Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
War Department Polo
Association Chooses
Date for Annual Ball
Particularly Gay and Color
full Event Being Planned
for Easter Monday Eve
ming at Willard Hotel.

The annual ball of the War Depart
ment Polo Association, which will be
given this year on Easter Monday eve
ming, April l, will be particularly gay
and colorful event. The party will, as
usual, be given in the bathrooms of the
Willard Hotel, and officers of the Army,
in the new dress uniforms, add color,
rather than dull the scene in the drab
and business-like uniforms which have
been worn since the World War The
new Army uniform will vie with those
of the Navy and Marine Corps with
red. blue and yellow stripes and facings
and brilliant gold buttons and epau-
lettes.
The floor committee will be composed
of officers of the various branches of
the United States service, and also
military and naval attaches of the en-
basSies and legations in Washington
Those who have been invited from the
diplomatic corps to serve on this COM
mittee include the charge d'affaires of
the Irish Free State, Mr.. William j. b.
Macaulay; the charge d'affaireS of
Nicaragua, Senior Don Manuel Zavala;
the charge d'affaireS of Salvador, Senior
DR.. Don Carlos Leiva; the charge daft
flares of Paraguay, DR.. Juan v. Rami-
req, and the charge d'affaires of Haiti
Mr.. Raoul Lizaire; the military attache,
Col Pope Hennessy. the naval attache.
Capt. j. S. n. Richie, the air attache,
Wing Comdr. T. G.. Hetherington: the
assistant naval attache, Engineer Comdr.
w. c. Horton, and the assistant military
British embassy; the military attache
of the Peruvian embassy, Coronel Jose
Urdanivia Gines; the military attache,
Col. Don Samuel RojaS. the assistant
military attache and Captain Don Juan
BeriStain Ladron de Guevara of the
Peruvian embassy; the military attache,
Brig. Gen. Augusta villa the naval
attache, Capitano di Fregato Alberto
Lais, and the air attache, Comdr
Silvio Scaroni, of the italian en-
bassy: the military attache of the
Brazilian embassy. Capt. FREDERICK Viii
lar: the military attache, Maj. Vic
toriano CaSajus, and the naval attache,
Capt. Jose Iglesias Y Abelaira of the
Spanish embassy; the military attache,
Capt. Enrique A. Prieto and the assist
ant military attache, Lieut.. Rafael AL
fonso Y Garcia of the Cuban embassy:
the military attache, Brig. Gen. Ray
mond CaSenave, the naval attache,
Comdr. Louis Sable, the assistant mil
itary attache, Maj. Georges Thenault,
and the assistant naval attache, Engi-
neer Lieut.. Paul Duban of the French
embassy; the military attache, Maj.
Zorobabel Galeno, and the assistant
naval attache, Lieut.. Tomas Biggs of
the Chilean embassy; the counselor of
the Belgian embassy, M. Robert Silver
cruys; the first secretary Of the Turk
ish embassy, Kadry Ria Bey: the first
secretary Of the German embassy, Herr
Rudolf Leitner; the naval attache. Capt.
TS1InnUnchi Inn Stor Of
tache, Col. Hisao Watari, assistant naval
attache, Lieut.. Comdr. Kengo Koba-
yashi, the assistant military attache,
Capt. Nobuyoshi Obata, and the assist
ant naval attache, Lieut.. Yoshitake
Miwa, of the Japanese embassy
Also the naval attache. Comdr. Fran
cisco LajouS, and the military attache.
Lieut.. Col. Angel NJ Zuloaga, of the
Argentine embassy: the first secretary of
the Danish legation. Mr.. p. o. deTres-
chow; the first secretary of the Uruguay
legation, Dr. Hugo v. dePena; the
secretary of the Swiss legation, Mr.. Wal
ter II. Rufenacht; the counselor of the
Chinese legation, Mr.. Yung Kawi; the
counselor of the Hungarian legation,
MIR. John Pelenyi; the secretary of the
Finnish legation, Dr. Milo Idman; the
first secretary of the Colombian lega-
ton, Senior Don Jose M. Coronado: the
secretary of the Panama legation, Senior
Don Juan B. Chevalier; the counselor
of the Greek legation, Mr.. Angelo An
ninos; the secretary of the Honduras
legation, Senior Prof. Carlos Izaguirre
v; the counselor of the Austrian lega-
ton, Mr.. Eugen Hauenschield, and the
second secretary of the Egyptian lega-
ton, Mr.. Ahmed Mandolin Moursi.
Others assisting are: The second
secretary of the Polish legation, Mr..
Jan Stalinski; the first secretary of the
Bulgarian legation. Mr.. Stephen p.
Bisseroff; the commercial counselor of
the Swedish legation, Mr.. Gustaf
Weidel; the counselor Of the Venezuelan
legation, Senior DR.. Don Francisco
Gerardo Yanes; the counselor of the
Siamese legation, Mr. Edward H. Lotus;
the counselor of the Rumanian legation,
Prince Mihail r. Sturdza; the coun-
selor of the Persian legation, Fathollah