The Hoover Week

Conflict with the Senate again marred the peace of President Hoover's week. Well-intentioned, he warned the Congress against legislation which, if passed, he knew would bloat the budget, necessitate tax increases. The same set of Senators who had flayed him for his silence on the tariff rose up to denounce him for speaking out against extravagance. President Hoover shifted his ground under this attack, appealed to the country at large to support economy. P: President Hoover selected John North Willys, onetime motorman, as U. S. Ambassador to Poland, to succeed the late Alexander Pollock Moore. P: With unemployment causing riotous disturbances throughout the land, President Hoover was pleased last week to receive a report from the public utility group of his business revival committee that utility building projects for 1930 would total $1,500,000,000. P: President Hoover, with Mrs. Hoover, attended the funeral of Mabel Hunter Richey, late wife of Hoover Secretary Lawrence Richey. From Rock Creek Cemetery the President drove to the Wyoming Avenue home of William Howard Taft. There he called upon the wife of the dying 27th President of the U. S.

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