Evening star., 1935-12-10

M RS. ,coRDELL HULL, I, wife s,,of OF
MI the Secretary of State, was
N the guest in whose honor
4 Mrs. Robert M. Gates enter
tanned at luncheon today in her
apartment at woodley Park Towers.
The company included Mrs. Homer S.
Cummings, Mrs. Daniel c. Roper, Mrs.
Lucille Foster McN1illin, civil service
commissioner; Mrs. Gilbert M. Hitch
cock, Mrs. Clark Wren, Mrs. w. Wood
ward Cook, Mrs. Percy Quin, Mrs.
Mary E. Buford, Mrs. ]. Clinton
Tribby, Mrs. T. Dwight Webb and
Mrs. Louis G.. Caldwell. The table
had an effective centerpiece Of yellow
roses and chrysanthemums.
The Attorney General and Mrs.
Homer S. Cummings will entertain a
company of % at buffet supper this
evening at their home, Ruthven. Mr..
and Mrs. Ed Sullivan OF New York Will
be among the out-of-town guests. The
guests will be seated at small tables
which, with the large buffet, will be
decorated with small chrysanthe-
NUNS.
The Siamese Minister and Nine.
Rajamaitri will entertained at a re-
ception this afternoon from 5 until 7
the anniversary of Constitution day Of
their country.
The Minister of Rumania, Mr..
Charles A. DaVila, will entertain at
dinner this evening in honor of his
house guests, the newly appointed
Minister of Rumania to Mexico, Mr..
D. DraghiCeSC0, who arrived in New
York last week, and the Bishop of the
Orthodox Church in the United
States, the Rev. Policart Murosca, and
the dean of the Orthodox Church, Fa-
ther Truteia.
The Minister of El Salvador and
Sonora de Castro will entertain infor-
mally at dinner at the Shoreham
this evening in honor of Mrs. Tan
chito Mejia Buckley, daughter of
Eenor FREDERICK Mejia, former Min
lister from FL Salvador to the United
states. Mrs. Buckley, who has spent
the past year in Washington, expects
to leave shortly to visit her family
in El Salvador.
Senator David I. Walsh of Massa-
chusetts is in Miami, Fla, where he
Is stopping at the Pancoast for a
few weeks.
Gen. Pershing
Feted in New York.
Gen. John j. Pershing was the
honor guest at a luncheon yesterday
at the st. Regis, in New York, given
by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Francis
E. Warren.
The secretary of the Japanese EN-
baSsy, Mr.. Takerni Miura, will be
host at a buffet supper Thursday
evening at the Mayf1ower, when his
guests will be newspaper correspond
ents of Japanese papers.
The first secretary of the Egyptian
Legation, Nicolas Khalil Bey, was host
10 a company of so at buffet supper
last evening in his apartment at 2400
Sixteenth street. Among the guests
were the Minister of Albania, Mrs. Faik
Konitza: the Minister of Panama and
Sonora de Alfaro and their daugh-
Eer, Senorita Amelita Alfaro; the Min
lister Of Iran and Nine. Djalal, the
Minister of Portugal and Senhora de
Bianchi, and the latter's daughter,
Mile. Sibilla Skidelsky; the Minister
of Greece. Mr.. Demetrios Sicilianos;
the Minister Of Egypt and Nine.
Youssef and the Minister'S son, Mr.
Mustafa Youssef; the Assistant Sec
fetary Of War and Mrs. Harry Wood
ring, Representative and Mrs. Sol
Bloom, Miss Vera Bloom, j. F. T..
O'Connor, the charge d'affaires of
Spain and Sonora de Yrujo, the
charge d'affaireS Of CzechoSlovakia,
DR. Josef Nemecek.
Others included the first secretary
of the French Embassy, NJ. Roger
Gaucheron and Mile. Simone and Mile.
Madeleine Gaucheron; the agricul-
tural attache of the Spanish Embassy
and Sonora de Echegaray; the second
secretary of the Mexican Embassy
and Sonora de Vazquez- Treserra, the
secretary of the Turkish Embassy, Mr..
lbrahim Seyfullah; Lieut.. Col Os-
thagen, Paul Alling, Mr.. and Mrs.
Diggs, Miss Helen Grove, Mrs. Alice
Nibley Smoot, Mr.. Abbot Maginnis,
Mrs. Gwendolyn Brownlee, DR.. Hus-