Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-07-04

pleIG WIIHOuI d llHe tUOuI CllS WC1eh-
er. The heat has been terrific and
unrelenting, slowing up the Govern
ment generally and leaving havoc on
every side. At least four persons
have committed suicide because of the
sweltering weather, in addition to the
usual number of drownings and heat
eXhaustiOns.
Aside from keeping an eye on the
Democratic National Convention in
New York, Washington has turned its
chief interest to baseball, the Nation
ais 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 Wash
ington had led the League for nearly
twenty years.
AS punishment for having punched
one of Washington's famous sur
geon's in the eye during a row at the
exclusive Chevy Chase Golf Club,
Senator Joe Robinson, the minority
leader of the Senate, has been sus-
pended by the board of directors and
may be expelled for good. Robinson
has been ordered to appear July 7
to make a formal explanation of his
bombardment of the doctor.
The cabinet will be scattered to the
four winds in few days, with no
reference intended to the great
Chinese game. Secretary of State
Hughes is going to London to attend
the convention of the American Bar
Association, Secretary of Commerce
Hoover is going to his home in Palo
Alto, Calf, to spend the summer,
Secretary of the Treasury 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 COM
Portable place as he could find-with
a radio station handy to broadcast
campaign speeches.
The Irish Free State is to have a
full-fledged Minister Plenipotentiary
in Washington. He is DR.. Timothy
A. Smiddy, a former professor at
Cork University, who has already
been in the United States for several
months. In diplomatic matters, how
ever, which affect the British Empire
in addition to the Free State, the
British Ambassador will be prepared
to step in as usual. The Smiddy ap-
pointment is expected to be followed
soon by an exchange of Ministers be-
tween the United States and Canada.
Use of poison gas by mail robbers
in the Chicago district recently will
lead to the furnishing of gas masks to
railway mail clerks, according to
plans of the Postoffice Department.
The clerks already have revolvers
and sawed-off shotguns, but these
are not enough. The War Department
has been asked to provide 5000 gas
masks for the mail force.
Attorney General Stone has leaped
into the trust-busting class with his
antitrust suit against so of the ma
tion's greatest oil companies and re-
fineries. Stone has been working on
this suit night and day ever since he
followed Harry Daugherty into the
Attorney Generals office. 1t is really
his premier in his new job as attor
ney for the United States. Reports
are heard that one of the results of
the suit will be a reduction of gaso-
line prices throughout the country,
but it may be year or more before
the issue is finally decided in the Su-
preme court.