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Show Exclusive Young City For Olympic Athletes New Community Carved Out of Barren Sandhill For Visiting Nations ance of being heavily wooded. It is complete in every detail. . A long reception building at the entrance contains a branch office for each competing nation through which telephone calls to athletes are placed. A post-office, fire department, de-partment, police-department, moving mov-ing picture shows, swimming pools and recreations flank the main street of "Olympia." The dining hall, a three-story structure is broken up into many small dining rooms, each with complete kitchen implements and a chef to provide the special dishes for each nation. The individual living quarters are built along the lines of a college dormitory. Every comfort for the athletes has been provided, even to special noiseless electric trucks and busses inside the enclosure en-closure which are used only to transport foodstuffs and personnel person-nel of the village. I5Y STUART CAMERON UniU'd Press Sports Editor OLYMPISCHES DORF, Germany, Ger-many, July 14 (U.H) This beautiful young city the fastest growing in the world has been" carved out of a barren sandhill on the outskirts out-skirts of Berlin to accommodate the world's foremost athletes now assembling as-sembling here for the eleventh Olympiad. And, it is one or the most exclusive ex-clusive places on the globe. Hou-dini Hou-dini couldn't enter its gates without with-out the proper credentials, but the portals swing wide for members of competing teams, coaches and trainers. Scribes Not Welcome Casual visitors and newspapermen newspaper-men are as welcome as the smallpox small-pox in Olympic village which was designed and begun immediately after the international committee approved Berlin as the city for the 1936 Olympic games. Officials say they do not want outsiders to annoy an-noy the athletes and they enforce this strictly already, although the village is not nearly half full. The entire city, situated on two rolling hills, is protected by a 10-foot 10-foot steel wire fence topped by several strands of barbed wire. Thousands of trees have been transplanted from idstant forests, and the village gives the appear |