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Protection
For Carvers
Protection of the Eskimos of
the Bering Sea against cheap, or
iental competition in their own
ivory carving art is one of the
principal aims of the House Bill
(1606) which was approved by
the House Representatives com
mittee on Territorial Affairs.
The bill would limit the killing
of walrus to just those animals
needed by natives for food, or by
prospectors and explorers for
food when no other food is avail
able. It would also prohibit ex
port of raw, uncarvcd ivory from
Alaska. To put teeth in the act. a
fine of $500 or imprisonment for
six months is provided for any
offenders. ,
Against the doubts of some
members of the congressional
committee that the act might
work a hardship on some of the
Eskimo settlements by preventing
the natives from selling their un
carved tusks, Alaska’s Delegate to
Congress, Anthony J. Dimond.
and Seton T. Thompson, assist
ant chief of the division of Al
aska fisheries, fish and wildlife
service, stationed in Washington,
testified that passage of the act
may actually put money in the
pockets of the northern tribes.
The way things stand now. raw
ivory is sold to dealers outside
the Territory, they explained,
then the tusks are carved by or
ientals and shipped back to Al
aska curio stores, to be sold a.?
native-carved ivory. At the same
time, the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs, through its school system,
is placing emphasis on ivory carv
ing and other Eskimo arts and
crafts, so young members of the
tribes may be able to duplicate
the masterful carving work of
their ancestors.
Under the act of 1908, Thomp
son told the Representatives, no
walrus are allowed to be slaugh
tered for ivory alone, but be
cause of lack of enforcement, it
is believed that the 1,500 walrus
killed annually are far in excess
cf the food needs of the 1.509
Eskimos living in the section
where they depend on the big
tuskers for their food require
ments. With the additional law
to prevent export of raw ivory,
this excess slaughter could be
stopped, he believes.
The ivory from one walrus
sells, uncarved, for only about
$10, it was brought out at the
hearing. But that same ivory,
carved by cheap oriental crafts
men in the States, bounces back
in the Alaska market to under
sell, in their own markets, the
carved products of the Eskimos
themselves.
Thus the bill, it was shown,
will serve the double purpose of
conserving the Alaskan walrus
herd and at the same time pro
vide better income for Eskimos
from the sale of less ivory. For
with no outside competiton to
bring down the price, Eskimos
will be able to control the mar
ket on the tusks they carve.
Vitamins Under
The Dock
Alaskan salmon canneries are
dumping in the sea enough Vita
min A to furnish a tenth of the
nation's requirements and enough
Vitamin D to supply a twentieth
of the nation’s needs.
At least, that was the substance
of a report made recently by
Francis Joseph Weiss, a scientist
Of the national economic and
social planning association, who
is on speaking terms with all the
a'phabetical vitamins and bcliev
es in finding ways to feeding
plenty of them to the American
public in the interests of nation
al defense.
The vitamins the salmon can
ners are throwing in the bays are
contained in salmon oils, said Dr.
Weiss. He estimated that of the
approximately 500 million
pounds of salmon caught in the
United States and possessions dur
ing each year, about 30 percent
of the tonnage is waste and will
yield betwen 15 and 20 gallons
o salmon oil per ton.
He said salmon oil can be pro
duced with a Viamin A content
equal to good grades of cod liver
oil, and with twice as much Vita
man D as the cod oil. At present,
he pointed out. only about 300.
000 gallons of oil are being pro
duced commercially a year, but
with the use of oil which is lost
with the tossing aside of fish en
trails from canneries, he estimat
ed a production of 1.000.000 gal
lons of oil a year is possible.
To canners, he pointed out that
the supplying of vitamins in con
centrated forms for American
consumption is no small business.
In 1925. the vitamin industry
amounted to only S343.000; but
in 1939, there were $41,645,000
worth cf vitamins marketed in
the country, or an increase of 121
times in 14 years.
While canners to whom Dr.
Weiss talked agreed that it was
a waste to toss billions of Vita
min A and D units unto the sea
each year, they to’d him it would
not pay canneries to process the
salmon oil separately or collect
it in central processing plants.
Just the same, Dr. Weiss suggest
ed that a pilot plant be put in
at some cannery, to cost between
$20,000 and $30,000, just to test
the practicability of processing
the oil.
Other uses of salmon oil are
for animal and poultry feeds, for
frying purposes (when hardened
it is without odor or taste); com
bined with metals for the manu
facture of industrial soaps, as an
ingredient in paints and varnish
es, for tanning, as a lubricating
agent in the cutting and cooling
of metals, and as an agent in the
manufacture of linoleum and oil
cloth.
Ol course, all the vitamins are
not dumped in the bay under
neath cannery docks when sal
mon are canned. The U. S. gov
enment has long recognized the
value to canned fish products to
preserve the health of its army.
During the first World War,
50,000,000 cans of salmon were
consumed by the A.E.F. and 750,
090 cans of sardines.
War At Home
While taxation and new taxes
to pay the nation’s defense bill
are holding the headlines, there
has been a lot of comment on the
proposal to require all married
couples to file a joint income tax
return.
The joint return would fall
heavily, women pointed out, on
couples where the wife as well
as the husband has a fair sized
pay checlk coming in every
month. It would penalize work
ing women for getting married,
they declare.
Indeed, an indictment on the
morals of the proposal was voic
ed by Arthur Graham, noted
Glasgow gas technologist, who
wrote the New York Times that
the joint return law is “immoral
as well as unmoral, for it allots
a premium to living in sin.”
An Italian astronomer reports
discovrey of a new comet. That’s
just II Duce’s star going out with
a swoosh.
MERRY GO-ROUND
THE WASHINGTON
By Drew Pearson ar.d
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON—On President
Roosevelt’s desk is a stack of con
fidential naval reports from the
Far East w’hich show that there
are two big squeeze-plavs be
hind the squadron of Japanese
transports and warships which
s lently dropped anchor of south
Indo-China.
As far as the United States is
concerned, this may be the most
important move of the entire
war. For here is the double
squeeze-play:
1. The Japanese want to keep
the United States so worried ov
er the Far East that no more
ships will be sent to protect Brit
ish shipping in the Atlantic, or
to take the Azores and polioe
Dakar.
2. Japan also will force the
British to keep part of their fleet
around Singapore, thus prevent
ine heavy British concentrations
in the Near East. |
More than two years ago the
Washington Merry-Go-Round re
ported the concern of the Navy
Department in case the fleet had
to be spread out over two oceans
at onre. It now' looks as if this is
exactly what the Navy now faces.
Hitler’s Time Table
All of this Japanese maneuver
ing according to the reports on
Roosevelt’s desk, is a defimte
oart of the Hitler time-table. He
has planned, first of all. to mop
un the R“d Army before cold
weather descends on the wind
swept p'ains of Russia.
After that, and during the
pquable winter weather of the
tropics, he will concentrate on
the Mediterranean, the Near East
Suez, and later on India. This
w'as one reason the Nazis paid no
attention to the British advance
into Syria. They figured they
could wait and later put the
squeeze on Syria from two sides.
While the Nazis are busy in
the Near East, it is the Hitler
Iplan for a simultaneous Japan-j
ese move on Singapore and the
Dutch East Indies. Thus the Brit
ish will have to be fighting in
twm places at once, will have to
spread their naval forces thin,
just as it is Hitler’s present in
tention to force the United Stat
es to spread its naval forces thin..
Inside w'ord is that there’s a!
degnite deal betw’een Hitler and
the Japanese for division of the1
spoils in the Orient. Japan, ac
cording to U. S. intelligence ad
vices. w'ill get French Indo-China
Siam, the Philippines. Singapore,!
and the Malays, the Dutch East
Indies, and Burma.
Germany will get all the rest
— India, Iraq. Iran. Palestine,;
Egypt, and Syria—if. of course,
Russia caves in and the Hitler
time-table doesn’t slow down.!
That is one big reason why :
there is so much rooting for Rus
sia in Washington; w'hy every
military communique is put un
der the microscope so hopefully, i
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Defending Pacific
As far as the United States is!
concerned. the Japanese move
finds us not in the best of shape.
Tine Japanese know it. and that
is one reason they are moving
with impunity.
There is plenty of the fleet left
in the Pacific to defend our side
of the pond and then some. But!
any action across the widest part
of the Pacific around Singapore
is something else again.
The Japanese also know that
we have some PBY’s around the
Philippines and south. These are
giant naval patrol bombers cap
able of cruising more than 5,000
miles. No attempt was made to
hide the fact that these big bomb
ers were flown out to the Philip
pines, Hawaii, Guam and Wake,
and the Japanese know they are
not be sneezed at.
The reports on Roosevelt’s
desk do not indicate that Japan
will attack Singapore or the
Dutch East Indies now. Chief
value of the present move is (1)
to keep us from moving more
ships into the Atlantic to take
the Azores and other key islands;
(2) to get entrenched in Indo
china ready for the attack when
Hitler is ready to give the signal
in the Near East.
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The Japanese would have a
I; iugh time taking Singapore now
| also the Dutch East Indies. They
i would have to wait until the
British were materially weaken
'd. But meanwhile they can, and
probably will, take unfortified
B rneo (belonging to the Dutch
, and British) in the relatively
. near future.
FRENCH LESSONS FOR U.S.A.
In Vichy these days the French
! General Staff has almost nothing
i to do except sit at little cafe
; tables and drink coffee. There
were some good men on the
; French General Staff, though
bogged down by overaged super
i iurs.
And now with plenty of time
on their hands, these officers oc
cupy themselves with plotting
! what they would do if they were
! running the operations in the var
ious war theatres.
Not long ago they gave to Am
erican newsmen 'in Vichy this
; formula for winning the war. If
i they were directing the strategy
of the United States, they said,
they wou'd stage an immediate
| naval and bombing attack on
Tokyo.
Japan is sure to come to grips
with the United States anyway,
they argued, so it is far better'
for the U. S. A. to pick the time
of battle and its place rather j
than waiting until Japan and
Germany have seriously weaken
ed or knocked out the British
fleet.
An American attack on Tokyo,
the French General Staff argued
would devastate the paper and
bamboo capital, take Japan out
of the war, and cause such ter
rific reactions on the German peo
pie that Hitler could hardly con-i
tinue fighting.
What Europe is watching, said
the French offiers, is wheher the
United States really means busi
ness—and before it is too late.
A strong initiative by the Unit
! ed States, they said, could easily
i end the war now.
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Merry-Go-Round
Editors of German-American
^ newspapers, summoned to Wash
j ington for the trial of the Ger
i man news agency, Trans-Ocean,
' enjoyed a profitable junket. One
editor from the West Coast,
though not called on to testify,
drew down $400 in expenses —5
cents a mile plus $4.50 per diem.
British officials in Washngton al
ways send two copies of commun
ications to London, one by sea
and one by air. For a time, they
found that nearly all sea-borne
Correspondence was lost. ... A
newsman entered a War Depart
ment office which bore the letters
"OUSW” on the door. He asked
an Army deskman what the let
ters meant. The deskman didn’t
know, and asked another. Finally
the truth came out. “OUSW”
stands for Office of the Under
Secretary of War.
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Continued cloudy with intermittent light drizzle and light south
erly winds tonight. Partly cloudy Tuesday morning becoming ov
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Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 52 Lowest temp — 48 Precipitation — .02
Total precip this month- — 0.21 Total since Jan. 1, 1941 — 3.87
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight----- 50 98 SW 6 Drizzle
Sam----- . 49 98 SW 10 Drizzle
12:30 p m--- 52 88 S 9 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 3:16 a. m. Sunset 8:57 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 60 Lowest temp — 40 Precipitation — 0