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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXII No. 48 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1960Per Copy 15^
Russians Fishing Fleet ‘Muscles In’ Onj
U.S. King Crab Trawlers In Bering Seaj
JUNEAU, (J) — An American
fishery company official said to
day his firm would attempt direct
negotiation with a Russian fleet
in an effort to solve conflicts in
crab fishing rights in Bering Sea
waters of the Alaska Peninsula.
Lowell Wakefield, president of
a firm which specializes in Alaska
king crab, explained his plan to
the State Fish and Game Board.
Wakefield boats trawling in a
school of king crab at a 250-foot
depth about 28 miles north of
Amak Island were driven off
Monday as the Russian fleet man
euvered its gear into place and
blocked the fishing effort toy the
Alaskans.
To relieve the situation, Wake
field said, toe hoped to send an
interpreter to the area in an ef
fort to work out an arrangement
to avoid future conflicts between
the Russian and Alaska fleets.
Wakefield said the Russians
laid extensive tangle nets across
the ocean floor in the vicinity of
the school of crabs earlier this
week, making it impossible for
his company’s boats to drag their
trawls.
Wakefield told the state board
that tooth the American and Jap
anese king crab fleets were able
to fish in the same area under the
established working agreement.
But the Russian fleet of some
18 fishing boats and one mother
ship “muscled in without a by
your-leave — and we feel that’s
going a little too far,” Wakefield
said.
The Russian crab fleet, which
Wakefield said represented the
first such expedition from that
country for Bering Sea king crab,
is operating south of another
fleet of 55 ships engaged in floun
der fishing near the edge of the
Bering Sea ice pack.
The Wakefield boat “Deep Sea”
traveled into the heart of the Rus
sian flounder fleet a week ago,
and six Alaskans and crew mem
bers were welcomed aboard.
The incident with the Russian
crab fleet, Wakefield said, was the
first difficulty encountered over
international gear differences.
With the Japanese, he said, the
Alaska boats have an informal
agreement to stay at least 10 miles
away from any fishing being done
‘One Fist of Iron—Another
Of Steel’ . . . Ingemar!
NEW YORK, UPl — Floyd Pat
terson had better set his sights
high if he figures on regaining the
world heavyweight crown from
Sweden’s Ingemar Johansson at
the Polo Grounds, June 20.
Ingo says he’s better than ever.
“I’m much better now than
when I came here the last time,”
said the handsome, dimple
chinned Swede today. “My right
hand comes faster and faster. But
it’s not only my right hand. (My
left hand comes faster, too.”
It was the “thunder and light
ning” right hand that started
Patterson tottering from h i s
throne last June 26. Before it was
all over Johansson floored the
New Yorker seven times.
by the other fleet.
The Japanese also use tangle
net gear, he said. The nets —
which are spread like fences over
as much as 20 miles of the ocean
floor, jn rows a few hundred
yards apart and covering an area
10 miles wide — are illegal under
Alaska fishing laws.
In the long run, Wakefield said,
“we’re going to have to establish
working relationships with all
those Russian ships — not just for
king crabs but all other species in
the area.”
“I really think we can do this,”
he said, pointing to the success on
an informal basis so far with the
Japanese.
For the last several years, he
said, the total Japanese and Amer
ican crab catch in the area has
been worth about 2 Vs million
dollars.
But, he told the board, he ex
pected an “enormous expansion of
foreign fishing off the coast of
Alaska” in years to come.
He predicted the 1960 tonnage
take by the combined Japanese
and Russian fleets would exceed
that of the American fishing
efforts.
Wakefield did not make any
specific recommendations to the
board, but said “Those boys in
Bristol Bay need encouragement”
from the state to maintain “our
historic fishing rights in that
area.”
New South African Village
Raid Nabs 345 Negro
Race Agitators
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica, I#) — Two hundred police
supported by armored cars raided
the Duncan village Negro settle
ment near the Indian Ocean port
of East London today and arrested
345 Negroes.
This was the second big raid on
Duncan Village in three days.
Police say the raids are to clean
out Negroes who have burned
their passbooks in defiance of
government regulations, agitators
trying to incite violation of race
regulations, loafers and illegal
residents who are not employed
in East London.
BOZEMAN, Mont., W — Gene
Fullmer of West Jordan, Utah,
weighed 160 for tonight’s defense
of his National Boxing Association
world middleweight title against
Joey Giardello of Philadelphia at
j the Montana State College Field
house. Giardello weighed 15814.
The two meet in a 15-round
match.
LABOR CHIEFS PLAN
POLITICAL CONFAB
NEW YORK, UPi — America’s
labor chieftains plan a big politi
cal powow to decide their course
in the Presidential campaign.
AFL-CIO union heads meet in
Chicago August 17, the month
after the Democratic and Repub
lic a n nominating conventions.
Most union leaders regard it as
certain that their 1314-million
member organization will endorse
the Democratic choice.
Clias. Frazier Files
To Void FJection
Charles Frazier has filed a pe
tition in Superior Court, for an
order restraining the newly
elected councilmen and mayor
from taking office. They are Don
Perkins, R. Galleher, Robert Her
man and Steffen Andersen.
The petition requests that cause
be shown why the ballots cast in
the polling precinct in Nome
should not be disallowed, and the
election declared null and void,
alleging that there were voters
who were not qualified to vote
in this election.
The petitioner is the manager
of the Billikin Shop, and was a
candidate for the City Council on
the ballot.
New Utility Board
Members Take Office
At the Nome Power and Light
Utilities meeting Tuesday. Les
Keller was elected president of the
board. Tommy Johnson serves as
vice president, and Pearse Walsh
as secretary. Bill Haley tendered
his resignation, and Charles West
was appointed to fill his place on
the board.
Albert Johnson was the other
new member seated.
Plans were discussed for mov
ing the offices of the Power and
Light Utilities to the City Build
ing, as an economy measure, since
the jail has been moved from the
building, and there is some avail
able space already heated.
Bartlett Protests
Seaton Action
On Fish Traps
WASHINGTON, UPI — Proposed
Interior Department regulations
on fish traps and Indian fishing in
Alaska prompted a protest yester
day from Sen. Bartlett.
“T h e practical consequences
will be to set Alaskan against
Alaskan and to make more diffi
cult the state’s conservation ef
forts,” Bartlett said in a Senate
speech.
Bartlett said the regulations
would permit the use of highly
controversial fish traps by three
Indian communities — Kake, An
goon and Metlakatla — despite
state prohibitions.
Last summer, the three Indian
villages were given a Supreme
Court restraining order that al
lowed them to use the traps. The
high court has agreed to hear the
case but has not yet scheduled a
hearing.
“But,” said Bartlett, “the Sec
retary (of Interior) is acting now,
before the Supreme Court has
heard the case, when virtually all
of the authorities and all of the
decisions, statutes, and legislative
history, point the other way.”
Assuming some doubt about the
legal issues involved, Bartlett
asked: “Should the Secretary not
have awaited judicial determina
tions before plunging into the
matter as he has, with divisive
effects in Alaska ”
Rliee Promises
Redress of Wrongs
In Korean Crisis
92 Dead, 500 Wounded
In Two Days of Rioting
SEOUL, South Korea, W —
President Syngman Rhee today
pledged a redress of grievances as
his soldiers smashed the last of the
riotous resistance which brought
this capitol to the edge of revo
lution.
Sternly rebuked by the United
States for his government’s “re
pressive measures unsuited to a
free democracy,” the 85-year-old
President said: “The government
will devote maximum energy to
the investigation of these distur
bances. Those who are guilty can
be assured of punishment. Those
with major grievances can be cer
tain of redress.”
Lt. Gen. Song Yo-Chan, in
charge of the emergency martial
law clamped upon five cities
Tuesday, said the last major
groups of demonstrators had been
broken up and their leaders ar
rested. The rioting oyer the past
two days in Seoul, climaxed by a
surging march on Rhee’s mansion,
left a confirmed total of 92 dead
and more than 500 wounded or
injured, 50 of them critically.
The capitol looked as if it had
been through a wartime battle.
Weeping crowds gathered outside
hospitals. Bodies were returned to
bereaved families. A government
consolation payment of 500,000
hwan — $750 was proclaimed for
the bereaved.
Rhee’s statement, first in nine
days of anti-government demon
strations which burgeoned into
Tuesday’s wild violence, made no
mention of U. S. Secretary of
State Herter’s assertion that the
uprisings reflected “popular dis
satisfaction over the conduct of
the recent election.”*
An uneasy calm settled over the
capitol while Rhee’s cabinet met
on this most grave crisis since
Korea became a republic 12 years
ago.
PNA May Add Jets
SEATTLE, UP — Pacific North
ern Airlines, Seattle-Alaska car
rier plans to decide soon on add
ing jet or turboprop transports to
its fleet, Arthur G. Woodley, air
line president, told shareholders
today.
Woodley said in the line’s an
nual report that traffic problems
peculiar to Alaska require “a con
servative approach.”
Woodley said advance tourist
bookings indicate 1960 will be
Alaska’s biggest travel year. He
said Alaskan commercial and in
dustrial activities are expected to
reach record marks in 1960.
The air-line executive said PNA
established records in total rev
enues and in tonnage and pas
senger miles flown last year.
Operating revenues in 1959
amounted to $11,481,000, com
pared to $10,368,000 in 1958.
Woodley pointed out the pio
neer carrier established a new
route last year, Seattle-Kodiak,
and continued its unbroken safety
record.
Herter Cautions
Latins to Consider
Human Rights
By JOHN SCALI
WASHINGTON, UP) — Secretary
of State Christian Herter cau
tioned Latin American govern
ments today against rushing ahead
with economic reforms at the cost
of suppressing human rights and
freedoms.
Herter’s remarks, a thinly veiled
thrust at Prime Minister Fidel
Castro’s Cuban government, came
in a speech to the 21-nation or
ganization of American states.
Commemorating Pan American
Day, Herter also said that “per
petuation in power, and the exer
cise of power without a fixed
term” are clearly contrary to de
mocratic order in the Americas.
This also seemed to be a jab
at Castro, who has not yet called
for free elections in Cuba, as well
as Dominican strongman Rafael
Trujillo, who has ruled his nation
in various ways for 30 years.
Herter, without mentioning
Castro or Cuba, said “drastic re
visions in existing social, economic
and political institutions” may be
needed within the hemisphere.
Castro has pledged sweeping
reforms in Cuba will be his goal.
But Herter has charged him with
muzzling the opposition and
clamping down against press
critics.
Chou and Nehru Get Down
To Business over Border
NEW DELHI, UP — Prime Min
ister Nehru and Red China’s
Chou En-Lai got down to business
today on their disputed Himalayan
borders. Ihc two met for the first
of six days of talks amid general
skepticism that the negotiations
will provide much of an advance
toward agreement.
Since his arrival Tuesday, Chou
-has appeared tense and a bit ap
prehensive about his reception in
a country angered at what it con
siders Chinese aggression.
The two leaders brought dia
metrically opposed views of the
border question to the discussions.
China claims the entire 3,500-mile
border between the two countries
is undefined and should be nego
tiated. India insists the border is
well known on the .basis of his
tory, tradition and usage and
needs only minor adjustments.
Under dispute are 51,000 square
miles of territory — about the
size of England. Chinese troops
control 12,000 square miles of it.
Selawik Lake Acreage
Will Be Offered For Lease
ANCHORAGE, I* — The State
Division of Lands has announced
lands to be offered for leasing in
its second competitive oil and gas
lease sale to be held in July.
Offerings include 12,266 acres at
Selawik Lake which lies at the
east end of Kotzebue Sound.
The sale will also include 3,
597.37 acres of University of
Alaska land which the state is
leasing for the convenience of the
University and the oil companies.
The university will receive all
revenues from the land.
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