Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-09 | Page 12 | U. S. will Sell War Equipment

u. s Jill sell Id EQUIPMENT Offer of France for Purchase Pur-chase Docs Not Meet With Approval. j WASH r.VOTO.V, July 8. Tin'! Frfiich Knvnr iunenl having o t'f r-J only 3-0j,- ! OuO.uijfi for A tnt-ricn.il army cfj ut pmM.t hi Future coHtlMK $l,ri"ti,'J'.)1'j''i, the uur dc-pa dc-pa rr rnciit has ordered a k:i l-:- oranlza-tl'.u oranlza-tl'.u fur disposal of the properly be. i formed in Fra.iee, Inn:' tr of Sales Hare toM a special house roniiui 1 1 - inve.-ttl-KaiiiiK w;ir dt pa rl :ri'-nl expenditures abroad. Director Jl r.; naid tin? Frcnc.Yi offer j u-um luiidn to Chairman ( 'urkr of the t United StatuH liquidation commission. The uff.tr, hi: .-aid. included all maf-rials, Including fdilp du-'U-i, railroad works and ' equipment, auluinobile trucks and tv-i:l-s. Mr. Hare, whh a smalt party of industrial indus-trial i-Kpiri-tn, will .i.i I tor Kiiiope Saturday Satur-day to Im-k.ii I heir woi U abroad. Sal-;i i of flours and orKaul.a t mns wi!l be opened I and malMlalned a I arious places throughout. Furnpe, tin; director .said, and Much of the iialerhil may be returned I to thft UiilU'd Siat.-M. "If Kranct! u'MI not pay a fair fi'urn,' I thft diniLor added, "we will ta ko 1 1 Mi Htuff out of tho ('ouuliy and sell it e!w-:- wlwro." j Hah'H of runcliinory and tols, worth t'A-.tity to thirty inll!!n t.ilarH, to K'um iir plamii'd. Mr. I Ian? Ma id, while hormi.s and inuI'M may be Huhl to liu-mania liu-mania and I'ola tid. Mom born of the Hiibronnnltror;, in thoir clI.scuHHlun with Mr. llar made it plain that. th?y favorrMl n-lurnlriK' all poHiblti iM)pUt'H to thin country, "to tuvak t lm li iK'li prirtM," as ( 'halrma n Johortnn uf Mouth liakota said. In ivply. Mr. Harft hHHured tht-in 'hat If "a bi.dcor maid;.?! is li.tn? In prico alone, tin1 poods will he returned homo dm the patriotic ihiiiK." Mr. Hiiro out lit,. d h.H salos poli-y as liot to presor-t? Irirh prioos for thn liono-flt liono-flt fit rnunufactiir.-rH, hut to prevent un-necoHsary un-necoHsary ind us I rial disl urhanoo and warrlfioe In priocH that would result from duinplUK" nil surplus foods on the mar-hft." mar-hft." ItefHrrlriK lo the moat packers and vi'etablo eannors, In? said: "Wo have told Mi em we don't intend to aavH them, but to play the game for the be;U of a1!." i Ships for return of Kods from abroad ' are expected to bo available about Sop- j tember 1. the director sa'd. He assort-! cd ht! way "totally in the dark" afl to any j nrra 1 1 foment s which ndKht have been mailt) with the French Kovornnuoit wlion , the material was sent abroad for the sale of surplus supplier. j American aircraft In Europe, will not he i mth j ict to his disposal, the director said. I In answer to i 'hair ma n Johnson, Mr. Haro said neither he nor anyone on his staff would pupersode. anyone who bad j jirovt?n himself efficient, but under fur- i ther ouestioninc: (inclarod he was unable to d so u? h the report that he was to take : , nway tho powers of the liquidation commission. com-mission. .