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SHE TRIED MURDER TO GET A ROOM
Watching the trial of a bride-to-be in Moscow, SEFTON DELMER gets a vivid picture of the city's housing famine
ROM the outside, No. 27, Chechov-street looks like thousands of Moscow buil- dings a little alummy after 30 years without a fresh coat of paint.
her
the
TATIANA had come home from the war to find her father had died while she was away, and home-papa's single room in centre of Moscow-had been allot- ted to an Intellectual, a woman re- parter of a teachers' gazette.
Less privileged. Tatiann was outlying reporter
door. I pushed open the street climbed a
flight of stairs in what allotted a must once have been a fashionable apartment house and entered open door of the first-floor flat.
room
in
the
suburb. But the woman
Tatiana the kindly agreed that
I walked down the corridor, opened the dining-room and there was Court One of the People's Tribunal for the Sverdlovsk district of Moscow.
Facing inė at the desk, with high
chairs and all the windows belind
then, sat the Judge, two Jurors and the clerk. All four of them were women. The clerk was young-a Bacall blonde, mascara shading her sultry eyes, her pouting mouth varnished crimson.
A
Tatiana Sobs
GIRL sat in the
I know I have committed a crime and must be punished," she said. "I did it on a wicked impulse of the moment. But please do not send me to prison, where there is no radle, no life. I am already suffer- ing the terrible punishment of being depriveil of my beloved Moscow, where I was born, where I matricu- lated, in whose defence I took part. Please send me to a labour camp."
Tatiana and her quiet lawyer wont. Her sentence
was five year labour camp.
Yes, I would like Bevin and Mar- shall, or at least some of their ex- perts, to have left the wrangle of on Industry Club just long enough igures and definitions in the Avia-
to listen to that simple tragedy, born of Russia's housing
crisis.
For on Tatiana's room may yet founder the soundest and wisest projects for German economic unity and European reconstruction.
OHIO'S TAFT AND THE WHITE HOUSE
By LYLE\C. WILSON
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
DESPITE disclaimers, Senator nevert together in a single cons Robert A. Taft looks more didate. If the opposition had been and more today like a man who their candidate would have been able to agree, more likely as not has an eye on the 1948 U.S. nominated for President in 1032. Presidential nomination.
. Ohlo realises it is in somewhat His decision to take the chair. the same fix. While neither Taft nor Bricket is an avowed Presidential manship of the Senate Labour candidate, Washington counts them Committee in the new Congress, both in the race, rather than the Senate Elnanca Committee, contributed to the belief that he has given more than passing thought to Presi dential politics.
Taft further bolstered that bellef when he said the time whs near for a decision on who Ohla Republicans will support for the 1940 nomina- tion. The favourite sons are Toft and John W. Brleker,
Taft's decision to accept the re- latively obscura Labour Committed in preference' to the Senate Finance Finance is the blue ribbon Committee is especially significant. Senato Committee. It will handle a tox reduction bill of zoma kind next year.
LABOUR LAWS
JURTHERMORE, the Finance Com. mittee will only begin its tax re- vision work in 1947. As long as Re- Although he refrained from call-
publicans Que In control of the Ing himself a candidate. Taft said Senate it is likely that its Finance he and Bricker would "sit down Committee will be tinkering with soon and decido this matter."
taxes, mostly tinkering them down-
Ohto Republicans are no less an- ward a little at a time. Few politi- xious than Taft or Bricker to decide clans could ask a better spot than the 1918 candidate. There is an old that. political saying that you can't beat The Labour Committee, however, somebody with nobody.
offers a better spot for a shorter
and
The backers of Governor Thomas time. In the 80th Congress, the Re-
Intend E. Dewey of New York
publicans can go to
to revise the Party leaders in other, states
various charters and labour bills of seek delegate support for their can rights written into law during the Aidate. The supporters of former Roosevelt administration. They in- Governor Harold E. Stassen of Min- tend to revise them and to ram the
results right down President nesota can do the same.
man's throat in case he After that job is done-provided the results are satisfactory-the Sanato Labour Committee will revert to its status as a pretty obscure spot.
FARLEY'S JAUNT
Tru- rexiais,
next
UT as of now, when Ohio politi, Bu
cinns talk to Republicans in other states, all they can say is that Ohio
So Taft, having his choice be- wil have a candidate for nomina-
tween two
with committees, both tion, but has not decided just who it
spectacular business in the will be. That is pretty poor balt. couple of years, has chosen the one
James A. Farley capitalised on a which will just about run out similar situation in 1930-31 when spectacular business by the end of he barnstormed the country on 0 1918. By coincidence, 1940 is the junket billed as a visit to the Elks year in which the next Presidential Clubs of the nation. Jim Farley campaign will take place. It could. was and is a great Elk. Actually, be that Tarq figures he will not be he
was out
bugging votes for wanting to be chairman of Franklin D. Roosevelt. There was Senate Committee after that presl- plenty of opposition to FDR but it dential election,
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
any
NTERVIEWED. yesterday tion during the trip. He added that Crisis Worse
Colonel Cruddock-Mildew he was not sure it had been wise to Include Miss Slopcorner, whose the could THE housing
fumine in Moscow said: "I am afraid I did not foulish behaviour had spoiled" share the room in the centre when. was acute enough when I was appreciate the fact that the old experiment, and whose idiotic con- versation had got on the nerves of she was stranded after her
and all the gentleman who addressed me her companions from the very start. late-
here eight years ago night work as a waitress in a Mos- trated on arms factories, adminis-
Soviet building, effort was concen was the leader of the expedition cow bus drivers' canteen.
trative buildings, railway lines and to the moon, about which I had, fortifications.
of course, read in the papers. But the crisis is infinitely worse today.
The Soviet count on reparations deliveries from Germany to help to
in Csation alleviate this disastrous slivation,
Came the day when Tatiana fell in love with a busman and they wanted to get married.' She per- suaded the intellectual to
swop rooms with her. Tatiana paid over. a handsome sum The Intellectual Office of which supervises such deals, confirmed the arrangement, moving date come and suddenly the woman of the teachers' gazette re- fused to budge.
production
deliver
mist
Misic Slopcorner said, "I do so think it was a marvellous experience and it isn't every girl who gets a chance of going to the moon, or even to Worthing these days, I do so think."
Mr Slopcorner, Interviewed
said:
"It's all right by
"It was only when the rest of the expedition emerged from the that I realised what had happened. in his home, There was another gentleman named me."
e." The proud mother said: "WO That is why Molotov insists on re-
Gneiss, who fainted on hearing that do so think our Mimsie ought to do he was in Worthing, a dark student her best for the world." Hinanka had parations from current
wizo
muttered unintelligibly-a Bum swore softly in Stameau. The now, and fights our and the U.S.
Pro- Siamese I understand; und a foolish fessor Gneiss sulked. thesis that Germany shall
young person who kept on nothing in reparations until she is
saying 201 paying for herself and has repaid that she must say she did so think Cowherd's grandmother what we have put
cd how Ulity, could have mistaken taking out,
Indicts dwar! Russians were while the it was all wonderful. When I
It is easy to feel irritated by Worthing for the moon, Strabismus
September October November that Migs
hnd and trickiness. sold
Slopcorner Autransience
191
19 meddled with the delicate space- And
that fully I appreciate fuard been looking forward, and her waist Soviet Government will exploitation
compass, and put it out of order." Strabismus on his failure
deck.
The
police officer standing
over her was a girl.
defence But the lawyer for the was a man. And so was the public prosecutor-a Gogol character with 212 L-shoped nose and richly epauletted uniform.
The case was just the kind I had
The little waitress was left on the eve of her wedding without the room in the centre to which she had
she had given her
and which
was her old home, her father's room.
Tatiana was to have been married on December 31. On December 30, at 11 in the evening, she said good night to her bus driver and went to the room in the centre. There, she says, she spent the entire night quietly reading,
"At six in the morning," says the intellectual in her depusition--she
cone to hear-one of those Cases which light up the troubles of the everyday Moscow man and woman, and through them the troubles and problems of the Soviet Government, As the girl sat there, her head bow is still in hospital-"I suddenly woke ed and sobbing, I could see in my mind Mir Molotov fighting in the conference room with words and
will to secure for Russia the maxi- mum of Immediate reparations from Germany, and for the most Russian Interpretation of German assets in Austria,
Both were needed if more and Muscovites were not more young to find themselves in the dock from the same causes as this girl here.
up feeling rather stuffy. I found I had been gagged with a napkin. I tried to cry out. Something heavy crashed on my head and I lost con- sciousness."
Tatiana Kapitan hit ker on hend with a hammer.
Labour Camp
the
THE prosecutor, his voice vibrant with emollon, demanded the full Tatiana Kapitan, the girl In the penalty of the law against this dock, was accused of attempted. worthless, loose-living, good-for- murder, Motiva? To secure for nothing" who had tried to take the herself and her fiance a
in life of "the finest type of valuable which to establish their home and Soviet intellectual." start a family.
room
Counsel for the defence spoke very quietly. "In our law," he sald re- primandingly, "all citizens are equal. Before the law a waitress is just as valuable as an Intellectual."
Not at all unusual In Moscow, where the average living space works out at less than five square yards per person. Where, during the last week, I have heard of no fewer than six cases of couples who He agreed Tatiana had committed had obtained a divorce being com- a crime and must be punished. But pelled to continue to live together he suggested she should not be sent because they could not find new to prison but to a labour camp. homes.
Then Tatiana herself spoke..
NANCY Interesting Reading Matter
HERE COMES OL' HE LOOKS ANNOYED. TONIGHT--- PICKLE-PUSS
LET'S TREAT HIM. NICE
AND CHEER
HIM UP
Sovict
of
the
reparations the assignation
and German assets in order to establish its political domination of Germany and Austria.
But it is as well to remember one of the factors behind it; the thou- and thousands of
daily sands tragedies of want like this
I witnessed al No. 27, which Chechov-street.
oac
Rupert & the New Pal 37
Rupert and Bill run off hopefully and climb the gate. In the second Gold beyond it, they look around. but once again they are dis appointed. Seeing Peie, the firm boy, resting against a tree-stump, they decide to ask him, and they tell him why old Willum has sent them there. Pete gives a broad grin and points across the field. "There's only one buttercup here," he chuckles. See that old cow over there? That's Willum's own cow and her name's Buttercup " And he laughs again mischievously.
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