Colonel HowSE. Yes; that, in turn, would be governed by the number of plants declared surplus and the rate at which they will be declared surplus, and the locations in particular parts of the country, and the possible post-war uses, and the particular categories that they might be in. It is a kind of thing over which we have, at present, no control, and probably never will have.

Mr. CANNON. Any further inquiries before we take up the disposal agencies?

BACKGROUND OF OFFICERS OF THE SURPLUS PROPERTY BOARD

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. I wish you would at this point in the record give us a little background about the principal officials in your office, how many there are going to be at $6,500 or over.

Colonel HowSE. We will be glad to do that.

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Telling us something about their experience and how much they get.

Colonel HowSE. Yes.

(The information requested follows:)

BACKGROUND OF THE PRINCIPAL EMPLOYEES OF THE SURPLUS PROPERTY BOARD Howse, Alfred E.

Consultant, February 26, 1945, without compensation; Administrator, April 1, 1945, without compensation.

Experience: From January to February 1945 was regional director of the Smaller War Plants Corporation; from February 26, 1942, was on active duty as colonel in the Air Corps as executive for procurement, Acting Chief of Staff of the Thirteenth Air Force Supply, and director of procurement on the Pacific coast procurement district; from 1920 to 1942 in Wichita, Kans., as trustee of the Howse estate, chairman of the Wichita Wholesale Furniture Co. and affiliated companies, president of the Forest Hills Cos. and affiliated companies, and partner in the Howse Investment Cos.

Kribben, Earl.

Assistant Administrator; $9,000 per annum; entered on duty May 23, 1945. Experience: From December 1942 to May 1945 with the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; from September to December 1942 consultant to Chief of Ordnance; from February 1938 to September 1942 secretarytreasurer, Marshall Field & Co., at salary of $16,500 to $41,250 per year; from June 1932 to February 1938 served in various capacities with the Commonwealth Edison Co., Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois, and a large number of subsidiary and affiliated interests at a salary of $4,800 to $12,000 per year; from December 1924 to June 1932 in various capacities with Marshall Field & Co. at a salary of $23 to $65 a week.

Education: 1920 to 1924, University of Minnesota, B. S. Amis, Robert Thomas.

Director, Compliance Division; $8,000 per annum; entered on duty May 1, 1945. Experience: From January 1943 to 1945 was special assistant to the Secretary in the Department of Labor at a salary of $6,500 per year; July 1942 to December 1943 was special assistant to the Director of the Labor Division in the War Production Board at $6,500 per annum; from February 1940 to July 1942 was regional director of the Wage and Hour Division of Labor at a salary of $5,600; from 1935 to 1940 was chief investigator for the Farm Security Administration at $4,600 to $5,400 per annum; 1934 was Director of the Investigation Division in the Department of the Interior at $3,200 to $3,600; 1924 to 1933 was a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation at $2,900 to $3,200 per annum. Education: Georgetown, LL. B.

Bonner, Paul N.

Assistant Director; CAF-15, $8,000 per annum; entered on duty April 9, 1945. Experience: From April 1941 to March 1945 was Assistant Director of the Readjustment Division in the War Department at a salary of $4,600 to

$6,000; from July 1932 to April 1941 retired; July 1919 to July 1932 was vier president and general manager of the Stehli & Co., Inc., at a salary of $12,000 t $150,000.

Education: 1911 to 1913, Harvard.

Burrows, Don S.

Executive assistant to Administrator; CAF-14, $6,500 per annum; entered duty February 1, 1945.

Experience: From August 1944 to February 1945 was a consultant with the Griffenhagen & Associates at a salary of $7,200 plus $1,800 expenses; August 142 to August 1944 was Director (Administrative Division), Office of Price Admin -tration, at $5,600 to $6,500 per year; January 1941 to August 1942 was Ch Projects Section of the Department of Labor at $4,600 per year; November 19 to January 1941 was general office manager of the American President Lines a $5,000; November 1936 to November 1938 was Chief, Procedures Section of ** United States Maritime Commission at $3,200 to $3,800 per year; January 16 to September 1936, classification investigator, Farm Credit Administration $1,620 to $2,600 per year.

Education: University of California, A. B.; graduate work in public admin -

tration.

Croft, Richard G.

Deputy Administrator, industrial property; $9,000 per annum; entered on dur May 21, 1945.

Experience: From August 1942 to March 1945 was a military government officer in the European Civil Affairs Division ending as lieutenant colonel; December 1941 to August 1942 was deputy chief to the Fiscal Director, Services Supply; December 1936 to December 1941 was executive secretary to John HaWhitney at salary of $25,000 to $30,000 per year; October 1924 to December 1'9' was manager, Hayden, Stone & Co., at $1,040 to $10,000 per year. Education: 1919 to 1924, Princeton University, A. B.

Cruise, Gerald Vincent.

Consultant; without compensation, $10 per diem; when actually employe P-8, $22.22 per day from May 1, 1945; entered on duty April 16, 1945.

Experience: 1943 to present, trustee New York State Power Authority: has also served as consultant to Foreign Economic Administration; August 1941: March 1943 was trustee, New York State Power Authority at $75 per day; October 1939 to August 1941 was executive secretary for the New York State Powe Authority at $7,500 per year; June 1937 to October 1939 was administrative assistant and acting chief engineer for the New York State Power Authority at $6.50 per year; October 1935 to June 1937 was civil engineer for the New York Stat Power Authority at $5,200 per year; April 1933 to October 1935 was supervis engineer for the New York State Power Authority at $40 to $45 per wees September 1930 to February 1932 with Quad Engineering Corporation as co sulting civil engineer; April 1927 to September 1930 was power engineer fr Stevens & Wood, Inc., at $350 per month; March 1923 to April 1927 was assistant hydraulic engineer for the Electric Bond & Share Co. at $200 per month October 1921 to March 1923 was construction supervisor for the Chatham Electri & Engineering Co. at $75 per week; January to May 1919 worked for Fide': Casualty Co. for $125 per month; June 1916 to January 1918 was field engize: for the J. G. White Engineering Corporation at $60 to $90 per month. Education: 1912 to 1916, Manhattan College, B.S.C.E.

Enquist, Ernest John.

Chief, Inventory Control Branch; CAF-14, $7,500; entered on duty May 1945.

Experience: January 1942 to May 1945 was director, general statisticist. staff, at War Production Board at $6,500 to $8,000 per year; February to Deeze ber 1942, chief statistician, Foreign Trade Division, in the Bureau of Census. S' $5,600 to $6,500 per year; April 1939 to January 1942, chief statistician, Survers Bureau of Census, at $4,200 to $5,000 per year; September 1933 to March 1 was assistant statistician, Department of Agriculture, at $2,400 to $3,700 pe year; September 1932 to June 1933, instructor in economics at the Lake Fires College at $2,000 per year.

Education: Lawrence College, A. B.; University of Illinois, M. A.: North western, Ph. D.

Flato, Charles.

Special assistant; $6,500 per annum; entered on duty March 17, 1945. Experience: October 1942 to March 1945 was principal analyst in the Foreign Economics Administration at $5,800 per year; December 1941 to October 1942 was Assistant Chief in the Reports Division in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs at $5,600 per year; January to December 1941 was information chief of the St. Lawrence Commission at $3,600 per year; July to December 1940 was staff assistant, Special Committee on Migration, for the House of Representatives, at $3,200; August 1937 to June 1940 was investigator, Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, at $3,200 per year. Education: High school, nine grades, did not graduate; Columbia University, 1 year.

Fuller, George E.

Associate real estate adviser; CAF-14, $6,500 per annum; entered on duty March 16, 1945.

Experience: From May 1941 to 1945 was employed as Chief, Planning and Appraisal Section of the War Department, at a salary of $4,600 to $5,800; from July 1938 to May 1941 was Chief Field Coordinator in the Agriculture Department at a salary of $3,800 to $4,000; January 1937 to July 1938 was Chief of Field Coordination in the Farm Security Administration at $3,200 to $3,800 per annum; December 1935 to January 1937 was in charge of the Field Coordination Unit for the Resettlement Administration at $2,600 to $3,200 per annum; April to November 1935 was field representative for the Farm Credit Administration at $1,800 per annum; March 1934 to April 1935 with the Farm Credit Administration at a salary of $8 per day plus $4 per day; October 1933 to March 1934 with the Federal land bank at $8 per day plus $4 per day.

Education: High school.

Howard, Kenneth G.

Assistant Director; CAF-14, $6,500 per annum; entered on duty May 5, 1945. Experience: From December 1941 to April 1945 was employed in the War Department as an adviser-consultant at a salary of $5,600 to $6,500 per annum; January 1940 to December 1941 was consultant with the G. O. Brewster Co. at $6,240 plus a percentage of the profits; February to November 1939 was manager of the Chico, Inc., salary was participation in the profits; August 1937 to February 1939, was sales manager with the Johns-Manville Co. working on a commission and override basis; February 1931 to July 1937, worked as chief engineering inspector for the city of New York at $3,600 per annum; September 1928 to February 1931, as trainee with Western Electric Co. at a salary of $35 to $49 per week; December 1927 to August 1928, was a test engineer with the New York and Queens Light & Power Co. at a salary of $50 per week; April 1926 to December 1927 was communications engineer with the Boston and Albany, New York Central Railroad, at a salary of $50 per week; February 1923 to April 1926 worked as a trainee with the General Electric Corporation at a salary of $25 to $38 per week.

Education: 1920 to 1922, Signal School of Engineering, Vail, N. J. Kavanagh, Edward C.

Industrial specialist; CAF-15, $8,000 per annum; entered on duty June 1, 1944. Experience: From 1942 to 1945 was colonel in United States Army; 1927 to August 1942 was in business for self as consultant for various banks and corporations, at salary of $6,000 to $36,000; 1922 to 1926, manager, U. S. Rubber Co., at $7,500 to $10,000; 1920 to 1922 Stedman Products Co. as sales agent on a commission basis; 1919 to 1920 was broker with the W. W. Lyon Co. at $6,000 to $7,000 per year; 1917 to 1919 was captain in the United States Army.

Education: 1908 to 1909, special student at Harvard University, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Loth, David.

Director of information, CAF-15, $8,000 per annum; entered on duty May 21, 1945.

Experience: From May 1941 to 1945 was Chief of Publications for Office of Inter-American Affairs at $5,600 to $6,500 per annum; May 1944 to February 1945 was managing editor for Press Research, Inc., at $600 per month; November 1934 to May 1941 was copy reader for the New York Times at $60 to $90 per week; July 1920 to February 1931 was reporter, rewrite man, cable editor, assistant Sunday editor, acting Sunday editor, at $30 to $100 per week; March 1925 to

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September 1935 was a reporter for the Sydney (Australia) Daily Guardian at 10 guineas.

Education: University of Missouri, B. J.

Mahoney, J. R.

Consultant; $8,000 per annum; entered on duty April 8, 1945.

Experience: September 1929 to 1945 was director, Bureau of Economics and Business, professor of economics, salary $2,800 to $5,200 (additional $2,000 from writings); September 1919 to May 1926 was head history and social science at Box Elder school district at $1,200 to $1,800 per annum; September 1918 to May 1919 was head history and social science department at Wasatch school district at $1,000 per annum; September 1913 to May 1915 was principal at the Center school district at $720 per annum.

Education: 1914 to 1918, University of Utah, A. B.; 1926 to 1929, Harvard, A. M., Ph. D.

Mullenbach, Philip.

Economist; P-7, $6,500 per annum; entered on duty, August 22, 1944. Experience: From March 1941 to 1944 was economist, War Department, Army Service Forces, at $3,800 to $5,600; May 1938 to February 1941 was economist, United States Tariff Commission, at $3,200 to $3,800; July 1935 to November 1937 was economist, Harland Allen Associates, at $1,800 to $2,400; January 1935 to June 1935, economist, United States Tariff Commission, at $2,000; September 1934 to December 1934 was statistical clerk at the National Recovery Ádministration at $1,800.

Education: 1930 to 1932, undergradutate, Carleton College, major economics; 1932 to 1934, University of Chicago; 1936 to 1938, graduate, Columbia University (all requirements for Ph. D. completed except dissertation).

Mulligan, Edward F.

Information assistant; CAF-14, $6,500; entered on duty, December 27, 1944. Experience: From January 1942 to December 1944 was campaign manager, War Production Board, at $4,600 to $5,600 per year; 1940 to 1942 was in sales and sales-promotion department for Transit Advertisers at $350 per month; June 1938 to July 1940 was in sales and sales-promotion department for Barron G. Collier Co. at $350 per month; May 1936 to June 1938 was in the advertising sales department of the National Sportsman at a salary of $300 per month; March 1935 to May 1936 was in sales department of the Eastern Advertising Agency at $50 per week; March 1934 to March 1935, supervisor for the National Youth Adminis tration at $45 per week; May 1931 to March 1934 was in the sales and sales-promotion department of the Sampson & Murdock Co. at $60 per week; September 1936 to May 1931 was connected with the sales department of the New York Times at a salary of $3,500 to $4,800 per year.

Education: Boston College, A. B.

Pauli, Hans.

Special assistant; $8,000 per annum; entered on duty, April 1, 1945.

Experience: From May 1943 to present, was chief adviser for the War Food Administration at $6,200 per annum; September 1935 to May 1943, procurement officer, United States Treasury Procurement Division, at a salary of $4,500 to $4,800; January 1921 to September 1935 was president and general manager of the Pauli Corporation of Des Moines, Iowa, at $12,000; June 1918 to January 1921 was manager of the Merchants Trade Journal, Des Moines, Iowa, at $10,000.

Education: 1909 to 1910, Kohmansskolen, Copenhagen, Denmark; 1914 to 1917, Grand View College, Des Moines, Iowa.

Reiner, Jonas.

Deputy administrator, Consumer Goods; $9,000 per annum; entered on duty March 6, 1945.

Experience: From June 1942 to February 1945 with the Army Service Forces, with rank as major; from 1921 to present, president of Custom Underwear Corpora tion and affiliated companies in New York City.

Smith, Malcolm.

Director, Producer Goods, without compensation; entered on duty February 26,

1945.

Experience: From January 1942 to February 1945, Office of the Fiscal Director, War Department, with rank of lieutenant colonel, as chief of the Liquidation Section; March 1932 to July 1942, partner in charge at the Glore, Forgan & Co., in

New York, at $15,000 per year; March 1930 to March 1932 as personal assistant to J. Brooks Nichols, in New York, at $7,500 per year.

Education: Brown University, Ph. D.; Harvard University, master's degree in business administration.

Stuart, Frederick W., Jr.

Associate Disposal Agency liaison officer; CAF-14, $6,500 per annum; entered on duty, May 16, 1945.

Experience: From November 1944 to 1945 was Chief of the Contract Pricing Branch of the United States Treasury Department, Procurement Division, at $6,500 per annum; September 1943 to November 1944 was Chief, Contract Pricing Branch of the War Production Board, at $5,600 to $6,500 salary; January 1943 to September 1943 was executive officer with the Rubber Development Corporation at $5,600 to $6,500 salary; March 1939 to January 1943 was assistant general merchandise manager with Stern Bros., at a salary of $5,500 to $5,800; October 1938 to March 1939 was general manager of the United Service Stores at $3,900; July 1938 to October 1938 had his own business as a merchandise broker; April 1937 to July 1938 was comptroller for Rudge & Guenzel Co. at $5,000; June 1934 to August 1936 was the general manager and assistant to the president of the Terminal Barber Shops, Inc., at $7,500 per year; from September 1929 to June 1934 was assistant general merchandise manager for the Abraham & Straus, Inc., at $5,000 to $6,500; October 1927 to April 1929 was managing director of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd., Berlin, Germany, at $6,000 net of all taxes; January 1920 to October 1927 was employed at Wm. Filene's Sons Co. as secretary of the corporation and as assistant to the president at a salary of $1,820 to $8,600; May 1918 to June 1919 was an ensign in the United States Navy; from April 1917 to January 1920 was senior pay clerk for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. at a salary of $1,000 to $1,560; June 1914 to April 1917 operated his own business as a real-estate broker; September 1912 to June 1913 was an instructor in the Carpinteria School at $800 plus keep.

Education: 1908 to 1912, Harvard, A. B.

Sturges, Wesley A.

General counsel (special assistant); $10,000 per annum; entered on duty, February 26, 1945.

Experience: Employed Yale Law School faculty the past 20 years; previously employed University of Minnesota Law School faculty, 1 year; previusly employed University of South Dakota Law School, 2 years.

Education: 1911 to 1915, University of Vermont, Ph D.; 1915 to 1919, Columbia University, LL. B.; 1922 to 1923, Yale University, J. D.; 1925, Yale University, L. L. M.

Taff, A. Eric.

Consultant, accepted appointment at $6,500; industrial specialist, CAF-14, $6,500; entered on duty May 1, 1944.

Experience: December 1940 to May 1944, Director, Relief of Prisoners of War, Red Cross, at $325 per month plus expenses; September 1932 to November 1940, manager of the Paris office of the New York Stock Exchange, at $450 to $900 per month; November 1930 to September 1932 manager for investment bankers, at $450 to $700 per month; January 1929 to November 1930, manager, securities department, banking, at $450 to $650 per month; October 1922 to December 1928, manager, securities department, banking, at $350 to $450 per month. Education: 1922, Harvard, B. A.

Tidwell, William Peyton.

Executive secretary; CAF-15, $8,000, May 31, 1944; Director of Information, CAF-15, $8,000, April 1, 1945; special consultant, CAF-15, $8,000, May 11, 1945; entered on duty May 31, 1944.

Experience: From October 1942 to April 1944 was in the United States Army with rank of major; January 1938 to October 1942 was executive assistant to the chairman of the Crucible Steel Co. at $4,800 to $6,500 per year; June 1936 to January 1938 was manager of promotion and publicity for the Thomas & Griffith Co. at $4,800 to $5,000 plus bonus; January 1934 to June 1936, industrial news writer for Barron's Weekly at $5,000 per year; October 1930 to January 1934, associate editor for Barron's Weekly at $4,000 to $5,000 per year; October 1928 to October 1930, reporter on the Wall Street Journal at $4,000 per year; January 1924 to October 1928, private secretary to C. W. Barron, publisher, at $3,000 to $4,000 per year; December 1922 to January 1924, reporter, Wall Street Journal,