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
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
"And then do you know what
suddenly Bob and I kissed
each other right there before
God and everybody. We'd been
tired and hot and although we
didn't admit It, a little miserable.
Then that spraying water, the
romping laughing, almost naked
little children, the horse so evi
dently wanting to splash and do
a bit of relaxing himself, well It
came to us both at the same In-
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This device perches on the top of
the carburetor trapping the dust
and bugs floating in
those 10,000 gallons of
air so they won't clog
up the carburetor. But
when the air cleaner
itself gets clogged
your engine breathes-in harmful grit and
stuff, causing real damage.
Shell people have a knack with air
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