Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1931, Page 7

ALE LONGHORT POLTIGAL TOPE Boom for Vice Presidency Sufficient to Start Buzz in Capital. ‘Washington political circles buzsed to- @ay over the possible political future of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Ever since her husband, Speaker| Nicholas Longworth, died faint rumors bave been heard that his widow might Tun for the Senate or the House. Mrs | Longworth herself has said nothing Bince his death she has practically re- tired from all social and public life. Now comes a definite boom launched for her, not as Senator, but as Vice President, should Vice President Cufllll not seek to retain his post. South Dakota Sentiment. It seems fitting that & boom for “T. R.'s” daughter should be launched in South Dakota, where many of the scenes her fatls: loved &till exist. and | the Capital, where she has lived so long, can well see the reason for Repre- | sentative Willlam Williamson's state- | ment that the boosters in his home State of South Dakota ¢hink Mrs. Long- | worth would “add color and pep to the | face.” For a quarter of a century and more Alice Roosevelt Longworth has main- | ined her place as one of the most | teresting res in the Capital 8he has never tried to enter politics, but the minute she slips into a seat in| House or Senate gallery eyes turn | ward ber and the per starts: | *“There’s Alice Longworth! She’ entertains but rarely, and exclusiveness and interesting conversa tion are the keynotes rather than elabo- | Tate display. Simply dressed, without make-up, she 45 a center of an cager group of lis- teners at any social affair she attends. Benators and other high officials_clus- around her in the White House blue room during receptions. Magnet for Attention. She has the magnetic quality of at- and holding attention that was father's. She talks fast and with animation., If she gets bored with a she leaves fi. £%a has a sense of and laughs when she feels like not because a laugh is expected. ‘Though she has taken no active part in_ politics, she has displayed shrewd political sense in her comments and llg:tluu, her close friends say. took a live interest in the race of her friend, Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc- of Ilinols, for the United States Senate, even going to Chicago to be with Mrs. McCormick during the latter part of the campaign. D. C. HEADS ORDER POLIGE PROMOTIONS 3.0 lm: ;srdoi Captain and ‘W. W. MacDonald Named to Fill Vacancy. | ‘The District Commissioners yester- day ordered the promotion of Lieut. Joseph C. Morgan, administrative as- sistant -tmpo!l{fie "R:etdqll-rum to u; captaincy e vacancy crea the retirement of Capt. Walter . Sergt. Willlam M. Mac- E@lm was oted to the vacant leutenancy, Pvt. Willlam M. Mec- Duffic was made a sergeant, Two nts and two privates in the Police Department were ordered re- tired on recommendations of the Board Governor Hurt OHIO EXECUTIVE HAS BROKEN GOV. GEORGE WHITE. ¢4 Press Ohlo, October 28 —Gov. George White had a fractured right col- lar bone today as & reminder of what might have been a serious automobile accident The Governor was being driven here by his chauffeur, Ralph Wocter, from Toledo yesterday when his automobile skidded from the Dixie Highway into & 15-foot ditch eight miles north of Find- lay. He was taken to a Findiay - 1'in the automobile of W. C. Wright, Detroft_automobile salesman, but came on to Columbus by train after receiving trestment The Chief Executive refused assist- ance when he arrived here last night and smilec dly at a stretcher wor- ried officials hid ready for his use. Wright, who was driving behind the Governor, said the highway had become slippery after a heavy rain. The Gov: ernor and the chauffeur, who was un- hurt, had extric: lves from the wreckage whéh Wright stopped. . CAPPER OPPSES SHLESTAXFORLS Luxuries and Big Incomes Should Carry Load, Kansan Says. By the Assoclated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., October 28 —Sena- tor Arthur Capper of Kansas said last night he favored “some luxury sales or excise taxes” and higher rates of taxes on larger incomes, but expressed him- self as being “fundamentally” opposed to a general sales tax. Discussing the national tax situation and the legislative program he intends to support, the Kansas Senator in a radio address said he was fundamentally to a general sales tax, as it places the tax burden “still more heav- ily on the persons least able to af- ford it.” Senator Capper said he intended to support a legislative program calling for “reductions in armament expenditures— and that meons also ever ounce of in- fluence and power I possess will back mdrm Hoover in his program for rnational disarmament—for redue-+ tions in all Government expenditures to the point of safety, for increases in income tax rates on the higher bracket incomes, for an increase in estate taxes Pvts. | and adequate taxes on gifts made for Orawford and Frank M. koph. Pvt. Charles G. Limerick of the Fire ent was ordered dismissed on bis conviction on a charge of using intoxicants. A charge of driving while drunk was against him by seventh police, but he was ac- ftted in Police Court. He admitted, fowever, having taken & drink of home brew, and Dr. John A. Reed of the Board of Surgeons reported that he had the odor of liquor on his breath. SUCCESSOR IS NAMED FOR WHITE HOUSE. AIDE Lieut. Comdr. G. A. Poindexter to Fill Post Left Vacant by Harlow Death. A new White House aide has been | added to President Hoover's staff with the appointment yesterday of Lieut. Comdr. Gale Aylett Poindexter, U. §. N., who is attached to the Office of Naval Communications, Navy Department. His home is at 1750 N street. He succeeds the late Lieut. Comdr. Hamilton Har- low, who was killed in an automobile accident on the Defense Highway while returning to Washington ~ from An- | jeut. Comdr. Poindexter is a native of Walla Walla, Wash. He received his appointment to the Naval Academy | from his native State in 1913 and was | au_\,miashnm an ensign on March 30, 191 During the World War the new White House aide served aboard the battleship | Pennsylvania and with the destroyer | force based st Queenstown, Ireland. | He was attached to the destroyer squadrons, battle force, from 1927 to 1930, when he reported for duty at the ent. GEN. FECHET TO LEAVE | ARMY DECEMBER 31 Chief of Army Air Corps Will Re- tire After More Than 30 Years of Service hi W own application, Maj. Gen Fechet, chief of the Army Corps, will be placed on the retired December 31 after more than active service. He will be suc- | as chief of the Air Corps on ! date named by Brig. Gen Benja- D. Foulois, now his chief assist- | whose appointment as head of | corps, with the rank of major was announced several weeks H!sgs 414 Born in Texas August 21 Fechet entered the A Corps, Be hed served since g in the ranks in Cuba during the Spanish War of 1898 and was & in the Signal Corps, A. E. F, during the World War. DIVA WEDS BROKER Mme. Easton obtained a divcroe two ago from Francis MacLennan, the hom she was married more ago in London. They agreement i Octo- | Los Angeles, Minneapoiis, Philadelphia the purpose of evading estate taxes.” ARMY MECHANIZED FORCE SOON TO BE DISBANDED War Department Will Transfer Functions to Some Cavalry Regi- ment Yet to Be Named. Under orders issued by the War Department, the mechanised force at Fort Eustis, Va., the only one in the service, will be disbanded early in November and its functions transferred to some Cavalry regiment not yet designated. Most of the force at Fort Eustis will be returned to the organiza- tions from which the elements were taken, and all the unattached will be sent to Camp Knox, Ky., where & new mechanized Cavalry regiment will be organized and stationed. The existing mechanized force was orgsn- ised at Fort Eustis in October, 1930, with a strength of 50 officers and 6u0 enlisted men, formerly attached to| either the Infantry, Cavalry, Pield Artillery, Coast Artillery, Engineers, | Ordnance, Quartermaster Corps, Signal Corps or the Chemical Warfare Serv- fce. Col. Daniel V. Voorhis, Cavalry, is the present commanger. 36 CITIES WILL UNITE IN DISARMAMENT PLEA Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler An- nounces Plans for Armistice Day. B: Asscciated Press. W YORK, October 28.—Thirty-six cities have arranged to unite on Armis- tice day, November 11, in Nation-wide plans for disarmament, Dr. Nicholas | Murray Butler, president of the Carne- gle Endowment for International Peace ced | cities include Houston, Tex.: | Salt Lake City, Utah: Char- ville, Va.: Northfield, Minn alla Walla, Wash.; Lynchburg, Va Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, | San co, Potistown. Pa.; Boston, Mich: Seattle, Iowa City, Chicago, Cleve- ittsburgh, Richmond, the meeting, as de- Butler, is “to present to public opinion the problems which confront the coming Disarma- ment Conference in February, 1932, and tc emphasize the extreme importance of that conference.” The “feel” of Man- hattan is here, as sinGLe well as luxury of 53 appointment. 700 rooms with tub and s shower bath, cir. 5 culating ice water. / PARAMOUN 46 STREET WEST OF BROADWAY, NEW YORK CHARLES L ORNSTEIN, MANAGER Rotes DOUBLE ’ THE EVENING STAR. 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