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SUNDAY NEWS, JUNE 14, 1953 Air 5 Rockefeller Wedding Is First of 3 in Clan By NANCY RANDOLPH The first of three June weddings in the Rockefeller clan occurred yesterday when Joan Rockefeller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Avery Rockefeller, married David H. McAlpin Jr. in the First Presbyterian After the ceremony--performed by the Rev.

John L. Bates, assisted by the Rev. Robert W. Searle- -a reception was held at the Rockefeller home, Wild Wings, Greenwich. Wears Grandmother's Veil.

Given in marriage by her father, Miss Rockefeller wore a gown of ivory taffeta, bouffant. with train, and trimmed with heirloom rose point lace. Her lace veil. worn by her paternal grandmother, was caught into a cap and she carried lilies of the valley. Her sister, Mrs.

Edward S. Elliman, and sister-in-law, Mrs. Avery Rockefeller were matrons of honor, in dresses of blue organdy over blue taffeta. They carried bouquets of American Beauty roses. The maids of honor.

Lavona Price of Oklahoma City and Dorothy Bruce of Overhills. N. were gowned in fashion similar to the matrons, except that they carried yellow daisies and blue larkspur. Robert Lee Hammett of Garden City, L.I., was best man. The new Mrs.

McAlpin is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Percy Avery Rockefeller and great-granddaughter of William G. Rockefeller, who with the fabulous John D. Rockefeller founded the titanic Standard Oil fortune.

Her maternal grandparents were Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Mark. Bridegroom a Minister. MeAlpin, son of Mrs.

Thorn Lord and David H. MeAlpin, both of Princeton, N. has just been graduated from Union Theological Seminary as a Presbyterian minister. Three years ago he was graduated from Princeton. After a wedding trip, the newlyweds will spend a year in St.

Andrews, Scotland. The other Rockefellers who will follow in the oil clan's wedding parade are Marilyn Milton, engaged to William K. Simpson, and Rodman C. Rockefeller, fiance of Barbara Olsen. These Rockefellers are both grandchildren of John D.

Rockefeller Jr. and the late Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. Their mar- Church, Greenwich, Conn. riages will be solemnized this week. At St.

John's Church, Cold Spring Harbor, L. Eleanor Delafield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barber Delafield, became the bride of Francis Dewey Everett Jr. A reception followed at the Piping Rock Club.

Sister Is Maid of Honor. Miss Delafield wore a period gown of white taffeta with tulleand-lace heirloom veil. She carried gardenias and lilies of the valley. Her sister, Harriet, as maid of honor, wore pale pink shantung and carried deep pink carnations. The other bridal attendants were similarly gowned.

Henry McNevin Jones was best man. The bride's father, who gave her in marriage, is vice president of Consolidated Edison. Elsie Pell Guion, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Ormes Guion of Rye and Westhampton, was married to Robert Jacobus Pierot in Rye Presbyterian Church.

Pierot, son of Mrs. Felix R. Pierot and her late husband, is with Jacques Pierot Jr. and Son, ship brokers. At St.

Patrick's Cathedral, Mary Catherine Kelly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Kelly of Scarsdale, was married to John Joseph Hughes. Cardinal Spellman administered the vows and celebrated the Nuptial Mass.

Miss Kelly wore re-embroidered shadow Alencon lace with overskirt and train of cameo-toned silk taffeta. Her attendants were in blue nylon tulle. The bride is an alumna of Marymount College and the Barmore School. Her husband is with the Manufacturers' Trust Co. The Lady Chapel at St.

Patrick's was the setting for the marriage of Abbyann Day, daughter of Mrs. Frederick Davis Day of Tudor City (Bradford Bachrach foto) Mrs. David H. McAlpin Jr. 'This Is 'He Writes 'Slain' Love and Dies Francis R.

Noble, who turned on the gas in a suicide attempt last Dec. 18 in the belief he had murdered his common-law wife, tried again yesterday, and this time sueceeded. His body, clad only in trousers, was found on the bed in his furnished room at 104 W. 71st St. at 4:40 P.

M. yesterday seven hours after the superintendent, Mrs. Marie Ramp, first smelled gas in the building. Leaves Note. Police said Noble, a 39-year-old short-order cook, had opened four jets of his small gas stove.

Near the body lay a note addressed to his dead girl friend, Mrs. Virginia Toland Morton, which said: "Virginia, daring, I can't go on without you. I want most to be with you. This is it at long last." Mrs. Toland, a 42-year-old former pianist, died of a heart condition after a drinking bout in the apartment she and Noble shared at 327 W.

14th St. Earlier. Noble said, they had made a suicide pact. Autopsy Belied Murder. When he came out of an alcoholic haze hours later and found her dead, he thought he had killed her, he said, and tried to carry out his end of the bargain.

The cops frustrated the attempt and he then confessed the to have an autopsy show death due to natural causes. (NEWS foto by George H. Meyer) Francis Dewey Everett Jr. smiles happily at his bride, the former Eleanor Delafield, as she carries train from St. John's Episcopal Church, Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., after wedding there yesterday.

Place, and her late husband. Miss Day became the bride of Lawrence E. Lynch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L.

Lynch of Winsted, Conn. She was escorted by her brother, Tom Brennock Day. She's a Ph. D. The bride recently received her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Lynch teaches at St. Michael's College and is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto graduate school. Mrs. John Joseph Hughes Bathing Scene Stripped At Central Presbyterian Church, Maude Sinclair Haulenbeek became the bride of Dean Gillette Van Nest, son of Mrs. Leland Stanford Van Nest and her late husband.

Miss Haulenbeek's father is P. Raymond Haulenbeek of 3 E. 69th administrative vice president of the Bowery Savings Bank. She attended Spence School and Smith College and was a 1950 deb. Van Nest is with J.

Walter Thompson advertising concern. (Other picture in centerfold) Tokyo, June 13 Japan's burlesque queens are going to have to scrub their own backs from now on--at least in public. The owners of Tokyo's leading burlesque theatres, at a recent meeting, decided to withdraw one of the fixtures of local strip shows- -the bathing scene. Highlight of the scene was when members of the audience were invited on the stage to scrub the backs of the bathing girls. The producers decided it wasn't dignified.

(Pach Bros. foto) (Jay Te Winburn foto) Mrs. Dean Gillette Van Nest.