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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-10-22
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. - The appointment of w. for Willlam) Averell Hartman as ambassador to Russia confirms what has been sus- pected for long time--that the Administration is convinced the language Communist Russia under stands best is that which comes from the mouths of two-fisted Am erican business men and financiers.
 Tall. slightly stopped, handsome, Gary Cooperish Hartman is one Of Russia's favorite American people. He has been since he went there in September, 194l, looked over the defenses against the Nazi hordes then rolling eastward and told Josef Stalin that our flow of tanks, munitions and food under Lend Lease would be limited only by the problems of transport"
 He came back to tell the United States generally and the military and Administration in particular, that the Russians could hold out against the Axis. Military experts were giving the Russians 90 days.
 A rich mans son, whose heritage meant railroads, banking and Wall Street empires, Hartman could have coasted through life. Instead, when he graduated from Yale in 1913, he went to work in the grimy Union Pacific railroad shops in Omaha, Neb.
 Without skipping any lessons, Hartman rose to chairman of the board of Union Pacific, chairman of executive committee of Illinois Central, an official of Brown Bros. Hartman and Co.,, in Wall Street a member of the board of directors of the Guaranty Trust Co.,, New York, and Western Union.
 Hartman didn't confine his in- terests to the counting houses. By 1928, he was one of the nations great polo players, a member of the United States international team. His Genesee Valley farms turned out some of the finest race horses. A bushel basket wouldn't hold all the blue ribbons his Labrador re- trievers won at dog shows He was the man behind Sun Valley, Idaho. Once Madeleine Carroll picked him as one of the worlds ten most handsome men"
 Today, at 52, he doesn't swing a maIlet from a horse as he used to. but he's one of Herbert Bayard Swopes stable of international gcro- quet experts, and while in England played frequently with Mrs. Win ston Churchill, another expert. Ski ing and bowling are his additional forms of recreation.
 Politically Hartman is turn coat. A Republican by heritage, he startled Wall Street and the Union League Club by coming out for Al Smith in 1928 and backed Roose- welt through three terms. He has been one of the Presidents main- stays since N. R. A. days. For more than ten years he has been in one important government job or an- other
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-10-22
NAz|ARMY IN '(RIkEA
 ENTRAppED
Reds EneirtIe Dniepropet- rovsk-Germdn Line
 in Disorder
(By Associated Press)

BULLETIN - LONDON, Oct. g. The Red Army threw test ed veterans of the battle of Stalingrad into the bold drive to isolate some half million Germans in the Crimea and the Dnieper bend.
 A Reuters dispatch placed the Russian vanguard only 18 miles from Krivoi Rog, and the Germans themselves acknOw- ledged in their daily cOmmun- ique that the Soviet attacks are boiling over into additional sec- tors.
 The German report said the Russian assaults are particularly strong north of the Sea of Azov, but they claim that So- viet attempt to land forces on the East Crimea coast yester- day was repelled.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-10-22
4 roericans Make Ten-Alile Aduance in Haly
Eddie Ri(kenbatker
 Visiting AIeutians
 On Tour of All Fronts

the world war fronts as a personal representative of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. He predicted that bombing will cut the heart out of Japan"
 Fifty-five thousand miles were covered by Capt. Rickenbacker in the past three months. Concerning his being lost last year he said, T guess I'm still looking for that is- land"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-10-22
EIGHT LEAVE HERE FOR SITkA, THREE
 GO TO SKAGWAy

Leaving here for Sitka by steamer last night were David Hoffman Harry Hagen, V. w. Jones, Susanne Greitzaroff, Elizabeth Price, c. F. Coulson, Edward Grider. w. N. Craigie, and w. A. Thomas.
 Booked for Skagway were A. l.. Nelson, Margaret Gray, and Ruth Rock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-10-22
ELECTED A. L. COMMANDER

c. Don Miller, wellknown Wran- gell Legionnaire, has been elected Commander of Merlin Elmer Pal mer Post No. 4. American Legion, at Wrangell.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-10-22
HIGHER FOOD PRICES

In spite of the White House, the OPA and all the economic stab- ilizers in Washington, you must soon expect to find the price of strawberry jam increasing sharply. The one-pound jar of strawberry jam from the new pack will cost you five cents more in the grocery store.
 All dried fruits and vegetables also are going up in price at the canner level. This will mean increases at the retail level, except for a few
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Evening star., 1943-05-16
BY James d. Whife,

buggies and shopping pushcarts, and
dozens Of other new uses.
For the military services, the lumber
people have figured out that somewhere
near 1,500 items are made wholly or In
part of wood-from crutches to plywood
fuselages for airplanes.
The demands are tremendous and spe-
cific. Pontoon bridge planks, for in
stance, are 6 inches thick-enough to
support heavy tank. Decking for ships
is required in huge quantities, some of
it in strips 40 feet long, Mine sweepers
require some timbers 108 feet long, and
you don't often see trees big enough to
yield such chunk of wood in one piece
unless you live among the redwoods or
the douglas frs.
The figures show about 900 types Of
structures built OF wood for the Army
and Navy alone.
Estimates for 1943 indicate, however,
that the majority of this work-canton-
ments, barracks, bridges, factories-has
been finished. About 35 per cent of the
lumber supplied in 1943 will go into boxes
and crates in which to ship materials of
war across the oceans.
Much heavy wooden construction has
been possible in this war which was not
dreamed of in the last.
The Navy, for instance, has built
wooden hangers for blimps. These struc-
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The United States is using more wood
in this war than steel.
War Undersecretary Robert w. Patter-
son says the 1942 figures were 100 ,O0O, 900
tons of wood, about 10o,ooo,oo0 tons of
steel.
Wood is a critical material. It's sale
is restricted.
You can build porch or lean-to
garage if the whole job, including all
labor and materials. costs no more than
5000. Farmers and industrial builders
have bigger allotments. Too, you can
buy more if it's for repair job, but you
may have trouble finding It,
Shortages exist where stocks have been
depleted.
American dependence upon wood is
unusual. In no other country, with the
possible exception of Japan. are there
so many wooden houses. The Govern
ment estimates that in peacetime we use
nearly half the lumber, more than half
the paper made of wood, and 40 per cent
whole world.
War is increasing the uses of wood,
and the National Lumber Manufacturers
Association estimates that substitution
Of wood saved five million tons of war
scarce metal last year.
On the civilian side, wood is being used
for pottle caps and bed springs, baby
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Fast, Costly or Slow, Safer War
Choice Which Allies Must Make
Frontal Assault Across Channel With Heavy
Losses, but Quick Victory, or Softer Path Through
Balkans, Requiring Time, Are Alternatives
Bv Constantine ByOun.

the islands of the Mediterranean, have
had their allotment of defenders and
war material on the spot for some time
An Allied attack against them is not
likely to make much difference in the
Russian campaign. A few more air
squadrons or several divisions to replace
losses may be needed, but there is no
room for more men than the Axis now
has in either Sicily, Crete or the Dode-
canese Islands.
So, if large-scale German attack
against the Russians materializes, the
Red Army will have on its hands the
most difficult fight of the war Unless a
substantial number of Nazi divisions can
be compelled to turn from the Eastern
to the Western front the fate of Russia
may hang in balance.
The Russians have been asking for
second front since last year, but the move
was not possible because our forces were
not ready and our production was not
geared to take care of requirements on
all fronts. The British tested the Nazi
defenses at Dieppe and the experience
was far from encouraging. 1t taught the
Allied high command that unless it was
willing to pour into Europe at least 1,000,-
900 men and be prepared to suffer very
heavy casualties, it would be losing time
and lives to attempt token invasions.
This, of course, is we'll known to the
American strategists. But because we
have much larger reservoir OF men and
because the time element is Of even
greater Importance to the United States
than to all our Allies, the consensus is
that as costly as such operations may be
they must be attempted under the risk
of losing the Russian support and later
encountering an almost invincible Japan.
Face Heavy Demands.
If the Germans as suspected, intend
to make their main show in Russia this
summer, we will have at least 4-to-1
air superiority. Also, once the Nazis have
become deeply involved in Russian
campaign-and they know by now that
the Reds are no pushovers-it will be
difficult for them to detach any substan-
tial air force to meet an American-Brit
ish onslaught.
1Hey CAN HCIedSe IuelI ueleHSlVe
forces in Western Europe, thanks to the
excellent system of communications
railways, waterways and highways-in
the event of mass attack against Nor
way, France or the Lowlands. But once
engaged in campaign against the Red
armies, it is hardly conceivable that they
will be able to move more than 80 or 40
divisions from the reserve pool to the
Western front
And should they be compelled to make
Evening star., 1943-05-16

financial deals, including the sale of
some Rubens paintings placed in his
hands for safekeeping by refugee White
Russians. This does not appear in the
dossier, but is recounted by Norwegian
newspaper reporter now in London who
covered Quisling's trial. He barely es-
capped going to jail. Some of the money,
it was brought out, had been used to
finance the Samling.
Began Initiating Hitler.
About this time Quisling began imi-
tating Hitler in everything. He soaked
his naturally unruly hair with hair oil
so that he could comb one lock down
over the forehead in the manner of his
idol. He adopted Hitlers style of ora
tory, but never made anything but
farce OF 1t. His voice is harsh, his speech
hesitating. In spite of the fact that there
were only about 1000 Jews in all Nor
way, nearly all of them in very moderate
circumstances, Quisling tried to make a
violent issue of anti-Semitism. But his
followers continued to drop away. How,
then, was he able to carry out mis- al
legedly important role of turning Nor
way over to the Nazis? The facts are,
say Norwegians here that his contribu-
ton was small indeed. Very few of his
handful of followers were in positions of
any strategic Importance.
Far too much has been said of the
part played by the Quislings in the Nor
wegian campaign" says the dosser.
Nothing is more inaccurate than the
assertion that they played prominent
part. The true reason for Hitler's sue
cess was that in his attack on Norway
he revealed, for the first time, all his
tactics of modern warfare. The sudden
ness and the ingenuity of the attack and
above all the use of air-borne troops to
Evening star., 1943-05-16

capture the principal landing grounds
and military centers cast spell of un-
precedented sensation on this campaign.
There have been from the beginning
a few Norwegian officers in the Nasjonal
Samling because here they saw not only
an opportunity for their profession to
enjoy more public recognition but also
the possibility of a return to militarsm.
This fact may account for suspicion
them
"Rumors have said the Quislings
frustrated the efficient defense of the
country. This is quite untrue. There
is only one definite instance. The Nor
wegian commander at Narvik, Col.
Sundlo, failed to resist the Germans.
He was at once dismissed. Everywhere
else along the vast coast of Norway the
coastal batteries, warships and garrisons
defended themselves to the last man, or
until ammunition was exhausted. Apart
from Quisling himself and mere hand
full of his lieutenants. his small band of
followers kept themselves well out of
tHe way uulA CLe 1eIWaH WeHInaCnt
was firmly established on Norwegian
SOIL"
There is no question, however, but
that Quisling himself was plotting before
the invasion. He spent some time in
Berlin in December, 1889, and appears
to have made favorable impression on
Hitler. He admits his treason and
boasts about it,
OF all the traitors he is by far the
best known.
His name, spelled with small 90" has
become a synonym for treason OF a
peculiar sort. But his status in history
as the type specimen of traitor" as one
would say of biological specimen, is
due solely to a favorable combination of
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this he was assigned In 1922 as one of
the aids of Norway's grand old man, the
Arctic Explorer Fritjof Nansen, in Rus
sian famine relief work. He had charge
of this in the Ukraine Ever since he
has traded much on Nansen's name-a
fact especially resented by Norwegians
here. He has even said that he is carry
ing out the policies bequeathed to him
by Nansen as legacy
The great humanitarian, they say, dis
liked him and had little personal con-
tact with him.
Quisling spent year in Russia. He
hated the Russians, but in this time
managed to acquire two Russian wives
One of his unions was marriage Of
convenience" allowed by the Soviet law
at the time. He is still married to the
second wife and is constantly reiterating
that she is not Russian but pure Nordic.
In Russia he began to get delusions Of
grandeur and to look forward to po-
litical career for which he was extraor-
dinarily inept. He came back to Norway.
From that point on, according to an ex-
tensive dossier on his career just pre-
pared by the Norwegian government he
has betrayed everybody who ever trusted
him or tried to use him as a tool. He
betrayed labor. He betrayed the small
Norwegian Communist party. He be-
trayed the capitalist. He double crossed
the astutest double -crossers.
In 1888 he organized the Nasjonal
Samling, or National Socialist Party, in
imitation of Hitler's Nazis. It never
numbered more than few thousand
members, mostly boys and fanatics. In
1887 it was completely bankrupt and
never obtained small fraction of
enough votes necessary to secure a sim
gle seat in Parliament.
Quisling. was mixed up in some queer
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tures-sometimes 1000 feet long and
nearly 200 feet high-are made possible
by what Is called timber -connector.
This consists of metal ring embedded
In both timbers to be joined together.
Fastened by an ordinary bolt, 1t makes
the joint stronger than would several
such bolts, and utilizes nearly the entire
strength of the wood. which, pound for
pound, Is as strong as steel but always
heretofore lost strength at joints.
This gadget is estimated to save 10000
tons Of steel in one blimp hangar alone
The timber -connector also makes pos
sible bigger and stronger bridges, build
ings, trestles and towers. A wooden
tower used to be considered unsafe above
30 feet. Today it's considered sound at
3O0
The same trick makes possible wooden
storage tanks which will hold up to 5OO,-
900 gallons of water, gasoline or oil.
Lignin Source of Plastic.
But there are many other uses for wood
and its products.
Wood cellulose is source of paper,
glucose. alcohol, rayon, synthetic rubber
and other things Its chemical structure
Is we'll known.
Not So, fully explored is the exact
nature OF lgnin, the resinous binder in
Evening star., 1943-05-16
Russia Urged to Seek New Path
Toward Cooperation With Allies
English Writer Asks Why Communist Elements
Attempt to Capture Workers IN Other
Countries in Lieu of Wiser Policy
By H. G. Wells,
North American Newspaper Alliance.

LONDON.-One Of the last lessons
that strangely misnamed being, homo
sapiens, has to learn Is to respect his
fellow man. For the past II or 13 thou
sand years the martyrdom of man, as
Winwood Reade calls it, the energies of
our species have been spent in getting
the better of one another. Life has been
a struggle for inequality and the sense
Of superiority. SO. when 1 criticize the
proceedings Of that extraordinary ac-
cumulation which is the Communist
party, am not contrasting it with any,
thing wiser or better I am merely show
ing how mans failure to respect his fell
low men, his disposition to lie to them,
humbug and manage" them, breaks out
in a quarter where one might have
expected at least some recognition of our
duty to keep our hands off the freedom
and dignity of others.
Indisputably the Russian revolution
was a mighty step in mans march to-
WARDS an equalitarian federated world
socialism, mightier even than the French
revolution. But, like all its predeces-
sors-for man has been in revolt against
masters" since his martyrdom began
1t suffered from the human limitations
Of those who had to carry it out.
Controversies and rivalries developed
into efforts to capture" the movement
and impose rigid party line" The
dull and the dishonest strove passion
ately against "deviations." All the world
was to bow down to the dogma forever
more. We know a lot of that Com
munist intolerance in Great Britain. The
progressive speaker at Labor and Lib
eral meetings was deafened everywhere
by organized yapping, and the orthodox
publications of the party dealt with
him in pose of omniscient disdain.
Veil Of Misunderstanding.
A militant orthodoxy inadaptable to
the ever r-changing opportunities of this
period Of social dissolution set its face
against any further intellectual CO.
operation between Russia and the West
ern world. In my talks with Lenin and
Stain found how the party had estab-
lished a veil of misunderstanding be-
tween us.
Lenin believed that the troubles in
Ireland were the revolt of an industrial
"proletariat' against "capitalism,' and
showed me the Workers Dreadnought
paper printed for his consumption and
misdirection, as evidence that Ireland
was ripe for the social revolution
Stain has freer mind and repeated
the party gibberish much as a prac-
tical social worker will use religious
phraseology, because he does not want
Evening star., 1943-05-16

LONDON,
The days are long now in Norway.
In mid-May, when the shores of the
fjords are pink with apple blossoms as
orchards on edges of glaciers burst into
bloom, only about three hours of gray
dusk separate sunset and sunrise.
And these are demon-haunted hours
for several men, including one who lives
in lonely grandeur and nightmarish ter
ror in a 46-room mansion on the shore
of Oslo Fjord-the one man to whose
name this war has given certain i'm
mortality.
He knows his name will outlive the
names of the greatest, the best, the
wickedest Of the earth.
His heavy broad -shouldered, six-foot
frame is clad In a dark blue uniform
with the insignia of the sun cross, Viking
version OF the worldwide swastika, in
gold on the left arm. His head is small
in propoftion to his body His pale,
blond hair is thick and unruly. His face
a year ago was boyish despite his Sc
checkered years. He had boyish smile,
but he smiles seldom now. His stare is
fierce but his watery blue eyes seldom
are able to look anybody in the face.
HE is showing marked signs of strain"
says one of the latest refugees to- arrive
in London who saw the demon-haunted
man few days before his escape His
face has grown flabby and is of gray
ish tinge. His lips are tightly pressed
together and his baggy eyes rove un-
steadily"
He has power and wealth beyond his
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CT r cumStanceS at
the time. He was a
traitor of the worst
sor t, say N or
wegians here, but
an inefficient, blum
dering one.
Immediately after
the inva sion he
proclaimed himself
head of the govern
m e Mt, presumably
with Hitler's bless
ing. The occupying
forces soon regret
ted their bargain.
v o n Falkenhorst,
the highly compe-.
t e n t professional
soldier in command,
quickly sized up
Quisling as a blus-
terer and a fool. He
kicked him out. It
was not until 1912
that he was able to
come back, with the
approval OF Hitler
himself who seems
to feel he owes a
debt to him, as a
minister presi-
dent" with a COM
plete National So
cialist cabinet.
That Is the posi-
ton he holds today.
Continued on Page
BIS, Column a.
Evening star., 1943-05-16
QSLNGSEARS MOUNT AS DAY OF FNAL RERBU0N DRAWS NEAR
Court Norway Already Holding To Of Those Accused

by the seashore. They stand guard by
his chamber door all night. Frequently
he orders them changed. He is in con-
slant fear lest one of his own protectors
assassinate him. When he emerges from
his seclusion probably not even Hitler
is more strongly protected.
1t has been a long, crooked road to
this solitary majesty for a poor country
minister's son, road through ever and
ever deeper quagmires of dishonor and
treason. Now his name has been added
as basic, household word to practically
every language on earth, including the
German and the Japanese. None of
them had developed through their long
histories words OF their own expressing
quite the same idea
So now Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Ouis-
ling listens to the roar of the North Sea
tides and his face grows grayer as he
realizes that sooner or later there is only
one end to his strange adventures
death.
HOnored at Military School.
He seems, says Norwegian psychi-
artist here who knows him, to be the
victim OF mental condition not classi-
fed in medical textbooks-a sort OF
schizophrenia which becomes frozen at a
certain stage of its development He was
lonely, sensitive, self-conscious, self
centered schoolboy looked down upon by
his wealthier fellow students. But at the
Royal Norwegian Military Academy,
NorWays West Point, from which he
graduated in 1911, he made record for
brllllance never surpassed before or
since. He is the only pupil ever to gradu-
ate with a Recommendation to the King"
for special consideration.
He had learned to speak nearly per-
feet Russian and had made considerable
progress in Chinese. Largely because of
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1lltLlCl W W u Z , y
dreams. He is the
absolute and lonely
ruler of a little
kingdom of his own.
The eat Villa
Grande on the Pen
insula of Bygdoey,
just outside Oslo,
before the war was
one Of the finest
private homes in
Norway. He h a s
throw out the
owners Of eig h t
other villas in the
neighborhood and
has roped of =
large section Of the
peninsula, includ-
ing q large public
beach, to give him
safe Sc clusi o n.
Whenever he goes
for a walk the area
In which he walks
Is roped of.
A com p a n Y of
especially equipped
storm troopers,
wearing uniforms
similar to his own,
constitute his body
guard. A shift OF
is of them always
Is with him. Their
Golden armbands
flash as they walk
briskly In the sun
Evening star., 1943-05-16
(See BROWN, Page B-4)
Br Thomas x, Henry

fThis is the second in series OF
articles on conditions in the occupied
countries, 1rhere unrest gro1Us as Al
lied successes incredse)
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