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Show Genevieve Clark to Wed o2 A5 Engagement Is Announced Speaker's Daughter Will Become Bride of an Editor Edi-tor Next Spring. By International News Service. WASHINGTON, Dec , 27. Speaker and Mrs. . Champ Clark announced an-nounced the engagement tonight of their daughter, G-enevieve. to James M. Thomson, owner and publisher of the New Orleans Item, New Orleans, La. j Tho wedding will tako place In Honey- shuck, tho Clark home in Bowling Green, Mo., In the spring or early summer. The details of tho wedding or the attendants have not been arranged as yet. The picturesque feature of the romance Is that Miss Clark and Mr. Thomson met at tho Baltimore convention, where j Speaker Clark led on so many ballots for i the presidential nomination. Mr. Thom-' Thom-' son was an original Clark man In Louisiana Loui-siana and his powerful paper had been a 'l constant Clark organ in the southland. A mutual friend introduced him to the speaker's daughter, with the pleasing result re-sult announced today. The couple met again in Washington at the time of President Pres-ident Wilson's inauguration and the acquaintance ac-quaintance ripened into friendship. Mr. Thomson is a member of an old , Virginia family and is the son of Mr. 1 aDd Mrs. August Pembroke Thomson of ' Summit Peak, V. Va He Is regarded as i one of tho leading- newspaper men In the south and ia a graduate of Johns HopktiiB university In the class cf 1S07. His first newspaper experience was in Washington, where ho was on the Washington Post and served as a special correspondent for several out-of-town papers. In 1910 he ! purchased the Norfolk, Va.. Dispatch, 1 Seven years later he entered the New Orleans Or-leans newspaper field as owner and publisher pub-lisher of the Item. Besides his news-1 ; paper interests .Mr. Thomson has been ! active in political reforms in Louisiana : and is identified with prominent business ' and civic interests there. I The bride-elect is one of the most pop-i pop-i ular girls of Washington society. She i made her debut on New Year's day last 1 year and fullv 500 persons attended the I reception. Last Thanksgiving day she ; passed her twentieth birthday and Is a 1 graduate of the Friends school of Washington. Wash-ington. Miss Qark has been foremost in the worth-while activities of the capital. She is known as the daughter of the house and is a favorite with the statesmen states-men there, who have known her since she v. as a small child and used to ac-companv ac-companv her father on tho floor. Civic and philanthropic movements ha e occu- : .(Continued on Paso Two.) Genevieve Clark Who I. To Wei Os. of Hr Fatter Ckampios ?.-,, W. ' -: ' K Genevieve ; r V Clark V - 11 , Who I. V " r i ' 1 To Wei v v:,Xf i o.. of ft rHU4W J - 9S in ' M tM- -yi 4 . vbuvjj n p i-'? :.hvv'""i -r 1 if'..; "A ,1 r 1 : v - M w fegl li . GENEVIEVE CLARK TO WED J. M. THOMSON (Continued from Page One) p ed n uch of her time apd whi e fond of i congenial socle y the life of a socla hut terf s appeals to her but s Ightly When e war situation den ora zed the cotton industrj th s f a M ss C a k sprang ip o nat ona p om nence by her timely suggest on of use n ore cotton a appeal hearti y answered bv the A.mer tcan women In a sections of the coun try Great a d was given the cotton in dustry by the mo ement started by the speaker's daughter and had a pronounced psjehoogical effect upon the s tuation Another noteworthy work was the or gan zation of e Jun o Aux iary of Ne ghbor ood House among t e young so ciet be! es of Wash ngton wh c practl ca y suppor s a k ndergarten for poor cl dren M ss Genevieve is a tall andsome girl w t vac ty and n uch na u a cam She resemb es her d stingu shed father C ose y and s h s c um and confidap e Jj ke he mother she has p onounced 1 t erary as es and as wr tte for naga z nes and newspapers |