McADOO WEDS NURSE

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 238, 8 October 1935, Page 13

McADOO WEDS NURSE

HER FATHER OBJECTS.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 17,

Senator William Cibbs McAdoo, 71 years of ago, chose an historic house in Washington capital's outskirts for his marriage to 20-year-okl Doris Cross, a quiet-mannered, simply-dressed. Public Health Service nurse. Senator McAdoo is a Democratic leader of California, being one of its Senatorial representatives and a national iigurc in finance and other spheres.

It was the third marriage for Senator McAdoo, whose second wife was a daughter of Woodrow Wilson. The ceremony was •unpretentious and the guests invited to Bcall's Pleasure, the colonial brick home of the Senator's son-in-law, Price Clagett, in nearby Maryland, were personal friends and members of the Californian's family.

Included were two Cabinet members, Secretaries Hull and Eoper, with their wives; the former personal physician of President Woodrow Wilson, Dr. Cary T. Grayson, with Mrs. Grayson; and the six children of Senator McAdoo by his first marriage. Wedding Costume. The bride chose for her wedding costume a dark blue crepe '.ravel dress, a small, ofT-tlie-face hat and a bouquet of lilies of the valley and yellow roses. Rev. Russcl J. Plinthy, pastor of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, was selected to perform the ceremony. There were 110 attendants. In Oakland, lowa, the bride's father, R. J. Cross, a 55-year-old auctioneer, voiced his disapproval of the marriage, but said his daughter, who advised him of her plans by telephone yesterday, knows her own mind.

"I don't care if lie is a Senator and a Democratic party leader," said Mr. Cross. "I don't like the idea of Doris, who is only 20, marrying a man 71 years of age." But in San Diego, California, the bride's mother, Mrs. Nellis Cross, also informed by telephone, was first to give definite details of the nuptials. They came as a startling surprise to Washington, where Senator McAdoo has been a noted figure ever since he served as the wartime Secretary of the Treasury and married President Wilson's daughter, who was divorced from him in July, 1934.

* No immediate relatives of Miss Cross, one of five children, who successively lived in lowa, Canada and California, were able to get to Washington for the ceremony. With her was ( her friend, Miss Mary Addison Ingle, at whose unpretentious home the hatd-working, attractive little nurse had been staying during her closely-guarded romance with the Senator. Glamorous Figure. ,For Miss Cross the ceremony was a jump from obscurity to the dazzling place of youngest "Senatorial wife" in the gay society of the nation's capital, where Senator M? A doo has tecn a glamorous, figure. The blue-eyed girl, who combs her dark brown hair smoothly back from a "widow's peak," who dresses with a simplicity almost equal to her working uniform, whose inclinations have been studious and religious, will step into a glittering role as Mrs. William G. McAdoo.

The Senator occupies a handsome suite at the Slioreham Hotel, where dancing is one of his favourite diversions. He is an aviation enthusiast, having his own aeroplane always ready for swift trips. Thus it was that Miss Cross, telephoning her mother in California the details of plans, could airily say she would "see her soon."