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The Nome nugget., 1946-03-13
VETERANS AND HEALTH
(Daily Alaska Empire)

(Daily Alaska Empre)
 With the Seventeenth Alaska Legislature EXtraor dinary Session nearing the end of it's first week. bills have been introduced to take of the two main given for calling the special session.
 Yesterday saw the introduction in the Senate of committee bill which would appropriate $25O,OOO for the fight against tuberculosis We believe the amount requested in view of the great need is modest, and believe it will great deal of good providing the Con- gress the United States apppraes the funds for the Alaska Office of Indian Affairs to carry out its part of the program We quite certain the bill will pass both Houses with little opposition Naturally, there will be feeling the part of some legislators over the fact that the Interior Departments Office of Indian Af fairs has failed miserably in making any strides tow ard assuming it's responsibility for the health and vel fare of the Alaska native in the past ten years This above a is the for the problem today But that office has spoken it's desire to embark upon tensive program in Alaska - if Congress makes the funds avaable-and that is step in the right direc ton.
 Commissioner of Health Dr. C. Earl Albrecht made an excellent presentation of the for the requested funds yesterday and there should be little question of the bills passage.
 Veterans legislation has also been introduced in diff ferent bills in both the Senate and House.
 Rep Stanley McCutcheon has introduced measure appropriatng $3, 900 for setting up a Veterans Fund from which loans would be made to both World War and World War II veterans of Alaska How the money would be raised is not specified, there any provisions for bonuses for those who do not wish loans.
 The Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs has in- troduced a which would provide loans or bonuses of $15 per month for each month of service for World War II veterans of Alaska, only This is the "Walker Bill" which has received much comment since it provides for administration of the fund to be up and by the veterans, themselves the veteran ad minstrators establishing their rate of interest for loans-a feature which Walker said he included to keep the administration completely out of politics. The Gov ernor would appoint the administrators.
 This bill provides that the money for the fund shall be raised by sales tax of one-haf to per cent
 We reliably informed that this is the bill for which most veterans in Alaska have expressed prefer ence.
 We hope that the various veterans organizations will to the front and state their desires to which bill they want. Now is the time to act.
 While there will be some opposition to the Walker Bill because of the sales tax feature it to that the money must come from source and there wouldalways be some sort of objection to any tax.
 AS Governor Ernest Gruenng stated in his message yesterday t would be than unfortunate if dis sension the of raising the necessary to jeopardze the enactment of the desirable legislation for veterans
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street was also referred to the street committee.
 Saying that Rumford Street was in such 8 bad condition that doc- tors were hesitant to answer sick calls there because of the potential damage to an automobile, Attorney Joseph Hackett asked for improve ments for that street.
 we are not asking for highway up there, we merely want a street" said one young man in the delega- tion who appeared with Atty. Hackett. The request was referred to the superintendent of streets. Arthur Chieffo, 38 Oldham Ave- nue, appeared to request street im- provements for Oldham Avenue.
 The request was referred to the superintendent of streets for ap- propriate action.
 Complaints of surface water dam aging their property were presented by John Cohautti, 535 Washington Avenue, Mrs. Helen Feeley, 209 Noble Avenue, Michael Whelan, 53 Chestnut Avenue, and J. O. Man
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Rocket Murine Craft Era Near, Old Salt Predicts

Boston, Oct. 2CUP)-The world will enter an era of rocket marine craft which may revolutionize ship ping within the next 10 years, the nan who built the first electrically welded ship predicted today. Capt. Clifford s Hawkins, a hale 76-year- salt who has worked in boiler rooms as well as on deck, said in an interview that 1t won't be many years before moving parts in engines will be entirely elim- mated.
 Whipping out a pencil and piece of paper, Captain Hawkins quickly sketched boat, a water line and what looked like several curved pipes to illustrate his theory.
 Fuel Oil Remains Base
 This is how it works" he said. Ships will operate only by fuel dl which sends off gas which in urn expands and reacts against the
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water, thereby propelling the vessel like a rocket"
 Captain Hawkins said his theory, which he described as a natural development of marine engineering, works on the same simple principle as the old-fashioned water wheel
 Once perfected, he said, it will act as a great boon to the marine in- dustry because ships will be much cheaper to construct, the saving in fuel will be tremendous, the saving in labor expenses will be con- siderable and there will be virtually no maintenance to worry about.
 The veteran seafarer, whose white hair, blue eyes and pink cheeks combine to make him look almost like movie version of the nautical man. believes the day of the rocket vessel could be even more imminent than it is-except for the conserva- tism of the marine industry.
 Trained Coast Guards
 It was in 1927 that Captain Haw- kins built che first electrically welded ship in Brooklyn, N. Y Be- fore that, he was trained at the New York Nautical Schoolship St. Mary's at Brooklyn in 1886 and served as master of various vessels before he went wrong" and de- scended to the engine room.
 From there it was short step to designing and building all kinds of vessels, from rowboats to a 10000 ton tanker.
 During World War II Hawkins compromised on civilian appoint ment with the Coast Guard after learning he was 20 years over the Navy's age limit. He graduated 5000 machinists mates, water tenders and junior commissioned officers at a school in New York Harbor which was like home to him, he said, since he had been supervising en- gineer of the New York municipal ferry system for Is years.
 After that it was retirement to Avon-by- the Sea, N J., where he said rather fretfully that he spent | his time counting blades of grass until the Gahagan Construction Company rescued him. Right now he's building a barge in the middle of Boston Harbor-the first time, he believes, a ship has ever been built in such an unorthodox loca- ton.
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Youths Case Goes To JuUeni[e Court

Thomas Moody, 16, of 1340 Water town Avenue, who was charged with setting fires at the Y.M.C.A. camp in Watertown, was turned over to the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court, following a hearing in the Watertown Town Court last night.
 Transfer of the case was recom- mended to Judge Guerin Carmody by States Attorney J. Howard Rob- ertS.
 The youth was arrested following mess hall fire, which resulted in SIG, 1000 damage. He was charged with setting fires July 1, IA, 28, and 30.
 Tools from the United States will be used in oil explorations in Chile
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AIIHydronts Inspected ByCity
 Works Boord Meets
 Lew Assessments

The periodic check of the city's 1,581 fire hydrants was undertaken between Aug. 12 and Sept. 30, Street Department Superintendent Herb ert Scott-Smith reported to the Board of Works at the latter s meeting in the City Hall last night
 The hydrants are all inspected periodically to insure their proper function. They are subject to side swiping by trucks and cars with drivers failing to report the occur renee Many times no visible dam- age is done to the exterior but the valves on the inside have been known to snap of as result of the blow. The hydrants are checked as to force of water, threads, etc.
 Henry c. Whitlock assistant city engineer reported to the Board last night that new sanitary sewers have been installed on the following 12 street.:
 Boyden Street, Rumford Street, Corona Drive; Ferndale Avenue, Gertrude Avenue, Glendale Avenue, HerSchel Avenue, Oakdale Avenue, l OeAAFAA EAFCAAOCt ONCl OOL CCl, Iwell Street and Smith Avenue.
 Street improvement requests were presented the Board from the fol- lowing Oakwood Community Club, and the Country Club of Water bury.
 The Board conducted public hearing on the levying of sewer as- SessmentS for Dracut Avenue. Mayor John s. Monagan addressed those present relative to the par ticular street. Each resident will be assessed $2.60 per front foot with an exemption on 75 feet of any prop erty on a corner.
 Eight requests for Improvements were presented at the hearing.
 Requests
 The request of Nicholas Reno. Dracut Avenue, for repairs for his
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OREGON PLANS PINE NURSERY

Bend, Ore. (UP)-A modern, fully equipped seed nursery for ponderosa pine, chief timber product of east ern Oregon, will be in operation next year, according to Charles Rindt, chief of the northwest forest region nursery program.
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herz, l18 Concord Avenue. All the requests were referred to the street
 committee for investigation and re- Il port.
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Qaack, clean, odoEiess heat can be thrown in any direction with the adjustable, 14-in. reflector. Perma- nently attached cord.
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women and children.

women and children.
 He insisted that the gas vans pro- vided Q painless death.
 Ohlendorf said he had nothing to do with picking the execution vic- tinaS. He said that Jews were regis- tered under supervision of a Jewish council of elders whereupon all of them were executed.
 Unit leaders, he said. were in- structed to administer the coup de grace if the victims were not dead after the initial execution volley. Victims were shot standing or kneeling after removing all but their underclothing, he said. Their clothes and possessions were sent to various Reich ministries and well fare organizations. At the request of the Army, he said, all watches of the victims were turned over to 1t.
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Refinement Board Nomes Executives
 Joha m oIheFl
 In Anm.an nn EAnaz..ann
To Serve e ohalEnan

The cltya new Retirement Board met yesterday for the first time. John II. ullbert, tFeasurer os the Chase Brass a copper O., was elected chairman and Nell r. MA- loney, city controller was named sreasurcr. others sworn In were ]. Francis Roland, Crosby high school teacher, Charles E. Ralkers0n, for- mer alderman, and Burton 6. walk CT, GOT, alderman. All were wsorn ia by assistant city clerk John pi. Corpo.
 one Of the first motions of the board was to grant continuance of service until Jan. Sl of Peter J. Lawlor, 70 year old street depart. ment employe who will have com. pleted % years service by that date. Because Q state of war is stsll in effect the board, under the peE1s sion law, may continue Afr. Law lor's service although he is over the retirement age. The ''stats of war" continues until Congress rules oth- erwise.
 Applications for retlremeAt were filed with the board by Miss Nellie Strong. public health nurse for the past 2i years with the city, and by Miss Elizabeth M. Lyman, polcie Inatron for .2o years.
 The board receHed notification from the Fire Department of the automatic retirements of Chief Thomas F. Cayanaugh and Oapts. Joseph Kelley, Phillip Kelley, Charles Booth and It Michael Sul. livan.
 The board decided not to take official action on any retirements until @ uniform procedure Is drawn up. Controller Neil Maloney win set up standards under which the retirement board will verify the length of service of all city em. ployes who are up for retirement.
 At the request of Health Officer Dr. Edward J. Godfrey. James c. Courtney, n, meat inspector at the Municipal Abattoir, was permitted to keep his post for two years un. til he reaches the age of 7S. The retirement age is 70 but. upon re. quest. 1t may be extended to 73 for general employees.
 The new unit receive dnotifica. ton from the Park Department that three veteran employees were retired automatically. They are Thomas Blair, ST., Q city ennploye for 3l years, Edward Fox, who started 25 years ago and Philip McEvoy, veteran of 46 years serv- ice.
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for settlement appeared remote". He declared that the union would not sign an open shop agreement.
 Sturm said that "in the face of the company's adamant position on union security and wages. we can- not have hope of success"
 Monson said the company was equally insistent that 1t would not sign a closed shop agreement, ale though 1t was reported the company might make some concessions at to- days meeting in the way of guar anteed work week of 4S hours with time and one-half after 70 hours.
 OfElce Workers Out
 The company, meanwhile, can- celed its contract with some 600 office workers who are unionized but did not take part in the strike. The company, declared that their refusal to cross picket lines was a contract violation.
 When asked whether attendance by union members ct today's dem- onstration would be a violation of their contracts with their employ CTS, Howard Johnson of the coEn- bined labor group, said that most union contracts contained a clause reserving the right of the employees to attend meetings at any time.
 Baldwin, apparently making no plans for further direct inteEven- ton, was scheduled to go to Boston today for 8 meeting with other New England governors on flood control. He had nothing to say" about the general strike.
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cIo PIonnin Assistunce For Strikers
 Funds, Feed
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Relief for workers who are out on strike was planned by Che State Cro Council ct . session in water bury today, and preliminary steps were taken Co develop . program to insure sufficient necessities for striking employees.
 Harold Senior, state CTo puhllci- ty director, said the relief program will be planned to prevent the sit- uatlon that arose after the last war. He said many workers then were forced to terminate strikes when they were starved out by the management.
 Mir. Senior said funds and food win be obtained through contr1bu- tons of local unions, with the ''haves" aiding the 'have-nots."
 The CIO Council win serve merely as an agency to channel the relief where 1t is needed, and will not serve as Q collection unit, Mir. Sen- for said.
 The program will be planned in anticipation of strikes throughout the state during the year.
 Tn addition to executive board members, those present for todays session included representatives of city councils of the CTO, interna- tional representatives of the union, and members of local 62S of the New Departure Go. in Bristol.
 The likelehood is that Bristol workers will be first to gain from the relief program, it was reported. Waterbury locals, in all probability, will first contribute to funds for workers elsewhere, MT. Senior said.
 The executive board also planned to send Q protest to the Governor on his policy of making state police available ct picket lines.
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border.
 He received his propaganda orders direct from Joseph GoebbelS. HIS broadcastS were strongly anti Se- mitic, and often he referred to- the late President Roosevelt and Win- ston Churchill as being fin the pay of the Jewish capitalist plutocra- cies."
 Lived Luxuri0usly
 Berlin radio records showed that he received 5000 marks Q month &2,O00 by pre-war exchange rates and lived Q luxurious life in Ger many.
 Joyce carried his appeal for fife to the House of Lords, which re- jected 1t on Dec. IS. J. A. Macelab, a friend, said at that time that Joyce was easy in mind and con- science and had no regrets for whaf he had done.
 During his three-day trial in the old Bailey last September, Joyce presented a slight but determined figure. After the judge had pro- nolnced the death sentence, Joyce flung up his right arm in c Fas- cist Salute.
 The defense introduced q birth registration certificate to show that Joyce was born on April 24. leO0, at 1871 Herkimer street. Brooklyn. It also produced document to prove that hIs father Michael had beceEne a nakuTalizea American citizen lll Hudson Collntys Nov Jerseg, izl 1aok.
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was this day executed on William Joyce"
 Three young men stepped behind clump of trees and removed their hats when the g a. m. execution hour passed.
 A small woman standing near them, a shawl protecting her head from the frost, said, good rid dance"
 Executed Under Aged Law
 Joyce was executed under a 6OO- year-old law for adhering to the enemies of King George VI. Born an American, he came under Bri- tish jurisdiction because he held a British passport when the war began. He broadcast from Ger many while still a subject of the British Crown.
 The traitors wife said farewell to him shortly after dawn, then was returned to her own cell at Holloway Prison. She was captured with him at F1enSburg last May g. His brother, Quintin, and c sister also paid him a goodby call. Quintin la ter attended a memorial service for him, 1t was undtrStood.
 The most hated of Britain's trait orS was hanged on the same gal- lows on which John Amery was put to death on Dec. 1o for a similar offense.
 The So-year old, Joyce, was stu defiant when the House of Lords rejected his appeal on Dec. ls. and told a friend that he had no re- grets for his actions.
 Rec0nciled
 The London Daily Mail said today that Joyce had expressed regret for his deeds in a farewell letter writ ten to his father-in-law, H. White of Manchester.
 Pierrepoint. who recently suc- ceeoed his uncle, Thomas Pierre. point, as the offlcial British execu- tioner, also executed Amery. He was assistant to his uncle for many years, and helped in the execution or Josef Kramer, the Beast of Bel- sen," and ten other concentration camp officials.
 The executioneP spent the night in the warden's library after test- ing the scaffoldfng.
 Joyce was executed because 'fhe adhered to the Kings enemies else- where than in the Kings realm, to wit, the Germans realm, contrary to the Treason Act of 1881"
 Sought Escape as American
 The Brooklyn-born propagandist had sought to escape death on grounds that he was an American citizen and not subject to trial in British courts. The Crown proved before his conviction on Sept. l0 that he held a British passport when he went to Germany shortly before the war began.
 Joyces insolent voice, with it's theme of "Jairmany Calling" hurled Nad propaganda at the British from the first month of the war, in 1889, for s i-2 years until British troops captured Radio Hamburg in May, 10z5. Joyce lied from Ham, burg, only to De caught with his wife Ia shOEt tine IateE l1aaE tie UauisM
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Continued from Page D orders for liquidation of all Jews and Soviet political commissars.
 With almost professional jealousy. he admitted that his record of 5000 executions was materially smaller" than the totals reported by the other three groups. He claimed the other groups scores were exc aggerated,
 Defendants Uneasy
 Ohlendorf'S testimony put c heavy flush on the faces of several prisoners. Joachim Won Ribbontrop snarled to his neighborS, and Her man Goering stared disapprovingly as he revealed the cold-blooded or ganization of the mass murders. He admitted that he attended the exe- cutions.
 He said his task force collected Jews in assigned areas on the pre- text that they were to be relocated. They then were taken to the exc cution scene, usually an anti-tank ditch or natural gully.
 Ohlendorf said he treated the vic- tins humanely by concealng their fate from them until the latest pos sible moment.
 Executions, he said, was done ''in . military fashion" He added that the list German Army ordered that they take place at least i26 miles from its headquarters. Kaltenbrunner Suffering Ernst Kaltenbrunner, chief of the Nad Security Police against whom the American prosecutors leveled their attack yesterday, was suffer. ing from another headache in the hospital where he is being treated for his second cranial hemorrhage within Q month.
 Ohlendorf said that 90 far as he knew the standing orders for exc cution of Jews and political com missars in Russia never were with drawn.
 Ohlendorf said his execution group was made up of about 500 Germans and TOO or 800 persons of other nationaiities. The internal in- telligence section of the s. D. which he headed numbered about 5000 officers plus about 1000 informers and part-time employees.
 John Amen, American assistant prosecutor who examined Ohlen- dorf turned him over to Colonel Pocrowsky, assistant Soviet prose. cutor.
 Goes On Own Initiative
 Pocrowsky asked Ohlendorf who ordered him to attend executions and Ohlendorf said he went on his own initiative to see that his orders for exclusion Of spectators and care rying out of the executions in q military manner ito avoid emotion al disturbances" were followed.
 Ohlendorf testified that relatively few victims were killed in gas vans although Heinrich Himmler had specified that women and children were to be SO executed and thus be spared the spiritual disturban- ces of mass execution" Also, he said, the gas van method spared his execution units "who were mostly married" from the task of shooting
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| have no financial or worldwide backing, he said.
 MOtlvated By Fear
 Despite the lack of proof of pc- oroms, Rifkind said. the Jews are motivated in their flight by fear. He said a feeling of intense hos- tility" prevailed among the Polish population.
 ''What the Jews seek Is security 2 he said. NO propaganda organiza- ton could bring out pregnant woFn- en, children, the young and the old such as I have seen."
 Rifkind agreed with Morgan that the problem of the stateiess person is serious and needs immediate at- tention of the Allied Control Coul- cil or the United Nations.
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Roosevelt Surprised
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 Bloch, commandant of the 14th Naval District ct Hawaii in Dee cember, l940, regarding the made. Quacy of air defenses at Pearl Harbor.
 3. Correspondence between former Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, in January, 194l, in which Knox listed surprise air attack as one of Japan's most like ly moves in the event of war with the United States.
 3. A joint coastal frontier de. fense plan drafted by Army and Navy commanders in May, 104l, which included provisions for joint air operations, joint anti-aircraft measures and an aircraft warning.
 Impressed by Agreement
 Stark said he was so impressed by the joint defense agreement that he had 1t copied and sent to com. mandants of all Naval districts anc the commanders of the Atlantic, Pa. cific and Asiatic fleets.
 Tn view of the fact that the mat. ter of the air defense of Pearl Har' bor had been surveyed and machin. cry put in motion to implement the defense, and in view of the fact that the authorities at Pearl Harbor had arrived at Q satisfactory joint ar rangement for the air defense oi Pearl Harbor, with which I wal thoroughly familiar, I felt it nc longer necessary to emphasize thii mater in my letters," Stark said.
 He said he considered that as' sumption well founded because or Oct. l4, 1o4i, Kimmel wrote to hin regarding fleet security in which was listed the possibility that declaration of war might be pre-. ceded by a surprise attack on ships in Pearl Harbor.
 This letter, he said, outlined again the provisions for joint defense measures.
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Naugatuck, Jan. 3.--Willard E. Bittle assumed his pest as fac- tory manager Of Che U. s. Rubber Company footwear plant We'd nesday. Mir. Blttle ls no stranger here having been In charge oe the analysis section of Che production control department from 1929 tO 1886. During that time he handled all scheduled work for preparatory operations of the plant.
 In 19S0 he became assistant sulperlmtendent and during the next Ave years he worked with both min superintendents. He was assigned the task of reopening the WOonsOCket R. I. plant In leAI,