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FILE NAME: Foster Wheeler (FW) DATE: 0000 DOC#: FW005 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Articles on Admiral Mills ADMIRALUHLS TO SUCCEED LAND ^Truman Names New Maritime jHead and Will Ask Legislation | to Protect Navy S tatus WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 UFI -- President Truman has chosen Rear Admiral Eari W. Mills to succeed Vice Admiral Emory S. Land as chairman of the United States Maritime Commission. The White House announced to day th a t Admiral Mills* nomination as chairman Would be sent to the Senate when Congress reconvenes next week and that he also would be nominated tor promotion to the rank of vice admiral. Charles G. Ross, press secretary, told a news conference th a t legis lation to perm it Admiral Mills to retain his active status in the Navy would he asked. Gen. Omar N. Bradley retained Ms active status in the Army under similar legislation when he was made head Rear Admiral Bari W, Mills of the Veterans Administration, Admiral Land is scheduled to tional upon President Truman's re leave the Maritime Commission lease of the admiral from Govern- this month to head the Air Trans- mcnt service, port Association. - Adoption of a blind-landing sys- Admiral Mills, a native of tem, settlement of the feeder-line Arkansas, is 9 years old and has problem and transport of all first- been assistant chief of the Bureau class mail by air when such trans- of Ships since Nov. 1, 1942. He port will make delivery quicker was graduated from the Naval are among the many problems con- Academy in June, 1917, and as a fronting the association, junior officer served aboard the battleship Minnesota and the de stroyers Henly, Hazelwood and Hogan. In September, 1929, he was as signed as aide and flag lieutenant on the staff of Rear Admiral J. V. Chase, commander of Battleship Division Pour of the Battle Fleet. Later he was on duty at the Puget Sound (Wash.) Navy Yard and then, in 1983, went to the. design and construction division of the Bureau of Engineering (now the Bureau of Ships). He served a hitch at sea, returned to the Bureau of Engineering and then, in 1940, was named assistant at tache a t the American Embassy in London. He came back a short time later for duty in Washington. Admiral Land's resignation as maritime chairman becomes effec tive Jan. 15, ending thirty-nine years in the Navy and nearly nine years on the Maritime Commis sion. In resigning, Admiral Land told Mr. Truman that he thought he had "done my bit" and that "a younger man should take on the chores." . Many Problems Facing Land The offer to Vice Admiral Land of the presidency of the Air Trans port Association, representing ell the scheduled airlines, was an nounced two weeks ago condi- EJjeJfeuJjorkKmw CopyrfghlOTha MawYorttTimas Ongmaiypubsed January 12.1945 ! Vice Admhal E. W. Mills, Retired, Elected Vice President, Director of Foster Wheeler Vice Admiral Earle W. Mills IT, S. W. (retired) a t a directors* meeting of the Foster Wheeler Corporation was elected executive vice president and a director and David McCulloch, formerly execu tive vice president, m s named vice chairman of the hoard, it was announced by Harry S, Brown, president and chairman Wartime deputy chief of the Bu reau f Ships, Navy Department* and chief of th at bureau since 1945, Admiral Mills recently re tired from the Navy. He brings to . the corporation a wealth of ad '}minislrative and technical experi ence* Mr. McCulloch joined the Bower Special Company, later to become p art of Foster Wheeler, in 1906* and has served as executive vice president since 1935. A t the annual meeting, which preceded the directors* meeting, stockholders approved an increase in the authorized fXO-par common/ to 600,000 from 800,000 shares. A t present there are 2B4,9M shares outstanding and the increase pro vides 315,018 unissued common shares available for issuance or side or for corporate purposes, Mr. Brown informed sharehold ers, however, that the company &t present had no intention to issue the additional shares for sale. He ITice Admirwl W. MjW explained that action to increase j the authorized common stock was taken to snve time and expense of a special stockholders' meeting, if at sam e future time the issuance or sale of common stock was deemed necessary by directors. Copyright The New York Times Originally published March 29,1949 HIM. EARLE M LB, LED SHIP BUREAU Ex-Chairman of the Foster Wheeler Corp. Dies at 72 S&iCitl to Tilt N'e-wiork time* CARMEL, Calif., Aug. 27-- Vice Adm. Earie W. Mills, U.S.N., retired, board chairman iof the Nuclear Engineering Company, in Walnut Creek, died Sunday of a heart attack in Community Hospital here He was 72 years old. The com pany buries nuclear waste ob tained from Government and private industry. A veteran of both World Wars, Admiral Mills was Depuity chief of the Bureau of Ships in World War n. He rose to .vice admiral in 1945 and was Chief of the Bureau of Ships from 1946 to 1949, when he retired, --Laterhe-wasa-director-rexjecutive vice president, presi dent and board chairman of the Foster Wheeler Corporation. The company manufactures and installs equipment for ipower and chemical plants and oil refineries and specially en gineered industrial apparatus. Admiral Mills had been chair man. of Nuclear Engineering .since 1966, Received the 0 . S, M, Admiral Mills, the holder of the Distinguished Service Medal, .was born in Little Rock, Ark., Ilune 24, 1896. He graduated in 3917 from the United States |Naval Academy, where he played on the football team and won the Thompson Cup Trophy jas the midshipman who had jjt V i c e A d m . E a r le W . IVIills made- the most "outstanding athletic contribution. In World W ar I, he served on the battleship Minnesota, then did postgraduate work in elec trical engineering at Annapolis and Columbia University, where he received a master's degree. He also held an honorary doc torate in engineering from the University of Louisville. The admiral was formerly president of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Carolyn Hayes Park Mills; a daughter, Mrs. Shirley Sargent; a sister, Mrs. Harry Walker, and a grandson. . ,. A funeral service will be held at 11 A.M. Thursday at the Paul Funeral Chapel, Pacific Grove, Calif. PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT A fi