HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS

UNITED STATES SENATE
SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

PURSUANT TO

S. Res. 107
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A STUDY OF THE
POSSIBILITIES OF BETTER MOBILIZING
THE NATIONAL RESOURCES OF

THE UNITED STATES

AND ON

S. 702
A BILL TO MOBILIZE THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL
RESOURCES OF THE NATION, TO ESTABLISH AN
OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL MO-

BILIZATION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Printed for the use of the Committee on Military Affairs

COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS

ROBERT R, REYNOLDS, North Carolina, Chairman ELBERT D. THOMAS, Utah

WARREN R. AUSTIN, Vermont EDWIN C. JOHNSON, Colorado

STYLES BRIDGES, New Hampshire LISTER HILL, Alabama

CHAN GURNEY, South Dakota SHERIDAN DOWNEY, California

RUFUS C. HOLMAN, Oregon ALBERT B. CHANDLER, Kentucky CHAPMAN REVERCOMB, West Virginia HARRY S. TRUMAN, Missouri

GEORGE A. WILSON, Iowa
MON C. WALLGREN, Washington

JOHN THOMAS, Idaho
HARLEY M. KILGORE, West Virginia
JAMES E. MURRAY, Montana
JOSEPH C. O'MAHONEY, Wyoming

MARGUERITE E. Warts, Clerk
WALTER I. SMALLBY, Special Assistant

SUBCOMMITTEE ON WAR MOBILIZATION

HARLEY M. KILGORE, West Virginia, Chairman ELBERT D. THOMAS, Utah

RUFUS C. HOLMAN, Oregon EDWIN C. JOHNSON, Colorado

CHAPMAN REVERCOMB, West Virginia MON C. WALLGREN, Washington

GEORGE A. WILSON, Iowa JAMES E, MURRAY, Montana

HERBERT SCHIMMEL, Chief, Investigations and Hearings

CHARLES KRAMER, Economic Adviser
COLEMAN ROSENBERGER, Hearings Editor

CONTENTS

Pago 981

Statement of Senator Harley M. Kilgore.....

SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITS

No.

Exhibit

Introduced
on page

Appears on page

157 Memorandum of facts covering the origin, history,

and practices of the Universal Oil Products Co.,
having to do with its alleged violation of the Sher-
man Antitrust Act, through the exploitation of its
patent monopolies in the oil-cracking industry, pre-
pared by C. J. Colville, submitted by Robert M.

Hunter, Department of Justice...
158 Report of Thomas Raeburn White, master, sur order

of reference of Nov. 26, 1941, in the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit,
Root Refining Company, Defendant-Appellant v.
Universal Oil Products Company, Plaintiff-Appellee,
submitted by Robert Hunter, Department of Jus-

tice..
159 Preliminary statement prepared by C. J. Colville,

filed with the committee.
160 Letter, from W. C. Black, president, Jenkins Petro-

leum Process Co., Chicago, Ill., in regard to memo-
randum prepared by C. J. Colville.