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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1948
Page
2
Berlin reports allied observers say the Soviet Union employs up to 40000 workers in a vast treasure hunt across Germany and Czechoslovakia for Bantum. The effort is described as nearly fruitless, despite Czech uranium mines being among Europe’s richest, producing only a limited output.
State Department sources note 18 tons of uranium metal per year. Germans reportedly produce about half. Russians search for ore around the Erz Mountains near the German Czech border, with old mines scavenged by Russian youths and trusted Germans using detachment gear. Detected uranium ore is sent to Russian stations then to a processing plant near Chemnitz Dresden for rough cleaning before flight to Russia. Miners work in knee-deep water in poor conditions. pumps are insufficient to handle seepage.
Old report states Russia will raise daily ore production in Czech mines from 24 tons this year to 140 tons in 1952 and 340 tons by 1957. It notes German side workers earn far more than Ruhr miners, with food rations tripled and cigarettes and schnapps freely available. In Czechoslovakia anti communists are sent to mines while deserters from Czech and German mines keep appearing in Berlin and western Germany.
F W Dodge Corporation reports May construction contracts in 37 eastern states reached 970.789 million dollars, the highest peacetime monthly total on record. The figure trails only the June 1942 wartime peak and lags a 1.19 billion dollar record set six years earlier, mainly driven by heavy engineering and industrial projects.
Industrial building projects surged last month with a near billion total, up 44 percent from May of last year and 11 percent over April this year. Cumulative 1948 to date reached 3.8316 million, with nonresidential up 56 percent, residential up 17 percent, and heavy engineering up 29 percent. only one of fifteen districts declined.
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