Show I Order Barring Sale Hit flit as Too Late ate WASHINGTON April 9 INS Rep R. R Okla Okia chairman chairman chair chairman man of a house c executive expenditures expendi tures turcs subcommittee investigating surplus sales to Russia Friday termed President Truman's stop order on sales of war plants as locking the barn after the horse h has s been stolen Commenting on the that halted sales of ot surplus industrial plants and machine toots tools said Its too bad that we didn't get such an order sooner Our committee com corn recommended this same thing 10 days ago and the president dent might have acted with more timeliness The only trouble is that you wonder wonder- how many many horses have been stolen Rep Johnson D. D Tex said the order W was 3 wise although it was overdue Make lake Sense It docs does not nol make sense to me meo meto meto to o mobilize men with one hand and demobilize f facilities a Co I 11 e. e with the theother theother theother other h he added The war assets administration said that thal the great majority of ot desirable surplus plants and materials materials mate mate- rials that were not being held on ona ona ona a stand by basis has already been sold A W WA A A spokesman declared de dc that of ot some worth of war war- plants In the United d States all alt but about have been sold Total inventory of war assets at atthe atthe atthe the time of ot the tho order was about and most of that Is material difficult to sell W WAA A A said that disposable plants In goodlo good lo had been sold and that only highly specialized machine tools and other equipment re re- d. d war Another war asse assets official said that many critical items had aready al al- r ready eady been withdrawn from from sale salebY saleby saley bY y routine stop orders and that he the presidential directive would have hav little effect Best Gone He pointed but that many of VA As A's As A's remaining properties were tho hose thoe e that were difficult of ot disposal disposal disposal dis dis- dis- dis di- di or diso r so located that even if It sold sold old they could not 1 b. b be shipped to ready cady markets markets' Many surplus goods regaining unsold sold are aircraft components ranging from carburetors to complete com corn transports transportS' But the best airplanes airplanes air- air planes lanes already are gone or have een withdrawn from the market a and aid d many of the component parts are of little value S. S the new order are ate such things thing's thing as as' as surplus surplus' clothes which V WAA VAA AA has in quantity quantity quantity-in in suc such uch spots spot Hawaii and Puerto Rico Others not touched by the dire directive are re rusting away on Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- islands islands' arid and Germ German n battle battle- fields ields |