The Hoover Week

President Hoover whacked the Shipping Board down from seven to three members. Surviving this economy were Commissioners Thomas Ventry O'Connor, Samuel S. Sandberg and Rear Admiral Hutchinson Ingham Cone.

P:A log fire warmed the President & guests at his Rapidan camp over the weekend. He rested from the nervous tension incident to calling out the Army to evacuate the Bonus Expeditionary Force (see col. 2). The highway from Washington was scoured by Virginia troopers in flashing white cars to see that the President was not accosted or molested by straggling Bonus marchers.

P: President Hoover pocket-vetoed one bill left by Congress--a measure to open Reconstruction Finance Corp. wider to borrowing farmers--because it duplicated R. F. C. farm loans already provided for.

P:"I've been called to lead the Ethiopian out of darkness. I sent the President 30 messages. He hath the program but he don't seem to understand it,& Gilbert F. Bonner, a big black Southern Negro kept insisting to White House attaches as he camped outside President Hoover's office door. A "prophet of doom," Bonner wore an old Army uniform (he used to be a quartermaster sergeant), with a blue cheesecloth turban on his head. Small gilt crucifixes dangled from every blouse pocket. White House guards let him sit day after day in the lobby, vainly waiting to carry his "message" to the President.

P:Washington dog licenses Nos. i and 2 were ceremoniously carried to the White House by Collector of Taxes Chatham Moore Towers, handed to the President. He put No.1 on Pat, his German shepherd. No. 2 on Weegee, his Norwegian elkhound.

P:"I forgot all about it," laughed Ambassador Mellon, emerging from the White House, when newsmen asked if he had discussed his rumored resignation with the President.

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