Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-05

Spanish American and World Wars. HI
served as second lieutenant of the 18th
Minnesota Volunteer Infantry in 1895
and 1899. and was captain and adjutant
OF the 4th Regiment of the Minnesota
National Guard from 1899 to 1901.
Named a Colonel.
In 1918 he was appointed colonel OF
the 9th Regiment Infantry, Minnesots
National Guard. Later he entered the
Field Artillery Officers Training School
at Camp Taylor KY.
He is member of the Spanish War
Veterans. the American Legion, the
American Bar Association and the CEN
trail committee of the American Red
Cross. He Is a member of number OF
prominent clubs. including the local
Metropolitan and Burning Tree Clubs.
Mr.. Mitchell is listed in Who's Who"
as a Democrat. but he Is known to have
voted for Hughes. Coolidge and Hoover
He married Gertrude Bancroft of St
Paul. Mimi, In 1901. They have q
son, William Bancroft Mitchell.
WALTER r. BROWN
Walter Folger Brown has become
known as the man with "a greater
knowledge OF the Federal machinery and
its functions than any other man in the
United States
President Hoover accorded him this
distinction at the time Of his appoint
ment as Assistant Secretary of Com
merce. He based his tribute on per-
sonal knowledge OF Mr.. Browns achieve
ments as chairman og the joint con-
gressionai committee ON reorganization
ot the Government departments.
AS head of this important committee
the Ohio lawyer completed an inten-
sive and far-reaching study OF the adj
ministrative branches of the Govern
ments as chairman of the Joint con-
problems greatly interested the then
Secretary of Commerce, himself cam
paigner for elimination of waste In
government
MIR. Brown has been active In Re-
publican politics i'll Ohio for many years.
He was chairman of the Republican
State central committee from 1906 to
1912, and was chairman of the Pro-
greSsive State central and executive
committees for Ohio in 1912 and 1918.
He also was member of the Progress
sive national executive committee.
He was appointed chairman of the
congressional joint committee on re-
organization IN 1921, serving as per-
Sonal representative Of the President on
that committee. He was named AS
sistant Secretary of Commerce Novem-
Der 2, 1927.
Born i'm MassilIOn.
The new Postmaster General was
born In MaSsillon. Ohio, May 81, 1869,
| the son of James Marshall and Lavinia
Il. Brown.
He graduated from Harvard Uni
Versity in 1892 with an A. B. degree
and from the Harvard Law School in
| 1894. He practiced law with his father
in Toledo from 1894 to 1908, when he
became a member of the law firm of
Brown. Hahn q Sanger.
He was president of the Toledo HUI
name Society and is a trustee of the
| Lucas County Children's Home.
, He is member of the following
clubs: Toledo, Commerce, Country,
Toledo Yacht. New York Harvard and
Columbus Athletic.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
President Hoover selected seagoing
man to head the Navy Department dur
ing the next four years.
Charles Francis Adams has gained
world renoWn as an amateur skipper of
racing yachts He was captain of the
Resolute, which won the international
yacht races in 1920. and commanded
/ the schooner Atlantic, which came in
second in the King of Spain transat-
lantic races last July.
Always a lover of the sea and an eX-
pert on matters maritime. Mr.. Adams
should find his new duties entirely
| agreeable. He is said to be particularly
| interested in building up America S
merchant marine.
| He is a great-great grandson of
President John Adams. He was born
August 2. 1866. at Quincy. Mass. the
son Of John Quincy and Fanny A.
| Adams.
Graduate of Harvard.
Mr.. Adams graduated from Harvard
University in 1888, cum laude," and
received a degree in law from the same
university In 1892. He had been treas
urer of Harvard since 1893.
Gaining admission to the Suffolk bar
In 1893. he began the practice of law
with Judge Everett C. Bumpus. Shortly
thereafter he was made q member Of