Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16
JAPANESE ROYALTY
JUST FOLKS TODAY
ON TOUR OF CAPITAL
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standing decorative note elsewhere in
the reception suite.
The princess paid her own thor
oughly feminine tribute to the Nation
she is visiting in the novel design of
the pink satin evening gown she wore
to the dinner. Tiny velvet stars ap-
pliqued upon the satin were chosen
her maid revealed, to do honor to the
stars in the flag of the United States.
The gown shimmered with sequins. The
prince wore traditional evening attire,
with the japanese chrysanthemum dec
Grafton across his shirt front from the
left shoulder
The decorative scheme gave the royal
couple its first glimpse of the famed
Japanese cherry blossom and revealed
to the Princess that she had something
more than nationality in common with
them. Seated between President Hoo
yer and Secretary Stimson, she inquired,
in her excellent English:
How long have the japanese cherry
trees circled the Tidal Basin?"
Secretary Stimson replied they were
planted there 10 years ago.
Just as old as am" laughed the
Princess, "i9 years."
Asks About Prohibition.
Having seen crowds Of woman adyo-
Gates Of prohibition reform wearing
buttons in the Mayflower Hotel lobby,
Princess Takamatsu asked how long
prohibition would last. The Secretary
OF State automatically suggested that
was question which she had better
put to the President, but the Princess
laughingly dropped the subject.
Inc guests included. besides their
imperial highneSSes Prince and Princess
Takamatsu, the Ambassador of Japan
and Madame Debuchi, the Secretary of
State and Mrs. Stimson, the Secretary
OF War and Mrs. Hurley, the Secretary
OF the Navy and Mrs. Adams, the Sec
rotary OF Commerce and Mrs. Lamont,
Senator William E. Borah, chairman
OF the Foreign Relations Committee
and Mrs. Borah; Senator Claude A.
Swanson of the same committee and
Mrs. Swanson; Senator and Mrs. David
A. Reed, Mr.. William r. Castle, Under
secretary of State, and Mrs. Castle; the
Counselor OF the Japanese Embassy and
Nine. Sotomatsu Kato, Mr.. Takeo
Yamagata, master OF ceremonies of the
royal suite; Nine. Takako Ochiai, lady
in waiting to her highness; Mr. John
Hays Hammond, Mr.. Stanley K Horn
beck, chief of the division of Far East
ern affairs, State Department; Mr.
Richard Southgate, Treaty Division,
State Department, and Mrs Southgate;
Lieut.. Comdr. Koyosuke Midzuno, Lieut..
Comdr. Ellis M. Zacharias, U. s. N,
aide de camp to the Prince. and Mrs.
Zachar1as; Mrs. Herbert Hoover, jr.,
daughter-in and Mr.. Allan Hoover,
son, of the President and Mrs. Hoover;
Capt Charles Russell Train, Naval aide
to the President, and Mrs. Train, and
Col. Campbell 3. Hodges, the PreSi-
dents military aide.
Second White House Call.
Their attendance at the state dinner
was the second call Prince and Princess
Takamatsu had made at the White
House since their arrival in the Capital
at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
visitors were officially received by the
President and Mrs. Hoover during their
first two hours here. From Union Sta
ton, where a semi-state greeting,
marked by an honor guard of United
States Marines, had welcomed them,
they were taken to the Mayflower
Hotel, their residence on their six-day
stay in Washington. Following brief
White House, where their Ambassador
presented them to the President.
The princes talk with President Hoo
yer was private, but informal. It was
devoted to personal exchanges between
the Chief Executive and the 26-year-
old prince.
Breaking an age-old precedent, Prince
TakamatSu yesterday granted a brief
interview to newspaper men. Speaking
through an interpreter, he expressed
pleasure at being in the United States
anC his own qualification at the well
come extended him and his bride in
New York Throughout yesterday the
prince wore formal dress. He will ap-
pear in uniform only once during his
stay here and that will be tomorrow,
when he visits the United States Naval
Academy, at Annapolis. Then he will
wear the uniform of the Japanese naval
lieutenant, as he is the imperial fam
ily's representative in the Jananese
Navy.