The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-26

Washington, May 90 - Al. though his trip through the Panama canal is still about. q month off, tho president has every detail regardine it worked out. He knows nimo6t to the minute how long ho will stop in Puerto Rico, tho Virgin Islands, Panama, and what he VII % in each place. After stopping at Hawaii, ho Will end at San Francisco, come home direct by train. . The new gtfoAmline train may have tho honor Os hauling him. The Marine corps is 70 pinchod for funds that It's attache to the American embassy In Moscow has been TO. called. He is Captain David R. Miner, who speaks Russian fucntly. Henry |. btiin. son, ex.seoretary of state, recent ly staged . grand garden party for the American Bar assooia- ton. Several hundred law. yers were present. Many were leaders of the profossi0n, many were not leaders. But there was one notable nbBentee--Attoruey- General Homer Cummings, high. est ranking iegalist in the ad. ministrntion. He was not invited. And the reason ho was not invited was because gtim. son foels very strongly about Cummings' prosecution of Andy Mellon on his income tax. He calls this persecution, not prose- CutI0n,
 COLLECTION DRIVE
 The administration 10 passing up no bets in its far.iiung drive to collect all taxes and other sums due Uncle Sam. It's latest move is to put the depart. ment of justice on tho trail of millions of dollars of unpaid fines and assessmcnts Of old prohibt- ton violation cases. The bulk of these claims consist of taxes on illegally produced de- naturcd alcohol. Some 37,bO0, 900 Is involved, and the justice department believes the government has h good chance of collecting q large portion of it. The great dome which tops the eapitol does not rest on tho building proper, but on huge rollers. This is to allow for expansion and contraction during hot or cold weather. i. .. The vast steel conc moves back and forth approximately A qunr. tBr of an Inch, expanding in summer and contracting in win ter.
 ItUNNER.UP
 Major George r.. Berry, prosi- don't of the Prossmen's Union, and NRA division adtninistfator, wns runner-up Co Charles W. Bryan in 1924 as democratic vice. presidential candidate. i. Berry always has n cigar in hls mouth, but mover smokes one. Thomas w. Hardwick, counsel for tho house NAsi inveB. tigating committee. which iB soon Co hold open hearings, is . Georgian who served Ave terms in the house, and one, i9j3.19, in tho senate. During the latter part of his senatorial ca. reer he incurred the bitter hos- tiiIty of Prosident Wilson by res. oluteiy opposing the espionage and sedition acts.
 TAX DRIVE
 In It's unsuccessful tax drive on Andy Mellon, the government charged that tho ono.time re. publican secretary of the trehs. ury had attempted to evade payment of S7fe,I44 on his 1881 ment of justice burcau of investigation hns tho records and finger. prints of over 3,000,00O criminals in itB files. ]. Edgar Hoover, black .haired, swarthy chief of the buroau, is n bachelor, iivos with his mother: and has two hobbies, tennis and collecting antiques. ... one of tho choice anecdotes of his con- grcsslonaI career told by Tam. manyite Representative John U. BOyian, concerns his being mis- taken for n U. z. senator while q patient at 6 famous sanitoriufn. He was invited by the comman. dor of q nearby U. S. army post to review tho 10000 troops sta. SPANISH STUDENT
 Lovely Sonora EspiI, the Chi. cngo girl who married the AT. genuine nmbassador, is taking hcr spanish seriously. Though she never know a word of It q few months ago, she was seen in Rock Creek park the other day sitting in her car reading the life of San Martin. There were too many telephone calls nt home, she said, 50 she escaped tO the park. John Dickin- son, erudite assistant secretary Qf