The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVI., NO. 10,229 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS = o ———— | PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1946 PACIFIC COAST SPY CASE IS REVEALED REPORTSAYS |Compensation MCUTCHEON Bill Passes UNQUALIFIED Both Houses Senate Hears JudiciarygSenate Concurs fo House LEGISLATORS T0 GET CHANCE FOR ELECTIONEERING Congress to Take Time Out| During Easter Season | for Politics GOVERNOR MAKES PLEA FOR SHIP EMERGENCY BILL! \‘ Gov. Ernest Gruening in messages | addressed to the House and Senate |this afternoon said he has recciv- |ed advices from the Director of; {the Division of Territories that Delegate Bartlett's bill to authorize 'COLLEGE BRANCH IRANIAN. (T Up HEARING AGAIN IN HOUSE ASSURED‘last Ditch Egit Made on' | Measures Killed Yes- | 1 Security Council Overrides terdayin lggislature 'HALIBUT HEARING | RUSSIAN IS ARRESTEDBY | FBI AGENTS ‘Bail Is Fixed at $25,000- IS SCHEDULED IN | SEATTLE APRIL 10 Discussion of Allocation of | 1946 Catch Taken Up for OPA Benefit . T H the Alaska Railroad to operate — g 2 | | g Committee Fmdmg—No Changes.m Green- ocean going vessels has been killed: WASHINGTON, March 27.—Con- Soviet Insistance on | e Temitorial House today| WASHINGTON, March 21. — A1 Afomic Se(refs, War " | by opposition of the Wartime Cum-!gress&onnl leaders have agreed (o P ' ’ “launclwd a last-diteh fight to give hearing will be held in Seuulri ) A("On Iaken Now | Sha"l.l(k Measure ! mission, and “it appears almost cer- jgive members a little time for 0S poneme“ jall Alaskan veterans a change at|April 10 to discuss allocation of the Vessel Invo'ved " { D ) tain that when vessels are tumedifilectioneerlng during the Easter| —_— Lhigher education now by suspend-| 1946 hallbut catch, the Interior Dc-‘ BSHR this morning! An adequate Workmen’s Compen- back to private ownership, steam- season. | NEW YORK, March 27—Soviet ing rules to permit introduction of ; partment announced today. WASHINGTON, March 27. — A Alaska's Senate . 4 el v i - Iship companies will refuse to oper- heard the expected report of ms‘s:mon Law for Alaska this morn o Judiciary Committee, fidding that ing became a fact as far as the !ate them in Alaska trade unless Steve McCutcheon is not qualified | Territorial Legislature is concern-|successful in obtaining rate in- The Department said the office !of Price Administration wanted the ! cateh allocated, as in 1944 and 1945, | | “in the interest of proper price No formal recess is planned, they |Ambassador Andrel Gromyko told|House Bill 69, which appropriates told a reporter today, but fromthe United Nations Security Coun-i$15°v°€9 for establishment of a mid-April to May 1, major business @il today that he insisted on post- southern branch of the University will shoved aside. Easter is ponement of the Iranian case un- |of Alaska. puzzling but spine-tingling spy mystery confronted A-bomb con- 1 s icreases which we oppose.” sclous Americans today as FBI for his Third Division Senate seat.|ed, upon A move by Senator N. R. Walker, House amendments to Senate Bill to take action on the report immed- 1, the Green-Shattuck Bill. iately, was defeated so the matter| One of the “big three” bills of was turned over to the Rules Com- | this special session and the first mittee to bring out when it sees fit. labor measure to obtain passage The finding of the Judiciary by both houses, the Bill as enacted, Committee, in which Chairman O.|requires compulsory protection for D. Cochran and the three other! his workers by an employer of more members, Grenold Collins, John than two persons. The House de- Butrovich and Allen Shattuck allljeteq the exemption of employees concurred, was based on the hear-|;, 45 days or less. ing held by the committee in the| Ap employer must either show Senate Chamber at 8 o'clock Mon- hjs own financial ability to pay day evening, March 18. | medical expenses and disability The finding on McCutcheon, who | claims for employees injured at was named to the Senate at a!their occupations or must obtain special election in the Third Divis- coverage for them in a private in- ion January 29 of this year, states: surance company. Another House Qualifications deletion agreed to by the Senate “Section 466, Compiled Laws of was limit of insurance company Alaska, 1933, being an Act of Con-!responsibility for transportation of gress, provides the qualifications of} mnjured workers to $150, any addi- the members to the Senate of the|tional transportation cost to be Territory of Alaska as follows: |borne by the employer. As the bill “He shall have at the time of his now stands, insurance must cover election the qualification of anlall transportation to the neares elector in Alaska and shall have point wheve adequate medical facil- | been a resident and an inhabitant | jties are available. in the Division from which he is' elected for at least two years prior | to the date of his election. | “The sole question for the de- same as under Alaska’s present vol- Disability Allowances Senate concurrence to| termination of your Committee un- der the evidence given is whether or not Senator Steve McCiitcheon employees are domestic, agricul- | Postponement was made at the re- | ‘untary participation industrial in- ;Jury compensation law. Excluded The Governor suggests quick ac- tion be taken by the legislature, re- ferring to Chapter 32, Session Laws lof 1919, as higher rates, possibly 100 percent increase, would be |trous to the economy of Alaska, as irates are too high now. | The Governor suggests the crea- ition of a transportation authority ‘authorized to operate vessels but {this power to be exercised only in |case of emergency. BULLETINS I | ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. — The lSecrmary-’l‘reasurr,r of the United Auto Workers George Addes, says |that Waiter Reuther has been ! elected President of the Union. | Addes was Presiding Officer of the ! day’s session at which the vote was | counted. | SAN FRANCISCO—Harry Bridg- ‘es announced today that a strike | of Pacific Coast CIO longshoremen, The disability allowances are the | scheduled for Monday, had been | | postponed. Bridges, President of the iIntemauonal Longshoremen’s and ‘Warehousemen'’s Union, said the | quest of th U. 8. Conciliation Ser- disas- | be April 21. Daily sessions will not/ be held unless some member in- |sists. Two meetings weekly ptubabJ {ly will be scheduled. | embers of several committees| still considering key measures will be expected to stay on the job, but :ov.her lawmakers will be free to imake a -jaunt home to talk wlth; their voters. | RESTRICTION 'ONBUILDING ANNOUNCED |Drasfic Order Is Issued in| i Order to Speed Home Construction tit April 10 and reiterated his us-! Rep. Almer J, Peterson introduc- | sertion of yesterday that an accord'ed the bill with the comment, “this had been reached for withdrawal of |will probably cause an explosion, Soviet troops from Iran. |but it'® & very important matter and | Gromyko stcod on his argument!we must not let the veterans down.” | of yesterday that the nusshm-j Yesterday the Senate refused to Iranian case was not one for Coun- accept H.B. 63, which called tor‘ cil consideration at this time, but!$1,000,000 for the University of Alas- that if it had to be heard anyway|ka, part of the fund to be expend- | it should be delayed until April \O.Md on the proposed southeast; Secretary of State Byrnes end|branch. The bill was endorsed by French Ambassador Henri Bonnet the House, 15-7, after veteran Harry insisted the Council should hear a Newell, Jr, of Ketchikan, told stetement from Iranian Ambassador 'members that Alaskan veterans can | Hussein Ala. |neither get into the larger U. S.| A motion for postponement of universities nor secure courses es-! the 'sential to life in Alaska in the! the hearing was defeated by veterans might possibly be admit-| ted; nor are such subjects as fish- ery operation, marine transportation, and forestry taught at UA's north-: ern branch at College. ! upon Gromyko withdrew. SEATTLE HAS 3 | Shattuck all those voting against | dmission of H.B. 60 this morning| SEATTLE, 2 il ing | & i snowswrmE h:‘mh:sr‘edm “:mscp 3 ?g were from northern Alaska. They northwest Washington today, and‘“;‘"e:TR";p: R/oherALl ’fi"’p;“' 13(;;[ a slide kept the Snogualmie Pass Hoe T. JohnsoR, aaKke P, “" bighway, main cross-Cascade ar. | Wallace Porter and M. J. Walsh. control and of avolding disturbance of normal channel of distribution.” Under a treaty with Canada, a catch of 52,500,000 pounds is au- thorized for 1946. Andrew W. Andersen, chief of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s di- vision of commercial fisheries, will preside at the Seattle hearing. Members of the industry and re- presentatives of government agen- | cles will be given an opportunity to present their views. CALLED TO HEARING A public hearing on the propos- ed 1946 Halibut Allocation program /Council when put to a vote, where- smaller U. 8. college to which t,he[will be held in the White Henry Stuart Building at Seattle April 10, according to a wire received to- day by Frank Hines of the Fish and Wildlife office at Juneau. All fisheremen and j other inter- ested persons have been asked to attend and present their views. >ro - HENRY PU-YI _terial, closed for the second day. Hoopes, Johnson and Mrs. Linck are | WASHINGTON, March 27.~Theé| The unseatonable snow fell from | government, acting to speed con- Bellingham to Tacoma in western struction of homes for veterans, to- Washington, lying three inches deep !from - Fairbanks, 4 short -distance from College, and Walsh, although a Nome resident, is a member of: the UA Board of Regents. The mo- agents snared a young Russian 1lmval officer preparing to flee by i ship from Portland, Ore. | On the record, Lt. Nicolai Gre- | gorovich Redin, 29-year-old mem- | ber of the Soviet purchasing Com- | mission at Seattle, was arrested last night on espionage charges | involving plans and information regarding the U.S.S. Yellowstong, | & destroyer tender assigned to take ! part in the scheduled atomic bomb” ‘test this summer. { Man Seazed The formal charge was disclosed late last night by Assistant FBI agent Jullus A. Bernard at Port- land, hours after FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover had announced terse- ly in Washington that Redin had been seized as he was about to board a Russian canning vessel for home. ' Arraigned before U. S. Commis- | sioner Robert A. Leedy, the Soviet officer, wearing the uniform of his rank, was asked whether he under- gtood English. { Thumping Leedy's desk, Redin cried “I will not talk, I will not He then demanded to see the Soviet Consul, who was not 10 BE GIVEN was first, a qualified elector in tural, dairy and railroad workers. Alaska, and second, had he been a! The Senate vote today was unan- resident and an inhabitant in the imous when Senator Joe Green ‘Third Judicial Division of the Terri- rioved for concurrence in the tory of Alaska, the Division from House amendments to his bill. which he was elected as Senator,, Not so receptive, however, was for at least two years prior to the/ihe Senate to the lone House vice. day clamped drastic restrictions on i {building or repair of virtually. all | oKy 0—Kyodo News Agcncy}o"her slruc‘tures. | today reported there are more; The Civiian Production Admin- {than 20,000 cases of Europtuve Ly_(istrauon issued a far-reaching or- ' phus and smallpox in Japan, chief- der, effective at once, forbidding early today in some sections of Seattle. Snowplows continued to dig into the slide of snow and rocks which closed Snoqualmie Pass Monday | night. About 400 trucks and trail- tion to suspend rules carried, 17-6,| land was referred to the Ways and | |Means committee. | The Senate also refused to acoept! H.B. 57, sent from the House yes- | repre- sented at the proceedings. - « But Leedy, fixing ball at $25,000, ordered the officer to be held {n ' up Bv RUSSIA Multnomah County in default of ,bond until another hearing is set.- i Under FBI Scrutiny Redin, a graduate of the Rus- sian naval academy who came to BY SPENCER MOOSA ' CHUNGKING, March 27.—Russia' § 1 o M d today to release Henry Pu- . ers were tied up awaiting removal terday, which appropriate $2,000 for|agree :)krw 1?:;:',;:;1 al;yn;izczf:n :;xcel:i of the blockade. the Welfare Department to survey 'y, former puppet governor of ! specifically Bumgflm i e |sites for a home for Pioneer wo- |Manchuria, to China as this coun- this country four years ago, had been under “intensive FBI scru- tiny” for several months, Hoover 1y in Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Kyo- to. date of his election. | amendment to S.B. 28, the bill Evidence setting additional levies on packed )} “The evidence shows and it is saimon and fish traps. By a 13 to ‘try's vice Minister of Foreign Af- | men. admitted that he and his wife, 3 yote, the “top drawer” refused SEATTLE—More than 2,000 per-! This applies to such things as Sen. Magnuson |fairs reported the recently tense “Hate” Bill Post, ed u e Fsroon. {Sino-Soviet situation had ‘“eased.” sald in Washington. v State Department officials and sons have been vaccinated because otores, office buildings, roadhouses, of the smallpox epidemic mglngi"h;:”:rz;':;’lu:?t;”i: iR Phyllis, voted in the Primary elec- (o gccept the House's added provi- tion held at Fairbanks in the Four- gion that proceeds of the tax be th Judicial Division in the Terri- The House indefinitely postponed the Russian Embassy are silent. |Senate Bill 4, the so-called “hate” 'ake (’a(k There was no immediate clear- { Liu Chieh, the vice minister, was {asked by correspondents if the cri-' devoted entirely to a $3,500,000 Vet- tory of Alaska, on the twenty-fifth X (Continued on Page FEight) The Washingto Merry 5 Go & Round‘mg:hm Allen Shattuck stated | fish tax is effective only this year, {that amendment would mean that | the entire revenues received under | the bill would become just a “drop _jerans Revolving Fund until that "'/ amount is reached. Since the new 1m the bucket” for the Veterans | in this area. 1 : { iscarce building materials available SEATTLE—The Diamond Knot!for the 2,700,000 new homes the’ has been turned over to the Alas- | Bovernment is aiming at during | ka Steamship Company by the,!he next two years. lwsA and will be operated on the | The measure, announced by Na-| . Alaska route. tional Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt-and COA Administrator John D. Small, applies throughout bor Investigating Committee may | ::‘lf:o U:::d Lri‘afirg?:d 123;:5;:" “: i WASHINGTON—The Pearl Har- i A' opA . |bill which would provide for elec-| tion of the governor of Alaska, de-; !spite the fact that the “hate” part| SEATTLE, March 27.—Deploring, was wrung out by amending the§ the fact that only one shipping 11 years prior to election residence concern had established a line to clause (allegedly aimed at Gov. Er-| the Orient, Sen. Magnuson (D- nest Gruening who came here in| Wash) said here the “lack of plans 1939) to a two-year residence re- for Oriental and Alaska shipping quirement. | add up to a pessimist.c picture.” | Prior to raising the (R). L. P.over; sis in relations betwsen China and CUt answer to the No. 1 question Russia had passed. | posed by the arrest: could atomic “I don’t think I can make any Pomb secrets be involved? categorical statement,” he replied., Forelgn Spy Ring o:::e ::nn::;rng:e?hn‘:pn:‘eo‘:ieiuug: t Bub. & broed Hh) Ihat thep i U x v‘ery Sonia’ Rekia? ! be came from the House Committee : 'on un-American Activities, which K. C. Wu, Minister of Informa- ). .yera] weeks has been digging tion, said the Russians had agreed |, o ="\ v that 'a foreign spr to give up Pu-yl after protracted : o i . “The one bright outlook is the §B. 4, House members expended - . ring is at work in this country. fact that the Army and Navy sup- vigorous verbal exercise on the /DESOAtIons, " LIt SEADMRLY . iy the Senate view when he declared , recall General George C. Marshall | b % By DREW PEARSON | probably will be extended later to is as | Committee Counsel Ernic Adam- that revenues raised by this' mea- !and Admiral Harold R. Stark next ' | sure are needed for other Territor- |Week for further testimony on their {Alaska and Hawaii. | WASHINGTON—The tight veil| 1ol piiiionca; iich” an. tHe: quarter- i gsxgfimfi z;mli:rb‘e‘:?vmfi:fmmon dollar health appropriation |ulready a law of this season. o RA o Dicectar:Giruianl | of TN "n\ Sent back to the House with a now be lifted. The excuse that the former New | lequest that the lower body recede, | 8.B. 28, now is the second measure ed because | - York Governor resign | this meeting destined to go to con- of poor health was mere “diplo-| - | ference. No report has yet been re- -talk. , Leh- matic double-talk.” Actually, Lel TR e i o man resigned because he was dis- gusted with the deceit and fraud |COMmittee on the veterans bill which has surrounded the entire| ' o rd message received from question of feeding a hungry world, | the House asked a joint session. plus Herbert Hoover. Hoover was| or similar reason he ruled out a | whereabouts on the night of De- cember 6th, 1941. ! [ s Complete Work Started | i HONGKONG—The United States {cruiser Los Angéles was quarantin- fed in the harbor after two cases of * smallpox were found aboard the ship. The Commander of the Amer- [ ¢ work is being carried on at pre- ‘ican South China Force, Rear Ad- | % o t sent. | 1“:;:;”0‘ Turner Joy, is said to b€ The order does not apply to con- | ‘al . struction, repair, alteration or in-| stallation jobs on which the cost| | does not exceed these allowances: vided “any of the materials which, are to be an integral part of the the straw that broke Lehman’s back. j More was involved than the fact that Hoover was given permission to make a food survey of territory which UNRRA had already care- fully surveyed. Lehman was Frank- lin Roosevelt’s close friend and Herbert Hover was one of Frank- lin Roosevelt's bitterest enemies. On the day after Hoover's ap- pointment was announced, Lehman recalled to friends the way Hoover used relief for political purposes after the last war, and he was con- vinced that Hoover would repeat the same errors in 1946. Lehman was not even consulted Brownell motion to hold the joint | session. Several other communications were received by the Senate today: One, from the Sitka Moose Lodge, enddrsing salajy increases for tea- | chers; another from Highway Com- | missioner W. Leonard Smith stat- ing that erection of a public house at Serpentine Springs near Nome ment action, not paid for by Alaska Territorial Guard funds; third was a letter from Ketchikan chiropodist | K. L. Sanders séiting out reasons why passage of ing laws, not one without the other was entirely a Highway Depart-" both the Basic | Sclence and Non-Allopathic Heal-' . Milifary Govl. in Korea Is Revealed SEOUL, Mar. 27.—The conviction of a Korean mining official on charges of espionage today brought scred plot to undermine the Ameri- can military government. The defendant, Kim Keicho, who had been an official under the Japanese, was sentenced to five years at hard Jabor and fined 3,100,000 yen ($206,667). He was Plot Against U.5. | Allowances Made | !ply agencies have decided to make measure. Eeattle a primary Pacific port,” the Tt permits completion of any Senator told a meeting of the Rep. Curtis Shattuck (wo denled (o, construction already begun, pro- Seattle Chamber of Commerce trus- that the amended bill, deleting the .44 Ji1o wo have plans for him.”, 987 tees. The Senator asserted that grave structure have been incorporated Injustices, especially affecting the that “I don't see how anyone who in it on the site” before today, and Small businessman, had resulted wants states’ rights for Alaska can o . i offer to withdraw her| from OPA delays in adjusting price ceilings. He said OPA had “too many theorists and not enough sound businessmen.” Fire Rages 2 Hours sumed that the former Japanese t m- | Expressions ranged from that of R:Epe Y be GrisciRs & See orin noncommittal, laughed and |11-year residence cause, was almed at Gov. Gruening or anyone else) The' Russlans SSpiuvet FUaye witey ithey entered Manchuiia. Liu said China has accepted vote against giving the people their choice of a governor” to that of kep. A. B. Cain that “this is a very imalicicus bill, saturated with pois- jon!” | |treops from Manchuria by the end (of April, but the foreign office is not yeti able to state the extent at which the process is under way. The |Russlans have notified China of withdrawal only from Mukden and Fushun, Measures Passed Passed were: ‘son said the group headed by Rep. :John S. Wood (D-Ga.) has a clos- ed-door meeting scheduled for to- adding to a reporter: { “I assume after the meeting thé ‘chairman will have something to | say about this arrest.” Charge Made At Portland, Bernard said Redin was charged with obtaining infer- mation about the U.S.S. Yellow- stone for use and advantage of “a foreign nation, to wit the USSR.” And had “induced another to ob- | tain plans, documents and writings” to light an alleged Japanese spon-| i 1. Houses . designed for five oré {fewer families, also farmhouses or| iother structures, such as a garage,| !or residential property—$400 a job.' 2. Hotel, resort, apartment house | lor other residential building de-| i signed for occupancy by more than, [ ANCASTER, Pa., March 27— five families—$1,000 a job. Raging out of control for more than | { 8. Commercial or service estab- two hours, a general alarm fire des- | i lishment, such as office, store, gar- troyed nearly 3,000,000 pounds of| age, theater, warehouse, radio sta- |tobacco and wrecked o four-story| tion, gas service station—$1,000 a warehouse early today. 1 1 Job. | Tobacco company spokesmen es-| | 4 Farm buildings excluding timated loss at close to $1,000,000.) ! farmhouses—$1,000 a job. |Cause of the blaze was not de- | 5. Church, hospital, school, pub- | termined. ! iic building, charitable institution— | Before Controlled; Tobacco Destroyed : {A. Krug, Secretary of War Robert! iP. 8.B. 33, authorizing the Commis- | sioner of Education to travel to Washington, D. C., on Territorial unds to secure a Federal contract! for tuition of natives in Territorial | schools. | 8.B. 11, to clarify and expand laws governing foreible entry fimdl detainer. 8.B. 27, to appropriate $15,720.83 for the Health Department. Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Commissioner of! Health, testified on this bill. Also introduced on suspension of | rules was House Joint Memorial 10, ! to Secretary of the Interior Julius| regarding Hoover’s . appointment. is necessary. The one Roosevelt Cabinet member who was consulted, Henry Wallace, | Mittees this morning were: protested vigorously. But in the|. S.J.M. 6, do pass from Fisheries; end, he went along as a “good sol- | H.B. 62 and 65, without recommen- dier” under urging’ from President | dation from Truman and Secretary of Agri-|H.B. 27, do culture Anderson. . |to Finance; Even before the Hoover appoint-|SJ.M. 5,.do pass from Transporta- ment, however, Lehman was onjtion; HJM. 3, do pass from Ju- the verge of resigning. For months | diclary; H.B. 381, do pass from he had been warning that world | Elections; H.B. 43, do pass from famine was imminent. He had ap- Finance. Senate Memorial 1, asking pealed for the continuation of ra-|immediate removal of Gov. Ernest pass from Edueation, HB. 42, HB. 41 and Bills coming out of Senate Com- | Fisheries, to Finance; | $1,000 a job. 6. Factory, plant or other indus-| trial structure used for manufac- turing, processing or assembling; charged with having received that amount’ from Japanese for obtain- ing from American officials lnfur-‘ mation which might be used to un- | dermine the government. logging and lumber camp; pler ———————— structure for a commercial airport | MANILA, March 27—The bodies or carrier terminal; railway or of Maj. Gen. James E. Parker, San |street car building; research labor- | Antonio, Tex., Commander of the|atory; pilot plant; motion picture {20th Air Force, and eight other|set; utility structure, including tel- military persennel killed in a B-17!/ephone and telegraph; gas or pe- rerash in northern Formosa last|troleum refining or distribution, ex- week, were buried here in a mili- | cept service stations and garages— tary cemetery near Manila. £15,000 a job. | congressional |Daniels to attend the dedication Patterson and Delegate E. L.i | Bartlett, asking the allegedly “bog- ged down” surplus property dis- | posal program in Alaska be inves- Mexico fo Honor lale FDR, Ap"“ 125!mawd and rectified. The mem- \orial was referred to the Veterans | committee. MEXICO CITY, March 27—A| Word was received that the committee arranging Governor had approved H.B. 20 and | for the erection of a monument, to|that the Senate had passed HB. 46., the late Franklin D. Roosevelt at| 'The House adjourned until 10 a.| Monterrey has voted to invite Pres-|m. tomorrow. i ident Truman, Mrs. Eleanor Roose-| e o or Joseph | Lt o s e on| WASHINGTON — The Senate It was announced officially thatrelating to a warship of the US. the 8ino-American Military commit- | Navy, g tee had directed executive head-| Bernard said the charge accused quarters in Peiping to send tmce:mdjn of action “against the peace teams into Manchuria to helt fight- and dignity of the United States ing between government and Com- of America.” munist troops. The order Instruct-! He gaid, the accusations were ed the teams to stay clear of Rus-'made in Seattle on Dec. 22, 1943, slan-occupied areas. | the day Redin is charged with hav- New dispatches meanwhile report-!jng obtained the information. The ed fighting between Federal and|warrant was issued last Friday. Communist forces in the vicinity of | There was no announcement of the Communist-held rail center of 'now the young Russian officer had Szepingkai, 100 miles north of Muk- | ohtained the documents and plans den: or whom the officer had “induced" !to obtain the information. STOCK QUUTATIONS | , ,on Fieatos Conners A Naval officer disclosed at San NEW YORK, March 21.—c1ostng!:?£:m::s ?mepfff,; :;;“";_ quotation of Alaska Juneau mine gini pomb test, now set for early stock today is 9%, Alleghany c‘"‘,July after having been postponed poration 6%, American Can 97%, srom May by Presidential order. Anaconda 46%, Curtiss-Wright 8,| 1 was disclosed that the ship International Harvester 89, Ken- pedin was preparing to board was necott 54%, New York Central 27'%, (he floating cannery, the S.S. Alma Northern Pacific 20%, United Cor- Aty which had undergone a year- poration 6, U. S. Steel 82%, Pound Jong $2,000000 refurnishing in the $4.08%. Oregon Harbor and which report- Sales today were 1,010,000 shares. eqly had been ready to sail for sev~ Dow, Jones averages today are ergl weeks. R Skt tioning and charged at inner Gov- ernment conferences that the Ad- Gruening, was placed at the top of the Senate's calendar by the Rules Committee. ministration had wept crocodile —_— (Continued on Page Four) this afternoon. The plane, enroute from Shang- +hai to Manila, was'discovered on a 12,500-foot mountainside in a deso- Formosa. 7. Other structures—$200 a job.| - e - The Moslem University at Al- Recess was taken until 2 o'clock late region on the northern tip of |Azhar in Cario, Egypt, was estab~ ing observed as a day of mourning lished in 790. ceremonies on April 12, The date, the first anniversary of President Roosevelt's death, is be- Banking Committee has recgm-'as follows: industrials 198.73, rails | mended confirmation of Commo- (4.04, utilities 41.32. dore James Vardaman, Jr, for a oo 14-year term on the Federal Re- in Mexico. serve Board. Professors in early European uni- versities were hired by the students, Seattle newsmen had a brush with Redin only 11 days ago when the tanker Puente Hills arrived (Continued on?wc?_—iW)AN