The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-04
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NEW YORK-The great harbor of New York is tied up by tugboat strike that union leader claims is 98 per cent effective. The union official, Captain William Bradley, said that only half dozen tugs were working early today. No coal or oil deliveries are being made.
 NUERNBERG-A professor from Louvain University in Belgium told the Nuremberg tribunal today that the Germans deliberately wrecked the famous library of the uni versity in 1940. He said that two Nazi artillery batteries fired sys- tematically at the library while 43 planes dropped bombs.
 WASHINGTON The House Banking Committee will begin pub- lie hearings on Thursday on leg islation to continue price controls for another year.
 TERRAIN ienran press an- nounced today that Generalissimo Stalin had advised the Iranian gov ernment' he is ready to receive a mission appointed by Premier Ahm- ed Quavam es Saltaneh to discuss Iranian charges of Soviet interven- tion in Azerbaijan Province.
 WASHINGTON The House Banking Committee today turned down a Republican proposal to eliminate from proposed housing legislation provisions for expanding home price controls. The committee also refused to eliminate payment of subsidies for the production of building materials.
 WESTINGHOUSE a unanimous vote, the House of Representatives has adopted legislation authorizing the payment of subsidies to Puerto Rican and Hawaiian sugar pro- ducers for their 1946 crop. The measure now goes to the Senate.
 CHICAGO-One man died, found suffocated in a bathtub, and 2,000 guests fled to safety Sunday when fire broke out on the fifth and sixth floors of the History Con- gress Hotel. The damage. estimated at about $10,000 was confined to the fire floors. Guests of the hotel were orderely and waited their turns at the elevators.
 NEW YORK-Dr. Karl Riedel 66, who had conducted at the Metro politan Opera for the past 24 years, died Sunday
 LONDON-E. Phillips Oppenheim, British author, regarded as dean of writers of spy thrillers and mystery stores, having turned out more than 15O novels of detection and intrigue, many short stories and plays, died in his sleep Sunday at his home on the channel island of Guernsey. He was 79.
 LONDON - The British Foreign Office has announced the transfer of five German destroyers and two torpedo boats to France. The ships were part of Britain's allocation from the German fleet, which was divided among the United States, Russia and Britain.
 FRANKFURT, Gcrmany-United States Army Headquarters has an- ncunced that three battalions num- bering 2423 men have arrived at Le Havre, France, for shipment home. They are the 569th and 443rd Antiaircraft Battalions and the 40th Amphibious Tractor Battalion.
 TOKYO-Japanese Admiral Mo- mura says he soon will make public his own version of the Japanese American negotiations before Pearl Harbor. Nomura was the Japanese Ambassador to the United States at the time of the attack.
 LONDON - Sir Maurice Drum mond Peterson, veteran British career diplomat now serving as Am bassador to Turkey. has been named Ambassador to Moscow to succeed Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. Clark Kerr, now on a special mission to Idonesia, will became Ambassador to the United States this spring.
 NEW DELHI, India-Crop failure caused by drought foreshadoWs a famine in India surpassing the Ben gal disaster of 1943, government quarters said today