F. & W. Service
Wi Sell Ship
“Washington”
SEATTLE, (/P) — The fish and
wildlife service is putting the
handsome, steel fishing vessel
Washington on the block, and will
build a new vessel for Bering Sea
fisheries exploratory work.
Sealed bids for sale of the 92
foot Washington and construction
of the new vessel will be received
here until 2 p.m., April 1, by the
U. S. department of interior, fish
and wildlife service.
The new boat will be a 93-foot
er, with plenty of space for re
search.
“The Washington is a splendid
vessel, ideal for tuna,” said M. E.
Stansby, chemist-in-charge at the
Seattle fisheries laboratory, “but
she is not suitable for the type of
research we are doing up north.”
The vessel was built two years
ago at Astoria, Ore., for the Re
construction Finance Corporation
and was transferred to the fish
and wildlife service last summer,
making one trip to the Bering Sea
under Capt. Harry Hanson.
A sister vessel, the California’ is
expected to be offered for public
sale in April, Stansby said. Both
boats are berthed at Ballard dock.
“Communism Has
Fallen Flat”—Krug
WASHINGTON, (JP)—Secretary
of the interior Krug said yester
day that communism “has fallen
completely flat” in American
overseas possessions.
“Even in Puerto Rico, with its
very low income standard and
widespread poverty, this is the
case,” he said.
Krug appeared on a round table
radio broadcast with Joseph Sat
terthwaite, director of the state
department’s office of Near East
ern and African Affairs; and
Francis B. Sayre, American repre
sentative on the United Nations
trusteeship council.
Krug said there is “no evidence”
of an active communist movement
in Alaska or the Virgin Islands.
“There has been a little talk of
a communist group in Hawaii,”
he added, “but no indication what
ever of a dangerous infiltration,
or any dent on the loyalty and sta
bility of the people.”
Sayre said that in contrast to
this situation in American posses
sions the communists are sparing
no effort to wreck the constituted
authority in Indonesia, Burma and
Indo-China.
NLRB Rules
Against Pickets
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The na
tional labor relations board ruled
yesterday that a union violates the
Taft-Hartley law ban on second
ary boycotts when it has pickets
follow the products of a strike
bound company to plants of other
employers.
The unanimous decision upset a
ruling by a NLRB trial examiner
that peaceful picketing, even in a
secondary boycott, is protected by
the “free speech” provisions of
the Taft-Hartley act.
In a secondary boycott, a union
striking against a company seeks
to persuade employees of other
companies not to handle the goods
produced by the first company.
That is outlawed by the Taft
Hartley law.
Yesterday’s ruling involved the
AFL printing specialities and pa
per converters union local 388 and
Sealright Pacific, Ltd., at Los An
geles. The company, a manufac
turer of paper food containers and
milk bottle caps, brought the
charges against the union.
Johnson Protests
Budget Slash For
Alaska Railroad
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comotive shop at Anchorage.
3. Construction of a new store
house for mechanical materials
and supplies in the Anchorage
yards.
“These Anchorage projects have
not been started, and it looks as
though they won’t be. Facilities
that have geen started in Fair
banks will be completed despite
the budget cut,” he said.
The possibility of* having the
proposed power plant inoperative
for lack of funds also jeopardizes
the power generating program for
the City of Anchorage. Plans have
been going forward for expansion
of the Eklutna hydro-electric fa
cilities but it will be sufficient to
meet power demands only into the
1950’s, it was said. The railroad
plant would augment it.
Johnson said the budget request
of $35,000,000 for the fiscal year
1950 included $10,000,000 for
buildings and improvements at
Anchorage and $10,000,000 for
other improvements along the line
and at Fairbanks. The railroad al
ready has spent $34,000,000 on the
rehabilitation program and has
funds available for an additional
$3,000 000 in work prior to the fis
cal 1950 appropriations, he said.
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■ Is Statehood
' Committee Legal?
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• By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, (/P)—A new question
has arisen around the appointment
of legislators to the new Alaska
statehood committee;
j Are they eligible under the or
i ganic act provision against legisla
, tors accepting compensated posi
j tions which they created?
Critics of governor Gruening’s;
appointment’s to the 11-member!
committee have raised the issue |
privately, although there is a |
question as to whether anything,
will come of it.
There is no salary for the com-1
mittee members, but the bill ere- J
| ating the committee provided they
: could vote to compensate them
' selves for time lost from their
! work or business,
i That section of Senate bill No.
49 reads: “Members of the com
mittee shall, for time actually!
spent at meetings and otherwise
in performing their duties here-!
under, be entitled to receive trans-1
portation and per diem in lieu of
actual expense and such reason
able rate of allowance for time |
lost from other pursuits as the i
committee, acting by a majority, j
may authorize.”
Legislators named to the com
mittee were Senators Frank Per
atrovich, Klawock; Victor River, j
A n c horage; Andrew Nerland, I
Fairbanks, and Howard Lyng, i
Nome. And Reps. Stanley McCut-1
cheon, Anchorage; Warren Taylor, j
Fairbanks; and Percy Ipalook,
Wales.
The committee has the job of
charting the way to statehood and
presenting its findings to the con- !
stitutional convention when it is i
held.
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Salmon Pack Will
Be Greatly Cut
BOISE, Idaho, </P>—A Seattle
attorney predicted at the western
states council yesterday that Alas
ka’s salmon pack would be re
duced to around 3,750,000 cases
this year, compared to an average
of near 5.000,000.
The forecast came from Frank
L. Mecham, member of the law
firm representing the Alaska
Steamship company.
Mechem said a study of pros- ,
pects for the coming pack indi
cated that the number of canner
ies in operation will drop fi*om an
annual average of 80 to 60 or less
this year.
He attributed the predicted re- ,
duction to “the most drastic fish
ing regulations ever imposed on
the industry by the fish and wild
life service” and to what he called
heavy tax burdens.
“Some of the fishing operators
are hesitant about investing new
capital in their plants,” Mechem
said, “because of the shadow cast
across Alaska by the activities of
the department of the interior in
connection with aboriginal rights
and the creation of Indian reser
vations pursuant to the alleged
authority of the Wheeler-Howard
Act.”
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GLASS BREAKAGE AT
NOME LIQUOR STORE
The glass front of the Nome Li
quor Store was broken last night
by some unknown person or pe:1
| sons, it was reported today by
| John Vlaar, manager of the store.
Vlaar said that aside from the
two panes of glass, which are j
rather large and expensive, the
show window full of liquor was
I untouched and no other damage
was done.
Chilco River Power
Will Endanger
Salmon Fisheries
VANCOUVER, B. C., </P)—A re
port by the International Pacific
salmon fisheries commission as
serted Monday that proposed hy
dro-electric development on the
Chilco River would jeopardize a
fishery which the commission said
has a potential value of $120,000,
000.
Power supporters have suggest
ed the British Columbia govern
ment permit hydro-electric pro
jects on the Chilco system for
aluminum-producing purposes.
The commission’s 1'eport said
the proposed projects were based
an “the use of the entire regulated
flow for power. On this basis,
Chilco sockeye would face extinc
tion.”
The report set the present capi
tal value of the Chilco’s sockeye
salmon fishery at about $40,000,
000 and its potential worth at three
times that. The Chilco is part of
the Fraser River system.
Source of Earth’s
Magnetism Found
TORONTO, </P)—The source of
the earth’s magnetism, the thing
that makes a compass point north,
may have been tracked down in
studies by Dr. E. C. Bullard, head
of the university of Toronto’s de
partment of physics.
He ascribes it to disintegration
of radioactive material in the
earth’s molten core.
Dr. Bullard’s findings were de
scribed in a press release from the
university. It contained this ex
planation from the scientist:
“Surface of the earth’s liquid
core is 1,800 miles under ground.
It is likely that in the core there
are small quantities of radioactive
material. The slow disintegration
of this gives off heat and the heat
causes the liquid to boil slightly.
“The radioactive heat produces
Installment Buying
Becomes Easier
(By Charles Molonyj
WASHINGTON, (^—Lessening
worry about inflation was appar
ent yesterday in the federal re
serve board’s decision to make it
easier to invest in stocks.
The board, which controls the
volume of money and credit, al
ready had made it easier to buy
autos, furniture, etc., on the in
stallment plan.
Then last night, i* decreed ihat
stocks may be bought starting to
day with a cash down payment of
50 per cent as compared to the 75
per cent required for the last two
years. The cut is warranted, the
board said, by *he “general c’edit
situation.”
The board’s order v’os issued in
the wake of a flow of government
reports showing employment, pro
duction, prices, bank loans and
sales of many goods coursing
down together in early 1949.
Not in four years—since the ap
proaching end of the war made
: the board in 1945 fearful of an in
flationary boom spreading out of
the stock markets—had the board
made securities-buving r red it so
liberal.
Throughout when i: was
sounding the t,ong against infla
tionary fires, the board banned
the granting of any credit to stack
buyers.
The shift in the board’s view
on the economic state was under
lined by the fact that easier “stock
margin requirements” were au
thorized on the heels of consumer
i credit control relaxation March 3.
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a rising motion at some places
and a sinking at others, like the
movement of water in a boiling
kettle. This sets up a magnetic
field.”
The radioactive material, the
university said, is believed to be
uranium and thorium and the
quantity required to set up the
motion in the core is very small.
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