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Evening star., 1943-01-07
Production Of Rubber
Held Delayed by Row
Over Plant Conversion
Dispute on Materials
For Refineries BIomed
By Deputy Oil Chief
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Arguments over use of critical ma
terials to convert oil refineries de-
layed their production of butadiene
for synthetic rubber, Bruce K.
Brown, assistant deputy petroleum
I administrator for war, told Senate
Agriculture Subcommittee yesterday.
If officials had given the eventual
conversion projects the green light
when the reflnerieS and gasoline
manufacturers first proposed them,
Mr.. Brown said, they would have
been in operation many months prior
to the best completion date which
can be predicted for a whole new
plant"
Mr.. Brown defended the CONVEX
sion program under questioning by
Chairman Gillette, who said the
committee had much testimony that
butadlene could be made from alco-
hol with fewer critical materials.
Results Negligible.
A year after $3.50 900, 900 was al
located to the petroleum industry
for plants to make synthetic rubber,
Senator Gillette said, the results
could be put in my ear" without
discomfort.
Mr.. Brown testified. For a time
the merits of the refinery conver-
sion program were pretty we'll
begged down in arguments as to
just what percentage of new equip
ment would be necessary to accom-
plish the result. That delay was un-
fortunate, because it was obvious
then just as it is now that whatever
amount of new construction mate
rial would be required would still be
less than that required to build
new plant"
Mr.. Brown reported that new
Cities Service refinery and butadiene
plant at Lake Charles. La. would be
completed on schedule October l.
Asked If it would not have been
better to use the critical materials
in that project for two or three al
cohol plants in the Middle West, Mr..
Brown said the Lake Charles re-
finery was specially designed to pro-
duce large amount of high-octane
aviation gasoline.
Resigned From Standard Oil.
He asserted there was no tend
ency on the part of the larger COM
panies to seek improvised plants
through conversion, but that they
regarded them "as necessary evil"
to help meet the critical needs for
synthetic rubber.
Mr.. Brown said he resigned as
director of Standard Oil Co. of In
diana, when he entered the Govern
ment 13 months ago at $4,000 year,
but the company paid him the diff
ference in salary since his Govern
ment saslary isn't as much as my
income tax"
When Mr.. Brown reported that a
refinery conversion project for the
Standard Oil Co. of California at Ell
Segundo, Calf, would cost $2,815.-
900 for materials, as compared with
projects in other States ranging
from $4,000 to $865 900, Senator
Gillette asked if that was not high.
Mr.. Brown said it was high, but
1t was caused by the desirability of
making rubber in California from
natural butane, which required IAN
unusually high proportion of new
equipment"
Evening star., 1943-01-07
Cut Of 10 10 IS PET,
In Goods, Services
Predicted for 1943
Civilian Supply Director
Says Bedrock Economy
Not Likely This Year
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Americas civilian economy won't
go down to bedrock this year, but
there will be 10 to Is per cent less
goods and services for stay-at-
homes to buy. That was the pre-
dlction yesterday by Joseph l.
Weiner, civilian supply director.
Citing prospects for disappearing
metal gadgets and for such substi-
tutes as glass frying pans, Mr.
Weiner commented:
The civilian standard of living
In this country in 1943 will depend
to a degree, on the fortunes of war.
The bedrock civilian economy which
has been talked about is not ex-
pected to be reached in 1943 ex-
cept in respect to civilian goods
made from critical materials, such
as steel and copper. But how
much our civilian economy will be
above BEDROCK will be determined
largely by the extent and success
of our military operations in l943. -
Output Down 20 Per Cent.
The cut in civilian supplies. he
explained, runs in inverse ration to
victory. The faster and farther our
military forces go, the more sup
plies they need, and the less will be
left for civilians.
From production standpoint, Mr.
Weiner said. l943 output for con-
sumers will be at least Is to 20 per
cent less than last year, however,
stores and dealers still have fairly
large supplies of goods made in pre-
Vlous years, and the amount of goods
on the market therefore will drop
only 10 to Is per cent.
On durable goodS-electrical ap-
plianceS, radios and other big civ
llian items-Mr. Weiner estimated
~1943 purchases at 35 per cent less
than 1912, following a As per cent
decline from 1941 to 1912.
He figured that purchase of non
would decline to Is per cent less
than in 1912 Last year purchases
were per cent above 194l.
Steel Needed for Repairs.
The public will be able to spend
about the same in 1943 as in 1912
on civilian services, such as beauty
treatments, transportation, recrea-
ton and medical aid, he calculated.
Use of steel for civilians will be
limited to 100000 tons, only about
per cent of what they used in
1940 when automobiles were being
made. Nearly all the steel allotted
civilians will be needed to make
essential repair parts.
"Offsetting to some extent the
loss of production in civilian goods"
Mr.. Weiner said, the use of sub
stitute materials is permitting con-
siderable production of articles that
otherwise might have gone out of
production"
He listed as examples wood fur
niture, glass kettles, wooden buckets,
glass waShboardS, wooden rakes and
wooden springs in furniture.
Evening star., 1943-01-07
Scrap Drives Backed
By Power Companies

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 7-Electric
utility companies gathered 24,O0O, 900
pounds of copper for the Nations S
war needs in 1912, together with
large quantities of aluminium, brass,
iron. steel, lead, zinc and rubber, the
Edison Electric Institute announced
today.
Scrap drives and continuous SAL
wage programs brought in an
amount of copper equal to 10 per
cent of the normal annual require
ments of the electric industry, the
largest peace time user of the metal,
the institute said. The metal was
turned over to dealers for release to
primary military needs.
Evening star., 1943-01-07
Motorist Gets Two Years
In Death Of Army Officer

Leo Garner, 40, colored, 12O4A
Half street SW., today pleaded
guilty to a charge of manslaughter
in the traffic death November IA of
1t. Col. Roger D. Black of Arlington,
and was sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary by Judge Walter
T. Mccarthy in Arlington County
Circuit Court.
According to police, Col. Black,
riding a bicycle, was killed instantly
when struck by an automobile driven
by Garner on Lee boulevard in the
Arlington Forest section.
Upon motion of Gamers counsel,
Judge Mccarthy referred his case
to the probation officer for study.
but overruled a motion that the
sentence be suspended. Garner was
represented by John Paul Jones and
Octave Bigones.
Evening star., 1943-01-07
Bank C|earings Soar
223 Per Cent Above
Levels Of Year Ago
TotoI in Short Week
Only Slightly Behind
October Peak
Ry the Associated Press,

Ry TIE Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan Bank clear
ings in the holiday week ended
Wednesday expanded sharply. sub
stantially exceeding those for the
same period a year ago and only
slightly under the full week Of
October 81 which was a record for
1912, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc, re-
ported today.
Transactions of % leading cities
amounted to S8,162 $4,000 for the
five days ended Wednesday, up 223
per cent from S6,676 1877 900 for the
similar f1ve-day period last year and
820,604 900 above the amount in the
preceding holiday week.
More important gains over 1912
included Omaha, 633 per cent; San
Francisco, 1856; Richmond, 355;
Cleveland, 1872; Portland, Greg, 80,
and Seattle, 81. There were no
declines.
Construction Drops.
Engineering construction awards
in the first week of 1943 totaled $685.
929, ,000 decline of 55 per cent from
Sl4l l52 900 in the comparable week
Of 1912 and compared with s76,-
295 900 in the holiday pre-
ceding week, the Engineering News
Record announced.
The publication also announced
awards in December aggregated
1913 ,622 900, the lowest monthly
total of 1912. but were IL per cent
higher than in the final month of
1941.
Rail LOadings Gain.
The Association of American Rail-
roads reported today that 62l DAB
cars of revenue freight were loaded
during the week ending last Sat-
urday.
This was an increase of %, ,435 cars,
or so per cent, compared with the
preceding week; decrease of 55,486
cars, or 80 per cent, compared with
year ago, and an increase of 6,877
cars, or IL per cent, compared with
1941.
The report classified the loadings,
compared with last week and the
corresponding week year ago, as
follows:
Evening star., 1943-01-07
Power Output
Up ID Per Cent
From Year Ago
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Jan. 7-Electric
power output for the week ended
January was reported today by
the Edison Electric Institute at g.
750000,0O0 kiloWatt- hours.
This figure, said the institute, was
subject to revision, and compared
with 1855 ,926,00O in the preceding
week and 1928, ,685 900 in the like
period of last year. Increase over
the 1912 week was IA per cent, or
slightly larger than the year-to-
year percentage gains of recent
weeks.
Because of possible later revision
of the figures, percentage changes
in energy distribution in the major
geographic divisions were omitted.
Evening star., 1943-01-07

Chicago Cash Market.
No wheat. Corn, No. 3 mixed, %; No.
4, 9lA; No yellow, 95'4; No. 3, "a "a -aS:
No 4. s7-a4a4; No. 5, s7-91; sample grade,
92-96Ha No. 4 white. l 90. Oats, sample
grade mixed, Sc Barley mailing S5-l .04,
nominal; feed, 1880. nominal Field seed,
per hundredweight. nominal; timothy, 4 IS
800; alsike, 1sO0-22 So; fancy red top.
7OO-5O; red clover, 1S.0O-22 so: sweet
clover, 7.OO-90O
Evening star., 1943-01-07
Commodity Prices

NEW YORK. Jan. THE Associated
Press weighted wholesale price index of
35 commodities today advanced TO IO3 -,
Previous day: IO3.5s: week ago, lO3 . !;
month ago, 1Ol 81 year ago, Q631
1912. 1941. 1910. l933-e
High ----103.T4 95.12 1928 asl4
Low 1854 77.03 $3.50 4l.44
0926 average equals 1OO)
Evening star., 1943-01-07
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO, JAN Z 1P.-Poultry, live ia
trucks; Arm; prices unchanged.
Butter. receipts. 39l ia Arm: prices as
quoted by the Chicago Price Current are
:, Egg receipts, 12,5o1; Arm; prices un-
Evening star., 1943-01-07
Weather Report
Furnished by


of Columba-Light
gentle winds.
Maryland
Evening star., 1943-01-07
Last vs. Prev. uk Yr ago
3O5,1O6 r 15.45s - R,s3s
Washington Exchange

AFTER CALL,
Potomac Electric SAD pfd.-3 at
has.
Evening star., 1943-01-07
STOCKS

MISCELLANEOUS.
Ter Rf&W Cp 1st 44s 194S 1894
Evening star., 1943-01-07
Report for Last "a Hours.

River Report.
Potomac and shenandoah muddy at
Harpers Ferry. Potomac slightly muddy
at Great Falls.
Evening star., 1943-01-07
PrecipitatiOn.

Monthly precipitation in inches in tn,
Capital (current month to date):
Evening star., 1943-01-07

1t Is patriotic to hoard-what2
War Bonds, the more the better,
Evening star., 1943-01-07
PUBLIC UTILITY.

Amer Tel Il Tel Ca) .13Is. Asheo'
Capital Transit fpl 75) 2Si. 27H
& w Steamboat 90 100 ~'s
Pot Elec Pow, So pfd t6)- lis
Pot El Pwr 5l2To pfd Is 5O) ia
Wash Gas 1t com q 500 ISL, 1871
Mash Mash Gas 1t Gu cv pf (4,5o) a0,4 %
Wash Gas 1t GU pfd t5OO) 100 lOI
Wash Ry & El com Cp}7 .OO) 4SO $50
Wash Ry 6s El pfd j5) iii
Evening star., 1943-01-07
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Jan. 7 LP.-Dividends de-
clared: "
Evening star., 1943-01-07
BONDS

PUBLIC UTILITY
Evening star., 1943-01-07

'Ex DIVIDEND. tPlus extras. e2rr extra.
n ~ extra. 2Oc extra. m ST so extra
Paid in 1912. Y $40 extra.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11
Open The Padded Cell

On June 7, the Regional War Labor
Board handed down decision which
should meet with considerable opposition
from the workers of the country.
Denying bonus payments TO workers
for perfect attendance at work, the board
ruled that such payments were contrary TO
the stabilzatiOn policy of the WLB, and
would add to the stream of initiation by
paying money TO workers for doing job
they were already being paid for.
Were the same sOlictude shown in
other directions aimed AT preventing infla-
tiOn, the workers of the country would ac-
claim il with cheers; but the evidences on
all sides show that il is only the workers
wages which cause initiation according to
the leading lights in the War Labor Board.
Last year, industry received additional
rewards over and above those received the
previous year. OF course, more profits for
the industries doesn't cause initiation.
And this year, it is confidently pre-
dicted by financial and industrial leaders,
industry will net still larger profits. Nor
will this cause initiation.
Industrial management has in a large
number of instances doubled its salary,
but, of course, that doesn't cause initiation.
Prices of all commodities have in
creased. The food and other necessities
which the workers buy are far higher now
than ever before. Somebody must be rak-
ing in increased profits from these in
creased prices. Naturally, that doesn't
cause initiation.
Obviously, the only thing that causes
initiation is to pay worker $25 war sav.
ings bond for faithful attendance, or even
81 bonus if he had attended his work
regularly for single work week. That's
initiation.
After reading the new decision of the
Regional WLB we are inclined to believe
that the people who are really right are
the ones living within the confines of sani-
aariums for the feeble minded.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11

registered Monday night at the
of elections Obviously the dogs well organized incidentally
wonder the dogs got much satisfaction the UAWCO
LOVES DOGS
please get me wrong nothing against dogs
outside of the fact that of them chewed
kitchen lnoleum but don't blame the dog because should
have known better than give him lmoeum his teeth
This leads to the other side of the fence those people who
rise their just wrath defend the
bues who suggest that dogs like people have their place and
should be kept there
you your such righteous wrath as the aroused
dog lover? Nothing the world compare with his Indignation
He is eloquent logical just and acuae the degree
And day after day. week after week. month after
month"; after yearhe between the dog
the dog lovers No other topic occupies much public print the
argument between those who don't and those who do love anne
MISDRECTED AMBITION
I'll there great thrill following dog through the
fields and watching freeze point kick
home and have the
friendship me- but in spite all that can take dog
leave him. Dog lovers will Immediately say dog
and I'm not least the that would
dead dog and
great man.
much space devoted by
people about dogs when they might
ing their energies into fruitful channels This that
ensy about the and of dogs constantly reminds
of Nero fddng his fiddle while Rome burned up Chris
ans dipped oil and used illuminate highways
Which reminds me- that Rome illuminated highways
the of the Christians far ahead highway
system.
WHAT TO DO?
get impression column has turned
fomist let "No Not that Yet that
looking people all these years. entirely
with omar would change scheme
make them little the hearts desire"
Skip the poetry and let's back the topic which dogs
1t seems to me that there might be possible connection be-
tween those who violently dogs and those who with equal
ence defend them, and the system under which live.
Perhaps long explanation of what this order but
just make things exciting for yourself why don't and fig
out what mean.
At rate it that if could people to
protest against those who ampe their rights dog hater
the critters who dig their their tab
bes into trees would really be getting somewhere.
If could get defend themselves ably the
dog lovers defend mans best friend might be getting somewhere
AS WE'LL read the letters the editor in the daily all
the and perhaps will understand what the female
mea when she said "Love m love dog"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11
ServIcemens S
Letters

Dear Co-workers:
| wish to extend my thanks to
you for the swell packages which
receive. Ny only regret is that
circumstances do not permit me
to thank you personally,
The UAW-CIO, Local 12, has
again distinguished itself by
making happy hundreds of its
brothers who are serving the
country. | know that it is the
hope of every one of our broth
ers in the service that some day
when, with the combined efforts
of industry and our great armed
forces, we knock Hell" out of
the Axis, it will again be possi-
bic for us to work side by side
as brothers in our great organi-
zation.
Sincerely yours,
Ted Osial.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11
Smith Bill Passes

Thanks to John L. Lewis and his 1--WE
shall not trespass" mine walkOut, Congress
on June passed the Smith anti-strike law
after removing some of its worst features.
Despite the protests of millions OF
workers throughout the country, Congress
chose to overlook the millions and look at
the few, who were used as the excuse to
pass anti-labor legislature under the guise
of necessity.
Most of the workers of this country do
not need legislation to keep them at their
Jobs for the duration of the war. Most of
the people in the plants of America have
as great, if not greater, stake in the war
than those who passed the law, Ostensibly
to protect the war effort from the workers.
Practically all the workers of America
have personal reasons for their determna-
ton to stick to their jobs despite the irri-
tatiOns and prOvOcations given them on all
sides. Few of them have an Interior pur-
pose in sticking TO their work in the face
of the obstacles constantly placed in their
way by those who are using the war for
other than honorable purposes.
America is still the land of lets pass
a law. America is still the country which
seems to believe that all evils can be cured
by the mere eXpedient of writing some
additional legislation.
Nothing could be further removed from
the truth than that laws cure evils. Neither
social nor economic ills are cured by merely
legislating them out of eXistance. The
18th Amendment is still fresh in the minds
of most of the people of the country, and
it failed because no one has ever succeeded
in changing human nature by legislation.
So it shall be with the Smith anti
strike legislation. 1t cures no evil and is
superfluous because practically all the
unions of the country have handled their
own justifiably discOntented people and
prevented any major work stoppage from
occurring, or continuing long enough to
prove harmful.
1t is our hope that the intelligence of the
Senate will come to the surface and that
the Smith bill will be defeated Labor can
handle its own problems if the reaction
aries will grant il the opportunity. Labor
can and will win this war; because labor
stands to gain less and lose more than any
other economic group in the country if we
fail TO win this war.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11

Eyes, Luther" said Mr.. Dill
worth between puffs on his FL
Ropa, "the names Of Connally
and Smith will go down in his
tory along with those of other
great men,"
Like Hoover and Hearst, eh,
Pop?"
"True, Luther, true. Their
bill to halt trespassing upon the
right Of free enterprise by the
radicals and racketeers of labor
will mark turning point in
our lives, Luther. 1t will be a
milestone -. "
"Around the neck of work
ers, huh"
"Now, now, my boy, you know
full we'll that both Rep. Smith
and Sen. Connally are good
friends off, labor. That's why
they have advanced this meas
ure. 1t really protects labor
against itself"
Like protecting Gypsy Rose
Lee from herself by taking
away her G-string," Little
Luther said placidly.
"Er. .eh ahem, Luther. A
rather shocking comparison, my
boy. | don't see what that er
woman has to do with Mr..
Smith or Mr.. Connally."
"She won't have anything to
do with them, Pop. They're in
decentw
Luther! | want you to under
stand, young man, that Mr.. Con-
nally and Mr.. Smith are in the
forefront of the fight against
evil. They are in the front line
trenches Of the battle for free
enterprise"
"Sort of NAMandos, eh,
Daddy ?"
"Quite aptly put, Luther. Yes.
But they are also on labor's
side. They are against strikes"
so is the AFL and the CIO.
Aren't they, Pop?"
Precisely, Luther, and that
is the reason that labor should
support the Smith -Connally bill.
1t puts teeth into it,"
Teeth? Oh, you mean for
back-biting, Pop? Is that why
the Connslly-Smith bill abol-
ishes the union shop unless
unions strike for it, and then
makes it unlawful lor them to
strike for it,"
"Not at all, Luther. Ny
friend, Mr.. Highwater, explain
ed it quite well at the luncheon
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11
It's A Great
System!
BY JOHN PAINE

Chairman Lammot dupont Of
+. !. DUPONT deNemours told a
gathering in New York recently
that tough times are ahead for
the corporations right after the
war.
1--WE WILL" he said, "have to
see to it that people who want
to work are provided with jobs"
Jobs! Imagine! There just
seems to be nothing that big
business won't promise in mo-
ments of desperation.
1t was sound money, in the
hands Of unsound people, that
got the world in the mess it's
in.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11

unions, there can't be no-strike
pledges. Without no-strike
pledges, there won't be any no.
strike pledges to be made into
no-strike laws. Without :"
Exactly, Luther, exactly.
"Look, Pop, just go back and
tell him, we'll all get along
without Hitler, Hoover, Hiro-
hito, Hearst, He'll and High
water"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11

of the Small Business with Big
Incomes Club the other day.
You see, Luther, the closed shop
is the seat of all trouble. Now,
let me see, how he put it. It's
really A. B. c., Luther. Err
eh II. how does it go, now?
Hmmm.
Maybe, Pop, it goes like this:
Without the union shop, there
won't be any unions. Without
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11

War, religion, strikes, labor hating, social
problems, economic perpleXites and all the other
evils of society susceptible to human nature
fade into nsignificance some maiden lady of
uncertain age writes her complaint to ''the editor"
about how the neighbor's dog got into her garden,
dug up her petunas and chased her pet tabby high
into the foliage Of yon elm.
Then there is the guy who complains that he
25 dogs all at time trooping across his
lawn and says he didn't like it. Imagine 20 dogs
trooping across lawn Why that's almost as
nnanu nnnnln aS the LA AW-CIl had ,uhn, II nick-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-06-11

ahead, number of good ideas
have come to our attention.
We know from our contacts
with the workers that great
majority of them are looking
forward with much uncertainty
to the postwar period when in
dustry reconverts back to nor
NAL production. This will be a
period of unemployment for
large number of workers, and
none of them are looking for
ward to it with pleasure.