The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 20, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —t * VOL. LXVI., NO. 10,122 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS GO AACUTE JOBLESS SITUATION HERE IS POINTED OUT Gty Pegged fo Siep Into, Breach Left by Limits on Official Aids Roundtable discussion last night at the City Hall aired Juneau's un- employment dilemma, picked out the fields of responsibility of the var- it governmental and semi-public o‘t;nizauans and ended by point- ing out one big breach in the com- munity’s defenses against privation —lack of provision for able-bodied, non-resident men for whom no jobs can be found. . Discussion was opened by a break- down of the 208 currently unemploy- ed here registered with the U. S. Employment Service office. Figures quoted by the USES Director A. A. Hedges listed 130 of the 208 as being local residents. Of the remainder, 87 are residents of other Alaska communities and 41 are from the States. The unskilled labor cate- gory number 113, with 95 listed as skilled. Breakdown according to race shows 51 Alaska natives, 141 whites, 12 Filipinos, three negroes and one Japanese. Of the entire list, 45 are considered by the USES to be “unemployables.” Of them, 10 are unfitted for hard work, 23 are chronic alcoholics and 12 are var- jously afflicted to unfit them for ordinary employment. ‘Thirty-six veterans of World War II are numbered on the roll, nine of those being local veterans with placements pending for three of them; seven are from other points in the Territory, with the balance of | 20 having come here from Outside. Veterans Fairly Set Director Hedges stated that, inso- far as Juneau is concerned in the immediate problem, 50 percent of the non-residents stranded here without work are veterans of the Second World War. A roundup of resources available to ex-service- men from the various governmental bureaus showed that classification not the paramount concern right now, as there is at least one facility available to relieve the plights of | nearly all those who served in the The Washington, Merry - Go-Round By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON—A special com- mittee of Congress ought to be appointed just to watch the House Judiciary Committee. More legisla- | tion designed to rob the taxpayer and harm the public interest is reported out of that committee than almost any other in Congress. Here is the latest: House Bill 2788, just reported out of the Judiciary Committee, would limit to a period of one year the time in which the Federal Govern- ment could prosecute various crimi- nal acts. In other words, if a vio- Jator of the law could get away with it and remain undetected for one year after the transgression, the Statute of Limitations would have run, and he couldn’t be prose- cuted. For instance, the proposed law provides that if anyone defrauds the government in disposing of surplus property, he can't be prose- cuted after one year. It is already evident that surplus property is going to be one of the biggest sources of scandal in recent history, and it would be impossible for even J. Edgar Hoover to track down all irregularities in one year. The Judiciary Committee also proposes that if the director of a national bank violates the law and can get away with it for one year, he can't be prosecuted after that. The same is-true of copyright infringement, violation of civil rights statutes, fraud in registra- tion of public lands, and violation of the Wage-Hour Act. The latter is particularly interesting. An em- ployer could wilfully violate the wage-hour law knowing that if he gets caught, all he will have to do is pay Yet he might have been violating the law for three, four or five years. Such a provision, according to Labor Department officials, would be an open invitation to em- ployers - to thumb their noses at the Wage-Hour Act. ~ Yet the House Judiciary Commit- P50 R e R SR (Continued on Page Four) | sorest spot and one for which no discontinued war jobs in the Terri- {solution was | CONGRESS GIVEN NEW DOPE, PEARL ' HARBOR DISASTER 'One Hearing in Rate Case Will Be Heard In Alaska, Land Says oo, .. The review of rates was asked|gressmen digging for facts in various by the War Shipping Administra- fields found this out today: tion, which has operated the Al-| Pearl Harbor—The late Secretary aska transportation during the war.|of the Navy Frank Knox said in Bartlett, and Rep. Peterson (D- Ga.), chairman of the Territories | Committee, contended that the date | Bartiett told a reporter, after a|sblected would not give Alaska an|Pearl Harbor.” He wrote that in a | * |letter to Henry L. Stimson, then | conference with ~ Vice Admiral opportunity to prepare its case. | Emory S. Land, Maritime Commis-| Land told them, Bartlett said, Secretary of War. sion Chairman, that an announced | that another hearing will be held[ Admiral J. O. Richardson, former hearing in Seattle on Nov. 27 will|in Alaska and possibly still another | commander of the be only a preliminary. in Washington. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — Two fand possibly three hearings will be ‘held by the Maritime Commission on Alaska shipping rates, Delegate | Bartlett (D-Alaska) was informed | today. might start with a “surprise attack upon the fleet or the Naval Base at 4 3 [ i |manpower in the middle of 1940. ‘rrccont conflict. . {to _:«ccvpL any impairment of uv:‘ The Senate-House Pearl Harbor However, for non-strvice unem- position of any of his union mem-= iy vestigating committee decided to | ployed, most of whom have been bers. |question Admiral William D. Leahy, |engaged in seasonal employment | USES representatives at the meet-| heroonal Chief of Staff to both I not, covered by Unemployment Com- ing, Jack Carvel and Director Hedges pyesidents Roosevelt and Truman. pensation, there is no agency in a stated position to step forward and take listed with their office total 39; 8&ll|president of the American Council over. That group was put forward for skilled work. Four of them are ., gqycation, Dr. George F. Zook, at last night’s meeting as the City’s for out-of-town jobs. Of the “";smd this country should rely instead responsibility. maining 36, 16 of the calls are for|,, yolunteers, should try for an in- Mr. Hedges pointed out that lhc'('arpenll‘rs‘ of whom there is none|iernational agreement against com- jcondnmu Juneau now faces is one'available. Painter, baker, prinber.‘puh.m.y military training in all na- that has long plagued most of Alas- tin-smith, plumber or pharmacist tions that was the first opposition ka's cities. Juneau, he said, has are examples of the calls they have testimony before the House Military |been fortunate heretofore in not on hand. Committee. More is coming. having annually to face a slack of | However, Mr. Hedges declared his seasonal workers. This, he stressed, strong belief that there may well be lis the first year that there has been other jobs available in Juneau—| neither the Alaska Juneau mine nor not listed with the USES. Much and, President of the University of {war work to keep up a year-around might be done, he thought, by Pennsylvania, said | payroll here. But, he further em- rounding up employers to see just training program ‘phaslzed, the present is a condi- what work they can supply. To, UNRRA—The House Foreign Af- ‘ ion that may be looked to for the query of Welfare Director Rus- it ‘repetmon until stable all-year em- sell Maynard: are there odd jobs let the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration have ployment on large scale is again or part time jobs to ke rustled?, Car- available here—it is no fleeting vel and Hedges replied that there another $1,350,000,000 of American emergency that can be met with may well be, though none are on|cash. stop-gap methods. | their records now and all that have Undersecretary of State Two Programs come in have been snapped up. Be- Acheson backed it. He said the Two interlaced programs were de- fore cold weather set in, Mr. Car- Army had given more relief than sion. vel, local 1 Training Porgram But Dr. George William McClell- | | | veloped from last evening's ses: % : | First, a listing of the resources of stated quite a few of their appli- \every public and private agency for ¢ants were kept busy washing win- | meeting the problem, with a break- dows, etc. down of the classes for which each Call Attention \agency can accept responsibility, is One suggestion definitely decided FDR’s Attitude ito be compiled and filed with the for action is that the City’s commit-| Senator Alben Barkely (D-Ky), |city. It is also to be made avail- tee shall bring the present surplus chairman of the Pearl Harbor com- !able to the other agencies so that of workers to the attention of all mittee, said today that yesterday's applicants for aid may be correct- possible employers. |testimony by Admiral James 0. ly directed at their first stop. Also, Mr. Maynard brought out that the'Richardson ought to squelch any it was suggested that one agency present problem is not Juneau's contentions that the late President be placed in the position of first alone; that Ketchikan just recent- Roosevelt invited war with Japan. stop on the line for all needy per- ly held meetings to set policies for! Richardson told of a conversation sons. The USES office received the handling men stranded there. Fifty he had with Mr. Roosevelt 14 months majority of votes for that post. percent of the Ketchikan cases, he pefore Pearl Harbor. The Admiral Secondly, it was put up to the quoted, are of men overflowed 1rom at that time was commander of the City of Juneau, its residents and the Alaska Railroad. Most of the U. S. Fleet. He later was replaced. taxpayers, to close up the gaps left non-residents augmenting the unem- after all other agencies have cov- ployment in Alaska are of two types,‘mm he doubted that the U. S. ered their grecund. There is the he reviewed: persons left over from!would enter the war even if the 1 iJapanese attacked the Philippines. immediately - forth- tory and those on their way up here| Richardson said Mr. Roosevelt coming last night, although Mayor from the States, either attracted by!added, however, that the Japanese Ernest Parsons did undertake to ap- glowing pictures painted of the l“could not always avoid making mis- rope |would get more details on Army re- ilief work from General Dwight D. | Eisenhower. |point a committee to accept the Territory or pushed up from below takes and that as the war contin- | January, 1941, that if war came, it| Pacific Fleet, described the late President Roose- | | velt was “rather loath” to increase its | that present job Openings| peacetime Military Training—The | he was for a! | fairs Committee considered a bill to| Dean USES Office Manager,|[UNRRA in zones it controls in Eu-/ The committee announced it | Richardson said Mr. Roosevelt told | a fine for that one year.} City’s responsibility. Another com- mittee is to be named by the Mayor {for the simpler job of compilin, information concerning the fields of lactivity of the various groups and coordinating their work. Everything from to “made work a la WPA” was sug- lcan not be helped by the regular Irelief outlets. Make Work Programs The Mayor referred to a list of 1condemncd buildings within the only by paying rates below the go- ing scale can the City finance the work. There, he ran into a snag in the expressed opinions of union men |of wage scales. Not attempting to state any defin- ite union policy on the matter, but expressing only their private views of the viewpoint organized labor is most likely to take were: John Ken- nedy, CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, and Julius Heinemann, AFL Central Labor Council. Mr. Kennedy was adamant 'in his stand that any lowering of the bars would lead to permanent breaking of go- ing scales. He declared that he would not want to be the first to pay less than the current unskilled labor rate of $1 per hour, declaring {the program suggested would not ke | nearly enough to do the job needed, !that a principal effect of it only would be to lower wages. No Wood Cutting Wood-cutting proposals also were { likely to result in injuries among | inexperienced workers set to axe- wielding than to liveable earnings for them. Mr. Heinemann accepted the view that a considerable proportion of those listed on the jobless rolls might not be worth even a reduced scale in their work return, and that emergency measures are needed, but indicated that he would not want | I by unemployment there. Suggestion’s along the line of the out” Juneau’s transients or halting the flow from the States were met| with the reply that “it's easy to talk' thank God.” Also, USES Chief 208 unemployed here are local resi- dents. He summarized the educa-| |tional program the USES has been| 'advertising for a long time: that! anyone Alaska-bound should have| cpen to burning criticism for “knocking the Territory down.” Alaska just can’t absorb thousands of men coming here looking for | Blows Off Steam Mrs. John McCormick, at last night’s meeting as one of the Red Cross representatives, finally found herself fed up with much talk go- ing round and round, seemingly get- ting not very far. In a fiery exit| speech she declared: These men‘K have been invited into the Terri-| tory by comebody who painted a glowing picture of* it. Now that tHey’'re here, something must be done for them. “It's not their fault if they're stranded here by a ship strike.” Previously, she had de-| scribed several cases handled by the Red Cross in which men had| used up their funds gettihg this far| on their way out of Alaska and could | get no further than Juneau because |of lack of transportation, ! After listing of help available to ious organizations entering into the field, C. B. Holland, local Red Cross | Chairman, stated the general view, | that anything falling out of the juris-| dictions of the several agencies is al problem for the City—whether v,he] answer is a soup kitchen or what,! whether it means a drain on taxes or what. It was finally suggested that the City Council's Health Committee, ued and the area of operations ex- panded, sooner or later they would g the Anchorage policy of “blue-ticketing make a mistake and he would enter the war.” Barclay asked “That doesn’t sound very much like soup kitchens” about, but this is a democracy —{Mr. Roosevelt was trying to get us into war, does it?” |gested as a way out for those who Hedges again pointed out, 130 of the| Republican members of the com- | mittee said they wanted to hear more from Richardson before they form any opinion. Health Program Here is the news about Mr. Tru- City which he suggested might be 2 minimum of $2,500 or a definlw;man's new health program, which razed now as an emergency pro- job connection in Alaska. That pro- he sent to Congress yesterday: gram. However, he though that gram, hé said, has laid his agency| Congress will start considering the program soon. But there are indi- cations Congress won't act on it soon. “No hasty action,” said Rep. Harold Knutson (R-Minn), and this present against any breaking down eight-hour-a-day jobs, he stressed. |seemed to be the sentiment of many ! Congressmen. Rep. Percy Priest (D-Tenn), the chairman of a health subcommittee of the House Interstate Committee, promiséd early hearings before his group. Senator Robert Wanger (D- NY) predicted the Senate Labor Committee would take action on the proposal within two months. ‘Wagner and Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich) have introduced bills to carry out Mr. Truman’s program. The President wants compulsory old-age and survivors' insurance works under the Soclal Security law. headed by Councilman R. H. Will-| iams, be selected to head up activ- ities dealing with the unemployed problem. derided by both union men as more the jobless here through the var-| Others among the representation at last night’s meeting were: Coun- cilman Ed Nielsen, Police Chief John Monagle; Salvation Army—Brig. C. O. Taylor, Capt. J. Hoogstad, Adj. H. Lorenzen; Alaska Native Ser- vice—Don C. Foster, Dr. George Dale, Dr. Evelyn Butler; Unemploy- ment Compensation Commission— Robert E. Sheldon; USO—Zach Gordon; Veterans Administration— A. E. Karnes. a reporter today,! BULLETINS WASHINGTON — President Tru- man announced today the immediate retirement of General George C. Marshall. The President has nom- inated General Dwight Eisenhower to succeed Marsall as Chief of Staff of the Army | DETROIT—The General Motors Council of the CIO United Automo- bile Workers Union has recommend- ed a strike in General Motors plants. PORTLAND, Maine — Ggle winds that lashed the coast of Maine last night and this morning have left | {damage running into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Docks and piers and waterfront properties were hard hit. JERUSALEM -—The government of Palestine has made an official de- nial that British officials in Pales- tine had armed the Arabs. DETROIT—General Motors Corp. today informed the CIO United Au~ tomobile Workers Union that it will reply to the union proposal for ar- bitration of the 30 per cent wage increase “on or before Friday, No- vember 23." WASHINGTON—The Senate to- day refused by a vote of 35 to 31 to delay the return of the United States ‘Employmflm Service to the States until June 30, 1946. LONDON—An American Airlines plane has landed in England on the initial flight over the Chicago to London route. The trip took three minutes less than 24 hours. It was | delayed more than three hours by bad weather. AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands— Queen Wilhelmina declared today that the Dutch do not intend any aet of revenge for the native up- rising ‘in Java. The Queen also informed the Dutch Parliament that | her nation also does not plan the | establishment of colonial domina- tion in Indonesia. NUERNBERG, Germany — The former German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, collapsed today at his trial. He was removed | from the chamber. Doctors gave the | former minister sedatives and said he would be ready for tomorrow's session of the court. speech tonight at the American Legion Convention will be broadcast. The address will be carried over the Columbia and Mutual networks from Chicago, starting at 10:30 p.m., EST. WASHINGTON—The government today ordered all airlines operating eastbound flights from the West | Coast to allot 70 per cent of their space to Army.and Navy personnel {returning from the Pacific. The order is effective December 3. i SEATTLE—The first men of the ! famed Americal Division to return to the United States, with one of the longest combat records of any in ’ the Pacific warfare, were promptly | the war’s greatest heroes, Gen. Jona- than M. Wainwright. The men dis- embarked from the S. S. Sea Witch from Yokohama. JERSEY CITY, N. J. — Roman Catholic Bishop Gerald Shaughnessy of Seattle is in the Medical Center hére atfer being stricken ill while en route to New York. Hospital officials said he suffered a slight heart attack and described his con- | dition as fair. | FRANKFURT, Germany—A diary found by United States Intelligence Officers throws new light on the relationship between Adolf Hitler and his swestheart, Fva Braun. Eva wrote in her private diary that she contemplated suicide several times when Hitler showed romantic inter- est in other women. { NEW YORK--City patrolmen were |ordered today to work their usual extra four hours of duty every ten days in civilian clothes and to patrol the streets during that period in their own automobiles in another step to halt a mounting crime wave which has taken almost one life a day in 70 days. LONDON—A delegation seeking to make Chicago the capital of the world “because it has the best com- bination of advantages® has de- | scendéd on the United Nations Or- ganization armed with motion pic- tures to show why the peace agency | ' should set up its home in the Windy ' City { Department to issue Series Tie-Up of Steamers of PRICE TEN CENTS — ———————— | ON TRIAL Alaska Steamship Co. Ended; SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—An agree- ment has been reached at San Fran- cisco ending the CIO-Marine Cooks and Stewards Association strike which tied up the Alaska Steamship Ccmpany's Alaska fleet, Joseph Har- ris, Union business agent here, said he was notified today. The steamship company's office confirmed word of the settlement and said the first scheduled sailing would be the Yukon on Saturday. Overtime claims sought by the Union will be paid and the issue of a meeting place and recreation quarters will be turned over to a referee for settlement, Harris said. He had no other details and com- *Yukon Is fo Sail pany headquarters also said they! had none. The agreement was reach- | ed by a committee of ship operators and the Union, Harris said. The Company said the Yukon| would touch at Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez and Seward. Other scheduled sailings and ports of call: Alaska, the 28th, Ketchikan, Wran- ’gell, Petersburg, Juneau and Seward; | Baranof, Dec. 1, Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez and Seward; and the Denali, Dec. 5, Ketchikan, Ju-| neau and Seward. Five vessels were tied up most of the past month and the company said the movement of more than 2,500 troops was stopped. I BONDPREMIERE AT CAPITOL SET T0 CLIMAX LOAN Slated as the grand finale to Juneau's concentrated, one-week drive to reach its Victory Loan “E” Bond goal of $130,000 is a gala { Bond Premiere to be held at the Theater of Capitol the evening Nov. 29. Details of the occasion were re- vealed today by Homer Garvin, Premiere Chairman, The feature showing of the premiere wiil be the picture “Can’t Help Singing,” a musical, starring Deanna Durbin and Robert Paig, all in gorgeous technicolor, which will follow one showing of the regular feature, “Dark -Waters.” The theater has been turned over to the Victory Loan committee for the premiere and admission will be by special ticket to be given out | by any of the four issuing agencies {in Juneau at the time of purchase trcops home made it difficult to| of bonds. The four issuing agencies here authorized by the Treasury Bonds are: The Post Office, the { First National Bank, B. M. Beh- forbidding, rends Bank, and the Alaska Fed- eral Savings and Loan Association Tickets for the premiere are all general admission, with no loge reservations. It's to be “first come, first served” and the theater doors will open at'9:35 o'clock. Although the Victory Loan campaign offi- clally extends through Dec. 8, the local drive is to be concentrated during the week starting Nov. 22 and ending Nov. 29, and bonds purchased Nov. 21 through Nov. 28 will be honored for premiere ad- missions. Tickets will be given, Chairman Garvin stated, upon purchase of a Series “E” Bond of $50 denomi- nation or larger. Those purchasing bonds in larger amounts are asked to accept only as many tickets as actually required, in order that others may also have opportunity to attend the premiere. In order to secure tickets this sary to have applications filled through the Capitol Theater as in previous campaigns; as all four of the issuing agencies are supplied with tickets and will issue them with the bond you purchase. el Housewives Must Order Tomorrow For Holiday Of course, they know it, but house- wives are just cautioned to order tomorrow for Thanksgiving. Better check the larder to see if there is sage, green pepper, bacon, onion and celery for that roast turkey or chicken dressing; if there are plenty of spuds, bread, 'auna, etc. This is just a reminder’ - e SITKA VISITORS Donald A, Batek and R. J. Upton of Sitka are guests at the Gasti- neau Hotel, > E. L. GRIFFIN HERE Edward L. Griffin arrived in Juneau from Anchorage yesterday and is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. e FAIRBANKS MAN HERE Roy B. Erling of Fairbanks has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. GEN. EISENHOWER WANTS WIVES 10 6010 IS ABROAD | BOONE, Ia., Nov. 20-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who spent most of two days at the hospital beddide | of his wife, recovering from bron- chial pneumonia, says he favors taking the wives of occupation | troops to Europe “after we have gotten down to occupation forees.”! Gen. Eisenhower, in a press con- ference prior to leaving for the American Legion convention in Chicago and after being advised by physicians that his wife was “on the road to recovery,” said his policy “will give the wife of the lowliest G.I. the same right as any officer's wife, or my wife, for in-| stance.” | The general explained the great | problem of getting military gov- ernments established in Germany and of getting large numbers of estimate when such g policy might; be put into effect. i He asserted the German situa- tion “might be classed as harsh and | but not black and | tragic. The United States is not going to let people die of mass starvation. That, won't be done.” | Asked if he expected any trouble | with Russia, the general remarked, “No, of course I don’t expect any trouble with Russia. If I did, I'd want every soldier I could keep there.” —— ANOTHER NEW ENTERPRISE IS . SEEN FOR CITY A new ready-mix concrete ser- vice for Juneau contractors will be available by the first of the year, according to A. B. Hicks and John IF. Cushing, Jr., partners of the Territory Equipment and Supply called upon today to honor one of yiye ne added, it will not be neces- Gompany, which will build a new! warehouse and plant at 1lth and ‘Willoughby. The company has purchased two ready-mix trucks which will go in- to service for the new enterprise af- |ter January 1. Bunkers will be in- stalled at the plant, for storage of the concrete mixture which will be |dumped into the trucks along with | water and the concrete will be mix- ed on the trucks in revolving con- tainers on the way to the job. The company will also handle a {full line of water supplies as repre- !sentative for the Pacific Water Works Supply Co., as well as other items in a line of general equip- ment and supplies for contractors. Temporary offices for the company are located in the Baranof Hotel. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 20 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Minel stock today is 9%, American Can| 1106%, Anaconda 44%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Har-| vester 95'%, Kennecott 490, New |Yo,rk Central 31%, Northern Pa- cific 34%, United States Steel 81%, Pound $4.03%:. Sales today were 2,180,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: Industrials, 192.12; rails, 64.66; utilities, 38.45. - FROM KETCHIKAN Five visitors from Ketchikan are registered at the Baranof as fol- lows: C. H. Vich, Geraldine Harris, | Louise Collier, Cecil Wheat and V. E. Smith. CASE OPENS: INDICTMENT READ 0 20 Recital of Plunder and Horror Retold fo Glum Henchmen of Hitler By DANIEL DE LUCE NUERNBERG, Nov. 20.—A score of glum, oddly-garbed henchmen of Adolf Hitler went on trial for their lives today before the International War Crimes Tribunal and heard the reading of the lengthy indictment against them — a recital of plunder and horror. It appeared that completion of the reading of the 35,000-word document, ;vould require the remainder of the ay. Rudolf Hess, an almost impish grin playing about his sunken mouth, was lined up in the dock with the Nazi defendants—20 in all. The 21st, Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy, is being tried in absentia. What disposition the Tribunal would make of the reports of alien- ists on Hess' mental condition has yet to be announced. But the form- er Hitler deputy seemed at moments almost privilous as the proceedings got under way. British Lord Justive Geoffrey Law- rence, presiding, announced the trial would conunue without une pieseuce of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, former Nazi security police chief, who has suffered a craniel hemorrnage. Defendants Listed The black-gowned cefense attor- neys listened. intently to every word that was spoken, but thetr clents, as strangely garped as a cast of beg- gars in an opera, exhibited varying emotions. From the paunchy prima donna of Nazism, Hermann Goering himself, to the quiet, relatively obscure propaganda minlstry’'s handyman, Hans Fritzsche, the defendants lis- tened with varying emotions as lurid deed after lurid deed of the Third Reich was reconstructed in English prose. There were no legal furbelows at the start of the historic case in the small, oak-panelled courtroom whos2 windows overlook the one-time shrine city of Nazidom. Unique Trial Lord Geoffrey Lawrence told the defendants Britaln, the United States, the Soviet Unjon and Prance had been entrusted with the punisa- ment of war criminals, adding: “This trial which s about to ‘vegin is unique in the history of jurispru- dence and in importance to people jall over the world.” Sidney 8. Alderman, assistant to Chief U. 8. Prosecutor Justice Rob- ert H. Jackson, opened the proceed- ings by reading a condensed version lof the indictment. His voice trembled with nervousness. The defendants stared glumly dur- ing the lengthy reading,of the in- dictment. Hess, Ribbentrop, Kaitel and Rosenberg listened without us- ing tne Iransiators’ ewrpuones pro- vided for each man on trial. Goering, his own countenance ex- hibiting broad composure, soon re- moved his headphones. Grand Ad- miral Erich Raeder and Walther Funk, former Reichbank presiaent, continued to use the American translating device. Goering nodded non-committally when Prosecutor Alderman referred to his overriding control of Ger- many economy in preparation for Armed aggression after 1936. Prosecutors The prosecution tables were crowded. Justice Jackson sat at the head of the United States delega- tion. Sir David Maxwel-Fyfe head- ed Britain's delegation while Col. Yuri Pokrovsky and Charges Dubost were sitting as temporary chief prosecutors for Russia and France, At Alderman’s mention of anti- Jewish fulminations during the pre- war period by Alfred Rosenberg, that defendant hurriedly replaced his carphones, and the No. 1 Nazi Jew-baiter sat bolt upright when he was named in the indictment. SR 1 e STEAMER MOVEMENTS | North Sea from Seattle scheduled | to arrive tomorrow night or Thurs- day morning. | Steamer Tongass due from Seattls | Friday morning. | Steamer Princess Norah sails from Vancouver Friday night. Steamer Yukon (tie-up ended) sails from Seattle Saturday morn- ing.