same waste material here?
 
     
 
 
Brig. Parkinson: Naples is the big dump.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: From the north?
 
     
 
 
Brig. Parkinson: Yes, I don't think there are dumps here in Rome.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Barr: They are collected in the North, processed there in   
quartermaster cleaning establishments. Between Naples and Caserta there is a   
big factory that repairs army material.
 
     
 
 
Brig. Parkinson: This, of course, can go on indefinitely because we are   
making the things out of salvaged material. It is a good line that is being   
started.
 
     
 
 
Mr.Barr: The garments are very useful and the design completely   
satisfactory.
 
     
 
 
Ing.Galeazzi: The material is wonderful.
 
     
 
 
Brig. Parkinson: You couldn't get this material anywhere else now.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: We have talked a good deal about using waste material. This   
is now the first time we have seen a demonstration. Now we know; you have the   
ice broken. In following up this operation if there is any help the National   
Committee can give I am sure they would be willing in that respect. Mr.Barr,   
you went to Cassino to see the progress of the hospitals. How did you find   
the situation there?
 
     
 
 
Mr.Barr: We are finding Italian weather completely non-cooperative. It   
has rained for 18 days at Cassino. They Keep trying to work on the foundation   
of the first hospital and as soon as they get the concrete poured it begins   
to rain and washes it away. They are having to work in between showers and   
pour a little section at a time. What happens is this: The stone is mixed   
with a calcium and is then poured. The rain washes the calcium away, leaving   
a residue of stone. This stone must then be dug up and mixed with the cement   
again and repoured. They just haven't been able to get the foundations in.   
They have gotten the foundation of the main building in but have not been   
able to do so in the others. The ditches for the foundation two and a half   
feet deep, were full of water. We are going to have to delay until they get   
clearer weather. They are keeping the men there ready, just waiting for the   
weather to break.
 
     
 
 
Mr.Taylor. Where is that - S.Antonino?
 
     
 
 
Mr. Barr: Yes, sir, right near Cassino, to the south. The work on the   
barracks will be a matter of a few days. They are there but they can't be   
trown up until the foundations are laid. We can go ahead and pour the   
concrete but as seon as you build the barracks it will begin to crumble on   
account of the soft cement. We were discussing yesterday the possibility of   
beginning to haul material for the other two sites, digging the trenches and   
letting them pour cement when they can; but using the labor and engineer to   
work on the other two places.
 
     
 
 
Ing. Galeazzi: One is S.Vittorio, also St.Giorgio.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Barr: I am going to discuss with the engineer the plan of