Evening star., 1933-11-08

"HE President was host al
luncheon today entertaining In
compliment to M. Maxim Lit
i vinoff, commissar of foreign
affairs of Russia, who Is in
WASHINGTON for conversations with
the President. His other guests
were Mr.. Boris z. Skvirsky, chief OF
the Soviet information bureau IN
washington; Mr. Peter Bagdanof
chairman of the board of the Amtorg
Trading Corporation; Mr.. Ivan A.
Divilkorsky, Of the Soviet Foreign
once; Mr. Constantine Oumansky,
chief of the Soviet Foreign Once press
division; the Secretary of State, Mr..
Hull: the Secretary of the Interior, Mr..
Ickes; the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr..
Wallace; the Secretary of Commerce,
Mr.. Roper; Senator Key Pittman. the
director of the budget. Mr.. Lewis w.
Douglas, the secretary to the Presi-
dent, Mr.. Louis McHenry Howe; the
Undersecretary Of State, Mr.. William
Phillips: the Undersecretary of the
Treasury, Mr.. Dean G. Acheson; the
assistant Secretary of State, Mr.. r.
Walton Moore; the chairman OF the Re-
construction Finance Corporation, Mr..
Jesse H. Jones; the governor of the
Farm Credit Administration, Mr..
Henry NJ. Morganthau, jr.: the special
assistant to the Secretary OF State, Mr.
William G. Bullitt; the chief of the
protocol and conference division Of the
State Department, Mr. James Clement
Dunn; the chief of the Eastern Euro
State, Mr. Robert F. Kelley; and the
Presidents naval and military aides,
Capt. Walter N. Vernon and Col Edwin
M. Watson.
Yesterday the President received the
visitor from Russia and Immediately
after he was received by Mrs Roose-
welt in the red room of the Executive
Mansion. Earlier in the afternoon
MRS. Roosevelt received the new Min
lister Of Portugal and Mime. de Bianchi,
who made their first call at the White
House since coming to this post. M. de
Bianchi succeeded the late Viscount
d,Alte, who was dean Of Ministers at
this post for some years. The Ambas-
sador of Belgium and Nine. May, who
returned from Europe a week ago; the
Minister of China and Nine. SEE, who
have been back from England about 10
days, and the Minister of Greece and
Nine. Simopoulos also were in the COM
pany during the afternoon.
Mrs. Roosevelt left last night for New
York, where she will be for the day,
returning bOluOfIOW ulOIIllIlS. 0lie gave
the first lesson in the course on Fed
eral Government to members Of the
Junior League and graduates of the
Todhunter School this morning. There
will be IA lessons. Mrs. Roosevelt going
to New York for one each month. She
remained at the Junior League for
luncheon. Later today Mrs. Roosevelt
viii be at the exhibit of furniture which
Miss Nancy Cook has arranged and
which is being held In the Roosevelt
home in New York City.
The Secretary Of State, Mr.. Hull, viii
be host at luncheon tomorrow at the
Carlton IN compliment to Mr.. Litvinof.
The Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir
Ronald Lindsay, was guest at the
luncheon given today at the Mayfower
by the Secretary of the Navy, Mr..
Swanson, IN compliment to Vice ADJ
miral the Hon. r. A. r. Plunkett Ernie
Erlo Drax and the commanding officers
Of the Norfolk and Danae, Capt. H. e.
G. Blagrove and Capt. Knox-Little.
The company included Assistant Sec
retary Of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt,
Admiral william H. Standley, u. s. N;
Maj. Gen. Commandant Ben II. Fuller,
q. s. M. O.; Vice Admiral Frank H.
Clark. U. s. N; Rear Admiral Ernest