Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1931, Page 3

ROOSEVELT HELD PHYSCALY I Interviews and Examinations Yend to Show New Yorker Is in Good Health. “Is Pranklin D. Roosevelt Physically Pit to Be President?” is the title of an| article appearing in this week's issue of | Liberty. The author, Earle Looker, after many interviews with the Governor of New York and after an exhaustive exami- nation of the Governor made by three medical specialists, answers the ques- tion in the affirmative. “He is,” says Looker, “physically fit." The three specialists, selected by Dr. Linsley R. Willlams, director of the New York Academy of Medicine. who made the examination of Gov. Roose- velt, are Dr. Samuel W. Lambert, Dr. Russell A. Hibbs and Dr. Foster Ken-| nedy. Physicians Make Report. The examination was made April 29, 1931, and_ the physicians sent the fo lowing telegram on that day to Mr. Looker: | “We have today carefully examined Gov. Roosevelt and we believe that his health and powers of endurance ar: such as to allow him to meet any de- mand of private and public life.” Ever since the name of Gov. Roose- velt began to be prominently mentioned | in connection with the Democratic | nomination for President next year the | question has been raised as to his physical fitness to hold down the job | if he were nominated and elected. In 1921 Gov, Roosevelt suffered an attack of infantile paralysis. In the decade | since then he has struggled back to! health, and he has been described many others besides Mr. Looker as athlete from the waist up.” Ran First in 1928. In 1928 he was prevailed upon to be- | come the Democratic candidate for Governor by his friend, Alfred E. Smith, then a candidate for President | on the Democratic ticket. Last year he was re-elected Governcr with a ma- jority of something like 700.000 votes. ‘And since that time Gov. Roosevelt has been placed as the outstanding candi- date for the Democratic presidential | nomination. | Some cf the Democrats have realized ! that Gov. Roosevelt's physical condi- tion may be used against him by the | Republicans in a national campaign; that a whispering campaign might oe | inaugurated. even though the G. O. P. | speakers did not openly attack him be- | cause of his inability to get around as an ordinary man does. The article published in Liberty today may be re- garded as an ettempt to kill off such | a whispering campaign. Mr. Looker, the author of the article declares himself a Republican and that he “challenged” Gov. Roosevelt to say whether he was sufficiently recove ed to stand the strain of the presidency. That was back in February, 1931, Gov. Roosevelt replied that he would not make a statement himself regarding his physical fitness, but that he would allow | Mr. Looker to make an examination of | his physical fitness. Personal Desire Different. wan | Where Fall Will TELEGRAM URGES CLEMENCY FORFALL Plea of New Mexico Senators and Legislature Sent to Justice Department. By the Associated Press A joint telegram from the two New Mexico Senators and both houses of the Legislature of that State asking etecative clemency for Albert B. Fall was received todav et the White Houte and sent immediately to the Depari- ment of Justice. ‘The former Secretary of the Interior is awaiting commitment to the New Mexico Penitentiary to serve a sentence of a year and a day for accepting a bribe in connection with a naval oil reserve lease. The President will take no action on the clemency petition until after the Department of Justice has studied it and made_recommendations. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover yesterday afternoon forwarded by airmail to the United States marshal in New Mexico the order of the District Supreme Court for the commitment of Fall The commitment had been directed to Edgar C. Snyder, United States marshal for the District of Columbia, but Snyder made a return that Fall was not to | be found in this District Attorney Frank J. Hogan. represent- ing Fall, said the former cabinet offi- cer would be driven over to the pel tentiary on receipt of notice to physician that the commitment papt re in the hands of the New Mexico marshal. FORMER SON-IN-LAW DIES. | | Fall's Daughter Prostrated By News of Death. EL PASO. Tex. July 16 (P).—Mrs. | Jouett Elliott, daughter of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, was prostrated today by news that her former husband, Brant F. Elliott. had died at Walsingham, Va. A physician was called to attend her. When Mr. Looker first interviewed | Gov. Roosevelt in response to this sug- | gestion, he writes, he asked Gov. Roos Velt if he wanted to be President of the United States. Gov. Roosevelt, the ar- | ticle says, replied: H “‘personally, from my years in Wash- | d as Assistant Secretary of | the Navy, I know a great deal about | the responsibilities and the burdens of the presidency; no man who under- | stands them as I do could look forward with any intense personal desire to assuming those burdens and respon- sibilities. | “‘Ask some of the older men about | the State Capitol here in Albany—men who have seen Governors come and | go—ask them if they'd personally like to have the job as Governor. Every | one of them would say decisively and with feeling, “No!” Was I personal anxious to be Governor? I was nof But I accepted that nomination in | order to accept an opportunity for | service. You must understand I have | to use the old words, and that one particularly—"service” because no other | word_exactly fits. | “‘I feel the same way about the That's all there is to Any one could have a great deal to s in amplification of that, but that's the gomplete net of it.’ ““Mr. Roosevelt, T said, “if you be- tame the leading choice of the Demo- cratic Convention and it was then a . question of your personal decision, 1d you sacrifice your personal de- wires?” &' “Roosevelt's answer was so quick that “She fairly snapped out the words: ‘The opportunity for service that the presi- dency affords has not honestly been considered a personal sacrifice by any one I have ever known or heard of | who has had that opportunity, despite its tremendous difficulty and its great | responsibility. You have as complete | and as fair an answer as I can ever | give any one.’” P Family Has Railway Record. When E. 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The National Capital Press 10D St NW. ___Nat 060 TATISTIC—COACHING | Special Coaching Class Starts | This Evening 7:30 to 10:30 P.M." Preparing for_Civil Service Examination Apply Mount Pleasant School for Secre- taries. TIVOLI THEATER RUILDING 3313 14th St. NN\W. Phone Col. 3000 —ot after The Elliotts were married in 1919 and divorced three years ago. Mrs. Elliott charged her husband with desertion. A member of the family said she always held the deepest affection for him. They had one daughter, Carrie. 9 vears old. Mrs. Elliott already was nearly ill from worrying over the im- pending trip of her father to prison Plans of Fall to depart for the New Mexico State Penitentiary were shrouded in secrecy today. Dr. J. H. Gambrell, Fall's physician, reported following & visit that the former cabinet officer was “very feeble” and he thought he would not start for the S:nta Fe prison immediately Members of Fall's family expressed a desire to get him into prison for service of the term growing cut of the leasing cf the Elk Hills, Calif., naval oil reserve with as little publicity as possible. They asserted that he was “worn out’ and eager to “drop out of the headlines.” The offices of United States mar- shals, both here and in Albuquerque, N. Mex.. reported they had received no communication from Washington con- cerning the case. Marshal Joseph ‘Tondre of New Mexico said he expected commitment papers weuld not arrive before tonight nd that the manner of service would depend on instructions. JUNIOR 4-H CLUB LEADERS TO MEET AT BLACKSBURG By the Associated Press. BLACKSBURG. Va., July 16.—Junior | leaders of the 4-H Ali-Star Conference | in Virginia will gather here tomorrow to make plans for conducting their annual meeting in connection with the 4-H boys’ and girls' short course, to be held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute | next week. | Betwcen 800 and 900 boys and girls are expected to attend the short course, which will start Monday and continue through Saturday. The short course is under the direction of C. A. Mont- gomery and Miss Hallle L. Hughes, | State boys' and girls' clubs agen The courses in agricultural subjects, | usually given by V. P. 1. specialists, | have been arranged. | An all-cotton fashion show will be part of the short course. The dresses and costumes will show the versatile | uses of cotton as a fabric. | Leave ‘Washington 4:00 P.M. 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Nat'l 4905 B aa COLD CUTS are so much more appetizin Pl:” th g GULOENS ‘Mustard‘ Phone District 3300 erve Sentence STAR, WASHINGTON, FALL SAYS TRADE GAVE HOOVER POST Placed in Cabinet for Mel- lon’s Nomination, He Declares. ‘The musical ability of Charles Gates Dawes almost landed him in the cabi- net of President Harding as Secretary of the Treasury. ‘This sidelight on the circumstances surrounding the selection of the Harding ministry is disclosed today in the sec- ond instaliment of Albert B. Fall's story of his experiences in Washington, which is bring carried by the North American Newspaper Alllance of which The Star is a member. that Herbert Hcover was appointed Sec- retary of Commerce through a political and Knox of Pennsylvania that gave Andrew W. Mellon, also a Pennsylva- nian, instead of Gen. Dawes, the Treas- ury_portfolio. He says also that Charles Evans Hughes was made Secr<tary of State despite the expressed desire of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts for that post. Game Starts at Dinner. ‘The political chess game with pro- spctive cabinet appointees as pawns Senator Lodge the day after Harding's nomination, according to Fall. As he recalls it, those present. in ad- dition to Mr. Harding and himself, were Senators Brandegee. Smoot and W cks. Harding was visioning election, and brought up Mr. Hoover'’s nam. “What do_you think of him?” Mr. Fall quotes Karding as having said. Fall said that there was an exchange of stares; that Hoover, because of his prominence in the Wiison administra- tion, was viewed as a Democrat and “this was a group of dyed-in-the-wool Republicans.” “He should be in the cabinet. Prob- ably no man is better known in this country today. I believe that if he isn't recognized and in a big way, re- gardless of his association with the | Wilson administration, millions of peo- trade engineer:d by Senators Penrose 25c 50c 75c $1.:50 BELL CAB (0. METROPOLITAN 1727 D. C.. THURSDAY le are to be disappols " Fall fl quote(r, 3‘ having replg%o o Popularity Recognized. Senator Smoot is said to have ngeed that Hoover was “too well established to be overlooked, but was not sure he should be in the cabinet,” adding that “he must be built up first as a Re- ublican—should make some speeches for Harding and definitely establish himself as a Harding supporter.” Mr. Harding asked where Hoover was at that time and was told in Chicago. He expressed his intention of seeing him, and Fall then, it is said, Harding’s mind was made up.” No one else at_the meeting spoke on behalf of Mr. Hoover as a cabinet possibility, Fall's account says. In the course of the evening, Mr. | Harding, it is recalled, vciced his in- | tention of making Mr. Hughes Secre- | tary of State. | “I should certainly object to that, because I want that post myself,” Mr. Fall quotes Senator Lodge as having | interjected. Mind Made Up. Harding was silent, the story con- tinues, but later in the night, when! | Harding and Fall were together, the | | former sald, according to the narrative, | |that he was sorry Lodge had spoken, | because I've made up my mind not to give it to (Elhu) Root.” | Taking up the Hoover-Mellon-Dawes | triangle, Fall recalls that a few days after the dinner party he asked Hard- | ing whom he proposed to appoint Sei |retary of the Treasury and drew.the | “immediate _and _enthusiastic reply, Charles G. Dawes.” | “I've nothing against Dawes—hardly | know the man—but my choice,” Fail | says he suggested, “would be another | banker, George Reynolds. He has great | |ability’ as a financier—and I hardly | know him, either. I suggest him be- | would please & whole lot of people in | Tlinois.” | | 7“It happened that the man I had suggested was Dawes’ business compet- itor. On the business plane, therefore, | they were intense rivals” Fall contin- ues, recalling the following colloquy: | “Dawes Is also a man of great finan- | cial ability.” Harding responded. ‘He was a soldier_with a good record. He is a credit to Tllinois in every way, and, | besides, he’s a musician and composer!* | "“What in the world has that last to do with it?" “Must Have Fine Soul.” | “Why, it shows he has something to | him besides business. A man of all-| around development like that is bound to have a fine soul. That's the kind of men I like, and Dawes is as good New NEW REDUCED RATES FOR THE FORMER 35¢ ZONE 60c ZONE 85¢ ZONE CITY DRIVIN JLY,. 6. 1951 a banker as you'll ind anywhere. Don't forget that!” “At least a half dozen times in that conversation,” Fall adds, “Harding men- tioned that Dawes was a musician and dom) r. The spiritual qualities im- plied in Dawes’ aptitude for music seemed to touch something in Hard- ing’s sentimental nature. “There the situation lay—Reynolds, who was well supported, on the one hand; Dawes on the other. There was never any bitter factional fight between them, but both stood high in the fu- ture President's considerations, wit! Dawes standing a little the higher. ‘“The shrewd and astute Senators Knox and Penrose sized up this state of affairs. Men of great influence and power in the Senate, they could defeat almost any man nominated by the President for a cabinet job. They were to be reckoned with. Called by Knox. “One day Knox summoned me to his office. Penrose was there. Harding was then in Florida. The Senators came to the point. They wanted me to go to Florida and insist that Harding| pledge himself to Andrew W. Melion for_Secretary of the Treasury. “They_extolled Mellon: A big figure in his home State, a man of great In continuing his narrative, Fall says | as “the job would have to go to Hughes, | financial grasp and ability. a man who would bring power and influence to the administration. Pennsylvania, too, they did not neglect to say, was entitled to recognition, the most effective of all political claims when backed by a good favorable vote, as in this instance. “Standing there, looking at those two powerful Senators, it seemed to me, too, that Pennsylvania was entitled to recog- nition. “But I didn't know what Harding would say. How about Illinois? How about Dawes, his favorite? “It popped into my mind that Hard- ing was also insistent that Hoover, now dated back to a dinner party given by |cause his nomination for the cabinet openly for him and making speeches in his behalf, should be in his cabinet. Without the support of Knox and Pen- rcse, Hoover's nomination for the cabinet would never be confirmed.” “Trying to cover my inward embarrass- ment by joking” Mr. Fall says he queried: “Isn't it customary to ask in what political way_reciprocation might be shown were this little faver done?” Penrose said “certainly,” he recalls, then Fall adds: “Well.” I hesitated, wondering what the effect was going to be, “how about Herbert Hoover?” Trade Terms Made. “You insist that Harding nominate Mellcn, and if he does nominate Mellon, we'll support Hoover.”" Again I wondered about Dawes. 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