The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1947, Page 1

o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ——————— VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 20,565 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1947 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS S ——— MARSHALL'S MOSCOW STAND APPROVED BUSINESS IS STARTED AT VFW SESSION En(ampmeEI—D elega fes; from All Parts of Alaska | Are Now Present | With 111 delegates regisiered from Alaska posts, and more ex-| pected before late afternoon, and‘ with 35 members of auxiliaries in| attendance, the Second Department Encampment of the Vetetans of Primarily on whether or not thejday or tomorrow,” in the three-| Foreign Wars meet at 9:30 o'clock | this morning in the Elks Hall for| the lirst business session. The High | School band gave a short concert| at the opening sessior. | Main occupauon or the meet was the selection of standing commit- tees on nominations, by laws and | resolutions, and then adjournment was taken until 1:30 pm. | Members appointed to the Reso-| lution Committee are J. F. Van Gilder and John Elliott from Ketch- | jkan, Hunt Gruening and Charles T. Smith of Juneau, Ivan E. Rezek | and John W. Ryan of Sitka, J.| MacDonald and T. Gates of Sew- | ard; Wililam H. Olson and| Charles A. German of Anchorage,; Gray S. Tilly and John B. Pin- man of Fairbanks, Charles Wilson | of Nenana and Robert Johnson of | Wasilla. | Members of the Nomination Com- | mittee are John Elliott of Ketch- ikan, Hunt Gruening of Juneau, ! John W. Ryan of Sitka, C. J. Da-, vis of Seward, Arthur Brown .of Anchorage, M. D. Williams of Fair- banks, Charles Wilson of Nenana and Robert Johnson of Wasilla. On the By-Laws Committee are Cecil A. Roley and William H. Olson of Anchorage and Charles T. Smith of Juneau. Afternoon Session At this afternoon’s session all| committees were scheduled to re- port, and the regular order of bus! ness will be taken up. { Senior Vice Commander iy Chief Ray T. Brannaman, of Po8, 2121, Greeley, Colorado, was scheduled to give a speech for the Command- | er in Chief of the VFW, Louis E. Starr. RAY BRANNAMAN | SEES ALASKA AS MAJOR BREAK vira rromir IS INDICATED, VFW Officer Says First Con- HE”_O SIR I KE sideration Should Be B Nation's Security Ray H. Brannaman, National| Senior Vice-Commander of the | . Veterans of Foreign wars, sud 0. ject lowa Offer day the future development of] —_— Alaska should be considered from| PITTSBURGH, April 28 —(P— the standpoint of national secur-|Joseph A. Beirne, president of the ity. He said that the futureNational Federation of Telephone of statehood and other issues for|Workers, said here today he ex- the Territory should be debated pects a “major break, possibly to- |Favorable D;/elopments Seen — Workers Re- security of the United States \\‘m‘wr(‘k-nld telephone strike. be benefited. | “I expect a major break soon “This might be the most impor- pecause there have been some fav- tant frontier we have, in the cusolommc developments,” he told news- { war,” Brannaman stated. “It lhrmvn. without elaborating on ghe necessary that we care- “developments.” the future develop-| from that stand-| therefore fully consider ment of Alaska point.” OTHER DEVELOPMENTS NEW YORK, April 28.—(P—As Alaska Studied z B 28— —A% patients who escaped from the! Brannaman revealed that he l)nsj“"egl‘n"" WOEENY 10 T "-‘F‘tm}mmy's Letterman Hospital by, spent a lot of time, in the past|® $2.50 wage boost offered by the|yyogery and force yesterday were| vear, studying Alaska and its| Northwestern Bell Telephone Com- a0 iy custody today while searchiviolent death or misfortune to at problems although this is his first|PanYy today, Joseph A. Beirne, APHYCHOS INESCAPE, HOSPITAL s | Trickery and Force Used- | ‘I Three Quickly Rounded ! | Up - One af Large | SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.*%”" ;7Thrnn of four dangerous mental widened for the fourth escapee President of the National Federa-|.,4 5 phospital orderly they took 'them Mme. De Montespan, Louise!visualize the ship operating in Owner of Famous Hope, ~1I-Repufed Diamond, E Dies; Funeral Is Secret, CALIFORNIANS | | ENTER PROTEST | | TOBEZCANNERY, Kick, However, Apparently Doesn't Register as Mre Eoaion oakh wetean wno m! Proposal Rebuffed | life loved parties and large gath- ering: will be buried secretly; WASHINGTON, April 28.—® Tuesday to avoid crowds. ‘The California Fish Canners Asso- Only survivors and closest friends ciation has demanded the go\'em-“ will be told the time and place ment provide it with floating can-' of funeral services for the cemralineries or force the “Pacific Explor-| character of “Father Struck Itier,” such a cannery operating off Rich,” owner of the ill-reputed|Costa Rico, to contine its activ-| but magnificent Hope diamond and, 'ities to unexplored fishing grounds.! almest to the end, hostess to the| The demand was presented (nl' world’s most famous names. ia House Merchant Marine and Heér death Saturday at the age|Fisheries subcommittee investigat- of B0 during a recurrence of|ing complaints the Pacific Explor-! pnelmonia ended an era of Ameri-jation Company is operating the! cana. {Pacific Explorer in violation of| Mis. McLean, on most of the oc-{terms of its agreement with the casions on which she entertained,; Reconstruction Finance Corp |wore the famous Hope diamond, a| The RFC financed the operation'terior Department 44'§ carat stone with strange and at a cost of about $3,000,000. The, bealitiful blue lights. |company is headed by Nick Bez of | Said to have been stolen from |Seattle. ! the forehead of a Hindu idol, leg-{ Arch Ekdale of San Pedro, Calif, end has it that the gem brought;counsel for the Californians, s the government’s contract with the 'Pncillc Exploration Co. did not Jeast six of its owners, among actual visit to the Tesritory. He i said that he has also been talk-|ton of ’l'dt'l('p.l?unt? .“}lo.rk;--> salld as a hostage. IXIV and Lord Francis Pelham;pl'm‘(‘n {ishihg grounds,' ing to and listening to many e expected a “major break” in the| , g ¢ 1400 more than 24 hours}m"“""' ; Was For Berihg Sea It was her favorite jewel, but| He said the contract required Alaskans about problems here, also| telephone stiike, that many people are criticized for | tOMOrrow making public statements on con-| The $250 offer was made last troversial issues such as the nx.“lluh‘ to workers in five states— ture of Alaska. But, he explain-Minnesota, . the Dakotas and Ne- ed a general need not necessarily |braska, as well as Iowa. visit every inch and every post| Earlier, Henry Mayer of New of his command in order to in-!York, business agent of 18 striking the activities unions, said that if acocepted; the possibly today or telligently superyise for which he is responsikle. In|offer would set the pattern for set- the same light, said Brannaman,, tlement of thé three-week-old na- a so-called “visiting fireman” does ! tionwide phone walkout not have”to visit evety nook and! However, Mayer said a $6 a week cranny in order to determine its wage increase was “the minimum ailments. | we'll consider at present.” The un- Would Homestead ion originally demanded $12. Pointing to his own experience| In Pittsburgh, Beirne told news- following World War I, Branna-| men he expected “"a major break He did today, 1 would try to make good in | favorable developments.” Alaska.” Brannaman established hot elaborate. a homestead in the State of Col-) SRR e AT 3 orado following the last war. He| said that he realizes only a smau;plANS "o BRI"G percentage of those making the at-| ANGLERS NCRTH, tempt will be successful, but point- ed out that these successful ones would make worthwhile citizens| and would more than make up for/ those who were lost in the effort. Speaking primarily of Southeast ! i:\ner the escape, was Frank R.! Wallrath, 24, of Long Island City,| Y. The orderly is Wallace | Williams of Fort Worth, Texas. | | Wallrath, a paratrooper with the | 11th Airborne Division during the (war, was convicted by an Eighth iArmy court martial last August 23 {for deserting under fire and for es- ‘caping twice from Army confine- iment. He was sentenced to death land the Division Commander up- |held the sentence, but President Truman later commuted it to life {imprisonment. | The four patients made their es- Ecnpc from the doubledecked® psy~ chopathic ward at 2 a. m, after l | {man said “If I were a young man |Soon because there have been "'”m‘"]‘s)ugging four orderlies who were summoned one by one. Bhey opy 'ened the ward doors with keys taken from the orderlies, and than |slugged a guard, taking his 45 | caliber pistol. i - -oe NOME PUBLISHER |5-Dfl 0“"“65 HAVING HOTTIME Palestine Ou;sfion Main she would never permit her chil- jt to confine its activities to the dren to touch it, especially after Bering Sea and Western Pacific| her son, Vinson, was killed in | waters for exploration purposes { traffic accident at the age of 10.: He testified Southern California Exactly what is to become of the fishermen could compete with' diamond will not be known until!“anybody on earth except our gov-' her will is filed for probate by{ernment.” He said they were not, her attorney, former circuit judge asking for advantages, but sought Thurman Arnold. ithe same privileges granted the; Mrs. McLean is said to have pacific Explorer. paij $180,000 for the diamond, but' “If you give my brother candy,"‘ is -said to have refused offers up | Ekdale said, “give me candy or| to $2,000,000 for it. itak? it away from my brother.” | S eee Caliiornians Kick i The witness said Californians {were not given a chance to operate Isuch a floating cannery and if iBez was permitted to continue the { commercial fishing in the South gPacihc, they must have ten or ‘more of them furnished by the gov- | ernment. 1 Fkdale asked that the contract' iwith Bez be modified, cancelled, that Bez be confined to purely | exploration work, or the Califor-| inians be given similar government | financed vessels. 1 JEW ISSUE C(OMES UP, UN SESSION 2 The witness mnintained the! !Pflnmc Explorer wouls celiver tuna to the Columbia Riuver packers, MUNDT T0 4 children Firm Policy of U. S. May Force Russia fo Give Ground, Belief WASHINGTON, April 28—(®— American hopes for an easing in | U. s.-Soviet tensions were buoyed today by reports that Secretary of State Marshall believes this | country's firmness on European peace treaty issues may lead Rus- sia to give ground. Marshall's view was laid before Congressional leaders at a White House conference in advance of his | |radio report to the nation at 8:30 p. m. (EST) tonight on the re- |sults of the Moscow Foreign Min- WASHINGTOR, April 28 —(P— Rep. Mundt (R-SD) says he will|ister's conference. carry to the Senate-his efforts to| Some of those who attended the restore $2,000,000 cut from funds|!Wo hour session with the Presi- for Indian education in the In-|dent and his cabinet officer last app,.(,p,.mmm‘mgm said they came away with the impression that Marshall be- lieves the unbending attitude he bill. He attempted in unsuccessfully the | displayed at the Big Four meeting the House Friday to raise { amount for education of Indian|8ready hag had the effect of mak- from $8,000000 to the|in8 the Russians less sure of them- the Selves in their demands affecting the future peace of Europe. The soldier-diplomat was sald to $10,000,000 recommended by Bureau of the Budget. “I'm going to take this before| the Senate committee when the have counseled patience with the bill reaches -there,” he told a re-|Soviets in the hope that as they porter. digest the American position in g S R ;lhe next few months, they may go to London for the next foreign | ministers huddle in November more } ‘nm?ndnble to suggestions from . |their wartime allies on vital points involved in proposed Austrian and | German peace treaties. WHEN TRAIN | Marshall's broadcast tonight will |be carried by the National, Amer- iican and Mutual Networks. The White House huddle came ONTRAIO, Calif., April 28.—(#— Sixteen cars of the Southern Pa- {on the $350,000,000 relief bill. cific’s New Orleans-bound Argonaut House leaders expected a final | vote Tuesday. The bill then will go to the Senate. The House shunted aside for at least another week a vote on the passenger train were derailed last Greek-Turkish aid measure, which night an hour and 25 minutes af- already has gained top-heavy ter it left the Los Angeles sta-|Senate approval. tion. Thirty-seven passengers were' * e, reported injured, seven or eight of| them seriously. There was no re-| KRONBER (ASILE port of fatalities. The train left Los Angeles with | its 176 passengers at 8:20 p. m. jEwEl THEH (ASE (PST), 102 of them in pullmans| and 74 in coaches. The wreck oc-| curred near Guasti at 9:45, when| E"DED IN GERMA“Y the train was speeding at an es- timated 65 miles an hour on a| _ This afternoon at 4 o'clock, Ma- pjaqra Brannaman said that the jor Gen. Howard S. Craig, Com-|, . ohects are exceedingly bright! manding General of the Aluskau‘herc from the standpoint of m'i Command of the United States sources and climate. He said that| Army, with his headquarters at the climate is easy to live in and! Fort Richardson, is expected t0 ar-|that a man can build his home | rive aboard an Army plane with his | rom the lumber on his own land.| personnel. He will be in the re-!Brannaman predicted a future for| viewing stand tonight during the the dairy business in Alaska when Frack.} FRANKFURT, Germany, April ‘| 28—(M—After nearly five months of |stormy hearings in Germany and Ithe United States, a military court today concluded the trial of Col. Jack W. Durant on charges of stealing $1,500,000 worth of jewels from Kronberg Castle and announc- o“ SEAIT[E IRIP Topl( Before B'g {“who can take a loss on the opera- straight, level stretch of i . Orgamzahon ition to gez established in the tuna There was no immediate explan- Leases ‘Ghost Town’ of | : s {30 ofaiph e SEATTLE, April 28—@®— The H Initiatea By Bez The Southern Pacific Railroad Loring fOf PUI’DOSB !summery temperature Saturday of NEW YORK, April 28.—Dr. Os-\ Rep. Jackson (D-Wash) said announced a list of injured in-| |87 degrees, a new late-April record waldo Aranha, former foreign min-|Bez was the only fisherman who cluded Stella Thomas, 61, Route 7, {here, struck W. A. Boucher, pub- ister of Brazil, was elected president«showed enough initiative" to start Box 1305, Portland, Oregon, minor SEATTLE, April 28—(®—A new lisher of the Nome, Alaska, Nug- of the-special Palestine session of the operation of a'floating can- hurts, |service for anglers—a 15-day all-!get, as “pretty hot.” Ithe United Nations Assembly to- pery. H Seaftle Newspapermang ‘ed it would begin deliberating on parade. |someone discovers or invents some | 4 H - b Alaskan posts represented at the kind of a substitute for cattle EXPense outing = in Alnska—hasl The 43-year-old newspaperman, day. | In answer, the witness said in-gKAKE Vo‘fs 1‘1 Ivo a verdict tomorrow. ——— - - feed which is now imported, at been inaugurated by Fred K. Ross,who with only one helper, issues, The official Jewish agency de-iquiry of the RFC as to whether it’ In the closing argument, Durant (Continued on Page Two) great expense, from the continen- | Se€attle newspaperman. {an eight-page paper three times clared itself absent unless it isfwould give a similar deal to the Af R H00|. D“I | was described by the prosecution —————— o o Pe g the inter| He has leased the “ghost” town|weekly, mopped his brow, less than formally recognized | Callfornians had met with rebuf OR SC o o maskariicit BRI Al . months, He said that this substi-|Ofs LOring, 25 miles north from 24 hours after flying from his; This was the position of the par-i James L. Killihan of the RFC; Kake with a towi voting popula- | Whole foul piece of thievery"—in The Washlngton1tme feed might even mmu_‘xetcvhxkan, and will open a Sl)orts-{home city where the temperature ties diregtly conceru.i: 7 said that when the war drew to a[tion of 170, became the first inde- | connection with which two other factured out of a fish meal, for MAN's camp there on May 15. Ross had been 40 above. He dropped A British spokesman said Greaticlose the organization questioned pendently incorporated school dis-| U. S. Army officers have already Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | ‘WASHINGTON — Diary Notes“ From The Byrd Expedition: Admir- | al Byrd was -chatting with New | Zealand’s Prime Minister Peter | Frazer. “I guess,” said Byrd, “you! wouldn't like to see my brother (Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia) | President of the United States.”' Replied diplomat Frazer: “Admiral,| if it were you instead of your bro- | ther, I ~would feel differently.”| ... .Byrd was genuinely popular in New Zealand, though New Zea-| landers were certain he was prl-‘ marily hunting for uranium. . . U. S. officials were equally suspicious | of the Russians, which was why the Byrd-boys hopped off one year early when they learned the Rus- sians were preparing a “whaling expedition.” . . . Funny thing was that the Russian whalers actually | turned out to be exactly that. One | of the worid’s most critical shor- tages is fat, and whale oil is es-| pecially necded for certain deli- cate war instruments. Admiral Byrd got the publicity, but real hero of the expedition was| Adm. Richard Cruzen. He did a great job of piloting the ships through the ice. . While his only | son was killed in a Washington, D.| C., motor accident, Cruzen stayed on the bridge, didn’t take a minute off as the expedition grazed past deadly ice barriers. Cruzen and Byrd had the same rank, though (Continued on Page Four) {has chartered several {yachts and will offer trips from Seattle every five days during the isummer for parties of ten. This outing will include a ten-day example, and could be developed into another Alaskan industry. Brannaman believes the worst part about the influx of settlers to Alaska is that prospective immi- T grants cannot be screened in order ,c“"si through the. Fiide Fa&iage to weed out those who are ear-;angosévewg?~‘;e::vensk:'i;ngp::“:'::mz marked for failure In such & YeN“|ohier of the news division in the i Veterans’ Administration office in the| Seattle soon to devote all his time {to the enterprise. Attend Encampment Brannaman is attending Second Annual Encampment in Ju- neau of the Alaskan Department of the Veterans of Foreign. Wars whichwill end tomorrow night. He plans to leave at that time for Su- perior, Wisconsin, to dedicate a new V. F. W. clubhouse and Will\the trout never have seen an arti- then go to Pittsburgh, Pa., B“dgficxal lure. I can offer the same Brooklyn, N. Y. Before coming tolkind of an outing from my camp “Heretofore only millionaires could afford a fishing trip to Al- aska,” he said. “They charter a yacht for $300 to $400 a day and cruise to isolated Alaska, he stopped in Seattle at Loring at a price the ordinary where he installed new district| fisherman can afford.” V. F. W. officers. Ross said trout and salmon fish- Yesterday, Brannaman went ing around Loring is the best in trout fishing at Lake Florence| Southeast Alaska. with Harold Mayo, Eckley Guerin and Dr. Leroy Plaugher, National Surgeon of the Military Order of the Cootie, V. F. W. honorary or- ganization. | He plans to build a lodge near |Loring and have it ready for oc- cupancy about July 1. Meanwhile {the guests will be taken care of in five houses he has leased at Lor- ing. | The new business venture is call- jed Alaska Outings. — e ——————— FROM COLLEGE Kenneth R. Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Allen, arrived by PAA plane yesterday, after making an unexpected visit to Whitehorse while enroute home. Kenneth has been attending Farragut College (The U. S. Naval Training Center during the war), at Farragut, Idaho, and now plans to spend the summer here at home. HOME SPERLING ON TRIP Harry Sperling, U. S. Forest Ser- vice Administrative officer, left Ju- neau today for a three weeks field trip to Cordova and Seward. With Sperling, is . James Clough, new Timber Management Assistant, who will be stationed at Cordova. Clough is a recent graduate of the Color- ado A & M College of Forestry. ——————— There are about 26 million dairy cows in the United States. streams where | { “I'm the farthest north and {farthest west member you serve, 'so I thought it time I came in :to see where my news comes from,” he said. | With building materials scarce, {little work has been done yet to ‘repair the winter storm damage on Nome's beach, he said. He is flying to San Francisco for a few ldays, but will be back here this gweekend for a district Rotary Con- {vention. He represents Nome Ro-| | tarians. | e et il | ((UBPOLARBEAR . IS FLOWN SOUTH | SEATTLE, april 28—®—Cap- {tured by an Eskimo hunter on the| Arctic ice off Point Hope, Alaska, |a Polar bear cub arrived in’ Se- attle yesterday enroute “to the | Oklahoma City zoo. The cub, now three montHs old, was purchased from the Eskimo by Dr. C. von Wedel, an Okla-| homa City resident who recently| visited the north. Bush pilot Ar-| chie Ferguson flew the cub to Kotzebue, Gene Jack of the Arc- tic Commercial Company flew the| bear into Fairbanks, and a Pan American World Airways clipper brought the animal to Boeing Field ‘yes!erdny, ., LESTER BUCEY DIES Lester Bucey, wellknown newspa- | perman of the westward, Seward and Anchorage, died recently at Anchorage after a brief hospitaliza- tion. ! | 'cus that it would Seattle|into the Associated Press bureau.|Britain, which holds a League of ‘the wisdom of concluding the deal trict for all Native children in the Nations mandate over the Holy yith Bez, and that the Agricul-; Land is Teady to accept any decis- iture Department had withdrawn ion the United Nations makes on its approval, but that other de- the Palestine question, but will in-!partments had urged it be conclud- ! sist that the world organization en-]ed_ force all of its own recommenda-l tions. ! He said it had been started as) The Arab League, which is rep-;a war ' emergency measure at thej resented by five Arab states Inirequest of Marvin Jones, then War the U. N., announced after a cau-|mood Administrator. A stand firm on. He sajd that at that time form-! its demands that Britain end he"!er Senator Mitchell of Washing-i mandate and that Palestine be de- ton gecretary Ickes of the Inter-j clared an independent country atijor Departmerit, the State Depart- this special session. ment and the Fish and Wildlife! The Jewish Agency, official rep-lsuvm all urged that the deal be! resentative of Palestine Jews under|carried through at a cost of nearly terms of the mandate, called up-is5000,000. i on the United States delegation to| He read a statement from the) take the lead in advancing it8 de<|RFC saying the primary purpose ' mand for a Jewish national home|of the project 1 in the Holy Land. i !protein food through the catching| "Flv["m—ann iof crab_and ground fish in the OF ARMY TAKES OFF FAIRFIELD, Calif., April 28.—® | —A C-82, nicknamed the “fly-|port. ing boxcar” by the Army, will take ~ Aleutian scheduied to sail (roml off tonight for the first trans- Seattle April 29, calling at Ketch-| Pacific flight by that type of piane|ikan, Juneau, Yakutat, Cordova,| to demonstrate its cargo and troop| Valdez and Seward. i carrying potentialities to Pacifici Northern Voyager, from Seattle,; area occupation forces. jdue April 30. | Lt. Col. William F. Mandt will| Princess Louise scheduled to sail pilot the C-82. ifrom Vancouver April 30. L . P Palisano scheduled to sail FARMERS START PLANTING |sSeattle May 2. Aided by extraordinarily good! Square Sinnet scheduled to sail weather, farmers of the Maumuskaltrom Seattle May 2 | Valley are getting in some of the| L e earliest planting in the 12-year-old Garter snakes have been report- history of the colony. ed as far north as the Yukon. Many Urged Deal i Sailor's Splice, from Seattle, in: from | STEAMER MOVEMENTS 7 lu. s. District Court of Appeals on | been convicted. Territory, when a measure to in-, barsioe o o o cmenEE corporate the district passed 141 to R 4 at the recent election. I ADE REEMEM, Four men and one woman were | elected to the newly created schouli BR'IA'“ polA"D board—Thomas L. Jackson, Henry | L] 1] Davis, Einest Willlams, Walter | Williams and Martha Shaquanie. | : o Most of the 29 eligible voters ab- | LONDON, April 28— A Board sent from the polls had not yet re-i‘o( Trade spokesman said today turned from beaver camp at close ... Great Britain and Poland of $he ‘trapping Seasun, |had agreed to sign a. $232,000,000 Upon announcement of returns g.q. agreement. villagers vot>d unanimously to em- | psland thus would become the power their town council o peti- |t nation in the Soviet sphere tion the Alaska Native Service at ;. agree to a major trade accord Juneau for withdrawal of Federal yith the Western Powers, and both government aid in their school.|polish and British sources said the They requested only that present|agreement had far-reaching politi- building and equipment be turned|cal implications. over to village use, which request A well informed Polish source, will be granted. |sympathetic to the Communist- Pending for nearly a year, the dominated Polish government, said action Was delayed umtil settlement |the agreement could be intempreted of protesting appeal filed by theias “a thin edge of the wedge” Harris Co. salmon packers,{coming between Poland and Rus- Oct 7, which was dismissed by sia. ' ——————— | NO FIRE CONTROL FUNDS o - | Fire control funds for Alaska s'o(x ouOl-‘"o"S | have been axed by House Appropri- | ations Committee and there will be NEW YORK, April 25.—~Clnsingf no money to fight forest fires dur- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | ing the fiscal year beginning July stock today is 4’4, American Can'l1, accordfhg to Roger R. Robinson, 90%, Anaconda 35'%, Curtiss-Wright 'acting chief of the AFCS at An- March 7 last. |47, International Harvester 80‘..:choraue. Kennecott 437, New York Central; —_———————— 14%, Northern Pacific 157, U. 8./ JANE WILLIAMS WEST Steel 68%, Pound $4.02%. ! Miss Jane Willlams, daughter of Sales today were 590,000 shares.|Mr. and Mrs. Lew Williams, will be Merrill-Lyuch averages today are | employed at Fort Richardson dur- as follows: industrials 168.85, nins‘mg the summer and attend the 4457, utilities 33.81. R lUniversity of Alaska in the Fall,