Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1940, Page 3

American Bombers Far More Accurate, Senators Are Told Photographs Are Used To Show Superiority Over Europe’s Best By the Associated Press. The bombers of Evrope’s warring nations, photographic evidence in- dicated today, have failed by a wide margin to approach the accuracy of the United States Army Air Corps. Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, Air Corps chief, exhibited comparative pictures at a closed session of a Senate ap- propriations subcommittee, whose members said they appeared to show a definite edge in marksmanship for American pilots. The photographic evidence, com- mittee members asserted, gave the Army a much higher accuracy rat- ing in “precision” bombing—or aimed hits—than European aviators have attained by “pattern” bombing —or sowing bombs over the imme- diate area of a target on the theory that one may hit the objective. | The apparent American margin | of superiority was generally credited to the country’s closely guarded | secret bomb sight. | American Planes Speedier. Gen. Arnold, it was reported, also | told the committee that American military planes had proved speedier under actual combat conditions, more maneuverable, safer and more | economical of fuel. With the im- | provements the war has suggested, | he expects them to be the best in the world, it was declared. | The Senate committee, however, | was reported to have prodded the Army to seek full restoration of the $20.000,000 for aircraft which the House cut from the $785,000.000 War Department bill when it approved | that measure. Chairman Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma said plans for construc- tion of 27 new bombing planes cost- ing about $10,000,000 probably would THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1940. BERLIN.—GOERING THROWS HITLER ON JUNK PILE—Field Marshal Hermann Goering in one of his many white-jacketed uniforms as he took a last look at metal art objects he contributed to Germany’s national metal collection. The German censor-approved caption on the picture quoted Goering as saying “No piety is necessary” in giving away the objects when they were “of no special artistic' quality.” Note bronze bust of Goering on table and one of Hitler on the ground. —A. P. Photo. a statement declaring there was no foundation “for the statement that the Norwegian commander in chief was not informed of the allied decision to evacuate the Trondheim area or that he has negotiated an armistice.” (The statement did not name the commander in chief, but said he embarked on a British man- o-war the night of May®l. Getz issued his order as acting com- mander in chief.) be laid before the committee Mon- | day as a result of members’ inquiries as to why the Army had not sought | the full amount of appropriations | recommended by President Roose- | velt in his budget message last Jan- uary. | The budget originally proposed $186.000,000 fo rthe Air Corps, b the House cut off $20,000,000 by vot- | ing to construct only 57 of the 496 replacement planes the Army sought. Later the War Departmens asked the Senate committee to restore | §10.000,000 of the House slash, boost- ing the plane total to 166. | Senator Thomas said it was sug- gested in committee that it might | be well for the Army to ask for the | remaining $10,000,000, bringing re- | quests up to the original budget | total. He said this suggestion ap- | peared to be prompted by the desire ‘ on the part of some members for £peedy construction of planes which | could compete on an equal basis in | combat with Europe’s best. Improvements in New Craft. Gen. Arnold testified previously that German improvements in| armament, self-sealing gasoline tanks and other devices had caused the Army to make drastic changes In plane equipment. He was quoted Aas saying yesterday that by July 1, 1941, 1900 first-line fighting planes incorporating all of theje improvements would be delivered | to the Army. Following his testimony yesterday Gen. Arnold left on a 12-day in- spection of Western Hemisphere | aerial defenses which will take him to the northern part of South America. He set out in an Army plane from Boling Fied enroute to the Panama Canal by way of | Mexico. Four other officers were in Gen. | Arnold’s party: Maj. W. R. Carter, Maj. Benjamin W. Chidlaw and | Capt. Eugene H. Beebe, the pilot, all of the Air Corps, and Lt. Col. D. N. W. Grant of the Army Med- dcal Corps. Stockholm _(Continued From First Page) _ that “evacuated allied troops have . landed safely at other ports.” One British officer, just before the emboarkation at Namsos, said the British were bound for England. Guerrilla Fighting Continues. Though the main Norwegian re- sistance had collapsed, there was evidence of some continuing guer- rilla fighting against the invaders. Reports 1eaching Stockholm said one Norwegian volunteer force of 140 men had ambushed a German detachment of 400 about 100 miles south of Roros, killing 115, wounding 60 and taking many others prisoner. Roros is in Eastern Norway near the Swedish frontier. The Germans were reported to have been trapped in a mountain valley Thursday and to have been cut down by wither- ing rifle fire from wooded posi- tions. One hundred automatic rifles and 30 automobiles were seized. A number of Norwegian troops under Lt. Dahl, described as “a fanatical patriot but nevertheless a good soldier,” declined to capitulate with the rest of the central armed forces and fled into the mountains, where they promised a determined stand despite thinning ranks. But the fight was over for most Norwegians and disillusioned sol- diers gave up their arms on the Steinkjer front, one of the last sec- tors abandoned, 60 miles north of Trondheim, allowing mechanized and motorized Nazi legions to pour into bomb-battered Namsos in the wake of retreating allies. The Germans also reached Grong and were reported to have made contact with the capitulating Nor- wegians. Word of the Norwegian surrender eame yesterday from Col Getz in an order of the day shot through with disillusionment and saying that the step was being taken to avoid needless slaughter of unsupported, {ll-equipped soldiers. “The British and French—for rea- £ons unknown to us—have given up helping us in our fight and have withdrawn their troops from Namsos,” he said. “We stand alone against the en- tire German war machine, already outflanked and encircled on the line which the British and French should be holding . . . without aid from the outside . . . with only enough emmunition for one day . . . with- out planes and other necessary war materials. “It was an incomprehensible ac- tion on the part of the British and French, without notifying me, to lay open my flanks in the rear so I was cut off from any possible re- treat toward Mosjoen.” (The British War Office issued Blow to British Prestige. The allied withdrawal and Col. Getz’ Dbitter accusation brought caustic comment from many Scan- dinavian quarters that British prestige in the Northern countries had suffered a damaging blow. | Norwegian officials in Sweden would | | offer no comment and appeared to | | be out of contact with their gov- | ernment. German domination of Nor left Sweden cut off from the w ern powers and apparently in line to fall under joint German-Soviet influence, particularly in trade mat- ters, since Sweden now has no other outlets. Though the Swedish government refrained from comment, one source | close to it said “It appears we can expect nothing from the western powers * * * Sweden's position, from the point of view that she might be attacked, seems consid- erably bettered.. “Economically it leaves Germany and Russia as our natural cus- tomers.” Tass, the official Russian news agency, announced last night that Germany and Russia in an ex- change two weeks ago “noted that both states regard themselves as interested in the preservation of Sweden’s neutrality.” Nazis Greatly Weakened. Refugees arriving from Narvik said a Nazi force, greatly weakened by three weeks of fighting and lack of supplies, could not hold out in- definitely against allied land and sea attacks despite the tenacity of the Germans’ hold on hilltop posi- tions above the shell-battered ore port. The arrivals from the Arctic port, said that after British naval guns drove the Nazis out of the town it- self they dragged mountain artil- lery and machine guns to high- perched positions commanding the railroad from Narvik to the Swedish frontier. They were said to be hanging grimly to their well placed- mountain fortifications as allied regulars, aided by crack Norwegian sKi patrols, closed in slowly. The arrivals from Narvik pictured the general scene there as one of extreme desolation. Blocking the harbor are wrecks of German de- stroyers and half-submerged ore ships. The 123 British merchant seamen prisoners released by the Germans at Narvik when there was no food to feed them are now recovering at a Salvation Army post at Jorn, North Sweden, after a grueling four-day trek through Arctic snows from Narvik to the Swedish border. The seamen said several of their number died in the snow and that they had to drag others, too weak to walk, on improvised sleds. Plan Naval Base at Narvik. Well-informed British quarters indicated that allied efforts in Nor- way now would be concentrated, on’| a long-term basis, in building up & powerful naval base in the Narvik region to patrol the fjord-marked Norwegian coast and thwart any Nazi attempt to use Norwegian ports for getting around the Brit- ish blockade. These quarters said the British probably would establish a series of outposts as far south as 100 miles below Narvik, in the wild region of lakes, mountains and fjords which offer tremendous ob- stacles to a northward Nazi thrust. The allies, however, yet have to subdue German resistance in the Arctic Zone where they have re- peatedly bombarded Narvik from the sea, attempting to gain control of the ore railway to the Swedish frontier The British expected the Germans would destroy the railway if they are forced to retreat and thus a long rebuilding process would be necessary. Haakon Seen Forced To Open Negotiations OSLO, May 4 (#).—Belief that King Haakon VII and his govern- ment, now in hiding, must open negotiations with Germany in an attempt to get the best possible peace terms was expressed today by Norwegians, who said they voiced the general feeling of their coun- trymen in this German-occupied capital. Their view was that further fight- ing was nonsensical after the Allied withdrawals. The Norwegian government’s au- thority now is limited to the three northernmost counties, Nordland, Troms and Finmark which Nor- wegians said under ordinary condi- tions could not exist without support from southern Norway and are far less able to conduct a war. The only remaining Norwegian army force is one division scattered over all three counties. The text of President Roose- velt's address yesterday to the Natwonal Institute of Govern- ment: | Two months ago I was told | that there would be a meeting of women interested in or affiliated | with the Democratic party, with the objective of studying and dis- cussing the processes of our (orm of government. It was expected that there would be not more than 100 of them who would | come to Washington and I sug- | gested that they come to my executive office in order that I might shake their hands individ- ually and have a little informal chat with them. Three weeks ago my wife told me that the enthusiasm was so great that 500 or 600 might come and we shifted the party to the east room in the White House. By 10 days ago the gathering had grown into a pilgrimage, with the result that if you tried, the 3,000 or 4000 of you could not all get into the White House at the same time, and if I were to start shaking hands with you now you would still be passing in line long after dark. This amazing and splendid outpouring does my heart good because it proves, first of all, that there is tremendous en- thusiasm for a continuation of liberal democratic government in the United States, and also be- cause it shows an honest wish to gain further knowledge of gov- ernment. Thought Stimulation On Government Praised. May I add too that the thought which I have expressed on several previous occasions—that while in the past seven years your Gov- ernment has put into practical effect more constructive legisla- tion for the average man, woman and child of the Nation than in any similar time in our history, the greatest ultimate long range gain of these years lies in the increased knowledge of what government is all about, the in- creased discussion of broad prob- lems and the increased recogni- tion that the people of this country are entitled to a govern- ment which constantly thinks in terms of the people’s needs. We are coming to differences between fact and fiction. That in itself is a step in advance. We de not fall as easily as in older days for glittering generali- ties, for specious promises. We say in an election year to candi- Text of President’s Talk Remarks Before National Institute Of Government at White House dates for President and Vice President, and to “would-be” Senators and Representatives, “quit condemning each and every act of this administration and tell us just how you would change the laws if you were in power.” “You say you would balance the budget—you who oppose pres- ent policies—don't tell us that you would appoint’ some new committee or board to make rec- ommendations. The budget is an open book. If it is to be bal- anced you can do it in one of two ways or by a combination of both. You can levy new taxes, or you can cut appropriations. If you choose the former, what kind of taxes do you propose to levy? If you propose to cut expenditures, which ones will you cut and by what amount? Will you in these critical days lop off a billion dol- lars from our national defense? Will you in these critical days lop off a billion dollars for the care of the needy unemployed? Will you curtail expenditures for old age pensions or unemployment insurance? Will you abolish the Securities and Exchange Com- mission and turn their functions over to the Stock Exchange? Will you end the Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Youth Administration? Will you destroy, by withdrawing appropriations, the Soil Conservation and tree planting program of the Govern- ment?” Points to Dilemma Facing Candidates. I recognize the horrid dilemma that questions of this kind are going to put certain types of can- didates into in the coming six months. ‘Whoever the nominees of the two major parties are, I firmly believe that the real question, the honest question, the funda- mental question on election day is going to be this: “Do you wish to employ for your bus line chauffeurs who wrecked the pre- vious bus line by driving the old buses into the ditch or by going to sleep at the wheel—or are you going to continue the present policy of employing active, wide- awake chauffeurs who are in- spired with the thought that their duty is to be polite to the passengers and see to it that they reach their destination in comfort and complete safety. I am confident that your com- mon sense, your enthusiasm and your deep understanding of the problems of the day will go far to keep the American people on the right road in this year of grace 1940. Berlin (Continued From First Page.) the British Admiralty) a chance to say it first.” K When Mr. Churchill maintained silence the high command felt the information should be delayed no longer, it was said. German authorities said that numerous hits were scored on the battleship during the attack, which the communique said was carried out by dive bombers, but it was thought that one bomb must have struck the magazine. That alone, it was said, could have caused the flames which were reported to have shot up over 1,500 feet into the air. “After the clouds of smoke disap- peared,” said the high command communique, “there was nothing more of the ship to be seen except debris.” Authorized sources speculated whether the commander of the Brit- ish expeditionary force to Norway was aboard the warship, and were anxious for an announcement from Mr. Churchill, Apparently the German dive- bombers were ordered to concentrate on the battleship to the exclusion of other British vessels reported mov- ing out of Namsos helter-skelter. The importance of the occasion {was emphasized by the fact that Gen. Erhardt Milch, next in command of the Air Ministry after Marshal Goering, was sent to Norway to di- rect the operations personally. Hitler today awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to Gen. Milch, Lt. Gen. Hans Geisler and Maj. Harlinghausen for distin- guished service in German air op- erations in Norway., Jubilant because no German planes or lives were lost in the ac- tion, they intimated that yester- days’ success was but the beginning and that similar startling news might come today. There also were intimations that German attention now was centering particularly upon the Netherlands and Belgium. According to German versions the British-French flight from Namsos was disastrous. Allied troops were said to have left behind valuable supplies and to have forgotten to take along one British soldier. Derisive of British. The British troops in Norway showed no fighting spirit whatever, the Germans declared. Authorized sources spoke with the utmost derision of the manner in which, they said, the British and French used Norwegian troops to cover their retreat and then aban- doned them without giving them a chance to board & British boat. The same sources said the British made no effort to turn their food supplies over to the Norwegians as they themselves withdrew. “That’s how Britain helps those who fight for her,” they said causti- cally. The brief communique reporting the sinking of the British battleship said: ‘ “On the afternoon of May 3 a British battleship on a western course west of Namsos was attacked by German dive-bombers and was hit by bombs of heavy caliber be- tween the forward turrets. “Half a minute after the bombs hit shooting flames flared 500 meters (more than 500 yards) high amidst great clouds of smoke. “After the clouds of smoke disap- peared there was nothing more of the ship to be seen except debris.” Tass Statement Welcomed. Berlin welcomed as especially timely an assertion by Tass, official Soviet news agency, that Germany and Russia are equally “interested in the preservation of Sweden's neu- trality.” The Tass statement, coming at a time when Nazi officialdom is accus- ing the allies anew of seeking to extend the war area, tends to put both Germany and Russia in the ranks of the peacefully inclined na- tions, according to the German view. Authorized sources, commenting on the situation, said Germany and Russia had been in ffccord from the beginning of the conflict in Norway and the seizure of military suze- rainty in Denmark by Germany. | 21, the same day they were shipped Police of 2 States Join in Manhunt For Torso Slayer Discovery of Three Bodies in Pittsburgh Spurs Search By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, May 4.—Grim- faced police officials of two States, taunted 10 years by a mad butcher who has counted his victims at more than a score, mobilized today for a manhunt from Pittsburgh, dumping ground for three more mutilated bodies. Detectives came from Cleveland, home of the madman’s meander- ings; Youngstown, Ohio, and New Castle, Pa., ports of call in a tour of death that led yesterday to a railroad siding near here where three surgically-sliced headless corpses were found in three box- cars. The slaughterer’s trail, appar- ently traced back to Cleveland, where in the downtown Kingsbury Run section residents for years have been terrorized by a man with 8 knife who has killed and dis- membered a dozen victims. ‘Two of the bodies uncovered yes- terday had been cut into eight pieces by what morgue attendants said was an expert in the use of a surgeon'’s scalpel or a butcher knife. The third had the word *“Nazi” carved across the chest in 5-inch letters. There were no identifying | clues. 1 The nude victims, 30 to 40 years | old, had been dead an estimated six weeks to two months. The three cars arrived here April | from Struthers, suburban Youngs- town, where railroad officials said | they had stood idle in interchange yards for two days after 15 months in Youngstown yards. Found near one | body were charred scraps of a| Youngstown newspaper dated De- cember 11, 1939, “1 think it is safe to say the mad butcher’s victims now total 24,” de- clared Detective Peter Merylo of Cleveland. “The whole thing looks like his work.” However, Deputy Coroner Anthony Sappo found the mad butcher angle confused by discovedy of the word | “Nazi” on one body which he said “indicates a possibility there might be some secret society, opposed to Nazis, connected with the case.” Merylo reported a bloody print of & “good-sized” shoe found on wrap- pins in one of the cars apparently was that of the slayer’s and proved | for the first time that the butcher was a man and not a woman as some suspected. Summit Park my~ Young and old will join in the festivities of a May party for Sum mit Park children today at the home of Mrs. Lelia W. Marshall 3703 Bangor street S.E. Peggy Diehl and Don Byrnes will be crowned king and queen, with their proces- sion marching around the block to| | Suitland road and | dance around returning to the Maypole and enter in the folk dances with the “grown up.” 2 Institute ‘C?"“f‘l{e,d From First Page.) tional farm program will be even more vital to our national welfare than it has been the last seven years.” Political power of the institute delegates in the forthcoming cam- paign was stressed this morning by Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the Mint, during introduction of | Secretary Wallace. “These 5,000 women warriors fired with zeal and armed with facts,” she declared, “constitute a force formidable in itself, enough to make the opposition shake in its boots.” Mrs. Roosevelt Speaks Tonight. Today's program was crowded with sessions scattered in the down- town section, winding up with a symposium tonight at Riverside Stadium, where Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will conclude the discus- sion of “What Do Woman Want in the 1940 Democratic Platform?” Following Secretary Wallace’s ad- dress this morning there were five round tables at various places on agricultural subjects and two mo- tion pictures were shown at the Agriculture Department. An “in- formation please” luncheon was scheduled for noon at the Raleigh Hotel and a buffet luncheon at the same place for the Young Demo- crats. Secretary of Labor Perkins planned to discuss “Labor Policies of the New Deal” at this afternoon’s session in the Departmental Audi- torium, to be followed by Aubrey Williams, administrator of the Na- tional Youth Administration, on the problems of youth. Four round tables were scheduled on a variety of subjects during the afternoon. Overflowing the Hotel Washing- ton, where the principal dinner is to be held tonight honoring women who hold office under the New Deal, the banquet spread to five other hotels, the Willard, Raleigh, Carleton, Hamilton and Ambassa- dor. Business Co-operation Asked. Attorney General Jackson, spokes- man for the administration, ex- tended a friendly invitation to big business last night to co-operate with the Government, and his op- ponent on the platform, Henry I. Harriman, former president of the United States Chamber of Com- merce, responded with at least a modified indorsement of the New Deal program. Mr. Harriman, how- ever, had scant praise for the Fed- eral deficit, although placing him- self on record in favor of social security and various other costly reforms. Last night's session of the Wom- en’s Division of the Democratic Na- tional Committee was held in Riverside Stadium. The sports arena —_— e ———— for LATEST NEWS The Night Final Star, containing the latest news of the day during these dramatic times, is de- livered every ' evening throughout the city and suburbs between 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. Telephone National 5000 for immediate delivery. P i i o AS THOUSANDS LISTENED — President Roosevelt is shown addressing Democratic women, attending the National Institute of Government, from the south portico of the White House yesterday. —Associated Press Photo. had a seating capacity several times too large for the audience which turned out to hear the orators. Up- ward to 1500 attended. Representative Norton of New Jersey, staunch defender of the New Deal and the rights of labor, acted as moderator over a debate participated in by Mr. Jackson, Mr. Harriman, Senator Meade of New York, Democrat and liberal, and Felix Morley, editor of the Wash- ington Post. Opening the debate, Mr. Jackson took as his subject, “Business and Government Have Worked To- | gether.” He declared, “It is one of | },me syndicated fables of the oppo- | sition that this administration is | hostile to business.” Requested by Business. | “Practically every regulation that | has at any time been imposed on | | American business has been cham- | pioned by one group of businessmen to protect itself from the competi- | | tion or exploitation of another | group,” Mr. Jackson said. | “It was businessmen,” Mr. Jack- | | son continued, “who bought electric | | power and the investors who bought ‘electric securities’ who demanded | the regulation of the public utilities | holding companies. I am unable to | recall a single anti-trust prosecution that was not instiluted on the com- | | plaint of businessmen. Nothing | would be more disastrous than for | the Government to cease these acti- vities and let business be governed | (only by the principle ot dog-eat-dog.” The administration, he continued, is determined to “arm the laboring | forces of the country with such weapons as collective bargaining.” He expressed the belief this policy is equally good for labor and busi- ness. “The campaign of 1940 can be a constructive one,” Mr Jackson said, “if those who are complaining of | present legislation will state frankly | and honestly what they propose to repeal and what they propose to| enact. Why not tell us what they propose to do with the Labor Rela- tions Act or the Wsge and Hour Act? How much profit will they want from the great industries be- fore they will be willing to support old age pensions or relief for the | unemployed?” Harriman Cites Change. Mr. Harriman, speaking generally, pdiscussed our transition from an | | agricultural country with new frontiers to develop to an industrial land where the need is apparent “for the social insurance of the individual against three great hazards of life— | sickness, unemployment and old | age.” | He declared “it may well be true | that laws passed to give security | are not in all ways wise, and they may require change and amendment. | To this end the Government and | business should study and dispas- | sionately co-operate.” | He insisted that “business must | recognize that labor is entitled to | the untrampled right to organize | or to remain organized as it de- sires, and to have a ceiling for its | hours and a floor for its wages.” | “I personally feel that many de- | tails of our present labor acts are | unwise and that the administra- | tion of them is not entirely un- biased,” Mr. Harriman stated, “but I | do say to American business that if it asks Congress to correct these acts it should at the same time lessen the need for such laws.” He spoke for “free business enter- prise without Government compe- tition” and declared that large profits are necessary to compensate industry for “many and inevitable losses.” Warns Against Low Profit Ceiling. Any limitation of profit to 3 or 6 per cent, he said, “will sound the death knell of private enterprise and herald the advent of state so- cialism.” The speaker praised Secretary of State Hull for his reciprocal trade treaties and for his stand in favor DO AS OTHERS DO! Hundreds of thrifty people have found Prudential “invest- ment shares” a fi- nancial haven—be- cause they're safe and profitable. Every account is in- sured up to $5,000. Start now . . . LUMP SUM or monthly installments. Aassets Over $3,000,000 of repeal of neutrality legislation. He happened to be in Berlin in 1939, he said, and recognized the fact that the Germans were more willing to g0 to war because of the belief the allies would be denied essential war supplies in this country by our neutrality laws. Mr. Harriman praised the “cour- age of the Justice Department in its enforcement of the anti-trust laws.” In conclusion, he declared the administration has failed to balance the budget or solve the unemploy- ment problem. He ventured the prophecy, however, that “if a Repub- lican administration follows the Democratic administration few of the basic principles of the New Deal laws will be changed.” President Roosevelt addressed the Democratic women late yesterday from the south portico of the White House. He expressed pleasure at the size and enthusiasm of the group, and congratulated the women on their active interest in public affairs. Speaks for Alert Leadership. ~ The President conciuded with: “Whoever the nominees of the two major parties are, I firmly be- lieve that the real question, the | henest question, the fundamental question on election day is going to be this: ‘Do you wish to employ for | your bus line chauffeurs who wrecked the previous bus line by driving the | old busses into the ditch or by going |to sleep at the wheel—or are you going to continue the present policy of employing active, chauffeurs who are inspired with the thought that their duty is to be| polite to the passengers, and see to it that they reach their destination in comfort and complete safety.’” In introducing the speakers last night, Mrs. Norton said that while | she felt she might e “talking out of school,” the election year of 1940 looked to her like a “Franklin D. Roosevelt” year and another great opportunity for the Democratic party. Both Senator Meade and Mr. Mor- ley warned that co-operation be- tween Government ana business has | become a real necessity. Senator Meade declared that new social se- curity and labor legislation is the administration’s answer to “sweat shop conditions.” Speaking for the Democrats, he said: “Peace is our objective, domestic harmony our endeavor, and co- operation between business and labor our desire.” SOFO wide-awake | f xx A3 Hopkins' Deparfment Recommends Change In Pofash Markefing Resuits of Survey Of Industry Sent To Justice Department Containing recommendations for important changes in potash in- dustry practices, the Commerce De- partment has submitted a report on the potash industry to the Jus- tice Department, Secretary Hopkins announced today. The report, cul- minating a year's work by depart- ment experts, reviews the character and history of the industry, describes its marketing system and discusses the performance of the industry. Recommendations of the depart- ment include, first, the establish- ment of a price differential of ap- proximately $7 per ton between the price at Carlsbad, N. Mex., one of the important sources of domestic pro- duction, and the price at the sea- board. Prices at Carlsbad and the seaboard are now identical. Second, establishment of a mul- tiple discount system, instead of the present single discount. Third, a modification of sales policy so as to permit consumers to buy direct from producers in car- load lots for their own use at regu- lar quoted prices, with the usual dis= count, thus opening up a new source of supply in addition to the existing source. Last year, the Justice Department began a general investigation of the fertilizer industry. At its suggestion, the Commerce Department under= took an economic survey of the in- dustry. 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