Evening star., 1942-08-19
u. 5. Bombs Dropped
On Axis Made by Nazi
Method, Parish Says
STANDARD Oil President
Defends Pre-Wur Potent
Pool With Germany
BN the Associated Press.

declared today that half of the
bombs we are dropping on Japs
and Nazis" were made possible by
the research growing out of his
company's prewar patent rela-
tions with I. G. Farbenindustrie
German chemical trust.
"All of you know now the enor-
nous advantages to the public of
our contracts with l. c. Farben-
lndustrie of Germany" he told the
Senate Patents Committee
The United States got far more
from Germany than Germany ever
received from U.s."
Mr.. Parish read 36-page state
ment before the committee replying
to Justice Department criticisms of
his firms patent pooling arrange
ments with the German trust,
Misinterpretation Charged.
He contended that statements
made before the committee by rep
resentatives of the Justice Depart
ment were based on misinterpreta-
ton of the contracts, bolstered by
selected material from his COM
pany's files.
THE case which the witnesses
attempted to build against Stand
ard Oil Co. is a jerry built house."
he said And the foundation of
sand upon which the whole thing
rests is the assumption that the
executives of our company-repre-
senting a typical cross-section of
America, some veterans of the last
war, some now in the armed forces,
some with sons now in our Pacific
and Atlantic eXpeditionary forces
have for one single minute forgot
ten that the lifelong policy of every
American is first, last, and always
to put almighty America above any
consideration of the almighty dollar
And that assumption hardly re-
quires my challenge, since it is not
true"
Mr.. Parish had hardly launched
into his statement before Chairman
Bone heatedly objected to what he
called an Inference" that the hear
ings into Standards relations with
I. G. Farbenindustrie had been "one-
sided"
Bone Defends Committee.
II do not like it, sir, and it's
reflection on the committee" Sen
ator Bone said, chewing his cigar
fiercely. "I intend to defend Senate
committees, if nobody else does"
I'm not attacking your commit
tee" Mr.. Parish replied.
You probably will in the news
papers," Senator Bone retorted.
At the outset, Mr.. Parish said
strangely enough, not one disin-
terested witness with competent
technical knowledge" had appeared
before the committee in the Stand
ard case.
Creekmore Faith, the committees
counsel, interjected that "the De-
partment of Justice witnesses were
disinterested witnesses, appearing in
the public interest"
Emphasizing that the Standard
Oil-IGF contracts were negotiated
at a time, 1929, when democratic
Germany was struggling toward
respected place among the family
of nations, Mr.. Parish listed eight
of the industrial miracles which he
said America derived from their re-
,ationship, and said:
What do you think Hitler would
give today to be able to keep Amer
lea from using these discoveries and
processes?"
Processes Derived From Germany.
He enumerated them as follows:
l. The first process for producing
1OO-octane aviation gasoline, one
thing which, he said, puts the planes
of this country and the United Ma
tions ahead of the Axis.
2. Synthetic tuluol, the basic IN
gredient of INT.
3. The most modern and efficient
methods for the manufacture from
natural gas of synthetic ammonia,
the other ingredient Of INT.
4. Paratone, used in every fighting
plane. tank, cannon and ship to
improve hydraulic and recoil oils.
S. Parafow, which freeze-proofs
motor oil.
6. Buna rubber processes, which
he describes as the foundation OF
the American synthetic rubber pro-
gram.
I. Butyl rubber, potentially the
most important of all synthetic
rubbers.
8. Vistanex, one of the special types
of German synthetics, which are
better than natural rubber for Ger
tain strategic purposes.
THE I. G. contracts started us
on the road which led to work on
synthetic rubber" he said.
Mr.. Parish declared Patrick A.
Gibson, special assistant to the At
torney General, was entirely wrong
when he testified that Standard
would not have had control of
butyl rubber under the contracts,
Control automatically remained
with us under the 1929 agreement" /"
he said
Foreign Interest Eliminated.
When war broke out in Europe in
1889, he went on, the Germans still
held the buna rubber process,
Standard having only a minority
interest.
"Our solution of this situation,
he said, was to eliminate l. G's in
terest in the buna process in the
United States completely. We pro-
ceeded at once. Within one
month after Europe went to war
and more than two years before
America went to war, we had elimi-
mated all foreign interest in this
process and were free to do with il
whatever seemed necessary.
"It was not until the middle o1
1941 that the Government itself un-
dertook to do anything definite
about buna rubber production. We
gave Government agencies all pos
sible assistance and never suggested
that our company should have any
preferential position in the Govern.
ment's manufacturing program. -
With the outbreak of war in the
Pacific, the Government actec
promptly to greatly expand it's rub.