Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1931, Page 33

'RUSSIANS TINKER. | ONU. 5. MAGHINES Destructive Methods Noted by Amgrican on Tour of Harvest Area. in & week. Mechanics did not know why the combines were eating so much gasoline, Incidentally»10 men used a single combine, compared with 2 men in Kansas, “My most annoying experience was when Russian engineers were sent from the city to teach peasants how to run machines. Instead of doing that mod- st but“most necessary job, they spent their time-explaining how we ought to build our machines. Despite the fact that they had never seen an agricul- tural machine before in ‘their lives, they imagined they knew more about one than did our engineers with many years of experience in developing them. “In one oity there was a carload of automobiles assembled here from Ford parts. Some lacked radiator fans and THE ‘EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 30, others headlights, horns and_instru- e ‘“nwhlle & couple were strip) of s en route.” C. P. Weeks, vice nt of the Hercules Motor Corporation of Canton, Ohio, returned today from Rostov-on- Don with & variation of Mr. Tucker's experience. Mr. Weeks crossed by the fastest line and sped by airplane to the city ab the mouth of the Don River, location of the Soviets' nmew combine ose_of supervising of 1,500 motors in Soviet-built combines. ' He found that the combines had already been shipped to the villages without motors, and that the motors, then arriving, were being shipped in pursuit with hopes of catch- ing up and being installed by local vil- lage farm mechanics. (Copyright. 1031 OIL MERGER CALLED BENEFIT TO INDUSTRY v Head of Vacuum Company Sees Stabilizing Factor in Approach- ing Combination. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 30.—Charles E. Amott, president of Vacuum Oil Co., said in a tement issued today that the billion-dollar company to be created by the merger of Standard Oil Co. of New York and Vacuum can help to bring order out of the present demor- conditions in the oll industry. Sufficient proxies from stockholders of both companies were to have been received to assure merger and it is expected that in & week the consolidation will have been effested. “Such a combination must have tre- mendous present and future possibili- . “From the public stand- bilizing factor that already has the good will of its large competitors. With & sense of public responsibility it can help to bring order out of present eon- ditions and in addition be of -definite benefit to American industry in foreign lands, where it can-compete with large foreign integrated units.” 1981. Mr. Xmmuu that recent dev ments in oil industry make, merger “most sound for the American oil industry.” He pointed out that over- production, distress prices, retail price wars and “the huge supplies of oil, hap- hazardly handled and exploited, have produced an unsound situation. “More than that,” he sdded, “with the increased demand of the automo- tive industry for petroleum products as well as demands by other industries, a condition has resuitéd in the ofl busi- ness. where the need for integration is ‘most important., “Only self-contained, integrated units of production, refining A which also include s number of retail outlets can survive. This is true na- tionally as well as internationally.” COLLEGIANS MADE POLICE Seven of New York Force Take CGamp Training. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, July 30.—Seven college men are in the squad of 325 men now undergoing the Police College course of training for the New York City Police Department at Camp Mulrooney, Pel- ham Bay. Physically all of the men in the bl e squad are huskies. They average 5 feet 10 inches in height and 165 pounds in weight. A majority of them attended high school. Of the - college 'men, all are from local universities and e B A o L N S A SRS . took a variety of courses, from the purely academic to architecture, Pays With Its Life. Only queen bees and workers have the power to sting. The drones can- not sting. The stinger is curved snd |18 carried sheathed, After the point enters there is a flow of poison. It is belleved that a bee cannot sting a second time because, owing to back-f ward pointing barbs, the stinger is left in the wound. Thus the bee dies as a result of its vengeance. When taxi drivers in Limas, Peru, struck recently, the governms “ Susted the trouste. . ° e BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. ®y Cable to The Star. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R, July'30 (CDN.).—A vivid picture of the high- pressure Soviet harvest is given by | Merle Tucker of Battle Creek, Mich..l who returned yesterday after a tour of the Ukraine and South Russia, includ- ing the government's two immense farms of Gigant and Verblud. Mr. Tucker is chief representative of & staff of a dozen mechanical experts of | the Oliver Farm Equipment Co., with offices in the Chicago Daily News Build- Ing in Chicago, scattered over the So- viet Union to as far as Vladivostock. “According to my own observations and to reports received from other parts of the country the Ukraine wheat crop will reach 40 bushels an acre in some river valleys, while the average yield per acre will be between 15 and 20 bushels,” said Mr, Tucker, “in con- trast with portions of Siberia, where the Spring wheat, caught by sudden hot weather, has low output of 5 bushels an acre. In Russia proper the crop is fair on the average, being un- | usually good in some districts, but poor | in others due to the late Spring.” | Harvest Drive Impressive. Russia’s tremendous drive to harvest the crop, coupled .with inexperience with machinery of the peasants, who changed almost overnight from swing- ing scythes on little individual farms to collective labor on vast mechanized farms, particularly impressed Mr. Tucker. “I am expecting the life of a tractor to be shortened from unskilled opera- tion,” Mr. Tucker continued. “I had figured that one of our Hart-Parr ma- chines would last two years, but after this trip I give them 18 months. 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