Evening star., 1933-08-18

Isn't this something? DR.. Julius
Klein, famed Assistant Secretary of
Commerce under Herbert Hoover, has
just gone into business at Washington
with Roosevelt Secretary of Commerce
Dan Roper's principal law partner. The
new firm is to be known as Julius Klein
and Associates. The chief associate"
| is Clarence B. Hurrey. who has prac
ticed law with Secretary Roper for II
years. The new concern has been
formed to represent trade associations
and other business groups before Gov
eminent departments, primarily. just
now. in connection with the filing of
N. r. A. codes. The firm will also en-
gage in commercial research and special
Investigations in the interest of trade
associations. As Republican-Demo-
cratic combination, with rare back
ground and contacts" Julius Klein and
Associates should be able, in a man
ner of speaking. to catch 'em coming
and going at Washington. They have
already swung into action in down
town Office building not far from the
White House.
When Marques Sterling. newly ap-
pointed Cuban Ambassador to the
United States. takes up his duties In
Washington he'll find right-hand man
at the embassy who's been on the job
there for the better part Of the last 2O
years-Senor Don Jose T. Baron-pro-
nounced Barone-counselor and on nu-
merous occasions in the past acting
Ambassador. Senor Baron has seen
half a dozen Cuban Ambassadors come
and go at Washington. One OF MS
chiefs here was DR.. Cespedes, the new
President of Cuba. He is also an ola
friend of the new envoy.
From Western oil men now coding
their way through Washington comes
warn which would seem to prove
there really is honor among thieves
1t concerns the kidnapping OF Charles
F. Urschel. Oklahoma City oil man re-
Gently ransomed for 100000 While
| they had him in captivity in parts
unknown the kidnapers now and then
sought to inform themselves about the
| oil game and evinced particular inter-
est in members of the industry known
| in the Southwest as ''hot-oilers, or
chiselers. who violate the prorata out
put agreement for secret profit. UrSchefs
account of these cut-throat operators
made deep impression on his captors.
THE damned crooks" is what the KID
napers called them.
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Paul M. Pearson, Governor OF the
Virgin Islands, is concluding an official
visit to Washington. His particular
business is to arrange for some new
! banking facilities at st. Thomas and
other points. because the Danish bank.
, on which the islanders have long de-
pended, is pulling up stakes. If Gov.
Pearson is on the way out, to make
room for some deserving Democrat on
Jim Farley's list, the, ,Swarthmore Col
lege professor hasn't heard anything
about it-yet When the White House
the other day was asked if Judge --
of Chicago is under consideration for
the Virgin Islands, the reply was:
Who says so-the judge?"
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When DR.. George Otis Smith leaves
the Federal Power Commission by resig
nation in the Fall he says he's at last
going to carry out a pledge he made
himself when still a boy. 1t was to
public office. DIR. Smiths father was
once secretary of State of Maine and
perhaps impressions formed during that
chapter of his early life may have i'm
PEELED the famous geologist to swear off
! in advance as far as a political career
was concerned. At any rate. after
nearly 40 years in Feceral activities of
one kind or another, Dr. Smith says
he thinks it's about time to make good
on the vows of his childhood. He began
working for Uncle Sam in 1896 as an
assistant. in the Geological Survey and
was director of the Survey from 1907
to 1880.
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| Representative Sol Bloom, Democrat,
of New York, went to bat at the N. r.
A. this week in case typical of thou
sands throughout the country. The
proprietor of tiny drug store in Man
haitian, employing only couple Of per-
sons, wrote to his Congressman that he
felt himself hopelessly handicapped by
the lack of Blue Eagle, while his COM
petitor Just across the way-one of the