Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-16

The Federal Radio Commission is
likely to get further lease OF lie.
AS the law now stands the commission
is due to relinquish its primary control
of the air and to expire as an admin
istrative body on December 81. But
Representative Wallace White OF
Maine, co-author of the radio law and
House spokesman on air matters, has
announced that he will sponsor a re-
solve to extend the commission for
another IL months at least, pending
the creation of some form Of perma-
nent communications commission TO
which radio control may be relegated.
He foreSeeS little substantial opposition
to such a resolution. He estimates that
all concerned will favor preserving the
status quo of radio administration until
Congress finally evolves communlca-
tionS commission. 1t seems to be widely
assumed that it is going to require sew
eral years to accomplish that. Mr..
White does not yet indorse the Couzens
bills on this subject, but SubscrlbeS In
principle to the Couzens objective.
Whites resolution continuing the pres
emit Radio Commission probably will pro-
vide for elimination of the requirement
that commission memberships must be
geographically distributed.
X x X X
The congressional vets, who are said
to intend to open fire on the Presidents
request for $5,OO0,O00 for additional
Federal prison facilities and to contend
that this expense be charged to the cost
of prohibition enforcement, better study
the figures which classify as to offenSe,
the present population of the Federal
penitentiaries, before they proceed Tar
with this argument. According to the
latest available report of the 3,081 in
mates at Atlanta, 444 were listed as
serving a sentence imposed under the
prohibition act 405 were there for auto
mobile theft, convicted under the Dyer
act, and 1,010 were there as narcotic"
offenders, under the Harrison act. From
this it would appear that the narcotics
comprised 80 per cent of the whole and
that prohibition offenders were only
about Is per cent. The figures at
SAC; automobile theft, Sal; narcotics,
1,079, out of a total of 1905.
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Reports come to the Capital from
Illinois that Ruth Hanna Mccormick
and Senator Deneen and their reSpec-
tive adherents are hard at work, day
and night, up and down the State, hight
ing with hammer and tongs for a Sena-
torial nomination which is still eight
months off. It would be a rash
prophet who would pick the winner at
this stage of the battle. All that can
be said now is that it is real battle,
with no quarter asked or given, and that
the lady in the case asks nothing on
account of her gentle sex and is show
ing that she knows how to play mans
game.
X X X X
The White House fleet of automobiles
has reached a point where observers
have lost count of the total. Mr..
Hoover plays no favorites and Pierce
Arrows, Cadillacs, LincolnS and Pack
ards, open and closed, are all plentifully
represented; some with official num-
Der plates and the glittering seal OF the
United States, and several without in
sigma and with non-identifying num-
Der plates. The Vice President and his
official hostess must still content them
selves with a single official car, but it
is a very elegant black Cadillac linn
CUISINE bearing number plate one-one-
one. The United States seal Is en-
blaZoned on the doors, but distinguished
from the Hoover cars by tiny v. p.
lettered beneath the seal.
X X X X
When Mr.. Coolidge returned to
Northampton he left behind his fellow
tOwnSman Edward I. clark, who had
served him so faithfully at the White
House as confidential secretary. The
latter takes with philosophic calm his
retirement from the linelight. He is
happily situated with a fine office in
one of Washington's newest and
most ''ritZy'' Office buildings, serving as
washington representative Of Louis K.
Liggett OF Massachusetts, the Million
aire drug king. Mr.. Clark is now vice
president of the private corporation
which handles the far-fiung Liggett
properties and investments. He is the
same hard working, efficient and unas-
Stunning Tied" who started his Wash