STOCK PRICES
INFLUENCED BY
BUYING SPURT
Some Selected Shares Take
Advance from Frac
tions to Two Points
NEW ORK, Aug. 6. — Buyers
pushed selected group shares up to
day from fractions to around two
points and there was brisk bidding.
The extra spurt in bidding did
not go to any special favored issues
but this spurt failed to whet the
appetite for a number of special
ties.
Today's close was firm. Trans
actions totaled 1,200,000 shares.
CLOSING PRICES TODAY
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 14‘i, American Can
124%, American Light and Power
13‘i, Anaconda 38'/4, Bethlehem
Steel 56, Calumet and Hecla 11,
Commonwealth and Southern 3Vi,
Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors
68 Vi, International Harvester 82,
Kennecott 44V4, United States Steel
66, United Corporation 8%, Cities
Service 4V4, Pound S5.02V4, Sim
mons 35, Columbia Gas and Electric
21%, S. S. Kresge 28%.
DOW, JONES AVERAGES
The following are Dow. Jones
averages today: industrials 135 71
up .65; rails 54.18, up .72; utilities
34.98, down .05.
Equalization
Board to Meet
Beginning next Tuesday evening
at 8 o'clock, the City Council, meet
1 ing as a Board of Equalization, will
! sit for three nights to approve the
1936 assessment roll and to hear
i any objections from property own
ers so adjustments may be made il
it is deemed proper. After the fi
nal meeting on the night of next
Thursday, no further adjustments
will be made
Campaign Languishes
In Summer Doldrums
BLAST IN COAL
MINE ENTOMBS
SIXTY WORKERS
Fire Immediately Breaks
Out — All Are Believed
to Have Been Killed
BARNSLEY YORK, England,'
Aug. 6.—More than 60 men were
reported entombed by an explos
ion in the coal mine here.
Rescue crews have already brought
out eight bodies.
