Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1932, Page 23

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D: 1E MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1932. w BOY OF 15 CONFESSES OAXACA IS GENTER | OF TREASURE HOUSE Mexican City Noted for Past’ Wealth and Great Re- sources for Future. Discovery near Oaxaca, Mexico, of & tomb of prehistoric Indian warriors, 80 rich in gold and jeweled works of | art that it has been called “an Amer- ifcan tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen.” turns atténtion to a region already known for its _antiquities and for its potential modern wealth, according to a bul-| letin of the National Geographic Soclety. | “The State of Oaxaca. which covers the greater part of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in southernmost Mexico, was the home of Mixtec and Zapotec peoples, and is still the home of their desgendants,” continues the bulletin. “The state adjoins Chiapas, where important ruins of the Maya civiliza- tion are found. The Mava culture is beleved to have greatly influenced both the Mixtecs and the Zapotecs. and they in turn passed it on in diluted form to the region around Mexico City. Buildings Uniquely Decorated. “Thirty miles from Oaxaca are the ruins of Mitla, a ceremonial city of striking stone temples, that has been visited for many vears by the world's Jeading archeologists. This ruined city | is especially noted for the unique form | of decoration on the walls of its struc- tures, a decoration that has been called ‘mosaic fretwork.’ At no other place in the world is this particular type of stone work decoration known to exist. “Mitla was built by Zapotecs. No caches of valuable art works have been found in the ruins. “The treasures just uncovered were found in the ruined fortified city of Monte Alban, on & mountain top much nearer Oaxaca than Mitla. This city was supposedly built by Mixtecs, who once opposed the Zapotecs, but were finally conquered by them. Mines Undeveloped. “Oaxaca, capital of the state of the same name, is reached by rail from Mexico City after a 250-mile journey which drops the traveler more than a mile to hot tropical plains and then raises him again into low mountains. In a valley in these mountains lies the city, one of the most picturesque in the republic. Cortez settled there and was made ‘marquis of the valley.' By 1531—only a few years after the coming of Cortez—Oaxaca possessed 500 families of pure Castilian blood. Their descendants are important fac- | tors in the city's population today. “No section of Mexico was richer than Oaxaca in precious metals when the Spaniards came. And it is still rich, for probably only & few of its pos- | sible mines have been opened. Indians | are continually coming in from the back country With gold to sell. some- | times in the form of amalgam balls, sometimes as_rough cast plates and medallions, Where they obtain this gold the Indians will not say. | “Oaxaca hummed with business dur- | ing the closing days of the Diaz gime. Some of the business activi had to do with mining. forest products. But a large part was based on agriculture. Into the city flowed coffee, indigo, vanilla, cacao, rice, sugar, grain, oils and fibers. These products still arrive, but not in the Quantities of a generation ago. But the potential wealth is there. and some with | | gene: | than it was planted in the German | had had.. | Russia. A Nation at Arms Fight With as Little Bloodshed as Possible Sought by Soviet as Plans Are Laid for Air and Chemical Battles. The writer of this article, the fifth in a series of six, recently spent 10 months in Russia. Having been born in that country, and re- turning at frequent intervals, he is particularly qualified to observe what is happening there and to establish facts. BY ELIAS TOBENKIN. the next twelve months, and to 26,500 kilometers in 1930. In 1931, the gov- ernment brought the total to 46412 kilometers. During the current year the government plans to increase this to 71,122 kilometers. By the end of the fige-year plan, in December, 1933, it expects a total of 110,832 kilometers of air routes. Such widely divergent regions as Turkestan, the Caucasus and Siberia; “In the next war we must obtaln gcn “far'flung cities as Viadivostok, victory with as little bloodshed as pos- | Tashkent and Archangelsk, are today sible and carry on the war on the terri- tory of that nation which will be the first to raise its sword against us.” With these words Climenty Voroshi- lov, war commissar of the Soviet Union, opened the ninth All-Union Congress of the League of Communist Youth (Comsomol) in Moscow. sar likewise made the last speech at the congress. It was headed “An Order united with the center, Moscow, by the Soviet air routes. Airplane factories are scattered throughout the country. New hangars and airdromes are going up in various parts of the republic. To the aviation schools already in exist- ence five were added in the last year. ‘The commis- | Fifteen thousand pupils entered these schools in that period. Russia is covered with “air circles,” of the Title of the War Commissariat.” | where peasant boys learn by playing In this order Voroshilov conferred | “command of the air forces of the country” upon the 3,000,000 members of the Youth League, who range in age from 14 to 23, and who, because of the advanced military training required, lly are regarded as the “Junior rmy” of the Soviets, The delegates to the Youth Congress accepted the command and pledged their organization to an intensive cam- paign for making the Russian people “air minded.” Pacific Aims Offset. with aircraft models. The benefits of aviation are brought home to the peas- | ant in connection with his crops. Scores of thousands of acres have been saved from destruction by locusts and other pests by air squadrons, which spray the fields with chemicals. In like manner the forests are being preserved by the air forces which quickly detect forest fires from the sky. Cite European Figures. Russian authorities cite figures for the number of commercial planes pos- sessed by the more advanced countries The pacific aims of the Soviet Union | of Europe and by the United States, are repeatedly urged by governmental | yith which the Soviet air industry is and diplomatic spokesmen. Soviet mili- tary authorities emphasize. however, that both attacker and attacked have one objective in war—victory—and that the best method of defense frequently is to take the offensive against the enemy. The will to victory is being planted in the Russian mind by Joseph Stalin in this year of 1932 with no less vigor mind by William Hohenzollern in 1913. The upbuilding of a great air fleet is considered by the Soviet dictator the surest means to victory. Aviation today is one of the 10{!-‘1199'.,” M. Quibishev said. most war industries in the Soviet Union. The sum of 150,000,000 rubles was spent on it by the government during the last year. Officially the industry is labeled civil | or commercial aviation. Every one in the Soviet Union, however, knows that the | feverish construction of airplanes and | dirigibles is intended for “the coming | war.” The industry is carried on under the direct authority of the Council of | Labor and Defense. Moreover, in a special decree by the Council of Peo- ple’s Commissars, the Soviet cabinet, the trusts selling construction materi- als were ordered to supply the aviation industry at the same reduced rates paid by Soviet War and Navy Departments. | | | Air Fleet Is Begun. The development of the Russian air | fleet did not begin until 1923. Before that, the Bolshevists were concerned largély with fighting internal and for- eign enemies, and in this they used whatever planes the old Czarist army The years 1923 and 1924 were largely experimental. In the two vears following, aviation took root in Beginning with 1928, which | ushered in the five-year plan, aviation | in the Soviet Union had a surpnsmg" upward swing. actively competing. They mention the outstanding types of Soviet-constructed | planes—the K-5, the ANT-9 and the | latest model, STAL-2, characterized as the Ford of the sky. The extent of the Soviet plane force and air personnel is kept secret. There is. however, the statement of V. V. Quibishev, chairman of the State Planning Commission and a member of the all powerful political bureau, that the air forces are ample to defend the country. “We have created a powerful air 1t is already sufficient to repel any attack on the Soviet border.” Soviet suthorities speak more freely about _dirigible construction. Seven dirigibles are under construction. Part of the money is being raised by public subscription. The dirigibles will be named Lenin, Stalin, Old Bolshevik, Pravda, Klim Voroshilov, Osoaviachim and Kolkhozik. There is a legend in the Soviet Union that while Lenin was in exile, during the World War, he once ex- claimed: “Wait until we get our own There were 11,071 kilometers of air | ffi route in the Soviet Union in 1928, cov- | ering mainly central or European Rus- | dirigibles!” The phrase has been re- echoed from :n":l end ;7!! Stovle'. R\ug&n the other, excellent propaganda :’:Jul:!.o ‘The new dirigibles will be known as the “Lenin squadron.” Four Dirigibles Built, Four dirigibles were bullt by the Soviet between 1920 and 1930. They are named Red Star, October, Moscow Chemist and Comsomol Pravda. Ex- cept the last, all are out of service. Each was used for demonstration only. The workers of Leningrad some time ago adopted the slogan, “Make every factory a fortress.” The factorles of the chemical industry in the Soviet Union can be called that. Precisely as the Soviet government is making Rus- sia & respected rival of the great na- tions of the world in air navigation, it 1s making Russia’s chemical industry one of the most formidable weapons for offense and defense in “the next war.” There were 4,200 chemists in the Soviet Union at the close of 1929, but new chemical colleges and laboratories have opened since, and the Soviet edu- cational and war authorities plan to increase the number of chemists to 30,000 by the end of the flve-year plan. ‘The peasant of Czarist Russia for- merly used only a gram of chemicals to every 1,000 grams used by English or American farmers. Here, too, the Soviet government is causing basic changes. Eight million tons of mineral fertilizer are belng produced in accord- ance with the specifications of the five- year plan, and that amount is declared Charge Accounts Invited —No Interest Personal Shopper, Will Fill Mail and or Phone Orders. NAtional 5220 Extras one quarter of what Russian agriculture must have. It is a slogan of the five-year plan to make the Soviet Union independent of the rest of Europe in those branches of chemistry used primarily in war- fare. Soviet military publications say the high tempo of the five-year plan is making the people, especially the Red army, independent of other coun- water bucket he will recelve one made for the Red army. Government-owned farms have military field telephones. Harness is of ai type. Caterpillar tractors, built by the government for gl‘owmg and harvesting, are constructed accordance with military specifica- tions. The boots the peasant buys are made exactly as the of the soldier. Even the civilian clothes are cut on FILM-STAGE STAR DEAD HOLLYWOOD, _Calif Pebruary 15 (A)—Miss Jule Powers, stage, movie and vaudeville actress, died yesterday after an illness of several weeks. She was the wife of Edwards Davis, film character actor. Miss Powers was born in Portland, HUNDRED BURGLARIES Loot Used in Buying Clothing for | Poor Playmates and Helping Widowed Mother. tries in chemical equipment. No secret | military pattern. Mind and body are| By the Associated Press. is made of what the Soviet Union is |constantly reminded that the enemy is standing at the gate. (Conyflzh’g. doing to protect the people from chemi- cal attacks by an invader. 100,000 Are Ready. In regions where gas or chemical at- THREE GIRLS BURNED TO DEATH IN HOME tack is most likely, the Osoaviachim has an organized body of 100,000 men and women ready to aid the population in such an attack. It maintains 2,000 “circles” tor their training by chemists | end scientists, members of the Institute of Chemical Defense, also an Osoavia- chim organization. In these regions refuge cellars have been provided and by frequent drills the population has been trained in their use. Instruction also is given in making safe from gas penetration. A ring of observation posts has been' es- tablished and men and women are trained to distinguish enemy planes and to signal their approach. Perhaps as indicative as anything of the extent to which all life in the Soviet Union is governed by the expectation of war is the widespread military stand- ardization of all objects that can be used in war. If a preasont goes to a store for a Marion Gage, by the North American ewspaper Alliance, Inc.) NEWARK, N. J, February. 15 —Al 15-year-old schoolboy, arrested last night, was quoted by authorities as| having admitted the commission of | some 100 burglaries in the last three \months. | He spent part of the money to buy | clothes for poor playmates, sent some | of it to his widowed mother and spent | Oreg. She appeared on the New York stage in several Brady productions and was in vaudevilie several years with her husband. KILL COLD GERMS Two Other Children Dragged to Bafety After Pan of Grease on Kitchen Stove Explodes. By the Associated Press. BAR HARBOR, Me., February 15— Three girls, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Tracy, were burned to death yesterday in a fire which de- stroyed the Tracy home at West Eden. The dead: Caroline, 13; Mary, 11, and Gladys, 7. Two other children, Marcia, 16, and Julian, 6, were dragged from the blaz- ing_building by a neighbor. The fire started in an sexplosion of fat which Mrs. Tracy was heating on told them. vacant lot. | made public. the rest on himself, BUY or RENT ‘ | Office Furniture H. Baum & Son the stove in preparation for frying 616 E St. N.W. Nat. 9136 the police said he | He took only the money and keys | N AVA P from stolen pocketbooks, throwing away | any jewelry they might contain. Sev. eral pleces of jewelry were found by | police in pocketbooks discarded in NASAL VAPOR | | Clears head instantly. Stops cold spreading. 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