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Show The Cache American. Lojran, Cache County, Utah r23 '" gr--ri v"'3 n Wi liLuLa OiCCtR A 7"" FN fl room1 4 i i SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS 1 a. y L:ii II '"3 r r ZJ il 1 A.r V: - - i. -- jn I told him what I wot doing here and that this wai Omsk. They told me theyd been assigned as technical advisers on a big war construction project. "A mine up north. said Tex. And now we're going out. Ed said, At this little burg, they set up a whole Intourist Hotel to take care of us. Brought In wine, cheese, cigarettes, candy, noodles, and dried eggs. For the rest, wa were supposed to scavenge off the country. They sent In a cook and an assistant pock. a bookkeeper in all about ten people taking care of us. We really didn't get to know many Russians,' said Ed. "Except It was different with the girls. They have some fine girls and nobody aeems to mind if you take them out They might have been assigned to us. Or anyway had to teU the NKVD whatever we said. We know they gave the hotel employees a lecture," said Tex. "Said 1 1 1 , Ah; vr fi ' - if-- : t ;&: 'tl ' ; H 1 fhZ'h'jS'- - S Li Lack of highways and motor transportation prove handicap to Russian development. we were foreigners, and anything we did they must report Very sus- picious. "At their mines they sure do things different from what we do. Instead of having big construction firms, they caU them trusts and most of them are branches of one big central trust American child "Any with a Meccano set said Ed, "will start at the bottom and build up. But these Russians always start at the top, build the roof first and then raise It "And work like hell, so they can throw up some kind of framework that they can hang a red flag on the said tip of and make speeches, Tex. "Theyve got no respect for materials. They have no conception of how much work has gone into making them. They unload valuable pipe from a flat car by Just rolling It down an embankment smashing hell out of it. And Are brick for amelters the same way. The way theyd heave it off, about 25 per cent would be damaged. When wed try to stop it, said Ed, they explained they had a law In Russia because of the freight-ca- r shortage, that they had to be unloaded within two hours after arNo one seemed to see it rival. would take more cars to bring more material. said We were only consultants, Tex, and if they got tired of us hollering, theyd get around it by not supplying us transportation out to the Job. Theyd say our chauffeur couldnt be found. Which was nonsense, because he was picked by the NKVD, and If he took a five-da- y vacation, hed be shot They dont understand mechanical stuff. They put things up out of plumb and then blame this trouble on poor American design. So they take it down and start all over. Once we saw them assembling a complicated steel frame out In a field, instead of on its foundation. They said they wanted to be sure it would fit "I think their system," said Ed, doesnt give them Vie personal ambition, the Incentive that ours does. its so complex they have to talk to so many people before anything gets done. They could never be a competitive threat to America. We can always build in a year and a half anything it takes them ten to do. You see, said Tex, in Russia they dont have our penitentiary system. They herd prisoners into labor gangs, and the NKVD, which has charge of them, has developed a fine engineering staff. They bid on construction Jobs, supplying both the engineers and prison labor. Often the engineers are also prisoners. "Politicals get the roughest deal, laid Ed. They have NKVD spies in the markets and hanging around the store counters, waiting for someone to pop off. They usually get ten years chopping wood with no correspondence, and 500 grams of bread a day. If you are husky and can work hard, theyll give you more." U you miss getting typhus and And live out your sentence," said Tex, 'they turn you loose, but your passport has a red line through it. That means you can never get a house or a good Job you've got to keep moving." Or you may not get sentenced, said Ed, just arrested and investigated. If things don't look quite right, then you get a passport with letters In front of the numbers. This means that you are under some suspicion. and you can never hold a key Job." "You see a mining engineer gets about 1.800 roubles a month, laid Ed. "They get one room for which they pay about 30 roubles. All they can buy on their ration cards amounts to 400 or 500 roubles a month. Then they must go to the free market for enough butter, eggs, meat, or fish. Now for a note on Russian suspicion of foreigners. Russia does not yet trust the outside world. Diplomats are Just at closely Imprisoned In Moscow as are correspondents. At the time of our visit, the current British ambassador had been unable to secure permission to travel outside the capital. One of the Allied g countries which has In power a government adorned Its diplomatic staff In Moscow with a special labor attache, and appointed to this post an Important union official He came to extend the hand of fellowship from the toller of the West to their fellow workers In Russia. The Soviets gave him countless banquets but let him see nothing. This lack of freedom has so warped his viewpoint that he now insists that the Soviet system of unions Is only a acheme to get the last ounce of work out of labor. After the Revolution, Lenin Invited foreign concessionaires to help get Russian Industry back on its feet. Later they were thrown out. Stalin Invited foreign engineers to build the great factories and dam rivers, but later put some on trial for espionage. Of course, Bolshevik hostility A aroused bitter counter-hostilitcordon sanitaire was built around Russia. France supported Poland in a war against the Bolsheviks in 1921, and Russia was for over a decade excluded from the League and denied diplomatic recognition. So their auspicion of foreigners came to have some basis in fact This warped view of the world held by the Kremlin is slowly yielding to reality. After Lenins death, Stalin won power and supported the thesis gingerly at first that socialism In one country was possible and Russia could dare to devote her energies to building up her own economic structure. World revolution he explained, was desirable, and he pledged himself lo bend all efforts to bring it about But for the immediate future, it was not indispensable to the Russian Bolsheviks. In recent years there has been a further change. For publication the Kremlin has announced that world revolution is neither necessary nor desirable from the standpoint of the Soviet Union. And the ablest foreign observers in Moscow agree that these protestations are sincere. They point out that Russia has been terribly weakened by war and needs desperately a few decades of peace. They say she now realizes that Europe does not want to be liberated from capitalist democracy, and that this could be accomplished only by a further bloody struggle Involving sacrifices which the Russians are both unwilling and unable to make. Russia wants, they insist, only a stable and friendly Europe. Novosibirsk, Siberias capital, lies in the center of this chill roof of the worltj, about midway between Berlin and Tokyo. The feeling of this big, sprawling boom-tow- n was like that of the West are where the robust proud of their city. West of the Urals, Bolshevik civilization has taken over the ancient towns and palaces and their new structures rise on the ruins of things they destroyed. Here in Siberia, they have chopped and blasted and dug their cities out of a virgin continent And they have something to be proud of. Novosibirsk has almost a million people. We are whisked across the town to our quarters. Tiny potato patches are along the highway shoulders and back In forest clearings. Big handsome girls, often barefoot walk erect down the road with scarves around their hair and farm tools over their shoulders. The patches have been assigned to workers in the city. Some factories maintain busses to take the workers to hoe the patches. out on week-end- s But most trudge out from town, as we see them doing now. Presently we ride along the banks of a river as wide as the Ohio at its mouth, but as yellow as the Missouri. We Bre told that it is the Ob, of which none of us has ever heard, and that it is the fourth longest river in the world Russian We come to the dacha word meaning country residence for left-win- t(ZU7Uw! w. a H'A--1 INSTALLMENT TIUUTLEN White com-man- d d, w well-dresse- I ' e's ' is . 1 V ' ''A'- -' - SHORT while roaming . someone who normally lives In the It gleams new and white city. gainst the great trees which surround It and overlook the Ob. The house would be Indistinguishable from the great estates of the wealthy New York families along the Hud-soIt has an equally large staff of servants. The rooms are a large, as clean and as luxurious. Whenever the convenience of a high Communist is involved, these people can be as clean and tidy as the Dutch or the Swedes. So it is In this dacha. Below the dacha a private bathing pier extendi out into the Ob. Down tennis the hill we see a well-kep- t court, with flood lights for night games. To the right is a volley-bal- l court We have a volley-bal- l game Russians versus Americans. There is considerable shouting. On the Russian side only one man does any shouting; the others play in grim Slavic silence. He is an undersized man in his forties, with wide cheekbones and a shock of curly hair quick as a fox terrier who keeps up a running fire of and encouragement to the Russian team. Some He is strikingly odd combination of chromosomes has produced out here on the steppes a tough little Irishman-complete with wiry hair and jutting Jaw. He even talk out of the corner of his mouth. His name was Michael Kalugin, and although he turned out to hold no local office, It was easy to sec how he had acquired the habit of command. He was Secretary of the Communist Party for Siberia. Novosibirsk has a shopping district about the size of Wichita's. There is a beautiful new theater, for the ballet, but Moscow artists also occasionally perform there. Near by, a smaller theater Is devoted to operettas, and plays are given 8t a third. The post office Is the usual Soviet shabbiness. The building is pretentious but the linoleum Is worn In the halls, tiles are through. chipped and missing. The railway station Is from the modern outside an Impressive, building. The architecture is dramatic high ceilings with sweeping vistas, but the materials are second-rate. It Is shopworn already, but the effect Is beautiful One The crowd is .fascinating. great hall is roped off for women with babies and small children. There are no seats. Their mothers terrazza floor. sit on the clean-sweThere are polished wood benches in the spacious main waiting room only this is reserved for wounded soldiers who sprawl on every inch of the space, their crutches leaning on the benches beside them or lying on the floor. There must be between 500 and 1,000 of these weary men, most of them with an arm or leg missing. This is a normal hour of a normal day in Novosibirsk station. In the main hall they even have faces with Indians copper-yellohigh cheekbones and straight, black Mongolian hair. These, of course, are from Kazakstan down on the Chinese border. But I see no racial difference between Uzbeks or Kazaks and our Osages or Navajos, except that these Soviet Indians are d as ours. Like not so ours, they were fighting nomad Mongolian tribes until the Russians tamed them. At the dacha a Red Army band Is tuning its Instruments down by quick-minde- ago, we were the Cleveland landscape with a pretty fair He wa. and is, the Cray Eagle only a trifle gray- cr than he used to be. The name Tris is Speaker A town-builde- i Page Seven , Speaker th kid who came up from Hubbard City. Tex., nearago ly 40 year to become one of the great ballof all players time, both as an hawk and a hitter, a hitter good enough to keep Ty Cobb from leading the league 13 consecu-- j live years. Tris Speaker won or saved many a ball game with his brilliant fielding and his hard hitting. But he willingly agrees that when it comes to the star a winning percentage, pitcher ia the winning factor. "Walter Johnson," Speaker said, "won 20 or more game a year over a period of 10 consem-liv- e year with a club that without him probably would have been nilred In the second division. His average was about 201 or maybe 300 per rent above his teams average. Washington without Johnson was a pushover. Washington with Johnson pitching was harder to beat than any team In the league, Incl'iding the Athletics, Tigers or the Red Sox. Its the same, today, when Newhous-rr- , Feller and Chandler are working. "The Red Sox also have great pitchers, but they have a great team to back them up. What makes them so strong, at this point anyway, is that in addition to a fine ball club they also have the pitching. That makes it tough for any challenger. Great pitchers such as Ed Walsh. Nick Altrock and Doc White have g teams to a carried pennant and a world's championship, as this trio did in 1906, but no set of hitters and fielders ever have carried weak pitchers anywhere out of the second division." All that is needed is to look over the individual pitching averages of Hal Newhouser of the Tigers, Bob Feller of the Indians and Spud Chandler of the Yankees and compare them with the averages of their teams in the standing of the clubs. These three men have kept on winning in spite of weak batting support at times. You've heard more than a little about the famous Gas House gang of St. Louis around 1934. They had their full share of good but it was Dizzy Dean who pitched without Dizzy them into a pennant they would have finished six or eight games aw'ay, possibly more. g i t weak-hittir.- Simple, Cool, Comfortable A wonderfully simple dress to make for that young daughter of yours. 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He still can pick up another $90,000 net profit in a second fight. Outside of Conn and Louis, the heavyweight picture has been shy of talent for some time. Now Conn is definitely out. Promoter Mike Jacobs has been trying to get a real challenger ready for the last three years, but the supply has been extremely thin. Lee Oma kicked himself out of the picture with his terrible showing against Jersey Joe Walcott. Oma set an all-tirecord for wrecking a show, for refusing to make any part of a fight. You can throw Oma out of any heavyweight picture that means anything. Jersey Joe Walcott may not be much of a heavyweight, as far as champions go, and the same can be said of Tami Mauriello. Still they seem to be the only ones left who have shown anything worth looking and neither has shown too at meetmuch. A Mauriello-Walcoing might be no part of a thriller it doesnt figure to be but at least it would be a clash between the two heavyweights who might slip into the spotlight in the wake of Louis and Conn. Financially, the sooner such a fight is scheduled, perhaps the better. There has been an abnormal amount of loose money around. The amazing thing is that during the five years intervening between the first and second Louis - Conn parties, no other heavyweight has been developed who has any class. One might think that over a five-yeperiod, during which so much boxing was taught in the army and navy, some challenger would have been found. So far this is only an idle dream. Up to date no such animal has been developed. Size Pattern No. 1327 cornea In 18. 18. 20; 40 and 42. Size 14 of fabric in 55 or yards Pattern No. - Name A - ddress In building a casement window in the kitchen remember that it should open out, not in. 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In J s.H l tt Omsk, one of the industrial center! visited by Johnston and White. the water front. As it strikes up a military march a second band appears, in even smarter uniforms, and begins tuning up. As we go in to dinner, a gleaming white river steamer ties up at the wharf. We are told that after dinner we will go for a ride on the Ob. Mike Kalugin ushered us down the river bank and aboard the steamer. Mike waved us expansively to a row of deck chairs just forward of the bridge. The better of the two bands, lined up on the bow facing us, struck up as the boat moved out into the current The band wa magnificent. It was the official band of the Red Army. (TO BE CONTINUED) Quick acting... easy to use-ke- eps for weeks on your pantry shelf si n Ssagrii, ftsrm'si ST IF YOU BAKE AT HOME-y- ou can make all the delicious bread you want to, any time you want to with wonderful New Fleischmanns Fast Rising Dry Yeast. 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