At White Pine Camp

P:Before eight, one morning, secret service men leapt from the path of an automobile that whizzed up the driveway. Secretary of Commerce Hoover got out; conferred hastily with the President on farm relief; offered plans (which were approved) for extensive Governmental promotion of civil aeronautics under the recent air legislation; whizzed down the driveway, took a train to California, presumably to aid his friend Senator Shortridge, whose renomination Senator Hiram Johnson is opposing.

P: Mr. Hoover had started a buzz of farm relief talk at White Pine Camp. Later, Charles S. Barrett, head of the National Farmers' Union, came up for the weekend. Finally the President announced a plan to put into effect, privately and unofficially, the farm relief program which he indorsed at the last session of Congress.

The plan is: that banks, insurance companies, mortgage loan concerns form a pool of $100,000,000 which will be loaned to cooperative marketing organizations for the financing and marketing of farm products at increased prices. Herbert Hoover is said to have hatched the scheme, intends to call a conference of farmers, financiers, government officials to nourish it.

P: The President sealed up a neat little bale of newspaper clippings telling of deaths from poisoned alcohol and letters of protest which he had received, despatched them to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Winston without comment. (See P. 8.)

P:The President was closeted for three hours with General H. M. Lord, Director of the Bureau of the Budget. In his budget speech last June, Mr. Coolidge had announced his determination to keep the next fiscal year appropriations at $3,200,000,000. Due chiefly to subsequent pension legislation, he was unable last week to cut the estimate below $3,270,000,000 even after blue-penciling $100,000,000 worth of proposals. The amount of the budget allowed for prohibition enforcement will be well over $30,000,000, last year's amount.

P: Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg arrived for a five-day conference with the President on foreign affairs and entanglements. He carried weighty reports on the Calles v. Catholics broil in Mexico, but assured Mr. Coolidge that no indignities had been done to U. S. citizens. Mr. Kellogg also carried unflattering news of the indifference of members of the World Court to U. S. entrance with Senate reservations.