Evening star., 1932-12-01
70 TO LOSE Jobs
AT WHITE HOUSE
Is on Hoover Staff, Besides
d Secretaries, Will De-
part March q.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

In addition to President Hoover's
three secretaries - Lawrence Ritchie,
Walter Newton and Theodore Joslin-
and French Strother, his literary assist
ant, there will be at least 16 other
departures from the White House and
Executive Office staff when the admin
iStration changes hands on March A.
With the exception of the chief naval
and military aides, the White House
physician and his assistant and the
butler. valet and personal maid. the
three latter having been brought to the
White House from private life by Mr.
and Mrs. Hoover, all the other jobs are
styled as white House political plums"
and will. OF course, be filled with Demo-
Gratis by Gov Roosevelt unless, in his
aim for governmental retrenchment, he
decides to abolish some of the places.
OF course, the choicest of these
White House plums are the three Sec
retaryships to the President, which
carry an annual salary of $4,000,
minus the current economy cuts. and
the post of literary assistant, which
also pays $4,000.
Other Positions to Be Open.
Others whose positions at the White
House or executive office will be open
on March 4. are: Miss Ann Shankey.
personal Stencgrapher to President
Hoover. who served in that capacity
throughout Mr. HooverS term as Secre-
tary of Commerce and before that as
food administrator; Miss Myra Nc
Grath. private secretary to Secretary
Richey, and who assists Miss Shankey
as stenographer to the President; Miss
Dorothy Eastman, Secretary Joslins
stenographer, and who, during rush
periods, helps out with Mr.. Hoovers
dictation: Mrs Marie Hunter and Miss
Florence McGraW, secretary and stenog-
rapher. respectively. to Secretary New
ton, and Miss Roberta Barrows, secre-
tary to Mr.. Strother.
It is thought likely that all Of these
women employees will be transferred 10
other Government activities. The
Misses Shankey. McGrath and East
man were on the Department OF Com
merce pay roll before coming to the ex-
ecutive Office with Mr.. Hoover. The
other three have never been attached TO
the White House pay roll. They were,
like number Of other stenographers
and clerks at the executive of1ce,
merely loaned and continued on the
pay roll of some one Of the Government
The three secretaries of Mrs. Hoover
who will retire with the change OF adj
are Miss Mildred Hall, Mrs.
Frederick Butler and Miss Doris Goss.
The latter is the only one Of Mrs.
Hoovers so-called Secretariat who Is on
the White House pay roll the two others
being privately compensated.
Aides May Remain.
The chief military and naval aides,
II n
B. Hodges and Capt Walter N. Vernon.
Inasmuch as these places are not looked
upon as political patronage, there IS 9
likelihood that each may be continued
at the White House until the expiration
of his assignment Col. Hodges joined
the White House staff shortly after
President Hoover took Office, while Capt.
Vernon has been chief naval aide less
than year.
Because of the personal nature of
the position of White House physician,
it is naturally assumed that Capt. Joel
T. Boone, U. S. N. will return to active
duty in the Navy Medical Corps to make
way for some one of the new Presidents
personal choice. 1t has been only re-
Gently that the position of White House
physician was created by law. the stipu-
lation regarding compensation being
that the pay shall be equivalent to
colonel in the Army or captain in
the Navy. Chief Pharmacist George
Fox, in charge OF the White House
dispensary, very likely will depart with
Capt. Boone.
Capt. Boone has been personal ply
sician to President Hoover throughout
his administration and served in that
capacity while Mr.. Hoover, as Presi-
dent-elect, made his goodwill jour-
ney to Central and South America Be-
fore that, DR.. Boone was chief medical
officer of the Presidents yacht, May
flower, for eight years, which necessarily
made him familiar figure about the
White House during the adIninistra-
tions Of Presidents Harding and Cool
idge. He was with President Harding
on the latter's Inflated Alaskan jour-
ney and was one of the attending ply
sicians when President Harding died in
San Francisco in 1928. Under his super
vision. the complete dispensary was In
stalled in the White House shortly
after President Hoover came into Office
There are a number of familiar faces
about the White House and executive
office that will not be missing after
March 4. In this group of veterans
who have mastered intricaci and
technique OF executive and social re-
sponsibilities of the President and First