Criminals Did Not
Harm Operation
N. J. Waterfront
WASHINGTON, UPl — An Army
colonel testified Tuesday he re
commended against steps that
would have led to the firing of
criminals employed at a water
front terminal which handled
materials for airbases overseas.
Col. Charles T. Tench told a
Senate Commerce subcommittee
investigating waterfront racket
eering he couldn’t say the opera
tions, at the Claremont Terminal
in Jersey City, were hurt by em
ployment of criminals.
Officials of Dade Bros., Inc., a
firm that'crated materials for the
airbases, testified Friday that Jer
sey City politicians and a gang
ridden union hampered their job.
Tench said there was a clause
in the contract that permitted the
firing of persons whose “contin
ued employment was deemed
inimical to the public interest.”
He said fingerprinting was dis
cussed as a possible preliminary
to invoking this clause and he
decided against this step for three
reasons:
1. "I was concerned lest any
action against somebody who had
been in prison might result in
labor's bringing a shutdown of
the Claremont Terminal and a
shutdown of the overseas con
struction program.
2. “I was concerned about my
legal right. There was some doubt
if a criminal record was sufficient
to exclude a man.
3. "Moral doubt. I did not feel
competent to withhold a man’s
right to make a livelihood because
he had been in prison.”
The colonel went on to say that
“we preferred not to have them
but I am not prepared to say the
situation was lax and inefficient
because they were there.”
Actually, he said the records
will show efficiency of the ter
minal was increased under his
jurisdiction, with the costs of
handling shipments cut from $36
to $30 a ton. Furthermore, he said,
Claremont was “not a security op
eration.”
To be reasonably effective, an
airplane wing should have a
length. at least six times its fore
and-aft width.
Pfc. Ronald Ailak Thinks
Nothing of Korean Winter
WITH THE 40th INFANTRY
DIV. IN KOREA — For Army
PFC. Ronald E. Ailak of Nome,
Alaska, in the 40th Infantry Div
ision’s 160th Regiment, the rigors
of the Korean winter are next to
nothing. He’s had colder days
right in his own back yard.
Ailak, who1 is in the regiment’s
intelligence and reconnaissance
platoon, comments, “In winter,
Nome gets considerably colder
than Korea. Sometimes the tem
perature di'ops to 30 or 40 degrees
below zero. I was born in Teller
and I’m used to it.
“The winter in Korea isn’t a
snap, but it isn’t bad either. The
worst thing is the dampness. At
home, it gets colder, but it’s dry
—one doesn’t feet it as much.”
Accoi'ding to Ailak, Korea
doesn’t compare weather - wise
with Austria either, where he
spent 45 months before coming to
the Orient. The Austrian winter
did not faze him.
Nome gets warm enough in the
sumer for one to walk around in
a tee-shirt, but Ailak looks com
fortable in the Korean snow while
wearing a light jacket o'r less.
Communist Spy Tells
Investigators He Stole
Plans For Military Engine
WASHINGTON, UP) — T h a d
Mason, a self - identified former
Comraunkt spy testified Tuesday
that he sloie secret U.S. plans for
a military diesel engine during
World War II.
The witness, from Wallington,
N.J., said the thefts were from
a General Motors plant in Cleve
land, Ohio, and not from a De
troit plant of General Motors as
reported previously by the Sen
ate Internal Security subcommit
tee before which he testified.
Mason said he stole the plans
one by one from files of the in
spection division, and smuggled
them to fellow spies who worked
as a cook and “second assistant
dishwasher” in the plant’s cafe
teria. The plans then were photo
graphed in a secret hideout in the
basement of the cafeteria, he said.
He learned later, he said, that
the blue prints were for only part
of the engine, although he had be
lieved he was stealing the plans
for the entire unit.
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$250 Reward Offered
For New Jersey Youth
A two hundred and fifty dollar
reward has been offered for in
formation leading to the location
ROY W. MAURER
of 16 - year - old Roy W. Maurer,
who has been missing from his
home, in Ridgewood, N.J.,- for the
past six weeks.
Young Maurer, who is the son
of the sales manager of a nation
ally known distillery company in
New York left his home on Feb.
23 apparently because of diffi
culty he had with the local traf
fic police, requiring his appear
ance in court.
A nation - wide search, which
has been conducted to ascertain
the whereabouts of missing Roy,
has so far been unsucessful. With
the mother recently returned
from the hospital after under
going a serious operation, and the
father pressed by business affairs
as well as the worry of his son’s
disappearance, the strain on both
parents has been extremely se
vere.
Presently, a search is being
conducted among armed_ service
induction centers on the theory
the young man has enlisted al
though in doing so he would have
to misstate his age.
"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books
at the Nugget
Wednesday. April 29, 1953 THE NOME NUGGET e
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buy Coke by the case
Four generations of Americans
have enjoyed the quick refresh
ment and unmatched flavor of
ice-cold Coca-Cola. For family
and friends it’s the choice
everywhere.
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NOME BEVERAGE CO.
"Coke" is a registered trade-mark. © 1953, THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
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