Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1941-10-24 | Page 2 | Discovers Axis Materials

Discovers Axis Materials It will surprise many Americans Ameri-cans that lange supplies of essential essen-tial war materials, consigned to Axis dominated countries, have been discovered at various storage stor-age points iru the United States. The supplies have 'been requisitioned requi-sitioned for this country, according accord-ing to Vice-President Henry A. Wallace, head of the Economics Department Board. In one railroad rail-road yard 500,000 pounds of aluminum, 700,000 pounds of' tin-plate and 1,500 tons of iron and steel were discovered and a preliminary survey of tlhe port of New York indicates that as many as "1,000 carloads of materials" ma-terials" were involved.