Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1935, Page 7

s S INGE R 300-Pound Bishop Finds Peace: Here After 20 Harassing Months Russian Prelate Seeksj’ Citizenship Before Re- turn to Alaska. | | | Recalls Long Era of Per-]i secution at Hands of Red Leaders. ISHOP ALEXIS FEODOR | POROVSKY, Russian Ortho- | dox prelate of Alaska, for- | mer chaplain of the imperial palace of the late Nicholas 11, Czar of all the Russias; survivor of war, revolution. imprisonment, ship- wreck and privation, and a refugee | from the Soviet government, which | tried to starve him into submission told a thrilling story last night of a | vivid life that has brought him ad- wventure in every corner of the world. The huge-framed, white-bearded bishop, resting in Washington until April after a strenuous year and a | half of travel between a wide-flung series of small Eskimo villages in Southern and Western Alaska, yes- terday applied in District Supreme Court for citizenship in this country, which he holds more dear than any in which he ever has dwelt. Weighs 300 Pounds. Despite shell-shock, suffered while serving with the Russian Army on the German front during the World War, capture and mistreatment by the bolsheviks and near-fatal adventures - while he was a chaplain in the Czarist navy, the bishop today is pink and BISHOP ALEXIS FEODOR placid of face and strong and vigorous POROVSKY. in every movement of his 300-pound —Star Staff Photo. y. Next month he will return to the | p .y 5 the chief interest of the THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 10, 1935—PART ONE. Eskimos and Aleuts, to whom e | .00 He never covers fewer than has now dedicated his life. He is the intercessor for these simple people with the Federal Government. Two years ago he made his last visit to ‘Washington to discuss the Eskimo's problems with President Roosevelt. This long-haired survivor of a line of noblemen who for centuries domi- nated the colorful religious life of imperial Russia went to Alaska in 12,000 miles a year; usually it is nearer 25,000. It has carried him to China, Africa, Australia, South Amer- |ica and Siam. In Siam he represented the Czar at the coronation of King Prajadipok, who abdicated last week. Thought of the revolution makes the bishop shudder. It brought him | Make Up Your Own Whitney Dining Group The Dining Pieces illustrated are the Westport Sideboard at $69.80; the Long- feilow Corner Cupboard at $78; the Rye- gate Drop Leaf Extension Table at $46.60; the Brattleboro Ladder Back Chair at $21, and the Barbara Rush Seat Windsor Chair at $18. Mirror is $18. New Maple Groups and Pieces And New Room Arrangements 1929, eight vears after his escape |more hardship than he has ever from his native land, then dominated | Known. by Lenin and Trotsky, to whom such | “For 20 months I lived in instant as Bishop Porovsky were anathema, | terror of my m;- t""he f°°"l 5““{““' Haggard from typhoid fever, con- | ¥gs 80 severe that it was almost U0~ | m“fg n s S,M’;’Z prison, he ],(tibe'lmblm For the first three weeks | Russia for Cyprus, tiny Mediterranean | I Was imprisoned by the Reds I lived island. From Cyprus the bishop went | On_one-eighth of a pound of bread. | to Jerusalem, from Jerusalem to New | ‘I was captured by the Cossacks in York. and then to Pennsylvania and | the White Army. and made to serve | Canada, and at length Alaska. | as their chaplain. I was retaken by | J the Reds and thrown again into an Praises New Friends. et Snip Now 66 years old, Bishop Porovsky | Two years ago he spent 13 days on | intends to spend the remainder of his a frozen, barren island off the Alaskan | ur’; 1‘1‘11.\‘;::5!‘:. Aispeak;ng :n Russitae:. coast, after a shipwreck, in which 10 ‘whic! son, Alexander, interpreted, men were drowned. Almost naked, he praised the simple religious feel- | he lived on nothing but oranges ing of the Eskimos, “good-natured, | which floated ashore from the wreck- helping each other, spiritual and |age of the ship, for almost two weeks kind.” before he was rescued. DR. AMY STANNARD ‘BALANCE OF P.W. A, TO DELIVER ADDRESS WORK TO COMMENCE Member of U. 8. Parole Board to| Remainder of Municipal and Speak Before Travelers’ | State Projects to Get Under Aid Society. Way by Spring. Dr. Amy Stannard, psychiatrist and 1 By the Associated Press. member of the United States Board | The Public Works Administration of Parole of the Department of Jus- | reported yesterday the remainder of _ | State and municipal projects under tice, will speak at the annual meet- | ;" rging) §3,300,000,000 fund would | ing of the Travelers’ Aid Society, to consti by the be- be held at 12:30 pm. Wednesday at | 2?,,,’,2:2’0{"‘5,,&’,‘.;,’“”"" et the Burlington Hotel. Dr. Stannard | *of 4,000 such non-Federal projects, will discuss “Present Day Frontiers.” | 1050 have been completed and 1436 The speaker has A. B. and M. D.!qare under construction. Ninety per degrees from the University of Cali- | cent of $200,000,000 in loans to rail- fornia, served her interneship in & roads for equipment and road bed im- San Francisco city and county hos-! provements was reported expended. pital, and was trained and special- |~ Money for projects for which no ized in psychiatry at St. Elizabeth's | contracts have been signed was im- Hospital here. During the last three ' pounded in December, and $175,000,= years of her service at St. Elizabeth’s, | 000 has been transferred to the Relief her time was devoted to patients con- | Administration and distributed among sidered 11l enough to live outside the | the States. The remainder of $63.- hospital on parole, or who were on & 000,000 is available for transfer, so visiting status. | that no funds are available for 734 In 1930 Congress established in the ' non-Federal projects ready for con- Department of Justice a three-mem- | struction. ber Board of Parole. The Attorney ~ Massachusetts, with 159 non-Fed- General selected Dr. Stannard as the | eral projects, had more under con- psychiatrist member. She is the only | struction than any other State on woman on the board, the others be- March 1. P. W. A. allotted $469,- ing Irvin B. Tucker and Arthur D.| 025524 for projects now building. ‘Wood. Men and women serving sen- | —— —_— :;:cel in ‘Pledeni}l &risons or reforma- es are given vidual hearings by * H this board when they make applica- Amerlcan Radlator tion for parole, and the board has . full power to release them or to with- | | Hot Water Heating System hold parole. Arthur C. Moses will preside at| $ ‘Wednesday’s meeting, and the an-| nual report will ‘be made by Mrs. Margaret Ford, executive secretary. CLUB TEA SATURDAY Written_Guarantee NO_MONEY DOWN Up to 3 Years to Tay Mount Holyoke Club to Inspect Rare Books at Library. 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