Evening star., 1932-05-11
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

into the congressional candidates
hands. He thought it pretty good
STUFF and decided to pry a speech out
of it for himself!
Senator Hattie w. Caraway, Demo-
crat, Of Arkansas, only woman member
Of the United States Senate, chalked up
a new record for the sex on Monday by
being the first woman who ever pre-
sided over the Upper House of Con-
greSs. She was called to the chair by
Vice President Curtis in the midst of
the debate on the Glass banking bill
and held the gavel for about Is minutes.
The honor happened to come to the
gentlewoman from Arkansas on the
same day she announced her candidacy
for a regular term in the Senate, to
follow the unexpired term she is now
serving as the appointed successor of
her late husband Mrs. Caraway re-
quests colleagues to address her simply
as Mrs. Caraway," and not Senator
Caraway. "Thad was the only Senator
in the family" the widow says. Per-
haps she'll change her mind when she
begins to serve in her own right.
Affairs, weekly Washington political
review privately circulated, is authority
for the statement that the White
House and the State Department no
longer see eye to eye on Russian recog-
milton. Secretary StimSon and Assist
ant Secretary of State James G.. Rogers,
who has become one of Col StimSon'S
closest advisers. are said TO favor recog-
milton, while President Hoover remains
unalterably opposed to it. Other State
Department officials are also against a
change of Americas policy of boycOtting
the Soviet These or1lcials maintain
that Russia is deluging the world. par
ticularly Latin America, with revolu-
tiOnary propaganda, and also that eco
nomic conditions in Russia are such
that a breakdown of the entire Soviet
system is expected this Summer.
X X X
New England friends in Washington
are entertaining New Bedford, Mass,
lady, Miss Harriet Ashley, whose father
has an office-holding record that
makes the mouths of Capital poll
ticians water He is the mayor of
New Bedford and has been elected to
that Office 81 imes-successively, eX-
cept for a term during which he vol
unfairly retired Mayor Ashley is 73
or IA years old and has ruled the
famous little whaling city for nearly
half a century. a career that should
make even Gov. Ritchie of Maryland
or Gov. Hunt of Arizona green with
envy.
"OT Doc" Copeland. senior Demo-
cratic Senator from New York. has
lust had an unusual request from his
native State of Michigan. The Ca
Choo Club of Sault Ste. Marie, COM
posed of hay fever victims, has ap-
pealed to him for a congressional in
vestigation of the cause and preven-
tion of sneeZing sickness. Inspired
alike by a sense OF patriotic service
and medical duty, Senator Copeland has
formally presented the Ca-Choo Clubs
petition
Another pillar of the dry church has
toppled - Representative Ruth Bryan
Owen Is out for a prohibition referen-
dun and ready to vote wet in Congress
if Florida SO DEGREES. The peerless
daughter of peerless father SO declared
herself at Jacksonville yesterday in
opening her campaign for denomination.
Mrs. owen proposes that the question
of prohibition retention, modification
or repeal be placed on the Florida bal
lot in November Advocates of a new
| liquor deal are entitled to claim that
no more significant addition to their
cause has come into their camp than
| William Jennings Bryan's gifted heiress.
She is the first woman prohibitionist
Of renown b Join the re-suhmisSion
partA econsstsht asa2m ---.-.--