Evening star., 1939-10-08
Latin American Group
10 Arrive Today on
Good will Tour
Delegation Of Women
To Be Received by
Secretary Hull

4 delegation of prominent Latin
American women Is scheduled to
arrive here today, their first formal
stop on a six-week goodwill tour of
this country, under auspices Of the
Peoples Mandate to End War. The
tour will be formally opened at 10
am. tomorrow. when they will be
received by Secretary of State Hull.
Plans for the tour have been ap-
proved by the Department of State
and Mrs. Corden Hull is honorary
+ chairman of a special Committee OF
Sponsors.
Accompanied by Miss Mabel Ver-
non, director of the Peoples Man
date Committee, the delegates, COM
posed of representatives from Ar
gentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba
Ecuador and Venezuela, are to be
met on their arrival at Union Sta
tlon at $50 pm. by Col. David Nc
Coach, jr., District Engineer Com
:. missioner, who will represent the
Commissioners. Included in the
group to be at the station are Pedro
de Alba, assistant director of the
Pan-American Union; representa-
tives of the Embassies from which
the delegates come and members OF
the Washington Committee of Spon-
SOrS for the visit here
Entertained at Fair.
Members Of the delegation as
sembled in New York last Wednes-
day and were entertained by officials
of the Worlds Fair, the Board of
Governors of the n-American So
ciety and by Mrs Gerard Swope,
vice chairman of the Mandate
Committee. Their official tour will
begin, however, when they are re-
ceived by Secretary Hull After a
stay of several days here, they are
to visit 40 cities throughout the
country.
Tonight the delegates are to be
dinner guests of Miss Mary Wins
low, representative of the United
States on the Inter-American Com
-,nission of Women. Senorita Sus-
ana Perez 1rigoyen, of Argentina,
writer on the staff of La Nacion
of Buenos Aires, will be honor guest
at the Argentina Embassy.
Tomorrow at 1245 pm. the dele
gates will be guests of the WASH
i,ootor, CoY,o itteo of Cy,o,,corc ot q
luncheon in the Carlton Hotel, at
which DR.. Mary E. Woolley, presi-
dent emeritus of Mount Holyoke
College and chairman of the Man
Sdate Committee, and Mrs. Swope,
vice chairman of the latter COM
mittee. also will be guests.
Will Attend Tea Monday.
Tomorrow afternoon the Latin
American visitors will be enter
tanned at tea by the American As
sociation of University Women
Heads of local women's organiza-
tions have been invited to meet
them on that occasion. Tomorrow
evening dinners are to be given
members of the delegation by Mrs
Warren Delano Robbins and by the
Ambassador and Mrs. Alfara OF
Ecuador.
On Tuesday morning the dele
gates will visit Mount Vernon. Also
on that day they will be given a
luncheon by the National Women's
Press Club; an informal reception
will be held in their honor at the
Brazilian Embassy and buffet
supper will be given by Mrs. Daniel
O'Day at the Sulgrave Club.
The delegates will spend Wednes-
day in Baltimore. Thursday they
again will be in Washington for
visits to the universities, Govern
ment departments and the Pan
American Union, and at p. M that
day, will be guests of Mrs. Roose-
welt at tea at the White House. Later
Thursday they are to be received
by Undersecretary of State and
Mrs. Sumner Wells at their home
at OXon Hill Md.
Others in Delegation.
Besides Senorita Irigoven. other
members Of the delegate include
Sonora Lucia de Paula Fonseca
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, daughter of
the Ambassador of Brizal, Dr.. Carlos
Martins, and wife of Senor de Paula
Fonseca Of the Brazilian delega-
ton at the Worlds Fair: Sonora
Angela Acuna de Chacon, San Jose
Costa Rica, lawyer and writer;
Senorita Mercedes Guerra, Havana
Cuba, personal representative for
the mandate chairman for Cuba,
Sonora Borerro de Lujan: Sonora
Rosa Marcos de Ycaza, Guayauuil,
Ecuador, wife of the Consul General,
San Francisco; Senorita Yvonne
Gonzales Rincones. Caracas, Vene-
zuela. representing young women of
her country.
DR.. Woolley, as chairman of the
mandate for the Western Hemis-
pnere, in commenting on the tour,
stressed the Importance of under
standing and sympathy between
nations.
The Washington Sponsors Com
mittee Is composed of the following
persons:
Miss Mary Anderson, chief of
Women's Bureau, Department of
Labor; Judge Fay l.. Bentley, Juve-
nile Court; Miss Katharine c.
Blackburn, assistant director, Gov
eminent Reports Office; Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair. Mrs. Ellis o. Briggs,
DR.. Esther Brunauer, associate in