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NEW SYNTHETIC RUBBER INDUSTRY MEETSDEMANOS Will Survive War And May Supplant Natural Product Believes Director Dewey Washington, July 27 (U.R) America's 5800,000,000 synthe tic rubber industry non-exist-ant two years ago but now pro ducing more than enough to meet war needs will survive the war and may eventually re place plantations of the far east as the prime source of rubber, according to Rubber Director Bradley Dewey. Dewey announced yesterday that his rubber agency will be dissolved oapr before September 1 on his recommendation and that its functions will be taken over by the War Production Board. He will . return to the presidency of a Massachusetts chemical company, which he left to take a dollar-a-year job as as sistant to William M. Jeffers, his predecessor as rubber chief. Brake On Cost Dewey predicted that the synthetic industry would "live" In competition with natural rub ber and would act as '"a. heaven sent brake on the cost of tires." He expressed belief that the price of synthetic crudes after the war will determine the price of natural rubber. Dewey estimated it would take at least seven years once the Japanese have been cleaned out of the Far East to restore rub ber plantations to their peace time output. By that time, he said, the synthetic product prob ably will have been perfected to the point where it can meet competition from its natural counterpart In both quality and price. "Chemists and engineers have won almost every battle they've ever undertaken with nature, and no capitalist, I am sure, is going to invest money to' clear jungles when a product equally good can be made synthetically," he said. Huge Demand As for the immediate postwar years, Dewey pointed out that the world will be able to con sume all the rubber both na tural and snythetiu that can be produced because of dammed up civilian demand and antici pated increased uses. The office of rubber director was set up by President Roose velt after a special committee under Bernard Baruch reported that an agency with broad pow ers was necessary to meet the rubber crisis. It will be the first wartime agency to be voluntarily abol ished. Dewey told War Mobiliza tion Director James F. Byrnes r Schilling: Chili Powder the "just right" flavor for zestful chili dishes Four Killed When Army Planes Collide in Midair Ncfr I VW CP y) b ,-Jii & . krsla 0 J (Acme Telephotot This spectacular crash of two attack bombers In mld-alr at Spokane. Wash., Air Service Command stay on the Job" war show was witnessed by 100,000 persons Two of the three bombers are shown at left a split sec ond after thev collided, carrying four men to their death. The third Diane (right) was not touched. that the program outlined by Baruch had been carried out and the nation was now indepen dent of Far Eastern rubber sources. Byrnes and Baruch agreed. Baruch told the United Press that Jeffers and Dewey had com pleted the job assigned them. "Well done, we can all say, and thanks," Baruch said. Boy Scout News Troop 8 By Roy Pyle, Asst. Scribe Troop 8 met Tuesday evening at their usual meeting place with a good attendance after three weeks' vacation at supper camp at Lake o' Woods. Our troop at tended camp nearly 100 per cent, and all had a fine time. All the boys returning home say they enjoyed the trip and plan to re turn next year. Mexicans Lauded For Aid Given in U. S. Agriculture Oakland, Cal.. July 27 (U.R) Brig. Gen. Philip G. Bruton, di rector of labor for the War Food Administration, today lauded 64.000 Mexican national agricul tural workers brought to the United States for their part in helping the Allied war effort on the farm front. Gen. Bruton, on a tour of WFA's southwest division, said that although some Mexicans still are being brought to this country he did not expect any large addition to the number now in the western states. "They have performed a valu able work," he said. "They have harvested billions of dollars worth of essential food and have in a large way solved the prob lem of the shortage of agricul tural workers. They have proved themselves adaptable and their conduct is exemplary. UnionKicks Out Heckling Commy Seattje, July 27 (U.R) Busi ness Agent I. A. Peck announced today that the Automotive Ma chinists Union, Local 289 (AFL), naa expeuea a memoer oi me union, Charles L. Legg, and fined him $1,000 for "conduct: unbecoming a member and en gaging in communistic activity." i Peck said the action was brought against Legg by the union's trial committee after he participated in heckling of a meeting of the Institute of Inter national Relations. Four of the Institute's night sessions were heckled in premature adjourn ment by left-wing unionists. TRUCK IE QUOTA FOR WEST STATES CUT 67 PER CENT San Francisco, July 27 (U.R) The Office of Price Administra tion today announced a drastic 67 per cent reduction in heavy duty truck tire quotas for the five western states in August to meet heavy military requisitions. The reduction, which Is na tionwide, may seriously cripple essential motor-driven transpor tation in the west In the next 30 days unless there is the most careful preservation of existing tire stocks, OPA smrt "It is Impossible to exaggerate the seriousness of the situation," Charles A. Bairy, -cgional OPA administrator, declared. To insure the best possible distribution of the reduced quota the OPA is setting up on Aug. 1, eleven central emergency truck tire rationing boards in the reg ion. The boards will be located In Phoenix, Ariz.; San Dlego, Los Angeles, Fresno, San Francisco, and Sacramento, Calif.; Reno, Nev.; Portland and Medford, Ore.; and Seattle and Spoknne, Wash. Quotas in August by states are: California. 3880; Arizona 288; Oregon, 1318; Nevada, 140; and Washington and northern Idaho, 1099. Thursday, July VI. 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUHE TVTU stant that this wasn't such a bad world after all." And out here In the west we need no such reminders it's a grand world to be in. Maybe we do need to be reminded, though; we're so prone to take our bless ings for granted. So I give you this bit from the letter of a girl in Chicago. Aviation Pioneer Dies of Heart III Los Angeles. July 27 (U.R) James C. "Bud" Mars, holder of many of the firsts in world avia tion, including piloting Emperor Hirohito of Japan on his first plane ride, died yesterday at Veterans' hospital of heart dis ease. He was 68 and had been in aviation since his first hot air balloon ascensions in 1882. He took Hirohito aloft In 1SU in a rickety Curtis Red Devil, and since Pearl Harbor had often said he wished he had cracked up. Instead, he got the) Order of the Rising Sun. THE ASHLAND FOUNDRY 248 Helman Street Wll I nPFKI ST T mmim tr a mm AUGUST 1st Complete Foundry Service X Use Mali Tribune Want Ada. THIS IS AN Something must be done right now about brush and woods and forest fires in our Pacific Northwest. ' It Is Important That Remember These Rules 1 CRUSH OUT your cigarette, your cigar, your pipe ashes. 2 BREAK your match In two, then pinch till It's dead. 3 DROWN your campnre; then stir and add more water before you leave. 4 ASK ABOUT THE LAW end a permit i! you must burn; then follow safe roles and kill every spark. 5 ALWAYS BE CAREFUL. An extra minute of precaution may save vital watersheds and a hundred yean of forest growth. causes more forest fires than all other causes put. together! Pure and simple carelessness on the part of Honest, law abiding American citizens accounts for the vast majority of our forest fires. Authoritative figures reveal that MAN is the cause of 90 of all U.S. forest fires! Why Are Forest Fires AGreater Danger Than Ever? Lumber, a critical war material is vital, too, for peacetime reconstruction. Think of the forest fire destruction in terms of planes and homes: 4L More than 800 fighter planes could be built with the almost a million man-days which forest and woods fires drain each year from factories and farms. More than 200,000 five-room homes enough' to bouse the entire population of Washington, D. C could be built with the timber killed by U.S. forest fires each year. Thil lltltmml ha htrm prtptrei mi flttiti if lit BtrTZ-VErVHARD COMPANY triib Iht tppr tl ihf V, S. For" fetiltt Olive Barber' Observations A lad writing from an un named island in the south Pacific says In part: "I've been catching up on my reading but I can think of many more enjoyable pas times such as fishing in Florida with my wife;" (he's been mar ried since in the service) "or wandering down a sand pathway In the home town park with my wife; or going swimming with my wife; or fishing in a moun tain lake with my wife; or Just being with my wife." If I'd known her address. I'd have sent his letter on to her He further said maybe I'd think that proof a-plenty of his mental break down. Rather do I think it Indi cates quite the contrary Then a girl in Chicago writes a letter most strange to us who have the great good fortune to live here on the Pacific coast. "My friend and I took a walk during the noon hour through the Italian quarter. We heard old women Jabbprnig in Italian, arguing with street hucksters and shooing their children out of the way, "Today someone had removed the cap from a newly painted fire hydrant and the water was surging out full force. You can Imagine what fun the Italian children were having, galling boats In the gutters, wading and slipping and slidiog on the pave ment, shouting and Jumnlng and splashing their usually dirty faces until many of them were actually clean! "Then along came a wagon load of watermelons with a fat, sleepy old Italian man driving the horse. The horse started prancing when It hit the water; then It balked. The horse did his best to alt down In the water and I wished I could rid him of his harness end load and let htm roll In the cool water, which so evi dently was what he wanted to do. It wr.g so hot here today and animals must suffer from the t cat no less than do humans. 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