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...last week Lieut. Redin seemed like a stranger all over again. He had been arrested on a Portland, Ore. pier, dressed in a sweatshirt and grey slacks, just as he was getting aboard the Soviet Steamship Alma Ata. The FBI had arrested him as a spy. He had been under "intensive observation" for months, said the FBI, which charged that he had "induced another to obtain plans, documents and writings relating to the Yellowstone, a U.S. destroyer tender." The information, it added, "was to be used to the advantage of a foreign nation, to wit: the U.S.S.R...
...rougher, tougher than in most cities, but the people work hard, seem happy. Said Works Director Nosov: "Two or three years after the war we will have time to build thousands of new individual homes, streetcar lines, roads, theaters, cinemas, clubs, restaurants." But now-in Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tashkent, Alma-Ata-production for war is all that matters. In the 15 years since Stalin decreed the creation of this industrial reserve in Asiatic Russia, the Soviet Union had achieved neither the capacity nor the efficiency of the industrial U.S. But the Russians had done a miraculous...
Another aspect of the new Communism, long evident, is the worship of old national heroes. From the Soviet film capital at Alma Ata, beyond the Urals, came word that Hollywood-wise, English-speaking Cinema Director Sergei Eisenstein has shot two-thirds of a new picture about Tsar Ivan (1530-1584). In Tsarist days, Russian school children learned that Ivan was called the Terrible because as a boy he enjoyed squashing little kittens to death, as a ruler he delighted in hacking off the heads of subjects...
Prodigious Apple. Alma-Ata is a beautiful city amid the snow-capped Altai Mountains. This capital of the Kazak Republic is nearer Chungking than Moscow. It has 400,000 population (40,000 in 1925), was not reached by the railroad until...
...salami, sausages, cucumbers, cantaloupe, ice cream, Russian chocolates, port wine or brandy. The General gave the Vice President two brightly colored Sinkiang rings, one for himself and one for Franklin Roosevelt. In turn Henry Wallace produced a luscious rarity for the Governor's wife: fat strawberries from Alma Ata, Siberia. After two days he was off on the 1,500-mile trip to the key stop of his swing around Asia...