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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
BIG FIRE
 Al DALLAS
 EARLY AM.
Reserve Stock of Depart menf Store Wiped 0uf-
 Over $500, ,O00 Loss

DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 30.-A S500,- coo plus basement fire today practi- cally wiped out the reserve stocks of Dallas famed Neiman Marcus Department store. one of the na- tion's fashion centers.
 The stubborn. furnace-hot blaze sent billowing clouds of destructive smcke throughout the five-story building, decorated for the Christ mas season, and store manager Robert A. Ross said. We can { tegin to really estimate what this has cost us"
 Our tremendous reserve stocks of fine furs, shoes and other mer- chandise stored in the basement is almost totally ruined," he added.
 An investigation was launched at dawn to place the cause of the fcur-hour blaze which was discoy- cred shortly before midnight.
 A night watchman, making his lourds on the fifth floor of the building, reported he heard series Of rumbling noises just before mid night which sounded like eXplo- sions'
 He descended to the ground floor in an elevator and found smoke. The automatic alarm system called firemen tc the scene
 Neiman- Marcus officials announc- cd that telegrams and telephone calls had been received from manu- facturers all over the country, of fering to help replenish the .des- f.sges --.c4ei4dildise Tie loss was insured
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
JOHNSON IS FOUND
 GUILTY OF ASSAULT

After two hour deliberation, a verdict Of guilty with recommenda- tion for leniency was returned by a jury in the case of Dick Johnson. native of Sitka, on trial for crim- inal assault and battery in the U. s. Commissioners Court Verdict was reached at 430 yesterday aft ernoon following the four hour trial, Commissioner Felix Gray pronounc- ed six month suspended sentence on Johnson, who has been held in jail without bail since September II. the date oi the crime Mrs. Amy Rasmussen was the plaintiff
 Circumstantial evidence was the cause for recommending leniency.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
MARINER SCOUTS WORK
 ON CHRISTMAS PROJECT

The meeting of the Mariner Scouts was held Wednesday night at the home o1 Pat Butler. Some ideas were expressed on how to raise some money for the Troop treasury All girls worked on items for the Christmas Project through out the meeting. Pumpkin pie and cocoa was served by the hostess after the business sessicn of the meeting.
 Next weeks get-together will be held at Mildred Fluck's, and all girls are reminded that December 4 is the time when toys for the drive should be finished. Jeannette Doucette, Reporter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
AC5 STARTING TO
 CUT RADIO RATES
 ALASKAT050UTH

Col T. J. Fully, Commanding Officer, Alaska Communication Sys- tenn, announced in Seattle today a reduction of approximately 25 per cent in the existing telegraph rates on messages from Anchorage to Seattle, from Kodiak to Seattle, and from Fairbanks to Seattle-all ef- feCtive December l. For example, the present rate for ten word straight telegram from Anchorage to Seattle is S200 The new rate will be $50.
 ACS Headquarters has recently completed very comprehensive study of the whole long distance telephone and telegraph rate struc- ture for Alaska This is the first such study that has been made since well before the war The recom- mendations resulting from that study. which called for general downward revision, were presented by Col Fully to Washington author i ities during a recent trip to the East. The December l reductions are the first approved and made ef- ! fective Others will become effec- tive about February l, or as soon as the information can be dissemin- ated to the thousands of connecting Western Union and Canadian Tele- graph offices.
 Foreign Rate Drops
 In addition to these reductions, the international rate between Alas ] ka and foreign countries is being reduced approximately 40 percent i tAn international message is one 1 that originates in Alaska and is deS- tined for foreign country other than Canada or Mexico Inter- national rates require payment for address and signature Messages originating in Alaska and destined for Canada or Mexico are charged for at the regular domestic rates in effect on the ACS circuits.)
 :, Col Fully stated that the basic ACS policy, insofar as rates are con cerned, is to bring the best possible communication service to the largest number of users in Alaska, at the lowest possible cost. It is hoped that these reductions in rates, as they go into effect, will enable more Alaskans to make greater use ot the ACS services available in the var, ious localities, particularly as the telephone service develops. The in- tra- Alaska telephone service, partic- ularly. should help in substantial way to bring closer together the widely separated communities in the great Alaskan Territory.
 Trained Help Gone
 ACS, like all other War Depart ment agencies, has lost very higf percentage of it's best trained ano most experienced personne, durinf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
0pA CHIEF
 p. PORTER
 HAS QUIT
Merger of Two Agencies Now Near Announce
 ment Up to Truman

WASHINGTON, Nov. Merger of OPA and the Civil Production Administration moved step nearer today with the Presidents accept ance of the resignation of OPA Chief Paul Porter
 Even as it entered it's final days as an independent agency, the OPA girded for a finish fight in Fed eral district court over whether still another of it's scarce power-sugar rationing go by the boards.
 The continuation of sugar con trols. a top official told reporter may be decided next Wednesday when a Federal judge hears an at tack on the legality of rationing regulations brought by the Maple Leaf Diaries, Inc, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
 The resignation of Porter who succeeded Chester Bowles last Feb ruary. was dated November Is and effective December 4.
 It was made public by the White House last night in move taken as a signal for the consolidation which had been talked over for several weeks by top administra ton advisers
 Presidential Press Secretary Char les Ross told reporters the action could be expected in few days
 The new agency. it's name as yet unannouncsd would carry on con- trols deemed still iiesessag5 ano proceed with gradual liquidation of OPA and CPA.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
LEGION AUXILIARY
 TO MEET TUESDAY AT
 HOME OF PRESIDENT

The regular business meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary Tuesday night will be held at the home of the President, Mrs James Sofoulis, $40 Main Street, due to the condition of the Dugout since the recent fire there
 All members are urged to attend and it has been suggested that anyone having packages for the Gifts for Tanks box which have not been turned in yet should take them to the meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
FIFTEEN ARE BROUGHT
 IN ABOARD pAA PLANE

Pan American Airways had light passenger loads in and out of Ju- neau on it's Alaska Division yes terday. The following persons were carried: from Seattle, Earl Lilly, Stanley Turner, Melvin Thompson, Caroline Lloyd, Leon ard Lloyd, Mary Bowling. Hazel Virdell, Cliff Nordesen, Myron True, Lorraine True, Lawrence True. Rob- ert Foley, Pearl James, Marilyn James. Mike Monagle.
 To Seattle: Peter Hildre. Anna Hildre, Harry Hcyt, Phyllis Smoth- CTS, Flcyd Simpson, Robert Mor- gan, Don McCallum, D. L. Adams
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
ALASKA POTTER5 TO DEMONSTRATE KILN
 PACKING TUES. EVE

The regular monthly meeting of the Alaska Potters will be held Tuesday night at o'clock in the club rooms in the A. B. Hall, with discussion of the problems of glazing on the evenings program
 There will also be demonstra tion of stacking the kiln, and all members who have articles ready are asked to bring their pieces tc be fired
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
JUNIOR 5k! CLUB k PLANNING SKATING PARTY FOR TONIGHT

Provid.--g t does not snow tonight the Junior Ski Club is sponsoring a skating party at the Mendenhall Skaters Cahin tonight
 Because of lack of transporta- ton and also because many like to go out early, anyone having a car and can accommodate extra skaters are asked to contact Buddy Hunter at the Alaska Music Sup ply.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
HOSpITAL NOTES

St. 4.- hospital admitted Mrs Stanley Singer, Master August Ebona. Master Emil Tang, and Mrs Charlotte Groves for medical at tention yesterday. Discharged were Mrs. Marie Elliott, George C. Dal- phond and Patricia Loy
 Government Hospital admitted Charlie Walters from Angoon. Irene Okewaga of Juneau, and discharged Marianna Carteeti from Hoonah
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
The W ashingt ion Merry -Go Round
Dy DREW PEARSON

H
 (Ed. Note-Drew Pearson's col umn today takes the form of an open letter to John L. Lewis.) JOHN L. LEWIS, President
 The United Mine Workers
 Washington, D. c.
 Dear John
 A young man just out of the Army was talking to me the other day What he said represents the viewpoint of a lot of young men, and I thought you might be in terested in hearing it.
 T don't know who caused the depression" he said. But I know I didn't. I was only eleven years old when it started, and as re- suit I couldn't go to college. h. stead I went out to support the family at sixteen, with my ambl- tion to be a mechanical engineer gone glimmering.
 T don't know the answers on the war either But Hitler was in Poland before I was old enough to vote, so I don't think I started it. However, I had to take four years out of my life to help finish it. Arii when l came home, my wife and I had grown so far apart that cur marriage flopped.
 All that may have been inevit- able, and I'm net complaining about the past. I don't begrudge the four years I gave to my coun- try. But I do begrudge the pres ent and future What I'm interest ed in is where We go from here. And judging by the strikes and the gerenal attitude of kick-the-other- fellow in n-the-shins, we aren't going anywhere fast.
 Your own boy. MT Lewis, was luckier than that. You were able to send him to the Woodbury School in Virginia, then to Prince ton, then to medical college. Which is all right He is fine boy, and deserved all the education he could get. But there are thousands oi others who were not so lucky as your boy And they are asking the very same question as my friend where does the country go from here? And why do certain leaders keep muddying lp their lives?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
FIFTY DIE FROM
 COLD, EXPOSURE

SHANGHAI, Nov 3O, More than 50 persons died of cold and ex- posture here last night as the first cold wave of winter struck, Chinese authorities reported The number is believed to be a record for a single days deaths due to weather.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
YOUTHS CONTRACT WITH UsA

They too have a contract--a con- tract with life-to Go for the world as they are done by. It may not be written in hlack and white. as your contract with the Government. but it's there just the same And without quibbling over legal loopholes, they want to make something out of that contract just as your boy does. Many oi them have spent their best years fulfilling their end of the contract all the way from Guadalcanal to Normandy-and now what they want is a period without depres- sions and without wars to collect some dividends.
 And they know, far more than
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
JOE ANDERSON DIES

Joe Anderson, long time resident, passed away this morning at 7.30 o'clock in St Ann's hospital An derson was a widower, 64 years old. bern in Belgium. He had worked off and on for the City of Juneau as a street sweeper for many years, up until the last of May this year
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30

stocks developed irregularity in the short session
 CALGARY, Alta - Carrying "ev- erything from peanuts to ball bear ings, an 18-truck convoy passed through Calgary at 1 D. m. yes terday bound for Anchorage, Alaska with relief supplies to help reduce a shortage caused in the Northern Territory by a West Coast mari time strike.
 RCME - Col. Gen. Eberhard von Mackensen and It. Gen, Kurt Maeltzer, Nazi commanders in oc- cupied Italy. were sentenced to death today for the Ardeatine Caves massacre of 335 Romans in reprisal for the killing of 32 Germans in l944.
 WASHINGTON - The Labor De partment today reported that strikes during October involves 450. .00O workers with a loss of 4500, ,00G man-days.
 LONDON Winston Churchill observed his 72nd birthday today at his country home, Chartwell, in Kent. He will come tc London in the evening for a small birthday party.
 NEW YORK - The American Federation of Radio Artists, AFL removed strike threat from the four major networks today follow ing the announcement that work able solution" had been found for principle issues Of the dispute.
 CHICAGO - J. A. Bud" Hiller- ich, of Louisville, Ky, 80-year- old manufacturer of the famous Louis wbe Slugger" baseball bats, died here, last night ep route to thei an- nnaIsmajor leagues winter baseball meeting at Los Angeles
 JERUSALEM m Two heavy ex- plosions within a few seconds of each other rocked Jerusalem to- nisht just after sundown marked the end of the Jewish Sabbath.
 BUENOS AIRES - Compulsory military training for all Argentines between the ages of 12 and 50 was approved today by the Chamber of Deputies.
 BERLIN = Reliable Allied sources estimated today that 40 percent of the Russian troops in Germany were being sent home or transfer red to Soviet garrisons outside the Reich.
 LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. - A re- port on possible sites for the per- manent home of the United Nations was due today with four cities bid ding for the world capital Boston. Philadelphia, San Francisco and New York are the favorites.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
WEATHER FORECAST
Duncan and yicinity)

Cloudy with occasional snow
 , showers this afternoon and } Sunday. Continued cold with
 D lowest temperature tonight } around g degrees.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
PRECIPITATION

, In Juneau Trace; since Nov. l, 12:54 inches; since July } l, 49.05 inches.
 At Airport Trace; since
 Nov. l, 705 inches; since July . l. 34.61 inches.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
TH0RvALD LARSEN
 E FOUND DEAD

Thorvald Larsen, a former ccok on boats and i'll logging camps, was found dead in his small flat in the Marin Apartments. Pete Hammer. owner of the apartments, called the police and Dr. C. c. Carter, after he noted that the lights in Larsen's apartment were still on in the after noon.
 pr. Carter, after the door had been forced for entry, said that Lar sen had died of heart failure. There was no indication of foul play.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
STAYING AT BARANOF

Arriving yesterday from the States was Theodore Gurland of Forest Hills, New York He is stayine at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30

the past year. Tn the meantime, the volume of traffic being carried by ACS is running nearly double that of any pre-War year. For the past several months, traffic volume has approached the all-time peaks es- tablished during the height of the war operations in Alaska A few old timers On the system, plus sizable number of excellent new soldiers re- gently assigned TO ACS, have been trying 10 keep the traffic flowing As these new men become trained in communications and grow to ap- praciate the problems and needs oi Alaska, it is felt that the communi- cation service rendered AlaskanS and the commercial interest in Alaska, by ACS will improve consid- erably
 Although not generally known, Col Tully pointed out, the ACS pro- vides in addition to the regular long distance telephone and telegraph service. the following special ser vices to the commercial interests ir Alaska: Contract customer partici- patton service, being used extensively by the airlines in the development Of their business, special events broadcasts, such as the bringing oi the World Series to Alaska last month, and timed teletypewritel channel press service, which per, mits the feeding into the Alasks papers of a considerable amount o1 news each day by the large Pres!
 Radio Telephone Rates
 With radio telephone service now to many localities in Southeastern Alaska in effect and also Anchor age and Fairbanks, the ACS an nounces day and night rate The following are the rates now effec- tive. first group being day rate first figure for three minute con- versation and second figure cost of each additional minute, and sec ond group the night rate, firsi figure for three minutes and second figures for each additional minute all rates of course plus 25 pel cent Federal tax:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
ARMY NAVY GAME

The Army won the game today with the Navy by a score of 20-l8.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
WEATHER REPORT
m e wFarurp prrprArf,

. tU. s. WEATHER BUREAU,
 0 Temperatures for 24-hour period . ending 7:30 o'clock this morning. Q Q .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
VANCOUVER VISITOR

A. D. MacGillivary of Vancouver is registered at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30

Hotel Juneau guest register in- cludes Trueman F. Cook of Sent incl Island, H E. Gallant of Haines and Mrs. Maud J Clark of Ketchi- Kan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30
BULLETIN l }

NEW YORK - Grain prices cracked sharply today as listed stocks developed irregularity in the short session.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30

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LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. - A re- port on possible sites for the per manent home of the United Nations was due today with four cities bid ding for the world capital Boston. Philadelphia, San Francisco and New York are the favorites.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-30

WASHINGTON -- The Labor De- partment today reported that strikes
 during October involve,t 450 000 workers with loss of 4,500 900 man-days.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-15
De GauIle on Radio

NEW YORK, Jan. IS (INS)--
The French radio reported today
that President Charles De Gaulle
will deliver an important speech
tonight which will probably be
broadcast.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-15
City Has 5-Ddy
Supply Of Meat
petroii Time, PHOTO

The eve Of the threatened
nationwide meat strike today
found Detroit assured of a normal
five-day meat supply al least and
indications that the local supply
would run ~ 80 70 To Der cent Of
normal if the strike is prolonged
beyond five days
Unless a settlement is reached
before then 100000 Go meat
workers and 135, 900 AFL workers
are scheduled 10 start their strike
al 1901 a. m tomorrow against
the four big packers Armour,
Swift. Wilson and Cudahy.
But in Detroit none OF the AFL
meat workers plan 20 Join in the
strike, which is being called TO
support demands for a 25-cent-an-
hour wage hike. and United Pack
inghouse Workers, Go, reached
an interim agreement with major
Detroit packers yesterday calling
for a l5-cent raise.
This raise would later be altered
20 conform 20 the wage agree
ment reached with the Big Four"
on a nationwide basis.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-15
Times Carriers Vie
For New York TRIPS

If The Detroit Times carrier in
your neighborhood calls on you
and asks you to become one of his
Detroit Times subscribers. one
reason will be ne is trying TO win
trip by plane or train to New
York.
The Times offers lis of these
trips in a contest for carriers. a
contest highly educational in its
nature, for winners of trips will
visit the Empire State Building,
the worlds tallest office building;
the Statue of Liberty; Radio City.
cruise around Manhattan, view
New York harbor's fast moving
panorama, and see other famous
sights.
While obtaining your subscrip-
ton in order 10 help him win,
will be the idea foremost in the
carriers mind when he knocks at
your door, he will be benefiting
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-15
GeorgeEdWdrds
To Take0dth

1t. George Edwards elected
while serving in the far Pacific,
will take the oath of office as
president of common council at
5;45 p. m. today.
City Clerk Thomas d. Lead
better will administer the oath.
Acting Council President John G.
Lodge will surrender the gavel
10 his 3l-year-old successor at
6 p m.
Edwards. returning home with
his wife, Peggy, who met him in
Chicago last week, said he had
not looked into his political fu-
ture TO the extent of regarding
himself as a candidate for mayor
should Mayor Jeffries bid for the
office Gov. Kelly is vacating.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-15
Ford UAW
I'm u eW Bid

The UAW-CIO will settle its
wage demands on the Ford Mo-
tor Co. for a pay increase of 17l2-
per cent, Richard T. Leonard.
JAW national Ford director, said
today as the company and union
resumed negotiations at the Book
Cadillac Hotel.
"Our negotiations have been
proceeding along the lines of our
original demand for a straight
80 per cent pay boost" said
Leonard, "but we are willing TO
accept the recommendations of
the Presidents fact-finding COM
mittee as General Motors rates
are supposed to set the pattern
for industry"
The UAW-CIO's 22-man inter-
national executive board yester-
day approved the Kaiser-FraZer
contract negotiated by JAW
President r. J. Thomas last week.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-15
CdrdindI-EIect
To Fly TO Rome

His Eminence Edward CARDINAL
elect Mooney, archbishop OF De-
troit. will make his first airplane
flight Feb. II when he takes off
for Rome TO receive the red nat Of
the cardinalate, it was announced
today.
Cardinal-elect Mooney will be
accompanied in a specially char
tered 51-place Lockheed Constella-
ton plane by His Eminence SAM
uel Cardinal-elect Stritch. arch
bishop of Chicago. Ten persons,
including two Detroit laymen. will
be in Cardinal-elect Moneys
party. Sixteen persons will be in
Cardinal-elect Stritch's encourage.
The plane will start from Chi
cago and pause here to pick up
Cardinal-elect Mooney and his
party. Additional stops will be
made at Gander, Newfoundland,
the Azores and Lisbon. CARDINAL
elect Mooney is expected to re-
turn to Detroit on Mar. 5, and
plans are in progress for a recep-
ton on that date.
In Cardinal-elect Moneys en-
tourage will be:
The Most Rev. William Murphy,
bishop of Saginaw; the Most Rev.
Michael ]. Ready, bishop of CO.
lumbus, O.; the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Joseph NJ. Trainor, pastor of st.
Columbia parish of Youngstown,
o.. and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Allen
j. Babcock, rector of the Blessed
Sacrament Cathedral.
MSgr- John Nisnafa, pastor of
st. GATHERINGS parish, represent
ing the deans and consuitors; the
Rev. FIR. Lawrence Casey of Ro-
chester, n. Y, former secretary to
Cardinal-elect Mooney; the Rev.
Joseph Breitenbeck, current sec-
retary; the Rev. FIR. Alexander
Zaleski, vice chancellor of the
archdiocese of Detroit, and Joseph
Verhelle and Joseph Chaser, De-
troit laymen.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-15
IS Hurt in Crash
Of I Streetcars

Collision of two DSR street.
cars at Third and Warren, in
which one was derailed, injured
1S persons and today led 10 the
arrest of a newly employed motor
man on charges of reckless oper-
alton.
The injured were taken TO Re-
ceiving Hospital for emergency
treatment of cuts and bruises and
released. Several received X
rays. More than three hours
we're required to administer 10 the
injured.
Julian L. limbo, 80, of $40 Hard
ing. motorman of a CroSstown car
and DSR employe of one month,
was jailed.
Police 1t. Henry Diechelbohrer
said that Imbo's car, eastbound.
ran a red light at the intersection
and crashed into the rear OF a
southbound Hamilton car operated
by Michael J. O'Reilly. 63, of 220
Dawson, Highland Park The
wreck occurred at 10:40 last
night.
The rear of the Hamilton car
veered from the rails and smashed
into an automobile driven by Mrs.
Helen E. Cooke of 229l Pasadena.
She was uninjured.
Diechelbohrer quoted witnesses
as saying limbo was running about
three minutes behind schedule and
trying to make up time. limbo
said he was unable TO bring the
car to a halt because of slippery
rails
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-15
Jury Finds ; Guilty
In Grocery Robbery

A recorders court jury today
found three men guilty Of robbery
armed in the S306 holdup Of the
Louise NJ Green grocery store at
Brush and Alger
The men. VINO viii be sentenced
Jan "a by Recorders Judge
Christopher l. Stein, are William
DalneiSl. 26, of 657 Henrie. Lewis
Lewelllng. -. OF 2022 Greenlawn
and Eugene Middleton. 26, of
1886 Lumpkin. They were re-
manhed 20 lail pending sentence.