AMERICA PREPARES.
CONTROL OF OIL. WASHINGTON, Mav 31. President Roosevelt began ' implementing the national emergency proclamation by appointing .Mr Ickes virtual dictator of the American oil industry. Mr Ickes has 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 be launched on June 7, four months ahead of schedule. The Now York Times says that 13 passenger liners and cargo vessels totalling 200.000 tons were to-dav ordered to be withdrawn from merchant routes for employment as military auxiliaries.
A German-American Bund Camp in Nordland (New Jersey) has been closed on the order of the State AttorneyGeneral, following a raid in which the sberriff arrested a man and seized literature dealing with Hitler and Nazism.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 154, 2 June 1941, Page 5
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