The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 23, 1946, Page 1

e T —— | o i HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — T VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,407 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TRUMAN PLEDGES PEACE FOR WORLD uneau Woman Strangled Ten Perish, Home Fire ~ RAIN, WIND BIG LOAN T0 RUSSIA IS DOOMED ‘Soviet Union Must Change Tactics in Aftacking This Nation GUY PRINCE KILLS WIFE LASTNIGHT Knots Nylon Stocking, Around Neck-Calmly Calls Officers 3 At 1 o'clock this morning—fifteen sia request for a minutes after strangling his wife to Ar;;‘ucm: loan ap b death with a nylon stocking be-‘dm unles cause he was disgusted with her,|y,.;. critigism of United States Guy S. Prince, 42 year old local foreign economic policy. wood carver and painter, greeted Similarly, Czechoslovakia and U. 8. Marshal Walter Helian With, ' pojand may find it difficult to win ‘Well, Walt, there it is,” and point-,,55v4) of their requests for loans ed to the body of his 50-year-old Rus- $1,000,000,000 med to- Soviet leaders ce pe ¥ tetaling $850,000,000 from the Am- o erican-deminated world bank In reply to Prince’s 12:45 am.| gocretary of State Byrnes him- telephone call to local police ask-|¢.f made clear at his news con- ing“that “somebody get over here,”|ference yesterday that the United Marshal Hellan arrived at the giates will limit its future financial Prince home, 524 Gold street, 0 aiq (o fiiendly countries who do find Prince sitting in a chair and! his wiie’s body clad in night dress lying across the bed. A nylon stock- ng with a slip knot was still gjgned on the surface as a reply around her neck |to numerous questions why this One of the first impressions re-!government last week suddenly cut ceived by police who looked over ' ff a total of $90,000,000 in Ameri- the four room frame house in which |can aid to Czechoslovakia. h the murder occurred was that{ But officials said privately the pocket editions of murder stories | Secretary’s remarks were di ected were strewn throughout the house. |mainly at the Russian leaders who Someone Else There unleashed a barrage of criticism Taken to the Marshal's office af-|against American economic bolicy ter police had locked the house, during the Paris Peace Conlerence. Prince told authorities that he had; Both Foreign Minister Mclotov | leen estranged from his wife for and Vice Foreign Minist Vishin- the past month during which he!sky levelled a sations “dollar | had taken up residence at 427.diplomacy,” “economic en Ninth Street. He said he had ar-|ment” and “ecohomic imperialism rived at the Gold Street house “to against United States plans for talk to his wife at about 12:30 a.m.|aiding Eastern European countries and had found “someone else there ! -+ who ran out the back door as I} | came edits as instru- enslavement Byrnes' pronouncement was de- dollar economic not brand ments of r of Today following his arraignment before U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray, who in 1941 had married, him to the murdered woman, Prince signed a full confession to the mur- | der. He is being held in Federal jail on a charge of murder in the first degree. In a formal complaint signed by Assistant District At- torrey Robert Boochever, he is ac- in.” An argument followed‘-FoRMER RusslA“ | and Prince lost his temper, his | statement related. ! “I killed her,” he said, “and no| IANKER BUFFETED | oneé helped me. I alone am re-| : sponsible.” | | | IN PACIFIC GALE SEATTLE, Oct. 23—Stormy seas | continue to plague the former Rus sian tanker Donbass. The stern section of the ve which split up several months ago in a storm off the Aleutians, was buffeted by rough seas Monday | night after a towline snapped from one of the tugs towing it to Eur- ¢used of having “purposely and of ‘cka, Calif., for use as a floating| deliberate, and premeditated malice power plant killed Marjorie Ellis Prince by: Dispatcher John Lee of the Pu-| strangling her.” |get gound Tug and Barge Com-| Heavy Drinker pany said that a third tug, the Ac-{ The slain woman has been ar- tive, was sent out to assist Mon- rested by city police on several' day night and ‘“everything was un- dccasions for drunkenness. Both!der control” today. Two tugs, the! she and her husband are known|Outagamie and the Commissioner.] to be “heavy drinkers. |were towing the stern, and the At the time of the murder Prince, Outagamie and the Active will: however, was “cold sober,” accord-|complete the tow with the Com-| ing ‘to police. The victim is said missloner returning here. | to: have been drinking during the ->-oo— évening hours preceding the mur- “Prince had last been employed about six weeks ago as a general | worker at Bert's Cash Grocery. He Was' supposed to report again for temporary employment there this. morning. “‘Besides doing some oil painting Strike Looming KANSAS CITY, Oct. 23 — The |aviation industry is faced with the| threat of a possible new air lines > — STOCK QUOTATIONS | AR |strike early mext year. In the cur—‘ (Continued on Page Eight) L HEES 7e 1,400 Trans World Air Lines pilots, are near a standstill. “nd Man Seeks Meanwhile, a new aviation wage timml Mediation Board. The con ecion; Stafes | ven " i oara atier \pl lots of two-engine planes of Am-| percent raise in pay and were not lable to reach an agreement with ST. PAUL, Oct. 23.—A forty-|the compm\v Two — Edward Goodman — has| launched a campaign to be elected Justice of the peace in West St 1 rent dispute, negotiations between | |dispute has landed before the Na one Good Reasonlencnn Air Lines demanded a 30| year-old veteran of World War Paul, with the slogan “if justice is| ¢*the peace?” stock today is 5%, ‘Says Goodman: “You can rest|82', Anaconda 37%, Curtiss-| assured that cases will be judged Wright 5%, !nlé‘lnatiund] Harvester | selly on evidence if I am elected. 72':, Kennecott 45, New York Cen- Because T won't be able to tell tral 15, Northern Pacific 187, U. S.! Wwhether those appearing are in“stm-l 70, Pound $4.03' overalls or dress suits.” | Sales today were 950,000 shares. Goodman was blinded in both, Dow, Jones ayerages today are eyes while serving as an MP dur- as follows: industrials 170.67, rails ing the war, 147.05, utilities 34.63, |and M | port Another Airline I leave EAST HAMPTON, Conn., Oct. 23 —A mother,” Mrs. Edward Nelson 46, her eight children and her infant grandadughter perished to- day in a fire which swept through their Lake Pocotopaug home The only occupant of the house to escape was Edward Clark, 19 He fled through a window and suffered superficial burns and cuts The fire apparently started in a room heated by an oil burner, State police said Six of the bodies, and the infant, were tered around a doorway leadir from a bedroom, police said, while the bodies of the younger children were found in two bedrooms Edward Nelson, husband of dead woman, was asleep in nearby , house also owned by the couple, police said, and by the time he reached the scene the in- terior of the building was a mass of flames. The frame roof of the building collapsed and partially buried the victims in flaming em- bers five adults found clus- the ANOTHER HOME FIRE TWO CHILDREN BURNED OLYMPIA, Wash. Oct. 23.—Two little children were burned to death | late last night and five other per- scns were hoespitalized when a two- room suburban hime was destroyed by fire The fire victims were Jimmie, 5%, and Nancy, 3. whise parents, Mr. Ray Dean, awakened shortly before midnight to find their home in flames The parents escaped through a :window and reached back in to lift third child, from its crib to safety. a baby, Fly Whiskey To Northland SEATTLE, Uct. 23—An Flying Service DC-3, which took off this morning for Anchorage,| Alaska, won't travel as “high” as ome of the recipients of its cargo may, but it was c ing quite a | “load". The plane was chartered by th and L Distributors to trans-| 185 cases of whiskey valued $11,000. The trip is che flight from Se- he K at about first all-whiskey attle to Alaska. e — Three New Major Thefts in London Area, Repo fed (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Scotland Yard officials are cun- at $35000 missing. Meanwhile, agents for of Windsor have advertised a re- ward of $8,000 for return of the jewels stolen last week from the Duchess. Listed among the missing |jewelry is a ring set with a 58- carat aquamarine and another with a 4l-carat sapphire, as well as a dimond clip, brooch and bracelet apphire earrings and a necklace. - e Naval Units oIU S. In Ausiralia Are fo Move Out This Wee CANBERRA, Oct, 23 — A U, S | Embassy spokesman said today thatitime of the accident, NEW YORK, Oct. 23. — Closing | peysonnel of the last United States were in the very center of the blind, why not a blind justice of | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine nava) units stationed in Austrahd‘umnm the liner Monterey. Their departure will reduce the |number of American servicemen Arnold | NORTHWEST SWEPT BY Wldespread Damage Done to Crops, Utilities, Marine Craft (By HE ED PRESS) Reports of widespread damage to small ASSOCT crops, utilities and marine cratt continued today as the Pa- cific Northwest tock toll of three days of wind and heavy rains. » authorities in Vancouver orted one gillnetter foun- dered off the mouth of the Fraser River, the Vancouver tug C. H French holed in grounding near Squirrel Cove on Cortez Island, a seiner greunded in the Fraser Riv- er and the American freighter Patsco sought assistance when her engines broke down in the wind- swept Gulf of Georgia. No casual- ties are reported An estimated 1,500 to 2,(%0 acres of newly seeded wheat was washed cut in two days' rains in Walla Walla and Columbia Counties of Washington Alon the Cascade Mountain summits, rains turned to snow with the government camp on Mount Hood reporting a three-inch fall in four hours last night. | Telephone and power lines werc broken in the area and highway traffic at the summit stalled. > - "BUTCHER OF LIDICE” DIES PRAGUE, Czecheslovakia, Oct 23—Col. Gen. Kurt Daleuge, “The | Butcher of Lidice,” was hanged to. |day in the courtyard of Pankrac Prigon three ;hours after he wa convicted of war crimes charge: by a Czechoslovak Peoples’ Court i A last minute attempt to smuggle ipoison into his cell was foiled.} {The poison was discovered in one of a dozen cigarettes sent to him.| Daleuge, Hitler's last “Protector]/ of Bohemia and Moravia,” was ac- cused of being the Nazi S. 8. (Elite {Guard) Police Chief who ordered !the razing of the village of Lidice, the slaughter of all its men and ‘the deportation of its women and, | children 3 .- — 8 MEN KILLED, - 45 ARE INJURED; 1 SHIP HIT MINES, LONDON, Oct. 23—The Admnal- fronted today with three new ma- {Jor thefts in the London area, with | jewelry and other articles valued, the Duke tv announced today that 38 men| 4“9‘“ killed and 45 injured in ex- | plosions which damaged two Brit ish destroyers off the coast yesterday. Financial Secretary John Dug- dale told the House of Commons the first vessel, the. Saumarez, Iwhich participated in the Kkill of the Nazi battleship Schornhorst, “was believed to have hit a mine. | The other, the Volage, was dam- |aged nearly two hours later while itowing the Saumarez. He said, “there was an explosion” which lmem off her bow. Both ships have arrived at Cor- ru An Admiralty Board is in vqunmg into the cause of the ex- plosions, he said. | “I should explain that at both swept channel, which at the time was one and a hulf ‘mxlr\ from the Albanian coast, {Dugdale said, “The channel was on duty in Australia to approx mately 200 members of the Arn | Air Forces, most of whom are sta- | tober, tioned in PBrisbane, the spokesman said. He added that they would for home shortly. searched by British minesweeping formations periodically from Oc- 1944, to February, 1945, and no mines were found.” Parts of the bows of both iwere blown off ships ON GALLOWS Albanian | is American Can|yould leave Sydney Oct. 25 aboard one mile wide, and their position Twin Girls So Idenfical | - TheyMustBeMarkedfor NATIONS Idenhflcahon Purposes OPA LIFTS LID, MANY 'tical that even PRODUCTS : |turned a Walla Walla doctor into a To Death In Home UNITED TRUMANIN GOOD TALK MEETING FOR PEACE WALLA WaLLA, Wash, Ot Important Assembly Gath- | Says Fears of Another War et _own puenesters for Discussion of "“Unwarranted and Important Issues | Unjustified"” can not tell !modern-day Solomon Names of | the individuals concerned are not ! L revealed | v me sssoone e | ADMITS SITUATION The doctor, asked by parents ®| Never hefore has there been such | alled in fingerprint experts butigo.o und gold braid in New York prints taken at birth were not suit-| o o0 i today alyls S0r SORITS Father Knickerbocker is holding D|fferen(es Among Alies tests, WRBRNOTON, Ow. 38 >~ ORA lf\"f“f‘ "‘*”““Sl “‘?.[‘:“;““’lnm the glad hand to the phalanx| virtually ended wartime pr con- determined—to his own satis! ac-| ¢ diplomats assembled for this af- | AISO Adm'"ed ot Prob_ trols over food and beverages to- tion at least—that the parents ac- |y, oonic™ ouonine session of the| J day. B o tually had reversed the \dentity of| ynited Nations General Assembly. | lems Can Be Seitled ; The Su;'ml u'm;n:‘tl price lids LH “n\m‘»:] dlm .:‘ll“']'w calling them | “rpe statesmen were taken on a . rom a oods and beverages e y the wrong names t »al New York ticker-tape par-| o cept sugar, syrups and rice, effec- He simplified future identifi l’d'(’."'l‘hh e u‘“‘, tan| NEW YORK, Oct. 23—President tive at one minute past midnight tion. One of the girls will henc; ‘“mm“;| followed by an elabor-| T¥uman pledged the entire re- tonight forth sit on a tattoo mark. b ll““.“‘m_“ at the Waldort sources of this country today to At the same time price ceilings —_——— . : y i o _/prevent an eruption of divergent At 4:30, eastern time, this after-| were lifted from all sales of food noon they will be addressed by Poltical” philosophies from bring- and beverages by restaurants and President ‘Truman -and 'lnnlgm ing “disaster to the world.” SNk shllens there will ke a white tie and tails | ac ins SRVEREMERS [encs. CFf Atts Principal items freed by the | Ganeston \\Iu;-h the l’n-:uh»m‘ s other war “unwarranted and un- sweeping action include flour, bread L e clenates from the 5 justified” he said that unless wax and bakery products; canned fish; 1"’;.‘“(;‘\ R “rumors” in ‘“certaln places” are candy; bananas; oranges; carned o i3 3 |checked, “they are sure tu impede ! Delegates Gather e - tomatoes and tomato produects; | (world recovery. Delegates of the 51 nations will ¢ e Lo canned pineapple and pineapple atier i, Flushing, Meadow Paic:| . L), A0 Sudetes prsparsd. for the juice, breakfast cereals, macaroni g ‘;( l”"‘ ‘i‘; s b hoas OPening session of the United Na- and spaghetti. New. York this afteinpon ." :"" tions General Assembly ir 'Flush- R | President rxumm;) open the first|i o wreadow Mr Trumen frasly e great UN Assembly on American that “differences 'MARITIME STRIKE | NEW YORK, Oct. 23—A spokes- ‘m.m for striking members of the (AFL) a nego- Masters, Mates and Pilots |said today as he |tiating conference with East and !Gulf Coast ship operators that “things look v bad” for a settle- entered ment of the 23-day-old strike of deck officers. The spokesman, Capt. Albert E chairman of the union's ne- said the bone Oliver, gotiating committee, {of contention was union member- ship for masters, and told report- ers. “We'll tie up every ship in the world” unless operators capitulate ito union demands. He said if negotiations idown union representatives {return to their locals and |vote on an all-out strike all over ‘the country. I warned i‘em (the ioperators) that it would affect {the whole world, but they still re fuse to give us a preferential em- | ployment and maintenance of ‘mumbrr:,lup clause for the mas- i ters. The operators have offered pref- erential hiring of mates and pilos but have balked at the inclusion 'of captains. The MMP also seeks ia 30 percent wage incfease. e [Express Embargo Is Partially Lifted In New York City NEW YORK, Oct broke would ‘take a 23 There (was some relief today for New York City's strike-battered econ- omy. The Railway Express Agen- cy has lifted its embargo on out- {bound express shipments to the six New England states However, a spokesman for the agency warned that the ban on incoming shipments will remain in effect, with the exception of per- \ishable foodstuffs and medicines "rho embargo was imposed on Sep- ltember 9th after a general truck the | ships | tof all vacant living units. | acknowledged soil. The President is scheduled t0(pave arisen among the Allfes.” deliver a 2600 word speech Which| i will not help us to pretend ;""q“ b“““"’-;“l"-‘" {84 130[ P that this is not the case,” he said ST). The President was due 10 amut it is not necessary to exag- open the locked doors of VACABt|qrive in New York City early this|perate the differences. o miy Seattle apartments. Congressman noon, Secretary of State James | nart. T belleve. there fs+no dittar Hugh De Lacy says he has tele-| pyines glready is on hand for the ence of interest that meed stancd eraphed the President asking the|,,.hing of the UN General As- Chief Executive to force the rentall gompre ol ol of settling these prob- Foreign Loans i Solemnly, the President cautioned Before leaving Washington, Sec-!the assembly that it must rot ' retary Byrnes reaffirmed this u)un"]mmn differences in-economic and 50try’s attitude on making a loan|gocial trends to stand in the way ] ceilings | !to foreign nations. Byrnes has serv-of peace now or later. spread .s?uth‘ m.m Oregon. ed notice on the rest o the wor'd| 1n the presence of President Tru- Q‘fi::pxé«"“{mul_ouh Lox!pwl_l_o“l t‘fl‘llmi the United States is willing'man, Belgian Foreign Minist y apanmen» -m\n('.l-s plans t, help out—but that its resources | pgul-Henri Spaak rapped to order to keep vacant apartments vacant,,.. ot |imitless. And further, saysiat 4:17 pm. (EST) today, the first untii the OPA scraps its ceilings,| o ;05 America doesn’t want to meeting of the United Nation's Portland landlords have “l’l“"“’d‘kmn any nation money if that na-| Assembly in its Hew American the idea. They're considering joint; ., pelic it will be enslaved home at the old New York World's action and will argue the question e.o,omically by the United States| Fair Ground on Long Island. at a meeting next Monday. as a result. Thus, Russia’'s request Shortly after the opening, Presi- Meantime, Seattle apartment| .. , g 000,000,000 American loan |dent Truman was introduced and house owners are going ahead with 1 - I | (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) President Truman has been ask- ed to use his wartime powers to. Democratic Congr llldll's“ for Presidential intervention | comes as the Seattle landlord’ strike against OPA rent The plea id a | appears doomed unless Soviet lead- gave his talk to the Assemnbly plans to offer their scheme as al,. quit their criticism of American ~ naticnal cure-all for alling land-| c.o.cmic foreign policy Highligine of Talk lords. They will offer it to the A crowd estimated “i 175,000 saw Topical highlights of President Naticnal Association at its con- | the I’l,()‘."m""ll < fi‘(‘l]ll('l“lyl in sil- | Truman’s address today betore the venticn in - Oklahoma City next| . " gee and there polite ap-! General Assembly of the United menth. The plan is to keep vug.mt‘m.“‘w crackled along - the side- Nations are as follows: apartments vacant until an operats<, g oo Assembly P :suh-[u Paul- War Alarms iny rental may be secured :Henn Spaak, Molotcv and others | Lately we have all heard talk » - ipassed in their limousines ::\)L-ul the jmr\x:lblllxy of another 3 With permanent peace as their | World war. Fears have been aroused ElEVA]'ED TRAINS N sca tne cetegutes viewsd continu- a1l over the world. ing friction between the United| These fears are unwarranted and |States and Russia as their fore- UnJjustitied & . TRt oty Allied Friction Every major issue was being ex-| Differences have arisen among antined in that light—in the Am; the Allies. Tt will not help us to REPORTED INJURE& pretend that this is not the case. erican delegation as well as in y {other omual groups here. But it is not necessary to exag- i gerate the differences. CHICAGO, Oct. 23—Eetween 2401 For my part, T believe there is no and 270 persons bound for work D b 'i Iy difference of interest that need were injured today, about 10 ,eam oa o r stand in the way of settling these ser- 1 iously, when an elevated express problems. X train rammed the rear of another| For Re(o’d on Irip Spheres of Interest during heavy fog. ! Above all, we must not permit i the | The crash occurred during WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 The differences in economic and social morning rush hour at the 47th|, Pacusan Dreamboat”, Army super- systems to stand in the way of Street station onr (he Southside, {fortress which recently flew from Peace. . .. Both trains were derailed but were |Hawaii to Cairo over the North To permit the United Nations te in no danger of falling to the |Pole, tentatively is scheduled to be broken into irreconcilable parts street. S ; fly non-stop from Seattle, Wash, DY different political philosophies From 1300 to 1500 passengers| . apami Fla, Nov. 5 in what Would bring disaster to the world. were on the two trains. Police re may be an attempt to Set a new Atomic Warfare porL_ed many of them crowded thej .\ . .ontinental speed record, Two of the greatest obligations station platform, delaying xcmu\al‘um?h of Senator Pepper (D-Fla.) | toward the removal of fear of the injured ' spid today. remain to be fulfilled. So jammed with milling, con-| it 5 R T | First, we must reach an agree- fused passengers was the platform | ment establishings international and its stairway that firemen usvdl controls of atomic energy that will Russians Moving |strike had congested express ter- "(mm‘\ 24 ¢ l\loukb 'r)md ladder equipment to ensure its use for peaceful purposes S T AGION climb the structure. . only. . . : RSN German Workersio *secui we s reacs asreement TILLOTSON STRICKEN wo’ld Famed Aulhor that will remove the deadly fear — | of other weapons strucs Harry L. Tillotson, employed as { 'helr own p'an|s lu»n‘ o e A0 e Ce a saw filer at Juneau Lumber Mill, 0 ' d l D Shackles For War was stricken with a slight heart n n lan ore Ies BERLIN, Oct. 23—Official Ger-| We shall also press for . . .agree- attack this morning shortly after - +man and American sources said to- ments in order that the security 9 o'clock. The ambulance was called SANTA FE, N M, Oct. 23—Fr- day the Russians were moving sev- Council may have at its disposal and Tilictson was taken to St. nest Thompson Seton, 86, world 1 hundred skilled German work- peace forces adequate to prevent Ann’s hospital. His physician, Dr. famed author and authority on In-'ers from their sector of Berlin, acts of aggression C. C. Carter, stated that his con- dian lore and wildlife, died this apparently to place them in fac- Fermula For Peace dition is not believed serious, and morning at his home in Seton|tories in the R an zone of Ger- Difficult as the task may be, the he should be able to leave the hos- Village, 10 miles south of Santa/many. Their families were being i s I pital in a ‘few days, Fe, |moved with the workers, (Continued on Page Eight) 9