Evening star., 1933-03-20

Guilty In reaching at his Washington
home Gov. Clifford Pinchot OF Penn
sylvania. But the details are new. The
board wanted him, along with the
Governors of New York and Illinois,
to declare an instantaneous bank holi-
day in their respective States. Tele-
phone calls. poundings on his front
door. wild ringing of the bell and other
ordinary alarms having failed to drag
Mr.. Pinchot from the arms of Nor
pheus, 1t was decided to invoke the
services Of the Washington Fire De-
partment. Eventually a piece of ap-
paratus with a screeching siren was
sent to the Pinchot mansion, Just OIL
Scott Circle. After it had done its
deafening stuff for about three minutes
the lanky gubernatorial figure appeared
at q second-story window and asked
what the trouble was. He found out
and five minutes later he was in tele-
phonic communication with the Treas
ury Building.
Representative Charles v. Truax,
Democratic member-at- from Ohio,
a new Congressman, Is said to rehearse
his House speeches while taking his
morning bath. He has q sonorous
voice and neighbors in adjoining hotel
quarters claim they are frequently re-
galed with his eloquence, of which the
House has already had several samples
When he has wound up with q perora-
tton that seems to satisfy him, the
Buckeye statesman Is accustomed to
sign OIL With q song BY accident or
design, one Of his secretaries is q
teacher Of expression and voice culture.
Judge Clarence N. Goodwin Of Chi
cago is now among the honorably men
toned possibilities for the Attorney
Generalship If and when President
Roosevelt decides to relieve the incum-
bent, Homer Cummings Of Connecticut,
who is slated to become Governor Cen
eral of the Philippines. Goodwin's ap-
pointment would give Illinois two cabi-
net places. Secretary Of the Interior
Ickes holding the other, but the Chi
cago jurist has some strong backing
for the portfolio Like the President,
he's New Yorker by birth and a
Harvard man. Judge Goodwin has held
various high judicial Offices in Illinois
and has national reputation among
the bench and bar. Washington is
familiar terrain to him, because he has
for years maintained offices and prac-
ticed here.
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On the day following the recent
earthquake in Southern California, the
Los Angeles Times published the fac
simile of q letter sent to it on March
8, predicting Q that three nationally
prominent men would die between that
date and March 13: (2) that Hell will
break out" between March 7 and 49,;
60 that Los Angeles would be shaken
by great earthquake on one Of three
days, March 10, 20 or 81; (D that the
peak Of the depression would be reached
on March 13, real adjustment would
start to take place March 20, and COM
tember 10, 1888. and (5) that "A
greater, happier future lies just before
U.s." Walsh, Howell and Cermak made
prophecy No. come true. The banking
crisis verified No. 2. The Los Angeles
earthquake happened nine days sooner
than predicted, making No. inaccurate
only by anticipation. Two parts of No.
4 panned (or are about to PAM out.
The rest Of 1t and No. are for the
future to determine
X X ~
Retention Of Sanford Bates, Massa-
chusetts Republican, rs superintendent
of Federal prisons, b causing certain
Democrats, especially Southern gentle
men, to gasp and wonder what's COM
ing next. Mr.. Bates qualifications are
not challenged, but his reappointment
doesn't make much Of hit with de-
serving Rooseveltians perched impa-
tiently on the anxious seat.
(Copyrisht. 1881