Klawok Indians
May Operate Their
Own Cannery
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that the loan be granted from
funds provided under the Indian
reorganization act.
There are two canneries in the
village of Klawock which styles
itself the birthplace of the Alas
kan canning industry.
Fryer said both canneries may
be acquired, if possible. However,
one is tied up with Seattle inter
ests, he said, and may not be
available. Charles Demmeret of (
Klawock, part-Indian owner of
the other, has indicated his will
ingness to sell, Fryer said.
I fthe Indians acquire the prop- S
erty, Fryer added, they probably ;
will operate it without the use
of fish traps, along the pat
tern employed by the highly-suc
cessful Hydaburg Indian commun
ity in the same area.
The Klawock Indians in a re
cent newspaper advertisement in
Alaska, said that the 23 traps now
operating in the ancestral fishing
Mollie Berryman and adopted
daugh er are down from Kotzebue
for a few days for dental work.
Mrs. Berryman has been in the
mercantile business in Kotzebue
since the early days and is well
known to the older residents of
Nome.
grounds within 30 miles of Kla
wock take fish which would keep
more than 100 seine boats operat
ing.
If the waters were not reserved
for traps, they said, the fish would
support 500 men and a village of
2.500. Klawock last August had
322 inhabitants, a 17 percent de
cline from the March, 1947, popu
lation. The population loss from
1940 was 32 per cent.
“Fish trap owners are digging
their own graves by depleting fish
runs through over-fishing” the ad
vertisement said.
“The number of Alaska fish j
traps has declined in recent years
from more than 800 to 415, with a
similar drop in the number of can
neries.
Alaskans voted yesterday on a
proposal to outlaw fish traps as a
fish conservation measure.
Truman Goes For
Farm Voles
In Wisconsin
(Continued from Page One)
of earlier platform appearances
enroute.
Mr. Truman’s route led through
Milwaukee, Adams, Altoona,
Spooner, and Superior. •
The Springfield speech, coming
after Mr. Truman laid a wreath
on the tomb of Abraham Lincoln,
featured such assertions by the
President as:
“I wish we had at least as much
bi-partisan support for our agri
cultural policy as we have for our
foreign policy.”
“They (The Republicans) tell
you that they favor farm price
support. But while you sat out
here on a powder keg waiting for
prices to blow up, they lit the
fuse.”
He said the Republicans have
“departed from the fundamental
principles of Lincoln” and added:
“The masters of the Republican
Party today would have been the
bitter enemies of Lincoln in his
time, just as they are the enemies
of his principles today.”
Investigating Reds
In Alaskan Labor
SEATTLE, (#*)—A Congression
al sub-committee headed for Alas
ka yesterday to find out whether
there is a communist fifth column
in the Territory.
The chairman, Rep. Charles J. I
Kersten (R.-Wisc.), said the imme- (
diate aim of his group is to inves
tigate possible communist infiltra
tion of Alaska labor unions.
“The Russian situation is a def
inite factor in our check,” he said.
“We want to know if there is a
fifth column in Alaska.”
“We know that when the com
munists get control of any union j
their purpose is to sabotage Amer
ican industry and defenses. So it
is up to us as members of Congress
to survey the siuation.”
Kersten, a former Milwaukee,
Wise., prosecuting attornye, heads
the sub-committee of the House
committee on education and labor.
With him is Rep. O. Clark Fisher
(D.-Tex.) and an investigator,
Frank MacArthur.
The trio is en route toAnchorage
and other Alaskan points. Their
investigaiton is expected to take a
week of 10 days. j
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French Delay
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the British, American and French
zones of Germany.
The spokesman said the tri-zone
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