Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1935, Page 21

*. 5. HEARS WORLD PULSE OVER DCR Vast Communications Sys- | tem Is Unit of State Department. By the Associated Press. A far-flung and highly efficient communications system keeps _the United States Government constantly informed of world events, whether they concern war in East Africa or a minor extradition case, * Nerve center of a vast clearing house for official information is the | Gracefully designed Arm i $18 State Department’s Division of Com= munications and Records, known in the department by the symbol “DCR.” By cable, radio, telegraph and mail this bureau, the largest single division in the department, receives a daily flood of reports from diplomatic and consular agents in every foreign land which supply the facts upon which is based the conduct of this country’s foreign affairs from day to.day. More Than 150 on Staff. Under the direction of David A. Salmon, veteran State Department executive. “DCR,” with its suites and filing rooms comprising more than half a hundred single offices, occupies the greater part of the top floor of the State Department’s gray stone build- ing. Its staff numbers more than 150 men and women. Every official communication of any kind, from the sealed diplomatic pouches arriving daily by ocean mail to the most urgent cable dispatches, Wl T i goes first to “DCR,” regardless of what department head they are ad- dressed to. Not even the Secretary of State has a chance to read his official mail be- fore the division explores it and makes a record for the files. Indexed, Then Delivered. Once it is recorded and properly in- dexed, the original communication is dispatched by special messenger to the department official concerned. For the purpose, “DCR” is divided into geo- graphical divisions which correspond to the regular administrative units of the department. Some 1,300,000 pieces of corre- by the division and so excellent is its filing system it can produce a given document within five minutes, even if it dates back 20 years or longer. For urgent department communica- tion with foreign countries the division maintains its own telegraph room. spondence thus are handled annually | STAR, WASHINGTON, from which all outsiders are barred and where the mechanical work of transmission and reception is con- ducted with the utmost secrecy. ENGINEER IS EXECUTED Soviet Kills Ex-White Guard Aide for Wreck. MOSCOW, November 11 (#).—Ivan Nozdrin, locomotive engineer, was executed, it was officially disclosed yesterday, in punishment for having run his train into another, smashing up .4 cars. The sentence was pronounced in the Moscow-Kursk Railway Court after disclosures that Nozdrin had operated an armored train for the White Guards in the Civil War of 1919. The wreck was declared due to Noz- drin’s negligence in disregarding block signals. D. 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