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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



THE SUCKER LIST. 



A slangy expression and not at all pleasant, and it is applied 

 to small owners of Liberty Bonds by sharpers who sell fake 

 stock. When the Government started its Liberty Loan cam- 

 paign, the get-rich-quick swindlers, who saw their game en- 

 dangered, put themselves and all their employes at work selling 

 Liberty Bonds and kept lists of the names of all to whom bonds 

 were sold. The lists of such owners make what the sharks 

 regard as the biggest and best "sucker list" the gentry ever had. 



Any one who has a Liberty Bond or a book of War Savings 

 Stamps is a "prospect" for fake stock. His name may be on 

 the list of the oily-tongued sharper. 



The American people arc paying out some half a billion dollars 

 a year to the support of worthless stock schemes. Thcv reap 

 therefrom $500,000,000 worth of— thin air. 



That is not a guess. It is the figure given by the Capital 

 Issues Committee of the United States Treasury. And, the 

 committee assures us that it is conservative. 



Happily there is a Government agency to-day on the (rail of 

 the stock sharp. It is the Federal Trade Commission, em- 

 powered by Congress to prevent unfair methods of competition 

 in interstate commerce. The Commission may well be expected 

 to look upon the fleecing of Americans of their Liberty Bonds 

 as decidedly "unfair." 



Manufacturers are advised that their employes will doul)t- 

 less have early calls from one of the pleasant representatives of 

 the sharper outfit. When they do, just advise them to drop a 

 postal to the Federal Trade Commission at Washington and 

 tell them about that visit and send them the attractive literature 

 that is handed them. Or, send it in to The In'di.\ Rubber World 

 and we will forward it to Uncle Sam's men. 



BRITISH IMPORT RESTRICTIONS MODIFIED. 



The War Trade Board announced April 3, 1919, that British 

 import restrictions have been modified to permit the importa- 

 tion freely under general license of the following commodities 

 previously importable only under special license : reclaimed 

 rubber, rubber-covered rollers for clothes wringers, medical 

 syringes of all kinds, acetic acid of all kinds, barytcs, chewing 

 gum, diatomite, pumice stone, and pumice powder. 



RESUMPTION OF TRADE WITH GERMAN AUSTRIA. 



Effective April 2, 1919, the War Trade Board announced the 

 resumption of trade and communication with German Austria, 

 subject to the rules and regulations of the War Trade Board. 

 Applications will be considered for licenses to export or import 

 all commodities, except that for military reasons, export licenses 

 for certain specified commodities will be granted only in ex- 

 ceptional cases. The restricted list includes aircraft of all 

 kinds, including airplanes, airships, balloons and the component 

 parts, together with accessories and articles suitable for use in 

 connection with aircraft; also clothing and equipment of a dis- 

 tinctly military character. 



Merchandise is permitted to be exported only upon the under- 

 standing that it is intended to supply the internal domestic 

 needs of German Austria; and that, without the consent of 

 the Inter-Allied Trade Committee at Vienna, the reexportation 

 of such merchandise is forbidden to countries with which 

 commercial relations are not authorized, and further, that such 

 reexportation constitutes a violation of the Trading with the 

 Enemy Act. 



For the exportation of commodities, applications should be 

 filed on Form X-A. No supplemental information sheet will 

 be required for commodities identified with the rubber industry. 



For importations into the United States individual import 

 licenses will be required, in accordance with the regulations 

 applicable to importations from the neutral countries of Europe. 



The War Trade Board has received no official advices con- 

 cerning the regulations governing importations into German 



.\iistria, and prospective exporters should therefore communi- 

 cate with their customers abroad before making definite com- 

 mitments, so that the importers may comply with any import 

 regulations that may be in effect. 



SPECIAL FOOTWEAR LASTS FOR CRIPPLED SOLDIERS. 



The Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, Montreal, 

 Quebec, Canada, is ready to do its share in assisting such return- 

 ing soldiers as are in need of special footwear. In its catalog 

 sent out to dealers it has this notice : 



Hundreds of our brave Canadian boys, will be returning with 

 foot deformities, that to a large extent may be overcome by wear- 

 ing properly fitted footwear. For such cases we will make 

 special lasts for rubbers free of charge. From these special lasts, 

 properly fitting rubbers, arctics or excluders will be made at the 

 same prices as our regular lines. 



SERVICE NOTES AND PERSONALS. 



Captain E. E. Williams, of the Canadian .'\rmy Service Corps, 

 and formerly manager of the London, Ontario, branch of the 

 Dunlop Tire & Rubber Goods Co., Limited, Toronto, Ontario, 

 has returned to the Dunlop company as manager of the pneu- 

 matic and truck tire department, Toronto. Enlisting in August, 

 1914, he was in France with the 1st Canadian Divisional Train 

 as supply and transport officer during the whole of 1915 and the 

 early part of 1916. His engagements include Festubert, Givenchy, 

 Loos, and two battles at Ypres, where the Gentians first used 

 gas. Returning to England in the spring of 1916 for an appoint- 

 ment with what was then the Canadian Training Division, he 

 did staff work there, latterly as Inspector of Catering, until his 

 return to Canada in March of this year. 



E. E. Hellman, employed by the Electric Hose & Rubber Co., 

 Wilmington, Delaware, prior to his enlistment as a private in 

 K company, 339th Infantry, with which he has been serving in 

 Northern Russia, has been decorated by the British Government 

 for bravery in action. Under heavy fire, he coolly stood and held 

 off the enemy by firing a Lewis gun from his shoulder. 



Charles C. and David Goodrich, sons of the late Dr.' B. F. 

 Goodrich, founder of The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, have been promoted by the War Department; Major 

 Charles C. Goodrich is now a colonel and Major David Goodrich 

 has become a lieutenant-colonel. 



MARTYRS TO THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY. 



LiiiUTE.XANT Gordon Robert H.-\ll, of the 308th Field Artil- 

 lery, died of wounds, September 18, 1918, and was buried 

 with military honors in France. 



Lieutenant Hall was born Februan,' 

 23, 1887, in Chicago, where his early 

 education was obtained, and in 1909 he 

 was graduated from .Amherst. At first 

 joining the reportorial staff of the "Chi- 

 cago Daily News," he was later ap- 

 pointed publicity director of the W. D. 

 Allen Co., Chicago, Illinois. In the 

 summer of 1917 he entered the second 

 officers* training camp at Fort Sheri- 

 dan, and was commissioned a second 

 lieutenant. Sailing for France in De- 

 ceiriber, he attended the artillery school 

 at Saumur for three months, and was 

 sent behind the front line for two 

 months, then ordered back to the school as an instructor. He 

 was afterward attached to the 129th Field Artillery, later being 

 reassigned to the 308th regiment and promoted to a first lieu- 

 tenancy. In both regiments he was in action on the front lines. 

 By his sincere character, his integrity, loyalty and devotion. 

 Lieutenant Hall had endeared himself to a wide circle of 

 friends who mourn his untimelv death. 



Lieut. G. R. Hall. 



