m TOM DEWEY BREAKS
WITH ISOLATIONISTS
WASHINGTON — The Repub
lican isolationist logjam is slow
Jy but steadily breaking up. An
other big chunk will now cut
loose in the person of Tom Dew
ey.
Now' that the New York City
election is over the dapper little
District Attorney, who is volun
tarily quitting this job which
gave him his political start, will
make a speech in which he will
desert the isolationist camp.
Dewey will not go all the way
with Wendell Willkie, GOP titu
ar leader, who has come out for
W a declaration of war against Hit
ler. But he will endorse the pol
icy of aiding foes of Nazism and
will call for national unity be
hind the President.
Behind the scenes, Dewey has
been wobbling on the foreign
issue for some time. With his eye
fixed on the New York guberna
torial race next year as a step
ping stone for another ty at the
presidency in 1944. he has been
in a stew which way to jump.
What cautious statements he has
made have been of an isolationist
tenor and he has been considered
in the “anti” fold.
But after some secret polling
in key sections of the state, Dew
ey finally became convinced that
if he wants to be Governor he
will have to disassociate himself
clearly and definitely from any
isolationist taint.
So he will take the plunge in a
speech carefully staged to ensure
the widest publicity.
GRACIAS, SENORA
^ The famous Briziian artist Can
dido Portinari recently painted a
portrait of Mrs. Douglas Fair
banks, Jr., who accompanied her
movie star husband on a good
^ will tour of Latin America.
When the portrait was complet
ed, the artist sent it to her. but
much to his surpiise the portrait
came bouncing back, with a let
ter in which Mrs. Fairbanks said
that since her husband had been
out of work for some months,
and was now devoting his time
to the service of his country
(D, uglas is in the Naval Re
serve), she found it impossible to
buy the portrait. The price was
$500.
With a gesture which only a
Latin could conceive, Portinari
calculated the number of hours
Mrs. Fairbanks had spent in sit
ting for the portrait, multiplied
it by the hourly wage of an art
ist's model, and sent her a check.
Then he gave the portrait to
his two-year-old daughter,
ft NOTE—Portinari is now paint
ing a series of murals for the
Hispanic Foundation of the Lib
rary of Congress in Washington.
NEW NAZI SCHEME
U. S. Intelligence authorities
have uncovered a new Nazi
echeme to get desperately need
ed raw materials at the expense
of our Latin American Good
Neighbor policy and the British
blockade.
The way the plan works is
this: The Nazis get a friendly
neutral European country to ap
proach a South American govern
ment with an attractive offer to
buy a large quantity of goods.
Ostensibly the purchase is for
the neutral, but actually it is for
Germany, to whom the goods
would be trans-shipped once they
crossed the Atlantic.
One suspected deal of this kind
was uncovered in El Salvador, in
Central America.
The Spanish Minister there of
fered to buy 6,000 bales of cot
ton from the government. With
its export trade in the doldrums
because of the war, El Salvador
would like very much to make a
sa'e of this size. But authorities
are skeptical of the ultimate des
tination of the cotton.
Fascist Spain is closely associat
ed with Nazi Germany. Also,
General Franco is heavily in Hit
ler’s debt for aid in the civil
war. Authorities strongly suspect
that Spain is herelv acting as a
secret “front” and the cotton is
sought for Germany and not
Spain.
If that is true, and the cotton
got across the Atlantic, it would
be a double triumph for the
Nazis. They would have thumb
ed their nose both at our Good
Neighbor policy and the British
b’oekade.
NOTE: Real inside reason for
the War Department’s seizure of
13 bombing planes bound for
Peru was not the anounced one
— that they were needed for
hard-pressed Russia. The planes
were diverted because Peru has
been bombing open cities in Ec
uador which has no aircraft to
retaliate. Lend-Lease armaments
are being withheld from both
until they settle their border
squabble.
ISOLATIONIST STRATEGY
The secret pow-wow of the 11
Senate isolationists to map strate
gy for the battle against arming
merchant ships, wasn't as har
monious as Senator Burton K.
Wheeler, who presided, let on to
newsmen.
One of those present caused a
furore by suggesting that the bat
tie be called off.
The ‘fifth columnist” was Sen
ator D. Worth Clark of Idaho,
one of the most vocal foes of
Roosevelt’s foreign policies and
chairman of the Anglophobe
packed committee that has been
investigating movie "propagan
da.” Clark almost caused Sen
ators Hiram Johnson, in whose
office the meeting was held.
Wheeler and LaFol’ette to jump
out of their chairs by counselling
i against an open fight on the ship
arming issue.
"I think the best policy would
: be to forget about it and lay
for the next bill to do away with
combat zones,” Claris said.
: “That’s the big danger, as I see
j it. Arming merchant ships won’t
| seriously imperil our neutrality
t as long as we keep them out of
belligerent waters.”
But the suggestion was roar
ed down. Wheeler urged all pre
sent to prepare long speeches
and to induce others to do like
I wise, to keep the debate going
1 in the Senate as long as possible.
An outright filibuster, he said,
was inadvisable, but the debate
should b• long and loud enough
to make the American people
‘acutely conscious of the steps
being taken by the President to
get us into war.”
Nye, LaFollette and Taft also
urged that arming merchant
ships and permitting them to en
ter combat zones were “insep
arable components" in the pro
posed revision of the Neutrality
Art and should bo treated as
such in floor debate.
“Arming merchant ships will
be inviting Hitler to fire on them
on sight, whether they happen
to be in neutral or belligerent
waters,” Taft declared.
Upshot of the secret meeting
was a three-fo d strategy plan;
(1) To insist cm “open” hearings
by the Foreign Relations Com
mittee; (2) to put Navy Secre
tary Knox, particularly, and oth
er Administration witnesses
through a blistering third-degree
at the hearings, and (3 to pro
long floor debate. — The Wash
ington Merry-Go-Round by Drew
Pearson and Robert S. Allen.
Notice of Rendering First and
Final Report of Administrator
and Petition for Final Order of
Distribution
No. 636
In the Probate Court in and
for the Cape Nome Precinct,
Second Division: Territory of
Alaska.
In the matter of the Estate of
BLAKE BARLOW WALES, De
ceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that
B. B. Mozee, Administrator of
the estate of Blake Barlow Wales,
deceased, has rendered for final
settlement, and filed in the above
Court his first and final report of
administrator and petition for
final order of distribution, and
that Wednesday, the 4th day of
February. 1942, at 10 o’clock a,
m., at the office and courtroom of
the Court in Nome, Alaska, has
been set as the time and place
for the settlement of the account
and report and far hearing ob
1 jections thereto if any there be.
and for a hearing on the petition,
and all persons interested in the
estate are hereby notified then
and there to appear and show
cause, if any they have, why the
account and report should not be
settled and allowed and whv dis
tribution of the estate should not
thereupon be immediately made
to the persons entitled thereto
without further notice or pro
i ceedings. At such hearing the
Court will adjudicate and decree
who are the heirs and distribut
ees of the deceased. Reference is
hereby made to the account, re
port and petition for further par
j ticulars.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this
3rd day of December, 19+1.
B. B. Mozee Administrator
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