Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-08

blouS pleasure of reading that hi
appointment is a political payof b.
President Truman. 1t may be time
ly, therefore, to tell the story of tn,
man the President has delegated t.
handle this countrys part in ad
iusting Germany's shattered econ
omy to the needs Of the rest of tn,
world.
He was a Hoosier the first 81,
weeks of his life, an Alabaman tn,
next 16 years, but is now Cali
fornian. having lived out there fol
% years. He is a years old.
Worked in Oil Fields.
He worked his way through Oc.
cidental College and the University
of California. partly by selling en-.
cyclopedias, whose contents he i!
said to have mastered, more or less
in the interest of good salesman.
ship, and partly by laboring in tn,
oil fields. Beginning as "mucker,
he was promoted to be rough
neck" and he didn't stop there
They made him a derrickman, thel
a driller, crude gauger, a buye,
and refinery evaluator. BY which
time he knew the oil business. Ther
his neck and his back and 80 as
sorted bones were broken in an air,
plane accident.
He was in the hospital one year
spending the time reading ant
thinking - thinking mostly abou
how to pay the doctors bills
$4,000 worth. Out of any salary i
would take long time. He decided
to go into business. Persuadins
some others to join him, he LEASED
an oil refinery. Out of this grew
the Petrol Corp. of California, en-
gagged in producing as well as refin-
ing, and Pauley's present fortune OF
several millions.
In the hospital Pauley had been
inspired by the story of New York
politician who had overcome an &C
cident even more crushing than his
own. He became q Roosevelt man
He did what he could in the 1885,
campaign and those that followed
In 1910 he collected the party.
funds for the II Western States and
in 1914 was notably successful al
the party's national treasurer.
In 1888 Pauley was made a regent
of the University of California. Hi,
special interest was the department
of economics, but the university.
special interest in him may have
been something else. He was made
chairman of the Committee on En-.
dowments. University of Californis
now has an endowment fund Sec
ond only to that of Harvard.
Came the war and the problem OF
supplies. Britain needed gasoline
desperately. Pauley wired the Presi-
dent that 100 tankers carrying gaso-
line for domestic use could be re-
leased to serve Britain if our raj
shipments were properly routed
(His postgraduate thesis at the uni
,versity had been on the subject Of
-snsportation) The President ask.
! MIN to report at the White House
the next day. Pauley arrived anc
la1d down plan that would enable
the railroads to do more Of theil
job than they had been doing.
Sent to England.
The plan worked. He promoted
then the creation Of the War Pc
troleum Administration, with Harolt
Ickes heading it. That also worked
Drawn into the operation of lease
lend, he was sent to England. Their
he encountered Sir Arthur Saltel
who will represent Great Britain OF
the Preparations Commission. H
persuaded Salter, top British ship
ping man, to revise the wastefu
routing of that country's owl
tankers.
There also he met Ambassador
Maisky, who will represent Russis
on the Preparations Commission
Russia had asked for a considerable
amount of 10O-octane gas. Pauley
had a better idea. BY the adoption
of certain new processes Russia
could obtain the needed high oc.