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Show CA PTAI N CHAS. ~. HANNE, RECENTLY ASS I GNED O.I.C 0 OF J AILING UNI TS AT W~REHOUSE 14!\ , WAS FORMERLY I N CHARGE OF' SPE CIAL I11I 'IT ER AND HOUNTAlN WARFARE EQU I PMENT. SCENES ON OP'Pbs'ttE PAGE DE'PtCT THE HANDLI NG AND USE OF' OUT DOOR EQU.I PMEI\fT flT THE ;)EPOT AND I N THE FIELDe ALF ENGEN, WORLD:-RENOWNED SKIIR, WHO POSSIO:SSES THE BI GGEST AND Fl r,'EST CCLLECTI ON OF TROPHIES I N THE WORLD, WHO IS EMP L OYED !·T THE DEPOT, lS SHO\''N I N Ll.:f:!_~EI_C:TURE '!11 Tl~ CAPTAIN HANNE. --·- ---- - - --·--- - -J Noted Norwegian Athletes Held by Gestapo for Secretly Skiing· . . AS NORWEGIAN SKI JUMPERS APPEARED,ON VISIT TO UNITED STATES-By The Ass!)ciated Press London, March 13.- Four . noted No1:wegian a thletes, including the three Ruud brothers known both in , Europe and America for their skiing performances, have been placed in a concentration camp for participa- 1 tion in an unsanctioned sports event, the Norwegian .Telegraph Agency reported today. Birger, Sigmund and Asbjorn Ruud and Johan Haanes, the foremost Norwegian tennis player , were among a g-I;.OUP of 25 athletes rounded up by tMe Gestapo. • German occupation authorities forbade the annual ski jumping championships, one of Norway's big 1 sports events, but the contestants as- ' sembled secretly at a secluded spot in the mount ains and finished th eir competition. However, Quisling adherents de,; nounced some of the participants leading to their arrest, t he Norweg-. ian agency r eported. • • • Birger Ruud won the Olympic ski, jumping championships in both'1932 and 1936 and in the latter year also 1 finished fourth in the combined 1 downhill-slalom racing. · · 1 Hurt In Crash OGDEN-(AP)-Alf Engen of Salt Lake, nationally ' famous skier, suffered a fractured skull today in a car collision north of the. HJU .Field road on Highway U. S. 89. When he. was first ad· mitted to tl~e _Dee l\llem,orial Hos. pital it' was thought he was .simp· ly .an out-going pqtlent, but X·ray ·examination later in the day showed he had a fractured skull~He. is reported in fairly good · con· clition, however. · Engen was a passenger in a car dl'iven by Arthur T. Allen, of Salt Lake, and the Allen car was in collision with a machine driven by Robert Ar thur Safe, Ogden. Other passengers in both cars received minor in juries. I I AI£ Engen, s~ 1 Champion, Now, !Recuperating. Q GDEN , Utah. - A lf Engen , world 's ski champion, who is at presen t connected with the Utah Quartermaster Depot .Jn the technica l inspection of all special ski equipment, was Injur ed In an autor; nobile. accident recently and Is at present in the Dee Memorial H ospit al, Salt Lake City. Mr. Engen 's injuries included a broken nose, skull fracture and body inju ries, but he is r eported recovering rapidly. He is expected to resume his dutles early next month. ( CHARLES W. HANNE • ' Q. M. C . ,_ ,. .. , IJ/II(Y '.f NE'CMO N.Y. C. r- AU . Engen, ~;;J Utah p. who is world famous as_ a, I· skier, has been employed in the '\ Utah A:SF depot at Ogden in the qua r termaster_ supply SE)ction for the past two years. He has been : worldng as inspector of winter r wa t,fa re clot hing and equipmeht; I ~-.. --------------:-~- -· _,! Birger Ruud (left), his wife, .and~s brother, Sigmund · In 1938 he and brother Sigmund came to the United States for a series of spectacular performances in ski jumping events from coast to coast. Birger broke n umerous records with leaps of 181, 192, 194 arid; 216 feet at various places ai1d his 1 form was as perfect as the distances I he achieved. In s~veral of the events Sigmund came i ~second. · -----~----- |
