Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1931, Page 22

T WORKERS TOURNG ENGLANO Early Fulfilment of Five- Year Pan. BY NEGLEY PARSON. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, England, August 11.—The | 180 g, with the eymbelic hammer and ‘sickle, is dangling from the rain- drenched mainmast of the Sovict S. 8. | Ukraine, made fast below London Bridge, which has brought the first | of Russian tourists to land in ese visitors are vastly different | from the old lot. 1 prietors, concierges, restaurateurs al shopkeepers leap with joy. These are | 380 factory workers—heroes of the | Soviet's industrial front—who have | been given a 35-day bonus, in the form | of a sightseeing tour of the capitalist world from the Baltic to the Black | Sea, as a special award for their fac- tories’ fulfillment of the five-year plan | in half the time. Each factory or | enterprise selected its candidates, whose | expenses are bein: paid by the “pi mium fund” to boost factory output, | trade unions and Soviet “proletarian | tours.” | Boxes for Trunks. Instead of wardrobe trunks, their | cabins are stuffed with cloth parcels | and three-ply wooden boxes, which | always accompany a Russian when he is on the move. The scene along the | Tall of the Ukraine yesterday as it | docked through the gray mist was like that on & cheap excursion steamer or in any factory town when the 12 o'clock whistle blows. | The Russians gaped at London's| docks and the stevedores working under | the capitalist system like men from | Mars. Hardly & single soul had ever | been outside the Soviet Union before, “We have just come in from Ham- burg,” they toid newspaper men. “We | were greatly impressed by the 800 ships | lying dead in Hamburg’s port--we were even more struck by the poverty of the | working-class dwellings there.” The visitors had spent four days in Hamhurg sightseeing, but were living on'| the/sbip. When asked what they were | going to see in London, their spokes- man answered that they would take the | rubberneck busses and do the usual | sightseeing tour, with a Soviet inter- | preter along to explain what's what. | Interested in St. Paul’s. “Of course, we are interested,” he sald. “in St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. But only from the | architectural Viewpoint—not the reli- | Landing permits were given to the party by groups, each in charge of such | an_interpreter. There will be no un- | authorized expeditions alone—"for fear we might not find our way.” Exhibi- tions and art museums will be visited in | particular. But “we have not enough 10 see any factories here.” | Drosecaing. thepce 46 swnbui | Genoa, proceeding thepce , nbul | and Odessa. Whatever shore reception | the tourists will have will be from “Soviet colony” in each of these ports. | ity girls among the party—mostly of high school age—provided the chief point of interest to London. They gave ample evidence of Lady Astor's recent | Mcscow verdict that the Russian wom- | an hoo lost her sex appeal. Ambitious | s lined up what are called | of their womanhood,” gath- | about a dozen, who, after arrang- | ir hair and powdering their noses, | for a picture with the ship’s life- | v, exactly like capitalist girls. Five | of them were girl tractor drivers from | big state farms.. ' No Farm Representatives. | There were no representatives aboard | the Ukraine from collective farms. Col- | lective werkers were not considered pro- | leta rians—yet. The girls with cotton stockings and | cheap, but what to them were their best | frocks (certainly better than those their comrades wear in Moscow), were cl by the English watching them as “proper for a little factory the ing Outstanding among the men was the | head cf the “Communist Boosters” of the very yards which launched the Uk- Taine this year. She is a 5500-ton fast steamer, built to run between | anmsmu-mowr cent t ship, including the engines. Fom what one could see from a super- ficial survey, she is an extremely serv- iceable ship. 1In endeavoring to arrange for passen- ger la rmits the group is faced ‘with the obll of informing Scot- | Jand Yard in advance as to where they are going in London. { (Copyright. 1631 LONDON CRIME RISES OVER 1929, BYNG SAYS Serious Increase Is Announced by / Police Commissioner—21 Murdered in 1930. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 11.—A serious in- erease in crime in London in 1930, as compared with 1929, was announced in the annual report of Lord Byng, chief commissioner of police, made public yesterday. There were 21 murders in 1930, com- pared with 10 in 1929. Indictable of- fenses rose from 17,684 in 1929 to 20,553 in 1930, and other crimes of violence also increased considerably. Among other increases shown were cases of blackmail, bigamy and drunkennes: Lord Byng criticized judges for hav- fne nermitted the suppression of the fdentity of victims in blackmail cases in recent years, which, he said, resultrd in a considerable increase in these cases THE WAY TO S e }»—s’\ R T W |4,000 | By the Associated Press. | Honor Student VIRGINIA YOUTH WINS $300 DAVIS SCHOLARSHIP. VIRGIL COPELAND, Eighteen-year-old son of Mrs. E. V. Copeland of Round Hill, Va. and a| graduate of the Round Hill High School, was awarded the $300 scholarship offered by ex-Gov. Westmorcland Davis of Leesburg in a special examination. The scholarship is for attendance at Vir- ginia_ Polytechnic Institute. Billy Sydnor, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. D. Sydnor of Hamilton, Va., was chosen as alternate. CASES OF RUM AND TWO MEN SEIZED Virginia Highway Police Capture Truck and Cargo Near Petersburg. | RICHMOND, Va. August 11.—Off- | cers of the State Highway Department yesterday captured a truck containing 4,000 quarts of whisky and arrested its operator and companion. The truck was halted north of Peters- burg on the Richmond Turnpike and was found by Lieut. H. B. Nicholas of | the highway force to contain a secret | compartment filled with liquor. i The men arrested gave their names | as Charles Davis, 30, and Russell Smith, 28, of Philadelphia. They were charged with transporting intoxicants and placed in_jail Lieut. Nicholds said highway patrol- men had been on the lookout for a| liquor-laden vehicle since two trucks with suspicious-appearing drivers passed | through here southward five days ago. | He said they now were watching for the | second van. The Lee Bouse 15th AND L STS. N.W. 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