Court Order Bars
Fisheries Regula
tions Enforcement
SAN FRANCISCO, <>R) — An
Alaska federal court order bar
ring enforcement of certain pro
visions of the 1946 Alaska fisheries
general regulations by the interim
department was affirmed Friday
by the U. S. circuit court of ap
peals.
The decision was on an appeal
by Frank Hynes, regional director
of the fish and wildlife serviec of
the department of the interior.
The district court granted seven
large packing companies an in
junction preventing Hynes from
enforcing certain restrictive provi
sions of the general regulations,
and also from seining boats and
fishing equipment in waters adja
cent to the Karluk Indian reserva
tion on Kodiak Island.
The companies, representing a
$70,000,000 annual fishing blue
ness in the Alaskan area, would
have been prevented from fishing
around Karluk reservation under
the challenged provisions.
They argued that the secretary
of the interior did not have the
right to create a monopoly for In
dian fishing more than 3,000 feet
off the main shore line.
This view was upheld by the
lower court and affirmed by the
court of appeals.
Under the decision, the compan
ies may fish up to within 3,000
feet of the main shore line. Per
sons familiar with the suit said
the decision was expected to lead
Man Drowns
Chena River
FAIRBANKS, </P>—A man who
plunged through the thin ice of
the partially frozen Chena river
Saturday night and disappeared
while spectators on shore watched
helplessly has not been identified,
federal and army authorities said
yesterday.
A search for the body has been
unsuccessful and it may not be re
covered until spring when the
river thaws.
The man’s cries were first heard
by a truck driver, who turned his
lights on the struggling victim. He
sank from sight as onlookers gath
ered. Thinness of the ice prevent
ed rescuers from leaving shore.
Marshal’s deputies said the man
apparently was unaware that
freakish November weather had
left open water in many places
and weakened the usually solid
sheet of ice covering the Chena at
I this time of the year.
I to similar action in connection
with some eighty other Indian
reservations in Alaskan waters,
all of which presently have closed
rights to fishing at the mouths of
! certain streams for certain dis
tances offshore.
Companies involved in the suit
i against Hynes were the Grimes
Packing company, Libby. McNeill
! and Libby, Kakiah Fisheries com
pany, Frank McConkghy and com
pany, Inc., Parks Canneries com
pany, Inc., San Juan Fishing and
Packing company and Uganik
Fisheries, Inc.
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For Annette Island
Airbase
(By Vern Haugland)
<f/P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON. </P>—1The Met
lakatla Indians of southeastern
Alaska are dickering with Unc’e
Sam this week over rental of one
of the most valuable airbases in
the Territory, the former army
field at Annette Island.
The army paid them $3,600 a
year rent for five years for 12,000
acres, thy said, and they want the
Civil Aeronautics Administration,
which has taken over the field,
similarly to make a settlement.
Furthermore, they asserted at
negotiations under way at the in
terior department, the Standard
Oil company is making a profit
from a publjc investment through
sale of oil and gasoljne to air
planes using the field. They want
a commission on those sales.
Representing the 700 Metlakat
lans, to whom President Grover
Cleveland assigned Annette Island
as a reservation in 1891, are John
W. Smith, acting mayor of Metla
katla Village, Ira Booth. Ted E.
Benson and Ray Haldane.
D’Arcy McNickle, an attorney
of the office of Indian affairs
which is cooperating in the nego
tiations, said he looks for an
agreement or a complete impasse
some time this week.
McNickle said the army, which
had been opposed to paying a ren
tal fee, took the position that the
airfield was built for national de
fense and that the natives ought to
be grateful.
The CAA, he said, similarly
feels that the Indians should not
expect to profit from a venture
that is operated for the benefit of
the territory.
The Indians, McNickle said, re
plied that the airfield destroyed
hunting and trapping grounds and
damaged fishing areas, and that
the owners of the island rather
than a private company should re
ceive the income from airfield
sales of aviation fuel.
The CAA wants control over
only about 5,000 acres, less than
half that used by the military
forces during the war. Annette
Island contains 85,120 acres alto
gether.
Conference Opens
With Strife For
Background
LONDON, (/P) — The foreign
ministers of the United States,
Russia, Great Britain and France
started yesterday their second at
tempt to frame a peace for Ger
many despite the wide open con
flict between Russia and the west
ern powers over the economic and
political future of Europe.
Secretary of State Marshall met
with V. M. Molotov of Russia, Er
nest Bevin of Britain and Georges
Bidault of France in the blue and
gold council room of Lancaster
House, at 3:30 p.m.
It was the first session of the
council of foreign ministers since
the four adjourned their unsuc
cessful efforts at Moscow last
April to write a peace treaty for
Austria and unify Germany.
The conference opened against
a background of spreading strikes
and unrest in France and upris
ings in Italy which American dip
lomatc characterized as a Russian
backed campaign to embarrass Bi
dault and discouarge western Eu
ropean cooperation with the Mar
shall recovery plan.
Postmaster Gen"I
Hannegan Resigns
WASHINGTON (/P) — Postmas
ter general Robert E. Hannegan
resigned yesterday to become af
filiated with a group purchasing
the St. Louis Cardinals baseball
team of the national league.
President Truman named Jesse
M. Donaldson, now first assistant
postmaster general to succeed
Hannegan whose resignation is ef
fective Dec. 1.
Mr. Truman announced the shift
in his cabinet which retires the
man who was credited with a ma
jor part in obtaining Mr. Truman’s
nomination as vice president on
the successful Roosevelt-Truman
Democratic ticket in 1944. Mr.
Truman succeeded to the Presi
dency upon the death of Franklin
D. Roosevelt in April, 1945.
In October, Hannegan retired
as Democratic national chairman,
giving reasons of health, and was
succeeded by Senator J. Howard
Dave Beck To
Stay In Seattle
SEATTLE, </F) — Dave Beck,
new executive vice president of
the AFL-international teamsters
union and frequently mentioned
as heir-apparent to the general
presidency now held by 72-year
old Daniel J. Tobin, said yesterday
he was “not interested” in the
higher office.
“I wouldn’t leave Seattle and go
back east for all the money in the
world,” he declared. “I wouldn’t
even take William Green’s job as
president of the AFL if it was of
fered to me tomorrow. My family,
home and friends all are in Seattle
and I’d rather live right here un
til the end of my life.’
If convinced, however, that the
union really needed him in the
presidency, and drafted him, Beck
said he might accept for a limiter!
term.
McGrath of Rhode Island.
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