Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-17

When homecoming Ambassador ar.
rives with 81 crates of household fur
niture addressed to his regular habitat
on American soil, there's reason to
believe he's returned for keeps. At
any rate, James Rockwell Sheffield,
United States Ambassador to Mexico,
has just turned up thus laden, and
the deduction in Washington is that
his days as our envoy beyond the Rio
Grande are numbered. Mr.. Sheffield is
spending part of the week end at the
Capital, reporting to Secretary Kel-
logg. Officially, the Ambassador is home
on a 60-day furlough. He may go
back to Mexico City formally to pre-
cent his letters of recall-or whatever
1t is that a retiring foreign diplomat
submits on such occasions-but in
siders expect that a successor will
shortly carry on at Mexico City. where
Sheffield left off. The Ambassador is
an ardent Yale man. He will be at
New Haven most Of next week, at
tending the fortieth reunion Of his
class esd, of which he was the orator.
the New York State Republican ma
chic. Sometimes he's mentioned as
gubernatorial timber.
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Gen. Lincoln c. Andrews retirement
as Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury does not become nominally effec-
tive until August i, but June 16 mark
ed the actual termination of his work
in the Treasury Department. With
Mrs. Andrews, the general is hieing
himself to a cottage in the Vermont
hills for the Summer, where he plans
completely to forget the trials and
tribulations Of prohibition enforce
ment. OF his future, Andrews, as yet,
has no definite idea. Business life is
almost certain to reclaim him sooner
or later. He retired from active Army
service in 1919, of his own volition,
to become chief executive Of the New
York Transit Commission.
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BY coincidence, the man who was
at chronic loggerheads with Gen. An
drews--Wayne 3. Wheeler, field
marshal of the Anti-Saloon League
quits the Washington scene at almost
the same hour. Wheeler has by no
means laid down the dry sceptre, but
his friends know that he is a victim
Of excessively hard work in the pro-
hibition cause and that a protracted
season of rest and respite is incumbent
upon him. To that end Wheeler has
arranged to lead a rustic life near a
vine and fig tree Of his own on the
Michigan shore of Lake Michigan.
The dry "czar" Is credited with losing
the last big battle he fought at Wash
ington-his ill-starred attempt to have
Maj. Roy A. Haynes made the perma-
nent head of the new Bureau of Pro
hibition Enforcement Some OF Wheel
er's admirers and adherents think he
! made a grave tactical blunder In pro-
ducing a situation whereby President
| Coolidge had to disavow either An.
drew w. Mellon or the Anti-Saloon
| League.
Senator Arthur Capper's big farm
weekly is out with the news that
Nebraska Democrats are preparing
to launch former Senator Gilbert M.
Hitchcock as the States favorite son
| in 1928, when his party may be look
ing for a compromise" presidential
candidate. Mr.. Hitchcock, who, at 6S.
recently became a bridegroom for the
second time, has been devoting him
self actively to the publication of his
| thriving newspaper, the Omaha
| World Herald, ever since his defeat
| for reelection to the Senate in 1922.
} The editor statesman is one of the few
prominent Western Democrats who