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Show Tire Record to Be Proud of In a challenge Issued to other tire manufacturers, tho D. F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, declared Itself It-self willing to throw open lts books and records to an Independent audit company if other companies will do tho same, that tho Goodrich Company Com-pany may provo It manufactures more automobile and truck tiros combined com-bined than any other concern In America. Am-erica. Tho challengo states that tho Goodrich Company manufactured In tho last yenr moro than 2,950,000 tires. Tho formal wording of tho challengo chal-lengo follows: "To any rubber or tiro manufacturing manufactur-ing concern which claims production and salo of as many auto and truck tires combined (by any or all of Its United States factories as, were produced pro-duced and sold by tho Akron, Ohio, factory of tho Q. P. Goodrich Company Com-pany during tho latest llscal year of each wo extend this challengo. "Wo will throw open our books and records of tiro manufacture and salo to u fair and Impartial audit, supervised super-vised by a committee of three to bo mutually agreed upon, provided tho competing tiro concern or concerns will do tho same. "Wq will abide by tho result ot that audit, and agree that all rubber or tiro concerns who are parties thereto bo free to publish the certified certi-fied findings ot that audit as to tho comparalvo volumo ot each- company's combined nuto and truck tiro production produc-tion nnd salo, "Wo confine tho audit to tho production pro-duction and salo of nuto nnd truck tires combined to thoso made In tho American (II. S. A.) factories of each concern, thus excluding our own foreign factory and- tho forolr factories fac-tories of all competitors. ' "Wo do this because Uie volumo of theso foreign factories cannot materially ma-terially help In lowering tho cost of production and tho selling of tires, as made by tho American factories of each and becauso somo Amcrlcun rubber rub-ber concoras havo no foreign factories. factor-ies. "We claim and know that tho Akron, Ak-ron, Ohio, factory of tho B. F. Goodrich Good-rich Company makes and sells moro auto and truck tiros combined than any other rubber factory In America, or uny rubber company which operates oper-ates five or moro tiro and rubber factories in tho United States. "Wo extend this open challengo to all doubters and all tiro advertisers, who should now either Justify their claims- for tho largest volumo by accepting ac-cepting this fair challengo or ccaso making such misleading claims." Supplementary to tho challengo Is a statement issued by tho B. F. Goodrich Company In which It denies de-nies certain reports that It had abandoned aban-doned tho manufacturing of white rubber tires becnuBO of prohibitive war prices for whlto pigment, or tor other reasons, and Is building tho so cnlled' black tread barefoot tiro as a substitute. To support tho denial tho company declares It has tons of whlto Ingredients nocessury to build whlto rubber Ure3 on hand at market mar-ket prices, and that It knows where plenty moro Is available |