Evening star., 1934-10-05

"Billy' Mitchell hitherto has incur
red the displeasure of only two Gov
ernment departments-W and Navy.
Now he's contrived to upset the State
Department. His proposal to build
airplanes designed to attack Japan"
and a feet Of dirigibles capable Of
destroying" that country within two
DAYS Of the outbreak of war with the
United States" causes no end OF cha
grin at Uncle Sans foreign oftice.
From Secretary Hull's standpoint the
former chief of the Army Air Corps
could hardly have chosen a less pro-
pitious moment for his blast before
the Roosevelt Aviation Commission.
On the same day it was delivered
Norman H. Davis was in conference
with the President regarding impend-
ing Anglo-American- Japanese naval
ratio conversations in London. As
Mr. Davis principal mission is to per-
suade the japanese to soft-pedal their
demands for parity with Britain and
the United States, Gen. Mitchell's
references to an American attack on
Japan are about as untimely as they
could be. Despite his spectacular
methods, MitchellS friends contend
that his periodical hell-raising has
contributed definitely TO progress in
Army and Navy aviation development.
When Mrs. Roosevelt was in New
York recently to make her last radio
talk under commercial sponsorship
k,A In hA dno oSft M
studio young Prince Louis Ferdinand
of Prussia. eldest grandson Of the ex-
Kaiser and former Ford employe. His
once royal highneSS was introduced to
the First Lady, but beyond formal
exchange Of greetings, there was little
conversation between them.
In Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace's book New Frontiers" just off
the press, he tells of Russian visitor
who last Summer was inspecting one
of the A. A. A. branches occupying a
room half a city block in area. in
which 1,500 people, plus a huge bat
terry of comptometers and checkwrit-
ing machines, were working "a hours
q day, grinding out 10000 daily checks
in payment of bounties to farmers.
Good Lord!" exclaimed the man from
Soviet land, "this is revolution!"
Justice John F. Carew of the New
York Supreme Court, who is presid-
ing over the sensational Gloria Nor
gan Vanderbilt case, is a well-remem-
bered figure in Washington. where he
spent 16 years Q9l3-1929 in the
House of Representatives. Brilliant
law graduate of Columbia, he was
known as the scholar of Tammany,
being famed for his knowledge Of the
! classics.
James M. Lands, brain truster and
one of the key men of the Securities
and Exchange Commission, went by
the nickname of "Chink' while he
was an undergraduate at Princeton.
His fellow students seem to have been
bit astray on his birthplace, which
| was Japan. and not China. The
young Harvard law professor and Felix
Frankfurter protege first came to
Washington In 1924 as law clerk to
Justice Brandeis.
4 +
who's Who in America" for 1884
IS, just published. gives more space to
District of Columbia notables than
any preceding volume of that COM
pendium of the great and near-great.
The influx of New Dealers Is respon-
| sible Only New York, Massachusetts,,
| California, Illinois and Pennsylvania
are each represented by more than the
1888 persons credited to Washington.
The latest who's Who" totals 81 900
biographies, or one to $3.50 of the
country's population. The ratio In the
FIRST volume .Qsool was one to s,s24.