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years.
MI told the Alaskans no, this
land is not being withdrawn in
connection with any displaced
persons program—and I say that
not in dispraagement of the D-P
program,” Warne said.
“The settlers will be our own
veterans, who are interested in
Alaska.”
The plan is to get 50 to 100
families in each group, assign
them farms, and lay out a small
townsite nearby. Town lots would
be sold to the settlers, enabling
them to live in their communities
rather than on the land during
the winter months.
Warne said Alaskan farmers
are eager to be admitted also to
whatever federal aids—in the
form of loans, land-clearing and
and construction—are made avail
able to settlers.
“Our reaction to proposals to
expand legislation to include
them is favorable,” he said.
“Clearing the land in Alaska is
a back-breaking job, and if we
can get big machinery in there on
a project, we can accomplish as
much in one season as a farmer
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tion to the Marshall Plan which
is restoring order from the chaos
of war in Western Europe.
He was the brains of the com
inform and thus the leading foe
also of Premier Marshal Tito of
Yugoslavia, a rare communist
who dared defy the Kremlin.
could by his own means in 10
years.”
If Congress fails to approve the
program, he added, the withdraw
als will be cancelled and the land
reopened for the old fashioned
homesteading by indivi duals
rather than by groups.
Settlers have been taking up
homesteads in the Anchorage 1
area at the record-breaking rate
of 100 a month this summer,
Warne said. In the Fairbanks dis
trict, 4hey have been averaging 50
or 60 a month.
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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.
Seasi n Months
All three types of fishing gear are needed
to continue Alaska’s largest industry—
salmon fishing. Of the three, only traps
provide much off-season employment.
The equivalent of 4,000 men in the ,
piling, sawmill, logging and wire netting
industries work six to nine months a
year to supply and maintain traps. ■
Traps expand the seasonal nature of
t
Alaska’s salmon fishing. Don’t vote any
Alaska residents out of their jobs.
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 possibe 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 salmon industry. Con
fiscate them and you so weaken America’s
position that it will be possible for Russia,
utilizing U. S. built floating canneries, to
seize this prize in world trade.
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
Zhdanov was considered by many
the most likely successor to Pre
mier Stalin, who is 68 and none
too robust. He was one of the 14
members of the politubro which
really rules Russia and runs com
munism the world over. Only Sta
lin and possibly foreign minister
Molotov, outshone him.
He was only 52 and never be
fore had been reported in bad
health. The Moscow radio broad
cast an elaborate list of ailments
which added up to heart disease.
(WASHINGTON)—Officials in
Washington made it clear they
would like to know a lot more
about just what is going on with
in the Kremlin, aside from the ef
forts of western diplomats to get
the Berlin blockade lifted and dif
ferences between the west and
east narrowed. Another once
prominent member of the polit
buro, A. A. Andreev, has not been
seen in public since last Nov. 7,
so far as the U. S. state depart
ment knows.
(BERLIN)—The focal point of
west east negotiations was Berlin,
where the Russian, American,
British and French military gov
ernors met again to talk over the
blockade and the currency dis
pute. Three groups of experts
met and appeared to be talking
about lifting the 70-dav Russian
blockade.
(MOCOW) — A Soviet dispatch
from Moscow said differences be
tween the U. S. and Britain have
delayed issuance of an announce
ment on the progress of talks in
' the Kremlin for the last month.
(BOHN)—German leaders met
i in Bonn and started drafting a
! constitution for western Germany,
a move bitterly opposed by Rus
I sia and communists. British and
French authorities eased their
program of dismantling German
factories in view of German pro
tests.
A German appellate court freed
Hjalmer Schacht, Hitler’s finan
cier, from an eight year term as
sessed on conviction of being a
major Nazi offender.
(NANKING)—After nine years
of secrecy, a Chinese deal came to
light by which the Chinese had
forbidden all foreign planes but
Russia’s from flying over the
western border provinces. A Nan
king source said formal notice has
been served on Russia that the
accord will be ended Sept. 9,
1949. The grounding of U. S. Min
ister Lewis Clark’s plane at Lan
chow disturbed the sleeping dog
of diplomacy.
(PRAGUE) — Former President
Eduard Benes is near death.
(ROME) — Pope Pius XII said
the world has reached a “critical
crossroad of history.”
(MEXICO CITY) — President
Miguel Aleman went before the
Mexican congress to defend de
valuation of the peso and to re
spond to mass demands for lower
living costs.
(PARIS) — Premier Robert
Schumann squeaked into office
again in France by a 11-vote mar
gin. He started assembling a new
cabinet.
(LONDON)—After a year of fu
tile wrangles, deputy foreign min
siters of the big four gave up the
problem of Italy’s colonies and
tossed the problem back to their
chiefs.
(TOKYO) — Gen. MacArt h u r
said Japan is morally equipped
“to repel the totalitarian advance,”
meaning communism. It will be
three years tomorrow that Mac
Arthur took Japan’s surrender.
Fear grips the people of many
lands as the specter of war yet
hovers over the earth,” MacAr
thur said.