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Wilkes-Barre, Pa | June 9, 1932 |
MOSCOW - During an inspection of soviet forest logging, two Americans (names not given) visited the Archangel logging camp in order to form an impression of conditions at this camp. It was impossible for them to stay long, but afterwards they compiled reports stating that they did not find any signs of compulsory labor or work being performed by prisoners. Their testimony applied only to those localities that they visited, in particular Archangel and the camps in northern Dvina. Their investigations followed tree felling, rafting the logs down the river and loading them in the forest, the same methods of forestry that are used in the United States. The Americans spoke unhindered to about ten workers without translators and all the workers affirmed that they were working of their own volition and that they were able to quit whenever they wanted. The workers were mainly young fellows from 15 to 25 years of age from local villages working in the forest as there was then no seasonal work available on the farms. They were all on piece work and earned roughly 5 roubles per day. They had access to living quarters which in general were cleaner and better than the housing occupied by workers elsewhere in the Soviet Union. The Americans made the observation that they didn't see any soldiers watching the workers anywhere and that in the camps in the north there were neither soldiers nor police.
ANGORA, TURKEY - In accordance with a law adopted by parliament, ten thousand foreigners working in Turkey are about to lose their jobs. Reportedly, the law provides that those that are holding jobs that can be performed by Turkish citizens are to be replaced. Only two Americans are going to lose their jobs - one, a grocery store clerk and the other, a chauffer. About one hundred British nationals will lose their jobs.
Berlin - During the elections to the governing body in Mecklenburg, Hitler's party obtained 29 representatives instead of two as they had before. The governing body consists of a total of 58 representatives and so Hitler's supporters will have the majority vote.
Elections to the governing body in ?ldenburg were held last week and those elections (too), brought victory to Hitler's party.
It is believed that the first act of the new cabinet will be to repeal the Bruning decree which prohibits quasi-military organizations and which was primarily directed against Hitler's organization.
Bruning himself is ill with influenza. He doesn't want to see anyone (i.e. newspaper reporters), but it is assumed that as he recovers he will again enter politics, especially in order to make a stand against the maneuverings of the new cabinet.
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Rome - Due solely to the vigilance of the Italian police, Mussolini was saved from a new assassination attempt on his life. A young Italian aroused the suspicions of the police as he began to enter the courtyard of the building where Mussolini had his offices. When he was arrested he was found to have not only two powerful bombs but even a revolver. At the police station he admitted that he had been planning on throwing the bombs at Mussolini's car somewhere in the courtyard and after that he intended to shoot his way out using just the revolver.
The police are searching for accomplices. The bombs, which were displayed (by the police), were made by experts and could cause devastation over a wide area.
Washington - On Monday the joint Congress finally approved the tax bill that will balance the budget and President Hoover has now signed it. It brings the government about one billion, 118 million dollars from new tax revenues and various kinds of economic measures. Personal income taxes will bring in about 178 million dollars, corporate taxes will bring in 41 million, from manufacturing taxes(?) 450 million, from payroll fees(?) six and a half million, various other kinds of taxes will bring in 152 million.
At the present time some senators wish to make a few changes, but the majority of senators have passed the bill as it was worked out by representatives of both houses.
New York - Stanislav Havsner, Polish flyer who left on Friday on a non-stop journey to Warszawa, is missing and nobody knows what has happened to him. He had enough gasoline for only forty hours, enough to get him to Warszawa. Consequently, it is no longer possible that he is still in the air. It is possible that he has landed someplace from where it is not possible to fly further. But it is also possible that he has perished as many other flyers attempting non-stop flights across the Atlantic.