12 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1949
WEDDING BELLS FRIDAY
'Quite a Gal' Is Description
Of Bride-to-Be of the Veep
By TOM YARBROl'GH
St. Louis, Nov. 16 W) Who is this Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley,
.who Is going to Washington as the bride of Vice President Alben
W. Barkley?
Well, she's quite gal! That's the phrase used by some who
know her best.
When it comes to good humor
and personality, she is a fine
match for the Veep, and after
they are married here on Friday,
there will be a refreshing new
(ace on the Washington jcene.
"I'm Just a plain, Midwestern
girl who has had a plain, pro
saic life, and there isn't anything
to write about me." she protested
to an Interviewer soon after she
had announced the engagement
But her large blue eyes, soft
voice and ready smile make her
somewhat more than that as
the vice president instantly dis
covered when they first met one
night last July on a cruise down
the Potomac.
She was in Washington on
vacation from her Job as secre
tary to a railroad attorney in bt
Louis.
The vice president, with a fine
Kentucky eye for a beauty, lost
no time. He didn't let the fact
that he was 71 and she was 37
hold him back one bit. He gave
a luncheon for her at the senate,
and a cocktail party at his apart
ment.
He saw her to the train, and
said he might be getting out to
St. Louis sometime. Would it be
all right if he gave her a call?
She told him she would be ae-lighted.
Not many Sundays later the
vice president dropped in to bt.
Louis by plane for a private
little luncheon with Jane Had
ley and a dozen or so of her
friends.
The news leaked out. From
that point on, until the engage
ment was announced, Barkley
had the country with him in his
suit for the lady's hand.
A lawyer's daughter, she came
from a country town, and dropp
ed out of college after the first
year to be married to a witty,
promising young attorney in St.
Louis. Fourteen years later, Car
leton S. Hadley died of a heart
attack. There were two daugh
ters.
Her father is Roy Rucker, a
lawyer, her mother a pianist.
Jane was born September 23,
1911, at Keytesville (1940 popu
lation 854), in north central
Missouri, 33 miles west of Mob
erly.
When she was 10 years old
the family moved to Sedalia,
Mo., and there she grew up, ex
cept for two 'teen-age years in
Europe. With her mother and
the other children, William and
Estle, she spent a year in Rome
and a year in Switzerland, go
ing to school.
Back in Missouri, she won the
state high school medal in
French.
When she entered Washing
ton university in 1929 she in
tended to become a lawyer, but
young Mr. Hadley was persua
sive and he cut that intention
short.
The daughters are Anne, now
17, a student at Sophie New
eomb college at New Orleans.
and Jane, 14, who la in high
school here.
She was born a democrat
("there weren't any republicans
in Keytesville ) and has left
the reservation only once. That
was in 1940, when she cam
paigned for Wendell Willkie.
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Tm back in the fold, and a
democrat from now on," she
says. Her grandfather, W. W.
Rucker, was a democratic con
gressman for 24 years.
There's no pretense about
Mrs. Hadley. Her apartment is
not at all fancy or plush, and
she made no effort to steer the
Veep clear of it when he came
to town. When she went out to
the airport to meet him from
time to time she could have
used somebody's limousine a
block long, but no; she drove
her mother's little coupe.
Summing her up, a friend
said: "She has charm, poise.
brains and beauty." That leaves
out the solid fact that she is an
excellent cook and likes to turn
out odd dishes, things hardly
anyone else ever has.
Her tastes in clothes are most
ly simple, except that she loves
hats and often winds up with
one that costs four or five times
as much as the dress that she
wears with it.
She is a good story-teller, but
on that score she says she has
no illusions about competing
with Barkley. who Is rated as
one of the best. "Oh, no," she
laughed, "I'll Just sit back. I
can't compete with him."
Tm looking forward to mov
ing to Washington and meeting
more of Mr. Barkley's friends,"
she said.
Plywood Company
Seeks Tax Refund
Eugene, Nov. 18 W) The Eu
gene Plywood company has ask
ed Lane county to refund $31,
951.82 paid in taxes over a sev
en-year period. The company
claims the amount represents
tax differences on assessment
values because of a location er
ror.
The firm has informed the
county court that the assessor
listed the plant as inside the
city limits of Eugene but that the
factory is outside it. Because of
the error, the firm argued, taxes
have been levied for the city,
school district and the Eugene
rural fire protection district.
Small Wedding
For Veep, Bride
St. Louis, Nov. 1 (UBOnly
members of the immediate fam
ilies of the bride and groom will
attend the wedding of Vice Pres
ident Alben W. Barkley and
Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley in tiny
St. John's Methodist chapel Fri
day morning.
Richmond Coburn, spokesman
for the couple, revealed at a
press conference Tuesday that
there would be no ushers or
other attendants with two exceptions.
William W. Rucker of Palm
Beach, Fla., will accompany Mrs.
Hadley to the altar and Bark
ley's son, David M. Barkley, will
serve as best man.
Reporters will be permitted to
attend the brief and simple
service but photographers will
be barred from the chapel. There
will be plenty of pictures out
side, however, and arrangements
have been made to telecast the
wedding part; on the trip to and
from church.
An informal luncheon at the
swank Lindcll Boulevard home
of Mrs. T. M. Sayman will fol
low the ceremony and the
"Veep" and his bride will leave
for their honeymoon immediate
ly thereafter.
Terra Corra Head Gets
Socked in the Nose
Portland, Ore., Nov. 18 (U.B
The Portland art museum today
id that somebody socked a
16th century terra cotta head in
the nose, leaving the fragments
at the figure's base.
The Italian art work was on
loan from the New York Metro
politan Museum of Fine Arts.
The nose had been once restored.
role in economic freedom there
was some doubt whether that
freedom still existed.
"I will not discuss whether or
not we still have it," he said.
"I will at least assume it will
come again."
Singing Commercials Called
Advertising 'Sin' by Hoover
New York, Nov 16 (U.PJ Former president Hoover censured the
advertising profession Monday night for their "sins" the singing
commercial and the signboard.
In accepting the New York Advertising club's "plaque of
achievement," Mr. Hoover said advertising was a vital part of a
free economic system because it -
created a demand for goods
which in turn increased produc
tion and the standard of living.
"Also, I suggest that you have
advanced or at least spread the
arts," he said. "Without your
subsides to publication and the
radio, the writers and artists
would not have risen to the top
layers of the cake. I do not
mention the musicians as I get
no impression of advancing civ
ilization out of the singing commercial."
Mr. Hoover said it was "too
happy an occasion" to mention
all of the advertising Industry's
sins, but he couldn't overlook
signboards.
'Sometimes I have a dreamy
hope you will cease using the
scenery to urge pills on me when
I am seeking those solitudes
where fish alone can dwell," he
said. "But I do thank you for
not placing electric signboards
over those spots."
Mr. Hoover said that although
advertisers play an important
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Truman to Take
3-Week Vacation
Washington, Nov. 18 (U.B
The White House announced to
day that President Truman will
fly to Key West, Fla., Nov. 28
for a vacation of approximately
three weeks.
The news of his trip actually
was old but this was the first
time it had been announced of
ficially.
Church Confab
Closing Today
Dallas, Nov. 18 Figures
showing the strength of the
Mennonite Brethren church in
home and foreign missions were
revealed in reports at the an
nual Pacific district conference,
including Oregon, Washington
and California, which will con
ciuae here Wednesday after a
five-day session.
Rev. Waldo Wiebe of Shatter,
Calif., secretary of the home
mission board, reported that to
tal giving in the district during
the year ended was over S460,
000. Church property in the dis
trict is valued at $670,000.
Extension of the foreign mis
sion field was announced by Dr
P. R. Lange, president of the
foreign missions board, and Rev
A. E. Janzen, both of Hillsboro
Kan. The general conference
foreign mission board is now
active in India, Africa, China
and South America. In India
alone nine stations and five hos
pitals are maintained, and a new
field is opening in Japan.
G. W. Peters, president of Pa
cific Bible institute at Fresno,
Calif., stated that the year's op
erating budget for that institu
tion is $72,000.
The ISO delegates were Joined
by some 200 visitors from the
three states representatives from
elsewhere in the United States
and Canada, and several hun
dred church members of the im
mediate area for inspirational
services. Over 600 were served
at each of two meals Sundav in
the newly remodeled church
parlors of the local MB church.
Dr. Walter L. Penner, Bakers
field, president of the confer
ence, is in charge of business
sessions, conducted twice daily. V
Pastor of the host church is'
Rev. G. H. Jantzen.
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