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26 SOVIETS CITE GAIN 288-Page Volume Recites Economic and Cultural Progress. By the Assoctated Press, The Soviet Unton Information Bu- | reau, announcing the issue this week of a 288-page volume outlining the eco- nomie, cultural and administrative de- | velopment of the Soviet Union, made public today figures showing economic, agricultural and industrial progress over pre-war conditions. ‘The bureau said the Russian agricul- tural output ic now about equal to that before the war, and is double the low mark of 1921, while the industrial out- put of last year was 25 per cent above pre-war production in volume, with an | almost eight-fold increase since 1921. The book lists a number of important economic projects now in course of de- velopment and asserts that the large state industrics are now yielding an an- nual net profit of more than $300,000.- 000. It said between $775.000,000 and £850.000,000 is being spent on indus- trial expansion th's year. Soviet customs figures are given to| show that Soviet-American trade last vear amounted to over $111.000.000, of which almost $97.000.000 represented Soviet purchases in the United States, mostly cotton. machinery and metals. The United States is sccond to Ger- many in exports to Russia. Projects shown fo be under way in- clude large state-operated grain-growing areas with mechanized farming and a 950-mile Siberian-Turkestan railway to Bring cheap Siberian grain and tim- ber to the Soviet cotton belt in Central Asia. One-third of the trackage has Boy, Struggling To Keep Family, | Weary Battle After Father Deserts Home Leads to Suicide. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. March 12.—For five months, since his father left the family, | Paul Bartesh, 14-year-oid high school | freshman, had been attending classes | |in the daytime and running errand | for a drug store at night. to help h | mother buy food for himsclf, his tw | little brothers and a sister. | ! The night work for the drug store left,| | Paul drowsy in class and too weary for | | his homework. Yesterday he tried to | hire a schoolmate to do the errands so | he could catch up in his siudies, but h chum had other things to do. Pau came home discourpged. His mother | patted him on the shoulder, told him | | not to mind because he was a good son, | | and started laying out a clean shirt for him to wear to work. { While she was doing it, Paul waiked | | into the pantry, took out a pistol, and | | shot himself twice in the temple. He | dicd a few minutes later at. the hospital. | to which his mother had carried him | |in her arms. 'MISS ARTH TO SING AT MUSICAL EVENT Jevach Community Center ngmm‘ to Be Given Tomorrow | | Night. | & ey A musical program is announced for | tomorrow night at_ the Jewish Com- | munity Center. Sixteenth and P streets | | northwest, when members of the em- | bassy and legation staffs of the diplo- | been laid | matic corps stationed in Washington | i The introduction to the book says: “There are now 50 per cent more children in school than before the war. The pre-war death rate has been re- duced by one-third. The mercly recon- | structive phase is now definitely pas New econotic projecis on a scale un known to pre-war Russia are in process will be guests. | " The program, scheduled to begin at | 8:30 o'clock, will feature Hazel Arth, young Washington contralto, winner of | rst prize for a girl singer in the 1928 | Atwater Kent audition contest. | Miss Arth has a wide audience of | radio fans all over the country and her | of development. pleasing personality as well as her | = ke ¥ lovely, well traned voice has made her | HESSE’S SUCCESSOR | A it musicat group, a piano ) | bere’ "The mesmbeseof the. octet ail INTERESTS CITIZENS | ‘young Washington pianists. The group includes Sara Beckeer, Mrs. | Maurice Bisgyer, Henrietta Halam, Kate | Stanton Park Body Names Commit- | Nathanson, Mrs. . Sol _Wolloch. ‘Louls ton P y Names C it Ratner, Betty Baum and Ted Rosenfeld, i tee to Consider Potential j- |under the direction of Joseph H. Rat- | er Potential Candi- | et e oo e plaved by the dates and Recommend Choice. octet was arranged by Benjamin Ratner. | Vocal duets will be sung by Salvatore | s i ; gnrt'a nsnd Giuseppe Bruno and the Atter discussing the question of rec- | Senter Symphony Orchestra will play | gmmending a successor to Maj. Edwin Scveral selections. ssse. whose request to be retired as| . . -~ w - = > superintendent of police is expected to OSDNTTEDINC s WEDETY De granted in a few weeks, the Stanton Park Citizens' Association last night named a committee to consider potential appointees and return its choice to the next meeting, together with resolutions of appreciation for the service of Maj. Hesse. The association followed the lead of numerous other citizen groups in the District by recommending that the sal- aries of District firemen be raised to make them commensurate with those | id by cities of similar size to Wash- =D T K;fi iced shoes into J Elegance‘ \P\ and Ease. . W ear‘A PED~ARCHO Arch-Supporting SHOES on. This action was voted after a talk by Capt. H. A. Chapman of No. 18 ne Co., president of the City Fire Fighters' Association. The matter of recommending an :‘:- pointee to the Public Utilities Commis- sion to replace Chairman Harrison Brand, whose appointment was not con- firmed by the Senate, was referred to a committee for further consideration. 8. B. Frantz was named chairman of a committee to arrange for a celebra- tion in the late Spring of the fiftieth anniversary of Peabody School at Fifth and C streets northeast. The meeting. held at Peabody School, was presided over by A. H. Gregory, president of the association. i LATIN AMERICAN TOPICS DISCUSSED AT LUNCHEON Dr. Swiggett Advocates Promotion of Understanding Between Na- tions in Field of Education. Promotion of understanding between the American countries in the field of education was the subject of an address today by Dr. Glen Levin Swiggett, pro- fessor of international economics at Georgtown University, speaking before a luncheon meeting of Washington cor- respondents representing Latin Ameri- can press services and newspapers. Dr. Swiggett told the meeting, held at the National Press Club, of plans to hold a meeting of the Inter-American Fed- eration of Education sociatiors, of which he is organizing secretary, in con- nection with the convention of the Na- tional Education Association in Atlanta, next Summer. A score of South Amer- * can countries will be represented at the Irter-American confererce, the speaker said. 3 . 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