Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28
WARNS us. WIVES
TO EvADE RUSSIA
Woman lust Returned Says
They Are Not Wanted
by Soviet.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 28.-The wife OF
an American engineer, just cut of
Soviet Russia after having lived there
for a year, was in New York yesterday
with a message for the wives of other
American engineers. 1t was:
Stay out Of Russia"
That message, she said, was the last
thing the wives Of some Of her hus-
bands American associates said to her
before she left them few weeks ago.
"They asked me very earnestly" she
said, ito tell the wives of ether Ameri-
cans who may be going to Russia on
contracts how they were living and to
urge them to stay at home"
For nearly year Mrs. Mamie Ida
Warren, Chicago and San Francisco
clubwoman, lived in Kalata, In the
Clarence Warren, an engineer for the
Allis- Chalmers Co. of Milwaukee, d.
rected the construction OF mill.
e Wives Are Not Wanted.
The Soviet does not want the wives
of American engineers to come to Rus
STA, either, Mrs. Warren said, because,
Wit. thair demands for better food,
sanitation and comforts, they cause too
NAAoSSAAS-~NS
among the Russians"
Her own lot, she said, was better than
that CT the other American women In
Kalata, because at least she had COM
Portable quarters Six-room house
furnished, in part, out of a cathedral.
But even so, she has come home with
a disease called Russian calet," which,
she said, Is brought on by nervous in
digestion and bad food. She expects to
go into a hospital In San Francisco for
| treatment.
Nearly every American who stays in
Russia for any length of time comes
out SICK" she said. ITS especially hard
on the women and children.
Oppressed by Fear.
"You can't be happy in Russia. You
1 are oppressed all the time by terrible,
nameless fear. You get cold with terror.
Americans may not have any reason
to be afraid-but they pick 1t up from
the Russians.
FOR the Russians are afraid. They
seldom smile. They are in terrible
want. There is, too, constantly the
feeling that there is going to be an
other revolution, bloodier, perhaps,
than the last.
"The Russians, except for the inter-
prefers, are not permitted to associate
with foreigners. I was allowed servants
but as soon as got them fed up and
they began to speak little English
they were taken away. The head Of my
husbands plant was called to Moscow
because he permitted me. after had
cut a Christmas tree in the forest and
trimmed it with cotton and whatever
else I could find, to invite some CT the
Russian children to a party.
Had to Have Police Escort.
ct didn't have to wait in line at the
Soviet sores as the Russians did. But
they used to hiss me. had to have
police escort to get through. Since we
left. I've heard, they've had to change
the rules and make the American wom-
en- stand in line, too, because the Rus
slams resented it so.
ct cost us from 5000 to $500 mon.h
to get the barest necessities Butter ran
from $50 to $40 a pound and egg:
cost so to 20 cents >apiece-when you
could get them. Meat was cheap enough
but full of worms. Toward the last we
couldn't geS white flour. but mixture
of white and black. It was peculiar
stuff. The bread was nearly always
half raw In the middle Of the loaf.
I'VE used to get little less than 9
pint of milk a. day, but we had to buy
the food for the COW. We used to get
few geese too, by paying for their fooc
while they were being raised. There
was no fresh fruit save few very poo
apples in the Summer, and no fresf
vegetables except some soft, much to.
matoes and few pale, lemon-colorec
carrots.
Water and Soap Lacking.
ct think what the American womer
minded most, though. we're the sanitary
conditions, which were unspeakable, anc
the lack of water and soap. All the
water used in Kalsta had to be hauled
and soap-there just wasn't any"
But at that, Mrs. Warren said, the
Americans were much better on than
the Russians.
Our neighbors had pet dog" she
said. Zone night heard a shot, anc
he came running, whimpering. Hi;
master came after him, seized him by
the collar, and dragged him around be-
hind the woodshed. heard another
shot. I went over with my interpreter
to see what was the matter.
my children are hungry he said
grufay. MY little boy needs coat"