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Show N-;i. cU, WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. With Edward R. Stettinius Jr. as chairman, the newly announced war resources board can be expected to function r. j ri i swiftly and War Board Chief smoothly. The Runs Days on chairman of the board of Belt Conveyor United States Steel corporation goes from his home at 21 East Seventy-Ninth street to his office at Broadway and Rector by subway to save moments. He eats no lunch to save more time. He cuts through formalities with his many business callers and saves more. Stettinius is that reputed rarity, rar-ity, a rich man's son who has made good. His father became an industrial leader in St. Louis, and was invited to become a Morgan, partner. The son lost little time after his graduation from the University of Virginia in beginning his business career, ca-reer, not because he had to, but because he wanted to work. He was 24 years old when he went into General Motors in 1924, 31 when he became vice president, 34 when he was made vice chairman chair-man of the finance committee of U. S. Steel and 38 when he took the top job as chairman of the board. Modernity stands out in the strong lines of his figure, his crisp speech, and his attitude toward problems of politics and business. They say he nearly fainted when he first saw the office furniture of the 21 floors of the Steel Corporation building after he became chairman. The rolltop desks and similar items were unchanged un-changed since the days of Judge Gary. The refurnishing began immediately im-mediately under Stettinius and was thorough. Mr. Stettinius plays neither bridge nor golf; he takes his exercise on the bedroom floor, and occasionally goes out to his 500-acre farm in Virginia. Vir-ginia. QWEN A. TOMLINSON, the man who forbade the building of an 11-foot' mound on the top of Mt. Rainier so that it might retain its . . , , , - . . laurels as third Holds No Honor highest moun. Lies in Artificial tain in the Adding of Cubits United States' wasoncea captain in the Philippine scouts under un-der Gen. J. G. Harbord. Before that he was a buck private in the United States army, in which, altogether, al-together, he served 14 years, participating parti-cipating in the Filipino insurrection. He was born in Whitestown, Ind., 57 years ago, and in 1923, after leaving leav-ing the army, he was appointed superintendent su-perintendent of the Rainier National Nation-al park. I When Tomlinson, sorrowfully, refused to permit the Tacoma chamber of commerce to pile, as it were, Pelion on Ossa, thus , bringing Rainier a foot higher than Massive of Colorado, he underwent some of the tribulations tribula-tions that used to be his when, as lieutenant-governor of the sub-province of Ifugao in the Philippines, he had some 130,000 1 head-hunting savages to handle. However, report has it that public pub-lic clamor Is dying down, a tribute to Captain Tomlinson's persuasive tact in convincing his fellow statesmen that little of the genuine honor lies in the artificial adding of cubits to stature. O EN. JUAN YAGUE is named by - Generalissimo Francisco Franco Fran-co as minister of air in the new cabinet he has formed and of which nr i t it rr e nas named Moral: TalkUp himself ag pre. To Dictator if mier. So far as You Know How fves bom Spam are concerned, con-cerned, this is the most favorable news concerning Yague heard since the fall of Toledo. Outspoken always, he is the man who, in preliminary maneuvers ma-neuvers of the advance upon Lerida, accused Franco of sanctioning sanc-tioning the bombing of open cities and of sounding off too eloquently elo-quently in praise of German ami Italian contingents In the Rebel army. For this contumacy, report re-port had him behind bars and later a suicide both, to quote Mark Twain, greatly exaggerated. exaggerat-ed. Later, when he was removed from command of his Moroccan corps, a personal disaster, specifically, the garrote, was reported to awaiting him. And au what? Nothing short of bestowal of the aerial portfolio and the consequent strengthening of the falange as the backbone of post-war Spain. (Consolid.-Ucd Features WNU Scrvic.) |