Evening star., 1943-05-13
President Approves
u. ). Representatives
To Food Conference
Marvin Jones Named
Temporary Choirmon Of
Hot Springs PorIey

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Temporary Choirmon Of
Hot Springs Por|ey
! BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt approved yes
terday the membership of the United
States delegation to the United Ma
tons Food Conference, opening
Tuesday at Hot Springs, Va, and
named the delegations chairman
Judge Marvin Jones. as temporary
president of the conference.
Judge Jones will serve as chief
executive of the conference until
election of permanent president by
all the delegates.
/ In further observance of eStab-
lished practice at intergovernmental
gatherings, the President desig-
mated Dr.. Warren Kelchner, chief
of the State Departments Division
OF international Conferences. as
secretary-general of the parley
Ralph H. Alice, chief of the Aeri-
culture Department Division OF
Latin American Agriculture, will be
assistant secretary general.
Press arrangements will be in the
hands of Michael j. McDermott
chief OF the State Department Di-
vision of Current Informa ton Mr.
| McDermott will be assisted by Har-
old r. Beckley, superintendent of
/ the Senate
DE Vrles. director of economic in
formation of the Agriculture Depart
ment, and Wilder Foote of the Office
OF War Information. All are mem
! bers OF the conference secretariat.
The State Department stressed
that one building near the confer
ence hotel will be given over ex-
cluslvely TO representatives of the
! press and radio" and that Judge
Jones would meet the press daily
NeWsmen will be permitted to at
tend the opening public session
tuesday and any subsequent public
sessions which might be held.
Other personnel of the conference
secretarlat and of the United States
oelegatlon, as announced by the
State Department, follows:
Technical Secretariat.
Section I. Consumption levels anC
requirements: Secretary, DR.. Frank
| G. Boudreau. consultant, United
States Public Health Service: as
Slstant secretary, E. F. Penrose, Di-
vision of Commercial Policy and
Agreements, State Department.
Secretaries of committees-Ha
X. Stlebellng. assistant chief, Bu-
reau OF Human Nutrition and Home
! Economies, Agriculture Department:
Harold A. Vogel. head, Division of
Program Analysis and DEVELOPMENT
Agriculture Department; A. w
Palmer, chairman Committee on
Fertilizers, Combined Food BOARD
and Combined Raw Materials Board
! Agriculture Department. assistant
! secretary, Katherine Balm director
Division Of Research in Child De-
velopment, Labor Department.
Section II. Expansion of produc-
ton and adaptation to consumption
needs: Secretary. F. F. Elliott, chief
! agricultural economist. Agriculture
! Department.. assistant secretary
! Clayton Whipple. senior agriculture
economist, Agriculture Department
secretaries of committees. Bushroe
/ w. Allln special assistant to the
/ chief. Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomlcs. Agriculture Department; P
V. Carbon. assistant agricultural re-
search administrator. Agriculture
Department: NJ L. Nichols, assistant
! chief. Research Division. Soil Con-
| Servatlon Service. Agriculture De-
! partment. Conrad Taeuber, princi-
| pal social scientist. Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics, Agriculture De-
partment.
/ Section III. Facilitation and inn
| proVement of distribution: Secretary
Howard S. Piquet, chief of Economic:
! Division, United States Tariff Com
/ mission; assistant secretaries, Fred.
erick V. Waugh, chief, program an,
alysis and appraisal branch, Fooc
! Distribution Administration. Agri
culture Department; Robert M. Carr
| assistant chief, Division of CONNER.
cial, Policy and Agreements, State
Department.
Secretaries of committee: Frank
A. Waring, director. Resources Di.
vision. Office of the Co-ordinatol
OF Inter-American Affairs: F. L
Thomson, head of Division OF Mar
keting and Transportation Re.
search, Bureau of Agricultural Eco.
nomics, Agriculture Department., Mr
Waugh and Mr. Carr; assistant sec.
retary, Faith M. Williams. chief
Cost Of Living Division. Bureau OF
Labor Statistics. Labor Department
Section w. Recommendations fol
continuing and carrying forward the
work of the conference: Secretary
Lloyd V. Steere. agricultural at
tache, American Embassy. London
assistant secretary, Benjamin Gerig