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dumping ground for France's criminals.
WANTS GOLD RUSH IN FRENCH GUIANA
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Governor of Former Penal Colony Thinks Tapping Interior
Would Stimulate Revival of Commerce. : (Last of a Series) By JOHN A. THALE
Times Foreign Correspondent CAYENNE, French Guiana, April 5.—Governor Jean Pezet is trying to think of ways and means of starting a gold rush in French Guiana. _He believes that may be one of the big steps in the rehabilitation of the unhdppy colony which for the last 92 years has served mainly as a
Now that the mother country has decided to close out the Guiana
_ the unexplored jungles of the back
penitentiary service, colonial officials and residents see better and more prosperous times ahead. Governor Pezet, young, trained administrator who arrived from France this month, is convinced that a century behind the eight ball has left French Guiana with rich unexploited possibilities that can be developed. Will Seek LCT's “I believe that French Guiana is as rich.in gold resources as South Africa,” he declared. Some day, American-built LCT's, made for landing tanks on enemy beachheads, may be pushing their broad prows up the Maroni and other French Guiana rivers into
country, Pezet explained that the LCT would be an ideal river boat.
Ordinary vessels are unable to navigate the shallows and rapids | to bring out the tremenduos stocks | of ordinary and exotic timber abounding in the jungles of the interior. Pezet voiced hopes that he would be able to get a surplus LCT or so from the United States. The new governor hopes to help develop the colony's resources by bringing in new settlers from more crowded French colonies like IndoChina, Martinique and Guadeloupe. Hopes for Hotel
The colonial government has bought infamous Devil's island for a reported $7000 from the French penitentiary service. It may ex- | ploit the island penal colony as a coconut plantation. There is also a possibility that a deep-water pier might be established there, wherg goods could be landed from larger liners, then trans-shipped in smaller craft to the shallow Cayenne port. Pezet also voiced hopes that within the next few months a new, modern hotel could be built at Cay-| enne. now, whose proprietors try to make | up in friendly service what they lack in accommodations. Currently, a guest in the dining room is apt to find himself eating | with a cat perched on the next table, a couple of hungry-looking dogs flanking him, and an assortment of ducks and chickens wandering hopefully through to search for crumbs on the floor. Gold Smuggling From the point.of view of progress in commerce, French Guiana has made virtually none in the last half-century. ports today total practically the same as they did in 1900. Its total commerce amounts only to about $750,000 a year. A trickle of gold is being shipped out now at the rate of about $250.000 yearly. Under the law, all gold must be sold to the Bank of Guyane
California in the days of the golden west-—is anybody's guess.
sion of being a thoroughly practical administrator who is not kidding himself about the handicaps he will have to overcome. He is aware that progress will have to come slowly to ‘the colony that France - forgot.
Governor Pezet gives the impres- |:
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WAR BRIDES STRANDED WASHINGTON, April 5 (U, P). — The war department estimated
children are stranded overseas because their G. I, husbands have
today that 8000 “war brides” and:
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‘Missionary's Army Horse Trade Takes a \ Bit of Wrangling
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Oerrespondent WASHINGTON, April 5—All's well that ends well, I guess, but what happens to a missionary when he buys a horse from his own governfnent is enough to make even a man of God grit his teeth, My story is one of those fantastic ones involving our government in things it would prefer to forget; if you are a ‘contributor to your church’s foreign missions, you'll be interested: When the war ended, the U. S. army announced that it had $460, 000,000 worth of surplus in India, It said later that the figure would
have to be revised upwards to per-|a
haps $500,000,000. American missionaries, operating schools, churches, hospitals and model farms through the vast Indian nation looked covetously upon it, The medicines, the X-ray machines, the ambulances, and the old clothes could do wonders to help the Indians, the dominies decided. They formed a kind of purchasing organization, known as the Joins Protestant-Catholic commission, to
failed to : file proper removal papers.
But he and others in French Guiana hope that © now it come,
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MILLIONS GIVEN U.S. TO WIN WAR
Private Citizens in Many
WASHINGTON,
tween Dec. 7, 1941, and V-J. day.
It wasn't all either, Same of the donations came
mention a few. A little girl in Cincinnati sent "
monthly, with a chatty note to the |late President Roosevelt. She con-! when chief | executive. A prominent civil engi-| neer in New Jersey sent a check for!
tinued the contributions [President Truman became
$50,000, no strings attached. clubs made anywhere from one to
dozens cof contributions, most of
specified a use—totaled $6,190,815.54. |
There are a couple there [There were 1514 of them. The 22, 424
unconditional grants totaled $1,268,737.30. Book Club Gift Under a special law passed by congress, the treasury can use conditional gifts for the purpose spe-| cified By-the donor. Unconditional gifts go into the treasury general fund. The Book of the Month Club of the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Burbank, Cal, check of $1000 throughout the war. .Some 50 persons were regular weekly or monthly contributors.
-army sergeant of Portland, Ore. sent a $50 check every month. The last treasury sent in September, was returned tion “deceased.” Vincent Sardi, New York restaurant proprietor, bought G series bonds throughout the war. his interest checks, running be-
of about $30 an ounce. Officials say that gold-smuggling| is one of the major problems. In| the colony, miners speak in whispers of the black market in France where! gold reportedly is being sold at $300! an ounce. Nearby Brazil is another | market where smugglers can get| better than the $30 Bank of Guyane| rate. Government mining experts currently are carrying on studies de-
signed to interest private capital in| checks in. amounts between $5 and!
developing the gold industry. They are handicapped by the fact that few survevs have been made of the | French Guiana mineral prospects during the past 250-year history of the colony. Even accurate maps of the interior are rare. Ore From Streams Because of this lack of informa- | tion they hesitate to make oo estimate of how rich the Guiana
gold fields might be.
The wild jungle terrain has forced
tween $200 and $300 monthly, to |the treasury. Sardi recently stopped this practice, explaining that he was now banking the money for a son still in the service. Check Every Day Nicholas A. Melgakes, owner in Gettysburg, Pa.,
"a ‘cafe sent a
check of $1 every day. His contribu-|
tion toward winning the war was more than $1500. Albert Doiron, || { Portland, Me., blacksmith, sent 40
$65. Each check carried the nota- | tion—"“to help win the war.”
A Cuban pharmacist, Dr. Conrad {|
| Cabellero Cio, sent $100. Melchor Leon, a souvenir store proprietor in | Vexics City, sent more than $9000. ln his final letter, he “praised God that the war is over and you have won.’ Kirke L. Cowdery, retired college professor who lives in Ohio, sent | | about $1000 throughout the war,’ drawing the money from his retire-
may
Lands Among Contributors.
April 5 (U, PD. —Private citizens sent the government almost $7,500,000 in outright cash gifts for the war effort be-)
from Americans, |
from Iraq, Cuba and Mexico, to
In all, some 24,000 individuals and
them unconditional. The conditional grants—those for which the donors
sent along a monthly
The late Thomas E. McGuire, an! Its exports and im-|ex
acknowledgement,
the following month with the nota-
He sent
miners to stick within a mile of | ment checks. Mrs. Lucinda Moorau, the interior streams. Farther than |92-year-old resident of Whittier, |
that they cannot get a water supply | Cal, sent $30 monthly. A check for So | $2 arrived every month from Mrs. | most of the gold taken so far has| Florence Mathes, 72, of Salem, Ore.
for their placer operations.
been from the ore-bearing sands of| A Shecnadoah, Pa., coal miner
the streams. Whether back in the tangled hills there are rich veins such as Portland, Ore.,
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see if they could do some business.
They discovered that the foreign liquidation commission wanted them to pay the full wholesale price for medical material and to add 25 per cent for ‘the freight bill from America to India, Then, to their amazement, the Indian government insisted on a 30 to 60 per cent duty charge. “So it 1s,” wrote one of the dazed missionaries,” “that British firms can sell the same kind of new material to.us in India, but at a lower price, with lower freight rates and lesser duties.” He said he tried to buy a $4000 X-ray machine, but his own government wanted $5000. He needed $251 microscope, but the FLC demanded another $51 for freight. Another missionary, who also wants his name withheld, wrote that the material was not guaranteed and added: “Purchase of surplus in India is a very risky business.” He mentioned the hiring of coolies by the army to tear up mosquito nets, clothes and tarpaulins; he said he could not
understand this,
sioriaries weren't even allowed inside army camps to inspect. the goods for sale. Neither did this make sense to him, Senator James M. Mead of N. Y, chairman of the. war investigating committee, demanded that the state department give the missionaries a break. The FLC announced. soon thereafter that it would allow them a 40 per cent discount. Our government simultaneously entered into an agreement to sell all its surpluses to the Indian government. The missionaries didn't get to buy much stuff at a price, but still indicated they were grateful. The “Catholics got $423,362.35 worth of material, some of which was salvage, for $142,823.70. This included seven horses worth $205.75 to the army, which they bought for $360.67. The also bought thousands of shirts, pants, and bed sheets, which had cost the government $34,268, which were worn out insofar as the army was concerned, and for which they paid $190.67, I saw no list of supplies sold to the Protestants, but they made a
More in sorrow than in anger | similar deal. They mentioned 50,000 he added that sometimes the mis- | articles of old clothes they got for
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five cents each and which they said were valuable to them, ne matter’ what the army felt.
A commission from the Indian|®
government now is in Washington, | negotiating the price of all the surplus in India, This is a hushhush operation, known to me, but apparently it will be a bargain. vision for the American missionaries
to buy from India the American supplies they need to help the Indians, Presumably then they will not have to pay import duties, I don't believe I'd make a good IRISBONALY,
than in January, the partment said today. * “The warehouses were i 86 per cent full in February pared with 86.7 in pis port said,
for reasons un-
Terms include pro-
pares with a similar: drop. 88.6 to 879 per cent for the u as a whole.
ings in Indianapolis with the 834,819 square feet of
1 fear I might say, 0 space filled during February,
HOLDS ‘TEMPORARY’ JOB GIVEN IN 1874
SOMERVILLE, Mass. (U. P).— There was a help shortage, so when Frank Raffelll called at_the office of the M, W. Carr Jewelry Co. he was hired as a “temporary employee.” That was back in 1874. Now he's in his 72d year with the company and still going strong.
SH ——————————— DRY TANK FOILS THIEF DENISON, Tex. (U. 2) «Otlits in this case at least, i pay—it was ‘just so much vi effort. Psul Jennings reported that ne ; car had been stolen from his gare age. Police recovered it in ; block. The person wha took car forgot to check the tank was émpty.
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