Host

It was a pleased and pleasant President Coolidge who led Nominee Hoover to a chair on the porch of the Summer White House and sat him down to give the public photographers an inning.

Photographers: "Talk to him, Mr. President. Carry on a conversation."

President Coolidge: (Something inaudible, which made the Nominee smile.)

President Coolidge: "I can't, Mr. Hoover won't carry on his end of the conversation."

After the cameramen were through, the President bade the word-reporters draw near.

President Coolidge: "Here he is. You asked for an interview. I saw him go by with a box of bait very similar to the box they gave me in Superior."

Nominee Hoover (speaking for the first time): "The point of major interest is whether there are any fish left in the Brule."

(Then, to everyone's surprise) : "I fished up here 15 years ago."

Mr. Hoover explained that he was a mere private engineer then, on vacation. Mr. Henry Clay Pierce, late owner of Cedar Island Lodge, did not invite -the visitor to enter, but Engineer Hoover found a back entrance and fished the Brule anyway.

Nominee Hoover (concluding quite a long story): "I wonder whether any fish are left, now that the President has been here."

Conversations of great men are often just as simple as that. The two at Brule thought of no more to say, so Coolidge cigars were passed around and the interview was over.

P:Hearing that newsgatherers were talking about mosquitoes on the Brule, President Coolidge asked specifically if any newsgatherer had been bitten by any mosquito on the Brule. There are, he let it be known, no mosquitoes on the Brule and whoever says so is a bearer of false report.

P:Soon after Nominee Hoover left, President Coolidge announced that Roy Owen West of Chicago had been appointed Secretary of the Interior, succeeding Dr. Hubert Work, national chairman for Hooverism (see THE CABINET). No successor to Nominee Hoover as Secretary of Commerce was named or reliably rumored.

P:To succeed Jefferson Caffery, resigned, as U. S. Minister to Salvador, President Coolidge appointed Warren D. Robbins, counselor to the U. S. Embassy at Rome. To succeed Charles S. Wilson, transferred (te Rumania), as U. S. Minister to Bulgaria, President Coolidge appointed Hans

Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld, counselor to the U. S. Embassy at Mexico City. P:President Coolidge commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of one Malcomb Howard, 35, Negro, convicted in Washington of murdering Jessie Nelson, girl friend, last winter.

P:President Coolidge made known that he regards with favor the idea of a polyglot conference ("world gathering," "international parley," "pact ceremony," "peace rally") at Paris, before long, to sign the multilateral Kellogg treaty renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy" (see p. 11).

P:Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur and Thomas Cochran, partner'in J. P. Morgan and Co., arrived at Cedar Island Lodge as guests of President Coolidge. Secretary Wilbur talked about Nicaragua.