Evening star., 1931-12-13
Service Ball Guests
VIII Include Official
And Diplomatic Sets
Affair December 90 Viii
Ring Down Curtain on
Year of Festivities.

Brilliantly ringing down the curtain
on a year Of Army, Navy and Marine
Corps festivities the united service ball,
which is to be held at the Willard on
the evening Of December 90, win be at
tended by prominent Army, Navy and
Marine Corps people and by many dis
tinguished members of the official and
diplomatic sets of Washington as well
The executive chairman of all COM
mittees of this affair is Mrs. Lutz Wahl;
the Tickets Committee, Mrs Harry Gore
Bishop; Box Committee, Mrs. William
=. Connor and Mrs. Ray Spear; Pub
hcity Committee, Mrs. Ralph Craft,
Mrs. William D. Connor and Mrs. Hugh
Matthews, and Decorations Committee,
Mrs. Stephen o. Fuqua, Mrs. James
Mckinley and Capt. Paul E. Leiber.
Brig Gen. William E. Horton is chair
man Of the Floor Committee The vice
chairman for the Army is Col. Charles
II. Patterson, the vice chairman for the
Navy is Lieut.. Comdr Glover, the vice
chairman for the Marine Corps is Capt.
Frank B. Goettge, the vice chairman
for civilians is Mrs. Waverley Taylor.
A list of box holders for the ball, which
is headed by Mrs. Herbert Hoover, in
clude Vice President Charles E. Curtis,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Everett Gam,
the Secretary of War and Mrs. Hurley,
the Secretary Of Navy and Mrs. Adams,
the chief of naval operations and Mrs.
Pratt, the chief of staff of the Army,
the COmmandant Of the Marine Corps
and Mrs. Fuller, Admiral and Mrs.
Thomas C. Hart, the Assistant Secre-
tary of War and Mrs. Payne, Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. George Van H. Mosely, the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. Jahncke Gen. John j. PerShing,
Admiral and Mrs. C. E, Riggs, Mrs
Brewster Marick, Maj Gen. and Mrs
William D. Connor, Admiral o. G.
Murt1n, Maj. Gen. James E. FeChet,
Brig. Gen. j. T. Myers and Mrs Myers,
Col. and Mrs r. R. Wallace, Mrs. E,
H, Liscum Mrs. Lutz Wahl, Admiral
and Mrs. Ridley Mclean, Brig. Gen
and Mrs. r. H. Lane, Comdr and Mrs
w. K. Fitzpatrick, Mrs Jacob Leander
Loose, Mai Gen. and Mrs. G.. V. Henry
Admiral and Mrs. Thomas T. Craven,
Admiral and Mrs. c. P. Kindelberger
Mrs. Arthur Macarthur, jr.; Brig. Gen
end Mrs. Hugh Matthews, Mr.. Keith
Merrill, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John w
Gulick, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Mason M
Patrick, Capt. and Mrs. j. w. Green
Slade, Capt. and Mrs. Barron P. Du-
bois, Capt. and Mrs. H. G. Wallace,
Comdr and Mrs. John F. Shafroth,
Capt. E. A. Prieto of Cuba Maj. Gen
and Mrs. r. P. Davis, Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. E. L. King, Brig Gen and Mrs J.
P. Tracy, Maj. and Mrs. Parker West,
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Herbert B. Crosby
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. S. o. Fuqua, Mai
Gen. and Mrs. c. H. Bridges, Maj. Gen.
end Mrs. Benjamin D Foulois, Mai
Gen. and Mrs. Samuel Hof, Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. George S. Simond, Mai Gen
and Mrs. Henry G. Bishop Maj. George
Patton and Mrs. Patton, Mai Gen and
Mrs. John F. Preston, Maj Gen. and
Mrs. Lytle Brown, Brig Gen. and Mrs
George B. Pillsburg, Maj. Gen. and Mrs
Harry L. Gilchrist, Maj Gen and Mrs
Robert U. Patterson, Brig Gen. and Mrs.
Carl r. Darnell, Maj. Gen. and Mrs
John L. Dewitt. Brig Gen. and Mrs.
Louis H. Bash. Maj. Gen. and Mrs Paul
B. Malone. Col. and Mrs. H B. Jordan
and Maj. and Mrs. Howard c. Davidson.