U.S. STEEL TESTS

Grey River Argus, 25 March 1943, Page 2

U.S. STEEL TESTS

FAKING REVEALED. SUPPLIES FOR WAR PURPOSES. (Rec. 10.9.) WASHINGTON, Mar. 23. An investigating committee set up by the U.S. Senate, under the chairmanship of Senator Truman, has released statements made by employees of the Carnegie Illinois Steel Company. These disclose that the tensile strengths and chemical analyses of steel plates had been faked on output that was going to the Navy, to the Maritime Commission and to the Lend-Lease. Several of the employees gave evidence of false tensile strengths being recorded.

Senator Truman said that tne committee will .probe into reports that defective engines had caused thirty per cent., of the war ’planes crashes.

J. Lester Perry, the President of the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporation, testified that the higher management of his company was in no way involved in failure to carry out prescribed testing procedures. Such officials never permitted or condoned deviations on steel plate ordered in the Navy. He said that the only explanation he could give was that a few individuals honestly believing that the plates in question would meet all requirements grew lax under the pressure of heavy production of high quality steel for the war effort.