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August 4, 1943 ALio^toaiSs o IV) I FHOMt SJBJLCTi Asbestoss Substitution of othsr Rhodesian CnryBotile Gradaa for Grades C and U Thla will reply to your memorandum of August 4 on tne above aubject and la a further reply to your aeaorandun ol July la, 1943* I have checked your recollection of Ur. Utley Smith's atateoenta at the Operating Committee of July 2, laat both with Mr. Soith ana with the minutea of tne meeting. I find that both differ with your uaderetaadlnf of what he aaia. Possibly Ur. McDougal and you aiaunderatood bin for I believe hia atateaent was to the effect that when the Ulssion went to nondoo, they were informed aa to the unaatiafaotory reeulta of certain teata conducted by the firm of Aeasby and Uattiaon. The ten tooa each of Vra-3 and 4 iaported into the United States in the firat quarter of 1943 ware for the purpoae of permitting the firm of Johna Hanvllie to conduct teata aimilar to those previouaiy maoe by Keaaby and Uattiaon. X underatana that theae teata have since been maoe ana that they have provea unsatisfactory. Obviously Ur. Smith's reference to testa, mentioned In ay previous paragraph, was to those conducted by Keusby ana Mattiaua ana not to those conducted by Johns Uanville. The Cork, Asbestos and fibrous Glass Division of w.P.B. agreed to the atateaent In the Asbestos Report saying, "the natter ox running the manufacturing testa .... is being considered by the appropriate agencies of tha U.S. Government" because they are s+ill prepared to bring pressure to bear on the Industry to run additional testa If In their estimation conditions warrant such action. The above should clarify tha situation with respect tot () Tht apparent misunderstanding on your part of Hr. Smith's statement at tna 0paratin* Committee Hasting on July 3* (b) Tha status of teat runs to data. Tha Cork, Asbastos and Fibrous Glass Division oaks tbs suggestion that Uessrs. Turasr and Hawaii, Ltd. in England, bsing tha parent coopany of Ksasby and Hattison, and being fully inforaad both as to United States aaaufaeturars preferences, with respact to grades, and as to aanufseturing tests which have been made in this country, that the Hinistry of Supply contact then if they should eisn any further information on the subject. AbTtua A. B. Tatistcheff