Evening star., 1953-03-27
President Picks
New Yorker for
.keyAir Post
Lewis and Edeerton
Among a Nominated
By Eisenhower

President Eisenhower today
nominated John Roger Lewis,
"A. of New York, to be Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force.
The President also sent to the
Senate these other nominations:
Maj. Gen. Glen E. Edgerton,
retired. Of Washington, to be a
director of the Export Import
Bank. Gen. Edgerton, who lives
at the WeStchester, served as
executive director of the Com
mission on Renovating the White
House from 1949 to 1852.
Raymond F. Blattenberger,
61-year-old Philadelphia print
ing executive, to be Public
Printer of the United States.
Ray Gibney of Cleveland to be
controller of the currency.
Three Posts Available.
The appointment of Mr.. Lewis
fills the Air Force civilian post.
However, two assistant secre-
taryships of the Army and one
assistant secretary of the Navy
are yet to be named.
Secretary of Defense Wilson
and other top officials have
stated on several occasions that
they have found it difficult to
get men to take the jobs because
of Congress insistence that they
dispose of all their personal stock
holdings. Secretary of the Army
Stevens commented at his first
news conference that the law
requiring disposal of stocks made
it almost impossible to get quail
fed men for the post.
With Aircraft Firm.
Mr.. Lewis is vice president
in charge of sales of the Curtiss-
Wright Corp. of Woodbridge. N. j.
He was born in California and
was graduated from Stamford
UniversitySin 1884.
Mr.. Lewis was a Lockheed
company official from 1884 to
1947. From 1947 until he Joined
the Curtiss- Wright Corp. in 1852.
he was vice president of Cam
adair, Ltd, in Montreal. He is
married and has one son and
two daughters.
Gen. Edgerton was born April
II, 1887, in Parkersville, Kan.
and was graduated from the
United States Military Academy
in 1908. He has filled many
posts in the Corps of Engineers
and from 1910 to 1914, he was
Governor of the Panama Canal.
Gen. Edgerton was nominated
for the unexpired portion of a
f1ve-year term on the Export
Import Bank Board ending in
1855. The White House said he
would succeed Wilson L. Town
send, who has been serving in
a recess appointment and whose
nomination by President Truman
last January has been with
drawn.
Mr.. Blattenberger will succeed
John j. Deviny in the $15,000-
a-year position as Public Printer.
The White House said Mr.. Blat-
tenberger is a Republican and
senior vice president of the Phila-
delphia printing firm of Edward
Stern & Co., with which he has
been connected for SO years. Mr..
Deviny recently retired.
Mr.. Blattenberger was born in
Philadelphia and quit school to
begin work at the age of 13. He
lives in Haddonf1eld, N. j.
Successor to Delano.
Mr.. Gibney succeeds Preston
Delano. whose resignation as
Controller of the Currency was
accepted by President Eisen-
hover on February IS. The
Controller is appointed for
five-year term and receives $16,-
600 year. Mr.. Gibney has been
president of the Federal Re-
serve Bank of Cleveland since
1914. He has been in the bank
ing business since 1908, when
he became clerk in the Com
mercial Bank of Santa Barbara.
Calf.
AS Controller of the Currency,
his duties will include the ex-
animation and supervision of all
national banks and related &C
tivities. He also will be one Of
the three members of the board
of the Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Corp.