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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,140 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1949 MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS House Kills Liquor Bill Today On 2nd Vote WILD WEST ROBBERY IS PULLED OFF Train Is Heldup in Oldfime Jesse James Technique _sl Iooo Is loo' drawing of 20 more names. | At today's drawing, names of MARTINSBURG, W. Va., Mar. 10. these citizens of Juneau and en- —(P—Two gunslinging badmen rob- | yirons were drawn: Kenneth R. Al- bed an express train with western jen, C. F. Brown, Carl Carlson, B. flourishes last night. F. Feero, Charles H. Forward, Al- They got about $.,000 from the|exander Gair, Jr. Jack C. Gould, terrorized passengers and trainmen. | Phyllis Grant, Mrs. Evélyn R. Lohr, It was a tense 35 minutes aboard |gjisworth A. McCulloch, Donald Mil- the Baltimore and Ohio's Ambassa-;neSs‘ Neil F. Moore, Mrs. Henry dor, headed from Baltimore to De- | nyuseth, Pear] Peterson, Steve Stan- troit. | worth, Ray Stevens, Mary E. Stew- Posses made up of West Virgima.‘m.t‘ Daniel K. Twiet and Harry Maryland and Virginia officers ' woropec. spread an eclaborate search, { Six criminal cases on indictments 4 {court this afternoon by U. S. At- E:‘”‘:ey“::lie:e;l;:%n:g:;):n:oljiz:ki; itorney P. J. Gilmore, Jr. In thx‘e’ case ; of Esteban (Steve) Cruz, James watah Jor &gl Rho swml:hed 0! peters and Wailace T. Rutherford L/ ::;i:w;::n:? :::3 c:l‘;;m\;vestem' (two counts), pleas were entered of not guilty. cronies would have been proud of ' ¥ _) v I the technique. The raid netted as | Thestim® Zor TneE Vo:otrof. “1’.:5 much as some of the Missouri;m:"z“mhlx‘;son;nml\:g:,:gpe:n:asx:lr-l gang's forays except when they:Set 1or 9.0 Y, happened upor. a money shipment |G- Nordgren of Petersburg waived in the express car. a reading of indictment. Time for 24 MORE CITIZENS FOR JURY SERVICE As five memters of the petit jury panel failed to answer roll call this jmorning in District Court, and oth- | ers had previously been excused, the ‘25 men and women who did report were almost immediately excused | until Monday morning at 10 o’clock, by Judge George W. Folta, who set The victims were so dazed !heyi Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, The Ambassador, with 100 or 5o | two miles northwest. { cord and engineer ©. C. Moore | (onIirmed two men who had been drinking Gun At Head 'of Alaska, a reappointment, was started through the cars. by voice vote. i of his head. } = DON FOSTER IS BACK The gunmen slapped and shoved coaches to the club diner, which Alaska Native Service, was back on it. ,A Negro steward was nicked! Foster returned atoard Pan Am- see what the delay was. When he 1950 biennium for ANS. Appropria- couldn’t tell exactly what happen- Judge Folta will set the criminal passengers, was picking up speed ; in a snack car and moved into the | WASHINGTON, March 10—(®— hesitant passengers around. They had been locked by a trainman who |the job in Juneau after returning on the ankle. jerican from Seattle from attending didn’t return immediately, diesel 'tions committees were sympathetic NAMES DRAWN OF POLIO HITS 1:30 o'clock this afternoon for che( ! made the statements at a news con- | Eskimos travel a lot and call on ldisease and 36 were paralyzed. ESKIMOS IN FARNORTH Doclors Bla—rfiE Habit of Multiple Naked Sleeping for Spread of Disease OTTAWA, Mar. 10—#— Two| health experts say the first pulioi epidemic to strike Canada’s 8,000 Es- kimos originated with Native named Tutu and was aided by the Eskimo habit of naked, multipls sleeping. Dr. P. E. Moore, director of In- dian and Eskimo healtn services of the National Health Depart- ment, and Dr. F. A. W. Peart, the department’s chief of Epidemology, ference. They said the epidem'c started last September when Tutu let the army base in Churchill, Man. A case of poliomyelitis had appeared in Churchill a ruonth before Tutu started his northward trek. The doctors explained fhat the their friends. They ail sleep to- gether naked under the same fur. Efforts of whites to discourage this | practice have not worked out. The epidemic has taken 13 lives and led to a quarantine of 40,000 square miles. It struck hardest at and around Chesterfield Inict, 30C miles north of Churchili. Eventually 60 of the 275 Eski- imos within a 100-mile radius of Chesterfield showed signs of the Tutu never did come Gown with the disease. gyt "Axis Sally” Case Still With Jury By KARL R. BAUMAN WASHINGTON, March 10.—(#— The jury in the “Axis Sally” trea- son case resumed deliberations at 9:40 am. today after spending the night in a hotel under guard of U. S. Marshals. Mildreq E. Gillars, 48, the de- fendant, reached the court house from the District of Columbia jall five minutes earlier. The fate of the Maine-born trea- son defendant was given to the jury of seven men and five women—six negroes and six whites—at 12:03 pm. yesterday. What they had to decide was | | METLAKATLA APPROVE Dl R ] - Senate Passes Bill fo Pro- BjL1 PROPOSES at Island Community | A bill to authorize the Commis- e sioner of Education to contract with A House bill introduced yester- the Council of Annette Island Re- |day would open the way for a pos- serve for the maintenance and op- | sitle three-story addition to the eration of schools at Metlakatla was |projected Coast Guard building for received and passed by the Senate jterritorial offices. under a suspension of rules this| Rep. Marcus Jensen of Douglas, morning. introduced the measure by request. At the request of the Senate, A.[It carries a $300,000 appropriation. SCHOOL FOR Mother in Hollywood Hears Daughter Scream When MurderedinN.Y. Iphone to her daughter's dying 'SHIFT IN ONE VOTE BRINGS 12-12 BURIAL Reconsider;Iion Results in Reversal as Ander- son Changes By JIM HUTCHESOM The House reversed Itself again today and, by a 12-12 deadlock vote, killed the controversial liquor con- NEW YORK, March 10.—P—Two! men and a woman died in a blast of gunfire last might while a mother 3,000 miles away listened by tele- screams for mercy. Police said Emory Holt, 32, np—] parently suspicious of a love tri-; angle, called his wife’s mother in Hollywood, and said: “I am sorry for what I am going to_do.” trol bill, With the telephone circuit still; Arter debate that ran almost con- open, police said, he shot his at-| tinuously from Monday night, it tractive brunette wife, Norma, 34, marked the end of the road for a tive in the firm where she worked, and David Whittaker, 32, an execu- measure that became known after birth as “the Irfs room bill” and | whether Miss Gillars, by broadcast- H. Ziegler of Ketchikan, attorney| The bill would authorize the board ing for Germany during the war, tor the Community of Metlakatla, |of administration to enter into a intended to betray her countryn“’ok the stand to answer questions. [contract for construction of fourth, There can be no verdict other than| The Metlakatla school, he ex-lfifth and sixth floors on the build- conviction or acquittal. plained, has been operated by the |ing, for exclusive use of the terri- in numerous however, closing its school at the|free basis in consideration of the end of the present schaol year. /inancial advances made. la Territorial school. period. | “ The people of Metlakatla want a The bill | ; Territorial school, Ziegler said, and | territorial offices inre willing to bear a share of the |pujldings in town. Whitehorse Squad Takes . f i Skiers Here Friday l . This, he pointed out, will{y By Frankli® and Angerman; a Whitehorse sklers took to the {more than cover the Territory's cost {memorial -to the U. S. Engineers, Since the community is on a res-| As an alternative, the board could cost of its operation equal to that| Other measures introduced in the| {comparable size. trail today to warm up for the of operating the school. {asking blasting of two rocks from' {chair, a bullet | heart. Southeast Alaska championship ski [races to begin here tomorrqw af- {ternoon and to continue through TORNADOES ervation and the land is owned by |negotiate for a proposition of ex- the government, the situation there } pense-sharing, provided terms of is unique in Alaska and special the agreement contain an option borne by other communities of{House in the final day’s rush of | 13 measures, included: The salmon cannery at Metla-: By Oarlson; to provide $5 spend- | katla is now being operated by the | ing money each month for inmates community, Ziegler said, and last|of the pioneers’ Home at Sitka;| { The bill, introduced by the Com- [ Neva Straits near Sitka to lncreauj 1mmee on Education, passed 14-0(the safety of the inside Juneau-| !with two Senators absent. 3itka route. | Sunday. STRIKE IN SIX STATES ATLANTA, March 10.—(®— Early spring tornadoes cut a crazy pat- tern through six southern states pil was killed and two score other sersons were injured. Property damage was widespread. The storms fanned out from De- ridder in southwest Louisiana, through Mississippi, Arkansas, Ten- nessee and then hit at Columbus, Ga., and nearby Phenix City, Ala., across the Chattahoochee River. The first storm struck about noon at Deridder, La., where eight Ne- .entry of his plea also was set for Holdup Plot :10 o'clock Monday. ed. The plot went something lik9)m31 calendar. this: n L] out of Martinsburg and was nbout! I I a m s Someone pulled the emeraency' stopped the big diescl locomotive, | Apparently the cord was pulled by first vestibule behind the locomo-|Tne nomination of Llewellyn M. tive. | Williams of Alaska to be Secretary The two men pulled guns' and confirmed last night by the Senatej Morton W. Peskin of Cumber- - land, Md., felt a gun at the back ' “Give me your money or T shoot,” said a voice behind him. FROM WASHINGTON; used their revolver butts on some. I The pair moved through the! Don Foster, superintendent of the! caw what was going on. [from a six-week trip to Washing- ! One of the bandits shot through iton, D. C., and to Taxco, Mexico. Crewmen Rounded Up {committee hearings in the nation’s Engineer Moore went back to.capital on appropriations for the mechanic Robert L. Mort of New with the needs of the Alaska Native Castle, Pa., went back. {Service, according to Foster, who The two gunmen rounded them.ywas enthusiastic about the appro-: up and shooed them to the loco-!prigtion picture for the coming vear. gro homes and a gas filling sta- tion were destroyed. There were no injuries reported. The next blow came at Terry, Wednesday. One Negro school pu- | country trail, traditionally a sec- e Ay Alaska Native Service which is, tory for at least 20 years on w rent- legislation is required to enable the {for purchase of the building at the! Commissioner of Education to openlend of the stipulated occupntlont\l“ cited the scattering of fo Douglas Trail-More 2 ; year some X was paid to "‘9'320,000 appropriation. Territorial Treasurer in lieu of pack i ‘taxes. | R s el By Pranklin; allowing University | ts 815 day during board | First, group of out-of-town com- | Aleo passed unanimously by the' oo S18 Der day during ‘ petitors to arrive in Juneau for ""“' | Senate this morning was H.B, 73, to big annual ski classics on Douglas. yequire pre-natal blood tests, and Island, the Whitehorse group of SJ.M. seeking a $25,000,000 appro- five racers came in yesterday “.’_' priation by Congress for a customs ternoon on Pan American Airways.|gmelter in Alaska. Skiers from Anchorage and Fair- { banks were expected to fly in to- morrow in time to compete in cross country competitions planned for tomorrow afternoon. The cross ‘sesslom. in addition to travel and jAving expenses, | By Conright; to levy a license tax iof 25 cents a barrel on gross pro-| |ductlon of petroleum by any person' for firm in Alaska. 1 might] mittee; providing the welfare di-| work a hardship in isolated sec- i ouor ‘cha)) get the same salary as| tons were allayed by Dr. O. Barl{,por principal department heads, Albrecht, Territorial Commission- | removing the mandatory selection of | er of Hi h, h 1 ret, until time of the race, will be | rort nt aupiary . or "% an Alaskan for the post, and requir- | in the vicinity of the second mea-| "y "piooq tocks Albrecht pointed ing that he be “fitted by training dow, according to the Juneau Skijout are only required when the Ang exper)encefl' e Club. expectant mother is being attend-' | gin at-1 pm., Sunday, will be held | rjoq y5.1, ] Saturday's downhill racing events | o4 by a physician or a registered should prove to give plenty of|, ..o thrills, with the course beginning| A motion to eliminate Southeast at the top of the Douglas Island|ajaqeq a5 the specific location for at the slalom area. Senator Garnick felt that a, Here with the Whitehorse skiers | smelter on the far side of the Guif ! is pretty blond Phyllis Le Page,|or Alaska would be of little help | who won her trip to Juneau by ridge and the finish line at the|ype requested smelter was resisted Third Cabin. Slalom races, to be- lby Senator Anita Garnick, but car- then Kkilled himself. It was a call from the panic- stricken mother, Mrs. Elsie Thomas, | picked up the “hot potato” label before its death. The bill's defeat came on re- {that led police to the scene of the!consideration of the vote by which | triple-shooting in Whittaker's 16th- it passed 13-11 late yesterday. Rep. floor apartment in London Terrace, Abel Anderson, Juneau Democrat, a huge apartment house. !switched his vote from yes to no Neighbors at her Hollywood home on today's roll call. said she told them she had pleaded| The reconsideraticn came on mo- | with Holt not to carry out his threat tion of Rep. Frank L. Johnson, {Lut he replied, “it's too late, mama.” Nome Republican, who said he was Police said Mrs. Thomas heard doing it to allow Rep. Doris Barnes her daughter crying and pleading to offer an amendment. Mrs. Barn- with Holt for mercy, then screams es said she had no amendment to and a series of shots. Silence fol- offer. lowed. | Then Rep. G. E. Almquist, Juneau Mrs. Holt's body was found on a Democrat, asked for suspension of couch. She was shot in the chest the rules to offer a specific amend- and behind the left ear. 'ment and to have a witness testi- Beside her was Whittaker, He had fy on it. That brought Rep. An- been shot in the left forearm, right german, Fairbanks Democrat, to his temple and left side. feet with a demand that if Alm- Holt's body was collapsed over a quist put in am amendment, he hole through his insisted on the right to offer amendments. After the v to suspend the fli”hon of the need- 'rules fell two ‘ed two-thirds, Johnson sought to withdraw his reconsideration mo- -tion. But the situation was wide |open by that time. The rules com- {mittee held that it could not be {withdrawn; that the bill had to come up again for a :inal vote. I IN BOTH HOUS House introduction of bills at the A 45th day deadline for preaenntloni,w'l,’,he'::: :h.:n :'.q:.uc.lzdbyn;::::lpl;l stood two ahead of the last sesslon's | nectic debate, total and the Senate had 38 less.! Reps Warren Taylor, the author, The Senate accepted one more this| pgsje Dale and Clarence Kutlng‘ morning by suspending rules, which ' gnoye priefly for it as an improve- brings the total in that chamber t0 i ment in enforcement provisions. 80. The House has 119. Rep. Gundersen declared there Mll{cre‘s a short score on HOUSE'haq been so many amendments lls: ‘thrown in and so many parts Signed into law by Governor, 21; :tzun that .h:d wasn't :vym .unp:llh:: still in Governor’s hands, 5; still!ype w1 in final form contained and in House, 42; House bills in Senate, | she didn't think most of the others * 36; killed by House, 5; House bills | 4iq ghe sald the vote should be killed by the Senate, 5, withdrawn, | gejqyeq, ; in conference, 1. Keating said: “The liquor people In the Senate: now say it is revised so it's a Bills signed by Governor, 8; still | church bill and the church Ppeoy ple in Senate, 52; Senate bills in the gy jps g liquor industry bill. It House, 16;"killed by the Senate, 2; looks to me like we've hit sound Senate bills killed by the House, 1; | "iadle ground.” i withdrawn, 1. Roll Call In addition, House members in-| qne roll call tod: the recon- troduced 57 assorted memorials and } 2 e b i) 2 HERE'S BOXSCORE ON BILL LINEUPS motive cab. Moore was forced to back the train up to a grade cross- ing. Before returning to the West|niss, about 15 miles south of Jack- Coast Foster spent five days at|g,, There two rooms of a five- Taxco, Mexico, visiting the Spratling | ,oom concrete school were demol- The two men commandeered an'crafy shop where six Eskimo youths automobile which had been stop-[are under the guidance of skilled ed at the crossing. They took fire- iMexican craftsmen as part of an G s arts and crafts program to be fos- (Continued on Page Three) tered by the ANB. According to Foster, the Eskimo students are progressing rapidly The waShingion!under the tutelage of the silver Merry_ Go b3 ROund craftsmen, With the season of ex- treme hot weather coming on in Taxco, the youths will return to By DREW PEARSON | (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, xnu‘ Alaska about the middle of April. Some 200 models for craft work are under preparation in the Sprat- ling werkshops; also, Foster said. Models for craft work here bhave Secretary of the Navy John Sulli- |been made of ivory, silver, gold and van gave virtual notice that he|baleen, or whale bone, and are to would resign if the new Army For- {be used in proposed craft shops in ces Unification Bill is passed by Alaska. Congress. Sullivan’s statement came during a long White House huddle while the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Forces smoothed out the wrink-: H. A. Stoddart, Division Engin- les in the bill which is supposed to]eer of the Public Roads Admin- cut out bickering, over-lapping and istration, went Saturday to White- backbiting. Secretary of Defense |horse, where he planped to meet Forrestal was also present, to-|Cocl. John R. Noyes, director of the gether with his successor, Louis|Alaska Road Commission, and W. Johnson, while Truman himself sat|R. Rogers of Babler Bros. and Rog- in part of the time. | ers Construction Company. ASHINGTON—Sitting in fronf.! of President Truman the other day, ———.o———— STODDART GOES NORTH TO MEET COL. NOYES During the long discussion of the bill, Secretary Sullivan made ob- jection after objection. He was es- pecially opposed to taking away the autonomous power of the Secretary of the Navy and making -him take orders from the Secretary of Na- tional Defense. They were to stop at Tok Junc- tion, then go to Fairbanks, where Ithey presumably are today, for con- ferences. Colonel Noyes htas been gone since early in the year, ARC busi- ness taking him to Washington, other cities Outside. }n C., and —————— ‘HERE FROM FAIRBANKS G. D. Milligan of Fairbanks is registered at the Gastineau Hotel, After the new _Unification Bill was finally complete, and after! ——e e (Continued on Page Four) ished and 14-year-old Ethel Kend- rick was killed. Twenty-three oth- er students were hurt. RADAR WARNING SYSTEM FOR U. §. GETS HOUSE OKEH WASHINGTON, March 10.—(®— A bill authorizing the air force to encircle the U. S. with a radar warning system has passed the House unanimously by voice vote, It goes to the Senate for action. The House also ' passed unani- Imously a bill to let the air force build a 3,000-mile testing range for guided missiles. Action on tkis, too, came on a voice vote. The radar net is expected to cost siles range $200,000,000. At the start, the bills would limit expenditures to $85,500,000 for ra- dar and $70,000000 for the range. Money will have to be supplied lat- er in separate appropriation bills. The propbsed location of the mis- siles range is a secret. The Armed Services Committee recommended the radar screen as “the only reasonably effective means | known today whereby the e!fecuve-" $161,000,000 and the guided mis-| the two Queen of held being selected as Whitehorse Carnival weeks ago. Alicia Hoare, slalom and down- hill competitor who skied in South- east Alaska championships last year, came over with the team again this year. Young 12-year-old Sylvia Williams, who according to her teammates is “plenty good” will enter slalom competition in the junior classification. Racing in the men’s division from Whitehorse will be George Clark, junior division cross country slalom and downhill, and Bob Duffy, sen- ior division, cross country, slalom and downhill. Both boys are mem- bers of the Canadian armed forces, Clark an Air Force cadet and Duf- fy a member of the Royal Canad- ijan Electric Mechanical Engineering |group. ; Also with the Whitehorse group is George Merz, Air Force member who won the trip by winning a ticket in the carnival queen con- test. A reception for visiting skiers will be held at the union hall tomorrow ipetween 6 and 8 o'clock, at which races will be made. | quet Sunday night at the Salmon { Creek Country Club are on sale to the public. STEAMER MOVEMENTS ness of an enemy air attack may be reduced.” ——————— VISITOR FROM HAINES R. O. Allen of Haines is rezis- tered at the Gastineau Hotel. | I from Vancouver 9 tonight. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se~ attle Saturday forenoon. Baranof from ‘west southbound Sunday P. M. scheduled time drawings for the weekend (more than 20 amendments had been| Tickets for the annual ski ban-leoylq be handleq more expeditiously | Ment has convened in Moscow, with Princess Norah scheduled to “u'vlce on the bill. to Southeast Alaska because of the higher northbound freight tariffs, but other Senators believed that the memorial would be strengthen- i ed if the smeiter location is left {Flier Willlam P. Odom plans a| to the discretion of the Geulcgical"W0~W€Ck-10n§ nationwide flying | Survey or some other agency. trour to beneiit the American Red | With 26 measures on its calendar, | Cross. i the Senate was expected to be inj The aviator, who last Tuesday session all afterncon ¢id possibly |spanned the Pacific in a light| this evening. plane on a record-breaking 5,300 ' RED CROSS NEW YORK, March 10—/A— resolutions, and ‘Senators presented 35. Most of them passed as rou- sideration vote was: For the bill: Almquist, Beltz, Con- right, Dale, Hope, both Johnsons, tine. Keating, Owen, Pollard, Taylor, Mec- i Cutcheon. Against: Angerson, Angerman, Barnes, Carlson, Egan, Franklin, * | Gundersen, Ipalook, Jensen, Misco- ® |vich, Nolar, Rydeen. ®| The outcome apparently ended ® !ithe prospects of any major liquor ———e— ® 06 0w o0 w0 L WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 am. PST. Imile flight from Hawaii to New | YESTERDAY AFTERNOON {Jersey announced his plan for the The Senate galloped through its|benefit flight yesterday. calendar yesterday afternoon with-| Odom said he would take off next ' out passing a single one of the six|iMonday with scheduled stops at measures listed there, although it|Bcston, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Jop- ! did advance to third reading and|lin, Mo., Dallas and Houston, Texas. passage a joint memorial seeking|The incomplete itinerary then calls amendment to the Organic Act to|for him to double back eastward to | provide for the initiative, referendum | Bridgeport, Conn., arriving there on and 1ecall. The memorial was intro- }March 22. RUSSIAN SHIFTS MAY BE DIVULGED drew a number of interested servers to the Senate galleries, was (By The Associated Press) The body Russia calls a parlia- quickly recommitted, by a vote ofj 11-5, to the Judiciary Committee for redrafting. Senator Munz, who made the mo- | tion to recommit the bill, said that | offered and suggested that they! | by the committee. 2,000 lawmakers in attendance. “This bill, in its present form, is| IS actions, which will be what very crudely drawn,” Senator Col-|the modern czars of the politburo lins announced. A number of the desire, may give clues to some Rus- amendments, it was reported, came '5ian enigmas. These are the signif- from Col. Alexander, who has been icance of the seven recent shifts giving the Legislature technical ad- in high Russian leadership, includ- ,ing the replacement of Foreign Also sent back to the Judiciary Minister V. M. Molotov by Andrel Committee was H.B. 61, which would Y- Vishinsky; the military expenses set up the method by which the 200- Russia proposes; and how Russian —— o €conomy has responded tc recent drastic Communist decrees, \Cuniu;\;&d 'ou Page Two) In Juneau— Maximum, 45; minfmum, 27. At Airport— Maximum, 42; minimum, 20. FORECAST (Juneaw and Vielnity) Mostly fair this afternoon and Friday, Highest this af- ternoon near 46 degrees. Lowest tonight near 27 de- grees, PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today In Juneau City None; sincesMarch 1, 245 inches; since July 1, 94.45 inches. At the Airport None; since March 1, 1 inch; since July 1, 59.30 inches. © |legislation passing at this_session, ® (but a bill introduced yesterday in ¢ [the Senate by Howafd Lyng would ® jopen the way for re-activating '|uquor law enforcement under the Treasurer. The bill” proposes rais- ing the salary maximum for liquor enforcement deputles from $250 to $450 monthly. During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing earlier in the session, Treasurer Oscar G. Olson told the legislators the enforce- ment division had long been inop- erative because suitable enforce- ment personnel could not be obtain- ed at the $250 figure. HOUSE MEETS TONIGHT The House of Representatives has scheduled sessions for 7:30 o'clock tonight and tomorrow night. ®© 0 000000 00 STOCK ogo_mléus The House stripped several liber- alizing provisions from the liquor NEW YORK, March 10—(®—Clos~ bill and added several amendments {ing quotation of Alaska Juneau ! mine stock today is 3%, American |can 914, Anaconda 31%, Curtiss- | Wright 9%, International Harvest- er 24%, Kennecott 467, New York Central 11, Northern Pacific 14%, U. 8. Steel 72, Pound $4.03%. for tightening enforcement before voting passage late yesterday. Amendments adopted included: Creation of a liquor enforcement division under the Attorney General with an enforcement deputy in Sales today were 630,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 175.64, rails 47.84, util- ities 3501, of four divisions; limitation of . erage dispensary licenses to one for each 1,000 population or fraction of

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