Show S SI S. L LI L. WITNESS ATTACKS 0 P M SEATTLE Aug 26 UP A RI-A A Salt alt Lake City mining man Frank Eichelberger testified Tuesday before before be be- fore a senate defense industry in investigation investigation in- in committee that Japan has been producing aluminum in I six plants since 1938 under the I same process which a company he I heads proposes heads proposes to set up in ha a plant near Tacoma Ei Eichelberger who startled the Truman committee Monday with testimony that the office of production production pro pro- management and the Aluminum Company of America are more more interested in preserving the company's aluminum monopoly than they are in national defense resumed the stand Tuesday Opening the hearing Senator D. D Wash asked Eichelberger Eichelberger Eichelberger Eichel Eichel- berger Yesterday you called attention to the fact that Japan is using wing your process in six or seven plants Is that your process All I can say is that we patented it there and the Japanese weren't successful in making aluminum un until un until til after our patent replied Eichelberger Eichelberger Eich Etch elberger president of the company of Salt Lake City Japan today is producing more aluminum than the United States and they are using that process They manufactured manufactured manufactured man man- more in 1939 than this country did Has the office of production management tried to discourage the use of your patented process the senator asked Yes sir they have Eichelberger Eichelberg- Eichelberg er said And yet Japan Using it is turning out more aluminum than we are Senator re re- marked Eichelberger said that deposits of bearing bearIng clays near Enumclaw Wash which his com corn company company pany pony has tested with diamond drills dills are tremendous The bureau of mines believes these deposits are re as great as those near Salt Lake City which are the largest in the nation indisputably indisputably ably Eichelberger testified |