The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-08


 vision also declared that:
 1, Less than two years before Pearl Harbor, Japanese naval of- ficer visited the Boeing Aircraft factories at Seattle where he was shown plans and data on the Boe- ing S07 Stratoliner, and saw Boeing Flying Fortresses undergo tests out- side the plant.
 2. Japan was able to get techni- cal "know.how" on some processes for production of 100 octane avia- ton gasoline before they were gen. erally available to American firms.
 Martin emphasized that none of the methods employed by Japan were "illegal", but they showed how Japan used American business firms through cartel agreements to pre- pare for war, Much of his informa. ton, he explained was furnished by the Universal oil Products Co., an American concern which turned It's files over to the Justice Depart- ment although 1t was not involved in prosecution proceedings,
 Martin said Japan got its infor- nation on Pearl Harbor oil and gasoline shipments through the San Francisco branch of the Mitsuhishi Trading Co., On June 2, io4i, he said, the branch wrote It's home of- fec that "The Associated Export De- partment People" the export division of the Tide.Water oil Co., an Amer ican concern, prepared e list oi competitive bulk oil shipments from Los Angeles harbor."
 "One striking thing noticed ii' the list, aside from purely oui business standpoint" the letter said lis the fact that e large amount of fuel and Diesel oils and gasoline in a minor degree are being shipped from California coast to Pearl liar. Dor, T. IT. Tn less than c month from April 2sth to May 2srd 77l ,504 bhls. fuel oil, l32,2o9 bbls Diesel fuel oil and ga, ,682 bbls. gaso- lino have been shipped from Loi Angeles Harbor to Pearl Harbor,"
 The Japanese added that from our own experience" they believed the list was compiled from the Marine Exchange report of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
 Martin testified that the Seattle manager of the Mitsubishi concern wrote the Tokyo office on February go, 1940, that We took Mir. Terf' identified aS c Japanese naval lietl- tenant commander to the Boeine Aircraft Go. factories in Seattle and had him meet MT. Minhashall, vice president. :"
 The letter said Teral was shown diagrams of the Boeing 307 Strato- liner, and that as the party was leaving the plant, "it just so hap- pened that Boeing's current pro- duction of Flying Fortresses for the U. s. Army were undergoing Boeing flight tests" and Terai got "a fairly close view of two of this type of plane" The manager said he thought Terais comments might be helpful to Japan afr"
 Forming high octane gasoline the "key' to air warfare, Martin said Japan acquired the knowledge for making 1t partly from the ordinary commercial transactions with Uni- versai oil Products, beginning in 1928. Tn the years that followed, the Japan Gasoline Go. of Osaka, made increasing requests for inc formation of various cracking pro cesses until 1888 when University gave options by which Japan was to have rights to all gasoline cracking processes that might be developed up to December 3i, i946. The con. tract was not signed because Japan insisted the ontract run until 1853,
 one agreement was signed, how ever, under which Japanese techni. clans went into Universals labo- ratories and received" all neces- sary know-how," Martin said.
 The justice departments studies on this entire subject, he, added, ''lndicated that the Japanese were abie to get technical krow-how oz. some processes for production oE 100 oclane gasoline before they were generally available to Amer .eau Grme"