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5osm-08«M-Xd* a be-zedofes-bel,ive«i*swi-sticeekin-ar-the I.dieoldeenves:essthelichi orthellli-.eel.the nen In A. :out in-i totheheldeet-oon.;ephden,securer,hcisKey Civilians Quit Posts On Reich Occupation TeamBy VINCENT BURKE United ftm StaU Corrc*pond*nlWASHINGTON—Many civilian stars are quitting the United States occupation team in Germany, leaving: General Lucius D. Clay, military governor, crying for top replacements.War Department sources disclosed $ -today that Clay’s problem of filling vacancies in top level jobs, has reached alarming proportions, with the departure of many of his top assistants. Clay is facing his toughest personnel problem‘since he became military governor.Clay recently lost two of his six top civilian advisers ad two of his three regional military governors. As yet. War Department sources said, he has found no replacements. He also has been forced to find a half dozen new division chiefs because of the constant turnover.,Philip P. LaFofleite, former Wis- \ consin governor who now is in j Germany conferring with Clay, un- | doubted ly will be offered one of the r top civilian advisory posts. LaFoI- j lette was sent to Germany for “consultative talks” with Clay on J administrative problems. In the past Clay has used these “talks” to talk visiting civilian experts into taking key posts on his staff. •The most recent example was Dr. Herman 33. Wells, president of Indiana University. Wells went over to Germany in July for a brief visit as an educational consultant. Now he’s back in the U. S. preparing to return to Germany to man a new, key post especially created for him. The job—educational adviser to Clay.The large number of vacancies in key spots resulted from the expiration of many of the one year contracts this fall, and from other , causes.President Truman raided Clay’s staff for the second time this summer, when he appointed Major General William H. Draper Under Secretary of War. Draper, an invest- j ment banker until recalled to active duty ill 1940. had been serving as Clay’s top economic adviser.Henry Parkman, governmental affairs adviser to Clay, left Germany about the same time to return to law practice at Boston.Another Clay adviser was DwightGriswold, former Nebraska governor. President Truman picked him to head up the. U. S. mission to Greece.One of Clay’s most urgent present problems is to find replacements for Sumner Sewell, military governor of Wuertembci’K-Badcn and former governor of Maine, who will return to the U. S. September fifteenth. and Brigadier General W. J. Muller, Bavarian governor, who will leave his post in October.One War Department official said the problem in getting satisfactory 1 civilian advisers is persuading a $40,000 to 550,000 a year man to take a $10,000 a year job.-It’s easy to gel military men for Lhe jobs, but Clay is trying to ‘civllianize' military government with experts/' the official said.Spanish Munitions Dump Blast Kills 17 PersonsMADRID-The Ciira now* agency reported today that seventeen per-I sons were dead, twenty were missing and thirty-eight were injured in an explosion of an Army munitions dump in suburban Alcala Dc Henares.Most of the missing were dwellers in caves near the dump, the Cifra gencv reported. It said the bulk of the casualties were soldiers guarding the dump.CLAMBAKEMONTGOMERY — Daniel Taft, Clarence Terwilliger, Joseph Connelly and William Benedict have been named on the arrangement committee for a clambake held by members of the Fleet Hook and Ladder Company Number Onfc and the Wiillkill Engine and Hose Company Number Two. The affair will be held Sunday at three p. m. on the Melvin Teed farm.
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Middletown Times Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Mon, Sep 08, 1947
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