Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLI4N HILk.

The McNary-Haugen bill is a glut-
ton for punishment. Its defeat in the
Senate Yesterday is the third success
Sive knockout the scheme has suffered
during the past three years. Con
greSs smashed the proposition the
first time in 1923-l924, kicked it 10
pieces again in l924-1925. and has now
trampled upon it in 1926. The meas
ure always bobbed up in different
form. But its bone and sinew re-
manned unchanged. Ever it was the
expression of the farming Vests dis
content with the existing economic
order. Under Senator McNafy's stub
horn leadership farm relief, on corn
belt lines this week came nearer to
realization than on any previous oc-
aston. Only four votes Of Southern
Democratic Senators stood between
victory and defeat. Had they been
cast for the bill, instead of against il
the vote would have been 43 TO ! in
it's favor. The AicNarE-I IaugeniteS
counted on the Dixie quartet to the
bitter end. But when the show down
came they were aligned with the
enemy.
Secretary Hoover, at the head of "a
delegation OF distinguished Washing
ton officials. including the entire per
sonnet of the United States Shipping
Board, W attend tomorrow launch
ing of the steamship Malolo at
Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia The
Malolo is the largest and fastest high
powered passenger vessel ever CON
tructed on this side of the Atlantic
She will displace $1,000 tons and have
a speed OF more than % knots. Built
for the American-iiawaiian Steamship
Company, for service between San
Francisco and Honolulu. the Malolo
will cut the round-trip time between
California and the Hawaiian Islands
a full four days. Although designed
for first-class passenger and cargo
traffic, she is convertible readily into
a troop transport. airplane carrier or
armored cruiser. Gun foundations are
part of the Malolo's structure. 1t will
be practicable to install battery Of
II Six-inch guns and four 3-inch or
4-inch anti-aircraft guns aboard her.
The new queen of the Pacific will
enter service in the Spring of 1927.
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Comdr. Dick" Byrd. l.. =. ~. air.
plane conqueror of the North Pole,
will win the lecture audiences he is
about to address throughout the
country, not by eloquence, but with
forget all about his platform shy
| ness, hating speech and unfa-
miliarity with the arts of the spell
binder when they hear him shower
praise on "those great fellows who,
according to Byrd, really did the
historic trick farthest north. Comdr.
Byrd's moving pictures of his prepa-
rations at Spitzbergen and his actual
enlightenment of the Pole, shown 'for
| the first time before a Washington
audience on June %. are thrilling
beyond all description. Unforgetta-
BILE is the arrival of Amundsen's
Norge at Spitzbergen, just on the
eve of Byrd's hop-off for the Pole.
Equally splendid is Capt. Amund-
sens sportsmanlike, unaffected and
| joyous welcome of Byrd, when the
young American returned with the
laurels Amundsen first hoped to
gather. The Conquest of the North
| Pole" Is incomparably the last word
in motion pictures. No staged movie
| Is conceivable that can rival this
actual epic in human courage.
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| June university commandments
| contained much of interest to Wash
| ington Andrew w. Mellon, Secre-
tary of the Treasury, was thrice doc
! tored'-first at Amherst, Coolidge
| alma mater, then at Yale, and again
at Harvard. Another Washingtonian,
bearing worthy name, Joseph Pat
rick Tumulty, jr., won the coveted
Phi Beta Kappa for scholarship at the
university over which his fathers
celebrated chief. Woodrow Wilson,
| once presided. Dana Yung Kwak