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Show SOVIET TO BUY U. S. MUNITIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 9 i-Th io-vict io-vict government, engaged in Europe'! Eu-rope'! headlong armaments rare, hai authorixed commercial agents here to purchase 150.000.000 worth of naval equipment for export to Russia in the immediate future, it was disclosed today. Morris Wolf, counsel for the Carp Export and Import corporation of New York, which is negotiating the huge deal, said the war material will consist of prefabricated parts of battleships and other types of fighting craft turrets, armor plate, propelling machinery, boilers and engines, and 16-inch naval guns. The corporation is the special munitions mu-nitions purchasing organization for the soviet government, he said, and is headed by Samuel Carp of Bridgeport, Bridge-port, Conn., a banker and oil industrialist. in-dustrialist. Carp, an American citizen, citi-zen, is a brother-in-law of Premier V. M. Molotoff of Russia. I The state department's September report of licenses issued for the export of arms, munitions and implements im-plements of war showed Russia was1 I licensed to take out more than 410.000,000 worth of war material In the Initial instalment of the $.V).-: iooO.OOO order. The licenses included II2.2A0.000 for guns. $1,500,000 for am-I am-I munition and $1,000,000 for explosives. explo-sives. Contracts for the $10,000,000 order, or-der, it was rtated, were still in the negotiation stage. The initial outlay out-lay will be largely for testing purposes, pur-poses, with the $40,000,000 balance of the order to follow if the first lot proves up to standard in tests on soviet territory. |