Weather today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
High pressure of great magni
tude overlies the Arctic Ocean
and the Interior of Canada oaus
uig fair and continued cold wea
ther over this vast area. Low
pressure centered in the Gulf of
Alaska still causes rain, snow, &
sleet from the Aleutians along
the entire coast to Uorthern Cal
ifornia. The greatest precipita
tion was recorded at Portland,
Oregon, where 1.27 inches of rain
fell. Thunderstorms were record
ed at Seattle, and Estavan, Van-1
eouver Island.
The lowest Nome temperature
last nite was 11 below and the
highest during the past 24 hours
1-0 above.
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COLLAPSE OF COFFER
DAM KILLS EIGHT
PORT STANLEY, Ontario Prov
ince, Canada, Dec. 20, (/P)—Eight
men were killed last night in the
collapse of a huge box-like dam ,
in the center of Kattle creek, ov
er which a brid.ge is being con
structed in Port Stanley. The
bodies are held beneath tons of,
steel, piling, bro'ken timbers and
25 feet of water. Divers are pre
paring to descend to the floor of
the creek to extricate the remains
if possible.
Five of the 13 workers at the
bottom of the creek escaped with
injuries when the dam’s protect
ing walls and interlocking steel
sheets buckled without warning.
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Magazines Help
Publicize Threat
To Alaska Fish
SEATTLE, Dec. 29, —Growing
realization on the part of the U.
S. public that the Japanese threat
to Alaska fisheries is a problem
of national importance and not
merely a local matter involving
only Alaskans and a few sal
mon packers, is shown by the at
tention currently given thus pro
blem in national publications
and newspapers in all parts of
the country.
The editors of the most widely
circulated magazine in the coun
try recogniz.id the national na
ture of the controversy and the
threat to the nation’s food sourc
es when the Saturday Evening
Post in the November 6th issue
carried an article entitled “Are
Fish Citizens”? by Frank Rich
ardson Pierce. In this article,
Pierce told the story of Ameri
can conservation measures, and
of the threat to wreck the con
servation program. He present
ed to the country the theory that
Alaska salmon are U. S. proper
ty wherever they may go be
cause they are spawned in U. S.
territory under the protection of
our laws.
R ader's Digest, the leading di
gest magazine w'th a circulation
well over a million copies, pub
lished a very complete article in
the current (December) issue of
this magazine under the title
“Japanese Poaching in Alaskan
Waters”, by Marc A. Rose. Mr.
Rose's article is a complete story
of the Japanese fishing activities
in Bristol Bay, and tells of the
famous visit of T. Takasaki to
Seat.'le and of the meeting in
which h; invited United States
packers to join with the Japan
ese. In this meeting Takasaki
was apparently not aware that
labor representatives were in at
tendance, for he offered as one
of the advantages of the Japan
ese scheme the wages of $39.00
per month paid to Japanese labor
on the cannery ships. This arti
cle discusses several possible solu
tions to the Japanese problem,
and represents about the most
complete discussion of the pro
blem yet placed before the Am
erican public in a mass publica-'
tion.
The latest issue of the cinema
March of Time, now showing in
thousands of movie theaters a
cross the country, includes an
episode on the Japanese threat
and their activities last summer
in Bristol Bay. This picture shows
Japanese canning activities on
oating canneries and tells of the
danger to the American salmon
supply. It depicts fishermen’s
resenitiment against this double
attack on their livelihood, the at
tack on their source of supply &
on their markets. This picture
also explains the great mineral
wealth of the territory and its
military impo tnec a5-332-aara
military importance to the Unit
ed States.
News services have carried re
ports of union activity protesting
the Japanese “invasion” as well
as reports of speeches in Congress
on this subject. These news stor
ies haiv: been widely published
in the United States.
While Japan has nt yet replied
to the U.S.State Department note
regarding fishing in Bristol Bay,
U. S., labor leaders and packers
believe that the Japanese now
know that the U. S. regard this
problem as one of national im
portance.
Public knowledge of the issue
is molding U. S. opinion to the
belief that these fisheries must be
protected.
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T. A. WALTERS PLACE
WASHINGTON. Dec. 30, </P(—
President R:>'>s velt nominated
Elbert Burlcw Peny as first as
sistant secretary of the interior
to succeed the late T. A. Walters.
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yet created for transporting troops on the desert. These .Japanese
soldiers fighting in North China find a camel is hard to beat for
transportation in arid regions. The “ship of the desert” still holds its
place, despite inroads of machines.
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