LEADS ‘WHITE KNIGHTS’. Major William R. Cowper, Jr., of Gatesville, in September led his “White Knights” unit of the 13th AAF Fighter Command on one of the longest fighter plane missions ever flown. The 13th is in the Southwest Pacific. Major Cowper is in the thick of the aerial struggle for the Netherlands East Indies. CCC Will Help In Marketing Cotton Abroad Officials of the Commodity Credit Corporation have an nounced that plans for putting the United States back into the world cotton market and for subsidizing sales of surplus cot ton abroad at competitive world prices will be put into effect shortly after they are agreed on and will not await the end of the war. Following a two-day closed conference at the Department of Agriculture between CCC of ficials and an advisory commit lb tee from the cotton industry, J. ► B. Hutson, CCC chief, stated the object of the meeting was to determine the best plan for placing U. S. surplus cotton into world trade. The meeting was called by the CCC after President Roosevelt signed surplus property legisla tion which authorizes the agency to dispose of surplus farm com modities on export markets at world prices unless a shortage exists in this country. Supplies of cotton in the United States are in excess of domestic needs, the CCC said, with stocks on hand now totall ing about 10,500,000 bales. The agency suggested three plans to the committee for dis cussion during the two-day clos ed conference and said any other plan proposed would be ex amined in detail. Mr. Hutson reported after a preliminary session, that the “committee has gone far enough to agree that something should be done” to facilitate the move ment of cotton into export trade. One of the plans proposed is for sale of cotton owned or pool ed by CCC, with three possible variations. One would permit the exporter to buy from CCC at a fixed price to correspond to world prices and to export the identical bales bought from the Government. Another would allow the ex b porter to buy cotton from the r CCC and subsitute from 10 to 20 per cent other cotton in ex porting. Under the third varia tion the exporter would pur chase cotton from CCC at world prices but might substitute any other cotton he desired for ex port. A second plan suggested pay ment of a cash subsidy equal to the difference betwejsn world price and the price of a base quality cotton, the subsidy ap plying to