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west, through the surrounding
Russian zone. Babcock said the
report can only be called “pure
rumor.”
The Russians moved in on the
German city government food ad
ministration, crowding the regu
lar staff from the city hall, which
is in the Russian zone. Two food
administrators appeared in pros
pect. Already, the city has two
police chiefs, two currencies and
four sets of occupation powers.
German leaders were at work
in Frankfurt drafting a constitu
tion for a Western German gov
ernment, a move bitterly opposed
by Russia.
Signs increased that the Rus
sian zone of Germany has a food
shortage. The drive against hoard
ers and black marketeers was
stepped up.
Only silence came from Mos- |
cow, Washington, London and
Paris on the course of diplomatic
maneuvers in the Kremlin to end
the Berlin blockade and settle
other questions dividing the west
and east.
Russia blamed the U. S. and
Britain in the United Nations for
wrecking talks on arms limita
tions. The security council re
sumed debate on Yugoslav asser
tions that the two western pow
ers are plotting to return Trieste
to Italy.
Russian-dominated countries at
the Danube conference in Bel
grade voted solidly to beat a fresh
effort to win freedom of naviga
tion guarantees on that most im
portant waterway in Europe. In
London, deputies of the U. S.,
Britain, Russia and France heard
American views of what should
happen to prewar Italian colonies.
Premier Andre Marie headed
for a third victory of his new
French government — the tenth
government since the war—on a
bill dealing with the French fi
nancial crisis. Communists op
posed the measure which per
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ON THE BALLOT in the Oct. 12th election there will be a referendum on “the practice of fishing by means of traps should
be continued or ... should be abolished.” To abolish traps, we believe, would amount to confiscation and would permanently
injure the Territory of Alaska.
DOES IT REALLY MAKE
SENSE?
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Alaska needs money to develop the Ter
ritory’s many resources. Over the years,
$100,000,000 has been invested in sal
mon fishing operations.
■ Now, some people are urging you to
cripple or completely strangle that in
dustry by destroying salmon traps,
which provide about 50 per cent of all
raw salmon.
i
Does it make sense?
If Alaska is to grow, prosper and
attract new industry, the investments
now here must be given a reasonable
guarantee that they will not be destroyed
by confiscation.
VOTE TO
CONTINUE TRAPS!
Here's why YOU Should
VOTE to CONTINUE
TRAPS:
1. Traps mean jobs not just for 45 days but for
six to nine months for approximately 4.000
people, mostly Alaskans.
2. Traps are the best means of conserving
Alaska’s salmon.
3. Traps pay taxes. Without them the Territory
would have to levy additional taxes on all
other Alaska businesses and individuals.
4. Traps, together with mobile gear, allow can
neries to operate efficiently. Without traps,
at least 25 large canneries would close down
because they would be stripped of their de
pendable supply of salmon—thousands of men
would lose their jobs.
5. Traps are vital to Alaska’s economy. Confiscate
them and you undermine the Territory’s sta
bility. An unstable region cannot develop a
diversified economy.
6. Traps so stabilize the entire salmon industry
that they make it possible for packers to pay
fishermen maximum prices. Confiscate traps
and you cut down these earnings. Nobody
gains—everyone loses.
7. Traps are vital in maintaining U. S. world
leadership in the canned salition industry. Con
fiscate them and you so weaken America’s posi
tion that it will be possible for Russia, utilizing
U.S. built floating canneries, to seize this prize
in world trade. The Japanese demonstrated,
in 1937, by their operations in Bristol Bay,
that such floating canneries constitute a real
threat.
8. Traps represent large investments in venture
capital. Confiscate them and you discourage
other industries from investing in Alaska’s
future. »
9. Traps provide healthy competition. Confiscate
them and you establish a gear monopoly in the
catching of salmon.
10. Traps, seines and gill nets — ALL THREE
TYPES OF GEAR ARE ESSENTIAL to
maintain Alaska’s canned salmon pack. Vary
ing conditions in the Alaska fishing grounds
make it economically feasible to fish certain
areas to full advantage only by means of traps.
COMMITTEE OF ALASKA TRAP OPERATORS
mits the government to regulate
taxes up or down.
WEDNESDAY
Diplomats were at the tough
bargaining stage today in an cf
fort to end the Berlin blockade
and ease the cold war between
Russia and the west.
Frank Roberts, the British en
voy. hinted that a decision would
come this week. A fourth meeting
in ten days between foreign min
ister Molotov and the diplomats
of the U. S., Britain, and France
appeared in prospect. No positive
news came from the four capitals
and it was impossible to tell from
the vague hints dropped here and
there whether success or failure
is in the offing.
The Russians said they had
massed enough food in Berlin to
feed all the city for 40 days. Com
plaints of hunger mounted from
the surrounding Soviet zone. J.
Miller, member of the state par
liament in the Russian state of
Saxony-Anhalt, wrote in a Rus
sian newspaper in Berlin.
“We have bitter need for im
provement of our food ration be
cause our physical reserves have
long been spent. Illnesses last
long and our abilities to produce
are impaired.”
Another Russian newspaper in
the city the Soviets blockaded
■
suggested the squeeze is hurting
the Russians. Fuel shortages have
closed many factories in the west
ern sectors and Neues Deutsch
land said the western factory out
put is “urgently” needed in the
Soviet sector.
I
i U. S. and British authorities
have flown in a three weeks re
serve of food for the 2,000,000 or
more Berliners in the western
zones. They prepared to keep the
air bridge open all winter if the
blockade continues. Doubtless
there will be much suffering for
lack of coal, however.
The British prepared a protest
to Russia over the flight of 12
Yak fighters over their Gatow
airport in the city. American
: troops will take part next week in
French army maneuvers in Ger
many.
Belgium signed a trade agree
ment with the American-British
zone of Germany. The commun
ist police of Berlin arrested the
ninth policeman from the western
zones.
The communist bloc of eastern
Europe voted down a second
American effort to ensure ffee
navigation of the Danube. The
Belgrade conference then started
adopting the Russian draft con
vention.
Russia rejected in the United
Nations an American proposal to
give Trieste back to Italy. The
: Soviets supported a Yugoslav as
| sertion that the U. S. and Britain
had violated the Italian peace
treaty.
Premier Andre Marie won a
third victory in France when the
chamber of deputies approved,
over communist operation, his fi
nancial reform bill allowing the
government to raise or lower
taxes.
The Greek army captured
Alevitsa slope, one of the tough
est strongholds of the shrinking
I communist insurgents. Britain
flew head hunters from the Bor
neo to Malaya to help track down
communists who are trying to
take over.
The Virgin Islands, containing
about 50 tropical islands and is
lets, were discovered by Column
bus in 1493.