The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-27

without exception.
Such q costly wartime para
dox caused Chairman Truman
(D-Mo.) to exclaim, ~ think
this approaches treason" and he
called for further evidence lat
1890 a. m, E.W.T.) on the pri-
vate international agreements
designed to control manufacture
and sale of synthetic rubber.
GIVEN TO NAILS
Truman, head of the Senate
defense investigating commit
tee, said there was no doubt in
his mind that the Nazis had
made prompt use of the Amer
ican-discovered process which
Assistant Attorney Genera !
Thurman Arnold said had been
turned over by the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey, its
originator, to the Hitler-control-
led l. G. Farben industrie before
America entered the war.
BY this method, Arnold in
formed the committee, synthetic
rubber which was better and
cheaper than the Germans was
made from natural gasoline.
Truman said that, because of
the delay in getting the syn.
thetic rubber program started,
there was little hope that tires
could be produced with it for
ordinary civilian uses until
early in 1945. He said Standard
would be called upon to produce
100000 out of 100000 tons in
the current program just getting
started, with the remainder be-
ing manufactured by United
States Rubber, Firestone, Good
year and Goodrich.
Most of the production
through 1913 and 1914 would be
for military US, he said.
CITES DECREE
Citing a consent decree enter
ed early this week in federal
district court in New Jersey,
Arnold said Standard now would
be compelled to license anyone
royalty free under the valu-
able synthetic rubber patents
and must further make available
the technical knowledg, of how
to operate these patents.
II must confess" Arnold said
in the portion of his statement
to be put in the record today,
that ! was reluctant to sign
the decree because the decree
does not have in it a provision
allowing either the attorney gen.
eral or the court to pass upon
the future relations between I.
G. Farben and Standard Oil.
ARNOLD RECALLED
Arnold was recalled before
the committee today to complete
reading a en-thy prepared
statement in which he charged
Standard of New Jersey had
frustrated the creation of an
American synthetic rubber in
dustry" because of an agreement
giving the German company q
virtual world right-of-way fer
manufacture of the product in
return for concessions on oil
and synthetic gasoline.
Arnold's disclosures were such
that Truman told reporters he
was convinced Standard had
"held up the synthetic rubber
program for its own welfare and
benefit even after we got in the
war;"
II think this approaches trea-
son." the committee chairman
raped, "and I am going to give
the company officials an op-
portunity to explain why it
isn't, If they can"
Arnold told the committee
that Standard Oil had granted Ii
censes to only two rubber COM
panies and some specialties
concerns, although it had been
found that the American-pro-
duced synthetic r'bber was sat-
isfactory for inner tubes and
could be used for outer castings.
$50 far as synthetic rubber is
concerned, I say to this commit
tee that unless these patents are
really open TO anyone and the
know-how is really given to
everyone and the government is
constantly vigilant to see to II
that there is no resumption of
this cartel arrangement, we can
not expect to see the proper
synthetic rubber development
necessary for our war program"
Arnold said.