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FAMILY REUNION IN CALIFORNIA ON THEIR ARRIVAL in Los Angeles, film star Betty Hutton and her husband, Ted Briskin, are met by their children, Lindsay, 3, and Candy, 2. Betty and her mate had been estranged, but have reconciled and say I tbey now expect to make a "go" of their marriage. (International) KERMIT WALTERS RETURNS FROM 20 MONTHS DUTY IN RED RUSSIA I (Editor's note: Major Kermit Walters is a soil of Mr. and Mrg. W. G. Walters, who resided in Wilkes before going to Pennsylvania.) Oxford, Pa. — Restricted as to ■what he could tell of his 20 months' experience as Acting Air Attache in the American Embassy in Moscow, Russia, Major Kermit Walters, his wife Doris and his young daughter Victoria, reached the home Of his parents, the E. G. Walters, near Hickory Hill, late on Monday night. Major Walters went from Moscow to Helsinki, Finland. He arrived in New York City on Saturday and had secured two days stop-over in Manhattan and at his home before reporting to Washington for further orders. The volume of information which the returnee held concerning the puzzle that is Russia had to be held there until permission could be received from his superiors as to what he could and could not say. He did outline the approximate duties which were his in Russia. He was first a member of the Ambassador's staff, under former General Walter Beedle Staith and then the present representative Laurence Kirk. His second functjion was intended to be that of liasion between Soviet and American Air Forces although the function was not greatly used. Thirdly, he reprsented the United States as a private citizen. Although the area in Russia in which Kermit could travel was limited, he did visit Leningrad, Odessa, Stlaingrad, „ Novofssiisk, Onsk and Opha among other cities. In addition to these travels by land, the Major was permitted to keep his flying time up to requirements by air trips every three or four months on which he traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East. The minimum flying time required is the same as it is for airmen in the United States, 4 hours a month or 100 hours a year. . The American colony in Russia included emisaries of the service arms, embassy personnel, fur and tobacco buyers and newspapermen and numbered about 120 persons. Their entertainment was limited, this included badminton, tennis, volley ball, the threatre and Russian motion pictures. Hermit did not find the winters as bad as most Americans believed. He -was surprised to find them comparatively mild. The exception was a period of cold in 1948 when the temperature fell to 22 and 23 degrees below tero. It is a dry cold but would become bitter when the wind blew. The Attache had to learn some of the Russian language before he left the United States but makes no claim to a fluent knowledge of the difficult tongue. Vickie, the Walters' little gjrl, on the other hand, speaks Russian almost as her first tongue which fact Is probably attributed to the fact that Russian nationals werjs emploved as domestics and the family maid and Governess was a Russian sppakin<» woman. The currency was not hard to understand, comprising only two forms, the kopaks, which were of such a small denomination that they did not matter greatly, and the ruple, which was roughly equivalent to five cents in exchange. 1 This made for inflation. At one place the Major paid $64 for a meal of moderate proportions which he estimated would have cost $6 in America. g In a strange country, the embassy colony formed a life of its c wn and friendships were made with other non-Russian nationals, all of whom also had embassies in Moscow. This experience concern- , ed itself with personalities, among j whom of course was General John | Wilson O'Daniel, Oxford's most renowned son, who is the American Military Attache in the Russian Capital. Walters and O'Daniel became close friends and Oxford was often mentioned in their discussion. Generalissimo Joseph Stalin waB ever present. Kermit saw the Russian leader on several occasions from a distance. Present plans are for the returned Major to go to Washington for assignment. He hopes to be able to fill a long-standing speaking engagement before the Oxford Rotary Club when It la made more clear what he can say in pnblic. The average amount of citnui IV AUiL ll. ir* vino nvuiv. u not pleased, your 40c back from any druggist. T-4-L is specially made for High Concentration. Undiluted alcohol base gives great Penetrating power. Kills Imbedded germs on contact. 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