Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-09

Statements that Chairman Huston
sticks to his G.. o. p. national COM
mittee job because President Hoover de-
clines to sacrifice q personal friend
clash with counter allegations that
Huston's retention is simply good Re-
publican politics. A committee chief
tain, himself a strong possibility for
the succession, assures this observer
that If Huston remains, it will be be-
cause party interests would suffer
through letting him go. His departure,
AYERS the seasoned veteran in question,
would be tantamount to confession OF
his guilt in the Muscle Shoals-Stock
Exchange mess. Huston denies any and
all wrongdoing. Whatever he did, his
supporters further contend, was done
before he was Republican national
chairman. To Sire" him under all
these circumstances, they argue, would
be to hand the Democrats 1880 CAM
paign material on a silver platter.
Everybody who knows HooverS loyalty
to his one time Assistant Secretary of
Commerce comprehends the Presidents
reluctance to dumping Huston over
board. But they've been learning the
value Of politics rapidly at the White
House lately, and the considerations
hereinbefore narrated are not without
weight there.
It was an old and practiced hand
that led off for the naval treaty in the
Senate yesterday when Senator Claude
A. Swanson, Democrat, of Virginia, took
the floor and held 1t uninterruptedly for
hours. No man in Congress knows
his naval onions more thoroughly than
Swanson. He was Senate naval affairs
chairman during the World War admin
istration of Woodrow Wilson. The
United States vast fleet expansion in
1917 and 1918 took place directly under
Swanson's leadership He .piloted
through to passage the famous 1915
program which, hadn't the Washington
Conference interviewed, would have made
Uncle Sam supreme at sea. There Is
another reason for Swanson having
been thrown into the breach at the
outset of the treaty ratification fight.
On neither side of the Senate aisle is
there a man with greater personal in
fiuence and prestige. Swanson's
crucial moments on the floor are famed
for their effectiveness. party COM
rade calls the Virginian the noblest
pinch-hitter Of them all.
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Mai. Gen. Wendell C. Neville -
Neville of the Marines" - who has
just left the embattled scene he SO long
adorned, was famed among the Leath-
erneckS for his love and consideration
of the enlisted man. Throughout the
service Gen. Neville is still revered for
q characteristic act in France. A
Marine recruit, lately come to the
ranks. saw an officers jacket Tapping
on the clothes line for an airing at a
spot apparently far remote from any
headquarters. It was the best looking
garment the rookie had run across
Soyer there" with its nifty sleeve braids
and gayly colored ribbon insignia across
the breast. The devildog didn't see
ANYBODY about who seemed likely to
claim the coat. so he made of with It,.
Later he faced court-martial for theft
of Gen Neville's property. When
Neville learned that the lad simply
the front, he ordered the Marine re-
leased. Two years later Gen. Neville
was greeted by shell-shocked man at
Walter Reed Hospital in Washington.
He turned out to be the boy Neville
saved from disgrace in France. Next
day q parcel, containing the coat, ar
rived at Walter Reed with the generals
compliments and good wishes for the
Marines recovery.
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Bishop James Cannon, Jr., has been
doing" the legations and embassies IN
Washington this week, getting his pass
ports visaed for a protracted trlp
through the Caribbean area and South
America. The British authorities fxed
him up to tour the West Indies. Brazil
will be visited by the car OF all the
Southern drys for considerable perioo.
| Whether Cannon plans to sell prohibl-
| ton to Latin america or whether he's
crossing the Equator just to forget the
Caraway committee and correlated woes
has not been disclosed. The Methodists
have a foothold in several Latin coun-
| tries and church affairs prospectively
will engage some of the bishops atten-
| ton while down there.
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The Navy League of the United
States, which regrets Il cannot express
agJnrDyal az thu London treaty." u out