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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C.
Washington, D. C.
CABINET CLEAN-OUT?
WASHINGTON.—Those around the
White House say that this time the
President really means business
when it comes to cleaning out his
Cabinet. Of course, this word has
been passed out so often that some
intimates are keeping their fingers
crossed.
However, it is a fact that Roose
velt is now faced with some situa
tions he cannot escape, other situa
tions which have made him sore. In
the former category is Cordell
Hull’s health. In the latter cate
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-
er Eccles, now chairman of the Fed
eral Reserve Board; or Leon 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—Dan Tobin,
head of the teamsters’ union; or
John Winant, now Ambassador to
London and former head of the In
ternational Labor Office.^ Winant,
however, would prefer to be Secre
tary of State. Tobin, if appointed,
is about the only AFL leader
who would be acceptable to the CIO.
Postmaster General—Robert Han-
negan. Frank Walker, now Post
master General, believes that the
Democratic national chairman
should also be Postmaster and, be
ing a retiring person anyway, Walk
er is ready to step out.
Secretary of Agriculture—Roose
velt is hoping to persuade Henry
Wallace to take this job again. If
not, Wallace will be offered the am
bassadorship to Moscow, considered
vitally important, or chairmanship
of the international food organiza
tion. Roosevelt feels that it would
be difficult politically to make Wal
lace Secretary of State because of
opposition from Hull and Senate re
actionaries.
Secretary of State — Ex-Justice
Jimmy Byrnes or Ambassador Wi
nant. Appointment of Byrnes would
smooth things down for Hull, who
isn’t 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 reactiona
ries.
Secretary of the Interior—Harold
Ickes.
Attorney General—Francis Biddle.
Roosevelt will not accept either
Biddle’s or Ickes’ resignation. They
were his top campaign speakers.
NOTE—After FDR defeated Will-
kie in 1940, Miss Perkins submitted
her resignation. Her letter has
been in the White House files since
January 15, 1941. The President
never acted on it.
• * •
KAISER’S MERCHANT FLEET
Demon ship-builder Henry Kai
ser thinks he has found an an
swer 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 competi
tion with the West Coast shipping
lines, set up his own shipping
business, try to emphasise 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.
• • •
NAVTf DEPT. RESHUFFLE
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
finally has devised a plan to ele
vate his old Wall Street friend,
Struve Hensel, to the job of Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy. He has
been wanting to do it for a long
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 Secre
tary of the Treasury, will become
Undersecretary of the Navy around
January 1. A New Hampshire Dem
ocrat 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 As
sistant Secretary. Hensel already is
chief of the Navy procurement legal
division but wants a handle to his
name.
• • •
DIPLOMATIC CHAFF
C. They have worn no uniform since
Benjamin Franklin appeared as Am
bassador 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 farm
ers, merchants and frontiersmen
who believed more in democracy
than in kingly folderol.
C. Since then U. S. ambassadors ;
have stuck to plain evening clothes, i
with gray-striped pants and cutaway |
in the afternoon.
Tales of the Town:
This story has never been printed
before, we are told . . . How Vice
President Henry Wallace scared his
staff during the Chicago convention.
... He left word that he was not to
be awakened until 8 a. m. . . . His
secretary rapped on the connecting
door and, getting no answer, opened
it and looked in. . . . He was
alarmed to see two boys asleep in
the twin beds. . . . The secretary
hastened to spread the alarm. . . .
He finally located the Vice President
in the lobby reading a book. . .
Wallace explained. . . . At 3 in the
morning two soldiers had knocked
on his door while looking for some
one else. ... He learned they had
no accommodations. ... He insist
ed they take his room. . . . Then he
dressed, went downstairs, and sat
up all night reading.
Lieut. Col. James Roosevelt is
supposed to have told this to
friends. ... He had just re
turned after considerable action
in the South Pacific when he
was stuck on a coast highway.
'He started to walk pack to his
camp. . . . Along came an
army truck. . . . Colonel Roose
velt, using the hitch-hiker’s
thumb sign, stopped it. . . . The
Sergeant driving it welcomed
him for a lift. ... He didn’t rec
ognise the President’s son and
started griping about his luek.
. . . “Colonel,” he said, “it sure
is tough that two fighting men
like us can’t get into the Big
Show, instead of motoring along
a peaceful highway like this.”
“Yes, it is,” said Roosevelt’s
boy, “but orders is orders!”
“Yeah,” said the Sarge, “the
trouble with men like us, Colo
nel, is that we don’t know the
right people.”
Most of Wall Street has been keep
ing a watchful eye lately on the
Fisher Brothers, who are prominent
in the automobile industry. . . . One
of the Fishers was motoring through
Manhattan’s industrial area recent
ly, when a tire on his car blew. . . .
He stopped near a small factory
where he went looking for a phone.
... He went to several places look
ing for a booth and was recognized
by the owners of small plants in
the neighborhood. . . . The eyes of
these excited minor tycoons popped
as they saw him. . . . "He must,”
they reasoned, “be inspecting one
of the factories!” . . . And that is
why the stock of a relatively minor
company jumped 214 points.
The epidemic of suicides (who
have been "committing sidewalk”)
was stopped by a newspaper pho
tographer. ... A woman frantically
telephoned a newspaper and said
that her girl friend (who lived
around the corner from the paper)
had just phoned that she was going
to jump from her window. . . .
“Please,” she urged, “do something
to stop her!” . . . The editor as
signed a photographer to the scene.
. . . Instead of phoning the police,
this hard-boiled photogger (thinking
only of getting a good picture)
talked his way into an apartment
across the street and got his big
camera ready. . . . The would-be
suicide climbed out on the ledge.
. . . Just as she was about to jump,
he yelled: “Make it good, lady. I
gotta make a living! Go ahead!”
. . . She was so furious at this “in- |
vasion of her privacy” she climbed I
back inside and changed her mind
about the whole thing.
And you think you have it tough,
huh? . . . Along Melody Lane he
is rated as a kid with a real fu
ture. . . . Before he was drafted
into the Army he was the conductor
of the New York City Symphony.
. . . And so the Brain Trusters in
khaki made him a band leader. . . .
The last time he was home on leave
he was guest conductor of that au
gust group of long hairs when they
held their concert at Carnegie Hall.
. . . When he returned to camp he
was summoned by the C.O. and hand
ed the bawling out of his life. . . .
Because he failed to make a satis
factory marching arrangement of
the waltz: “Carolina Moon.”
Chinese Work as Foe Worries
Chinese pull a stone roller over new strip being built for the Air
Transport command of the U. S. army air forces at Hsintsin, China, to
provide additional bases for attacks against the Japs. Insert shows Gen.
Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, and leader of Jap mareb at
Bataan and Corregidor, who defends Leyte.
Led by bearers of the American flag, a long picket line moved out
side of the buildings of the plant at Paterson, N. J., where Cyclone en
gines used in the B-29 Superfortresses are made. Soon after this photo
was taken the strike was called off, the men returned to work to furnish
the air forces with the urgently needed engines.
Business as Usual at Leyte
Brig. Gen. William C. Chase (upper left) stands in front of Wainwright
hall on Leyte island, named in honor of the defender of Corregidor. Upper
right: General view of the surgery room of evacuation hospital on Leyte
island. Lower: The Corner Drug Store, a Red Cross station, set up in
Tacloba, capital of Leyte, in the Philippines.
Intimates will tell you that they
are beyond hope of reconciliation.
They no longer speak to each other
or look at each other without glar
ing. . . . He is well known in the
theater and so is she. . . . They de
cided on an eventual divorce about
a year ago. . . . But because of the
exasperating apartment shortage
both refuse to move out for each
other. . . . They are keeping their
estranged interlude as much to
themselves as possible—just so they
can have a place to sleep!
Carries Own Machine Gun Rest
The Broadway Express: Col. El
liott Roosevelt will marry into a
publishing clan which bitterly op
posed his pop’s re-election. . . .
FDR’s first public appearance (since
the welcome home parade) will be
in Washington within 4 weeks and
not at the Gridirion Dinner. . . .
The buzz persists that Steve Early,
FDR’s press chief, will resign after
the Inaugural—to make a decent liv
ing. . . . James Wechsler, the bril
liant Washington newspaper man,
predicted Dewey’s electoral vote
closer than anyone.
hmmmm
The new 30-caliber machine gun, used at Bougainville, is strapped on
the back of a GI. All that is necessary to put it into action is for the
soldier to fall to the ground, hold still, and take the vibrations as this
rapid firing machine gun is busy mowing down the Axis forces. This meth
od aids rapid maneuvers.
Army Leads Scorers
Glenn W. Davis, Army backfield
star, shown ripping off a 30-yard
gain against Notre Dame. He regis
tered two others in game to become
the nation’s top scorer to date and to
rate among best players of the sea
son.
Dan’l-Davey-Kit
These three naval officers bear
the names of famous fighters of by
gone days: L. to R., Lieut. Daniel
Boone Jr., Lieut. David Crockett
and Ensign James D. (“Kit”) Car-
son.
Flying Ghost Bomb
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The artist shows the relative alti
tude of the new Nazidom’s much-
vaunted V-2 long-range rocket being
used against Britain. The missiles
fly through the stratosphere, going
up into it at least GO miles. They
have been described as flying tele
phone poles. Reports from Europe
report that a fleet of submarines and
ships are being assembled for V-2
attacks on the United States.
Baby Goes Hunting
While parents work in defense
plants, “Butch,” rides the back of
his granddad, during hunting sea
son. The hunter has a passion for
anonymity of self and papoose.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
By VIRGINIA VALE
I T’S really good news that
Lieut. Comdr. Robert Mont
gomery, recently placed on the
inactive list by the navy, is be
ing starred by MGM in a picture
based on “They Were Expend
able.” You’ll remember it as the
book that gave the world the story
of the exploits of the P-T boats in
one of which General MacArthur es
caped to Australia. This will be
Montgomery’s first picture since the
delightful “Here Comes Mr. Jor-
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dan.” We’re told that the cast will
be made up almost entirely of men
who have been in the service. And
Comdr. John Ford, who has been re
sponsible for so many excellent pic
tures, will direct “They Were Ex
pendable.”
*
Martha Scott, who’s forsaken
movies for the stage temporarily,
had a busy evening the night she did
“The Soldier’s Wife” on the air;
that’s the play she’s now doing on
the New York stage. The “Theater
of Romance” broadcast was moved
to a CBS Playhouse across the
street from the theater, the curtain
was held that night, and Martha
skipped from the broadcast to the
stage, to repeat her performance.
*
It’s taken Harold Lloyd a long
time to take to radio; the imme
diate success of “Comedy Theater”
—Sunday nights on NBC — proves
that he should have done it long
ago. He’s director and host of this
unique program — unique because
it’s the only drama show devoted
entirely to comedies. The movie
moguls are now after Lloyd—two
companies are urging him at the
moment to return to the screen.
*
That’s a nice little assignment
RKO has for George Raft. In “John
ny Angel” he’ll play “a two-fisted
guy in the middle of mutiny, a miss
ing cargo of gold and an affair with
a mystery blonde.” Signe Hasso has
been borrowed from Metro to as
sist.
*
Richard Himber and Ken Mur
ray of the CBS “Which Is Which?”
are both top-notch amateur magi
cians, so they’re hatching a plot to
give a series of magic shows for
charity some time soon. Meanwhile
their novel Wednesday night pro
gram is going strong.
*
“Steel Horizons,” new Sunday
night Mutual program, on which a
different girl singer from a different
city sings with John Baker each
week, is proving a real stepping
stone to success. Annette Burford,
who sang on the third broadcast,
has won a permanent radio assign
ment as soloist on the Friday MBS
series, “Music for Half an Hour”;
Betty Ellen Morris may be the star
of a new winter series.
*—
“Dagwood” (Arthur Lake) of the
“Blondie” program may be dumb
on the air, but—Lake, a co-owner
of the Plastic Engineering company,
recently was awarded an army con
tract for an airplane part made by
a process his company helped de
velop.
*
A fat sergeant recently wrote Paul
Whiteman, saying he’d heard
Whiteman had once reduced, fast;
the sergeant wanted to know how,
because his girl wouldn’t marry him
till he was thinner. Whiteman’s ad
vice concluded “ — Practically, I
had to stop living.”
“The Yearling” has been on the
ivaiting list at Metro since 1941; all
sorts of problems were involved,
including complications regarding
the animal actors in the film. Now
it’s announced that Metro will pro
duce the picture next spring. But
the boy originally chosen to play
“Jody” has outgrown the role, so
another 11-year-old, fair-haired, fond
of animals, must be found.
ODHS AND ENDS—So it's Capt. Burgess
Meredith who gets the coveted chance to
play Ernie Pyle in “G. /. Joe.” based on
Pyle’s book, “Here Is Your War.” . .
Among the losers are James Gleason, IT al
ter Brennan, Fred Astaire and Humphrey
Bogart. . . . 500 Filipinos, veterans of the
Philippine invasion and other Pacific cam
paigns, will appear in RKO’s “The Invis
ible Army,” since the parts require men
proficient with the bolo knife, for the
guerrilla fighting sequences. . . . Joan
Crawford’s ff’arner Bros, picture, known
as “Mildred Pierce," apparently is really
set to go at last—the title has been changer!
to “House on the Sand."
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