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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

Information Please?. Editor, Tall Tower Topics New Pocket Quiz Book quotes (Which amendment to the Constitution freed the slaves? and page 198 it states, "The Thirteenth Amendment. Did this amendment place provision in the document or was there any wording inserted to govern slavery? Per haps some ll-knOwn attorney-at-law might cOnde scend to inform this writer to the solution?
 -J. V. WALKER
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

Memories When the 25 story McAlpin Hotel in New City opened thrtyhree years ago at Greeley Square, 34th and 33rd streets it was literally speaking tops in hotel structure, and at the time the cys largest hotel Those familiar with the hostery will be interested to know that deal is underway for it's sale to large retail clothing chain Many innovations were introduced the McApn It the last word in serv- ice, and there whole floor just for women Let's go to the McAlpn for lunch let's go to the McApin for dinner were familiar words In the days when floor shows and dancing in the main dining room were not yet adopted this hotel featured something of this sort and great attraction for young and old, and the McApin mezzanine the rendezvous for those whose hearts young and gay, as gals turkey-trotted or onesepped in hobble skirts to the tune Of Eveybodys Doing it, Aexander's Ragtme Band or Ragtime Cowboy Joe. One of the principal stockholders was Charles P Taft brother of President Taft and Lucius Boomer who made the old and Waldorf-Astora hotels what they are today managing director. The site was owned by the estate of D. H. McApine who purchased it in 1877 from Jay Gould.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

Who remembers the good old days when along about this time folks vied with another to who could get the snappes and longest hat pns the incest and longest gloves the niftest white fans and the doggiest stick pins for commencement gifts for the young people of the family about depart these hal lowed halls"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
LABOR DISPUTES SWEEP ACROSS
 UNITED STATES
(By The Associated Press)

Labor disputes across the country kept about 425,000 workers away from their jobs today, compared to record l945 high of 550,000 last week.
 Main disputes:
 COAL-177,0 ,0o0 coal miners out of more than 675 pits in six States in 18th day of shutdowns; additional steel mills close; Secretary Schwell- enbach says prospects brighter" as management labor conferences con- tinue.
 SHIPPING-New York port, the worlds busiest, damned with un- moved freight and ships in ninth day of dock strike; place embargo on all freight shipments for export.
 MOTION PICTURES = Striking movie workers, after second outbreak of violence in which scores were hurt, summoned back to picket lines as tension mounts in eight-month- old AFL jurisdictional dispute.
 AUTOMOTIVE-No major work stoppages in Detroit for first time in six weeks but CIO Auto Workers Union, seeking 30 per cent wage rate increases in auto industry, has filed NLRB strike votes in Big Three" Ford, General Motors, Chrysler.
 LUMBER Striking AFL lumber union presses to spread stoppages as 61 ,000 remain out third week; three large CIO-manned plants closed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
By MEL MOST Associated Press Correspondent

 PARIS, Oct. 9-Pierre Laval con- tinued his strange sit-down strike today against his own treason trial, where testimony was completed abruptly and the prosec n started summing up it's demand for death.
 Laval remained in a dungeon be- heath the Palace of Justice He has called the trial farce and de- clared he would not be a party to judicial crime"
 The jury of l2 Parliamentarians and 12 members of the resistance movementS-some of whom ab- sented themselves in favor of po- litical campaigning, or perhaps from horedom-was expected to re- ceive the case by tonight.
 The French Council of Ministers discussed the case at a lengthy, secret session with Gen. de Gaulle, but there was no indication that the government would interfere. The ministers were reported in afternoon newspapers to be uneasy over reaction to the trial in France and abroad.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
LISHA0
 ASSASsINATED EN C.HUNGK!NC
Secretary Chinese Communist Party Mys-
 ieriously Killed

CHUNGKING, Oct. 9-hn absent chauffeur was sought today for questioning in the puzzling assas- sination of his master, Li Shao- shin, Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Partys Chung king headquarters.
 A fusillade of slugs killed Ii late yesterday, ripping through the back Of his car as he rode through the quiet Shapingpa University section Of suburban Chungking.
 (The murder Of the 39-year-old Communist Secretary General fol- lowed by only few hours reports that. basic agreement between Chi nese Nationalists and Communists would be announced in a com- mlnique tomorrow but there was no indication that the assassina- tion was linked with this long standing feud or it's settlement.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
FIRE DESTR0YS GAS BOAT THIS A. N. IN
 SMALL BOAT HARB0R

An unexplained explosion aboard a gasboat, owned by Al Routsala caus- ed a spectacular fire which resulted in the sinking of the boat. about five minutes after being lowed away from the dock and other boats in the Small Boat Harbor
 The 5-3 call. which sounded at 1005 o'clock this morning. brought out -both the Juneau Fire Depart ment and the Fire Patrol boat of the Transport Service, and city firemen were agreed that only the fast and effective work of the Fire. Patrol boats crew, prevented the fire from spreading to other boats in the har- bor. Even before the arrival of the fire department the fire had reached such proportions 1t was impossible to save the boat, and had 1t not been for the Fire Patrol boat with it's hose-pumper turned on nearby vessels while the blazing boat was cut looce and lowed out. many of the other craft in the harbor might also have burned.
 First-degree burns over the entire face and hands were suffered by Routsala, according to Dr. J. O. Rude, tie attending physician.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
InfaniiIe Paralysis Epidemic Reported in Montana; Quarantine

BILLINGS, Mont, Oct. 9.-A vir- tual quarantine was imposed on more than 40,0c0 persons in the Bill ings area today as the result of an infantile paralysis epidemic which has taken a toll of eight lives.
 Billings city authorities closed all places of public assembly in this city of 23000 yesterday and Dr. E. M. Farr, Yellowstone county Health Of- ficer, followed last night with an order placing the entire county un- der a similar quarantine.
 Parents of children under Is were subject to fines if picked up away from home Eighteen parents were tagged by police for violations. There has been 43 cases of infantile paraly- sis reported in the Billings area in six weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
GERMANS CRYING FOR HELP; PLEAS
 TURNED DOWN
U. 5. Ambassador SCorn fully Rejeeis Request
 for Compassion

ZABRSZE. Poland, Oct. 9.-A throng of fearful Germans surround ed the automobile of U. s. Ambass- ador Arthur Bliss Lane today in this former German Silesisn city of Him. denburg crying that the Poles were forcing them to speak Polish, starv- ing them and reporting them to the Reich
 A middle-aged woman who said she lived in the United States 20 years ago grasped Lanes arm and pleaded for help She declared that this was Germany and she did not want to leave her home.
 Don't put your hands on me" the ambassador warned, This is Poland"
 While the Germans stood in a beating rain storm, Lane told them
 T have been at the embassy in Warsaw two months. What l have seen there-where you Germans went from house to house dynamit- ing, burning and destroying the whole city-it is a crime against civ ilization. T. am confounded that any of you Germans can ask compass sion."
 He drove away. Poles in the street cheered. Germans sulked and sobbed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
Alaska SeaIskins Bring $90 Eath ai
 Sf. Louis Auction

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 9.-In it's first auction in four years, the Fouke Fur Company yesterday sold 60- skin lot of Alaska sealskins for $90 each or double the price possible un- der war ceiling limitations,
 With receipts totalling more than $l ,5Oo,e00 during the first hours, the auction was on it's way to a record. It included 23,408 Alaska sealskins, part of the 1943 catch in the Pribilof Islands, 4,367 sealskins from the Cape of Good Hope, to be sold for the Government of South Africa, and about 300 blue and white Alas ka fox furs.
 The United States government gives 20 per cent of the sales pro- oeeds from Alaska skins to the Can adian government.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
KRAMER DENIES HE MI5TREATED,
 SHOT PRISONERS

LUENEBURG, Germany, Oct. g. Joseph Kramer. testifying for him. self and these who served under him at two Nazi concentration camps, flatly denied today that he mis- treated prisoners and asserted that blonde Irma GreSe, often called "the worst of the SS women" took her duties very seriously and discharged them very well"
 Before the British military court trying him and other camp guards and officials, the Belsen and Oswie- elm commandant said the statements of prosecution witnesses that he beat and kicked Russian prisoners and shot and killed two Hungarians were false.
 During all my service with con- centration camps and with troops" he said, T never shot at people, in- tentionally or otherwise"
 Counsel for the 21-year-old Irma Grese asked him about stories that she shot prisoners and treated them with savage cruelty"
 That is untrue" Kramer replied
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
ADM. NIM!Tz' iS CHEERED BY. NEW WORKERS.
Fleet Commander Receives Gold Medal of Honor
 at Big Doings

NEW YORK, Oct 9.-Cheered by millions, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz rode through wind-whipped paper storms on Broadway today and then told an assemblage at City Hall that never again should the United States risk the threat which weakness invites"
 Chief Police Inspector John J. OConnell estimated that 100000 persons acclaimed the Pacific hero on a triumphal motor ride from La Guardia Airport to City Hall, where he received the city's gold Medal of Honor and was made honorary citizen of New York.
 It was the first official reception extended by the city to naval hero since Admiral George Dewey took New York by storm in 1899
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
RESERVES OF NIpp0NSkRE
 TAKEN OVER
Financial Roundup Made- U. 5. Soldiers Stand
 Guard Over Wealth

TOKYO. Oct. 9-American sol- diers stood guard today over un- covered Japanese gold silver and platinum reserves of more than $250, 100000, and Allied headauar- ters said that the Imperial Army and Navy, which had held part of the treasure, hadn't accounted for penny since 1897.
 Responsible" Japanese officials led the way to the treasure, Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters related, on this first day in office of Pre- mier Kijuro Shidehara's already ieshuffled new government. The aged but energetic premier told correspondents he was mot pre- pared to discuss" whether Japan was guilty of starting the war, and issued an eight-point program pledging personal freedom and fight against famine.
 New Navy Minister Admiral To- yoda's portfolio was lifted even before he could be sworn in, and Admiral Misumasa Yonai who once dared oppose Warlord Hideki Tojo-replaced him in the new cabinet. Toyoda, said Japanese sources, might be considered war criminal suspect.
 The impoundedl treasury included reserves in the Bank of Japan belonging to the Bank of Thai land tSiam), Bank of Indo-C China. Federal Reserve Bank of China. Bank of Italy and Bank Of Chosen tKorea). All impounded metals and coin will be held until Allied Headquarters receives in- structions from Allied Governments on it's disposal.
 The seizure, made quietly and without interference, was to make sure that the reserves did not dis appear. and at the same time to obtain Army and Navy records which might show the disposition Of loot from conquered territories, Allied Headquarters reported
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Steamer Columbia of the Alaska Steamship Company is scheduled to arrive from the westward, Seattle-bound, at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
 Freighter Margaret Shafer, of the Hand Transportation Company, is scheduled to arrive in port tomorrow
 Princess Louise of the Canadian Pacific, scheduled to sail from Van- couver Thursday, Oct. II, is due here Sunday, Oct. IA.
 Steamer North Sea, of the Northland Transportation Com pany, is scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday morning, Oct. 13.
 Steamer Aleutian Of the Alaska Steamship Compant, scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday, Oct. 13.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
Rudolph Hess Back
 In Germany in Cell;
 With Former Chums

FRANKFURT, Oct. 9.-Rudolf Hess was among his former Nazi cohorts today for the first time in four years, but they were unaware of it.
 Flown from Britain by plane to Nuremberg, he was whisked to a gloomy cell in the jail which houses Reichmarshal Hermann Goering, former Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders awaiting trial as war criminals. None of the other prisoners saw the ar rival of the one time Deputy -Fueh- Ter. They probably will not know of his arrival until some of them get flimpse of him in the exercise yard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
The W ashington MerrY-G -Go- Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-There is lot more than meets the eye beyond the custer of pistol-packing Gen. George s. Patton, Jr., as Governor of Bavaria. Actually, members of Gen. Eisenhower's staff knew for weeks that he was diSregarding orders, but winked at it until Ray Daniell of the New York Times exposed Patton's fragrant coopera- tion with top NaZis and his keep ing of U. s. troops in tents while U. s. officers were entertained in luxurious Nazi homes. For instance, at a meeting of Allied military governors called by Gems Eisen- hover and Clay at Supreme Head quarters from Aug. 27 to 29, Patton vigorously and openly objected to Clay's orders on de-Nazification. Clay had demanded that no Nazis be used under American occupa- tion forces.
 "Hell's bells" exploded Patton, when a fellow goes into a town without a burgemeister who is. in- variably Nazi, he will be up the creek without paddle
 Gen. Clay bristled and replied, We're not here to run Germany efficiently. We're here to get the Nazis out"
 Despite this, however, Patton went his own sweet way ignoring orders. It should be said for him, however, that others did the same.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
0HLS0N OUT, JOHNSON IN,
 ALASKA K. K.
Shift in General Manager ship of 5OO-MiIe Line
 on December 3t

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Appoint- ment of Col John P. Johnson of the Army Transportation Corps as general manager of the government owned Alaska railroad was announ- oed today by Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes.
 Johnson will succeed Col. Otto F. Ohlson, who will retire Dec. 31, after heading the railroad since August l. 1928.
 Col Johnson, a lssident of To- pska, Kansas, began his railroad career in 1917 as an engineering ap- prentice on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Re Railroad.
 In the army he served on both the Iraq and the Iran State railroads, and later organized an Army Trans portation program in India. Re- gently he headed railroad operations for Gen. Macarthur in the Philip pines.
 Col Johnson was assigned in 1914 to set up program for rehabilita- ton of construction equipment in Alaska He will return there in a few weeks.
 The Alaska railroad has 500 miles of track from Seward and Whittier through Anchorage to Fairbanks.
 Col. Ohlson, a railroader for 59 years, was to retire two years ago, but remained on the job by re- quest during the war. He is na- tive of Sweden.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
U. }. SENATE BEHIND BYRNES REGARDING
 PEACE CONFERENCE
Secretary Makes Report on Foreign Ministers
 Meet in London
By JACK BELL Associated Press CorresponGentl

tNoo
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 9-Secretary of State Byrnes has the comfortable, if unofficial, backing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to carry along on the uncharted peace treaty course.
 Members left no doubt, as they reviewed a three-hour session with the Secretary yesterday, that BSrnes had earned their approval in his first major test in directing Ameri- can foreign policy at the London Foreign Ministers conference.
 The affable Byrnes, right at home in the committee room, filled in the blank places of his Friday night radio report to the nation.
 Members said he gave them about the frankest, most detailed descrip- ton of what went on behind the scenes at London that they had ever received of any conference. Talking Senatorial language, Byrnes was reported to have got down to the brass tacks of what he said to Rus sian Foreign Commissar Molotov and what Molotov replied.
 The Senators liked the report. And they liked Byrnes' action in permit ting the conference to end in out ward failure because he would not agree to exclude France and China from discussions of proposed Europ- can treaties.
 Committee members came away from the meeting with the impression that the next move is up to Russia and that Byrnes remains hopeful of a later agreement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
SENATOR'S JITTERY

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9-Senators, jittery over the future of atomic research, heard scientist contend today that it is selfish, and per- haps dangerous, to conceal knowl- edge or obstruct it's use.
 Referring specifically to the current situation with respect to atomic energy" Dr. Harlow Snap ley of Harvard said he believes it "unwise to withhold for any ap- preciable time essential knowledge that can be of value to the whole world"
 An astronomer and director of the Harvard College Observatory, Shapley prepared his testimony in support of pending bills to create a national research agency to keep this country in the parade of scientific progress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
HIDDEN TREASURE OF JAPANNOW SEIZED
Talk Is Made by Truman Regarding Many
 Domestic, Foreign Issues

TIPTONVILLE, Tenn, Oct - The world fhas notice from the lips of President Truman himself that the secret of the atomic bomb will not be shared with other nations.
 The President set the record straight at an unprecedented press conference in the heart of the Reelfoot Lake hunting and fishing preserve in which he also
 Made it clear that neither Russia nor any other ally had asked for the engineering know how that led to the perfection of the bomb.
 Designated James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State, to initiate dis cussions with Great Britain and Canada, partners in the fateful dis covery, looking to the outlawing of it's use.
 3-Scoffed at reports the London meeting of the Foreign Ministers of United States, China, Russia, Great Britain and France was a failure.
 4-Declared that there never has been a clash of American and Rus sian interests and expressed the hope there never would be.
 Expressed concern that Rus sia has been badly misrepresented in this country as we have been in Russia and attributed misunder- standing to differences in lan- guages and difficulties in transla- ton.
 6 Expressed confidence that management and labor will adjust difficulties which have led to re- notwithstanding strikes-diffi- culties which he laid in large measure to natural let-doWn similar to those that have followed every war ill history.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
Norway voiers in
 Heavy Swing Jeff

LONDON, Oct. 9.-Returns an- nounced here today by the Norweg- ian Information office indicated that Norway's voters had swung heavily toward the left in their first general election in nine years.
 Conservatives 128.743 votes, Agrar- ians ,205, Christian Popular party, 60,550, Liberals 146,739, Labor 394,- 2l0, Communist 93,336. Labor and Communist gains were made at the expense of Conservatives, Liberals and Agrarians.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
AUTOPSY UNDERWAY

CHUNGKING, Oct 9-A panel Of physicians and witnesses was summoned today to an autopsy to determine the type of gun used in yesterdays puzzling assassination of Ii Shao-shih. Secretary General of the Communist Party's Chung king headquarters-a man who re- portedly had no enemies.
 Two American doctors were in- vited to participate, and Chung king sources pointed out that such extreme attention to witnessing re- moval of the bullets grew from the fear of both Communists and Chungking Government authorities that one side or the other might term the staying a political crime.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
Argentine Paper
 Is Closed; Even
 Presses Chained

BUENOS AIRES, Ocs. 9.-The Ar genuine military government has closed the Socialist newspaper Van- guardia and chained it's presses.
 The daily had printed the first de- tails of fighting between police and pupils of La Plata University It also had carried the text of a su- preme court decision setting free and restoring to the bench a judge whom the government had removed after he liberated federal prisoners.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
MAJOR BEI5TLINE
 NOW ASSIGNED TO
 BIG BASE IN TEXAS

KELLY FIELD. Texas.-Maj Earl H. Beistline of Juneau recently has been assigned to the San Antonio Air Technical Service Command. the worlds largest aircraft supply and maintenance station, after service of four years in Alaska and the Aleut- ians
 Maj. Reistline wears the Bronze Star -Aleutian Medal. He is the son of MT. and Mrs. Ralph H. BeiSt- line of Juneau.
 Prior to entering the Army, Maj Reistline was an mining engineer, employed by the Fairbanks Explora- tion Co.,. Fairbanks. Alaska, and ex- poets to return to this field of work. after discharge,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 7A, American Can 111h, Anaconda 38M, Curtis S. Wright 7A, International liar vester 91&, Kennecott 44l2. New York Central 29A. Northern Pa cific 29, United States Steel 78, Pound $40312.
 Sales today were 1,640,000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today were as follows: Industrials, 1885 43; rails, 5988; utilities, 3505.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
NAVY MEN IN TOWN

Personnel off the three Navy minesweepers moored at the Gov ernment Dock here today took ad- vantage of the occasion to see some of Juneau. Crew members register ing in at the Baranof Hotel in- cluded: J. G. Jempel, E. w. Kob- Ter, c. w. Knight, all off the USS- YMS 333; BM 2/c Joseph w. An thony, Rdm. 3lc Robert D. Morri- son, SIM 2/c B. J. Cohon, MoNfM 3lc M. E. Labesque, EM sc P. J. Gerling, BM 2/c s. M. Peterson, all off the USS- -YMS 328.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
LAVAL CASE
 MAY GO 10
 JURY TODAY
Former Premier, Sill in Dungeon, Refuses 10
 Give Testimony

BULLETIN-PARIS, Oct. g. Pierre Laval was condemned to death tonight for intelligence with the enemy and attacking the security of France. Laval was stripped of all citizenship rights and his property was con- fiscated.
 It took the jury only 62 min utes to decide the trial which the white-t tied defendant had called a judicial crime"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
NEW WORKERS HERE

Elizabeth c. Tanner, New York City newspaperwoman, was an ar rival from the States yesterday aboard the steamer Denali. She plans to remain in Juneau for some time Stopping here with her at the Baranof Hotel is Jessie Grcssnickle, also a New Yorker.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
BRITISH STATEMENT

LONDON, Oct. 9-Prime Minister Attlee told Commons today the British Government will of course be happy" to discuss with the United States the future of atomic power.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
FROM ANCHORAGE

Several arrivals here from An chorage yesterday are registered at the Baranof Hotel: Glenna Gordon, Nadeane F. Collins, Helen M. Os- kolkoff, Margery Mccormick and Mildred Bostrom.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
NOONAN HERE

Dan Noonan, veteran merchant disc broker, is stopping off in Juneau at the Baranof Hotel on one of his regular trips through the Territory He arrived from Seward yesterday aboard the Steamer Yukon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-09
DOOM SACK

L. M. Odom, Anchorage business man who recently purchased the former Alaska Trading Company properties here, has returned to Juneau and is registered at the Baranof Hotel.