Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-09

The Summer tariff session Of Con-
greSS has considerably disrupted the
ranks of the American congressional
group slated to attend the annual meet
ing of the Interparliamentary Union,
which convenes at Geneva on August
%. Originally it was expected that the
American delegation would number at
least 20. This is now reduced to a
doubtful half dozen. Senator Tydings
Of Maryland is the only member of the
Senate who has said he can be surely
counted on to attend the Geneva meet
ing. House members who have sent
qualified acceptanceS comprise Wiggles-
worth OF Massachusetts, Roy Fitzgerald
Of Ohio, Morton Hull and Fred Britten
Of Illinois and Korell of Oregon. All
these Congressman are from the Repub-
lican side. Senator Burton of Ohio,
president of the American group, who
missed the annual meeting of the Inter
parliamentary Union last Summer for
the first time in dozen years, has re-
luctantly decided that he must stay be-
hind this year also. Arthur Deering
Call. Washington representative of the
American Peace Society, is secretary of
the American group and Is already at
Geneva.
A new world record for speed In I'M
IeO IdpG has JUST Deen eSGdD-
lished by the Veterans Bureau when
1t paid death claim on a veterans
adjusted compensation certificate in less
than two hours from the minute when
the claim was first presented In that
brief space the papers passed through
the filing department, were inspected by
the claims division, audited by the ac-
counting division, approved by the legal
division. transmitted to the disbursing
Office, a check drawn and signed and
countersigned and cleared through the
Grams Bureau prideS itself on prompt
ness in such cases, the inevitable and
requisite. procedure ordinarily consumes
several days.
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Representative George Holden Tink-
ham of Boston, who has brought down
on his head the combined wrath of
Bishop Cannon, head of the Methodist
Board Of Temperance South, and DR..
Clarence True Wilson, head of the
Methodist Board of Temperance North,
by reason of his caustic criticisms of
the alleged political activities of these
two churchmen, receives with hearty
good nature the verbal brickbats which
have been heaved at him. But one bit
of publicity in which he has recently
figured has him considerably worried.
A press association feature story which
narrates his big game hunting exploits
in far countries of the globe enormously
locates in Africa the tigers which he
in fact shot in India. Those who
really know anything about tiger hunt
ing" says Mr.. Tinkham, will spot that
mistake at once and thereby may jump
to the conclusion that the whole story
Is a Baron MunchauSen romance. I
am very troubled about it,"
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Receipts Of the Panama Canal for
the fiscal year just closed topped the
$27, 100000 mark for the first time, a
gain of about 100000 over the high
water mark set last year. Canal ex-
penditures run rather less than So
100000. Uncle Sans operating net on
his big ditch Is about $4,000, 900 this
year. The canal might still be running
at q loss had not President Wilson back
IN 1913 persuaded Congress to repeal
the bill providing for free passage to
American ships.
Mr.. Hoover has figured in more
travel stories and stayed closer to the
White House In these early days of
his administration than any President
In recent times. At Inauguration time
Washington was full of talk about a
presidential West Indies trip which was
alleged to be in the making for the
late Spring or early Summer. When
the developments In the extra session
Of Congress clearly precluded that trip,
gossip turned to Hoover vacation
visit to California which was prophesied
for August or. September. That, too,
soon vanished in thin air, to be followed
by hints that the President might take
shorter holiday on the famed North
Shore of Massachusetts. AS matters
now stand, It looks as though Mr..
Hoover would not move far or for long
from 1900 Pennsylvania avenue for an
ether twelve monthss