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PeaceCaravan
To Be Paid
Honor
Peoples Mandate
p Luncheon Set
Saturday.

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date luncheon at the Carlton
Hotel Saturday, at which the Secretary
Of State, Mr.. Cordell Hull, and the
Ambassador Of Peru, senor DR.. Don
Manuel de Freyre y santander. will
speak.
The luncheon is to honor the men,
bers Of the Flying Caravan" who will
arrive in Washington tomorrow, eom-
pleting their tour of the American
republics In support OF ratification
Of the Buenos Aires peace treaties.
Secretary Hull and Undersecretary
of State Sumner Welles led in negoti-
ating these treaties at the Peace Con-
ference in Buenos Aires year ago.
Mrs. Hull, wife Of the Secretary OF
State, will be guest of honor at the
luncheon and Representative Caroline
O'Day will preside. Mrs. O'Day is a
national vice chairman of the Mandate
Committee.
Washington members OF the Man
date Committee, including Miss Mabel
Vernon. the. director. and Mrs. Ray
mond Clapper, secretary, will be the
hoStesses of the occasion. Assisting
them will be Mrs. William S. Culbert-
son, wife of the former Ambassador
of the United States to Chile, and
Mrs. Howard Leroy.
Among the guests will be the At
torney General and Mrs. Homer S.
Cummings, the Ambassador of Argen-
tina, Senor DR.. Don Felipe A. Espil;
the Ambassador Of Chile, Senior DR..
Don Manuel Trucco; the Ambassador
of Mexico and Sonora de Castillo
Nsjera; the Minister of Guatemala,
Senior DR.. Don Adrian Recinos: the
Minister Of Colombia and Sonora
de Lopez; the Minister Of the Do
minican Republic and Sonora Pasto-
riza the Minister of Honduras, Senor
DR.. Don julio Lozano: the Minister
of Venezuela. Senor DR.. Don Diogenes
Escalante: the Minister of Panama
Nicaragua and Sonora De Bayle, Mr.
Welles, the director general of the
Pan-American Union, DR. Leo S. Rowe
and the president of the Peruvian
delegation, DR.. Fransisco Tudela.
Mrs. Bennett Champ Clark. wife OF
the Senator from Missouri, will enter
tain at her table a group Of the Grid
iron Widows" among them Mrs. Lloyd
Stark, wife of the Governor of Mis-
souri,, and Miss Eleanor Connolly, the
latter having attended the Buenos
Aires conferences year ago.
Two other prominent members oi
the flying delegation" to the Buenos
Aires Conference, Mrs. Cecil Ira Nc.
Reynolds of Washington and Mrs
Albert Lytle Deane of New York. will
have a group of distinguished guest.
at their table. and Mrs. Carroll Miller
sister OF Senator Guffey, will entertain
guests at the luncheon.
Also attending will be women prom.
inent in official circles, including Mrs
Blair Bannister, Assistant Secretary
OF the Treasury; Mrs. Lucille Foster
! McMlllln, civil service commissioner
Among leaders of women's organi.
cations who will attend are Miss Char
Ormond Williams, president of the
National Federation of Business and
Professional Women's Clubs; Mrs.
Lloyd w. Biddle, president of the
District of Columbia Federation oi
Women's Clubs; Mrs Morris Cafritz
district president of the National
Federation Of Temple. Sisterhoods;
Dr.. Esther j. Crooks of Goucher Col
lege and the Women's international
League for Peace and Freedom; Mrs
Gerrit S. Miller of the Girl Scouts
of America.
Among those who are coming from
New York City for the luncheon are
Mrs. Gerard Swope, vice chairman OF
the Mandate Committee; Miss Vida
Milholland, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Grey
and Mrs. Albert Lytle Deane of White
Plains, New York.
Members of the caravan who have
made the l7,000-mile trip through
the Americas are Mrs. Burton w
Musser, Salt Lake City, only woman
member Of the American delegation
to the Buenos Aires Peace Conference
in 1886: Mrs. Ana del Pulgar de
Burke, Washington, Latin American
chairman for the Peoples Mandate
Committee: Mrs. Enoch Wesley Frost
Texarkana, Ark, vice president of the
National Garden Clubs of America
and a director of the Arkansas FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Rebecca
Hourwich Reyher, New York, admin
istrative assistant to the Works Prog
ress Administration, and Mrs. Gaeta
Wold Boyer, Miami, Fla, organiza-
ton chairman for the Peoples Man.
date Committee.
Reservations for the luncheon
which will start at lis o'clock, may
be obtained from Miss Mabel Vernon
at the Hay-Adams House.