The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9863 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1945 MEMRER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —_—— ] NAZIS WITHDRAWING TO EAMI BORDER Von Rundstedt On Defensive On West Front The Washingion Merry - Go - Round| 3 ARMIES OF ALLIES INGAIN Germans Trying fo Cafch| Balance Between Lux- embourg, Holland PARIS, Jan. 19—German armies| .pye pad reports fram trained were thrown on the defensive today | onomists and trained militar from the Holland Panhandle t0|y w1 want a report on what you, Lower Luxembourg as British troops |, © gyerage, intelligent ~civilian, captured Hongen, three miles inside think of the situation.” the Reich and the U. S. Third Army tock the border town of Rosport. | Mansfield spent two months in Six miles from heavily gunned|.China, and called at the White Trier between those two forces, U.!House with his report last week. S. First Army troops were blocked Probably the most important thing four miles north of St. Vith, key ne told the President was that the road chain through which von ' yiff caused by Chiang Kai-Shek's Rundstedt first struck Belgium|gislike of Gen. Joe Stilwell has through the snowy Eifel and Ar-|peen healed, and that the Gen- dennes mountains. eralissimo delighted with the In northeastern France the Am-|new team of Lt. Gen. Al Wede- erican Seventh Army lost its toe-|meyer, Ambassador Patrick J. holds in Herrlisheim and Sessen-!Hurley and Donald Nelson. heim, 11 and 16 miles north of Strasbourg, but captured Auenheim and Leuterheim below Hatten in the area where the Maginot line closes up to the Rhine. Rundstedt is trying to catch his balance between Luxembourg and By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on active (Lt. service with the Army.) a ports on velt was delighted get an encouraging Representative Mike | Montana. Mansfield professor of political science at | Montana University, so before he left for China, the President said:| WASHINGTON — After receiving long series of discouraging re-| China, President Roose- | last week to report from Mansfield of is a former| “If these men had been here a year ago,” Chiang Kai-Shek told Mansfield, “we wouldn't have had the bad military situation we have |today.” |TRIBUTE TO DONALD NELSON Hoiiand where American and Brit- The Montana Congressman paid ROOSEVELT Nazis Leave IWO JIMA IS DOGGIVEN Dead Warsaw POUNDED BY PRIORITIES To Red Army LIBERATORS Colonel’s %c;(h Fiies fo Polish Capité!fiibevasialedEMakes Thirty-seventh Air Hollywood-Enlisted ~Inhabitants Exiled Attack Since Last Men Get Off by G@ans December 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—Presi-| LONDON, Jan. 19—Soviet Rus- BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, dential Secretary Stephen Early lsia’s leading correspondent has re-! Jan. 19.—The flcet of Saipan- said that neither Col. Elliott Roose- iported that the Germans exiled based Superfortresses smashed velt nor the White House had every living inhabitant of Warsaw || the big Kawasaki Aircraft plant asked air priority for the dog which |pefore yielding the Polish capital{ in Akashi on the Jap home displaced three service men from to the Red Army. Describing the'. island of Honshu. Explosions an Army cargo plane. Inewly-seized city as “one big ruin, and fires were observed by the sarly termed the whole affair a smelling of burning destruction,” | crews. “A sizable force, perhaps “m combination of |M., Makarenko wrote in Pravda,| upwards of 100 bombers, plast- ! i single live human remains| cred the target in daylight. Dis- error i*No The dog was sent to Col. Roose- 'among this devastation. The Gt patches frem Vern Haugland, Associated Press correspondent velt's wife, actress Faye Emerson, mans have exiled all inhabitant: in Hollywood. | 'Fhe Communist Party newspaperh_at Superfort Headquarters, When the plane carrying the dog!story, broadcast over the Moscow, Guam, reported that the attack- reached Memphis, January 11, 300 radio and recorded in London, car-1 ers bombed from an altitude pounds of high-priority freight was|ried a graphic account of War-| several thousand feet lower put aboard and, according to the saw's capture, given as “Soviet and| than any previous flight over War Department, a sailor, a sol-|Polish trcops were marching west| Honshu. Every plane in the dier and a Seabee were put off 1o along wrecked streets while inhabi-| early formation reported hitting make the weight allowance, leav-'tants were coming back into this| the plant. ing the English bull mastiff aboard. city which had practically ceased| Early said the dog definitely be-|to exist.” longed to Col. Roosevelt, but “he| Dufing was not responsible for his ship-|triot uprising last August, the Ger: ment by air under any priority.” |man forces wrought destruction bombers, Error In Judgment with sadistic brutality, methodically | fighter Maj. Gen. Harold George, Com- turning | \ | t remarkable i | | | | | UNITED STATES PACIFIC the abortive Polish pa- FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 19—Army Liberator escorted by Lightning hammered air strip and installations Monday on Iwo { 1 | INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT IS TOMORROW 'WOULDGIVE LAND BACK 10 INDIANS Abbreviated Ceremony af| Noon-Address May Be | Rl Only 500 Words Government Brief Recom- . mends Lands, Waters Go fo Nafives | Southeast Ala will be given abbre- back to .the Indians if Department WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—Frank- | lin- D. Roosevelt, who has ved | the longest as president, today toiled over what may be history’s shortest inaugural address In an ungarnished and viated ceremony at the President will of office for the time, then deliver He is aiming at thus will lower the time = Chief Executive Lincoln, whose second address was approximately words HIGHWAY TO MANILA IS NOW OPEN take the oath|ginal ts hearings have their epochal fourth [way, it w the speech. Attorney R 500 words and returned from Seattle with Mrs record of War-|Robertson last night after several Ahl'.llmu\‘wl'eks Outside in connection with inapgural | the hearings. 600 Robertson declared the Govern- ment counsel in their brief |Judge Hanna, “substantially advo- jcate exclusive use of all the lands |and waters mentioned in the peti- [tion should dians.” The Government its brief, Robertson said, and when [the industry completes theirs, they will be submitted, along with a | transcript of evidence, to the ex- | aminer, Judge Richard Hanna, an iu sistant United States Attorney General, who was granted leave of absence from the rig! E. Robertson, who noon tomorrow, [of Interior counsels for the abori- | as contended here today | to | be granted to the In-| 1 completed Justice Departs| | SOVIET ARMY “HASREACHED - (ITY OF LODZ Hinted that Budapesf Is ""Written Off Books™ by German High Command BULLETIN — LONDON, Jan. 19.—Russian forces are driving east in Prussia at a depth of 38 miles, the greatest penetration of the Reich. Stalin today an- neunced the loosing of two more offensives in E: Prussia and in the Carpathians in southern Poland. Stalin disclosed that the new offensive, the fourth in a series of gigantic winter op- erali lanced forward on a 50-mile front 38 miles in the Carpathians and seized Gorlice and 400 other towns and forced the Wisloka and Dunajec rivers. 1 LONDON, Jan. 19—-The German ‘Commund announced today that Russian troops have driven to Lodz, |Poland’s greatest industrial city, and foreshadowed complete libera- |tion of Budapest by declaring that ‘the German garrison has with- !drawn across the Danube River |from the Hungarian capital. Berlin sald: “The garrison at ment to accept the appointment | street afer street to ashes.| fKey Roadvfi_iy Urdaneta i Taken After Enemy Con- Budapest has withdrawn to the |western bank of the Danube.” {ana probably, Robertson said, make | Contirmutoif~ ot “the™ "Moo Island fin Japan's volcano oup, 750 miles north of Saipan, Pacitic ~Fleel “Heatquartérs” ve- ish attacks gained up to two miles| through slushy snow. Any of the thrusts by the three Allied Armiecs {as hearing examiner. | He il then. reporc his findings |tribute, however, to the job Gen. mander of the Army Air Transpor Stilwell had done in training Chi- Command, said a preliminary vestigation showed an “error i in the north and center might burst at any moment into full force, the onslaught endangering the Germans from the west as the Russians have endangered her from the east. | The German commander managed to get a few of his pummeled tanks and guns and his Fifth and Sixth Panzer Armies back out of the smashed Ardennes Bulge, but these constituted his only known mobile reserve. Most of the units needed refitting and the reserve couldn't be used be- fore Dusseldorf, St. Vith or Trier. At the same time radio said the Allies have opened a broad offensive on the southern | the German {nese troops, and said that some of !them now are giving an excellent account of themselves in Burma. |{He referred especially to the Chi- |pese First and Sixth Armies. The President asked Mansfield /hcw Americans were now regarded lin China and got the report the United States now stands “ace’s ;high " Mansfield went on to say that Donald Nelson had made a splendid impression on everyone | promising only what he is certain he can deliver. | Mansfield was es- at the way is to Congressman (pecially impressed Chiang Kai-Shek and has boosted Chinese morale by | - t trying flank of the Belgium salient between Wiltz and Wallendorf. ——————— JUNEAU PAIR - 10 WED S0ON clean up the bad spots in the |Chinese domestic situation. “When Chiang finds something wrong,” Mansfield reported, ‘“he| goes after it tooth and nail. For instance, he found that the people were upset over the way conscrip- tion was being handled. So he sent his two sons out to make a Of interest to their many friends quiet investigation. When they con- | in Juneau is the news from Anchor-ifirmed the reports, Chiang person- age that Mary Jean McNaughton|ally went to the office of the con- and John “Mickey” MCMfln“mm]scripflon director, checked over the will shortly wed. |evidence and ordered the man Miss McNaughton, the sister of jajled and court-martialled.” James McNaughton of B. M. Beh-|" The Montana Congressman also rends Bank, was born and reared in naq an interesting visit with Maj. Juneau. She has been in the office/Gen. Claire Chennault, head of of the Federal Bureau of Investiga- ¢he Fourteenth Air Force in China. tion in Anchorage for the pgst year. McManamin, now a Master Ser- geant in the Signal Corps at An- chorage, was for some time adver- tising manager of the Alaska Press and went to the Westward early in the war. — e — GAME TONIGHT One of the big basketball games of the season will be played tonight! in the High School gym starting at' MRS | | ! CHENNAULT'S TEAMWORK { “I asked Gen. Chennault,” he {later reported, “why he didn’t give ja build-up to his air aces as they Ido in other theatres, and thus give the boys credit for the enemy planes they knock down.” “What I want,” replied Chen- nault, “is a team. If we publish the statistics, the Japs will lay for our| (Continued on Page Four) _TRUDGEON DIES IN DALLAS, Mrs. Joseph Trudgeon, 48, former Douglas resident, died at Dallas, Tex., at noon Thursday. She had been in ill health for several years. Mrs. Trudgeon was born in Mil- waukee, Wis.,, December 17, 1896. She is survived by her husband, {Joseph Trudgeon, former Douglas| |dairyman; two daughters that live in Texas; one son, Joseph, Jr., who has been with the U. S. Army in France since D Day; two sisters, |Mrs. Theresa Huehn, Richmond, |Calif.; and Mrs, Hilda Rowe, San ’F‘rnnmsco, and a brother, Alfred Zenger, Juneau. e TIDES TOMORROW Low tide—0:16 a. m, 0.8 foot. High tide—6:39 a. m., 158 feet. Low tide—12:02 p. m, 2.4 feet. High tide—19:01 p. m,, 136 feet, 8 o'clock. The game will be between the Ju- neau High School Crimson Bears and the Douglas High School Husk- ies. Both teams are out to win. JUROLEE S e & & & & ° o o 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Weather Bureau) Temperature for 24-hour period ending at 7:30 v'clock this morning e o o In Juneau—Maximum, 31; minimum, 22. Precipitation, .06 of an inch. At Airport—Maximum, 31; minimum, 12. Precipitation, 01 of an inch. ® & o o 0 0 0o 0 TOMORROW’'S FORECAST e o 0 Rain tonight and Satur- day morning, with slowly rising temperatures. Lowest tonight, 33; gradually in- creasing to 38 Saturday morning. e o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | | ® 0000000000000 crc000o © 000 c00cesco0eseston0o0 o - D * NURSE DRAFTING Japanese planes raided base on Saipan, had been the| target for both air and Navy war-; hip attacks. The planes have hit with almost daily regularity. The latest blow was the thirty - seventh air attack since December 7. The last 30 at- tacks have been consecutive daily. The Seventh Army Air Force Liberators’ and Lightnings, operat- ing under the strategic airforce of the Pacific Ocean areas, flew 1,450 miles, round-trip. It was a long pull for the P-38 Lightnings. MUZZLE ON IN MYSTERY WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 The muzzle is on in the mystery of who! assigned Col. Elliott Roosevelt’s | dog an airplane priority ahead of three servicemen, but Rep. Miller, judgment” ‘in giving the dog top SAID IMPERATIVE Maj. Gen. George, who conducted * the inquiry personally, said “Ei would “take measures to correct! WASHINGTON, Jan. priority procedure so that similar|aymy’s surgeon general s: mistakes will not oceur in the fu- inat the inadequacy of nursing car ture,” and gave no information as|in the face of a 270 percent increase to the nature of the error in|in pattle casualty patients makes it judgment or as to the identity of 'mperative that nurses be drafied the person who made it. Since May, said Maj. Gen, Norman e Kirk, “Our patients have increased rom 260,000 to 450,000," while the | aumber of anny nurses has risen only 2000. Major Gen. Kirk ap- peared before the House Military Committee today. e planes bombed | ions in the| ment said, Marine | and strafed enemy pos perted that Iwo Jima, from which| the B-29/ same day, the announce-| -mile advanc 3 J The same day |paign. A five-mile advance dOWN|waters in the petition should be | announcements that the entire |recommendations to Secretary of | .. A |the Interior Harold L. Ickes (ERAL Xamg (la. S Reed: USSR Ickes | < : 1 may take action or he may Rt |k (8 Whe Yiver G6)RIREN 4 . jof in the language of the Berlin It is not known definitely, Robert- | % JER . {communique indicated, however, |son said, just what will happen | | 7 ! oy png e . |that the entire Budapest position |after the matter is in Ickes' hands. z % Voldine & eIl At _!hns been written off the High o of AlMske he. sald:-*Tho quek-| Coumand's books. i A € QUes-| aoscow dispatches said that the tions presented in the petitions are! vary serious to all of Alaska. Some Foll ot riongek roes frée WiRS 3 G : 160,000 last njght to 65,000 this idea of the seriousness may be real- ¥ Ur iles o4 S 5 5 n | Urdaneta, 27 miles southeast from d when the public is informed morning in Budapest. Less tha}. Ithree per cent of the city was in |Lingayen Gulf, after the first ac-iy;.¢ the government counsel, in| ¢ |tion even approaching battle mag-|(yeir prief, as the first recommen- German hands January 16 by {nitude that has.yet been fought|gation substantially advocate the|MOSCOW account. in the nine-day-old Luzon cam-|...icive use of all the lands and| Budapest is the seventeenth European capital to be freed from {German domination by the Allies. centration Is Smashed By JAMES HUTCHESON (A. P. War Correspondent) GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS ON LUZON ISLAND, Philippines, Jan. 19—The northern {section of the main highway to| |Manila was opened for Gen. Mac- |Arthur's steamr oller yesterday |when the Sixth Army captured ! the central Luzon Plain by an- other Yank column, in the mean- .neq land. |eranted to the Indians, except pat- Russian cavalry, thrown into the | Soviet of western Poland, |dog by air” jferring with Federal Housing of- California, Democrat, had hopes| today of getting the facts. Miller stepped into the case be: cause one of the servicemen af- SMASHE fected was a constituent, Seaman Leon Leroy, Antioch, Calif. The! California Congressman asked Sec-[ ROME, Jan. 19.—Counterattack-| retary of War Stimpson for aling Eighth Army forces smnshedi “complete report” on why Sel‘VICE'}(hG small bridgehead that the Ger- men with “C" priorities had to get!mans established on the south bank| off a cargo plane of the Air Trans- of the Senio river earlier in the poit Command to make way for| week, and have driven the enemy| high priority freight while a dog'back across the stream, Allied Head- with a priority was flown on. quarters said today. No Comment i ————— At ATC headquarters, questions INSANITY HEARING of reporters who asked about the| Rofo Pabillar, Filpino, was yester- priority and who assigned it drew|day committed to Morningside Hos- only “no comment.” ;pital at an insanity hearing before | Maj. Gen. George, ATC, said:|U.S. Commissioner Felix Gray. | “There was an error in judgment.” e e e i The error won't happen again. | LEGISLATORS ARRIVE Aides said he didn't intend to' The following legislators arrived | discuss the matter further. lin town today: Senator and Mrs. Leroy, who had been serving!Andy Gunderson from Ketchikan,| overseas, was on his way home to|and Representative Stanley J.| attend his father’s funeral when |McCutcheon of Anchorage, accom- he and two others were “bumped |panied by his wife and daughter,, off the plane” at Memphis, January |Cheryl. | 11. } — e — In London, Col. Roosevelt said he‘ INSPECTORS ARRIVE knew “nothing about shipping the| Lt. Comdr. Alexander L. Living- from Washington to|sten and Lt. Thomas F. McGlynn, of the Merchant Marine Inspection Service, have arrived in Juneau % {from Ketghikan to perform an in- AT GABTENEAU ... | spection g: a vessel now in port R. R. Warren, C. R. Burrill and |pere They will be here a few days Jack Taylor, all of Anchorage, are tnnly, staying at the Hotel Gastineau. | e | TILLOTSONS TO KETCHIKAN WALKER I JUNEAL | Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Tillotson left Representative-Elect and Mis:|,y plane yesterday for Ketehikan Michael J. Walsh of Nome are mijotson is saw filer for the Ju- guests at the Hotel Juneau. ineau Lumber Mills and has ac- s ir TR i |cepted temporary work with the NEW COMMANDER HERE |goichikan Spruce Mills, He and his Maj. Chester T. Wagner, who will {yife will return to Juneau in the relieve Capt. B. A. McNichols 85 gnring when. the Juneau Lumber| commander of the Juneau Subport, wrijjs resume operation. arrived in Juneau on the North Sea. SENIO BRIDGEHEAD DBY ALLIES| Hollywood. —————————— e STRONG, WILLIS WED | In a ceremony recently taking| place in Seattle, Jane Willis, wixh,wt‘ Srrrte of John Willis, former Juneau Thomas A. Morgan of the Col-|customs officer and at one time | umbia Lumber Company is due|Vice-President of the B. M. Beh back from Seattle today. For the rends Bank, was wed to H. C past two weeks he has been con- | Strong, prominent Ketchikan busi-/ nessman. News of the weddin: ficials on approval of plans to|reached here in a letter from M build 15 dwelling units in Juneau. Willis Nowell, formerly of Juncs e TOM MORGAN DUE BACK Marianas. JAPAN'SHOME SLAND HIT BY SUPERFORTS Tokyo Admits that Year's + Tenth Raid Did "Damage”’ WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Super- enemy tanks and artillery cleverly | small son. forts today attacked industrial in stallations on Japan's home island of Honshu. Tokyo said Kobe was the target. General Arnold, commanding the | Twentieth Airforce, said the Super-|least forts of Brig. Gen. Hansell's Twenty. First Bomber Command based in the " Marianas struck by daylight. No additional details were an- nounced by the war department, but it will release another communique when cperations reports are re- ceived. Tokyo admitted that “some dam-|the following passengers to Haines| |age” resulted from today’s strike. It reunds out 41 major missions since last June and 10 since Janu- ary 1 of this year against industrial and military targets of the Nlppon-J ese empire. MOOSE B e o — WOMEN MEET The Women of tie Moose will hold a social meeting tomorrow eve- ning at 8 o'clock in their lodge rooms in the Seward building. Refresh- ments will be served by Irene Mc- Kinley, Odelia Light and Betty Fitzgerald. Entertainment will be in ceharge of Iva Lindgard, assisted by Ivy Deland and Marge Fredrick- son. A class of four will be initiated. —eee — CITY COUNCIL MEETS The City Council will meet to- . night at 8 o'clock in the City Hall. time, has captured Paniqui road miles from Manila. Gen. MacArthur has disclosed | that United States war planes are now operating off Lingayen | Airfield, which was occupied within | half an hour of the January 9 landings on Luzon. Associated Pre Correspondent Fred Hampson said that fighters based on Lingayen Fjeld are directly supporting the! ground operations over all the Luzon battle front and that our| night fighters are now within “belly tank” range of Formosa and | parts of the China coast Urdaneta, key town on the main Manila-Baguio highway, was taken | after American mobile guns and| armor smashed a concentration of | oncealed in bamboo thickets nl(mgi approaches. When American in-| |fantry moved into the town at |dawn they found no live Japanese, | only the charred remains of at seven enemy tanks, as weli s a number of blasted guns, . (COASTAL CARRIES | 26 FARES THURSDAY carried | | | Airlines Alaska Coastal Mrs. Stephen Hotch Stephen Hotch, Jr., Charles Staf: ford, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ellingen, 0. E. Machan Juneau to Skagway—O. T. Mans- field. Haines to Juneau—Mrs. J, Brou- |lette, F. J. Phelps | skagway to Juneau—Frank M.| |Kelly, Esther M. Switzer, R. E. Swit Robert Ameskett, Fred | Marri, Otis Anderson. | Juneau to Ketchikan—L, T. Tlll-; otson, Margaret Tillotson. | Ketchikan to Juneau—Lewis A. {Jones, William Keller Hoonah to Juneat w. W, Sheakley, Frank S| kley, Sig Bendickson, John Fawcett. | Juneau to Sitka Anthony E. Karnes. A Sitka to Juneau—Howard Hunter, Zach Gordon | yesterday | 'BUTLER MAURO HAS Mr. Robertson added, “it is my sweap |junction, just 12 miles from the |cpinjon that if such a recommenda- ¢overed 70 miles from Warsaw to {important city of Tarlac, 70 road|ijon were put into effect it would|0dZ in two days practically mean the return Berlin admitted that several key Southeast Alaska to the Indians” |toWns shielding the German border “Of course it is to be hoped that have been evacuated. no such recommendation will con- It 15 hinted that a general with- stitute the basis of the secretary’s|drawal to the inside of the German decision,” he saitl. |order {s underway. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson stayed in! The Red Air Force out in Seattle all the time they were gone|Strength with 30,000 sorties in the due to the crowded travel conditions. Past 72 hours, was reported master They report their son, Elliot, a ser- Of the skies, sweeping German air- geant in the Alr Corps, is at present dromes just inside the Reichs attending a special training school border in massed raids. in Minneapolis, Minn. Captain, The German Command said # Duncan Robertson is in Belgium.|battle “of greatest Intensity” is He is a doctor in the U, S. Anny]rnmng all along the Polish line Medical Corps. |from Krakow and Czestochowa to In Seattle they visited with their|Lodz and Kuino on the Vistula daughter, 'Mrs. Fred Eastaugh, the'River. The Russians were three former Carol Robertson, and her|miles outside of Krakow last night. . They glso visited Mrs./but they wedged the city streets Duncan Robertson and daughter by his morning, said Moscow re- who are residing with her parents ports. 3 un uncan gets out of the Army.i "o lueil—fiqo—w-iue ON ALLEYS TONIGHT NEw DRUGGIST "ow The Merchant’s League bowling s b :mmes scheduled for tonight have been cancelled, it was announced today, because many of the teams' members are in Ketchikan attending the bowling tourney there. FROM ALASKA U Jean McFarland and Ruth Reilly, registered from the University of laska, Pairbanks, are guests at the Fotel Juneau. o s STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Jan. 19 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine 'stock today is 7%, American Can Anaconda 30%, Beech Air- of Glenn W. Trueblood on duty at the Butler Mauro Drug Co. He was formerly employed as| in Billings, Montana s to that owned and op- ted the Cody Drug Store in Cody, Wyoming. He has been a registered pharmacist for 20 years, registered with the Montana State Board. Trueblood was accompanied north by his son, James, who has entered Juneau High School in the sopho-| more class. a pharmaci ar e CHARLES WHYTES ARE PARENTS BABY GIRL A baby girl was born at 3 o'clock 2%, u this morning to Mrs. Charles Whyte craft 13}, Bethlehem Steel 69'i, in St. Ann's Hospital, weight 7 Curtiss-Wright 5%, International pounds, T ounces. Whyte is the Harvester 77%, Kennecott 37, North combined ticket agent, radio oper- American Aviation 9%, New York ator and plane dispatcher at Alaska | Central 23, Northern Pacific 187, Coastal Airlines. He could not be U. S. Steel 60%. reached this afternoon to veceive| Dow, Jones averages today are as congratulations, as his boss gave follows: Industrials, 153.84; rails, him the afternocon off to recover. 4822, utilities, 26.62.