Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

the Great Lakes by the Chicago
drainage district Wisconsin, along
with other Lake States, is contesttng
the Windy City's right to depress the
levels of our inland seas. Gov. Zim-
norman of Wisconsin was petitioned
to appoint Ekern as the common
wealth's counsel, but, apparently be-
cause Of lingering political bitterness.
this was not done. Ekern thereupon
volunteered to plead Wisconsin's case
at washington as a labor Of love.
the state treasury at Madison is
about to be enriched by $1,000, 900.
thanks to a long fight waged by
Ekern. as attorney general. against
the huge estate of the late John I.
Beggs, Milwaukee traction baron.
The estate sought to evade State in.
come and Inheritance taxes.
II there's anything in names, the
United States Army boasts q couple
of officers destined yet to occupy
inches In the hall of military fame
A. Hero. jr.. Is chief of Coast Artillery,
with the rank of major general. Mai.
James A. Mars is attached to the
Army Air Force in Texas. One OF
the tallest soldiers In Uncle Sans
uniform Is Lieut.. Col. Ernest d. Peek,
now on duty in Washington. He
towers something over feet 4 inches
into space. When he was a cadet at
West Point and obscured the Hudson
landscape at dress parades, he was
known as "Pike's Peek"
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certain railroad company that
lists Washington on its timetable has
been having rather q rough time of
1t, explaining the treatment recently
ACCORDED member of the cabinet. He
was bound to New York on an official
mission and travelling on a. Govern
ment transportation voucher. The
scrap or paper happened to be made
out IN pencil and a bit indistinctly,
besides. The department chief in
question Is so modest and unassum-
ing statesman that the train and
Pullman conductors who examined
the voucher became a little doubtful
as to whether was Secretary
OF - after all. They seemed GER
tam that II he were what he pur-
ported to be. he'd have been equipped
with more convincing looking
voucher. The long and short of it Gas
this observer Is veraciously informed)
was that the executive head found it
necessary to pay a cash fare. II is
understood that somewhat vigorous
representations ensued, and that at
least one member OF the conductors
brotherhood has been transferred to
different field Of activity.
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Senator George w. Norris. Repub-
lican Progressive, Of Nebraska. the
new chairman Of the Senate commit
tee on Judiciary, is to be honored at
public dinner in Washington on
April IL. The hosts will be the Ma.
tional Popular Government League.
of which former Senator Robert l..
owen or Oklahoma is president. 1t
is expected that Norris will utilize the
occasion 10 let down q powerful bar
rage anent Muscle Shoals and Boulder
Canyon. He considers that both prof.
ects are intended grabs" by the
electric combine"
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Radio broadcasting has certainly
come INTO us own when the President
OF the United States Is minded to
order his affairs in ACCORDANCE wifi,
conditions on the air at a. given mo-
ment. Mr.. Coolidge is going to hold
the next semt-annual business meet
ing of the Government on the evening
of either June 10 or June II because
he Is informed, one of those dates will
best fit in with the nation wide hook
up arrangements. The President may
even defer his departure for his
Western vacation on account of
broadcasting the business meeting, if
delay should become necessary.
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