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Northwest to
Hunt for New
Power Sites
Brownout May Be
Ordered Within Two
Weeks; Situation Serious
PORTLAND, Sept. 24—Wl—The
big searsh for new sources of el
ectric pf»wer is underway in the
drought-stricken Pacific Northwest.
The search was touched off last
week when the Defense Adminis
tration < DEPA i ordered cuts which
resulted in a 10 percent reduction
of power to the area’s booming
aluminum industry.
Then Saturday the apparent
seriousness of the Situation was
emphasized when Mobilizer Charles
E. Wilson told the aluminum pro
ducers to prepare plans for the pos
sible removal of some of the Pacific
northwest plants to areas of as
sured power supply.
What caused the power short
age?
Most public and private power
officials blame the drought. This
has been one of the driest sum
mers in the history of the area.
And not enough rain has fallen
to swell the Columbia River—which
with its huge hydro-electric gener
ators is the source of much of the
Pacific northwest's power supply.
Rep. Hugh Mitchell (R-Wash)
said a delay in building additional
generating facilities also was res
ponsible.
What can be done to ease the
situation?
Among suggested solutions is a
“brownout” of the Pacific north
west, calling for outdoor lighting
and advertising signs to be shut
off, the power saved then to go to
the aluminum industry. Joseph H.
Gumz, region DEPA director, said
a brownout may be ordered within
two weeks.
Identity of
Headless Body
Remains Mystery
Believing there might possibly be
some connection between a head
less body found near Conclusion
Island last Friday and the disap
pearance of two men in Keku Strait
a year ago, the U.S. Commissioner
at Petersburg launched an investi
gation.
He contacted the Coast Guard re
questing the names and addresses
of the men aboard the fishing vessel
Burnett from which Otis Jackson
and Henry Mycoski left to go hunt
ing Oct. 23, 1950. Their beached
outboard skiff was located with the
motor controls in running position
and it was thought that the two
men had fallen overboard during a
squall.
A search was made at the time
but no bodies were located.
Tbe headless body found by Kake
hunters Friday was in advanced
stages of decomposition. It was
picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard
cutter Citrus, and taken to Wran
gell.
ATA TAKES 12 SOUTH
A dozen persons flew to Seattle
with Air Transport Associates, Inc.,
an Sunday. •
They were: Mr. and Mrs. W. O.
Weaver, K. W. Yates, Mr. and Mrs.
Mathey Kookesh and Pauline, Don
Milens, Mr. and Mrs. Karrtll -Hoep
ner, Rosemary Harman, Mr. and
Mrs. James Lee. *
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TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
lCopyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
(Ed. Note—The brass ring,
good for one free ride on the
Washington Merry-Go-Roudd to
day goes to Premier Alcide De
Gasperi of Italy on his present
visit to the United States.)
TFashinGTON—Five years ago
I was in the Luxembourg Palace in
Paris when a delegation represent
ing defeated Italy entered. The en
tire peace conference sat stolid
and chilly. Even the American
and Russian delegates, who dis
agreed on many things, agreed in
their frostiness toward the nation
which had spawned Mussolini and
extended his Fascist brand of ty
ranny over the Mediterranean.
Japan and Germany were not
permitted to send delegates to the
peace conference and doubtless
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AFL Is Planning I
Political Fight
On 19 Senators
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 24——
The American Federation of Labor
has named nineteen U.S. Senators
it considers chief Congressional
targets in the 1952 elections.
Joseph D. Keenan, retiring direc
tor of labor’s league for political |
education, in a speech to convention
delegates, described the Senators as i
“short-sighted and anti-labor.”
Describing the Senators as "the
men who gave you the Taft-Hartley
bill,” Keenan urged the defeat
among others, of:
Senators Brewster (R-Maine);
Flanders (R-Vt), Martin, <R
Penn), Smith (R-NJ), Williams iR
D'd*. O'Conor, *(D-Md), and Harry
Byrd (D-Va), whom he described
as “Dean of all Dixiecrats” and
Cain (R-Wash).
Keenan declared there was “an
excellent chance” of defeating “sev
eral of them.” A net gain of nine
seats “is all we need for a friendly
Senate majority,” he said.
“The Taft-Hartley law is a time
bomb,” the AFL speaker told the
convention. “When they want to
explode it, they can destroy the
labor movement.”
Million Dollar
Law Suit Names
Anchorage Man
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 24——A
$$1,510,000 suit was filed in Third
District Court Saturday against R.
W. Marshall, chairman of the
board of Alaska Airlines.
The amount, a record breaker in
court annals here, was sought by
Arthur W. Stephenson. He charged
damaging statements were made
about him by Marshall while Step
henson was an officer and execu
tive of the Alaska Airlines.
Since then he has been dis
charged, according to an earlier
complaint filed against Marshall by
H. W. Bowman, who described him
self as a minority stockholder in
the corporation.
Stephenson’s complaint listed
three causes of action. He asked
$250,000 actual damages and $250,
000 punitive damages for each.
In the other action pending
against Marshall and Alaska Air
lines, Bowman accuses Marshall
of nonfeasance, malfeasance and
fraud in discharging certain duties
as chairman of the board.
In the Stephenson suit, tnc iirst
cause of action says the allegedly
damaging statements were made
Aug. 30 of this year at the airlines
city ticket office within hearing of
a group of pilots. Similar state
ments were charged to the defend
ant on Sept. 18 and a third between
Aug. 7 and Sept. 18.
Stephenson contended the de
fendant knew the statements were
false and were “made with malice
with intent to injure and harass the
plaintiff, and damage his position,
credit and standing in the air carrier
industry in a community where he
lives.”
The suit, filed by attorney John
Hughes through the firms of Davis
and Renfrew, Anchorage, and Theo
dore R. Coomber of Los Angeles,
also asks $10,000 in attorney fees.
In the Bowman suit Marshall is
accused of “entering into a con
spiracy to bilk and cheat the
corporation by selling to it through
the Aero Exchange Inc., and
Utilities Equipment Co., property
at excess value for the benefit of
Marshall.” Cited as evidence was
a Civil Aeronautics Board deci
sion to this effect.
The suit alleged Marshall was a
majority stockholder in the two
companies named.
Marshall also was accused of Im
properly discharging Stephenson;
of failing to pdy him $3,600 allegedly
owed; and of keeping the airlines
records in Everett, Wash., rather
than in the territory as required by
law.
Marshall Is scheduled to appear
in district court here Nov. 21 to
show cause why he should not be
restrained from discharging his
duties as chairman of the board
pending outcome of the case which
seeks his removal from office by
court order.
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James A. McGillvray of Ketchi
kan is at the Baranof Hotel.
I Ship Movements
Princess Louise due to arrive from
Skagway on Tuesday at 8 a.m„ sail
ing southbound at 9 a.m.
Alaska scheduled to arrive north
bound Tuesday at 2 a.m.
Freighter Sailor’s Splice in port,
sailing for the westward this eve
ning.
UN Command
Won't Talk
At Kaesong
TOKYO, Sept. 24—(Jt—The Uni
ted Nations command told the
Communists today that Kaesong
is unsuitable as a site for-any fur
ther Korean armistice negotiations.
Allied liaison officers gave these
reasons in a note handed Red lia
jpon olficers at Kaesong:
1. —Kaesong is too close to the
main Red supply line, under at
tack by allied warplanes.
2. —Red and allied ground forces
are in constant maneuver around
the five-mile Kaesong neutral zone.
3. —Uncontrolled partisan groups,
responsible to neither command,
are active in the area and could
take action at any time which
would again cause a breakup of
talks.
The Reds called off the talks
Aug. 23, charging an allied plane
tried to “murder” the Red cease
fire delegation with a bomb the
day before.
“It is regrettable,” the allies said,
that tjie Reds didn’t accept the or
iginal suggestion of Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway, supreme allied com
mander, that the negotiations be
held aboard the Danish hospital
ship Jutlandia.
Ridgway proposed some other,
more incident-proof site for the
conference in a note to the Com
munists Sept. 6. He since has made
clear that he wants better working
conditions ectablished for nego
tiators before he agrees to resump
tion of the conference.
Siamese Twins
Bom; Are Joined
Top of Skulls
ROCK ISLAND, 111. Sept. 24—tiR
—It may be impossible to separate
Rock Island’s Siamese twuis, Dorn
Sept. 16 joined at the tops of their
skulls.
Doctors studied X-ray pictures
of the tiny boys and said that an
operation to sever the fibrous mat
ter which connects the youngsters
may be fatal to one or both of
them.
The parents of the children,
Mr. and Mrs. Royt Brodie, said
today that if separation would re
sult in death for either of the
babies, they would prefer not to
permit the operation.
The Brodies have three normal
children.
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May Charter Plane
For Consecration
Bishop O'Flanagan
Juneau people are planning to
charter a PNA plane to attend the
ceremonies of the consecration of
the Most Rev. Dermot O’Flanagan.
Bishop-elect of Juneau. The con
secration will be in Anchorage at
10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 2
Special reduced rates are avail
able for this charter flight. Inter
ested persons may inquire at the
Catholic Rectory for details. It is
planned that the plane go to An
chorage on October 2 and return
to Juneau on October 4. Special
housing arrangements will be made
in Anchorage for those taking the
trip.
MONDAY AFTERNOON FIRE
A fire in a faulty wood stove in
the Hixson apartments over the
Alaska Music Supply at the corner
of Second and Seward streets caused
no damage, according to firemen.
COUPLE MARRIED
Helen Phillip and Venanclo O.
Mazon were married Saturday by
U.S. Commissioner Gordon Gray.
Witnesses were Leadia Peterson and
Mac Corpuz.
WEATHER REPORT
CU. S. WEATHER BUREAU
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
At Airport: Maximum, 63;
Minimum, 44. »
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Fair tonight and Tuesday.
Lowest tonight near 38 de
grees in Juneau and as low
as 30 degrees in outlying
areas. Decreasing northeast
erly winds tonight.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today
At Airport — Trace;
since July 1 — 8.48 inches.
Two Tickets Are
Filed for Election
On October 2
Two tickets of candidates have
been fjled with the Juneau city
clerk for the municipal election
which will be held Oct. 2 for the
purpose of electing six councilmen
a mayor and a city magistrate.
Current Mayor Waino Hendrick
son heads the People's Progressive
ticket. Edward S. Nielsen leads the
Civic Interest group as candidate
for the position.
Hendrickson has served four
terms as mayor', is married and
lives at 924 C Street. Under his
administration many civic improve
ments have taken place. A year ago
he was elected to the Territorial
House of Representatives.
Running with Hendrickson are
Mrs. Pauline Washington, Bert Mc
Dowell, Art Walther, Solon (Dewey)
Dore, Robert Stutte and J. P.
(Pete) Christenson.
Mrs. Washington has served on
the council this year since the re
signation of A1 Zenger. She is ex
ecutive secretary of the Teachers
Retirement Board, secretary of the
Juneau Health Center Council, is
an active member of the Business
and Professional Women's Club.
She lives at 319 Sixth St.
McDowell is owner of Bert's Cash
Grocery and has served on the
council for the past year. He is
married, the father o( two children
and his residence is 707 Main St.
Walther was a member of the
city council in 1949 and 1950, is a
driver for the Home Grocery, mar
ried and has three children. He
lives at 414-Ninth and A Streets.
Dore has been a resident of Ju
neau for the past ten years and
was on the Juneau police force for
4 >4 years and was assistant chief
when he resigned. At present he
is a desk clerk at the Gastineau
Hotel. He is married, has two child
ren and resides at Sixth and Har
ris.
Robert Stutte, a building con
tractor, is associated with his father
in business here. He is a past com
mander of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, is on the board of the Vet
erans service oOUncii ion UK;'"ter
ritory, is a member of the Juneau
Volunteer Fire Department and
lives in the Channel Apartments.
He is married and has three child
ren.
Christenson served on the coun
cil for 2'4 years. He is the local
Nash car dealer, on the board of
directors for the Teen Age club and
has operated the Juneau school
busses for 16 years. He is married
and lives at 909 West 12th St.
Civic Interest Ticket
The Civic Interest ticket is headed
by Neilsen who has served for the
past year on the council and had
previously been a councilman. He
is running for mayor.
Other candidates on the ticket for
council members are:
Louise Kann, owner of Kann’s
Variety Store. He has been a Ju
neau resident since 1928, belongs
to two local lodges and has one
daughter.
J. A. Thibodeau, who has served
a total of 3% years on the city
council, is owner of Thibodeau’s
Grocery, has been a Juneau resi
dent for the past 37 years, a World
War I veteran and a Past Com
mander of the American Legion
here. He is married and has six
children.
George Messerschmidt, associated
with the Purity Bakery here. He was
born in Juneau, is married and has
three children. He owns his home
and made residence in Juneau since
birth. He is'a member of the Elks
and Masons.
E. O. (Curley) Davis, co-owner of
the North Transfer Co. He has
been a resident of Juneau since
1928 and has been in business here
for the past 20 years.
E. M. Spence, owner of the Ju
neau Transit System, has filed on
this ticket.
It is understood that Bert Caro
will also file on this ticket.
Two other independent filings
are P. M. Schneider, local trucker,
for mayor, and A. S. Glover of the
Spruce Lockers for councilman.
F. O. Eastaugh has declared his
intentions to file for the two-year
term of city magistrate.
Dr. J. O. Rude is the only candi
date filing for the Juneau Inde
pendent school board. The election
will take place at the same time.
MONDAY MORNING FIRES
Two fire calls were sounded Mon
day morning. The first call was
for a chimney fire at the Imperial
Cafe at 2:15 am. Fire started in
the grease trap and caused little
damage, firemen reported.
The second fire at 4 a.m., was for
a shortcircuited refrigerator motor
at Thibodeau’s Market on Wil
loughby avenue. Little damage was
reported by the firemen.
SI win C. Scott of Sitka is stop
ping at the Oastlneau Hotel.
Red Losses
Are Heavy,
Five Weeks
u. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 24——
Gen. James A. Van Fleet today said
his Eighth Army has killed or
wounded 58,000 Communist soldiers
in Korea in five weeks from Aug. IS
through Sept. 22.
The report covered the entire 150
mile front.
About 80 percent of the Red losses
were in the bloody “Battle of the
Hills” in eastern Korea.
The figure represents almost six
Red divisions.
Van Fleet said 2,800 Reds were
taken prisoner in the same period.
The casualty tolls of killed or
wounded have been “evaluated."
That is the Army's term for the final
estimate after all field accounts and
reports have been discounted for
possible duplication or exaggeration.
Materiel Captured
Since the Allies pushed off on
limited offensives in eastern Korea
they have captured enough materiel
to equip nearly a full Red division,
the Eighth Army said.
Most of the Red losses were In
curred after the Reds broke off
the Kaesong truce talks Aug. 23.
During this period United Nations
losses have been comparatively
light. U.N. troops have smashed
forward up to 15 miles and captured
scores of important hills on the
eastern front.
Allies Hold Ground
The Allies have not lost a yard of
ground in either North or South
Korea, Van Fleet’s statement said
Allied troops for the second timf
were pushed off the highest peak ot
"Heartbreak Ridge” in eastern Ko
rea Monday, two days after the
period covered in the report, but
apparently the Army never had con
sidered the peak secured.
The U.S. Fifth Air Force said
more than 800 Communist trucks
were destroyed or damaged on
tl.i „ .it central front in pre
dawn attacks Monday.
Pilots said they spotted about
2,000 vehicles. They reported 375
blown up or burned and 426 dam
aged.
Allied Setback
The Allied picture was not so
i bright in Monday’s ground action
North Korean Reds launched e
, fierce counterattack and drove
American Infantrymen off the
highest peak on "Heartbreak Ridge”
in eastern Korea.
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Stalin Described
i \i 'Greatest Meddler
In World History'
Blistering Attack Made
On Russia by Yugoslav
Premier Tito
TITOVO UZICE, Yugoslavia,
! Hept. 24—-Yugoslavia's Pre
mier Marshal Tito described Stalin
today as “the greatest meddler in
world history,” and said the Soviet
leader is “bent on an imperialistic
campaign of conquest in the Balk
and unrivalled even by old Czarist
Russia.”
The Russians already are mak
ing warlike preparations in east
ern Europe, typified by the re
painting of Russian warplanes in
Hungary to substitute the Hungar
i ian for the Soviet insignia, Tito
said in a speech before 25,000 per
sons.
Tito's blistering attack on his
one-time ally was his first major
broadcast address in more than a
year, and the first since his opera
tion early this year for a kidney
ailment.
Tito, clad in the uniform of a
i field marshall; looked confident
' and healthy as he spoke from a
i flag-bedecked rostrum in this town
of 15,000 in the heart of Serbia
which has partisans freed from the
German occupiers in 1941 in the
first partisan uprising of the war
in Yugoslavia.
Tito, now referred to by Moscow
as Soviet Russia's enemy, said mili
tary experts in Communist Yugo
slavia know all about war prepar
ations of the Cominform which
ousted the Yugoslav party. He said
"we are ready” to defend the na
tion’s independence.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON FIRE
The B. C. Canoles residence at
234 Gold street was slightly dam
aged by a fire at 2:30 p.m.. Sunday,
firemen reported. Canoles had been
using a blow torch In scraping paint
from the outside of the house and
firemen thought that this caused
the fire.
Japanese Prisoners
Of War Trained in
Alaska, Commies Say
FWS Officers
Will Attend
Canada Meet
To attend a meeting of the In
ternational Pacific Salmon Fisheries
Commission, Albert M. Day, direc
tor of the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice, and Clarence Rhode, regional
director, will leave tomorrow in
x service plane for Horsefly, British
Columbia. Horsefly is located near
Quesnel, which is south of Prince
George.
At the thre^ day meeting, regu
lations tor the control of fisheries
on the Frazier River will be decid
ed upon by American and Canadian
members of the Commission. Day
has completed a survey of Alaska
fisheries from the Pribilof Islands
o southeast Alaska and will leave
.'or Washington, D. C., after the
nternational meeting. Rhode plans
to return to Juneau next week-end.
Giants Win
From Boston
Braves, 4*3
NEW YORK, Sept. 24—t/fi-Eddie
Stanky’s run-scoring single with
two out in the last of the ninth
gave the New York Giants a 4-3 win
over the Boston Braves today, keep
ing alive their faint hopes of win
ning the National League pennant.
As a resylt of the Giants' win,
Brooklyn still needs a combination
of four wins or New York defeats
to clinch the championship. The
Dodgers, idle today, have seven to
play, the Giants only four.
Don Mueller's single and Rigney’s
sacrifice set up the winning run.
Dave Williams, running for Mueller,
scored from second when Stanky
singled off third baseman Sibby
Sisti’s glove.
The win moved New York to with
in 2'li games of Brooklyn.
This was the only major league
game schedule® today.
King George
Undergoes
Operation
LONDON, Sept. 24— 141 —King
George VI was reported in good
spirits today and confident of re
■overy from a major lung opera
tion.
A palace spokesman said Queen
Elizabeth spent the morning with
ler husband, but that no other
members of the royal family have
een permitted to see him.
The spokesman was much more
:heery than an earlier medical
bullet ii which merely reported
.hat the king’s condition was "as
atisfactory as can be expected."
He told a reporter!
The king is in good spirits, as
far as one can be after an opera
tion like this. He seems confident
of recovery.
"The Queen has been with him
.his morning."
A morning medical bulletin said
the king “has had a restful night.”
It cfime after a Buckingham
Palace source had reported that
the king "made it safely" through
the first crucial night after his
operation yesterday morning.
Anxious Britons, who had prayed
for the safety of their beloved
monarch, got no indication of the
king's exact condition In his battle
against the after-effects of the
surgery.
FROM PELICAN
Alhpha Christensen and two
daughters are stopping at the Gas
tineau Hotel.
| TIDE TABLES]
SEPTEMBER 25
Low tide 3:53 ajn., 3 6 ft.
High Ude 10:50 ajn., 11.8 ft.
Low tide 4:10 p.m., 7.1 ft.
High tide 10:14 pjn., 13.8 ft.
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► HONG KONG, Sept. 24—i.FI -The
Chinese Communists are accusing
the United States of training 85,000
Japanese prisoners of war in Alaska
and the Aleutians for incorporation
In the U.S. Army.
The charge was made yesterday in
an official New China News Agency
dispatch from Peiping published
here in the pro-Red Tnkungpao. It
also said the U.S. "is planning tc
send a million Japanese into Alaska
under the disguise of immigrants.”
The Reds said the U.S. planned
to use the Japanese for future "ag
gression." It added that the Jap
anese troops were shipped to Alaska
and the Aleutians in 1946 to build
airfields, highways and "other mili
tary Installations."
It appeared the Communist charge
was designed to: counteract the ef
fect in Asia of Russia’s refusal tc
repatriate Japanese prisoners; and
implement P e i p i n g’s campaign
against the Japanese peace treat}
signed in San Francisco this month
The Peiping dispatch said that thf
outbreak of the Korean war the Jap
anese troops were incorporated intc
the U.S. paratroopers and Marine.'
and assigned to bases near the North
Pole. The Japanese, it added, were
at all times under strict • military
guard.
“A number of prisoners attempted
to escape and failed," it said. "They
were court martlaled and no more
was heard of them.”
School Expansion
Discussed at
Lion Club Meeting
Problems of expanding school)
and an educational movie o:
physically handictipped person:
made up the program at a regula
luncheon meeting of the Junea
Lions club Monday noon.
Supt.' of Schools Sterling Sear
outlined the growth of Juneau’
school population from 312 in 1921
to 799 in 1941 and Its subsequen
increase from 1946 to the presen
time to over 1,000.
He said that the Fifth Stree
grade school auditorium had beet
divided up into classrooms, includ
lng the stage, to accommodatt
classes.
Sears introduced Dr. J. O. Rudi
who has served on the school boar<
for the past ten years and is run
ning for another term at a regular
election Oct. 2.
Dr. Rude pointed out that in
creased school facilities involved
increased taxes. He told of th<
board’s planning through the year:
of Juneau’s uncertain future sever
or eight years ago.
"It is now apparent.” Doctor Rudr
said, “that there is no question a'
to the future of Juneau. The nev
grade school will be ready for
school next fall.”
He pointed out that the nev
grade school would have a base
ment playroom and rifle range, bu
no gymnasium and that it wa
hoped that when a gym was built it
could be near the center of town.
Mrs. Dan Livie, cleric of th<
board was introduced. She spoltr
briefly on the need for rehabilita
tion and urged that when Lion
visited the new school she hoped
they would also look over all the
school facilities.
A. L. Riclcer told of Employ-the
Physic^ly - Handicapped prograir
and stressed the advantages of
properly located handicapped per
sons, in that their absenteeism wa'
lower and efficiency greater.
He introduced Ed Casey, formerlj
of Anchorage, now of Juneau, who i
physically handicapped but is ar
able bookkeeper looking for a Job
The movie “No Help Wanted’
was then shown.
Ouests were Ricker, Carl Hein
miller of Haines, and Larry John
son of Anchorage.
In the absence of President Car
Rusher, vice presidents A1 Ransomr
and Wes Overby presided.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, Sept. 24—bfi-Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
117*4, American Tel. and Tel. 158%
Anaconda 47%, Douglas Aircraft
59‘4, General Electric 60%, General
Motors 51‘4, Goodyear 47. Kenne
cott 84%, Libby McNeill and Libby
8%. Northern Pacific 58, Standard
Oil of California 51%, Twentieth
Century Fox 21%, VS. Steel 42%,
Pound $2 79 15/16, Canadian Ex
change 94.75.
Sales today were 1,630,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
Industrials 270.77, rails 85.72, utilities
45.19.
Europe Is
United Now
i
For Defense
Italian Premier Address
es Congress; Says U.S.
Aid Needed No Longer
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24— (*l —
Premier Alcide De Gasperi of Italy
told Congress today that a United
Europe would be able to take care
of its own defense.
He addressed a Joint session of
the Senate and House a few hours
after arriving for three days of
talks with President Truman, Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson and
other top officials.
•'Europe, once solidly United,"
the 70-year-old Premier said, “will
elieve you • of your sacrifices In
men and arms, for she will herself
contrive the -defense of her peace
ind common freedom."
De Gasperl reaffirmed Italy's
Jesire that Trieste be returned to
Italy as recommended by the big
three in 1948. But this does not
nean, he said, that Italians "are
ictims of a narrow nationalism."
Rather, he explained, it was evi
fence of Italy’s wish “to consoli
date our western coalition in Eu
rope.”
De Gasperl expressed appre
ciation for the stand taken by
several members of Congress in
favor of revision of the Italian
peace treaty.
“As free men,” he said, ”we
wish to tell you we are grateful
to you because, by demanding
revision of our unfair peace
treaty, you have acknowledged
that an effective and staunrh
alliance cap not exist without
equality of rights and full recog
nition of the Independence, sov
reignty and dignity of a nation.”
The Premier paid tribute to Am
erican aid to Europe.
“Without your generous contri
bution," he said, "Europe—at least
nost certainty the anU-Cowmuaist
ront line of continental Europe—
■/ould already have collapsed.”
President and Mrs. Truman and
heir daughter, Margaret, and sev
rnl cabinet officers met De Gas
eri as his train pulled in from
Detroit, where he visited for two
lays.
Mr. Truman first shook hands
dth the Premier and Signora De
lasperl and then presented Mrs.
rruman who greeted Signora De
3asperl with a "How do you do,
ve’re so glad to have you with
is."
Kisses Margaret's Hand
The Prime Minister kissed Mar
ket's hand in greeting her.
Mr. Truman chatted briefly with
De Gasperl and then the group
eft the station for the White
louse.
The President told De Gasperi it
vas a “very great pleasure" to wel
ome him to the United states. He
tdded:
“I hope you will have a meet
pleasant visit while yon are here,
and I know that there are many
things of importance sheet which
we want to talk. Yon have plenty
of opportunity to do that,”
De Gasperi thanked the Presl
ient for a "cordial welcome."
De Gasperl's arrival here coin
cided with reports that the United
States, Britain and JPTance are
irafting a Joint declaration of
heir plans to change the arms
imitation provision in the Italian
>eace treaty.
The announcement is expected to
Umax his visit.
•AA Barge Cook
Itcidenlly Meets .
Oealh This A. N.
The body of ,John A. Walker, cook
(board the CAA barge Clvalr 17.
vas discovered early this morning
in the water Juat astern of the
*>argeI by Oordon Meyers, skipper
of the barge.
Walker had fallen Into the chan
nel after he had fallen through
everal rungs of the ladder used
for a gangplank, according to an
eyewitness account. He was alive
■ 't the time hts body entered the
vater, according to the U. 8. Com
missioner.
It is thought the accident hap
pened between midnight and 1 am.
this morning.
The barge was moored at the
subport at the time of the accident.
Walker was bom March 20. 1004,
at Roanoke. Va., and had lived at
Sitka before coming to Juneau.
No inquest is contemplated as
there Is no evidence of foul play,
according to the U.8. Com
sioner’s office.
Bob Martin of Kake is at the
Baranof Hotel. _ __