OIL AND SHIPPING
CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES REQUISITIONS OF MERCANTILE TONNAGE. NEW BATTLESHIP ABOUT TO BE LAUNCHED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) WASHINGTON. May 31. President Roosevelt began implementing the national emergency proclamation by appointing Mr Ickes (Secretary for the Interior) virtual dictator of the American oil industry. Mr Ickes lias been instructed to formulate a plan ensuring that the supply of petroleum and its products will be accommodated to the needs of the nation and the national defence programme. The 35.000-ton battleship South Dakota will bo launched on June 7, four months ahead of schedule.. The “New ’York Times’" says that 13 passenger liners and cargo vessels totalling 200.000 tons were today ordered to be withdrawn from merchant routes for employment as military auxiliaries. Shipping circles have heard reports that many other vessels will shortly be commandecc.i’f.d for a huge fleet of transports. A German-American Bund Camp in Norland. New Jersey, has been closed on the order of the State Attorney General, following a raid in which the sheriff arrested a man and seized literature. dealing with Hitler and Nazism,.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1941, Page 4
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