SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Friday, May 23, 1941
Imo Guard Room!
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Everglades Once ii Waste
Now Center of Sugar Industry
I dozen years ago the
Florida I.verglades were
barren and unproductive.
Today they are the center
of a sugar industry which
provides more than 5.000
people with employment
and which spent over a
million and a half dollars
in l*M0 for materials pur­
chased in 1*1 other states.
I'he ten plantations of the
I ni ted States Sugar cor­
poration spread over
thousands of acres of
these glade lands. These
photos show what goes on
during the harvest season
at Clewiston, I la.
The girls at the left
look very industrious, but
they are only out for a
frolic ,n the sugar cane.
worker
knows how to cut
sugar cane.
Washington. D. C.
SHIP PREMIUMS TO JAPAN
It is hard to believe, but the gov­
ernment of the United States actual­
ly is paying war risk insurance to
tlie Japanese for helping to insure
the S.S. America, pride of the U. S.
merchant marine.
This is just part of the revelations
over re-insurance which are break­
ing this week at the justice depart­
ment. These probes also show that
when a vessel is injured. Axis in­
surance companies get all the data
regarding its cargo, time of depar­
ture. destination, and the interior
plan of the ship.
Thus, despite all the censorship of
Secretary of the Navy Knox. Ger­
many has had an easy means of
knowing all about every ship that
leaves the United States.
This is accomplished when Amer­
ican insurance companies, because
of the heavy risk involved in insur­
ing a cargo in wartime, reinsure
with various foreign companies. In
other words, they sell part of the
policy abroad, thus distribute the
risk. That is how Japan makes a
lush profit on insuring American
vessels, even vessels owned by the
U. S. A.
Last year congress passed a law
providing war risk insurance for
U. S. shipping, but the maritime
commission, for reasons best known
to itself, has declined to take ad­
vantage of the law.
Commission
members state quite frankly that
they wanted to throw the business to
private insurance concerns—as long
as private insurance was available.
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Fire swept through three city blocks of the Port Richmond section of
Philadelphia, taking property loll of approximate!) $5.000.000 In homes
and factories. A wall of water stopped the tire just short of Cramps
shipyards, where large naval construction contracts are under way. Photo
shows firemen fighting the blaze.
Lieut. Col. II. ilmlth, military aide
to the President, averted new at­
tack« on American Prace Mobilisa­
tion |>l< keto in front of White House
bv taking one soldier Into custody,
himself, giving him the "hum's
rush" into the guard room.
In Hoss's Shoes
DEBATE FREEZING AXIS FUNDS
.4s grown in the Everglades
sugar cane is cut in the field,
moved in tractor wagons to the
railroad, and hauled by train to
the raw sugar mill at Clewiston.
Right: The “Casey Jones of the
Everglades” having a bit of fun
oiling up the company locomotive.
On« of the most vigorous inner
cabinet debates in a long time con­
cerned the question of freezing
German-Italian funds on deposit in
the United States. In a heated dis­
cussion, Secretary of State Hull and
Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones
were the only cabinet members who
stood out for letting the two Axis
powers continue to spend money as
they wished in this country.
Many people may not realize it,
but whereas the government has
frozen the funds of all the conquered
nations — France. Norway, Den­
mark, Belgium, Holland, Greece,
etc.—it continues to permit the con­
quering nations to use their money
in the U. S. A. in any manner they
The 35.000-ton super-dreadnaught,
S. Washington, has now
wish.
For instance. Germany gets more joined the United Stales navy. This view during the commissioning
Van a million dollars monthly from ceremonies shows part of the after-deck with crew members lined up
the lease of patents to American under the great ship's Id-inch rifles.
companies. This is paid in Amer­
ican dollars and can be spent for
anti-American propaganda or any­
thing else, or shipped back to Ger­
many. Italian diplomatic attaches,
for instance, were found carrying
$2,000,000 in U. S. currency in a
suitcase from New Orleans to Mex­
ico for propaganda purposes. An­
other $2.000.000 of U. S. currency
was shipped to Buenos Aires by the
Italian embassy.
Meanwhile, France, for example,
no longer sells perfume, etc., to
the United States, but sells to Ger­
many, which In turn ships the per-
fume through Vladivostok to the
United States.
Reason is that
French funds are frozen, so the
French can get no money from the
U. S. A. But German funds are i not
frozen, so French trade to the
United States now increases Nazi
profits and helps build up trade
channels for the future.
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Wartime Rules Invoked to Guard Capitol
From now on Ihr office of chan-
cellery hrad in Berlin will he under
control of Hitler, allhough Ihe pres­
ent leadrr. Martin Bormann lahove)
will remaln In office. Thia will flll
gap errated by Hight of Rudolf
lf< MB, No. 3 Nazi, to Scotland.
Fights l’olio
STREAMLINED FOODS
Because of the acute shipping
1 he cars are locked to the rails and tilted. The cane is now on shortage, food items for shipment
its way to become sugar. Planting is planned to provide canes to Britain are being selected for high
vitamin and calorie content, also for
which mature on a regular schedule during a six-month period.
minimum bulk and weight
In general, preference will be giv­
en to concentrated and dried foods,
rather than bulky canned goods
such as fruits, which contain a con­
siderable amount of water. Toma­
toes are an exception because the
juice they are packed in is high
in vitamins.
One item urgently desired by the
Capitol police begin checking articles carried by visitors, for the first
British is dehydrated vegetable
soup, 12 tons of which will make time since World War I days, when a time-bomb exploded In the senate
reception room. Acting under orders from the capitol police board,
700,000 bowls.
A plan is under consideration to fourteen officers are stopping all visitors at the seven entrances to the
transport some of this concentrated building, and relieve all sight-seers of bundles, cameras, umbrellas and
food in the big bombers being fer­ other articles large enough to conceal a bomb.
ried across the Atlantic, which can
easily carry a 12-ton load.
The $400,000,000 that has been al­
located for the food-aid program will
be used to buy 15,000,000 cases of
canned tomatoes, 20,000,000 cases of
evaporated milk. 50,000,000 pounds
of lard. 250,000,000 pounds of cheese,
several million pounds of Wilshire
cured ham, millions of powdered
eggs, and thousands of tons of de­
hydrated vegetable soup, dried rai­
The raw sugar flows into sacks
The long journey »tarts. Up sins and prunes.
from automatic weighers, each the escalator go the sacks to the
While gigantic in itself, the pro-
sack getting the same amount of freight cars, then to the refinery, gram is only about 3 per cent of
sugar when the boy releases a where the raw sugar is refined the U. S. food bill, which in 1940
was $12,000,000,000.
into the white table product.
trigger.
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Australian Prime Minister Arrives
At the Invitation of President
Roosevelt to take treatment for po­
lio, Hlglnio Morlnlgo Jr., son of
the president of Paraguay, arrives
at Miami airport with his mother
and Maria Carmen Pena, four, en
route to Warm Springs, Ga.
Gift From Red Cross
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
The Nelson Rockefeller committee
for cultural relations with South
America wasn't at all keen about
the Douglas Fairbanks good-will pil­
grimage. They resented Franklin
Roosevelt Jr., close friend of Fair-
banks, putting this one over with
his father while they weren't look-
Ing.
Robert G. Menzies, prime minister of Australia, and companions,
Mayor LaGuardia declined with
pictured as they arrived in New York, from Europe, on the Pan-American
thanks FDR’s request that he head
Dixie Clipper. Left to right: Menzies; Frederick Sheddon, secretary of
the new Civil Defense Commis­
Australian-British defense co-ordination department; and John Storey,
sion, indicating to the Boss that ha
member ot Australian-British aircraft production committee.
wants a cabinet job or nothing.
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John G. Winant, United States
ambassador to Great Britain, hand­
ing over a check for 70,000 pounds
to Lady Reading, chief of the Wom­
en’s Volunteer Service, In London.
The money was sent from the Amer­
ican Red Cross.