Heat & Holiday

Washington last week was 105, a record. President Hoover sat working in his office with his coat on and the windows down. But he was not hot; the new ventilating system installed in the executive offices (TIME, Jan. 27) filled his room with cold clean air. As the special session of the Senate moved rapidly toward an end, the President turned his thoughts to a vacation. He announced that he expected to leave Washington about Aug. 15 to spend two weeks in the "Northern Rockies," probably Glacier National Park. All of the many invitations to speak on this outing have been declined by the President. He will go and come in as much seclusion as possible, lest he be involved in Republican primary squabbles on the general agricultural depression.

P: President Hoover last week entertained 500 disabled veterans from neighboring Government hospitals on the back lawn of the White House. The grounds were filled with stretchers and wheelchairs.. Men hobbled about on crutches. Six Negro veterans of the Civil War wandered through the white crowd. One war invalid fainted, was carried away in an ambulance.

P: "Premature" was what President Hoover called reports that he was hunting a successor to James John Davis, Pennsylvania's Republican Senatorial nominee, as Secretary of Labor.

P: President Hoover last week was having trouble finding suitable men to appoint to the reorganized Federal Power Commission and Tariff Commission. His supply of "new patriots" who would change lucrative private jobs for $12,000 public offices was running short. He had named Lieut. General Edgar Jadwin (retired) as chair-man of the Power Commission, only to have that onetime Chief of Army Engineers decline the appointment because of a cry of "Power Trust!" against him in the Senate. Of the other Commissioners the President explained: "They are required by law to be mixed in political color and must, by implication, be regional and represent different groups of thought, which makes a picture puzzle to select." To the Senate last week as Federal Power Commissioner the President sent the nominations of: Claude L. Draper, chair-man of the Wyoming Public Utilities Com- mission; Ralph B. Williamson, Yakima. Wash., lawyer; Marcel Garsaud, Engineer of the Port of New Orleans.

P: Also nominated: Nicholas Roosevelt, New York Times editorial writer, third cousin of Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico, to be Vice Governor-General of the Philippines.

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