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C TIN Unless the Roosevelt administration tion shakes itself free of red tape and really does something about tin its major scandal on it may have a hands Months have passed since the na na- nation natIon na- na nation tion first woke up to the fact that its supply of tin was desperately low During that time Japan has edged ed d down closer and closer to the Ma Ma- Malays Malays lays and the Dutch East Indies our chief tin supply and now is at the gates of French Indo Meanwhile the plan to set up a tin smelter in the United States using Bolivian ore and to save a dangerous ocean haul hall half way round the world still is clutched in the large hand of Jesse Jones Jesse J esse now is going through exactly the same routine that the state de de- department department de- de department followed four months ago asking American metal companies how much tin they would smelt what I etc Last process p o ess they would use May several companies told the I state department they were glad to operate co-operate Phelps Dodge Ameri Amen American American can Metals American Smelting Smelling Refining and Vulcan From them the state department had secured all necessary tion But after it had finished the national defense commission went into the matter all over again ask ask- asking asking askIng ing virtually the same questions Now at long last the tin problem lem has come before Jesse Jones who as federal loan administrator passes upon the loan which is to be spent on constructing the tile tin smelter smelt r. r And Jesse Jones has haS' ha gone into all the aforementioned red tape still again The tin situation is made even more difficult by the fact that al al- although although al- al although though one of the busiest men in Washington iones Jones declines to dele dele- delegate delegate gate authority wants to know all the details Jones is now secretary of com com- commerce commerce commerce merce a department ep which Herbert Hoover once made one of o the most important in the government But Jesse also insisted i upon keeping his hands handi on the vital job of federal loan administrator admin This makes akes him next to Roosevelt the most power power- powerful ful man in inthe the government government also also the most sought after Result is that state department c of of- officials officials national defense commission commission- commissioners ers and tin experts have to mark time waiting for a a. a chance to see Jesse Jones And alter aUer they get getto to 1 ve l i r go the e deJ ly ly- Ti II J W- W 1 T Tl Meanwhile l M a. a 1 tho pa- pa nese ul fiA iI h proceeds proceedS' Mea wt Unit I ed States s 1 i tu on hand Q Note Present Nole-Present Present molasses negotiations regarding W oh the th nickname Tin S S S I BETTING LOWDOWN The Republican sprightly en en- enterprising enterprising enterprising G. 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