The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1946, Page 1

§ { | - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE = = —— VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,352 L JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS A Binrdibensh Moot Moot T e =~ = —~H= - -~ —— ———j — ONE MORE - U.S. PLANE FIRED UPON Yugoslavs l?ported Send- + ing Tracer Bullets on Army Transport By JOHN P. McKNIGHT TRIESTE, Aug. 19.—An American Army transport flying near the Yugoslav border radioed today that it was under fire from anti-aircraft guns, leading to speculation that Marshal Tito's forces again had at- tacked a U. S. plane accused of infringing upon his territory. " The transport tonight was hours overdue on its flight from Vienna to Udine with a crew of three of- ficers and two enlisted men. This attack report came less than 24 hours after.the U, S. Embassy in Belgrade announced that Yugo- slav fighter planes fired machine gun bursts August 9 into a transport on the same route. Ambassador Richard C. Patterson denounced that attack “which was a deliberate attack on a friendly nation’s air- plane.” The crew and passengers of that C-47 still are interned in Yugo- slavia. Both transports were assigned to the U. S. Army’s European Trans- port Service, and both were flying the route from Austria to Udine airport in the British-American oc- cupation zone of the Venezia Giulm, area, disputed by Italy and Yugo- slavia. The plane missing today left Vien- na at 7:30 a. m., passed over Klag- enfurt in Austria at 8:50 a. m., and messaged at 9:07 a. m. that tracer bullets were passing it. It should have reached Udine at 9:20 a. m. CHARGE OF YUGOSLAVS WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. — The United States charged publicly to- day that on July 12 Yugoslav troops illegally entered the Allled zone around Trieste and fired “without provocation” upon American forces investigating their presence. The American view of the clash was made known with the release by the State Department of a note delivered to the Yugoslav Foreign Office last Thursday. The note em- | phatically rejected the “distortion | of evidence” alleged in Yugoslavia's earlier complaint about the incident. | DAISY CONRIGHT IS HERE ON 0'HARRA BUS Daisy Conright, formerly on The Empire staff, was a passenger aboard the O'Harra bus from Anchorage via Fairbanks. She is representing the Anchorage Times and also the week- ly 49th-Star. She is at the home of her sister, Mrs. Leslie Sturm, while in Juneau. The Washington Merry-gg- Round By DREW PEARSON | ' WASHINGTON, — Back in 1919, right after the last war, the Phil- adelphia Public Ledger hired a special correspondent named E. J. fim to cover the Peace Confer- ence. Mr. Dillon was-a good news- paperman. He told the truth. But as a youngster living near Philadelphia and reading Mr. Dil- lon every morning, I vividly recall how I and others who had built up high hopes for permanent peace did not like the truth. Eventually the iedger got so many readers pro- tests against Mr. Dillon’s frank and | pessimistic reporting that it had m’ run a special editorial defending him. | mid-session after narrow (The trouble with Mr. Dillon was; that he was telling his readers | that the 1919 Paris Peace Confer-| ence was going to lead to another| ar and his readers at that time didn’'t want to think about war. . Having returned to the USA a few days ago from the present Paris Peace Conference, I suspect that some of my own readers also have been cussing me out as a pes- simist, a kill-joy, and a belittler of | modern diplomacy. ~If so, I don’t particularly blame them. The weather is hot, the vaca- tion season beckons, the headlines B e b (Continued on Page Four) KLONDIKERS TRIP |CORPSES IN LIGHT FANTASTIC| Flapjack Confest at Oak- | land Was Main Fare for | Sourdoughs Sunday RIOT’S WAKE SAN F:yu?éigc(o‘l.a:‘::.‘swfom-iMOSlemS' HlfldUS S'age time Sourdoughs of the rollicking | GhOS"y D|s]urbames_ Sifuation Quieter high north country tripped the/ light fantastic in a ballroom that 3littered Saturday night. CALCUTTA, Aug. 19.—Moslems and Hindus killed each other at a slackened pace today in the stink- ing streets of Calcutta, which in four days have been strewn with 2,000 to 3,000° corpses. The situation was i It was the annual ball of the! hardy boys who made the great Klondike rush in '98. The place was the Colonial Room of the St. Fran- | cis. Fortified with tea (there was a tea in the afternoon) and maybe a| the quietest few jolts of red-rye swigged by|since Friday when the rival fac- those who indulge, they started|tions started the most ghostly riots their dance at the circumspect!in Calcutta’s turbulent histos hour. quarreling over differences regar The Ragtime Kid wasn't there, g the British proffer of inde- with his tinkling piano. But Curly | endence. Jacobs and his orchestra, which is _ Sporadic shooting ¢ ¢tinued. the only way the program described | them, was on hand. Bodies were piled here and there, 5 many of them dead four days and Gone were the checkered shirts picked by vultures. Many were and the mukluks the Sourdoughs‘ bloated. The danger of an epidemic wore on their feet when they which might dwarf the present ushed on the Dawson trail. In- number of casualties meunted by stead, most were impeccably dress-|the hour. 2d, sans the pokes of gold dust they| Several thousands lay wounded. once tilted on the bars up north. The food situation worsened as Istores remained closed. It’s the first time the 400 odd' 3 first | { Looting Rife Alaskan Pioneers have met n four{ j,oiing was rife. Police blotters years and they made up for lost were filled with accounts of women time. | sadistically raped, mutilated, the Friday night they locked theiyicnered or burned with their doors of a banquet room and held | ramilies. One seven year old rape forth until late in !‘he night. Pres-ivmum was removed to a hospital ident E. B. Velikanje of the Sour-'j, critical conditon. dough Association addressed them as; Fifty boats, owned mostly by Hin- did George Black, representative| gus were burned on the river. for the Yukon Territory, "m"-’l‘ro.m)s With -tanks Strove -to-re- most of the boys made their piles.’ ¢ r0 order. Sunday they crossed San an':pohce during the night fired into cisco Bay to Oakland for their', croyq, killing at least three. Two flapjack contest—a contest Savor-lfgcories were burned; hundreds of ing of the cold bacon and beansipomec went up in flames. fare they knew in the long ago. i Mobs Uncontrolled Hindu and Moslem leaders tried FLAPJACK WINNER to regain control of the mobs. They SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.—H. met yesterday and hostilities ceas- A. (Bud) Moore of San Francisco!ed for a few hours but soon erupted was proclaimed the winner of the|again. international Sourdough reunion’s| When dawn broke, the situation world championship flapjack derby | apparently was in better control yesterday. {than any time in the four days of Moore’s title-winning performance | error. But sporadic shootings and was turnéd in at Oakland as the!clashes continued and more reports veterans of the Klondike gold rush | of killings reached authorities. days of half a century ago brought | Disposal squads were extending their four-day reunion to an end.|their routes in picking up bodies Others who finished included Mrs.!in areas where the combined might Anna B. Horner, Los Angeles; of troops and police had restored Ringwald Blix, Seattle; and Fred,order, generally on the main streets. Walford, San Francisco. | — e - ‘The Sourdoughs and their ladles! vention. 1 the flapjack, its degree of golden | g lcargo of coal, arrived safely at St. set out for home after four days cfiSHIp wIIH FIRE nostalgic reminiscences about the Moore was adjudged the con- clave’s most proficient hot cakej brownness, his ability with the, NEw YORK, Aug. 19.—The 10,- single and double flips and with [470-ton Liberty ship Benjamin R. I‘John’s Newfoundland, early today, STo(K 0“0""0"; lche Coast Guard office here an- nounced. old days. This was their 15th con- RAGI“G ABOARD tosser on the basis of the shape 011 catching on the plate. Milan, with several fires in her The ship’s master messaged Sat- NEW YORK, Aug. 19. — Closing { quotation of Alaska Juneau mine|urday that fire had broken out in stock today is 7%, American Can|two holds when the ship was 500 100%, Anaconda 45%, Curtiss- | miles east of Newfoundland. The Wright 7%, International Harvester |Coast Guard said today's message 90%, Kennecott 55%, New York (Stated all fires were under control. Dow, Jones averages today are Central 23, Northern Pacific 28, U.! R e S. Steel 89, Pound $4.03%. ;SE“‘I’E“(ES 6'VEN as follows: industrials 200.19, rails| BY JUDGE KEHO 62.26, utilities 41.34. & Stocks declined irregularly on re—l In the U. S. District Court this duced volume today because of|morning Judge J. W. Kehoe sen- Sales today were 660,000 shares. |light attendance in the street and |tenced Edmund Roberts and George uncertainties over OPA control re-| A. L. Johnson, both guilty of forg- turn. fery. to the penitentiary. Roberts Selling attained its height at!will serve three years concurrently irregu- 'on six counts and Johnson will larity early in the session. Support serve a sentence of two years. came into some of the steels, farm | shares, rails, oils, and liquors. Sev-(was the time set for sentence of era of these and some special rail- |ponald Johnson and Dale Blyberg road issues made a poor showing in!who both pleaded guilty today to the the average because of a 3% pointicmrge of burglary. Both waived decline in Norfolk & Western. San- itjme for plea and sentence. did Southern Pacific, and New ¢, the charge of contributing to the | York Central. Pullman rallied in'gelinquency of a minor and Thurs- | the rail equipments. In the steels ‘day was the time set for sentence. U. S. Steel more than overcame a! Judge Kehoe named H. L. Faulk- % point decline. Bethlehem held a ner as lawyer for John W. Huff, fractional decline. General Motors Negro, charged with burglary. recovered part of a 1-point loss| Applications were received for li~ but Chrysler was at a decline of 'quor licenses from the Salmon more than a point. Caterpillar Country Club for a dispensary li- Tractor rose 1% points while In-'cense and the Oceidental Bar in ternational Harvester lost that Juneau for a transfer license to amount. include a new partner, Eerie cries rang through the streets. | Leo Loses Soap STREETS IN Heat in Pholo-Finish; San - Diego Youth New Champ FRIENDSHIP WIND, RAIN - NO BOTHER T0 TRUMAN President Off Today in| No'easter fo Visit . Navy War College QUONSET POINT, R. I, Aug. 19. —A no ter failed today to| daunt vacation-minded President | Truman. | He took off shortly before 11 am, in an air-sea rescue boat from his yacht “Williamsburg” over choppy yaters of Narragansett Bay | for the Navy War College at New-' 'port in a driving rainstorm. ! The President told reporters he iwould have Junch at Newport with Admiral Raymond A. Spruance in| the Admiral’s quarters at the col-| lege. . ‘The downpour started shortly af- ter the President returned from a two-mile, 30-minute walk about this naval air station with puffing, panting reporters trailing sleepily in his wake. | Mr. Truman configed thal his In one trouble spot, brisk pace jaunt averaged 120 paces tpore is a minute, The newsmen were not skeptical. The rain and New England geo-| graphy furnished what Press Sec- |retary Charles G. Koss said were the principal topics of discussion (between the President and two morning callers, Gov. John O. Pas- tore of Rhode Island and U. S.| Solicitor General J. Howard Mc- Grath. NEW YORKERS 60 T0 POLLS ONTUESDAY Leo Osterman, Juneau’s Soap| | pire Box Derby champion, was defeated : presence of the press intimidated” {by a mere six inches in the twenty- | S'afldlng Be'ween In' Ithose bringing Alaskan problems (Governor Kicks \ EKRUG'S TM-K | Reporters Out EMPHASIZES Mstommm | The Daily Empire’s news | coverage of Secretary of the Inter-| {ior Julius A. Krug's discussions this| {morning with Federal and Territor- ial officials was temporarily d |rupted when Governor of Ala Box Derby | LEO, SIX-INCH LOSER | fourth heat of the National Pinals| at Akron, Ohio, Derby downs Sun- day. The photo-finish decision went | - to Arthur Horton, Jr, of Mamaron-| Pledging his support wholeheart-|ferred from the more public Sen- eck, New York. Third-placer in edly to Alaska, which he termed|gte Chamber to the office of the the heat was Tommy Smith, of|“the real American frontier,” Sec-|gocretary of Alaska. In explaining Charlotte, North Carolina. retary of the Interior Julius A.|the transfer for Secretary Krug,| The Juneau champion led through |Krug this noon predicted a new | Governor Gruening remarked that | H Ibefore the cabinet officer |as the hearings were Leing trar the greater part of his heat, but cra of friendship between the De- steering gear trouble near the fin-|partment of Interior and the people ish resulted in his losing to the [of the Territory of Alaska. sleek New York car in what un-| Approximately 160 luncheon | doubtedly was one of the most hot- | guests, including members of the ly contested events of the day. [Secretary’s party, Mayor Waino| Following is scene by scene, event|Hendrickson, Mayor M. Jensen, by event description of happenings|Delegate E. L. Bartlett and the Gov-| ‘at the world's greatest nma(eur:l‘n\ul’. gathered at the Baranof racing classi |Gold Room to hear Secretary o |Krug's first public address in the BY DON SKUS: | Capital City. | AKRON, Ohio, August 15.—(3pec-| “I meant it sincerely,” he said, | ial to the Empire)—Boy, oh boy, “when I said I came to Alaska not| what a day this is with the weath- to speak, but to listen to your er perfect after the downpour we problems. However, I have contract- had yesterday. | led an irritated throat in the last The crowds are the greatest that few days, evidently the result of have ever come here; the excite- speaking. I find it difficult to re-| ment and the color is the greatest|sist expressing my pleasure in the I have ever seen. ‘wonderful visit through your great, Leo, when I talked to him just|Territory. i before leaving the hotel, was as| “It was not too long ago that I| cool as a cucumber. He is satisfied felt a bit sorry for people who| that he will be beaten only by a went to Alaska. I though of the better car and driver and he is fully | Territory as being a rugged coun-: vrepared to cop the first place try, filled with ice, snow, grizzly honors. |kears, ete., and fed by odd concoc- Here comes the parade, with thel/ticns mixed up locally or shipped flag that was raised over Mount|in from a far distant place called Surihachi leading it. i Here comes the champions. Boy,! ENVY ALASKANS ! Leo—marching llke a| “Now I envy people who come | trooper. You can see his pride at here. I have offered to change bearing Juneau’s flag. !jobs with you Alaskans, and some- | Here comes band after band—eand 'day you may find me settled here are they stepping it out in perfect in your community, enjoying the display of form. All these bands great opportunities your country oI-i have won first place in their fers.” | States. Time out, folks, while I| PURPOSE OF TRIP | give proper attention to the major-| Stating that in making his trip ettes, Ah! Those colored girls|his reasons were initially two-fold, really can step. The autoplane, Secretary Krug said they were: three-wheel job, sure is sometmng}nrst. to find out about Alaskan very neat. problems, .how they affected the! Five years have only increased residents of Alaska and their re-| the enthusiastn and color of this|spective welfare; second, to deter-' great event. {mine the many ways in which the AMERICAN WAY |future economy and prosperity of The parade alone is worth the Alaska is tied up with that of the trip. There are 37 units marching entire nation. A third reason has in this great parade. The Ameri- Now entered the picture, he said— can way of life was never better the ways in which the security of | demonstrated than it is here to-|Alaska and the security of the U. day. 'The parade is wound up by|S. at large are tied together for the Boy Scouts' raising the flags ultimate peace and national dignity. all along the course as the entire| “All of your problems now go be- | Seattle, £ i crowd sings the Star Spangled Ban- yond any one of you, or any group of you,” the speaker said. “They are irrevocably intermingled with ner. There went the new P-80 jet plane over the track—and, believe men, 550 miles an hour is a strain on the neck when you are this| VISI: TOO BRIEF clese to it. { Terming his vielt too brief and The first heat is lined up now *m0wled=e still too incomplete to |western incumbents is likely to and Leo has drawn heat number adequately summarize his impres- carry over into the populous east. (24 and the center lane. No lane is sions of Alaska's many-faceted | Three torrid congressional races,/better than another, though. I am problems, Secretary Krug neverthe- lone of which involves a measure directly on the finish line and!less headlined one imminent need, |of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s pres- have a wonderful view as they|he termd “a major problem,"—that (tige in his home district, highlight'cross. lof bringing more people into the ?hattles in which party candidates' Eleven heats have run so far, Territory. |for 45 seats—a tenth of the mem-'with no winners in the center lane,! DAY-TO-DAY PROBLEMS |bership of the House—will be pick- which is Leo’s. The times have “We can't get more people until ed. Ibeen better than 27 seconds, mostly.|we .do something about day-to-day | Other primaries and conventions Finally, lane two got a winner in,problems—which because of their| {tomorrow and Wednesday in Dela- the fifteenth. {lack of political aspect and glam-| | ware, Utah and Alabama have fll-} LEO UP TO START jour, I like to call ‘diswasher prob-| ]‘ WASHINGTON, Aug. 19— New |York voters write an indirect ver- dict on the 79th Congress tomor- |row. Their primary may prove whether the recent trend that has fbo\wled over some prominent mid- those of your fellow citizens in the o 05 - Bd tracted little national attention, but| Leo is coming up now for his!lems.,” he said. “These are such run-off races in Texas Saturday start. Boy, are they close! But, I things as housing, cost of living,| for the Democratic nomination for am afraid Leo is slightly behind. and health.” | governor and five house seats are, being watched for indications of| trends. |very close second. Gosh! wish that I could get to Leo for I how he must feel. He was | It is a photo-finish! | ‘They cannot be solved by the But, I can see that Leo was a Federal government, although that, How I|agency may offer effective aid, he| said. “They can only be solved by { { such men as you who are attend-| | | know i the Secretary felt the Senate Chamber atmosphere was too form- al and that the various officials; would feel more free to speak in| the less formal Secretary’s office. The remark concerning the “ln~; timidation” by the press was made| on the trip upstairs in the pres- ence of George Sundborg, author and statehood researcher and form- er reporter for the Empire, and Mary Lee Council, Secretary tof Alaska Delegate E. L. “Bob" Bart-| lett, also a former newspaperman The Governor was asked to re- peat the remark, which he did. In: the face of this barrier the Em- pire’s editor and reporter could not ! attend the continuation of the hear- ings. Secretary Krug was not available for confirmation since he | was already in the Secretary of Alaska's office. H However later, at an abbreviated, press conference with the ESecretary) just before noon, when Secretary Krug was asked by the Empire’s edi-} tor to confirm that he had felt the ! presence of the press would have | “intimidated,” the Secretary re-! plied: “Absolutely no.” MEATPRICE VERDICTIS TOMORROW Decontrol Will Make An-! nouncement Regarding Ceilings on Products WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. — The nation will know by tomorrow eve- ning whether it will pay ceiling prices again on meats, dairy pro- ducts and grains or whether those items will be allowed to follow their | own price course. At 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow, to be exact, the price decontrol board has promised to announce its verdict—with just five hours to spare before the deadline set by Congress. The board is op- erating in air-tight secrecy and there’s no inkling of what its deci- sion will be. But if the three-man board should hit a snag and not make an announcement by mid- night, then ceilings automatically will go back on those commodities. CANNED FRUIT PRICES GIVEN BOOST BY OPA, WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—OPA AUTO PRODUCTION TS PEAK IN JULY WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Auto- Thursday morning at 10 o'clock | mobile production hit a pOstWar ghead at the half. monthly peak in July when 220,321 passenger cars rolled off assembly lines, the Civilian Production Ad- Imlnistrauon reported today. | This total topped the output in | ta Fe registered a fractional rise as| Henry J. Shuchard pleaded guilty iJune by 78,008 cars, the agency|ent climate—began to bother him | said. { — e JOHN MOE HONORED John Moe was honored at a fare- well party given by Doris Denton, Susan Clouse and Laird Sulhmnlw ‘The honored guest is an employee of PAA and is to be transferred to Annette Island for temporary duty in the near future, last Saturday evening. | up against very tough compcmiun,‘mg this luncheon today.” |but he drew a photo-finish—am I} proud of that boy! | Here is how Leo ran the cours | It was evident that he was slow-| |ly pulling out in front at the quart- er mark and was nearly a length At the three-| quarter he was better than a length | in front, but at this point his| | steering gear—which has been |giving him trouble due to drying| out of the car back in this differ- |and before he could get it straight-| lened out again he dropped back to |about six inches behind the Mam-| aroneck, N. Y. boy. It took the | photograph of the finish to de- termine the winner. Winner of the final was Gilbert Klegan, San Diego, California. It |is good that a western boy won this | year. This is the finest expedition of (Continued on Page Four) o |today raised retail ceilings on the In, saying that you are the,ouq° poog of canned fruits and leaders who must see that s'mh‘authorized a price hike of about pmblepls are resolved, I '",',l nob | i percent for household mechan- unning the responsibility,” the ; ., refrigerators. Secremi{;;;;rj. yott’ SupkoRT ‘ Examples of the increase for No. “ % 1214 size cans of canned fruits are: Yot 'will hava the full sl{ppurtl For fancy halves of unpeeled of the Secretary of Interior's of-| R sl apricots, two cents; fancy yellow fice—I pledge that, but no amount, 1 Nis . Shnts s, feRN of fancy blueprints can strnighWn‘cmg pagoiies, | ‘ong 2 Y i < |bartlett pears, seven cents; choice out these problems from Washing- fruit cocktail, four cents. ton, D. C. The practical solution i il lies with you as leaders of the| The increase also includes plums, | Territory. 'We, in Washington,| {168 prunes and products made . ‘s |from fresh prunes. :‘;;dn by to give YOUIRES Selal- [, iy, price boosts are to offset higher sugar and wage costs, and— In commenting on the tangle of | | red tepe that faces many residems}‘",me case of pears and fruit cock- | tail—to meet requirements of the who attempt to expand their bus-| iness, or newcomers who plan inde- Barkley amendment of the new price control law, the announce- pendent enterprises, Secretary Krug said “in some manner this contus-im'"t said. er, perplexed situtaion must be lev-| The increase on mechanical re- |frigerators will run from $10 to $12 eled out.” (Continued on Page Two) jfor a standard box, OPA said. ECRETARY KRUG SPENDS DAY INJJUNEA "'(ENTRAL PROBLEM" OF ALASKA Cabinet Official Says More People, Better Housing, Cheaper Living Needed "STREAMLINE RED TAPE" IS ADMINISTRATIVE JOB Many 0uesflns Asked, Answered During Press Conferenge Here Today Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug finally landed in Juneau late last night—at 12:20 o'clock a. m.— but was up early this morning to plunge immediately into meetings with local employees of his Depart- ment, with Territorial officers and with officials of other Federal De- partments. * He greeted Interior Department employees in the Senate Chamber with the statement that he has found the “central problem” in de- veloping Alaska is the need of more people. It is laregly up to those already here, he indicated, to solve the two great barriers to more people: Lack of housing and high living costs. The principal way in which the Fed- eral government can help, he con- nued, is to correlate administra- ive activities so that a person seek~ ing any ' particlular information about the Territory can go to just one place and get a ‘“complete answer."” Pulp Mill Development Later in the morning, when asked in press conference regarding red tape that has hindered pulp mill development in Southeast Alaska, he declared: “We will have to find some way to solve it.” Asked further, if he would favor a joint investigation of interdepartmental activities to find what creates the present dif- ficulties, the Secretary re-stated his carlier message to his own em- ployees: Our “number one administrative job,” he said, is to “streamline red tape.” Some one source will have to be made responsible for the an- swers. Other press conference develop- ments were: Aboriginai Claims The Department of the Interior !is currently taking further steps {toward proving aboriginal claims to Alaska lands. A question referred | by the Secretary to Assistagt Secre- tary Warner Gardner brought an- jswer that a hearing on the Klukwan netition has been scheduled for Sep- {tember 15, this year, with Joe iFlakne named as examiner. Hear- ings on other pending petitions by {native groups are not expected this year. Asked if his department is formu- lating any legislative proposals for extinguishment of native claims already upheld and of those yet to {be decided, the Seeretary replied ithat is one of the purposes of his present trip. Residents for Governors | Asked, with regard to recent ap- pointments of residents as governors in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, if it is a new policy of the Department and the Federal govern- ment to name residents to important {administrative posts in the Terri- | tories, Secretary Krug declared that i policy is not new. Statehood He cited a general aim of always trying to get people who know the most about a region for posts in that region. The late President Roose- velt several times expressed that view, he continued, and it has been put forward also by President Tru- man. Krug declared his hope that (Continued on Page Eight) iy hin Sy Latshin. « Reception fo { Krug Starts 9:30 Tonight The reception to Secretary of Interior Krug at the Gov- ernor’s House tonight will start at 9:30 instead of 9 o'clock as previcusly announced. The pub- lic is invited to the reception.