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
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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.
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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.
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