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terday for New York where he
i will attend q meeting Of the
Panama Railroad Co. He will
then 20 to Boston to inspect the 1st
Corps Area. He Is expected to return
to washington Sunday.
Miss Betsy Dern, daughter Of the
Secretary and Mrs. Dern, Is making
preparations for returning to her
studies next week at George Washing
ton University. This Is Miss Derns
last year at the university.
Ambassador to Celebrate
Mexican Anniversary.
The Ambassador Of Mexico, Senior
DR.. Don Fernando Gonzalez Roa, will
entertain at luncheon Sunday at
Clney Inn in celebration Of the 124th
anniversary Of Mexican independence.
The Attorney General and Mrs.
Cummings were In the large company
at the final concert of the Summer
season given last evening on the
esplanade of the Pan American Union.
The United States Navy Band, Lieut..
Charles Benter conducting, and Sen
orita Rosario de Orrellana. Cuban
soprano, gave the program Of Latin
American music. Members OF the
diplomatic corps attending the concert
included the Ambassador Of Mexico,
DR.. Fernando Gonzales Roa; the
Ambassador of Cuba and Sonora de
Marquez Sterling, Sonora de Alfaro;
wife of the Minister of Panama;
Sonora de Finot, wife Of the Minister
Of Bolivia; the Minister Of Paraguay
and Sonora de Bordenave, the Min
lister Of Ecuador and Sonora de Eloy
Alfaro, the Minister OF Haiti and Nine.
Blanchet, the Minister OF FL Salvador,
Or, Hector David Castro; the Minister
of Costa Rica and Sonora de Con-
zalez Zeledon, the charge d'affatrs OF
Egypt, Mr.. Nicholas Khalil Bey; the
charge daffairs Of Nicaragua and
Sonora de Debayle, the charge
d'affairs Of Hungary, Mr.. Anthony De
Balasy; the charge d'affairs Of Nor
way, Mr.. Leonhsrd G. p. Offerdahl;
the charge d'affsirs of Switzerland,
Mr.. Louis Michel; the charge danairs
of Colombia and Sonora de Gonzalez
Fernandez, and the charge d'adairs
Of Czechoslovakia, Mr.. josef Nemecek.
Others from official society included
Senator and Mrs. King, Representative
and Mrs. Bloom and Miss Vera Bloom,
Miss Grace Roper, the Assistant Sec
retary of War and Mrs. Woodring,
Assistant Secretary Of the Interior and
Mrs, Walters, Assistant Secretary OF
the Interior Oscar Chapman, Mr..
Charles Curtis, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
=. Gam, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Brig
ham. Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Fries, Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Westover, Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. Preston, Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. Smith. Brig. Gen. and Mrs.
Schulz, Gen. and Mrs. Miles, Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. williams, Gen. and
Mrs. Saltxman, Mai. Gen. Simonds.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Lane and Miss
Lane, Gen. and Mrs. TRULY, Gen. and
Mrs. Mcintyre and Miss Mcintyre.
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. Brown, Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. Drum and Miss Drum, Brig.
Gen. Horton, Gen. and MrS. Quincy,
Brig. Gen. Hughes, Mai. Gen. and
Mrs. Croft, Surgeon Gen. and Mrs.
Cumming, Gen. and Mrs. Coleman,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Defrees. Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Home and Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Taussag. =
The Secretary Of the Interior, Mr..
Harold L. Ickes, has been invited by
the Summer Festival Committee to be
the guest Of honor at the perform
ance tonight Of the arabian Nights"
tale of "Ali Bahia and the Forty
Thieves" In the National Sylvan
Theater at the Washington Monu-
ment, which viii be presented by the
Warrington Community Players.
who so successfully gave both "A
Midsummer Nights Dream" and
"Alice In Wonderland" this season,
under the auspices OF the Festival
Committee, which is headed by Mrs.
Elizabeth Z. Peoples.
District Commissioners Mr.. George Z.
Allen, MIR. Melvin G. Hazen and Lieut.
Col Daniel ]. Sultan, Mr.. James @.
Yaden, DR.. Frank w. Ballou, DR..
Stephen e. Kramer, Mr.. James /.
Quinn, Mr.. Robert Cottrell, Mr.. Curtis
Hodges, Mr.. Fred Hand, Mr.. e. H.
Weir, Mr.. G. Melvin Sharpe and other
well known leaders In the civic, edu-,
cational and recreational life Of the
Capital City will also be present at
the presentation Of "The Forty
Thieves" Mr.. G. Marshall Finnan.
director of National Capital Parks,
whose ONCE sponsors the Sylvan
Theater events during the Summer
time, viii attend the performance to-