Evening star., 1933-04-21

TINE President and Mrs. Roosevelt
will entertain at dinner this
evening in compliment to their
house guests, the prime minister
of Great Britain, Mr.. j. Ramsay
Macdonald, and his daughter, Miss
Ishbel Macdonald, who will arrive at
80 o'clock this afternoon. The prime
minister and Miss Macdonald were
passengers aboard the Berengaria,
which arrived this morning, and they
came at once to Washington.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt had
guests lunching with them today. the
company including Mr. and Mrs. George
Putnam, the latter better known as
Amelia Earhart, first woman to make
a solo flight across the Atlantic, who
were guests at the White House over
night. Mrs. Putnam piloted Mrs.
Roosevelt on q night flight over Wash
ington last evening.
This afternoon at 5 O'Clock the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt will receive
the new Ambassador of Germany, Herr
Hans Luther, and at 2:30 o'clock Mrs.
Roosevelt receives the delegates to the
forty-second annual Congress OF the
N S. D. A. r.
Mrs Roosevelt will attend the lunch
con tomorrow which Is given annu-
ally by the Girl Scouts of America in
their Little House" on New York ave-
nue.. The luncheon will be an economy
lunch and will be cooked and served
by Girl Scouts. Mrs. Roosevelt also
will be present at the annual authors
breakfast tomorrow at noon and later
will attend the dog show, where her
two dogs are entrants.
The luncheon at the Little House Is
part of the celebration of Better
Homes in America" which will be fea-
tured at the Little House for one week,
starting tomorrow Following the sug-
gestion of Mrs. Roosevelt that every
home should have vegetable and herb
garden, the girls have prepared such
garden at Little House, and in addition
will have on display homemade play
ground equipment for the average home.
In addition to Mrs Roosevelt, the
guests at tomorrow's luncheon will be
Mrs Nicholas Brady, chairman Of the
board Of the National Girl Scouts; Mrs.
Henry A. Wallace, wife of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture; Mrs. William Brown
Meloney, originator OF the "better
homes" idea and magazine editor OF the
New York Herald Tribune; Mr.. Walter
w. Head. president OF the Boy scouts
Of America; DR.. Louise Stanley, chief
of the Bureau of Home Economics, De-
partment of Agriculture, and Mr.. j. s..
Taylor, chief of the Building and Homes
Department of the Bureau Of Standards.
The guests will be received by Mrs.
Frederick H. Brooke, national field
chairman of the Girl Scouts; Mrs.
Henry H. Flather. member OF the ma
tional board; Mrs. G. L. Bowman,
hostess at Little House; Mrs. Benjamin
Franklin Cheatham, commissioner OF
Girl Scouts Of the District of Columbia; a;
Mrs. r. Bruce Horsfall, captain Of Troop
II and a member of the Little House
Committee Mrs Adolphus Station,
Great Brown Owl Of the Brownies and
Mrs Wayland Magee, member OF the
Little House Committee.
In addition to tomorrow's luncheon,
open house will be held at the Little
House all of next week, and a number
tendance during the week, among them
being Mrs Claude A. Swanson, wife Of
the Secretary of the Navy; Mrs Wilbur
j. Carr, wife of the Assistant Secretary
of State, and others.
The Ambassador Of Germany, Herr
Hans Luther will be host this evening
at an informal party, his guests in
cluding newspaper men.
Mrs. Curtis B. Dali, daughter Of Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt, will join her
parents this afternoon at the White
House to remain over Sunday.
Cabinet Women Guests
In Mrs. Swanson's Home.
Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife Of the Secre-
tary Of State, and the wives Of the
cabinet officers who are in the city
met today at the home of. Mrs. Claude
A. Swanson, wife Of the Secretary Of
the Navy, who gave an informal lunch
con for them.
The Minister of Panama. Senor Don
Ricardo Alfaro, has returned from
Ithaca, N. Y, where he went to make
an address at Cornell University.
Senator Nathan Bachman enter
tanned Informally at dinner last eve
ming at the Carlton, where he Is residing
during the present session Of Congress.
Representative and Mrs. Robert F.
Rich Of Pennsylvania, who make their
home at Wardman Park Hotel, enter
tanned a party of seven at dinner there
last evening.
The chief Of the Protocol Division of