Show Willkie Pledges Westerner In His HisS Cabinet y 1 fl Harry rrY arry I L. Carlson CarIllon GREAT FALLS Mont Feb 16 Vp UP Wendell L. L Willkie candidate sand candi date for tor the 1944 Republican presidential preal- preal nomination Wednesday Laid if U he were elected president will appoint at least one mem mem- member ber berof of his cabinet from the west Willkie at a press conference here here this morning said 1 Within our cur national economy more consideration con- con must be given to the I p problems problems Of the west Today no member of the cabinet no policy- policy Making Baking official of the federal gov gov- 1 emment comes from the western Mates tates j I The Republican party and its candidate should pledge that if it l come to power it will appoint at least east one member of ot the thc cabinet 1 from the west and an appropriate 1 er Of ot other policy making officials I Y Impressed by byest West k 3 said he had been Im pressed anew anew with the industrial an and agricultural t p possibilities of the I I northwest He said in his present f trip through Utah Idaho Wash- Wash lington Oregon California and f Montana that the people of this 1 vast cut area are desperately anxious j when when peace com comes s to maintain the 1 i 1 industrial development and en en- 5 Urged agricultural mark markets ts which have been established during the A. A V present war r J No poll political leader can guarantee guaran- guaran t tee e such auch a result Willkie said but butI I 1 do believe that such results can cans s be it accomplished provided a peace i Is brought through the cooperative cooperativeS i S efforts of the nations of the world a a peace with some chance of performance peri per per- i Such a development wit bring the thirsty markets of ofa k a stabilized orient to the western f J United States for its provisioning ie he be said Bald f The potential presidential candidate candidate candi candi- date met with representatives of ot organized labor groups for a brief conference shortly after arriving from Spokane A labor spokesman eald said Willkie Indicated that if he were elected president he would have a a representative of labor inI in I ibis his his cabinet Labor representatives said aid he declared that he would make the Republican party the liberal party lifts Hits Steel Formula 1 The group also aIso said he had expressed expressed ex ex- pressed the opinion that the little steel teel formula was not flexible flexible enough to keep abreast breast of ot Increases In the cost of living T v Approximately OO Republican representatives from 19 northern and central Montana counties attended attended attended at at- tended a breakfast for Willkie this morning During the br breakfast he heas was as adopted by the Blackfoot Indian Indian In In- dian tribe |