Fishermen Ask
(dosed Territories
At Juneau Hearing
JUNEAU, </P) — Opposition to
elimination of the closed trolling
.season in the Cape Spencer Yaku
tat area was almost unanimous
Monday among trollers testifying
at the Sitka hearing on 1948 fish
eries regulations.
Trollers also expressed t'.n or
for permanent closure of the re
gion between Icy Cape and Litpyn
Bay on grounds that the numer
ous small immature kings taken
there indicate the area to be a
nursery grounds.
Andrew Hope, principal spokes
man for the seiner group, propos
ed an earlier opening date for
fishing in the Southeast Alaska
area with definitely stated sea
sons.
Hope also urged that trap oper
ators consent to a live year holi
day in their Icy Straits and Chat
ham Straits operations to restore
pink salmon runs withou* neces
sity for complete closure. The fish
and wildlife service had mention
ed such closure as a possibility
unless early escapement >s secured
and the runs develop by opening
date.
Similar proposals were re
ceived by telegram from fisher
men at Hoonah, who suggested
also that seining be rertricied to
resident boats.
Other fishermen also advocated
establishment of definite seasons,
longer seasons with longer week
ly closed periods to allow uniform
escapement, and uniform open
dates for all of Southeast Alaska.
Scene of the hearings, conducte 1
by the fish and wildlife service,
was to move to Craig today.
HONEST THIEF
LEAVES RECEIPT
PORTLAND, Ore. f/P) — The
masked robber who took $65.54
from the Commodore Hotel left a
receipt. “Received of Hotel Com
modore, $65.54.” It was signed,
“Thief.”
It took seventy years to write
the English Oxford dictionary.
CITY COUNCIL 1
MET MONDAY NIGHT
—
The Nome City Council met last j
Monday evening for its regular!
session.
It was reported that the bulk-1
head was almost finished with
Howard Green finishing the con-]
crete work this week.
It was decided to straighten the ]
rounded corner in front of the Gil- j
lette property on Steadman Ave..
now that the Thornton building
has been moved, similar to the
B Street approach to Front Street.
Archie Ferguson applied for lots
on Belmont Point and the Sand
Spit, which the city prefers to
lease than sell. He also asked for
space on the east revetment ne.tr
D street, for warehouse space for
his proposed lighterage company.
The revaluation of property will
be completed the first week of Oc
tober it was estimated, the exten
sion of time being made due to the
fact that personal property has
been added to the survey.
James Sutton was chosen as
utility man for the fire depart
ment. There were three applica
tions.
Councilman Bronson brought up
the matter of complaints that chil
dren were out after curfew. The
council decided that they should
be brought in and held until par
ents came for them. Parents would
be notified.
It was agreed to start blowing
the noon whistle again.
| Sliriners Make T rip
To Anchorage
SEATTLE, [JP\—Jo D. Cook, po
tentate of Nile temple, and four
other Shriners will fly to Anchor
age in a Northwest Airlines plane
tomorrow to assist in initiating a
class of 50 into the order over the
week-end. Others on the ceremo
nial pilgrimage will be Kendall L.
Howe, assistant raban: James
Fletcher, oriental- guide; Frank T.
Ostrander, recorder, and Leon
Sutter, director of the second sec
tion. They will return next Tues
day. They made a similar trip to
Alaska last year and helped ini
tiate a class at Ketchikan last
June.
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Phone Main 94
ERIC NELSON
A. & A. GARAGE
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Phone MAIN 85
Car - Truck - Tractor Repair
General Hauling — Shovel and Dragline Work
Axel A1 Steve
Taft Hecklers Will
Aid Republicans
Win Election
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declared the bill does not prohibit
labor’s right to strike.
In event “some provisions will
not properly apply to particular
situations or particular indus
tries,” Taft said a Congressional
committe already set up, “will in
vite labor and management to pro
pose amendments . . . or change
provisions which do not seem to be
working out as intended.”
He denied the new law is “slave
labor” legislation, saying:
“I do not believe that we can
maintain the system of free com
petition unless there is a right to
strike when an agreement cannot
be reached. A prohibition of that
right would lead to a completely
regimented economy.”
Taft asserted that a ban on the
strike would require the creation
of a government board to fix
wages, hours and other working
conditions. This in turn, he said,
would lead one party or the other
to delay procedure in the hope
! that “he might get better treat
! ment from a government board.’’
; Government fixing of wages
j would bring price-fixing and fi
I nally “regulation of distribution,”
I he charged. '
Previously Taft had been in
jured in the confusion of a rail
i station demonstration that Wilbur
; Zundel, president of the Young
l Men’s Republican club, had said
i “could only have been put on by
Communists.”
; As placard-bearing picketers
| mingled with cheering admirers
! of the Ohio Senator, a nervous
: driver slammed a car door on
I Taft's left hand. Dr. Donald T.
Hall, a relative by marriage, said
; after sewing six stitches in Taft's
hand that the wound would leave
no permanent injury.
The mishap occurred when the
Ohio Senator ordered the car
stopped to take aboard Rep. Ho
mer R. .Tones 'R.-Wash.*. who
voted against the Taft-Hartley
bill. Last year Jones defeated for
mer Rep. Hugh de Lacy, Demo
; crat. who led the railroad station
hecklers.
Confronted by organized boo
ing. Taft told last night’s audience
that such treatment as he was re
ceiving and had be6n subjected to
, at the railroad station could only
I result in helping “the Republicans
win the next election.”
Mrs. Taft, introduced from thi
I stage, remarked smilingly that ' ■
i picket line through which she had
walked with her husband to enh
the hall “booed in a rather half
hearted way." She added that “1
the broad way some of them smil
ed. I’m sure they must be Repub
i licans.”
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Canadian \ rssrls
Make Rate Hike
SEATTLE. (/Pi—A 30 per cent
increase in freight rates on Cana
dian Pacific Railway vessels ply
ing between Vancouver, B. C\.
Vancouver Island and other Brit
ish Columbia ports was announced
Monday by George II. Baillie, new
Pacific region vice president for
the line.
Discontinuance of the night boat
service between Seattle and Van
couver, effective Sept. 28, also was
announced. The shutdown will
permit withdrawal of other vessels
of the coastal fleet for overhaul
ing.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
Lasting Peace Hangs
On Public Attitude
Says U. N. Secretary
“We can gain lasting peace in
our time,” declared Trygve Lie,
secretary general of the United
Nations, writing in the current is
sue of The Rotarian magazine. The
answer lies in changing the minds
of men from “preparing for war”
to preparing for peace.
"Those who can content them
selves with the prospect ol tem
porary respite (vacation* from war
are either more concerned about
themselves and the immediate
present than they are about then
children’s and mankind’s future,”
says Mr. Lie, “or, what is m ire
probably true, they have just not
thought the whole problem
through.
“The first basis for an enduring
peace is the acceptance by ali peo
1 pie of this idea of ‘permanency.’
not as a dream or distant goal, but
as the immediate bare minimum
of what they desire and demand.
It is illogical to divert wealth
; into armamenfs and supplies for
war, Mr. Lie suggests, when: “it is
as simple as two-and-two make
four to show that we canno'. satis
fy even the barest needs of our
peoples for food, shelter, heat, and
clothing, to say nothing of the nor
mal amenities of human exist
ence. unless the individual gov
ernments concentrate every last
scrap of their resources and ener
gies on these elementary prob
lems.”
While agreeing with the princi
ple expressed by Dr. Arthur H.
Compton in an earlier issue of Tne
Rotarian magazine that a peac
of 20 to 30 years might well be
come permanent. Mr. Lie rei
forces the famous nuclear physi
cist's suggestion: “No sane man o
woman can be content with a holi
day from war. The hard inescapa
ble fact is that we must nev' ..
never experience it again. ‘The
next war’ can very well be civi’
zation’s last, in more ways th
one.”
To those who argue that the
United Nations cannot p^ew
war because it is not yet perfe .
Mr. Lie answers:
“Our difficulty arises partly
at least from habit. We of my gen
eration have known two global
wars; the world has been at war
for about one-third of our adult
lives. Consequently, we can be ex
cused if we have come to accept
war as something that DOES hap
pen. Yet I do not think we can
continue to be excused if u-e le
fuse to shake ourselves out of this
pernicious habit of thought and if
we do not beat into the collective
brains of humanity the rea’^ation
that war DOES NOT have tr. hap
pen agin.
“Unfortunately, simply stating
this problem does not solve ih The
trouble is that you canno* per
suade people that there is going
to be permanent peace so long as
nations continue to prepare for an
unnecessarily inevitable w?ir Pay
ing lip service to the ideal of
peace, on the one hand, and piling
up armaments, on the other sirt
plv does not make sense. But you
cannot expect the leading nations
of he world to cease preparing for
war unless it is done on u collec
tive basis, honestly, unqualiPedly,
wholeheartedly, and with no sus
picion of cheating on the part of
anybody.
“Such a renunciation of war.
not in words but in actual prac
: tice, cannot be achieved unless
there stands solidly behind it a
very genuine and universal will to
abandon war on the part of the*
people as well as by their political
leaders. And here again it is im
perative that all peoples, making
up all nations, subscribe to the
proposition. The existence of
‘will for war’ or even a willing
ness to entertain or tolerate ‘h'*
‘bought of war on the part of a
single nation, or people, howeve •
small. would jeopardize the whole
proposition.
"T > nwsitade people every wher >■
that war is now impractical, sti
cidal. and cruelly stupid m e
therefore be one of our most corn
m nding tasks. We must absolute
ly drill into people’s consciousness
this idea: Never again shall n.
’ions resort to war. And the en
phasis should be placed on th •
word: ‘Never.’ . . .
“When will the people of 1!
•’ i rid -top thinking in ierms of
peace, and accept as axiomatic tl
premise that war shall never corr c
again!”
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