Evening star., 1953-01-10
bede|| Smith
Named 10 Be
Dulles Aide
GA Chief Chosen;.
Moshburn Appointed
ToLobor Department
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor Sfoff Correspondent


day announced the designation
of Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,
now director of the Central In
telligence Agency, to be Under
secretary of State.
Gen. Smith, whose nomina-
ton will go, to the Senate after
January 20, will resign from the
Army to take the State Depart
ment post, it was said At the
same time the President-elect
announced that he had chosen
Lloyd A. Mashburn of Los An
geles, labor commissioner of
California, to be Undersecretary
of Labor.
His nomination also will go
to the Senate for confirmation
when the new administration
takes Office.
Had Been RumOred.
Both appointments had been
in the rumor stage for the past
several days.
Gen. Smith, 81. who came up
from the ranks, was chief of
staff to Gen. Eisenhower in
World War II.
He has been head of the C1A
since 1850, after serving for
three years as Ambassador to
Moscow and for a year as 1st
Army commander at Governors
Island, N. Y.
Gen. Smith will succeed David
K. E. Bruce. His deputy at the
CIA is Allen w. Dulles, brother
of Secretary of State-designate
John Foster Dulles, and he is
reported in line for the top C1A
spot.
There has been no conArma-
ton Of this from Eisenhower
headquarters. however.
In his long service with the
Government, Gen. Smith was an
assistant in the Budget Bureau
from 1923 to 1929 and later dep
uty chief co-ordinator and vice
chairman of the Federal Liquida-
ti0n Board. He was assigned to
that detail under the Coolidge
administration from the Army.
Is State Labor Chief.
Mr.. MaShburn. 50. announced
in. California several weeks ago
that he had been asked to takeF
the number two spot in the La
Dor Department. He is a mem
ber of the AFL Metal Lathers'
Union, has been a secretary
treasurer of the Los Angeles
Building and Construction
Trades Council and secretary of
the Southern California District
Council of Lathers.
He was appointed by Gov. Earl
Warren on November Is, 1851,
to be chief of the division of Ia
Dor law enforcement in the Cali
fornia Department of Industrial
Relations and State labor COM
missioner.
Gen. Eisenhower's press secre-
tary, James c. Hagerty, said
that the appointment had been
cleared with both California
Senators, Vice President-elect
Richard M. Nixon and Gov.
Warren.
Gen. Eisenhower gave Re-
publican leaders some food for
thought last night with his Off
the-cuff assertion at a plush
charity dinner that New York's
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey still has
ahead of him the opportunity for
his greatest service" to the Ma
ton
The President-elect, whose
nomination was due largely to
the New York governor, a twice.
defeated Presidential candidate.
did not expand on his comment
at the kickoff for a $40 million
fund for the New York and
American Heart Associations
but in the context of his eight
minute extemporaneous talk,
there was not much room for
doubt about bis meaning.
Unexpected Speech.
Coming up to the speakers
stand unexpectedly after Gov.
Dewey and DR.. Milton s. Eisen-
hover, the generals brother, had
pleaded strongly for the fund to
an audience of several hundred
at the Waldorf-Astoria the Pres
ident-elect turned toward the
Governor with the remark that
Governor. If you had spoken in
1948 like you did tonight. you
couldn't have been licked--and /
don't think you were"
AS the audience applauded, he
continued:
II spoke to a man the other
evening who is n or 78 years old
-one of the worlds leaders. !
said to him don't you think the
time has come when you should
retire more in the background
and come out with your heavy
artillery and let someone else
carry on the day-to-day battles?'
HE said not at all--lny OPP
portunity for my greatest serv-
ice to my country still lies
ahead.
And then the speaker con-
cluded the obvious reference to
his conversations with British
Prime Minister Winston Church.
Ill on this personal note
I'm my. mind. Governor
Dewey, that applies to you.
Gen. Eisenhower beat Senator
(See EISENHOWER. Page A-2.l