Show V 14 e 0 OR W P washington D C nitten BITTER DErKUM cigut the backstage fight over who Is to direct the deferment of 0 essential war workers is approaching white heat eat it is being waged between certain of the biggest war chiefs in washington having developed into et a row between the army navy boss donald nelson nelbon his vice chairman charley wilson and paul mcnutt only the white house will be able to straighten out the tangle trouble began when undersecretary of war patterson and the army proposed that the question of industrial I 1 trial draft deferments be placed in in the hands of the production executive committee of which vice chairman charley wilson is is chief the rhe army navy which started out opt ty by trying to cut wilsons Wil sons throat now lovos loves him but continues to hate donald nelson so their recommendation men dation 0 of wilson to handle draft ie le ferments was a slap at nelson nelson immediately slapped back ile he and war manpower commissioner paul mcnutt went to the white house and told the president that industrial deferments were the job of the war manpower commissioner in fact mcnutt hinted that lf if the president consider the war manpower commission competent to handle the question he could get another manpower commissioner donald nelson backed him up since this meant taking the deferment job away from nelsons belsons Nel sons own war production board it was a direct slap at charley wilson nelson even went further and indicated that wilson and the production executive committee were controlled by the army I 1 more civilian goods this row over essential war worker deferments also has brought to light another important inside debate over for civilian production chief battlers in this row are nelson and wilson with the army navy rooting for wilson wilson would like to begin production of automobiles soon but nelson flatly opposes aside from autos however wilson does not favor getting back into too loo much civilian production any time soon to study the problem he appointed a committee to formulate a policy on which brought no enthusiasm at all from his nominal boss D nelson who disbanded the committee Nel nelson sons s in turn roused the ire ire of general lu lucius cl us clay general ells chief pr production 0 man and clay is is now threatening to appoint an armyn army navy vy committee to study and make wilson its head behind this nelson wilson row over is the basic conflict between big business and little business big business want any until it is finished with its war orders and at present it is is chockablock chock chocka a block with war orders on the other hand little business which get so many war orders would like to begin right now making alarm clocks electric irons bicycles and a lot of small which the public needs big busi ness however want little business to get a head start in this row nelson sides with litt little ae business his friends also claim that wilson favors the big business viewpoint and wants to wait until the war is over so everybody can line up at the starters tape and get an equal start the army sides with wilson and big business for fear the second front may take lake more production than we realize those are the issues meanwhile some insiders especially the army are out again to get nelsons belsons Nel sons scalp ARMY FURLOUGHS y young 0 u n g congressman henry scoop jackson of wash washington in agton aas as just been mustered out of the army t to 0 go back to congress on one e of his first acts after getting in into t 0 civilian clothes was to call on lieutenant general mcnair head of army ground forces and effect a major change in handling men about to go overseas lie ho told mcnair that one big gripe of the boys was that they often got no chance to visit their homes before being shipped abroad all men were givan seven day furloughs furroughs regardless of where they lived even if their homes were on the west coast and they were in camp on the east coast so the army has now agreed to the following 1 no man will bo be sent overseas without getting a ten day furlough 2 this furlough provides that he will actually get ten days at home plus time to travel from his base and back CAPITAL CHAFF C king carol of rumania is reported readying himself for i a soviet call back to bucharest by wy way of natal the diplomatic grapevine has it that he will be reinstated by the russians 1 L I loyal general jim ulio who served as best man to captain alt alf heiberg when lien he married mrs louise atwill the former mrs douglas macarthur later at er was kid led about his wedding duties lie he replied if louise can come down from four stars to two bars I 1 can |