The White House Week

The White House Week

P: With the rank of Envoy Extraordinary, the American Minister to Persia, Hoffman Philip, was delegated to appear at the coronation of Reza Shah Pahlevi, on April 25, as the personal representative of His Excellency, the President of the U. S. Brigadier General Harry A. Smith will travel to Persia for the event as representative of the Department of State.

P:Senator James E. Watson, greatly admired for dexterity in keeping friends with the Ku Klux Klan of Indiana without offending the President, called at the White House. He reported that onetime Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray is sick. Would not the President release him from the Atlanta penitentiary, whither he was sent for misuse of the mails ?

P:The President took up the harassing task of examining a bill for the return of German alien property seized during the War. It is suggested that the U. S. pay all private claims of Americans against Germans and take upon itself the job of collecting from Germany. As this might involve a $250,000,000 bond issue, temporarily increasing the national debt, Mr. Coolidge naturally desires to examine the matter.

P: Camp Fire girls sent Mrs. Coolidge a ceremonial robe, headbands; gave her a new name, "Aikahyi," signifying First Lady of the Land.

P:The President requested of Congress another $100,000 for prosecution of suits arising from Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases. The Director of the Budget wrote: "It will be impossible to complete this litigation before the end of the current fiscal year."

P:The wife of the editor of the Saturday Evening Post, Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, caused it to be known that Mrs. Coolidge desires to furnish the White House with genuine antiques. Mrs. Lorimer intimated that Mrs. Coolidge would soon issue an appeal for donations of priceless pieces of furniture--Adam, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, etc.--which, if accepted by a committee of experts, would be placed in the White House for the admiration of posterity.

P: The White House made known that U. S. Minister to Switzerland Hugh S. Gibson would head the U. S. delegation to the commission which will meet in Geneva next month to prepare for an international disarmament conference; that his assistants would be: from the State Department--Allen Welsh Dulles, Dorsey Richardson; from the War Department--Brigadier Generals Dennis E. Nolan, H. A. Smith, Major George B. Strong; from the Navy Department--Rear Admirals Hilary P. Jones and Andrew T. Long, Captain Adolphus Andrews of the presidential yacht, Mayflower. Alan F. Winslow, able one-armed ex-flyer, secretary of the U. S. legation at Berne, was named secretary to the delegation.

P: Sunday after church, Minister Gibson sailed down the Potomac aboard the Mayflower, doubtless learning what he is to say at Geneva.