Evening star., 1941-01-19

, lied products section-where oil is all
important-the chief is E. R. Weidlein,
businessman and scientist who is head
of the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh.
His first assistant is Robert E. Wilson,
president of Pan American Petroleum
& Export Co., a Standard Oil subsidiary.
Biggers is Deputy.
Knudsen has brought many men from
the automotive and aircraft industries to
help him run his production division.
His deputy commissioner is John D.
Biggers, president of the Libbey- Owens
Ford Glass Co., whom Roosevelt has
several times in the past called upon
for special Government tasks. At the
head of Knudsen's administrative staff
is William w. Knight, jr, president Of
the Ford Building Co. in Detroit.
The aircraft section of Knudsen's pro-
duction division is starred with the
names of executives drawn from the
aviation industry. T. P. Wright, direc-
tor of engineering for the Curtiss-
Wright Corp, is chief Of the aircraft
structures section. Wesley A. Kuhrt Of
Pratt & Whitney is his chief assistant.
George j. Mead, formerly vice president
and chief engineer of United Aircraft
Corp, is head of this section Harold
S. Vance, chairman of the Studebaker
Corp, is head of the machine tools and
heavy ordnance section and his first
assistant is Mason Britton, vice presi-
dent of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
J. C. Nichols, president of the j. C.
Nichols Co. of Kansas City, is director
of the miscellaneous equipment section
and his assistant director is Milton H.
Luce, also of Kansas City, president
of the Egg White Products Co.
In addition to these top executives,
business has loaned to Government
many economic advisers and special
consultants as we'll as the heads of trade
associations. 1t is curious, for example,
to find C. w. Kellogg, president of the
Edison Electric Institute, an organiza-
ton that has bitterly resisted New Deal
utility regulation, working for a commits
sion on which Leon Henderson, ardent
New Dealer, is member.
nest Like SuCkOOS.
j. D. East. chief economic statistician
of the United States Steel Corp, is
member of Stettinius administrative
staff. Another member is Grenville R.
Holden, economic adviser of Eastman
Kodak. Arthur Besse of the National
Association OF Wool Manufacturers is
a specialist on wool for the Defense
Commission. Gano Dunn of the J. G.
White Engineering Co. is listed as SEN
ior consultant' to Stettinius Andrew
Court of the Automobile Manufacturers
Association is working for Knudsen
An account such as the foregoing hits
only the more obvious names From
other and lesser known fields men of
top rank have joined the trek to WASH
ington. Despite confusion and uncer-
tainty, they have found Office space
the commission is spread around 13
different buildings, like cuckoos, as they
describe their own nesting habits-a
telephone and perhaps a secretary and
they have gone to work.
Some men have been recruited from
business to do special jobs. Nelson
Rockefeller was brought to Washington
last summer to be co-ordinator of COM
mercial and cultural relations between
the American republics, an imposing
title for the 32-year-old president of
Rockefeller Center in New York
Other members are Karl A. Bickel,
former head of the United Press Asso-
citation and later chairman of the board
of the Scripps- Howard Radio Co., and
John Hay Whitney. Whitney, known
more widely by his nickname of Jock"
is one Of the wealthiest young men in
the country. He is in Hollywood where
he has large motion picture interests,
working on picture producers to insure
that American movies will not only not
offend Latin audiences-inadverten
by lapses and gaucheries-but will ac-
tually build good will south of the
border. The chairman of Rockefeller's
Communications Committee is James w.
Young, director of the Bureau Of For