The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-06

conference decked out in a new suit, the event immediately aroused the curiosity of the news men.
 "Snappy suit, you got there, MT. Secretary" remarked Q cor respondent.
 "Yes, it's pretty nice, isn't it?" replied Jones. "And, 1t was a bar gain. waited until the end of summer when prices are cheap before buying it."
 GOOD NEWS
 Here is good news for the Amer icas.
 One week after Brig. Gen, Rus sell Maxwell was removed as head of the Export control Administra- ton and the redtape-stymied agensy was placed under the con- trol of Vice President Wallace's Economic Defense board, more than one-third of $l7o000, 900 worth of in-American orders were cleared for shipment.
 For personal reasons there has been no public announcements of this action, but 1t Is one of the most important develop ments in 8 long time in the furtherance of Good NeighbOr relations.
 South American countries are now in the throes of a complete reorientation of their foreign trade. German, Italian and Jap anese clements are being elin1i- mated and buyers are increasingly turning to the U. s. for goods. This makes the prompt filling of orders of utmost importance.
 But under Maxwell, the Ex- port Control Administration be- came a bottleneck of long drawn out delays and endless irritations. More than $170,0OO,- 900 worth of Latin- American business booked by U. s. firms was stalled on docks while the ECA leiSurely iiddled with clear ance certificates.
 But once Wallace took over, the situation changed overnight. Un- der the two-flsted direction of his principal assistants, Executive Di- rector Milo Perkins and Lieut.. Col. Royal B. Lord, brilliant Army engineer, things began to move fast and furious. Working day and night, they are rushing through hundreds of certificates, clearing more than $60,000,000 worth in one week.
 Reams of export applications, which under Maxwell had beer peremptorily rubber stamped "li- cense refused" were reconsidered and approved. The decks are not cleared yet, but Perkins and Lord have made a good start at getting them cleaned up very soon.
 NOTE:-The State Department, whose Munitions Control bureau under Joseph 0. Green is one of the worst bureaucratic bottlenecks in Washington, made a strenuous undercover effort to get control of ECA, but was rebuffed by the White House.
 RASKOB'S 100000 ACRES
 The biggest current land pur- chase in the United States is now being negotiated by John J. Ras- kob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee when Al Smith tried to defeat Hoover. Ironically, his associate :n the deal is Tom Campbell, one of Hoover's close friends.
 It is 8 deal involving 100000 acres of New Mexican land, forcing hundreds of small farm CTS to join the vast army of mic grant workers.
 Raskob, who helped build up General Motors and is leading figure in the duPoat organization, owns a big farm on Sile eastern shore of Maryland. But recently, he has been credited with an ana bition to run for the Senate from New Mexico, state which sent Bronson Cutting, wealthy New Yorker, to the Senate, and where ex-Secretary of War Pat Hurley also Is making political medicine.
 Tom Campbell, who is helping Raskob, is probably the worlds biggest wheat farmer, operating 95.O00 acres in Montana. He also was hired by the Soviet govern- ment to organize its mass-produc- ton wheat farming on ten mil ion acres.