Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24
SOCIETY
The Secretary of State, Mr.. Hull, Will
Join Mrs. Hull in Virginia This
Evening After Day Here.

"HE Secretary Of State, Mr.. Cor
dell Hull, is spending today If
washington, having come from
l. the camp in the Virginia
mountains where with Mrs
Hull he is spending a vacation. The
Secretary made the trip to the Cap
ital to sign the first trade treaty with
Cuba, which also will be signed by the
secretary of state for Cuba, Senor
Cosme de Ia Torriente, the ceremony
to take place this afternoon at 5
O'Clock in the State Department
Senior de la Torriente, who was Cuban
Ambassador at this post from 1923 to
1925, arrived in Washington last eve
ming and is guest at the embassy
during his short stay.
The Assistant Secretary of State
and Mrs. B. Sumner Welles will enter
tain at dinner this evening in their
country home, at Oxon Hill, Md. in
compliment to the Cuban secretary of
state, Senior de la Torriente.
The United States Ambassador to
Cuba. Mr.. jefferson Gallery, came to
Washington to attend the signing OF
the first trade treaty between the
United States and Cuba and will re-
main here q short time.
Chinese Minister Arrives
In New York City Monday.
The Minister of China and Nine.
Sze, with their two daughters, Julia
and Alice, who sailed Tuesday aboard
the Leviathan from England, are ex-
pected to arrive in New York Mon
day.
Federal Judge Robert A. Cooper of
San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Mrs.
Cooper are spending vacation in
this country and are with their
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Cooper. in
their apartment, at 1880 M street.
Judge Cooper, who is a former Gov
ernor of South Carolina, and Mrs.
Cooper will return to the formers
post in October and will be accom-
panied by their daughter. Young
Robert A. Cooper, jr.. who is with his
parents, now will enter school in New
York State next month and will not
accompany his family to Puerto Rico.
Comdr. and Mrs. Smith Hempstone
will have as their guests for few
days Capt. Brantz Mayer, U. S. N.
who came East with the feet, and
Mrs. Mayer.
Miss Elizabeth Thompson, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Hempstone, for two
months has been at the Walter Hart
wigs Manhattan Theater Colony in
Ogunquit Me. She has been study
ing advance principles of stagecraft
and theater under Walter Pritchard
Eaton, Margaret Mclean, John Kirk
patrick and others.
The military attache of the Mexican
embassy and Sonora de Azcarate have
issued invitations for a reception
Monday afternoon from 5 to Z o'clock,
in honor of Gen. Gilberto r. Limon,
president of the Mexican Polo Fed
Grafton, and Sonora de Limon; Capt.
Alfonso Corona, secretary Of the fed
Grafton, and officers of the Mexican
Capt. Antonio Nava, Capt. Juan Ora
cha, Capt. Quintin Reyes, Capt. Mica
nor Chavez and Capt. Miguel zabal-
goytia. The. reception will be held
at the Westminster.
The retiring naval attache of
the Japanese embassy and Nine.
Kobayashi entertained at dinner last
evening in compliment to the newly
appointed naval attache of the en-
bassy, Capt T. Yamaguchi, who has
come to Washington to succeed Capt
Kobayashi. Capt. and Mime. Kobay-
ashi, assisted by Capt. Yamaguchi,
received their guests in the Pan
American room and dinner was served
in the Chinese room of the May
flower Hotel, the table having a CEN
ter mound of gladioli, dahlias and
asters in the Japanese national colors
of red and white. In the company
were the chief of naval operations
and Mrs William H. Standby. Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Richard H. Leigh,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. William D.
Leahy, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Wal
ter r. Gherardi, Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Joseph K. Taussig, Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Edgar B. Larimer,
Capt. and Mrs. William D. Puleston,
Capt. Frank j. Fletcher, Capt. and
Mrs. John r. G. Stapler, Lieut.. Col.
and Mrs. Karl F. Baldwin, Comdr.
and Mrs. Frank D. Pryor. Comdr. and
Mrs. Ellis M Zacharias, Lieut.. and
Mrs. Arthur H. McCollum, DR.. Stanley
K. Hornbeck, Mr.. Eugene H. Doo-
man, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Weir, Mr..
and Mrs. c. H. Kenworthy, Mrs. H.
r. Turkel, Capt. T. Sakurai and men,
bers of the embassy staff including
the counselor and charge d'affaires
and Nine. Fujii, Mr.. Takaharu Ito,
Comdr. Yosiyuki Itimiya, Mr.. Katsuo
Okazaki, Mr.. and Mrs. Shun-ichiro
Kawahara, Lieut.. Comdr. Eiitiroo
Zyoo, Maj Katsushi Satake, Mr.
Jun Tsuchiya and Mr.. Shiroshichi
Kimura.
Lieut.. Col. Leonard C.. Sparks,
q. S. A., and Mrs. Sparks have taken
an apartment in the Broadmoor, Col.
Sparks having been transferred for
duty at the Army War College from
Fort Sill, where he has been for
several years. Col. Sparks has been
on duty in Washington in former
years and Mrs. Sparks, before her
marriage, was Miss Bessie Speer of
Washington. Mrs. Sparks brother
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