Show U S and Brazil In Rubber Pact Sink Vast Sums In Effort To Gt Get Every Ounce Out Of Valley MANAOS BRAZIL DRAZIL TI e Un ted States and Braz I 1 ire S ng ng nto a va vast s t n to get every po pos poss s ble of na natural tura I r o 0 t of the Amazon villey America s best I 1 opo ope for i 1 crude rubber supply m in a along along long w ir Both counts countI es are s ng hug huge s it ms into the for although product on of c 0 rubber in 10 inq q ant nt ty IS gett ng vay n tI e eUn eUn Un ted Mates tates crude n ribber st at II 11 IS needed to m mI x w I th the synthe c cand cand and U tl e a 1 recta ecla med And Amer ca s p le Ie of crude IS go n ng fist A b g push must be g yen ven to tl e mazon output for in 10 1941 U tl e a wi ole oleI bis n wh ch chi J i eludes parts of Eo I I 1 via Peru Colomb a Ecuador and Venezuela is well as half hal of I Praz o 0 t only 19 tons 1101 1 is s lust Just a drop in the bucket of ofU U ted Nat ons I cods eeds wh h ch chere chare ere are est mated m in the Baruch repol report t 1 it t 5 7 long tons for 1943 About I IS of the 19 tons carne came horn flom Diaz Iaz I 50 T s Lear is cs for 1942 should reveal an I increase end ond rubber experts hot hOI e a to toJun tojun Jun p product on poss bly to 50 to s n 1944 But Dut Joao Alberto L ns toe Le Darros Barros Brazil s co coord I ord IS str v ng to reach that IS the ng of some 50 wort worl ers froM the wastelands of northeastern Brazil to the Amazon reg on They II 11 travel m Ics les afoot 1 m les by steamer Ceylon s natura plantation rubber st it II itis IS ava lab e a to the United Na Nat tons t ons and the nearly tons expected to be produced there would go a ong ong way toward meetIng war wartime time t es But Ceylon Is far across submarine pro sled led seas and there IS no certainty the Island could resist a Japanese attack TIe Air Arr government In fact stopped figurIng Ceylon In ItS calculations calculations lations several months ago Liberia the AfrIcan Negro he heI I where here Firestone has Its big plan plantations may produce as much as 10 tons annually Japan Japans s conquest of Malaya and the Netherlands East indies sent American technicians into the Ama Amazon Amazon zon jungles For It was from Brazil 30 years earl carl er that those same Far Eastern nat ons ens had taken the thew wid w ld rubber trees which were the found at on of their o 0 b g planta tons t ens ensIn In InIth with Ith Both Feet To increase product on In the Ama Amazon Amazon zon and to rush the product to Amer AmerIcan scan Ican md and Braz I 1 an war plants the United States has gone m In with both feet Some of the Amer can gov government government agent agene es part c pat ng in 10 inthe the program are The Rubber Reserve as ass ass s the task of ng output by a number of methods ng paying a h gh wage to an and supplying the necessary food and med cal aid at pr ces often belo v cost The Board of Econom c Warfare wh ch sees that the es are sent sentI I to the Amazon The Defense es cor io o at on v wh h ch must carry those es by bysh bysh sh p and airplane and aid In trans transport I port ng the rubber The A A Development protect proJect I wh h ch must he t airports out of the Jungles and Improve existing land I and seaplane bases The office of co ord of inter 1 Amer can affairs wh h ch co operates with the Braz I 1 an government in inthe inthe inI I the fight to control d sease In the cast ast malaria malana zone I In add t on Un ted States and Brazilian shipp ng ons ens must provide vessels to carry the rubber to American and Brazilian manufacturers s nce only a small quint ly Iy can be transported nr the Defense Supply on s planes the United States and Brazilian I navies must convoy these sh ps to their dest nat ons |