Status Of American
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Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Nov. 3.
F) R ERNEST GRUENING, head of the division in the U.S. Department of the Interior which controls the U.S. equatorial islands, is visiting Jarvis, Baker, and Howland in the cutter Roger B. Taney.
Mr. Gruening is going on to Pago Pago, American Samoa. In Washington lately there have been reports that American Samoa is to be transferred from the administration of the U.S. Navy to the Department of the Interior.
Before leaving Honolulu, Dr. Gruening stated that “there is a possibility that there may ultimately be a change in status of American Samoa and even Guam, but added it was not to occur immediately.