the last four years for
Russian refugees in Constantinople.
Baroness Wrangel—is the wife of
General Wrangel, who in 1920 was
in command of the Russian forces
in the Crimea, when the Crimea
was occupied by the Soviet forces.
She has been in New York for
several weeks and has been much
feted there.
Mrs. Luther E. Gregory, wife of
Rear Admiral Gregoi-y, has re
ceived an appointment from Gov.
Scott C. Bone, of Alaska, as a dele
gate from Alaska at the national
illiteracy conference to be held in
the auditorium of the Interior De
partment from January 11 to
January 14. Mrs. Gregory, who is
State vice president of Alaska for
the National League of American
Pen Women, Is especially interested
in illiteracy in this country and the
need of schools to remedy the situ
ation now existing.
Mrs. Charles Taylor, of Boston,
was hostess at dinner last night at
the Willard, where she is staying.
—4*—
Mrs. Mary O’Neill, of the Dresden,
has with her for the holidays her
son. Cadet George O’Neill, who is
a student at West Point.
4*
Patronesses Named
for Barrymore Production.
An interesting number of society
people will act as patrons and
patronesses of Arthur Hopkins*
presentation of John Barrymore in
"Hamlet” at Poli’s Theater next
week. Few stars have ever been
welcomed to Washington by so dis
tinguished a gathering. The com
plete list includes Mme. Riano,
Baroness de Cartier, Mrs. William
Howard Taft, Mrs. Frederick H.
Gillett, Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes,
Mrs. Harry S. New, Mrs. Edwin
Denby, Mrs. Hubert Work, Mrs.
Henry C. Wallace, Mrs. Herbert
Hoover, Mme. Elizalde, Mme. Peter,
Mme. Wroblewska, Mrs. Arthur
Capper, Mrs. Royald S. Copeland,
Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, jr.,
Mrs. Lawrence Phipps, Mrs. Theo
dore Roosevelt, jr., Mrs. James M.
Beck, Mme. Nano, Mrs. Henry
Getty Chilton, Mme. Prochnik, Mme.
Prada, Mrs. Edward T. Brown, Mrs.
William J. Boardman, Mrs. Charles
J. Bell, Mrs. Delos Blodgett, Mrs.
Theodore Vernon Boynton, Mrs. W.
Harry Brown, Mrs. C. C. Calhoun,
Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. James
Ryan Devereuxr Mrs. Charles M.
Ffoulke, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock,
Mrs. James Carroll Frazer, Mrs.
R. R. Govin, Mrs. William Cor
coran Hill. Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond, Miss Laura Harlan, Mrs.
Borden Harriman, Mrs. John Harri
son Knapp, Mrs. Robert Lansing,
Mrs. Charles Gray Matthews, Mrs.
William M. Marshall, Mrs. G. Logan
Payne, Mrs. Stanley Rinehart,
Baroness von Schoen, Mrs. Richard
Townsend, Mrs. Lawrence Town
send, Mrs. George Oakley Totten,
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, Mrs.
Harold Walker and Mrs. Charles
Boughton Wood.
—4*—
Members of the Washington
Handicraft Guild will give an
Arabian night batik masque at
Neighborhood House, 470 N street
southwest, tomorrow evening at
8:30. The grand march will begin
at 9, led by Prof, and Mrs. Zebley,
with dancing at 9:30. Choir boys
from the Epiphany Chapel will sing
carols, and the ."Princess Fatima”
will give oriental dances. Among
the patrons are Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
S. Neligh, Mrs. Horace M. Fulton,
Miss Mollie Weyman, Miss Minnie
Brackett, Mrs. Howard S. Nyman,
Miss Octa Bassett and aids from
Walter Reed Hospital. The public
is Invited.
The College Women’s Club will be
at home informally tomorrow after
noon from 4 to 6 o’clock, when Miss
Carrie Davis, first vice president,
will receive, assisted by the follow
ing officers of the club: Miss Arilne ,
Defour, Mrs. Skipwlth P. Coale, Mrs.
Karl Fenning, Miss Annabel Mat- i
thews and Mrs. Howard Nichols.
George H. Lorimer, of Philadel
phia, who is at the Willard, enter ;
tained informally at dinner there
last night.
SOCIETY
Floor Committee
For Ball
Chosen
Franklin H. Ellis, chairman, and
Charles C. Glover, jr., vice chair
man of the floor committee for the
Children’s Hospital ball on Wednes
day, January 2, at the Willard,
have chosen as aides: Benjamin W.
Thoron, Dr. L. S. Rowe, William B.
Hibbs, William C. Morrow, Horace
H. Westcott, Major Henry Leonard,
A. B. Legare, Eldridge Jordan and
Corcoran Thom. The committee in
cludes: Secretary Mellon, Byron 8.
Adams, Commander Graham M.
Adee, Anthony C. Addison, Charles
J. Bell, Major Gist Biair, Mont
gomery Blair, Woodbury Blair, Maj.
Gen. T. H. Bliss, Dr. John C.
Boyd, E. C. Brainerd, Alexander
Britton, Gen. James A. Buchanan,
F. H. Bugher, Hon. Charles Henry
Butler, Richard E. Claughton, George
B. Cochran, Myer Cohen, Capt. Wil
liam E. R. Covell, Charles C. Con
cannon, Dr. Edward P. Copeland,
W. L. Crounse, E. B. Dean,
Francis Emmett Dornin, Joshua
Evans, jr„ Lieut. Commander J.
H. Everson, Charles W. Fairfax,
A. W. Ferrin, Robert Fleming,
Senator Peter Gerry, Capt. John H.
Gibbons, Hon. F. H. Gillett, M.
Goldenberg, Judge Charles Noble
Gregory, Reginald Huidekoper,
Christian Heurich, Maj. R. J. Her
man, William B. Hibbs, Coleman
Jennings, Lieut. Col. H. C. Jewett,
James M. Johnston, jr., Simon
Kann, Victor Kauffman, Lieut.
Col. F. P. Lahm, Commander
Emory S. Land, A. B. Legare,
Reeve .Lewis, Charles C. Lamborn,
Rodney Lake Lynn, A. Lisner, Gen.
C. L. McCawley, John H. Magruder,
Col. D. K. Major, Col. Henry May,
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Col. H. M.
Morrow, Lieut. Col. Ralph McCoy,
Lieut. Col. H. J. McKenney, Charles
E. Munroe, Francis I. Nash, C. F.
Norment, Frank B. Noyes, Theo
dore W. Noyes, Admiral Osterhaus,
R. Ross Perry, jr., Maj. J. E. Poore,
Maj. James H. Reynolds, Col.
Robert H. Rolfe, Dr. L. S. Rowe,
H. L. Rust, jr., Charles L. Selec
man, Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, Rear
Admiral S. A. Staunton, Emmons
F. Smith, jr., Howard Spates, jr.,
Edward. J. Stellwagen, W. C. Sulli
van, E. Van Rensselaer, W. H.
Walker, George W. White and Col.
Henry K. White.
—4*—
Italian Ambassador
Host for Compatriot.
The Italian Ambassador, Prince
Gelasio Caetani, was host to a
small company at dinner last night
in compliment to the famous Ital
ian playwright, Luigi Pirandello.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Snow,
jr., entertained twenty guests at
luncheon yesterday at ’•the Purple
Iris in compliment to Dimitri Di
mancesco, <of the Rumanian lega
tion, who will sail January 9 for
Europe on a two months’ leave.
Dr. Charles Noble Gregory enter
tained informally at dinner last
evening at his residence on Ban
croft place, and had among his
guests Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock,
Mrs. Frederick Farrington, and
Rear Admiral William Rogers.
—4._
Preceding the dance at Congress
Hall Hotel on Saturday evening,
Miss Virginia Caldwell, of Carbon
dale, entertained a number of young
people at dinner in compliment to
Miss Hope Summers, daughter of
Congressman and Mrs. John W.
Summers, of Walla Walla, Wash.
Miss Caldwell and Miss Summers
were sorority sisters at the School
of Public Speech at Northwestern
University.
Capt. and Mrs. Henry Baldwin
Gantt have returned to Washington
and have taken an apartment at
the Northumberland. Mrs. Gantt
was before her marriage, in June,
Mrs. John W. McKie.
—4*—
Lieut, and Mrs. Frederick Nelson
Pugsley and their two daughters
have taken a suite at the Hotel
Roosevelt.
few
To close the old year 1923
without thanking you for
past patronage would leave
a debt unpaid.
That 1924 may bring
more happiness and pros
perity than you have ever
known, is our sincerest
wish.
Lansburgh
STORE CLOSED TUESDAY. v
“LOST VOICE” EPIDEMIC
DUE TO MILD WINTER
LANCASTER, Pa, Dec. 31.—The
Lancaster County Visiting Nurse
Association has cut the usually
high total of sickness, but it ap
pears to have increased the num
ber of "lost voice" sufferers.
Great hope is seen in the new dis
ease by persons who will attend
banquets ' this winter, provided the
affliction does not abate.
SHAKEUP OF DRY AGENTS
PLANNED FOR CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Dec. 31. —Control of
the flow of illicit liquor at the
source rather than at the drug store
prescription counter or the bootleg
ger's hip pocket by a check on all
withdrawals on Federal permits
granted or pending Is announced by
Federal Prohibition Director Major
Percy B. Owen.
There also will be a complete
change in tbe director's staff.
NEW YEAR’S DINNER
Tuesday, January 1, 1924
Menu .
Blue Points oh Half Shell _ ;
Cream of Com Soup
Roast Turkey Chestnut Dressing
Giblet Sauce ' Mixed Conserve
Imperial Sweet Potatoes
Special Spinach
Hot Rolls
Stuffed Celery Half Toasted English Muffins
Frozen Pudding Mocha Layer Cake
Coffee
. Mints
Special Music
Hours—One to Eight
$2.00. Phone. for Reservations
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Robert N. Harper,
Preßldent
-rigfytfMiffiwEtagfc W. P. Lipscomb,
Vice Preßident
C. J. Gockeler,
. Vice President
N. L. Sansbury.
wvTSc Vice President
Ssrti Hilleary L. Offutt, Jr.,
fSjKBaSMi 3aS‘ Vice President and Cashier
Thomas F. Kane,
; S9lilH6* Vice President
Bvowlills! dja am William C. Looker,
**li Affl *1 MP* Assistant Cashier
grBmUMP* Theodore S. Mason,
• iatSa Assistant Cashier
—Barnard & Johnson,
Attorneys I
Wharton E. Lester,
Counsel and Trust Officer
b. L. Colton,
Assistant Trust Officer
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
READY FOR SESSIONS
With scores of ministers in attetfi.
dance, the three-day regional evanf
gelistlc institute of the Disciples of
Christ will open here Wednesday, it
was announced today. The Rev. P.
A. Cave, general secretary of the
Christian Missionary Society of
Maryland will preside at the open
ing session. . ..
All the sessions will be held at
the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church except that of Thursday
evening which will convene at the
Ninth Street Christian Church. ]
KANSAS LEGION LEADS I
IN ENROLLMENT, CLAIM
TOPEKA, Kan.. Dec. 81.—Kansas!
leads all States In the percentage >
of American Legion membership \
enrollments for 1923, according to
Frank McFarland. State Com
mander. There are 878 legion posts
In the State. ‘
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