Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1921, Page 12

The first cost Space 2, Closed Car Salon, Convention ‘Hall, November 14 to 19 SEMMES MOTOR COMPANY / 1132-34 Gonnecticut Avenue b Telephone Main 6660 . Donse BROTHERS . : -~ SEDAN oo SO SNNASP While furniture prices ])ractica'll_v lead the When vou have your furniture paid for you h. something to show for it. That’s more than be said of many other commodities. E service that you are welcome to use. You can select what need, have it delivered right away, and arrange to pay as can spare the money. . X 5 You have credit. vou may need. | Quuuelons@ 1f you need furniture or rugs. or a stove. and have not the ready cash to spare right now, remember that we have a credit Use it rather than do without furnishings - President is practically the last™ " There Is This About Good Furniture-- list . in decline, having dropped more, in percentage, than anything else (except foodstuffs—and only 1% from that), still furniture at any price is sure to be worth whatever amount vou have invested in it. ave can you vou \ B .THE EVENING STAR, WASH.INGTON,I D. C,- MONDAY, BY F. A, MeKENZIE. Dy Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News, Copyright, 1921 PETROGRAD, Russla, November 12. —1 have had a unique opportunity examining the “cheka” or extraordi nary commission with police powers. This organization has been the sub- {iect of many grewsome stories. and 1has inspired an amazing dread. the |average man fearing even to whisper {the name. I visited M. Semenov, chief {of the cheka, and Inquired about the jcriticism of the body. He denied that “third degree” methods were now used, although tacitly admitting that such’ things were practiced during the carly revolutionary days. An inde- pendent trades union commitiee, he said, regularly examines the prisun, {seeking cases” where release is pos- sible. 2 M. Semenov justified the recent shooting of sixty-oen counter-revo-, lutionists by saying that they were! ‘rexponnble for burning bulldings and killing five and wounding ten cheka agents who attempted to arrest them. 1t was a casc of mailed fist for po- litical conspirators, he sald, but a soft hand for others. Semenov allowed | me to visit the cells personally and: conducted me through the headquar- ters prison. I found the cells to be warm and airy and the. cleanest places I had been in since arriving in Russia. The prisoners looked ‘clenn and thin. The medical and other arrangements provide a shower bath, the attendance of five doctors, large, well equipped rooms and a kitchen plant. ® Persons in Ome Cell. One cell built for thirty inmates| and_containing thirty beds was oc- cupied by scventy-nine person overcrowding, the authorities 3 plained to me. was due to. reconstri tion going on in another part of the ! building. = The prisoners were men {detained for interrogation before be- ling tricd. "It was a mixed crowd of | apeculators, political offenders an {criminals. "All apparently were with out occupation, books and papers be ing withheld from them to prevent communication with the outside. i talked freely with the men, two of whom spoke English and assisted my own interpreter in translating what was said. They ‘greed in denying that third degree methods were practiced or lu--v. they suffered from physical ill treatment. Many of them complain- ed, however, that they had been ars rested on Insufficient grounds and that they were detained a long time before being examined. “Half of us lare released from three to five months after arrest, or as soon as! we have an opportunity of proving i our innoncence.” one man told me.! { They suffer considerable inconven- | !ience from overcrowding. they say, | but they understand the veason in ! this casc. One man complained about ;(he monotony of the food and said that the black bread. potato and her- | ring diet was insufficient without the food which friende were permitted to send them from the outside. t Professor Writea in Prison. ! { 1 found in this prison M. Kurtz, a, iformer newspaper writer and profes- | |sor. He was arrested in September. 11919, on_ the charge of bng a spy of | Yudenitch and of operating as such in izne red Army. He was sentenced to death ip’December, 1920, but the sen- tence was commuted to five years' im- prisonment. He is confined alone and his cell is under close guard. He is re- | {zarded as a particularly dangerous prisoner, owing to his attempts at clan- destine correspondens He has tobac- co, paper, pen and ink. He told me that he was preparing his memoirs of the = revolution. A woman political prisoner, who had been arrested for conveying treasonable correspondence to |the Finnish border, said that no physi- lcal or forcible methods had been used in_her case. The clean surroundings and well pre- pared food of these prisoners wers in strong contrast with the condition of the famine refugees from the Volga dis- trict. Many of these are now arriving here and being quartered in an old bar- racks. Here I found =cores of families packed into large unheated rooms, men, | ‘women and children all being ws!!.heh] Each family is given a small space on| the floor as a home. i There are mo_ partitions between | them. Some of them were in a dying CHINOOK SALMON GROW IN NEARBY- WATERS John §. Cassell. Succeeds wm:l Hatch Placed in Susque- hanna River. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, November 14.—If the | experiment of John S. Cassell, who has charge of the fisheries of the state conservation commission, are success- ful, anglers in this section of the country in the next few years may have another choice fish—the chinook | saimon—added to their string. Mr. Cassell, who for more than thirty years was connected with the federal board of fisheries in Wash !ington, already has succeeded in doin something that no other expert has| yet &ccomplished. He has hatched! out the eggs of this fine Pacific coast | fish and has planted them in the! Susquehanna. He has reéceived rc»i ports that some of them, put out last! year, now weigh as much as fiftee ounces. There were only a few put! out last year. o The chinook salmon is found sin the Puget sound and Alaskan waters, 38 well as in rivers in Washington and Orégon. Some of them attain ia weight of €0 to 100 pounds. .$350 o Philadelphia $325 w Chester $3.00 < Wilmington AND RETURN ‘War Tax, 8% additional Sunday, November 20 SPECIAL TRAIN Lvs. Washineton (Union Station) 7:30 am. Returniug. Station 7:25 p.m. :30 p.m.. Chester ton 8:10 p.m. - Tickets on sale Friday 'precpding Ex- cursion. 1l E: Lo De: - ey, et Do Pennsylvania System The Routs' of the Broadway Limited. Are You Burning U P Eel::u? Stop 5’:" W‘Zi;h - With Cooling Zemo- Red “Cheka” Justifies Shooting Of 61 Alleged Revolutionists NOVEMBER- 14, 1921. ing there several days. The floor in | avhat they called the dead house was | covered - with corpses. 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