Alaska Relief
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the Senate.”
Pending nominations include
those of Governor Ernest Gruen
ing of the Territory, Territorial
Secretary L. M. Williams; United
States attorney Frank Bingham
and Judge Anthony J. Dimond.
They will continue to serve un
til successors are appointed and
confirmed.
Three Alaska postmaster nom
inations also are being held up.
They are Mrs. Ruth C. Hutchins,
Annette; Mrs. Martha M. Benson,
Metlakatla and Clarence S. Hoi
lingsworth, College.
Bartlett said that despite the
announced Republican policy,
there is a strong likelihood the |
House may pass a Senate resolu
tion to repeal the law permitting
the secretary of interior to set up
reservations in the Territory.
The measure passed by the
Senate in the last hours of the
regular session empowers the in
terior to issue patents “to appro
priate natives tribes and villages
or individuals for lands actually
possessed, used or occupied for
townsites, villages, smoke houses,
gardens, burial grounds or mis
sionary stations.”
Bartlett said he will remain in
Washington until the end of the
1 special session, then return to
Alaska.
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Search Vanport for
Missing Bodies '
PORTLAND, UP)—A crew of 38
deputy sheriffs are searching
Vanport, waterlogged board by
waterlogged board, for the 13 j
persons still missing from the
Memorial Day flood.
“I want to satisfy myself there
are no more bodies in Vanport be
fore the housing authority opens
bids Aug. 16 on the razing con
tract,” said Sheriff Martin T.
Pratt. The mile-square area,
which housed 18,700 persons, is
going to be cleared.
The first two of the cars trap
ped in the slough beside the
wreckage of a Vanport shopping
center were hoisted out Monday.
Officials think some cars may
contain bodies.
Thirteen flood victims have
been recovered from Vanport
since the disaster of more than
two months ago.
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powers may request another con
ference with Stalin and foreign
minister Molotov on the basis of
reactions' from their capitals. This
in turn may lead to an agreement
for a four-power talk on Germany
and other questions splitting the
west and east in a cold war.
The western powers have spe
cified repeatedly there will be no
talks while the Russians continue
their Berlin blockade.
For the first time since the
land and barge routes to Berlin
were closed in June, the Russians
indicated a willingness to com
promise on the currency issue.
Their communist eastern econo
mic commission and the German
city magistrate proposed to the
western powers that Russian
sponsored money be used as the
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.
J. A. KRUG, Secretary of the Interior says:
“TRAPS CONSERVE SALMON”
"The Fish and Wildlife Service is convinced
that the (salmon) trap is .. • no threat to the
conservation of salmon . .. the Service con
siders it a desirable means of fishing so far
as conservation is concerned."
i
This is the statement of the man
responsible for America’s natural re
sources. Secretary of the Interior Krug,
who directs the Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice, stated this for all to read in a letter
to Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg, June
11, 1947.
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 possible 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 posi
tion that il will be possible for Russia, utilizing
U.S. built floating canneries, to seize this prize
in world trade. The Japanese demonstrated,
in 1937, by their operations in Bristol Bay,
that such floating canneriel constitute a real
threat.
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
only legal tender for taxes in re
turn for Russian permission for
western currency to circulate in
their zone.
The communists in eastern Ger
many started drafting a constitu
tion which they asserted would
include all Germany. The Ger
mans of the three western occu
pation zones will elect a constitu
ent assembly next month to draft
a charter for western Germany.
The dispute over rival police
forces in Berlin continued. Com
munist police were accused of
more kidnapings. Only 21,000 of
the 2,075,000 Germans in the
western zones of Berlin accepted
the Russian propaganda offer to
feed all the city.
Berliners expressed the hope
the Moscow talks with Stalin
would lead to a lifting of the
blockade .The feeling was general
there that no final agreement was
reached but that the exchange of
views may allow a compronrvse.
Winter is approaching, and coal
is desperately needed, though
planes have been able to take in
enough food.
Russian newspapers in Berlin
asserted with no authority, and
apparently no truth, that the U. S.
is about to replace Gen. Lucius
D. Clay as military governor.
ROME
Foreign minister Carlo Sforza,
of Italy, said his country is ready
to surrender national sovereignty
to bring about a European union,
if other nations will do likewise.
LAKE SUCCESS
Yugoslavia pressed charges in
the United Nations that the U. S.
and Britain are plotting to give
Trieste back to Italy in violation
of the peace treaty.
BELGRADE
Russia seemed intent to force
through plans at the Belgrade
Danube conference to continue
the communist monopoly over
navigation on that major water
way of eastern Europe.
SINGAPORE
British troops fought Malayan
communists in open battle 80
miles from the Siam border. A
communist plan to proclaim a
Red Republic of Malaya yester
day was thwarted by military re
verses.
NEW DELHI
Open but undeclared war was
waged in the princely state of
Kashmir by the new British Do
minions of India and Pakistan.
Both want the state, whose ruler
has acceded to India.
JERUSALEM
Jewish and Arab leaders were
reported to have agreed in prin
ciple to demilitarization of Jeru
salem. The U. N. and Red Cross
took steps to prevent a threaten
ed typhoid epidemic among the
300,000 Palestine Arabs forced
from their homes.
WALLA WALL, (/P) — A 19
year-old youth appeared before
Superior Judge T. A. Paul last
week for sentencing on a charge
of petty larceny.
The jurist suspended the sen
tence, and gave the boy a lecture
and a dollar bill with the sugges
tion that he get a new slant on
life. .
Yesterday, Francis H. Drake of
Walla Walla, appeared before
Judge Paul again—charged with
first degree forgery. He told the
court he had used the dollar to
buy a fountain pen pnd admitted
“trying it out on a couple of
checks.”
Hearing was postponed pending
appointment of an attorney fey
the court.