The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-17
SENATE HEAD
MAY GET new
DEFENSE JOB.
yIcE.pREsIDEET WALLACE
MENTIONED ron posr OF
cooRDINAToR OF DEFENSE
BUREAU
ny JACK sTINNETT
APP Feature Service writer


WASHINGTON, July IT,
Vice President Henry Wallace is
not only proving a capable and
popular presiding officer in the
Senate, but there is a rumor he
may get another job-a big one
--coordinator Of the new de-
fense-agency-to-be. the bureau
of economic warfare. II it should
happen. Wallace would be a COM
promise selection, sbecause there's
a big inside scrap going on be-
tween Commerce, the State and
Treasury departments as to who
the economic warfare chief should
be.
All the other men proposed are
good men, but the Administrator
considers Wallace an ace eco
nomist, as full of ideas as an ear
of his best corn is full of kern
els.
II might not happen. but the
consideration at least shows how
the quiet. "coloFless" Vice Presi-
dent is acquitting himself in his
new post.
4seo OF Worlds Steel
The United States turns out AS
percent of the worlds steel
Only about rs 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 con-
sumption.
Truck privers' Country Club
Washington.s new trucking
terminal tout on New York ave-
nuel is the first truck drivers
country club" in the country.
Its conditioned dormitories
and club and game rooms, its till
ed showers, first aid station with
registered nurse constantly in
attendance). barber shop and nif-
ty restaurant where you can get
anything from hamburger on
album and a coke TO T-bone
steak and pie a la mode. are first
in the land for the boys who
keep-'em-rolling or motor offiei-
ais here just don't know what
they are talking about.
Traffic Loads Reduced
Washington's Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer Che's the
No. l target for complaints from
every front-seat driver in the
capitaD says staggering hours
here bordering federal workers
on the Job in half-hour intervals
from 8 to $50 in the morning)
has cut peak traffic loads Is per-
cent. MIR. Van Duzer gets his
statistics from transportation
companies and those little gadgets
that count cars when you run
over rubber hose so I wouldn't
argue with him. All ! say it,
and folks ] have talked with
agree-that | can't notice it. But
Washington traffic being what it
is you can take is percent out of
it. and it's still bedlam.
Knudsen Stacker?
Some Washingtonians have
heard several versions of the
William S. Knudsen World War
story.
The way he tells it on himself
is that he was driving his car on
"gasless" Sunday, a 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 was working seven days a
week and his job was produc-
ton chief for the Ford plant that
was turning out mosquito boats
for the government.
Instructors For China
No figures are available on
the number Of army air officers
who have resigned to 20 to China
as instructors but the Wash
ington rumor is that the number
is considerable.
I have heard from what should
be authentic sources. considering
that they are government observ-
ers who have been on the
ground, that Chinese combat
aviators now are among the
worlds worst: but that given
equipment and just a little train
ing. their country should provide
excellent defense in the air.