Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-22
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Hoover sat near one Of his
blood relations from the other side OF
the Atlantic at the Red Cross jubilee
dinner in Washington last night. It
was ancestral Cousin Max Huber Of
Switzerland, president of the Inter-
national Committee Of the Red Cross
Once upon time, in the dim and
| distant European past, the Hoover
| family name was Huber, which Is pro-
| nounced "Hoober" over there. The
tribe was Of German-Swiss origin. Its
earliest arrivals in America settled In
the Carolinas. There must have been
| President and the distinguished Red
Cross guest besides their mutual in
terest In the works Of mercy. Herr
Huber was for several years a member
OF the World Court at The Hague.
| Chief Justice Hughes, who So grace
fully toastmastered at the feast, recalled
In accents Of pride his brief association
with Judge Huber on the Permanent
Court" Hughes, whose mastery OF
| English knows few peers, sprang a new
definition OF the Red Cross. He called
it "the organized compassion of the
American people"
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Down at Charlottesville and else
Richmond, there's an intensive search
! in progress for a successor to the late
president Of the University Of Virginia,
| DR. Edwin A. Alderman. The name OF
John w. Davis is being considered
/ more in a spirit of hope than expecta-
| ton. Whether the distinction of head
ing the institution founded by Thomas
Jefferson would appeal TO the 1924
Democratic standard-bearer, as against
| the S250,000 annual law practice Davis
Is now said to possess, is a question
! The New Yorker, nee West Virginian
was educated in Virginia, but not at
/ the State university. He took both his
A, B. and law degree at Washington
| and Lee. Davis may prefer waiting to
be Secretary of State in the next Demo-
cratic administration. If and when.
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Ernest Lee Jahncke Of Louisiana, Act
! ing Secretary of the Navy, is sure
enough a proud daddy. His vivacious
! blue-eyed daughter Adele Townsend
who made her curtSey at Buckingham
Palace the other night. had only re-
! turned to her hotel in Pail Mall few
/ America calling" chirped the London
operator, which turned out to mean
that Papa Jahncke was on the United
States end Of the line, wanting to know
how everything came of with King
/ George and Queen Mary. 1t was
am, English time, and pm, Wash
| ington time, so Commodore Jahncke
rang up a new record-conducting a
conversation at the idential moment
on two different days. Adele Jahncke
won unique honors at the recent Mardi
Gras in New Orleans. having been
chosen both Queen Of Atlanteans and
| Queen Of Comus, coveted carnival titles
She is 1922 Washington deb"
Bob" Lucas and Charley" Nicholson
respective hotSpurs of the Republican and
! Democratic National Committees, heaved
merrily at each other in Washington
the other night at the annual dinner
of the Inquirendo. The Inquirendo Is
the up-and-coming organization of the
Capitals younger intelligentsia, many
! from official life, founded two years age
to stimulate interest in important
events fthe day" Joseph Conrad
Fehr, Utah lawyer, was Its progenitor
Fred Mclaughlin, Inquirendo's Charles
Lamb" having described the @. Q. P
as an elephant now heavily plastereo
| with the boils of depression and the
rash of anxiety and who no longer
knows his trunk from his valise," Exec
utive Director Lucas gave another dag
nosis Of the Republican pachyderm's
troubles. Hes only suffering from the
ricketts," said Lucas, brought on by
an overdose of Charley Michelson's con-
coction of sawdust and molasses." The
Democratic publicity wizard. jabbing al
] Republican taunts about his "Hessian-
ism" l. e., his being a hireling OF
| Raskob, lamented that the only differ
ence between him and Lucas is that
Bob" gets bigger salary.
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Memorial days approach lends In
terest to figures recently compiled by
the veterans administration regarding
survivors Of the Civil War. There are