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C CABINET OUT CLEAN-OUT W WASHINGTON Those WASHINGTON Those around the White House say thai that this ume the President really mc means ns business when it comes to cleaning out his Cabinet Of or course this word has been passed out so often that some intimates are keeping their fi fingers gers crossed However it is a fact that Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt is now faced with some situations situations situations situa situa- he cannot escape other situations situations situations situa situa- which have made him sore In Inthe Inthe Inthe the former former category is Cordell Hulls Hull's health In the latter category cate cate- category gory is Jesse Jones As a result various names have been put in the White House Cabinet hopper and are being examined carefully Here are some of the names which may feature in the new cabinet Secretary of Commerce Marrin Commerce Marriner Marrin- Marrin er Eccles now chairman of the Federal Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral Reserve Board or Leon Henderson Henderson Henderson Hen Hen- derson or Chester Bowles now OPA administrator or Beardsley Ruml author of the Ruml tax plan and considered a liberal big busi ness man Secretary of Labor Labor Dan Dan Tobin head of the teamsters' teamsters union or John Winant now Ambassador to London and former head of the International International International In In- Labor Office Winant however would prefer to be Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary of State Tobin it if i appointed is about the only leader who would be acceptable to the CIO CIa Postmaster General Robert General Robert Han- Han Frank Walker now Postmaster Postmaster Postmaster Post Post- master General believes that the Democratic national chairman should also be Postmaster and being being being be be- ing a retiring person anyway anyway Walker Walk Walk- er is ready to step out Secretary of or Agriculture Roose Agriculture Roose Roosevelt velt is hoping to persuade Henry Wallace to take this job again If It not Wallace will be offered the ambassadorship ambassadorship ambassadorship am am- to Moscow considered vitally important or chairmanship of the international food organza tion Roosevelt feels that It would be difficult politically to make Wallace Wallace Wallace Wal Wal- lace Secretary of State because of at opposition from Hull and Senate re re- Justice Ex-Justice Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes or Ambassador Wi Wi- nant Appointment of Byrnes would smooth things down for Hull who I Isn't anxious to resign even though in n the hospital Hull would kick like ike a mule if it Sumner Welles or Wallace were to succeed him Byrnes also gets along well with Senate Foreign Relations chairman Tom Connally and other ries Secretary of the Interior Interior Harold Harold Ickes I. I Attorney General General Francis Francis Biddle Roosevelt will not accept either Biddles Biddle's or Ickes' Ickes resignation They were his top campaign speakers NOTE NOTE After After defeated Willkie Willkie Will- Will kie kte in 1940 Miss Perkins submitted her resignation Her letter has been in the White House files since January 15 1941 The President never uever acted on it KAISERS KAISER'S MERCHANT l FLEET Demon ship-builder ship Henry Denry Kaiser Kai Kai- Kaiser ser thinks he has found an answer an au- answer to the burning question of how he can use some of the great fleet of merchant ships he has built and still keep on building more after the war Kaiser plans to enter competition tion with the West Coast shipping lines set up his own shipping business try to emphasize smart salesmanship cheap freight rates mass orders lie He says rays his only hope is a free rree and open market In the Orient thinks he can do a more efficient job of or shipping both to and from rom the Far East than a lot of old-line old companies NA NAVY VY DEPT RESHUFFLE Secretary of the thc Navy Forrestal finally has devised a plan to elevate elevate ele vate his old Wall Street friend Hensel to the job of Assistant Assist ant Secretary of the Navy He has been wanting to do it for a longtime long longtime longtime time but there were too many Wall Streeters running the Navy to add any more Here is the new solution You can write It down as definite that able John Sullivan now Assistant Secretary Secre Secre- Secretary tary of the Treasury will become Undersecretary of the Navy around January 1 A New Hampshire Democrat Dem and no banker Sullivan will replace Republican banker Ralph Bard who came out publicly for Dewey With banker Bard out of the picture as Undersecretary of the Navy Forrestal figures he can then bring in banker Hensel as Assistant As As- Assistant Secretary Hensel already is chief chier of the Navy procurement legal division but wants a handle to his name DIPLOMATIC CHAFF d C. t They have worn no uniform since Benjamin Franklin appeared as Ambassador Ambassador Ambassador Am Am- to France in ordinary clothes refused to don court dress and was the sensation of or the French court Franklin argued that he represented rep rep- represented rese resented ted a nation of rebellious farmers farmers farm farm- ers merchants and frontiersmen who believed more in democracy than In kingly folderol C. C l Since then U. U S. S S ambassador have stuck to plain evening clothes with striped gray pants and ard I In the afternoon a |