Show A ae washington D 0 DESPERATE TIN hn SCARCITY it leaked out yet but after years ot of delay and alter after facing what may be a desperate tin shortage the state i department lepart ment Is about to negotiate a contra contract et with thebo the bolivian government for the pur purchase thase of about half of tin output this tin ore will be shipped to the united states for refining to in newly established tin smelter sm elters this is a big achievement for bolivian minister Gua guachalla Guach challa aUa who for four years has been hammering home at the state department the idea that bolivia has something which the united states needs vitally but it by ho means solves the tin problem for the united states for production meets only about one halt half of this count rys normal requirements to tide over the present tin crisis sl s th the e national defense commission contracted to buy tons of refined tin fr from orn the dutch duich and british east indies this Is enough to last tor for one year but the question is will it ever be delivered the answer is doubtful only tons can arrive by january 1 and even this may be held up by german defeat of england or a japanese blitzkrieg on the dutch east indies most amazing feature of the deal is that the national defense commission is not attempting to buy new tin ore from the far east but only the refined metallic tin in other words the tin is to be refined in the far east then shipped here reason tor for this is 1 because the british put a 50 per cent tax on the export of crude ore to keep us from setting up a tin smelting smelling sm elting business of our own and 2 because the state department still is following a policy of dealing gently with ariti british sh interests in other words while we will set up a system of temporarily smelt ing bolivian tin in the united states the british still will attempt to hang on to their monopoly by smelting smelling sm elting as much as possible themselves and up to a point high U S officials seem reluctant to break away from the british system N NEV eav agriculture SECRETARY it looks as if franklin roosevelt was going to play the cards close to his chest and go into the campaign w without much enlargement of his official family for his new secretary of agriculture replacing henry wallace will be promoted from the ranks rank S he is claud R of indiana now undersecretary of agriculture an able gentleman but carrying no political weight and of no great help to roosevelt sevelt or wallace to in a presidential year paul H appleby wallaces right hand a assistant t and the man who vigorously 0 ay urges Wick ards promotion will step te P up as undersecretary ambassador CUDAHY new recipe for political success get a diplomatic post speak out of turn take a spanking tor for it then announce for political office the recipe was set by james H M R cromwell whose remarks as minister to canada brought him a state department reprimand he ls is now running for the senate same recipe apparently may be followed by john cudahy ambassador to belgium who rode in high r spirits through his white house reprimand the other day and is being urged tor for governor of wisconsin in fact the president himself before the spanking was over urged cudahy to run WILLKIE REVAMPS CAMPAIGN MACHINERY in some G 0 P quarters will kles kies protracted western stay drew discreet but critical protests he was wasting valuable time came the complaints handling too much organizational detail himself it was true that the tousle haired republican standard bearer did occupy himself extensively with organization details but he be did not waste time as plenty ot of old line republican politicos are privately and very grumpily attesting he was far too busy to suit them or see much ot of them for the big untold story behind Will kies klea long and mysterious labors in colorado is that he be completely revamp revamped edthe the traditional G 0 P campaign machinery its a closely guarded secret b but u under the new setup set up the republican national committee and its na tion wide network of state and local loca units made up largely of veteran professionals have been relegated to tc a secondary role playing first fiddle in hillides Will Wil kies lides new organization tie ere the clubs dotting every state and the independent democrats organization headed beaded by ex office holders johnny hanes bane s former undersecretary of the treasury and lewis douglas former budget director directly controlled by Will icle and III his personal lieutenants these are th the organizations on which he be is depending to carry him into the white house he is 19 convinced that to be elected he be must win the big floating kasif mass of independent votes |