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The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 47

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jRfe 0V25 Lloyd-Butler and Koefod Families MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 30; 1952 -Part IH Pair Will Make Home in Bay City 15 A I ida Ba bcock Becomes Bride of Eugene Croft BV KOSARIO CURLETTI A country wedding in the Early California manner took place at Rancho Santa Clara Pi Jf ill XV'!" MRS. PARKER DALE Pe Mlrjlaa shot Mary Patricia Gary, Parker Dale Married The gardens of Mr. and Mrs. Wright W. Gary's Pasadena residence were the setting for the marriage of their daughter, Mary Patricia Gary, to Parker Dale yesterday afternoon.

MRS. PATRICK LLOYD-BUTLER Shrev Ballard phots Peter Mann to VW I del Norte near Saticoy when Patrick Lloyd-Butler claimed Marie Koefod for his bride. In the spacious gardens of the old ranch house stands a little white chapel erected some 25 years ago by the bridegroom's mother, the late Mrs. John Lloyd-Butler (Ida Ross). There Msgr.

Anthony J. Jacobs married the young couple before saying the nuptial Mass. Bride Wore Organdy The bride a bouffant white organdy gown for her wedding; fragrant orange bios soms held her finger-tip veil Blanche R. Nixon, a school friend, wore a smart white pique dress to serve as maid of honor. She carried soft yellow roses and wore a tiny white hat.

Shane Lloyd-Butler of San Francisco motored down to be his brother best man. The Lloyd-Butler boys Shane, James and Patrick are descend' ed on their mother'3 side from distinguished Spanish-California families, the Palomares and the Arenas, who at one time owned vast domains including Ranchos San Jose, Pauba, Los Huecos and Cahuenga and Santa Clara Or chard. Luis Arenas, the bride groom's great grandfather, was a Defender of the National Inde pendence and of the Laws by decree of Gov. P10 Pico. Wedding Breakfast At the wedding breakfast, the ranch hands serenaded the couple as was the custom through out Spanish California in other times.

The bride, a native of Santa Barbara, is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hilmar Olaf Koefod, Dr. Koefod is a well-konwn phy sician in the Channel City and a leader in civic life. The Koefods tendered the newlyweds a late afternoon recep tion at the Valley Club in Monte- cito.

Mrs. Koefod wore a gray taffeta afternoon gown with matching hat while Mrs. Lloyd-Butler (the bridegroom's stepmother) chose a blue taffeta afternoon dress with matching accessories. The Patrick Lloyd-Butlers will make their home in San Francisco. Civic Club Will View Color Film of Hatvaii The Women's Civic Club of Los Angeles will see a color film on Hawaii at today's 11 a.m.

meeting in the Elks' Temple. At 1 p.m. there will be a charter membership tea and program. Mrs. A.

W. Barnard is president. MRS. EUGESE 1 'lit A white carpet led from' the patio entrance to the swimming pool where a fountain caught the rays of the afternoon sun and made a translucent frame for the Improvised altar set in a lattice interwoven with a myr iad of pastel flowers. More than 600 guests were present at the ceremony and reception.

Dr. Jame3 Stewart Sr. officiated. Cahill Model Gown The bride wore a Cahill model gown of imported embroidered organdy. Designed with a full three-tiered skirt, its sweetheart neckline was outlined with a scalloped design of the daisy pattern on the short sleeves.

The rainbow effect was carried out in the attendants' dresses of White organdy over many-hued pastel slips that caught the color of their flowers. Mrs. Wright) W. Gary Jr. was matron of Ceremony Performed in Church BY JOAX BURXHAM The familiar strains of the Lohengrin wedding march! echoed through Pasadena; Presbyterian Church when; Alida Kelsey Babcock, escorted by her father, walked down the aisle to be married to Eugene Lewis Croft.

He is the son of William Loren Recknor of South Pasadena and the late Hubert L. Croft, The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guilford C. Babcock of Pasadena wore an embroidered French organdy gown fashioned with a neckline and cap sleeves.

Her fitted bodice was offset by the full skirt that swept into a train. Dr. Blake Officiates The ceremony was performed by Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, former pastor and now stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church, who resides in Philadelphia. He was assisted by the present pastor, Dr.

Gantz Little. A blue and white floral theme was used, featuring white gladioli and stock, blue delphinium and greenery. For the home re-. ception the receiving line formed on the lawn in front of beds of blue delphinium, a fitting background for the attendants who wore white eyelet pique dresses with matching blue sashes. Attendants Listed Mrs.

David Fromme was matron and Margery Elizabeth Babcock maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Emily Smith, Kitty Palmer, Carol Titus and Marilyn Blurock. The groomsmen were Guilford C. Babcock, best man, Mike Babcock, Thomas Wole III, George Kinkle, Hugh Penton, David Bruck and Alfred Duckett. A dance floor was installed in the gardens for Harry Robinson and his orchestra to play for the guests.

The couple, who are not dis closing their Honeymoon destina tion, will make their home in Pasadena. Lorene Oddous to Head Hollywood VFW Group Lorene Oddous will succeed Adella Benjamin who has re signed as President of Hollywood Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. The group will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. at 1089 Oxford St. Bride in Puerto Rico BV CORDELL HICKS, Society Editor En route today by plane to New York, where they will board a ship for San Juan, Puerto Rico, is an excited group of Angelenos.

Their happy goal is the wedding of Senorita Carlotita Luisa Gonzalez and Peter Reed Mann. 'I 500 See Miss Andersen Wed to Arthur Adams Norwegian Girl Becomes Wife of Richard Warburton Vincent Ths bride-elect is the daughter of el Senor Don Senora Guiller-mo Enrique Gonzalez of San Juan. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Alfred! Mann of Los Angeles are parents of the bridegroom-to-be.

Mr. Mann and his best man, Charles Merrick Madary will fly directly from Los Angeles to Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Th party of wedding guests preceding them comprises Mr. Mann's parents and the Felix Farwells with their daughter Joan, Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard M. Staub and Joseph Flatau (he will ne one or tne usnersj. ah live in West L03 Angeles. Sister Will Telephone Mr. Mann's sister, Mrs.

Wil- LEWIS CROFT Sergis Albertl photo Ray Ann Irvine, Fyfe Ann Irvine, Sally Thurman, Jerrylyn Andersen, Marjorie Hyde and Margaret Benis. The bridal attendants were gowned in imported pink Swiss organdy over hooped taffeta. A quaint touch was their small parasols of pink garden flowers. Mary Lou Oppehshaw was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Evelyn Hoffman, Marilyn Kennedy.

Carlene Smith, Polly Jean Welsh, Phyllis Overholt, Betty Jean Klassen and Carol Bird. Bride in Period Model The beautiful brunette bride wore a period model of French Chantilly lace and tulle over frost-white bridal satin. A pat tern of the Chantilly draped the Mary Queen of Scots headdress to hold the long, sheer veil. Ernest Fritcher walked with the bridegroom from the Co- I lonial guest house to meet his I bride. BY JESSIE JEAX MARSH The wedding of Jerraldine Andersen, daughter of Dr.

and Mrs. Nels Jerrald Andersen, to Arthur Wayne Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Adams, took place in an 18th century setting reminiscent of Williamsburg. The gardens around the Colonial home of the bride's uncle and aunt, Mr.

and Mrs. William Thomas Davis of Beverly Hills, was the scene of the formal late-afternoon ceremony. Five hundred Southland friends, many from Bakersfield, the home of the bridegroom's parents, gathered to hear the service read by the Rev. Hi Harold Jackson, a family friend. Eight Cousin Attend The bridal procession started with the bride's eight cousins,) junior bridesmaids, in white or- gandy.

They were Elizabeth Lou Davis, Elizabeth May 1 liam P. Stanton (Nancy snaue. P.oyd), was unable to make the; After the gaiety of post-wed- Journey, but will ronsratulatemsf festivities, Mr. and Mrs. honor.

Others in the entourage were Mary Jo Aleson, Jane Weeks, Shirley Van Doren, Sally Drews, Maureen Haight and Mrs. Winston Moore. Tom Hinds Jr. was ring bearer. Groomsmen Listed Groomsmen for the son of Mrs.

Marjorie Holyoke Dale of Los Angeles were Wright W. Gary best man, Edward M. Palette, William Dabney, Donald Dabney, Donald Hause, Karl Didrickson Jr. and Frank H. Dale.

Mrs. Gary received guests in a Paul Barnes original model of pale pink embroidered cut or gandy. The bridegroom's mother chose a gown of rose beige mar quisette and Chantilly lace. Fol lowing the cutting of the cake, the bride and groom led off the dancing to the music of Don Ri-cardo and his orchestra. Robert Allen at her wedding, and the exquisite veil of Bruges lace was first a part of the bridal ensemble of the bridegroom's mother, the former May Elizabeth Hershey, and was worn again by Mrs.

Allen, the former Hershey Vincent. It was brought from Pans two generations ago. Mrs. Ross Hutchinson Vincent Jr. was matron of honor, and Misses Sylvia Grafwinckel and Dale Haverfield were bridesmaids.

Donald Bryant served as best man for Mr. Vincent. eign-born married to an Amer- ican, she points out that there has been nothing but warmth and welcoming hands. "This is a great country. Your countrymen have been most helpful to us and are very dear to my heart," she said.

She met Gen. Chennault at a press conference in China dur ing the war. She was the only woman there, and she laughingly replied, "He had to notice me." The attractive, young-looking Chinese is the daughter of the former Chinese Consul at San Francisco, Dr. Y. W.

Chen, now retired. Many of her relatives live in Oakland. She, however, received her education at Amer ican (Christian) University in China. Rarely Separated The Chennaults reluctantly left their young fry with relatives in Monroe, to make the trip to the West Coast. "We are rarely separated more than a week and our home is one place where east meets west.

While I wear native cos tumes, my children dress in American clothes and our food is American. Also, so is their Children, Taught to Hate Parents, Line of Future, Says General9 s- Wife Claim was held at the Chandler home in Sierra Madre with more than 50 guests witnessing the rite. -Mr. Breiner, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles J. Breiner of Akron, had Charles H. Greene of Prescott, as his best man. The simple rite was performed in the Chandler summer Tiouse on the terrace, followed by the reception, with a supper for the wedding guests. Chose Shantung Frock The newly married Mrs.

Breiner (she is the daughter of the ir and Mrs. Bert Grant Strawser) chose a simple frock of turquoise Italian shantung with a jersey bolero of match- meiner ieu tor a nnei noney- imoon at an undisclosed destma- llon- eir return iney win ne at iwme in larzana. Red-Trained Form Battle BV MARV AXX CALLAX Children taught to hate and to spy on their parents for the Communist cause are forming now the vast, inconquerable battle line of the future unless the free world finds a way im mediately to bring love back into these children's lives. A mother, a native of China and the wife of a United States general, now retired, spoke these words straight from the heart. She is Mrs.

Claire Chennault, who narried the famous "Flying Tiger" commander five years ago. She left here with him yesterday after a reunion with that fighting group over the week end. 1 Effects Seen As one of the few newspaperwomen in the Far East, Mrs. Chennault has seen the effects of Communist teaching. "We have got to train the free countries in how to fight Communism and let them carry the fight themselves," she emphasized.

"The United States cannot carry the entire load. Take--a lesson from the Russians. They train other country's troops and let them fight." Asked if this were an omen for Korea, she shook her head. "No, we are into it and we ought to bomb Manchuria follow the principles of MacArthur. This is the only way now." Lives in Formosa She, her husband and two girls, whom she says are at the uncontrollable age (3 and 2), make their home in Formosa, headquarters for Free China.

Her part in the fight against Communism is to report the truth for a newspaper called Formosa New Life Daily. She writes a weekly column. My Day (the same as Eleanor Roose Of great interest both on the West Side and in Bergen, Nor way, was the wedding of Ruth Skulstad, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jorgen Skulstad of Ber gen, and Richard Warburton Vincent.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hutchinson Vincent of Brentwood and a grandson of John C. Hershey of Sebring, Fla. St.

Alban Episcopal Church, Westwood Hills, was the setting for the afternoon cere- monv. The former Miss bkul- stad's gown of ivory faille taf feta entrain had been worn by the bridegroom's sister, Mrs. She has been to the United States six times with her hus band and though she is a for IB CHENNAULT L. e- the young pair by telephone on their wedding day. After a honeymoon at Caneel in iha Virgin Island the newlyweds will return to Los Angeles at the end of July to make their home in Westwood.

Senorita Gonzalez Is a graduate of Abbot Academy at Andover, and completed her junior year at Wheaton College, Nor ton, Mass. Her nance is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Han over, N.H., and Is affiliated with Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Breiner-Scntous Vou Read at Chandler Home It is axiomatic that weddings iihould be the happiest of occa sions and the maxim was given proof Saturday evening when Mrs. tsertie strawser ben-tous became the bride of William Charles Breiner. In the early evening, just be fore dusk, Mrs.

Rentous, with Mrs. Norman Chandler as her matron of honor, stood before Judge Thurmond Clarke and re peated the nuptial vows with her bridegroom. Her hand was given in marriage by Mr. Chan dler. 50 Witness Rite The bride, a member of an old California family, and Mrs.

Chandler have been friends for many years, and the ceremony BPWC SECTION REORGANIZED Reorganization of the San Fernando Valley Section of Business and Professional Women's Clubs and election of a staff have taken place. Myra Allroggen of North Hollywood presided at the recent meeting. The eight Valley clubs are part of the Los Angeles-Sunset district. Hazel Hickenloopcr of San Fernando is chairman. The staff includes Jean Wall, Reseda; Alma Giddings, Sherman Oaks-Enclno; Edythe Denton and Wanda Gertsch, both of Van Nuys.

velt's), concerning her travels and her thoughts on current events. MRS. CLAIRE 5' SEE JL'Stf." slang." No Time to Lose It is because of her deep love for children that sh reiterated the belief that there is no time to lose in recapturing the minds, hearts, and souls of Red-trained children. "They now have no qualms in turning in their own parents for talking against Communism. They" are taught to hate them.

If we don't change that, how can we expect to divert a horrible clash of the whole world in the future." I MRS. MEREDITH SAVAGE, Mrs. Max Frank Deutz and Mrs. Murray Ward urre among guests of Mrs. Roger Goodan when she opened her home to a party honoring Women in White, women physicians who have don goad work with the Los Angeles County branch, American Cancer Society, of which the hostess is leader.

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