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Canadian Power
Project May Affect
Yukon River Flow
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaska
Delegate Bartlett asked Secretary
of State Dulles Saturday to deter
mine what effect a proposed
hydro-electric project in north
western Canada will have on po
tential water power development
in Alaska.
In a letter to Dulles request
ing a study of the matter, Bart
lett expressed concern about
plans of Frobisher Limited, acting
for Northwest Power Industries,
Limited, which has applied for
a water rights license on the
British Columbia section of the
Yukon River watershed.
He said the Frobisher plan
contemplates the impounding of
waters from the Yukon River
tributaries and adjacent lakes in
connection with power plants to
be installed south and east of
Lynn Canal in Alaska.
“It has been represented that
diversion of this water might
have an adverse effect on the ec
onomy of Alaska since the river
waters flow through the territory
for hundreds of miles,” wrote
Bartlett.
“One of the largest potential
hydro-electric projects in North
America is on the Yukon River
at Rampart, Alaska.”
Bartlett said he did not know
if the Frobisher plan would ad
versely affect Alaska’s interests,
but that the matter was of such
importance it should be taken up
with Canadian authorities.
U.S. Navy To Evacuate
100,000 Anti-Reds From
Northern Viet Nam
WASHINGTON, UP) — U. S.
Navy ships are expected to help
evacuate more than 100,000 anti
communist natives from northern
Viet Nam, ceded to the Commun
ists under the Indochinese cease
fire agreement.
This was indicated last night
when the State Department an
nounced that the United States
will give “all reasonable assist
ance” to the mass movement of
anti-Red nationals to the south
ern part of the country, which
remains part of the French Union.
Details of the operation haven’t
been worked out but government
informants said the Navy will
supply the needed ships.
Yangtze River Reaches
Highest Stage In Century
TOKYO, UP>—Peiping radio said
today record floods, resulting
from the century’s heaviest rain
fall, have severely affected six
per cent of the region’s culti
vated farmland. The broadcast
called for strong efforts to “sur
mount the natural calamity.”
Peiping reported the great
Yangtze River rose to 96.06 feet
in central China yesterday — its
highest level in 100 years. This
was three feet higher than the
crest recorded in 1931, when
33,590 square miles of that area
were flooded.
Today’s broadcast heard here,
said agricultural production, es
pecially of rice, is seriously men
aced and the high water level
shows no sign of decline.
Emilie Dionne
Is Laid to Rest
CALLANDER, Ont., LW—Emilie
Dionne was laid to rest today in
a little burial ground not far from
the frame home where she and
her quintuplet sisters were born
20 years ago.
She went to the grave in a
party dress of light blue crepe,
a white rosary in her hands.
Hundreds watched as the grey
metal casket was lowered into
the earth of the small Roman
Catholic cemetery at Corbeil.
The surviving quintuplets —
Yvonne, Annete, Cecile and Marie
—sobbed bitterly during the com
mittal service.
And few eyes were dry when
it ended.
More than 500 mourners crowd
ed Corbeil’s faded red brick
church for the funeral service,
conducted by the parish priest,
the Rev. W. H. LaFrance.
When he sprinkled holy water
on the casket and intoned the
interring prayers, Marie Dionne,
who has had to give up at least
temporarily her hope of becoming
a nun, wept uncontollably.
Wormser Contemplates
No Changes In Offices
For Bureau of Mines
JUNEAU, UP)—Asst. Secretary
of the Interior Felix Wormser
said Friday the Interior Dept, has
no intention of closing the U. S.
Bureau of Mines’ Alaska regional
headquarters or moving it from
Juneau.
Wormser made the statement in
an address before a meeting of
Interior Dept, personnel here at
a dinner given in his honor.
He pointed out that reports by
two survey teams designated by
the department to study its vari
ous divisions were recommenda
tions only and do not constitute
finqfl action by the Interior Dept.
One report compiled by the
team of stateside mining men
recommended that the bureau’s
current nine regions ^ reduced
to four and that Alaska be includ
ed in a western region with head
quarters at Reno, Nev.
The other report recommended
Juneau as the logical site for the
Alaska region hearquarters and
that no changes be made.
In his talk Wormser also dis
cussed the general, overall pro
gram of the Interior Dept, for the
United States and Alaska and
said the administration would like
to see a more rapid development
of private industry.
West Germany Offers
$119,000 for Information
On Ex-Security Chief
BONN, Germany, iffi—The West
German government offered a re
ward of 500,000 marks ($119,000)
Saturday for information that will
clear up the strange disappear
ance of its former security chief,
Dr. Ootto John.
The government officials voiced
hope this huge reward would lure
some East German Communist
who knows the true details of the
John case to desert to the West.
The offer holds good until Octo
ber 31, 1954.
Two Alaska Pilots
Die In DC-3 Crash
Near McGrath
ANCHORAGE, UP> — Two men
were killed when an Alaska Air
lines DC-3 cargo plane crashed
in the wild Kuskokwim moun
tains, 250 miles northwest of here
yesterday.
The CAA identified the dead as
Floyd Wacha and George Nash,
the pilots of the plane. It crashed
25 miles northwest of McGrath
14 minutes after taking off for
Colorado Creek. Only the two
men were aboard.
Alaska Airlines and the 10th
Rescue Squadron at Elmendorf
Air Force Base sent search planes
out. Pilot D. Richards spotted
wreckage of the plane, still burn
ing, on Fossil Ridge.
The Air Force sent a ground
party into the area.
There was no' indication here
as to the cause of the crash.
' Airline spokesmen said they
understood Wacha's wife lived in
Seattle.
Primary Balloting
In 4 States Tuesday
(By the Associated Press)
Election of candidates for three
Senate seats in Nebraska and the
Idaho comeback try of a former
Senator - turned - carpenter will
highlight a busy round of party
balloting in four states tomorrow.
Gov. Godwin J. Knight of Cal
ifornia and Sen. William Know
land yesterday teamed to turn
back a challenge to their state
party leadership by friends of
Vice President Nixon.
Nebraska has no less than 31
candidates — 24 Republicans and
17 Democrats — seeking nomina
tions to three Senate seats. This
unusual primary lineup was
caused by the deaths earlier this
year of Republican Sens. Hugh
Butler and Dwight Griswold.
Senate posts to be filled in
November are (1) the remaining
four years of Butler’s term, (2)
the remaining three months of
Griswold’s term and (3) the reg
ular 6-year term starting in Jan
uary.
Interest in the Idaho primary
centers on the comeback attempt
of Glen Taylor, the “singing
cowboy” and former senator who
bolted the Democratic party in
1948 to run for vice president on
the Progressive ticket. He has
been a carpenter in California for
the past four years.
In Kentucky, counting of Satur
day’s primary ballots was resum
ed today after a Sunday layoff.
The featured contests saw Alben
W. Barkley, former Democratic
vice president and GOP Sen. John
Sherman Cooper capture their
parties’ senatorial nominations by
unexpectedly wide margins.
"BABIES" FOR SALE!
BOSTON, UPi—Vincent Guinta,
29, was arrested yesterday when
two detectives spotted him wheel
ing a baby carriage at an un
usually early hour and shouting:
“Come and get your babies.”
Police said Guinta was selling
wine at 75 cents a bottle. They
booked him on a charge of selling
liquor without a license.
Six Major Issues Confront Congress
With Only 6 Days to Adjournment
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Former Rep. Marcantonio
Drops Dead On
New York City Street
NEW YORK, UPi—Former Rep.
Vito Marcantonio, fiery, leftwing
New Yorker, fell dead on a rain
swept street today.
The diminutive, 51-year-old
former legislator was in the mid
dle of a comeback effort. Defeat
ed in 1950 by a Republican
Democrat-Liberal coalition, he
was running again for Congress
as candidate of the independent
“Good Neighbor Party.”
Marcantonio represented an
East Harlem district for 14 years.
For many years until last Novem
ber, he headed the American
Labor party, which sponsored
Henry Wallace’s presidential cam
paign in New York State.
Marcantonio collapsed at 10:30
a.m. at Broadway and Warren
St., near city hall in lower Man
hattan.
It was more than an hour be
fore police issued even a tenta
tive identification of the man who
had been a thorn in the side of
New York’s regular party poli
ticians. for years.
Police said he had been walk
ing alone, a briefcase with the
initials “V.M.” in his hand. He
was not far from his office on
Park Place.
An ambulance doctor said death
was due to a heart ailment.
Rhee Declares South
Korea Will Drive Out
Reds If U.S. Will Help
WASHINGTON, UR — President
Syngman Rhee says South Korea
is “crying” for atomic weapons
from the United States to help it
drive the Communists from the
northern half of Korea.
In a copyrighted interview with
the magazine U. S. News and
World Report published today,
Rhee also declared that Britain
and France are not anti-Commun
ist nations, and that the United
States is restraining him and
Chiang Kai-Shek from fighting
the Chinese Reds by withholding
support.
Reiterating that South Korea
can drive the Communists from
the northern half of the penin
sula, Rhee said, however, that he
is asking the United States “to
give us naval support and air cov
erage” as well as assistance in
doubling the 650,000-man South
Korean army.
SUNDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Cleveland 7-5, Philadelphia 2-2
Detroit 10, New York 8
Washington 7-0, Chicago 6-3
Boston 4-4, Baltimore 2-1
National League
Milwaukee 5, New York 2
Brooklyn 20, Cincinnati 7
Pittsburgh 12-5, St. Louis 4-3
Philadelphia 8, Chicago 4
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 7-0, Sacramento 1-1
Los Angeles 6-6, Seattle 2-1
Oakland 5-8, Portland 4-5
S. Francisco 8-1, San Diego 6-3
> WASHINGTON, UP) —At least
six major issues remain to be dis
posed of in the six working days
left before the late Saturday tar
get time for the windup of this
Congress.
Even if all are cleared up, the
Senate may not adjourn but
rather take a recess with the idea
of coming back later in the year
to act upon a report from the
special six-man committee set up
to' study a censure move aimed at
Sen. McCarthy.
The six major legislative issues
still unresolved are farm, for
eign aid, social security, the debt
limit, anti - subversive measures
and atomic energy. Of these, a
bill to revise the Atomic Energy
Act appeared to carry the chief
threat of a delay in adjournment
beyond this week.
Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R-NY)
predicted overwhelming House
approval some time today of a
compromise bill to allow this
country to share some atomic
weapons data with its allies and
to allow private industry to en
ter the atomic peaceful power
field.
After three full days of debate,
the Senate arranged to begin
voting today on new farm legis
lation in which the principal
issue is whether to continue rigid
price supports on five basic crops
or shift to the flexible system
the Eisenhower administration is
advocating. A final vote may be
delayed until tomorrow.
Scheduled for Senate consid
eration next are bills to finance
the foreign aid program for the
current year, to expand the so
cial security system and increase
benefits, and to raise temporarily
the legal debt limit from 275 bil
lion dollars to 281 billions. All
three of these, like the farm bill,
have passed the House but con
ferences will be needed to iron
out differences.
Moroccan Nationalists
Step Up Agitation
Against French Rule
CASABLANCA, Morocco, UP*—
Violence continued unabated over
the weekend in French Morocco
as nationalists stepped up their
agitation for the return of exiled
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben
Youssef.
Tension appeared to be rising
with the approach of the Moslem
religious festival of Aid El Kebir
tomorrow, commemorating God’s
sending of the sacrifical sheep to
Abraham as he prepared to offer
up the life of his son Isaac.
Leaders of the nationalist Istiq
lal party forbade the traditional
sacrificial killing of sheep as a
further protest against French
rule.
There was no indication from
Paris of steps the French might
be planning to pacify the Moroc
cans. The French have promised
their other rebellious North Af
rican protectorate, Tunisia, more
self-government. They installed a
cabinet yesterday including 10
Tunisians and four Frenchmen.