The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 24, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” i " VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,176 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ATOMIC BOMB TEST PLANS ANNOUNCED TRUMANIN STATEMENT ON STRIKES Says Curr;fi Industrial Strife Contest Between - Management, Labor WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Presi-{ ® dent Truman said today much cur- rent indus labor — both of which, he said, have too much power. The public interest, he added, de- mands settlement of the steel strike on the basis of his 18 1-2 cents wage’and attributed prime responsibility| Thousands of Innocents Are Killed, Claim ‘France Makes Charges at Nuernberg Trail-Indi- vidual Cases Ending NUERNBERG, Jan. 24—Fr |charged today that the Nazis e nce jal strife was a contest|cuted at least 29,000 innocent hos for power between management and | tages in their occupation of the fall-| !en republic. { Charles Dubost, the French pros- ecitor, made the accusation before |the international military tribunal SALE OF GIRLS [AIR MAIL HELD AS PROSTITUTESIS = UP HERE BY ICY ORDERED STOPPED FIELD CONDITION Gen. MacAmr Puts End/Chamber of Commerce fo Centuries Old Cus- Takes Action - CAA fom in Japan Makes Daily Reports TOKYO, Jan. 24—General Mac-| Virtual suspension of air service| Arthur today ended a centuries old in and out of Juneau by Pan Ameri- custom under which Japanese fam-'can World Airways planes has ili Id their daughters into the brought to a head discussion and slavery of prostitution. jcomplaints of the sorry condition of MacArthur ordered the Japanese the local airport; described by the government to obey that section Civil Aeronautics Administration, in! of the Potsdam declaration which its regularly released “Notice to Air- |guarantees “respect.for the funda- men,” as . mental human rights.” Under it' “Extremely slippery and hazard- Japan must annul all laws author- ous.” izing licensed prostitution and nulli-| Those responsible for Pan Ameri- fy all contracts committing any can planes landing at Juneau air- PRESS WILL BEUNO URGE |Resolufion Will Be Taken Up at Second Session of Organization NEW YORK, Jan. 24—Senator Ar- thur H. Vandenberg (R-Mich), an| American delegate to the United!| Natio: sembly, says a world free| press resolution “should be pressed | | | [ | | [ i secolid session.two or three months ! hencc His comment was London in response to a message FREEDOM OF Salmon F (Men Needn't ;Pay Alimony to @ conclusion” at the assembly's|yary T Montgomery of the Alle- cabled from | ¢he quration of the strike. ishermen Ask For Longer Season in Southeast Alaska Area SEATTLF, Jan. 24—The Inter- national Fishermen and Allied Work- lers of America (CIO) asked a long- fer season for salmon fishing in Southeast Alaska, urging that the season be opened 10 days earlier than usual and closed five days lat- er. Union representatives met with of- ficials of the U. 8. Pish and Wild- life Service during the Union's an- nual convention. M. C. James of Chicago, assistant director Service, told the delegates the un- fon's desires would be given consid- eration. A “stagger” plan for alternating Striking Steel PITTSBURGH, Jan. 24.—Striking steel workers—at least those under court orders to pay alimony-—had their financial burdens eased today. Judges L. Kenneth Harkins and gheny County court suspended sev- eral alimony orders yesterday—for They of the; SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT 10 BE TRIED Great Armad_a of Fighting Ships of All Sizes to Be Targets SEA WARFARE MAY BE REVOLUTIONIZED Bikini AIoImABe Scene~ Vice Adm. Blandy fo | woman to prostitution. iport had indicated by yesterday that The Japanese government recent- no more landings woud be made| 1y halted the licensing of houses but here until the airport runway had| to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and | former Reichmarshal Hermann | Goering. They are two of the lead- said they would similarly approve other cases where husbands are un- increase proposal. 5 ! Mr. Truman said, however, that| Be in Command from Kent Cooper, executive direct- or of the Associated Press, SUBgest- | aple to make open and closed perlods during mei late season was opposed by the fish- | he did not intend to seize the steell industry at this time, although he did not rule out that future possi- bility. It was necessary for the govern- ment, Mr. Truman said, to assert the power of the people in preventing strikes against the public interest. The President disclosed that con- sideration is being given Federal op- eration of a government-built steel plant in Utah. The government built a plant at Geneva, Utah. Asked about a proposal by Ben- jamin F. Fairless, President of U. S. Steel, that he call ment conference on wages, the Pres- ident said he was always ready to talk to business leaders. However, he added, the best thing Fairless can do is to send word that he accepts the White House proposal for settling the steel strike, Mr. Truman said he thought it not practical to seize the steel in- dustry at the present time. He would not say the industry would not be seized eventually if the strike is prolonged, however. He also said that the striking meat workers will go back to work at their old wages when the government seizes the meat plants Saturday. If steel is eventually seized, the President added, the steel workers too, will have to go back to work ai current wages. - Bill Is infroduced To Seil Govt. Land At Sitka fo City WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Legis- lation to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell to Sitka, Alaska, a tract of land formerly occupied by the Alaska Agricultural Experi- ment Station has been introduced by Delegate Bartlett of Alaska. -- The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DRFW PEARSON ‘WASHINGTON—The Pearl Har- bor Investigating Committee has now spent nearly three months dig- sing into military-naval-political reasons why we were caught asleep on Dec. 7, 1941. While this is im- portant, all the facts show that Ja- pan wovld have attacked anyway; at some other time. Meanwhile, we have seized var- jous documents from the Japs, showing that this war was carefully built up over a period of years and that certajn American munitions inakers were either unsuspecting or deliberate Jap co-partners. + If we are to prevent war in the fature—and that presumably is one, motive of the Pearl Harbor Com-l mittee—the manner in which American business aided the Japs to prepare for Pearl Marbor is im- portant. chinery again. When the Japs dive-bombed on unsuspecting battleships on the morning of Dee. 7, word went round that they had evolved a new and powerful fighter plane—the Zero. All during the early months of the war, the Jap Zero was a match, sometimes more than a match, for U. S. fighters. so this doesn't happen ZERO MYSTERY CLARIFIED The mystery of how the Japs de- veloped their famous Zero is now el (Continued on Page Four) an all-manage- | We must build up ma-| ing 22 Nazis on trial as war erim- inals. Another defendant, Baron Con- stantin von Neurath, former Foreign Minister and “protector” of Bohem ia and Moravia, was called Hitler’ “handiest tools” in German plans for | conquest. The British demanded his {conviction as a war crimina Presentation of the case against von Neurath concluded for the time being the individual cases against the 22 defendants, with the excep- tion of Rudolf Hess, whose counsel is incapacitated with a broken ankle. The condition of Julius Streicher, who suffered a heart attack yester- day, was reported improved today e - i WASHINGTON—An Army siaff | officer told the Senate War Inves- Jligat.mg Committee today that all :demobilization schedules for soldiers lin the Pacific will be met by return not the law permitting the sale of lgirls. In 1940 the government had made a radical change which per- mitted the sale of girls ony by blood relatives, eliminating sale by hus- ands and sweethearts, Two weeks ago the Tokyo brothel keepers association decided to re- lease the girls from slavery status contracts and permit them “the democratic right” of going into busi- ness independently. Col. Crawford Sams, chief of Al- lied headquarters public health and welfare service, said the Japanese irls were sold to proprietors of openly maintained houses for loans lof 500 to 1,000 yet ($33 to $67) to |the parents frequently against the girls’ wishes. PARTY T0 SEARCH DOUGLAS SECTION FOR MISSING MAN !of some 500,000 GI's before July 1. | ! LONDON—Foreign Secretary Ern !est Bevin, describing Poland as @ ‘police station, told Commons yes- {terday he was “seriously concerned {at the number of political murders” jcommitted in that country during {recent weeks. WASHINGTON—E. T. Cummings, Special Assistant to Reconversion Director John W. Snyder, agreed today to review and reconsider orders canceling work on 37 naval vessels, | tories Subcommittee today recom- it give immediate consideration to legislation to admit Hawaii to state- hood. The subcommittee's report originally urged, “Immediate and | favorable consideration.” But short- []y after today's committee meeting tcopies of the report - released to inewsmen were recalled and the word “favorable” was deleted. WASHINGTON — President Tru- man told his news conference today that he could say definitely that the national defense neecssities of the United States will not be sacrificed |in arranging United Nations post- war irusteeships. 3 WASHINGTON—The new Chief of the Army Air Forces will be Gen. Carl Spaatz. General Henry Arnold, the presgnt boss of the Air Forces, will retire ‘when he returns from his current tour of South America, and President Truman has ap- i pointed Spaatz to take over. i MOSCOW-—U. S. Ambassador W. i Averill Harriman is scheduled to leave the Soviet capital tomorrow by plane for the United States. His daughter, Kathleen, will accompany him." Harriman is slated to visit Japan, Korea and possibly other .| countries in the Orient on his way home. —— Mining Equipment Released by Army Availfla for Sal ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 24— The Territorial surplus property office has announced that $1,250,000 iworth ‘of equipment suitable for mining had been released by the | Seward Peninsula. Another $1,500,000 worth is being { shipped from the Aleutians for re- lease through Anchorage and Fair- i banks, the office said. The hunt here for missing nioneer been sanded. ing clarification of the United, The decision not to use the Ju-| neau field in its present condition was reached solely by Pan Ameri-| can operations personnel. Pacific Northern Airlines landed a ship from thes Westward early today and took off again on schedule. Yesterday, both Alaska Airlines and Pan Ameri- can operated flights in and out of | States’ position on a proposal for| early action toward calling an in-| ternational press conference to ln-z sure world freedom in the handling | | of the news. UNO's 14-member yeneral steering | committee decided consideration | shoud be deferred when Pedro Lo-| pez. Philippines delegate, originally | the Juneau port, and Alaska Airlines has indicated that it plans flights! Lopez took his fight to the floor on per schedule tomorrow. Alaska Air-|January 14, but withdrew the re- lines is not ‘scheduled into Juneau |quest for immediate action after: tomorrow. ! Vandenberg, expressing the greatest C of C Gets Busy {sympathy with the free press pro- | Whether as a result of a sharp posal, announced the American dele- | wire dispatched yesterday by the gation supported the committee rul-: Executive Board of the Juneau ing. H Chamber of Commerce to Alaska' “The General Assembly is seeking | CAA headquarters at Anchorage, or | to éliminate all substantive matters | nct, steps to remedy the condition ' from the agenda for this initial ses- | cf the field here were being taken sion because it wants to get its ma- teday. Sanding operations were com- | chinery in gear before attempting | menced this morning by the Publie to put it to work,” Vandenberg said | Roads Administration as a coopera-!in his later comment. tive gesture to another agency of! - FILING TODAY prasented the subject in London. | i which has no sanding equipment ' | herc It was expected that a strip the length of the runway and 60 feet| wide would be sanded by tonight.! Whether that would be accepted by | PAA operations chief as satisfactory, or not, was not known at the pres- | ent | WASHINGTON--A_House Terri- | mended to the full committee that | panded this afterncon with o:gani- The search party was authorized | Oscar G. Olson, Territorial Treas- |Lew M. Williams, after Highway te covered to a width of 200 feet. | as a candidate in the April Botelho and Hubert Gilligan had CAA will advise use of caution in p. woulq hand his declar: | Patrolman Botelho was named to|from the CAA, however, it is stated. | A TAKES RAP answering the description of the| The critical wire sent yesterday sought man had b;zn heading up CAA chief, at Anchorage. It stat by E. Hftkmeister, of Douglas, who emergency repair of hazardous sur- | WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 —~Maj. | and who had appeared bewildered and equipment, which has been re- | setting up radar in Hawaii in 1941 'when encountered by Mr. Hack- }Xanding and take-off coriditions were , Francisco. i before Oliver's disappearance had mail five days last week. Other'galinc committee a telebram he smd‘ | morning penetrated to about two! Short Of Help George D, Leask of the Army Signal | !formed them, that as far as he|regular weekly luncheon meeting to- | ferred to San Francisco on Dec. 10, |in Neme, was formerly a gold ardous condition of the field is due|was not until several weeks later | Airways, which was later taken over not been removed by the CAA due lu immediately, the telegram said: urday, shortly after arriving byiheadqarwrs should’ be sent and|Corporation of America:to help in- | William Alexander Oliver was ex- ation of an official search varty! to comb Douglas Island areas. by U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray ‘When sanding operations are and approved by Acting Governor completed, the runway is expected toim.m.‘ today announced his mlenlion;’ | Commissioner W. Leonard Smith No Landing Ban {oF THIE for peple R o st oEx) fand Highway Patrolmen Emmett; It is expected that even then, ‘he;Democral.ic primary. He dechn'?di ioviina v = . o ation of :i‘:fiuvl’;?];:lri‘lx’]a;‘y-rflq‘sezllk:xc<hm(;‘n'mf‘ landu]lgv No cluccti ban on landings candidacy in to Auditor Frank Boyle adwe! ne ares L rning. here has come or is to be expected | gon otime today. {head the searching party. |That agency describes conditions as | Douglas Island was selected as|they exist, leaving final decision to the best bet for the search because airline operations chiefs or to the in- SH o R I oi at least two reports of a man, dividual plane pilots. [ | | missing pioneer, being seen there. by the Juneau C-of-C’s execuuvelAI WAR DEPT- o"l ! One of the reports said the supposed ;board was directed to 'Walter Peet, | the Ski Trail. A report regarded as ed: RADAR pRoTE(TIo" | more likely was turned in last night “Respectfully request immediate!' — | said he had talked with an elderly face conditions Juneau airport due Gen. Walter C. Short charged today‘ person answering the description'to lack of maintenance personnel that the War Department delayed and unsure of just where he was. sponsible for by-passing Juneau by While it completed installations in |The man, in the City of Douglas air commerce at a time when other 'New York City, Seattle and San| meister, had headed off toward | satisfactory.. Present personnel do-| Short's charge was bolstered when| | Treadwell. The meeting occurred ing all possible. Juneau without air|be read to the Pearl Harbor investi- | Ibeen announced. |equipment and personnel available |he had received yesterday from The Highway Patrol group this here. Please reply by wire collect.” |Waterloo, Iowa, signed by Major 'miles south of Douglas. The watch-| The Chamber executive board re-|Corps. i iman at the old Treadwell mine in- |ported to the whole Chamber, at the | Leask said that when he was trans- knows, no one hand passed lhcre.“day, that it had reached a decision'1941, he found three radar towers| The 70-year-old Oliver, well known ' in meeting yesterday: That the haz-{1ying on an open pier” there. Tt{ dredgeman. He was one of the to continued alternate freezing and |that he received instructions from | founders, in 1925, of the Northern|thawing of ice and snow, which has | Washington to ship them to Honolu- by Hans Mirow. to shortage of help and the 40-hour| Short told the committee the army | Giiver disappeared here last Sat- |work week; that a wire to CAA bad hired experts from the Radio plane from Fairbanks, enroute to|Alaska Airlines and Pacific Northern |stall radar equipment on the main- the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka. | Airlines informed so that they might | land. |take similar action. When it came to Hawaii,” he —————————— Full-Chamber discussion of the said, “It was just a question of the TRAPPER, HSHERMA" Imatter today resulted in little ex- officers digging out what informa- |cept approval of action already tak- |tion they could and putting it to- H“Es, FUR Dullm‘en by the executive board. AI};o. it |gether. It looked like the War De- { !mlsed exception from O. S. Benecke 'partment was more interested in de- Floyd Snyder, a trapper, fisher- of Alaska Coastal Airlines to the!veloping radar on the mainland man and trader of Angoon, nrraign-;statement that Juneau is without than in Hawaii.” ed on two fur dealing charges in air mail as a result of PAA sus- R ¢ e |U. 8. Commissioner’s Court this pension. Airmail is still coming into! HANFORD FROM WRANGELL |morning, pleaded ~ guilty to both Juneau via ACA planes, he said. Mail| Fred G. Hanford, Territorial Re- |charges and was fined a total of is landed in Ketchikan where it is Lresentative from Wrangell, arrived 1$75 this afternoon by Commissioner picked up by ACA seaplanes and|on the North Sea for a brief visit Felix Gray. |brought to Juneau during the local here. Arrested Jan. 23 by Game Agent landing field emergency. j Pt |John H. Likens, Snyder was charg-| Induiry of the Pan American of- FROM CORDOVA led with dealing in furs without a fice here today brought reply that Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gorman, |license and with possessing an un-'none of their planes were to be op- residents of Cordova, are staying at - himsel. |today and indicated that none are e The Commissioner deferred sen- expected for tomerrow. FROM WHITEHORSE | inad not been urging the Security | Council to delay consideration of | the complaints brought to it by | Army and is available for sale on sealed marten pelt not taken by erated to or from the Juneau port the Baranof during their visit hem"flndonesla_ tence until 2 o'clock today when| —————— | Sgt. Joe Eveland arrived here Snyder was fined $50 on the first' Jack Koby, of Pelican, is a guest | vesterday from the Whitehorse Air charge and $25 on the second. at the Gastineau. Base. He is staying at the Baranof. payments. Momi;“Energy Commission Is (reated, UNO Secrefary of State Byrnes Heads New Organiza- fion-Plans Outlined BULLETIN — LONDON, Jan. 24—The United Nations today ordered the creation of a spec- ial commission to devise con- trols for atomic energy dand moved swiltly toward action on three critical " political issues invelving Ifran, Greece and In- donesia, A few hours after the Gen- eral Assembly had voted unan- imously to set up the atomic commission under the Security Council, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes left for Wash- ermen on grounds it would give un- fair advantage to traps. The delegates told James also favored mqgification of boat regulations in thé Bristol Bay area, and asked that bank and set net fishing there be restricted to Indians or incapaciated white persons unable to fish from boats. James told the fishermen | government was interested in wheth- | er the union preferred a shorter sea- }scu and more boats or a longer sea- !son and fewer boats, as well as its | position on a proposal for fewer boats and larger nets. It also de- sired opinion on a five-mesh limit |form seine nets in the Bristol Bay area. He sald the Service planned bet- ter enforcement of regulations and has asked Congress for funds for five additional planes, three more! boats and an increase in enforce- ment personnel. James sald no regulations on trawling or crab fishing were con- tempiated for this year, COASTWISE - SHIP TIEUP the i | | they (By William A. Kinney) WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. — The | Navy raised the curtain today on |its plans for testing the atomic |bomb against a great armada of fighting ships—-an experiment ex- pected to revolutionize sea warfare. A guinea pig fleet of 97 vessels, ranging from carriers and battle- ¢hips, submarines and transports to an assortment of smaller craft such as landing ships, will be the atomic target in the vast operation to ctart in May, The laboratory selected is the anchorage of Bikini atoll, one of the northernmost of the Marshall Islands which were wrested from Japan by amphibious assault twe years ago. Details Announced Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, head of the Navy's Division of Special Weapons, ticked off for the Senate atomic energy committee these de- fails of the epochal experiment, known by the codeword “‘operation crossroads.’ " T AT | L 1In the target fleet will be 50 operating ships—two alrcraft car- tlers, four battleships, two cruisers, 16 destroyers, eight submarines and 15 transports from U. 8. fleets, plus a4 German heavy cruiser, a Japan- ese battleship and light cruiser— und 47 of other craft such as land-w ington in President Truman's plane, the “Sacred Cow.” IS THREAT In a leave taking with re- porters, Byrnes announced that the United States favored the quickest possible public hear- ings by the Security Council on charges filed by Russia against the British in Greece and In- donesia, and by Iran against Russia. official news organ of the Inter- {national Longshoresmen’s & Ware- | housemen’s Union (CIO) carried a {headline in today’s edition proclaim- ling: “Coastwise shipping tieup im- | minent.” | Negotiatior | on the 1946 contract LONDON, Jan, 24—The United with employers have been suspended Nations General Assembly voted meanwhile, unanimously today for the creation' The story, in the ILWU Dispatch- of a Special Atomic Energy Cum-;nr‘ was based on delays longshore- mission, urged by U. S. Secretary men claim they have experlenced in of State James F. Byrnes as nec- obtaining retroactive pay ordered by cssary to save the world from an the War Labor Board. It referred atomic armaments yace. to a telegram which Harry Bridges, The action came after little more | ILWU president, sent to President inan an hour of discussion during Truman last Monday, charging em- which both Byrnes and Chief So- ployers with refusing to make the! i viet delegate, Andrei Vishinsky urg- payments and advising the President ed prompt action. that a Pacific Coast tieup is “in- The vote was 47 to 0, with four evitable” unless checked by Presi- riations abstaining. dential intervention. Almost simultaneously the World ' Becurity Council announced that ir tion to Frank P. Foisie, manager of would meet tomorrow to consider the Waterfront Employers Associa- complaints involving Iran, Greece tion of the Pacific, further charged and Indonesia. the employers with breaking off Byrnes, who came to the UNO hegotiations on sthe union contract meeting primarily to work on crea- “after six months of stalling” and tion of the atomic commission, asserted the action left the union planned to leave within a mattei| N0 recourse other than to protect of hours—probably today and cer- members in any way it sees fit." tainly tomorrow, American officials| Foisie replied that the union posi- said. * |tion was “overstated” in both in- Power Limited | stances—that negotiations were not The commission would have mo Preken off but merely suspended, power to compel the United States and that the delay in retroggtive pay or any other country to disclose Was due to the long time required any of its atomic energy produc-‘l" working out details. tion secrets or disclose how the| atomic bomb is made, according to| interpretations given by Byrnes. Its! responsibility will be to work out' ways of keeping atomic energy irom being used destructively. It wil' be composed of represen- | fatives of the 11 nations on the Security Council and Canada, and will be responsible to the Council for its work and policies. Shortly before the Assembly ses- gion, Byrnes told reporters that he S e J. PEARSON ARRIVES J. Pearson of Cordova has ar- rived in town. He is registered at the Gastineau. | e e C. A. HOBSON HERE C. A. Hodson, resident of Elfin Cove, is a guest at the Gastirieau. FEBL L ! GEORGE TAYLORS IN TOWN Mr. and Mrs. George W. Taylor have arrived in Juneau from Wrangell. They are staying at Ho- tel Juneau duyring their visit here. e KETCHIKAN VISITOR Clarence Purdy of Ketchikan, is registered at the Baranof. - FROM HOONAH James E. Parks, Hoonah, guest at the Baranof. Iran against Russia and by Russia against the British In Greece | and | i Stalling Reports Most of the London press has been reporting for two days that is a (Continu 112 7Eiyhh SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24—The Bridges, in another communica-' ing ships. Scientific Experiment 2. The undertaking “is mot a combined or international opera- tion, but rather a sclentific exper- iment by the United States govern- ment alone,” The question of per- mitting foreign observers has not et been decided. 3. The unnamed target ships will be anchored and placed in a | inanner calculated to give effects varying from probable destruction to negligible damage” in each type. { First Test In May 4. The first test, early in May, |ualls for detorating an atomic bomb at an altitude of several hun- ared feet above the target vessels. A second test, tentatively set for July 1, will be an atomic burst at ine water's surface in' the targei area. 5. A deep water test in the open tea is pianned later, but technical | difficulties preclude its coming off | this year, | 6. “Task Force One"—A fleet of 40 additional U, 8. Navy ships with a complement of 20,000 men—will #et up the experiment and make arrangements for recording its re- sults by all modern scientific tech- | Miques. Target Vessels Blandy, who has been named com- mander for the entire test by the !joint chiefs of staff, revealed that tome of the best-known units of tne fleet had been marked for tar- | get vet , They include: | The Saratoga, oldest U. 8. carrie: | atloat which carried the fight from Guadalcanal to Jap home waters; the cruiser Salt Lake City, “The {one ship fleet” of Solomons fame; | the battleships Pennsylvania and Nevada, two Pearl Harbor victims (Continued on Page Eight) | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—Closing | | Guotation of Alaska Juneau min~ |stock today is 9%, American Can 100%, American Power and Light 119%, Anaconda 47'%, Common- | wealth and Southern 4. Curtiss- | Wright 9%, International Harvester |95, Jones-Laughlin Steel 47%, Ken- | necott 55%, New York Central 183, Northern Pacific 34’4, United | Corporation 6%, U. S. Steel 89%, Pound $4.03%, Sales today were 2,210,000 shares. Dows. Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 200.04, rails €6.46, utilities 40.78.