Evening star., 1947-10-08

The opening gun for the Capitals
welcome to the Chief of the Turkish
General Staff, Gen. Salih Omurtak,
was sounded yesterday. The distin-
guished foreign visitor and his party
of IA fellow officers arrived in Wash
ington yesterday afternoon and are
stopping at the Shoreham Hotel
during their three or four day visit
here. From here they will 60 on
80 day tour of United States military
installations.
The first official party in a cal
endar of brilliant entertainment
planned for Gen. Omurtak took
place last evening. Fleet Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz, General OF the
Army Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, representing
our three branches of National De-
fense, were hosts at stag dinner
in his honor. Today the Turkish
Ambassador, Mr.. Huseyin Ragip
Baydur, entertained at stag lunch
con at the embassy for the visitors
and tomorrow evening the Ambas-
sador will fete his countrymen at
a large reception, one Of the first
of the season.
Among those at the dinner last
evening, which took place IN the
Louis Seize Room of the Shoreham
Hotel, were the Turkish Ambassador,
Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy,
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Admiral
Dewitt c. Ramsey, 1t. Gen. Ray
mond A. Wheeler, 1t. Gen. Charles
p. Hall, 1t. Gen. Leroy Lutes, Vice
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Vice
Admiral William M. Fechteler, Vice
Admiral Robert B. Carney, Vice Ad-
miral John L. McCrea, Vice Admiral
Donald B. Duncan, 1t. Gen. Lauris
Norstad, 1t. Gen. Curtis LeMay and
1t. Gen. I. H. Edwards.
Mr.. 10y Henderson, Director OF
Near East and African Affairs In the
State Department, was present at
this gold braid and star-studded AZ
fair, and so were Maj. Gen. Horace
L. Mcbride, Maj. Gen Everett 8.
Hughes. Rear Admiral Thomas B.
Inglis, Rear Admiral Thomas G. W.
Settle, Maj. Gen. William E. Hall,
Mai. Gen. William H. Arnold. Maj.
Gen. Otto P. Weyland, Maj. Gen.
Edward M. Powers, Maj. Gen.
George C. Mcdonald, Brig. Gen.
Earl S. Hoag, Brig. Gen. Walter F.
Todd. Brig. Gen. William F. Mckee,
Col. Lowell M. Riley, who has been
assigned as aide to Gen Omurtak by
the U. S. Army; Capt. Fritz Glenn
Naval aide to Gen. Omurtak and Mr.
David LeBreton of the Turkish desk
of the State Department.
Members OF Gen. Omurtak's party
and a few of the embassy staff also
attended the dinner. They were
1t. Gen, zeki Dogan, Maj. Gen.
saim Onion, Maj. Gen. Leyzi
IJcaner. Vice Admiral Nacati o.
deniz, Brig. Gen. Rustu Erdelhun'
Mr.. Melih, the First Secretary OF the
Turkish Embassy; Col. Huseyin
Ataman, Col. Midhat Erilmaz, Capt.
Tevfik Samurkas, Capt. Salp Gamer
the Turkish Naval Attache; Col.
Tekin Ariburrun, Air Attache; Col.
seyfi Turagay. Capt. Covat Taluy,
1t. Col. Seyf1 Kurtbeck, 1t. Col.
Genial Aydimalp, 1t. Col. Ref1k
Tulsa, the new Military Attache;
Mai, Taettin PERRIN, Maj. Einen
Dirzana, and Engineer Capt. Mus
tafa Akinci.
Party at Legation
The sister OF the King OF Iran,
Princess Achraf Pahlavi, who came
to the United States on August 26 to
study our public welfare work, par
ticularly the methods OF the Req
Cross, left last night for New York
and thence by plane for London en-
route to her home in Teheran. But
before she left Washington, the
Princess entertained at a reception
at the Iranian Embassy by way OF
returning the hospitalities dispensed
in her honor during her stay here.
Flowers "bloomed" in abundance
throughout the embassy rooms and
massive ho,louets of deep pink roses