RUSSIANS REBUILD
NAZI NAVAL-YARDS
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gERLIN—T h e Russians
are re-constructing the
former German naval
yards of Wilhelmshaven
as a key base on the
White Sea in their de
velopments of arctic ocean routes
according to the best information
available here. Reliable inform
ants say the site selected in Molo
tovsk near Archangel.
Practically the entire Wilhelms
haven yard, which was the main
German base on the North Sea, is
going to the Soviet Union as rep
arations. Dismantlement of its me
chine, electrical, torpedo, sheet
metal, furnace and other shops is
proceeding.
Observers here said they were
watching “with great interest”
Russian development of its far
northern sea routes as well as the
energy being put into building up
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Communication
Nome, Alaska,
May 4, 1948.
To The Editor:
From the Lick Observatory at
•Mt. Hamilton. California, I have
received information on the ex
act time of the eclipse. The ec
lipse at Nome will begin at 3:37
p.m. on Saturday May 8th and
will end at 5:41 p.m. If the wea
ther is clear, it should be an in
teresting event. The eclipse be
gins in the Orient, passing through
Korea, then the Aleutian Islands
and Alaska. It will not be visible
in the United States except, per-'
haps, in northwestern Washing
ton.
Yours very truly,
Olaf Halverson.
• Thank you very much Mr. Hal
verson, we appreciate this in
formation.* Ed.
SHISHMAREF YOUTH
IN MEDICAL CORPS
Private First Class, Henry Ol
anna, son of Mr. Foster Olanna
who resides at Shishmaref, Al
aska. scuccessfully completed the
Medical Corpsman Course, Fri
day, April 9, at the Air Univer
sity School of Aviation Medicine,
Randolph Air Force Base. San
Antonio, Texas. This course in
cluded training in the care of the
sick and wounded and the pre
vention of diseases through sani
tary means.
Pfc. Olanna attended the Mount
Edgecumbe High School, Mt. Ed
gecumbe. Alaska prior to his en
listment on November 28, 1947.
to the Air Force, he also worked
in civilian life as an engineer.
At the present he is awaiting
assignment to a special technical
school that is offered by the Air
Force to its new recruits.
Sgt. & Mrs. Quackenbush
Have Ducky Shrub
S/Sgt. and Mrs. George Quack
enbush are the proud parents of
a baby girl born Monday evening
at the Army Hospital. The young
lady weighed eight pounds, 12
ounces.
waterway routes, particularly
from the Baltic to the Black seas.
Pillau, on the bay <^f Danzig,
has become the Russians’ main
base for its South Baltic fleet.
Here Soviet ships can fuel and
take on food. Backing' it up is
the major repair and building
harbor of Koenigsberg.
The Schichaii ship yards at
Koenigsberg were expanded rap
idly by the Germans during the
war as Allied bombers flying
from England made it more and
more difficult to keep up produc
tion, particularly of submarines,
in yards on the North Sea and
the Western Baltic. That expan
sion now is being stepped up by
the Russians.
Rostok, the major German
port in the Russian occupied zone,
is being used by the Russians
for minor repairs and as an out
let for the shipment of reparations
from the Soviet zone. General
Lucius D. Clay, the American
commander-in-chief, recently ac
cused the Russians of building
warships at Rostok.
When the remnants of the Ger
man fleet were divided among
the victors, the Russians were al
lotted the light cruiser Nuernberg,
eight destroyers and ten submar
ines.
The North Baltic fleefr head
quarters still is located at Kron
stadt, outside Leningrad, inform
ants said.
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