Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-03
A Weekley Panorma of Events in the
National Capital
By PETER KEEGAN
Special Correspondent of


Special Correspondent of
NO ACCOUNT OF What is going
on in Washington these days would
be complete without line about the
weather The heat has been terrific
and unrelenting, slowing up the Gov
eminent generally and leaving havoc
on every side. At least four per-
sons have committed suicide because
of the sweltering weather, in addi-
ton to the usual number of drowH
ings and heat exhaustions. But
through it all, President Coolidge has
lived up to the first part of his name.
We saw him one afternoon when the
heat was the worst, and if plati-
tude can be excused, he was as cool
as a cucumber while everyone else in,
the city was ready to collapse.
ASIDE FROM KEEPING an eye
on the Democratic Natioanl Conven-
ton in New York, in the midst at
this writing of naming candidate,
Washington has turned its chief in
terest to baseball, the Nationals have
returned from New York at the top
of the American League. Thousands
greeted the players when they came
back to the home town and hundreds
of officials, including the President,
attended the game to cheer them on.
1t was the first time Washington
had led the League for nearly twenty
years.
AS PUNISHMENT FOR having
punched one of Washington's Famous
surgeons in the. eye during row
at the exclusive Chevy Chase Golf
Club, Senator Joe Robinson, the min
ority leader of the Senate, has been
suspended by the. Board of Directors
and may be expelled for good. Rob-
inson has been ordered to appear
July to make a formal explanation
of his bombardment of the doctor.
THE CABINET, WILL be scatter
ed to the four winds in few days..
with no refence intended to the
great Chinese game. Secretary of
States Hughes is going to London to
attend the convention of the Ameri-
can Bar Association, Secretary Of
Commerce Hoover is going to his
home in Palo Alto, Calf, to spend
the summer, Secretary of the Treas
ury Mellon, with his daughter, will
spend his usual summer vacation in
Europe, Secretary of War Weeks
will retire to his Massachusetts farm,
and others will disappear elsewhere.
The, President intends to stay here
most Of the summer, on the ground
that the White House is about as
comfortable place as he could find
with a radio station handy to
broadcast campaign speeches.
THE IRISH FREE STATE is to
have full-fedged Minister Pleni-
potentiary in Washington. He is DIR.
Timothy A. Smiddy, former pro-
fessor at Cork University, who has
already been in the United States
for several months. In diplomatic
matters, however, which affect the
British Empire in addition to the
Free State, the British Ambassador
will be prepared to step in as usual.
The Smiddy appointment is expect
ed to be followed soon by an ex-
change of Ministers between the
United States and Canada
USE OF POISON gas by mail
robbers in the Chicago district re-
Gently will lead to the furnishing of
gas masks to railway mail clerks, ac-
cording to plans of the Postoffice De-
partment. The clerks already have
revolvers and sawed-off shotguns,
but these are net enough. The War
Department has been asked to pro
VIDE 3,ooV gas masks Tor the mall
force
ATTORNEY GENERAL STONE
has leaped into the trust-busting
class with his antitrust suit against
so Of the nations greatest oil com
panies and refneries. Stone has been
working on this suit night and day
ever since he followed Harry Daugh-
erty into the Attorney Generals of
fee. 1t is really his premier in his
new job as attorney for the United
States. Reports are heard that one
of the results of the suit will be a
reduction of gasoline prices through
out the country, but it may be a year
or more before the issue is finally de-
cided in the Supreme Court.
/ JOEL T. BOONE, Chief Medical
Occer of the Presidential yacht May