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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1924
Page
16
Washington society pages record arrivals and departures of diplomats and their families, the Pontoon Club gala set attended by families, and the Richmond Richmonds wedding of Miss Elisabeth B Macmitchie to Thomas Lindsay Moore. Guests include ambassadors’ secretaries and officials from Argentina Belgium Japan and Spain plus local residents at Willard and Cecil hotels.
Glenn N Palmer to Walter Reed General Hospital Washington for treatment. Harry Graham from Langley Field to command Rockwell Air Intermediate Depot Coronado California. Judge Advocate-46: president accepts commission as Army officer effective Aug 3. Second Lieut James F Phillipe resigns 4 Engineers and assigned to First Mason Second Corps Area Governors Island. Maj Joseph H Davig to 23d Division Organized Reserves Cleveland Ohio. Capt Howard K Cahill from Eté Pennsylvania to duty with Battle Monuments Commission Washington. Maj Ralph W Dusenbury to Argentina as Military Attaché and Minister of Pay Paraguay. Leo Joseph Dillon transferred to Ordnance Department Watervliet Arsenal New York. Second Lieutenant Paul A Berkey to 11th Field Artillery Fort Sill Ohio. Capt Arthur Pitz Hugh transferred to Third Field Artillery Fort Benjamin Harrison. Selden B Armatte Finance Officer First Corps Area Boston Mass.
Navy personnel assignments listed include commanders John Ferguson and Philip Wett to US 39 Tennessee and U and S California, Fletcher to command Submarine Base Cavite, several lieutenants including W A Lee, Henry G Taylor, Joseph F Underwood, C Maely, W J Pennell, F N Harrison, and D Ford to various posts. ensigns Joseph M Began, L Candlő, Gilbert R Crowther, Charles R Emsey, John J Herlihy, John D Kels kty, and others assigned to ships, receiving ships, and offices in San Francisco, Manila and Asiatic stations. details include resignations, reassignments, and dates around 1824 to 1934.
The New York Society reports a busy midsummer circuit with Mrs Ernest Dresse North and Mrs JH McGrein in Summit, Ella Booraem visiting Summit, and Summit residents Stuart W Jackson and BE B Whiting visiting Hyannisport. John D Rockefeller Jr returns from a Western trip to Seal Harbor with his four sons, while Abby Rockefeller and Mrs Rockefeller plan a stay at the Eyrie. Don Dickinson Jr visits the Vanderbilt in Detroit, and Miss Peter Pon Morgan plans a Bar Harbor to Highland Falls trip in mid September.
The civil wedding of Mile Marthe de Chambrun to Don Ed mondo Ruapoli took place at the Seventh arrondissement city hall with prominent Franco American guests. Witnesses included Marshal Joffre and Count Charles de Chambrun. the religious ceremony will be held tomorrow at St Pierre du Gros Cailloux with Monsignor Emmanuel Chaptal officiating.
Camp Letts YMCA near Checaspeak Bay breaks up September 21 1920 after ten weeks for 256 boys and staff. Earl Buller supervised with James Merriman leading boy staff including Samuel Gilstrap Ruéh Ara H Mash John E McDonald Robert Lucke Nelson Brown John S Shaw Harold L Joyner Bert E Darden John A Patterson jr Gordon Patterson Charles Ro Dodson William D Thompson Delbert Zatin William Litsey Mahlon Glascock William Knowles Cooper Jr Clyde Sarweant.
Dr William C Fowler district health officer urged parents to vaccinate children before public school. Free vaccinations available at the district building or health department clinic on Fifteenth Street Northwest Wednesdays and Saturdays from 9 am to 12 noon. The Buginessa Women's council will meet tomorrow at the Church of the Covenant with supper served from 5 to 6. At 8, the recreation committee will take charge and Miss Kathryn Riges will render selections on the harp.
The George Killeen post American Legion and Ladies Auxiliary plan a straw ride to Woodlawn Maryland on Wednesday September 3. Rev Fealy the post chaplain hosts the evening as the group departs from Wisconsin avenue and M street at 6 pm.
The War Department announced the promotion of Dr James Francis Moran to major in the Officers Reserve Corps. The same order appoints Paul Ver Beck Heiss and William Henry MacGrath as second and first lieutenants in the engineers, and Francis Paul Sullivan as major in the finance department, all in the officers reserve corps.
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