At Swampscott

P: It developed that a report which newspaper correspondents had sent out to the effect that the President had seen rum runners anchored in front of his house at Swampscott and had asked General Lincoln C. Andrews (see PROHIBITION) to clean up the Massachusetts coast was based on the facts 1) that some vessels which were observed on the bay might have been rum runners, 2) in a cottage near White Court previous to the President's arrival, a liquor cache had been discovered. The President denied that he had made any request of General Andrews.

P: The chief events at White Court were calls by notables: Athletes from Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge called; Senator and Mrs. Edge dropped in as they motored up to Bath, Me., and left cards; Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, recently elected (TIME, July 13, WOMEN), paid a visit. Italian Ambassador Giacomo and Signora Antonnietta de Martino left cards on their way to the Italian summer embassy at Beverly, Mass.

P: Correspondents snapped up a morsel of information that the President let drop. He favored reduction of normal taxes, surtaxes and inheritance taxes if the prospective Treasury surpluses were large enough.

P: President Coolidge denied absolutely that there was any verisimilitude in the rumor that Andrew W. Mellon might soon resign as Secretary of the Treasury.

P: Recently, President Coolidge received his first plumber's bill in two years--as the result of calling a local plumber to fix water pipes in White Court (TIME, July 6). Last week, it was reported that, for further repairs to his summer plumbing, he had had two skilled mechanics, part of the crew of the Mayflower, visit White Court.

P: The President named Edgar Bernard Brossard of Utah to be a member of the U. S. Tariff Commission. Mr. Brossard has served the Commission as an economist since 1923, and is represented as a high tariff advocate. Senator Smoot recommended him. This is President Coolidge's third appointment to the Commission--all three, including one Conservative Democrat, are high-tariff advocates. With Chairman Marvin and Mr. Glassie, who are of the same opinions, the high-tariff advocates control the Commission five to one. A year ago, a low-tariff group of Democrats and Progressive Republicans controlled the Commission.

P:Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge motored to Lake Attitash, 35 miles away, to attend an outing of Essex County newspapermen and politicians. A Mr. Bauer, candidate for Mayor of Lynn, was host. Governor Fuller was there. So was Senator Butler, candidate for reelection. It was a get-together meeting of Senator Butler's followers and those of the late Senator Lodge--hitherto hostile. Mr. Coolidge circulated through the crowd shaking hands, and climbed a 40-ft. wooden observation tower, issuing a warning for not too many people to follow him lest it collapse. P: On returning to White Court, Mr. Coolidge found Secretary of State Kellogg and Assistant Secretary Grew waiting for him on the piazza, where they had been sitting for an hour and a quarter. At once, all three fell to a two and a half hour conference on the state of Chinese affairs (see CHINA).

P: Mr. Coolidge declined an invitation from John G. Hibben, President of Princeton University, to act as an honorary official at an international track meet--Princeton-Cornell vs. Oxford-Cambridge at Atlantic City (see SPORT). Said Mr. Coolidge:

"I cannot let the occasion pass without expression of my hearty approval of such friendly international contests. They are certain to further the best relations and promote friendly acquaintance between the countries concerned."

P: Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge invited newspapermen and their wives for an afternoon's cruise on the Mayflower. The yacht made its way to Nantasket Roads and the President led a party ashore to visit Fort Andrews, an old defense of Boston, now dilapidated and garrisoned by 3 officers and 17 men. Going through a machine shop, Dick Jervis, bodyguard of the President, fell into an elevator shaft and dropped five feet with a crash. On the return voyage, tea was served, and Mrs. Coolidge called to her for a chat Cabot Lodge, grandson of the late Senator, serving as a correspondent of the Boston Transcript.

P: Sunday morning, a blazing hot day, the President with Mrs. Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg and Mr. Stearns motored to Salem to church.

P: Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill, in charge of public buildings at Washington and of the summer renovation of the White House, announced that, when the President returns to the Capital, he will have no longer the gilded metal bed which has been in his bedroom, but a handsome early American one in which to take his rest.