Superfortresses Coming Out Of Storage !
T’ rse B-29 Superfortresses "cocooned" and "pic1led" at Davis-Monthan Air Force base near
Tucson, Ariz.. are being stripped of their protective coatings and are being readied for flight. The
number being readied is secret and the number of planes placed under plastic protective covering
has never been announced officially. (OP) Wirephoto)
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China May Lose
Democracy
SHANGHAI, i/P) — China, its
constitutional democracy still
shiny with newness, is on the
verge of returning to a dictator
ship.
The young China party news
paper sadi today in a joint dis
patch from Nanking and Kuling
the summer capital, that Presi
dent Chftang Kiui-Shek will resume
absolute power. He will rule
China by decree under special
authority granted him for use in
event of national emergency, the
dispatch said.
And in Nanking, China’s execu
tive Yuan announced an absolute
ban on student demonstrations—
denying even the right of petition;
and on strikes or other labor ac
tions that would hinder produc
tion. The order also permits
search of private homes without
warrants if there is evidence of
“subversive activity.”
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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.
BACKWAR S?
“Let’s go back to hand labor—it makes
more jobs.” ... That, in effect, is exactly
what opponents of salmon traps are say
ing. And it’s a fact that trap fishing is
the most efficient way of taking salmon
in that it provides a continuous, steady
supply of the product to canneries.
Did you ever hear of an industry or
a state building itself up by passing laws
against efficient methods of operation?
Of course not! Nor can the salmon in
dustry or Alaska go ahead by going back
• wards.
The truth is that traps as well as gill
nets and seines are needed to carry on
and expand Alaska’s largest industry—
> salmon fishing. #
VOTE TO
CONTINUE TRAPS!
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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. \\ ithout 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 it 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 canneries 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.
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* COMMITTEE OF ALASKA TRAP OPERATORS
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Babe Ruth,
Idol Of Million**,
Dies Of Cancer
(Continued from Page One)
lied diseases walked sadly Sway
when the end came.
They were representative of
the thousands of young and old
who had stood vigil in relays out
side the hospital where their
stricken idol lay suffering. Mil
lions of others all over the world
had kept rooting for the Babe.
A Mass for Ruth will be held
Thursday morning in St. Patrick’s
Cathedral.
President Truman led the na
tion in paying tribute to the Babe,
who batted his way to major
league baseball immortality dur
ing 22 playing years.
The President’s message of con
dolence—the first of many re
ceived at the Ruth residence at
110 Riverside Drive—said:
“A whole generation of boys
now grown to manhood will
mourn the passing of the home
run king of the baseball world.
‘"Babe Ruth had all the quali
ties of a hero, and as an example
! of clean sport was an inspration
to tens of thousands of rooters of
all ages all over the country. . . .”
Ruth lapsed into unconscious
ness shortly before death came.
‘‘The Babe died a beautiful
dea*h,” said the Rev. Thomas H.
Kaufman, of the Roman Catholic
Church of St. Catherine of Siena.
‘‘He said his prayers,” the priest
stated, “and lapsed into a sleep—
and he died in his sleep.”
After Ruth said his prayers, the
priest administered the lats rites.
Dr. Hayes Martin revealed that
death was caused by cancer.
Throughout the Babe’s long ill
ness the exact nature of his ail
ment had not been disclosed.
At the hospital when the end
came were Ruth’s wife, Claire,
and his two adopted daughters.
Ruth, who had been hospi'al
ized much of the time since un
dergoing a neck operation on Jan.
6. 1947. was placed on the critical
list last Wednesday when pul
monary complications set in.
George Herman (Babe' Ruth,
product of a Catholic training
school for boys at Baltimore, re
tired from playing in big league
baseball in 193b, after seating 76
records—62 of which still stand.
He hit a total of 708 home runs
in regular games. After starting
his baseball career as a pitcher,
he was transferred to the outfield
because his batting power was
wanted in every game.
EXPECTANT FATHER
HAS TOUGH TIME
BANGOR, Me., <7P)—A Bangor
wife, about to become a mother,
took everything calmly—but the
father-to-be!!!
He fainted, patrolman Clifton
E. Sloan said, while police ar
ranged for an ambulance yester
day.
Revived, the man was so dis
traught Sloan decided to take him
to the hospital, too. On the way
he fainted twice.
A baby daughter was born to
the couple. All were reported do
ing nicely today.
WASHINGTON. (/PI—President
Truman invited Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt to the White House to
day to discuss the meeting in
Paris next month of the United
Nations general assembly. Mrs.
Roosevelt is an American dele
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