Six Gold Pens

As he said he would (TIME, June 23), President Hoover last week signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. To write the necessary 13 brief words he used six gold pens, which he presented to the conferees on the bill: Senators Smoot, Watson, Shortridge, and Congressmen Hawley, Treadway, Bacharach. During the ceremony, from which photographers, newsgatherers and cinemen were excluded, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, four of the conferees, Collector of Customs Francis X. A. Eble and the President's three private secretaries, stood by at solemn attention.

P: For the commission (No. 13--TIME, June 16) to investigate the Shipping Board's liquidation troubles, President Hoover last week chose: Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago, onetime Shipping Board chairman; President Clarence Mott Woolley of American Radiator Co. (Allan Hoover's boss this summer); and Ira Alexander Campbell of Manhattan, famed Admiralty lawyer.

P: White House visitors last week included: 1) Rear-Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, back from the Antarctic (see p. 18); 2) U. S. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, en route to assist in planning the World's Fair at Chicago; 3) President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, who said after seeing the President: "I discussed . . . the question of unemployment. . . . The situation is decidedly encouraging now. . . . I am rather of the opinion that the census report will show the number of unemployed will not be as great as some have forecast."

P: After inviting 18 guests for a week-end on the Rapidan, President Hoover found that Congressional business required his attention, remained in Washington, wrote his letter to Senator Watson urging defeat for the present Veterans' Relief Bill (see p. 16).

P: As the President's personal representative, Captain Alfred W. Johnson, Director of Naval Intelligence, last week sailed for Nicaragua to act as chairman of the board of president elections.

P: Because Shepherd Dog Pat refused to answer when the President, his master, called, but would respond to the call of a White House policeman, Secretary Lawrence Richey last week gave orders that no policeman is to pet Pat.

P: To be director in the Prohibition Bureau, newly transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice, President Hoover last week appointed Lieut.-Colonel Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, U. S. District Attorney at Baltimore.

P: The President, like many another citizen of the U. S. and other countries, braced himself for the Senate's debate on the London Treaty, last week finally reported out by the Foreign Affairs Committee.

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