TIE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 15, 1940
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UNCLE SAM
U. S. Search PLANE DEFIES
For New Rubber Plant
THROUGH THE tropics and highlands of Cen- tral and South American countries to-day a band of plant pioneers is searching, searching intent on one of the most extraordinary biological research expeditions on recòrd,^backed by a Congressional appropriation of $500,000 which, if successful, will open up a whole vast new rubber industry in new world countries, with economic, defence and scien- tific consequences of the most far-reaching import-
ance.
While these
For more than two hours meri at the North Island naval air station (San Diego, Calif.) watch- ed a plane circle overhead in defiance of Uncle Sam's de- fence law. Then it landed.
The craft proved to be a toy powered by rubber bands. Air cur- ∙rents had kept it
aloft.
bands of United of the wild rubber trees growing|0000000000000000000
sparsely in the lush tropical areas, but the vast bulk of rubber comes plant. What would happen to the from a small area in the Far East United States, it is' asked, if this where rubber plantations have in-supply were cut off by war? Even tensified the yield, year by year, now the Defence Commission is by developing now and better rushing supplies to, prepare the strains of the originally wild country against any emérgency.
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States plant ploneers are engaged in hunting for a blight-resistant plant, upon which a great new in ternational industry . may founded, other biologists are work- ing overtime in attempting to evolve a new strain of the rubber tree-which is half tree and half shrub of the South American hevea rubber, that will bring back to the New World the rubber in- dustry that started here, but that was "kidnapped" years ago and taken far away to the Indles where the rubber supply is now menaced by ominous Internation- al relations in the Pacific. Ameri- can biological investigators, In one of the greatest programmes of j
taken, in fleld, laboratory and.
ADDED POWER FOR THE GESTAPO NEW PERIL
EXTENSION OF powers of the Gestapo-Ger- biological research ever under-many's Secret Police-to include execution of non- testing station, are now trying to German' subjects without trial gives some indica- bring the kidnapped victim bacie tion of methods which may be used to maintain or- to its own home again..
Good-Night Policy
Involved
der in German occupied territories.
This latest decree, marking an- Hague recently sentenced a young other step farther away from in-nurse to three year's imprison- Almost unique is one feature of ternational standards of justice, ment for writing on a wall the the enterprise, that the United has so far only been used against words, "Down with Hitler." The States Government is trying to non-Germans within Germany same court fined an innkeeper establish this industry. not in its itself,
£120 and added a six-months* own territory but in Latin-Ameri- Thus a Polish worker not a prison sentence for listening in can countries which will be prisoner of war was recently to the Netherlands broadcast from vastly benefited if the enter-given capital punishment for al-London. prise is successful. They will leged association with a German An Associated Press report from grow rubber and sell it to the prisoner of war. United States; they will profit and so will their northern neighbour. The United States investigators are getting cooperation from every country through which explora- tory parties are going, or where plant experimental stations are being set up. It is a concrete illustration of the practical good- neighbour policy at work, and of the friendly response it evokes.
Back in Washington at a desk in the Bureau of Plant Industry, in the marble-fronted Depart
However, increasing severity of Nazi justice in the occupied terri- tortes leads to the belief that the new decree may be soon extended to these areas.
The "People's Courts" or Volksgericht, which are theore- tically based upon the Judg. | ments of experts even though generally dominated by Party political considerations is al ready in operation in the Ger- man Dom 'nated territories, One of these courts which sat
Berlin stated that three prisoners in the Munster Prison were given capital punishment Sept. 28 for mutiny. They were charged with using war conditions especially confusion during an air alarm- to attempt escape.)
Prison camps in accupied France, such as one at St. Cloua Alencon, and reported to be full of Frenoh men and women who have protested or been "guilty" of listening to the British radio. Similar incidents are happening in other occupied countries in
ment of Agriculture sits a-hard-in the ballroom of the Princess increasing numbers, according to working natural scientist, Dr. Juliana's, former palace at The reports reaching here.
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E. W. Brandes, head of the whole research problem, putting in as many as 16 hours a day and now receiving on almost every Latin- American clipper mail a report of the progress from one of his ex- ploratory parties, or. from scientific group "on location" as part of the increasing data needed in one of the world's great plant- hunts. He is at the centre of the search although he is thousands of miles away, co-ordinating the problem like a general directing battle, and attempting now, with a big Federal sum at available, to crack the biological riddle that has so far not even yielded to the efforts for the big Ford organisation in the Amazon region.
Defence Phase
Prominent
last
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The problem is of importance to every American who drives a car, and behind that, to the coun- try at large as a matter of nation- al defence and hemispherical solidarity. At best of times, the price of "rubber is artificially maintained, it is charged, in plantation agreement by leaders in British Malaya, Dutch East Indies, and to a smaller extent, Ceylon and French Indo-China. The Ford, Firestone, Goodyear interests have all tried to break the hold. - Firestone has had some success in Liberia, Ford, however, has run into obstacles in Brazil In a minor way Ford and Good- year interests are also now ex- perimenting in Costa Rica.
As for national defence it is obvious on the economic side that. overy bin industry ̈ ́・ that means goods coming to the United States in exchange for hard cash going to' Latin America, binds the New World closer together, Trade ties are important to Gah,
Americans to-day move in-- crossingly on`rubber.", Last year the United States "Imported $131,071,000 of it, of which only. $1,830,000 came from Latin America, where the havea rub ber trao originated. ・・ Latin American "seringeros" still fap white latex-yielding sup
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