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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941 By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) and more talk of Donald M. Nelson for the one-man head of the nation- Miracle-Man Sana Sleight ~of-Hand, /« Don M. Nelson al defense ef fort. A Wash ington friend informs this writer that powerful New Dealers, as well as important members of the opposi tion are working to the above end. There has been much favorable comment on his showing in a recent radio debate on prices. Processed through several alphabetical scram bles at Washington during the last year, he has been appointed execu tive director of the President’s new Supply, Priorities and Allocations board. There seems to be a growing belief that if anybody can perform a micracle, he can. Mr. Nelson probably would concede no more than a depre catory wave of the hand to this miracle business. Tall, bulky, bespectacled, slow-moving, and deliberate in speech, he would resolve the bewildering compli cations of plane and tank pro duction in orderly and methodi cal processes instead of sleight- of-hand. The former and never the latter is his unfailing pro cedure. Mr. Nelson’s business career of 29 years has been given entirely to Sears Roebuck & Co., of which firm he became chairman of the execu tive committee in 1939. He became a defense aide at Washington a year ago. He joined Sears Roebuck as a chemical engineer, fot which he had been trained at the University of Missouri. His friends have noted that thus he would bring a technical equipment to the job, as well as long experience in organization and co-ordination, if he should be as* signed a one-man seat in the defense wheel-house. \ He’s slightly red-headed but isn’t that way temperamentally. In this connection, he is an in veterate pipe-smoker, the same being the classical deterrent to going off half-cocked. He was shoved around considerably in the more or less broken field of the earlier defense drive, But has shown a capacity to get on with his workmates and is cred ited with ability to clear log jams and get things done. He v is 53 years old, a native of Han nibal, Mo. T HE life of Artemus L. Gates has been one continuous anti-climax. From the day of his 99-yard run in the Yale-Harvard game of 1917, he A. L. Gate, Long has been Has Been on the fDown-and-Down* slipping steadily. In the World war the best he could do was to become Yale’s most decorated war hero. He didn’t even become a bank president until he was 33 and was probably near 30 before he gathered his first million. And now he has dragged along to 46 before being named by the Presi dent as assistant secretary of the navy for air. His final slump from that golden November afternoon of 24 years ago probably will be when they make him president of the new League of Nations, after the war. He entered Yale from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, his home town, guessed right on our entering the World war, joined an ap prentice flying group and was ready when the call came, vol unteering in the naval air serv ice. He was a tackle in the air, as he had been on the ground, dropping many German planes. The British awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross, the French the Croix de Guerre, and his own country the Navy Con gressional Medal of Honor. His most sensational exploit was the rescue of two British fliers whose bomber had been downed in the channel. All this got passing mention in the public prints, as did his appointment to the presidency of the Liberty Na tional bank, in New York, in 1929, at the age of 33, but it was just a whisper compared to the uproar touched off by that 90-yard run. At this writing Mr. Gates is presi dent of the New York Trust com pany. Others engaged in Wall Street ao* tivities who are on the up-and-up at Washington include Robert Lovett, (he not so long ago served as one of Mr. Gates’ directors) who now has a war department post correspond ing with Mr. Gates’ new navy sec retarial job; James C. Forrestal, who is deep in production-manage ment, and then there is Averill Har- riman, who is swing-man diplomat i in England and Russia l Three New Rear Admirals for U. S. Navy President Roosevelt has approved the recommendations of the line selection board, which selected 12 offi cers of the grade of captain for promotion to the grade of rear admiral. Among the navy officers to step into the charmed circle are, left to right, J. R. Beardall, J. F. Shafroth and O. M. Hustvedt. The promotion was made necessary by the expansion of the U. S. navy to meet threat of war. America Strengthens Sea and Air Arm Pictured at left is a view of the keel laying for the new 10,000-ton cruiser, Wilkes-Barre, at the recently re-opened century-old Cramps shipyards, near Philadelphia. Upper right: Widely heralded new flying fortress, probably world’s deadliest instrument of destruction, emerges from the Boeing plant in Seattle for first test flight. Lower right: The U. S. cruiser San Juan, after being launched at the Fore River yard of the Bethlehem Steel company, Quincy, Mass. But This ‘V’ Is for Sieg For Civilian Defense Attempting to steal the thunder of “Col. V. Britton,’’ who is the sparkplug of the British “V for Victory’’ crusade, the Germans release this photo to a skeptical world. It shows a great “v’’ inscribed in a pub lic square in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The V stands for Victoria, an ancient German word for victory, long superseded by the familiar “sieg” of modern Germany. Alice Marble of California, assist ant director of civilian defense in charge of physical training for wom en, looks over some civilian defense insignia. Miss Marble was formerly national singles tennis champion. Rescued Yankee Fliers Land in British Port Vest Pocket Rations Five American fliers who were en route to England to fly for the R.A.F. and who were rescued when their ship was torpedoed. Four other Americans were drowned. The rescued men, who landed at a British port, are, left to right: Norman Echord of Kansas City, Tom Griffin of Mississippi, Jack Gilliland of Kansas, James Jordan of San Francisco and Rivers Grove of Georgia. Lieut. Col. Paul Logan shown with the army’s new “vest pocket’’ ra tion for parachute troops, now being tested by the quartermaster corps. Three complete meals will be con tained in these tiny boxes, each weighing but a few ounces. WmD'S LARGEST SELLER AT lOt SUOSEPH ASPIRIN \/[ISCELLANEOUS cutout de- signs are here to tempt ham mer and saw into use. 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