Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-17


week In the senatorial probe Of the big
Navy lobby In general and william B.
Shearer in particular, undertaken at the
behest Of Mr.. Hoover, Nor Is any seton
by the Department of Justice, which
was Threatened at the outset. now con-
tsnaplsted. The President is represented
as satisfied that his purpose to expose
and put On. end to propaganda emhar--
RAISING 70 his peace and disarmament
aims has been fully accomplished Lob
byist Shearer has been pilloEied and
those persons who contacted with him
and accepted him at his face value have
been made 10 lock foolish. Hereafter
any one who shouts for the building of
more ships of war will be under the dis
advantage Of being suspected of being
either knave or fool. Senator Short
ridge, who presided over the Shearer
hearings. may take some little time to
prepare his report, but when 1t Is nm
ishsd the victim viii be sheaTed In
handsome fashion.
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The late Judge Edwin b. Parker. as
war claims arbiter, received the evidence
end heard the arguments respecting
claims of German nationals against this
Government for ships, patents and
radio station, for which Congress has,
prespectively allowed Sl00.p00,000 In
settlement, but died before he made all
OF the awards to the various claimants.
Judge James w. Renaick of Concord,
n, H., appointed to succeed him, ar
rived In Washington this week and took
over the uneompietsd task. Many eases
will have to be resubmitted TO the new
afhitsF. Judge Remtck was once U. Q:
later q Justice of the New Hampshire
Supreme Court, but had returned 70
the private practice of law prior to his
latest honor. He is Q past president OF
the New Hampshire Bar Association
and member Of the bar for 70 years.
It now appears that Secretary of La
Dor James j. Davis who shares honorS
with Secretary Mellon for having sat
in the cabinets of three consecutive
Presidents. is not TO leave the Hoover
Official family on March I after ell.
Mr.. Davis was originally slated to retire
Then 1t was decided that he should re-
main, but for q single year only. Sec
rotary Davis, from the present outlook,
Is net going 10 be drafted for the Penn
syivania govefnoyship, and the Presi-
dent. according TO the latest White
House report, having concluded that II
would be unwiss TO change horses In
HaidstgeaM, has invited Mr.. Davis to
continue indefinitely at his present
y
The President and Mrs. Hoover eined
ct tbs home Of Secretary Mellon one
evening this week. The President was
the guest of honor: Mr.. Mellon was the
host. It was one of the annual series
of cabinet dinners. The headline
writer captioned the New York Times
report Of this social event Mellon Hon
ors President Hoover" Presidents have
been won't to think that when they
ained out they were comforting the
stance brought many smile in Wash
ingten.
The managers OF the tercentenary
celebration OF the founding of the Mas
saehusetts Bay Colony, which viii be
held this year, are pressing for the is
guance of special commemorative
postage stamp and special commem-
orative coin. Both pleas have encoun-
tered opposition in high quarters.
Postmaster General Brown has taken
pending before him 70 requests for
commemorative stamps, some of which
border on the ludicrous. The Chicago
Worlds Fair Of 1898 brought the first
issue OF special stamps. and since then,
all told, there have been but 26 COM
memorative issues and 3 memorial
stamps. OF this total have been is
sued within the past two years. Secre-
tsFy Mellon states that the Treasury
Is strongly opposed to the further is
Silance of any special coins, as impos-
ing on the minis an unnecessary and
wasteful practice. He says also that
past experience has indicated that the
public does not show any particular en-
thusiasm for 50-cent coins when they
are offered at 81 each,
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Senator Jim" Watson in due time
may give up the Republican leadership
in the Senate, but certainly not while