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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PAGE 3E OCTOBER 21, 1938, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, lluto Club, Opposing Gasoline Tax DR. A. L.

HUGHES TALKS SOCIAL ACTIVITIES NUCLEAR PHYSICS Increase, Contends No Highway Building Emergency Justifies It Married at Home of Bride I i program Under Proposition No. 6, It Is Argued, Would Be Premature Because U. S. planning Survey Has Not Been Completed. Sf St.

tk i ft I 4 JzL 1 i. zlv By a Post-Dispatcb Staff MR. and MRS- WILLARD GANN EAK1N. SYMPHONY TO PLAY AT 5 Orchestra Series Arranged as Part of Music Appreciation Program. The St.

Louis Symphony Orchestra will give five concerts for high schopl students as part of a musio appreciation program, starting Nov. 2. The first program will be at Vashon High School, for pupils cjf Sumner and Vashon. Each concert will be held on a Wednesday afternoon, starting at 1:45 o'clock. The second concert will be at Soldan High School Nov.

23 for Soldan and Blewett pupils. On Nov. 30 a concert will be given at Roosevelt High School for Roosevelt and McKinley pupils. A concert for Beaumont and Central pupils at Beaumont is scheduled for Jan. 4 and one for Cleveland and Southwest pupils at the former school is set for March 15.

For the first time student choruses will sing from balconies during intermissions at each concert. The two-schools attending the concert will supply a chorus of 200 picked voices. In addition to the series at tho high schools, special student concerts will be given at the Municipal Auditorium. St. Louis is said to be the only American city providing special symphony concerts for publio school children.

The program began" in 1909 following a music festival directed b.y Dr. Walter Dam rosch. 265 ENTRIES IN HORSE SHOW OF WESTWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Many Student Riders to Take Park in Competition to Be Held In County Sunday. A total of 265 entries has been received for the Westwood Country Club horse show to be held Sunday at its riding grounds, Bal-las and Conway roads, it Is announced today by Julius Van Raalte, general manager. There are 38 entries by student' riders.

Schools entered in to th interscholastic class include Mon-ticello College, Christian Brothers High School, Villa Duchesne, Brescia Hall, John Burroughs, Country Day, Clayton High School, St. Louis University High School, Mary Institute, University City High School, Price School, Webster Groves High School, Western Military Academy and Taylor School. In the road horse event, C. H. Muckerman, Joseph Allhoff, Ray Bartholomew, R.

W. Brown, Leopold Freund and Grantwood Stables will be represented. Judges will be Col. Robert Rossow of Culver (Ind.) Military Academy, and Charles Harris, Hannibal, Mo. $94,313 OF Y.

M.TTfUND IN 58 Per Cent of $161,000 Total Sought So Far Pledged. Contributions to the Y. M. C. A.

current expense campaign now total $94,316, or 58 per cent of the) $161,000 goal, according to reports made today. The Rev. Dr. C. Oscar Johnson, pastor of the Third Baptist Church, addressed the solicitors at a luncheon today at the Downtown Y.

M. C. urging them to redouble their efforts. Arthur VoIIrath Funeral. Funeral services for Arthur VoIIrath, former City Clerk of Belleville and Chief Deputy Recorder of Deeds of St.

Clair County, will be held at his home in Belleville Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with burial in Walnut Hill Cemetery. Mr. Vollrath, 61 years old, died yesterday after an illness of three years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ida Vollrah, a brother and a sister.

expiring in 1939 and 1940, respeiv tively. Dr. Muller and the two vice-presidents begin their one-year terms late in 1939. HIGH SCHOOLS BUILDING OF NEW DUCT REPORTED BY SURGEON Tissues Grow Around Rubber Tube and Connect Liver and Stomach. By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Oct. 21. A new surgical part for the human body, long, tube-like channel to con nect the liver and stomach, was reported to the American of Surgeons yesterday. The chan nel is made of the internal tissues of the body of the patient and replaces the duct which carries bile from the liver to the digestive system. This duct is about four inches long and goes, not to the stomach, but to the duodenum, just below the stomach.

Surgeons encounter numerous cases of obstruction or destruction of this duct. Unless they can renew the connection, the patient dies. Operations heretofore have drawn some movable part of the digestive system close enough to the dam aged duct to make a connection. The new operation makes a com plete new canal, over an entirely different route. Steps in Operation.

The report was made by George Ewart Wilson, M. fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, To ronto. He first inserts a stiff rub ber tube from the bile exit of the liver across the top of the stomach, its outer end exposed through the surgical wound. He then wraps the tube with omentum, which is tissue between the stomach and liver. Where the tube lies on top of the stomach it is buried in the outer stomach wall and sewed in place.

Tissues and stomach wall grow firmly around the tube. After this tube is withdrawn from the bodv. leaving a new channel. The final step of the operation makes an opening through the top of the stomach so the bile can enter through its new channel. Dr.

Wilson reported a case in which this new part has worked perfectly for five years. This length of time, surgeons said, indicates that such a sapre can probably be expected to be a permanent part of the digestive system. Other New Treatments. Use of vitamin to treat partial deafness was reported by James A. Babbitt, M.

of Philadelphia. The vitamin is the which means more than one of the different vitamins which scientists have discovered associated with vitamin B. The beneficial effects, Dr. Babbitt said, come from vitamins and G. They are temporary as a rule, but he said the experiments pointed to vitamins and diet as one of the aids to the hard of hearing.

Hypodermic injection into the spine of an anesthetic causing nerve block, a form of anesthesia often used in surgery to render a portion of the body insensible to pain, was described to the congress of anesthetists as a treatment for narcotic addicts. This sort of nerve block M. B. Greene, M. of Brooklyn, said, frees addicts during their first few days of abstention from the nervous shock, excitement, and mental upsets that accompany withdrawal of morphine.

Election by Surgeons. George P. Muller of Philadelphia Was elected president of the American College of Surgeons. Henry W. Cave of New York was chosen first vice-president, and David E.

Robertson of Toronto, second vice-president. Members of the Board of Regents whose three-year terms expired this year and who were re-elected to take office immediately were Irvin Abel, Louisville, Arthur W. Allen of Boston, John R. Fraser of Montreal, and Dr. Muller.

A newly elected member of the board is Frederick A. Coller of Ann Arbor, Mich. William H. Luedde and James Archer O'Reilly of St. Louis were elected to the Board of Governors for terms expiring in 1941.

Harry S. Cradle of Chicago and Tames Monroe Mason of Birmingham, were elected to fill vacancies on the board, their terms -v? vT To) i. at the home of her parents, Mr. Ridgway. 8028 Davis drive.

The MOYIE ACTRESS PEARL WHITE LEFT $75,000 TO CHARITIES Superseding Will Provides for "Taking Care of Artists" Cairo (Egypt) Man Gets Home. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 21. Pearl White, heroine of silenx thriller movies, who died Aug.

4 in Paris, directed in a superseding will filed yesterday that a considerable part of her fortune be given to "chari ties taking care of artists." Charitable bequests totaling about $75,000 were enumerated in the will, which was drawn June 22 last. The previous will was dated June 11, 1937. Theodore Cozzika of Cairo, Egypt, was bequeathed the actress' home at 6 Avenue Henri Martin in Paris, where she lived after her retire ment from early day moving pic tures. Cozzika was bequeathed ewelry, horses, furniture and other personal and household effects as well as $48,000 "to be distributed by him to such charities which he may select at his sole OSEPH W. STEELE FUNERAL Services for Former Printing Firm Head Tomorrow.

Funeral services for Joseph W. Steele, former head of a St. Louis printing firm bearing his name who died Tuesday in Orlando, Fla. will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Donnelly parlors, 3840 Lindell boulevard. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

Mr. Steele, who was 76 years old, had resided in Miami Beach, Fla, since he sold his business and re tired five years ago. He had been in business here nearly 50 years and was formerly a member of the Merchants' Exchange. He is survived by his wife. at 7 o'clock and a midnight buffet lunch is also being arranged.

Mrs. Riesmeyer's children will as sist in entertaining. They are: Mrs. C. L.

Burkart, Mrs. Paul Lungstras, Gus Frederick H. and Carl K. Riesmeyer. MISS NANCY RUSSELL, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. dyce lane, will bow to society this afternoon at a reception at the home of her parents from 4 to 6 o'clock. More than 200 guests have been invited, including friends of Mrs. Russell and young friends of her daughter. Tonight young guests with their escorts will return for dinner at 8:30 o'clock, to be followed by dancing, and guests then will number about 125.

The bay window in the living room will serve as a background for the receiving line this afternoon, and there Miss Russell, her mother, Mrs. Louis Stockstrom, grandmother of the debutante; Mrs. Arthur Stockstrom, her aunt; and Miss Elizabeth Foster of Pitts burgh, her roommate at the Masters School, who arrived today to attend the party, will greet the guests. Two tall standards of yellow and bronze chrysanthemums will flank each side of the win dow. The debutante will be gowned in emerald green taffeta, a bouffant frock fashioned with a tight bodice in an off-the-shoulder effect with tiny sleeve puffs.

Appliqued on the dress are clusters of velvet circles in matching green. Miss Russell will carry an arm bouquet of Rome Glory roses, the Vermillion colored blossoms a similar bouquet to that carried by Miss Nancy-Lee Morrill as retiring queen at the Veiled Prophet balL Mrs. Russell will wear an after noon gown of gray crepe with yel low orchids at her neckline. Mrs. Louis Stockstrom will be gowned in black crepe with pure white orchids, and Mrs.

Arthur Stock strom will wear black velvet and a corsage of white orchids with red throats. Two antique white china vases on the mantel above the fireplace will be filled with daisy chrysan themums shading from white to pink. A large vase of yellow chrysanthemums will stand by the new-ell post in the hallway, and two tall palms in great blue urns will frame the doorway where guests enter. The tea table in the dining room wiU be decorated with yellow roses, white bouvardia and bird of paradise flowers, the latter orange blos soms with purple throats. This centerpiece is arranged high in an urn-shaped crystal bowl On the buffet there wiU be another bou quet, yellow roses in a silver bowl.

Flowers here are to harmonize with the yellow-flowered wall paper of the room. Assisting Miss Russell will be the followfng girls: Miss Mary Jane Allen, Miss Margaret Adre-on. Miss Theoline Bostwick, Miss Lida Lee Christy, Miss Frances Elmer, Miss Mary Louise Ewing, Miss Caroline Gatch, Miss Mary Frances Hazelton, Miss Suzanne White, Miss Georgia Simmons, Miss Elizabeth Funsten, Miss Elizabeth Hoerr, Miss Dorothy-Lee Culver and Miss Virginia Stevens. For the dinner and dancing, Miss Russell will change to the gown she wore at the Veiled Proph et ball, at which she was a maid of honor. It is of pale turquoise blue moire, designed with a strapless bodice.

The bodice is fitted to the figure by stays and is topped with a row of fuchsia velvet bows. The skirt, edged with a band of fuchsia velvet flares over a hoop. Mrs. Russell will be gowned in silver and white lame, with purple orchids. She and her mother will receive guests in the living room before dinner.

A marquee has been built over a brick terrace on the southeast side of the house, and here long tables will be arranged for dinner, the room later to be cleared for dancing. Walls of the marquee are white, and the ceiling blue. Southern smilax is trained over the walls. Chrysanthemums in various shades will decorate the tables, and also the small tables which will be arranged in the living room. An orchestra wiU elevated at one end of the marquee.

Four low brick posts which lead from the doorway to the edge of the terrace will be twined with smilax and decorated with four turquoise blue urns filled with yellow chrysanthemums. Miss Russell attended John Burroughs school, and was graduated from the Master school, Dobbs Ferry, N. last June. She and her family spent the summer at Stonington, Conn. Miss Emily Sproule Ross and William Rex Brashear were quietly married at 5 o'clock this afternoon at the apartment of her aunt.

Miss Eliza Sproule, in the Congress Hotel. The Rev. Dr. John W. Mac-Ivor, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, performed the ceremony in the presence of the immediate families.

There were no attendants. Mr. and Mrs. Brashear left immediately after the service for a wedding trip, and will make their home in Princeton, N. J.

The bride, who has also had an apartment in the Congress, is the daughter of Samuel C. Ross of Mineral Point, a former St. Louis-an. Her mother, who died several years ago, was Miss Anne Sproule. Mrs.

Brashear attended Kemper Hall in Kenosha, and is a graduate of Miss Master's School, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Russ Brashear of 5730 Vernon avenue.

He attended Princeton University, and at the outbreak of the World War enlist ed in the French Ambulance Corps, with which he served for two years. Later he was assistant He Thinks Study Applied to Medicine and Biology Has Boundless Possibilities. The study of nuclear physics, which includes cosmic rays, has "boundless possibilities" when applied to medicine and biology, Dr. A. L.

Hughes, head of the Washington University physics department, said in an address Wednesday night before the Engineers Club at 4359 Undell boulevard. Nuclear physics is the study of nuclei of atoms. The atom is often compared to the solar system, with the nucleus as the sun and with electrons revolving about like planets. The nucleus carries all the weight of the atom and also carries a positive charge of electricity. Biologists and medical men are vitally interested in knowing the way in which certain substances move around and change places in the body, he explained.

"Chemists have devised methods of measuring very small quantities of most he said. "he physicist can detect the pres ence of toe same element in amounts millions of times smaller, if these elements can be made radio-active. This gives the biolog ists a most potent tooL Salt in Blood Stream. "The type of thine that can be done can perhaps be best illustrat ed by specific cases. We know that salt taken by the mouth gets Into the blood stream and is carried to all parts of the body.

But now fast Is it carried? The answer is given very directly by a simple experiment. "The individual holds his hand near a device for detecting radioactivity. If he contains no radioactive material, as should be the case, the device registers nothing. a. ueiuuie Time ne taKes a drink of salt water, in which the salt sodium chloride has been made radio-active in the cyclotron (an is used over and over again on apparatus in which a low voltage me same particle so that it ac cumulates energy corresponding to uimioiia or within a few minutes after the salt water has been drunk, the detecting device begins to operate, showine that salt taken by mouth has been car ried by the blood to the hand.

"Xt is known that the red blood corpuscles contain iron. Do the iron atoms stay in the red blood corpuscles, or do they exchange places continually with the iron atoms contained in the traces of iron in the fliuds of the body which supply tne needs of the various tissues? Such a question has been answered by feeding iron salts con taining radio-active iron and check- ing un on now much of it gets into tne red corpuscles of the blood. The possibilities of using radio active elements as tracers or indicators seem almost unlimited, ne declared. i Work of Neutrons. The indicator field is not the only one.

There is the field cover- mg the effects of various products of nuclear physics on tissues. Already it has been found that neutrons (particles of matter hav ing neither positive nor neeative charges) have a specific effect on tissues akin to the effect of X-rays, out not wholly identical with it. "X-rays are used in the treat ment of diseases because their de structive effect on diseased tissues is greater than their destructive effect on normal tissues. Thus in the treatment of cancer the dosage is fixed so that the abnormal conditions are checked without doing appreciable damage to the normal tissues. "It has been stated that, with neutrons in place of X-rays, there is a greater spread between the ef fects on good and bad tissues.

Should this be borne out by further work, and should the neu trons produce no ill-effects to off set this gain, we may find a large demand for neutrons by the medi cal man." By far the most exciting and spectacular part of physics in the last 10 years is that known as nu clear physics, he asserted. "Ten years ago we had no physics of the nucleus, today we have an immense amount," he said. ALICE ROOSEVELT L0N6W0RTH MAKES FIRST PUBLIC SPEECH Opens Lecture Course at Akron, With Talk on "I Believe in America." By the Associated Press. AKRON, Oct. 21.

Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth of Cincinnati and Washington made the first platform speech of her career last night. She opened a lecture course of the Women's City Club of Akron with an address on "I Believe in America, "I have been on scores and scores of platforms and have attended hundreds of flag-raising and cornerstone-laying ceremonies, but tonight I am making my first public talk," she said. "We have a popular Government based on Democratic principles and Republican institutions, I do not believe that we Americans have the remotest desire to substitute rulers for the individuals who are selected to administer the laws made by the representatives of the people." pie." Japan's Empress Expects Baby. TOKYO, Oct.

21. The Empress of Japan donned a maternity belt today in a formal palace ceremony following which she and the Emperor received congratulations of state dignitaries on the expected birth of another child in April. The imperial pair have two sons and three daughters. By CURTIS A. BETTS Of the Post-Dispatch Staff.

ppOSITlON of the Automobile OClub of Missouri to the two proposals for a 1-cent increase in state gasoline tax, which will iT the ballot at the November 4 L-inn. is based on the contention tut there exis 6" building juauuig m-ereased taxation for the already heavily taxed owners of the more than 800,000 automobiles in Missouri. is stated in the club's campaign literature that the owners of the smallest and least expensive lutomobiles now pay an average of $55 a vear in direct and hidden and that an increase of 1 I rent in the gasoline tax will mean additional tax of 57 a year. It on the basis of present easoline taxes uiai me intiea.sc would mean total additional revenue of about $6,000,000 a year. Highway rianningr Survey.

Taking the general position that the highway building program contemplated by the proposed amendment to the Constitution, which will be Proposition No. 6 on the ballot, would be premature because of the fact that the $600,000 highway planning survey by the United States Bureau of Public Roads has sot progressed to the point of a published report susceptible of analysis as a whole, the club's position is that the plan cannot have been worked out on scientific lines. This survey included an inventory of every mile of the llO.OQO miles of public road in the state, a traffic count on all roads to de- termine traffic requirements, a sci- of road building materials and their adaptability to the traffic requirements, and a highway financial itudy. The Citizens' Road Association, In preparing the proposed program, bad access to the detailed studies, which have not been compiled for publication, though the studies are virtually completed. Auto Club Estimates.

In objecting to the proposal, the Automobile Club, which is directing a state campaign, has presented estimates which it contends shows that estimates of engineers of the State Highway Department are erroneous, and that without additional taxation the state will have more money for highway construction in the next four years than it has had in the past four. Its estimate is that next year esd in several succeeding years there will be available $10,500,000 for construction of new roads. The Highway Department engineers' estimate is $7,000,000. In reaching its conclusion the Club figured revenues would be higher than the engineers' estimate and that expenditures for administration and maintenance would be lower. The club has quoted State Highway Department reports to show that, with about 15,000 miles of surfaced state road in the state, 98 per cent of the population resides within five miles of a surfaced, all-weather road, and has presented the argument that it is unfair to tax the mass of automobile own ers to build back-country roads which are used by only a few per-Bons.

Two Features Attacked. A particular attack is ma rip nr two features of the proposed program, the addition of 5000 miles of local farm-to-market roads and the apportionment of 20 per cent of toe construction funds for build-tg city streets. The club contends tnat the proponents of the plan are misleading the public as to the wneiiis Which will accrue Roy F. Britton, president of the automobile Club, has asserted in speeches throughout the "ate that, with the funds which be available even if irn in ease in tax is approved, at least a years will be required to con- -uli ine additional 5000 miles, tnaer the terms nf tri nmnrf- ent, 20 per cent of available con junction funds would be expended lOr 3 PPlementary or farm-to-market nt ftas asserted that, the basis of estimates by the department, this 20 per cent will amount to $3,310,000 a year. His estimate of the maintenance expense, based on present iZZJ? lnat We of road, is $2, a year, which, deducted irom thf inonoku 've $898,000 for construction.

He Winer deducts $30,000 which "ouia go to St. Louis and Jackson nh construction before counties particiDated. leaving sws.OOO. Supplementary roads have been woung the State $5500 a mile, from Hilton has figured that 31 rsts would be required to build --auaiuonai roads, ice DartiHnatirtr tv. -if the tate is belittled by the club on V4.

klC VlklVS VV ln the cities would be pay -C4. Clli LUU1U Ullw 6 an the cities will receive. It been octimot.i 8tt get a year from the 3 anl Britton has asserted that voa iC irirrpH OOH Cf mil- svwn- wouia pay ai or Otltf. lf 1 A. .200,000.

Tax on Auto Owners. mwi ot the opposition is based own contention that automobile kSi8 are now at a much 'sher rate than any other class of sn tax on Missouri automobile ship and operation of cars at as follows: Registration fees $9,401,400 State gasoline tax 11.685.642 Miscellaneous State taxes and fees 1.048.289 State sales tax 2,245,673 Property tax on automo biles 3.000.000 City licenses, gasoline tax and fees 7.300.000 Federal gasoline tax 6,129,360 Other Federal excise taxes, on tires, tubes, etc 3,941,137 Total $44,751,501 The club has prepared a tabula tion which it asserts represents the present taxes paid by the owner of the least expensive car. It figures $45.37 per year, the club stating that additional Federal taxes and fctate sales taxes would bring the total to at least $55. This tabulation follows: State registration fee 8.50 City license 3.00 State driver's license J.2 City driver's license .25 Property taxes (average value $200) 5.00 State gasoline tax (700 gallons) 14.00 Federal gasoline tax 7.00 City gasoline tax 7.00 Federal tax on oil (50 quarts) .50 $45.37 It is not the contention that this full amount of taxes goes toward construction and maintenance of the highways, the fact being that only the State gasoline tax revenue and receipts from automobile license fees go for that purpose. For 1936 this amounted to $24.92 per automobile.

Reply to Proponents. Replying to arguments of the Citizens' Road Association that an increase of one cent in the tax would not have any effect on the retail price of gasoline and that the retail purchaser would pav no more than he now the Club has presented comparisons in the gasoline prices of several cflies, in which the difference in price corresponded exactly or almost exactly with the difference in the tax. The Association, however, also presented comparisons showing that in other instances higher taxes meant no higher retail price. As has been explained in pre vious articles, there will be two gasoline increase proposals on the ballot. No.

5 and No. 6. To be adopted either must receive a ma jority of the votes cast on the proposition. No. 5 is a State law enacted by the last Legislature.

It proposes an increase of the gasoline tax from 2 cents to 3 cents per gallon. If adopted there would be nothing to prevent the Legislature from further increasing the tax. It is submitted to the voters under the referendum provision of the Consti tution, petitions for the submission having been circulated by the Automobile Club and the larger oil com panies. No. 6 is a proposed constitutional amendment, increasing the gasoline tax from 2 cents to 3 cents, but if it is adopted the Legislature will be prohibited from any further in creases or from increasing the present automobile license fees for a period of 10 years.

The amend ment further lays out a definite program of road construction to be undertaken in the 10-year period. About "Yes" and "No" Votes. There has been some misunderstanding about the voting on the two propositions. A "yes" vote on eith er will be a vote to increase the tax, and in the case of No. 6 to proceed with the program included in it.

A "no" vote on either will be a vote against increasing the tax. (This is the concluding article of a series of three explaining the proposals to increase the State gasoline tax rate.) FUNERAL AT 2 P. M. TOMORROW FOR MRS. JEWETT WAGONER Widow Whose Husband Gave Site for Wagoner Place Church, to Be Buried from There.

Funeral services for Mrs. Anna M. Wagoner, 87 years old, who died Wednesday of a cerebral hemor rhage at her home, 1701 Wagoner place, will be at 2 p. nu. tomorrow from the Wagoner Place Methodist Episcopal Church with burial in Bellefontaine Cemetery.

Born in South Carolina, she came to St. Louis 60 years ago with her husband, the late Jewett Wagoner, who acquired the ground around Wagoner place as a farm, laid out the street, developed it as a resi dential tract, and donated tho ground for the Wagoner Place church, contributing largely to its construction in 1894. Mrs. Wagoner was a charter member in 1878 of the Women's Missionary Society of the Metho dist church. She served as presi dent of the Women's Missionary Society at the Wagoner Place church for about 15 years, retir- ine from office about 1916.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mildred W. Cross and Mrs. Nellie W. Woerman, and three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren Hearst Sells Radio Station KOMA.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 21. Sale of radio station KOMA by Hearst Radio, to J. T. Grlf fin.

Muskosree, for $315,000 was an nounced yesterday by William C. Gillespie who represented Griffin in negotiations. Griffin operates a wholesale grocery chain. AFTER their marriage yesterday and Mrs. Edmund Go forth bride was Miss Ernstine Ridgway.

business manager of the Peace Commission. For the past year he has lived in New York. On the invitation of Mrs. Frederick II. Semple, Price and Edge- wood roads, 16 of the season's deb utantes lunched together at the Junior League tea rooms today.

Mrs. Semple, who gave the luncheon in honor of Miss Agnes Gait, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Gait, and Miss Caroline O'Fal-lon Gatch, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Hayward H. Gatch, greeted the guests. Mrs. Semple's daughter, Mrs.

Phillip W. Ness of Baltimore, presided. In the party was Miss Nancy Lee Morrill, retiring Veiled Prophet queen. Mrs. Ness, who arrived before the Veiled Prophet ball last week, was joined here by her husband Sunday for a week's visit before they return to Baltimore.

The table was decorated with fall flowers. Miss Nathalie Scott Simpkins, daughter of Mrs. Harold W. Simp-kins, 5 Westmoreland place, will arrive home from Vassar College about Nov. 17, to take part in debutante festivities for Thanksgiving week.

Mrs. Simpkins will introduce her third daughter to friends at the Saturday night dinner dance at the St. Louis Country Club, Nov. 26. Miss Simpkins plans to remain home for a month's holiday at Christmas time.

Parties will be given in her honor by family friends during that period. The dinner being planned by Dr. and Mrs. Lee Pettit Gay in honor of Miss Frances Howell Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Virgil A. Lewis, Ladue road, for Friday, Nov. 11, has been postponed until after the Christmas holidays. Dr. and Mrs.

Gay, who had been living at 320 North Union boulevard, have moved to 7801 Delmar boulevard. A dinner will be given Wednesday night, Dec. 7, by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chambless Rand, in honor of two of the season's debutantes, their daughter, Miss Laura, and Miss Lida Lee Christy, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Calvin M. Christy, 4905 Argyle place. The dinner will be given at the Rand home, 7100 Delmar boulevan'. Mr.

and Mrs. Edward K. Love Jr. have taken possession of their new home at 8 Berkley lane. Since arriving home from their Euro pean wedding trip last month they had spent part of the time with Mrs.

Love'3 father, former Judge George C. Hitchcock, 5363 Water man avenue, and the remainder with Mr. Love's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward" K.

Love, 44 West moreland place. Mrs. Love is the former Miss Elizabeth Fiske Hitchcock. Mrs. James Davidson of Bay City, arrived here today to visit Mr.

and Mrs. Lawrence Clinton Sherrill, 17 Southmoor drive. Mrs. Davidson had been in New York for a brief visit before arriving here. She will be entertained in formally.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Davis of Dallas, formerly of St Louis, are spending the week here at the Park Plaza. They will depart for home at the end of the week visiting Memphis on the way.

Mrs. Gus Riesmeyer will cele brate her eightieth birthday tomor row with a reception at her home, 3112 Hawthorne boulevard. More than 300 friends and relatives have been invited. Supper will be served mm IE Here's the "Once-A-Year" opportunity to get Ronley's sample fur coats far below their actual value! Persian Lamb, Hudson Seal (dyed muskrat), China Mink, Muskrat, Squirrel, Leopard and Sealine (dyed coney). FREE LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE by DR.

JOHN M. TUTT, C. S. B.f of Kansas City, Mo. Member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church The First Church of Christ Scientists, tn Boston, Massachusetts In FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, 5569 Past Blvd.

SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1938, AT 8 O'CLOCK Amplifiers WiU Provide Enlarged Beating Capacity BOYD-RICHARDSON OUVE AND SIXTH 1 in connection with owner-.