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NEAR EAST OIL CRISIS SCARES N.E.I. PRODUCERS

(By Relman Morin)

OIL FROM THE Netherlands Indies is assum- ing a new strategic importance to-day, as a result of threats to British pipe-lines in the Near East.

The recent fighting in Iraq, another oil centre, brought an immediate reaction here. Experts studied the possibility that Britain might be forced to draw more heavily on Far Eastern petroleum sources if fields in the Near East were destroyed or production suspended.

At the same time, there was the question, as always, of Japan. The Iraq disturbances began only a few days before Japan re- newed

her of contracts here. Last November, a Japanese trade mission concluded a deal, with six-months' options for the pur- chase of oll and petroleum pro- ducts. It was signed with pri- vate American and British com- panies, which pump, refine, and inarket the oil.

it.

But they do not exactly "own"

Export Bans

The government at all times reserves the right to impose ex port bans on any vital product,

EYES OF

A HERO

Blitz victims and fellow wardens have often taken heart from "the man with the merry eyes." However heavy the raid, his grey eyes never lost their sparkle. Yet they are com- pletely sightless.

and to direct its use. The Indies, an ally of Britain, are at war with Germany. Hence, it was conaldered a distinct possibility Arthur Small, Liverpool's only that the companies' contracts blind A.R.P. warden, has helped with Japan might necessarily to rescue people from blitzed have to be abrogated, if the all houses and guided the injured to were diverted to Britain's arm- the local doctor. ed forces.

In that case, none or very little could be sold elsewhere, experts said.

So efficient is he realise he is blind.

that few

Now he is a blitz victim him. self. His conscience may have saved his life.

NEW BLACK-OUT BLUES

Girl workers in a northern factory have a new kind of black- out blues.

at

Dressing-rooms the factory are "black- ed-out" with blue paint,

"When we made-up in that light before meeting our boy- friends ofter work we came out looking like Red Indians,' one of the girls told a reporter.

"We have asked the firm to change the black-out.”

'CLEAN UP' OF RADIO HUMOUR

For production here is not very great. The Indies' fields rank Afth, a very

poor fifth, In the world.

It was his night off duty, but

Public Morality They bring up some 7,500,000 tons

between the

of high explosive Council is out to clean-up crump

a year,

1

The

"Let us go and the B.B.C. standard of

humour.

three and five per cent. of the bombs made him say to his wife, world total. The oil is very good, also a warden: engineers say, but there isn't see if we can help." much of it.

They put two old ladies, bomb-

their own home, "Complaint has been made to Main fields are on Borneo, at ed out from Tarakan and Balikpapan;

the Council concerning broadcasts on under the stairs and went out.

after Soon

states the a heavy bomb of alleged humour,” and Palem- Sumatra, at Medan

annual report, "objection being bang: on Java, at Djambi and wrecked the house.

Dodging bomb splinters. as taken not on Tjepoe, and on Ceram. Refineries

grounds of mere are located near the biggest though guided by a sixth sense, vulgarity or taste, but by reason of an apparent acceptance of a lower standard."

fields.

Where N.E.I. Oil Goes

Netherlands Indies oil fuels and lubricates

number 3

of war machines. It goes to Singapore, the mighty British naval base, just across the straits, to Hong Kong, a smaller but not unim- portant outpost, to China, Aus- tralia, South Africa and British India. It is a vital element in the Indies' own defence system,

Mr. Small and his wife hurried ! back and rescued the old ladies.

Later, alone, he led several of the wounded to a doctor and carried to safety a two-year-old baby, wrapped in an elderdown. "Not Pulling Weight"

The Council is endeavouring to set up a "viewing panel" in each of the more Important provincial cities to see all stage productions and report to the Council.

The report states that the Mr. Small, who is thirty-eight, anti-nudity campaign was suc- do no more cessfully concluded, and it had told a reporter "I

been amply demonstrated that than I should.

"In addition to patrolling with the public desired that its enter- my wife or another warden, Itainment on the stage should be And. It may assume supreme -üsed to manage the 'phone switch-free from the unwholesomeness Importance if the United

board and do other odd jobs. associated with 'strip-tease' and" States fleet should engage. In

"I feel I am not pulling my the like now happily a thing extended operations In the

weight now. I have been evacuat- of the past." southern Orient, for south led to a strange district and have Manija or Guam.

temporarily given up my ́A.R.P. Consequently, although the total

work. amount pumped in the Indies. is.

"I still attend wardens' meet- not great, if stacked against

ings. If I can find accommoda- world figures, it is considered to tion in my own neighbourhood I have a major role in the gigantic would like to be back on the job.” international checkerboard. It is Mr. Small, a home teacher, has the one big source in the Far

a district in which he instructs East. Possession of it by Japan, blind people in Braille and would probably completely shield

handicraft. the Japanese "Achilles Heel," her dependence on foreign sources.

WASHINGTON IS "BOOM TOWN" NOW

ONE-ARM OFFICER

WOUNDED AGAIN

Two War Office America's gigantic de- Casualty Lists issued re- has cently contain 352 names. fence programme transformed Washington Twenty-one are officers from a dull city of staid (eight killed, five wound bureaucrats into the ed and two died). gayest and most expensive des, Queen's Own Cameron High capital in the world.

A tiny hotel room costs night, champagne (at £z a

Temporary Captain D.,

landes, wounded wi

dows like water, and queues wait the

to get into night clubs -

since

Fawn.2 his-re

It is known as-Boom Workmen are busy, on storej, new buildin

One reason for the fantastic died of woun high cost of living is the arrival

of scores of millionaires; who are

| giving their services to the Gov

ernment ora nominali salary

of wär), sẽtent

afty prisoners, (three while i

previously missing are a nov

DOLE IS TO STAY AS NOW

Unemployment benefits

and contributions are to

remain as they are.

The fund is in a healthier. state than ever, because of the virtual abolition of unemployment, but the surplus is to be used first to wipe out all the fund's Itabilities, then to build up a credit balance

There was a net surplus of 254,500,000 at the end of the year of this, £38,500,000 will go to discharge completely the fund's liabilities. That is the re- commendation of the statutory committee.

for after the war ge

The committee cons for increased benefit

déci