Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1931, Page 24

SURGEDN GENERAL HAS 20 BRTHDAY Dr. Hugh'S. Cumming Starts Day at Rapidan Camp, but Is Due at Desk. By the Associated Press Dr. Hugh 8. Cumming, surgeon gen- eral of the Public Health Service under four Presidents, today ecelebrated his 62nd birthday anniversary. Like Presicent Hoover last Mond: he was schedu’ed to start his birthdey at Rapiden C:-ran. coming back toda: veterans' hospital for A s The week end invitation to Dr. and Mrs, Cumming from President and Mrs. Hoover was a heppy chance. In Mrs. | Hoover's party going down the Potomac | River by boat to christen twin mer- chant ships, Dr. Cumming treveled to the town where he was born. Hampton, | Va. He married Lucy Booth. another Virginian of long-rooted family. Has Watched Work Grow. Only four other surgeon generals pre- | ceded him In his Public Health Service | THE EVENING CAPT,HANKS FINED S50 B CLSTONS Lands From Canada Without Visiting Port of Entry. To Be Let Off. 1Health Chief 62 l By the Associated Press. BURLINGTON, Vt., August 17.—Capt. Frank Hawks, holder of many Ameri- can alrplane speed records, yesterday was fined $500 by American customs of- ficlals for landing illegally in the United | States after a flight to Montreal. ’ Customs officials said, however, they would recommend the assessment be waived, since they were convinced Capt Hawks did not intend to violate the w Capt. Hawks and Miss Maude Cate of Springfleld, Mass. fiying separate planes. took off yesterday from . Huber e DR. HUGH 8. CUMMING. | ;ort, in Montreal, for _Burlington. Deputy Customs Collector Benjamin S | Heath met them as they arrived at the KAUFMAN FAILS TO GET micput Arpor” here "and- charged entry on the U. S. POST IN DENMARK | g265.d: hey nad fatied to report, at | elther of the two nearby ports of entry, Swanton, Vt. or Plattsbur Minister to Siam Ordered Back in Time to Greet Returning {HAY FEVER ASTHMA post, and Dr. Cumming served under two of them. He has thus watched this great governmental life-conserving or- | ganization grow from a personnel of 55, | BY the Assoclated Press. scattersd physicians to more than 1,000 | David E. Kaufman, Minister to Slam, physiciens directing a huge corps of | yag requested today by the State De- nurses and laboratcry workers. | " President Wilson made him surgeon , PATtment to leave the United States general in 1920, taking him from re- | for his post at Bangkok by September 1. | construction work in Smyrna. He has| The instructions to Kaufman dis- singe served under Harding, Coolidge | closed he would remain in his present and Hoover. | assignment and not be appointed as King and Queen. L STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1931 7th, 8th and E Sts. NAtional 9800 LANSBURGH’S No Connection With Any Other Washington Store They're New ... Aided First 1898 Wounded. Miuister to Denmark, for which he was Dr. » an applicant. Kaufman had requested tradition’ of Virginia gentleman. 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