Show EFFERS FLAYS TON FOES D Declares clares Gas Program M ill Go in Effect I EW E YORK YORI Nov 20 Na RI-Na- Na- Na ti Ibis 3 lil Rubber Director William H. H I rs s said Friday that Iti Tto to wide nation gasoline rag rang ra- ra tto ng g is an organized opposition i Sag g. g funds furnished by people I Sw should know better Cite e gasoline rationing in the Mill saved sa rubber h hs he told the meeting of te fAe Grocery Ma of America Na Trifle tion-Trifle wd gasoline rationing which g to effect December 1 is only means to an end It lt w will go into effect regardless o of the organized opposition in the thew w west mt it That opposition is based theory that there is no shortage of gasoline in the west After his address which was a complete departure from his pre pre- piled speech Jef Jeffers fers told p l n that he had in mind as opposition group to chambers of com com- nerce and other well meaning agencies urges Saving Farms ers said that there were o than farms in the and asserted that if we weep ep the men on the farms id ia k keep kep ep our rubber we can pro- pro food and get it to market rAfter After the needs of ot the armed Thes Jeffers continued rubber e used for essential driving e C defined the latter as getting Ito to and from your factories J Actors t rs and farmers to produce their crops craps H sald he did not sympathize the notion nollon that we handled Ing once with horses and wagi wag- wag i adding that it would be just treasonable reasonable to say that New flu City's transportation 11 be handled with horses d Ransom ansom cabs as well as with cabs bs z We had better take care of ot our fliers even if there is less taxi- taxi riving in New York he said i Food Rationing Rationing- W. W On food rationing Jeffers said I does the average farmer the country think when he hein ds ii in the New York dailies that York night clubs are doing business of all time Titers said a breakdown of shortage hortage of rubber would be bei r. r i disastrous than a military eat Americans know we are at atS at'S atto r to S 'S he said There has been h confusion There have been statements about rubber but butKe ke Ke no mistake mistake we short we are can bridge the gap only play the game We can canin in together or lose together r fers s said the first unit of a ap ap p of synthetic rubber plants V being constructed would be beay bey ay dy y in inVest West Vest Virginia by the mid mid- M lot f January adding there nere will be some bugs in inae ae f new plants that must be beed led ed out and when a plant comes it will not mean that till ill I be operating at capacity diets Low Ebb Ebbe e predicted that the Ule low ebb ebbe ebby he y e nations nation's rubber supply would reached next fall faIl and said we Bridge t bridge that gap between then we the middle of 1944 rs ts a a. question of ot the peoples people's jon Bon on the accelerator he said s their job to drive at less than Tiles ies an hour Its It's not asking Luch ch to demand that a country I 1 ar r slow down f S. S 0 5 |