STOCK PRICES
ARE AGAIN HIT.
PROFIT TAKING
Some Specialties Make
Gains But List as
Whole Wobbles
NEW YORK. Aug. 20. A few
specialties made modest gains at
the Stock Exchange session today
hut the list as a whole lost balance
under quiet profit taking pressure.
Today's close was easy. Trans
fers were 950,000 shares.
CLOSING PRICES TODAY
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Closing
quotation today of Alaska Juneau
mine stock is 14, American Can
121*4, American Power and Light
12*4, Anaconda 3814, Bethlehem
Steel 62, Calumet and Hecla 11%,
Columbia Gas and Electric 21,
Commonwealth and Southern 314,
Curtiss-Wright 6%, International
Harvester 78%, Kennecott 46, Sim
mons 37%, United States Steel 67,
United Corporation 7%, Cities Serv
ice 4‘s. Bremner bid 9 asked 13,
Pound $5.0314.
DOW, JONES AVERAGES
Today's Dow, Jones averages are
as follows: Industrials 165.59, down
,45; rails 53.63, down 3.41; utilities
3454, up .47.
SIMPSON LEAVES
DOUGLAS ISLAND
ESTATE TO CHURCH
Joseph Simpson, widely known
pioneer who died recently, left his
property north of the Douglas
bridge on Douglas Island and a
lot in the City of Douglas to the
Church of the Latter Day Saints,
according to an indenture filed in
U. S. Commissioner's Court. The
pioneer has 32 acres what he
called West Juneau. Injuries suf
fered in a fall from the window
of the house he had built on that
property caused his death.
Mr. Simpson had Joined the
Mormon Church several years ago.
IRVING PUNE TO
KETCHIKAN EARLY
TOMORROW A. M.
The Irving Airways, Inc., Lock
heed plane. Pilot Meyring, will leave
tomorrow morning at 8:30 o’clock
for Ketchikan and will return to
its Juneau base tomorrow evening.
Those having booked passage on
the plane for Ketchikan to date are
Wm. A. Hesse and J. B Warrack.
