Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1928, Page 5

“HOOVER CONFERS “This is a homecoming. seems an occasion for a lengthy politi- It hardly cal speech—rather is it an opportunity Yife of the Candidate Visits Birthplacs in Water- loo, lowa. (Continued from First Page.) MacNider, former Assistant Secretary of War and once commander of the American Legion With the passing of Hoover to other fields and the disbanding of the crowd e than 15000 who swamped this for his homecoming, the the village's history passed 2 of memories which most natives will often recall of Hoover as he passed h Mrs. Jennie went to pay his homage e graves of his mother and father > the Dill to the eastward, and as to find the “old swimming nroved so el ve that two acessary to loeate it Iv. perhaps. will come the ive recollection of all— nguished native son ¢ descended the temporary down into ths bowl igh school to receive of the throng overflowing in that place and that the Republican ve his second mes- e dealing first and secondly father owed a but as he passed on pranks of the long ago he audience laughing and then lauding as he gave a pledge that elected his administration would seck @ sound solution for the ilis of agricul- The crowd manifested its ap- proval of his promise to call in the Jeading farmers of the country, among them former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of . one of the strongest of his nents in the race for the presiden- in an effort to find “a pen which we can ation.” 10 b> more at home n audince of his fellow S tr he has been at any other ng of the campaign. He was given n as he appeared and another ng broke uyp after the si e Star Spangled Bann: in Hoeover and her sons, Her- . end Alian, joined with a will movement of the nominee’s lips dicated that he. too, was repeating the words. 2ithough his voice was lost the sound of the more lusty ones of se immediately around him. men ground a common in the: SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and S Auzust & August 15 August i8 Ausust 11 August 10 Bremerhaven. August 13 “oie.....August Angust 15 August 21 Sara o 2cos—Puerto Coiombia B8t Ceorre—Qurbe 2! | friendships. | “I am giad. a son of Iowa, to come back to the place where I was born Here I spent the first 10 years of my | my parenis and _my 2 toiied, worshiped God. |aid their part in building this com- ! munity and now lie in the cemetery | over the hill. | “During the past 44 years T have re- | turned from time to time that I might pay respect to their memory, that I might express my appreciation of those | kindly and sympathetic folk who, taking & boy to their hearts, wiped away the yone, grief of childhood. One of my vivid recollections was my earnest terest in debate hetween neighbors and relntives when they were discussing not who was to assume me as a burden, but who was to take the boy as a member {of their own flock. That is the spirit of the people of Towa. It is the spirit of the thousands of villages and towns in all this wide land. Praiscs Teacher. | “And T have no apology for even a more personal note. There is present here today a lady who took part in that debate and who was for years my teacher in your pubiie school. She embodies th> spirit of that vast body of women who not only teach and in- spire our children but watch over their wider destinies You have come to do me courtesy as a son of Iowa this occasion to acknowledgs my debt to that lady—Mrs. Curran no imprint upon our minds th boyhood— the glories i th> wonder at the ops. the joining of the neig ing of apples, Timage to the river woods ual fucl and nuts, the goi schoal, the interludes ‘rom work, in th swimming hole, fishing in creeks, the hunting for prairie chickens and rab- bits in the hedges and woods—it is the entry to life which I could wish for every American boy and girl. “Again today I have had refresh- ment of spirit in return to these scenes. The swimming hole is still in use. It/ has the same mudbank. It is still im- possible to dress without carrying mud home in ones inner parments. As an engineer I could deviss improvements for that swimming hole. But I dgubt if the decrease in mothers’ grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would com- pensate the inherent joys of getting muddy. Visits Quaker Church, “I have been to soo the old Quaker meeting house has been moved across the strect and replaced by a more modern structure. The old build- ing appears at som» time to have been | turned into a moving picture house, which reminds me of the time I hrard Aunt Hannah, moved in meeting, bit- terly denounce the rise of modern way and prophesy that if they were per- sisted in, that edifice dedicated to God { would some day be transformed into a place of abomination “I do not place the movies in that lass, but knowing Aunt Hannah's views | on any form of human recreation, even | to the godlessness of sliding down hill, | T suspect. that if she knew of this she | would get great satisfaction at the con- | summation of her warnings. | “This was always a Republican village. It was here that I received my first| {touck of the national life. I well recollect the hoisting of the flag at half mast over my father's blacksmith shop on the assassination of President Gar- feld. Recalls Torch Parade. | “I recollect well the torchlight proces- | sion in the Garfield election. 1 was not high enough to be permitted the con- duct of a torch. but I participated by walking alongside for miles. At that time there were two or three Democrats in the town. I do not know today whether what scemed to me an enor- mcus torchlight parade was instituted for their conversion or mot, but I be- | I take | | should like to repeat from my accept- Aucuxt 3a) lieve it was hopeless, because one of Auzust 14 | my boyhood friends and opponents in 1 battle, who I expect is in this audience .. .o4 today, s a descendant of one of those 15 | Democrats and has been regenerated Kinzston roria—Glasgox E FRIDAY. AUGUST 24 Seutkampton Avgs August Amsterd2-—Rotterdam Rama—Genoa e DUE SATURDAY. August 14 AUGUST 2. Auvzust 14 2—Ba: Jaly 24 DUE SUNDAY. AUGUST 26 August 17 August 18 August 1§ August 15 Ananst s C; ges August openhaten August DUZ MONDAY. AUGUST 27 2 Bermudz Auzust iveronl : nker—London Hamburz Ao August 18 Angust 2 a August 13 Kineston August 22 E TUESDAY, AUGUST 23 uthampten August 22 American Legion—Bue August 9 T -ranuiho_—Velperaiso Auzust 8 Biboney—Havans, ? August 25 DUE WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 29 ice — Marsellle August 9 OLTGOING STEAMERS. EATLING TODAY. pnuitania— bourg_and_Southampton Zecepa—Kingston. Ciistobal, Cartagena. Puerto Coicmbia and Santa Marta Grorge Washinion erbours. Southamp- ra; Puerto Ca- Corter Port_Said enbach--Canel Bantos raibo. ING TOMORROW ant—London Protreso and Vers Zone. Cruz o) Potterdam ING PR re and London Kingstor, and Puerto ard Hav Cherbours and Bremer- Chernours ana Antwerp irg and_Southamoton a. Port su Prince and Turks Island. © sce0 and Maracatho, sce- Capetown FATURDAY. AUGUST 23 #rpon Glaseow irs &n Hambrrg Rosogne and Rotier Naptes and sneiro. Santos, Mon an Pran- | only in the last month. | "“I am proud to have been born in Jowa. I have ofttimes said that the good Lord made it the richest stretch Vof agricultural land that ever blessed |any one sovereign government. It was | settled by the adventurous, the cou- rageous, who fought their way across the ¢ ‘er-extending frontier; they have builded here in so short a period as 75 vears a State with the least poverty, the highest averrge intelligence, the most genorous education which ever blessed a single Commonwealth. “Here in West Branch can be found all the milestones of the changes which have come to American agriculture, Only a mile from here is the farm of my Uncle Allen, where I spent some | years of my boyhood. That was just at the passing stage of the great nioneer movement. Many farms were still places where we tillec the soil for the immedi- ate needs of the familles “We ground our wheat and corn on toll at the mill: we slaughtered our | hogs for meat; we wove at least a part ! of our own clothing: we repaired our own machinery; we got our own fuel from the woods; we erected’ our own | bulldings: we made our own s0ap; we | preserved cur own fruit and grew our own vegetablés. Only a small part of the family living came by purchases from the outside. Perhaps 20 per cent of the products were sold in the mar- kets to purchese the small margin of | nacessities which we could not our- selves produce, and to pay interest on the mortgags RBasis Has Shifted. “In a half century the whole basiz of | agriculture has shifted. We have im- proved seed and live stock: we have added a long list of mechanical inven- | tions for saving of labor; we have in- creased the productivity of the land. | And it has became a highly specialized business. There is no longer one in- dustry called farming, but in fact a dozen industries. Probahly over B0 per cent of its products new; go directly or indirectly to the markets and probably over 80 per cent of the family living must be purchased from outside® WATERLOO. IOWA. TURNS OUT EN MASSE FO After Sharing Husba tive Village. Candida THE EVENING S “In the old days when prices fluctu- ated In the Chicago market at most they affected only 20 per cent of the | Income of the farm. A violent drop in | prices could reduce the family income | | by only 4 or 5 per cent. Today the | same fluctuation in price, affecting as | | it does 80 per cent to 100 per cent n[‘ the products of thé farm, can take 25 or 50 per cent away from the iamily | net, income and meke the diffcrence betwween comfort and freedom from | anxiety, or, on the other hand, debis | and discouragements. “I do not suggest a return to the greater security which agriculture en- | joved in its earlier days, because with | that security were lower standards of | | living, greater toil, less opportunity for | | leizure and recreation, less of the com- | forts of home, less of the joy of living. | Longs for Old Times, | | “I am often conscicus of sentimental | regret for the passing of those old-time | conditions. I have sometimes been as homesick for the ways of those sel’- | contained farm homes of 40 years agzo as I have been for the kindly folk who | | lived in them. But I know it Is no more | | possible to revive those old conditions | | than it is to summon back the relatives | |and friends in th> cemetery yonder. | While we recognize and hold fast to | { what is pcrmanent in the old time| conditions, we must accept what is in-| evitable in the changes that have taken | | place. 1t is fortuna’e indecd that the| principles upon whteh our Government was founded require no alteration to| meet these changos. “Just as there fs transformation in agriculture so there is In other in- | dustry; just as there is more speciali- zations on' the farm, so there is in other | | industry. We live today by the ex- change of goods among 10,000 sorts of producers of specialities. A large num- ber of oceupations which were conducted on the farm in old days are now con- duct~d in the factory. That is ono reason why we have a decreasing pro- portion of our people on the farms. By this revelution the American farmer has bocome enmeshed in powerful and yet | delicate cconomic forces which are | working to his disadvantage. “Farmer Control. | “In my acceptance speech 10 days: ago I made an extended statement upon | the legislative proposals for relief to the gricultural industry which the Repub- can party has put forward in its plat- form. You would not wish me to take vour time to review that statement. I | shouid, however, ike to emphasize that | the spirit of those legisiative proposals | | is to work out a more economical and | | stable marketing system. | A Federal farm board is o be sot up, | with the necessary powers and resources | to assist the industry to mect not alone the varied problems of today, but those | which may earise in the iuture. My fundamental concept of agricuiture is | one controlled by its own members, | organized to fight its own economic | battles and to determine its own destinies. “Nor do I speak of organization in the narrow sense of traditional farm co-operatives or pools, but in the much wider sense of & sound marketing or- ganization. It is not by these proposals intended to put the Government in the control of the business of agriculture nor to subsidize the prices of farm products and pay the losses thereon | sither by the Federal Treasury or by a x or fee on the farmer. We propose with Governmental assistance and an initial advance of capital to enable the agricultural industry to reach a stature | of modern business operations by which the farmer will attain his independence and maintain his individuality. “And upon this whole question T| ance speech that: “Most Vital Problem.” ““The working out of agricultural re- | lief cons‘itutes the most important ob- ligation cf the next administration. The object of our policies is to establish for our farm~rs an income equal to thos> of other occupations: for the farmoer's wife the same comforts in her home as | women in other groups; for the farm boys and girls the same opportunities in life as other boys and girls. So far as my own.abilities mav b2 of service, I dedicate them to help secure pros pet and contentment in that industry where I and my forefathers were born and nearly «1l my family still obtain their livelihcod." “In formulating recommendations for legislation to carry out the proposals of the party, I frust that we pay have the full assistance of the leaders of agri | cultural thought. I am not insensible to the value of the study which sincere farm_ leaders have given to this ques- tion of farm legisiation. They have all contributed to the realization that the vroblem must be solved. They wil! be invited into conference. Outstanding farmers. such as Gov. Lowden, will be asked to join in the search for common eround upon which we can act. Need Waterways. “I had thought today to particularly point out the importance of the develop- ment of our interior waterways as bear- ing on the prosperity not only of agri- culture but of the whole of our Midwest business and commerce. It is a most important supplement to agricultural relief. The necessarily large advances in raflway rates from the war militate against the economic setting of this whole interfor section. “This, together with the completion of the Panama Canal and the fact that orean rates have increased but little since before the war, further disturbs the whole economic relationship of the Midwest. It 15 as If a row of toll gates had been placed around this whole sec- tion of our country It seriously ‘af- feets the farmer. I think we can accept it as an economic fact that the farmer on most occasions pays the freight on his products, It is a deduc- tion from the ultimate price; you your- self can attest this. “In a general way, the centerpoint of markets is overseas or the Atlantic sea- | board, where prices are determined by the meeting of streams of world prod- ucts. For cvery hundred miles you are removed from these market centers the price of farm products is lower by |hr’ amount of freight rates, Some caleula- tions which I made a few years ago | showed that the increese In rafiway R MRS. HOOVER/ n&s Welcome to Na- te's Wife Honored by Homecoming Celebration at Birthplace. the Associated Press WEST BRANCH, lowa, August 22 By After spending a day in sharing her nhusband’s welcome 1o his native village, Mrs. Herbert Hoover had her own spe- cial homecoming celebration today at Waterloo, 50 miles away | The six-hour trip planned for her |trom Cedar Rapids to Waterloo and | return crowned weeks of preparations by the people of the town where she was born and lived till she was 12. It meant, moreover, the consummation of a hope she had herself repeatedly ex- Bouthampton Londor 274 Port Limon H. Plsrs—Puertn Colombis MONDAY AUGUST 29 nplon and Ham GUST 28 a4 Brem tinent from her California home Falls to Remember Homes, Though she does not remember her childhood in Waterloo very clearly, and none of the three homes her family had there 18 now standing, she has often visited the quiet town, with its wide, shady streets, and has many lifelong BAILING THURSDAY. AUGUST 30. friends there. After a morning of wel- World ¢ vie Havana |comed rest at the Cedar Rapids estate of Mrs. Cieorge Bruce Douglas, where the spacious house, wooded park and sunny gardens were turned over to her to use as her own during her two-day stay, she was ready for her long drive - L} Peix, Gonaives 5 Alers Cristonal. Pusrto 1o Cheshours and Bremer sise Tocopitia Bremer- tabe pressec_during the trip across the con- | across lowa's green and rolling country | side with the welcoming committee sent by her native town to escort her to her earlfest home Miss Martha McClure, national com- | mitteewoman for Towa, and four of the | Cedar Rapids entertainment committee | accompanied her on her homecoming. Ofcially, she was the guest of the Waterloo Woman's Club which had ex- tended the invitation in the name of the women of the city. But actually, the whole town was to shere in the welcome Sees Former Schoolmates, Every hour of her stay was carefully planned A public reception at the | Woman's Club and a formal dinner at | the leading hotel were the high lights |of the trip, with interludes for friendly |chats with former schoolmates and {family friends sandwiched in between | the more official celebrations The “quiet but lovable lttle girl” her father's friends remember still returned today, a tall and gracious woman, and the town of Waterloo was not to be outdone by the tiny Quaker village across the hills that welcomed her hus- band yesterday, | taken up by the consumer, | of his distribution [ tural products { ment mean the crippling of our rail- | pose. TAR, WASHINGTON, rates had in effect moved the Midwest 200 to 400 miles farther from seaboard. “Moreover, some of the competitive agricultural regions, such as the Argen- tine and Australia, are close to seaboard, and with sea rates about the same as before the war they are able to compete with the American farmer in foreign | markets to a greater advantage tha before the war. This increase in tran: | portation rates also affects the prices | |Graduated From Amherst. of many things which the farmer must buy. for much raw material which | comes into the Midwest pays the in- creased freight rate, and this in turn is We cannot return to pre-war rallway rates without ruin to the railways, Need Modern Channels. “Therefore, T have long asserted that the real hope of reducing charges upon our bulk goods was through the mod- ernization of our great inferor water- ways. By modernization I mean in- | creasing depths to a point where we can handle 10,000 tons in a line of barges pulled by a tug. This administration has authorized the systematic under- taking of this modernization. Within & Hoover, Republican nominee for Presi- | few vears we will have completed the deepening of the Ohic up to Pittsburgh, the Missouri up to Kansas City, Omaha and beyond, the Mississippi to St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Iilinois to Chi- cago. “We alrcady have experience with results, for with only the main river from St. Louis to New Orleans as vet working properly, the rates for trar portation of bulk agricultural products through that section are near pre-war raflway rates. We will not have the advantage of full results until the entire Mississippi_and its tributaries are in e _connected transportation system. “We have another great opportunity of relief in th» buildmg of a shipway from the Great Lakes to the sea. Our engineers have recommended the St. vrence route as the preferable outlet Th> administration has undertaken negotiations with Canada upon the sub- joct. If these negotiations fail we must consider alternative routes. In any svent the completion of this system of barge lines on the rivers and connecting the Lakes with the Gulf, of »pening a shipway from the Lakes to the sea. will make an effective transporta- tion system of 12,000 miles in length penetrating 20 Midwest States. It w connect these States with seaboard at the Gulf on one hand and with the North Atlantic on the other. And this nieans mor> than the mere saving upon the actual goods shipped over these routes. If part of our crops can move to market at a 7 or 10 per cent saving per bushel, the buvers' competitive bid- ding for this portion of the erop will force upward the price of the whole | crop. Affects All Industry. “And this development concerns not alone agriculture, but every industry and business in the Midwest. The manufacturer and merchant in this section is suffering from: a curtailment field: his business province has shrunk. This development should tend to increase manufacturing industry in the Midwest and thereby create a larger diversity of employment and a greater local market for agricul Nor does this develop- ways. The annual increase in railway trafiic will give to them a far more and complete offset to these diversions. “Moreover, everything that increases the prosperity of the country also helps the raflways. The policy of rapid con- summation of this great project will be continued if the Republican administra- tion be continued. We should at the present rate of progress have completed the Mississippi system within the next four years. It is a vital part of the habilitation of the Middle West agri- culture and business. The modernizations of our waterways recall again the earlier life of Towa. At one time its transportation was n large degree over these same rivers and many of our ploneers reached this State by the old packet boats and their own I‘:f&* Nor are the days of the pioncer over. “We have to ploncer through economic problems, through scientific develop- ment and invention on to frontiers just as forbidding. just as romantic, and just as pregnant of added happiness as our fathers ever knew. The test of our generation will be whether we can over- come these frontlers, whether we can hold mastery over the system we have created, whether we can maintain the | advantage we have inherited, whether we can hold ourselves a nation dedicated to equal opportunity for all. Recalls Pioneer Days. "here are those in this audience who saw Iowa an open prairie. I recall members of my own family who in my childhood were still hreaking the soll in the western part of the State and were then still living in the first sod houses of the ploncer farmer. Our fathers and erandfathers who poured over the Mid- west were self-rellant, rugged, God- fearing people of indomitable courage. They combined to bu'ld the roads, bridges and towns; they co-operated to- gether to erect their schools, their churches and to raise their barns and harvest their fields. They asked only for freedom of opportunity and an equal chance. “In these conceptions lies 'the real basis of American democarcy. They and their fathers gave a genius to | American institutions that distinguished our pen(rl? from any other in the world Their demand for an equal chance is the basis of American progress. To those who have. by necessity-worked in other lands comes this most vivid meaning of America and a deep grati- tude for what our fathers have builded. Here there are no limits to hope; no limits upon accomplishment: our obli- gation today is to maintain that equal opportunity for agriculture as well as for every other calling. “When we. traverse the memories of those who have bullded this State and this Nation recall these acts which are rooted In the soll of service. When we rehearse bur own memories we find that none give us such comfort and satisfaction #s the record of service we have been able to render. “I do not believe our neople have lost those finer quglities of rugged character, self-reliance, ar initfative. nor have they lost ths great quality which they i bedded in American character, the qual- of neighborly co-operation and mutual ser’ It 1s in this quality that our hopes must lie In the solution | of our great problems. “And T must say again that the solu- tion of these problems has but one pur- that is, the comfort and welfare of the American family and the Amer can home. American life and the home s the sanctuary of moral inspiration and of American spirit. The true conception of America is not a country of 110,- 000,000 peaple but & nation of 23,000,000 families living in 23,000.000 homes, I pledge my service to these homes.” E ATISFIES We Lay Our Own (i Dealers in Armstrong L SUPERIOR LINOLEUM CO 943 Eye St. N.W. Main 102! .., great | | ‘The family is the unit of TO CARRY ON [New Secretary of COmmerce‘ Reflects Culture of New England. | Prominent in Industrial and Banking Circles. i Special Dispatch to The Star | SPRINGFIELD, Mass., August 22.— | A loyal friend, stanch Republican and sturdy manufacturer bearing the un- | mistakable stamp of a New England gentleman of culture is the man that | President Coolidge has appointed to | take over the duties of Secretary of | Commerce, relinquished by Herbert dent. ! Willlam Fairfield Whiting of Holyoke, | Mass., is one of the prominent indus- | i trial leaders of New England and | stands at the top of the paper indus- | ry as a manufacturer He is outstanding in the business and | financial life of Massachusetts, a philan- thropist and a supporter of educational and cultural advancement, He is a | =on of Willilam Whiting, founder of the |paper industry that the son still carries on. | With the advent of Secretary Whiting as a member of the cabinet comes an- | other alumnus of Amherst College, which has given several prominent citi- 7ens to the Government, such as Presi- dent Coolidge. Dwight W. Morrow, Am- dor to Mexico: Robart Lansing. | Seeretary of State in the Wilson ad- ministration, and others. Amherst Graduate in 1886, | secretary Whiting was a member of the class of 1886, graduating with M Lansing. Mr. Whiting has been faith- ful to his alma mater and has assisted interests of the college. He fs presi- | dent of the Connecticut Valley Alumni Association at present A charming family surrounds the | new Secretary. His wife 5 one of tha ! foremost women in Massachusetts' <o- jclal register. She is the daughter o | Judge Edward W. Chapin of Holyokr. | and like her husband is a native of the “Paper-City.” Her brother, Arthur B Chepin, former State treasirer and re- ceiver general of Massachusetts, w: mayor of Holyoke for six consecutive terms, the longest period of service en- | joved by anv mayor there. The Whitings have four children. Ruth, an only daughter, became ths bride this year of Neil Chapin of Long- meadow, a son of A. H. Chapin, motor ear accessory manufacturer. Younz Chapin is the brother of A. H. Chapin ir. who has bren ranked among the first 10 tennis stars in America. Has Three Sons. Thore are three sons, Willam Whit- |ing. 2d: Edward Chapin and Fairfield. | The Whiting family springs from old English stock, three emigrating broth- jers having established the family in |New England. Secretary Whiting is a |direct descendant of James Whiting, who migrated from Hingham, England. in 1660 to Hingham, Mass. He wi an offspring of Thomas Wyton, a yeo. | man_of Oxfordshire. Four generations (of the family remained in Hingham, | Mass. Willlam Whiting, Secretary Whiting's father, was the first of the family to settle in western Massachusetts, going to Holyoke from Dudley, Mass., his birthplace, and starting a career that launched the family into a place of wealth and prominence. A friend of the President's he was close t. President McKinley and enter- |tained him at his home when he ceme to South Hadley for the graduation of k's niece at Mount Holyoke College, Father Supported McKinley. The father of the Secretary, like the Secretary, was a delegate to the na- tional convention of the Republican ariy several times. Just as Secretary hiting refused to desert his friend Coolidge, when his name was put before the Republican convention in 1920, Wil- liam Whiting stood by his guns for President McKinley's nomination, Unlike his son, the Secretary, Wil- llam Whiting was a strong favorite when he sought political office. The father was first holder of several Hol- | yoke municipal offices, including the | mayoralty. Later he became a State Senator and finaJly was elected Repre- | sentative in thé Forty-eighth, Forty- ninth and Fiftleth Congresses. He was at one time.a Republican candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, Secretary Whiting has always turned a deaf ear to the entreaty of friends to seek elective offices. The first time kis name came prominently into na- tional political life was when he wis advanced as a possible choice of Pres- ident Coolidge for the ambassadorshi): of . France. The senior Whiting is said to have declined a similar appointment at the hands of President ‘McKinley. as | well as a proffer of a cabinet seat, due | to rapidly failing health. | Seeretary Whiting and his younger brother, Samuel Raynor Whiting, di- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, ISECRETARY WHITING FITTED 1928. George Harbin, regimental athletic offi- | cer. who has mapped out a long series | of contests which will require practically the entire afternoon. Capt. C. Earl Smithson, regimental adjutant, announced that all of the troops would be mustered by the Reg- ular Army officers in camp Sunday fust before the busses are loaded for the return to Washington. Pay will be given them Sun upon their de- mobilization “at the armory by Maj. James F. Lusby, United States prop- erty and disbursing officer. GIRL’S BODY IS FOUND. GUARDSMEN BEGIN COMBAT MANEUVER {Leave Camp Ritchie for 24- Hour Field Problem After Heawy Rain. HOOVER'S WORK Police Investigate Suicida and | M Phazes o o BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, | urder Phases of Cas Siafl Corespondent of Tne Star. | NEW YORK, August 22 () —The | CAMP ALBERT C. RITCHIE, |body of an unidentified girl, about 20 Cascade. Md.. August 22.—After dig- | years old, was found today on the ging themselves out of the mud follo Long Island Railroad tracks in the A , tl 121s 1= e e T a1 vy bof | Richmond Hill section of Brooklyn. The body was sévered just above the waist Police are Investigating to determine whether the girl was a suicide or | 2 | ment_of Enginee: the District of Columbia, began prepar- | ing for the combat maneuvers which Lw . eld ¢ [ | Tilh complete their field trainln® {07 | pofher she had been murdered and | Early today 29th Division headquar- | Ner body placed on the tracks. Her | ters troops, the Signal Company and | Patent leather pumps had been removed | L military police moved out of the camp 'fi:d 'nlafm carefully side by side near e track. UMBER MILLWORK PAINT HARDWARE BUILDING SUPPLIES on trucks to establish the outpost head- . | quarters and communications. WILLIAM WHITING, |~ The 121st Regiment began hulldmg | Of Holyoke, Mass., appointed by Presi-| bridges, Company F. Capt. William F | dent Coolidge as Secretary of Commerce | Jorgensen. being assigned to build th> | to succeed Herbert Hoover. Through a | large trestle bridge on the reservation Day on Road. similarity of names a pieture of the | new Secrelary’s son WA Ued o atot| Col. John W. Oehmann is directing B T O inting Magasine Dhoto, | the Work. Lieut. Col. Louls C. Brinton, | | jr., adjutant general of the Guard, said | | that the following troops will participate | in_the exercise, and together with the officers will be on the road from 5 o'clock this evening until the same hour tomorrow afternoon. o The 29th Division Signal Company, w’"’""',’ Your N; eds the 29th Division Air Service, based on | Talk With Us First! Martinsburg, W. Va., the headquarters | sman orders i N i of the 58th Infantry Brigade from Vir- | ™ O Na Delivers. hauae it | vided the paper interests at the death | of their father. { The younger brother organized new factorics, while the Secretary heads the company started by his father. Seere- ' tery Whiting has stepped into the shoes of his father as a director or trustee | of industrial. railroad and financial in- | Paint upplies Stitutions. Hardly a bank in western | 8infa, the headquarters of the 9lst | | Massachusatts of importance exists that | Infantry Brigade from Maryland, and J. Frank Kelly, Ine. does not include him on its govern- | the headquarters of the 121st Regiment 2101 Georgia Ave. N. 1343 | ing board. He has similar responsibili- | quE}:::g:::;:?tg;c xnflfinflg&m in camp| Lember—smiwars. ki s i educational institutions and v c > Fiar B ‘m“ ',,m,l,;“ |for the night. The operation will be N | worked out in the vicinity of Em- History Is Hobby. mittsburg, Md., and Rouzerville, Pa. DANDRUI. Mr. Whiting has many hobbies, his|The Alr Service will be used for re-| most notable being his love of history | connaissance, and will be required to| and fine literature. | make frequent reports to the organl-“ | At his home is a library wherein zations in the field. [rests the st wolume of history he Bagtieers in Mk | possessed: it is the Macaulay's history PRvRHItad. £ Mot i/ iy ATy, TORAN: LAt Rfi‘é‘,“""‘,,_”"s”““’{“ | Another hobby is his delight in a|goy Lo el Sl large_ stock farm on the ouikirte of | field meet, under the direction of Lieut. Holyoke, where he raiscs chickens and | O once had a herd of blooded cattle. KAUFMANN’S 1415 H Street NW. Secretary Whiting is a Congregational- ist. and was the first master of the | William Whiting Ledge of Masons, in- | stituted after the death of his father Kaufmann’s Presenis This Unusua! mldH?;ix;nl;:\,mp}l;‘:‘“;f;fi Fairchild ]alrr; O m A t F % h th | Aloofness Is Trait. i ppo nlty B D uml-s e Home at Greater Savings Secretary Whiting's new associates {may at first find him of the same ap- parently uncommunicative disposition as the President. He is slow to make confidants and conducts himself with a certain aloofness that at first defeats the advances of persons who eventually become friends as they understand his |New England character. His capacity for accomplishing results is an inherent | characteristic, but he is conservative and will probably b> pleased to continue the policies and organization of for- | mer, Secretary Hoover without radical | changes. 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