The Hoover Week

Up to the White House portico rolled a borrowed automobile. Crowds gaped at the front seat, stacked with two suitcases and a worn valise, and at the back seat, occupied by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh & Wife. They got out, entered the White House. Governor Leslie of Indi- ana, loitering in the lobby, stepped forward for a handshake. Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh marched on to the Executive Offices where President Hoover waited for them. Col. Lindbergh placed himself at the President's left. Government officials connected with aviation pressed close to watch President Hoover pull out a large $1,500 gold medal* voted by Congress in 1928, hand it to Col. Lindbergh. Said the President:

It's a great pleasure to present to you this Congressional medal in commemoration of your achievements in aviation (pause). I'm sure the sentiments expressed by Congress in this token (pause) are shared by the American people."

Col. Lindbergh, after a long embarrassed pause, almost whispered: "I thank you . . . my thanks to Congress . . . my appreciation . . . my thanks."

Later President Hoover took Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh to his Rapidan camp. Other guests: Assistant Secretary of War Davison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Young. Talk topic: aviation, commercial and military. Col. Lindbergh played at throwing darts with his wife, watched others putt around a Tom Thumb golf course built by Marines near the President's camp.

P: Last week President Hoover met governors and representatives from drought afflicted states, told them what the U. S. could and would do by way of relief (see p. 18). He postponed his vacation "a month or so."

P: To succeed Robert Henry Lucas, who resigned to become Executive Director of the G. O. P.. President Hoover appointed David Burnet to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Ten years a tax-collector, Mr. Burnet was promoted from deputy commissioner on merit, not politics.

P: President Hoover last week named Herman Murray Jacoby, wealthy German-born Manhattan bond broker, to represent him as a special ambassador next November when Ras Taffari. Regent of Ethiopia, becomes H. I. M. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. To Addis Ababa, remote Abyssinian capital, for the African coronation Mr. Jacoby will take a full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with Ras Taffari to dam Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile, to build Abyssinian highways.*

* Bronze duplicates will be purchasable at the U. S. Mint in Philadelphia for $1.

*Last week the company was accused of planning to use slave labor on its construction. Gano Dunn, corporation president, denied such intention, declared: "The Emperor is radically opposed to slave labor."

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