Evening star., 1933-12-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
RY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Democratic candidate swept the dis
trict by a majority Of more than
10000.
Buzzie and Sistie Dali, the Roose-
velt grandchildren, were discovered
one day last week making private
inspection of the roof Of the White
House. Newspaper men, who espied
them from the State Department steps
across the way. thought the youngsters
might have wandered unbeknown to
the dizzy heights, and telephoned a
warning to the Secret Service ofilce IN
the Executive Mansion, only to learn
that the little ones, safely chaperoned,
had adventured to the roof to see what
the world looked like up there.
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It looks as If Corporation Counsel
Bill Bride of the District Of Columbia
had his eye on a set Of catchy initials
appropriate to this alphabetical age
in proposing that liquor dispensation
in Washington should come under an
Alcohol Beverage Control Board" II
1t does, it'll be the "A. B. CS' which
will run the show.
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New York Mayor La Guardia con-
tinues to raid Washington oh1cialdom
for the personnel of his coming admin
istration Having drafted Prof. A. A.
Berle, r. F. c. brain-truster, as city
chamberlain, the mayor-elect has now
kidnapped from the Department OF
Justice Austin H. MacCormick, assist
ant director of the United States
correction, to have charge OF New
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Guardia first offered the post to San
ford Bates, head of the Federal Prison
Bureau, who declined it and recon-
mended Mr.. MacCormick for the Job.
The latter is now superintendent OF
the United States Industrial Reforma-
tory at Chillicothe, Ohio. From 1917
to 1921 MacCormick was executive
officer of the naval prison at Ports
mouth, N. H., making study OF the
naval court-martial system. During
that assignment he came under the
eye of Assistant Secretary Of the Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The United States and Japan are
going to war next Spring and under
the auspices of the United States
Navy-but only in the 24-foot ring,
when a group of American amateur
boxers piloted by Spike Webb, pugilis-
tation, invade the island and meet
Japan's amateur champions. Webb
was A. E. F. boxing instructor in France
and discovered" Gene Tunney. He's
taught the manly art at the Naval
Academy since 1920.
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The newly formed American Bond
holders Protective Council, which Is 10
LOOK after $3.OOo,Ooo,0O0 or $4,000
100000 of defaulted foreign bonds
owned by citizens Of the United States,
is the counterpart OF the British Cor
poration of Bondholders. The Amer-
cans hope they may approximate the
record OF the British concern, Wnlcn
has retrieved more than $5,0O0,00O0o0
since its foundation in 1868. Its annual
report unfailingly lists among deiauitS
the bonds of certain Southern states
Of the United States. which have been
in arrears in some cases since long
before the Civil War.
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Former Assistant Secretary Of War
the American Museum of Natural
History at New York, attributes to his
washington comradeship with Col.
Lindbergh the recent gift TO the
museum of the plane in which "lindy
and ANNE" recently crossed and
recrossed the Atlantic. Mr.. Dawson
helped to welcome the colonel IN Wash
ington on his return from Europe IN
May, 1927. and they've been warm
friends ever since.
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