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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-31

| In mild tones each official,
spokesman from whom this corre-
spondent obtained the figures-and
| they were for the most part min
listers of information, ministers OF.
foreign affairs or the prime min
listers Observation-Disclosures the
key points of what HitIer'S New.
Order" has brought to each coun-
try, and thereby to the continent. I
II The Germans, Il was said. have
bled all lands dry of material
goods, particularly food, tobacco
and machinery. +
| They are using food as q polit-s
ical weapon, these spokesman said.
to win and aid labor.
HELP SPREAD DISEASE
The German army. while stiIl
| fairly correct In it, attitude; has
brought social disease, IL was
charged. and is helping to spread,
new ailments.
| One spokesman told me that,
ltyphus, infantile paralysis, bron-I
chial pneumonia, influenza and
skin and hunger diseases were
spreading and unless soon under
control would result in epidemics
of proportion to tax modern
medicine.
Premature births from mainu-
triton and infant mortality are
on the increase. It was said.
PEOPLE MADE SLAVES
So far as the adult population
Is concerned, the Nazis are maxi
ing them slaves by threatening
Cestapo treatment or depriving
workmen Of unemployment conn
pensation and food cards until
they become migratory laborers
of the Reich" one spokesman said.
Bankruptcy has been brought on
by German seizure Of Industrial
and commercial enterprises, rail-
ways and communications, II was
charged, while local clrrencies'
have Been revalued at fantastic
rates Of exchange. 4
H All spolxesmen repeatedly unders'
lined the work Of the illegal press
there are $50 underground news-
papers circulating In the occupied
territories with news from the
United States and elsewhere and
these aid La directing xzbUtHHgy
arson and assassination.
DEMOCRACY's STH COLUMN
As the Czech spokesman said:
"All those who have died and
NIL those imprisoned on behalf
Of tho democratic cause have a
been soldiers ON Gcrmany's In
ternal front.
This II Dcmocracy's Fifth !
Column. IL win 20 ON fighting
and 20 on sacrificing st IN ever
increasing rate until the battle
r. won.v
Evening star., 1941-11-04
On to Moscow

most serious. They were as anxious
for news as we-and as interested
IN the local inhabitants. They
gawped at them as American tour
lists gawp at American Indians.
got to like the people on the
train. When they weren't fighting
for food they were considerate of
each other. They were not unlike
Americans; less high spirited and
more content to crowd and to wait
but casual, cheerful, direct and
scornful of such small rules as those
against standing on car platforms
In motion and getting on the train
after the last station bell had rung.
You are informed when a Russian
train Is about to start by the ringing
OF large bell which hangs promi-
nently before the station entrance.
Usually it rings a flve-minute warm
Ing, but not always. It doesn't mat
ter, because you can catch most
Russian trains in motion before they
reach the end of the platform.
I note that I wrote down, mo
wedding rings, no lipstick, no spec
stacles Il have seen but one pair
IN a week. and the people don't
smell as I was told they would.
The treatment of Orientals as equals
is notable. There are some care
fully dressed people on the train:
they emerge as your eyes get used
to crowds in shapeless, shoddy, nom
descript costumes. The well-dresSed
ones tend to keep aloof."
Airports Training Pilots.
Before we got to the Aral Sea we
began passing another wartime
phenomenon; the pilot training
airport. For days we passed never
less than two fields a day, around
and around and around which
circled planes-flimsy, biplane pri-
mary trainers at some and at others
faster two-place monoplanes like
our North American trainer. We
could see them in the air miles
away and when we passed them
Steele and would count the planes.
There would be so to $50 in the air
or on the ground. The stations
would be full of flying cadets,
identifiable by the wings on their
tunics and soon recognized as
younger, cocker, more alert than
the other soldiers. Once we had
fun watching an antiaircraft bat
terry shooting at a towed sleeve
target. 1t was good. -Four suces-
sive bursts came close. The fifth
appeared to break right on the
sleeve. The target might have been
5000 or 10000 feet high.
Already was experiencing a SEN
sation I was never quite to lose In
Russia-of wonderment at how one
homogeneous people could do some
things so well and some 50 badly.
1t seemed to take a crew Of five to
run a locomotive. One of the crew
Evening star., 1941-11-04
Too Big 10 Jail Boast
Laid 10 bioff al Trial
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the ASEOclate0 fIeSS
NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-William
Bioff, West Coast labor union leader.
was pictured In testimony in Fed
eral Court yesterday as making a
series of successful shakedowns Of
Warner Brothers Picture Corp, and
then boasting:
If I go to Jail Joe Schenck will
be in the next cell, and some Of the
other big movie heads will be right
along with him.
I'm too big a fish to send to Jail.
And what If they did send me? Lots
of big men have been in Jail, like
Stain and Hitler and few others"
The boast was attributed to Bioff
by James E. Coston, Chicago theater
manager for Warner Brothers, who
testified at the trial of Bioff and
George E. Browne, president of the
A. F. l.. International Alliance Of
Theatrical and Stage Employees, on
charges Of extorting $550,000 from
the movie industry in violation of
anti-racketeering laws.
Mr.. Coston testified that his COM
pany had made payments totaling
71,700 since 1885 to Browne and
Bioff and Nick Dean, described as
Biof1's appointed representative in
Chicago.
Dean is q fugitive under q similar
extortion indictment.
Evening star., 1941-11-04

was always shining 1t up at every
station stop. Yet I never saw .
clean locomotive In Russia or one
that would pass an inspection on q
branch line of Oklahoma. But the
locomotive ran and they were big
and powerful and RuSsian-built. I
saw q crew that grew to more than
q dozen wrestling for half an hour
with a simple hot box on our car.
Helpers brought the wrong tools
jacks that wouldn't reach and bear
ings that wouldn't flt-and the en-
tire operation was Smothered IN
conversation. But I also saw tart
station mistress stop the whole
nonsense, delegate two men to
change the bearing, and whistle
the train out of the station in 4
minutes nat. And I never saw .
broken down train in Russia.
Other Contradictions.
The cloth they make is inferior;
their best shoes would hardly pass
the inspection OF a second-rate
mail order house. Yet the machin-
ing on their artillery is beautiful to
look at and their electric installa-
tions are models of clean efficiency.
I forget how long the United States
of America has been in the Philip
pines, but you can still drive by
miles of candle and kerosene Lit
houses there. I can't remember
even a small town in Russia that
did not have electric lights.
Out of this bewilderment I came
to some understanding Of the con-
trary and contradictory reports
we've long received on the state
of health of the Soviet Union. Any
special pleader on the subject OF
Russia can prove anything he likes
with incontrovertible facts-because
everything you have ever heard
about Russia is probably true-the
best and the worst.
After a week in the Soviet Union,
I found myself writing: This coun-
try runs-probably to its peoples
taste-or they wouldn't be 50 good
natured-but why doesn't it run
better? Should one be amazed that
1t runs at all? Twenty years ago
these people couldn't read or write,
were abysmally ignorant, SUPER
stitious and dirty. Now they know
how to build strong locomotives
and fast airplanes. And yet their
poverty is shocking. I do not un-
derstand what I see or know what
feel"
On the fifth day we rolled out
of Russia -in-Asia into Russia in
Europe. winding through the SOUTH
ernmost hills of the Ural Noun
tains, between place called
Evening star., 1941-11-04
Russia at: War;

egg. In Moscow my breakfast at
the National Hotel l-stewed fruit,
scrambled eggs, toast and coffee
came to more than 81. We didn't
know how well We were fixed, living
In the country. A quarter pound of
butter was only 3 rubles-say, IS
cents A small glass Of boiled milk
was so kopecks, half a ruble, or
10 cents. By small glass mean a
very small glass, not much more
than half glass at home.
Honest Vendors.
A third of an American loaf Of
white bread come to q ruble; a milk
glass full Of scrubby raspberries, 2
rubles. Once we had q whole roast
chicken. 8 rubles, $160. At the bigger
stations they sold sherbet sand
wiches-a slab Of water ice between
wafers-for IS kopecks. Everybody
on the train seemed to have plenty
Of money to buy what they pleased
There was no haggling over prices.
They were fixed wherever we went.
The vendors were very honest. No
one took advantage Of our ignorance.
Soon after we left the Tashkent
junction we began passing-south-
bound and away from the front
trains of machinery. These were
long strings of fiat cars with a dozen
to 20 box cars on the end. The fiat
cars were piled high with machinery
which had obviously been pulled up
by the roots and dumped hastily
aboard. There was a complete
hydroelectric power plant on one,
another was covered with lathes.
I made q few notes and have just
looked at them. They describe, "old
factory machinery being removed,
new farm tools, pig iron, piping,
rails and carwheels." And: More
pieces Of hydroelectric plant; what
seems to be a whole. factory; more
rails; more pipes; ingots; many un-
identified shc '"s under tarpaulins."
In the box c.. , at the end of each
train were the factory thanksgiving
men and women jamming the open
doors, sitting, dangling their legs.
When they stopped opposite our
train there was much talk back and
forth. Every one seemed good
natured.
This south and east bound migra-
ton of industry passed in a steady
stream for the whole nine days. A
month later I was to mingle with it
on my way out from Moscow toward
the Caucasus. There was no way
of apprasing its volume, but 1t was
very heavy.
Muscovites Gawp At Natives.
We wound across the desert hour
after hour. We saw many nomads
living in hide-roofed, straw-sided
round tents. We came to the Aral
Sea, blue and fiat. We began to
get to know our companions on the
train. The Muscovites were the
Evening star., 1941-11-04

woman came to her home and asked
to be permitted to come inside and
warm herself.
She offered to bless some money,
Mrs. Dopp related, and was given
$50 which she placed In a stocking.
The gypsy left but returned later In
the day and was permitted to bless"
an additional $40.
Evening star., 1941-11-04

Aktyubinsk and Orenberg. which Is
in Europe.
It was the day after that we got
to Kuybishev, now capital city Of
all the Russias. The government
moved there October 20.
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(TO be continued)
Evening star., 1941-11-04
Gypsy 'BIesses' So
Then II DisuDDeurs

The gypsy "blessed money" trick
was worked here again yesterday,
police were told.
Mrs. Minnie Dopp, rs, of 1116
Tenth street NV. reported a gypsy
Evening star., 1941-11-04

Wood charcoal is an extremely
porous material, its bulk being ap-
proximately one-third the bulk Of
the wood from which 1t Is made.
Evening star., 1941-11-04

Mrs. Dopp found q piece Of paper
instead Of her $40 when she united
the stocking later, she said.
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dren of Billings visited at the
home of her parents, MIR. and
Mrs. r. "A. VickerS, Christmas
week. Mr.. Newark was a guest
at the Vickers home Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Cor
kinS spent the weekend visit
ing relatives in Powell and Nee
teetse, Wyo.
MI. and Mrs. Jens Kalberg
and daughters, Yvonne and
Carol, were Christmas dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. D. E,
Fitzpatrick.
Art Gustafson of Fairbanks
Alaska, is spending the Christ
mas holidays with friends and
relatives in Hardin.
Mr.. and Mrs. hoy Leaver
Johnnie and Maxine. were din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs, Yer
non Leanard Christmas day.
Dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nils Ottun Christmas day were
MIR and Mrs. Ray Buzzetti. Mrs,
Rachel Tyler and family, Lou
Torske, and Joe Herman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Nickel
and Miss Dorothy Holmes spent
Christmas in Billings.
Miss JAG Robb MS is spending
the holidays in Buffalo, Wyo.
Willard Durham is spending
his vacation with his grandpar-
entS in Miles City.
MI. and Mrs. A. Montgomery,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Christen-
son, Mrs. Fanrcis Wallace and
Charles Paulus of Wyola, Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde L. Hawks, Mr.
and Mrs. Carl E. Bowman. al
Bowman and Mrs. Ollie Gala
han were dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Ulrich Christ
mas day.
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Shop in Hardin!
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Boys Honored
At Dance Friddy

The business men of the town
of Lodge Grass gave a free
dance at the Townsend hall
Friday night in honor of the
boys of Lodge Grass who are
in training camps and are
spending their vacation at their
homes.
The Hardin Junior dance
band furnished the music.
Among the National Guard
and Army Air corps members
who were home Christmas were
Calvin Buckingham. Clarence
Westbrook, John Jappe, Victor
Miller, Bob Hanley, Buddy Neal,
Wendell Knutson, Jimmie Mix
loVich, Bill eros Ventre, Harold
Carpenter and Ben Jefferson.
These boys had a ten day
leave and plan to return some
time next weeks. G
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MI. and Mrs. E. L.. Kelley,
Jeanne, Janice, and Edmund
Kelley, and L. J. Barr, spent the
Christmas holidays with Mr..
and Mrs. Ed Buzzett1 and fam
lily in MiSsoula. Edmund stayed
to visit until spring.
Miss Lillian Durand of Boze-
man arrived Thursday to spend
a few days at the L. R. Cool
home.
Chuck Livengood of Billings
spent Monday and Tuesday in
Hardin visiting friends.
Mi. and Mrs. j. E. Conver,
Pat. Earl and Helen Conver,
and Mrs. Orah Conver were
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy Conver in Grow agency on
Christmas day.
Lester Jones, employee OF the
W. G.. Woodward store spent
Christmas in Big Timber with
his parents.
Mrs. Lora Del Peden and Mrs.
Mabel Franklin were in Bill
lings on business Friday.
Miss Rosalie Blevans, who is
a senior at the State University
OF Washington, at Seattle, spent
the weekend in Hardin visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Ping
and Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Calder
wood. Miss Blevans taught in
the Hardin grade school in 1898
and 1889.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. R. Cool, Miss
Naomi Cool and Darrell Cool,
MI. and Mrs. L. S. McAllister,
Miss June McAllister, and Mrs.
Harriet Kirkland and daughter.
Carol, were dinner guests of
Mrs. Lura P. Strand Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Rose
berry of Billings were house
guests at the WILDER S. Fish
home during the holidays.
Ray Kalberg, who is now sta
TONED at McCord Field, Wash,
left Sunday after spending the
past week with his parents, MI.
and Mrs. Art Kalberg.
The Rev. and Mrs. E.. H.
Wendland and Westley. of
Whitehall visited at the home of
MIR. and Mrs. Lawrence Wend-
land from Monday until Thurs
day of last week.
Robert Clark OF the Billings
unemployment office, is in
charge of the Hardin office
during the absence of Glen
Knight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Robbins
were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Frailey in Crow Ag-
ency Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Graham
of Lodge Grass visited at the
home of Mrs. Graham's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Pickard, last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Rhine
hart ana family visited with
Mrs. Rhinehart'S parents, Mr..
and Mrs. H. M. Roberts. in
Sheridan Sunday.
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! Dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. Buzzetti Friday evening were
Mr.. and Mrs. R.. P. Ross and
Betsy, Mr.. and Mrs. R. S. Ross,
Joyce and Bobb1e, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Buzzetti and Alec Franklin.
j. D. Mcdowell was a dinner
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Stobaugh Sunday.
MI. and Mrs. Orville Cunning
ham and family of Billings
were guests for Christmas din
ner at the Sam Cunningham
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. D. Holmes of
Tullock creek spent several days
in Hardin this week.
Mrs. Stanley A. Yergey left
Thursday for California, where
she will visit friends and rela-
tlves.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Zelka and
| Mrs. Mary Brandt attended a
family reunion in Red Lodge
Christmas day. Miss Marie
Stampfel, neice of Mrs. Zelka,
returned with them to visit
until New Years day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Olson,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kenfield
and MIR. and Mrs. Ray Anton
held a cooperative dinner at the
Harry Olson home Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa T. Barber
and Miss Dorothy Barber of Bill
lingS spent Christmas day in
Hardin visiting relatives.
Mrs. Chase Lawrence has
been i'll the past week.
Miss Bessie Cook and Melvin
Cook visited in Wolf Point over
Christmas.
Allen Roush left Thursday
for Lincoln, Nebr., to visit rel
atives for a short time. From
Lincoln. Allen will go to New
York City, where he will resume
his studies at Columbia Univer-
sity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Ross and
Jimmy, MI and Mrs. R. S. Ross,
Joyce and Bobbie, and MIR. and
Mrs. A. Buzzetti, Jack and Hell
en- Jean, were dinner guests at
the r. P. Ross home Saturday
evening.
MIR. and Mrs. John K. Rankin
and daughters, Sue and Sara
Katherine, were dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs Carl Rankin
Christmas day.
j. G.. Link of Billings was in
Hardin on business Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. w. J. Scott were
guests of Mrs. SCOTS parents
in Park City Christmas.
Miss Dorothy and Betty Law
renee of Greybull, Wyo., are
visiting at the Chase and Ed
Lawrence home over the holi-
days.
Miss Alma Hansen left Mon
day to spend two weeks vaca-
ton in Billings.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. Landon and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. S. Bair
and family were dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Berns on
Christmas day.
Mr. and Mrs. William Nuckols
of Broadus were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. J. J. Ping, and Mr..
and Mrs. M. R. Calderwood dur
ing the holidays.
Miss Edith Johnson and Miss
Edith Lautt, of Livingston, Wis
tied at the H. C. Bigley home
Christmas. Miss Johnson, a sis
ter of Mr.. Bigley, is secretary
Of the State Beauty Culture as
ISOLATION, and Miss Lautt is
head of the Lautt Hospital in
Livingston.
j.. w. Cunningham, former
resident of Hardin, and now of
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st. Mary,s Idaho, is visiting
with his brother, Sam N. Cum
bingham.
Charles Sweeney of Butte ar
rived Thursday to visit his par
entS, Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. SWee-
ney. Charles returned Sunday.
Bill Torske of Sidney spent
Christmas with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A.. TorSke.
Sheridan Graf and Art Dur
tche left Friday for California.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Jensen
of Sheridan, Wyo., visited at the
home of Mr.. Jenson's mother,
Mrs. Gladys Jensen, Christmas.
Ray Buzzetti, Mrs. A. Buzz
zettl, Mrs. Buzz Pattison, and
Juell Ottun went to Fromberg
Friday to visit friends and rel
atives.
Mrs. Anna Deichl, and daugh-
tiers, Lucille and Katherine, and
Ed Lawrence were dinner guests
at the John Lawrence nome
christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Tate of
North Valley left Saturday at
ter visiting at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. Deibert Rob-
bins, for five days.
MI. and Mrs. Max Thompson
of Cody, Wyo., were guests at
the home of Mr. Thompson's
mother, Mrs. Ray Thompson,
during the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Conver,
Pat, Earl, and Helen Conver,
visited in Billings Sunday with
I Mrs. Conver's mother, Mrs. Min
ME Blend.
MI. and Mrs. Estol Henley are
spending the holidays in Elgin,
N. D., visiting friends and rel
atives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Lowry
and family of Billings and Mr..
and Mrs. D. A. Ramp were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John H.
Kifer Christmas day
MIR. and Mrs. Carl Norduuist,
James Clawson and ElWood
Bailey spent Sunday at Roberts.
i Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Savage
of Boyd, visited at the home of
Mrs. Savage's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. M. Walker, Thursday.
Mrs. John Finlayson, Miss
Mildred Trussell, Miss Beatrice
! Trussell, and Homer Trussell
spent Christmas in Sheridan at
the home of Mrs. Mollie Elarth.
MIR. and Mrs. William Corkins
and family of Little Eagle, S.
D., are. visiting at the C. A.
CorkinS and c. E. Ford homes
during the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs Ed Stark left
Tuesday for Baker to spend
Christmas at the home of MIR.
Stark's sister, Mrs. Calvin Lund,
and Mrs. Stark's father, Kole-
mon Hrokker. They returned
Friday.
Miss Make Ruth Emmett ana
Miss Ernestine Ross of From
berg are guests OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Buzz Pattison.
The Rev. and Mrs. George
E. Danskin were Christmas din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Lou
FranHen in Laurel.
Mrs. Lee Turley and daugh-
tiers, Evagene and Natalie, spent
the holidays with Mrs. Turkeys
| parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Pen
! son, in Kirby.
| Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Weir, Mr..
and Mrs. 'Harey Henderson,
Buzzie and Barbara, Mr.. and
Mrs. v. I. Morris and Jimmy,
Mr.. and Mrs. Vic Weyand, and
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C.. Hogan, Dor
othy and Ray, held a coopera-
tive Christmas dinner at the
T. A. Weir home.
Miss Bette Mann, Miss Jessie
Macleod and Johnnie Macleod
were in Billings on business
Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Margaret Ping of Pitts
burg, Penn, is spending the
holidays with her parents, MI.
and Mrs. j. J. Ping. Miss Ping
is in The W.M.C.A. Girl Reserve
work in that city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chef Scott of
columbus were guests at the
nome of Mrs. SCOTS parents,
MI. and Mrs. J. w. Bulls, on
Christmas.
Mrs. S. B. Newark and chill