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...noonday last week, this swarthy fellow, who now has a small mustache and a glass eye, found himself alongside the tracks of the Trans-Siberian Railroad at Irkutsk. With him was a huge bullet-shaped white monoplane, named Winnie Mae of Oklahoma, and a rangy, thin- lipped young Australian named Harold Ciatty, one of the most respected avigators...
...Siberian village to which he was assigned was 7,300 miles distant. Guarded by a Cossack, he made the trip by rail, on foot, aboard barges, by horse-team, reindeer, dogs. Zenzinov planned to escape again when he had reached his destination, the six-house village of Russkoye Ustye, but when he got there found it was too isolated, too far from everywhere. "There were no relations with the outside world. Fish was the constant food all the year round. Bread was unobtainable. Traders did not come there. . . ." He settled down in his "house" (six feet by six), prepared...
...Alexandra not been a proletarian in good standing, had she wrecked the car as an act of sabotage to hinder the success of the Five Year Plan, she would either have been shot or exiled to a Siberian lumber camp. Because she was a true proletarian, had killed one and injured six only in a girlish madcap mood, she got off with 18 months in jail. She did not get off without a scolding. Editorialized a Moscow newspaper...
Daughter Mary Hill. Son-in-law Samuel's activities were protean. He bought expiring railroads, banks, utility corporations, built them up, then followed his hobbies-roadbuilding, international peace, entertaining royalty. He was president of four Pacific coast highway associations. In 1916 he straightened out the tangled Russian and Siberian railways for the Allies. He promoted a great "Peace Portal" on the U. S.-Canadian border near Elaine, Wash, to celebrate 100 years of U. S.-Canadian peace. He invited his friend Albert, then Crown Prince of the Belgians, to visit him in 1912. For the occasion he built...
...Moscow last week the Commissariat for Labor took action against two Russian engineers who had refused to do work as signed them in the Siberian Kuznetsk coal fields. It was decreed that no one in Russia shall employ these "deserters" for the next six months, and that their food cards be canceled. If they do not starve to death clandestine charity will be to blame. In the Soviet mind, Russia is now fighting an ''economic war," and it is pointed out that in other kinds of wars deserters are shot. Thus, Moscovites argue, the Soviet State is "more merciful" than...