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Salmon Pack Is
Poorest on Record
In Almost 50 Years
SEATTLE, UP) —Alaska salmon
fishermen and packers are wind
ing up 1955 with one of the poor
est seasons of the 20th century,
the managing director of Alaska
Salmon Industry Inc., reported
yesterday.
Just back from a survey of the
territory, Alaska Salmon Industry
Director W. C. Arnold forecast a
total catch of not more than two
and a quarter million cases.
Not for almost 50 years, since
early in the century, has the Al
aska pack sunk to such a level.
The 1955 pack will mark the low
point of a sporadic decline since
more than eight million cases
were produced in the season of
1938.
Arnold was cautious about pin
pointing blame for the poor fish
ing or forecasting the future for
his industry.
Conservation efforts have trim
med this year’s catch vastly, Ar
nold said. He commented:
“The Fish and Wildlife Service
in its rehabilitation program has
greatly curtailed our operation.
Whole areas like Prince William
Sound has been closed entirely.
In other areas, seasons have been
cut down and gear has been trim
med out. We think those limita
tions are justified.”
Arnold hopes that conservation
will pay off next year in parts
of Alaska.
Even though packers have
scaled down investments this
year, they’ll still lose money, Ar
nold predicted.
Fishermen will suffer, too, and
he foresees another year of hard
ship around Bristol Bay and
many parts of southeast Alaska.
Adventist Minister
Lambasts Fund-Raising
Gimmicks For Churches
BALTIMORE, UPI — Fund - rais
ing gimmicks of many churches—
rummage sales, bingo, even the
traditional chicken suppers—were
given a lambasting at a church
meeting here today.
Darrell K. Smith told the
Chesapeake Conference of Sev
enth-Day Adventists, “nowhere
in the Holy Scriptures do we find
a command or entreaty for the
conduct of rummage sales, chick
en suppers, white elephant sales,
bingo, or lottery games to keep
up the finances of the Christian
Church.”
Smith, pastor of the Adventist
Churcl of Laurel, Md., said, “God
has a plan in tithes and free-will
offerings that if followed would
fully meet all the costs of evan
gelism, church and ministerial ex
penses.”
Policeman and
Gunman Shoot
It Out In Theater
CHICAGO, Uft—Chicago’s great
est manhunt since the days of
gangster John Dillingered,
last night with a 26-year-old cop
killer begging:
“Don’t shoot. Don’t shoot.”
Despite the plea, ex - convict
Richard Carpenter fought his cap
tors to the end, though unarmed.
He wrestled with policemen who
dragged him out of a tear gas
filled third floor apartment.
Carpenter was quickly hustled
into a squad car under heavy
guard. Milling crowds shouted
“kill him” as he was taken to
the lockup.
The scene of Carpenter’s cap
ture was just a block north of
the Biltmore Theater where, on
Wednesday night, he had critical
ly wounded Policeman Clarence
Kerr, 26, in a gun duel. Kerr suf
fered a lung wound while Car
penter suffered a bullet wound in
his right thigh. They exchanged
fire over the heads of some 250
frightened movie patrons. None
was hurt.
Kerr, who had spotted Carpen
ter slumped in his seat, sought to
arrest him for the slaying, some
50 hours earlier, of Detective Wil
liam Murphy, 34, in a subway
station. Carpenter’s fingerprints
were later found in a getaway car
he commandeered. Police said
Carpenter admitted slaying Mur
phy who had arrested him on a
subway train. The young gunman
was wanted in connection with a
series of robberes.
Soviets Accept Adenauer’s
Proposal For Discussion
Of German Unification
BONN, Germany WP)—The Sovi
et Union today accepted Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer’s propos
als to discuss German unification
and the release of war prisoners
during his visit to Moscow next
month, the government press of
fice announced tonight.
In a note delivered to the West
German Embassy in Paris today,
the Russians also agreed that Ad
enauer’s talks with the Kremlin
leaders should start Sept. 9, the
press office said.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
National League
Brooklyn 8, New York 5
Cincinnati 2, Chicago 1
Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 3
American League
Ceveland 5, Detroit 3
Chicago 6-3, Kansas City 2-5
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 6, San Diego 4
Hollywood 5, Los Angeles 3
Oakland 11, San Francisco 7
Seattle 2, Portland 1
Gallager Found
Guilty of Murder
Of Two Prisoners
NEW YORK, liP>—A court mar
tial today found Sgt. James C.
Gallagher guilty of unpremedi
tated murder of two fellow Am
erican prisoners in a Chinese pri
son camp in Korea.
It also found him guilty of mis
treating and informing on fellow
prisoners and of collaborating
with the Chinese Reds.
Gallagher was found innocent
in the death of a third prisoner
and innocent of having advised
the Chinese to shoot still another
American prisoner.
Gallagher, 23, of Brooklyn, was
accused of throwing three Ameri
cans from a prison camp hut into
frigid outside temperatures and
leaving them to die.
The eight-man court announced
its verdict after almost five hours
of deliberation.
Convention Of
Engineers Discuss
Work In Alaska
SEATTLE, Lfft—Alaska’s role in
the national defense setup came
in for major attention today as
the Western Regional Convention
of the Society of American Mili
tary Engineers opened for a
three-day stand.
The “development and defense
of the great Northwest” was the
general subject of technical ses
sions, with speakers discussing
communications, surveying, map
ping, major construction projects
and transportation.
Among featured speakers were
Col. Vernon G. Bagnall, in charge
of a Western Electric and Bell
System project involving a chain
of distant early warning radar
stations in the Arctic; Col. W.N.
Redling, Alaska-born executive
for research and development in
the office of the Chief of Trans
portation; and Dr. John C. Reed,
staff coordinator, Office of the
Director of the U.S. Geological
Survey.
To interviewers, Col. Bagnall
said that the extent of radar cov
erage in the north is “highly
classified information,” but he
added:
“We expect to have good cov
erage, or we wouldn’t be doing
the job.”
The idea behind the DEW line,
he said, is to ‘provide four to six
hours warning” to the populous
centers of Canada and the United
States.
“It’s a sort of electronic Paul
Revere,” he said, adding that
“only history” will show whether
it is as effective as Revere was.
Reds Shoot Down
U.S. Plane Over
Demilitarized Zone
PANMUNJOM, Korea, UP) —
Communist anti - aircraft guns
Monday shot down a small un
armed American training plane.
The U.N. Command said the craft
“inadvertently intruded” over the
demilitarized zone but not into
North Korean territory.
Later the Air Force announced
a C-47 transport searching for the
missing trainer was fired upon.
Maj. Gen. Harlan C. Parks,
senior Allied member of the
Joint Armistice Commission, ac
cused the Reds of “wanton bar
barism” in pouring “continuous
murderous and devastating
ground fire” at the training plane
until it crashed, out of control,
in Communist territory.
Parks said the plane carried
only a pilot and a military pas
senger on “a routine training
flight.”
There was no information on
whether the two escaped death.
Parks demanded that the Reds
immediately return the two men.
The transport pilot said he saw
tracers from small arms fire. One
small slug hit the left wing just
behind the engine housing but the
plane was otherwise unharmed.
He said he was about 50 miles
northeast of Seoul, near the de
militarized zone. It was assumed
the shots came from the Com
munist side of the demarcation
line.
Eisenhower Orders 50 pet.
Hike in Tariffs on Bicycles
FRASER, Colorado, (iP>—Presi
dent Eisenhower today ordered
an immediate 50 per cent tariff
hike on all imported bicycles to
protect American producers from
“serious injury.”
The White House said most
bicycles imported into the U.S.
come from Great Britain, West
Germany, Austria, France, Bel
gium, the Netherlands and Lux
embourg.
Lana Suffers Concussion
From Fall In Bathtub
HOLLYWOOD WP1—Actress Lana
Turner’s physician has ordered
her to bed for two weeks for
treatment of a brain concussion
suffered in a bathtub fall.
Her studio said she slipped
while getting out of the tub last
week in Acapulco, Mex., where
she and her husband, actor Lex
Barker, were vacationing. They
returned Monday.
The concussion diagnosis was
made yesterday after Miss Turner
had complained of pains in the
back and head. She had planned
to start work in a new picture
j yesterday.
Teller Road Is
Completed As Far
As Penny River
Frank Morris, District Engineer
for the Alaska Road Commission,
announced today that local con
tractors have completed the
Nome - Teller road to one - way
standards as far as Penny River.
Work halted Aug. 18, when funds
assigned this project became ex
hausted.
Arrangements are now being
made for these contractors to
assume the gravel surfacing of
the Nome-Kougarok road.
The ARC engineer also said the
Nome-Council road now is pass
able if one does not mind fording
streams up to eight inches deep.
Work on the Nome - Kougarok
road has progressed to a point
where the ARC will soon begin
removing the railroad ties and
begin graveling the old grade. If
the weather continues fair this
week the work will begin about
the middle of next week.
Morris suggested that owners of
railroad speeders arrange to move
their equipment ahead to the vic
inity of Darling Creek and that
the ARC will provide this service
if either Foreman Barney Crosby
or Foreman Clarence Trigg are
contacted.
A trail has been bulldozed
along Nome River gravel bars
and is passable for autos as far
as Darling Creek. Access to the
lower end of this trail will be
come possible as soon as a fill is
completed across a swamp near
Mile 19, Morris said.
Torrential Rains
Flood Nine States
In Wake of ‘Diane’
PHILADELPHIA, (*> —Torren
tial rains swept northward along
the New England coast today,
leaving in their wake one of the
worst floods ever *to afflict the
eastern section of the United
States.
At least 22 persons were re
ported killed, and damage was
estimated in the millions of dol
lars, in the drenching storm that
developed after hurricane Diane
spent its fury in the Carolinas.
Nine states — Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Maryland, Massa
chusetts, Connecticut, Vermont,
Rhode Island, Virginia and New
Yo^k—and the District of Colum
bia were hit by the floods.
Scores of helicopters were
pressed into service by all branch
es of the armed services. The
Coast Guard also used amphib
ious ducks and an amphibian
plane to evacuate persons, some
clinging hazardously to trees or
flooded homes.
Arctic Club Carnival
SATURDAY NITE — 7 TO 12 MIDMCHT — AT THE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
★ Games ★ Dancing ★ Refreshments ★ Exciting Door Prizes ★