State Department
Plays Subdued
Role Between Jap
Fishermen - Alaska
By Spencer Davis
WASHINGTON W — The State
Department has been playing a
curiously subdued role in the dis
pute between Japanese fishermen
arrested in Shelikof Strait and
Alaska’s campaigning Democratic
Gov. Wm. Egan.
Japanese officials are reported
disappointed that the State Depart
ment has not yet declared the
waters between Kodiak Island and
the Alaska mainland to be inter
national waters, open to all foreign
fishing vessels.
Alaskan authorities have com
plained that they could not wait for
a lengthy State Department histor
ical review while Japanese mother
ships and catcher boats were mov
ing in to fish in their waters.
At the request of lawyers for the
Japanese defense, the trial has been
postponed and it is assumed that
the vessels and their crew have
moved now into non-controversial
waters.
A number of factors appear to
underlie the case. “Gov. Egan prob
ably will be in a hot primary fight
if he files for renomination as ex
pected, and faces an election next
November against a Republican
candidate if he wins the primary
battle.
No Records
Another factor is that there are
no records to show that foreign
fishing vessels have ever previous
ly sought to enter the Shelikof
Strait for fishing operations.
A third factor is that the herring
which the Japanese vessels osten
sibly sought are not believed to be
the main issue. Herring is abun
dant in the North Pacific this year
It seemed more likely that the
Japanese were seeking a precedent
for fishing for Alaska king crab in
the same waters. Or they could
have been laying a claim now far
1963 when the North Pacific sal
moo conservation treaty expires.
The State Department up to this,
point ha*, said only that- it ha* had
no reason to consider Sttelikaf
Strait to be inland waters. But it
has never ruled positively that the
strait is international and open
to foreign fishermen.
There are three possibilities
ahead.
When the Japanese fishermen
are brought to trial they ypB be
charged with violation- of • Alaskan
fishing, waters. The Japanese can
then contend that they are inter
national and ask for a federal .rul
ing.
At this point Undersecretary of
State George Ball after consulta
tion with die Interior and Justice
Departments would be expected to
state the federal position. Any
Alaskan state court ruling would
be subject to appeal to a federal
court.
Two Possibilities
Aside from the legal approach
through courts, there were two
other conceivable possibilities: The
charge^ against the Japanese could
be dropped, bit this does not seem
likely.
There was also a possibility that
Japan would ask the State Depart
FAA Tightens Up Air
Traffic Control Procedures
WASHINGTON UP — The Fed
eral Aviation Agency said yester
day it has ordered increased com
munications between air traffic
controllers and pilots as to flying
conditions.
FAA’s air traffic service has
ordered a reduction of other com
munications, while a pilot is under
radar control, in order to cut down
the possibility of confusion.
The actions are the direct result
of a March 21 incident in which,
through a traffic controller’s over
sight, two airliners circled for more
than 40 minutes in clouds and at
the same time 7,000-foot altitude,
awaiting permission to land at
Washington National Airport. Both
landed safely despite the chance
of collision.
I N. E. Halaby, FAA Administra
! tor, announced at a news confer
! ence last week that he was taking
action to tighten air traffic control
procedures.
COMIN' . . .
From Fairbanks: M. W. Kelley,
Lucy Trigg, Mr. and Mrs. Nels
Swanberg, J. McDuffy, Ken Cohen,
Lynn Forest, L. Kouzlowski, Bill
Wilson, Obert Hyde.
From Kotzebue: Lavonne Small,
Charlotte Parkman, Jim St. Amour.
Barbara Cooper.
GOZH' . . .
To Kotzebue: Dan Savetlik.
To Fairbanks: Lowrence Kouz
lowski, Lloyd Davis, Lynn Forest,
Eph Wheeler, Bon Davis.
ment to make its position clear im
mediately.
Thus far, the Japanese Embassy
has submitted a series of factual
questions to the State Department
and been given answers. The de
partment also has kept in touch
with the embassy and informed
f D.S. Ambassador Edwin Reisc’nauer,
who has had talks with the Japan
ese foreign office.
Some Japanese diplomatic
sources here were disgruntled that
no advance warnings were given
to the Japanese fishing fleet before
the April 14-15 arrests.
Actually, State Department of
ficials said the U.S. Navy had in
tercepted the following broadcast
warnings from Alaskan authorities:
“You have broken into our terri
torial waters. You should leave at
once,” said the first message.
In response to a second chal
lenge, the Japanese vessels an
swered with a call signal but did
not state their nationality.
After a short delay the Navy
heard Alaskan authorities broad
cast: “This is your last and final
warning.” There was no answer,
A last message said: “Last serious
warning, leave.”
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Hugh J. Gellert Due Here
Hugh J. Gellert, executive sec
retary of Gov. Wm. Egan’s Ad
visory Committee on Economic De
velopment, left Juneau for a serie
of meetings throughout Westeri
and Northern Alaska to help com
munities prepare over-all economii
development programs.
The conferences have been ar
ranged in conjunction with thi
Bureau of Indian Affairs and th<
Extension Service. Traveling wit!
Gellert, of the Division of Stab
Planning, in each area will be th<
BIA’s field representative and Ex
tension Service agents V i r g i
Sevems and Mrs. Jean Burand.
The tentative schedule calls foi
arrival in Nome April 27, and Kot
zebue May 2.
Jack T. Gilliland Will
Seek Secretary of State Post
JUNEAU {JV-Jack T. Gilliland
Anchorage building consultant, to
day became the first Republicar
to file candidacy for the office o:
Secretary of State.
The only other avowed candi
date for the post thus far is Demo
cratic incumbent Hugh J. Wade.
Other declarations of candidacy
filed today in the Secretary oj
State’s office included:
Leroy H. Duncan of Cordova
a Democrat, who will seek th<
nomination for the State House o
Representatives from Election Dis
trict 0.
Lew Williams Jr., of Petersburg
and Alton E. Nelson of Haines
who filed as candidates for th<
position of Democratic Committee
men from the Southeast Distrid
NOME'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATI
IS 31.4 PCT. FOR LAST WEEK
JUNEAU — Alaska’s insurec
unemployment rate for the weel
ending April 14 was 18.5, as com
pared with 17.4 the previous weel
and 18.9 for the comparable weel
last year, Uabor Commissioner Gi
Johnson said yesterday.
New unemployment for the wee]
totaled 533, down slightly fron
the previous week’s total of 586
Continuing insured unemploymen
in the state totaled 6,063.
The insured unemployment rah
by areas included Anchorage 19.3
Fairbanks 19, Juneau 13.7, Nome
31.4, Petersbury 40.9, and Silk?
9.2.
SEN. McNEES RETURNS
State. Sen. John McNees re
turned to Nome today to partici
pate in the preparations for th*
State Democratic Convention t<
be held here this weekend,
George Bodis, well known pio
neer Kougarok mining man is bad
from a winter in the sunny soutl
and ready to start operations a
Macklin Creek in a few days.
Visitors often wonder alow
whether Manhattan Inland wil
ever sink from the weighted it
skyscrapers. Actually, they some
times make it, lighter. Example* th<
new Time and life Buildinj
weighs 209,0190 tons, but the rod
exc^vated for its. foundation weigh
ed: 215,000 tons.
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' PATSY LONGLEY HEADS
. FOR STATE SPELLING BEE
3 Patsy Longley, winner of the
i Nome School Spelling Bee leaves
• for Anchorage today to com
: pete with 59 other state champs on
Thursday at the Sydney Laurence
• Auditorium.
» She will be the house guest of
i Mr. and Mrs. Roy Conklin, former
i Nomeites who are reported to have
; their daughter, Susie, also in the
: contest from Central High.
The winner of the state contest,
L which is sponsored by the Anchor
age Daily Times, gets a free trip
• ,to Washington, D.C., to compete in
the national Spelling Bee. This is
the 4th annual Bee and the third
in which Nome has competed.
There will be two sessions on
Thursday, one in the afternoon
and another in the evening of April
! 26.
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• SOVIETS CHARGE U.S.
IS MAKING PERMANENT
THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR
GENEVA ilb — The Soviet Union
charged yesterday that the new
| American plan for total disarm
ament is a device to undermine
, Soviet defenses and keep the world
■ under a permanent threat of nu
1 clear war.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Valerian Zorin made his first de
; tailed comment on the American
, three-stage plan submitted to the
2 17-nation disarmament conference
. April 18.
. Zorin welcomed the plan as pro
viding the conference with its first
! .detailed picture of American ideas
for achieving total disarmament,
i Byt — without explicitly re
: jectjng the plan — he left no
doubt that the Soviet Union dis
: approve of virtually every im
: portant part of the it.
L “If we follow the American
disarmament plan,” Zorin told a
c full session of the conference, “the
i threat of a nuclear war breaking
. out would be looming over the
t nations indefinitely.”
GOV. EGAN SIGNS BILL
CREATING NEW DEPT. OF
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
JUNEAU UR — A bill creating
a new department of state govern
ment, the Department of Economic
Development and Planning, was
cigmv) into law Mondsy by Gov.’
Wm. Egan.
The new department will be
made up of the Division of Plan
ning and Research, the Alaska
Travel Division, and the Division
of Industrial Development.
“Coordination of all state plan
ning and research functions, indus
trial development activities and
travel promotion activities into one
department will greatly facilititate
the exertion of productive effort
and dissemination of vital informa
tion necessary to an efficient and
even more effective economic de
velopment program than exists in
Alaska today,” Egan said.
Egan, who is on a tour of the
state, signed the measure in Fair
banks.
PACIFIC NORTHERN BEGINS
JET SERVICE ON FRIDAY
SEATTLE tffi — Pacific Northern
Airlines will begin jet service to
Alaska Friday with Boeing > Co.
Model 720 intermediate - range
transports.
The line said the first flight
will be a Seattle-Anchorage trip.
Service from Seattle to Ketchikan
and Juneau will begin Sunday.
Pacific Northern will offer 40
jet flights a week between Alaska
and the Pacific Northwest.
Northbound departures from the
Seattle-Tacoma International Air
port will be at 8 am. and 9:15
pm. daily to Anchorage and at
9:40 a.m. to Ketchikan and Juneau,
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