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Show . . ) An important addition to America's Amer-ica's aluminum was made possible this week when the Secretary of Interior announced the signing of. a second contract with the Reyolds Metals Company for delivery of an additional block of 20,000 kilowatts of Bonneville-Grand Coulee power-to power-to that concern. NOTES FROM 1 WASHINGTON The transfer of nearly 500.000 cubic feet of American helium from France to Great Britain for use in this country in connection with British in industrial contracts was approved to day by Secretary of the Interior. The valuable nonin flammable gas made available to Great Britain under contract approved ap-proved by the Secretary is comprised com-prised of a supply originally sold to the French Government for research re-search purposes in May 1940. Under Un-der the contract entered into at that time, 500,000 cubic feet of the gas was to be shipped to France, but outbreak of war prevented completion of the shipment. Hearings for nine coal producers, with mines located in Virginia and Kentucky, on charges of wiilful violation of minimum prices have been set by the Bituminous Coal Division of the Department of In- terior. Columbia river power provided )y the Bonneville Power Adminstra-tion Adminstra-tion is enabling municipalities in the far Northwest to enjoy some of the lowest power rates in the Nation, it was reported this week. No one should get the idea that wild birds and mamals in the United Un-ited States have any significant food value in connection with national nat-ional defense the nation's No. 1 pildlife adminstrator, said today In commenting on newspaper reports re-ports that the Royal Empire Society Soc-iety had pointed to its "native wildlife" aa an extreme emergency source of "such delicacies as badger bad-ger hams, bear steaks, roast python, py-thon, and hedgehog." |