Sardines Disappear
Off Pacific Coast
" •
STANFORD UNIV., Calif. <£>)—
The once plentiful sardine has—
with almost startling suddenness
—vanished mysteriously from the
Pacific coast fishing grounds.
Barely two years ago sardines
teemed by the millions in coastal
water.
Today they have all but disap
peared, baffling commercial sar
dine fishermen and canners.
To commercial interests in Cal
ifornia, it is a $65,000,000 head
ache—and the symptoms appear
disastrous to the industry at this
point.
The cold hard fagt is that the
mystery of the vanishing sardine
has scientists stumped to date.
They are convinced that the
problem created in the Pacific
coast fishing industry by the
steady decrease of catches can ■
only be solved by deep-sea scien
tific expeditions.
Here at Stanford University, the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife service has
set up investigative headquarters
under O. E. Settee, chief of the
service’s south Pacific investiga
tions and director of the agency’s
study of the sardine problem.
Sette explained that what re
searchers need to know now, is the
conditions which exist in the ocean
areas where the sardine spawns.
Auto Builders
1 Boost Prices On
1948 Automobiles
DETROIT, (A>) — With $45 to
more than $225 added to the price
tags of new passenger cars manu
factured throughout the auto in
dustry, producers indicated today
that the line would hold for the
rest of the year.
But prospective buyers, eyeing
the price boosts announced yester
day by the Ford Motor Co. and
Studebaker Corp., to complete the
round of increases, wondered if
the many changes contemplated
for 1948 models would send the
cost of their new cars still higher.
Studebaker, last of the makers
to mark up prices, announced
from South Bend, Ind., last night
that $50 to $115 would be added
to its car and truck models.
Industry observers indicated
that extensive re-tooling planned
for 1948 models probably would
run' into millions of dollars and
might mean further advances in
retail prices next year.
The action followed by only a
few hours a Ford announcement
of increases ranging from $86 to!
$229 on Lincoln, Mercury and so-!
called luxury models.
It begins to look like progress is
just a change of trouble.
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Tuberculosis Assn.
Issues Annual
Report
The annual report of the Alaska
Tuberculosis Association prepared
by the executive secretary, Mrs.
Bess Winn, is now being distrib
uted to friends and sponsors in
the various Alaskan towns. The
pamphlet includes a review of the
work accomplished during the
past year and the projects planned
for the coming year. Itemized are
the receipts from Alaskan towns
and villages, also the donations
from the Army, Navy, U. S. Coast
Guard and the Civil Aeronautics
Administrations. The army led the
list with a donation of $4,931.58,
however, all contributions were
generous and given according to;
their numbers. A total of $20,201.
73 was received in the 1946 seal
sale.
Besides its own program of
Health Education and Rehabilita
tion, the Association has always,
whenever able, assisted the pro
grams of other agencies at times
when need seemed vital and funds
were inadequate. In the past it has
conducted x-ray surveys; given fi
nancial assistance to the Marine
Unit, the Hygiene; to the Health
mobile now touring interior high
ways; and to the Seward Sanator
ium. It pays travel expenses for
the tuberculosis consultant who is
currently assisting with the x-ray
surveys in Northern Alaskan
towns. Outstanding, is the Associa
tion’s Rehabilitation program
which gives not only scholastic
and occupational therapy work to
Alaskan patients at Riverton and
Laurel Beach Sanatoria, but which
provides as best it can, a similar
service to patients in Alaskan Hos
pitals. This year the Association
hopes to find teachers of occupa
tional therapy for both the Seward
and Alice Island Sanatoria. Con
sidering the fact that 35 out of 46
of the patients at the Orthopedic
Hospital are crippled because of
bone tuberculosis, it also hopes to
stretch its limited funds to provide
rehabilitation of its unfortunate
patients.
The decentralization movement,
started last year has been accept-1
ed at the following places by the
following sponsors: Fairbanks, j
Fairbanks Woman’s Club; Kodiak,
R >tarv Club: Wrangell, American
Legion Auxiliary; Seward, the
Seward Junior Woman's Club. To
decentralize, a sponsor must not
only handle the seal sale but must
form a permanent year-round
committee. After the committee is
formed, the sponsor may retain
20 % of the receipts for local j
emergency welfare connected with ,
tuberculosis patients and their
families, the committee to admin
ister the fund. With the present
lack of Public Welfare appropria
tions, this fund will meet a dire
need. It is believed that soon, all
of the towns with receipts large
enough to warrant, will join this;
movement.
Mrs. Winn stated that in the
three years since she has taken
charge of the office, the receipts
have increased 100^. She added
that she wished to take this oppor
tunity of thanking all contributors
on behalf of the Association, not
only for their generosity but for
their faith in the program.
CERTAIN TRIBESMEN OF
southern India domesticate the
buffalo but generally abstain from!
eating its flesh, acording to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica. It is j
only once a year that a bull calf is
sacrificed and the meat is eaten in
a forest by the male adults.
Fire Devastates
Govt. Wharf At
Port Alherni, B. C.
PORT ALBERNI, B. C\, l/P)—
Damage was expected to rise as
high as $3,000,000 here yesterday
as firemen continued to play
streams of water on the fire-rav
aged ruin of the $1,500,000 gov
ernment assembly warehouse and
wharf, while out in the harbor
stream, the S.S. Sampet, 10,000
ton British freighter lay low in the
water, almost completely de
stroyed.
Members of the fire marshal’s
office still were attempting to un
cover the origin of the blaze,
which broke out Monday night
and raced through 600 tons of ply
wood in the warehouse and 1,500,
000 board feet piled on the dock I
preparatory to delivery to lum
ber-hungry Britain.
The blaze jumped quickly to the
600,000 board feet aboard the Sem
pet. moored alongside for loading.
Six small tugs towed the blazing
vessel, plates warped, both anchors
dragging and no steam in her boil
ers, out toward the open sea.
Two firemen, James McGregor
and Johfi MacFarlane were in the
hospital with injuries suffered
I during the battle which brought
out every available piece of north
ern Vancouver Island fire-fighting
equipment.
Destroyed on the wharf were
three Esquimalt and Nanaimo
railway gondola cars, one loaded
with lumber and a valuable elec
tric dock crane.
Heroic train crews risked their
lives to tow 12 cars from the flam
ing structure.
Standard Oil storage tanks, less
than 100 yards away from the
searing flames, were untouched,
as was the nearby Alberjii Pacific
mill, one of the largest on the Pa
cific Coast.
Pilot Throws
Million To \\ incls
SHANGHAI, i/P)—Pilot Robert
Rousselot of Noel. Mo., jettisoned
a huge cargo of Chinese currency
Monday when his Chinese nation
al relief and rehabilitation admin
istration plane developed engine
trouble en route from Canton to
Peishiyi, in western China.
The Shanghai office of the Chi
nese air transport service said five
cases of the money had been re
covered and fliers were searching
for the rest. The service, for which
Rousselot is pilot, said it did not
know how much money was in
volved. but other sources said such
I. G. Farben Corp.
Directors On Trial
For War Crimes
i
NUERNBERG, Germany, (/P)—
A four-man U. S. court opening
the war crimes trial of 24 direc
tors of the billion dollar I. G. Far
ben chemical trust, heard the pros
ecution charge today that they de
liberately fostered Adolf Hitler’s
wars of aggression for their own
profit.
And further than that, Brig.
Gen. Telford Taylor told the court,
they would breed a new war if
they got another chance.
“These are the men who made
war possible, and they did it be
cause they wanted to conquer,”
said Taylor, the United States
chief of counsel for war crimes.
"These men were governed by
the same unquenchable thrist for
power that for years has gripped
and distorted the minds of the mil
itary caste and many other lead
ing Germans. Their long range
objective was . . . ultimately Far
ben’s domination of the chemical
i industry of the world,
i "What these men did was done
} with the utmost deliberation and
] would, I venture to surmise, be
: repeated if the opportunity should
recur.”
The defendants are the men who
ran I. G. Farben—its official
name is I. G. Farben Industrie Ak
i t e n g esellschaft—which is the
world’s biggest chemical combine,
i and allegedly used it as a tool for
Nazi conquest. Twenty-one of the
24 pleaded innocent on arraign
ment Aug. 14.
For their trial, which may es
tablish an important precedent by
holding industrialists as well as
political and military leaders re
sponsible for plotting aggression,
the Farben officials sat in the
same dock where Hermann Goer
ing and his Nazi colleagues were
tried.
“We are not trying them for be
ing Nazis,” Gen. Taylor declared
emphatically, “nor because they
exercised great power and con
trolled great wealth.
“The indictment accuses these
men of major responsibility for
visiting upon mankind the most
catastrophic war in human his
tory." he asserted. “It accuses
them of wholesale enslavement,
plunder and murder.”
More than 40 rumor clinics for
the tracking down of wartime ru
mors flourished through the U. S.
and Canada during World War II.
shipments usually were valued at
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