Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-09

Uncle Sam has just annexed" 40
acres of Nicaragua. Its peaceful con-
quest was accomplished through deed
of purchase by Representative
Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the foreign affairs COM
mittee Of the House. Mr.. Porter
spent several weeks during the Sum.
mer in Central America in his capac-
ity as chairman of the joint Cabinet
Congressional Commission on Foreign
Buildings. His purpose was to look
into the housing needs of American
diplomatic and consular officers In
Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Costa
Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Mexico.
Except in Salvador and Mexico, the
United States owns no official prop
erty in Central America. Congress
has appropriated funds for the pur-
chase of land and construction OF
buildings. At Managua, capital OF
Nicaragua, Representative Porter
picked out picturesque knoll. select.
ed because of it's altitude and CORE
spending freedom from mosquitoes
and other pests indigenous to the re-
gion. Upon it soon will rise the finest
building in Nicaragua.
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Mrs. Coolidge is bringing back to
Washington q new piece Of slang she
picked up at Rapid City the other day.
The First Lady was guest Of honor
at big tea party given by the club
women of the Black Hills metropolis.
One of the women, apologizing for
being late, explained to Mrs. Coolidge
that her car had been stuck in the
"gumbo" Just outside of town. Il
never heard mud called gumbo be-
FORE" the mistress Of the White
House said. "In the East gumbo is
what we put in soup.p The South
Dakota lady rejoined: "Well, gumbo
is what puts us Western automo.
bilists in the soup when 1t rains"
WAYNE B. Wheeler stories are likely
To be told for many a day. Friends
of the fallen prohibition generalissimo
In Washington recall how Mark Hanna,
once in the late COS, tried to discour.
age Wheeler from thinking America
could ever be put on the water wagon.
young man." the Ohio &. o. +. boss
said, your kind of people are all right
at a prayer meeting, but they're no
"Well. sir, we'll see." A few weeks
later the Hanna candidate for the
Ohio state Senate was defeated
through the efforts Of the Anti.Saloon
League. Harking back to the episode
many years later, Wheeler said:
ssFrom that time on we never had any
trouble with Senator Hanna.
Transfer of the headquarters or
the Sd Army Corps from Baltimore TO
Philadelphia is under CONSIDERATION at
the War Department. No decision mas
been reached, but the removal may be
ordered before many months are past:
The Army Is camping out upon rented
premises in Baltimore, and economy
reasons have suggested Philaoelpnla
Headquarters for the Sd Area, because
the War Department has spare space
in its establishments on the Delaware.
IF the corps offices are pitched IN
Philadelphia, therell go with them
one of the citys famous society beau.
ties, Mrs. Douglas Macarthur, wite Oh
the brilliant young major generai,
who commands the Sd Area. Sne IS
the former Washington hostess ana
belle, MIS-. CrOIIlWetl ID oONS, N>~oA.sO-
of Mrs. e. T. Stotesbury.
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Four prominent Government ON.
Gals Dwight F. Davis. Secretary OF
War: Admiral E. w. Eberle, chief OF
naval operations; j. Butler Wright.
Minister to Hungary, and Nelson A.
Crawford, director Of information at
the Department Of Agriculture--ares
associate authors among othersl of
IAN Outline Of Careers" Edited by
Edward l.. Bernays, we'll known au-
| thority on public relations, the book
| constitutes "a practical guide to
achievement" for young men and
women perturbed over choice Of a
career. Messrs. Davis, Eberle, Wright
and Crawford paint graphic pictures
of the opportunities, respectively, OF
the Army, Navy, foreign service and
farming. John Hays Hammond eulo-
gises engineering, which he has 80