make good money finishing up as a First Class Shipfitter. All this time they were dying from the freezing cold and wondering how in hell they would get out of Maine and give it back to the Indians. During the war there was a great shortage of Ship Workers on the West coast and the Government was recruiting workers to go out there at government expense. Hugo held out until they would include in their agreement the promise to find a furnished apartment. This they did and Hugo got set to move. There is an interesting side-light in connection w/this trip. Hugo of course was born in Germany and had two brother in World War II fighting for Germany. One had been killed in a mine field explosion and the other had been sent to fight the Russians and was transferred from there to No. Africa where he was wounded and captured. Sent back as a Prisoner-of-War he was sent to Oklahoma and Hugo had been in touch with him. So on the treck Westward Hugo stops in Oklahoma and finds that his brother had been transferred the same morning to Arkansas. So off they go and finally caught up with him there. They had a nice visit and finally Hugo -his wife and three kids take off for