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Show RUSSIAN TRADE I SHOWS ACTIVITY One American Believes ! Prosperity Is at Last in f Sight j! ODESSA. April 20 (By The Asso-elated Asso-elated Press.) Business conditions H throughout Russia are improving from month to month, in the npln- H Ion of Americans who are drifting j here from many places hoping to bo on the ground floor when the re-vlvni re-vlvni of Russian trade begins, as they ! believe it will In icv. of certain re- j ials made by the Soviet government j in Its Internal trade regulations. " Considered the foreigner's paradise j in pre-war .lavs. Russia has offered I nothing but bitter dls.nppolntmonts to kH her American and British residents since 1917, but discouragement la giv-ini; giv-ini; pin. e to optimism now that lt ' seems certain the Communist, roallz- H lng the failure of many Bolshevist principles, will andeavor to offer somo s of tho opportunities formerly enjoy- H ed under the imperial government." VRPKT B.(; B I SI NESS f Business, at leot for the present I year, will continue to be of the car- J : pet bag kind, the Americans believe. 1 here Ik a at amount of Internal j trading In foods, shoes, tools, cloth land other manufactured articles, and the traders are getting rich in rubles. H which they hasten to convert Into for-ellfn for-ellfn money, diamonds or other objects j Tho run! estate field is enjoying .1 H I largely through a regulation 'whi' h Individuals or groups j to take up large tracts of land and LaaaaaaaV .even factories to be operated or leas- H I ed for profit w ithout interference kH I from the Communists. H One American here, Oscar Kuel-native Kuel-native of Fcnnimoro, Wlscon-I Wlscon-I sin. told The Associated Press cor- respondent that he has glimpsed H j prosperity for the first time since H (1917 Educated in Akron. Ohio, ho I came here at the ago of IS. entered H !thc wholosalo jewelry business, and I finally branched out in the business H 1 of selling agricultural machinery. H When the revolution swept Russia. H he lost everything, and has been llv- LaaaaaaaS Inr- trr.ni K . ...r ..un, iiauu iu mourn iui jica.i BaaansBssi five He Is now ti2. "Put I will die rich." he said add- H lug that he could now resume his business of selling machinery, for H whii h there is an ever Increasing de- Despite this optimism, there are many Americans anxious to got back home as they dread the long strug-gle strug-gle ;h.u will be necessary in order to 1 Aleve pre-war success. One of these la a milliner who employed 30 js-:rls several years ago. and now does all the work herself in hor windows win-dows were a few shirt waists, marked $4 H I am willing to marry any American Ameri-can who will take me out of here," said, "I'm a good worker and when We set bar to the United States we can call the marriage off. if desired. Let it go as a sort of H Communist H |