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* ST. PETER'S—World's largest church, 404 feet from pavement to lantern atop dome, 693 feet
over-air length Built on site of Constantine's basilica, at qrave of apostle Peter, first stone
was laid in 1506 by Pope Julius II, with Bramante, Michelangelo (the dome) and Bernini
(the colonnades) the principal designers.
COLISEUM—Ancient symbol of "grandeur
9 that was Rome," this structure, dating from
Vespasion, emperor from 70 to 79 A.D., is
now two-thirds in ruins.
TREVI fOUNTAIN—Regarded as most mag
nificent of Rome's many fountains, finished
in 1762 perhaps from designs by boroqwe
artist Lorenzo Bernini, 1598-1680.
ST. ANGELO—165-foot castlo completed in
! 139 A D. by Hadrian for tomb, it now mu
j *ewm; bridge of tame name linked huge
pile to city acrott Tiber.
UNIVERSITY CITY Headquarters building
houses rectory and library, center of vast
new development in severe modern style
dedicated by Mussolini in 1935.
LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
(By JOHN SELBY)
Harold Bttlinger’s “The Axis
on the Ajjr” is a complete and
thoroughly sane analysis of the
Germans’ propaganda in the
ether. He not only explains how
the so-called “bloodless victories”
were pulled off, but he picks
out some important new tenden
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jcies in the nasty little plans of
Herr Goethe Is. One of these is
fcis fanatic insistence that Hitler
j hall have the entire credit for
! bsolutely everything in this year
i 1 out Lord, 1942. Mr. Ettlinger
| hinks this significant—it was
probably a source of pride to
Herr Hitler in the day of his
| uccess; now it looks to Mr. Et
tlinger as if perhaps Goebbels
[were laboring to set up a conven
ient post-war scapegoat. (Bobbs
Merrill, ($2.75).
Another side of the German
medal is exposed by Carl Carmer
in “The War Against God.” One
| of the Nazi textbooks. "Bolshev
iism in the Bible,” has this to say
I about Christianity: “The teach
ing of mercy and love of one’s
neighbor is foreign to the German
race, and the Sermon on the
Mount is, according to Nordic
sentiment, an ethic for cowards
and idiots.” Mr. Carmer has col
lected a great number of state
ments from people as different as
Bishop Manning and Sergeant |
James Dunlop to prove that the
German plan is to eliminate the
religious principle from the
world. (Holt; $$2.75).
We must not, Curt Riess main
tains in “The Invasion of Ger
many,” be 'content with only a
peaceful occupation of Germany
this time, as we were in the last
war. We trtust do a little earth
scorching of our own, inside the
German borders.. Mr. Riess indi
cates how it Can be done, where
it can be done, and the .probable
conditions, .we shall find inside
Germany. One of these condi
tions will not be revolution, he
is sure. And one is quite likely to
be poison gas. (Putnam; $2.50).
Once the invasion is complete
and peace.- reached, there comes
the problem of finding the per
son or persons with whom to
deal, and this is the subject of
R. G. Waldeck’s "Meet Mr.
Blank.” The Countess Waldeek
surveys the forces and the men
likely to be left in a defeated
Germany and demands that we
somehow prevent Hitlers becom
ing a shining legend in a defeat
ed land. (Putnam; $2.50.)
The Nugget, $16.00 per year.
AUTHOR OF
THE WEEK
(By JOHN SELBY)
Homer Croys "Country Cured”
is an autobiography so meticu
lously honest that one might al
most accuse its author of maso
chism. But the book, carelessly
written at times, makes a re
markable effect. It is the 1943
version of the old story about
the farm boy who "made good,”
but with refinements. Mr. Croy
was determined to write, and yet
even today he is not sure that
the home farm near Maryville,
Mo., may not have had more to
offer.
BUST BEES. NOT THESE!
RICHMOND, Va.—(AP)—J. A.
Ewing, statistician for the Vir
ginia Crop Reporting Service,
finds that Virginia’s bees haven’t
been as busy as a bee in 1943.
This year’s -honey crop .in Vir
ginia fell off by 59 per cent from
last year.
Tell them yo« saw it adver
tised in The Nugget.
Soldiers Aid
At McKinley
Park Hostel
By CPL. TOM LOVE
(Army Correspondent)
MT. MoKINLEY NATIONAL
PARK, Alaska—Whatever the
jokes may be about the Army
putting steam shove] operators
behind typewriters, and vice ver
sa, the enlisted personnel now'
working at this world-famous1
mountain resort were planned for ,
their functions by nature or ex
perience, or both.
The trek of “G.-I.” resort men,
entertainers and expert sportsmen
to the northward started at the
latter part of last winter when
the Alaska Railroad offered its
super-swank McKinley Park Ho
! tie for the use of the service men
in Alaska. , ,
The Army, reasoning that lux- ;
1 ury and relaxation .‘among na- j
ture’s most splendid wonders’
might do a world of good for the !
weather-beaten Alaska soldier, ,
forthwith sent a pioneering crew
| of various talents to the closed
| tight hotel, and in temperatures
j of 45 degrees below, these hardy I
I souls defrosted the water system,
I got the hundred-thousand dollar
j steam and electric plant in oper
! ation, dusted out the million
j dollar hotel itself and performed
I other yeoman service.
The Special Service section,
Headquarters Alaska Depart
ment, resorting to the files, al
most immediately found that
there was stationed at Nome, a
former skiier from Sun Valley
who had made Class “A” in the
IntemationaT competitions before
he got in the Army, and, accord
ingly, Cpl. Jack N. Yokel was
dispatched to his new station.
During the long summer
i months. Cpl. Yokel issued fishing
j tackle to the soldier guests, but
j his heart was waiting for winter,
i and he labored after hours wax
| ing skiis the Red Cross had pro
J vided, and he built a COO-ft. ski
; tow. which Special Service had
| made possible by wangling a 41
h.p. motor together with 1200-ft.
of cable, and he cleared three
large areas for the winter sports.
Several ski runs were leveled,
including a 1 Vz-mile-down-hill
trail for beginners, and several
runs for more advanced skiiers.
In addition, a 1100-ft. toboggan
slide was laid out just in back
of the hotel.
At the present, snow having
fallen at last, soldiers are risking
life and limb to varying extents
on the ski run. Cpl. Yokel, how
ever, strives to prevent accidents
by giving illustrated lectures on
“controlled skiing,” a subject he
is well qualified to talk on.
Almost simultaneously with
the discovery of the skiier. Spec
ial Service discovered in the hos
pital at Sitka, a soldier by the
name of Cpl. Harry E. Stiver,
who had owned, operated and
starred in an ice-skating known
as “The Ice Review” in and
around Wichita, Kans, So Cpl.
Stiver was sent to McKinley, and
he filled-in during the summer
months clerking at the desk and
taking dramatic parte evenings
in “The Corntented Hour” for the
amusement and edification of the
“guests”. However, the rows and
rows of Red Cross skates were
waiting patiently in the Sports
Shop, and picturesque Horseshoe
Lake, now having frozen solid,
Cpl. Stiver, who used to charge
$8 to $10 for instructing, now
guides the amateur G. I. skaters
around for the usual Army re
muneration.
Another man, who was discov
ered personally (by Lt Gen. Si
mon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., com
manding general, Alaska Depart
ment, is a first-rate violinist
Charles Van Brunt has played
with concert groups all over the
world and with Don Vorhiis’ or
chestra at Radio City, N. Y. As
General Buckner, himself, seated
at th^ piano at the officers’ club
l discovered* Charlie could also get
in the groove when the occasion
demanded, and he was given a
one-way ticket to McKinley. He
is a native of Brooklyn, and be
ing endowed with that section’s
dry sort of nasal humor, Charlie
is considered, in addition to a vio
linist of unusual talent, a never
ending sopree of humcr and en
tertainment.
By middle of June this year,
Special Service "discoveries” be
gan to come thick and fast, and
hardly a train went north from
Anchorage that didn't bring an
other round peg for a round hole.
Pvt. Harold E. Wheatley, Jr.,
Air Force at Fort Richardson, ar
electrical specialist with the 11th
rived to accompany Van Brunt
on the piano. Wheatley, who had
received offers from such big
name orchestras as Dick Jurgen’s
before the war, but who was too
busy studying engineering to
take them up, now plays dinner
music together with Van Brunt
in the lavish McKinley dining !
room and keeps the recreation
hall resounding with rich boogie
woogie in the evenings.
Other Air Corps men from j
Fort Richardson arrived—Sgt.
Geo. C. Rathke came to help Yo
kel. Cgt. Rathke was a profes
sional skiier at Sun Valley be
fore the war. And Pvt. Arlo
Thompson who owned a chain of
theaters in Iowa before induction
arrived to operate the moving
picture projector.
Pvt. Etienne S. Loupy, an ac
countant and bookkeeper in San
Francisco before the war, was
sent to be accountant and book
keeper at McKinley. Actually !
the soldiers consider Loupy the '
funniest villian they have ever
seen in amateur dramatics, and
he keeps ’em laghing in such
productions as "The Mighty Mc
Kinley Art Players,’1 “The Corn
tented Hour” and “The Visit
ing Firemans Hour.”
Pvt. Frank W. Murphy, who
was employed as hotel account- !
ant and room clerk for many of J
the country’s largest and most
exclusive hotels before the war, !
is now desk clerk at McKinley.
Previously, he had served over
two years with the Quartermas
ter in Alaska.
Getting down to the less spec
ialized help at McKinley, the
Army’s method of selection is
less apparent. Pfc. Gibson Baker,
who put in over two years with
an infantry unit at Seward, can’t
for the life of him figure out why
the Army suddenly put him on a
northbound train one day last
June to wait on table at McKin
ley, particularly in view of the
fact that he had never perform
ed this type of service in his life.
However, Pvt. Edward P. Ren
ner, former hotel auditor from
St. Louis, the head waiter, says
Pfc. Baker gives the type of
smiling, unassuming service that
only a professional waiter knows
how to give, so it must be as
sumed there was some sort of
mysterious logic behind the
Army’s selection.
Others of the help at McKin
ley include the inevitable 1st
Sergeant, Sgt. Glenn F. Sween
ey, former athletic instructor at
the University of Oregon, who
keeps “his boys” on the job seven
days a week, (none of the sol
diers working at McKinley have
had a day off since they have
been there) and he also acts as
master of ceremonies at the en
tertainments. Pvt. Willard W.
Williams, a genuine cowhand,
from the West, keeps the horses
during the summer, and the chef,
Sgt-. Stanley Waszak, together
with his G. I. cooks, turns out
food that tastes very much like
it used to in the old days when
room and board at the McKinley
Park Hotel cost $20 per day.
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