The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-04
BY WILLIS THORNTON
 NEA Service Staff Writer

tions family. Sir Harry McGowal
 BY WILLIS THORNTON
 NEA Service Stan Writer
 The men now locked in battle in Europe fight with the glow of great forges behind them. The munitions plants of Britain, France and Germany are working 24 hours a day to provide the guns and arn- munition for the holocaust.
 So vital is this stream of shells. guns and cannon that already in Germany women have been or dered into the munitions factories to take the place of men, just as was done by all countries sooner or later during the World War.
 The Krupp works, centering on Essen, is probably the worlds greatest munitions establishment Always the key point of German armament and German world trade in arms, the Krupp works have been expanded since Hitler took power, and now employs at least 130,O00 workers.
 So vital is the vast organiza- tion to the German war economy that appeals to German workers from the time of the kaiser on down through the Republic and even today under Hitler, are oft enest made at the Krupp plants at Essen.
 The owner of the Krupp works is Gustave Krupp von Bohlen und Holbach, together with his wife Bertha Krupp. It was she who inherited the works from her fam. fly. and 1t was the young diploma von Bahlen und Holbach wht married her and took her name together with a guiding position in her business.
 The Krupp and allied business interests were influential in bring ing Hitler to power in 1883, but the precise relationship between the in. dustrial barony and the Nationa. Socialist government today is moi clear.
 The Krupp works also takes a large part in the conversion oi coal into fuel oil and gasoline vital to the Hitler war machine. CZECH ARMS WORKS
 FALLS TO HITLER
 The arms-making bulwark of the old Austro- Hungarian empire is to- day also in Hitler's hands. This k the Skoda works at Pilsen, Brunn and other cities of what was Czecho. slovakia. At one time after the World War, this organization fel into French control, then that of the Czech government.
 Today, of course, 1t is in Hitler's hands, but how effective 1t is ir equipping the Reich armies is not certain. It is known that Hitler tried to palm of on Italy much oi the Skoda equipment which hac been furnished the Czech army leading to a presumption that il was not well-geared to the rest od Hitler's war machine.
 A man more than 70 years ole stands at the nominal headshir of the French munitions industry He is Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider, descendant of an immi. grant German family.
 The principal Schneider work. at Le Creusot, the artillery fac. tories at Harfieur, L.e Havre, Lt Hoe. and the torpedo works al Le Yonde were taken over by tht French government two years ago and nationalized. It is at Lk Creusot that the famous French 75 was built during the Work War.
 Schneider is the complete cynic and to him is attributed the witty if sardonic definition of peace: "A period of cheating between twt ; periods of fighting!" BUT JOEUx
 WASN'T BOMBED Francois de Wendell heads the ia. nous clan which through its prim. acy ill the Comite des Forces (stee 1 carteD, is in a key position in thu French steel and arms industry Their mines, many of them, are ii the Briey Basin around Joeux which was captured by the German! during the World War. but whicf remained mysteriously immune tx bombing for many months, ever while its sinews were turned to hell the Germans.
 Two great companies suppl, most of the British arms, tn, vickers- Armstrong, Ltd. combine and the Imperial Chemical Indus Tries. Each is a vast industria combine of holding companies tha thread through all British indus try.
 Managing director of the Wick CTS interests is Sir Charles Craven He functions from a steel-and chromium palace at Wicker House, Broadway, London, ant still remembers proudly the day when he commanded a Britisl submarine.
 Sir Harry McGowan. head o Imperial Chemical Industries. tn, biggest of all British industria concerns, started as . youth in thu Nobel Explosive factories fl Sweden. He is well acquainted il | ftrA TT,;fad Stafae la r,{v.fv Sx.a ,l