Show U 0 OR W washington D C CABINET CLEAN OUT washington those around the th white house say that this time the th presided business president Pre really means out his hi when it comes to cleaning cabinet of 01 course this word has ha been passed out so often that some intimates are keeping their fingers crossed however he ver it is a fact that roose velt is now faced with some situa eions he cannot escape other situations which have made him sore ir the former category is cordell hulls health in the latter cate gory is jesse jones As a result i 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 marriner eccles now chairman of the federal reserve board or leon henderson or chester bowles now nova OPA administrator or beardsley ruml author of the ruml tax plan and considered a liberal big busi ness man secretary of labor dan tobin head of the teamsters union or 01 john winant now ambassador tc london and former head of the I 1 international n ter national labor office winant however would prefer to be secretary of state tobin il if appointed is about the only leader wh who 0 would be acceptable to the CIO p postmaster estma ster general robert hannegan frank walker now postmaster general believes that the democratic national chairman should also be postmaster and being a retiring person anyway walker is ready to step out secretary of agriculture roosevelt is hoping to persuade henry wallace to take this job again 11 II not wallace will aiu be offered the ambassadorship to moscow considered vitally important or chairmanship of the international food organization roosevelt feels that it would be difficult politically to make wallace secretary of state because of opposition from hull and senate reactionaries action aries secretary of state ex justice jimmy byrnes or ambassador winant appointment of byrnes would smooth things down for hull who anxious to resign even though in the hospital hull would kick like a mule if sumner welles or wallace were to succeed him byrnes also gets along well with senate foreign relations chairman tom connally and other reactionaries secretary of the interior harold ickes attorney general francis biddle roosevelt will not accept either biddles or ickes res resignation ignat ion they were his top campaign speakers NOTE after defeated will kie in 1940 miss perkins submitted her resignation her setter ietter has been in the white house files since january 15 1941 the president never acted on it 0 0 0 KAISERS MERCHANT FLEET demon shipbuilder ship builder henry kaiser thinks he has found an answer to the burning question of how he can use some of the great fleet of merchant ships he be has built and still keep on building more after the war kaiser plans to enter competition with the west coast shipping lines set up his own shipping business try to emphasize smart salesmanship cheap freight rates mass orders he says his only hope is a free and open market in the orient thinks he can do a more efficient job of shipping both to and from the far east than a lot of old line companies NAVY DEPT RESHUFFLE secretary of the navy forrestal finally has devised a plan to elevate his uld wall street friend hensel to the job of assistant nt secretary of the navy he has been wanting to do it for a long time lime but there were too many wall streeters eiers 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 of the treasury will become undersecretary of the navy around january I 1 A new hampshire democrat 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 secretary hensel already is chief of the navy procurement legal division but wants a handle to his name 0 a DIP diplomatic CHAFF fl L they have worn no uniform since benjamin franklin appeared as ambassador bas to france in ordinary clothes refused to don court dress and was the sensation of the french court franklin argued that he rep resented a nation of rebellious farmers merchants and frontiersmen who believed more in democracy democracy than in in kingly folderol fol derol acy a since ince then U S ambassadors have stuck to plain evening clothes with gray e ay striped pants and cutaia ln in the afternoon cutaway nay Y |