Show 0 7 washington D 0 RUBBER MIRAGE unfortunate inside fact regarding our grandiose plans to get rubber from the tha amazon valley Is that we arent going to let get any more than a driblet this year about tons have been produced against an expectation of around tons part of this failure Is due to the jealous tug of war between jesse jones and the board of economic warfare jones rubber reserve at first delayed doing anything about brazilian rubber tater later the BEW stepped in this situation bad as it ma may be is insignificant compared with the hand handicaps caps of nature for in the jungles of the amazon nature has erected the most difficult barriers conceivable to protect her rubber here her Is the tragic inside story of w what hat has happened first the BEW working in cooperation op gration with tease jesse jones rubber reserve offered a higher wage to rubber workers with the result that they flocked to the jungle but this took men away from the lesser paid work of farming and woodcutting wood cutting so that river steamers steamer lacked wood fuel and the jungle gungl settlements lacked food starve in jungles jangles the result was that h a great many men actually died of starvation in the jungles A few had been given shotguns shot guns but ammunition was so scanty that they were scarcely able to shoot monkeys later the people in the towns from which the rubber workers were recruited heard that their friends and relatives starved to death now these towns wont send any more workers one factor contributing to the tragic situation was that a ship bringing food firearms and more equipment to the amazon was sunk by a nazi submarine also it takes a tremendous number of tin cups to collect rubber A cup is tied to each tree and catches the rubber as it a slowly oozes from the trunk I 1 however lo wever the chiel chief shipment of tin cups got held up on the dock in southern brazil missed the boat then were further delayed by submarine warfare and now 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 antinazi publication in the netherlands one victim was forced to place his feet in a tub of water which was brought slowly to the boilen boiling 9 point another patriot who had been arrested in mid midwinter winter was belled compelled to undress and was placed upon a chair in the open courtyard of the prison surrounded ded by warmly dressed gestapo men rn who questioned him as long as he could stand it whenever he fainted they poured hot drinks down his throat and rubbed his numb body until the in interrogation ter rogation 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 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 oi off men and women all over europe are learning the true meaning of toe the new order now promised by germany SENATOR RAILROAD the subway tram train between the capitol and the senate office building is a great help hell to senators shuttling back and forth to their offices but senator wall doxey of sippi would be the first to admit thal thai it can prove a political liability doxey seldom uses the little tramway preferring to walk Non nonetheless ethL mississippi farmers call if 11 doleys railroad and according to friends it had something to do with the M mississippians lans primary defeat heres the story james eastland who defeated doxey made a practice of inquiring during speeches in farm corn cam muni ties if there was a railroad nearby nope someone would reply nearest ones ten miles what a shame sighed east land you know senator doxey has a private railroad in washing ton which he uses to ride back and forth to his bis office CAPITAL CHAFF marshal rommel now has approximately one division of U S tanks previously captured from the brit bilt ish with which to combat the pres ent british advance A sample of a new substitute fence made at rock island arsenal has been brought to washington to tc try out around the white house and thus enable the present iron tenca fence to go for scrap iron however the th white house staff has not been sati satisfied I that the non iron fence would protect the president |