THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
"ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIMET
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,935
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1951
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Folfa Protests
All from Other
Divisions
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 — WPl —
One present and three former
Alaska legislators, all Democrats,
were four of the five individuals
protesting against the renomination,
of U.S. Judge George W. Folta of
Juneau to another term.
The Senate Judiciary committee
disclosed the names today. Chair
man McCarran (D-Nev) said yes
terday the personal protests had
been received, one of them con
tending Judge Folta's manner is
“harsh and arbitrary.”
McCarran said the nomination
had been endorsed by the bar asso
ciations of both Juneau and Ket
chikan, the two cities in which
Judge Folta holds the First Divi
sion court sessions.
Disclosure of the five objectors
identities showed all were from
cities outside the division.
They were: Territorial Rep. Wen
dell Kay, Anchorage attorney:
former Sen. Victor Rivers, Anchor
age: former Rep. Warren Taylor.
Fairbanks attorney; former Rep.
Alfred A. Owen Jr., Anchorage, and
Bailey E. Bell, Anchorage attorney.
A subcommittee which held a
n. aring on the nomination yester
day has taken no action.
Delegate Bartlett <D-Alaska) en
dorsed the Folta nomination.
THE PROTESTANTS
The mei! identified in the above
news story from Washington as
three former legislators and one
present legislator are the following:
Former Senator Victor Rivers, of
the Third Division, who was de
feated for reelection as Senator in
1950 by Heinie Schneider (R) and
the late Gunnard Engebreath <R).
Former Representative Alfred A.
Owen, Jr., of the Third Division,
now Apprenticeship Representative
for the United States Department
of Labor in Anchorage. He was
recently defeated for the Anchorage
City Council and was defeated for
Labor Commissioner in Democratic
primaries in April, 1950.
Former Representative Warren A.
Taylor, Fourth Division, who was
defeated in the general eleetion,
1950, as a candidate for the Senate.
Winning Senators were Joe Coble
(R) and Dan Lhamon (R>.
Representative Wendell Kay,
Third Division, one of the authors
this year of House Memorial No. 4
the “secession memorial” which
asked that, if immediate statehood
were not granted Alaska, “abso
lute independence from the United
States be declared and the ‘Repub
lic of Alaska’ be formed.”
The memorial was defeated.
Bailey Bell, Anchorage attorney,
came to the territory from Okla
homa in 1944.
SLIDE CLEARED;
HAINES CUTOFF
OPENED AGAIN
Highway Patrolman nl Lubcke
of Haines telephoned this morning
to report that the Haines Cutoff is
now open for traffic. The road was
closed on Tuesday by a rock and
dirt slide near the border in Canada.
TheWashingion
Merry - Go - Round
ICooyrieht, 1951. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
ff ASHINGTON—Around 1940 as
our hoped-for friendly relations
with Russia were turning more and
more sour, Gen. Omar Bradley,
meeting with a small group of
Congressmen, predicted:
"If the Red army chose to in
vade Europe right now, they could
reach the English Channel in 12
days. Nothing could stop them.”
Today, this is not the case. The
Red army could be stopped at the
Rhine.
This change is not because the
Red army is any smaller. It still
has millions of men, still is com
pletely reckless in its disregard
for casualties. Nor is the change
because Eisenhower’s army is more
adequate. Though Eisenhower has
done a good job, his army is still
pitifully small compared with the
Russian.
The change, therefore, is chiefly
the result of one thing—new atomic
weapons.
Hitherto, the atom bomb could be
used only against cities where the
destruction of civilians was such
that public opinion rebelled against
it. Now, however, atomic artillery
shells and other weapoife make it
possible to confine the deadly des
truction of atomic energy to enemy
troops in the field.
This means that the civilian
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Pays Baseball Bet by
Rolling Peanut with
Nose on Peppered Street
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 11— fl’l—'The loss
of bets on four straight World Series
is nothing ttT sneeze at—but Rich
ard Schroeder did just the same.
In paying off his bet after the
Yankee victory yesterday, Schroeder
set out, for the fourth year, to roll
a roasted peanut across the street
in front of a tavern with his nose.
Half way across, he discovered
his annual betting companion,
Maurice Tebeau, had sprinkled
pepper on the street.
With time out -for sneezing,
Schroeder needed half an hour to
complete the trip. Police were sum
moned to direct traffic through
the crowd that gathered.
Running
Battle
Wilh Reds
American Tanks Knife
Way Up One Side of
Hearfbreak Ridge, Korea
U. S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, Oct. 11—</P)—Ameri
can tanks knifed up valleys on each
side of Heartbreak Ridge in eastern
Korea today In a running battle
with Red artillery and mortars.
Behind the fire of tanks blasting
from both sides, the U.S. 23rd In
fantry Regiment again stormed the
northernmost peak of Heartbreak
Ridge. Entrenched Reds stopped
the Americans in their tracks.
Other U.S. Second Division In
fantrymen overran Chinese troops
and captured a dominating peak
on nearby Kim II Sung ridge.
United Nations troops also
seized two other peaks in moun
tainous east Korea.
East of Hv-i«b.K„ik a fn!»
battalion of the U.S. First Marine
Division was flown to the front
in the biggest helicopter airlift in
history. Nearly 1,000 Leathernecks
landed almost within sight of Red
positions without incident.
In the hottest sector of the
western front, the U.S. First Cav
alry Division renewed its attack
northwest of Yonchon after mop
ping up Chinese stragglers in
hills captured yesterday;
Red China’s Peiping radio said
Chinese troops inflicted 13,366 cas
ualties on U.N. forces last week. It
asserted nearly 9.841 Allies were
killed, captured or wounded in their
autumn offensive in the west dur
ing the week.
Allied losses for the period have
not been announced officially. Red
propaganda broadcasts normally are
highly exaggerated.
Truman Repudiates
Letter Soliciting
Funds for Memorial
By the Associated Press
President Truman has repudiated
a letter soliciting funds for a one
million dollar Truman memorial
library.
The letter in question was drafted
by Democratic Senator Clinton An
derson of New Mexico. It’s quoted
as offering contributors to the
library the possibility of income tax
savings.
A St. Louis newspaper, the Post
Dispatch, says the President has
disassociated himself from the cam
paign and authorized the following
direct quote: “I didn't know any
thing about the letter and if I had
known about it, I would have stop
ped it from being sent.”
The paper lists Anderson as chair
man of a finance committee formed
to raise funds for a one-million
dollar memorial library to be built
in Grandview', Missouri, near the
President’s home town.
WEATHER REPORT
<U. s. WEATHER BUREAU
Temperatures for 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o’clock this morning
At Airport: Maximum, 43;
Minimum, 37.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Variable cloudiness with
rain showers tonight and
Friday becoming cloudy with
rain late Friday. Low tem
perature tonight near 38 de
grees. High Friday around 47
degrees.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today
At Airport — 1.28 inches;
since July 1—12.11 inches.
Second Biggest Tax
Increase in History of
United States Gets Okeh
Chamber
Honors
Behrends
Two companies that have grown
up with Juneau and Alaska were
given recognition at the Chamber
of Commerce meeting held Thurs
day noon in the Gold Room of the
Baranof Hotel.
Honored on its 60th anniversary
was the B. M. Behrends Company
and the B. M. Behrends Bank. The
Standard Oil Company of California
which opened its first Alaska ware
house before the turn ol the cei#
tury was cited as one of the Ter
ritory's oldest service companies.
R. E. Robertson paid tribute to
B. M. Behrends, founder of Juneau's
first department store and bank.
Mr. Behrends opened his first store
in Juneau in 1897 and on October
9, 1891 founded the B. M. Behrends
Company. Of Mr. Behrends, Mr.
Robertson said, “he stood for reliab
ility, integrity, honesty, and square
dealing not only in Juneau, but all
over Alaska.”
Mr. Robertson paid tribute to Mr.
J. F. Mullen, who he said has car
ried on in the same tradition as
President of the company and bank.
The early beginnings of the B.
M. Behrends Bank were related by
Mr. Robertson who said that the
store became a private bank when
miners lucky enough to have a poke
would leave their gold in the store
safe. The firm operated as a pri
vate bank unty 1913 when the
first territorial legislatftre drafted
banking laws that enabled the firm
to be incorporated.
Mr. Mullen, president of the B.
M. Behrends Company and the B.
1M. Behrends Bank thanked the
Ciiataucr Ilfi US ~ lVCOglirtiUtf.
Albertson who has been manager
of the store since last January said
that he found it a pleasure to work
for the store and said thaf “it
has a personality.”
Children and grandchildren of Ju
neau people who once bought penny
candy at the store’s counters are
among the store’s younger custom
ers now and Mr. Albertson said that
the store will continue to give the
best of service.
Committee Praised
In intoducing S. E. Stretton, dis
trict manager for the Standard Oil
Company of California, Chamber
vice president O. F. Benecke thank
ed Stretton for his service on the
Alaska committee of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce.
Of the Alaska committee, Benecke
said that many times the group has
supported platforms which have
teen beneficial to Alaska but detri
mental to Seattle and individual
Chamber members. As an example
he cited the committee’s support
of the ruling that will not permit
logs to be transported for manufact
uring in the Puget Sound area or
the states.
Oil Company Honored
Mr. Stretton outlined the history
of the Standard Oil Company in
the Territory and said that ‘‘Alaska
has been good to us and we like
Alaska.” Since the first warehouse
was built at Nome in 1898 the com
pany’s Alaskan operations have ex
panded to 40 plants. He said that
the company has. done its part in
publicizing the Territory as three
motion pictures on Alaska have
been made by Standard Oil and
have been shown to more than two
and a half million people in the
states.
A letter from Mayor Waino
Hendrickson stating that the city
property committee had inspected
the Airport Terminal Building and
that necessary interior repairs
would be made, including the in
stallation of a new public address
system. Next spring, the entire roof
will be repaired and the building
will be painted. *
George Rogers, chairman of the
Alaska Field Committee, was wel
comed as a new member. Standard
Oil, officials who were guests at
the meeting were M. S. Jorgensen,
Anchorage, and John Smith and
William Downing of Seattle. Rod
Mclntire, an architect with Foss,
Malcolm and Olsen, and First Lieu
tenant William B. Lynch of the Sal
vation Army were also guests.
METCALF ISSUES WARNING
ON TRAFFIC LAW
Highway Engineer Frank Metcalf
today issued- a reminder that auto
ists passing a bus when the bus is
either loading or discharging pass
engers are violating the traffic law.
Metcalf stated that he had re
ceived frequent reports in the last
two weeks that drivers were ignor
ing this road law.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11——A
$5,750,000,000 tax increase, second
biggest in American history, was
approved today by a Senate-House
conference committee.
The committee’s decisions must
be submitted to the Senate and
House for Approval which is likely
since the group’s work represents
a compromise of bills previously
passed separately by the two
branches of Congress.
For most individuals, the mea
sure would mean a tax increase in
the neighborhood of 11% percent.
An alternative method is provided
for persons in the higher income
brackets. They would have the
option of paying 9 percent on the
amount of their income left over
after paying taxes at present rates.
Individual increase is estimated
to bring in an additional $2,480,
000,000 revenue over a full year’s
operation.
The bill boosts corporation tax
rates to net $2,300,000,000 to $2,
400,000,000 more a year, and ups
excise (sales) taxes $1,204,000,000.
Some of the miscellaneous provi
sions of the bill reduce' rather than
increase the government’s income.
The taxes on whiskey, automo
biles, gasoline, cigarettes, and nu
merous other items would go up
Nov. 1. The individual income tax
increases are due to take effect the
same day.
Headers plan to call the bill up
in the House Tuesday. The Senate
will consider it as soon as the House
acts.
Plane
Crashes
In Arctic
Pilot Harrington, Eskimo
Mother Killed;
Baby Survives
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 11— W
—A Wein-Alaska Airlines olane \
crashed north of the Arctic Circle
yesterday, killing the pilot and an
Eskimo mother, Mrs. Ruth Sim
mons. Her infant child survived.
The pilot was identified as George
Harrington.
The plane* a single-engined, five
place ship, crashed on a scheduled
"bush” flight from Pt. Barrow, 500
airline miles northwest of here,
to Meade River, a short hop from
Barrow.
Eskimos reported from a village
near the crash scene they saw an
explosion in th'e sky just before the
plane crashed to the ground.
Can You Beat
This! Can't
Tell About Dogs
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11—W—
President Truman’s recent security
order today posed this question:
does reporting the projected train
ing of dogs “in the detection and
detonation of land mines” affect
national security?
Officials of the Stanford Research
Institute, which planned the pro
ject, contend it does. So do a lieu
tenant and a civilian security em
ployee from Army Engineer Corps
headquarters at Fort Belvoir,' Va.
No, said Lt. Col. L. W. Correll.
executive and security officer for
the North Pacific Corps of Engi
neers in Portland, Ore.
Correll pointed out that dogs were
used to detect land mines in World
War II and their handlers disposed
of the explosives.
The question arose after the.Call
Bulletin reported the project. Its
information came from a public j
record at city hall—the institute's j
request to use 10 acres of city land
to train the dogs.
Institute directors demanded, said
the newspaper, that the story be
killed, but declined to give the rea
son. It was too late; the paper
already was on the street. Later, the
institute’s publicist, William C.
Estler, explained the purpose of the
project was made public inadvert
ently.
And the two security officers from
Virginia came out to ask an ex
planation.
Today, the project is a dead Issue,
for the time at least ...
The institute withdrew its re
quest for the land. ,
Y. T. Lake, Bogs
May Become
Landing Fields
WASHINGTON. Oct. 11 — (/PI —
A small group of U.S. and Canadian
Army Engineers will try to build
emergency airstrips on the frozen
lakes and shifting bogs of the Yu
kon Territory this winter.
The Army, in announcing today
the exercise which it has dubbed
•‘Eager Beaver,” sjiid about 300
American and 135 Canadian Engi
neers will take part.
The emergency landing fields will
be constructed near Klaune Lake,
about 200 miles from the Alaskan
border. The operation, which will
be under control of the U.S. Fifth
Army headquarters in Chicago, will
also test the capabilities and limi
tations of men and equipment under
arctic weather conditions.
Marines in
Biggest
'Copter Lift
EASTERN FRONT, Korea. Oct.
11—tfl—The U. S. First Marine Di
vision today completed the largest
helicopter airlift in history.
An entire battle-equipped bat
talion (perhaps 1,000 troops) was
ferried from a rest area to a spot
just behind the front lines.
The distance covered was about
18 miles.
The landing^ were made in almost
full view of Communist positions on
hills a few miles to the east. The
Reds made no attempt to harrass
the operation, although they have
held the landing area, north of In
jue, several times in the last few
days.
Twelve giant Sikorsky helicopters,
each carying six men per trip, be
gan the shuttle service at 10 a m.,
wh - morning fog lifted.
Within an hour the first company
of the Third Battalion, Seventh
Marine regiment, was on the ground
behind the front.
Then the battalion's commanding
officer, Lt. Col. Harvey V. Edwards
of Minneapolis, landed with his
executive officer, Maj. Howard
Mabie of San Leandro, Calif. The
troops immediately headed for the
battle lines, less than a mile away.
As the leathernecks inarched
single file up the narrow path lead
ing to the front, allied artillery
shells roared overhead and fighter
planes swept low in a strike at a
Red-held hill commanding the area
The operation was completed in
six hours and 15 minutes- 26 min
utes faster than scheduled.
House Passes
$4^Million Bill
for Military
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 — <A>) —
The House today passed a $4,428,
357,970 appropriation bill, chiefly
for military construction and the
Atomic Energy Commission.
It refused by roll-call vote *of
182 to 127 to knock from the mea
sure $12,821,000 for an airport at
President Truman’s home town,
Grandview, Mo.
The measure now goes to the
Senate.
Almost all the money lt provides
is for construction of barracks,
depots and bases in this country
and overseas for the Army, the
Navy and the Air Force.
The Atomic Energy Commission's
allotment is $200,000,000 for work
on the big Savannah River, S.C.,
atomic plant.
After passing the bill, the House
took up a $1,045,000,000 bill financ
ing the State, Justice and Com
merce Departments and the federal
judiciary for the present fiscal year,
ending next June 30.
An $8,299,255,096 foreign aid
money bill was next in line for de
bate.
Leaders were driving to get all
three bills through by the day's end.
AT THE GASTINEAU
Daniel Sahn and Karl E. Aho,
employees of the CAA, are staying
at the Gastineau Hotel.
TIDE TABLES
OCTOBER 12
Low tide 5:49 a.m., 0.2 ft.
High tide 12:13 p.«n., 17.1 ft.
Low tide 6:19 p.m., 1.0 ft.
Alaska Labor
Case vs. AS!
Up Next Tuesday
SEATTLE, Oct. 11—.f)—Unfair
labor practice charges filed against
the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc.,
will be heard here next Tuesday,
Thomas P. Graham, Jr., regional
director of the National Labor Re
lations Board said today.
The charges were filed April 4 by
the Bering Sea Fishermen's Union
(AFL). The union struck the in
dustry in Bristol Bay in a dispute
over fishermen, beachmen, tender
men and cannery workers in the
area.
The union charged that the in
dustry illegally recognized a rival
union, the Alaska Fishermen’s
Union (Independent), while action
to determine representation of the
•fishermen was pending before the
NLRB.
The industry signed a contract
with the Alaska Fishermen's Union.
The Bering Sea Union was formed
by members who withdrew from the
A.F.U.
Graham said Patrick H. Walker,
regional legal officer for the NLRB,
will handle the case for the board.
The trial examiner has not been
designated.
Finnegan Is
Indicted by
Grand Jury
ST. LOUIS. Oct. 11—MV-James
P. Finnegan, former internal rev
enue collector here and a prominent
figure in a Congressional Investiga
tion into reported corruption in the
nation's tax collection service, was
indicted by a federal grand Jury to
day on charges of bribery.
Finnegan quit under fire last
April soon after the grand Jury be
gan an investigation touched off by
charges made against him on the
senate floor by Senator William*
(B-Del).
Two of the five counts in the
Indictment accused Finnegan of
accepting a $250 check from a
firm involved in income tax dif
ficulties.
The others were under a federal
law prohibiting a government em
[ ployee from receiving compensation
for services involving a controversy
in which the government is a party.
Finnegan, a genial, loquacious
friend of President Truman, has
been the central figure in hearings
I before a House Ways and Means
subcommittee in Washington, dig
ging into widening reports of
| scandals in the Internal Revenue
Bureau.
US. District Judge George H.
Moore set Finnegan’s bond at $5,000.
Finnegan's name was linked with
that of William Boyle, chairman of
the Democratic National Commit
tee, in connection with loans of
$565,000 to the American Lithofold
Co., by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation. The loans had bpen
rejected three times previously. The
Post-Dispatch said the loans were
granted after Boyle and Finnegan
had gone on the St. Louis printing
firm's payroll.
Congressmen Off,
Round-lhe-World
Goodwill Flight
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 — OP —
Rep. Peter F. Mack, Jr., (D-Ill) took
off from Argentia, Nfld., for the
Azores at 6:42 a.m., EST, today on
the third leg of a round-the-world
good will flight, his office here re
ported.
Mack, a Navy reserve pilot, ex
pected to make the 1500-mile hop to
the Azores In nine or 10 hours. He
will leave there tomorrow, if weather
conditions are favorable, for Lis
bon.
The Congressman is flying alone
in a single engine plane named the'
“Friendship Flame.” He started
the trip Sunday in Springfield, 111.,
and arrived in Argentia last evening
after a flight from Washington.
ST. LOUIS VISITOR
A. N. Beard, of St. Louis, is stay
ing at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM SEATTLE
W. G. Bonnlngton, of Seattle, is
a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
DUCK HUNTING HOURS
October 12
Starts — 6:56 a.m.,
Ends —. 5:02 p.m.
Fishing Regulations
For 1952 Season in
Southeast Alaska Proposed
Miss Europe
Mias Jacqueline Grenton, curvac
eous Swiss blonde, poses in Paler
mo, Sicily, Oct. 1, after she won
title of Miss Europe. Facts that
go with her figure are: Age 20;
weight 130; height 5 feet 8 Ins.;
burnt 30; hips 30; waistline 23 and
ambition: to get married, ifl Wire
photo.
Damage High
In Downtown
Cordova Fire
Many Are Homeless;
Apartment, Theatre and
Stores Burned
CORDOVA, Oct, 11 — W — This
Prince William Sound fishing com
munity was without a theater to
day and many of its residents were
homeless in the wake of a $500,000
business district fire.
The fire swept through three
buildings, Including the theater,
early yesterday and threatened the
entire downtown business district
before Cordova firemen and fire
fighters from the Civil Aeronautics
Administration station at Mile 13
brought it under control.
Firemen said the blaze appar
ently started when the furnace in
the Imperial building overheated
or exploded. The flames quickly
spread to the adjoining Evans
building and Raynor apartments.
Occupants oi the Raynor apart
ment building were evacuated safely
but many were left without clothes
or bedding and lost all their per
sonal belongings.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Evans, who
lived in the back of their store in
the Evans building, were nearly
trapped. Firemen helped Mrs.
Evans through a back window, how
ever, and Evans crawled on his
hands and knees out the front of
the building.
Firemen were hampered in their
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Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, Oct. 11—<ll\—Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
dock today is 3%, American Can
1177*, American Tel. and Tel. 159%,
Anaconda 51 '4, Douglas Aircraft
55'i, General Electric 61%, Gen
eral Motors 52%. Goodyear 49%,
Kennecott 86%, Libby McNeill and
Libby 9, Northern Pacific 60, Stan
dard Oil of California 51, Twentieth
Century Fox 23, U. S. Steel 4314,
Pound $2.79 15/16, Canadian Ex
change 95.
Sales today were 1,760,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 274.10, rails 86.88, util
ities 46.35.
SEATTLE, OcJ, U»—OB—A series
of hearings RAVC dMtf set for Alaska
on the Pish And Wildlife Service
proposals for 1959 fishing regula
tions In the southeast areas.
Fishing with set nets and indis
criminatlng gaffing or snagging of
salmon would be under a blanket
prohibition under the proposals.
The new rules also would forre
personal fishing with gill nets,
seine or trap to conform to com
mercial rules during the commer
cial season and clamp tighter res
trictions on hanging of traps in
closed pnH&AWK '
The proposed fishing season, ex
cept for trolling and drift gill net
ting, is August 4 through August
30 and September 16 through 20,
with the following exceptions:
Taku Inlet and Port Snettisham—
drift gillnetting season, May 1-31
and June 18 to September 20.
Western district north of Sulli
van Island—fishing exoept troll
ing prohibited except from June 18
to September 20.
Stlkine district — fishing season
east of Craig Point May 1-31 and
from June 18-Sept 20, but the res
triction on dates does not apply
west of Craig Point.
A 72-hour weekend closure
would be in effect in the three
regions listed as exceptions to
the general southeast season.
Also from Jtfnd 18-3ept. 20, use
of nets having a mesh of more than
6 inches stretch measure would be
prohibited.
The Fish and Wildlife Service will
hold hearings on Its 1959 proposals
at Ketchikan October 13; Craig,
October 15; Wrangell, October 17;
Petersburg, October 18; Sitka, Oct
ober 20; and Juneau, November 15.
Low Market
Stops Puget
Fishermen
SEATTLE) Oct 11——Approxi
mately 1,000 purse seiners and fish
ermen are idle on Puget Sound be
cause "they Just can’t af'ord to
fish."
R. C. Cummings, official of the
Fishermen and Allied Worker’s un
ion. said yesterday that low fish
prices have knocked the bottom out
of the individual fisherman’s wages.
He said the idleness of the fleet
is not a strike—or even a dispute—
but is the result of a situation that
neither the fishermen nor the pack
ers have been able to help.
“To show what the situation is,
the OPS cellng price of chum sal
mon is $19 a case," said Cummings.
"But the actual price Is only $16.”
He said that last year's contract
provided that fishermen should re
ceive a minimum of 11 cents a
pound for chum salmon and 20
cents a pound for silvers. But be
cause of the market conditions they
actually received 17 cents for chums
and 26 for(f*lW.
This year,'said Cumming3, market
conditions are such that the pack
ers cannot operaiie and pay 14 cents
for chums, so they are offering only
12 cents.
“And a 30 percent cut in wages
is hard to take,” he added,
Cummings said be felt imports
of iish from foreign countries have
been largely responsible for depres
sing the market. He said Japanese
tuna is coming into the country
duty free And the tariff on Canad
ian canned salmon has been reduced.
MARSHAL’S OFFICE TO
HAVE NEW ACCOUNTING
A new accounting system is being
set up for the U.S. Marshal’s office
by Mrs. Agnes H. Healy. head book
keeper in the Anchorage office of
the U.S. Marshal for the Third Di
vision. Mrs. Healy will work In the
Juneau office for a week. Her
husband, W. B. Healy Is chief dep
uty marshal for the Third Division.
FROM PELICAN
Mr. and Mrs. Otaf Wlnther. of
Pelican, are guests at the Baranof.
Ship Mor«n«nts
Baranof scheduled to arrive
southbound sometime Sunday.
Denali sells from Seattle Friday.
Freighter Ring 8plice due north*
bound Friday at 8 a.m.
Princess Louise scheduled to ar
rive northbound Saturday afternoon
or early evening.