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The Washington times., 1935-10-01
Lot UnbearGbLe

The forest outpoStS were fur
nished small quantities Of the
goods most urgently required.
The timber-works bases were ad-
vised that they would be required
to fulfil their full assignments.
Their demonstrating kilograms
were either left unanswered or
were countered BY aSsuaging
promises.
Even assuming that the peas
ants lent their willing coopera-
tion, which they were not doing,
it was evident that the number
Of teamSterS available would be
unable to cope with the trans
port Of even the most urgent re-
quirements for the timber out
posts.
The prisoners lot in the for
eStS was becoming unbearable, eS-
capes were more frequent, NOR
tality grew, and typhuS epidemics
broke out at all the outpoSts.
At this critical moment Boksha
arrived in Kotlas. He was the
man on whom all Moscow hopes
were centered, but of course he
was quite powerless in this in
stance. During his visit I had
my first opportunity to observe
the working methods of one of
the highest OGPU penal-camp
officials.
Chief Of the Administration
Boksha was a Lett and a lock.
smith by trade. He was about As
tall and haggard. He had eStab
lished his reputation in the cheka
by his brutality in the suppress.
sion of uprisings during the civil
war. His low and narrow fore
head, his extremely long arms
with large hands which were Gov
cred with a blond fuzz, his little
squirting eyes with yellow lashes,
all made him look something like
a blond orang-utan.
He arrived at 6 o'clock in the
morning, accompanied by the
penal camps chief of sanitation,
DR.. Movsh, who was a former
prisoner and had elected to re-
main in the camps employ after
the expiration of his term. They
were both escorted by the chief Of
the camps armed guards, Gashof-
sky, a typical army officer.
Boksha went to work at half
past six, raising a tremendous
racket in our office. He sat at the
telephone and shouted a mass of
threats, accusations and impos-
sible instructions into the re-
ceiver. Our head-clerk Wahl stood
at attention at his side and was
scared stiff by the great mans
repeated threats to have him shot.
Every Is minutes Orlov, the man.
ager of the Uftug timber-workS,
was called away from his work in
order to listen to BokSha's prom
iseS to have him court-martialed.
There was lots of noise but
nothing useful was accomplished.
The Washington times., 1935-10-01
Smashing Windows
Seems Just a Habit

BALTIMORE, Oct. L. Shirley
Reed, As, colored, who has a habit
Of smashing store windows in Gay
Street "a practice which has
netted him eight years in the pen
is at it again, according to the
police.
Patrolmen arrested Reed after
q clothing store window had been
smashed and two coats stolen.
Reed admitted spending first
three, then five years for robbing
stores in the same street in the
same manner.
The Washington times., 1935-10-01
Contract BLlInders

The division nearest to KatlaS,
preparing timber for export, was
in worse shape than all the others
as a result Of some costly errors
in planning.
The administration of the penal
camps had made a contract with
the State Trust "Severoles"
North. .Timber) which was in
charge of all forestry operations
in the Northern territories. The
camp administration was to sup
ply the Uftug timber district with
all its labor requirements consist
ing Of eight thousand men ana
eight hundred horses. "SeveroleS"
was to supply warm clothing for
the men and tools to work with,
was to organize the transport Of
supplies to the various outpoStS,
and the baking of bread there.
AS soon as this contract was
concluded, Moscow started send
ing to Kotlas trainloads of pris-
onerS from all parts Of the U. s..
s. R. After a short stay at the
Transfer Station they were
marched to their points Of desti-
nation where their trials began.
The State Trust "SeveroleS"
had not made a careful calcula-
ton of it's resources and had blum.
dered into the contract with the
blind optimism so common to
Soviet institutions. It had not ex-
pected such a speedy delivery Of
the man-power contracted for. It
could not supply warm clothing
to the prisoners because Of the
general lack Of warm clothing in
the country, it could not organize
the transport because Of the un-
willingness of peasants to place
their horses at its disposal, and
it could not bake enough bread
for similar reasons. In spite Of
this disorganization, the camp
administration continued to pour
prisoners into the forests, ana
when we arrived at KotlaS the
situation had assumed cataStro-
phic proportions.
There were six thousand priS-
oners and seven hundred horses
in the forests. They were scattered
over the tremendous territory Of
the Uftug forest district, which
consisted of eight bases subdi-
vided into many outposts Of two
hundred to two hundred and fifty
men each. The whole net Of the
Uftug timber-works was managed
by Orlov, a typical ShiftlesS
OGPU official.
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PENALTY
FOR FAILURE.
TO WORK
conditions were as alarming as

conditions were as alarming as
at Uftug.
During his short stay at Kotlas
he issued instructions that all
prisoners trying to escape or re-
fusing to work were to be shot. He
sent orders to all district man
ayers insisting on the fulfilment
Of their entire assignments with.
out excuses of any kind and
threatening the managers to have
them put back into the ranks OF
common labor prisoners in case
Of failure. He also pointed out
the necessity of preserving the
lives Of the horses and ordered
that If there was not enough oats
the horses should be fed bread
at the expense Of prisoners
rations.
Better let 10 prisoners die
than one hOrse!" read his
order.
Comrade Boksha's system Of
work astounded me then by its
singularity. But during the next
two years I frequently had an op-
portunity to see men, who consid-
cred themselves the cream OF
Soviet officialdom, at work. My
observations convinced me that
Boksha's behavior was not in the
least singular, but was common
practice from which there were
but few exceptions.
The Washington times., 1935-10-01
HORSES GIVEN
FOOD MEANT
FOR MEN
PRISONER OF THE oGPU
By GEORGE KITCHIN
CHAPTER Fourteen

The town office of the penal
labor camp occupied a small,
two-story building, painted in
a gay, sky-blue color, and To-
Gated on the main street of the
Old Town commercial section.
It bore the abbreviated name of
EXC, which stood for the Eco
nomic Department of the Kot-
las Transfer Station. The Of
flee was on the lower floor and
the upper story contained the
clerks living quarters.
In spite of the late hour, the
office was brightly lit and all
the clerks were still in it. We
became acquainted. In the
chiefs absence the office was
managed by the head account
ant, Wahl, a German from the
Baltic provinces who was serv-
ing a six-year term for graft.
This individual impressed us
most unfavorably. He was
short and bow-legged, with an
oily complexion and muddy
eyes. Immediately upon meet
ing us he started telling us old
and pointless smutty stories
and commonplace jokes. The
other clerks surrounded him
and applauded him with servile
snickering.
we were offered some tea and
taken upstairs to inspect the
sleeping quarters. The hunks all
stood quite close to each other,
almost adjoining, with tiny pas
Sage-ways between. My bunk was
in q little room and stood next TO
the bunk of the office cook, the
Georgian Eradse, former proprle-
tor Of a Caucasian restaurant In
Moscow.
I was lucky in my neighbor; he
was a very lkeable chap, but un-
fortunately he had the bad profeS-
sional habit of getting up at four
in the morning ani lighting the
fire in the tremendous stove whose
back wall adjoined my bunk. The
wall would get so dreadfully hot
that by 6 o'clock it became unbear'
able to remain in bed and I
would jump out Of it as out Of a
frying-pan. All my efforts to
make the cook unlearn this habit
proved unaVailing.
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Boss "Lit Up"

Bukhaltzev tried to compose
the pale and frightened Wahl and
assured him that after lunch the
boss would calm down. After
lunch the boss did not come at all.
Later on We heard that during
lunch five Of them had consumed
six liters of alcohol. All the next
day Boksha spent drinking beer
in Bukhaltzev's private office. At
night he slept in the private Of
flee, on the floor, rolled up in his
fur coat. In another day he left
US and went to Archangel, where
The Washington times., 1935-10-01
BYRD'S PLANE
STARTS TOUR

HAGERSTOWN, Nd, Oct. I.
Citizens Of Winchester, Va, will
be given an opportunity tomorrow
and Thursday to view the air.
plane, STARS and Stripes" used
by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in his
flight over the South Pole at Lit
tie America,
The plane, which has been over.
hauled at the HagerStown plant
Of the Fairchild Aircraft Corpora
ton, will start on its round-the.
world flight, leaving Hagerstown
Wednesday morning.
The first stop will be WincheS-
ter, the home Of Admiral Byrd.
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Disliked By Clerk

The head clerk Wahl evidently
took a dislike to me, probably for
nv lack of enthusiasm over his
smutty stories, for he Immediately
brought up a large bundle Of
papers and ordered me, in the
name Of the boss, to copy them.
I started hammering on an old
rickety Remington with my stiff
fingers, which were badly coars-
ened by the hard labor in camp.
It took me three hours to become
accustomed again to this kind of
work and by one o'clock in the
morning half my assignment was
completed. The work in the Of
flee continued, nobody going to
bed, though most of the clerks
spent more time in conversation
than at office work.
The telephone rang constantly.
Most of the calls came from the
nearest camp division, the Uftug
timber works, and often they con-
tanned reports Of the latest es-
capeS.
The telephone operator repeat
ed in a monotonous voice while
another clerk wrote down the
message: Ozark. medium height,
IS years old, dressed in black
coat, no special marks. Take all
steps necessary to catch the fugi-
tive"
Usually we received some five
or ten such messages a day. In
the morning they would be trans
mitted to the secret intelligence
department Of the camp, which
was in charge Of escapes.
At a. m. was interrupted in
my work by a young employe of
the secret intelligence department.
He gave me a special assignment,
to type 100 QUESTIONABLE blanks
for prisoners to be employed by
the intelligence service. Such
prisoners had to fill in the ques-
tionnaire and accept all response
bilitieS arising out Of their obli-
cation to report on their fellow
prisoners. This highly gratifying
special work took me about two
hours. Fighting off drowsiness
during the next three hours, I
finally completed my original as
Signment. The office was now
empty except for the clerk on
watch-duty. 1t was morning when
] went up to my room in the hope
Of getting some sleep, but the lit
tie room was already so hot that
] soon had to get out of my bunk
and try and find a substitute for
sleep in a refreshing wash with
cold water.
At eight o'clock work was re-
Eumed at the office. AS usual in
all Soviet institutions, most of the
work consisted Of writing a multi
tude Of documents which nobody
needed or read. There was plenty
OF work for the typist. At noon
I was so tired that I could hardly
keep my eyes on the words I had
to copy.
There was great activity all
around me. Bukhaltzev's loud
orders came from his private Of
flee, the clerks rushed from desk
to desk in search Of data he de-
The Washington times., 1935-10-01
.OGPUPrisOn Camp Horrors Revealed

author describing Odt he sGD and suffered from 1928
to 1892 penal to which he sentenced
trupedup charges of espionage. citizen OF Finland In bust
ness In for he sent to the OGPU
Northern Camp DiScipIinGrGnS "trSty CONFLICTS in
sympathy communism. tew months after the author
completed these descriptions OF heIorearth he died
in his ComnuniStic Gehennd
The Washington times., 1935-10-22

MAN, YOUNG, WHITE TO
WORK IN STOCK ROOM.
APPLY MR.. DERR, HUB
FURNITURE CO., 7TH AND
D SITS. N. W.
The Washington times., 1935-10-22
DISTINCTIVE HOUSE IN
WHITE PLAINS. VA.

Do you like a huge fireplace
where the whole family can
gather around of a winter eve
ming. I have Just visited the
most delightful house, Just fif-
teen minutes away over on the
Virginia side a country
house with all the advantages
Of city life. It has an excel
lent oil burner, electric refrig-
Grafton and everything needed
to make living here indeed a
comfort. Constructed Of field
stone and set in the midst Of
beautiful grounds and trees, it
is most unusual, as we'll Is at
tractive. On the first floor
there is a huge beam living
room; a small, yet complete
kitchen and a downstairs bed
room. Upstairs are two more
bedrooms and bath. The furn-
iShingS are quite in accordance
with the house. You will like
this very much. Shoot me II
you like, but must tell you
there Is also q swimming pool
nothing like having q good
imagination.
NEAR DOWNTOWN:
Many of us wish to walk to
work for different reasons, but
there is nothing as good for US
as a brisk walk on q clear cold
morning. If you live in this
house at 18th and Rhode
Island Ave. (provided, Of course,
you work in the nearby Gov
ernment buildings) you could
have a fifteen-minute stroll
each morning which would be
beneficial to your health as well
as economical. There were sew
eral vacancies in this house.
One room I particularly liked
was the one with early Ameri-
can bedroom furniture. There
were two beds, a huge chest Of
drawers having adequate space
for the needs Of two, and easy
chairs. Wholesome meals with
a variety Of menus are served
twice a day, breakfast and din.
ner. Rental for 2 in q room is
$45 apiece.
FURNISHED HOUSE NEAR
WARDMAN PARK:
In the section near Wardman
Park is a charming and delight.
The Washington times., 1935-10-22

BIG SPECIAL
Ford 1884 vs. Panel, extra long eEOE
wheel base 13-foot loading DJOO
capacity: new tires: ii 900 miles: spa
cially built: beautiful for laundry or fur
niture: equal to new.
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T2 Florida Ave. N. z. NO. 613O-IO4O8
The Washington times., 1935-10-22
Rental Hunting
With BGrbGrQ HOLMES

full furnished home that can be
rented on long or short term
lease. 1t is fully furnished, hav-
ing dishes, kitchen equipment,
electric percolator, toaster, etc.
The first floor arrangement
consists Of living room, dining
room, sun porch, kitchen and
porch. Upstairs are three bed
rooms and two baths. There is
also an attic across the house
which would be ideal for storage
space. There is also a two-car
garage and huge cellar. You
will find this a most livable
house, not only well furnished,
but attractively so. Rental,
$3.50.
FURNISHED ROOM
NEAR NAVY YARD:
Within walking distance of
the Navy Yard, in a private
home, there is a very delightful
s. large room equipped with a
double bed suitable for two gen.
tlemen or q couple. It would
be particularly convenient for
men working in the vicinity of
the Navy Yard, for it is only a
few blocks away. The room has
southern exposure and is next
to the bath.
HOME.COOKED MEALS:
Home-cooked meals, pleasant
and congenial atmosphere gives
this little house an advantage
over some Of the others. The
rooms, while small, are cozy
and well furnished, and judging
from the delicious aroma that
greeted me when I visited the
kitchen, the meals should be
very tasty. Best of all, the
prices are very reasonable,
$3.50 to $40 apiece.
KENNEDY PLACE N. w.:
Now for an ideal place for a
man who likes to be in a house
where there are no other room
ers. In this particular house
there are only two grown-upS
and there is a room on the
front Of the house that has
three windows in it. This room
Is available at once. It rents
for $25, and is well worth it.
II interested In any OF the
GboUe places. fill out the coupon
belotD and I tDill be glad to giue
you the desired Information.
The Washington times., 1935-10-22

Sixteen years of age or over, with BIZ
cycles, wanted at once for messenger work.
Permanent employment with good pay; a
few may work after school hours. Apply
1917 New York Ave. N W. Mr.. Schryver.
YOUNG men over ls years old to work on
local circulation campaign; can earn SIS
per week to start. See Mr.. Murray, Room
400. 1919 F st. n. w.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-29
HOSPITAL, VISIT SLATED
BY DEMOCRATIC WOMEN
Perry Club to Inspect New Pool To-
morrow at Riley.

Perry Township Women's Demo-
cratic Club members are to visit the
rev therapeutic pool at Riley Hos
pital tomorrow afternoon The club
is to meet at the home of Mrs. Helen
V. Costello on the Bluf-rd at 2.
Mrs. Harry Cook, Mrs. Pearl Bun
ming, Mrs. Lucille Weimar, Mrs.
Mabel Norwood and Mrs. Jessie
Copsey are to be assistant hostesses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-29

Complete alphabetic keyboard,
just like your big sisters. The
carriage moves from side to
side.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-29
MYSTIC SHRINE
TO HOLD DANCE
AND CARD PARTY
Scottish Rite and Knights
Templar to Be
Admitted.

Scottish Rite and knights Temp
lar members not affiliated with the
Mystic Shrine are to be admitted
TO the Murat Temple dance and
lzrd party tomorrow night on pre-
sentatiG2 of guest cards to be dis
.ributed at tie recorders Office in
me temple. DR.. O. c. Cox, Shrine
potentate announces.
Admission is to be only on mem
bersnip or guest cards, Edwin E.
Temperley, entertainment commit
tee chairman, announces.
There is TO be dancing in the
Egyptian Room, card party in the
social lounge and a floor show. Re-
freshments are TO be served.
Women's card party is set for
next Thursday afternoon at the
temple. Mrs. c. E. Cox is chairman
of a committee arranging for the
event. Contests in auction and con-
tract bridge and euchre are to be
held Point bonus is to be given
for starting play promptly at 1:30.
Play VIII be progressive
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-29

Times Special
MADISON, Wis, Nov. 90 -
Howard T. Heun, above, Rich
mond, Ind, a senior in the Uni
versity of Wisconsin College of
Letters and Science, is co-chair-
man for party to be given Sun
day for more than 100 crippled
children in the University Ortho-
pedic Hospital The event is spon-
sored by campus organizations.
Athletic and executive activi-
ties of Mr. Heun have been re
warded with several honors. He
is a member of Phi Kappa Psi
Fraternity, president Of the ath-
letic board, W. Club secretary
and Union Board vice president.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
GAS PRICE WAR
SEEN NEAR

Because Of the custom of Civ.
ing a twocent discount to taxicab
companies, it is feared today
Washington is likely to undergo
another gasoline price-cutting war.
1t was learned a number of cut
rate stations are suspected of sell.
ing gasoline to regular patrons at
the same discout.
Approximately a dozen dealers
have been retailing gas at 1917
cents or more.
An official of the Standard Oil
Company admitted the possibility
of dissension among the indepen-
dent local dealers, but stated
nothing definite is known as yet.
One of the largest local whole
sale and retail organizations, how
ever, charged a major national
chain had precipitated the row by
posting cut-rate prices at one Of
it's local stations, enabling the
general public to get the discount
as well as taXicabS,
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
ADVERTISER EMIT
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With Itching Eczema"

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Rash, Pimples. Ringworm and other
irritations. Zemo is worth the price
because you get relief. Tested and
approved by Good Housekeeping
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The Washington times., 1935-01-16
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The Washington times., 1935-01-16
Mrs. Hawley Heads
BingO Party Plans

TAKOMA PARK, Jan. 16.-Mrs.
Walter Hawley has been named
chairman. of the committee in
charge of arrangements for the
Country Store Bingo Party, at Ia
koma Park Fire Hall tomorrow
at $3.50 p. m. under the auspices
Of the Ladies Auxiliary.
The monthly meeting Of the
Auxiliary will be held tonight at
8 o'clock, at the fire department
building.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
BEATTY IS HURT
BY LION

ROCHESTE R, Ind, Jan. 16
G.N.S0.-Clyde Beatty, wild ami
NAL trainer, suffered today from
an assortment of cuts, fractured
ribs and bruises inflicted by Samp-
son, a newly imported African
lion, that attacked him in the
training cage.
Holding a straight-backed chair
before him as a shield, Beatty
was putting the black-maned lion
through few simple tricks at
the winter quarters here when the
animal suddenly charged the noted
trainer.
Beatty was hurled across the
40-foot steel grilled training arena
but managed to fight off the lion
with the chair legs until attend
ants beat Sampson away from the
injured trainer. Beatty backed
painfully to the door while the
others diverted the animals at
tention.
In addition to severe cuts and
bruises Beatty was found to be
suffering from several fractured
ribs.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
NEW DEALERS
DENY DESIGN
ON COURT
BY FRANKLIN G. sARTwELL

By FRANKLIN G. SARTWELL
Talk of possible increase in the
number Of justices of the United
States Supreme Court in order to
insure decisions supporting con-
troverted New Deal legislation is
causing the Administration con-
siderable embarrassment.
Administration leaders have
consistently denied that they
would even contemplate taking
such a course. Occasionally their
denialS have been buttressed with
indignation.
But the talk will not down. 1t
was given fresh impetus when
the adverse "hot oil" decision was
announced by the Supreme Court,
It is recalled that at that time
there was considerable talk that
during the Roosevelt Administra'
ton several of the justices might
retire because of age and all Of the
talk Of possible successors hinged
upon whether the aSpirants were
for or against the New Deal. 1t
was rather freely predicted that
no one who could not be depended
upon to back up the New Deal leg.
islation might expect an appoint
ment to the court.
The expected retirements have
not as yet taken place.
International News Service
An attempt to "intimidate" the
Supreme Court was charged today
by Representative Hamilton Fish,
(RO of New York, who cited
rumors being spread by members
of Congress that the court would
be packed" if it holds New Deal
measures unconstitutional.
The purported plan includes
naming of two friendly" justices
to the Court, raising the present
membership of nine to eleven, to
overcome the votes of the So-called
conservative members.
Representative Fish said:
81 hope the Supreme Court
Of the United States will uphold
its splendid tradition of impair
tiality and time-hOnOred atti-
tude Of nOn-partisanShip and
determine all New Deal meas
ures on the merits Of each case,
whether there is q violation of
the Constitution or not"
Wait 21 Years
Representative Schrugham Cd
Of Nevada, made public a tele.
gram from w. E. D. Stokes, finan.
cier and lawyer of Philadelphia
and Reno, proposing a 21-year
moratorium on all gold clause
bonds in the event the Supreme
Court holds abrogation of the gold
clause invalid.
The Washington times., 1935-01-16
DVERTIsEMENT
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