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Thursday, September 15, 1955
NUMBER 195
Germans hear report of talks
with Russians in Moscow
W. German cabinet
wants time fa
study all reports
®QNW, Germany </P) The
West German cabinet heard a
report on 'the Moscow talks
by chanceikr JConratd Aden
auer today but took no for
mal action.
An official announcement
Said the ministers wanted to
study detailed reports from the
foreign office on the negotia
tions between Adenauer and
the Russian leaders,
. This indicated they needed
more time to make up their
minds (whether to approve the
agreement to set up normal
diplomatic relations between
Soviets deny claim i
Adenauer speaks
lor all Germany
MOSCOW CP) The R.r.vnr
ton'rM toM chancellor Konrad
Alien air? r that his government
speaks only for West Germany
— and not for all Germany as
he claimed here in (his negotia
tions with the Kremlin. j
Furthermore, the Russians
said Adenauer has nothing
more to say about Germany’s
final 'borders than East Ger- j
many — and East Germany’s j
communists have already sign- i
ed away the territory east of j
the Oder-Neis.se line to Poland
and Russia. j
These twin rebuffs were con-:
tained in a Tass statement for!
the government issued less
than 48 hours aft°r Adenauer i
left Moscow and less than 24
hours before his East German
rival, communist premier Otto
Grotewobl, pulls into Moscow
with a deligation for the same
kind of negotiations which Ad
enauer conducted with the
Kremlin.
V eatchcombfng
• After looking over the re-*
turns — it would appear that
the Republicans have a lot of
work to do — Most successful
candidates are of the party of
Grueninig and Truman.
-H—I—
• You Can’t believe what a
-communist says even if it comes
from one of the policy makers.
That stuff peddled at Geneva
has a vulgar term and they are
beginning to hack up fast.
H I’m feeling kina low today
— for no reason at a.ll — hut it
could be cured by a good long
sleep. At least eight hours 9leep
every night for ia week would
help somewhat.
—1—|—
• Asked a charming and beau
ti'ful young lady if she had ever
felt whiskers. When she put
her hand out we ignored it —
but was one side of her face
red — and we aren’t sure if
she was Shocked or indignant.
West Germany and the Soviet
Union. Adenauer stipulated the
Moscow agreement should foe
subjected to approval by the
Bonn parliament.
According to Carlo Schmid,
vice president of the Bcndestag
(lower house), the agreement is
to foe submitted to parliament
a week from today. But this
cannot foe done until the cabin
et has decided what to recoin-1
mend to parliament.
Schmid, a leader of the op
position Socialists and a mem
ber of Adenauer’s delegation in
Moscow, attended today’s spe
cial cabinet session. He said in
a broadcast earlier that accept
ance or rejection of the Moscow
agreement would be a tough de
c is ion for pari lamest to make.
Adenauer discussed the Mos
cow talks this afternoon with
leaders of the political parties,
including the Socialists.
Hie political leaders were re
liafoly reported in favor of de
bating the results of the Mos
cow conference next Thursday
Political sources said the gov
emmenlt parties twill introduce
t motion qualifying acceptance
r g diplomatic relations with
Russia by the conditions Aden
auer made in Moscow:
1. The return of German pri
soners from Russia.
2. The fixing of Germany’s
final borders must be done in
a peace treaty. i
3. Only the freely elected
Bonn regime is qualified to
speak for all Germany.
The informants said' they
will reiterate thait the ultimate
aim of West Germany is reun
ifioaition and that exchange of
diplomats with Moscow will in
no way imply any slackening
of efforts toward unity.
The communist Bast German
government attempted today
to take the credit for the Sov
iet promise to free the prison
ers. It claimed Adenauer was
merely informed of the success
of (previous Soviet- Bast Ger
man talks when he was told by
Bulganin the Germans would
be released.
The r>ast uenman govern
ment has claimed1 repeatedly
that it has been negotiating on
the prisoner issue with the
Kremlin, but has never an
nounced any results.
The Association of former
German war 'prisoners sent
Adenauer a teltgram today
htanking him for obtaining Bui
ganin’s pledge on the prison
ers. It said 3.000 doctors, 6,000
personal advisers and 3,000
nurses were beinlg assembled
to care for the returnees.
Moving swiftly to follow up
its negotiations with West Ger
many, the Soviet Union has
announced it will open talks
tomorrow with leaders of com
munist East Germany.
The Soviet news agency
Tass said East German pre
mier Otto Grotewohl would
arrive in Moscow 'for confer
ences on “questions of inter
St to all sides.” The announce
ment came only a few hours
after West German chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer ended
his Moscow conference and
left for Bonn.
!District totals
Same how or other, we made
a bad mistake in tabulating the
results yesterday in the District
No. 3 race (Sitka Recording
precinct). In it we credited
Warren Christianson as having
the second highest number with
112 votes while he actually
only received 68 and stated
Fred VanHorn had 119 while
his total was 110.
William W. Knight DID re
ceive 233 votes and M. S. Mitro
vitch 75.
We could blame the tabula
tor, writer or linotype operator
for the mistake but they are
one and the same.
Division standings
JUNEAU (/P) With little or
no change in the standings of
candidates for division at-large
seats to the constitutional con
vention, tabulators are waiting
results (from the West Coast
and village precincts to see if
Frank Peratrovich and Andrew
Hope will gain enoungh votes
to place them in the seven el
ected.
The leaders are James Nolan
Dora Sweeney, Burke Riley,
Douglas Gray, B. D. Stewart,
R. E. Robertson, J. S. MacKin
non, Jr.
They are followed by Frank
Peratrovich, Lauras Parker and
Andrew Hope.
Fairbanks vote
puts Gillarn into |
"select seven"
by The Associated Press
Completion of the vote count ;
in the Fairbanks area moved j
another candidate from the In- j
terior city into the select cir-j
cle of seven in the race for ter-1
tritory-at-large seats in the Al
aska constitutional convention.
Byron A. Gillarn, Fairbanks
businessman, moved into sixth
place in the standings. The shift
dropped Ed Coffey, Anchorage
off the ladder of seven.
In addition to the seven ter
ritory-at-large delegates to the
November convention, 48 other
delegates were chosen in Tues
day’se lection on a district and
division-at-large 'basis. 1
The rankings, on the basis of j
yesterday’s count but with,
many precinct reports from ru-j
ral areas still missinlg, are:
Ralph Rivers. Fairbanks, 5,
102; Mrs. Mildred Hermann,!
Juneau, 3989; Mrs. Katherine!
Nordale, Juneau, 3734; Steve j
McGutcheon, Anchorage, 3348;
George Sundlborg. Juneau 3243; j
Byron Gillarn, Fairbanks, 2915;
R. Roland Armstrong, Juneau,
2910.
Below the top seven, with
some of tihem Still having a
chance, are:
Warren Taylor, Fairbanks,
2833, Ed Coffey, Anchorage,
2715; Richard Greuel Fairbanks
2665; Alaska Linek. Fairbanks
2600; William J. Gordon, Jr.
Fairbanks 2417: Robert Sheldon
Fairbanks, 2356; William Beltz
Nome 2324: Howard Stabler,
Juneau 2205: William Paul,
Juneau 1789; Alice Stuart, Fair
banks 1602; John Weir, Ketch!
kan. 1549: Clarence Keating,
Anchorage 1345; E. G. Bailey,
Mountain Biew, 1333; J. H.
Van Housen. Anchorage, 1252;
Hadley Stephens, Mountain
View 588: Jerome BeBruyn,
Fairbanks. 249.
Settlements being made in
nation's many labor disputes
Nation's labor
picture much
brighter today
PI TTSiDUlRGHT (JP) Local
601, CIO Inter national Union
of Electrical Workers, today
voted to end a 5 week strike at
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
Details of the vote were not
immediately disclosed.
by The Associated Press
The nation’s labor picture
appeared much brighter today
with settlement reported in
two of the week’s biggest
strikes involving some 143,000
workers.
The costly eight-day strike
by New York longshoremen,
which spread to some .other
ports along the east and gulf
coasts this week, ended yes
terday. The International Long
shoremen’s Assn. (Ind) approv
ed the proposal of setting up
a citizen’s fact-finding commit
Juneau man kills
health department
worker at her desk
JUNEAU f/P) An unemployed
carpenter, who told police he
had been an unjust victim of
“corruption” in the Alaska de
partment of health, shot and
killed Mrs. Elizabeth Cornell,
53. here Wednesday.
The woman had 'been em
poyed by the health depart
ment since 1953.
Lester Mangle. 55, a long time
Juneau resident, was arrested
by territorial police and ar
raigned before U. S. commis
sioner Gordon Gray.
U. S. Asst Distnic Atty. Ted
Reifsteck quoted Mangle as say
img he had been an unjust vic
tim of health department “cor
ruption” and had planned to
shoot someone in the depart
ment to attract attention to the
situation.
Mangle told Reifteck he had
not not necessarily decided to
shoot Mrs. Cornell, the wife of
Ezra Cornell, resident engineer
for the bureau of public roads
here.
Witnesses said Mangle enter
ed the health department office
and flashed a rifle, its stock
missing, barrel shortened, hang
ing from a device attached to
i the shoulder.
Riefseck said Mrs. Cornell
screamed as Manlgie came in
and Mangle then (fired the sin
gle, fatal shot. The woman died
shortly afterward.
The Cornell’s daughter, Betty
Jo, is a sophomore at the Uni
verstiy of California. She left
i Juneau last Friday.
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Baseball today
ST. LOUIS (/P) A 12th inning
single by weak-hitting Alex
Grammas drove in the deciding
run for the St. Louis Cardinals
and sent the National league
J champion Brooklyn Dogers
down to their fifth straight de
1 feat today. 3-2. It was today’s
[only major leaigue game.
tee to hear its grievances a
gainst the New York-New Jer
sey waterfront carnmissdo-n.
The strike Iby the 30,000
New York dock workers was a
gainst the commission, an of
ficiad policing -agency which
the union had charged with
harsh and discriminatory prac
tiees. The Shipping industry
estimated the strike cost em
ployers a million dollars a
day.
A general strike of 70,000
other dock workers was order
ed Monday (but there was no
widespread -walkout.
The peace platform devel
oped major cracks, however,
when state Sen. Mark Anton,
a New Jersey Republican,
joined -assemfblyman Maurice
Brady, a New Jersey Demo
crat, in refusing to sit on the
fact-finding committee.
Gov. Averill Harrim-an of
New York has repeatedly
brushed aside -all -attempts to
gain an official forum in that
state.
However, reports up and
down the Atlantic coast show
ed that strikers were return
ing to work.
The 43,000 members of the
CIO International Union of
Electrical Workers who struck
against the Westinghouse El
ectric Oorip. on Monday were
ordered to return to work to
day. However, some 10,000
workers at the Pittdbuhgfh loc
al which started the walkout
Aug. 8 -appeared not ready to
return to work.
Elsewhere, however, sym
pathy strikers were reported
returning to work. Some 33,
000 OIO-IUE members at 26
plants in nine states had left
their jobs.
Alt the company’s Lima, O
hio, plant, a dispute involving
production line assembly Was
holding up return of 2,300 em
ployes.
Union and management ne
gotiators opened wage talks.
The strike by 2,200 work
j ers at the East Pittsburgh
plant started in protest of the
(company’s time study of their
jobs. Carey da id the settle
ment provides that the time
study question be a part of
, the (bargaining talks opening
, today.
I There was no indication of
j immediate settlement of the
23-day-old strike of 40,000 C
l TO United Auto Workers in 18
j International Harvester Co.
. plants in six states. Manage
I —--o-i rtr r'rrp fnilTt
Marine forecast from Thurs
day to Friday.
j Outside waters Dixon En
trance to Siitka variable winds
. 5 to 15 mph today becoming
j east to northeast 10 to 15 mph
; tonight.
■ Cloudy with occasional light
rain or drizzle today. Mostly
cloudy tondight.
i Oultside waters Sitka to Ya
kuts t variable winds 5 to 15
mph today becoming northeast
| 10 to 20 mph.
Mostly cloudy this afternoon
i Partly doudy tonight.