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PAOTC FOUR fEDFOTlT) M ATL TRIBUNE. fEDFORD. OREGON. THURSDAT, SEPTEMBER 2, 1937. Russia as it Is Today Uncensored Revelations in Stalin's Blood Purge By WEBB MIIXKR ' United Frew Staff Correspondent (Copyright 1937 by United Pre) MOSCOW, via London (uncensored), Sept. 3. (UP) Never to the 30 years' history of the bolshevik regime hoe there been such a bitter and determined drive against foreigners living In the Soviet Union aa during the present purge. The campaign, ostensibly baaed on the spy mania, la directed primarily against citizens of countrlea which are covertly hostile to the soviet, particularly Germans and Japanese, but appears generally to be aimed at clearing the country of all for eigners except legitimate tourists, diplomatic missions, newspaper cor respondents, and a few specialists. Residence permits of aomo of the foreign correspondent are Issued for only three months at a time, Few KnslneeiH Remain. Of the hundreds of foreign engi neers who aided In the Industriali zation of the country,, only a few remain. Most of them who have worked here for yeara are being sent away as fast as their contract expire. Ony a handful of American specialists remain. Including those who are Installing aircraft factories and advising on television and radio work, notably representative of the Vultee and Consolidated Aircraft companies and the Radio Corpora tion of America. The few remaining British resi dents, except diplomat and corres pondents, are under Instructions to leave. The "foreign purge1 haa resulted In the arrest of hundred, princi pally German specialists. The aer man embassy has Just made a pro test to the soviet foreign office, and believes that mora than 200 Oerman citizens are tinder arrest. Many have been expelled, while a number, ar rested last autumn, have been in prison nine months without trial on charges of espionage. German of ficials have not been permitted to communicate with them. The latest wave of arrests Included 14 In Moscow, nine In Leningrad, 35 in Knhrkov, and a few in other cities. The recent arrests are aald to include 140 Hungarian. Prew Wnrna of Spies. Almost dally the official press thunders about the danger of for eign spies. These blasts have fright ened the average soviet citizen so that - foreign residents are avoided and at present are Isolated from soviet contact to an unprecedented extent. I heard of an Instance in whlcfc a Russian doctor refused to continue to treat his foreign pa tten ta. One of my friends wna trying to negotiate with a leading soviet drnmatlnt for the American right to his latest play. The dramatist re quired first a letter setting forth tn detail the reasons for the pro jected meeting. His own reply waa unsigned. He offered to send his chauffeur and automobile to bring the American to his country house to continue the negotiations verb ally, but refused to aend the car to the American embassy building, which had been suggested as a meet ing pi aw. Instead he specified that the chauffeur meet the American in the lobby of the National hotel. Russian teachers who have been Instructing Americana tn the Rus-1 nan language refuse nowadays to go to American houses. Such in-1 stances are Indicative of the stnte of mind engendered by the antl-, foreign campaign. i Tourists Untroubled. The foregoing does not mean that legitimate tourists, thousands of whom, principally Americans, visit ed the BovU't Union thla summer, and who go under the auspice of the Intourlat State Tourist company, have the slightest difficulty once they have entered the country. But extraordinary precautions were taken to discourage scores of Americana from entering, even after they were granted visas. The reason were ob scure. Several doren tourists aboard erulse ahtps from America were re fused entry at Leningrad. They In cluded a woman named Dorothy Ttiompson. apparently barred because It was mistakenly thought that ahe was Dorothy Thompson, columnist wife of Sinclair Lewis. Another was William White, barred apparently because of the resemblance of hi name to that of the Kansas editor who puhllshed a book to which the government ohected. One of a pair of twins waa burred, but the other admlttM. Ortrv inMri th country toxirlsts travel all over the union without encountering troublesome consequen ces of the anti-spy drive. A tourist Is Just as safe from harm In aovletland aa he Is In any other major conti nental country. Shaver Intrigues Sleuth. During three weeks of visiting half a dozen principal cities on my 8000 mile tour of the Interior, I encoun tered only two lnstancea of trouble. An American friend In a Moscow hotel reported several objects were stolen from hi room, Including an alarm clock and a shirt. Three de tectives came and took elaborate fingerprint, neglecting, however, to take those of the American and his wife. They sleuthed happily in my friend's room until they discovered hi electric shaver, which so en chanted them temporarily that they forgot the crime. Finally they as sured him that It waa an Inside Job, and that they would get their man. The other Instance of trouble hap pened to Fred Bettelhelm of Phila delphia. He was seized In a dark street In Rostoff-on-Don by a gang of youths while I waa there, and robbed of hla ticket. Probably a a result of the antl forelgn drive In the last few weeks, tourist have been refused permis sion to visit the great industrial plant. I was not permitted to see the big automobile plant at Gorky, which employs 87,000 men and wo men. I also waa barred from the tractor plant at Stalingrad and the agricultural Implement plant In Rostoff-on-Don. On a five-day trip down the Volga everyone waa ordered be low deck a quarter of a mile before the boat reached each bridge. We had to remain below until our boat had passed the bridge. Nude Bathing Taboo. In five great clttea on the middle and lower Volga, each with a popu lation of approximately half a mil lion. I aaw thousands of vacationing workers swimming and boating and living In rest houaes which were formerly the palatial homes of weal thy merchant. Nude bathing, onoe a feature of Russian life, la now frowned upon and practiced only by young people In the village. The men wear trunks and the girls trunks and brassieres, usually home-made, but attractively setting off handsome figures. Every city has numerous bathing beaches and barges with thousands of sun -bronzed men and women using them men and women ob viously well nourished and happy Though still far Inferior to the average in western Europe, the stand ard of dressing among women Is noticeably Improving each year. But In tn provinces waved hair, lip stick, and painted fingernails are rare. More attention la given to dress style as portrayed In the new fashion magazine. Choice fabric continue scare, but many girls man age to make themselves attractive in gatly-colorad gingham. ' Men, too, are showing an Increas ing consciousness about their clothes. Creased trousers and ahlned aboea are less rare than on my last trip. Social Error. In a hotel at Stalingrad I aaw th. doorman bar a worker from th dining room where a Jases band play ed and the diner danced In their shirt sleeves. The worker had com mitted the social error of coming dressed In a bathing suit. He loudly pro tea ted against this restriction of hla freedom. In the) principal cities th Intourtst agency ha built excellent modern hotels. Most of the room have baths. I stayed In a new 10-story Moscow hotel where every room had a bath, free telephone and radio equipment, full-length mirrors, divans, and writ ing desk with stationery. The hotel now provides soap and toilet paper. The rate was 86 rubles a day or about $7 at the present rate of ex change. That would be expensive for the taxi man who drove me. His salary was 850 rubles a month, and he paid 80 rubles rent for 40 square yards of living apace. In the province the people are less wary of contacts with foreigners than In Moscow. Tourists encounter everywhere a friendliness and good natured curiosity, especially about one'a salary and how much one paid for his suit and shoes. A surpris ingly large number of young en gineers and technicians have a smat tering of English, which they learn ed In their schools, and are eager to practice It. Their usual comment la: "Things are better than they used to be and are getting better all the time." (Tomorrow: Creeping paralysis hits soviet Industry.) Mrs. Wlllltt South Mrs. Ethel Wlllltt left this morning for Cali fornia to take up a new teaching position. She. has been member of the Medford school faculty for several year. ASHLAND PLANS ASHLAND, Sept. 3(Spl.) Plana for celebration of the opening of the new Siskiyou highway route In Oc tober were started Wednesday at a meeting of the board of director of Ashland chamber of commerce, with a committee to be named In the near future to work out definite arrange ments. Discussion of the plan for a Joint exhibit of counties in the Shasta Cascade Wonderland association at the San Francisco exhibition resulted In a. decl&lon by the board to leave the matter in the hand of the coun ty court. County Judge Earl B. Day, who was present at the meeting, told the di rectors the court wo heartily In favor of the plan, which provide for the use of Medford and Ashland advertis ing fund for the next three years In meeting this county' expenses In connection with the exhibit. The two cities annually share $1,000 allotted by the county for advertising pur poses, and this fund would be wd for exhibit. It was announced at the meeting that the Ashland chamber of com merce la sending a mineral display to the state fair at Salem, taken Iron the Ashland mine, the Blair granite quarry, and other samples furnished by E. C. Huxd. Other business Included the ap pointment of Ralph Billings, county commissioner, to represent the cham ber at the convention of the Shasta Cascade Wonderland association at Shasta Springs on September 11; a decision to send the chamber pep band to the Yreka Gold Rush; and Arrangements for a meeting honoring Leonard Read, western division man ager of the U. S. chamber of com merce when he visits here October 11. E PROGRAM STARTED BY WESTERN AUTO SUPPLY In line with Medford's current building and remodeling boom, the Western Auto Supply company at 101 South Riverside avenue recently began a rearrangement of stock and fixtures and a complete remodeling program that fill cost about $3000, according to Charles J. Prltchett. manager. Com p let km of all work Is expected In another week, the man ager said. All modern type furniture Is being Installed and stock and fixtures are being so arranged ea to give more space for cusotmers and salesmen and to better display merchandise. Col lapsible wall fixtures will be Installed, as a featuro of the program, as will a brilliant end modern radio display. Lighting system and window displays will all b of the most modern type. Assisting Prltchett In the remodel ing program Is P. E. Fisher of Los Angelas, official of the Western Auto Supply company and an expert store engineer. Cecil Bancrort, bead of the company's Inventory department at the Oakland, Calif., branch office. Is also helping with the program. Prltchett pointed out that all la bor and material were purchased lo cally end aald that business had so Increased during the past year that remodeling and rearrangement of stock became a necessity. J lng was reported by hospital attend ants to be "little changed, about the same." Jack Woolfolk of Medford. who alao .,.fri a fractured skull In the ac cident eaat of Savage Baplda dam a week ago In which Mrs. nmra Morgan of Medford waa killed, lias nearly completely regain conscious ness, except for dazed spells. 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