The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1951, Page 1

-« JTBRAR VASHINGTON “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,920 Northwest fo Hunt for New Power Sifes Brownout May Be Ordered Within Two Weeks; Situation Serious PORTLAND, Sept. , 24—(P—The big s for new sources of el- ectric er is underway in the droughtestricken Pacific Northwest. The search was touched” @ff last week when the Defense Adminis- tration (DEPA) 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. i 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. The 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., on Sunday. * They were: Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Weaver, K. W. Yates, Mr. and Mrs. Mathey Kookesh and Pauline, Don AFL Is Planning Pelitical Fight On 19 Senators | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24—P— 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 “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 (R- Del), O'Conor, XD-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 Suif Names Anchorage Man ANCHORAGE, Sept. 24—(P—A $$1,510,000 suit was filed in Third Ditrict 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, the first 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 live: ‘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 Milens, Mr. and Mrs, Ka#roll Hoep- ner, Rosemary Harman, Mr.. and 8 Mrs. James Lee. % The Washington ‘Merry-Go-Round (Copyricht, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON (Ed. Note—The brass ring, good for one free ride on the ‘Washington Merry-Go-Round to- day goes to Premier Alcide De Gasperi of Italy on his present visit to the United States) ASHINGTON—Five years ago I was in the Luxembourg Palace in Paris when a delegation represent- ing defeated JItaly 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 (Continued on Page 4) 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 pay 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.‘ James A. McGillvray of Ketchi- kan is at the Baranof Hotel. 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 am. Freighter Sailor's Splice in port, UN Command Won't Talk - At Kaesong TOKYO, Sept. 24—®—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- #on oificers 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 the Reds didn't accept the or- iginal suggestjon 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 cdnditions ectablished for nego- tiators before he agrees to resump- tion of the conference. Siamese Twins Born; Are Joined Top of Skulls ROCK ISLAND, Iil. Sept. 24—® —It may be impossible to separate Rack Island’s -Siamese twins, born 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, May Charfer Plane For Consecration Bishop 0'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 Mugic Supply at the corner of Second and Seward streets caused no damage, according to firemen. ' COUPLE MARRIED Helen Phillip and Venancio G. Mazon were married Saturday by U.S. Commissioner Gordon Gray. Witnesses were Leadia Peterson and Mac Corpuz. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. 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; sailing for the westward this eve- ning. since July 1 — 846 inches, 00000000 0 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1951 Two Tickefs Are Filed for Election On October 2 Two tickets of candidates have | been filed with the Juneau city clerk for the municipal election which will be held Oct. 2 for the purpose of electing six counmcilmen a mayor and a city magistrate. Current Mayor Waino Hendrick- son heads the People's Progressive ticket. Edward 8. Nielsen leads the Civic Interest p as candidate for the pesition. 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 Al 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 of 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% 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” Loanert “ior thie er- 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% 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 Variety Store. neau resident since 1928, belongs to two local lodges and has on daughter. J. A. Thibodeau, who has served a total of 3% years on the cit; 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 EIks 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. s Two other independent filings are P. M. Schneider, local trucker, for mayor, and A, 8. 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- 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. Elwin C. Scott of Sitka is stop- ping at the Gastineau Hotel. He has been a Ju- | date filing for the Juneau Inde-| MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 'Red Losses Are Heavy, Five Weeks U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD- QUARTERS, Korea, Sept. 24—(P— 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. 18 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 Allles pushed off on limited offensives in eastern Korea they have captured enough materiel to equip nearly = 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. UN. troops have smashed forward up to 15 miles and captured scores of important hills on the eastern front. ° Allies Hold Ground The Allies haye not lost a yard of ground in either North or South Korea, Van Fleet's statement said Allied troops for the second time were pushed off the highest peak of “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 trueks lestroyed or damaged on e’ .5t central front in_ pre- dawn attacks Monday. Pilots sald 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 ‘brlght in Monday's ground action | North Korean Reds launched 2 fierce counterattack and drove American Infantrymen off the | highest peak on “Heartbreak Ridge” | in eastern Korea. Stalin Described As "Grealest Meddler [n World Hisfory' Blistering Aftack Made ' On Russia by Yugoslav | Premier Tito | TITOVO UZICE, Yugoslavia, dept. 24—(M——Yugloslavia'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 ‘Russxa." i | 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- |ian for the Soviet insignia, Tito |said in a speech before 25,000 per- sons. Tito's blistering attack on his ‘one-umz ally was his first major broadcast address in more than a vear, and the first since his opera- tion early this year for a kidney | ailment. Tito, elad in the uniform of a field marshall looked confident and healthy as he spoke from a 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 p«um’ from the outside of the house and | firemen thought that this caused the fire, Japanese Prisoners 0f War Trained Alaska, Commies Say FWS Officers Will Attend (anada Meet To attend a meeting of the In- ternational Pacific Salmon Fisheries Zommission, Albert M. Day, direc- | tor of the Fish and Wildlife Ser- | vice, and Clarence Rhode, regional director, will leave tomorrow in 2 service plane for Horsefly, British Jolumbia. Horsefly is located near Quesnel, which is south of Prince George. At the threq day meeting, regu- lations for 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 [isheries from the Pribilof Islands o southeast Alaska and will leave or Washington, D. C. after the nternational meeting. Kkode plans to return to Juneau next week-end. Giants Win From Bosfon Braves, 4-3 NEW YORK, Sept. 24—(M—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% games of Brooklyn. This was the only major league game schedulell today. King George Undergoes Operation LONDON, Sept. 24— (® —King George VI was reported in good spirits today and confident of re- | overy from a major lung opera- tion. A palace spokesman sald Queen Tlizabeth spent the morning with ler husband, but that no other nembers of the royal family have een permitted to see him. The spokesman was much more cheery than an earlier 'medical bulletyr 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 came 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 am., 3.6 ft. High tide 10:50 a.m., 11.8 ft. . . . 3 . 711t e £f o450, -# HONG KONG, Sept. 24—P—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 Takungpao. It also said the U.S. “is planning to 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; ancd implement Peiping’s campaigr against the Japanese peace treaty signed in San Francisco this month The Peiping dispatch said that the outbreak of the Korean war the Jap- anese troops were incorporated intc the U.S. paratroopers and Marines 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 martialed and no more was heard of them.” SthooI_Expansion Discussed at Lion Club Meefing Problems of expanding school and an educational movie o physically handichpped person: made up the program at a regula: luneheon 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 1046 to the presen time to over 1,000. He sald that the Fifth Stree grade school auditorium had bee divided up into classrooms, includ ing the stage, to accommodate classes. Sears introduced Dr. J. O. Rudc who has served on the school boarc 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 involvec increased taxes. He told of the board’s planning through the year: of Juneau’s uncertain future sever or eight years ago. “It is now apparent,” Doctor Rude said, “that there is no question a: to the future of Juneau. The new 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, clerki of the board was introduced. She spoke¢ 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. Ricker told of Employ-the Physicglly - Handicapped program and stressed the advantages of properly located handicapped per- sons, in that their absenteeism wa< |lower and efficiency greater. He introduced Ed Casey, formerly 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. Guests were Ricker, Carl Hein miller of Haines, and Larry John- son of Anchorage. In the absence of President Car Rusher, vice presidents Al Ransome and Wes Overby presided. Stock Quofations NEW YORK, Sept. 24—{P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 117%, American Tel. and Tel. 158% Anaconda 47%, Douglas Aircraft 59%, General Electric 60%, General Motors 51%, Goodyear 47, Kenne- cott 84%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8%, Northern Pacific 58, Standard Oil of California 51%, Twentieth Century Fox 21%, US. 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 PRICE TEN CENTS Europels Unifed Now For Defense Italian Premier Address- es Congress; Says U.S. Aid Needed No Longer WASHINGTON, Sept. 24— (A — 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 officlals. “‘Europe, once solidly Munited,” the 70-year-cld Premier said, “will ‘elieve you - of your sacrifices in men and arms, for she will herself contrive the «defense of her peace and common freedom.” De Gasperi reaffirmed Italy's desire that Trieste be returned to {taly as recommended by the big three in 1948. But this does not nean, he said, that Itallans “are ictims of a narrow nationalism.” Rather, he explained, it was evi- dence of Italy's wish “to consoli- date our western coalition in Eu- rope.” De Gasperi expressed appre- ciation for the stand takem by several members of Congress in favor of revision of the Italian peace treaty. sution,” he said, “Europe—at least nost certaimly he. ront line of continental Europe— vould have collapsed.” President and Mrs, Truman and ' * heir daughter, Margaret, and sey- ral cabinet ‘officers met Pe Gas- eri as his train pulled in from l)etrou, where he visited for two ays. Mr. Truman first vith the, Premier and Signora. De Jasperi and then presented Mrs. fruman who greeted Signora De Kisses Margaret'’s Hand The Prime Minister kissed Mar- jaret’s hand in ng her. . Mr. Truman chatted briefly with Je Gasperl and then the group eft the station for the White {ouse. 4 The President told De Gasperi it vas a “very great pleasure” to wel- ome him to the United States. He dded : % “I hope you will bave a pleasant visit while you are and I know that there are things of importamce about we want to talk. You have of opportunity to do that, De Gasperi thanked the lent for a “cordial welcome. De Gasperl's arrival hére ‘ided with reports that the Unif States, Britain and 'Rtance are irafting & joint declaration of heir plans to change the arms imitation provision in the Italian eace treaty. | The announcement is expected to limax his visit. "AA Barge ook \ccidently Meels Death This A, M, . The body of John A. Walker, cook tboard the CAA barge Civair 17, vas discovered early this morning n the water just astern .of the harge, by Gordon 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 at the time his body entered the ‘vater, according to the U. 8. Com- missioner. ’ It is thought the accident hap- pened between midnight and 1 a.m. this morning. A The barge was moored at the subport at the time of the accident. Walker was born March 20, 1904, 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 UA.Y Com- sioner’s office. ol Bob Martin of Kake is at the Baranof 'Hotel. 7 Tt S