Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-09

Another Hoover will soon be running
| for a national Office. It's she this
time, and her name is Mrs. Theodore
Jesse Hoover, wife of the Presidents
brother. The post to which she aSpireS
| is that of a vice president general of
| the Daughters Of the American ReVolu-
| ton, which will shortly open its an
nual Continental Congress in Washing
| ton, Five vice presidents general are
| to be elected. Mrs. Hoover'S name has
been presented by California, of which
she is State regent. Tied" Hoover, her
husband-the Presidents big brother,
who is now White House guest-came
| to Washington ahead OF his d. A. r.
wife to attend the annual meeting OF
| the American Society OF Mechanical
Engineers. Mrs. Hoover has long been
active in the Daughters work, and for
several years has been a regular par
| ticipant in the congresses at Washing
ton. Many of the States have candl-
dates for vice president general IN the
| field. but the CalifornianS are connoent
of making the Presidents sister-ln-iaW
one of the first ladies of the D. A. Il.
land.
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Lest anybody run away with the IDEA
| that the United States Senate deyoteS
itself mainly to talk, let it be known
| that on Monday, April z, it passed,
within q period of two or three hours,
no fewer than 1875 bills. They were by
no means routine or innocuous meas
ures. They ranged in variety from an
| act Extending protection to the Amer
| lean eagle" to legislation providing LOT
the establishment of nautical School
at New Orleans. There were oIne a
| bills of great popular interest. one.
sponsored by Senator Robinson, Repub-
lican, of Indiana, proposes the erection
of a memorial tablet at the Annapolis
Naval Academy in honor of the oflcers
and men who lost their lives In Sub
marine S-4 on December II, 1927.
Senator Connally, Democrat, OF Texas.
secured the passage Of bill stopping
the coinage of $3.50 gold pieces. The
spectacular grist from the congressional
Mil. It grinds slowly, but usually to
important purposes.
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It's Senator Norbeck, Republican, OF
South Dakota, who comes to the rescue
of the Justly celebrated American eagle
and PROPOSES that its scream shall not
be prematurely stilled by letting the
breed become extinct. The Norbeck
bill proposes to make 1t unlawful to
kill or capture any bald eagle, or to dis
turb or destroy any nest or egg OF such
q bird, under penalty of 500 fine or
60 days' Imprisonment. The penalty
would not be incurred for the killing
of an eagle when it is in the act OF
DESTROYING wild or tame lambs or fawnS,
or foxes on fox farms. 1t Is the bald
eagle which is the official emblem OF
the United States, and the bird is so
designated in the Norbeck act.
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Representative Edith Nourse Rogers.
Republican, of Massachusetts,, wants to
nut the United States Army in blue
uniforms and black shoes. At any
rate, she's just addressed a letter to
Patrick j, Hurley, Secretary Of War,
suggesting that Uncle Sans soldiers
revert to the blue cloth outfits the
Army used to wear before the Spanish
American War and abandon the khaki
in which it's been clad ever since then.
Congressional colleagues don't suggest
that the gentlewoman from Massa-
chusetts has any selfish motives in
mind. but the Lowell district, which she
80 EFFECTIVELY represents. Is full Of textile
mills which could turn out blue cloth
and blacks footwear, If the War De-
partment should happen some day to
want to place any orders OF that kind.
Perhaps Sister Rogers will put hea
in the ear of Sister Kahn, potent woIn-
an member of the House military affairs
Committee. with a view to change in
the Army color scheme.
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Comics, of American Speeches, by the
Right Honorable j. Ramsey Macdonald"
recently published in London, have
lust reached washington. The 1877
PACED booklet ~ graced ~ q