The Washington times., 1930-07-18

Is Staged
Today
Dr.. VareIa, Minister Of Uru.
quay, Fetes Statesmen to
Commemorate Centenary

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DR.. J. Varela, entertained at
luncheon today to COM
memorate the hundredth an
niversary Of the foundation
of his government.
The party was given in
the Hall of the Americas Of
the Pan-American Union,
with ranking officials of our
Government, and foreign
] diplomatic representatives
present.
Telephones Countrymen
The bust of Artigas. national
hero of Uruguay, was placed on
{ o pedestal in the hall for the
occasion. The Marine Band
played during luncheon. which
was preceded by an address
made by DR.. Varela to the
people of Uruguay, by tele-
phone. This was the first ex-
pertinent in communication by
voice with that part of South
America.
Guests at the luncheon in
cluded the Secretary of State,
Henry L. Stimson; the Attorney
General, william D. Mitchell;
the Secretary of Commerce,
Robert. p. Lamont; the Secre-
tary Of Labor, James j. Davis;
Senator TaSker L. Oddie. Sena-
tor Hiram Bingham. Senator
David I. Walsh, the minister Of
Finland. l.. Astrom; the minis
ter of Austria, Edgar L. g. Proch-
mix; the minister of Sweden,
w. Bostrom; the minister of
Bolivia. Eduardo Diez de Me-
dina: the minister Of CZecho-
slovakia, Ferdinand Veverka:
the minister of Ecuador, Ho-
nero Viteri Lafronte: the min
lister of the Dominican Republic,
Rafael Brache; Representative
j. Charles Linthicum, the chief
OF naval operations, Admiral
Charles F. Hughes.
Other Diplomats
DR.. Pedro Manuel Arcaya,
fniniSter-d designate of Venezuela
to the United States; the charge
d'affaires Of Argentina, Julian
Enciso: the charge d'affaires
Of Chile, Oscar Blanco Viel: the
charge d'affaires Of Cuba, Jose
Baron; the charge d'affaires Of
Paraguay, Pablo M. Ynsfran;
the charge d'affaires Of Vene.
Zuela, Luis Churion; the charge
d'affaires of Costa Rica, Gull
lermo E. Gonzalez; Rhe charge
d'affaires of Canada, Merchant
Mahoney; the charge d'affaires
Of Switzerland, Etienne Lardy;
the charge d'affaires of Norway
Leonhard C. P. Offerdahl: the
charge d'affaires of Colombia,
Jose M. Coronado; the charge
daffaireS Of the Netherlands,
L. c. Van Hoorn; William Daw-
son, minister of the United States
to Ecuador: Conde de Monte
fuerte minister plenipotentiary
and counselor of the Spanish
embassy: William r. Castle,
Assistant Secretary of State;
Francis White, Assistant Secre.
tary of State: George Akerson,
Secretary to the President:
Maj. Gen. j. e. Fechet, chief
Of the Air Corps: George w.
Wickersham, chairman of the
National Commission on Law
Observance and Enforcement;
Seymour Lowman, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury;
Walter E. Hope, Assistant Sec
.retary Of the Treasury; Col.
Frederick H. Payne, Assistant
Secretary Of War.
Officials
DR.. Julius Klein, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce; Walter
L. ThurSton, acting chief of the
Latin-American division, Depart
ment of State; DR.. L. S. Rowe,
director general Of the Pan.
American Union: DR.. James
Brown Scott, president of the
American Institute of Interna-
ttonal Law; Fernando Gonzalez
Arnao, counselor Of the Span
ish Embassy; Eugen Hausen-
schield, counselor of the Aus.
trian Legation; Comdr. Louis
Sable, naval attache Of the
French Embassy; DR.. Paulo C.
de Almeida, first secretary Of
the Brazilian Embassy; Augusta
Mendes Leal. first secretary of
the Portuguese Legation; DR..
Hugh Cumming. director of the
Pan-American sanitary bureau;
Edmund Platt, vice governor of
the Federal Reserve Board; Will
liam L. Cooper, director. of the
bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce: Oscar T. Brosby:
DR.. George K. Burgess, director
Of the Bureau of Standards:
Robert v. Fleming, president of
the Riggs National Bank; Ira
Bennett, of the Washington
Post; M. W. Flynn, Of The
Washington Herald.
Other Guests.
Richard Oulahan, Of the
New York Times; Fleming
Newbold, Of the Washington
star; Elliot Thurston, Of the
New York World: Theodore
WAllen of the New York Her
ald-Tribune; Frederick William
Vile, Carter Field, Pablo San
tos Munoz, Second Secretary
of the Argentine Embassy; Eu-
gene Kevin Scallan, Secretary
of the South African Lega-