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Soviet Concerned
Over Bogging Down
Of War Industries
Machine, Ill-Fed,
Badly Missing Fire,
Economists Say
By LELAND STOWE,
Chle»*o Dally Naws Foralyn Correspondent.
BUCHAREST, May 29 (By Radio).
—What is the present state of in
dustrial and raw material produc
tion in the Soviet Union? Is it suffi
cient to make an action of the Red
army possible within this calendar
year and something less than a des
perate gamble on the part of the
Kremlin’s political strategists?
Let us admit that you cannot
Inspect steel mills and oil fields dur
ing a one-week visit in Russia, nor,
probably, during a two-month so
journ, but you can talk with the
only people who will really talk with
a foreigner in the U. S. S. R. nowa
days—with other foreigners who
have lived there long enough to
know quite a lot about conditions.
Better still, and in the interests of
fairness, you can confine yourself
chiefly to the testimony of Soviet
publications and Soviet economic
writers.
On this latter basis alone, here
Is a summary of Soviet Russia’s
production report on general indus
trial conditions during the first four
months of 1940:
Coal—Production down, and a
Widely felt shortage.
Iron ore—Production consistently
poor, as through the last months
of 1939.
Oil—Output poor and declining
further in several important fields.
Crude oil—Radically downward.
Inferior Copper Output.
Copper ore—Production up nearly
SO per cent in the first quarter, but
quality inferior.
Sugar and tobacco industries—be
low estimates.
Steel—Output limited by insuffi
cient scrap and reports decidedly
Unsatisfactory.
Aluminum—Production cut sharp
ly by lack of bauxite.
Machine tools, tractors, locomo
tives and automobiles—All below
their 1940 quotas.
Although this could be enlarged,
as it stands, it covers key products
and industries. Over a period of
three months the Moscow press has
contributed the mosaics which form
a convincing picture of what would
be called a general slump in any
capitalistic country, and the Soviet
economists have made no effort to
conceal their concern over industrial
conditions which are almost univer
6ally unsatisfactory and, in some in
stances, seriously bogged down. Ac
cording to their reports, the pain
fully constructed Russian machine
Is ill-fed and missing fire on many
cylinders. By no stretch of optimism
Is this the kind of machine with
which to face a Nazi Germany which
might be victorious in the west.
Rare for Self-Preservation.
But the Kremlin is now confronted
With this dangerous possibility. In
View of that fact, one can under
stand why Soviet smelters and in
dustrial plants are working seven
days a week, and at top speed,
wherever off-schedule railroads
somehow manage to feed them with
raw materials.
For the Soviets this is nothing
less than a race for self-preserva
tion. Despite that fact, their in
dustries are sadly crippled for such
a race.
Some of the reasons for their be
ing crippled are easily ascertained.
Russia is suffering from an acute
shortage of skilled labor which has
been accentuated by the mobiliza
tion of millions of workmen to swell
the Red Army to a strength of near
ly 2,000.000 men. Many key indus
tries are still partially paralyzed
from the purges which eliminated
experienced and irreplacable engi
neers and administrators. Finally,
there is the persistent .disorganiza
tion of railroad transportation which
was apparently increased by the
pronounced strain of the Russo
Finnish war.
In March the Soviet economic
publication, Industriya, called at
tention to the general lag of pro
duction behind the government’s
1940 quota. With undeniable au
thority it declared, “This lies not
only in the shortage of raw mate
rials but also in the bad operation
of the railroad transport system,
which was unable to supply the
mills with even those raw materials
which were ready for shipment.”
Last week's marked curtailment of
railroad passenger trains out of
Moscow would not appear to indi
cate any genuine improvement in
this critical situation between March
and the present time.
Excessive Waste Assailed.
In the same month of March
Izvestia, Soviet official organ, stated
that "the country is receiving thou
sands of tons less than it should
receive of oil, coal, metal and other
Important products.” Shortly be
fore that time the same Moscow
daily charged a lack "of even ele
mentary order in the operation of
oil, fuel and power construction in
dustries” and attacked the excessive
waste of war materials in the non
ferrous metals and steel plants.
Later reports failed to point toward
anything more than a possible slight
amelioration.
During the Finnish War the Soviet
lost an enormous amount of tanks
and very large quantities of air
planes and guns. As a result they
are now striving to replace these
vital weapons with the greatest pos
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sible speed, but steel, iron and
aluminum output is still far behind
what has been asked for and what
is needed. Soviet reports show that
steel and iron scrap is entirely in
sufficient for the requirements of
the steel mills and that steel pro
duction cannot be increased unless
much more scrap is collected. After
such scrap is collected there always
remains the essentially difficult
problem of getting it delivered
promptly to the mills.
Under such conditions it is not
surprising that Soviet publications
have recently urged the development
of such crude materials in certain
industries.
In March it was reported that a
substitute for chrome nickel had
been introduced into airplane fac
tories. Even this was in an industry
directly concerned with national de
fense. The shortage of motor’gaso
line has encouraged research work
on substitute fuels which would per
mit the manufacture of different
types of automobiles.
Oil Production Declines.
In recent weeks several important
Soviet oil wells have been reported
out of operation, presumably due to
faulty administration. This year’s
decline in petroleum production has
also been attributed, in part, to an
entirely insufficient drilling of new
wells. In any case, at the end of
March Izvestia reported that the
rich Baku oil district had failed to
meet its 1939 production quota and
was still behind for the first months
of 1940. On the other hand, the
Grozny-Emba oil fields, which fell
off sharply through January and
February, have registered a slight
improvement since March.
Taken as a whole, the present pro
duction levels of Soviet industry
must be causing many headaches
among the occupants of the Kremlin
and also in the Red Army high com
mand. The widespread falling off in
industrial output cannot be denied
and it threatens to create great
problems of national defense for the
Stalinist dictatorship.
But, of course, this situation does
not mean that the U. S. S. R. is con
fronted with early internal collapse.
It merely means that the Russian
bear is still lumbering along on all
fours—in a world in which Hitler's
mechanized army corps are moving
with lightning and devastating
speed.
All this explains why one seasoned
observer remarked to me, "In a war
with any first-class power, the So
viets can accomplish mighty little.
They are not likely to risk anything
much bigger than Bessarabia.”
On that latter point you can make
your own bet, but it might be well
to remember that most prophets
about future policies and decisions
have ended up without honor in
anybody's country. All the experts
who were actuated by Western
logic, rather than by considerations
of political opportunity, firmly be
lieved last November that Soviet
Russia would never risk a winter
invasion of Finland.
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Inc.)
Swedish Steamer Sinks
STOCKHOLM, May 29 (Jf).—'The
Swedish steamer Torsten, 1,204 tons,
sank today after striking a mine in
the Kattegat while en route to
Goteborg. Her crew of 16 was
saved.
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Red Cross Urges
Doubling of Quotas;
$3,500,000 Raised
District Chapter Reports
Total Contributions
Of $46,397
Contributions to the Red
Cross war relief fund will be
received and acknowledged in
the news columns if sent to the
cashier's office at The Star.
As the American Red Cross War
Relief Fund rose to more than one
third its national goal of $10,000,000
and the District Chapter reported
contributions of $46,397 received
toward its $150,000 quota. National
Red Cross Chairman Norman H.
Davis today appealed to units of the
organization throughout the Nation
to “go on and where possible double
their quotas.”
“The greatest tragedy in all his
tory,” asserted Mr. Davis in a tele
gram to the 3,700 chapters, demands
that "the only limitation should be I
the maximum generosity of the
American people.” It is impossible
to describe the pitiful plight of mil
lions of refugees in France.”
At noon yesterday the national
fund stood at $3,500,000.
Reporting additional contribu
tions of $6,823,21 received yesterday,
the District chapter noted individual
gifts including: Mr. and Mrs. F. L.
Berlin, $1,000; Princess Margaret
Boncompagni, $500: Mrs. W. Mc
Kee Dunn, $300: Judge and Mrs.
J. Harry Covington, $250, and Mrs.
B. W. Parker, $200,
Many Children Contribute.
For the second successive day, the
Treasury Department led in or
ganizational contributions with $1 -
020.
Many children w>ere said to be
emptying their dime savings banks
to aid the cause.
New booths for receipt of gifts
w'ere set up in many sections of the
city, and Bruce Baird, chairman for
the local fund, expressed satisfac- i
tion with progress. He stressed. !
however, that the drive is “far from !
completed.”
Appointments for specialized work
were announced yesterday. Arthur
Gray, display manager at Lans
burgh's, was named chairman of
displays; Oscar Coolican, chairman
of the Instructions, Cutting and i
Assembling Committee of garment
production; Mrs. Harry Woodring,
wife of the Secretary of War, chair
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before the Graduate Nurses’ Asso
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of the nurses, it is said, are in
terested in Red Cross work.
The Ladies of the Senate produc
tion unit presented four awards for
outstanding service at its final meet
ing of the year yesterday. Mrs. Alva
B. Adams won the knitting honors
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Sutherland won the sewing award
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Convicted Mrs. Burleson
Seeks New Trial
By the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA, S. C.t May 29.—No
tice of a motion for a new trial de
layed imposition of sentence today
on Mrs. May Walker Burleson, Gal
veston (Tex.) woman convicted of
manslaughter, with recommendation
of mercy.
The former artist and suffragette
leader was found guilty last night
of fatally shooting the woman who
succeeded her in marriage to Col.
Richard C. Burleson of the United
States Army. The jury's verdict
automatically fixed sentence of from
2 to 30 years.
The second Mrs. Burleson, former
ly Mrs. Isabel Reese Knowlton of
Boston, wras shot while eating lunch
in a hotel cafeteria March 8. Her
husband, artillery adviser of the 6th
Division, was at Camp Jackson,
near here, attending winter ma
neuvers.
The State asked that the defend
ant be sentenced to die in the elec
tric chair and argued that she "pre
tended insanity.” The defense con
tended she was mentally deranged
at the time of the slaying.
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Gallinger Graduates
64 Nurses; Sibley
Gives 12 Diplomas
Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin
And Mrs. F. C. Reynolds
Address Classes
Sixty-four graduates of the Capi
tal City School of Nursing at Gal
linger Hospital and 12 Sibley Hospi
tal graduates were given their di
plomas and their nurse's pins at ex
ercises last night.
Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president
of George Washington University,
told the graduates at the Gallinger
nursing school that they must "know
the meaning of sacrifice, courage
and faith.”
In cautioning the nurses against
expecting to accomplish spectacular
deeds when they enter service, Dr.
Marvin urged the graduates to be
lieve that "the most spectacular
deed in life today is to do the small
but important things in an efficient
way.”
Paying tribute to Dr. Edgar A. Bo
cock, superintendent of the hospital,
he said:
"He has had to make a lot of
bricks without straw and they must
be pretty good bricks, as evidenced
by the buildings we see here.”
ur. Kossiter Presides.
The Rev. Harry V. Porter, pastor
of the Westminster Presbyterian
Church, offered the invocation and
benediction at the exercises, held at
the nurses’ home. Dr. P. S. Rossiter,
hospital chief of staff, presided; Dr.
Bocock presented the diplomas and
Miss Catherine E. Moran, superin
tendent of nurses, presented the
pins.
Mrs. Prances McElhaney Raum,
president of the alumnae associa
tion of the nursing school, presented
the alumnae medal for the outstand
ing student in the class to Miss
Isabel Bourassa. Miss Evelyn Wyatt
delivered the valedictory address.
Mrs. F. C. Reynolds, official of the
Board of Trustees of the Methodist
Woman's Home Missionary Society,
gave the commencement address to
the Sibley graduates at exercises in
the Metropolitan M. E. Church.
She urged the graduates to obey
the laws of life and of the universe
in order to minister to humanity in
j a world of chaos, confusion and un
certainty.
Ur. Orem Gives Diplomas.
Dr. John M. Orem, acting presi
dent of Sibley Hospital, presented
the diplomas, and Mrs. Helen Shoe
maker, superintendent of nurses,
presented the nurses pins. Greet
ings to the graduates were given by
Mrs. Robert Stewart, bureau secre
tary of hospitals of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society: Paul B.
Cromelin, president of the Sibley
Board of Directors, and Dr. Thomas
E. Mattingly of the Siblev Medical
Council. Dr. William A. Keese, host
pastor, gave the invocation.
Graduating from Sibley were
Dorothy A. Gwvnn. Esther Grace
Henry, Grace K. Williams, Evelyn
W. Hutzell, Heleh Rittenhouse,
Coral Wirtena Fraser. Charlotte E.
Jenkins, Virginia M. Kinsey, Inella
G. Buie, Mabel Marie McKinnev,
Elizabeth T. Spencer and Melda
Elizabeth Bietzell.
The Gallinger graduates were Iris
Frances Adkins, Myrtle Lorraine At
kins, Mary Ann Bachtel, Edna Marie
Ball, Hulda Lenora Ballance, Irene
Borberly, Isabel Marie Bourassa,
Inez Bustle, Grace Elizabeth
Caviston, Lillian Geneva Champion,
Irene Clayton, Willie Lou Crocker,
Martha Pearl Doub, Ida Catherine
Funkhouser, Frances Emilia Gatlin,
Prue Gentry, Ethel Golladay, Clara
Lucille Gooding, Mary Virginia Grif
fith, Bessie Charlotte Hall, Mildred
Virginia Hall, Katherine Florence
Hamilton, Dell Frances Harrower,
Gladys Baker Hoard, Norma Chris
tine James, Lillian Bdlle Jolly, Nellie
Maude Jones, Fannie Martha Koch,
Hazel Irene Kriner, Martha Louise
Lewis, Agnes Linton, Louise Linton,
Frances Martin, Alma Earline Mc
Garity, Virginia Gertrude McKenzie,
Martha Gertrude McLawhon,
Georgia Esther Meadows, Hilda
Michael, Margaret Ann Miller, Theo
Florence Mitchell, Lida Virginia
Payne, Della Frances Powers, Fran
ces Pullman, Frances Olivia Reeder,
Marian Margaret Regan, Dickey
Amanda Rivers, Anna Cecilia Senita,
Mary Frances Shaw, Helen Elizabeth
Slaughenhaupt, Evelyn Virginia
Smith, Evelyn Le Nora Smithey,
Mary Verone Sullivan, Alise Suther
land, Edith Taliaferro. Alice Lorine
Tate, Barbara Ann Taylor, Grace
Louise Taylor, Corinne Touchberry,
Elizabeth Noland Van Metre, Mil
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Evelyn Wyatt, Helen Marcella Yas
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Truck Hits Boys, Driver
Held on Liquor Charge
A fuel truck driver was being held
at the fourth precinct police station
today on a charge of driving while
under the influence of liquor after
his truck struck two colored boys
playing on the curb in the 900 block
of Second street S.W.
The victims—Vincent Contee, 9,
of 1254 Carrollburg street S.W., and
Joseph Thompson, 15, of 318 McLean
avenue S.W.—were treated at Provi
dence Hospital for minor injuries.
The driver, listed on police records
as Henry Satterwhite, 25, colored,
of the 1300 block of T street N.W.,
was arrested after be took the boys
to the hospital. Police said the
truck was moving close alongside
the curb when one of the fenders
struck the boys who were playing in
a tree box.
Sue Coad, 3. of 2576 Southern ave
nue, in Maryland, near the District
line, was struck by an automobile
at Branch avenue and Denver street
S. E. She was treated at Casualty
Hospital for cuts and bruises.
| Weather Expert Gives
Tornado Advice: Run
The Weather Bureau doesn’t at
tempt to forecast tornadoes, but
here is advice from a bureau expert
on how to dodge one.
"If you are in your automobile
you probably can outdrive the
snaking cloud that you may see
approaching from the southwest,”
says F. D. Flora, United States me
teorologist for Kansas.
"If you are on the flat prairie and
can't find a hole in the ground, pick
up the feet and lay them down again
as fast as they can carry you in a
northwesterly direction.”
Mr. Flora says northwest torna
does nearly always travel northeast.
This year has started off as a
“normal” tornado year, and. if the
trend continues through to the end
of the blowing season in July, more
than 100 persons will have lost their
lives.
A Midwestern belt that includes
parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois.
Missouri, Kansas. Oklahoma and
Arkansas usually is considered the
"blow belt,” but Mr. Flora says that
twisters may occur almost any place
in the Nation.
Trade Accord Reached
CANBERRA, Australia, May 29
(fl*).—Australia and France today
reached agreement for removal of
wartime import restrictions on each
other's goods.
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Historical Society
Meeting Honors
Young and Neilson
Civic Organizations,
Press and Business
Represented at Session
Leaders of civic, press and business
organizations joined the Columbia
Historical Society in paying tribute
to two of the society's recently elect
ed members, John Russell Young,
new District Commissioner, and
George D. Neilson, new Police Court
Judge, last night at the Mayflower
Hotel.
One of the speakers, Former Judge
Robert E. Mattingly, in summarizing
the two-hour-and-15-minute pro
gram, said that “presidents of every
society on earth” had commended
Mr. Young and Judge Neilson. This
was admittedly an exaggeration, but
as Fred A. Emery, vice president of
the society, who presided, pointed
out, the list of organizations rep
resented at the meeting was im
pressive.
Harry N. Stull, president of the
Federation of Citizens' Associations,
praised the records of the two new
District officials. "They have back
bone, and that is what we need in
our local government,” Mr. Stull
said.
Gridiron President Speaks.
Referring to Commissioner Young,
Mark Foote, president of the Grid
iron Club, declared that “no living
man has had the confidence of more
Presidents of the United States."
As White House correspondent for
the Washington Star, Mr. Foote ex
plained. Mr. Young had been on
intimate terms with Presidents Wil
son, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and
Roosevelt.
Richard L. Wilson, president of
the National Press Club, told of call
ing the District Building in an effort
to see if the J. Russell Young School
of Expression, founded by Mr.
Young, had moved its offices from
the White House. “I asked for this
school of expression,” asserted Mr.
Wilson, “and after a long pause the
telephone operator connected me
with the District of Columbia
School of Correction.”
Judge Neilson, stating that he
would continue a policy of refusing
to hurry through cases without a
thorough hearing of all sides, in
vited members of the society to
spend a morning or day with'him
in Police Court.
“There is much to be gained by
such a visit,” he assured his listeners.
Colliflower Also Attends.
Other organization representatives
who extended greetings to the new
District officials included James E.
Colliflower, president of the Wash
ington Board of Trade; Ralph
Pollio, president of the Lions Club
and manager of the Mayflower Ho
tel; Arthur J. Dodge, second presi
dent of the National Press Club;
Pflul Wooton. correspondent of the
New Orleans Times - Picayune:
George W. Stimpson, correspondent
of the Houston Post; William E.
Richardson, past president of the
Society of Natives; Henry P. Blair
former president of the District
Board of Education, and Allen C
Plans for Improving^
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Southeast Citizens to
Confer With Whitehurst
On Beautification
Plans for the improvement and
possibly the entire reconstruction of
Pennsylvania avenue 8.E., from Sec
ond street to the new John Philip
Sousa Bridge were discussed last
night by members of the Southeast
Citizens’ Association, but action was
withheld pending a special hearing,
with Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, direc
tor of highways, within the next
two weeks. A special session of the
association will be called following'
the conference.
The group, which had been seek
ing the beautification of the center
park area and installation of a curb
ing, heard a report from Vemia
Absher, chairman of the Streets and
Alleys Committee, that a plan was
now being considered to make Penn
sylvania avenue S.E., a three-lane
roadway somewhat similar to K
street N.W. This proposal would
necessitate the removal of the center
trees, Mr. Absher said.
Reports on Essay Contest.
R. A. White reported for a special
committee that plans for an essay
contest for school pupils on indus
trial arts and vocational training to
be held by the association would go
ahead as soon as permission had
been received from the Board of
Education.
The association adopted the resor
lution of Alan Davis that the group
reiterate its stand of some 10 years
ago requesting erection of no addi
tional gas storage tanks in th»
Southeast section, especially in the
area between the railroad tracks
and tunnel at Virginia avenue and
the Anacostia River.
Grass Protection Commended.
Members of the association ap
proved'the ruling of the National
Capital Parks Cdmmission prohibit
ing persons from taking shortcuts
across the grass in public places, and
agreed to assist in an educational
drive. Banning of ball playing by
boys in certain parks was criticized
on the grounds that "human beings
are worth more than any blade of
grass.” Additional playgrounds wera
urged.
The association instructed its sec
retary to write to Maj. Ernest W.
Brown, relative to a request for a
new building to house the Police
Boys’ Club in the vicinity of the
No. 5 precinct.
William A. Maio presided at the
meeting, which was held in the
Friendship House.
Clark, president of the Columbia
Historical Society.
At the conclusion of the speaking
program the society adopted a res
olution greeting Mr. Young and
Judge Neilson and extending them
the society’s best wishes for suc
cessful administrations. Refresh
ments were served after adjourn
ment.
Bradley Village
$6,400—F. H. A. APPROVED
Inspect
6609 EXETER
RD.
Adjacant to
Edgamoor Club !
DIRECTIONS: Out Wti
comm Ave. to Bank of
Bethesda. sharp left on
Edgemoor Lane to Exeter
Road, left to Bradley
Village.
The fact that 42 have already been sold attest the
value of these 6-room homes. Compare them with
any in a similar price field. Inspect them now—
OPEN DAILY, 10 to 9
DEVELOPERS OF GLENW00D. EDGEW00D AND BRADLEY VILLAGE
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729 Old Georgetown Road Wisconsin 6696
SURROUNDING FAIRWAYS OF
INDIAN SPRING GOLF CLUB
Nearly 70 of our first 100
homes have already been
sold. We plan to build 400, and
we’re buying materials accord
ingly. It’s only because we
bought Indian Spring Club and
all its rolling acres in a single
deal; purchased millions of feet
of lumber and other materials
in carload lots—effected econ
omies all down the line, that
we’re able to offer detached,
air-conditioned homes on wide
lots at such amazingly low
prices under the F. H. A. plan.
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TO REACH: Drive out Georgia Ave. and Coleevillv
Road to Indian Spring Club.
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