Order Stoppage In I
Salmon Fishing
»* KETCHIKAN (/P)—A one-week
stoppage of all commercial fishing
in Southeastern Alaska was or
dered Sunday by the U. S. fish
and wildlife service.
The order was prompted by the
region’s virtual drought which
started in mid-March. In some
quarters, it is predicted that
Ketchikan’s 150 inches of rain
fall annually may be cut to but
40 or 50 inches this year.
The rivers and creeks up which
the salmon normally move to
r their spawning grounds are ab
normally shallow.
JUNEAU, <7P) — A one-week
stoppage of virtually all commer
cial salmon fishing in Southeast
Alaska was ordered Sunday by
Albert M. Day, chief of the U. S.
• fish and wildlife service.
The order is effective until
Aug. 23 for all types of fishing
except gilnetting in Taku Inlet,
Port Snettisham and the upper
Lynn canal.
The season, which opened Aug.
9, was scheduled to close Sept. 3.
Truman Campaign
Opens In Detroit
WASHINGTON, i/P)—President
Truman will speak at a Labor
Day rally in Detroit, the White
House announced today.
That confirmed reports which
have been current for some time.
The speech is expected to be one
of his major addresses of the
Presidential campaign period.
J. Howard McGrath, Democrat
ic national chairman, long has
urged the President to open his
1948 campaign in Detroit with an
appeal for labor support.
Mr. Truman’s charge that Re
publican tax cuts built up infla
tion fires appears to be develop
ing into a major issue. It is likely
to prompt a campaign demand by
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for a
drastic cut in government spend
ing.
Day said it will be extended if a
late run appears. Such an exten
sion would not be beyond Sept. 7,
he said.
The service chief said the run
had been “poor” so far tTiis sea
son.
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LST’s Battle Ice
Bast Of Barrow
i _
POINT BARROW, I/P) — Two
landing craft battled ice across
i the “top of the world Saturday in
an effort to bring the navy’s an
nual Arctic supply run to a suc
cessful close.
Five attack transports have
sailed away from the threat of the
polar ice pack after unloading
supplies for the navy’s oil explo
ration bases here.
Two of the transports were to
wait off Wainwright to the south
for the two LST’s and the ice
breaker Burton Island. Those
three ships had proceeded 300
miles east of Point Barrow across
the upper rim of Alaska to take
supplies to the air force commun
ications base at Barter Island.
The island is only a few miles
from the Alaska-Canada border
and deep within the narrow slit
between shore and permanent ice
cap.
I The LST’s are on their way
back. But they were reported Sat
urday to be off Flaxman Island,
only a few miles run out of Bax
ter Island and still nearly 300
miles from Point Barrow.
Reports from the vessels * said
unfavorable winds had driven the
polar ice in to the Alaska coast
again. These advices said the ice
breaker was having to plow
through ice ahead of the LST’s.
Earlier, the polar ice had caus
ed the sounding of alarms as the
attack transports were complet
ing their unloading here. The ice
pack closed into within a mile and
a quarter and then receded.
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MOTHER CONSENTS
TO CHILD SURGERY
CHICAGO, (/P> — A young
mother who had held out against
a long-shot gamble in corrective
surgery to save the life of her
child has changed her mind.
Mrs. Irene Lamphere, 21, said
yesterday that since learning the
prescribed delicate operation has
been successful in several other
cases “I see no use of my hold
ing back.”
Her 21-months-old daughter,
Pamela, was born with the blad
der outside her body and physi
cians had said the child could
not live longer than two years
more unless the condition is cor
rected.
Her husband had taken the case
to court, seeking a judicial order
for the operation over the moth
er’s objections.
Canada Again
Exports Beef
OTTAWA, f/P) — Agriculture
minister J. G. Gardnier announc
ed today the lifting of Canadian
export control of beef cattle and
calves, effective next Monday.
The relaxation applies to beef
and veal, dressed and other edible
beef and veal products, canned
foods containing meats, and meat
pastes, as well as to livestock on
the hoof.
It means the United States cat
tle market, closed to Cana*dian
beef producers for six years,
again will be open to their pro
ducts. It means a greater supply
of beef for tables in the United
States. It also means that retail
beef prices in Canada will shoot
up, possibly by as much as 20 to
30 percent.
Five Fishermen
Lost Lives In 1948
SEATTLE, OP)—A salmon pack
worth millions of dollars is wrest
ed from Bristol Bay each year—
but rarely does that treacherous
Alaskan area give up her riches
without a down payment in hu
man lives.
The season just ended was no
exception: five fishermen lost
their lives in Bristol Bay storms
during the June 25 to July 18
period.
“You almost have to expect to
lose somebody each season up
there,” said Oscar Anderson,
business agent for the Alaska
fishermen’s union,” himself a
veteran of Bristol Ba£ gill net
fishing.
j “It is always windy up there,”
he continued, “and those sand
bars are dangerous at low tide
when sudden storms blow up. We
have been fortunate in recent
years and losses have been low up
to this season. Never as bad as
that season in 1920 when 13 or 14
men were lost!”
Anderson credits the “monkey
boats” — small service vessels
maintained by the fish companies
to aid the fishing fleet—reducing
the annua ltoll. The monkey boats
have pulled many a gillnetter off
a sandbar before a storm could
.swamp her, he said.
I The fishermen—two men to a
boat—fish in 30-foot, sail-power
ed gill net boats. The craft have
! Seattle Gets Record
| Salmon Cargo
SEATTLE, f/P)—An $8,500,000
Alaska salmon cargo, the largest
to reach here this year, was un
loaded Saturday from the holds of
the cannery freighter Chief Was
haki, owned by the Northland
I Transportation Co.
The vessel, its decks almost
| awash from the weight of the
320,000 cases of canned fish, dock
ed Friday night after a run from •
Naknek in the Bristol Bay area.
Six ships are due to arrive this
week with $38,000000 worth of
salmon from northern waters.
"ARSENIC AND OLD LACE"
IS HUGE SUCCESS
The Soldier Show put on at the
Marks Air Force base theater
Saturday and Sunday was ac
claimed by all who witnessed the
thrilling performance as a perfect
success.
The players were exceptionally
well cast and the show really
"clicked.”
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a beam of about nine feet.
Some 2.000 fishermen. from
Seattle and other West Coast
ports, were on the grounds this
summer. Anderson said they
probably averaged a little more
than $2,000 apiece for their
chores. The pack didn’t live up to
expectations this year, he added.
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