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Show 0M-mkm Washington, D. C. NAZI INTRUDER There is a German smuggler operating op-erating in the Caribbean off the coast of Mexico. This was the inside reason for the President's sudden transfer of the entire coast guard to the navy the coast guard's ships and planes are needed to track down the Nazi intruder. in-truder. Sensational feature about the smuggler is that she is a former U. S. vessel the 800-ton Diesel-engined Diesel-engined yacht that once belonged to A. Atwater Kent, Philadelphia radio magnate. The one-time pleasure ship now is being operated under the Panamanian Panama-nian flag out of Vera Cruz, Mexico, by Nazi agents in that city, and is being used to transport high test gasoline and mercury to small Caribbean Car-ibbean islands where Japanese ships collect the smuggled strategic supplies. sup-plies. The yacht recently unloaded 1,000 flasks of mercury at an island which for military reasons must be nameless. name-less. The former luxury craft came into possession of the Nazis by a circuitous cir-cuitous route which intelligence experts ex-perts uncovered only a few weeks ago. The purchase was made by a shipping company whose main office of-fice is in Vera Cruz and has a branch office in New Orleans, where transfer of title took place. The price was $18,000. Fortunately for intelligence the payment was made in U. S. bills of $1,000 denomination. From the serial seri-al numbers, the bills were traced back to a Vera Cruz bank. There it was learned the money had been withdrawn from the account of the leading Nazi business house in Mexico, and turned over to the shipping ship-ping company that bought the yacht. Subsequent investigation revealed that all the stockholders of this company com-pany were Germans; also that the two top officers were Spaniards, one a naturalized Mexican and the other a naturalized American citizen. Now, every movement of the yacht is watched, but there is nothing noth-ing the United States can do about the ship unless she enters American waters. So far the vessel has been very careful to stay within Mexican territorial waters. LEND-LEASE MILK EXPERT The most novel type of lend-lease operation thus far was the lend-leasing lend-leasing of a man named Adolph. Adolph Eichhorn went over to help the British against Adolf Hitler. The British are suffering from insufficient in-sufficient production of milk, because be-cause of diseased cattle, and Eich- horn is the man who knows all the cow cures. He is director of the animal disease station under the department de-partment of agriculture. Three principal diseases afflict British cattle: tuberculosis, which makes the cattle lean; Bang's disease, dis-ease, which results in the loss of the calf; and mastitis. Eichhorn was obliged to tell the British that tuberculosis, which afflicts af-flicts 35 per cent of British cattle, cannot be cured during the course of the war, unless the war lasts for another generation. It took the United States 22 years to get the disease under control. Bang's disease is more readily cured. By vaccination, a calf can be immunized so that its adult life will not be afflicted with the disease. dis-ease. Meantime, the British are importing import-ing great quantities of dry and powdered pow-dered milk from the United States. Fresh milk is worth a king's ransom. RETURNED FAVOR When Rep. John McCormack of Massachusetts was elected Democratic Demo-cratic floor leader of the house, one of his strongest and most unexpected un-expected supporters was Georgia's fiery New Deal-hating Gene Cox. Though the two men were poles apart on economic views, Cox nevertheless never-theless backed McCormack and did yeoman work for him. Recently McCormack returned the favor. Before leaving on a trip to Massachusetts, McCormack named Cox floor leader during his absence. "There's one condition, however, Gene," he grinned. "You'll have to refrain from those hot one-minute speeches on the floor. I don't want my stand-in taking swings at the administration. It would look bad." McCormack wished the Georgian luck and left the chamber. Hardly had he departed when Cox jumped up and asked permission to address the house for one minute. New Dealers held their breath, expecting expect-ing him to uncork one of his scorching scorch-ing blasts. But they relaxed with a sigh of relief when Cox launched into a terrific ter-rific tirade against John L. Lewis. CAPITAL CHAFF Capt. Jules James, commandant of the U. S. naval base at Bermuda is a nephew of Secretary of War Stimson. White House has received a barrage bar-rage of letters and telegrams urging urg-ing Maury Maverick as ambassador to Mexico. Madame Maxim Litvinov was born Ivy Low, daughter of British 1 historian Sidney Low. and niece of ' Sir A. Maurice Low, who was Wash- ; : ington correspondent of London's Morning Post, j |