Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 72

erpl¢xing Problems of the 'I‘W(-:nty4 G@ttingai the Bottom of Rumors of Difficul= ties Beteveen Soviet Officials and Foreign Technical Men, ag American Nezspaper Weman, Now in Russia, Gives a First Real Picture of Obstadles of Red Tape and of Commz{nisu That Had to Be Mect in Building the Gigantic Automobile City. suficienit to press a bubton to get material, to they wanted. That’s fine in the . The place is full of buttons. ion there is mone. Amerioan in exasperation, of a century Munflrmhmh The interior of the giant aute plant at - Nihemi Novgorod as it neared completion, where 150,000 Fords will be buwilt - @very vear. BENNETT. their choice. Because they made fhis <hoice, f" — o ! it’'s my belief that the five-year plan will be u. s per eent accomplished in the five-gear periof™ %0 have American spe- Bryant is that combination of successful engi or sutomebile construction, for ma- neer and big pusiness emecutive thet emly . and wetallurgy-—we must hire indi- s specialists and wo&k right with ™ = | (i il !iggiétig filggfi;;fi“ THH L ié;fi!;zs sl E Ei!{lgg e¥ i il i | f g ! By | i § s l;f! ¥ p I i! bt I is ; 1 il i y i | il il gREE £ r f | hi ; ! ?; i 1 | g Al | : : i i i | H Hik i iy 2 | Ii! i i i : | H | b | ; i i il jhi bl | 4 | P s’;*fifflm sfegkiafa] i Sig LRI ik 4 dic of the Uinised Setey'in.ood Russia. Some of the cotale homes of.the Austin company engineers at Nizhni Novgorod. s “Wo thisik,” the Russians will tell you, with eyes, “he is the only American engineer here wiho doesn’t have a university diploma! “What a man! He goes out in his high boots and works with the Russians. He shows us how to do the job. “That Appleton! He has sympathy! He is just like (most priceless of compliments) & Russian.” HE American settlement at Nizhni is Tull ef stories of Appleton's exploits. . This year The water mains of the war chemi- cal plant up the Oka River were washed out in the Spring floods. The water supply was cut off from the wvillage nearby, as well ms the plant. Ceonstruction work was washed away. Several men were drowned attempting to build a tem- porary dam. The chemiczl plant sent down the river to the Americans for help. “We want Appleton!” the Russians specjfied when their emissaries reached the Americans’ camp. When Appleton arrived he found the river banks covered with ‘helpless, hysterical crowds. a meeting. “The prosecutor says we can't, because there are men down there,” and they pointed %o the raging ‘torrent of the turbilent, flooded river. “Do you think they are still alive?” demanded Appleten. “Ch mo,” they stammered in reply. have to take orders from me,” said Appleton. The first jove was to got the prosecutor off Job. “Now how about some shock brigadiers” Pive hundred shock brigadiers (these are the best workmen, tried and true, who strain every T e, went down under the ice of the Oka River with M. Tsarevsky, chief of plant com- and Willie Suikencn, head of the i gi!p i i ;;5 sigeh | 11 § ; ! ‘ {1t i it J i ! | i {n | f it i | i i : g : 8 g ; i ¥ igf ] B i it lia Efi feldhs ¢ 1 4l L I e R