Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
HOOVER TO NAME
CROSBY DESPITE
MANY OBJECTIONS
White House Announces
President Is Satisfied With
Selection of Officer.
SENATE WILL RECEIVE
NOMINATION IN TIME
Jennings, Noyes, Glover, Fleming,
Thorn and Graham Said to Have
Declined Post.

In spite of widely voiced objections to
the appointment of Mai. Gen. Herbert
B. Crosby, now chief of Cavalry, to
District commisSionerShip-these obiec-
tons involving the stand that such an
appointment is contrary to the spirit, if
not the letter, of the Districts organic
laW-Presldent Hoover was represented
on good authority today as having def
nitely decided to make the appointment.
Opposition that has arisen, it was
stated, Will not deter the President from
carrying out his intention in the matter.
Newspaper men at the White House
were officially informed today that
President Hoover is perfectly satisfied
with his selection of this man of out
standing national distinction, as he
personally referred to Gen. Crosby in
announcing his selection, and has every
reason to know that the latter will
serve in the post for which he has been
picked in highly satisfactory manner.
When the time arrives, President
Hoover will submit Gen. CroSby's
nomination to the Senate.
Protests Not Received.
According to information at the
White House, no communications in the
form of protests against the appoint
ment of Gen. Crosby to the Board Uf
Commissioners have been received.
The President, moreover, is content
regarding Gen. CroSby'S eligibility to
serve, despite questions which have
arisen to the contrary. His attitude in
this respect is that the legal question
was referred by him to Attorney Gen.
eral Mitchell and that the latter advised
cations of civilian members of the
Board of Commissioners did not dis
qualify Gen. Crosby after the latter has
gone on the retired list of the Army,
which will be March 81, next.
It was revealed today that the Presi-
dent asked at least seven prominent
citizens of Washington to accept ap-
pointment as Commissioner, and each
declined. When he first went about
selecting two men to succeed Commits
SionerS Dougherty and Taliaferro, the
President went to great pains in study
ing the list of those who had been
recommended for appointment and to
solicit names of possible availables.
Prominent Citizens Decline.
For the first time since the question
of the appointment of successors to
Commissioners Dougherty and Talia-
House today that those who were asked
to serve in this capacity and had de-
clined were Coleman Jennings, who has
been prominent in financial circles in
Washington for some time; Newbold
Noyes, associate editor of The Evening
Star, who has been prominently identi-
field with civic work here; Charles G.
Glover, jr., prominent in financial cir
cles and civic work and vice chairman
of the Republican State committee for
the District; Robert v. Fleming, presi-
dent of the Riggs National Bank and
active in civic work; Corcoran Thorn,
PRESIDENT American Security & Trust
Co., and Edwin c. Graham, president
of the National Electrical Supply Co.
and former president of the Board of
Trade and the Board of Education.
The name of the seventh local citizen
who declined the appointment was not
revealed at the White House. 1t is
known, however, that Arthur HELEN, an
attorney, was seriously considered, but
it is not known definitely whether he
The impression is that the White House
was advised beforehand that Mr.. HELEN
could not accept,
Did Not Imply Crime Rampant.
Taking cognizance of widespread pub
licity hinged on the Presidents state
ment Wednesday that Gen. Crosby's ap-
pointment as District Commissioner
would constitute a guarantee
that the Capital of the Nation will be
free of organized crime" White House
officials stated on behalf of the Presi-
dent today that there had been no in
tention on his part to imply that crime
was rampant here.
Since the publication of the Presi-
dents announcement Wednesday in con-
nection with Gen. Crosbys forthcoming
appointment, news stories on the front
pages of out-of-town newspapers have
indicated that the appointment was
made because existing conditions in
Washington demanded drastic remedies.
One of the Presidents associates to-
day said that the President regretted
the Interpretation placed upon the use
of the word free from organized
crime" 1t was further pointed out
that the President had no though of
"militarizing" the Police Department
nor to suggest the thought that an
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