DUKE of WINDSOR:
Would He Have
Been a Great Kin",
Or Hitler Puppet ?
PARIS — The Duke of Wind
sor said Friday captured German
diplomatic documents gave a gen
erally false impression in suggest
ing he favored a British alliance
with Nazi Germany while he was
King.
The captured documents re
leased Thursday quoted the Duke
—when he reigned as King Ed
ward VIII—as saying he was ready
to meet Hitler.
The Duke said the documents
written by a German envoy identi
fied as the Duke of Coburg—were
“slanted in order to curry favor
with Hitler.”
British newspapers divided in
their reaction to a revival of the
charge that the Duke wanted to
make a personal deal with Hitler.
The Daily Express, published by
Windsor’s old friend Lord Beaver
brook, again defended the former
King Edward VIII.
The Laborite Daily Mirror scath
ingly derided the Duke.
The Liberal Guardian said the
new report only showed how stu
pid the Nazis were.
• The perennial argument was re
vived by publication by the Brit
ish, American and French govern
ments of captured Nazi documents
kept secret since World War II.
The documents showed that a
mysterious German envoy—identi
fied by other sources as the Ger
man Duke of Coburg—reported to
Hitler after an interview with Ed
ward VIII:
“A Germany-Britain alliance is
for him an urgent necessity and a
guiding principle for British for
eign policy.
“To my question whether a dis
cussion between Baldwin (Stanley
Baldwin, then British Prime Min
ister) and Hitler would be desirable
for future German-British rela
tions, he replied in the following
words:
“Who is King here? Baldwin
or I? I myself wish to talk to Hit
ler and will do so here or in Ger
many. Tell him that, please.”
The Duke also reported to the
Fuehrer that the King had
“spoken well” of Rudolf Hess, the
Nazi leader who later parachuted
into Scotland during World War II.
With the publication, old an
tagonists reformed ranks and de
bated the dusty questions—did
Britain lose a potentially great
King when Edward abdicated in
1936 for the love of an American
divorcee?
Or would he have been a puppet
of Hitler?
Gordon Dimmick has been been
picked up in Anchorage by au
thorities to be returned to Nome
to answer a charge of forgery. He
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Physician Says City
Folks May Be Falling
Victims of Urbophrenia
PHILADELPHIA W — Looking
at modem living, a physician says
many of us may be falling victims
to urbophrenia.
That means city jitters.
Human crowding into big cities
and sprawling suburbs has changed
the climate in which we live —
into an artificial climate which is
too much indoors, Dr. Igho Hart
Komblueh of the University of
Pennsylvannia said Thursday.
This fosters “a peculiar green
house existence” bringing on new
and poorly understood health prob
lems, Dr. Kornblueh told a sym
posium on biometerology of the
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science. Biometer
ology means the effect of weather
and climate on life.
“The wearisome monotony of an
immured existence within the con
fines of the residence and the place
of employment” leaves its mark on
the physical and mental capacity
and productivity and creativity of
humans, he said. Dr. Komblueh
is medical director of the Depart
ment of Physical Medicine at the
University’s Graduate Hospital.
People fail to seek the relaxa
tions and physical activity to oe
found in outdoor recreation, or
don’t have a chance to do so, he
said.
At the same session, Dr. Joseph
Lee Hollander of the University of
Pennsylvania reported scientific
evidence backing up arthritis vic
tims who say they can often pre
dict weather because their pains
grow worse before a storm.
A combined change of falling
barometric or air pressure and
rising humidity does tend to make
arthritic joints more stiff and
swollen, he said.
This was shown with volunteers
living for two to four weeks in
a chamber, the climatron, in which
climate could be controlled arti
ficially in various respects—with
out knowledge of the inmates.
It was Finley Peter Dunne who
advised, “Trust everybody, but cut
the cards.”
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ARE YOU WORTH ?
How long has it been since you’ve
totaled up your assets, trying to fig
ure out approximately what you and
your family are worth? Not just your
bank accounts, car and house, but
all your possessions, including home
furnishings and clothes, sporting
equipment and objects d’art.
Most families are unaware of the
speed with which assets mount and
lose track of their accumulated pos
sessions. A year-end review of all
your assets can serve the double
purpose of bringing to light old but
still useful things you’ve forgotten
and of giving you a good idea of how
much insurance protection you need
to really cover your possessions.
Insuring to value is particularly
important for your house itself which
is probably your largest single in
vestment. With real estate prices
continually rising, chances are the
house has increased considerably in
value since you bought it, and you’d
be wise to protect it accordingly. A
general review of all policies should
be made from time to time to be
sure you’re fully covered by in
surance.
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Nome, Alaska
From The
Nation s Capitol
(The Weekly Newsletter frnm the
Office of Senator Ernest Omening)
By GEORGE SUNDBORG
Administrative Assistant
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ernest
Gruening, who is in the Middle
East conducting a study of the ad
ministration of our nation’s foreign
aid program for the Senate Govern
ment Operations Committee, has
sent Christmas greetings from the
Holy Land to be transmitted to
the people of Alaska.
“The Star of Bethlehem, after
nearly 2,000 years, still lights the
way for the world in the solution
of her problems,” the senator
wrote. “It shines as surely for Alas
kans as for all the other otizens
of the shrinking world.”
Sen. Gruening, accompanyi by
his legislative assistant, Herbert
Beaser, left Nov. 23 for the task
assigned to him by Sen. John Mc
Clellen (D-Ark.\ chairman of the
committee. They will return for
the opening of the 88th Congress
in January.
Federal Aviation Agency to
Send Investigator to Alaska
Complaints have reached Sen.
Gruening’s office in recent months
concerning proposals to charge
fees for landings at FAA airports
in Alaska. Assurances have now
been given the senator that early
in the new year Richard Slocum,
assistant to the FAA budget di
rector, will be sent to the 49th
State to analyze the situation con
cerning the free proposal and to
hear the views of interested parties.
An itinerary of Slocum’s stay in
Alaska will be printed in the news
letter as soon as it is released,
for the benefit of persons inter
ested in making their views known
to him.
New Mining Claim
Occupancy Law Explained
The Department of the Interior
recently announced that early next
year it will begin processing appli
cations to solve long-standing prob
lems of persons residing on un
patented mining claims. The de
partment will continue preventing
unauthorized occupancy of public
lands under the guise of mining
claims, according to Secretary of
the Interior Stewart Udall.
The new law will not benefit any
person residing on unpatented
mining claims unless residence
goes back to July 23, 1955. The
department will have the authority
to offer other land for sale, or sell
up to five acres of the claim itself
to the occupant, but in no case
will mineral rights be conveyed
to such purchaser.
Copies of the new law should be
in the hands of land office mana
gers within a few weeks, Udall
said, and persons who think their
claims will be affected by the new
statute should check with the area
i land office,
i _
Two Alaska Students Receive
Scholarship Recommendations
The National Council of Teach
ers of English have chosen 870
winners and runners-up — includ
! ing two Alaska students — from
; among 6,200 students in the nation
i who were nominated by their
schools for a 1962 achievement
awards comoetition.
The Alaska winner is Janice
Lammers, 920 Third Ave., Anchor
age. a student at West Anchorage
High School, whose competitive
writing concerned teaching.
The Alaska runner-up is Ruth
Ellen McCoy of Haines, Haines
High School, who chose science as
a topic.
I The NCTE describes the winners
i and the runners-up as “the most
j able students of English in our
nation todav” and highly recom
| mends them for college scholar
ships in 1963.
Careless Americans
Encourage Crime by Losing
$700 Million Cash a Year
PHILADELPHIA W — Careless
Americans encourge crime by
“losing” more than $700 million in
cash a year, crime experts were
told Saturday.
They tempt and help support
criminals by making it easy to be
relieved of money, said Michael
Fooner of the Association for Ap
plied Psychoanalysis, New York
City.
One survey showed 9’/2 million
American adults lost sums of cash
in a single year, averaging $75
each, with nearly lxA million out
of the pocket for $200 or more.
They generally left money and
valuables unguarded in hotel
rooms or at home and were care
less in carrying money in wallets
or handbags.
Such carelessness creates a mas
sive number of temptations and
opportunities, Fooner told a ses
sion of the American Assn, for the
Advancement of Science.
Men and women lose cash with
equal frequency, but women lost
it three times more often than men
while out shopping, he said.
Both lose money while traveling,
while shopping, while at work, in
public gathering places and around
the house. The highest loss is in
money that simply seems to dis
appear, reflecting the skill of pick
pockets.
Maybe, Fooner said, in our af
fluent society, many people have
subconscious feelings of fear, guilt,
dependence and other psychologi
cal disturbances that make them
prone to losing money, such as
some people seem to be accident
prone.
I Architects Say
America’s Capital City
Is Becoming Ancient
WASHINGTON — To many,
she’s a jewel on the Potomac.
But to a committee of architects
—who are supposed to know about
such things—Washington, D.C., is
a city on the wane.
They say the nation’s capital
to which hundreds of thousands of
tourists throng each year, just is
not much to look at.
The gloomy report on Washing
ton was compiled by a committee
of the American Institute of Archi
tects. It’s published—136 pages of
it—in the Institute’s January jour
nal.
In the century and a half since
Pierre L’Enfant laid out his basic
classical design for the city, it has
lost its luster and gone esthctically
downhill, says the committee. The
group is headed by Paul Thirv.
chief architect of the Seattle
World’s Fair.
Reasons for the reported decline
of the city are sudden changes in
population, transportation methods
and ways of living.
The architects depicted Wash
ington as “a confusion of plan
ning boards and agencies, each
concerned with but one fragment
of the total picture. Clearly, a cen
tralized planning authority is
needed.”
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