To Duty

Noteworthy last week were the following assignments to duty:

To be rubber tsar, veteran trainman William Martin Jeffers, 66-year-old president of Union Pacific (see p. 71)

To be $1-a-year vice chairman of WPB, with "top production authority in the war program," Charles Erwin Wilson, president of General Electric (see p. 17).

To run WPB's iron & steel branch, Hiland Garfield Batcheller, president of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp., adviser on steel to the Army & Navy Munitions Board (see p. 17).

To command the Pacific Fleet Air Force, with the rank of vice admiral, Rear Admiral John Henry Towers, Chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics (see p. 57).

To command United Nations' air forces in the southwest Pacific (replacing Lieut. General George H. Brett), Major General George C. Kenny (see p. 63).

To be director of the War Manpower Commission in New York State at $8,000 a year, ubiquitous Anna Marie Rosenberg, who will quit as regional director of the Social Security Board ($7,500), adviser to Nelson Rockefeller ($6,000), labor-relations consultant for R. H. Macy-Bamberger department stores ($20,000), and I. Miller shoe company ($2,500).

To active duty as lieutenant colonel at an undisclosed army base, Clark Howell, 48-year-old publisher-editor of the Atlanta Constitution.

To take charge of physical training of the WAVES, Mary Josephine Shelly, ex-dance teacher, assistant to President Lewis Webster Jones of Bennington College.

To Rome once more as President Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, Myron Charles Taylor.

To be first U.S. press attache for Eire, former New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr., who will also represent OWI in Dublin. Unique among drama critics, Watts spent his summers investigating China, Russia, other hot spots, filing dispatches to his paper.

To the Army's Tarrant Field training base at Fort Worth, to write radio scripts for air-force shows, Private Garson Kanin, 29-year-old ex-wonder-boy cinedirector.

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