New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1924, Page 3

HE SAVED 660,000 FRON STARVATION Gal. Ball o Speak at Meeting o Rofary Gluh \ Colonel Walter A, Bell, who fed 659,000 children and more than 100,000 adults in Biberia and saved them from®starvation, will be the spoaker at the meeting of the New Britain Rotary club Thursday noon at the Burritt hotel The achievements of Colomel Bell are told” in an article by Walter Duranty, Russian correspondent for tha New York Times. The article states: From the New York Times ‘July 9, 1925, (Cable by Walter Duranty, Corre- gpondent New York Times. For Russia It there ever was an epic of re- llef work It is the story of Colonel Hell of Ufa, The man who saved from starvation hundreds of thou- sands of half savage Bashkir-Tar- tars, way jout on the desolate Steppes, between European Russla and Siberfa. On Bell of Syracus ing nothing of childfeeding and less of the Bashkir-Ttartar, towed t last of thres automobiles with teams of horges into . Sterlitamak, then the capitol of the Bashkir re- public. Fifty miles from anywheres, he then sent his exhausted inter- preter to the job of taking other| teams to salvage the disabled auto- mobiles, hopelessly stuck in mud- holes along the route. Then sum moning a meeting of the gaunt PBashkir officials, hopeless, foodle and moneyless amongst their starv- ing people, He told them that American food AVIS BAKING POWDER Mshogany, osk or walnut ovember 4, 1021, | New York, know-| |was on the way and that he was |there to see that they got it. Now ‘BQ"I back in Moscow with the job done and the Bashkir republic is on its feet again. Bell was the only district supervisor to run the same | district from the start of operations to the finish, and how he ran ft! ‘lmunne what {t meant to deliver ! dally rations to almost half a mil- Hon people throughout Mareh, l92'.'. when Siberian blizzards broke all records of storm and fury over |the frozen &teppes. Tralls vanished {in the driving snow, but tough Tar- tar ponies plodded on and drivers | huddled 1A sheep-skins got thers |somehow to every distributing sta- ilmn throughout tens of thousands of square mlles. Boll had put his own spirit teto them and they would wot quit nor would they stop Typhus hit him and malaria and inflammatory rheumatism. One of his American assistants died, others broke under the tewific strain, Bell carrled on and a stream of r\mrrlcav food flowed Iife into Tar- tar village and Ural factory town to whom its stoppage meant death, Other relief organizations could not make the grade. Nansens, Cheko-Slovaka, Third International and 1 the government sanitary traln with daily rations for nine thousand children found the work fmpossible. So Bell added their jobs to his and put the whole show over together, You've been told that Russia is a wilderness of devils and torturers, cowards and brutes, but Bell says differently. “We had thirty thousand employees, Rus- slans, Bashkirs and Tartars at the peak of our work and I tell you they put their backs Into it. The lo- cal authorities did thelr darndest too. There were some mighty nice people in Ufa and they stayed on the job with us when they might just as well have gotten away. One of our hest ) ers there was Ma- dame Tzurrupa, wife of one of the prominent members of the com | nistic party in Moscow. That litt woman had only to say the word and her husband would have gent a private car to fetch her away {from hunger and typhus, right back to the Moscow Kremlin t |stuck on the job all right. People y that the Russians ars quitters. | Not in our section. Why, our people ! could have quit us cold early last month when the famine was beaten and they got their bonuses, extra tood and everything we could give them as a reward for their faithful services, but they did not, wag finished up a week ago and | lats into ! as in t the offices until midnight causs it was the only place in Uta where thers s warmth, light and hot tea or a bit of b g if give them and do not ht discus- a bit of respon |let yourself in for all ick and stick to it.” Mahogany, osk o¢ walnut §150 Mahogny, ozk ot walnue Victrols No. § 215 (Special) 8160 Bpeclally designed to acoom. modats any radio raceiviog ket Victrola No. 260 8150 Mahogany, cak or walout but | e instead | they kept right on until everything |® high regard for Bell |tor the Bashkir republie, honorary member or supernumerary | president or extra.speclal delegate tor half the local country, From district council of Zlatoust to the Foreman's Brigade of Beloretze. Zlatoust stands llke anclent Rome | lon seven hills and every year the |spring ralns make communication between the sald hills impossible | tor anything but fish and helicop- | Bell has ters, For seventy years the district | council there has heen discussing a drainage canal to carry ot the flood waters, Bell sald simp! "“We are {feeding thousands of able bodied men and ‘they should be glad to work.”” They were, and in April of last year they dug a culvert eight hundred meters long meters desp and one and ona half meters wide. Rock lined and roofed with timbers, with the result that this year, for the first time the Zlatoust population was able to skip dry shod from hill to hill. Beloretze is a factory town where in the early years of the last war sixteen thou sand men were employved making shells for the Tzars armies. Now the factory produces only dirks, swords and a secret damagcened metal work inlald with gold. Bell kept it going with foed and in order to give employment in the spring last year, he built a railroad from the Beloretze factory to the coal and iron mines of Lu twenty miles away. In other towns he built roads where before there only mud trails, imp spring and autumn Two hundred and fifty-seven small bridges he buiit over streams, ditches and threw two long pontoon bridges over the Bella riv t Uta, now the capitol of the Bashkir republic. Al along he fed them also, from Tartar bables in the villages of th whera nons spoke even Russian, could read or write, to comm: workers in Ekaterinsburg, or | of the Kutuzoft family in Perm scended from the general fought Napoleon befors Mascow tand chased his "Grand Armee back to Besserina The Bi kirs could not make him Why did he do it”, so they of- fered him concessions, mountains of pure fron, mineé of gold, platinum deposits that once produced hun- dreds of pounds yearly, but Bell refused all of this and gradually they came to understand this strange Amerioan did the job for its ewn two of Phista Steppes out, th gifts of all sorts f, ceremonial Bashkir full dres tumes, never before off to the Tzar or some grea torious general, down to ei; y cubes in a basket which he t over to a somewhat startled repre. sentative of the Central Soviet gov- ernment There was bear whic grew fat and tame learned to jump into the automabil and 1ol besides the driver owned the machine until t 0 ew eYar's eve, when tt land Bell's mals cook bot cub earlier Victrols No. 220 $200 Eleceric, $240 Mahogany, oek or walnw Vietrols No. 300 8250 Eleceric, $290 Mabogany, oak or walour The Bashkir republic has just as | He 18| bodies In the | ® |recorded as the case too mueh “bootleg” vodka -nd! started home late and happy in a nighthawk droshky and got into a fight, were pinched and they had ;tn got Bell up early New Year's morning to bail them hoth out of jald, It the United States ever re- cognizes Russia and the Bashkir {republic is ever allowed to have forelgn representatives, then Bell ‘wnum be it in Washington and would he please remember that rnxhr there in thelr section of the Jrals they had the world's richest deposits of most every kind of meta), minerals, precious and semi- precious stones, as well as some pretty good factories which needed only American technique and initia. tive to come back to a real pay- ing basls, Nor was that all, Ufa for #ome reason is the headquarters of all Russia’s many million moslem in- habitants, there is treasured one of the first seven sacred coples of the Koran, written by hand by Mo. hammed's successor with one page totally fnscribed in that suceessor's own semi-sacred blood. Never bs- fore had profane eves looked on this holy relic, but at Bell's request the Mohammedan guardians brought it out in the open air for young | Travham, the official photographer of the Ara, to take pictures of ft apd the priests turning {ts time honored pages. Later when the Mo- hammed conclave was held in Ufa to choose the new “Muft{" or M hammed pope for all Ruseia, B was invited to watch the proceed- ings, the only foreigner and only non-Mohammed so honored in Rus sla or Tartar history from the davs of Canghls Khan and Tammarlan until today. PAULINE FREDERICK SERKS THIRD DIVORCE | Files Sult In Los Angeles Against Dr. Charles Rutherford, Claim. ing Desertion In 1922 Los Angeles, Dec. 18. — Pauline rederick, actress of the stage and screen, has filed suit | agaipst her third Charles Rutherford, Seattle, the Los Angeles Times said today, Though filed in superlor court e Bept. 27, last, the actress’ com- plaint remained unnoticed until yes- terday, the Times explained, 4 of Beatrice Rutherford ve. Charles Rutherford. ‘The plaintiff alleges her husband deserted her in 1922, less than = vear after they wers married in Santa Ana, near hers. She states she does not know his present ad- dress. Friends/of the couple say Ruth- arford and Miss Frederick wers en- zaged when he was 26 and she was 17. Then she went on the state and ater married Frank M. Andrews, New York architect. She divorced Andrews and married Willard Mack |playwright. That marriags also wound up in a divorce. 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