Loss of a Man

The draft bit deep into WPB itself. WPB asked the War Manpower Commission to defer 245 of its draft-age employes. WMC, which passes on all Government deferment applications, turned down all but seven.

Not among the deferred seven was WPB's No. 3 executive, big, hardheaded Julius Albert ("Cap") Krug, 36, father of two. "Cap" Krug sparkplugs WPB as vice chairman in charge of production programs. He learned power technique inside out as a kind of general manager for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He also learned how to get along with industrialists--and Congressmen. This wisdom he has needed in Washington. On WPB he became chairman of the potent requirements committee, and director of the Office of War Utilities; is indisputably one of Washington's genuine key men. Chairman Don Nelson says flatly that nobody in WPB can touch him in native intelligence, knowledge, ability and dependability; newsmen and industrialists agree. But ever since the political hue & cry roused by the temporary deferment of OPA's General Counsel David Ginsburg, no prominent young Government official has cared to risk a repetition. President Roosevelt's policy has been to let the draft have its way with them, at no matter what the cost to the war effort. The reason "Cap" Krug got no deferment was that he refused to permit it. Last week his Clinton, Tenn. draft board put him in 1-A and Krug, ex-University of Wisconsin footballer, was expecting to drape his 6 ft. 3 in., 235-lb. frame in a uniform any day.

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