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Show U. S. POTATOES TO GO TO HELP FEED EUROPEANS Efforts to find ways and means of shipping potatoes to Europe without heavy loss have been reasonably successful and arrangements arrange-ments have been completed for the shipment of approximately 3,495,-000 3,495,-000 bushels of potatoes to Italy, France, and . American-English sections of Germany, according to G. Frank Nelson, member of the Utah State PMA committee. Five cargoes of potatoes of about 1,165,000 bushels will go to Italy to be shipped not later than February 30 and a similar amount is to be shipped to Italy not later than March 1. The shipment to Germany of another 1,165,000 bushels will be made during February. Mr. Nelson said that previous attempts to ship potatoes have not been too successful. In some cases potatoes have begun spoiling before the ships were fully loaded. Suitable ships have not always been available and sometimes transportation has not been adequate ade-quate after arrival in Europe. Reports Re-ports indicate that these obstacles have been pretty well eliminated and potatoes can be shipped fairly successfully to some European countries. The potatoes will be taken largely from Eastern ports, principally prin-cipally from Maine. This movement, move-ment, the chairman explains, will tend to reduce losses of potatoes in storage in this country by taking tak-ing care of the surplus in heavy producing areas. At the same time it will be supplying urgently needed food to hungry people in Europe. |