Show I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I G ff 4 i R BE EN Washington D C SHIP PREMIUMS TO J JAPAN AP AN ANIt It Is hard to believe but the gov government government of the United States actual actually actually actually ly Is paying war risk insurance to the Japanese for helping to insure the S S America pride of the U S merchant marine marme This is just part of the revelations over re insurance which are arc break breaking breaking lag ing this week at the justice depart department department department ment These probes also show that when a vessel is injured Axis m in insurance insurance companies get all aU the data regarding its cargo t me of depar departure departure departure ture destination and the interior plan of the ship Thus despite all the censorship of Secretary of the Navy Knox Ger Germany Germany Germany many has had an easy means of knowing all about every ship that leaves the United States This is accomplished when Amer Amerlean scan insurance compan es because of the heavy risk involved in Insuring insuring tag ing a cargo m in wartime rem reinsure sure With various foreign companies In other words they sell part of the policy abroad thus distribute the risk That is how bow Japan makes a alush alush alush lush profit on Insuring American vessels even vessels owned by the USA Last year congress passed a law providing war risk insurance for forU forU forU U S shipping but the maritime commissIOn for tor reasons best known to itself has declined to take ad advantage advantage advantage vantage of the law Commission members state quite frankly that they wanted to throw the business to private Insurance concerns concerns-as concerns as long longas longas longas as private insurance was available DEBATE G AXIS FUNDS One of the most vigorous inner cabinet debates in m a long time con concerned concerned concerned the quest on of freezing German Italian funds on dep deposit m in inthe inthe the United States In a heated dis discussion cession Secretary of ot State Hull and Secretary of 01 Commerce Jesse Jones were the only cabinet members who stood out for letting the two AxIs powers continue to spend money as they wished m 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 Denmark Denmark Denmark mark Belgium Holland Greece etc It it cont to permit the con can conquering nat ons to use their money m in the USA U S A in m any manner they wish For instance Germany gets more than a million minIOn dollars monthly from the lease of patents to American com compan pan es This is paid in m Amer AmerIcan Amerlean scan Ican dollars and can be spent for anti American propaganda or any th ng else or shipped back to Ger Germany Germany Germany many Italian d attaches for instance were ere found carrying 2 m in U S currency in m a sUitcase from New Orleans to Mex MexiCO laco iCO for propaganda purposes An Another Another Another other 2 of U S currency was shipped to Buenos Aires Alres by the Ital an embassy Meanwhile France for lor example no longer sells perfume etc ete to the Un ted States but sells to Gem Ger Germany Germany many which m in turn sh ps the per perfume perfume perfume fume through Vlad Iliad to the United States Reason is that French funds are frozen so the French can get no money from the theU USA U S A But German funds are not frozen so French trade to the United States now increases Nazi profits and helps bu build d up trade channels for the future e STREAMLINED FOODS Because of the acute shipping shortage food items for tor shipment to Britain are being selected for high vitamin and calorie calone content also for forI minimum bulk and weight In general preference will be given given en to concentrated and dried foods rather than bulky canned goods such as fruits which conta n a con can cons cans cons s amount of water Toma Tama Tomatoes Tomatoes toes are an except on because the Juice juice they are packed in is hIgh In vitamins lOne One item urgently desired by the Brit sh is dehydrated vegetable soup 12 tons of at wh ch will make bowls A plan is under consideration to toI transport some of this concentrated food in m the b g bombers be ng fer tied across the Atlantic Which can easily y carry a ton 12 oad The that has been al allocated allocated allocated located for tor the food aid program will IU willbe willbe be used to buy 15 cases of canned tomatoes 20 cases of evaporated milk 50 pounds of laid d pounds of 01 cheese several million pounds of Wilshire cured ham mill ons of ot powdered eggs and thousands of tons of de dehydrated dehydrated dehydrated hydrated vegetable soup dried ral rai ralI rals rais s ns and prunes Wh While e gigant c a in itself the pro program program program gram is only about 3 per cent of the U S food b 11 ll which in m 1940 1040 was 12 MERRY l GO ROUND The Nelson Rockefeller committee for tor cultural ons with South America wasn t at all keen about the Douglas Fairbanks good w 11 pil grim age They resented Franklin Roosevelt Jr close friend of ot Fa r banks putting this one over wIth his father while they t look lookIng looking lookIng IngI Ing Mayor LaGuardia declined With thanks FOR s request that he head the new Civil Defense Commis soon slon end ind eating to the Boss that he wants a cabinet Job or nothing |