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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,317 SHIPS UNLOAD UNTIL FRIDAY UNDER TRUCE Perishables Suffer Greafly in Long Stay Aboard S. S. Tongass Working under a truce agree- ment which is to expire at 8 o'clock am. Friday, local longshoremen early this morning began discharg- ing approximately 140 tons of Ju- neau destined cargo — including cows—from the port-bound Alaska Transportation Company freighter| "Bongass. All freght was expected to be| cleared by 2:2¢ o'clock this after-| noon, 12 hours after discharging| began, when the Tongass was post- ed to sail for Haines. ———— SENATOR TAFT CONTINUING OPA EIGHT DECLARATION BY RUSSIANS iS AWAITED Policy Toward Reich Ex- | pected fo Be Given at | searrus, Foreign Ministers Meet PARIS, July 9—The Foreign Ministers council, turning to the German question after finally breaking a four-day deadlock on the calling of a 2I-nation peace conference, anxiously awaited today a promised “important declaration” of Russja’s policy toward the Reich. The log: ended last night with the adoption of a French com- promise providing that only a few suggested rules of procedure be sent out with invitations to a peace conference, scheduled to open July 29 in Luxembourg Palace. Under the .ruce agreement, voted| last evening by Juneau Local 16, International Longshoremen’s and | This was considered a victory |for the United States and Britain, i ), f which had cppesed Russian de- m;fm::fi‘c';f;s t;"i’;'osor(!afiil‘ ) mands that the invitations be ac-? worked until the deadline. Excep- | Companied by mandatory rules of| tion is CPR liners, from wmch;p’““d““‘- mail only wil be handled under| . A o conditions of a separate comract;:‘“sgamh”r‘zed to send out Invita dispute with the Canadian line. ekl Part of Cargo Lost Of the 140 tons of Juneau cargo|p ,.,\q aboard the Tongass for Juneau, an = . gogasted rules of procedure | estimated one-half is perlshables,'wer'e drafted this morning by the | which merchant consignees declargjdepuw ministers, and are slated to| are more than half spoiled beyond pe”ygiifieq by the ministers this| us_e‘by their long delay in the|,eernoon The ministers then are| ship's cooi room. All were landed,| ipoqyieq to ratify their final but a large part will likely go over !agreements on Italian reparations,| idral’l peace treaties with Italy,| Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and| the dock rail into the bay, rather'm“s clepring the slate for discus- | than across the dock to UPYOWN g on of the German question. stores. | Speculation on the nature of the Also landed here were SHghtly|«jmportant declaration” on Russia’s more than 10 tons of perishnbles,pomy toward Germany ran from consigned to Ketchikan bui nOlione extreme to another. Some| ~ |sources said Russia planned to of-| {fer to join Britain, France and the| {United States in establishing a central administrative organization | JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1946 = PRICE TEN CENTS PERMITS APPROVED T0 ALASKA NATIVE GROUPS FOR TRAPS {Eighteen Construction OKs Announced by Army District Engineers | mits for Alaskan waters including 10 for project construction, seven for construction of fish traps and an extension of a previous permit are announced by the Seattle Dis- trict U. S. Army Engineers. Permits for construction of pro- jects in Alaskan waterways were granted to Ove C. Selid and Joe | Thorne, dredge sand and gravel in P. Nelson, rock fill, and Frank H. Stine and Arthur J. Thompson, rock fill, bott in Gastineau Chan- nel, Junesu; William H. Cleveland, construction of boatbuilding shop jon a small island in Sitka harbor; Libby, McNeill & Libby, cannery structures at Nushagak Bay 13 miles south of Dillingham and at Libbyville and Graveyard Creek, Kvichak Bay. A. R. Davey, wharf, Naknek Riv- er, Kvichak Bay; Alaska Year chorage. Permits for construction of fish traps in Alaskan waters were granted to the Tyonek native com- | July 9.—Eighteen per- Chena Slough, Fairbanks; Mrs. R.| HOUSE GEARS FOR SHOW-DOWN BOUT ' ON BRITISH LOAN | Speaker Réyburn Clings to Forecast of Ratifica- tion for Credit WASHINGTON, July Eaton of New Jersey, senior Repub- lican of the House Foreign Affairs i Committee, today called for proval of the $3,750,000,000 British | loan. He declared that America and Britain can maintain world leader- ship only “by working together as partners.”’ In a speech prepared for House i delivery, Eatcn said: “We are making this loan pri- +marily in our own interest. It will | help Britain, so severely devastated by the war, to help us develop a sound and profitable world trade as |a necessa'y basis for world peace |and security.” Meanwhile, administration leaders 9. — Rep. | ap- | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BRISK BATTLEGOV. THYE IggVé"B%urfi)fiiign FOR CONGRESS WINNER IN Gl TERMINAL PAY SEAI, SEAT“,E‘ MINNESOIAUM on CésihrPayofi In- by ; i | fended as Brake on ' State of Washington at Pri- Given GOP Nomination for Inflationary Effect mary TOday—ROOSE- Senator Over 4'Tefm \' WASHINGTON, July 0. The velts Sound Off Senator Shipstead | Truman nas propocca s compromic: |Truman has proposed a compromise (BY THE ASSGCIATED PRESS) ‘plnn to use government bonds, SEATT July 9. — A United (wcll as cash, in paying States Sens seeking votes for; Gov. Edward J. Thye, who cam-| Ithe first time in Washington paigned principally as an advocate|accumulated furlou | State’s primary elections today, but|of the United Nations, won the Re-| The plan, Pres |his debut at the polls is oversha-|publican Senatorial nomination in|Ayers told a new | dowed by a bitter first district (Se-|Minnesota’s primary from the vet-|the President's own idea. | attle-Bremerton) contest in which|eran Senator Henrik Shipstead. | two members of the Roosevelt fam-| The four-term Senator, who vot-| would get [ily have intervened for opposing|ed against the candidates. Polls remain open until | Chart 110 pm. |loan, | 'The Senator is Hugh D. Mitchell, | Téturns from nearly half the state iwhcse role in previous elections 8aVve Thye a margin of more than| | was as Secretary to the then Sen-| |ator, Mon C. Wallgren, who ap- | | | gh time. conference, Under it cash for all conceded defeat today when|ticns for larger amounts. | Estimates of the cost from $2,750,000,000 to $3,000,000,000 Thye had the support of Har-|Senator Edwin C. Johnson as! approxi- | mately 14,000,000 war veterans for | veterans who served in the ranks terminal United Nations leave payments less than $50 and er and the proposed British|five-year bonds in $25 denomhm-! Taft's assertion, made in debate |50,000 votes in yesterday's election.|The latter figure was mentioned by (D-) t disclosed the plan \ DEBATEKEEPS UP IN SENATE: SHARP CLASH {Barkley Ta;e; Ohio Man + 1o Task for Atfacking Porter, Bowles WASHINGTON, July 9.—Senaor Taft, (R-Ohio) told the Senate to- I | Secretary Eben|(day that if the Justice Depart- is ment was on the job it would in- dict Porter and Bowles for using appropriated funds by Congress for ‘(ci(;ntlnued price controls propagan- over a bill to restore OPA controls ranged | which died July 1, brought Ma- .|jority Leader Barkley (Ky) to his feet with a sharp protest. “Every time the names of Mr. |Porter or Mr. Bowles are mentioned” worked feverishly to line up votes pointed Mitchell Senator two years for the Senate-approved credit, as ago when he became governor. jthe first day of the four-day House Mitchell’s opponents in the Demo- { debate left some proponents doubt- | cratic primiary, state treasurer Rus- !fu] about the cutcome. The opposi-: sell C. Fluent and Sam C. Herren, tion reached back to Bunker Hill to | are conceded slight chance of chal- Under the compromise, France pound Cannery, Seattle, wharf ad-| Produce arguments against the Bri-|lenging him scriously. b |dition to cannery, Seldovia Bay; ; tish aid measure. Rep. Jesse Sum-| to the nations which Willi g, plaska Fish and Farm Pro-| ducts Inc., wharf, Knik Arm, An-| DeLacy Vs. Costigan ner (R-II) told the House that' In the rirst congressional district scme members had learned while Democratic contest, Rep. Hugh De- . touring postwar Europe to "debunk‘Lacy carries the endorsement of i Bunker Hill.” | James Rocsevelt, eldest son of the However, Speaker Rayburn (Tex) clung to his forecast that the gan, radio ccmmentator and for- (D-'late Preswien:, and Howard Costi-| lold E. Stassen, who helped draw the Colo) who firsi {United Nations Charter. The vic-|to reporters. Johnson said it was Barkley said, “the Senator from tory encouraged backers of Stas- advanced by the Budget Bureau,'Ohio reacts as though somebody sen in his quest for the GOP Pres-|Which speaks for the President. |had placed an atomic bomb under |idential nomination in 1948. But it! “The plan is intended to avoid his chair.” lmlso was a personal victory (or‘h\flmimmry effects of making al Price Administrator Porter and | Thye, whose record as Stassen’s|huge cash payment at once,” John-:Chester Bowles, who recently re- |successor in the governorship Son said. “I think Congress will signed as stabilization director, {brought him the largest vote two|approve it before it quits.” ha_ve been leading advocates of re- years ago ever given a governor in| Johnson said the new plan for taining price controls for another | Minnesota. | paying all enlisted personnel the year. | |same terminal leave payments re-| Taft said that while OPA ap- Youngdahl Also Wins | cetved yby commissioned officers peals for public support of price Luther W. Youngdahl, also back-|{would be presented at a session of (controls were “skillfully prepared,” ed by Stassen, apparently had won|the Senate Military Affairs commit- it was his opinion that they con- | construction permits for Frederick | { Sound, Admiralty Island; and Na-‘, ratificatjon legislation will be ap- proved. He said the showdown vote will come Friday or Saturday. The Senate ratifie1 the loan May 10 on a 46 to 34 vote. 4 AMERICANS ARE MISSING, munity, Cook Inlet, Moquakie In-, dian Rese:vation; Indian residents of the town of Petersburg, three tive village ol. Kake, three permlts.: one in Keku Strait and two in Frederick Souad, Kupreanof Island. A three-year extension of time! was granted to R. J. Peratrovich| and son, Kluwak, on an existing, permit for wharf construction at! Klawak Inlet. PR R mer executive secretary to the gov- ernor’s advisory commission, flies the colors of Mrs. Anna Roosevelt |nomination for governor over Hjal- |mar Peterson, former Farmer-La- Boettiger, formerly of Seattle. borite governor. | Costigan’s aggressive campaign| shipstead's defeav 1s the year's| has con_c.entrnced on charges that|fourth among Senatprial incum»i DeLacy’s policies have paralleled |pents, Charles C. Goesett, (D- | closely the Communist “Party line.”|I1da) and George L. Radcliffe (D- | DeLacy has retorted that Costigan, Md) were beaten in primaries. Rny-‘ {his one-time co-leader in the mond E. Willis (R-Ind) withdrew | Washington Commonwealth Feder- his candidacy when confronted bj]} ssed the House. A ASSAULT CHARGE KGAINST SHOOTING e T 5 e i 2T FICTIM DISMSSED interests. The two Roosevelts spoke |state nominating convention. i 1 H it g gt s s o VR E R Wrangell - Is Under ‘hns pa: dio_transeriphon. ler Labor primary, Dr. Theodore| Tweedle-Dee Vs. Tweedle-Dum | jorgensen, St. Olof College profes- | |an easy victory for the Republican|tee today. A payment bill already 'stituted propaganda to bring pres- Esure on Congress. : He said any use of government funds by any agency to influence Congress is forbidden by statute. The Ohio Senator urged his col- ilengues to prohibit renewal of price lcamm)x on meat, tobacco and pe- ( troleum. "PATTERSON GOES ON STAND TODAY, | Others said the Russians would de- nounce Britain and the United A third candidate, former Smte,sur, led Frank Ryan, Minneapolis| $2,000 Peace Bond States for conducting “secret nego- tiations behind the Soviet Umcm's" back.” | Kills Autoist; Admits Crime PHOENIXVILLE, Pa., bile thief, was taken from the Norristown jail today to re-enact Army Authorities Given No Information - Get Russ Run-Around ERLIN. July 9. — The U. S. Army Provost Marshal's office an- | | i i | 1 ! July 9— nounced today that it had thus the Pacific. Handcuffed to a state trooper, Al-|far been unable to obtain from the' len W. Black, 28, paroled automo-; Russians any information concern-'seat has beer neld by a Democrav.‘c"a‘s' ing the whereabouts of four Amer- {icans who disappeared | senator Joseph D. Roberts, adver- MUNITIONS CASE attorney, for the Senatorial nomi-| into the| tising pubiication operator andersh‘mnmk Harold Barker, weekly while army officer, has been la- newspaper publisher, was high in al beling his two rivals “Tweedle-Dee | three-man race for the nomination | DeLacy and Tweedle-Dum Costi- | for governor. {gan.” He brought into the late| In Utah, Semator Abe Murdock | campaign an endorsement from!and Rep. J. Will Robinsen had no| | Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R-Conn).|cpposition. A political newcomer,| A fourt’ Democratic candidate is|Edward J. McPolin of Park City,| Henry Snoon, a Navy Lieutenant in |challenged the state’s other House 5 member, Rep. Walter K. Granger. The first district congressional All three incumbents are Dzmo- without break since 1933. | All other congressmen are seeking | { | | | WRANGELL, Alaska, July 9—' wWASHINGTON, July 9.—Secre- H. C, McKowan, wounded by a 22 tary of War Patterson testified to- rifle shot ficed by his wife Mar- qay that Rep. May (D-Ky) had garet, arrived here last Snturdny:complamed directly to him by by plane tron: Seattle and was im—[m,,ph'mm over the War Depart- mediately lodged in the Federal mentss stopping of production at jail on a charge of simple assault. {an Illinois munitions factory in The charge was made by his wife | May, 1943, who alleved the assault occurred| patterson began his testimony before the shooting. The charge refore the Senate War Investigat- was later dismissed and McKowan ing committee by saying he will was freed Saiurday night under alfurnish all detafls in his knowledge $2,000 peace bond. concerning the activities of the i Questioned, McKowan charged |Batavia and Erie Basin Metal Pro- the Killing of Joseph Wicen, 32,}So\det occupation zone last week. renomination also with little like- Don't shoot of Ontarioville, near Elgin, IIl. | county in a garbage dump behind west of Allentown, where MacInnis said Black led officers last night and said: “There he is.” A bare leg was sticking up! through the debris. Police had to shovel away rubbish and garbage and remove the victim's clothes, which had been thrown over him, to get the body. MacInnis said Black was arrested | | American officials earlier had ex- i pressed a bellef they were “getting the run-around” from the Russians, {who were thought to have arrested Ithe four for illegal entry into the | Soviet zone. The missing quartet was identi- lfled by U. 5. Army headquarters this morning as: Warrant officer Samuel L. Harri- {son, San Anionio, Texas, and his ! wife, Helen. Harrison’s father, J. | M. Harrison, lives at Harrah, Okla. Capt. Harold Cobin, Newark, N. | { of the Amierican Military Govern- ment in Berlin. 2nd Lt. George E. Wyatt of the 252nd Engineers Combat Battalion, Oklahoma City, Okla. The Harrisons were last heard from on July 1 when, together with a German woman, they departed in an American jeep, supposedly to lihood of their failing. Three are without opposition. | Former Mayor Harry Cain of Ta- | coma, who won the 1944 nomina-| tion for senator while overseas, is| a heavy favorite for the Republican | nomination for the Senate. Doug-| lass Parkhurst of Tonasket is his| | opponent. | LSRG el TWOTEXAKS HEAD Publisher Is ChosenGrand E. R. of Elks NEW YORK, July 9.—Charles E. | the rifle used ‘n the May 27 shoot- |ducts companies. These are two of !a chain of closely-linked corpora- {tions which handled more than 1$78,000,000 in government contracts during the war years. Chairman Mead :Senator Ferguson ing was empty at the time and that Mrs. McKowan loaded it and shot {him while he was asleep in bed. | Mrs. McKowan previously had said in the kitchen at all times and that aind sitting up in bed. McKowan was flown to Seattle medical treatment follewing | the shooting, in which he lost a ¢ lelt eye. He was accompanied here | that McKowsn kept a loaded gun | ! when she shot him he was awake | ! (D-NY) and (R-Mich) broke into Patterson’s testimony ne2ar the ‘cuu.et to inquire into the practice ;0f the War Department of recording ;telephone conversations between | Capitol Hill and the Department. Patterson said that he, himself, | Broughton, editor and publisher of * |the Sheboygan, Wis. Press, today J. He is connected with the office| The FBI said that although a close watch was kept on the Gab-i riel home, agents failed to see the brothers because they would leave| the room only on moonless nights to exercise by running up and down yesterday on charges of stealing a revolver from the home of a rela- tive. Black had served time pre- viously for automobile theft. Chief MacInnis said Black's visit a pet shop in the Russian zone to buy a dog. Wyatt and Cobin were reported to have boarded a train July 4 for !a destination somewhere north of (Continued on Page Eight) Railway Trainmen President Truman - .- — WASHINGTON, July 9.—Presi-| dent A: F. Whitney said today the FOUR BROTHERS Railway Trainmen have $2,500,000 (] | “to go out after President Truman” DRAFI EVADERS i but that “we won't have to spend I | any money to defeat President Tru-| i man if he becomes a candidate.” | GIVE up 'I'o FB Whitney testified before a House! Labor subcommittee which is study-| ing possible revision of labor laws| CHICAGA, July 9.—A long four 50 as to remove the causes of labor year hunt by the FBI for four and management disputes. |brothers ranging in age from 23 carpenter and mechanic and veter- The head of the Trainmen Broth- to 40 ended when they voluntarily an of two years fighting in Eu- erhood has been a bitter foe of surrendered to the FBI and, agents ) .. Mr. Truman since the President said, related how they had hid police Chief Fred K. MacInnis asked emergency legislation to halt in a small attic room in their farm ..iq Black had signed a confes- the railroad strike last spring. |home since 1942 to evade the o, that he had waited at a traf- ien {artl |fic light for the first lone motor- - | FBI agent Edwara W. Halloran ist, stepped into Wicen’s car, and The waShlngtonlsflid the brothers—Albert, Frank, shot him on a lonely road while |Henry and Ernest Gabriel—escaped | Wicen pleaded: Merr 2 GO 4 Bound‘detection by barricading themselves, “Don't shoot me! Y /in the attic of the Gabriel two- me!” sty Istory frame house on the outskirts| The body was found in Lehigh By DREW PEARSON R | Albert, the eldest, pleaded guilty a church in Trexlertown, four miles WASHINGTON—“I ought to be to a charge of failing to report kicked in the pants,” is the way for induction when he was arraign-| hard-working, dignified Senator ed before U. S. Commissioner Ed-| Barkley of Kentucky describes his win K. Walker and was ordered held; part in the famous Erie Basin met- under a $5,000 kbond. Frank, 29, als war profiteering case. Henry, 26, and Ernest 23, pleaded Most of Barkley's collaagues’gumy to charges of failing tc; didn’t know that in addition to register for the draft and also were Congressman May of Kentucky who | held under $5,000 bonds. i is in the war profiteering case up| to his neck, the senior Senator from Kentucky also was accidental- | ly involved. Barkley’s son was hired by the‘ Erie Company. And what the Sen-‘ ator may not know is that the hus- nand of one of his secretaries,; Charles Chance, was a constant, hanger-on around the Erie offices, in Washingtor. Barkley expiains that when his son got ont of the Army, he re- ceived various business offers, one| of them a tempting salary from the | Elgin Watch Case Company. When the boy asked the Senator's advice, Barkley advised him to take the job with the best salary, which was| Elgin, a pari of the Erie Basin munitions empire. “The word Elgin was what threw me off,” Barkley explained to Sen- ate colleagues. “I thought it was the Elgin Watch Company. I had no idea it was the Erie Basin com- Charlie Chance, husband of one - (Continued on Page Four) a cow path. Brig. Gen. Castner Dies in California BERKELEY, Calif,, July 9.—Brig. Gen. Joseph C. Castner, 76, who retired from the Army in Novem- |ber, 1933, after 42 years service, died at his home here yesterday. A native of New Brunswick, N. J., and a graduate of Rutgers Univer- sity, he commanded the first bat- talion of Philippine Scouts organ- ized by the United States. From 1926 to 1929 he commanded Ameri- can forces in China. Survivors iaclude his wife and a son, Col. L. V. Castner, retired, now in Anchorage, Alaska. theft of the pistol led to solution | Berlin. Cobin’s wife, Mary, is sched- FOR ALASKA USING - "14TOURING AUTO DENVER, July 9—Carrying a full set of spare parts, two Texans headed north from Denver today; in a 1914 Ford touring car in which | they hope to negotiate the Alaskan | Highway to Fairbanks, Alaska. | The men are Dick Clark, grocer,| and Ed Clevenger, mechanic, both of Waco. Clark said they were mak- ing the trip for fun and to conduct | a survey of possibilities in Alaska | for business enterprises for ex-ser-| ! was elected Grand Exalted Ruler of |the Benevolent and Protective Or-| ‘PearlHarbor Com. der of Elks. Broughton, a member of the Or-| by his mother, Mrs. Olive Bechtol /had no such recording device and £ Seattle !did not make a practice of record- g :ing conversations. May, chairman of the House Military committee, Howard Hughes Has der for 43 years and Chairman of ' gug . the Board of G dT'.ebe-'th' g(h | i hi o Recover, Plane Crash ;.. .. omes, oved has protested against this practice, | Before Patterson took the stand, ceeded Wade H. Kepner of Wheel- !gms" in costs charged against ,as have other members of Con- a former Army officer testified ing, W. Va., as leader of 800,000 (gress. Elks affiliated with 1,500 lodges. BB o SEO S LOS ANGELES, July 9.—Howard |government war contracts in 1944, fabulous luck held guod' B El{uzhes' today. Fighting the effects of critical| injuries suffered in the crash and \LARGE ESTATEIS LEFT G i 'e n Ex'ension ]‘ explosion of his experimental Army of the crime even before it was|uled to arrive in Bremerhaven from |known that Wicen, a carpsnter and | veteran of 27 months of fighting in | Europe, was missing. ————————— FISH LANDINGS The following boats landed fish today: Albert Wallace's Helen, 11,- 1000 pounds of salmon, bought by | Sebastian-Stuart Co.; Carl Weid- man’s Helena, 3,000 pounds of sal- Fisheries; and Jim Sharpe’s Sophia, 5,000 pounds of salmon, bought by | Booth Fisheries. Prices today were 18 and 20 cents. ———— JOHN MANDERS HERE Attorney John Manders, former Mayor of Anchorage, is in town ) home. mon, bought by Alaska Coastal! after a visit in the Pacific Coast’ states, on his way to his westward | the United States today and is ex- pected here {~morrow. New Money O:der | OfU.S. - Canada | WASHINGTON, July 9—The post (office department announced that |effective today money orders be- tween the United States and Can- ada will be handled on a dollar for dollar basis. ‘This will make the postal service conform with the new valuation set by Ottawa on the Canadian dol- lar in terms of U. 8. dollars. ‘The rocky crust of the earth is 'about 40 miles thick, vicemen, Their old automobile carried | them up and down 14,110-foot Pikes Peak at Colorado Springs, Clark reported. e e % | plane Sunday night, the millionaire For Final Report aircraft and movie maker was re- | WASHINGTON, July 9.—The|ing his own.” Congressional Pearl Harbor Com-| The degree of shock and the ex- |mittee today got an extension of|tent of injury to Hughes’ left lung, SIO(K ouo""o"s {time until July 16 to maks its lmal!scverely Lattered when his chest % 5 iwa.s crushed in the crash, were the | NEW YORK, July 9. — Closing| ouse approval completed action physicians’ main concern. lquotation of Alaska Juneau mine|cn g resolution, already adopted NS CLOVE HITCH IN PORT aritan Hospital today to be “hold- stock today is 8, Alleghany Corpor- py the Senate, moving the deadline| ation 6%, American Can 100%, An-|from July 10. | i aconda 481, Curtiss-Wright 7%,| Meantime, the committee met| The Alaska Steamship Company's Internaticwal Harvester 96, Kenne- behind closed doors to go over the|freighter Clove Hitch arrived at cott 57%, New York Central 25%,|preliminary draft by a five-man|8:30 pm. yesterday, anchoring in‘ Northern Pacific 20%, United Cor-|subcommittee appointed to write the, the Channel to await the unloading poration 5%, U. S. Steel 92'”»‘.|reportv " of the freighter Tongass. Pound $4.03'%. | The group was reported divided| The Clove Hitch, which has sail- | sales -today were 790,000 shares.|on the issue of where the blame ed Alaskan waters before is making | Dow, Jones averages today are‘,should be placed for the surprise|her first call at Juneau. She will las follows: industrials 207.43, rails the Japanese achieved with their' leave ro; Seward as soon as she is l unloaded. 64.81, utilities 41.67, Dec. 17, 1941, raid on Hawali. ported by physicians at Good Sam- | 'BY JAMES W. PARKS SEATTLE, July 9. — James W. | Parks, 68, fishery and canning com- pany owner who died July 4, left an estate estimated in excess of | 8185,000, it was disclosed when his | will was tlled for probate. | The estate was left to his widow, |Cora B. Parks, and a trust set up for three sons, Harold M. Wilson !J. and James E. Parks, all of Se- "attle. The will provides for bequests to a brother, a sister and a niecé. A former Mayor of Aberdeen, Wash., Parks came to Seattle in 1922. He was engaged in the Alaska fishing business for nearly 40 years, established (ne Western Fishery Company in Cordova and operated the Parks Cgnning Company, Ko- diak.

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