Show FLAYS FLA YS HOOVERS HOOVER'S RUBBER POLICY Rep Black Says Whole I Thing Is Plan Plan- to toI I Boost Tires ires I I IW ByThe W WASHINGTON SJ Jan B 7 7 The Associated The Press Press T house I committee Investigating foreign I monopolies In tn rubber and other raw materials Interrupted its lings tOday to straighten out a mix mix- up ul I over up what happened at an nn ex ex- ex executive session yesterday esterday Aroused over publication of a astory astory astory I I story Jn In n the WashIngton Post which sat said 1 Secretary Hoover hajI hajI hail had I presented at time the Sl ret meeting I I certain communications between I the state department and foreign irn governments go the tha committee decided I after letter sonic some to send a 0 It let tel ter to Secretary Kellogg denying I hat any such documents had beell presented I j The Post lost article i got cot because of ot Its assertion tinI that lIll th OlI showed communications showed how tot for Ol- Ol l I eign governments had hall at I limo tho State stale department for fOl trying to protect American consumers TO io 10 In hi tho the letter addressed to Sc Sec Secretary Kellogg Chairman Parker or 01 the committee said saith Mr Mi 1 presentation was directed entirely to the tion hythe bythe made to our governments go hy by the different consumer in iii the United l Sates and to groups tho thu dis discussions whIch which these groups had L I themselves had with ot of foreign monopolies He did not present any confidential dispatch I cr either to or from our govern ment In connection with this I ter moat lt I IThe The first fIrL witness today A A l Giles general manager of ot the Rub Hub I Ibel ben bel Asso Association of ot America told If I negotiations by a committee of thai I organization with the British Rub Rub- Rubber ber Growers association In in October 1922 1322 han m been sought with success front from lu BritIsh colonial office he said through British growers that pro pro- pro protection would be given s American America importers In case ot of shortage The facts then were wre presented to the I state department 1111 Mr MiS Giles Gilea said the rime Ste enson plan for tor or control ot of o production In It Ithe the British colonial possessions was w a fundamentally unsound This control is largely responsible sible for tor the an ad advance e In hi said price he hi h S Restriction which S operations of the law Jaw of supply and ant anc I demand also renders ineffective art an r attempt to iv a 0 fair tatI price While the Sin wain committee hearing was wa S in progress activities Secretary Hooves 5 activities were assailed on the hous a floor by Representative Blae Democrat of ot New York as ganda plus lIUS for lOl the tho rubber cats ests Here are the expanding tire companIes Mr 11 Black Dlack said sick Ing BritIsh the l lion liAn faithful j Hoover on the thi just when they are I about to Inflate prices I AGONIZING J ALIBI LI I I They want an alibi to gouge court the InI public so they bark at the East In- In I India dla dia rubber planter whose empire protects him better than the Na- Na Napoleonic sphinx In the White Hous who campaigned on the back of ot a 11 cow to protect our farmers I j This last blast of ot Hoover Hoovers Hoover's Is b bI I Ii fronI I i propaganda plus On the front page pare he he attacks Great Britain at and andon an d Ion dIon andI I Ion anIon on the financial pages the traca tra I writes so solemnly of ot increased prices On the cover is the time propaganda propaganda- on the Inside are arc the works The whole automobile trade e cx- peels higher tire lire prices the prices the tir tho I companies Intend to take from the th he I consumer what they would other other- otherwise I l wise save by tax reduction I In n |