The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-01


 MT. McMi!len has been making the rounds of Indiana, Nebraska, Iowa and the corn belt as an open and avowed candidate for the Republican nomination. His re- ception has been one of surprised speculation. Since MT. McMil- len obviously has no chance of getting anywhere, it is presumed that COPS anti-Willlie Joe Pew sent him out as @ decoy to at tract farm votes away from Will kie and generally to confuse the issue.
 However, one interesting thing turned up about MT. Millen in 1n- diana. He is the president of the Chemurgic Council, which ainlS to promote the use of agricul- tural products in industry.
 However, when Senator Gillette of Iowa led 8 brilliant crusade for the use of alcohol from grain in making synthetic rubber, McMillen strangely enough took @ strong position that rubber should be made from petroleum, not from grain products. (McMillen's boss Joe Pew of Sun oil is one of the biggest oil men in the country and is operating an oil synthetic rubber plant for the gOvernment.)
 So when McMillen puts himself in the position of working against the use of farm products in indus try, outraged Hassel Schenck, head of the Farm Bureau in In- diana, called for his resignation as president of the Chemurgic Council. This bobbed up to haunt MT. McMiIlen on his tour through Indiana recently.
 NEWSPRINT EXTRAVAGANZA
 While President Roosevelt and Prime Ministers Churchill and Mackenzie King were commenting friendship of the British Empire and the United States in Ottawa, an announcement was made in Windsor, Ontario, that made many U. s. publishers broiling mad, es- pecially in Detroit.
 The Windsor Star, published di- rectly across the river from De. troit, announced that on Septem- Der 3 1t would issue a l20 page special anniversary edition, includ- ing a GA page rotogravure section.
 Like most newspapers through out the country the Detroit pa-
 pers have had to cut down their
 editorial content to get within strict WIPE limits on newsprint. They have had to cancel hun-
 dreds of thousands of dollars in
 advertising contracts and to
 limit even the size of want ads.
 Canadian newspapers apparent ly have not felt the pinch. It is fine to unite the sentiments ot the United States, Canada and England, some observers feel, but this is no time to Haunt peace time anniversary editions in the face of the U. s. press when the wartime shortage is supposedly so acute.
 FIRE PLANT FOR RUSSIA
 Few people are aware of the fact that one of the biggest tire plants, with a capacity of 10000. tires day, has been literally lifted from its Henry Ford foundations in Dearborn, Mich, and sent to the Soviets. It is probably the great. est lend-lease operation on record. The plan was to have the Red Army ride to victory on tires made by U. S. machinery.
 This operation was carried through despite the opposition Of Rubber Administrator Big Bill Jes. fers. who found after he first cane to Washington that the deal d. ready had been made. He de. clared, however, that our own synthetic rubber program would require all the tire misunderstanding capacity the country has ever had and m0re-end that . whole plant should not be carried off to an. other country.
 LendsLease argued that ghe U. e. rubber shortage made the keFd plant Idle, but JeffeFs eownteged that C would net hs Idle long, tn vlsW eg the new production of synthetic FuhbeF.
 jegiers even carried the eues- ton directly to the President. But FDR told him that a commit ment he'd been made. and a pros tocol ltTealyl had been drawn up with Rnasia by which the tlFe plant vas promised in writing.
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