Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-04

Sharing second hOnOrS IN the pup
licity that beat upon the incoming
Chief Executive and Vice President to-
day were the nine men and solitary
woman-the first mixed" cabinet in
the history of the Government-who
official family for the next four years
or maybe longer.
With the last moment selection of
Homer Cummings of Connecticut to
serve temporarily as Attorney General
and the belated arrival last night of
Miss Frances Perkins, the first woman
to serve in an American cabinet, Mr..
Roosevelt was surrounded today for the
first time by the entire group of his Of
fetal advisers. Miss Perkins, who fills
the Labor portfolio, had postponed her
departure from New York to wind up
her affairs as State Labor commissioner,
and was the last of the new cabinet
officers to arrive in Washington.
Her associates, already here-par-
ticularly those who are making their
initial bow in official life-passed a
busy day and night comforting on new
official duties, receiving friends and visit
ing delegations. Weary but filled with
determination, they were astir early to-
day, prepared to take their prominent
parts in the Inauguration OF a new
President, and almost before they were
aware of it were caught in the whirl
of preliminary events.
Old Story to Some.
To some of the new cabinet officers,
veterans in public life, today'S suspicious
inaugural ceremonies was an old story
with new chapter added. Others
among them, scarcely known even now
in Washington, found their participa-
ton a new and entirely novel expert
ence.
With all the glamor and tense ex-
element attending the ushering in OF
a new Democratic era, however, there
still hung over the incoming President
and his cabinet the gloom spread by the
j. Walsh of Montana, which neceSsi-
tated the hurried appointment of an
other Attorney General Monday, after
the 10 cabinet members take their for
NAL oaths of Office, they will attend
in body, with other high officials, the
state funeral of the late Senator.
Official Washington has had an OPP
portunity during the past few days to
become fairly familiar with at least
one of the new cabinet members-Wil-
liam H. Woodin of New York, who is to
become Secretary of the Treasury.
Senator Cordell Hull, who succeeds
Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of State,
has been in daily conference at the
State Department since his appoint
ment. AS a member of Congress from
Tennessee and as a Democratic leader,
he has been a familiar, though not
heretofore conspicuous figure in Wash
ington.
So also the veteran Senator Claude
A. Swanson of Virginia, the newly ap-
pointed Secretary of the Navy, is even
more familiar to Washingtonians An
other, almost equally we'll known is
Daniel A. Roper of South Carolina and
Washington, who held two positions of
trust in the former Wilson administra-
ton.
Cummings Familiar Here.
1t was on the less we'll known men,
bers of the Cabinet-Henry A. Wallace
Of Iowa, Secretary of Agriculture;
George H. Dern Of Utah, former Gov
ernor. who is to assume the post of
Secretary of War: Miss Perkins, and
Harold Ickes of Chicago, who is to be
Secretary of the Interior-that public
interest and attention largely focused
today. Mr. Cummings, by reason of
his affiliations with Democratic party
management, is familiar to official
Washington, but the average citizen
gazed upon him today for the first
time. James A. Farley of New York,
the new Postmaster General, is known
to host as the official dispenser of pa
tronage. He was the busiest of all,
and last night his headquarters at the
Mayflower Hotel was crowded with the
faithful.
Mr.. Ickes, the Progressive, who will
succeed Ray Lyman Wilbur as Secre-
tary OF Interior, paid courtesy call on
his predecessor yesterday afternoon, and
at the same time renewed old ties with
Joseph NJ Dixon, Assistant Secretary of
Interior. with whom he fought for the
cause of another Roosevelt-Theodore-
score of years ago.
In that campaign, in which Roose-
welt headed the Bull Moose tickes,
again to seek the presidency, Dixon
was his manager, and Ickes a valued
lieutenant
When Mr.. Ickes reached the Interior
Department, Secretary Wilbur was bid
ding farewell to the employees, block
long line of whom were filing into his
office.
Confronted by the crowd, Mr.. 1ckes
went up to an attendant, whispered
an introduction, explaining II want to
say 'Howdy' to Mr.. Wilbur-not good
bye-suppose I slip into this ante
room until the rush is over"
To Be on Job Early Monday.
1t was there that the two men later
met. Mr.. Wilbur expressed the opinion