Evening star., 1945-05-24
New Cabinet Lineup
Is SET for Duration,
Observers Believe
SehweIIenboeh, Anderson
And Clark Will Succeed
Perkins, Wickord, BiddIe

The Truman cabinet lineup
carried three new names today,
and observers were inclined to
believe that the official family
of the President was set for a
While-perhaps for the duration
of the war.
/ At news conference late yester-
DAY, which had expected to get con-
flrmation of reports that Attorney
General Biddle was stepping out, Mr.
Truman announced that he had ac-
cepted the designations of Mr.. Bid
die, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Sec
retary of Agriculture Wickard and
in addition, War Food Administrator
Marvin Jones.
At the same time, he declared en-
phatically that Secretary of State
Stettinius and Treasury Secretary
Morgenthau were not leaving, there
by serving to Squelch recurrent ru-
mors to the contrary.
Three New Members.
AS successors to the retiring cab
met members, Mr.. Truman an
nounced the appointment of Tom c.
Clark, As, an Assistant Attorney Gen
eral, to be Attorney General; United
States District Judge Lewis B.
Schwellenbach, SO, former member
of the Senate from Washington, to
head the Labor Department, and
Representative Clinton P. Anderson,
40, who has been directing the House
food shortage investigation, as Sec
retary of Agriculture.
Mr.. Truman announced also that
Mr.. Wickard would become adminis-
traitor of the Rural Identification
Administration, the post for which
the Senate a short while ago re-
/ jected Aubrey Williams, who had
been nominated by President Roose-
Velt.
/ War Food Administrator Jones is
returning to the Court of Claims
from which he was drafted by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in June, 1943, for the
wartime assignment, and his duties
will be taken over, as he suggested,
by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Effective July 1.
The Labor and Justice changes
will be effective July 1.-The same
date on which Robert E. Hannegan
succeeds Frank c. Walker as Post
master General in the first of the
cabinet shifts made by the Presi-
dent. The Agriculture and REA ap-
pointees will take over on confirma-
tion by the Senate, which must pass
also on the Presidents other selec-
tionS.
The finality with which the Presi-
dent disposed of questions about the
status of Secretary Morgenthau and
Secretary Stettinius was ample
grounds for believing that the Treas
ury and State portfolios will remain
undisturbed, and there have been no
suggestions of early changes in War,
Navy, Commerce and Interior.
While there was a report published
yesterday that President Truman
had asked Attorney General Biddle
to resign, the Chief Executive said
that he had not asked for any
designations. He added, however.
that he had designations in hand
from all Government officials who
served at his pleasure.
Emphatic on Morgenthau.
Asked if Mr.. Morgenthau had
offered his resignation when he
visited the White House earlier yes
terday, the President said. he had
not, and that if he had, the resigna-
ton would not have been accepted.
An equally emphatic response met
similar question about Secretary
Stettinius.
The Schwellenbach appointment
caused no surprise here, as he is an
old friend of President Truman; en-
tered the Senate on the same day as
did Mr.. Truman in January, 1895,
and had been widely reported to be
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