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Evening star., 1942-04-01
Standard Oil Admits
Withholding Details
OF ButyIFrom Navy
Furish Testifies U. S.
Wasn't Interested
In Technical Facts
BY J. A. FOX.

w. 5. FarlSn, president OF tne
Standard Oil Co. New Jersey, ,
today told the Senate Defense
Investigating Committee that
technical details" of the manu-
facture of butyl, the synthetic
rubber developed by the COM
pany, had been withheld from a
representative of the Navy De-
partment who visited the Stand
ard plant at Bayway, N. j., in
1889.
Mr.. Parish said he understood the
Navy mana Mr.. Werkenthin-
was not particularly interested" in
that phase of synthetic rubber but
rather in the uses to which it could
be put.
The disclosure caused Senator
OMahoney, Democrat, of wyoming
to assert that any layman such as
he could not avoid the inference
that an oficial of Standard was
instructed to steer the Navy official
away from knowledge Of the man
ufacturing process"
Arnold Made Charge.
Failure of Standard to give this
information to the Navy man was
cited last week by Assistant Attor-
ney General Thurman Arnold, who
alleged it was in conformity with
the alliance between Standard and
I. G. Farbenindustrie, the German
dye trust, which has been broken
up by a consent decree, and which
the Government charged served to
stifle production of synthetic rubber
in this country.
Under the Standard -Farben
agreement, the German company
was given full details of the manu-
facture of butyl in 1888 year be-
fore the Werkenthin incident.
Mr.. Farish's admission was
prompted by Senator OMahoney
who directed his attention to letter
from Standard files which had been
introduced into the record by Mr..
Arnold. Neither the writer nor the
address of the letter were identified.
Incorporated in the document was
this statement:
Because of the possible appnca-
tion of butyl rubber to some of the
Navy's requirements, Mr.. Werken-
thin had been instructed also to look
into the manufacturing process.
You will recall that I took this
question up with you before his
arrival.
Couldn't Steer Him Away.
"As agreed upon, I took Mr.. Wer-
kenthin over to the *" plant when
it appeared that I could not very
well steer his interest away from
the process. However, I am quite
certain that he left with no picture
of the operations other than that a
considerable amount of distillation
and refrigeration is involved in the
handling of light hydrocarbons, and
that refinery gas rather than
straight butadiene is the raw ma
terial."
Reading this letter. Senator OMs-
honey recalled that the witness had
testified full account of Standard s
synthetic rubber activities had been
furnished to the Army and Navy
Munitions Board, in January, 1899.
Actually you were not making a
full disclosure to the Government"
the Wyoming Senator pressed.
Everything the Government could
make practical use Of" the witness
responded. I'VE understood that the
- DcAa nr1Dpno nnnn -
Evening star., 1942-04-01
BY LELAND STOWE,
Foreign Correspondent Of The Star and
Chicago Daily News.

1850
Chicago Daily News.
CALCUTTA, March 20 Delayed.
OF all the tremendous dislocatiops
of human beings in this war, the
widest and most fantastic pilgrim
age is that which tens of thousands
of refugees, chiefly Indians but in
cluding a considerable number Of
Europeans, are making from Central
Burma through primitive jungles,
through malaria-infested wastelands
and over formidable mountains into
India.
This is trek of hundreds of miles,
and the humblest Indian laborers,
their wives and children, cover most
of 1t afoot, often being en- route for
six to eight weeks or more. whereas
the more fortunate evacuees travel
by truck, river launch, elephant,
motor bus and, finally, by train
Evening star., 1942-04-01
British Communists Hit
Indian Independence Plan

LONDON, April (P.-The British
Communist party in statement
last night said the proposed basis Of
Britain's India independence plan
was "undemocratic" and that it
would favor separation and tend
encies to partition which would be
as harmful for India as 1t has been
for Ireland
Evening star., 1942-04-01
Gen. SNORT to Represent
Australia in TuIks Here
Ry the Associated Press.

By the ASSoCIdCSd Press.
MELBOURNE, April Lit. Gen.
E. K. Smart is going to Washington
to represent Australia in war coun-
ellis of the United Nations, Army
Minister Francis M. Forde announced
today. Gen. Smart, who has been in
charge of the Australian Army's
southern command, will represent
Australia on the United Nations
Chiefs of Staff Committee.
Evening star., 1942-04-01
British Flying Boot Lost
With 20 Fleeing Juvo
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 1.-The British
2ying boat Circe, carrying q crew
of and 16 passengers escaping from
Java, was lost somewhere in Meth
erlands indies waters late in Feb
bruary, the Dutch news agency
Aneta reported today on the basis
of information from Australia. There
has been no word of any survivors,
Aneta said.
The planes last radio message
gave its position as 200 miles from
Tjilatjap, on Java's south coast.
Evening star., 1942-04-01
Summary of Todoy's Star

Pendergast foes again sweep Kansas
City. Page A-13
Miami Beach hotels to house $4,000
troops. Page ALA
Brown criticizes small business aid
bill. Page Ais
r. 3. I. arrests two on sedition
charges. Page ALI
Washington and Vicinity.
Six from D. C. area rescued from
Pennsylvania blizzard. Page Az
Four finalists named in Legion ora
tory contest. Page A-4
Sale of auto tags drops 2,416 under
last year. Page B-1
Wave of tire thefts brings sharper
police watch. Page B-1
Commissioners name seven man
board on parking. Page Bel
Trial of Mrs. Small. D. G. tax en-
ploye, nears end. Page B-A
Evening star., 1942-04-01

(See AUSTRALIA, Page A-40
Evening star., 1942-04-01

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages TX and 2-X Of this edition OF
The Star, supplementing the news OF
the regular home delivered edition.
Evening star., 1942-04-01

(See REFUGEES, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1942-04-01

(See RUBBER, Page A-40
Evening star., 1942-11-01

plCTURES skinned from the top omoteur eomero
tolent Of the country competed in the Eighth Annual
Newspaper NotionoI Snapshot Awords mode at the
exhibit Of neorIy $50 pictures here ot the Notiono
interesting pictures omone the money winners, in
eudn9 the 81 500 9rond prize winning picture mode by
Army eorporoI ond two Of the four snapshots mode
by eomero fons Of this and entered from the oI
contest conducted BY The Stor All four Of the
IoeoI pictures took Of the Sl2.500 oword money
distributed omooe the entronts from 50 newspapers
throughout the United Stotes ond Conodo
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MISSOULA FLOCK
G IN PRODUCTION

The 7O4 White Leghorn hens
owned by John R. Cyr OF Miss
oula county topped all extern
ton poultry demonstration farm
flocks of more than 100 birds
for production during the month
of October, reports Harriette E.
Cushman, extension poultry spe-
cialist at Montana State COL,
lege. Mr.. Cyr's hens laid a total
of 1,225 eggs or an average OF
17.3 eggs per hen.
Ranking first among flocks OF
les than 100 hens was that own
ed by William Sudbrook OF
Phillips county with a total OF
LAOS eggs or an average OF
14.8 eggs per hen. High among
flocks in the breeding classified
ton was that owned by j. G.
Howser of Sanders county with
an average of 1873 eggs per hen.
Feed costs of demonstration
farm flocks averaged IS cents
per bird for the month as COM
pared with IL cents for October
1941 and II cents for the same
month in 1910. Egg prices aver
aged 81 cents per dozen COM
pared with 80 cents for October
a year ago and 80 cents for
Octobr 1910.
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ISSUE BULLETIN ON
IN CATTLE

OF interest to Montana stock
men is a new circular, "Blackleg
in Cattle, issued by the Mon
tana Agricultural Experiment
station and written by DR.. How
ard WEIGH of the Montana Vet
Urinary Research laboratory.
Copies of the circular may be
obtained through the offices
of county extension agents:
In this publication the author
points out that blackleg is a
disease having wide distribution
in Montana and is the most
common cause of sudden death
of young cattle. He then goes on
to explain the nature of black
leg, how it affects cattle, the
symptoms and diagnosis of the
disease The value of vaccina-
ton for the prevention of black
leg losses is pointed out and in
formation given on how and
when to vaccinate.
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Behind the Scenes
In American Business
Bv Iohn Croddock

BUTTER AND BULLETS: No
where on the home front is the
impact of war more evident
than at the dinner table AND
it's gong to be even more SO as
the conflict continues. With the
invasion Of North AREA, more
food will be needed. not only to
supply our own forces and oul
al1Ies now, out eventually the
peoples OF the starved, ANis-in-
Vaded countries. Food Will be
used as a Weapon, Just as guns
and bullets, so the slogan, Food
will win the war and write the
peace takes on renewed mean
pand, the list Of hard-to-
get commodities will inevitably
grow longer. For example, dairy
products, once plentiful, now
are running low. Half of the
c%ountry's butter supply in cold
storage has been earmarked for
military and lend-lease and the
freezing action of the govern
ment last week caused more
than one person to double pur-
chases of butter. OPA had
planned to start the point sys-
tenn of food rationing some
time after the first of the year,
but it may have to dig right in,
applying it first to meat, which
is disappearing from butcher
shops with increasing frequency,
and then to dairy products. At
am rate. OPA Administrator
Leon Henderson declares that
ratiCning will be the big news
of 1913 from the standpoint of
civilian wartime living"
FARMERS AND FOOD, 1913:
It all adds up to the fact that
the nations food producers. TAX
ing an easy breath during the
winter lull, look ahead to harder
days. In 1913, increased needs
for food will be pitted against
decreasing supplies, manpower
and machinery. Agricultural ex-
perts agree that teamwork
among growers and between
growers and distributors-a big
factor this year-may we'll be
the measure of success next
year. How such teamwork can
exact maximum efficiency from
available supplies and labor and
at the same time stabilize farm
income is cited by Harvey A.
Baum, general manager of the
Atlantic commission company,
produce-buying affiliate of the
A & P tea company. Farmers of
Atlantic county. N. j., through
their county board of agricul-
ture, sought the help of distri-
butors in marketing a big crop
of fruits and vegetables. Result:
$3.50 packages of "a kinds of
fresh produce, grown by rs
farmers, were delivered direct
from the fields of a total cf 18
stores, only a few miles in most
cases. Formerly the bulk of this
produce was trucked to Phila-
delphia and then back to Attain
tic City area. Such group pro-
grams, according to Baum, are
being worked out the country
over, resulting in streamlined
marketing methods that go a
long way in solving the prob
lem of increased production VS..
shortages of labor and trans
portation facilities.
GREETINGS: While there
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lodqe Grass News

WestKy Perry of Ethel, Idaho,
| arrived here last week to visit
a while with relatives and
friends.
Pvt. First Glass Robert Baker
of Camp Pendleton, Ocean Side,
Calf. arrived home Saturday on
a furlough to visit his parents.
Keith Dennis left Monday for
Ethel, Idaho where he will be
employed.
Porter Kennedy took Ole Mel
son to Billings Monday where
he will receive medical atten-
ton.
Mrs. Roy Mason is recovering
from an attack of rheumatism
and neuritis. She was taken to
Sheridan but was allowed to
come nome after seeing a doc
tor. Her condition is reported as
better.
The games party held at the
Catholic church on November 20
was a great success.
Mrs. George Jappe returned
home Nov. the tWenty-fourth
after having spent several days
at the Ed Miles home on Owl
Greek where she was helping
them prepare for their sale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darrell Mcdaniel
and Mrs. Homer Wiley went to
Billings Nov. % and returned
home the next day. While there
they visited with Mrs. Wiley's
daughter, Mrs. Ed Sherod and
with Mr.. McDanel's mother. Mr..
McDanel'S mother is receiving
medical treatment.
Mrs. Ralph Knight was in
Hardin on business Nov. %.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wray Evens of
Hardin were in Lodge Grass
Sunday and while there visited
with Mrs. F. w. LOOMS for a
short time.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jappe and
son left one day last week for
Ogden, Utah where he will be
employed.
Miss Marion Knutson, who is
taking nurses training at Bill
ings, spent the Thanksgiving
vacation with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Knutson.
The Misses Dorothy and Helen
Pease of Billings spent the
Thanksgiving vacation visiting
with Miss Ramona Pease.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Lining and
son Morris spent Thanksgiving
evening at the Potion home on
Reno Creek. There was a large
gathering of friends and rela-
tiveS present.
The Frank Ball family left
Friday for their new home near
Columbus, Mont. where they
will be close to his work. Calvin
Buckingham Sr. accompanied
them to their new home.
A. E. Mcdaniel was an over
night guest at the Homer Wiley
hone, Thursday, and Friday he
went on to Billings where be
will visit his wife who is con-
fined to the hospital.
Mrs. Guy KnutSOn and daugh-
ter Miss Marion visited with
Mrs. F.. w. LOOMS and Mrs.
John Noblett Friday afternoon.
The Ed Miles sale originally
scheduled for Nov. "a was post
poned until Monday the 80.
Pat Nichols spent Thanksgiv-
ing at his home at Otter, Mont.
Dallas McVay, of Billings,
spent the Thanksgiving vaca-
ton at the home of his parents
in Lodge Grass.
Mrs. Mathews, Mrs. Holly and
daughter, Helen, motored to
Billings Wednesday and the
Misses Mabel and Fern Holly
returned with them for their
vacation. Miss Mabel is teaching
near Billings and Miss Fern is
BITS O. BUSINESS: Mont
gomery Ward & company has
added a fresh food department
to its 1912 Christmas offerings.
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/ may be a scarcity III some 1lelLlS
there isn't any shortage of holl-
day greetings. Celebrating the
Tooth anniversary OF the first
Christmas card, the greeting
card industry is enjoying us
biggest season--nearly 3,OOO,-
coo, 900 cards-about % for
every man, woman and child IN
the United States-will be sent
this Christmas. One of the rea-
SONS for the boom is the ban on
holiday messages and other
greetings by telegraph by the
War Production board. This ap-
plies, as well, to those in the
armed forces overseas and at
home. Most of this years
Christmas cards were planned
before Pearl Harbor, but there
hasn't been much scrapping be-
cause the traditional sentiments
still hold. AS in other lines,
though, there are innovations,
One is a nonprofit card, the
project of Greeting Card In
dustry. Inc, wartime assoc a.
ton OF 100 publishing houses,
which contains albums or
pockets for insertion of war
stamps. appropriately enough
one is entitled, Stamp Out The
Dictators."
THINGS TO COME: Enamel
ed curtain rods of wood and
fiber and medicine cabinets OF
wood. A synthetic chewing
gum of no chicle-made with
coagulated latex. Quick-flaring
kindling sticks-five for a coal
fire, three for a woodworking
fireplace. They're called kin
Del-Kwik.". \ r~ed-topped plas-
tic Victory Thimble' which has
a deep opening to fit over lcng
flngernails, introduced by Pacl-
fic Mills. . Plastic hammers
that are rustproof, ac'd-proof
and are said to be durable. . =.
Paint brushes Of Nvlon instead
of the natural bristles from
China's razorback hogs.
OUT OF THE SHOWCASE:
A speaker at a meeting of the
American Society of Mechan cal
Engineers in New York the other
day lifted the curtain on a new
type of rubber spring that has
gone to war on certain U. S.
amphibian combat vehicles, re-
vealing one of those behind
the scenes" developments that
show how industry's long-range
peacetime research is being put
to vital use in wartime. The
rubber spring, J. D. Beebe OF
the B. F. Goodrich Company
told the engineers, consists of a
steel cylinder and shaft, with
the space between the two filled
with rubber so that all soring-
ing is accomplished simply by
the twisting movement in the
rubber. It was merely a world
of-tomorrow conception before
Pearl Harbor that has now come
out ct the showcase to play an
active wartime role" he said.
Fact is, the spring was literally
a showcase item a short time
back, proudly displayed as a
product of industrial research at
the New York Worlds fair. But,
as Beebe pointed out, war needs
made it imperative for engin-
GERS to hasten its emergence
from the status of an expert
mental product - constructed
one at a time - to that of a
standard item of factory pro-
ducticn now running into the
thousands of units.
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at the Bill Lyndes place, show
ed some moving pictures con-
corning the oil business. Though
the stormy weather may have
kept some people away, all of
those present reported having
had a very fine time. The four
clubs sponsoring the social were,
The Townsend club, The RooSt-
erS club, The Farmers Union,
and The Woman'S club.
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Esp, MI. and Mrs. Willard Will
son, Henry Esp, Boyd Hopper,
Margaret Wellorus, "Pinky" Har-
ris, Keith Dennis and Lee Buck
ingham.
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LITTLE BROWN CHURCH

LITTLE BROWN CHURCH
Addison Self, pastor
Sunday school, 10 am.
B.Y.P.U., $50 pm.
Evening worship, 7:30 pm.
Choir practice, Tuesday, 1880
pm.
Prayer meeting Thursday
1880 pm.
Ladies Aid, Thursday, 1880.
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Lodge Cross Society
L SOCIAL

HOLD SOCIAL
A social get-to- gether meet
Ing was held last Tuesday, Nov.
oath at the Community Hall in
Lodge Grass. Mr.. Charles Mas
sey, of the oil company, to drill
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BITS o. BUSINESS: Mont
gomery Ward & company has
added a fresh food department
to it's 1912 Christmas offerings.
The old-fashioned dinner now
can include a mail order turkey,
ready to stuff and roast.
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MEMORIAL

Morning service, 1890 am.
Evening worship, 7:30 pm.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday
7 pm.
Choir pracUice Wednesday
7:30 pm.
B.Y-P.U. Thursday, 7:30 pm.
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CLUB

The Grandmother's club will
hold its annual Christmas party
the evening of the first Friday
of December which will be Dec.
4. 1t will be held at the Com
munity hall and will be at six
o'clock in the evening. At the
Christmas party the Grand
mothers invite the Grandfath-
ers. A good time is guaranteed
and all grandmothers and
grandfatherS are cordially in
vited. Each grandmother is ask
ed to bring a dish of some kind
of food to contribute toward the
supper. At each Christmas party
names are drawn and presents
exchanged. Those on the serv-
ing committee this month are
Mrs. Homer Wiley, Mrs. Roy
Mason, Mrs. Frank Sharp, and
Mrs. D. W. Chandler.
ENTERTAIN BRIDGE CLUB
Mrs. Carl johnson entertain
ed the Bridge club on Wednes-
day at the home of Mrs. Percy
norman. Those present were
Mrs. Billie Miller, Mrs. Carol
Schooner, Mrs. Emma LyndeS,
Miss Durkin, Mrs. Hazel Rich
ardSon, Mrs. johnson and Mrs.
Forman. Mrs. Schooner received
high score.
HONORED AT DINNER
November the 22nd, Mr.. and
Mrs. Baker gave a dinner in
honor of their son, Martin who
left on Monday to join the Mar
inc Air Corps. His brother Bob
was home on furlough, having
arrived the day before the
party. Those present included,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wray Evans Jr.,
Emma Jean Mehling, Albert
Stevenson, Alta Hunter, Donald
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LODGE GRASS
CHURCH NOTES

CATHOLIC CHURCH
Father John Balfe, S. j., Pastor
Services are held the second
and fourth Sundays each month
at ten a. m.
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r BAPTIST CHURCH
OF LODGE GRASS

OF LODGE GRASS
Rev. Self, Pastor
Sunday, Dec. 6, 1912
Sunday school at Wyola at
10 o'clock A. M.
Morning service at Wyola, 10
o'clock A. M.
Sunday school at Lodge Grass,
10 o'clock A. M.
Young Peoples Meeting at
Lodge Grass, $50 P. M.
Evening Services at Lodge
Grass, 7:30 P M.
Prayer meeting, Thursday
evening at Lodge Grass, 7:3O
P, M,
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WYOLA COMMUNITY
Addison Self, pastor
Sunday school, 10 am.
Morning service, II am.
Ladies Aid second and fourth
Thursday, 2 pm.
Evening star., 1942-03-18
School Bus Appropriation
Shares Are Estimated
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, March 18.-Esti-
mates worked out by the State De-
partment of Education show that
Augusta and Pittsylvania Counties
will receive the largest sums of any
counties from the S5OO,OO0 annual
appropriation for school bus trans
portation made by the 1912 General
Assembly. Arlington and Patrick
will get nothing because neither op-
crates school buses.
The computation of each county's
pro rata share was based half on
the per pupil miles travelled in the
school year 1940-41 and half on the
number of busses operated by each
county.
Augusta, which operated IT buses
and spent s5l,792 for that purpose
In 194O-41, should receive SIS 1896 as
q State subsidy.
The sum will be paid in the fiscal
years of 1943 and 1914 under the
terms of the act providing State
assistance to the counties in the
provision of bus service for pupils.
Estimated amounts which the
counties will receive in each of the
next two years include: Clarke,
s1,512; Culpeper, s4.674; Fairfax
1858: Fauquier, s6,O22; Loudoun,
s6,975: Prince William, s4,580, and
Warren, s2.397.
Evening star., 1942-03-18
Mrs. Mary Gorrett Rites
Set at Guithersburq

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GAITHERSBURG, Md, March 49,
The funeral of Mrs. Mary H.
Garrett, 81, widow of James E. Gar
rett, one of Gaithersburg's best
known citizens, whose death oc-
CURED Monday at the home of her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest johnson, Hagerstown,
Md, will take place at 2 pm. to-
morrow from the funeral home of
Ernest c. Gartner, Gaithersburg
The Rev. William j. Elliott of Grace
Methodist Church, Gaithersburg,
will officiate and burial will be in
Forest Oak Cemetery, here.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Gar
rett is survived by brother, Walter
c. Byrne, Gaithersburg; four sisters,
Mrs. J. Wriley Jacobs, Chevy
Chase; Mrs. Alonzo Anderson,
Clarksburg, and Miss Edith Byrne
and Miss Sue Byrne of Washington
three grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1942-03-18
Chest Aide Opposes Plan
To Cut Fund for Hospitals

DR.. Lennig Sweet, member of the
Fairfax Va) Community Chest
Board of Directors, today announced
his opposition to the plan of the
Fairfax County Board of Super
visors to reduce from s8,500 to s250O
the appropriation to reimburse
Washington and Alexandria hospi-
tails for medical services to needy
Fairfax residents
DR.. Sweet said he understood the
Alexandria Hospital already had ad-
viSed the supervisors the institution
would receive no more needy Fair
fax cases. This greatly jeopardizes
the services which the Community
Chest has been purchasing from
Washington hospitals" he con-
tended.
During the present year the
Fairfax County Community Chest
is providing $4,000 as a contribu-
ton for hospital care to needy Fair
fax patients who are not tax eligi-
BILE" said DR.. Sweet. The County
Medical Association is also under
stood to be most disturbed because
Of the fact that the doctors will no
longer be able to refer to hospitals
in Alexandria and Washington more
than a very small minority of
patients who need hospital care and
have no funds to purchase it."
He said delegations from the
county branch of the American Red
Cross, the Community Chest and
other citizens groups were planning
to take up the matter with the
supervisors.