Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-18
PRESIDENT JOWAL
/. ON VACAT|ON'S EVE
Executive Light-Hearted as
He Prepares to Sail for West
Indies in Morning.

President Hoover will leave Washing
ton late tonight on his vacation trip to
the Caribbean, aboard the battleship
Arizona, to be gone about IL or IL days.
In anticipation of the rest and change
Of air and scenery in store for him, Mr..
Hoover was in a genuinely light-hearted
mood. His enthusiasm was very ap-
parent as he went about the work of
cleaning up his desk and receiving a
few callers. He has had little time for
play or idleness during the two years
he has been at the White House, and
naturally is looking forward to this sea
trip with all of the enthusiasm of boy
going on picnic.
VIII Forget Business.
President Hoover contends that 1t is
his intention to forget all about bust
ness and to do no work on this voyage.
Mrs. Hoover is not to accompany the
President on this expedition, but she
will be at the Union Station tonight
to wave bon voyage to him and his
companions. She will leave Washing
ton tonight to visit her son Herbert, jr.,
who is recuperating from an illness at
ASueVule, N. ~.
Peggy Ann and Herbert, Sd, the older
Of the three Hoover grandchildren, who
have been making their home at the
White House since last Fall, we're taken
to Asheville to visit their parents and
will be brought back to Washington
when their grandmother returns.
New Men Listed.
President Hoover's party will include
Secretary of Interior Wilbur and Sec
rotary of War Hurley, Lawrence Richey,
one Of the presidential secretaries; Col.
Campbell B. Hodges and Capt. Russell
Train, military and naval aides re-
spectively; Capt. Joel T. Boone, White
House physician, and Mark Sullivan
author and newspaper writer, and the
following newspaper correspondents:
j. Fred ESsary, Baltimore Sun; Al
fred Kirchhofer, Buffalo Evening News;
Theodore G. Afford, Kansas City Star;
Richard v. Oulahan, New York Times;
Robert S. Pickens and Edward ]. Duffy,
Associated Press; Raymond Clapper,
United Press; George E. Dunno, Inter
national News Service; William Flythe,
Universal Service; Thomas F. Healy,
Philadelphia Public Ledger; Edward t.
Pollard, Washington Post; william p.
Simms, Scripps- Howard Service; P. j.
McGahan, Philadelphia Inquirer; Rus
sell Gerould, Boston Herald, John Her
rick, Chicago Tribune; Robert S. Allen,
Christian Science Monitor; Theodore
c. Wallen, New York Herald-Tribune,
and j. Russell Young, Washington Star.
In addition there will be six camera
men and several Secret Service OPP
eratives. Jose Espinosa of the Steno-
graphic staff of the White House has
been selected by the President to &C
company him.
Will Arrive at AM.
The President will board the battle
ship Arizona, which has just been re-
conditioned and modernized at the
Norfolk Navy Yard, at Hampton Roads
at point near the Old Point Comfort
dock. The journey to Point Comfort
from here will be made on a special
train to arrive there about O'Clock to-
morrow morning. He will not leave the
train until about o'clock.
It is thought that the battleShip will
be heading for the sea about 8 o'clock
tomorrow morning, and according to
the present itinerary will arrive at
Porto Rico, which will be the first stop,
late next Sunday. Because Of the in
ability of a vessel of the size of the
Arizona to enter the port of San Juan,
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