Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1931 — Page 9

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KNIGHTS TAKE PART IN HUGE FIELD MASS Catholic Order Is Given Annual Report as Parley Opens. DROUGHT AID IS CITED Plans for Coming Year Also Are Outlined to Delegates. BY STEVE RICHARDS United Pres* Staff Correspondent FRENCH LICK, Ind., Aug. 18 Delegates to the forty-ninth annual 1 supreme convention of the Knights of Columbus heard the annual report of Martin H. Carmody, Grand Rapids, Mich., supreme knight of the order, at the first business session this afternoon, which followed the largest field mass in the United States since the Eucharistic congress at Chicago in 1926. The mass was held outdoors near French Lick, with the priests’ choir of Indianapolis leading the processional. Following were the supreme officers, the papal counts, Knights of Gregory, and convention delegates. Under leaden skies, the Rt. Rev. John Froesch, D. D., bishop of Louisville, celebrated the pontifical mass. The sermon was pronounced by the Rt. Rev. Joseph Chartrand, bishop of the Indianapolis diocese. Thousands at Session The business session was held behind closed doors, attended by 345 accredited delegates and thousands of others from all of the states and provinces. Supreme Knight Carmody reported that, during the last year, the order had administered drought relief in Kentucky, Missouri and Montana, with all cases needing aid being promptly cared for. Also, according to the report, $5,000 was sent to Archbishop Nowell for relieving distressed members in Santa Domingo. Thousands of members were held in good standing for the year through contributions by more fortunate members, Carmody said. He praised the Gibault Home for Boys; Catholic centers at the universities of Wisconsin, Mississippi, Michigan and Iowa; distribution of Catholic literature in the state of California; college scholarship awards in Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Maryland, and the Home Finding Association in Illinois. 43,128 Given Jobs Referring to unemployment, the report said the Knights of Columbus had worked with President Hoover and Peter W. Collins, in charge of the central employment bureau at New Haven, Conn. Carmody said 1.036 K. of C. employment committees had provided jobs for 43.128 Catholic persons, not including those given by local councils. The supreme board of directors recommended legislation by which members in good standing for twen-ty-five years, and 65 years old, would be exempt from further dues, excepting small charges for state and national purposes, and that members over 75 years be exempt from all dues. Members were presented with a plea to obtain 50,000 new members before the Golden Anniversary convention next year. Co-Operation Pledged Members of the Fourth Degree, an honorary patriotic group, will co-operate with the national bicentennial George Washington commission in observing the 200th birthday anniversary of the first President next year, at which time initiation will be held for new candidates to the order. Carmody said seven convictions had been obtained against persons who had circulated false Fourth order degrees, and that all the counterfeit papers had been located. At tffe 1932 meeting, it was announced, a statue will be unveil 1 in memory of the late Cardinal Gibbons, former archbishop of Baltimore. BODY FOUND IN BUNDLE Unidentified Corpse, Shot Through Mouth, Near Gotham Speakeasy. By United Pres* NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—The body of an unidentified man wrapped in oilcloth and newspapers was found today a short distance from a speakeasy in which three men were mutilated and murdered recently. William Gilpatric and Frank Roach found the bundle and notified police. The entire district was roped off by police investigating the crime. Dr. George W. Ruger, assistant medical examiner, reported the man, about 30 years old, had been shot through the mouth by a small caliber gun. He had been dead not more than two hours, the doctor said. MURDER PLOT BALKED Negro Reveals Alleged Offer of Man to Kill Wife. By United Prest FLINT, Mich., Aug. 18.—A plot to have his wife killed that he might collect $1,500 insurance on her life, was charged to Alfred Youngs, 53, today. He was arrested Monday night when police followed a Negro to his home, after the Negro tiftd told them of the alleged plan. Tho Negro, Raymond Fisher, 39, a junk peddler, told police he was approftched Saturday by Youngs, and promised S2OO if he committed the murder. He told police of the alleged offer Sunday, and they advised him to go along with the plot so they could trap Youngs.

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LA FOLLETTES' MOTHER IS ILL Widow of ‘Fighting Bob’ Undergoes Operation. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—Mrs. Belle Case La Follette, widow of Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr., and mother of the present senator and Governor of Wisconsin, underwent an operation at Georgetown hospital for a serious intestinal ailment. Her physician, Dr. Wallace M. Yater, was hopeful for Mrs. La Follette’s recovery, but was concerned today because of her age. She is 72. Senator La Follette and his brother, Governor Philip La Follette of Wisconsin, arrived this morning and went immediately to their mother's bedside. The Governor came from Cleveland, and the senator came part way by plane. They found their mother had passed a “fairly satisfactory” night. Mrs. La Follette took the stump with her husband in his early reform campaigns. She is credited with directing much of the strategy of her sons’ successful careers in politics. SIX HIIRTJN CRASH Two Badly Injured When Autos Collide. By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. 18.—Six persons were injured, two seriously, when two cars crashed head-on on state Road 40, east of Dublin, about fifteen miles west of here, today J. E. Greenwood, 76, riding in a car with William Cunningham, was injured seriously. He suffered severe cuts and possible fractures. Cunningham, the driver, was cut and bruised. Also riding with Cunningham were his mother and sister, who suffered minor cuts. All are from Alaxis, 111. In the other car, R. L. Pipes, the driver, of Dublin, Tex., also w r as seriously hurt. He suffered severe scalp cuts. Riding with Pipes was J. B. Karnes of Eastland, Tex., who suffered cuts about the head and face. Cyclone Sweeps Over Paraguay ASUNCION, Paraguay, Aug. 18.— A violent cyclone demolished 400 houses in the department of Villa Arica. One person was killed and many injured.

Showgirl Tries to End Life Sweetheart of Rothstein, Slain Gambler, Drinks Poison. Hi/ United rresa LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18.—A beautiful blonde girl who police identified as Inez Norton, New York show girl and sweetheart of Arnold Rothstein, slain gambler, attempted suicide today by swallowing poison. The girl gave her name as Inez Mitchell, 28, but police said they based their identification on a registration certificate in her expensive car and the assurance of Paul Page. Hollywood film actor, that Miss Mitchell really was Miss Norton. The girl was taken to Angelus hospital, but after she had seized a bottle of liquor and attempted to swallow it, too, she was removed to police emergency hospital, where it was said she would recover. Despondency over financial troubles was said by officers to have prompted the suicide attempt. Inez Norton, a former Follies girl, was left most of Rothstein’s fortune in his will.

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Jay E. White, South Bend, Contender for State Legion Post. By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 18— Economic relief, full payment of adjusted compensation and an extension of the hospitalization relief for World war veterans will be the platform in the fight which Jay E. ■White of South Bend, contender for the post of state commander, will carry to the floor of the American Legion convention at Anderson next Saturday. White, who has served the American Legion as post commander here and as old Thirteenth district commander, is one of the best known legionnaires in the state and is considered in a favorable position for the commandership. Enlists Auxiliary's Aid To meet present unemployment problems, White is advocating that advantage be taken of the organization resources of the legion and to enlist the women’s auxiliary in the work. He also declares that this is the opportune time for the government to meet its obligations to its former soldiers by paying them their adjusted compensation or whatever there remains for them, inasmuch as many legionnaires already have borrowed on the certificates. Hospitalization, always the paramount issue with the legion, is not diminished in importance this year because of the demands of other matters. With Studebaker Plant Since the close of the war White has been connected with the Studebaker corporation and for several years has been assistant manager of the co-operative department. During the war White was commissioned captain of engineers and was assigned to direction of traffic in the port of New York. Under his supervision army freight was organized and cleared from this point of embarkation to England and France for the A. E. F. FIRE FIGHTER KILLED Forest Blaze Takes Life of Volunteer Californian. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18— Forest fires in California claimed the life of a volunteer fighter and seriously injured a second man. The body of Vernon Creson, 34, World war veteran from Los Angeles, was recovered from a charred hillside near Junction City, where he had been trapped Friday. Majar Swift Berry, member of the state board of forestry, was hurt seriously w'hen he fell from an embankment while returning from a fire near Placerville.

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INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18,1931

BULLETS ROUT BANDIT AFTER SI,SOUHOLDUP Chase After Loot Futile as Thug Is Put to Flight With Gun. $3,500 ROBBERIES’ HAUL Burglar Is Captured in Restaurant When Owner Stands Guard. Crime flared in Indianapolis Monday night and early today. Jewelry, money and merchandise totaling more than $3,500 were involved in robberies and holdups. One bandit was believed wounded, and a burglar was captured by police in an east side restaurant. As Frank Murillo, 32, of 644 South East street, swung into a drive at Highland Golf and Country Club early today, to turn his car around, a bandit stepped to his running board and leveled a gun at him. Deftly he frisked Murillo of an SBOO diamond ring, a S7OO diamond pin, and S6O in currency. However, the gunman’s command “Stick ’em up!” was heard by Russell Hickman and Robert Homsher, greenskeepers, working a few yards away behind shrubbery. Hickman was armed. Rush to Rescue Hickman fired and the bandit staggered toward his auto, where a companion sat at the wheel. Hickman fired three times, exhausting the cartridges in his gun, and the driver of the bandit car hauled his pal inside and drove away. Pursuit in Murillo’s car was futile. Frank Calvin 13 South McKim street, was awakened by a noise in his Old Trails lunchroom at 1441 East Washington street early today. While his wife phoned police, Calvin guarded the rear door to the restaurant with a shotgun. Several radio squads and an emergency squad surrounded the building. Inside, crouched in a corner, they found James Rowder, 19 of Chicago, now under arrest on burglary charges. Rowder had piled up a quantity of cigarets from a smashed dispensing machine and had $2.50 in nickels and dimes in his pocket. Burglary Is Thwarted John F. Grear, 2569 South California street, merchant policeman, found the door of Charles’ women’s furnishing store unlocked early today. Police and Marion Satz, 631 East Fifty-sixth street, manager, entered and discovered $1,500 worth of ladies’ apparel stacked on the floor ready to be moved. Nothing was missing from the store, Satz said. A young, unshaven bandit held off four persons, two of them 8-year-old boys, and robbed a Standard grocery at 811 Buchanan street of $15.50 late Monday. Conrad Russell, 25, of 2155 Barth avenue, is manager of the store. Boys’ Flight Halted When the bandit told Russell “This is a stickup,” Joseph Cron and Robert South, both 8, darted for the front door, but the bandit stopped them. Two diamond rings, valued at SSOO, were stolen from the apartment of Miss Katherine Hamilton, 1401 North Pennsylvania street, apartment 20, she complained to police. A large Negro slugged Mrs. Lulu Cummings, 513 Hudson street, near her home Monday night, and escaped with her purse, containing $5.50.

EVANGELIST, BITTEN BY SNAKE, IS RECOVERING “Sister Smithers” Tests “Faith in God;” Reported Getting Well. By United Press BIG SANDY, Tenn., Aug. 18— “Sister Smithers,” evangelist, who allowed a rattle-snake to sink its fangs into her arm at a revival meeting to “test her faith in God,” was reported to be recovering today. She refused medical aid, although her condition was critical for several days. Swelling now has subsided, fever has decreased, and she apparently will regain her health, said Hurley Goforth, farmer, to whose home she was taken. “Sister Smithers” wrapped the snake around her neck at a camp meeting last Wednesday, then uncoiled the reptile and allowed it to bite her before she placed it in its box. She preached about ten minutes longer before she fainted. Noted Author’s Widow Dies By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 18—Mrs. Richard Harding Davis, widow of the famous American author and journalist, died suddenly Monday at Bayonne, France, according to a cable received here by Coudert Bros., lawyers. Mrs. Davis was the former Bessie McCoy.

LIFE PLAYS TRAGIC PRANKS WITH BLOND SHOWGIRL

By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 18—Life and death have woven a strange story about the life, loves and fortune of Inez Norton, blond show girl sweetheart of Arnold Rothstein. She was reported in an attempt to kill herself today in Los Angeles, almost three years after Rothstein’s chauffeur testified in the girl’s suit for insurance that “she wanted to kill herself after Rothstein’s wife came back from Europe.” That suit was an attempt to bolster the waning fortune of the woman whose name, picture and liove affair were blazoned across page one of newspapers from coast to coast afur the seasa-

Times Indiana Theater Prizes Awarded in Vacation Contest

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This picture shows Mrs. Vivian Lang looking at one of the 9,842 exhibits entered in The Indianapolis Times and the Indiana theater $3,000 vacation contest.

COPS’ STORY FAILS TO CONVINCE JUDGE

Drunk-Driving Defendant to Known Fate Aug. 27, Sheaffer Declares. Although police officers charged Hobson Wilson, 958 North Pennsylvania street, drove his car fortyfive miles an hour over city streets, had been drinking and was transporting twelve bottles of beer, Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer today took the case under advisement until Aug. 27. Officers Jake Hudgins and Tom Renfroth told the court Wilson had been pursued from Sixteenth and Delaware streets to Eleventh street, July *7. They said they smelled liquor on his breath and that he told them beer was in a box in the car. Wilson is charged with operating an automobile while drunk, blind tiger, drunkenness and speeding. Manslaughter charge against Charles R. Peeples, 6418 Broadway, was dismissed by Scheaffer. Peeples was driving the auto which crashed into a tree on Riverside drive Aug. 8, injuring fatally William Stengel of Dayton. Case against James Lynn, 315 Fulton street, driver, whose truck killed Mary Ella Johnson, 4, as she played on a North Liberty street sidewalk Sunday, was continued until Sept. 5 by Scheaffer. Lynn is charged with manslaughter. He and Miss Grace Perdue, 16, of 1006 East St. Clair street, were racing when the accident occurred. She is charged with manslaughter in juvenile court. Charles Harris, 28, of 1128 West New York street, charged with failure to stop after an accident, drunkenness, operating an auto while drunk and vehicle taking was bound over to the grand juryon $2,000 bond. The car he was driving struck and injured Williani Miller, 61, Big Four watchman at Hiding street. NAUTILUS IS ON WAY Wilkins Submarine Leaves Spitzbergen for Polar Trip. By United Press ADVENT BAY, SPITZBERGEN, Aug. 18. —Sir Hubert Wilkins’ polar submarine Nautilus left at 4 p. m. today to begin its Arctic explorations.

BOAT IS ‘PRISONER’ OF HUGE MACKEREL

By United Press PORTLAND, Me., Aug. 18.—A story of being towed t o sea for eleven hours by a giant horse mackerel was recounted here today when an eighteen-foot motor tender reached port after being missing over night. Jay Holmer, wealthy New York sportsman and skipper of the craft, told of the strange adventure which he and several friends had in the waters outside Portland harbor. The anti-climax of the story was Holmes’ admission that the big fish finally got away. Holmes and his friends went out late Monday to fish for horse mack-

tional murder of the New York gambler, whose killers still are unknown. It was followed by an attempt at play producing, stage jobs and more suits, the last of which, was an appeal won by the show girl. It awarded her $20,000 in insurance money left to her in a revised will contested by the insurance company, and previously ordered by the court to be paid over to the “estate” of Arnold Rothstein. an u THE gambler’s bequest was the result of his professed love for her, the show girl did not deny. She was proud of her love for him, she testified in one trial of the insurance suit.

It required nearly two full days and as many nights for the judges and the clerks to examine and check up on the exhibits.

Corn ‘Beef ’ By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 18—Mrs. Bertha Lesh, 23, charged in a divorce suit on file today that her husband Leo liked corn on the cob so well he made her get up frequently in the middle of the night to boil some for him. She said once he promised to “reform,” but that when corn on the cob season came again he was “just as bad as ever.”

SUGGESTS FEE ACT Settle Praises Farm Board for Progress. Inclusion of an equalization fee in the agricultural marketing act, to be made by amendment to the present act, is advocated by William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau. Praising the federal farm board for progress made in carrying out the provisions of the original act, Settle declared: “We must amend the act to include the principle of the equalization fee, which brings the burden of overproduction direct to the individual farmer who produces the crop. “This system will go farther to educate the farmers to adjust their production than any amount of money that could be spent by the farm board and the co-operatives in the country. We could then sell our surpluses to the best advantage at prices that could be had without being accused of squandering the taxpayers’ money.” Death Takes Famous Doctor By United Press NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 18—Dr. Aristides Agramonte, 63, famous for his part in the discovery that yellow fever is transmitted by a certain type of mosquito, died after a heart attack at his home here Monday night. He was the last survivor of the group of four doctors who participated in the research into the manner of yellow fever transmission.

erel (some of which weigh more than a quarter ton) in the vicinity of Portland light ship. They harpooned one of the giant mackerel and prepared to wait for it to tire itself out. But so small was their boat, Holmes said, that the big fish took it in tow, and for eleven hours, they were obliged to stand helplessly by as it propelled them seaward. Finally the mackerel broke away, Holmes said, and the motor tender returned to port. The yacht Ajax had hunted the tender throughout the night without success.

They planned to marry, she said, although Rothstein had not started suit for divorce. "He was keeping you, wasn’t he?” the attorney for the estate asked. "Yes,” after a protest. "Weren’t your relations with him the same as man and wife?” "They were, and I’m not ashamed of them.” In the same trial, Tom Farley, aged graying servant of the gambler, testified: "Rothstein, when I told him Mrs. Rothstein would not come back to him, said “I am a ruined man. I really love Carolyn (his wife).” THE contested policy originally named Ua estate as bene-

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Entered a* Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

Trips Totaling $3,000 in Value Are Sought by • 9,842 Entrants. Winners in the great movie identification contest conducted by The Indianapolis Times and the Indiana theater are announced today, and vacation prizes totaling $3,000 awarded to the seventeen winners out of a total of 9,842 entrants. Three representative citizens who were judges have made their choices, and the decision of this board is final. Henry R. Behrens, prominent decorator of this city, was chairman of the board, which also included Randolph Coats, noted Indiana artist, and John Kautz, business representative of the Indianapolis Civic Theater. First group winners are: Ida Levee, 3843 Park avenue, first place; Wiliam F. Kiley Jr., 1241 Bellefontaine street, second; Mrs. Teresa Kipp, 1331 Central avenue, third, and Mrs. R. L. Pettit, 5652 College avenue, fourth. Win Fine Awards These winners will be given their respective choices of two weeks’ accommodations for two persons (winner and one) at (a) The Spink-Waw’asee Hotel and Country Club, luxurious playground at Lake Wawasee; (b) Hotel Knickerbocker, Chicago’s far-famed gold coast section; (c) Hotel Golf more, exclusive recreation resort on Lake Michigan, at Grand Beach, Mich.; (and) French Lick Springs hotel, the wonder playground of Indiana. The Second Group ’ Winners——Mrs. Sylvia Hendrickson, 926 North Pennsylvania street, Apt. 201, fifth place; Josephine Standish, 303 Peoples Bank building, sixth; M. B. Shelburne, 267 Blue Ridge Road, seventh, and Alice Cleveland, 937 North Tuxedo street, eighth, will be given their respective choices ol ten days’ accommodations for two persons (winner and one) at either of the above hotels. They will obtain the same de luxe accommodations, but for a period of ten days instead of two weeks. Nine Others Win The remaining nine prize winners are Hazel Ginter, 914 Congress avenue, ninth place; Eleanor Sandusky, 2740 Barth avenue, tenth; Lou Urmston Craig, 2625 North Meridian street, eleventh; Laura W. Wood, 4310 North Pennsylvania street, twelfth; Miss Frances Milligan, 455 North Arsenal avenue, thirteenth; Mrs. Riley A. Burke 410 North Meridian street, fourteenth; Bernard Kunkel, 125 West Arizona street, fifteenth; Aurelia L. Davis, 1017 North Denny street, sixteenth, and Ralph F. Henry, Greenwood, Ind, seventeenth. These winners will be given their respective choices of one week at either of the hotels mentiond, with all charges paid, or of a bungalow on Roscoe Ail’s famous Artists’ Island at Indian Lake, O. The winners are asked to get in touch with Mrs. Vivian Lang, librarian of The Times, at once. Who the Stars Are Following is the correct identification of the movie stars: 1. Joe E. Brown. 21. Loretta Young. 2. Svlvia Sidney. 22. Charlie or 3. Maurice Cheva- Charles Ruzeles. lier. 23. Dorothy Mackaill. 4. Ruth Chatterton. 24. Richard Barthel5. Phillips Holmes. mess. 6. Claudette Col- 25. Peggv Shannon, bert. 26. Harold Lloyd. 7. Frances Dee. 27. Juliette Compton. 8. Stuart Erwin. 28. Irene Dunne. 9. Miriam Hopkins. 29. Georze Bancroft. 10. Clive Brook. 30. Helen Twelv e - 11. Tallulah Eank- trees. head. 31. Rose Hobart. 13. Richard Dix. 32. Douglas Fairbanks 13. Marlene Diet- Jr. rich. 33. Bebe Daniels. 14. Walter Huston. 34. Groucho Marx. 15. Nancy Carroll. 35. Ann Harding. 16. Edward G. Rob- 36. Leon Jannev. inson. 37. Chico Marx. 17. Mitzi Green. 38. Wynne Gibson. 18. Harpo Marx. 39. Jackie Searl. 19. Constance Ben- 40. Marilyn Miller, nett. 41. Paul Lukas. 20. Fredrlc or 42. Lilyan Tashman, Frederick March.

ficiary. Six months before Rothstein’s death, it was revealed, he had signed a document leaving the money to Inez. The document was found in his safe deposit box, but the insurance company preferred a court order directing disposal of the money. The case was tried by supreme court, appealed to the appellate court, first division, and again appealed to the court of appeals, which handed down its decision affirming earlier decisions that Miss Norton was entitled to the $20,000. That was last May. In addition, the show girl had been left one-sixth of the income of the estate for ten years. That she has been receiving, the amount unknown.

MOSCOW HELD PIVOT OF NEW CIVIUZATION Standard 'Yardsticks’ of Other Governments Are Useless in Soviet. SOLDIERS EVERYWHERE $8 ‘Taxis,’ $6 Lunches Face Tourist in Center of Communism. Jack Howard. Yale undergraduate attached to the United Press Paris bureau for the summer just has completed a trip to Russia in company with Robert J. Bender, general news manager of tha United Press. In a series of five articles, tha first of which is presented herewith, he gives an interesting report of Russian conditions from the purely human standpoint. His assignment was to furnish American readers a homely, closeup account of life in the Soviet land, shorn of politics and other similarly “heavy" considerations. BY JACK HOWARD United Tress Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1931. bv United Pressi PARIS, Aug. 18.—Moscow may be the center of a world "turned upside down,” yet it is also the pivot of anew civilization. This is the outstanding impression one gains from a visit to this laboratory of anew human, social and political experiment. The foreigner first entering Russia is likely to feel he is jumping off into an abyss about which he is ignorant and of which he expects little. He quickly finds he can not apply to Russia the yardsticks of any other civilization. Every phase of life in the Communist capital is new and different. Transportation, shopping, theater going and, above all, people, are startlingly interesting. Try to Get a Taxi When you leave the Moscow station, you naturally assume you can get a taxi, but fortune in the form of a taxi rarely smiles in Moscow. To supply the taxi needs of this city of 2,500,000 persons there are exactly 115 rather decrepit cars, and generally some group of tourists has gained a monopoly on this mode of conveyance. You next turn anxiously toward one of the “droschkes” or horse cabs and ask to be taken to your hotel. Th driver of the horse-drawn vehicle will offer to take you to your hotel, about a fifteen-minute ride, for the modest sum of about SB, so you turn to the next hack to open negotiations. By this time the first cabbie has decided to cut his offer in half. You tremblingly climb into the hack and pray it will at least hold out until you can reach your hotel. Soldiers Everywhere Driving through the streets of Moscow, one is conscious of the great number of soldiers coming and going. They appear to be the best fed and best dressed men in Moscow and all are in the pink of physical condition. They are recruited from all parts of the Soviet Union. Many racial types are represented in the ranks of the largest army in the world. Long lines of people standing in the streets recall the many stories of the Moscow bread line. You may be rather surprised to learn that they are merely waiting for the Russian equivalent of a Fifth avenue bus. There are, however, many real food lines, where people stand for hours waiting to secure some commodity which they have lacked for months. The Moscow hotels take great pleasure in extracting capitalist dollars from foreign pocketbooks. A room which recalls the Ritz because it is so different may be had for $lO with no extra, charges for flies or less pleasant insects. Good Lunch for S6 The food situation is not difficult for a foreigner, for he can secure about anything he wants at the larger hotels. A fairly good lunch may be had for about $6. The leading Moscow hotel for foreigners had installed a modern “American Bar” to attract the foreign trade. The prices at the bar compare favorably with those elsewhere in Europe, according to people who have made an extensive study of the bar situation. A troupe of Gypsies, in brilliant colored costumes which are seen nowhere else in Russia, help to enliven the scene for the visiting fireman. But unless a ship load of tourists has arrived in Leningrad a few days earlier and swelled the number of foreigners in Moscow, thirty Gypsies on the stage performing for a half dozen guests on the dining room floor is not an aweinspiring sight. If you are lucky, some Russian officials may invite you to dine with them one evening at the palatial residence of a nobleman of the ancient regime. Elegance Not Lost While in the house across the street seven workers’ families eat their meal of greasy Russian soup and black bread, you are served in the more elaborate home with a magnificent twelve-course meal. The table is covered with gold- ; edged china of former grand dukes, i Vodka and wine are served from ! gold-rimmed crystal glasses. A waiter, who may have served the last of the Romanoffs, now serves excellent caviar to the Communist officials and their guests. After the meal there is no need to hunt for a taxi. Anew Packard sedan which, it is carefully explained, does not belong to an individual, but to the foreign office, takes you back to your hotel. Life is pleasant and easy for a foreigner in Russia, but the Russian has to make the best of what he has for there is nothing else for him to do. The closer he is to Communism, the better off he is, for with complete adoption of the new “faith” come many privileges unavailable to the unbeliever. NEXT: Russian women like to drive steam rollers and all machinery seems to fascinate thejg.