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Show II PEOPLE CALL UP0IMIL50I5 President and His Wife Give Thier First New j Year's Reception. HOT SPRINGS. Va., Jan. 1. President Presi-dent Wilson held his first ofiicial New j Year's reception this evening in the j lobby of the hotel here where he- and : Mrs. Wilson are spending their honeymoon. honey-moon. He shook hands with about 500 persons and later was host at a public tea. The line' of callers, mostly country people from a radius of thirty miles about Hot SpringM, whs received by the president and Mrs. Wilson, and as thev stood before a fireplace near the hotel entrance 'Air. Wilson greeted each cor-, cor-, dially. and smilingly introduced his bride, who. was gowned in blue 'georgette 'crepe with blue lace sleeves and a high i collar." At the tea Mrs. Wilson oflpeiated j at a small table set apart for'-her and j her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson took a long mo-I mo-I tor ride and a three-mile walk today, i after a rainstorm had driven them from tlie golf links. They motored to Warm Springs, Va., and returned by a circuitous-route, alighting at Healing Springs, three miles away, and walkiug tlie. remainder re-mainder of ti.'j distance. They walked leisurely, stopping several times to taJk with children who trooped out to meet them. Information regarding the situation with Austria was forwarded' to the president pres-ident hv Secretary Lansi ng today, hut its n.'.ture was not disclosed. Mr. Wilson Wil-son would not. comment on tlie possible effect of the sinking of the liner PersKi. saying h" could not form . any opinion until he had more enmplcle information. Many messages of New Year's greet inp came to the president, several of them from heads of foreign govern -' ments. None were made public hfre. |