CALL TO THE COLORS

To get arms production rolling, Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilson and his straw boss, Defense Production Administrator William H. Harrison, are calling scores of businessmen to Washington. President Truman, who had once damned $1-a-year businessmen, now was glad to get all the business brains he could. Among those called:

Adviser to Wilson:

FRED SEARLS JR., 62, in & out of Government jobs since 1941 (WPB, War Shipping Administration, etc.), and president of Newmont Mining Corp., to be adviser to Wilson on where and how the U.S. can get more raw materials.

Adviser to Harrison:

EDWIN T. GIBSON, 66, executive vice president and director of General Foods Corp., to be adviser to Harrison with duties still to be determined.

To the National Production Authority:

MANLY FLEISCHMANN, 42, Buffalo lawyer, World War II legal adviser to WPB and other boards, now head of NPA, which has the overall job of allocating all materials needed for arms production. Fleischmann's chief aides: LELAND E. SPENCER, 42, vice president of Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. and World War II tire czar, rubber division boss; MARSHALL M. SMITH, 54, former president of E. W. Bliss Co. (machine tools), allocating industrial and construction machinery for defense; DAVID B. CARSON, 60, vice president Of Sharon Steel Corp., channeling iron & steel to arms contractors; WALTER SKUCE, 46, Owens-Corning Fiberglas executive, who helped run World War II's Controlled Materials Plan, now drafting a similar program for allocation of scarce metals.

To the Interior Department:

CLIFFORD B. McMANUS, 55, president of Georgia Power Co. and the Southern Co., to be boss of the nation's power. BRUCE K. BROWN, 52, president of Pan-Am Southern Corp. (oil distribution), and veteran of World War II's Petroleum McMANUS Administration for War, to be oil boss. CHARLES W. CONNOR, 67, in charge of coal-mining operations for Armco Steel Corp. at Charleston, W.Va., to be solid fuels administrator (e.g., coal).

To the Munitions Board:

HARRY K. CLARK, 61, old WPB hand and president of the Carborundum Co., to be the board's vice chairman in charge of coordinating arms and civilian production so neither will be disrupted.

To the Office of Price Stabilization:

EDWARD F. PHELPS JR., 38, OPA veteran and executive vice president of Fort Worth's Waples-Platter Co. (food manufacturing and wholesaling), to be boss of the new commodity divisions to keep tabs on all commodity prices. RICHARD L. BOWDITCH, 50, president of Boston's C. H. Sprague & Son Co. (coal), to be price director for transportation, public utilities, fuel, service, imports & exports. JOSEPH N. KALLICK, 37, OPA veteran and executive of Chicago's Spiegel, Inc. mail-order house, to be price director for consumer soft goods.

To a Newly Created Job:

WILLIAM S. PALEY, 49, chairman of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., to be head of a five-man commission to study the nation's long-range raw materials requirements. Likely first task: a study of aluminum supplies. Other commission members: GEORGE R. BROWN, 52, one of Houston's famed shipbuilding and pipeline Brown brothers; ARTHUR H. BUNKER, 55, president of Climax Molybdenum Corp. and partner of Lehman Bros.; ERIC HODGINS, 51, onetime managing editor and publisher of FORTUNE; EDWARD S. MASON, 51, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration.

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