Defense Program
Gets Almost
Quarter Billion
WASHINGTON, i/P)—The Alas
ka defense program received a
$ 106,000,000-plus shot in the arm
Wednesday.
Army engineers disclosed that
of $209,000000 worth of army and
air force construction to be start
ed before June 30, more than
$106,000,000 will be spent in Alas
ka.
Another $8,477,437 will be spent
in Washington State.
Army engineers said the over
all sum would be spent in 27
State sand Territories, Bermuda
and Okinawa.
Largest of the 78 Alaskan pro
jects listed is a $12,000,000 heat
and power plant at Fort Richard
son, Alaska.
The list includes 20 projects
costing more than $26,000,000 at
Eielsom Air Force Base, 30 pro
jects at Richardson costing almost
50.000. 000: 20 at Ladd Air Force
Base costing nearly $14,000,000; 7
at Whittier costing $9,000,000 and
57.000. 000 for a communications
station at Kenai.
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Dead Assassin’s
Widow In Custody
NEW YORK, (/P)—Mrs. Carmen
Torresola, 21-year-old wife of |
slain assassin Griselio Torresola, |
was taken into custody last night,
it was learned today.
The young woman had been the
object of an intensive FBI search
since her husband was felled bv
gunfire when he tried to storm
Blair House in an attempt to kill
President Truman Wednesday.
It was reported Mrs. Torresola,
who was taken to the federal wo
men’s house of detention, may be
charged with conspiracy to injure
the President.
Authoritative sources said that
Mrs. Torresola was taken into
custody at 9 p.m., last night at her
home, 202 West 203rd Street. She
was listed at the house of deten
tion as Mrs. Carmen Otero, but
there was no immediate explana
tion for the discrepancy in names.
The attractive young widow dis
appeared yesterday along with
her six-months-old daughter. She
vanished a few hours before FBI
agents tracing her through city
relief rolls went to the Torresola j
home to question her.
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Dr. Antonia Slock Ratliff, late
of Europe, is five foot two, has
eyes of blue, and long, natural
blonde hair. You’d never suspect
that this vivacious young lady
(hardly 28) speaks six languages,
has a Ph.D.and
went through
the toug h e s t
war the world
has ever seen.
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Antonia was
born in Destel
bergen, East
Flanders, Bel
gium. At the
age of five, she
DR. RATLIFF entered a stncd
French convent
and by the time she was 16 could
speak, read and write English,
French, German, Flemish, Italian
and Dutch. She was also profi
cient in Greek and Latin.
At 16, she entered a Nieder
landish state preparatory school,
where she studied for four years.
She was in her sophomore year at
the University of Ghent when Hit
ler overran Belgium. j
Thousands of Belgians—includ- !
ing Antonia Slock—were shipped
off to the industrial areas of Hit
ler’s empire as laborers. Antonia
was more fortunate than most of
her countrymen. When her cap
tors learned of her* linguistic abil
ity, she was made an interpreter
foT Western European laborers in
a Junkers Aircraft factory.
“The compound in which I
lived and worked with thousands
of other captured people was seven
kilometers square,” Antonia re
called. “Even though my work as
interpreter brought me in contact
with many hundreds of persons, I
was never allowed near any air
craft.”
In 1943, the Germans, as part of
a great propaganda campaign to
impress the captured people of
Europe, permitted a selected
group of these people to attend
college. The young interpreter,
Antonia Slock, was chosen as a
Belgian student to continue her
studies at Hiedelberg University.
Antonia attended this famous
University until March 14 1945,
when the American doughboys
took over Heidelberg and the
Swastika was a thing of the past.
She felt there were more im
portant things to do in Germany
at this time than to attend school.
As most foreign students at Hei
delberg had beee connected in
some manner with the “Under
ground,” they were the first per
sons to be screened by the Amer
icans. Two weeks after the arrival
of the U. S. Army, Antonia Slock
was an official court interpreter
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When Heidelberg University
opened again in the fall of 1945,
Antonia was admitted as a non
German foreign student under
American sponsorship. She had
received her Baccalaureat degree
in 1944;, and now went on for her
Ph.D., which she achieved in
June, 1947.
With these two degrees tucked
safely under her arm, Antonia
Slock acquired another certificate.
She was married in July, 1947, in
Manheim, Germany, to a hand
some American Army legal offi
cer., Captain Claude F. Ratliff.
They came to the United States
the following month.
The young couple toured the
United States for three months
and in November, 1947, arrived in
Fairbanks, where Claude Ratliff
took over the job as station man
ager of KFRB.
Antonia had too' much energy
to be a complacent housewife. She
visited the University of Alaska
and talked with the late Dr. Wil
liam E. Duckering, Dean of the
Faculty. She was engaged to teach
French and German, and this fall
she starts her third year as a
member of the University of Alas
ka faculty.
“Many wonderful things have
happened to me in my lifetime,”
Dr. Ratliff said with her typical
enthusiasm. “But I think the
greatest thrill was in May of this
year, when I became an American
citizen—right here in Fairbanks.
‘Tor years I was a displaced
person. But now, nobody can push
me around,” Dr. Ratliff said with
conviction.
Record Violent
’Quake In Far East
(By The Associated Pres§)
Violent earth shocks felt over a
wide area of the Orient yesterday
indicated an earthquake of major
proportions has struck an area of
the East Indies, possibly some
where in the vicinity of Timor.
Shocks were reported from
points as far apart as Darwin. <
Australia, and Hwa-Lien, Formo
sa, about 2,400 miles away.
The Riverside observatory at
Sydney placed the center of the
disturbances 2,300 miles northeast
of Sydney in the Banda Sea area.
This would be in the vicinity of
Timor, in Indonesia.
The force of the shocks dam
aged seismographs rat Jakarta, In
donesia, central meteorological
observatory. The observatory said
the readings were thus inadequate
but indications were that the cen
ter of the quake was in the neigh
borhood of New Guinea.
About 600 miles separates New
Guinea and Timor in the Indies.
Between the two is Amboina,
scene of a violent earthquake and
seismic or tidal, wave on Oct. 8.
The shocks in Darwin shook
buildings in the city and else
where in northern Australia, but
no serious damage was reported.
People rushed from their sway
ing houses, and some of the abor-*
igines were in near panic, but
quieted later.
The Jakarta observatory set the
shock there at 11:33 p.m. last
night.
Australia has 2.4 people to the
square mile. This compares with
44.2 to the square mile in the
United States, 506.4 in the United
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Kingdom.
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acid that will affect glass—is used
by American craftsmen to etch
patterns.
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