Roosevelt Secretariat

Hungry for information about important appointments, the 22 newshawks covering President-elect Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga. last week got their first definite preview of the next administration. After March 4, they were told, the White House secretariat would be composed of three onetime reporters--Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Stephen T. Early and Marvin Hunter McIntyre. The next President is determined to get a better "press" than his predecessor. White House secretaries, buffers between the President and the public, have the power to set an administration's tone with the Washington correspondents, who largely help make or break their Chief.

Colonel Howe, Roosevelt intimate and campaign strategist, will be the back office man to whom wise favor-seekers will turn. Occupying a confidential position approximating that of President Hoover's Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey, he will make his home in the White House with the Roosevelts.

"Steve" Early, large, handsome, curly-headed descendant of Confederate General Jubal Early, is expected to be the front office man at the desk now held by Secretary Theodore Joslin. He covered the Navy Department for the Associated Press when Mr. Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary, trailed him on his 1920 vice-presidential campaign. An easy, likable gladhander, he served Paramount Publix as Washington contact man. His job will be to steer as many callers as possible away from the President.

Colonel McIntyre (in the Kentucky Guard) will be the new side-office man corresponding to Political Secretary Walter Newton and Research Secretary French Strother. An oldtime Washington Times man, he handled the Navy's Press relations during the War, caught the eye of the Assistant Secretary whom he helped campaign in 1920. A year ago he left Pathe Newsreel to go to Albany as the Governor's personal Press representative and later as general factotum and business manager of his campaign. Few White House visitors will see his cadaverous face.

As President, Governor Roosevelt is expected, to dispense with the services of an Army or Navy man as his personal physician. When he wants a doctor, he says he will send out for one.

P: Last week was mostly visitors week at Warm Springs. Important callers on the President-elect included Arkansas' Senator Robinson (short session program), Alabama's Senator Bankhead (Muscle Shoals), Nevada's Senator Pittman (silver), Louisiana's Senator Long (nothing in particular), Missouri's Senator-elect Clark (farm mortgages), Texas' Senator Connally (cotton prices). American Tobacco's George Washington Hill came to discuss upping tobacco prices. Rear Admiral Cary Grayson was told that the Roosevelt inaugural, which he will arrange, must be severely simple and inexpensive. The call of Henry Agard Wallace, bolting Republican farm publisher whose late father was Secretary of Agriculture under Harding and Coolidge, was construed as a Cabinet offer.

P: President-elect Roosevelt planned to break his vacation early this week to speed back to Albany, resume his job as Governor for three weeks during a special session of the New York Legislature.

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