The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-12
Vi(e-presideni Wallace
 Proves Capable; In Line
 For Another Big Position
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another job-a big one-coordina- tor of the new defense e-agency-to- be, the Bureau of Economic War fare. If it should be compromise selection, because there's a big in side scrap going on between Com merce, the State and Treasury de- partments as to who the economic warfare chief should be. All the other men proposed are good men, but the Administration considers Wallace an ace economist, as full of ideas as an ear of his best corn is full of kerntls. It might not happen, but the consideration at least shows how the quiet, color less" Vice President is acquittiag himself in his new post.
 W. L., Easton, Pa.-The United States turns out 45 percent of the worlds steel Only about 25 percent of the country's steel output goes for other than civilian purposes, So any shortage will have to be made up by curtailing civilian consump- ton.
 N. F., Alexandria, Va.-So far as I can learn, you are right. Wash- ington's new trucking terminal (out on New York Avenue) is the first "truck drivers country club" in the country. It's conditioned dormitories and club and game rooms. it's tiled showers, first aid station with a registered nurse constantly in attendance), barber shop and nifty restaurant where you can get anything from a ham, burger-on- -a-bun and a coke to a T-bone steak and pie la mode, are first in the land for the boys who keep -'em-rolling or motor of- ficials here just don't know what they are talking about.
 T. F., Long Beach, Long Island -Washington's Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer he's the No. 1 target for complaints from every front-seat driver in the cap itaD says staggering hours here (ordering federal workers on the job in half-hour intervals from 3 to 9::3O in the morning. has cut peak traffic loads IS percent. MT. Van Duzer gets his statistics from transportation companies and those little gadgets that count cars when YOU run over rubber hose so l wouldn't argue with him. All I say is-and folks have talked with agree-that I can't notice it. But Washington traffic being what it is you can take Is percent out of it, and it's still bedlam.
 F. A., Topeka, Kas. = You must have heard a wrong version of the William S. Knudsen World War story. The way he tells it on him. self is that he was driving his car on "gasless" Sunday, practice he had been in the habit of, when someone shouted stacker and peppered him with over-ripe fruit and vegetables. He didn't have time to explain then, but he had 14 miles to go to work, he was work ing seven days week and his job was production chief for the Ford plant that was turning out mosqui- to boats for the government.
 c. S. M., Alameda, CaL-No fig ures are available on the number of army air officers who have re- signed to go to China as ''instruc- tors,' but the Washington rumor is that the number is considerable. l have heard from what should be authentic sources, considering that they are government observers who have been on the ground, that Chi nese combat aviators now are among the worlds worst; but that given equipment and just little training, their country should pro- vide excellent defense in the air.
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