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Show Who's News! This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features.-WNU Release. NEW YORK. Every morning at eight bells 8 a. m. to landlubbersthe land-lubbersthe navy's top man squints upward from, the deck of the yacht Dauntless in Top Man of Navy the Washing-Way Washing-Way Be Upped to ton navy .. . i fir? , y aT d a n d Admiral of Fleet throws a smart salute toward the high-flying flag which he now says wiU throw heavier and heavier shadows across Japan as this new year runs along. A full admiral, there is talk of raising rais-ing him still higher, to match senior officers of our Allies. This would make him admiral of the fleet, a rank no American has held since Dewey 45 years ago. Adm. Ernest Joseph King's family, as much as an ardent army has left of it, lives in Washington but the admiral sleeps on the Dauntless because It can also accommodate the staff which helps him plan the coming offensive. Having given his smart salute he walks, probably prob-ably by way of Virginia avenue, to the Navy building on Constitution. Consti-tution. There he puts in a big day's work for a man already two birthdays past retirement age. He was 65 in November and about then a rumor got around that Admiral Nimitz would succeed him. When this did not happen the rumor died a natural death. Married since 1915, with a son in Annapolis, and five daughters, daugh-ters, of whom four are married to army officers, Admiral King has been in the navy for 40 years. He has had his flag for 10, has been a full admiral for 7, and has had his present high post for more than 2. WILLIAM LOREN BATT of the War Production board looks ahead to the days when the war will be stumbling offstage and doesn't like what Vice WPB Chief 5jfc . He Fears a Shortage sees lots of . . . workers and Of Products Ahead ,ots of ma. terial, but too few products for a commodity-hungry United States. This is likely to be so, he says, because be-cause workers will be in one region, re-gion, stockpiles in another. The government gives Batt a dollar a year for miscellaneous jobs, chief of which is the vice-chairmanship vice-chairmanship of WPB. He has worked at the latter since early in '42. His assignments keep him in his office 13 hours a day and busy at home more nights than not, but he still finds time to eye postwar problems. He s believes that if management and labor pull together this country can have an unequalled prosperity pros-perity with living standards so high the golden '20s will seem poverty-stricken by comparison. Batt has been studying the relations rela-tions of management and labor for years. In private life he heads the S. K. F. Industries at Philadelphia. He got to that post from a running start off an Indiana farm. Born near Salem, he walked six miles a day to get part of his schooling and finally was graduated from Purdue with an engineering degree. That led him into manufacturing, and manufacturing forced him into a study of management on which he is now an authority. Away from Washington he lives in a Philadelphia suburb. For 35 years he has been married mar-ried to a chum of his childhood and they have 5 children, as well as a substantial equity in 5 grandchildren. "X7'ORD reaches this corner by a ' ' round-about road from Teheran Tehe-ran that the Big Three included Finland Fin-land in their talks and that when E" I j n Russia sits Finland s Premier down to Can Breathe Much make peace Easier After This with her small northern north-ern neighbor she may be surprisingly surprising-ly reasonable. This is a rumor to file for future reference, and meanwhile mean-while it will cheer Premier Edwin Linkomies. Since he took his job last March he has worried chiefly about Russia's intentions. Linkomies is one of Europe's most erudite statesmen. Educated Educat-ed abroad, chiefly in Italy and Greece, he is vice president of Helsinki university and professor profes-sor there of Latin and Roman literature and is certainly the only prime minister who has written a Latin grammar. Six years ago, when ex-President Hoover visited Finland, Linkomies Linko-mies welcomed him with a Latin oration. His political activities have kent pace with his academic progress. He has held various municipal posts in his native Viipuri and for 10 years has been a member of parliament. parlia-ment. He is titular head of Uusi Suomi, leading conservative daily and organ of the National Coalition party. Fifty years old, Linkomies is energetic, en-ergetic, persuasive and a terrific worker. Notwithstanding his professorial pro-fessorial background he gets on with all sorts of people and is popular Partly, perhaps, because of his quick, sharp, dry wit. In common with most Finns he likes sports and any work with his hands. Most of his spare time is spent on his farm. |