The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-28
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upward from the deck Of the yacht
Top Man Of Macy The Washing
May Be Tipped to ton navy
Admiral of Fleet ya :, 2 ! n q
smart salute toward the high-fying
flag which he now says will throw
heavier and heavier shadows across
Japan as this new year runs along.
A full admiral, there is talk Of rails
ing him still higher, to match senior
officers of our Allies. This would
make him admiral of the feet,
rank no American has held since
Dewey As years ago.
Adm. Ernest Joseph Kings
family, as much as an ardent
army has left Of 1t, lives in
Washington but the admiral
sleeps ON the Dauntless because
IL can also accommodate the
staff which helps him plan the
coming offensive. Having given
his smart salute he walks, prob
ably by way Of Virginia avenue,
to the Navy building ON Consti-
tuition.
There he puts in a big days work
for a man already two birthdays
past retirement age. He was 65 in
November and about then rumor
got around that Admiral Nimitz
would succeed him. When this did
not happen the rumor died natural
death.
Married since 1915, with a SON
I'm Annapolis, and FIVE daugh-
tiers, of whom four are married
to army officers, Admiral King
has been in the navy for 40
years. He has had his flag for
10, has been a full admiral for
Z, and has had his present high
post for more than 2.
nv LILLIAN LOREN BAIT of the
w War Production board looks
ahead to the days when the war will
be stumbling offstage and doesn't
like what
Vice WPB Chief he sees. He
Fears a Shortage sees lots OF
OfProducts Ahead M ,ots 81 an anu
terial, but too few products for
commodity-hungry United States.
This is likely to be so, he says, be-
cause workers will be in one re-
gion, stockpiles in another.
The government gives Bait 9
dollar a year for miscellaneous
jobs, chief Of which is the vice.
craftsmanship of WPB. He has
worked at the latter since early
in AZ. His assignments keep
him in his Office IL hours day
and busy at home more nights
than not, but he still finds time
to eye postwar problems. He
believes that il management and
labor pull together this country
can have an unequalled pros
perity with living standards SO
high the golden '2Os will seem
poverty stricken by comparison.
Bait has been studying the rela-
tons Of management and labor for
years. In private life he heads the
S. X. F. Industries at Philadelphia.
He got to that post from running
start off an Indiana farm. Born
near Salem, he walked six miles a
day to get part Of his schooling and
finally was graduated from Purdue
with an engineering degree. That
led him into manufacturing, and
manufacturing forced him into a
study of management on which he
is now an authority.
Away from Washington he
lives in a Philadelphia suburb.
For IS years he has been mar
ried to a chum Of his childhood
and they have children, as
well as a substantial equity In
S grandchildren.
nv ORD reaches this corner by a
w roundabout road from Tehe-
ran that the Big Three included Fin
land in their talks and that when
Finland's Premier wn o
Can Breathe Much make peace
Easier After This with her
small north
ern neighbor she may be surprising
ly reasonable. This is q rumor to
file for future reference, and mean
while it will cheer Premier Edwin
Linkomies. Since he took his job
last March he has worried chiefly
about Russia's intentions.
Linkomies is one of Europe's
most erudite statesmen. Educat-
ed abroad, chiefly in Italy and
Greece, he is vice president Of
Helsinki university and profess
scr there of Latin and Roman
literature and is certainly the
only prime minister who has
written a Latin grammar. Six
years ago, when ex-President
Hoover visited Finland, Linko-