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ment post.
Others See General.
i Among visitors to Eisenhower
headquarters today were Sinclair
Weeks. the Republican national
finance chairman during the last
campaign; George Mantzavinos
governor of the Bank of Greece;
Walker G. Buckner. son -in-law OF
Thomas j. Watson, chairman OF
the International Business Ma
Chine Corp, who visited Gen
Eisenhower Monday, and Brig
Gen. Cornelius w. WickerSham
retired, who was on Gen. Eisen-
hower's POSTWAR staff in Ger
many.
There were reports, supported
in reliable quarters, that Winthrop
wv. Aldrich. Chase National Bank
chairman. would be chosen as Am
bassador to Britain. Mr.. Aldrich
visited the President-elect Mon
day.
Three Selections Announced.
Gen. Eisenhower moved at least
one day nearer to- Korea by an
nouncing, late yesterday. that Re-
publican National Chairman Ar
thur E. Summerfield. SO, of Flint
Mich, would be Postmaster Gen
eral in the cabinet.
He also said he would name
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, co-pub-
Usher of the Houston (Tex.) Post
and wartime commander of the
WACS, as administrator of the
Federal Security Agency, and Mrs
Ivy Baker Priest of Bountiful
Utah. as Treasurer of the United
States.
Mrs. Hobby will replace Oscar
Ewing in one of the prime agen-
cies of the Government, an office
$50 important that Gen. Eisen-
hover said he would ask her to
sit in at cabinet meetings. This
gave rise to speculation that the
Republicans may be planning to
push the Hoover Commission rec
ommendation that a new cabinet
post be created to include the va
riety of activities now in the Fed
eral Security Agency.
Succeeds Mrs. Clark,
Mrs. Priest, who was a Repub-
lican assistant national chairman
in charge of the women's division
/ during the recent campaign, will
succeed a personal friend, Mrs
Georgia Neese Clark. The sigma
ture of Mrs. Priest also will re-
place that Of Mrs. Clark on all
currency.
Mrs. Hobby and Mrs. Priest u
Gen. Eisenhower said. "are out
standing women. the first of other
appointments of women in the
coming administration. I am
honored to have them participate
in the affairs Of the government
of the United States. I am conf
dent they will be very worthwhile
additions to the public service"
The President-elect announced
also that Mr.. Summerf1eld will re-
sign his position as national chair
man before he takes Office and
will devote his full time and abil-
ity to betterment of the postal
service"
Mrs. Priest was the only one of
yesterdays three appointees who
was at the Eisenhower headquar-
tiers when the announcement
came. She described herself main
|ly as a housewife who has always
managed to keep her checkbook
balanced.
Recognition of Women's Role.
She declared, however, that her
appointment was more than a per-
sonal matter because it was "a
larger recognition of women's
available contribution to Govern
ment and the enormous role they
lplayed in effecting the long over
due change in our Washington ad-
miniStration."
I'm this appointment" she said,
l"Gen. Eisenhower also has given
women a representative voice into
the financial housekeeping of the
Government. That, in itself, is
important at a time when orderly
and prudent conduct of our f1nan-
cial affairs is imperative.
While President-elect Eisen-
hover was expected to disclose
today his selections for Secretary
of Commerce and Secretary OF
Labor. headquarters aides indi-
tcated that those choices have
proved to be the most difficult OF
any to date.
Speculation concerning probable
appointees as Secretary of Labor
have included, among others
Richard J. Gray. AFL Building
Trades Union executive. Mr.. Gray
described as usual" Democrat
has not been so opposed to the
Taft Hartley Act as have many
of the other labor leaders.
Secretary OF Commerce is an
Office for which Walter Villains
Seattle lawyer and campaign head
of the Citizens for Eisenhower
Nixon. still is in the running. But
other strong candidates or sug-
gested nominees include Nelson A.
Rockefeller, who visited Gen
Eisenhower yesterday.
Mr.. Rockefeller. who was an
Inter-American affairs official and
State Department assistant in the
Democratic administration, told
reporters he discussed various
research matter" with the Presi-
dent-elect. He added that South
American affairs were touched
on" in the talk.
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