| Show I Senate Group Studies Release of Crude Rubber For Recapping O Tires a Year WASHINGTON June 9 P P Pi-A Pi A A senate committee considering a a. abill abill bill to permit the allocation ion of ot tons of crude rubber and tons of ot reclaimed rubber each year for recapping and of tires was told Tuesday that this would permit operation of ot at least passenger cars I 1 believe it has been definitely established Senator Ellender D. D La informed the senate banking committee that In order for this country to carry carryon on its war production program and maintain maintain main main- tain rain a around sound civilian economy we must have at least that number of I passenger cars care In operation Normally there are about 30 0 passenger cars care In opera opera- t tion ion I Provide Recaps Recall Ellender chairman of a a. senate small business subcommittee on tires and Introducer of the meas meas- measure measure ure zero explained the rubber allocations allocations alloca alloca- t ions would permit recapping or of automobile automobile automo automo- b bile ile tires without In in any way affecting adversely our war pro pro- g gram ram An average requirement of f from one and a half to two and a half ounces of ot crude rubber would be t needed Vor tor each tire he said as asan asan asan an adhesive to bind the reclaimed rubber to the tire lire carcass The total annual amount he added would represent but a fraction of ot 1 per cent of ot crude rubber stocks which he estimated at 7 OOOO long tons The bill also would release odd odd- size and substandard tires lIres now held by dealers and manufacturers at the order of the office of price administration Urges Coordination It Is apparent Ellender told the committee that all that IsI is needed to greatly increase our production production production pro pro- I of reclaimed rubber is a coordinated and well organized program of scrap collecting plus full use of our present rubber re reclaiming reclaiming reclaiming re- re claiming facilities Postponement of any nationwide nationwide nationwide nation nation- wide gasoline rationing until a comprehensive survey is made of the country's available scrap rubber rubber rubber rub rub- ber was predicted in congressional quarters S Senate e n a ate t e Democratic Lead Leader r Barkley D D. Ky said he understood understood understood under under- stood such a survey was being contemplated and other informed legislators added that it was likely 4 President Roosevelt would await the results before deciding whether er it was necessary to put all private private private vate automobiles on short fuel rations Estimates Vary Widely I Barkley told reporters there were all kinds of estimates on the I amount of ot rubber that could be reclaimed from the scrap pile ranging from the ton estimate of ot one big business executive executive ex- ex executive ex ex- down to a war wal production board experts expert's guess that only tons could be obtained I Meanwhile Price Administrator Leon Henderson reported to a senate senate senate sen sen- ate committee that it was likely that slightly more than tons would b be reclaimed in 1942 Henderson Informed a special committee committee committee com com- Investigating the gasoline situation headed by Senator Maloney Maloney Maloney Ma- Ma loney D. D D Conn that tire caps probably could be made from this amount At the same time Henderson expressed expressed expressed ex ex- pressed the opinion that no combination combination combination combi combi- nation of tire conservation measures measures meas meas- measures ures which did not include nationwide nationwide nationwide nation nation- wide gasoline rationing could hope to avert a serious transportation crisis |
