Evening star., 1933-02-18
WALLACE CONFERS
WITH ROOSEVELT
ON CABINET PLACE
PreSident-EIect Also Talks to
Farley and Mullen at
New York.
GLASS RECONSIDERS
REFUSAL OF TREASURY
Virginia Senator Reported to Have
Left Matter Open on Plea of
Party Chief.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, February 18-Presi-
dent-elect Roosevelt called into confer
ence here today Henry Wallace of Iowa,
who he has In mind for his Secretary
Of Agriculture.
Wallace was expected at the Roose-
velt home in East Sixty-fifth street at
noon. He Is publisher Of q farm peri
odical and Is a son Of the late Henry
Wallace who served as Secretary of
Agriculture in the Republican admins
tration Of Warren G. Harding.
The younger Wallace, however, sup
ported the candidates. Of Alfred Z.
Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Mr.. Roosevelt devoted himself busily
today to the cabinet and patronage
questions. He talked early In the day
with James A. Farley, the national
chairman, and later with Arthur E.
Mullen. Nebraska, his floor leader In
the convention.
Under Heavy Guard.
Mullen later pointed to Wallace as
the most likely Secretary Il Agricul-
ture, but he said. Of course, the de-
cision will be made only by the Presi-
dent-elect, who has not yet announced
his cabinet.
reported today to be reconsidering q
af nf If
the Treasury in the Roosevelt cabinet.
On the Roosevelt train speeding
northward to New York yesterday. the
Senator conferred with the President
elect. Afterward 1t was reported. on
authority considered good, that he had
declined An invitation to enter the
cabinet.
At Mr.. Roosevelt's request, 1t was
said, he did not make his decision final,
but agreed to reconsider and decide
definitely in two or three days.
Friends indicated Mr.. Glass believes
he would be freer to do battle in sup
port of his views by remaining in the
Senate. He Is widely known for his
ideas on banking and currency and is
opposed to imitation.
Senators Bronson NJ Cutting of New
Mexico and Cordell Hull Of Tennessee
the train. They are regarded as In the
cabinet.
The President-elect found today he
Is looking at the world through rows
Of bluecoats.
Mr.. Roosevelt is also conscious as
never before of the feeling of America
for him as President-elect. The
throngs that lined the streets last night
when he arrived home under an ex-
traordinary guard of 1000 policemen,
testified to their thankfulness that he
had escaped death at Miami. and to
their admiration of his coolneSs under
fire
Where one policeman stood a month
ago in front of the Roosevelt home on
East Sixty-flfth street a squadron
order prevailed, the police, stirred to
almost unprecedented precautions by
Giuseppe Zangara and his hatred Of
Presidents and Kings" were taking
no chances
In Touch With Miami.
The President-elect himself was still
smiling and going ahead with the prep
arations for the presidency without any
change in his daily routine. Mean
while he kept in closest touch with the
MldInl UOSplJdl WI6Te lie L1e IlVe VIC
Tins of the bullets intended for himself.
A message was received last night from
Joe Gill, husband of Mrs. Gill, who
was shot by Zangara, reporting that she
was improving.
Reaching New York late yesterday
from the Southland, the Roosevelt
party was hemmed in by a cloud of
police and Secret Service men. Leav-
ing his home after dinner to go with
his son Elliott to Masonic Hall. where
the son received the degree of Master
Mason, he was again surrounded by
police. Eight Secret Service men, with
pistols drawn, rode in a car behind his.
AS unconcerned as ever, Mrs. Roose-
welt reached home yesterday just ahead
of her husband and walked out amid
the throng of newspaper men and pho
tographers to sing a hello into the
car. Mrs. Curtis B. Dali, daughter OF
Mr. Roosevelt, rode with him from
Philadelphia and accompanied him to
he