PRE-SlASCN W ARMU P—His millions won't interfere
with his baseball, William Hayes (above). 22, of Rochester, N. H.,
has decided. He wants to "umpire" in the C’anadian-American
league; he worked in Tiedmont league last year.
UNCLE SAM’S UNDERCOVER JOB-Native
palms were used to help conceal this U. S. army gun in a thatched
but, during recent war maneuvers at San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Strategic Puerto Rico w as acquired by U.S.A. in 1898.
Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Cloudy occasional l'.ght snow toniglut and Tuesday: Not much
change in temperature.
Data l-'or 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 32 Lowest temp — 10 Precipitation 0.01
Total precip this month 0.06 Total since Jan. 1, 1940 — 0.91
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight . 24 92 N-12 Snow
8am . 30 83 NE-19 Cloudy
12:30 p m .. 31 80 E-14 Cloudy
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 26 Lowes temp — 13 Precipitation Trace
Tomorrow: Sunrise 6:15 am Sunset 5:28 pm
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind Weather
Candle . 24 Calm Cloudy
Council . 21 W-14 Snow
Golovin .. 31 SE-18 Cloudy
Kotzebue . 24 ENE-3 Snow
Solomon . 28 E-2 Cloudy
Teller .
Wales . „. 8 NE-25 Cloudy
Weather Elsewhere: 1:66 am Nome Time
/ Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage . 36 NE-3 Cloudy 0.00
Bethel . 20 NE-6 Clear 0.00
Cordova . 34 NE-3 Cloudy 2.63
Butch Harbor .. 36 S-6 Cloudy 0,15
Fairbanks . 30 W-3 Cloudy 0.00
Juneau .. 35 W-6 Cloudy 0.58
Pt. Barrow . 0 SE-6 Cloudy 0.0
WEATHER SYNOPSIS AND GENERAL
This morning there is a small General cloudiness prevails ov
enter of low pressure over the er entire Alaska with some light
Bristol Bay and another over the scattered snows. Temperature is
Gulf of Alaska. Pressure is high well above normal,
er over Eastern Alaska and north Indications are for variable
western Canada. There are indie cloudiness and occasional light
ations of an area of low pres- snow and not muh change in
sure over the Arctic Ocean cen- temperature tonight and Tues
tered west of Point Barrow. day.
Suggestions and Criticisms Invited
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Advertising In
creases Sales of
Salmon 16 Percent
SEATTLE — A story of pro
gress in the Pacific N. West’s sal
mon canning industry and the
part that advertising has played
in helping this industry to sell its
pack to world markets was told
to Seattle sales and advertising
executives by prominent salmon
industry figures here today when
the Seattle Advertising and Sal
es Club honored Canned Salmon
week.
At a meeting presided over by
Arthur I Ellsworth secretary
manager of the Canned Salmon
Industry the historical back
ground of the Alaska salmon can
ning industry was outlined by
Captain Fred Svensson head of
the salmon operations of Libby
McNeill and Libby.
C F Johnson president of the
Northwest Salmon Canners As
sociation and Walter Munro of
Pioneer Canneries were other
speakers.
In outlining the salmon indus
try’s cooperative advertising cam
paign to the sales and advertis
ing chiefs Ellsworth stated that
during the four years of nation
al advertising of canned salmon
the annual pack of salmon had
increased 13 percent but that ad
vertising had enabled the indus
try to increase sales 16 per cent
and had reduced the average car
ry-over of salmon.
In speaking of the develop
ment of the Alaska salmon indus
try Captain Svensson said that in
the early days the size of the
pack was limited to the ability of
the machinery to do the job. He
; said that with modern canning
j machinery the canneries were
! able today to turn out a better
product much faster. He review
ed the growth of the industry
from the building of the first can
nery at Klawack in 1878 until
the present day.
Captain Svensson also describ
I ed changes in fishing methods
'stating that until about 1901
purse seining in Southeastern Al
aska was hand labor with no
power being used. He said that
fishing in Bristol Bay in the
early days of the industry was
very similar to what it is today
except that the shape of the boat
has changes. While sail boats are
still used in that area the boat
has changed from a flat bottom
to round bottom boat.
C F Johnson spoke of the haz
ards of the salmon industry and
pointed out the problems involv
ed in financing the seasonal op
erations. He emphasized the
great distance that supplies and
many of the workers in the in
dustry must be transported.
Johnson said that the manufac
i turing cost of canned salmon was
i liable to wide fluctuations be
cause most of the cost has to be
paid out regardless of the size of
I the pack. If the pack is very
i large the cost per case is relat
| ively low. However in the case
| of a small pack the canner operat
i or still has most of his invest
j ment in the pack and the manu
i facturing cost per case is very
! high.
1 He said that one good year fin
! ancially usually has to carry the
cost for two or three poor years.
Munro told of selling the Alas
ka salmon pack. He stated that
the salmon industry advertising
campaign was a progressive step
in meeting new problems that
had arisen in recent years.. He
; pointed out that since 1921 the
I production of other varieties of
canned fish in California had de
veloped to the point that the
total volume was about equal to
the Alaska salmon pack and that
this meant new competition that
salmon was meeting in the mar
ket.
He also pointed out that frozen
foods were presenting new com
petitive problems. He stated that
if the salmon industry through
its advertising and selling could
increase the U S per capita con
sumption of canned salmon to 3
and a half pounds per year the
surplus problem would disap
pear.
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The Man Behind the Captain
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ALASKA’S SHIPS CAN KEEP RUNNING and give Alaska’s people
good transportation, regular mail service the year around. That’s because
75% of Alaska's steamship revenue is paid by the Canned Salmon
Industry for shipments of salmon, building materials, cannery supplies
and transportation of crews, h's another way in which the Salmon
Industry helps to promote prosperity here.
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SPAIN’S TRAGIC CONDITION
The shadow of tragedy still
darkens Spain although ten
mtorvths have paused since the
civil war ended. The Vatican Sec
retariat uf State recently placed
the number of political prisoners
in Spanish jails and concentra
tion camps at 500,000 men and
women. This is a staggering nurn
ber for a country one-sixth as
populous as the United States.
We can visualize it better per
haps if we imagine three million
political prisoners here.
The Spaniards have endure !
such miseries in the last four
years that we can hardly expect
them to know the meaning of for
giveness and reconciliation, The
most reliable estimates place
Spain’s death roll in the war —• n
the battlefronits or at the hands
of firing squids—at 1,200,00.) on
both sides.
Outwardly Madrid is said to
show much of its o d gayety
these days. It would take more
than wars and disasters to sup
press the courage of the individ
aal Spaniaid especially of the
younger generation. Nevertheless
this has been a desperately hard
winter and it has provided hard
problems for the regime hat is
trying to rebuild an exhausted
country. Food has been scarce &
prices high; if the middle class
has been h t severely the hard
ips of the poor are reported to
be far worse. General Franco’s
moles are increased hv the fact
that the Faiange Espanol the
r.ving form behind his regime
an anti-traditional movement
that is not willing to rebuild sim
ply by restoring the old order.
It is easy to understand why
Spain has net taken rides in the
present European war. She is too
poor and too tired.—N Y Times,
Fifty-seven days til the Alaska
primaries leaves little time for
campaigning. Those who hope to
win had better be getting their
pla.forms and views before the
people and it's a long way to the
;allying districts.
YOUR “SHIP WILL
COME IN” Sooner
Cy the Aid of Ncwspc.pei’
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IT’S A BOY AT THE CARNERA S—Primo Camera, former world’s heavyweight cham
pion, and his wife are the proud parents of a son, born Jan. 5 at the mountain village of ^equals, near
Trieste, Italy. The boy weighed II pounds at birth and is their first child. His name, says Camera, is
to be Umberto. The Cameras were w ed last March 13.
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