The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-14

This, 1t was revealed, was one of the reasons behind the White House warning that civilian tires might have to be requistioned.
 Continuing the story, 1t was necessary to go back and review some significant and not gen. erally known background.
 Two years ago there was laud public clamor when 1t was dis covered that Torkild Rieber, chair man of the board of the Texas Oil company, had loaned an auto- mobile to pr. Gerhard Westrick, a Nazi commercial agent in New York. So great was the outcry, that the Board of Directors forced Rieber's resignation from Texas.
 But what Is not generally known Is that the president of the Texas Development com pany, a subsidiary of Texas, Is now In the government and Is Jesse Jones' key man on rub Der contracts. Furthermore, this man, Richard J. Dearborn, was at the Hague in October, 1889, one month after war broke, where he helped negotiate with the Nazis new contract con- tinuing Hitler's monopoly in sy- thetic rubber--a monopoly which Is charged with preventing American development of syn thetic rubber.
 Dearborns' company, Texas, B a part of what is called the Jer- sey" pool, or the group of oil companies dominated by Standard oil of New Jersey which received the contracts for the 3i new ruD- bcr plants from Jesse Jones Rub- bcr Reserve. Tn helping to award these contracts to the companies with which he was once affiliated, Dearborn, together with other Rubber Reserve officials and Jesse Jones, passed up several other importanut rubber processes considered by many scientists to be much quicker and cheaper. TWO TYPES OF RUBBER
 How Dearborn got his appoint ment and why the Standard Texas group was 50 favored by Rubber Reserve Is not known. Some observers point to the old friendship between William Far ish, $i44.000 president of Stand ard Oil Of New Jersey. who knew Jesse Jones for years in Houston. Jones and Ross Sterling, then president of Standard Humble Oil company, were partners in various enterprises, and Parish, la- ter president of Humble. grew up under them.
 On the other hand, some point to the fact that Standard oil of N. Us patent pool with the edr- mans made their synthetic rub Der patent the most logical one to use.
 Actually. though most people don't realize it, Standard of N. J., had two types of rubber regarding which it was co. operating with Germany. One
 was the buna rubber, which was the product of \ slow pro- cehs. The other was butyI rub ber, which is newer, cheaper and quicker.
 Regarding these two types, here is the inside story of what hap. ened. About ten years ago, Stane- ard of N. J. acquired I. c. Far benindustrie's patent on buna rub- Der with the understanding 1t would not be made in the United States; while !. q. Farbcn hc- Quircd Standards patent on sym thetic gasoline with the under. standing 1t would not be made out side Germany.
 Once Hitler came into power he proceeded to make both sym thetic gasoline and bunR rubber In Germany and make 2 great deal of it--0bvioualy in prepaFA- 'tlon for what he knew was com. Ing.
 That Standard oil Of N. J. clearly knew Nsly Hitler wanted to keep buna rubber from being developed outside dermany can be proved beyond any doubt. For