Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Washington gets it's Midsummer
politics and political rumors by round
about routes, and thus there's waited
hither, by way of the Black Hills. the
story that Everett Sanders Is quit
ting the right hand of President
! Coolidge. On August 1. it appears,
Mr.. Sanders is to be given a well
earned vacation, and the gossip is
that when he returns to work 1t will
be elsewhere than to the Whi4e
House at Washington. No inkling of
breach between the President and
his secretary has ever been heard.
Indeed, everything has indicated that
the former Indiana Congressman was
proving himself exactly the kind of
unobtrusive, effective adjutant that
Mr.. Coolidge likes. Sanders left a
lifetime job as the Terre Haute dis
trict's Representative in a spirit of
party devotion. He had served at the
head of the Western Speakers Blu
reau during the 1924 campaign and
won the high regard of Chairman
Butler. President Coolidge, embark
ing upon his own four years, felt
the need of a secretary with 'con-
facts" on Capitol Hill. Sanders equip
ment in that respect has stood his
executive chief in good stead on in
Vulnerable occasions. The yarns sift-
ing eastward from the corn belt al
lege that the young Hoosier states
man has designs upon next years
Republican senatorial nomination in
his home State.
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About the time Col. Lindbergh' 8
1--WE" will be on the market-prospec.
lively, next month-Edward p. War
ner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy
| for Aeronautics, will burst forth with
a new book on airplane design. War
ner, like his assistant secretarial col.
| league of the War Department, F..
| Trubee Dawson, is "a practical flying
man. To his credit are approximately
| 1000 miles flown since he went to the
Navy Department last year. Alto
gether Warner has reeled off some
$4,000 flying miles, many of his air
cruises having been made on the vari-
| Gus European commercial lines. Just
before he was made Assistant Secre-
! tary of the Navy, Warner was pro-
fessor of aeronautical engineering at
| the Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
| nology.
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J. Hampton Moore, one-time men,
Der Of Congress and former mayor of
| Philadelphia, was in Washington this
| week in the interest of what he calls
his now all-absorbing hobby-the At.
| lantic Deeper Waterways Association.
At Baltimore in September the asso.
citation will hold it's annual conven-
ton. and Mr.. Moore induced the War
and Navy departments to give it their
| blessing. He hopes also to persuade
| President Coolidge to deliver an ad-
dress at the convention. Admiral
| Eberle, chief of operations, promises
| that the Navy will send couple of
| battleships and some other craft into
Baltimore harbor for the occasion. A
special caravan of Philadelphians will
| Journey thither by way of the new
Chesapeake and Delaware sea-level
waterway.
c. Bascom Slemp, late of Virginia
and the White House, is en- route to
Germany as a guest of the Berlin gov
eminent on business connected with
| German war claims and property in
| the United States. Mr.. Slemp, now a
practicing lawyer in Washington, has
been representing German official in
| terests before Congress and the Gov
eminent departments, ana expects TO
| hold important consultations in Ber-
lin, Hamburg and Bremen. The Ger
man commissioner on the German.
American Mixed Claims Commission
at Washington. Wilhelm Kiesselbach.
is now in Germany and Mr.. Slemp will
confer with him there. The Govern
ment bill for final disposal of the Ger
man assets still held by the United
States was wrecked in Congress last
Winter, but it Is sure to be brought
up again at the coming session.
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| Notwithstanding what the Anti
Cigarette League thinks about it, Gig
arettes have become a powerful factor
in the affairs of the United States
Treasury. North Carolina leads all
the other States of the Union in con.
tribution of miscellaneous tax pay
ments because she is the principal
center of the American cigarette in
dustry. Her quota of 1886, 443,5 11 for
the fiscal year just ended outstrips
the contributions Of miscellaneous
taxes paid by Pennsylvania. Ohio.
Michigan, Illinois, California and