Evening star., 1942-06-24

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To.SuIvoee 80. 900 Pounds;
Eirst Depot Yields High
New but still incomplete reports
on collections Of scrap rubber in
Washington show a Is per cent in
CREASE over figures released yester-
day. Horace Walker, executive sec
retary of the District Salvage Com
mittee, announced today.
Mr.. Walker gave out no total fig-
ures, but an increase of one-fourth
over :. the $4,000 pounds on hand
yesterday would bring District scrap
supplies to at least 100000 pounds.
The committee issued an appeal
to the superintendents of all Office
buildings and public buildings to
makes an office-to-offlce search for
every ounce of scrap that can be
spared. The appeal was made after
such a search in the Earle Building
brought forth 800 pounds of rubber.
,-.- Charities Collections.
The increase noted in collections
here did not take into account rub
ben gathered in by charities from
sh6e shops, police stations and FIRE
houses. First reports from those
depots indicated they might provide
a source for 10000 additional pounds
of scrap.
Sa1t al
Help Exchange and the Volunteers
of America yesterday began picking
upssupplies left at these points in
the first eight days of the Presidents
Nationwide drive. Goodwill Indus
tries planned to start similar collec-
tions today or tomorrow.
Incomplete reports from the Dis
triot Salvage Committee yesterday
showed a total of at least 352 900
pounds collected at Washington
filling stations up to that time.
The estimate OF an additional
10000 pounds was made on the basis
Of the first collections by the Volun-
teers of America. Maj. w. o. Ulrey,
divisional commander, said that
visits to 80 depots brought in 1850
pounds or an average Of about l47
pounds from each. There are about
$50 of these depots, in addition to
gas stations, in the District
Maj. Ulrey said that collections
from fire and police stations, where
the contributions come entirely from
the public, averaged about 300
pounds. Those from the shoe shops
were made up almost entirely Of rub
Der heels and soles saved by the
shops themselves, he said.
Home Salvage Doubled.
Charles Priest OF Goodwill Indus
tries reported that rubber contribu-
tions picked up in the normal COL
lection of general salvage from
homes have about doubled" since
the President called for a special
search for that commodity.
The Self-Help Exchange reported
that its trucks, working only in the
afternoon, picked up 500 pounds
from depots. About SIS pounds was
gathered in the course of regular
salvage operations.
The Salvation Army said it had
received Is pounds from one fire
station and Is or 20 tires from an
other and that police station had
300 pounds of tires to be picked up
today.
In addition, Salvation Army trucks
collected 10000 pounds Of scrap from
a pile massed at the Munitions
Building, with about 5000 pounds
yet to be gathered.
In Richmond, Va, C. N. Luebbert,
executive secretary of the State Sal
wage Committee, told the Associated
Press that usable articles should be
saved rather than be included in
contributions to the Nations current
scrap rubber campaign.
The discarding of a number of
usable rubber overshoes singly and
in pairs led OPA officials to warn
against turning such items in for
scrap.
The OPA plans shortly to set up
permanent exchange system for the
pooling and full use of such articles
and the owner of one good overshoe
may apply to the nearest exchange
and receive another shoe to match 1t.
Admits Tire Mutilation.
Developments in the rubber pic
ture yesterday included the acknowl-
edgement by William r. Boyd, jr.,
chairman of the Petroleum Industry
War Council which is supervising
the countrywide campaign, that he
had suggested to State chairman,
June IS, that tires contributed to the
campaign be mutilated. The request
was withdrawn within "a hours, he
said.
His intention, Mr.. Boyd said, was
ito make sure that all rubber COM
ing into our hands should reach re-
claiming plants and not be sold to
the public
The following day one of the
Government departments concerned
convinced me that this was unde-
sirable because it might mean that
many tires that could be rehabili-
tated thus might be lost" Mr.. Boyd
said. Recognizing the wisdom of
this later advice, I Cancelled forth
with the original suggestion-on
June Is. We think that no
harm whatsoever was done, and that
very few tire carcasses of any kind
have been destroyed by oil industry
collectors"
tMr. Boyd reported that rural COM
nIlnities throughout the country ap-
pArently are widening their lead
over Eastern metropolitan centers in
per capita rubber contributions. Cor
coran (Calif) has given 200 pounds
per individual, compared with some
metropolitan city averages Of a few
ounces per capita" he reported.