Evening star., 1936-08-30
SOVIET |NTENS|F|ES.
DR|VEONPL0TTERS;.
TEACHERS SEIZED
Demand for Trotzky Expul.
sion From Norway Fol-
lowed by "Purge."
DIRECTOR OF FACTORY
THROWN OUT OF PARTY
Manager of State Theater Re-
signs-Oslo Ponders Fate of
Exiled Leader.

BACKGROUND
Discovery several ,ceeks ago OF
counter-repolutionar plot in
Russia set the eyes OF the iDorld on
Moscow again. Sirteen men, in
cluding two former high officials,
Zinopie6 and Kameno6. were ac-
.cused OF plotting ,Dith Leon
Trotzky for the ouerthrop OF the
Stain and the Soviet regime. Their
trial Uds marked by confessions of
the remorsetul plotters and sting
ing pords by Soviet officials on
what ,oill happen to enemies OF the
state. Last Tuesday the is men
pere executed by firing squad.
That matter out OF the iUdy,
Mosco1o turned its attention to the
alleged arch -plotter. Trotzky, long
in erile in Norway.
B, the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. August 29.-The Soviet
government. demanding the expulsion
Of Leon Trotzky from Norway. started
tonight to clean its own house OF
counter-revolutionar
Director Amogebell Of the State
factory in Chelyahinsk was arrested
and thrown out of the party. His for
mer assistant, E. Dreitzler, was one OF
those executed as an anti Communist
plotter.
Manager Amogerbeli Of the state
Dramatic Theater resigned. He, with
the playwright. Afinogeneff, and the
former editor, Gronsky. of the govern
ment newspaper in Moscow, IZvestia
were recently accused of having known
the schemes of r. Pickel. another oi
those executed, without reporting
them
Pickel was once the manager Of the
Kamerny Theater, one of the best
known in Moscow, and it's whole man.
agement now is in hot water because
Pickel allegedly used it as . screen
for TrotZkyite activities.
Writers Union Suspected.
The Writers Union also is under
government suspicion because 1t die
not throw Pickel out until after the
trial began.
Arrests have been made Of some oi
the stan of the Pedagogical Istitute
at Leningrad and some employees OF
the Department of Education. The
Teachers College was said to have
been q hotbed of Trotzkyist activities
It was denied oficially, however
that Alexander Ozersky. commercial
attache at London, had been recalled
Rumors here had said Ozersky was tc
be replaced, but this was denied, as
we'll as reports linking him in anti
government activities with Gregory
Sokolnikoff, former Ambassador tc
London, and Gen. v. Putna, military
attache there.
Russia's petition to Norway to ban.
ish Trotzky, one-time commissar OF
war in the Soviet. charged he hao
engaged in terroristic activities against
the U. S. S. r.
(Trotzky, who was exiled from Rus
sia in 1927 when Josef Stain became
dictator, was held a prisoner at hi
home in Hoenfoss, Norway. tn.
government at Oslo, however, was re-
ported in a quandary over the Trotzk!
incident, not knowing what to do with
their refugee and believing themselve'
without authority to expel him.
Good Relations Involved.
The Soviet message did not ask fol
Trotzky's return to Russia. but mad'
it plain that refusal to Danish hin
would prejudice good relations between
Moscow and Oslo.
1.-THE Soviet government expects tn,
Norwegian government will not delay
measures to deprive Trotzky Of furthe