Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-11

There is no sign of an armistice day
between the Hoover administration ana
the Senate, or, more accurately speak
ing, between the White House and the
Republican insurgents. The war, In
other words, is going on. The Western
Progressive group has tasted so mucn
blood in its various bites at the tarin
bill that it is licking its chops and
thirsting for more. Sideline observers
are amazed that neither the President
nor the Republican regular organization
seems to be agitated about the situa-
ton in the slightest degree. They are
apparently resigned to taking their dis
comfiture lying down. National Chair
man Huston can be observed ambling
in and out of the White House offices
and Capitol corridors as II all were rosy
In the best of Republican worlds. Com
posture is apparently the only hghtlng
resort. Perhaps it thinks, in light of
Bingham, Grundy and Virginia. that
discretion Is the better part OF valor.
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NJ. Andre Tardieu, the new premier
of France, is we'll remembered in Wash
ington from his service as French high
commissioner to the United States.
He was here from April, 1917, until
November, 1913 All French wartime
agencies in this country were under M.
Tardieu'S direction. At one time he
commanded a working force of several
hundred men and women. The diplo-
mat journaliSt-StateSman now intruSted
with Frances political destinies enjoyed
wide popularity in Washington. He
speaks English fluently, was q great
mixer" and made countless friends
on all hands. Tardieu'S official duties
brought him mostly in contact with
AF 1an
with Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of
the War Industries Board. oscar T.
Crosby, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury in charge of fiscal bureaus,
also had much TO do with him. AS
the longtime director of lie Temps
foreign department, the French high
commissioner liked especially to talk
shop with Washington newspaper men.
Tardieu is bachelor.
He quit the high commiSSionerShip
at Washington to accept appointment
on the French peace conference dele
CATION. Tardieu eventually was desig-
mated to write the text of the treaty
Of Versailles. In 1921 he published a
book called "The Truth About the
Treaty"
At the New York dock, where an
incoming European liner tied up the
Quiet Qdys IllGTe WAS ITHRl-COIllC
echo of the Shenandoah airship disaS-
ter of September, 1925. Among the
arriving passengers were Capt. George
Washington Steele, u. S. N, American
naval attache at Paris, and Mrs. Steele.
Capt. Steele was commander of the
Lakehurst dirigible station. whence the
Shenandoah set forth on its fatal
voyage. AS the result of the ensuing
naval court Of inquiry, at which Capt.
NJ rnRn 3nA ne fYH6
advocate, Foley sued a New York
newspaper organization for $4,000
libel damages. Mrs. Steele was an
intimate friend of Mrs. LanSdowne
(now Mrs. John Caswell, jr.), beau
teouS widow of the gallant skipper who
crashed to his doom with the Shenan-
doah. The formers testimony is ap-
parently desired by the defense in the
libel action. At any rate, q subpoena
stepped of the gangplank last week.
and lively time is understood to have
been precipitated for all concerned.
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Circumstantial reports are current
that President Hoover is considering the
deSirability of placing an embargo on
giving any more Government contracts
to the three Shipbuilding companies In
yolved in the Shearer naval propaganda
affair. No cancellation of existing con-
tracts is in prospect. The boycott is
intended to apply only to future BUSH
ness. The Newport News Shipbuilding
a. Dry Dock Co. is building one of the
| 10 OOO-ton cruisers now under way and
the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corpora
ton is completing another. As Uncle
Sam is sure to carry out the bulk of the
| 15-cruiser program authorized by Con-
gress, the reported Hoover ban on Mr..
Shearer's former employers would hit
them hard. In tha ordinary course Of