Wolves Migrate To
(Nunivak Islam]
Reports just received by the
Ala.-ka Native Service show that a
pack of wolves have migrated to
Nunivak Island on ice floes this
winter and Nunivak Eskimos have
found over twenty reindeer car
casses mutiliated in ways tl\at
they have not witnessed before,
the de cription of which tallies
closely with killing done by
wolves. Five Eskimos sighted one
wolf within one-quarter mile dis
tance. which they failed to kill
after shooitng at it until it disap
peared.
Only one month of winter con
ditions on Nunivak Island will
permit travel by dog team or
plane, as the landings are good in
many places. After one month
travel can be made only by foot
with no plane landings. Further
investigations are being made to
determine the number of wolves
which may have migrated to Nun
ivak this winter. Large packs of
wolves in the Nelson Island and
Hooper Bay region, which have
eliminated nearly all of the rein
deer there, and the ice conditions
prevailing in this area during the
winter, have made it possible for
wolves to migrate to Nunivak Is
land. Nunivak Island has approxi
mately 28,000 to 30,000 reindeer
j wnich have been permitted to in
c ease without reduction by pred
ators until now. The Alaska Na
tive Service has been much con
cerned regarding the reduction of
the Nunivak Islard reindeer herd
to an estimated range carrying
capacity of 10,000 deer. The diffi
| cult transportation problems have
held up working out a feasible
plan. However, last year a rein
| deer butchering and reduction
plant was completed and 306,000
pounds of frozen reindeer meat
was processed and shipped from
the island, 90 tons of which was
furnished the Army, the balance
being utilized at the Eklutna Vo
cational School, Skagway Sana
torium, Juneau Hospital and
Wrangell Institute. 14,979 deer
were handled in the Nunivak op
erations last year. 4,964 deer wfere
butchered, approximately one half
of which were fawns. The fawn
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Silk Cargo Arrives
From Japan
SEATTLE, Apr. 3—Enough silk
for 2Vi million pairs of women’s
stockings arrived in Seattle last
Saturday aboard the troopship Ma
rine Falcon from Japan.
The million dollar shipment of
1,500 bales, first from Japan since
before the war, w’ill be shipped by
rail to Eastern textile concerns by
the United States Commercial
Company, a government agency
Arriving on the Falcon were
2,645 troops and 564 civilian, pas
sengers.
Also aboard were the Chinese
consul for New York and a party
of seven attaches.
The big C-4 transport is operat
ed for the War Shipping Admin
istration by American-Hawaiian
Steamship Company as general
agent and American Mail Line as
berth agent.
skins were shipped to the Nome
Skin Sewers Association for the
manufacture of Eskimo type cloth
ing, some of which will be furn
ished to the Navy. The adult skins
were shipped outside for tanning
to be returned to the Arts and
Crafts Office in Juneau for distri
bution and use by Southeastern
Natives for making moccasins.
Prior to the operation of the
Nunivak butchering plant last
summer from 2,000 to 5,000 fawns
were butchered each year, the
skins of which were utilized pri
marily for Eskimo type clothing
furnished to the Army and Navy
during the war. Plans are now be
ing made for larger operations at
the butchering plant this year to'
provide meat to assist in relieving
the present food shortage as well
as to further reduce the herd to
the range carrying capacity of the
island. The large number of rein
deer on Nunivak Island, which
heretofore have not been molested
by wolves, will make it easy for
the wolves to seriously deplete
this herd in a very short time.
Due to the climatic conditions
with heavy fogs and winds during
the summer months, it will be
practically impossible to expect to
do much wolf hunting success- j
fully.
John P. Snow, the Reindeer
Unit Manager at Bethel, who has
been in charge of the operations.
at Nunivak Island suggests a re-1
ward of $1000 be made to interest1
a good competent plane operator
to exterminate any wolves which
may have migrated to Nunivak
Island. However, the Alaska Na
tive Service is without power to
offer such a reward.
Reindeer in Alaska have been
' reduced from over 200,000 to ap
proximately 60,000 in the last few
years and approximately two-'
i thirds of the remaining reindeer
I are located on Nunivak Island, St.
Lawrence Island, Umnak Islapd,
j Atka Island and Kodiak Island.
Due to military activities in Alas
ka the Alaska Native Service is
particularly concerned regarding
the possibility of dogs, which may
! have been abandoned on the is
lands, becoming wild and deplet
ing the remaining reindeer. How
ever, the Army and Navy have
assured us they would kill all
stray dogs before vacating their
installations. We have received re
| ports from Unalaska Island that
| wild dogs from the Army camps
are now killing off the foxes. The
whole Eskimo and Aleut economy
is being seriously affected on ac
count of the predators.
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DOES OPA LEAVE PROFIT
WITHOUT HONOR IN
OUR COUNTRY?
WASHINGTON —This column
many times has presented the ar
guments of the anti-inflationists
for keeping a tight hold on wage
and price controls There’s an
other side of the picture.
In the forthcoming battle in
Congress over extension of OPA,
those fighting for a drastic limita
tion of OPA activities <and they
insist they aren’t inflationists and
don’t favor elimination of price
controls) have one powerful argu
ment they are gonig to hammer
on hard:
That OPA, through “arbitrary
and unauthorized regulations,” is
actually indulging in profit con
trols, a realm in which Congress
has legislated that the only con
trol shall be taxation.
Corporate, excess profit and in
dividual income taxes see to it,
these legislators will argue, that
nobody gets more out of anything
than he should. If, they contend,
OPA is allowed “to continue to
make price controls secondary to
profit controls,” the historic meth
ods of doing business in America
will be destroyed.
They will assert that Adminis
trator Chester Bowles “arbitrar
ily” reduced the traditional 24
percent contract between car
manufacturers and dealers by four
percent and gave the difference to
the manufacturers, and will argue
that this is completely beyond the
province of OPA, “an utter con
tempt for Congressional man
dates.”
Also under the guns will come
MAP 'Maximum Price Regula
tion' 605, governing manufactur
ers’ prices for shirts, shorts, pa
jamas and related items. This cov
ers items which can’t be purchas
ed freely by Mr. and Mrs. You
and Me, but which OPA says are
plentiful in warehouses. Some
manufacturers acknowledge there
may be such warehouse stocks but
contend that they could not be
forced to move them at a loss.
One Statement of Administrator
Bowles in the conclusion of the
issuance of MAP 605 will be writ
ten into the Congressional Rec
ord:
"The administrator has careful
ly considered the provisions of
this regulation and the effects of
the provisions on operations of
the industry. To the extent that
this regulation operates to compel
changes in business practices, cost
I -nctices or methods, or means or
! aids to distribution established in
the industry affected, the adminis
trator has found that such action
:s necessary to prevent circum
vention or evasion of the regula
tion.”
This, the OPA-revisionists will
argue, is “cold-type proof’’ that
OPA is acting in disregard of the
Congressional mandate to stay
away from any attempts to change
the traditional methods of doing
business. This will be met, of
course, by the argument put for
ward by Bowles above: that cost
accounting practices are being
used to avoid compliance with
price control regulations.
Key to these arguments may be
found in the minority report of
the House small business commit
tee. On their success in winning
votes in the House and Seriate will
depend the extent to which the
operations of OPA are permitted
from July 1 on.
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