Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-16
HOOVER TO LEAVE
FOR CAMP TODAY
Meets With Cabinet and
Budget Heads, but Makes
No Other Engagements.

With the view to getting as much
work done as possible before 3 O'Clock
this afternoon, when he expects to
leave the White House to spend the
| week end at his retreat in the Vir-
gtnia mountains, President Hoover to-
day made virtually no engagements.
He met with his cabinet, as is his
! custom each Friday morning, and with
Col. James G. Roop, who yesterday as
sumed the duties of the Director Of the
Budget, and r. C. Kloeber, assistant
director. who has been acting head of
the budget since Brig. Gen. Lords re-
| tirement, May 81 last.
Writes Madison Speech.
Toward noon the President took time
from his laborS to Scribble off the
speech he is to make tomorrow at the
fair grounds in Madison Court House
Va; where a celebration is to be staged
in his honor to express the apprecia-
ton OF the citizens of that section of
the Presidents selection Of that part
OF the country for his Summer play
ground and resting place.
The President will take quite q large
company OF friends with him to his
mountain retreat. Mrs. Hoover and
Allan Hoover, the younger of the two
Hoover boys. are still at the camp.
Those who will accompany the Presi-
dent today are Henry p. Fletcher. AM
baSSador to Rome, who has recently re-
turned to the United States preparatory
to his retiring from the foreign service
Commodore Ernest Lee Jahncke. Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy; william P.
MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce, in charge of aeronautics,
and Mrs. McCracken; Capt. Allan
Buchanan, chief naval aid to the Presi-
dent. and Mrs. Buchanan; Represent
alive Franklin Fort of New Jersey,
James Logan of New York, an old
friend OF the President, who was asso-
ciated with him in European relief
work during and following the war, and
Lawrence Richey and George Akerson,
two Of the Presidents secretaries, and
Lieut.. Comdr. Joel T. Boone, White
House physician. Herbert Hoover, Jr.,
and his wife, who have been with the
President and Mrs. Hoover on several
Of the week end outings. are in New
York and will be unable to join the
party this week end.
Party Going to Madison.
The President plans to reach the
camp before dark tonight. He and the
members of his party will leave the
camp tomorrow morning to be in time
for the commencement of the celebra-
ton in Madison, about Is miles away,
at 1880 o'clock. The President has
been advised that the ceremonies will
be over within half an hour, which will
make it possible for him and his party
to be back at the camp in time for the
midday dinner.
During the afternoon tomorrow it is
expected that the President will, as has
been his weekly custom, round up the
ablebodied members of his party and
put them to work helping him build
another dam in one of the streams near
the camp. This work consists princi-
palIy of Juggling huge powders and
stones and other things used in this
form Of crude dam construction. He
does his share Of the Juggling, too. but
he also acts as chief engineer and prin-
cipal architect.
All of the spare moments Of the
guests will not be taken up in this
fashion, however. There will be SUM-
Gent lulls in the dam building to allow
indulgence in other forms Of recrea-
ton and sport There will be horseback
riding. hiking over the trails and along
the creeks and horseshoe pitching.
The President intends to return to
Washington during the forenoon Mon
day.