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Millions Earmarked
In Big Drive to Buy
Strategic Supplies
Important Negotiations
Started by R. F. C. to
Build Up Stocks
By OLIVER MrKEE.
With the start of a new fiscal
year the Federal Government is
ready to launch its largest peace
time drive for the acc^iisition of
strategic materials. Congress al
ready has earmarked $47,000,000 for
the purchase by the Treasury of
such supplies and additional sums
may be voted. President Roosevelt
a few days ago signed a bill author
izing the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. to finance the acquisition of
these materials by the Government.
Jesse F. Jones, Federal loan ad
ministrator. is lasing no time in
exercising his authority under the
act to finance additions to the Na
tion's stock of strategic materials.
Important negotiations are now
under way. The R,. F. C„ he said
yesterday, may spend as much as
$250,000,000 in purchasing rubber,
tin. manganese, quinine, tungsten
and other materials vital to na
tional defense and industry, on
which the United States is either
wholly or in large part dependent
on imports from foreign countries.
After these purchases are made
materials will be stored here and
the R. F. C. will be reimbursed by
the Army and Navy as these
agencies need materials to replen
ish their own stocks.
Rubber Stocks Being Increased.
Lack of certain strategic materials
has been a major weakness in our
national defense. For the fiscal
year now ending Congress appro
priated $10,000,000 for the purchase
of these materials. Later it author
ized the expenditure of several
more millions before July 1. With
national defense holding the spot
light, Congress has appropriated
vastly greater sums for the coming
fiscal year. These appropriations,
supplemented by R. F. C. purchases,
will go far, in the opinion of Fed
eral experts, to remedy our defi
ciencies in such materials as rub
ber, tin. manganese, tungsten and
chromium.
At the end of May rubber stocks
in the United States aggregated
about 162.000 tons. On the basis of
present consumption, this would
only last American industry from
three to four months. In May
nearly 75.000 tons of rubber were
shipped from British Malaya, the
largest monthly shipment on record.
Three reasons are given for this
record high shipmenU-first, the de
mands created by the war; second,
the desire of consuming markets to
accumulate rubber stocks, and third,
the higher prices which prevail
in the world markets. Some of the
rubber shipped from British Malaya
in May will come to the United
States. Consumption per month is
about equal to the volume of im
ports.
Cotton Exchanged for Rubber.
Under a barter agreement with
Great Britain, the United States will
exchange 600.000 bales of cotton for
87.000 tons of rubber. On June 1
the Government had acquired about
20.000 tons under this agreement.
June acquisitions probably will add
another 10,000 tons. It will be some
months yet, however, before the
87.000 tons will be in the United
States. It is believed likely that the
State Department later will make
another barter agreement to trade
United States cotton for rubber.
At a pinch, the United States
could step up its production of re
claimed rubber. On the basis of
operations 24 hours a day, and six
days a week, it was officially esti
mated on January 1, 1938, this coun
try could produce 262,000 tons of
reclaimed rubber annually. Capacity
has been fully maintained since
then. and. on the basis of a seven
day week, the United States could
now produce about 305,000 tons of
reclaimed rubber annually—perhaps
more.
Last year only 1,700 tons of syn
thetic rubber were manufactured in
the United States. Recently great
progress has been made in this field.
According to Government experts,
large-scale production of synthetic
rubber depends on national rather
than commercial considerations.
With adequate plant facilities and
financing, production of synthetic
rubber should greatly increase.
Latin America Is Source.
Last year the United States im
ported 7,843 tons of rubber from
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To date the Treasury has spent
about $14,000,000 in the purchase of
strategic and critical materials. Its
purchases have included tungsten,
quartz crystals, optical glass, manila
fiber, chromium ore, tin, manganese
and quinine sulphate. With approxi
! rnately $47,500,000 already earmarked
i for the purpose during the coming
fiscal year, the Treasury will step
up its purchases of materials for the
national defense stock piles.
Strategic materials of the highest
order of priority include chromium,
rubber, manganese, quinine, manila
fiber, mica, quartz crystals and
tungsten. For supplies of many of
these, and other strategic and crit
ical materials, the United States
largely depends on the Netherlands
East Indies, British Malaya and
other countries in Southeast Asia.
This explains, in part, the desire
of the Army and Navy Munitions
Board to acquire as quickly as pos
sible a larger stock pile of strategic
materials. Though the sea lanes to
the Far East are still open, there is
I no assurance they will remain. If
i the war extends to French Indo- j
China the Netherlands Indies, Brit
ish Malaya, and other Asiatic coun- 1
tries, the United States might be
cut off from its supplies of rubber,
tin, and other essential materials.
Dog Takes Long Way Home
JACKSONVILLE, Fla . June 29
(A1!.—For all 12-year-old Hudson
Humphries knows, his pet bulldog,
“Monk." takes seriously the old ex
pression, “The longest way round is
the shortest way home.”
“Monk’’ scratched at the Hum
phries' back door exactly 70 days
after being lost during a family
I picnic 20 miles away.
Fiscal Year to Begin
With Only 28 Cases
On Criminal Docket
Only Man Now in Jail
To Go on Trial July 15
For Policeman's Death
With tne c-ose of the fiscal year
today the criminal docket at District
Court had only 28 criminal cases
pending and only one accused per
son in jail. This is believed to be
an all-time low figure.
Clarende Blocker, colored, 54 I
street N.E., charged with first-degree
murder in the slaying of Park Po
liceman Ivan W. Thompson, is the
man in jail. He is scheduled to be
tried July 15 and United States
Attorney Edward M. Curran said
the Government is ready to go to
trial, but defense counsel needed
more time to prepare his case.
Mr. Curran said 528 cases were
disposed of since' he took office on
April 2. When he assumed his pres
ent duties, he said, 174 criminal
cases»weijp pending.
The 28 cases awaiting trial today
contrasts with 67 cases at the cor
responding time last year. The 28
pending cases include bond cases,
with the exception of the Blocker
case, but do not include fugitive
cases and those in which defendants
have been adjudged of unsound
mind.
During the fiscal year. Mr. Curran
explained, 1,870 indictments were
returned, as compared to 1.828 re
turned during the previous fiscal
year. The figures, made public yes
terday, showing the state of the
docket, were compiled by Assistant
United States Attorney John C.
ConlifT, jr.
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