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...Supreme Court sat hour after hour last week on uncomfortable wooden benches while Soviet prosecutors and judges in ill-fitting business suits wove one of Red Russia's most exciting murder cases around the shifty-eyed figure of Konstantin Semenchuk, 49, for the past two years Governor of Wrangel Island. Murder is not a very serious crime in Russia, carrying a maximum penalty of only ten years imprisonment. Horrified as the testimony piled up against Semenchuk, prosecutors quickly changed the charge to "banditry," i.e., willful destruction of Soviet property, for which a firing squad provides the customary punishment...
...different was the cruise of the Soviet icebreaker Krassin, which steamed out of Leningrad last March, landed last week at Wrangel Island, a bleak scrap of land in the Arctic Ocean, 85 miles from the northeast coast of Siberia. There for five long years six Russian meteorologists, their families and assistants, 44 souls all told, have lived in isolation. Last year the freighter Chelyuskin, commanded by hardy, hairy Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, was sent to take the colonists off their icebound island, deposit a new shift of weather observers. The ice pack closed in on the Chelyuskin in September, hugged...
...steadily down the Baltic, across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal, up the Pacific Coast, through Bering Straits. Smaller (4,900 tons) than the luckless Chelyuskin (6,500 tons), it had special ice-breaking equipment which enabled it to crunch indomitably through the pack. When it put in at Wrangel last week the colonists, their belongings packed and their long exile over, shed tears of joy. Fifteen scientists went ashore to replace the departing six. Mme Semenchuk. wife of the new station chief, presented a bouquet to Mme Mineyev, wife of the retiring chief. No one had ever before seen...
...walrus mustache-Frank Leslie Baker of the Times. His department is supposed to admit to print all creeds providing they can claim an ancestor who lived in the U. S. before the Civil War. More colorful than their dean are Maury Henry Riddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") and Baron George Wrangel ("Billy Benedick") of Hearst's American and Journal, respectively. The Baron, 30, is a nephew of famed "White Russian" General Peter Nicholaievich Wrangel. Dapper, bubbling "Cholly Knickerbocker" owns the copyright to his nom de plume, a valuable asset. His breezy column is famed for "plugging" favorites. Philadelphia society, according...
Stalin had had enough of the too ambitious Trotsky, creator of the Red Army and the real "savior" of the Soviet State from the armies of Wrangel, Denikin and Yudenich. In 1925 Klimentiy Voroshilov stood 13th on the ranking list of Soviet commanders. Surely he is grateful to Stalin for lifting him over twelve disgruntled heads to the supreme command. His antecedents are impeccable. Born the son of a very poor Ukrainian peasant in 1881, he became a proletarian factory worker in early youth, has been since 1904 a consistent revolutionist, always modest, fearless and devotedly obedient to his party...