The Hoover Vote

Westward from Washington across the continent by air mail last week sped two absentee ballots to be counted at Palo Alto, Calif, as part of the nation-wide election. The voters: Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover. Two years ago they journeyed across the country to vote in person for Herbert Hoover.

(P:. Hereafter the Hoover wash will not be done on the premises. It will be sent out to the Army laundry at Fort Myer, Va. Reason: the White House laundry is being remodeled into offices for the President's social secretary (F. Lament Belin) and his naval and military aides (Lt. Col. Campbell Blackshear Hodges and Captain Charles Russell Train).

(P:. In a private car Mrs. Hoover took her tubercular son Herbert to a cottage on Sunset Mountain outside Asheville, N. C. where his treatment will be continued.

(P: As part of his plan to demilitarize U. S. control over Haiti President Hoover accepted the resignation of Brig. General John Henry Russell, U. S. Marine Corps, as High Commissioner to the black republic. General Russell will be succeeded by a U. S. Minister, Dana Munro, whilom chief of the State Department's Latin-American division.

(P: President Hoover was told last week by Allen Burns, executive director of the National Association of Community Chests, that $55,000,000 would be raised this year in 200 cities for United charity, that no hard time sufferers would be allowed to starve or freeze.

(P: Because neither France nor Italy has yet ratified the London Naval Treaty, the President last week sent his closest diplomatic friend, Ambassador (to Belgium) Hugh Gibson, first to Paris, then to Rome. After talking with Prime Ministers Andre Tardieu and Benito Mussolini, Mr. Gibson was to go to Geneva for one more session of the thus far largely abortive League of Nations Preparatory Committee for a Disarmament Conference. Correspondents in Paris and Rome agreed, after Diplomat Gibson's visits last week, that there is still no prospect of ratification of the London Treaty by either France or Italy for a long time to come.

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