Evening star., 1932-05-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

1t isn't only the Roosevelt band
wagon that's having chocks put under
| it these days. Another vehicle, hitherto
having even rougher going-namely,
| the prohibition waterwagon. What
Ohio, mother of the Anti-Saloon
League of America, has just done is
the most unkindest cut of all. How
! long the die-hard drys are going to
close their eyes to the handwriting on
the wall is now the question around
which the liveliest political comment
of the moment at Washington is rag
ing. Except for blind fanatics among
the Sahara brothers and sisters,
opinion Is becoming fairly universal
| that a wet resubn ission plank Will De
written into the Republican platform
at Chicago. There has, OF course, Tor
long time been no doubt as TO the
moisture of the platform on which the
Democrats will take their stand in
| 1882. Optimists among Republican re-
submissionists believe that the pressure
eventually will be found too strong
even for President Hoover to resist,
though the consensus at this writing Is
that he will content himself with not
! opposing a damp plank, thus keeping
/ in line for the G. O. p. In November the
extreme drys, who still regard the Chief
Engineer as "our man." The adhesion
of William Allen White Of Kansas and
Ruth Bryan owen Of Florida to the
referendum cause is considered one OF
the greatest boosts it's received, apart
from such Statewide results as the
Ohio primaries.
| y y y
| His friends in the Washington Of
fetal and diplomatic set rejoice to be
assured that there is at least no i'm
minent prospect of KatSuji Debuchis
transfer from the Japanese ambassa-
! 6orship to the foreign ministership In
Toxic. Mr.. Debuchi, who next October
, will complete four years in his present
post. is without any information sug-
costing his promotion to Nippon
foreign Office. When asked about II
the diminutive diplomat smiles char
acteristically from ear to ear and says
II hope to remain in washington for
wears" Mr.. Debuchi last Fall and
Winter had about as hard row to
hoe as any Ambassador was ever as
signed. He would 60 to the State De-
partment day after day while, thing.
were happening in Manchuria and
Shanghai and carry out instructions
from Toxic. which would be belied by
events sometimes within "a hours. II
Debuchi one day does take the helm
of international relations in Japan
he would, it is confidently believed
be liberalidng influence, akin te
that typified by Baron Shidehara. Tor
mer Ambassador at washington anc
foreign minister at Toxic.
Believe It or not, this happened IN
Washington within the past few days
An old lady living in the northwest sec
ton discovered that her cat had become
a mother of seven kittens. The deal
soul, not knowing what to do with the
new arrivals, decided to choloroforn
them. Her next problem was what tc
do with the late felines. She thought
she'd bury them in her back yard. Hei
Negro servant said there was law
against burying dead animals in the
District of Columbia. So the now some
what distracted old girl conceived the
idea of interring the cats somewhere
over the District line. She rang for
taxi meantime carefully tying each OF
the departed kitties neatly in tissue
paper, and ordered the driver Of the
cab to pick her up in the alley at the
rear of her house. She had placed the
cats in one Of her old-fashioned capaci-
Gus purse-bags. No sooner did she ap-
pear in the alley than three men, with
drawn revolvers, appeared out Of no
where, grabbed the bag and made on
with It'll
United States Consul John H. Bruins
OF Hamburg reports that an American
citizen, Mr.. Plennie Laurence Wineo OF
Abilsca Tex, recently called at the