Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1927, Page 10

10 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY b, . SOVIET PRISONERS MUY ANWALY Solovietsky Island Convicts Prefer Death to Timber Cut- | 1 q i the ‘erperiences” of ier, an’ American, in 2% Tus ons, from the last of Jie has jusi_been reiease BY JUNIUS B. W0OD. Radio _to The_ Star and_Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 19" 6. a series | . The mutiny broken out | 5 at icebound Solo sky Island, the most dreaded of tussian prisons, is an annual event | he opening of the timbering cording 1o Julius C. Che: . the only American ever impris- | 4 there, who is now in Berlin en | ite to Constantinople, where he lopes to rejoin his children cutting season starts s whose hopes already dead revolt and Invite sudden th rather than face the unknown \retic rigors of e grim forests where they believe siow death from rvation and exhaustion awaits em. Others plod stolidly into the now mantled unknown, hoping to sur- | vive and bring freedom another year | RLIN, January ch Moscow rep g the prisone cutting is the hardest c forced on the prison “Only those poor echanical skill and | signed to the w Al cases for punishment loes not quite de | confinement on | or abor evalier Hppe rains 1 spec pri <hoof Moun Clothes and Food. n the timbering | clothed _and rations. They | Poo ain i s working re the poorest ceive the lightest e mostly criminals. A few are men ed on counter-revolutionary ac- The Iatter are given some. | 1t better treatment than the for- | | While other labor gangs work ht hours in Winter and 10 hours in Summer, with one holiday a month, 1e lumber jacks have a definite daily ipend. Each gang of five men mus rell, saw and ck a cub n of ‘wood ly. Apparently not much for normal, healthy, well men, hut a sazge ack consideral eet. In addition to this. lected for cutting are marked. , after it is felled and rot that is thi not the bosses'. | finish its dail respon ach gan stint regardle ng through the necessar ymce behind, a_gan: 1dom catches up. If it is still be ind on the second day it is allowed warm food only every third day and < put to work pulling sleds. Wherever lag at this work the guards| eat them with the butts of their| provided no Red soldiers are in | Once a man drops he often| 5 unable to rise again, despite the] beating, which continues until death } cnds_his agony. | ‘Unless a_prisoner invites the en»l s of the night ? his fellow workers, he s usu- ally cared for by the others if he is unable to do his share. Four good workers can do the daily stint and fre- quently take on a weak prisoner in or- der to save him. Once a man suc- cumbs he is left in the snow until Summer comes. Live in Board Shanties. The lumbering gangs live in bo&rd‘ shanties. Irequently men in camps, | owing t sting is_their prob- | ble puni . wade through the | reach the prison kremiin and few hours’ warmth before | a 3 program at Solovietsky | contemp) increasing the number | of prisoners from 8,000 to 12.000 and | extending the lumbering operations. Moscot’s Spring crusade against speculation in the markets and buying and selling foreign currency brought & couple of thousand new guests. “When I left the island the embar- | kation stockade was crowded with | these former financiers, mostly Jews, who. on_account of their lack of a Guaranteeing Satistaction Transfer Cases ¥ oc- events, vd to lose vour corres- her important wood such ansfer Inspect them and choose the kind most suitable for your requirements. They are reasonable in price. STOCKETT: FESKE < PRODL CING STATIONERS OO E ST- -N - WASHIRGTON D .C Main 3641 | ted to s | thy |eventually was intrusted with the po- | ¢ x| S } Gertrude Knight received the degree | {school | position, throbbing with lite in its ~ ) | melodies, minor chords and ve MUSIC | ern use of chromatics and v |in keys. It seems a_real addition to in camps on outlying portions of tuc | | concert literature. The same sccmed island, or on smaller islands, sl A y | true_of the typfeally Latin qualitie T e e mna. | ORLOFF-KOCHANSKI RECITAL. | of Nin's “Chants d'Espagne.” which “During the typhus cpidemic last| A new pianist to Washington and | were also arranged for violln by Mr, Winter, when grerything was strictly | one who established himselC us a re- Lo Sl (b ouarantined, the inmates of the oul-| feay i wal e bl lying stations had an especially hard i sy ol et 1 time. Men who were too sick to re in tde debar hiees By QN3 [ Wiy o ciete cover in small branch hospitals were oy, U RS A usually loaded on sleds and hauled to ! e i pprec fx‘(‘mll T HaE the main hospital at the kremlin. Oc- | reisler “Rondo” and the T ist is the sfan, ai OrlofY, “Praeludium’™ gave fine , Polish violinist, who for sev-| gther numbers. Mme. Boulanger's Theater Seats Thousand. a1 ]“'-'\“"*' I’H*[T" ome m""djl[:! iy |« the encore Plerre “The epidemic forced closing ol gl ot e : ccompanist. deserves a theater and as snow wa ate 4 word of commendation. He Holy Lake, electri e vas a bit subdued and perhaps even about and the pr < were permit slightly _uncertain in the Bach, but A ticket to the skating | in the Spanish works he rose glori kopecks. Most of the to the occasion, and was en purchasers, however, did not te ¢ satisfactary in every numbe but the ticket gave them permission to leave the barracks and go the women prisoners loafing around | rink. | This year the ol dining hall has ||, been refitted a theater for movies | and dramatic performances by pris- oner talent. It seats more than a thousand. Once a_man enters Solovietsky he is stripped of his artificial individu ality and gradually acquires a personality amid his new e ment. ‘Some sink until they tter than dull, plodding oxen, ob livious of the! undings, seeing and ungrasp: to positions of prominence the had risen in the outer world Dri: useful trade, were fairly sure of heing lgned to timbering. Solovietsky is able to care for more than 12.- 000, especlally many prisoners 11+ | rence her morning lower Hotel yveste ' | much udience, fl mo 1) Nike £ & th Longworth. delicate runs and florid inging notes and fr pretation. Brahm: Minor” also was given new meaning, | nd the beautiful minor melody that s the | ign in this work was well emphasized. Mr. Orloff has no | temperamental mannerisms. He looks | awake young busines and sits at the piano esslike convinelng fashior concentrated on his work wh His group of Chopin was | pletely delightful He presented | the not so frequently heard “Etude Major,” the “Nocturne F Mino; S Minor,” all with | ndividuality ne, moonir awake mu 'I:eat the youngsters to this wholesome goody Fresh! at your grocer's Gispof oner named through his suggestions for in management and other ments—and, according other pris oners, by lending at rious times 150,000 roubles to the prison budget— The popular | was the encor | included Medtner’s Minos the Li: Schubert nseription of the | and an | sition of purchasing agent for of prisons though elf. L group | il a prisoner him Ir. 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