Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-09
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Commerce IN the Department Of Com
merce. Previous to his appointment,
Mr. Feiker used to spend good deal
of time touring the country on behalf
Of a group of big industrial journals.
His main job was to make speeches be-
fore boards of trade, chambers of COM
merce and the like. On his last spell
binding expedition. Mr.. Feiker was ac-
companied by his 15-year-old boy.
When they reached home, the lads
mother asked one day: We'll, Just
youngster replied: Nothing but eat
and talk"
Lloyd B. Wilson, president Of the
Washington Telephone Co., has discov-
cred that the long distance system is
being successfully used by at least one
industry for direct business getting pur-
poses. The manager of a local hotel
reports that at an expense Of $500 for
long-distance calls, he has contrived
within a year to grab $4,000 worth of
patronage. His plan is to keep his ears
open for any suggestion that either an
individual or group from out OF town
is about to hit the Capital trail. Then
he gets busy on the long distance phone,
sings the praises of his establishment,
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business. Recently 81 call landed
party OF Minneapolis folks. who spent
$4,000 at the hotel.
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Joseph P. Tumulty, who lives in
Washington, but votes in New Jersey,
is being boosted by friends in the State
for the Democratic nomination for the
United States Senate in 1882. The seat
then to be filled is the one just vacated
by the death of Dwight Morrow. joe
is canny and cagey politician. II he
tempts fate, it will be safe indica-
ton that the Democrats sniff victory
in Jersey. Tumulty would adorn the
Senate. He would bring to debate in
that stodgy atmosphere touch OF Gull
| ture, wit and sentiment that do not
often illumine its dreary discussions.
Poetry would be sure to fill the Congress
Sional Record, too, for Woodrow VIII
sons most trusted lieutenant can quote
it by the yard and with dramatic
flourish worthy of a Barrymore or q
Hampden. At present Tumulty is busy
making money in Washington, practic-
ing law and administering receivershlpS.
He began public life as legislator-in
the New Jersey Assembly, in which he
served from 1907 to 1910.
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Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, United
States Marines, retired, now superin-
tendent of the Virginia Military Institute.
is going to lead his glay-clad cadet corps
to YORKTOWN on october 10 to partici-
pate in the celebration Of the Corn
wallis surrender anniversary. The v:
M. I. contingent will travel by special
train and be quartered at Yorktown
with Regular Army and Virginia Ma
tional Guard troops. BaScom Slemps
alma mater is all het up over the pros
pect of strutting its stuff before the
President of the United States, Marshal
tarieS who will throng Yorktown 10
days hence.
Mrs. Hoover will christen on Monday
at the Naval Air Station in Anacostia
the American Clipper, the largest
airplane ever constructed in the United
States. 1t will carry so passengers, and
Is the 102d transport plane OF the PAM
American Anyways Systems fleet. The
American Clipper, worthy ethereal
namesake of the dashing craft which
won renown for the Yankee merchant
marine 100 years ago on the high seas.
will soon fly the international trade
routes pioneered by It's nineteenth CEN
fury predecessors on the high seas.
Continuing their tradition" its build
ers and owners proudly predict, "it will
speed trade and promote good will be-
tween nations" Immediately the First
Lady OF the Land has named the new
queen Of the air TIA American Clip
per will shove on fdr7its maiden flight.
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