Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

Nobody seems to know just why, but
the story stubbornly persists that Wal
ter F. Brown is scheduled to quit the
Postmaster Generalship in the Hoover
cabinet. Gossip now has reached the
point where the men in line for his
succession are named. First in the run
ming Is said to be Frank H. Hitchcock,
who was Postmaster General in the
Taft administration and chairman of
the Republican National Committee
in the preceding presidential campaign.
Hitchcock, who comes as near being
truly professional politician as America
possesses has not been active at his
favorite game since he did some pre-
convention work for Senator Hiram
Johnson in 1920. In 1915 he was Mr..
Hughes pre-convention manager. Along
with Hitchcock is coupled the name of
former Gov. John H. Bartlett of New
Hampshire as Browns possible successor
at the Post Office Department. Bartlett
was an original Hoover man" He's
now chairman of the International Joint
Commission, which compoSes our diff
ferences with Canada. Postmaster
General Brown is understood to like his
job, to be as strong as ever in the
Presidents graces and otherwise to be
snugly ensconced, yet the rumor of his
impending retirement, like Old Man
From Connecticut comes a group of
determined women bearing down on the
House of Representatives to dissuade it
from passing the Capper- Kelly resale
price bill IS. 240, H. r. III. The OPP
position to the measure, which is ripe
for enactment, has been intrusted to
the Nutmeg ladies, 1t appears, be-
cause two Connecticut House members,
Republican Leader Tilson of New Ha-
ven and Representative Merritt of SIAM
ford, are in strategic position" Tilson
helps steer the steam roller and Mer-
rift Is chairman of the subcommittee
of the Interstate Commerce Committee
which recently reported the bill out
H. r. IL is aSsailed on the ground that
it provides for price fixing by law"
Mrs. Helena Hill Weed of Norwalk.
claiming to speak for Connecticut
housewives" deposes and says these are
not the times for Uncle Sam to pro-
hibit cut-rate and bargain sales. Mrs.
Weed, a dynamic daughter of the late
Representative Ebenezer j. Hill of Con-
necticut, was recently honored by the
Nation as one of the three women who
did most for the country in 1880. "Dis-
tinguished public service" was named as
her merit.
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NJ. Jules Jusserand, longtime French
Ambassador at Washington, enters
demurrer to the suggestion apparently
! contained in the recently published BIZ
ography of Henry White, famous Amer
lean diplomat, that Jusserand was anti
English. The book refers to a letter
from White to Theodore Roosevelt de-
scribing Jusserand as extremely preju-
dicial against England" In rebuttal of
that charge, the veteran French envoy,
who is now living in retirement, writes
from Paris that he was the butt of
much obloQuy, Of newspaper attack,
ETC., in my own country for being so
intensely pro-English." Once upon a
time Jusserand explains that he jok-
ingly said that, unable to live in peace
either in England or in France, I
would have to settle midway in the
Channel Islands,"
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Americas two vigorous women's po-
litical phalanxes, the National League
of Women Voters and the National
Woman's Party have just locked horns
in annual combat over the equal
rights" (Susan B. Anthony amend
ment so holly sponsored by the second
named organization, which Mrs. o. H.
P. Belmont generously angels" The
Women Voters had the floor last week
before the Senate Judiciary Committee
and let down O fierce barrage on the