Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-02

What amounts to the first test of
the virtue or vice of the late Progressive
Democratic tariff coalition in the Senate
Will take place in South Dakota on May
6. The incumbent Republican Progress
sive Senator, William H. McMaster, is
contesting a primary fight for renomi-
nation against George Danforth, Sioux
Falls lawyer. To help McNIaster win,
Senator Young Bob" La Toilette, BROTH
er Progressive, of Wisconsin, has gone to
South Dakota and will deliver a series of
WhlrlWlnd speeches on his behalf. Nc
Master is asking denomination mainly
on the Senate coalitions successful
struggle for Hawley-Smoot rates favor
able to agriculture. It was the South
Dakota Senator's tariff resolution of
January, 1928, which marked the be-
ginning of the "jackass" movement to
get higher farm duties and to reduce ex-
ceSsive industrial rates. McMaster is
expected to worst his primary foe easily
next week. But his real troubles will set
in later in the year. when he will face
Gov. Bill J. Bulow, prospective Demo-
cratic candidate for the Senate at the
election. The governor is a popular fig-
ure, vigorous campaigner and proved
vote -getter.
Skipper" Charles Francis Adams, the
Secretary Of the Navy, took a hand in
plotting S. 8. Leviathan as the big ship
bringing home the London conference
delegates approached Nantucket Light
Capt. Cunningham, commander of the
Levlathan, remembered that Mr.. Adams
mad once Steered an American Cup de-
fender in the Anglo-American yacht
race, and asked the ruler of the Navy
If Adams wouldn't like to take a turn
at the wheel. The Secretary tackled the
job like the ancient mariner he is. For
the ensuing rs minutes, until the Le-
vlathans escort, three destroyers, the
b8ttlsship Texas and a Navy dirigible,
hove into view, the Massachusetts,
yachtsman held the helm. She's bit
lively" Adams remarked, as he returned
the command to the liners quarter
master.
1t would be difficult to conceive of a
more interesting three cornered inter-
national Set-up than the journey upon
which M. Paul Claudel, cultured French
Ambassador to the United States, has
just embarked. He's on his way to Ger
many to attend the premiere of the
lyric opera Christie
pher Columbus" of which he wrote the
libretto. The first performance is sched-
uleo to take place in Berlin on May 10.
The music is the composition of an
other French diplomat NJ Darius Mil
baud, who a few years ago was attached
to the French embassy in Rio de Janeiro
while M. Claudel was charge daffaires.
Poetical and philosophical works. espe-
cially on Oriental themes, are the Am
bassador's hobbies along with diplomacy.
His book of the words for christopher
Columbus" it is learned does not con-
tain Patrick Francis Murphy's immor-
tai wisecrack that America was discov-
cred several times before Columbus
time, but 1T was always huShed up"
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No happier homecomers have reached
these shores in many a day than the
bevy of State and Navy Department
secretaries and stenographers who went
to London for the naval conference.
Since their arrival in Washington this
week they've been busy clearing up the
Misrepresentation of departmental CO.
workers that the girls soiourn in Eng
land was one continuous joy-ride
They'd not been on the conference job
very long before they found themselves
working immensely longer hours than
anything they ever knew in Washing
ton. IL or ID hour shift was the rule
rather than the exception. Miss Hurley
Stella Fisk, who became a familiar f1g-
ure on horseback In Rotten Row, de-
poses and says she was so busy tnat
she didn't even get to meet an English
man or see the Tower of London. Miss
Fisk was the courteous nymph of the
typewriter with whom the American
newspaper men at the late unpleasant
ness had most to do. She was on duty
at press headquarters. AS a token OF
appreciation of her smiling helpfulness
the. sCribes thrust upon her before she
left London gold cigarette case and
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President Hoover will send welcome
to the twenty-sixth annual convention
OF the Advertising Federation of America
in Washington during the week begin
ming May ID. He will receive its mem