anaheim-bulletin 1953-09-29

Anaheim Man Returned From Moscow Surprised by Beria Escape Tale (By FRAN STERLING) "Members of the American Diplomatic Corps in Russia were as baffled by the news of Beria's reported escape as the reading public in this country was," said Eric Baxter, communications supervisor in the Foreign Service of the State Department, who was transferred from his Moscow post just before Beria reportedly escaped. This young government career man, 30, will leave Anaheim the first week in October for his new assignment in Singapore, after visiting several days with his mother, Mrs. Alma Baxter, 218 West Broadway. Members in the communication department of the State Foreign Service are automatically transferred every two years. He was born in Anaheim and was graduated from Anaheim High School. He has been in the Foreign Service five years, having previously served in Frankfurt, Germany. Prior to this he served six years in the navy. Among the most interesting of his experiences in Russia was his attendance at Stalin's funeral services, catching a glimpse of the deceased in his flower canopyed casket. "Soldiers lining the House of Columns whisked us through at such a pace that many of our group failed to see him," related Baxter. "The profusion of flowers—over the coffin, and banking one entire wall, the arc lights and photographers flashes created great confusion." The public line and the line for special persons, in which Baxter marched through the hall was separated by a line of police. A full symphony orchestra played a Chopin funeral dirge. The public line was 10 miles long and four columns wide. A maid from the house where Baxter lived stood in line 18 hours and came to work the next day without sleep. Baxter and his companions had only a half-hour wait. Little Chance Seen The communications man noticed little change in Moscow caused amount to 50 cents in our money, the ratio 4-1. While the average shirt would be 70 rubles ($17) the proletariat attends ballet as we do the movies. Ballet Tops "Any of us from the State Department who had no interest in ballet or opera thoroughly developed it," said Baxter. "The best ballet in the world is at Moscow. Beside three top quality ballet theaters, the city has numerous smaller ballet houses. You can pay from 16-20 rubles for the best seats, but people attend the cheaper houses for the equivilant of $1.25. With few exceptions nobody wears other than street clothes at either. "We fellows seldom wore ties on social occasions," said Baxter, "to help fit in with the Land of the Common People' spirit." Everybody frequents the opera also. "However it falls short of their ballets," according to Baxter. "For some reasons their voices are not too good." Moscow has one 3-D moving picture house and enjoys its own popular music. The rhythm is remindful of our music in the Jazz Age of the twenties, though the lyrics have a folk quality. The Russians do play and record music composed from other parts of Europe, Baxter said. Russians Curious "The Russian people are very curious about the Americans," said Baxter. "Often they sit at the same tables with us in cafes. They ask questions, but they never believe the answers we give them." He BACK FROM RUSSIA—State department communications Eric Baxter visits mother heim before leaving in C for new post at Singapore. mile ride that took him in Moscow Sea. He has many interesting places taken in Russia, the most recent shots taken from the third windows of his offices in the Italian Embassy, when it was the Moscow River adjacent Kremlin. In June the Russian emment had the Embassy for 1½ miles distant. Before that ter and his cohorts would on the roof of the old en building shooting pictures Kremlin activities on May their October Revolution D time the Russians climbed rooftops and took pictures of the ericans taking pictures. Baxter said, to his know he never was followed, a number of others in the munications department They had to be very careful what they said or did arrows cooks, servants and other employees where they live stated they had to assume attitude every one was a spy The young communication Little Chance Seen The communications man noticed little change in Moscow caused by Stalin's death, Business went on almost normally. The most polignant exception was the tearful faces of a few elderly women he saw as they read the news of Stalin's death on the bulletins tacked up throughout the city. The average Russian doesn't receive any kind of newspaper, Baxter pointed out. When he was present at the Coronation Day celebration in the British Embassy he was able to see Gromyko and Molotov. The first he found "handsome" and with quite a personality. "Molotov was very grey and square." Baxter expressed his surprise in finding that whereas most items are more costly than here, what we consider luxuries are cheaper over there. For instance 78 RPM records (play ten minutes) are manufactured and sold by the Russians for two rubles, which would Moscow has one 2D moving picture house and enjoys its own popular music. The rhythm is reminiscent of our music in the Jazz Age of the twenties, though the lyrics have a folk quality. The Russians do play and record music composed from other parts of Europe, Baxter said. Russians Curious "The Russian people are very curious about the Americans," said Baxter. "Often they sit at the same tables with us in cafes. They ask questions, but they never believe the answers we give them." He said all white diplomats there are first taken to be either Germans or Latvians by the public. The Foreign Service employees are allowed to take Russian language lessons at government expense, but Baxter and some others picked up enough to make their way without doing so. When he arrived in Moscow he went into service in the office of Ambassador Alan G. Kirk, whose wife authored the series of "Letters from Moscow" published by magazine here. Kirk was replaced in Moscow by Ambassador George Kennon, and the last period of Baxter's service there was under the supervision of Ambassador Chip Bohlen. The foreign diplomats were allowed to travel any place throughout Moscow, and there were a few areas outside where they could travel. He especially enjoyed a 150 which do YOU prefer? 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West ordered Reddick to sell to Rhumland and pay out liens and claims against the craft. It went into receivership in Reddick's hands when Walter Leon Pepperman, 78, one-time secretary to Presidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, sued his nephew, Avery C. Moore, for an accounting. Pepperman, now in a Santa Ana rest home, contended that Moore had withdrawn some of his accounts and used the money for personal affairs, including purchase of the South Wind. Moore admitted withdrawals from Pepperman's bank accounts but contended that he used the funds for Pepperman's care and to satisfy "gifts" made to him by his elderly uncle. Quast said that business creased so rapidly during months his firm has been present location he found cessary to seek larger quarts entirely with new chandise." Quast said that business creased so rapidly during months his firm has been present location he found cessary to seek larger quarts entirely with new chandise." The NAIL BIN by Paul Where did they ever get the expression, "June Bride"? Judging from the announcements in the paper every week June probably isn't even one of the top three months for weddings. But no matter what month the wedding is in it's still enough to set an entire household into a tallspin from which it may not emerge months. Everyone has their favorite part of a wedding and I guess I do too. But it isn't the ceremony... it's the table of wedding gifts you see at the reception. A smart economist could probably use the array of gifts to determine the economic frame of mind of the nation. Ever notice how there are a lot of duplicates on certain gifts? Years ago it was vases. The average bride started off with enough vases to open up a flower shop. At least there were enough so that she was well supplied with wedding presents for other brides for at least the next three years. Then it was chafing dishes. 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It would take a family of octopuses who took baths every hour on the hour to ever use the towels the average bride gets. How to avoid all this? Easy! Remember that after the wedding the bride settles down to just the same kind of life you are living. Take your bathroom scales, for instance. Were they a wedding gift or did you have to buy them later? See what we mean? Now, we have a wonderful selection of scales, kitchen knives, toasters, pyrex dishes, cooking utensils and other things that the bride really needs. In other words, do your wedding gift shopping where the practical gifts are. NADORFF HARDWARE, 249 EAST CENTER, in Anaheim. (Adv.) Tuesday, September 30, 1958 ANAHEIM (Cal.) BULLETIN Bob Quast Plans to Move Store Because business has expanded rapidly during the past six months, Bob Quast Appliances, 306 Los Angeles St., is moving to new and larger quarters soon. 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