Evening star., 1933-11-08
SELECTION OF NEW
DISTRICT OFFICIALS
IS BELIEVED NEAR
Action Before Roosevelt Goes
South November II
Held Possible.
HAzEN STRONG CANDIDATE
FOR COMMISSIONER POST
Dulany and Oscar Underwood, Jr.,
Added to List of Names
Being Considered.

President Roosevelt and his advisers
have given more thought and attention
to the selection of members of the Board
of District Commissioners than appears
on the surface. The moESns of delay
in naming the successors to the present
members of the board, whose terms eX-
pired long since, have followed as
consequence of the fact that some OF
the men approached have been unwill-
ing to accept appointment, as well as
to the fact that some of the candidates
for the position have not been accept
able to the White House.
It has been suggested that the Presi-
dent will finally deal with the matter
before he leaves here November II for
a vacation in the South Postmaster
General Farley. the Presidents chief
adviser on on patronage; is speetsd ed, to Ns,, rsv
York, where he has been for the wind
Up of the mayoralty campaign, and the
President may take up the appoint
ments of the District Commissioners
and the United States attorney for the
District with Mr.. Farley before the close
Of the week.
Hazen Strong Candidate.
A strong impression prevails that Mel
vim Hazen, surveyor for the District
will in the end be one of the new
Commissioners. A lot may depend, how
ever, on the selection of the other
civilian member of the board and the
combination that is worked out.
New names have been drawn into
the consideration of the appointments
to the Board of District Commissioners
H. Rozier Dulany, jr., and Oscar w.
Underwood. jr., son of the late Senator
Underwood of Alabama are among
those to whom consideration has been
given recently, it is said. MIR. Dulany
it is understood, has not been friendly
with the idea.
Strong efforts have been made in
recent weeks, it is understood, to draft
both Admiral Cary T. Grayson and~J
Fred Essary. chief of the Washington
bureau of the Baltimore Sun. 1t is
understood, for personal reasons of
their own, the administration has found
it impossible to prevail upon either
Acmiral Grayson or Mr.. Essary to ac-
cept appointment.
Walker and McConihe Backed.
The local Democratic organization
headed by John F. Costello, Democratic
national committeeman, and John B.
Colpoys, chairman of the Democratic
Central Committee of the District, has
strongly urged upon the President the
appointment of Ernest G. Walker and
Malcolm S. McConihe. Mr.. Costello
was in conference at the White House
with the President last week, presum-
ably discussing the appointments to
be made to Office in the District gov
ernment. He expressed the opinion on
leaving the White House that the ap-
pointments would likely be made before
the President leaves Washington for
his trip South.
1t is said the President has by no
means relinquished his idea that the
District government could be improved
by substituting for a board of three
Commissioners single head, either a
governor" or a city manager Op-
position to such change has developed
on Capitol Hill, where Senator King,
chairman of the District Committee of
the Senate, and Mrs. Mary T. Norton
chairman of the House District Com
mittee. have declared themselves favor
eble to the commission plan of gov
ernment\> and against a one-man con-
troll of District affairs.