Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1929, Page 31

THE EVENING A ALBANY WiTHOUT WATER 24 HOURS Series of Acc|dents to Mains and Equipment Cut Off City’s Supply. Publiic‘ at EDITOR'S NOTE: President Hoover's appointment of his cabinet ~brought many surprises and much coniecture as the selections were made known. Many of his choices were rezarded as politi- cally unprecedented. The story of the men and ecvents behind the scenes in these engrossing moves now {s told by James L. West: Asseciated Press staf] writer, in eries of siX articles of Which" the Tollowing Is ‘the second. 10 we ains and equip- | Ieft most of New York | 1 (‘1‘\ without The city adequate supply protection from without bours. b an for 24| BY JAMES L. WEST (Associated Press White House Correspondent). | hut off when a | n the principal | v line was brought | > valve broke.| Wartime sssociates, who with hun- driven pumps became ' dreds of th»ir kind rallied eround the fused to funetion | Hoover political banner, now are re- first nd | present cabinet members, who probably ched | were even more surprised than the | public by the tender of office. pairing | ‘The two are Charles Francis Adams werz | of Massachusétts, Secretary of the The old | Navy. and Robert Patterson Lamont | section of out of its b \\l‘)\ lh' power. in place fi ned to be Atlaml a Real Stranger. Mr. Hoover when he received an invi- S | tation to lunch with the President- was | ceiving credit for bringing forward two | Mr. Adams was a real stranger to| HOOVER'S WARTIME ASSOCIATES “NAME" 2 CABINET MEMBERS 'Adams, a Real Stranger to President, and Lamont Were as Much Surprised as Selection. elect and Mrs. Hoover at the pre-inau- | gural home on Belle Isle, Fla., last February. During that luncheon Mr. Hoover sized up the .internationally known amateur yachtsman and treasurer of Harvard University and shortly after- ward tendered him the Navy post, al- though Mr. Adams had been a Demo- crat all his life until the end of the Wilson administration, when he sup- ported Warren G. Harding. None of the group of seasoned politi- \c}\l writers who had gone to Florida | with the President-elect even suspected | that the man who raced the Resolute to victory over th~ Shamrock in 1920, was slated for the cabinet. It remained for a sport writer for a Bos- ton newspaper. who was in Miami | Beach for the Stribling-Sharkey heavy- | weight battle to “scoop” the lot of them. “Not the BallPlayer.” Over the sports world ‘grapevine” trickled word that Adams was to be reporter called his managing editor on the telephone to appraise him of the d and most of | to supply suffi-| s of their guests. in several in- nf the cfl\ SALT- PEPPER SUIT STYLE. ; s of Paris An- | nounce Fall Showings, | Fabric Eq'fllh&‘ me: stitute for either ome. s of Sum- said, will be on f them devold of others with ceeps and wide shawl rheumatism or other 0 ., i " collars of the word ‘‘genuine Singapore Base Cut Opposed. LONDON, A 1(P).—An Exchange Teleg ch from Welling- sterday said that e archipelago at rtance to the Sin- | base that it had l’PJflC[!’d Labor party's sugges- | and reconsider its ual quota for the gapore nava the New Zeal tion that Ne payment to base. $ All White Now at all our stores styles to choose from! 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Secretary Adams was recommended by Christian C. Herter, a former secre- taiy to Mr. Hoover, and John Richard- son, who was associated with Hoover in the food administration. 'They are both Harvard men, handled the Massachu- setts campaign for Hoover and, of course, were well acquainted with the man who for years had handled Har- vard's millions and who won fime as & yachtsman-between times. Lameont Admits Surprise. ‘When it came to selecting a Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Hoover wanted an engineer of outstanding ability to oarry on the work that he as an engineer had Dr:ssed in the great business department of the Government. Shaw, .wbo had been associated with the President in war and after-war work, suggested Robert Patterson Lamont. ‘The Chicago engincer had met Hoo- ver once at a general conference at the Commerce Department. 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Spencer, secretary of the Build- More than 400 members of the Wash- ' ing Trades Department of the Ameri- of Elks will attend th® can Federation of Labor, who has just Tri-State convention of the fratermal | retumed from the meeting of the exec- organization which is to be hel r:xerswwn, Mad., = on August 19 ,,‘,’ Z’E utive council of the department at Buf- The local h«enmmmm falo, N. Y., said yesterday that the case !uflfitflfilamlw melfi'-ear:nd &w:;:t\}::um | of the Government Printing Office ad- include Vice President Charles Curtis, | {tion, Where work has been suspended for _more than a month, was not Gov. Albert S. Ritchie of Maryland, Representative Frederick Zihiman and brought before the coumcil. Thére had ‘| been reports here during the meeting e 15 dlod;esd o of the Jurlsdicto e ol e jurl n are e ives, of the council that the matter might i bl osnire come before the council. “There is nothing new in the situa- . DR. ). D. VORHEES DIES. 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