Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-27
Assistant Attorney General
Declared Eliminated and
viii Hold No Office.
U. S. SOLICITOR GENERAL
WILL SUCCEED SARGENT
New Yorker Believed to Have Re-
fused Hoover Offer to
Other Posts.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
william D. Mitchell, solicitor genera
of the United States, has been selected
by President-elect Hoover to be Attorney
General in his cabinet, and simultane-
otisly with this development today
friends Of william J. Donovan said he
would not occupy any Federal odlce
after March 4.
With the selection Of an Attorney
General decided upon, Mr.. Hoover was
said to be in position to complete
his cabinet within a very short time.
Although Mr.. Mitchell is Democrat,
he was represented as having voted for
Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, for
President Coolidge and for Mr.. Hoover.
Declared Opposed by Drys.
The attorney generalship at one time
was expected to go to Donovan, who
was represented today as being an
noyed by the opposition raised against
him for this post by certain dry forces
and others.
He was said 10 feel that he was be-
ing looked upcn by these forces not as
an individual whose capacity for or
ganization and administration was to
be taken into account. Mr.. Donovan
is returning as soon as possible to Santa
Fe, N. Mex, to wind. up his activities
as chairman of the Boulder Dam Com
mission and as commissioner on the
Rio Grande Commission. On the 4th
of March he will retire to the practice
of law and sever his connections with
the Government.
Other Posts Believed Refused.
Mr. Donovan, who is Assistant to the
Attorney General, conferred briefly with
Mr.. Hoover this morning and was un-
derstood to have informed the Presi-
dent-elect of his unwillingness to accept
the post of Secretary of War or the
governor generalship of the Philippines
He was said to have told Mr. Hoover
that he considered himself suited only
for certain Federal positions and that
the Secretaryship of War was not
among these.
The Assistant Attorney General was
said to have pointed out that he did
not consider Mr. Hoover was under obli-
cations to offer him "a post in his
administration. He had worked for Mr..
Hoover in the last campaign out Of
friendship for the Republican candidate
and because he believed in the issues
Mr.. Hoover favored, it was explained.
Native of Minnesota.
Mr.. Mitchell was born In winona,
MINI, SIS years ago. His father was
justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
for 20 years. He began the practice of
law In ST. Paul in 1901. He was regional
counsel for the United States Railroad
Administration in 1919 and chairman
of the citizens charter committee Of st.
Paul in 1922 He assumed the Office Of
solicitor general in June, 1925.
The record Of the newly y-designated
Attorney General shows him to have
been active in Minnesota National
Guard affairs over a period OF years.
He is listed as Presbyterian.
The President-elect had a rather
large number of callers today, including
Dante Pierce, Iowa publisher, whose
name frequently has been heard in the
speculations about the post of Secre-
tary of Agriculture. c. Bascom Slemp,
Republican national committeeman for
Virginia, has been invited to call late
in the day.