Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08

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Oostgaard. The Presidents uncle,
Mr.. Frederic A. Delano, chairman
of the National Resources Planning
Board, sat between the Crown
Prince and Crown Princess.
Mrs. Roosevelt entered the gallery
very shortly before the President
took his place at the Speakers desk,
greeting Mrs. Henry A. Wallace,
wife Of the Vice President, who was
IN her place some minutes earlier.
Mrs. Wallace sat at Mrs. Roosevelt's
right and at her left was Mrs. Basil
O'Connor, wife of a trustee of the
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library.
The Presidents wife wore a very
becoming blue wool suit with a
brimmed hat in the same shade
trimmed with matching feathers
and about her Shoulders a three
quarter-length cape of Persian lamb.
Mrs. Wallace had a wool dress of
grayish-green with which she wore
round hat trimmed with a band
OF mink matching her full-length
coat. Mrs. O'Connor was dressed
in black over which she wore a
short honey-color fox fur jacket
and her small round hat, worn at
the back Of her head, had three
small feathers across the front
matching her jacket.
The Crown Princess Martha was
In brown with moderately brim-
med hat. becomingly tilted, and a
brown fox fur jacket. Mrs. Cordell
Hull and Mrs. Henry L. Stimson,
wives Of the Secretaries of State
and War, were among absentees
from the cabinet circle, but others
of that group who were in the
gallery were Mrs. Henry Morgen-
THAI, jr., whose husband, the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, was not
with his colleagues on the floor
of the House; Mrs. Francis Biddle,
Mrs. Frank c. Walker, Mrs. Frank
Knox, Mrs. Harold l.. Ickes, Mrs.
Claude r. Wickard and Mrs. Jesse
H. Jones. The Secretary of Labor,
Miss Frances Perkins, sat with
other members of the cabinet in
the House chamber.
Sonora de Espil, wife of the Ar
gentine Ambassador, was a deeply
interested listener from her place ~
the diplomatic gallery She sat next
to Mrs. Wallace, although the rail
marking the galleries was between,
and after the close of the Presi-
dents message Mrs. Wallace reached
over and assisted her with her long
sable fur coat. Her small, round
hat matched her coat in color and
across the fiat crown and narrow
brim were coque feathers in the
same shade. Her frock also was
brown, as were her gloves and purse.
Beside Sonora de Espil sat Sonora
de Michels, wife of the Chilean Am
bassador, their husbands being rep
resentatives of the only South
American Republics that are not
members of the United Nations.
Sonora de Michels wore long mink
coat with a round brown hat edged
with matching fur.
Lady Halifax. wife of His Britain
mic Majesty's Ambassador, sat in the
gallery while her tall and distin-
guished husband sat with others of
the diplomatic corps just in front
of the Speakers desk This group
of listeners was an interesting study,
headed by the dean of the corps, the
Peruvian Ambassador, Senior Don
Manuel de Freyre Y Santander.
Particularly gratified in this group
were the Soviet Ambassador, Mr..
Maxim Litvinoff, and the Chinese
Ambassador, DR.. Wei Tao-ming, at
the ovations accorded their leaders,
Josef Stain and Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek, when the Presi-
dent mentioned them in his address.
Nine. Wei was in the diplomatic