1891

By a curious twist of war effects the secretary makes the following report of three members of his family.

At the extreme end of the Aleutians, Commander Jackson B. Hayden, whose wife Rebecca is the daughter of the secretary, is the commanding officer at Attu.

The secretary's son, Frank E. Rowe Jr., technical adviser, is in Japan on a one to three months term of duty as a member of a joint State-War Department textile mission to Japan. This mission also includes representatives from Britain, India and the Chinese Government.

Japan's textile mills took a heavy pounding from the American Army and Navy aerial assaults, production being cut to one-fifth of known prewar capacity and probably even more. With what is left and what can be pieced together for operation, Japan is expected to meet the clothing needs of her ragged hundred millions. The assignment given to the Mission is to survey remaining Japanese textile facilities and recommend to the Supreme Command what can be done to enable Japan's battered mills to turn out enough production in 1946 to meet the minimum needs of her population and the quantities required for barter purposes in obtaining cotton, salt, coal and rice that must be imported.

The secretary's grandson, Ensign Arthur Rowe Foster, the son of Francis J. and Helen Rowe Foster, is probably, at this writing, in Yokohama, about fifty miles from Tokyo, on a voyage of a month from the United States to Japan and return.

Secretary and Treasurer, Suite 505, 60 Congress St., Boston 9, Mass.