Evening star., 1930-12-02
.RESIDENT and Mrs. Hoover will
be hosts this evening at dinner
In compliment to the members
Il of the cabinet, the first of the
series of state entertainments

- be hosts this evening at dinner
In compliment to the members
Il of the cabinet, the first Of the
series of state entertainments
shcheduled for this season.
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, sister of
che vice President will receive tomor-
row in her apartment at the Mayfower,
and will have with her Mrs. Thomas r.
Marshall, widow of the former Vice
President. and Mrs Edwin T. Meredith,
widow of the former Secretary OF
Agriculture Assisting Mrs. Gam will
be Mrs. James e. Watson, Mrs. Claude
A, Swanson, Mrs. Reed Smoot, Mrs.
James j. Davis, Mrs. Homer Hoch, Mrs.
James G. Strong Mrs. Sidney A. Clo-
man. Mrs. Wilson Prichett, Mrs. Alice
Smoot, Mrs. A. F. Gordon, daughter OF
Senator Smoot; Mrs. Paul E. Haworth,
daughter of Representative and Mrs.
Strong; Mrs Thomas F. Walsh, MRS.
Jacob Leander Loose, Mrs. Henry l..
Doherty and Mrs. Charles 2: George,
daughter of the Vice President ana
niece of the hostess.
The wives of cabinet members will
be at home tomorrow afternoon 1or the
: first time this season and Will also
receive wednesday afternoon, Decem-
Der 10. They will then discontinue
their receptions until the first Wednes,.,
day in January. The recepuons VIII
last until $50 o'clock.
Mrs. Stimson, wife of the Secretary
of state. will have with her tomorrow
afternoon at Woodley, 5000 Cathedral
avenue, Mrs. Wilbur j. Carr, Mrs. VIII
liam r. Castle and Mrs. Francis White,
wives of the three Assistant Secretaries
Of State.
Mrs. Hurley, wife of the Secretary
Of War, will be assisted in her home,
1920 Belmont street, by Mrs. Frederick
H. Payne and Mrs. F. Trubee Dawson,
wives Of the Assistant Secretaries of
war. who will preside at the tea table,
and the Army debutantes who viii be
with Mrs. Hurley include Miss Margene
Musser, Miss Ruth Gullion, Miss Eliz-
abeth PillSbury, Miss Virginia Ashburn,
Miss Lucille Swift, Miss Beatrice Pat
ton and Miss Katharine Kingman.
Mrs. Mitchell, wife of the Attorney
General, will receive in her home at "a
Kalorama Circle, and will have with her
wives of officials of the Justice Depart
ment, Mrs: Thomas D: Thacner' MRS.
John Lord O'Brian, Mrs. G. Aaron
Youngquist, Mrs. Seth w. Richardson,
Mrs. Claude Branch, Mrs. Charles Rugg,
Mrs Charles T. S!sson and Mrs. Nathan
G. Wyeth.
MRS. Brown, wife Of the Postmaster
General, will receive in her apartment
In Wardman Park.
Mrs. Adams, wife Of the Secretary of
the Navy, will be at home in her resi-
dence at 1921 r street, and will have
with her Mrs. Davis s. ingalls,, wife of
the Assistant Secretary of the Navy;
Mrs. william v. Pratt Mrs. Keith Mer-
rill and Miss Mabel Boardman.
Mrs. Wilbur. wife of the Secretary of
the Interior, will receive in her apart
ment at the Mayflower, and will be as
sisted by Mrs. Walter Ewing Hope, wife
of the Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury; Mrs. Ernest Lee Jahncke, wife of
the Assistant Secretary of the Navy;
MRS. Joseph M. Dixon, wife of the AS
sistant Secretary of the Interior; Mrs.
Vernon Kellogg and Nine. Van Kaa-
thoven.
Mrs. Hyde, wife of the Secretary of
Agriculture, will be at home in her
apartment at the Mayflower, and will
have presiding at the tea table Mrs.
Homer Hoch, Mrs. Ernest Lee Jahncke.
Mrs. Joel T. Boone, Mrs. Samuel r.
Stanley Reed, Mrs. Everett Saunders
MRS. Charles Alger and Mrs. william
w. Bagley.
Due to absence from the country,
Mrs. Lamont. wife of the Secretary of
Commerce, win not be at home.
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, sister OF
the Vice President, vas the honor guest
Of MRS. Frank Clinton Henry at lunch
con today at the willard. The other
guests included Mrs. Arthur M. HYDE,
Sonora de Teilez, Mrs. William e.
Borah, Mrs. Hiram Bingham, Mrs.