Show BOARD AWAITS HOPKINS VIEWS WASHINGTON Feb 21 INS UNS- INS Harry L L. Hopkins was to outline the defense needs of Great Britain to his fellow members of the new defense production planning board and to suggest means of coordinating coordinating coordinating the the efforts of the United States with those of England The former secretary of commerce commerce commerce com com- merce who just returned from an observation trip to England as personal personal personal per per- emissary of President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt met with the board as Chairman Chairman Chairman Chair Chair- man Samuel R. R Fuller called it into its first secret session Defense officials said the new board was destined to become one of the most important bodies in inthe inthe inthe the entire preparedness set They said Its first important job will be an attempt to bring about closer cooperation of industrial problems between the two cies Hopkins and Admiral William Wllliam H H. Standley former chief of naval operations operations operations op op- and this country's representative representative representative at the 1935 London naval conferences were both named payless payless payless pay- pay less members of the new advisory body Both are regarded as fully informed about Britain's war needs Other members of the new group include two labor representatives George W. W A F L secretary- secretary treasurer and James B. B Carey CIO secretary an army representative Major General James H. H Burns a scientist Robert E. E Doherty president of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and two industrialists industrial industrial- John L. L Pratt retired executive executive executive tive vice president of General Motors Motors Motors Mo Mo- tors corporation and William E E. Levis of Toledo Ohio chairman of the board of Owens Libby Glass company |