ASSIGNMENTS: To Duty

Noteworthy last week were the following assignments to duty:

To be Director of Economic Stabilization, James Francis Byrnes (see col. 1). Appointed to assist William M. Jeffers as his Deputy Rubber Director, Colonel Bradley Dewey, Cambridge manufacturer of synthetic rubber, who got a Distinguished Service Medal in World War I for his work as chief of Gas Defense in the Chemical Warfare Service.

Enlisted in the Army as a private, Benson Ford, 23, Henry’s grandson, who had to get special permission from the War Department because he is almost totally blind in one eye.

Appointed head of WPB’s new Program Coordination Division, Donald Derby Davis, 54, president of General Mills (see p. 81).

To command a flying unit at an air base near London, Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, who flew there from the U.S. last week.

Ordered to report for Army induction, Playwright William Saroyan.