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Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
Son Born TO
B. w. RockweIIs

Dennis Michael Rockwell is the
name chosen by Staff-Sergeant and
Mrs. B. w. Rockwell for their son
born Tuesday morning in the El
Centre hospital. He weighed six
and one-half pounds.
Mrs. Rockwell is the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. r. P. Ostrander and
is making her home with her par
ents while Sgt. Rockwell serves over
seas with the army. At present he
is on Saipan.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
OF PERSONAL
INTEREST

Lieutenant Othniel Horne is home
on furlo4gh visiting his mother,
Mrs. o. G.. Horne. He expects to be
here about two weeks, after which
he will return to his station at the
Fairmont Army Air Field at Cen
eva, Nebraska, where he is an in
spectcr of B-29s. He recently re-
turned from Porto Rico.
Mrs. H. Ashley Simms and her
young son Robert Ashley are spend
Ing an extended visit with Mr. and
Mrs. Minor o. Simms. The visitor
has been making her home in Los
Angeles while Sgt. Sinms is over
seas. He is with an army radio sta
ton on Saipan.
Mrs. Richard Mcconnell is visit
ing her daughter and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Moore, from her
home in Denver. Mrs Moore's sis
ter, Mrs. jim Atkinson, has been
q guest at their home, but left Sun
day for San diego to join Mr.. At
kinson.
Adding to the Easter spirit at the
marine oase hospital, the trio Of the
Methodist church, including Wilma
jerks, Carol Martin and Phyllis
Smith, gave an informal concert
there Sunday afternoon. The visit
was arranged by Mrs. r. H. HadduX,
chairman of the camp and hospital
committee of the Red Cross.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03
CIVIL WAR VETERAN 1O2
DIES IN HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD, April 3. (UPj-
DR.. John w. Dill. 102-year old Civ
il War veteran, died Monday after
a short illness.
DR.. Dill, born Jan. 25, 1843, in
Sangamon County, ILL.,, was private
in the 4Oth Iowa Volunteers, Co. L.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03

Centoria, Neb., had a newspaper
three years, although the town never
existed. The paper was published
to promote the idea of moving
the American capital to the old
Fort Kearney site, calling it Cen
toria."
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03

The most expensive book that the
University of Chicago Press has
printed is Ancient Egyptian Paint
ings.' 1t sells for SITS.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-03

Historically, overseas convoy duty
is one of the Coast Guards first
wartime functions.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-09-01
They Lit the Fuse at Rjukan

wegian-speaking men in British
uniforms" been identified, and
their account of the prize sabotage
act of the war is no less thrilling
than the prelude. They turned out
to be nine men in all, who, togeth-
er with their leader, a tall, dark
Norwegian lad from the western
provinces, preferred to remain
anonymous.
After thorough instructions in
England" he related, I'VE climbed
aboard a plane for Norway. Ac-
cording to plan we were to be
dropped at a prearranged spot
where some of the Home Forces
boys would be on hand to receive
us. In the meantime We found it
impossible to contact them and
were slipped out some distance off
our course, a good so miles from
Rjukan, in fact. We had no SOON
err hit the ground than We found
ourselves lost in a binding snow
storm which forced us to keep un-
der cover for well over week.
AS soon as it was over We moved
on, and after a days march we
contacted the boys from the Home
Forces. All of us then set a course
for Rjukan.
Silent Sabotage
I'VE had been studying a floor
plan of the plant for weeks. and
the plan of action was already
drawn up in every detail. Even
though none of US had ever been
IN the area about the plant, let
alone within the plant itself, we
knew more about that section than
we did about the insides of our
own homes. That gives you some
idea of the thorough instruction
we'd been given.
This was to be a quiet opera
tion-what we call silent sabo-
tage.' BY that, l mean there was
to be no clubbing down guards
before we set our charges; we
were to avoid them if humanity
possible. The big difficulty was
that we We're to be completely out
of the territory before The alarm
was spread. This wasn't going to
be easy. We decided to move in
on the plant from the side where
we'd be least expected.
I'VE crossed Rjukan valley and
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-09-01
Norway's Labor
Forces Unite

For the first time since 1917 all
labor groups in Norway are now
united in single party. The Nor
wegian Labor Party, Norways
largest, and the Norwegian Com
munist Party announced their po-
litical and organizational union on
July "a. The final amalgamation
of the two parties stems back to
the days when Labor and Com
munist Party leaders met, as fell
low prisoners, in Nazi Concentra-
ton camps and agreed on a post
war union of the two parties. Ne
gotiations, which were initiated by
the Norwegian Trade Union Con-
gress on June s have now been
concluded in full agreement. De-
spite various differences between
factions within both groups, the
determination of the negotiators
won through to an agreement
which is hailed as a milestone in
Norway's labor history. Respon-
sible for this amalgamation are
konrad Nordahl, Labor congress
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-09-01
Doctor
Of Astoria Dies

DR.. Toivo Johannes Forsstrom,
who came to Astoria 40 years ago
from. Finland and became one of
the Northwest's best known ply
sicians, died at his home August
18th.
DR.. Forsstrom was born in Fin
land July 80, 1867, and came here
in June, 1906, from Bjorneborg,
Finland, where he had been city
health officer for several years.
He was a member of the Clatsop
County Medical society, the Ore
gon State Medical association, and
the American College of Surgeons.
He was educated in the public
schools of Finland, the University
of Helsingfors and did postgradu-
ate study in the medical schools
in Berlin and Vienna. He was a
member of the Masonic lodge. He
had been in i'll health for some
time and retired from active prac-
tice last May.
Surviving are his wife, Nelma
Northe Forsstrom, whom he mar
ried here in 1888; a step-daughter.
Mrs. Robert Friedrich; step-son,
Melvin Northe, and grandson.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-09-01
PAGE TWELVE

Details of the sabotage action
which Nazi General Won Falken-
horst once described as the most
skillful ever executed in all of
Europe, have now been revealed.
In February of 1913 a vital portion
of the heavy water" apparatus
at the vast Rjukan electrolytic
works was completely destroyed.
The report given at that time
described the saboteurs as three
Norwegian-speaking men in Britt
ish uniforms, and continued to
state that the damage was not
extensive except at the spot where
the attempt was made, and there
the devastation was complete
Not until some weeks had passed
did laymen realize the true signif-
icance of this particular act of
"pinpoint sabotage" The Ger
mans, thinking that the saboteurs
were still in the vicinity, sent
three trainloads of troops to comb
the Hardanger Vidda, high pla-
teau in south central Norway.
This miniature army was led by
no less parsonage than Joseph
Terboven. German Reichskommis-
sar for Norway. The whole area
was isolated, a partial curfew was
established at Rjukan, and over
90 of the plants employees were
arrested. It was immediately ap-
parent that heavy water" hith-
erto something of a chemical Gu
riosity, was of vital Importance to
the German war effort. Even to-
day the military Importance of
this product is shrouded in secrecy
Norwegians Trained in Britain
Only now have the three Nor
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-09-01
Wartime Cop In Poetic
Transport Filled BY
Swedish Vessels

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 80 (By air.
maiD For more than year aft
er Pearl Harbor, practically the
only ships running between the
United States and Australia were
five vessels of the Swedish Trans
atlantic Line, the Goonawarra,
Kanangora, Kooka burra, Mira
booka, and Parakoola. Apprecia-
ton of the services rendered Aus
tralia by the five big Swedes"
has been oppressed by Herbert
Evatt. Australian Foreign Minis
ter, according to a report appear
ing in Swedish shipping jour-
nal.
The first freighter to reach Aus
tralia after Pearl Harbor was the
Goonawarra, and large crowds
turned out to greet her when she
arrived at Sidney with vital cargo
-airplanes on deck. and trucks,
machine tools, wood pulp, sheet
metal, and agricultural machinery,
etc. in her holds. Thirty planes
were carried from San Francisco
on one occasion by a Swedish
ship, the bridge of which had to
be raised considerably in order to
allow free view over the crowded
deck. After the vessel had ar
rived safely at her Australian des-
tination, experts Immediately went
on board to study the Swedes'
loading technique.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-09-01

chairman and Gunnar Braathen,
secretary of the same group; Nor
wegian Labor Party representa-
tives Prime Minister Einar Ger
hardsen, Trygve Bratteli and Mar
tin Tranmael and Communist
Party representatives Minister
Strand Johansen, Samuel Title
stad, and Roald Halvorsen.
Full Trade Union Support
The new organization, known as
1.-THE Norwegian Labor Party"
will be led by common council
pending the first meeting of the
unified labor groups scheduled for
September 2. Both the old Labor
Party and the Norwegian Com
munist Party have ceased to exist
as separate entities. The new
amalgamation will present a COM
mon list of parliamentary candi-
dates for the October 9Th election
with the full support of the whole
trade union organization.
The labor program, to which
both parties subscribed on June
u, is h e d e d by the following
statement: 1.-THE Norwegian Labor
Party springs from the soil of
democracy. The management of
the nations affairs will be founded
on popular sovereignty as it was
established in the constitution and
as it has developed through pop
ular government. The Party's i'm
mediate goal is to protect our
democracy and to develop it into
a true popular government"
The leftist press in Oslo was
unanimous in expressing it's pleas
ure over the merger. "Arbeider-
bladet,' the Labor Party organ,
devoted a lead to a review of the
negotiations preceding the union
and an evaluation of the difficult
ties overcome THE announce
ment of the two party union"
stated "Arbeiderbladet," was a
source of pleasure and satisfaction
to the whole working class. Unit
ed, we can now meet both as fell
low laborers and as members of
the same political party. The COM
ing election" predicts "Arbeider-
bladet,' will represent a victory
for the whole of Norwegian labor.
Though many unsolved problems
and great difficulties may lie
ahead, goodwill will guarantee the
removal of all friction"
Of the conservative press, only.
"Aftenposten" commented on the
merger. 1t ventured question as
to the peoples willingness to &C
cept the stronger S tat e which
could we'll emerge following the
autumn elections.
OF the American press represen-
tatives in Oslo, NJ. Lorimer Moe.
of the Christian Science Mont
tor" has this to say of the mer-
ger: {. This does not mean that
Labor has made great concessions
to the COMMUNISTS in the recent
deal. The fact is that the Norwe-
gian Communist Party gained
great sympathy among all groups
of the people during the war be-
cause of its staunch activist stand
IL is also true now, as in the pre-
war days, that the Norwegians
have no fear of Communism in
itself. AS long as the party thinks
Norwegian first and last and is
primarily concerned with the vel
fare of the Norwegian people. the
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-09-01

An invitation to 1000 Allied
soldiers now stationed in Norway
and Denmark to visit Sweden has
been extended by the General
Staff, the Trade Union Federation.
and RESO, travel organization of
the Swedish peoples movements.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-09-01

came down on the plant along a
ridge which was thought to be in
accessible. You know how the
plant lies-on the floor of a deep
valley with walls as steep as
church steeples. Well, We moved
in and then split up into two
groups. The cover party made
up of four men, surrounded the
German guard station while the
action party, which included five
men, continued to the plant and
went to work.
"All the doors were locked, but
we got into the pant through a
tunnel which we knew of. We
strung our wires quietly and
placed our charge where it would
do the most damage. The charge
itself wasn't large, but it was
heavy enough to wreck the vital
fixture. The fuse, too, was short
so short, in fact, that we had to
move fast once it was lit. The
reason we used such a snort fuse
was to make sure an action as
important as this one would be
successful, even though the dan
ger to us would be greater.
Though we knew that we'd be in
the vicinity when the charge ex-
ploded, We were hardly out of the
plant before we heard it go off.
Luck was on our side. 1t seems
that during the winter some of
the land mines planted along the
pipe lines near the main buildings
had been in the habit of exploding
Unexpectedly. When the Germans
heard, the report they weren't i'm
mediately certain just what had
happened. The cover party saw
one of the Germans come out of
the guard station door. after the
explosion. All of the boys lay
there with their fingers on the
trigger. Fortunately for US, he
turned around and walked back
in again-evidently thinking it
was just another land mine. Our
whole party slipped away with no
further complications.
Reached Sweden in Underwear
I'VE followed the mountains
and travelled by day, knowing that
if We didn't get our rest each
night, we'd never make it. But
there were some valleys which we
had to cross by night for safety's
sake: Dalforene, Hallingdal, VAL
dres, Gudbrandsdalen and Oster-
dalen were passed without any in
cidents.'
Knowing that the ice on Lake
Mjosa had already thawed. the
party made a long detour to the
north, and at the same time avoid
ed large concentrations of Ger
mans in this area. The river
Glomma was crossed in a Dor
rowed" boat and. aside from two
Norwegians which the party met
on a forest trail, not a single per-
son was encountered.
AT the Swedish border con-
cluded the leader, I'VE slipped off
our uniforms and skiied into Swe-
den in our underwear, wind pants
and jackets: for all intents and
purposes, a party of regular Nor
wegian refugees A few days rest
after the 500-mile ski tour, and
we were ready to board a plane
for England, mission completed"
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1945-09-01

NorWegians are not particular
about what title the party bears"
Evening star., 1945-10-28
The Travellers Notebook
In Which Guest Writes on Bermudo's postwor,
Luxurious Airborne Bid to Vocotionists
To Be Happy While Spending Money

more than four years they filled this
role. The Bristol, which we boarded
OF Baltimore for the inaugural
flight October 18, was used twice
by Winston Churchill for trans
Atlantic hops while he was Prime
Minister.
Now, however, the flying boats are
ready for some cash customers, and
the British, naturally, are quite
willing to have 1t known that each
of them can take SO vacation
starved Americans from Baltimore
to Bermuda in five hours. Each ship
carries crew of II, including sew
eral stewards who provide the kind
of service Americans haven't known
since before Pearl Harbor.
\ X X r
We left Baltimore at II am. and
came down in Bermuda,s Great
Sound just five hours later, although
it then was 6 pm. in the islands.
(Normally Bermuda is only an hour
ahead of Washington, but it won't
go off daylight time until next
month"; None Of our press group
had been in Bermuda before, and to
say that we were impressed with its
beauty and charm would be putting
it mildly. But we were even more
impressed with the Bermuda Trade
Development Board. There Is an
organization.
In Bermuda, everybody and his
brother is walking delegate for the
Trade Development Board, since the
livelihood of nearly every islander
depends on early resumption of tour
ist trade.
The publicity activities of the
boards news bureau were being
stepped up rapidly while we were
there. Life Magazine had sent a
writer, three models and a pho
tographer, which led the board to
expect full-page color spread with
in month or so. Larry Nixon, we'll
known travel writer, was on hand
preparing a piece for Liberty Maya
zine and several other magazine
writer's were expected soon.
In fact, some cautious souls among
the Bermudians were, perhaps, a
little fearful of "overselling." They
are afraid there may be too great a
rush to the islands before suitable
accommodations are ready.
The chief problem results from the
fact that so many of the principal
hotels were taken over by the mil
ltary-either the British or the
Misunderstanding the. war. A
notable exception was the Belmont
Manor, where we stayed.
X X \
During our visit. both of Bermudas S
daily newspapers used as their lead
story hotel announcement by the
Furness, Witty Co., which used to
operate several of the leading hotels,
as well as the New York
Evening star., 1945-10-28
By CHARLES hi. EGAN.

Reconversion may or may not be
just an after dinner topic in Wash
ington these days, but it's certainly
something else in Bermuda. Those
beautiful little islands, just 60C
miles out in the Atlantic from Cape
Hatteras, have their postwar plans
all made. And high on the list OF
projects is well-conceived cam
paign to make the United States
Bermuda conscious when there is
vacation money to be spent.
Five newspaper folk from Wash
ington learned quite a bit about il
a week or so ago when we were the
guests of the British Overseas Air
ways Corp. on its first commercial
flight since the war. It inaugurated
tWice-weekly shuttle service be-
tween Baltimore and Bermuda In
which the BOAC issusing three four
engined flying boats built in this
country by the Boeing Co. and pur-
chased by the British early in 194l
for 81 1,037 900 each.
The three big ships-the Bristol
Bangor and Berwick-had been de-
signed for use in maintaining trans
Atlantic communications, and for
Evening star., 1945-10-28

luxury liners, Monarch and Queen
of Bermuda. The announcement
was that the Bermudiana Hotel
would be reopened early in 1946, and
that the Castle Harbor Hotel might
be ready sooner than had been
anticipated.
Furness officials indicated there
was little prospect that the st.
George Hotel would be available for
tourist use soon, since the premises
still are being used by the USO.
Any one familiar with the ways of
GIs the world over can appreciate
the magnitude of the task of recon-
ditioning the hotels. Then, too,
many of the skilled workers needed
to do the job will have to be brought
from the United States. But the
way that Trade Development Board
functions is so impressive that this
shouldn't be too much of an obstacle.
1t might be a good thing for Ber-
muda's future that the two big Fur
ness liners still are engaged in haul
ing troops and won't be available to
the tourist trade for some time.
That should give the go-getting Ber-
mudians ample time to get the
hotels in order.
At present the round-trip fare from
Baltimore on the British flying
boats is $144. Until last week the
round-trip rate from New York via
the Pan American Clippers was the
same. Then Pan American, which
simultaneously increased its number
of weekly flights to four, reduced its
fare to $126. Bermudians seem to
think the British will provide luxury
service for the carriage trade, while
Pan American will do things on a
mass production basis.
incidentally, it probably will
surprise most folks to learn that
New York is more than 20 miles
closer than Baltimore to Bermuda.
The distances quoted on the sign
posts at the Bermuda Airport are:
To New York, 685 miles; to Balti-
more, TOT miles.
1AoACC 1AOtil llOlC1 oAbuotlOAi3
Bermuda seemed to be ready for
anything the season may bring in
the way of tourists. The New York
dock strike had the islanders pretty
worried about supplies, but there
always was plenty of food and
drink. The shops in Hamilton also
appeared to be pretty well stocked.
Chinaware, perfume, cedar products
and camel's hair coats were out
standing among the items appealing
to Americans.
One member of our party didn't
realize how well satisfied ne was
with his shopping tour until we re-
turned to Baltimore. He had bought
camel's hair coat for % pounds
-$88. .88-and declared it for this
amount. Skeptical customs men
called in an appraiser who fixed
Evening star., 1945-10-28

the coats value at $3.50. Fortunately
for the purchaser, a search OF his
bag produced the sales slip and that
ended the discussion.
4 \
Next to the tourist business, the
livest topic of conversation in Ber-
muda is the Motor Car Act, now
before the island Legislature. Until
the war began in 1889, automobiles
were banned from the islands. Now
there are about 1,400, including
many official station wagons and
jeeps. and most Bermudians seem
to think that Is about 1899 too
many. Each apparently would like
one for himself, and ban them for
all others because Of the islands
hilly, narrow, winding roads.
Evening star., 1945-10-28

That the Bermuda newspapers
aren't too worried about inter-
national relations WAS indicated by
the last paragraph of a story radioed
back to Hamilton after an island
correspondent had made the flight
to Baltimore aboard the Bristol.
The paragraph follows:
There can be few sharper con-
trasts on the attractions OF Ber-
muda vacation for travellers from
this American area than Is furnished
by the ride from the Baltimore
Municipal Airport into the murk oi
this city, five hours after leaving
the dazzling waters and pastel
houses of Bermuda
The paragraph is a little involved
but I trust you get the idea.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Navy Tests Plan
Rodiophotos
lat Beochheods
: the Associated Press.


The Navy disclosed yesterday that
experiments are in progress for
radiophoto transmission direct from
shipboard at the scene of an
invasion landing, to expedite the
delivery of news from the Pacific
war.
Facilities already have been pro-
vided for war correspondents to file
copy" or broadcast on Navy yes
sci lying of the beachhead, for
transmission via Guam to San
Francisco. Four communications
ships were provided at the Two
Jima and Okinawa beachheads for
that purpose.
Radiophoto transmission from
Guam to the mainland has long
been in operation. The famous
Two Jima flag raising picture, taken
by Associated Press Photogra pher
Joe Rosenthal, was transmitted in
seven minutes after 1t was flown
from Two to Guam.
The Navy is now using mobile
units on the beachheads ashore to
give press and radio correspondents
direct contact with communications
ships offshore, and the Navy said
1T is believed this service will be
available direct from beaches in
the japanese home islands when
the invasion takes place."
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Blind Man Gives
Alarm as Police
Raid Gaming Spot

Bars do not a prison make nor
dark glasses a blind man, police
concluded ruefully yesterday.
Gambling squad men, under 1t.
Roy E. Blick, sat in a parked car
In the 1400 block of H street NE,
watching a cigar store suspected of
being a gambling place.
A man, wearing thick -lensed dark
glasses, rocked back and forth on a
chair in front of the store window
his hands behind his back.
The police hesitated. Was he a
lookout?
"Aw, he can't see u.s." policeman
said brightly, as he observed the
spectacleS.
The place was raided. Sixteen
men were arrested on disorderly
conduct charges. All but one for
telted IS collateral. Joseph Brocote
AZ, of the 1900 block of Childress
street NE, said by police to be the
proprietor, forfeited $25.
The police said all they could
conflscate was a single numbers
pad. They learned that about 16
other men had fled through back
door, removing alleged gambling
equipment.
The answer dawned slowly, the
police admitted, as they grabbed
the blind man." AS he had rocked
back and forth, hands behind his
back, he kept banging set of KEYS
against the window to give the
alarm.