The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-09-19
PRESIDENT NAMES
BURTON OF OHIO
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The personnel shifts were an.
nounced to a packed news confer.
ence. Reporters whistled in sur.
prise at some of the names and the
extent Of the changes.
The President also disclosed he
had signed earlier in the day a
bill doing away with the three-man
board to dispose Of surplus pro-
perty and providing for a single
administrator. He picked tn e
Boards latest member, w. Stuart
Symington, St. Louis businessman.
as this administrator. This leaves
Robert H. Hurley, former Demo
! cratic governor of Connecticut,
and 1t. Col. Edward H. Heller,
former California banker, without
government connections.
The appointment of Patterson
was Mr.. Truman's seventh cabinet
selection. Only three of the late
President Roosevelt's appointees
now remain - Interior Secretary
[ckes, Navy Secretary Forrestal,
and Commerce Secretary Wallace.
Stimson's resignation had been
expected ever since the war ended.
He told reporters only the other
day that this can't go on forever. "
A veteran lawyer, soldier and
statesman. Stimson will be 70 next
Friday. Son Of distingu: shed sur.
geon, he was born in New York
City and attended Yale University
and Harvard Law School.
He has served in three cabinets.
Way back in the Taft administra
ton he was War Secretary. He
was President Hoover's Secretary
Of State.
The late President Roosevelt
picked him and the late Navy Sec.
rotary Frank Knox, both RepubG-
cans, for cabinet duty on July 10,
1910. Mr.. Roosevelt made the Sc
lections, he explained, to satisfy
the sentiment of the nation for
national solidarity in time of world
crisis"
Just before taking up the Score.
taryship of State in 1929, Stimson
ended a two-year term as Cover.
nor General of the Philippines. In
the First World War he command.
ed an artillery regiment in France
Stimson's successor. Patterson,
is a 54-year-old New Yorker who
gave up a lifetime Federal Judge.
ship to become Assistant Secretary
of War under Stimson. Six months
later he became Undersecretary
and supervised the Army's far
flung supply services all through
World War II.
Born February II, 1896 at Glens
Falls, New York, he was appoint
ed Federal judge for the south.
ern district of New York by Presi-
dent Hoover Is years ago.
The late President Roosevelt in
1889 made him a circuit judge.
Patterson, a short, wiry man,
served on the Mexican border as
a private in the National GuSrd
in 1916. He won the Distinguished
Service Cross as an infantry Off
Ger in the First World War.
Senator Burton is serving his
first term in the Senate. His term
would not have ended until Janu.
airy 3, 1947. A number of Senators
,applauded his appointment, and
confirmation was considered GER
tain.
Democratic politicians were as
much interested in the appoint
ment as Republicans. They pointed
out that this leaves the way open
for another Democratic Senator in
asmuch as the present Governor
Of Ohio, Frank j. Lausche, is
Democrat. It will be up to him
to name a successor to Bruton.
There was some talk in capitol
cloakrooms that Lausche might
take the Senate seat himself.
Burton is a former Mayor OF
Cleveland. He is 81 and was born
in Jamaica Plans" Massachusetts,
on June %, 1888. He served in
France and Belgium in the first
World war.
As legislator, he has taken a
particular interest in foreign at
fairs. He was co-author of the so.
called "B2H2" resolution favoring
American participation in an in.
ternational organization to keep the
peace. Other authors were Sena.
tors Ball. (R-Minn), Hatch D-NM)
and Hill 4-Ala). - @ d