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Gussoa Revisited: Wellcome (Sets Warmer With Travel Editor's note: This is the second of five dlispatches on Russia by a. reporter who once worked three and a half years in the Soviet Union and returned for an exten sive tour of the country this summer. By COLETTE BLACKMORE UPI Correspondent Tashkent, USSR-fCPD-Soviet hospitality, like the climate, gets warmer and harder to cope with the farther south and east a traveler goes in Russia. By the time he reaches So vie Central Asia, both the welcome and the temperature are at such a high level that there is nothing to do but succumb cheerfully and hope for the best. The scene is Tashkent, Uz bekistan further from Mos cow than London is and a world away in history and tradition. It is summer. The sun op erates on full power in a cloudless sky from early morn ing until eight in the evening. "Ubistvennaya" (murderous) is the best Russian word to describe it. The streets in this city are too dusty and the buildings with few exceptions too pro vincial looking to be hand some. Here, it is the people who are worth looking at, very worth looking at. Every sidewalk carries an endless parade of nationalities, of slant eyes and round ones, of white skins and yellow brown ones, and striking mix tures of both. Western Clothes No face is too odd looking and no dress is out of place here except of course, what seems most conventional of all to the tourist his own well tailored Western clothes. There are Uzbek women in black and white Zebra sack dresses which have been worn here long before Dior styled the first postwar sack in Paris. There are male Uzbeks in high black boots, wearing em broidered Cossack-type shirts and skull caps on their heads. There are bearded old men in long "khalats" (robes) and elderly shrouded women, There are plump black-eyed, raven-haired babies who are already beginning to babble in a tongue that has nothing to do with the Russian language and is closer to Arabic. As the Western eye tunes in on this mostly Oriental kaleidoscope, the pale faces and the scenery of Moscow seem a little monotonous by camparison. BORN IN AIRLINER Mrs. William B. Stivers. 18, Brit- ish wife of a U. S. airman, proudly shows off her twin girls at a hospital in Gander, Newfoundland. The babies were born on a New York-bound airliner over Atlantic. As for traditional Moscow courtesies to the run-of-the-mill tourist, they likewise be gin to appear miserly in con trast to what Central Asia has to offer banqueting in the cotton fields, sipping tea with Grand Mufti of the Mos lem Church and eating bread frorr. the wheat of Virgin Lands. One hjandred years ago, it was not unusual for Central Asian sultans to wine and dine Western travelers one and throw them into prison the next. Good Sense Shown The Communists who seized power in the 1920s have show ed good sense in sticking to the entertainment tradition while dispensing with the rest. Today's Communist "sultan" who pays host to visiting foreigners is likely to be a man like Mussaev Abadulla a 43-year-old Uzbek, chestnut brown and as self-confident as the chairman of , a big steel corporation. Mussaev has good reason to be confident. Ke produces what is more important to Central Asia's economy than steel 1,100 hectares (about 2,700 acres) of good quality cotton to supply the Soviet Union's textile mills. . The collective farm which Mussaev presides over outside of Tashkent is a showplace of Soviet agricultural achieve ments. After you have spent a couple of hours inspecting and admiring his farm; Mussaev Abadulla informs you that it is an old Uzbek custom to "drink tea with honored visit ors before sending them home." There follows a ban quet of colossal proportions. Green tea is just the start. After it come tomatoes, and cucumbers, melons of several varieties, cartwheel loaves of Uzbek bread, chocolates and other sweets, vodka, wine and champagne and, to everyone's relief, mineral water. Toasts To Friendship Just when you have plenti fully eaten of all this and are about to say goodbye, the main course arrives: heaping bowls of "plov" hot rice, chunks of mutton, carrots and raisins mixed in butter and well-seasoned. With gusto, Mussaev pro poses toasts to Soviet-American friendship and to more East-West travel. It turns out he wants to visit the United States, like everybody else in Russia. i (Next: A Soviet Showplace.) Former Mutual' Radio Men Peclared Pom DinScain Agents ; Washington-CPD-A federal Grand Jury indictecfthree for mer Mutual Broadcasting Co. officials today on charges of failing to register themselves and the network as agents of the Dominican Republic. Named in the indictment were Alexander Guterma, for mer Mutual president; Hal Roach Jr., one-time chairman of the board, and ex-board member Garland L. Culpep per Jr. Co-conspirators Named The indictment named as co-conspirators - but not de-fendants-the network itself, the Radio News Service Corp., and Otto Vega, an official of the Dominican government. A conspiracy count in the indictment named as "foreign principals" Gen. Rafael Leo nidas Trujillo Molina, Do minican dictator; playboy-diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa, and the Dominican government. The government charged that Guterma, Roach and Cul pepper agreed to disseminate through Mutual facilities "po litical propaganda" favorable to the Dominican Republic, and that they received $750, 000 from Trujillo's govern ment. Bankruptcy Reorganization The indictment carries three counts: Failure of the three to register as foreign agents, failure to register Mu tual Broadcasting as an agent, and conspiracy to evade regis tration requirements. The indictment indicates that the defendants were oust ed by Mutual under a reor ganization after bankruptcy. But Mutual headquarters in New York said Guterma re signed last February, before bankruptcy became necessary because of his activities. Guterma has been indicted three tim es "recently on charges of failing to make re quired reports to. the Securi ties and Exchange Commis sion. 'Rubirosa currently is Do minican ambassador to Bel gium. At the time of the al leged conspiracy, he was that country's ambassador to Cuba. Vega formerly was on the Dominican Embassy staff in Washington. Formal Charge The formal charge Is con spiring to violate, and violat ing the Foreign Agents Regis tration Act of 1938. The in dictment was returned in U.S. District Court here. The maximum penalty for violation of the registration act is $10,000 fine. Violation of the federal conspiracy statute, also involved in the indictment, carries the same maximum. Springfield Man Killed in Collision Hood River (UPD Ralph Hauser, 72, Springfield, was killed and his wife was in jured seriously late Monday in a two-car collision six miles east of Cascade Locks. Mrs. Mary Hauser was in serious condition in a local hospital. " The driver of the other car, Stuart Rankin, Hermiston, suffered a fractured leg and other injuries. v Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Dulcima was a book- vCJr,rT So she took a course KEEPER, BUT COULDN'T OUSTISiW IN BEAUTY CULTURE -s GET A JOB AT IT BOOK- I ffr"" , , r-n-ll KEEPING t , . ? V7&- Iff L, I nfKOBOPEHh fafa) j fW IJ M RXk 1MUS EQUIPPED SHE PZ- NOWE DON'T NEED-ANy -NTf"" S0U6HT A PCgmONj f jgj . HP JP Bfc . !Ei2f 111 I Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- rpOOTS SHOR, stylish-stout restaurateur, who recently sold A out his fancy boite for a million or so dollars, cries easily whether he's sober or not. George Jessel once made him break down completely by sigh ing, "Isn't .it tough what they did to President Mc Kinley?" Toots also cried at "Guys and Dolls" and "The Seven Year Itch," but turned thumbs down on "Faust" at the Met. "Too darn much singing,' he ex plained. This year's "Bawl Street Journal,' an irreverent parody of the financial district's bible, features these two advertise ments: One: a casket company urges, "Try our handy flip top box"; Two: a banking house admits, "We Eke the higher things in life: International Business Machines, Superior Oil of California, Jane Mansfield in a penthouse ..." Hollywood patter: First star: Aren't you just mad for June brides? Second star: I'll say I am. I've been five of them. O 1959. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate. TOOTS SHOR Funeral Held for Gresham Pioneer Gresham (DPD Funeral services were held today for George W. Beers, 82, pioneer Oregon real estate man and well-known musician. He died Friday at Gresham. ' Beers led a dance band for 50 years and for many years played for the Multnomah county fair. He operated a real estate office in Sandy for 40 years. Portlander Arraigned On Charge of Murder Portland (UPD Wilber D. Denson, 15, was arraigned -on a first degree murder charge Monday before Judge Frank J. Lonergan here. The youth is scheduled to enter a plea Sept. 8 to the in dictment, which charged him with the slaying last week of a 16-year-old schoolmate, Da vid Lee Heads. Average 200 -pound hog yields 16 pounds of bacon. Oregon City Crash Hurts 3 Persons Oregon City-fUPB-Three per sons from Salem were injured here Monday in a collision be tween the car in which they were riding and a dump truck owned by the city of Port land. Mrs. Emma June Kinsey, 20, driver of the car, suffered facial lacerations and left side injuries. Mrs. Leontine Kuhn, 35, suffered chest, head and arm injuries and numerous lacerations. Mrs. Kuhn's son, James, 5, was cut and bruised when thrown into the wind shield. The truck driver was Harley W. Gorrell, 50, Portland. UNEMPLOYMENT RISES London-(UPD-Unemployment in Britain jumped in July by 32,000 for the first such in crease since January, the Min istry of Labor announced Monday. The number of job less stood at 427,000. Centennial Official Reduces Own Salary Portland (UPD William Marsh, director of public re lations for the Oregon Cen tennial Commission, said he has cut his salary to $1 a month effective today so more manpower can be available to promote the final 17 days of the exposition. He said he could keep an extra person on his staff by cutting his salary. MAtL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. C Tuesday, Sept. 1, 1959 VIOLENT OBJECTIONS Fayetteville, N.C.-(UPD-A barroom fight spread into a two block street brawl involv ing nearly 100 persons Mon-. day night when a group of sol diers from Ft. Brae? obiect- ed to a policeman's attempt to arrest one of the bar's pa trons. The hour-long fight ended when police reinforce ments arrived and arrested several persons. ...WHEREVER GOOD FOOD IS SOLD... Snifter's Quality DAIRY FOODS jj j 3'' 1 vl"'; l ' ' This super octane super mileage gasoline makes your engine run its smoothest 5 'XfJm? YOU GET OVER 100 OCTANE-AND MUCH MORE! 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