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The Arizona post., 1955-10-07

died Oct. 5. He was age sc and
lived at 125 w. Ventura. He
was a resident for II years
and a native of Russia. He was
a veteran of World War I.
Interment will be at the Ma
tional Cemetery for the Mill
The Arizona post., 1955-10-07
20 Proposals

LOS ANGELES (JTA) =
Miss Israel of 1855, llama Car
mel, revealed that since her
arrival here seven weeks ago
for the Miss Universe contest
she has received % proposals
of marriage.
The Arizona post., 1955-10-07
Arizona Post. October Z, 1865

tary at San Diego on Monday.
He is survived by his widow,
Rose of Los Angeles, a son
and daughter also living in
Los Angeles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-06
IN Arthur Aide
Quotes Book in
Row Over YaIta

NEW YORK, April 6 fR.-The
chief aide to Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur says book by Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney completely
bellies" a report that at the time
of the Yalta conference the gen.
eral favored Russia's entering the
war against Japan.
Mai. Gen. Courtney Whitney
issued lengthy statement last
night in the battle of charges
and counter charges stemming
from publication of the Yalta
papers
Replying to an article by Louis
Morton in the current issue of
Reporter magazine, Mr.. Whitney
said:
No competent evidence what
soever exists" to support the view
that concessions to Russia at the
Yalta conference resulted in part
from Gen. MacArthur's advice.
Mr.. Morton is chief of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-06

end. 1t was one small, square
log cabin after another. some
with a pig or a goat loaf1ng out
side. There was dust. dirt and
an abject monotony everywhere.
Our route. the only railroad
line from Brest-Litovsk to Mos
COW, covered a distance of some
100 miles, passing through Bar
anovichl. Stolbstky, the outskirts
of Minsk, Borisov. Orsha. near
Srnolensk, Vyasma and finally
Moscow. On the way we passed
dozens of trains, each with a
prison car of its own. AS I later
learned. nearly every passenger
train in Russia carries one or two
Stalopinskis.
Sees Primitive Town
We made our first stopover in
the Soviet Union at Orsha, just
halfway between Brest-LitovSk
and Moscow. The train stopped
early in the afternoon, and our
cells were unlocked. We were
lined up in front of the station,
and it was soon obvious we were
going to walk. 1t was a pleasure
after all those days on my stom-
ach.
| We walked for Is minutes down
the main streets through most
of Orsha. a town of about 49,
900 people. I was frankly ex-
cited, eyes agog, for this chance
at a closeup glimpse of the "glo-
rious" Soviet Union. I was
| shocked. There were no paved
or cobblestoned streets in the
entire town, just plain gravel and
dirt roads. There were no side
walks. Most of the houses on
either side of the street were
one-story log cabins, with a few
built of regular boards. There
were no brick or stone buildings.
There were no street lights, no
sewers or even drainage bitches
I could see.
Here and there were water
| pumps near the corners indi-
eating the absence of running
water. The only obvious signs
of Goth century civilization were
a few electricity poles. some
lights around the railroad sta
ton. and three or four medium
sized trucks. There were no pri-
vate cars on the road, and the
pigs and the goats crossed slow
ly in front of us. Carts drawn
by small Panya horses passed
alongside.
Despite the fact that it was
summer. there was little grass,
very few flowers, a tree here and
there-but mostly only brown
dirt everywhere. Orsha was
dirty and depressing, with the
worst aura of deafness I felt
anywhere in Europe.
Prison Garb Is Superior
| People were shopping through
the open store fronts along the
street, not in the stores as in
most European towns. There
were no display windows as we
know them. I was dressed in a
cheap Russian suit with wide
bottom trousers that MVD 1t
Rosinsky had given me in Dres-
den prison when he took my
good wooden suit. We were a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-06

state. If I didn't succeed on the
first strike. they would attack
me. All I could do was try to
brush them away.
After a few nights my mind
began to snap. "The ceiling is
coming down on u.s." / yelled
out. The others tried to quiet
me, but after night of my re-
peating it over and over. they
began to believe it, too. We all
waited there in that low dun
geon for the ceiling to come
down and crush us. For days
no one had any rest.
Fortunately the last leg of the
trip, from Vologda northward
was more pleasant. We left the
dreaded Stalopinski and 70 Of
us were put in a prison boxcar
in which we could actually walk
around. About As of the men
were Russian political prisoners.
was the only American.
Nears Attic Timberline
We left Vologda on September
7, 1850. We travelled for days
through dense pine forests. Then
on the 18th, the pines and white
birch began to get shorter.
Ahead the horizon seemed to
f1atten out. We were approach
ing the Arctic timberline.
We saw dwarf pines that grew
sideways along the ground like
bushes. Then there was nothing
ahead but the empty tundra
with its grayish grass" and
green moss. 1t was still summer
but here and there in the shade
was snow.
BY this time, the Russian old
timers aboard knew where we
were going. They laughed at
their misfortune. Straight ahead.
above the Arctic Circle. was
Vorkuta, one of the coolest
places on earth, and one of the
largest slave labor regions in the
Soviet Union.
(copyright, 1855. by NANA.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-06

into the japanese war before
Yalta.
The diary said Gen. Mac
Arthur felt that we should Sc
cure the commitment of the
Russians to active and vigorous
prosecution against the Japa-
nese. 49,"
Mr.. Morton, in his magazine
article. wrote that Gen. Mac
Arthur stated emphaticaIly at
the time of Yalta to more than
one visitor that American forces
should not invade Japan until
three months after the Red Army
attacked in Manchuria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-06

man In q position to know, pre-
dieting an early termination OF
the war, contrary to all naval
thinking at the time"
Gen. Whitney said: This eye
and ear witness account COM
pletely bellies the tForrestal)
diary injected into the issue OF
responsibility for the Yalta de-
cisions. -
Diary Differs
Mr.. Forrestal's diary has been
one of the main pieces Of pur-
ported evidence that Gen. Mac
Arthur pressed for Russia's entry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-06

Gen. Macarthur at that time.
the book said. surprised Mr..
Forrestal by telling him he
thought the war in the Pacific
would end that year.
"Forrestal was visihly i'm
pressed and yet unconvinced, /"
the book continued. 'He asked
the general whether he could
quote him in Washington. to
which Gen. Macarthur said he
had no objection"
I have given you only
the highlights of this remark
able conversation. I say re-
markable because here was q
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times. is named after an early
minister of security. It is a flend-
ish but quite efficient method of
prisoner transportation. Our car
had eight steel-barred prison
cages facing on narrow hall
way. The hallway windows were
heavily curtained. Each cage had
three wooden shelves. The doors
were opened and Is ofFds were
put into a cage, five on each
wooden shelf. We laid there side
by side on our stomachs. My
head was facing toward the bars
and the hallway.
It was impossible to sit up or
turn around, In fact, I couldn't
lift my head more than a foot
or so. for right above me was the
next shelf with five more prison.
ers. Except for occasional stop
overs and a scheduled few min
utes twice a day when we were
taken to the bathroom, I ate and
slept IN this fantastic position
for four weeks while travelling
across a good part of Russia.
We were fed dry bread and
some fish. and once during the
month I was given a half can
of meat. ! was afraid to eat the
salty fish because I would need
more water afterward.
At midnight our postage"
train pulled out of Berlin. Dur
ing the night we stopped for a
few minutes at Frankfurt-an-
Oder. was one of 20 taken out.
handcuffed and blindfolded, and
transferred to another Stalopin-
ski. mostly with Russian and
ukrainian prisoners.
Soviet Countryside Des0late
The. two MVD guards in the
cars hallway usually kept the
curtains closed in the station,
but pulled them aside to look out
while we were travelling. The
Polish countryside I had seen
was poor. but well-kept and at
tractive, with flower beds and
neat lawns in many places. The
Russian countryside, in contrast,
was desolate.
But I had never expected such
primitive conditions and such a
general sad state of disrepair and
lack of development. Many of
the windows of houses along the
way had cloth instead of glass.
Some roofs were so tipped that
they were propped up on one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-06
WIGS q 9IuVe LoD0EeI =
Primitiveness of Countryside and Towns
Shocks Prisoner on Russian Train Ride

motley crew. but we looked bet
ter than the civilian popula-
ton Of Orsha-wno had since
dropped their tasks and were
staring back at us.
The women wore dark dresses
without trimmings that hung
down sloppily from their should
ers. They were all heavy-set.
with unkempt hair and no make
up. All the women were bare
foot. Some of the men had
shoes. but their trouser legs were
good half foot above the shoe
tops. They wore open cotton
shirts and a little six-sectioned
beanie hat with a small visor.
The most solidly built building
in town was the Communist
headquarters, a large log cabin
with a red cloth poster across
the top which a friend trans
lated: Give your all for Com
munism." Between the windows
two more cloth signs hung ver-
tically.
Arrives in Moscow
Our walk ended at the Orsha
prison where we stayed for two
days, then resumed our Stalo-
pinski tour of Russia. We ar
rived in Moscow a few days
later and were taken to the
Red Press Prison on the out
skirts of the city. We. were
there four days, and twice a day
we could walk on the roof. I
could see both the Moscow and
Volga Rivers and downtown the
three skyscrapers. Moscow now
has nine.)
Across a fence on the same
roof was a mob of boys 8 to Is
years old with shaved heads.
From the Russians learned
they were volke, or little
wolves" arrested for "hooligan-
ISM" They were barefoot and
dressed in ragged clothes. They
cursed violently against every
thing and everybody. A Russian
who had lived in Charkof where
the "Fet." the Russian Leica
camera is made, told me all the
unskilled labor at the factory
was provided by woke" who
lived in two detention camps on
the factory grounds. This,
thought, was how the Soviets
handled their juvenile delin-
quency problem.
From Moscow our Stalopinski
took us northward 800 miles to
Vologda, where waiting trucks
drove us to the oldest prison in
the Soviet, built by the Empress
Christiana. Vologda was a little
better than Orsha. There were
some well-made two-story log
cabins around the railroad sta
ton. and few streets had cob
blestones. But basically it looked
much as it must have under the
Car.
The prison was much worse
Thirty of us were put in a cell
20 by 10 feet. The ceiling of the
room was slanted and began
just two feet off the ground al
one side. My wooden bunk was
at the low side and as I lay there,
the ceiling was just a few inches
over my face. The room was rat
infested, but I was afraid to at
tack the rodents in my weak
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-06
! Was q Slave Luborer
BY JOHN H. NOBLE
In collaboration With
Martin L. Gross

NEW YORK. April 6. Only
nine days before. on August 8.
1850, a court some 1900 miles
away in Moscow, without even
charging me with a crime. had
sentenced me to Is years of hard
labor. And now in handouts. /
was being pushed aboard a Rus
sian Stalopinski prison car,
masked as a postage" train. We
were on a railroad siding in a
bombed-out section of East Ber-
lin and the train was pointed
toward the Soviet Union.
The Stalopinski, borrowed by
the Communists from Czarist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-06

Pacific section Of the Army's
ONCE Of Military History.
Quotes Passage
Gen. Whitney quoted q pass
age from Cornelius Vanderbilt
Whitney's book. Lone and Level
Sands" It described a meeting
between Gen. MacArthuE and
the late Secretary of the Navy
James Forrestal in the Philip
pines on February %. 1915.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
accompanied Mr.. Forrestal to
the conference with Gen. Mac
Arthur.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-06

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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
PARK C0UNTY'S death GULCH' RIVALS
CALIFORNIA; Death VALLEY

California may have it's Death
Valley, but Yellowstone National park
has Death Gulch
Death Gulch is located along Cache
creek in the northeastern portion of
the park, according to Yellowstone
Nature Notes. Death Gulch is small,
narrow ravine about 800 yards long.
1t starts at the banks of Cache creek
and gradually rises to height of
about $50 feet above the creek. 1t is
completely devoid of vegetation, al
though the ridges on either side of
it bear trees of considerable age.
During a visit on July IL, 1850,
"A brisk breeze was blowing at the
time of the visit, but all members of
the party were acutely aware of the
disagreeable odor of hydrogen sulfide
gas, and before observations were
completed every member of the party
of four had definite signs of head
ache. Two-thirds of the way up the
gulch carcass was discovered, which
proved to be that of an elk 1t was
lying in the bed of a small stream
and the bones were completely decal-
Gifted, indicating the presence of
sulfuric acid in the water. This was
the only carcass found in the area,
but living animals were present. A
mule deer was seen running across
the gulch, and wind river pine squir-
rels were abundant in the trees on
the bordering ridges. Several kinds
of swallows were present, and few
insects were noted.
This would seem to indicate that
the gulch is not as deadly today as
it was in 1888 when Weed reported
the carcasses of 6 bears, / elk, and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
Mouse and Senate
Committees Vote
For Free Vaccine

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Bills to
provide free Salk polio vaccine to
children and expectant mothers won
approval of House and Senate COM
mittees.
The Senate Labor Committee
adopted a measure to extend the Pub
lie Health Service Act, which pro-
vides federal funds to aid states in
smallpox and diphtheria NEGOTIATIONS.
The measure specifies no definite
sum. The amount will be left to the
appropriations committees. The bills
specifically rules out, however, fl
nancial need or any other reason as
qualification for receiving free polio
vaccine.
Action is expected in both houses
before adjournment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
Washington Notebook

/ is going to be the worst in several
years.
Senator Mansfield told how Mon
tana elevators are getting. five OF
10 cars when they need hundreds.
Senator Murray testified that the
railroads couldn't plead poverty as
an excuse for not building more cars.
Last year the Glass | railroads paid
1919 million in dividends, he said,
and in 1858 they paid 1882 million.
Yet, he continued, "the number of
boxcars retired has exceeded the
number of new boxcars installed dur
ing four of the past six years, and
during the first four months of 1855"
ANOTHER NIxONl
The Presidents nomination of Will
liam j. Nixon of Idaho as collector of
customs at Great Falls was finally
approved by the Senate. Senator
Mansfield arose on the floor to repeat
the objections of Senator Murray and
himself (and, in fact, Representatives
Metcalf and Orvin Flare, and many
Montanans.
The ironical thing, Sen. Mansfield
said, was that both he and Sen. Muir
ray twould like to see Montana
Republican appointed to this job.
There are many good Montana Re
publicans who could fill this position
. 1t was my understanding that
a Montanan was recommended by the
State Republican Central committee
for the post, but was rejected"
P. o. WON'T GO
Senator Murray was assured by the
Post Office Department last week
that change in the location of the
district post office in Butte lis not
being considered at this time" He
had requested the Post Office Depart
ment position after being told of
persistent rumors in Butte that the
district office was to be moved to
another city.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05

several small animals, as well as many
insects, as having been present in
the gulch, or in 1897 when Jaggar
reported carcasses of 8 bears. In
1886 Kearns visited the area and re-
ported that no carcasses could be
found. However, since the slopes of
the gulch are composed of sandy soil
and landslides are easily caused, the
remains of animals are probably fire.
quently covered up in this manner.
There is also the possibility that the
amount of gas escaping into the at
mosphere varies seasonally. At the
time of my visit to the area, Cache
creek was at high level, and several
of the vents at Wahb Springs, which
are located at the mouth of the gulch,
were covered with water. 1t may well
be that during periods of low water
the volume of escaping gas increases.
In 1851 DR.. A. E. Taylor and DR..
R. A. Lyman of Idaho State College
collected gas samples, which indicated
that while previous reports of Death
Gulch might have been exaggerated,
there is at least some factual basis
for them"
The article, by Merrill D. Beal,
park naturalist, listed several in
stances of death to animals in the
geysers, one in 1870 by N. P. Lang
ford, when one duck of a flock landed
on the hot water and in a moment
was a dead duck" However, losses
are comparatively small. 80 PARK
NEWS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05

Elm a recent year, according
to a Small Business COMMITTEES
of Congress, about $4,000 Co
operatives were doing business
IN this country. During this
same year, there were 85, 1000
other organizations which did
not call themselves coopera-
tives but which operated on a
basisofservice to theirmembers,
much like our co-ops do.
esArnong these were groups of
grocery, hardware and clothing
stores. By pooling the buying
power of hundreds of stores
they make savings which are
passed on to the member stores,
helping them meet competition
through higher quality mer-
chandise at more favorable
prices
"These buying groups oper-
ate much like co-ops and benefit
their members in the same way.
The big difference is that pa
irons of a coop are the actual
users of the supplies and serv-
ices they buy"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05
A Montanan's
By VIC REINEMER


paper feels at home on Capitol Hill
as adjournment nears. Not just be-
cause things are hectic. In addition
when one house starts passing bills
rapidly Legislative "leg men" in the
cloak rooms phone the "desk men,
back in the office who, for example.
send wires to persons whose personal
hardship will be lessened by pri-
vate bill just passed, write news
stories about successful bills which
will affect a community or state, or
get on the phone to check on related
developments.
Here's how legislation concerning
Montana stood as of last Friday:
HOPE FOR HILL 81
The Senate Thursday okayed Sen
ators Mike Mansfield's and James E.
Murray's bill to provide assistance
for landless Indians on Hill 81 near
Great Falls. The bill then went to the
House, where Rep. Lee Metcalf had
introduced the same bill.
PROGRESS FOR CROW CREEK
The Senate also passed and sent to
the House a joint resolution co-spon-
sored by the three Montana legislators
authorizing the Secretary of the In
terror to execute a contract with the
Toston Irrigation District near Town
send. Passage of this resolution will
permit approval of the contract and
subsequent irrigation from the Grow
Creek pumping unit.
AIR BASE FUNDS
The Senate restored appropriations,
which the House had knocked out, for
the air bases at Glasgow ($4,706,000)
and Great Falls (S5, ,000). Friday
this appropriation was still in Senate
House conference, with prospects for
approval of funds for the Montana
bases good.
TO CROWS
All members of the Montana con-
gressional delegation assured the
Grow Indian Tribal Council last week
that they would continue their insis-
Element must be made for lands and
rights OF way acquired incident TO |
of Yellowtail Dam. Coun-
Gil Chairman William Wall requested |
the views for consideration at the |
Council meeting last Friday.
SERIOUS CAR SHORTAGE
The Senate Commerce Committee
last week conducted a two-day hear
ing on the freight car shortage, as
requested by the three Montana Dem
ocrats. Several Northwestern sena-
tors, representatives of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, Com
modify Credit Corporation and inter-
ested organizations agreed on at least
one thing -that there simply aren't
enough boxcars. And it was generally
agreed that the shortage this year
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-08-05

THE CO-OPS-THEY
BELONG TO THE USERS.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-06-03

BOTH aanctuares Seven classro0ms
have been added and the joint
parsonage rernodeled
The Dmkums at first wanted to
be missionaries III the China field
but finally decided TO be mis-
gionaries q home They are not
letting up and ate nov preparing
10 20 INTO a four week revival
saries and Vacation Bible School
at Meherrin
James Bryant former execu-
tive secretary Of tile Baptist Board
Of Missions and Education. once
told Mr. Dunkum that, Of all the
rural ministers he knew you have
more technical information on
your members than any others
Mr. Dunkum makes the records
and his invaluable assistant. Mrs
plnkum records them For %
years the process has gone. on
faithfully because they agree you
can't muddle your way through a
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1955-06-03

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