Evening star., 1952-02-04
Ickes Funeral SET
For Wednesday al
All Souls Church
Continued From First Page.)

Jane Dahlman were married In
1888. The first Mrs. IckeS. the
former Anna Wilmarth Thompson,
died in 1885.
A son Of the first marriage, Ray
mond w. Ickes, is a lawyer in
San Francisco. Two children were
born of his second marriage
Harold McEwen Ickes, IL. and
Elizabeth, 10.
Funeral services will be held
at All Souls Unitarian Church at
2:30 pm. Wednesday. The Rev.
Palfrey Perkins Of Kings Chapel,
Boston. will conduct the services.
Private burial services will be al
Sandy Spring. Md.
Among honorary pallbearerS an
nounced by Mrs. Ickes are Prime
Minister Sforza of Italy, Ber-
nard Baruch, Associate Justices
Black. Douglas and jackson Of the
Supreme Court, Lord Halifax,
Judge William M. HASTE, Sem
ators Douglas. Democrat Of nh-
nois. Hill. Democrat of Alabama,
Magnuson, Democrat of Washing
ton, O'Mahoney, Democrat Of
Wyoming. Taft. Republican of
Ohio and Tobey,' Republican of
New Hampshire, former Secretary
Of the Treasury Henry Morgen-
thau, Commissioner of Reclama-
tion Michael w. Straus, Column
lists Walter Lippmann and Drew
Pearson, former Vice President
Wallace and former Secretary Of
Labor Perkins.
Truman's Statement.
In a statement issued by the
White House last night, President
Truman made this comment on
Mr.. Ickes' death:
"A unique figure in American
public life is lost to the Nation
and a phase of the New Deal
comes to close with the death
of Harold Ickes. Secretary of the
Interior through all the years of
the administration of President
Roosevelt, he also held that i'm
portant post through the earlier
part of this administration.
During much of this long Pc
riod he administered many coll
lateral posts of high responsibility
with characteristic energy and dis
patch.
Fortnight and fearless, loyal
always to the public interest in
the discharge of these great
trusts, he was always firm in
principle and adamant in the en-
forcement of his policies, once he
had charted a~course which he
believed would best conserve the
national resources.
''Mr. Ickes was preeminent as
an administrator. Although he
was often irascible and could be
intolerant Of the opinion of others.
his sharpest critics never doubted
his integrity and were quick to
eoncede that he was always
efficient in a single-minded pur-
pose, to get on with the work.
His rare gifts of irony and in
vective made him a formidable
opponent in public debate.
"He was withal a true patriot
and a many-sided citizen whose
passing leaves a void in our ma
tional life not easily filed"
Noted for Quick Wit.
AS Secretary of the Interior
longer than any other man, Mr..
Ickes performed multifarious ad-
ministrative duties, but he was
perhaps best known for his quick
wit and sharp tongue. He called
himself the "old curmudgeon"
and remarked:
tive known for a long time
that I'm not loved with the fervor
to which I'm entitled. If a man
worked hard at it he couldn't get
q bigger list of enemies than l."
He once said that Huey p. Long
Of Louisiana had "halitosis of the
intellect" and that Hugh johnson,
who was NRA administrator in
the early 1930s, suffered from
mental saddlesores." When Wen
dell L. Willkie was running
against President Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Mr.. Ickes referred to
him as "the simple, barefoot Wall
Street lawyer"
He frequently engaged in caustic
frequently engaged in caustic
word battles with segments of the
press and once wisecracked that
what we need is freedom from
the press"
Stormy Exit From Cabinet.
Nor did he pull any punches
when he finally quit as Secretary
Of the Interior. He wrote a caus-
tic letter of resignation to Presi-
dent Truman in mid-February of
1916 and followed it up with a
radio talk in which he said that
he could no longer, much as I
regret it, retain my self-respect
and stay in the cabinet of Presi-
dent Truman"
Just before his resignation, Mr..
Ickes testified before the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee that was
considering President Trumans
nomination of Edwin w. Pauley,
oil man, to be Undersecretary Of
the Navy.
He read to the committee some
memoranda he said he had kept
in connection with conversations
with Mr.. Pauley.
Money From Oil Men.
The Secretary read from the
memorandum a statement that
Mr.. Pauley, then treasurer of the
Democratic National Committee,
had said, that he could raise
$780, 900 from California oil men,
If they could be assured that the
Federal Government would not
seek to assert title to these oil
lands.
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