Show I I HOOVER URGES NITRATE ACTiON Opposes U El U S B Operation of Great Muscle Shoals Plants WASHINGTON Feb rob 22 Secretary Hoover tola the house hous appropriations committee considering the tho third de- de deficiency deficiency de deficiency appropriation bill that he be La- La favored fa favored development of Muscle Shoals I for tor making making- nitrates and that ho lie was wasp wasI I against government operation it disclosed today when the committed record was sac made public I I would like to see e Mr l Ford lord do doit doIt It dolIt If It that would s suit anybody the dol secretary said I 1 do not know Inow whether Mr fr Fords Ford's Ford terms are thel the l terms congress ought to adopt opt I could i 1 not speak as to that but I 1 would auld like I to see anybody who has capital capitol take I Muscle f Shoals and turn nitrates out of oC it tom ora ow It was brought out that the Unit Unit- United United United ed States has ha paid nearly any a billion dot dot- dol dollars tars lars top for Chilean nitrates nitrate since Ince the th Civil sar ar and the thc secretary said sold that as a protective measure we w ought to do something for our own relief relict lie added that there was horse horsepower horsepower hor I power on the Colorado river In Ari Arizona MI- MI zona ZODa that he h would like lik to see eo turn turn- turned turned turned I Arl-I ed Into the th manufacture of ot nitrates The Colorado river he said Is In preg nant Ith larger larg-er possibilities than thon preg I an other hor horsepower epo er project 00 00 |