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

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1946 IMPIRE * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 13 VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,458 JIM ELLEN FOUND MURDERED IN STORE BLURDERSOF WAR Call Special BODY FOUND, | Eledion for PRICE TEN CENTS FORMER ALEUTIAN WORKER IS FOUND u. 5. NAVY SHIP | Death Toll ORDERED BY RUSS “WITH JAPAN ARE NEW APPEAL Inquest0 TO QUIT DARIEN Commande?;f_Crafl Given 20 Minutes in Which fo Leave Harbor GUILTY OF MURDER FOR LEWIS, Ellen Case MountsUpin - Japan Quake ?‘ThousandsA—reHuddled MADE IN REPORT/ Notable Victories of First, Two Years Recounted- | i Aleutians Campaign | | et I Convicted of "Pandora 1 Box"" Bomb Death of Wife in Portland COALCASE HeldToday | | | | I J i anuary | ! - — ' Acting Governor Lew M. Williams WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 The| A coroner's Jury this afternoon, y vesterday issued a call for a special Supreme Court today granted John!sitting in the death of Jim Ellen, Velection for the First Division, to|L. Lewis and the United Mine reached a verdict that Ellen met his THROAT CUT, CEARTO EAR 'Negro Arrested Soon Affer By ROBERT M. FARRINGTON | PORTLAND, Ore., Around Fires in Chllly Dec. 23—Aj{be held January 20 for the purpose Workers a hearing on a new appeal |death as a result of wounds about| Slaylng Is DlS(Overed— N ol . . | WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Costly|first degree murder conviction with!of electing a representative to fill| questioning the validity of the pre- 'the throat through the use of a| the Combined Winds in Areas [blunders of the first two years of|a recommendation of life imprison-|the vacancy left by the death of|liminary injunction issued against|sharp instrument at the hands of FMmalCharge Made |the war against Japan are recount- ment was returned by a circuit court; Representative-elect Frank Price of | them during the recent soft coal'an unknown party. i e led with notable victories of the last!jury in the trial of James W. Bow-} Sitka. | strike. New evidence brought out at the| { Austin Nelson, 28-year-old American Negro was charged in U 8. Commissioner Felix DAIREN, Manchuria, Dec. 23.— By TOM LAMBERT A United States Navy ship pulled| 1oy Dec. 23—With the mnitwo years in a detailed summary den, 49, for the “Pandora BoX"| Clerk of the Court John H.| The eifect is to broaden the is-!hearing before U. S. Commissioner| Gray's Court this forenoon with the first degree murder of Jim By WILLIAM H. NEWTON (Representing World Perss). out of the port of Dairen this af-| ;¢ qeaq calculated as high as 1,125 [released by the Navy over the death of his wife. Walmer yesterday issued the offi-|sues of law before the court in and Coroner Felix Gray included ternoon after receiving a verbal ul-| ¢, far, thousands of wretched, shiv- | weekend. The verdict binds Judge Walter! cial notice and order. | Lewis' appeal from the $10,000 fine| A check was found on the count- | timatum from Russian military of-|eping japanese tonight huddled| The volume, “The Campaigns of L. Tooze to sentencing the former! No ballots will be printed, but|impcsed on him and the $3,500,000 er made out to “Archie Nelson"| ficials to the effect that "“me_ssjaround fires near the waterlogged |the Pacific War,” is based on “ul-|Aleutian war-worker to a life termblank paper will be furnished and | fine on the union for contempt of and signed by W.D.Gross, appar-| . 0 Co8 3 you leave within 20 minutes we Will| yreckage of their homes destroyed |tra-secret” Japanese battle plans and the court set Friday for lhe[voters will vote at the same poll-! court, lently a forgery. This is the clue ‘;"'“ stk 'l‘"‘"“;l ksl not be responsible for the conse-|jy the earthquake and tidal waves}and other captured documents as)pronouncement. ing ‘places used in the General| In earlier petitions,” Lewis and|that led officers to the South| 2nd liquor dealer who was fcund dead in his blood-spat- tered Willoughby Avenue store yesterday morning, his throat | quences.” | early Saturday. |well as American combat records.| Previously, the Russian military| qne Home Ministry listed 1,ozsi’rhe Teport traces campaign commander in charge of the City gead with reports still coming in|campaign the long sea road from | their home July 27 when she open= - s { | jed a trunk in which the State a,c-l BIG FIGHI IS Io cused the defendant of rigging dy-' Bowden’s 47-year-old wife was'Election last fall. {the union challenged the validity | Franklin Street rooming house of | by blown to bits in the basement of | - |of temporary restraining orders is-|Austin Nelson, now charged with! Isued in the same case by U. S.|the first degree murder of Ellen. | A had refused to permit an American! yrom previously isolated areas in|Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. | District Jud; sbor-| While there was some silver| Ut : Y ge T. Allan Goldsbor- | o e i ¥ 1 businessman with full clearance| southern Shikoku Island and the| It includes a frank recital of IRl Hate. money in the cash drawer and The charge was filed by U. §. ' from U. S. authorities to debark.| wagayama Peninsula. Kyoda News U. S. stumblings and slip-up at The Supreme Court, in accept-|elsewhere in the store, no paper | Atitorney Pat Gilmore upon the accusation of U. 8. | Marshal Walter Hellan. Nelson was arrested in a Scuth Franklin Street roomimg house at noon yesterday for Doputy in evi- namite in a bomb and then warn- ing the woman to stay away from| SIARI poR'Al Io the box. In his defense, Bow= r 5 Also denied permission to land were| pgency reported its count at 1,125|Midway, the Aleutians and Guadal- two American newspapermen, re-)yjjed Kyoda listed 2,700 killed,|canal, from which the Navy pain- presenting the Combined World| migsing and injured. |fully learned how to use air pcwer. Press. | A bitter cold wina blew steadlly; Skillful Japanese planning for the |ing the latest appeal, consolidated Mmoney or currency was | it with the appeals granted earlier, dence ! Argument on all of the issues will| Bloody footprints showea that the be heard: Jantary.14: |killer had washed his hands at El- | jolation of the re-|len's sink before leaving by the| den admitted making the bomb, but said he meant to send it to a rival who forced his attentions on (Russian troops have occupied|across Japan from the Manchurian pearl Harbor attack and for the | It was for 5 " 5 ~ Mrs. Bow b the hust At gl a r v questicning by Hellan, U. S. Dairen since the Japanese surren-| piains, adding to the miserable dis-|great conquests of the East Indies aos o0 aacn “hile the husbndj WASHINGTON, Dec. 23— The straining orders that the mine | 080K door, which was DIOPDEd ODeR | i ety DSasuhal: Rk’ MHAsgS ? e g * ({United States Chamber of Com- leader and the union were held in|bPY & chair. | der. Although the Chinese-Russian comfort of Japanese who lost their |is acknowledged by the U. S. Navy treaty of 1945 called for its desig-' homes and their relatives or friends writers. P merce disclosed plans today to mar- contempt of court and were fined D-‘s“r.mngefl ik “",d Mok o :.:‘n :;‘:n’l‘;::(::ns‘t’w:,:?n:: nation as a free port under Chin-!in the tragic dawn Saturday. The success of these plans, how- shal its member organizations be- $3,150,000. wln:’m\ufi that there had been a after'thie Mbsdyery. o ARG BIY: ese administration, Soviet fOrces| The homeless—tens of thousands'ever blinded the Javanese ever woMAN IS RAPED 'hind a drive in Congress to re-, The orders directed them to keep |“eVére struggle, and an SYLTIRY He wis Grabbd. theonki ¥ ohia still are in control of the city. 4 13 !licve employers from possible “port- ) |showed that Eillen had been struck —were living under railroad trestles, after to believe thai :inal victory the mines going pending a judictal found in the store, but author- (In Washington, the State De- in forests and along the beaches,|was just “one crushing blow" be- KIllED. A"O'I'HER al-to-portal” pay liabilities dating ruling on the logal issues involved. O% the head havd enough to st i 8t Gl nie on partment sald it had received 10! gtoking little fires against the bit-|yond their fingertips. | y back to 1938. 3 | The preliminary injunction replac- |; dem“{e g s by el B 1 ogc 2 report of the “verbal ultimatum” ing winter weather, as relief crews| Highlights of the more important | ;Spured by the snow-balling|cd the restraining order. that the blows on the head| At the time of his arrest, the and would have no immediate com- ' sought to deliver emergency food, battles and campaigns follow: BRUIA[[Y BEATENic}mms of workers in mass produc- The Supreme Court already has WA ot “_';“ SL‘VD;(‘ enough to'| ¢fficers found that Nelson had ment.) | clothing and medical supplies. : jtion industries for pay—at twice' agreed to rule on the first appeals i i ? v The vessel, LC-3 1090, was on a second routine courier mission to Dairen carrying diplomatic mail and supplies to the U. S. Consul- ate there. . . & “ In view of the fact that the de- tails of the first trip had been re- vealed to the press, two correspon- dents were permitted to take pas-i sage on this trip by Admiral Charles M. Cooke Jr., Commander of the Seventh Fleet, in order to be present in event their going ashore would meet with the approval of local authorities. Admiral Cooke had rul- ed that no photographs could be made without the consent of the local officials. The ship arrived at Dairen Dec. 18, and requested permission to re- main in port for 48 hours. This was accepted without comment by the Soviet authorities who met the ship at anchorage. The ship remained in the harbor two additional hours while U. S. Consul General H. Merrill Ben- ninghoff attempted a last minute appeal to the Soviet military auth- orities to permit an American busi- nessman, Jess L. Poole Atlanta, Ga., representing the Standard Vacuum 0il Co., to go ashore. It was at this point that the Soviet ulumntum[ was delivered. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—One of the most useful investigations panned in the Senate has been. all up-in-the-air because of that time-honored ques- tion, “seniority”—plus a certain amount of big business pressure. The Senate small business com- mittee, headed by molasses-moving Senator Jim Murray of Montana, has carefully prepared some amaz- ing data on the squeeze being put on small newspapers. The advance probe ranged from the newsprint monopoly to feather-bedding by labor unions, some of which charge a newspaper twice for setting type. ‘T'he probe also showed the terrc mortality of smaller newspapers, and a scheme by about 20 of the nation’s biggest papers to corner most of the chain grocery store ad- vertising. After the Senate smill business committee spent weeks on this study, however, the November elec- tions showed that the committee soon would have a new chairman. ‘Whereupon millionaire Senator Murray of Montana got lethargic. A slow mover anyway, he was fur- ther handicapped by a seniority quarrel within Republican ranks. Ordinarily, the chairmanship of the small business committee would have gone to ex-undertaker Senator Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska, who replaced the late great George Nor- (Continued on Page Four) ! | | The Home Ministry listed 1,026 ~ Pearl Harbor _as dead, 145 as missing and 1,035 _Planning started in January, 1941. injured, and reported that well over | December 8 was picked for the at- 100,000 persons were made homeless tack, but this was later moved up 1in one of the world’s worst natural to Dec. 7 because of “pessible nd: | disasters. ;vn.nta_ges . .. from Sunday attack. | Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, 1f discovered before Dec. 5, the | Commander of the U. S. Eighth Japanese carrier had orders to turn . § | back. Army, announced meanwhile that; ! No follow up of the rald was ino American personnel had been; 2 p killed or injured. ‘mnde since its only purpose was to A il |destroy the capital ship strength of ‘ ithe United States, and the Japa- B u l l E I I N S}ne.se accurately estimated the dam- age done. The success oi the Japanese ex- H | pansion, plus the American raid on : Tokyo, were both reasons for seiz- | MANILA — The U. S. Army to-!ing additional defense bases such day authorized the payment of as Midway, the Japanese said. $25,000,000 to the Philippines in par-| Later they considered this ruriner tial reimbursement for emergency grab a “fundamental error.” Amer- 'currency issued during the war by ican naval officers said Midway was Filipino guerrillas. |“perhaps the decisive battle of the -~ | war.” { ! VATICAN CITY — Thousands of | An American mistake, and a cheering Catholics who jammed St. bloody air lesson, was the sending Peter’s Square heard Pope Pius XII out of unprotected torpedo squad- call yesterday for a “Holy Union” rons. of all Christians to overcome ‘“hos-, Aleutians 1 tility” in the world and urge Cath-! The Japanese landings were made olics everywhere to defend the faith right after the Midway defeat, but in a fight which he described as U. S. search planes did not learn “for Christ or against Christ.” 'Kiska and Attu were being occu-| pied until four days after the start| PEIPING — Communist guerrillas'of the landings. After 14 months, iwere reported in the official gov-'of U. S. bombing a “disappointing lernment newspaper Chih Shih Jih'total” of less than seven percent of | Pao today to be attacking the Men-|the Japanese garrison had been kill- | toukou coal mines, 15 miles west of ed by the air raids. H |Peiping, a main source of coal tor[ The Japanese evacuated 5,100 this ancient capital. itroops from Kiska in 45 minutes X ione afterncon following the Ameri-| WASHINGTON — Top housing can seizure of Attu. Some 25 days| ;officials today formally announc- later 34,000 American and Canad- ed the regulations which become ian troops attacked the deserted {effective tomorrow for construction island after weeks of air and sur- {of new homes. These include a face bombardment. | 11,500-square-foot limit on floor! A “dark chapter in the United jarea, which officials said will per-|sca0es air effort” was failure to |mit construction of a standard,|attack Japanese cruisers and des- jthree bed-room home, and prohibi-|troyers that heavily damaged two| tion against the equipping of moreiAmeticun warships in a dnyught} than one bathroom. !bnme. ‘The bombers were delayed | “several hours” changing their | DETROIT — Tuv CIO has start- | bomb loads for an attack. led a legal fight in several cities, The U. S. defense of the Aleutiansl \to collect portal to portal pay and|and Alaska ‘“as entrusted” to 78| !damages in excess of $374,000,000 planes because the task force ccm—i ‘and a union official in Detroit pre-imander (not identified) was order- |dicted future suits in that area ed to operate “cautiously.” He !alone would approach the billlon\lhid his destroyers around Dutch jdollar mark. {Harbor and kept his principal sur- ! ————————— face ship strength south of Kodiak, s]’o—(K 0“0"‘"0"‘ “almost certainly out of reach of the | Japanese \but equally beyond range {of any promising quarry.” NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Closing, e quotation of Alaska Juneau mine AUTOS IN ACCIDENT stock today is 5%, American Can| Joseph R. Orazio was sent to St. {90, Anaconda 41, Curtiss-Wright 6, Ann’s Hospital for treatment of International Harvester 75%, Ken-|cuts and lacerations about the face necott 52%, New York Central 18‘/‘;,‘Bnd left ear as the result of an { Northern Pacific 21%, U. S. Steel| automobile accident at 2:20 am. 2%, Pound $4.03. Sunday. Sales today were 1,170,000 shares.; The accident occurred on snowy, Dow Jones averages today are|icy streets at the intersection of as follows: industrials 177.36, rails| Willoughby and E streets near the 61.86, utilities 37.33. Home Grocery. Three Royal Blue| ——— cabs were coming down theé street, SEA SCOUT MEETING when a 1935 Ford pickup driven by The' Juneau Sea Scouts will hold Orazio tried to make the turn and their next meetinlg in the Grnde}struck the first cab head on. School gym on Monday evening at| William H, Magner was driver of 7:30 o'clock. Scouts are requested|the cab. Damage to the front ends to take their gym shoes. Jof both vehitles was severe, | the dazed mother and the body of ! ! door early in the evening and had | asked directions to an address. Af- | sound as though someone had fal- {normal overtime rates—for travel SEATTLE, Dec. .<u.—The ariver|and other non-production time not i a large, black sedan seen near hitherto paid for, the Chamber will the scene of the rape-murder of Submit a referendum Friday to its Mrs. Edua Vaughan, 49, and the! €tire membership. raping and brutal beating of her, These members in turn will poll 73-year-old mother was sought for|some 30,000 companies on a. series questioning today as police widened |©f Proposed amendments to the their search for the unknown slay- | Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.| i It is this act which makes the +back-pay suits possible. It estab- |lished a 42-hour work week for two sex crime records. |years, then a 40-hour week after Authorities still were awaiting| 1940 for employees engaged in pro- opportunity to question the mother,) JUCiNg goods for interstate com- Mrs. Marie Windt, at length re-i Earli hi garding the attacks. Attendants at! Cou‘:‘% ‘ei‘;‘ ;‘c‘; eyl:’v"ol;g‘; 152‘33‘8’;‘5 King County Hospital said the el-| T - T Sl Shep ta. S o United Poltery 'Workers st Mt. derly woman was in fair condition ! but still too dazed to be questioned, | C1emens, Mich—held that employ- ees are entitled to pay for time The slaying was discovered short- | ly aiter 4 a.m. Sunday, when Mr: Ina McDonald, a neighbor, found er. Police also were rounding up all known underworld characters with ompany property. \ (This became known as the port- al-to-portal decision, because of the ontract arrangement John L. Lew- s won for his coal miners, cover- ing pay for time spent in traveling ,from the pit mouths to the scene jof actual digging operations.) : P i In the Mt. Clemens case, the ter Harold Windt, Mrs. Windt's SON, court ruled that the pottery work- left, Mrs. Vaughan answered th' ers had been putting in more than door. Mrs. Windt said she heard 2140 hours a week since 1940, and ;hence had extra time coming to len. {them at overtime rates. Under the When she entered the hall, she'j,y these automatically are doubled told police a negro struck her and when the employee has to go to wrapped something around her!court to collect. neck, choking her into insenslbflny.' —_— She remembered nothing further,) she said. .Cases, Conscieniious Objectors, Are Given Mrs. Vaughan lying on a matress' in their apartment. Mrs. Windt told police that a negro had twice knocked on the WS WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Byrnes has named Lieutenant | General Mark W. Clark as his’ deputy to begin preliminary work, on a peace treaty for Austria. Gen-; . N Ruling, Highest Cou eral, Clark, American commanding' g general in Austria, will join deput-; WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—In de- ies of foreign ministers from France,| cisions which may affect scores of Britain and Russia in London on|conscientious objectors, the Su- January 14 to begin the task. | preme Court reversed today con- e i victions of two Jehovah's witnesses | for violating the dratt law. ®! The court found in each case that . ® | the men were denied proper trials . ® | by lower courts which refused to let ® Temperatures for 34-Hour Period ® | ¢ho defense challenge the draft © Ending 6:30 0'Clock This Morning @ | cjassifications of the defendants. : L Justice Rutledge delivered the . . . . WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) In Juneau—Maximum, 39; ®|court’s unanimous decisions in the minimum, 30. ® two cases. . At Alrport—Maximum, 35; ®, 15 one George William Dodez minimum, 30. ® | was sentencetl to five years for re- WEATHER FORECAST ' vice camp as ordered by his draft 2 b e s 4 ® |board. In the other, Taze Hamrick L ® Gibson was sentenced to five years ¢ Cloudy with occasional ® for jeaying a camp at Hill City, ® very light rain or snow. ® g p ® Showers tonight and Tues- © % 5 - ® day. Cooler with lowest tem- ®! perature near freezing. . GRIZZLY BEAR RETURNS ———— . —_— . PRECIPITATION o The Grizzly Bear, Fish and Wild- ©® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) e | life patrol boat, returned last night 3 e from a routine excursion of five . In Juneau — .88 inches; e days, according to word from Jack ® since Dec. 1, 456 inches; e O’Connor, Supervisor. ® since July 1, 5451 inches. . O'Connor also revealed that a . At Airport — .10 inches; ® new ranger motor arrived today ® since Dec. 1, 2,08 inches; ® ® since July 1, 36.75 inches. e stalled in the Fairchild Fish and . e Wildlife Service plane in the near ® ® 00 0 s 0 0 0 o o o future pent preparing for their jobs on, cause death. Dr. Carter said he believed that Ellen’s throat had been cut from tehind by a very sharp instrument —not a dull knife. |time of death at between 1 and 3 ,o’'clock Sunday morning. filed and has set Jan. 14 for hear- | ing arguments. - Green Chrisimas For Most Parts Over Nation ery. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Also called as witnesses were Jce There will be no snow for Christ-, Barney*and Jimmie Davis, who had mas over most of the nation. |scen Ellen Baturday night when That's the word from the Chicago |they had purchased liquor from weather bureau, which added that bim early in the evening, and who any requests to Santa Claus for|Were summoned Sunday morning by new sleds should include last min- | Mrs. Fitzgerald. Barney lives across ute for snow to accompany them, |the street from the grocery, and Present, snow cover is limited to| Davis had stayed all night with North Dakota and Montana and MM porticns of South Dakota, Minne- U, 5. Atorney Kot (Uwose, who sota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New | questioned _wanesses» for the gov- York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Westr“"?me"t‘ did not introduce any Virginia and inland New England evidence concerning suspect Nelson. spots, the weather map shows. The | Members of the jury wess Monts weather bureau expects no addi- Orisham, Thomas J. Ryan, Harry tional snowfall by Christmas morn,;éh lexcag EmAel“ P;\;son.s, Sacres and expects that the snow in Penn- AN e e B | sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia! Rty B P i asappear, sor e most pur, ELECTRIC TRAIN DISPLAY - ATTRACTS ADULTS,KIDDIES Ly TS H.IER ’s MISS‘"G “More adults than kiGs come in [to play with it," says Eddie Pey- | iton of Alaska Electric Light and | "EAR AN(HORAGE!Power Company of his window elec- ! lm’c train display. £ Peyton spent all Saturday night ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 23'_‘and Sunday installing the 80 feet Alaskan search parties are 100KINR|of (rack and accessories. He built for a 21-year-old Anchorage Pilot|s tunnel six feet long of plaster of missing cn a flight from Lake Lu-|pgris, has a road and grade cross- cille, near Wasiil to Merrill Fleld jng an automatic signalman, even in Anchorage. The pilot, Walter|s 1op Jodge labelled Salmon Creek Necds, 21, radioed the control tower | ciyp. 4t Anchcrage that he was taking| The train, a Lionel Electric luif irom the lake in his own Plflm!"freu;ht with a string of scale model u a 25-minute flight to the city. |cars and a lighted caboose, has an Search parties composed of a engine that makes smoke and has land rescue team and Army. and g realistic whistle. Peyton reported civilian planes are being hindered that he first ran the train about by bad weather. |2 oclock Sunday morning. A lady | . Fon il " |with a room on the third floor of Girl Refls's Advan(eslhe Baranof heard the whistle and Visitors to the store can take over the remote controls of the Joseph Henry Maish, a 16-year-old reverses, stops and then goes for- Vancouver high school sophomore|ward again. A second button blows told him later the sound made her " Youth, Pays with Life - train. It starts with one push on with no delinquency record, has the whistle, and smoke pills are |the body and called the police, tes- |tified as to the time of discov- homesick. VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 23.— the button, stops at the second, ® ! fusal to go to a civilian public ser- confessed fatally knifing pretty 17-|dropped down the stack for that money, year-old La Dona Toscas because special effect. she resisted his advances, D. M.| The price? Well, anyone with a Gilpin, Clark County chief proba- little better than $100 can have it, tion officer, said. ;but 80 feet of track, a mounain and { The girl, who came here two sundry buildings would take up a |weeks ago from San Francisco to'lot of room in an apartment. live near her father, was slashed| SIS e Ey {in the neck and back five times| SEY RITES TODAY |Saturday night in the kitchen of' Puneral services for James Sey, the home where she roomed. | ploneer resident of Douglas who ; - > | passed away last week, were held | GUESTS AT JUNEAU HOTEL | this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the R | Charles W. Carter mortuary. The { Among the guests registering at|Rev. Willis R. Booth conducted the the Juneau Hotel are Joseph E.|service. Cornwell of Wrangell, Robert Be-| Pallbearers were Alec Gair, Carl frem Anchorage. This will be in- rieify of Ketchikan, Art Kvam-]Carlson. Ernie_Shudshift, E. Hack- strcm of Fairbanks, Frances War- ring of Hoonah, and Willilam Crompilon of Port Richardson. meister, Lion Johnson and Joe Riedi. Interment was in the Odd Fellows plot of Evergreen cemetery. He placed the Mrs. Betty PFitzgerald, who found kern washing some of his clothes in his room. There was no visual evidence of blood on the wet clothes, however scien- tific labcratory tests would be | able to determine if the clothes | had been blood-stained. One spot of blood was found on an- other item of Nelson's wearing apparel. Nelson is known to have been in Juneau since 1943. He was arrested that year on a charge of drunk and disorderly conduct and served 60 days in the Fed- eral jail, U, S. Marshal William ; T. Mahcney reported this morn- ing. The suspect was arraigned | this forenoon before Commis- sicner Gray and asked for a preliminary hearing for which no date has yet been set. Nel- | son stated that he was inno- | cent, but is not allowed to make | an cofficial plea at this time. | He is being held without bail Nelson's occupation is listed as a seaman. He was born in | New Orleans, A corcner's jury was to be called to meet this afternoon ! to determine the cause of death | officially. | Lying in a pool of blood on the |floor behind the half open door be- |tween the liquor sales room and (the grocery store, the slumped body lof Jim Ellen was found yesterday !forenoon in his place of business 'on Willoughby Avenue. Ellen had been murdered. Two complete slashes, evidently done by a knife. were across the throat. One slash, from an ear across one-half the |throat, cut the windpipe. This slash 'was high up. The second slash \was from an ear, lower down on the throat. Both were deep cuts. ‘Indications are that Ellen at- tempted to put up a fight in an ‘attempted holdup as many bottles from the shelves were scattered on |the floor and merchandise on the counter was disarranged. The | murderer might have slashed Ellen’s |throat first as he turned around in ‘resistance and then struck another savage blow with the knife on the opposite side of the throat as Ellen |sank to the floor, blood streaming from the wounds. The cash register in the liquor de- partment was found rifled of paper silver not being taken.: | Whether this was before or after the killing was not at first determined. Footprints with blood stains were (Continued on Page Siz) | 1 SHOPPING DAY TO CHRISTMAS 4,