Show 04 f 0 W fa washington ton D I 1 a 0 RUBBER AlI RAUB unfortunate inside fact act regarding our grandiose plans to get rubber from the amazon valley la is that wo we arent go going ing to got any move more than lhnn a driblet this year about 4 tons havo have been produced against an expectation of around tons tona part of this failure Is duo due to tho the jealous tug of odwar war between jesse jones and the board of economic warfare jones rubber reserve at first delayed doing anything about brazilian rubber later the stopped stepped in this situation aad as aa it may be Is insignificant compared with the handicaps of oc nature for in the jun agles ot of tho the amazon nature has erected tho the most difficult barriers conceivable to protect her rubber here is the tragic inside story ot of what has haa happened first the tha DEW working in cooperation opar atlon with jesse jones rubber reserve offered a higher wage to rubber workers wor kora with tho the result that they flocked to the jungle but this took men away from the lesser paid work ot of farming and woodcutting wood cutting so that river rive r steamers lacked wood fuel and tho the jungle settlements lacked food starve in jungles tho the result was that a great many men actually died of starvation in tho the jungles A fow few had been given shotguns shot guns but ammunition was so scanty that they were scarcely able to shoot monkeys anter the people in the towns from which the tha rubber workers were re crusted heard that their friends and relatives starved to death now these towns wont send any more workers one fictor contributing to tho the tragic situation was that a ship bringing food firearms and moro more equipment to the amazon was sunk by a nazi submarine also it takes a tremendous number of tin cups to collect rubber rubbe A cup Is tied to each tree and catches the rubber as it slowly aly oozes from the trunk however the chief shipment of tit tin cups got held up on the dock in southern brazil missed the boat then were further delayed by submarine warfare and now havo have missed the current rubber season A lot of these handicaps such as submarine warfare are insurmountable but the net result Is that although we are spending many millions we will get almost no rubber from brazil this year NEW ORDER here Is an authentic account from dutch government sources of what happened to hollanders who were caught in the act of printing an antl nazi publication in the netherlands one victim was forced to place his feet in a tub of water which was brought slowly to the boiling point another patriot who had been arrested in midwinter mid winter was pompel compelled led to undress and was placed upon a chair in aa the open courtyard of tho the prison surrounded by warmly dressed gestapo men who questioned him as long as he could stand it whenever ile he fainted they poured hot drinks down his throat and rubbed his numb body until the interrogation ter could be continued still another hollander had his fingernails torn out and a very common method of torture was the use of dazzling light directed upon the eyes of the suspect when tho the nazis first took over they gave orders to their troops to deal gently with local populations but with continued local resistance the gloves are oft off men and women all over europe are learning the true meaning of the new order now promised by germany SENATOR D X YS RAILROAD the subway train between the capitol and the senate office building Is a great help to senators shuttling back and forth to their offices but senator wall doxey of mississippi would be ba the first to admit thal thai it can prove a political liability doxey seldom uses the little tramway preferring to walk nonetheless mississippi farmers call il 11 doleys Dox eya railroad and according to fri friends edds it haj had something to dc with the mississippians primary defeat heres the story james eastland who defeated doxey made a practice of inquiring during speeches in farm communities muni ties if there was a railroad nearby nope hope someone would reply I 1 nearest ones ten miles what a shame shaine sighed east land you kno know W senator doxey lias has a private railroad in washington which he ha uses to ri tide de bachand back bac kand and forth to his office CAPITAL CHAFF marshal rommel now has approximately ono one division of U S tanks previously captured from tile british with which to combat the present british advance A sample of a new substitute fence made at rock rack island arsenal has bendrought been ben brought to washington to try out around the white house and thus enable the present iron fence to go ao for scrap gp iron however the white house staff has not been satisfied 1 that the pon pen iron fron nce ence would protect the president |