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Served By Leased Wire Of The ___ associated press REMEMBER With Complete Coverage Of P E A R I Siaie and National News -- HARBOR _ ESTABLISHED 1867^ labor frilling To Compromise Overtime Pay 0 Will Forego It On :ijdays, Saturdays, Holi days It In 40 Hours g WILL WAIVE IT msevelt Joins Nelson In Dpposing Change In 40 Hour Work Week WASHINGTON, Mar. 24.— Pi—The executive board of ,t AO recommended to Af liated unions tonight that ey forego overtime pay for iturday. Sunday and holiday ork when such work is per ked within a 40 - hour sk. Simultaneously, William Sen, president of the AFL, ced a statement saying his piization “has assured the jernment that it will waive jble-time payment for Sun r and holiday work in all r industries for the dura in.'’ Hie two developments were toss 1 into the seething congressional mtrovsisy over modifying the me law and its requirement uf time and a half be paid for :ore than 40 hours work within single week. During the day the conflict had >™ from President Roosevelt a Kent opposing a change that i'd provide time and a half after Height instead of forty hours rrrk. It would result in reduc tive average pay envelope, he a consequence that should be ied, together with increasing : bracket incomes, expressed tlie opinion that the nt agitation for changes in 1 laws was, in part at least, result of an organized cam Nelson Opposed addition, Donald M. Nelson, L-man of the War Production :d. told the House Naval Corn tee he was against altering the tr laws now. A change he said, lid cause a disturbance that at impede production. He ask 30 days in which ‘to persuade ! unions to give up double-pay lSaturday. Sunday and holiday L ie latter has been one of the st points of the congressional roversy. Double time payments such work is not required by wage-hour law but by contracts :ch in a number of instances i unions have drawn with em oyers. It has been charged that F* workmen were taking days middle of the week in or®r to take advantage of the double-pay that went with Salur k and Sunday work, w announcing the CIO execu Tf board's decision, President “in Murray made it clear that 1 CIO was in no way relinquish ' overtime pay for work done foe sixth or seventh day of 1 "'ork week, and that in such hnces the unions would demand ®ent m accordance with their contracts. kray said the board’s recom cdation was made in corn foe with a request from Presi : Roosevelt and Nelson. And Resolution which embodied the tame'hation said government tors i j suggested that premi 'Myments for work performed 'todays. Sundays and hcli •h when those days fall within 1 HO-hour work week, had not ^conducive to the greatest pro f;ve efforts of industry. ;ne response of the CIO to *'suggestion,” 1he resolution •■•cued, ‘’must be made in the ‘ °t the same single touch ®e which was guided all its „n |>aJce j-'our: Col. S) r--: Lord Beaverbrook Arrives At Miami MIAMI, Fla., Mar. 24—UR—Lord Beaverbrook, British lend-lease co ordinator, arrived here from Eu rope today aboard a naval air plane of an Allied nation. British Vice Consul L. A. Oates said the British official will go to Washington “in a day or so.’’ A limousine whisked Beaverbrook away from his landing place and his immediate destination was not disclosed. Oates and British Consul Michael A. Robb met the visitor at the end of his Atlantic flight. ROOSEVELTRAPS ‘SIXTH COLUMN’ President Says It Is Wit tingly Or Unwittingly Aid ing Fifth Column WASHINGTON Mar. 24—UTi— President Roosevelt declared to day that there is a sixth column which wittingly or unwittingly spreads the poison of fifth colum nists in print in idle conversation and at cocktail parties and tea fights. There would be no fifth column he declared if it had no vehicle for distribution ot its poison. But he told a press conference he was inclined to think the sixth column would go out of business because public opinion would catch on to it. In fact he said the public doing that now. Mr. Roosevelt did not care to elaborate on how the sixth column was carrying out schemes of the fifth column because he would have to speak of quite a few per sons who were attending his press conference and that would be im polite. ! "In conversation; in writing?” a reporter pressed. It was at that point that he men tioned the mediums of conversa tion print radio cocktail parties ar.d—the expression was his — tea fights. The discussion was engendered ; by a reference to a speech in which Richard C. Patterson former as sistant secretary of commerce spoke of a sixth columnist menace The chief executive said Patter son had one pretty good line in the address a line about people who wittingly or unwittingly are carrying out work designed by fifth columnists. That Mr. Roosevelt re marked was about as pat a state ment as he knew. The president dodged a direct answer when he was asked wheth (Continued on Pagre Three; Col. S) -v WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina and South Carolina: Continued rather warm AVednesday with slightly higher temperatures over east portion. ' (Eastern Standard Time) (Meteorological data tor the 84 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday) (By F. S. AVeather Bureau) Temperature 1:30 a. m. 54. Maximum 73. 7:30 a. m. 50. Minimum 47. 1:30 p. m. 69. Mean 60. 7:30. Normal 55. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 36. 7:30 a. m. 47. 1:30 p. m. 22. 7:30 p. m. 52. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month 4.98 inches. Tides For Today (From Tide Tables published by 1. 8. Coast and Geodetic Survey) High how Wilmingon - 3:49a 11tj|9a 4:17p 11 :-j1 P Masonboro Inlet- 1:15a 7:50a 1:48p 8--0.jp Sunrise: 6:09a. Sunset: 6:27p. Moonrise: 12:02p. Moonset: 1:24a. Cape Fear River stage at Fayette ville on Tuesday at 8 a. m. 19.95 feet. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) talian Battleship Torpedoed By British By The Associated Press •"D°N Mar. 24 —The first battleship to be engaged in atican since Musso |V\5VV suffeied its crushing p- m the battle of Matapan “een torpedoed in a running , rf‘ Malta, the admiralty an LEdP twiRM *** acknowledged that Plane.- sank one British ship J‘ a Malta-bound convoy in th^bined sea and air flight. .e ,,al’nn naval units turned ’cks ' tfl a^ter iwo frustrated ,l ':s 111 ditch they apparently j,.;'1 bet in a single blow. ' < ’be lie to an Italian i, i'n'11 a British cruiser, an ‘'n;d unit and two merchant T ships were sunk and 15 other ves sels hit in the battle, the admiralty said tersely: “Full details are still awaited but it is known that enemy claims to have sunk British warships are without foundation.” The newest costly blow to the Italian Navy was delivered in a battle which started off Malta Sun day when a force of Italian cruis ers ttempted to intercept the Brit ish convoy. “It is known that the enemy was driven off without damage to our ships,” the admiralty said of this first attack. . “Later the same afternoon, it (Continued oil P»fe five; Col. *). To Halt Reds Unable To Wrest Initiative From Soviet Forces As Fighting Rages 16,000 HUNS KILLED Russians Claim That Num ber Slain Before Len ingrad Alone By The Associated Press MOSCOW, Mar 24—UP)—The Ger mans have hurled 600,000 reserves into a massive but futile effort to wrest the initiative from the Red army, the Russians reported to night, and a special announcement said 16,000 of the enemy had been killed on the Leningrad front alone. More than 38 newly-arrived Nazi divisions were declared to be tak ing part in fighting raging from one end of the front to the other with battles in some areas as sav age as any witnessed in this war. But despite this gigantic effort by the German's, tonight’s regular Soviet communique said tersly tnat during the day “no substantial changes occurred at the front. The subsequent special announce ment said the 16.000 Nazis wer slain from March 9 to 22 on the Lenin grad front by Red army units which captured enormous stores of booty, including 2,617 guns and ri fles, seven tanks, 6,040 shells, 15, 481 mines. 482,000 round of ammu nition, 4.170 hand grenades, and a number of radio transmitters. 86 Planes Destroyed In this area during the same pe riod it listed 86 German planes destroyed. The regular communique said that planes were destroyed along the entire front yesterday against 15 Soviet losses. Units of the Soviet fleet operat ing in the Barents sea were credit ed with sinking a German sub marine. Frontline dispatches said one of Hitler’s reserve divisions on the Kalinin, front northwest of Moscow attempted a counter-attack with 50 tanks, only to be routed with the loss of 700 Nazis killed and 17 of their tanks. On the central front, the army (Continued on Page Five; Col. 7) COOKING SCHOOL OPENED TUESDAY War-Time Nutrition Theme Of Star-News Spon sored Event War-time nutrition is the theme of the annual Star-News cooking school which opened Tuesday aft ernoon for a four-day period in the auditorium of New Hanover High school. A large attentive audience of New Hanover county women heard Miss Ruth Chambers, culinary ex pert of the National Livestock and Meat Board staff, explain and pre pare a complete meai, designed to supply a large amount of healthy foods necessary for good health during the war era. J. L. Allegood, advertising man ager of the Star-News, introduced Miss Chambers and pointed to the large list of prizes which will be given each day this week. He in vited the women to attend each daily session of the cooking school throughout Friday. Prizes, consisting of market bas kets packed with food products and household necessities and the foods prepared at the school, were awarded Tuesdav afternoon to the following owmer,: Mrs. R. D. Carter, 801 Ann street; Mrs. M. A. Sly. Carolina Beach: Mrs. I. B. Satchwell. 1604 Ann street; Mrs. Minnie Ennett, 510 Chestnut street; Mrs. E. A. Ammenhauser, Winter Park; Mrs. S. T. Glover 101 North Sixth street; Mrs. H. E. Russ, 115 South Ninth street; Mrs. J. C. Sweet, 510 South Third street; Mrs. T. C. Merritt, R. F. D. 2, Carolina Beach road; Mrs. James E. Millis, 212 Castle street; Mrs. J. R. Miller, Castle Hayne; Mrs. J. C. Pigott, 417 South Nineteenth street; Mrs. S. G Adams. 408 Walnut street; Mrs. R. E. Blake, 109 North Eighth street; Mrs E. T. Rhue, 302 South Sixth street: Mrs. L. E. Loew, Lake Village: Mrs. W. Huf man, 1016 South Third street: Mrs. Hugh S. Barnes, 206 North Seventh street; and Mrs. S P. Deil, 604 Caldwell avenue. Tuesday’s school was attended by many members of Red Cross Foods and Nutrition classes here. Many high school girls attended the opening session. Second session of the cooking school will be held Wednesday aft ernoon at 2:30 o'clock in the audi torium of the high school here. Many prizes will be awarded. 3 HER WAR SALARY Adeline Bowman, private secre tary to the president of a Cleve land firm making airplane starters for the government is pictured as she told the House Naval Affairs Committee that her salary and bonuses for 1941 totaled $39,350 and that she had received $18,295 tthis year. She was a witness iin the committee’s inquiry into cost and profits on war contracts hand led by Jack and Heintz, Inc., Cleve land. Ohio. BATTLE OF BATAAN FLAMES FURIOUSLY Japs Open Major Air At tack On Corregidor; U.S. Successful In Raids WASHINGTON. March 24.—t/P)— furious renewal of the battle of the Philippines was reported today by the War Department, with the Japanese launching a major air assault against Corredgdor a nd Bataan and American - Filipino troops springing a successful at tack on an enemy motor column at Zamboanga on the southern is land if Mindanao. The Japanese losses in the Min danao fighting were heavy, the department said, but the attacking troops lost only one soldier. Floating mines have been en countered in large numbers in Philippine waters, the Depart ment’s communique added, appar ently sown by the Japanese in an attempt to disrupt inter - island shipping. The enemy may have adopted this device as a result of the dramatic trip of General Doug las MacArthur and his party in torpedo boats from Luzon to a rendezvous on another island with the Army bombers which took them to Australia. The aerial assault on Corregidor and Bataan, in which 54 heavy bombers participated, appeared to be the start of the long-expected enemy attempt to silence the is land forts at the entrance of Ma nila Bay and drive the American Filipino forces from Bataan. It was the first major aerial assault in more than two months Despite a report that the damage inflicted by the bombers—three of which were shot down — was of slight consequence, the reappear ance of heavy enemy air strengtn indicated to military observers here that the Japanese would try to “finish off” the Philippines be fore pushing their drive toward Australia. Air support is what the Japanese have been waiting for, said one expert. He added that apparently they now believe their offensives in Burma and the South Pacific have reached such a stage that palnes can be spared for an ali out d/ive in the Philippines. He pointed out that the Japanese have only about six weeks left be fore the start of the rainy season Beginning about the first of May, this can be expected to curtail enemy air activity and impede large scale military operations for about four months. Other recent indications that Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Ya mashita, the Japanese comman der, intended to start a full-scale offensive have been the reports of aggressive enemy patrol action along the Bataan lines, and the (Continued on Page Five! Col. 3) AVG Smashes 40 Grounded Enemy Planes Japanese Caught By Sur prise In Dawn Attack On Thailand Airport JAP PILOTS RIDDLED Mowed Down By Machine gun Fire As They Strive To Reach Planes KUNMING. China, March 24.— (#1—“Flying Tiger” pilots of the American volunteer group smash ed 40 Japanese planes at the Thai land airport of Chiengmai today in a dawn attack which caught the Japanese by surprise, it was announced here. Dropping down from the sky at 7 a. m., the U. S. airmen caught the Japanese pilots as they were running to the cockpits of their planes and pumped 3,500 rounds of ammunition into both grounded planes and personnel. Seven Japanese planes were seen bursting into flames, and the re mainder of the planes were riddled with machine-gun bursts, dispatch es said. Mos„t of the Japanese pilots were reported killed. But the enthusiasm of the re turning pilots over the success of the raid was dampened by the death of their squadron leader, Jack Newkirk. His plane was seen crashing near the Japanese air field at the end of a low dive, and his mates believed that a burst of machine gun fire from a Japanese gun mounted on a parked truck near the air field got him. Newkirk, one of the most daring AVG pilots, was awarded the dis tinguished service order earlier this monih by the British for his spectacular exploits over Burma. “It won’t be easy to find his equal,” said Brig.-Gen, Claire L. Chennault, AVG commander. Recalling their departure from 'the United States, a close friend I related: “When he pulled out of San Francisco he told his bride of a few days ‘this is not exactly like a vacation.’ ” Another pilot displayed a pipe given him by Newkirk when the latter left for Burma. “A little souvenir, just in case.'’ he ouoted his comrade as saying -V— FERTILIZER FIRMS FINED $250,000 Total Of 102 Companies Convicted On Price Fixing Charges WINSTON-SALEM, N. C-. Mar, 24—UP—Fines totaling more than a quarter of a million dollars were imposed by Judge Johnson J. Hayes in Federal court here to day as the anti-trust case charg ing 102 firms and individuals in the fertilizer industry with price fixing and restra'nt of trade was brought to a conclusion. A compilation of the fines show ed the aggregate amount assessed was $259,852. Tlie fines ranged from $9,000 in the case of the largest firms in volved to a minimum of $2. No other punishment was given. The spectacular case came to an end a week and a day after it wa5 opened. It was originally expected to run for as long as six months but an agreement between the gov ernment and defendants providing for nolo contendere pleas on con dition that penalties of fines only be recommended cut proceedings short. On plea of defense counsel, fines of $9,000 each against the (Continued on Pago Three; Col. 2) Today an / Tomorrow __ BY WALTER LIPPMANN -- The Struggle To Mobilize WASHINGTON. The labor leaders, like the automo bile manufacturers before them, will be much happier and also much wiser men wnen they quit trying to swim up Niagara Falls. They have not yet made up their minds that war and nothing else is now their business in life. There is no use their crying out that they are under attack from ihe ignorant and the impractical and from labor - baiters and Fascists. From every private interest that has had to undergo conversion to war. the same kind of cry has gone up. As late as last December those who demanded a shutdown of the civilian automobile business were met by planted publicity that the campaign for conversion was being conducted by men who did not understand industry and were undei the inspiration of Commun ists. To be sure, the enemies of busi ness joined in the agitation. Cor porate industry was in an unten able position, and its enemies made the most of it Labor unions are now in an untenable position. The enemies of labor are making the most of it. * >> * The only possible answer is for labor to get out of its untenable position and, like Detroit, to go to war. This> is not a mere matter of labor leaders modifying their de (Continued on Pag:** Two: Col. I) TWO U. S. DESTROYERS ACKNOWLEDGED LOST IN FIGHTING OFF JA VA And A Laundry Mark Caused The Trouble A laundry mark led to the true identity of a man—the identification being established after his second arrest here following his escape from a “lockup” by digging through a brick wall—and caused him to face a charge of desertion from the United States Army. Harry E. Fales, superinten dent of the city-county bur eau of identification, who trac ed the identity of the man and later received a confession from -him that he was a de serter, said the man gave his name as James C. Anderson when he was arrested March 15 oy Military Police on sus picion that he was a deserter. “Anderson” denied being a deserter and during an investi gation he was placed in the “military lockup” in the base ment of the courthouse from which he escaped by digging through a six inch brick wall. A search of the place where Anderson was arrested brought no clues to his whereabouts, but information was secured that he was working at a resi dence on North Fourth street. With this clue Anderson was "picked up” at the designated residence March 20, but in sisted that he was not the man who had escaped and declared that he had not been arrested. After he was placed in jail a second time the man still in sisted that his name was James C. Anderson and con tended that he had never been in the army, but at one time had been a member of the Ci vilian Conservation Corps. However, Mr. Fales began to unravel the true stroy from articles that Anderson was carrying in his pockets at the time of his arrest. He was car rying a small pocket flash light, social security cards, an identification card which was taken from a captain’s auto mobile at Camp Davis about December 1 (the car was found in Wilmington), and a pocket book all of which belonged to different people. But the real evidence was two tickets from a Chinese laundry. Mr. Fales immediate ly covered all of the Chinese laundries in the city and in cluded in the laundry for which the tickets called was some underwear bearing the mark “J 1344”. When this mark was traced through Camp Davis it was found to fce that of Les lie L. Jones, private of Battery B of the 54th Coast Artillery, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) Eliminate Profits In War, House Asks Investigation Shows Some Corporations Have Net ted Profits Of 700 Pet. WASHINGTON, March 24.—(A>)— House members demanded today that “the profit be taken out of war” as new testimony was pre sented to the Naval Affairs Com mittee that increases in the in comes of some corporation execu tives had amounted to as much as 700 per cent last year. Rep. Gore (D-Tenn.). appear ing before the House Naval Af fairs Committee, called for a strict limitation of war profits and as serted the “scandalous increases” in salaries and bonuses were evi dence of two things — “inordinate profits and evasion of the high bracket profit taxes.” Testimony before the same com mittee yesterday brought out that the Jack & Heintz company of Cleveland, Ohio, had paiil out more than a half-million dollars in bonuses to executives and em ployes last year. The company, aided financially by the govern ment, now holds more than $50. 000,000 m Army and Navy con tracts for airplane parts. “We hear member after mem ber denouncing labor, but uncon scionable war profiteering is met with sYnug complacency,” Rep. Young (D.-Ohio) told the House in ASPG for taxation on profits above three per cent on war contracts. “We should taxe the profit out of war. Before yielding to anti labor propaganda instigated by the hate-Roosevelt boys, let us immed iately put an end to war profiteer ing such as perpetrated by Jack & -tieinzt. me. Rep. Andresen (R.-Minn.) de manded that the persons respon sible for the contracts with the Cleveland firm be prosecuted. "How in the name of common sense or justice can we expect to secure national unity in our effort to win this war when we learn of tremendous profits paid to certain war material manufacturers?” Rep. Bender (R.-Ohio) denounc ed the payment to Jack & Heintz of $600 per plane starter when he said the testimony showed that it cost the contractor only about $270 to make. Concurrently with the House de bate, Gore declared to the Naval Affairs Committee: “So long as we attempt full mo bilization through the medium of private enterprise, we must exer cise care that we do not destroy the profit motive, but no Ameri can should be actuated by a mo tive to make a profit out of and because if his nation's peril.” Citing examples of bonuses paid to corporation executives which he said were taken from reports filed with the Securities Commission, Gore told the Naval group. “Mr. Bror Dahlbert, president of the Celotex Corporation, receiv ed a bonus in 1940 of $46,081.14, which was in addition to a $36,000 salary. Mr. Dahlbert received in Continued on Page Five; Col. 1> JACK AND HEINTZ TO LIMIT PROFITS No More Fabulous Salaries Will Be Paid Officials Of Arms Plant CLEVELAND, Mar. 24—UP- Jack & Heintz, Inc., war plant under fire for alleged excessive profits, announced tonight voluntary limi tation of profits to 6- per cent in the future and drastic salary re ductions for the company’s three top executives. President William S. Jack dis closed these changes in policy upon his return from Washington where an investigation of h u ge bonuses paid by his concern brought a congressional demand for “criminal prosecution” of war profiteering. The demand, made by Rep. An dresen (R-Minn) followed dis closures before the House Naval committee that the suburban Bed ford concern distributed $650,000 to workers last Christmas; that Jack received $145,845 last year, that his secretary, Miss Adelaide Bow man, was paid $39,356 last yeai and $18,295 the first ten weeks this year, and that workers were given banquets, jewelry and insurance policies. To Limit Profits The 53-year-old company presi dent, a former machinist, said henceforth the aircraft parts con cern would limit its profit to 6 per cent, turning back any excess over this amount to the Army and Navy at the end of each year. His salary, that of his son, Wil liam Russell Jack, and Ralph M Heintz. vice president, will be cut to $15,000 each per year, he added. Furthermore, these officers will accept no bonuses, although bo nuses will be paid to other em ployes. r Ships Missing Are Four* Stackers Pillsburg And Edsall BRINGS TOTAL TO 26 Vessels Last Heard From Early In March Prior To Major Combat By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Mar. 24— (/P)—Loss of two more old four-stacker destroyers of the U. S. Asiatic fleet in the ene my-dominated seas a r ound Java was announced tonight by the Navy department, raising to 21 the total of American naval vessels de stroyed since last fall. The ships were the 1.190 ton Pillsbury and Edsall, each of which had a normal com plement of about 145 officers and men. The number of those on board when they were last heard from was not given. The destroyers had been miss ing since early March, the Navy said that the last word came from the Pillsbury when she was in the vicinity of Bali strait after the great Java sea battle of February 27-28- during which the Allies lost 13 ships, including the U. S. cruis er Houston and the destroyer Pope. The Japanese, with numerically superior forces, suffered known ship casualties of only seven ves sels sunk or damaged in that bat tle. The Edsall was last heard from in "waters south of Java,” the Navy said. Action Unreported Whethei either ship actually had participated in the Java sea en gagement was not made known. Possibly they were on other duty at that time but were trapped when the Japanese, through that battle, won naval supremacy in the wat ers around Java. Both the Houston and Pope and several other of the 13 Java battle victims were lost in that way, having encountered : Japanese forces when they were trying to escape to Australia. The Navy communique, No. 61, announcing' the loss of the Edsall and Pillsbury said: “Far East—Trie U. S. destroy ers Pillsbury and Edsall have been reported missing since early March and must be presumed lost. The next of kin of the personnel of the Pillsbury and Edsall have been informed accordingly. “The Pillsbury is beiieved to have been lost in the vicinity of Bali strait subsequent to the final engagement in the Java sea which was reported in communique No. 54. “The last report from the Ed sall placed her in waters south of Java “These destroyers were units of the original U. S. Asiatic fleet which has been used since the be ginning of the war in an attempt to frustrate (he Japanese invasion of the islands ot the southwest Pa cific. The ships of this fleet were fought with distinction as units of i the Allied naval forces at Macas sar strait (communiques numbers 32, 33, and 34) Lombok strait, Bali strait (communique No. 42)' and the battle of the Java sea. "There is nothing to report from other areas.” The battle of Macassar strait, which sorted as a destroyer ac tion involving a squadron of Amer ican four-stackei s, was the most successful "naval engagement successful effort to pi event the southward sweep of Japanese in vasion forces. In a period ol four or five days it cost the Japanese a total of about 55 ships sunk or damaged out of an invasion fleet (Continued on Pajre Five; Col. 3) Jones Blamed For Lack Of Synthetic Rubber WASHINGTON. Mar. 24—W— A War Production oificial testified to day that Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator, overruled rec ommendations in 1940 for building up the nation’s synthetic rubber production by 100.000 tons annually because he did not believe it was necessary. “I understood he was supported by the president," William L. Batt, director of materials for the War Production Board told the Senate Defense Investigating Committee. At the same time Batt said he had no criticism to make of Jones’ decision “in any way, shape or form.” observing that the com merce secretary was receiving at the time information from “high r * sources as to what might happen to the Dutch East Indies” and acted on what he believed to be the facts. Many persons, Batt said, believ ed in 1940 that the Netherlands East Indies would not fall and were unwilling to ''speculate” with public money in the construction program. “It looked,” ne told the com mittee, “like we were speculating with these elaborate projects.” Batt headed a committee of the National Defense Advisory Com mission which made a study of the rubber supply and on the basis of statements from various indus tries as to their willingness to par (Con I In ned on I*ng:e Three; Col. 1}
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