
    No. 271.
    Alcoa Steamship Co., Inc. v. United States.
    
      Melville J. France for petitioner. Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General Morison and Samuel D. Slade 
      for the United States. Briefs of amici curiae supporting the petition were filed by L. de Grove Potter for the Waterman Steamship Corp., and Harold S. Deming for the Stockard Steamship Corp.
   C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari granted.  