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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-21

ing Coliseum, were evacuated with their possessions, but by about 8 o'clock last evening they had begun to move back into their dwellings.
 Aids Juneau Fighters
 The battle put up by the Juneau Fire Department was augmented by the efforts of the Douglas Fire De- partment, which arrived at about l:30 o'clock, and by those of almost the entire personnel of the Juneau Support. The Army men manned axes and hose lines and patrolled streets to clear the battle area of the throngs of spectators. Some of the latter, too, lent willing hands in the stringing of the myriad hose lines and wherever else their eff forts might aid
 The Trojan, Alaska Juneau Mine tug, and the Supports fire tug gave invaluable assistance in pumping a steady flow of bay water into the salt water fire mains.
 Hard To Comoa5
 The Coliseum fire, thought lacking in spectacular aspects, was one of the most difficult conceivable to combat, due to the maze of dividing walls and metal clad surfaces, though the latter also aided some in con- fining the blaze.
 The Coliseum fire had it's many freakiSh aspects, also. Survey of he ruins today disclosed very little direct fire damage to the theatre auditorium itself. Two floor lamps still burned in the foyer. The long approach ramp from South Franklin Street still was hung with colorful draperies, showing almost total ab- sence of even smoke damage. Back stage, all was almost normal. The big silver screen stood unmarred. Walls of an adjoining workroorn were still hung with tools in orderly array.
 Chdrred TimberS
 However, a few feet in front of the still intact footlights, there was a gigantic tumble of charred timbers, bed springs, pipes, sinks, refrigera- tors-here and there a lamp shade or other only partly-burned bit. Theatre seats next the side walls, at the very front and in the rear, showed unburned and unbroken through obscuring rivulets of water still dripping through from above the ornate metal ceiling facing.
 The long span of the auditorium ceiling was sagged in the center to rest on the stalls between the main aisles = but showed few ruptures. Seats in the middle of the auditor ium were crushed under a mass of debris and water tangle that will offer difficult demolition prob lems. Owner Gross has indicated that he will not rebuild the theatre.
 Shops Operate
 All the while the fire was raging but rod or so away, shops fronting on South Franklin Street in adjac- ent buildings continued to operate as usual. After checking up, all of them this morning reported no damage to themselves from the fire some
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the roof of the neighboring New York Tavern and Alaska Laundry.
 Across the street, an electrician through long hours of the fire, hung in his belt atop transformer-bear- ing pole, ready at moments notice to kill power lines feeding not only the stricken structure but adjoining establishments, including compress or units for the meat-crammed cold boxes of George Bros. Market-a measure that, fortunately proved un- necessary.
 Though Tar topping all the others in extend the Coliseum fire was but one of four occurring in Juneau over the past week end and was one of three during the 24 hours of Sun day.
 ] First of the week ends fire calls came at 3 o'clock Saturday after noon, near Front and Main streets an overheated stove resulting in some wall damage in the lower apartment of house up the Tele- phone Hill steps and directly to the rear of the Paul Building.
 Next was a call to the residence Of Robert Burns on West Seventh Street, to tend a chimney fire. That fire call, at 12:03 a. m. Sunday was quickly answered and damage was negligible.
 While firemen still were standing by the smouldering ruins of the Coliseum, came yet another fire alarm, to the Indian Village at 11:4O o'clock Sunday night. There the firemen were subjected to a 4o- minute battle before they extin- guished flames springing from clothes hung about a chimney in an upstairs room. Fire ana water dam age were considerable.
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could bring their streams to bear upon the soaring flames within the apartment structure proper.
 Three hours after the fire out break, flames burned their way through the roof of the building, first licking up around the furnace chimney A half-hour before, tim bers spanning the auditorium had commenced to give way, buckling the exterior wall of the structure inward as the auditorium roof sagged.
 By 5 o'clock last evening, but the outer shell of the apartment remain- ed. The fire, by then was almost definitely under control, but many hours remained during which it must burn itself out.
 Estimated Loss
 w. D. Gross, building owner, SC, his own loss at approximately $ll6,- 900: including the building and theatre and apartment equipment, fixtures and furnishings-all only partially covered by insurance. Per sonal property of tenants comprised the balance of the estimated loss. Some of the apartments were sump- tiously furnished, containing expen- sive radios, pianos and other items of more than average value.
 Very few were the tenants be- longings saved, A few clothes, arm fuls of bedding, other easily snatch ed possessions were rescued from apartments at the rear of the struc- ture, the opposite end from where the fire first ragged. Enveloping clouds of inky smoke formed the greatest barrier to rescue efforts and thickened the already leaden skies under which the fire was battled in 34 degree weather
 Articles SalDGged
 Such personal effects as were saved made pitiable piles in garages and the open area across the alley way in the rear of the building. Glistening in almost newness was a child's sled atop one of those heaps apparently the prized Christmas gift and first thought of by tot be- ing burned out of the friendly world of his home A few things were carried to safety into the Alaska Laundry next door, while guard was mounted over the other salvaged ar ticles.
 During the time when the fires threat was at it's peak, tenants of the Brunswick rooms and Ferry Way rooms, two smaller buildings putting against the south wall of the fam
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MEEKS BOUND OVER
 TOFACE KNIFE CHARGE

Whatever card the Government may have in the hole to turn against George Harrson Meeks was kept carefully concealed during preliminary hearing on charges against T-eeks, held here Satur- day afternoon.
 Meeks was committed to the grand jury on the bare accusation of Kelso B. Hardness that "deeks cut me" Though there was no SUD- porting evidence shown to tie up
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GAME TOMORROW

Support will play the Signacs and the Douglas High and Douglas Fire mems teams will meet tomorrow night as 7:30 in the 18th game ses- sion of the City Basketball League The games will be played in the Juneau High School gym.
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Meeks with the attack on Hart ness and though Meeks counsel, William L. Paul, Jr., brought for ward three independent witnesses who established a reasonable tight alibi for the accused man, U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray adjudged that there was sufficient ground to the Hardness charge to bind Meeks over.
 The. grand jury meets next week, the Commissioner said. T think we ought to let this go over"
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GRAND JURY MEETS

The Grand Jury will meet to- morrow afternoon at o'clock Ad- Gitions to the regular panel are be- ing drawn this afternoon.
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FROM FAIRBANKS T. s. Benson, of Fairbanks, is q guest at the Gastineau.
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Evening star., 1946-05-21
Coal Naturalization
Is Voted by Commons
By the Associated Press

LONDON, May 2l.-Nine men
controlling $4,000, 900 pounds $780,
100000 in public funds will put
Great Britain into the coal business
under the Labor Government bill
to nationalize the coal mines. passed
by the House of Commons last
night, 324 to 143.
The measure, one of the ma jor
items in the governments national
lzatlOn program, now awaits con-
cuIrence by the House of Lords
and royal assent.
Designated by the bill as the Ma
tional Coal Board, the nine men
will take over $50 collieries in the
next five years. Their chore will
be to supervise the working of the
mines and pay the owners for them.
The measure does not specify
what compensation the government
is to pay the private owners. It
merely says the owners shall receive
the amount which they might
have been expected to realize if the
bill had not been passed and they
fThe mines) had been sold on a
specified date in the open market
to willing buyer"
A tribunal of three-two Supreme
Court justices and an accountant
is scheduled to work for two years
in assessing values of the mine
properties before the actual pay
ments are determined. Compensa-
ton will be made in government
securities in order to prevent a flood
of cash from moving into channels
Of trade.
Evening star., 1946-05-21
Macarthur Rule Bars
z New Jap Ministers
By the Associoted Preu

TOKYO, May 21.-Gen. MacAr-
thur today laid down a firm no ex-
ceptions' policy on potential Jap
anese politicals purgees-and two
nominees for Premier Shigeru Yo-
shida new cabinet were eliminated.
Yoshida, however, made quick
changes in his portfolios to accom-
modate the sudden development
There was every expectancy that he
would seek final approval of the EN-
peror tonight or tomorrow.
The japanese government for
mally requested Gen. Macarthur to
exempt Justice Minister Chuzo
IWata and Hiroshi Nasu. nominated
for agriculture minister. His di-
receive bars individuals with mill
taristic or ultranationalistic records
from public office.
Headquarters turned down the re-
quest, ruling there could be no
exceptions"
The action was seen as doubly
significant. Iwata had been allowed
TO serve as justice minister in re-
tiring Premier Shidehara's cabinet
presumably under special dispense
ton. Japanese sources had ex-
planned that he was indispensable
as a foremost legal authority in
drafting the country's proposed new
constitution.
Evening star., 1946-05-21
Army Hostess Returning
To Watch Son Get Bars

Mrs. Sylvia Shattuck of l548 Forty
fourth street NV, who went to Eu-
rope in December, 1914, with the first
group of Army hostesses, has left
Frankfurt, Germany, for the United
States to attend the graduation of
her son, Amos Blanchard Shattuck
III, from the Military Academy in
June, it was announced today by the
Iheater Special Services of the War
Department.
For the last five years Mrs. Shat
tuck has been with the hostess pro-
gram and has served at the AEF'
CLUB in Paris and as command host
ess at Delta Base, with her home at
Marseille. Before going to Europe
she established a service club at In
diantown Gap military reservation
in Pennsylvania.
Her son is the third generate
OF Shattucks to attend West Point.
She is the widow of Capt. A. b
Shattuck, Jr., 1919 graduate. After
the West Point exercises next month
Mrs. Shattuck and her son will va
cation at Marthas Vineyard.
In the European theater Mrs,
Shattuck was one of 113 hostesses
Miss Pat Abernathy, theater director
OF hostesses, who accompanied Mrs
Shattuck to the Frankfurt station
announced that a recruiting cam
palgn is planned in the United
States to increase that number to
238.
Evening star., 1946-05-21
Two Eastern High Girls
Join in Page Boy Dramas

Two Eastern High School girls
will appear with IA Senate page boys
tonight in three 1-act plays given
by the pages experimental public
speaking class.
The plays will be open to the
public at o'clock at Gonzaga High
School. This is the first time the
pages have given a public perform
ance, Joseph Skubitz, their instruc-
tor and secretary to Senator Reed,
Republican, of Kansas, said.
The Eastern students, Barbara
Carper, Is, and Roxie Rice, II, were
selected by Mr.. Skubitz after he saw
their performances in Eastern's
spring play last month. They will
appear in the third one-act play,
The Lie That Jack Built"
Miss Carper is the daughter of
Mrs. Mae Carper, 1876 Tenth street
NE. Miss Rice is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Rice, 1045 Michi-
gan avenue NE.
Evening star., 1946-05-21
BY the Associated Pres,

PRAGUE, May 2l-An official
announcement today said Russian
troops bound for Germany had be-
gun moving across Czechoslovakia
from the south in connection with
the reorganization of Russian oc-
cupation forces in Germany"
The announcement indicated that
the m oven en- would continue
through May 26, date of the Czecho-
slovakian general elections.
The main body of Russian forces
was withdrawn from CzechoSlovakia
early this year.
A statement from the office of
Premier Zdenko Fierlinger said the
movement was planned in consulta-
tion with the CzechoSlovak general
staff, which had approved the plan.
There was widespread speculation
whether the presence of Russian
troops, even in transit, would have
Evening star., 1946-05-21
WCTU Suggests
Home Affairs to
Replace Bars

Set up a home altar-not a
home bar the Women's Christian
Temperance Union advised Wash
ington families today.
Beginning their 72d tWo-day
convention at the Calvary Baptist
Church. union members heard
plans of their president, Mrs Caro-
line E. Coates. to recruit more men,
bers. Mrs. Coates also said she
wants to train speakers in the un-
ions shelters scattered through the
city so that every neighborhood will
have some one capable of discussing
the effects of alcohol
The convention nodded approval
when Mrs. Coates said too many
Washington homes omit family
prayers but encourage family drink
ing.
DR.. o. Bryan Langrall, of the
Francis AsburV Methodist Church,
will address the convention dinner
at 6 o'clock tonight at Calvary Bap-
tist Church.
Buying and holding L. S. Savings
Bonds is the safest, surest way to
security and independence.
Evening star., 1946-05-21
Red Troops Headed for Reich
Moving Across CzechosIovokio

any effect on the forthcoming par
Iliamentary elections.
The statement from Premier Fier-
fingers Office, however, said the
troop movement was due to the
dislocation of Soviet occupation
forces" and added that the step
has no political background. This
is said with the purpose of antici-
pating all combinations of untrue
speculations,"
The statement said it would take
the troops nine days to reach their
destinations in the Russian zone of
Germany
There was no indication of the
number of troops involved, but
mechanized forces were mentioned
and the statement said main high
ways and railway lines would be
used.
Sources here said they presumed
the troops entered the country along
the Austrian and Hungarian from
tiers
Evening star., 1946-05-21
German MiIitarists
Reported Employed
To Train Red Army
BY the Assoeioted Press

BERLIN, May 2l-Many former
German Army, Navy and Air Force
experts are being employed by the
Russians as special instructors for
the Red Army IN certain phases of
military science in which the Ger
mans excelled, according to Ameri-
can and German informants.
The Moscow radio, in
broadcast heard in London,
called these reports inventions
from beginning to end" The
broadcast added that the reports
could "be explained only by the
desire to distract public opinion
from the recently discovered
facts concerning German troops
which have been preserved in
the British zone Of occupation.
American and German sources
said the German specialists were
teaching the Red Army advanced
aeronautics, especially new methods
Of instrument navigation. They also
said the Russians were employing
all German scientists available who
could aid in research on atomic
energy and rocket projectiles.
An American informant added
that report had been received
from Stettin that high ranking per-
sonnel on German submarines going
to the Soviets as reparations were
granted the choice by the Russians
of serving as instructors at Baltic
ports or being sent to Russia as pris-
oners of war.
An American officer said many
Germans who formerly served with
the armed forces had made applica-
tions to join the American Army.
Both this officer and an informed
German editor of a Russian-con-
trolled Berlin daily newspaper as
serted that the Russians were culling
out captured German soldiers to Sc
lect those qualified for teaching spe-
cial branches.
Allied intelligence officers reported
some Germans who have taken Rus
sian jobs have written this informa-
ton to relatives, while others have
written to Allied commanders Of
fering their services and stating they
had received good offers from the
SoViets.
Evening star., 1946-05-21
Stanton School Mothers
Protest Beer License

Mothers of Stanton School stu
dents protested against beer and
light wine" license for a delicatessen
opening at 2451-53 Good Hope road
Sc. at a hearing yesterday before
the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board.
Mrs. Marjorie West, president of
the Stanton Parent-Teacher Asso-
citation, told the board the delica-
lessen would be only $50 feet from
the school. She said many of the
school children would eat lunches
there because they lack other lunch
room accommodations.
At another hearing yesterday, the
ABC Board heard protests from the
Dupont Circle Citizens Association
against a liquor license application
Of the Neptune restaurant, 1850
Connecticut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1946-05-21
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, May 21.-A twin
engined Army plane, cropping
blindly through a 4OO-foot over
cast, crashed into the 58th floor
of the History Bank of the Man
haitian Co. Building in the finan-
cial district last night, bringing
death to all its occupants, a WAC
lieutenant and four Army Off
GERS.
The plane disintegrated in blind
ing flash of flames after exploding
against the rear of the Wall street
building-the worlds fourth highest
and sent showers of flaming de-
bris hurtling to the pavement. The
building is e37 feet high
One witness said the flames
seemed to pour down from floor to
floor The fires, however, were ex-
tinguished quickly. Police estimates
put the number of persons in the
building at the time of the accident
at from 500 to 1000 The building
has about 5000 occupants during
the day.
While none of the persons in the
structure was injured. five were
struck by flaming particles in the
street.
Within an hour after the crash
an investigating board of qualified
Army Air Forces officers was ap-
pointed by Col Clarence P. Kane
commanding officer at the Newark
Army air base. the public relations
office announced today. The six
man board went at once to the
scene of the crash.
1t was the second such accident
for New York in less than year
Last July % an Army BIS bomber
few into the 18th floor of the l02-
story Empire State Building, killing
three flyers and II Office workers.
The public relations officers at
Newark Airport, where the victims
of last nights tragedy were based,
said the plane-a Cas- Beechcraft-
was on a routine nevigational train
ing flight from Smyrna, Tenn, to
Newark. The casualties were as
signed to the Atlantic Overseas Air
Technical Service Command
The dead were listed by the War
Department as:
Maj. Mansel R. Campbell, 81, the
pilot, Pontiac, Mich. His wife Mona
lives at Evart. Mich. They have one
ichild, Ross Edward, g.
Tex. He listed his beneficiary as
his wife, Helen Lindseth Hall. of
Sioux Falls, S. Oak. They have two
sons, Randall, 4, and Kenneth, l.
First 1t. Robert L. Stevenson, 25
Of the Bronx, N Y.
First 1t. Angelo A. Ross, 90
Whitehall, N. Y.
WAC 1st 1t. Mary E. Bond of
Newton, Pa.
Capt. Hall took a leading part in
the inquiry into the Empire State
Building crash. his widow said in
Sioux Falls, S. Oak He was acting
in his capacity as assistant opera
tions officer at the Newark field.
Plane Rips 15-Foot Hole.
Police said the name of Capt. j.
NJ. Collision had been inscribed on
the fuselage of the plane, leading
to their erroneous early report that
ne was aboard.
The plane ripped a 15-foot hole
through the corner of the building
as it plowed into the Offices of the
Atlas Corp. The bank building
fronts on 40 Wall street and runs
back into 80 Pine street.
Police said the pilot and another
officer were thrown clear of the
plane by the impact, and their
Evening star., 1946-05-21
Raids
Continued From First Page.)

several of its mysteries remained Of
ficially shrouded for hours after the
raid began.
At midday there was no indication
as to whether any hunted SIS troop
ers actually had been discovered or
whether the raiders had found Ad-
mlral TrunkWalter. whom American
agents described as the present COM
mander of the remnants of Hun
gary's Navy.
TrunkWalter was reported to have
succeeded to the command after Ad-
miral Nicholas Horthy, Hungarian
regent, failed in his attempt to sur
render the Hungarian fleet to the
Allies.
The 18th Regiment of Maj Gen.
Ernest N. Harmon's zonal constabu-
larry led the operation under the
direction of Brig. Gen. Edwin L.
Sibert, chief of the American Euro
pean headquarters intelligence
branch. 1t was the first major
task of the hand-picked. specially
trained constabulary, which will
take over the chief security role
for the American Occupation Army
July l.
45 Miles of River Sealed Off.
Armed with machine guns,
tommy guns, rifles and pistols, the
troops sealed off the As miles of
the Danube. Then at S am. they
rushed aboard the ships anchored
near the river bank.
Apparently caught completely by
surprise, more than 5000 persons
including women and children of
IL nationalities, were tumbled from
their beds and rounded up to be
held for quizzing by the COM
mander in chief
T'hlrty-four minutes after the
start, all ships were under the
raiders control.
The only physical resistance re-
ported was an attack on one Amer
ican soldier by Hungarian armed
with a shovel. He was quickly
subdued without gunplay.
The Danube River enters the
Soviet-occupied zone of Austria
beyond the border of Passau. There
was no indication whether the Red
Army was notified of the raids.