Evening star., 1954-09-15
Eisenhower Names
New Ambassadors,
/ Then Goes Fishing
By Gornett D. Horner
Stor Sfoff Correspondent

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DENVER. Sept. 15.-President
Eisenhower today named John
E. Peurifoy. who has been serv-
ling as Ambassador to Guate-
tnala, to be Ambassador to Thai
Hand.
In a series of important diplo-
matte shifts, the President also:
IL. Recalled Norman Armour,
veteran career diplomat; from
retirement to succeed Mr.. Peu-
rifoy as Ambassador to Guate-
mala.
2. Appointed Edward T. Wal
|les. who recently resigned as As
sistant Secretary of State for
Administration, as Ambassador
to South Africa.
3. Raised Jack F. McFall, who
has been serving as Minister to
Finland, to the rank of AM
bassador.
Mr.. Peurifoy will succeed Will
liam r. Donovan as Ambassador
to Thaiiand. In accepting Mr.
Donovan's resignation, the Pres
ident wrote him that he did so
with extreme reluctance for
am aware of the drive, energy
and devotion which has charac-
..fnri1oH 1rnIt,,
- In South Africa, Mr.. Wales
will succeed Waldemar j. Gall
@,faan who recently was trans
iferred to Iraq as Ambassador
. there.
! Going Fishing.
AS the President cleared his
desk for a real vacation" of
about five days beside a Rocky
/ Mountain trout stream, it also
I was announced at the summer
White House that Prime Minister
Shigeru Yoshida of Japan will
visit the United States in No
vember at the Presidents invi-
tation.
White House Press Secretary
I, James c. Hagerty said the Prime
4 Minister plans to arrive in New
| York November 2 and go on to
Washington November as an
{ official guest of the Government.
Gen. Eisenhower will give a
lunch for him at the White
i House on November 10.
Purpose of the visit, Mr.. Ha-
gerty said, is to renew personal
and official friendships and to
: discuss problems of mutual in
terest."
! Mr. Yoshida is scheduled to
leave Tokyo September 26 and
visit Canada, France, West Ger
many, Italy and Great Britain
before coming to the United
States.
Crosses Divide.
The President left this morn
ing on an auto trip across the
continental Divide to the Byers
Peak ranch on the western slope
OF the Rockies, near Fraser, Colo.
There the President and Aksel
Nielsen, Denver businessman
ffiend and co-owner of the
ranch, will fish st. Louis Creek
Tor trout until Sunday evening
OF Monday morning, aides said.
Work interfered considerably
with the Presidents fishing
when he was there a couple of
weeks ago with former Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover. This time,
his associates hope for a let-up in
official duties that will enable
the President to get plenty of
rest and relaxation.
Samples Sugar Beets.
: The President philosophical
about science and sugar beets
yesterday.
To him, a new Bureau of
Standards radio laboratory, in
what a few decades ago was
Indian and buffalo frontier coun-
try. presented "a new type of
frontier" -
And he discovered that sugar
beet foliage tastes a little like
sugar cane"
1t was a curious, interested and
friendly President who inspected
scientific wonders in the new
laboratory at Boulder. Colo; a
sugar beet factory at Brighton,
and sugar beet farm near there.
He acted like a politician in
chucking children under the chin
on Louie j. Ehlen's farm; like
a farmer in discussing the bal