U. S. Builds Many
Fishing Vessels;
Catch Is Same
WASHING TON, (/P) — Tfce
United States is producing about
four times as many fishing boats
as before the war but fish produc
tion is much the same, the fish and
wildlife service has stated.
• E. A. Power, commercial fisher
ies Statistician, said 1,156 vessels
of five net tons or more received
their first papers as fishing craft
during the first 10 months of 1947.
He predicted the total by the end
of the year will be 1,300.
“This is nearly four times the
pre-war rate of 300 or 350 new
fishing boats a year,” power told
a reporter.
“Yet the total fish catch is about
at the pre-war average of 4,400,
000,000 pounds a year.”
Power said that during the war
the government requisitioned 700
fishing vessels and imposed re
strictions which limited the opera
tion of the remaining boats.
Hence, he said, the industry was
unable to benefit from the rise in
the nation’s food-consumption rate
which saw meat consumption in
crease from 125 to 150 pounds per
boats withdrawn from service are
not available, and so the total size
| Old Timer Dies
In Washington
SEATTLE, (/P) — Mrs. Florence
D. Brown, 80, a long-time Alaska
resident who first went north in
the gold rush days of ’98, died
Wednesday at her home at Zenith.
Mrs. Brown lived in Fairbanks
until 1943 when she moved to
i Zenith.
She was a member of a number
of organizations in Fairbanks, in
ducing the Golden North Rebekah
Lodge, of which she was past no
ble grand; the Midnight Sun
Chapter of the Order of Eastern
Star, and the Pioneer Women of
Alaska. She was also a member of
the Fairbanks Episcopal church.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs.
Helen Dietrichs, Zenith; a niece,
Mrs. Leota Walker, Bellevue, and
a nephew, T. A. Dietrich, Zenith.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow.
of the fishing fleet is not known,
capita per year.
Poor postwar runs of salmon
and pilchard on the Pacific coast
have further retarded the industry,
he added. The annual pilchard
catch of 250,000,000 pounds a year
compares with pre-war production
of a billion pounds.
Power said statistics on old
Stassen States
'Officials Gambled
jin Commodities
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ulation.
Stassen, former Minnesota gov
i ernor and candidate for the Presi
dential nomination, attacked the
issuance Monday by secretary of
j agriculture Anderson of the first
list of commodity traders asked
by Congress.
It contained 11 names. Stassen
said it was for the purpose of
“confusion and distriaction.”
Stassen said he did not believe
the people will “be fooled by a!
shower of irrelevant statistics”!
but will want answers to the ques- j
tions he has asked.
The big question that the Con-!
gressional committees say they
will look into is whether there1
have been “leaks” of inside infor- |
mation to people who could profit
from it.
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ANCHORAGE SKI CLUB
DUE HERE SUNDAY
Manager Stan Parson of the
Alaska Airlines states that an ex
cursion flight is expected on Sun
day from Anchorage with a party
of 49 passengers of the Anchorage
Ski Club who plan to spend the
day here.
Many Dead In
Ty phoon-Ravaged
j Philippines
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! the Norwegian motor vessel Sam
' uel Bakke, which was aground it
self but managed to pull free.
The Bakke radioed that it had
' picked up five survivors, all from
the Kina’s crew. It added there
were “more survivors,” but did
not say whether they were passen
gers.
The Steamship line reported the
passenger list included three
American WAC’s, three married
couples and three children,
Manila, which escaped damage
from previous blows the past few
months, was caught directly in the
center of this one.
A report to the Chinese Com
mercial News from isolated Taclo
ban on Leyte Island said 70 per
cent of the business district of that
city has been wiped out by a fire'
which whipped through the town
on the wings of the typhoon.
Preliminary reports of the Ma
nila police listed three killed here
and 11 injured. The city’s trans
| portation system was completely*
| disrupted and the power, light
and telephone services operated on
' a limited emergency basis.
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