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VOL. LVI No. 14 N -Mfl, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1954 Per ‘Copy—15^
PACIFIC GRAY WHALE
MAKING COMEBACK
WASHINGTON, Iff)—The Pacific
gray whale is making a real come
back, the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice reported Sunday, and “is
expected to regain economic im
portance with the help of protec
tive regulations.”
It said the annual whale count
now being conducted at Point
Loma, Calif., indicates this year’s
count will exceed 1,000, as com
pared with 850 last year.
The whales move each winter
from the far north to lagoons in
Lower California to breed, sweep
ing close to the Cabrillo National
Monument at Point Loma.
Tire service said interest in the
gray whale stems from its past
economic importance and the
"decimation it suffered at the
hands of the whale industry in
the late 1800s and again in the
1920s,”
Late 2nd Division
Filings For 1954
o
Primary Election
Filing for the territorial Senate
from the Second Division are Jim
via der Heydt, William Beltz, and
Neil Foster. Democrats, and W. W.
Laws and L. Stevens, Republicans.
Filing for the House are Les
Bronson, Carrie McLain and
Charles Fagerstrom, Democrats,
and Edith Bullock, Richard Lee,
Ruth Reed, Wallace Mclvor and
Tom Martin, Republicans.
ANCHORAGE, UR—Goorge Lin
go, who served two sessions of
the territorial legislature as a
Democrat, has filed for Third
Division senator again—this time
as an independent.
In declaring his candidacy Sat
urday, Lingo said he became a
"disillusioned Democrat during
the Truman administration,” and
didn’t feel he conscientiously
could file either as a Republican
or Democrat.
As an independent, Lingo will
not have to campaign during the
primaries. His name automatic
ally will be on the ballot next fall.
Lingo served in the 1933 and
1935 legislative sessions. He man
aged the Anchorage Land Office
for many years, quitting the post
about two years ago.
JUNEAU, UP—Juneau Account
ant Henry Leege filed Thursday
as a Republican candidate for the
office of territorial treasurer.
The only other candidate to
date is Hugh J. Wade, a Democrat.
Filings for the legislature in
cluded:
Thomas Stewart, Democrat, as
sistant attorney general; Larry
Fitzpatrick, Republican, a fisher
man, of Juneau; Aston Coon, Re
publican, photographer and troller,
Sitka; William Boardman, Repub
lican, Ketchikan insurance agent,
all for the House.
Ralph Bartholomew, Republi
can, Ketchikan transfer business
owner, filed for the Senate.
Red Jets And
U.S. Sabres Fight
Rattle Over Korea
WASHINGTON, UP)—1The Air
( Force said today U.S. planes and
I Mig 15 jet fighters fought a sharp
engagement near the Korean coast
only 10 days ago, after a U.S.
reconnaissance bomber was at
j tacked.
I No American aircraft were lost,
' but one of the Russian-made jets
j was shot down. An Air Force
! spokesman here, who had only
' terse information on the incident,
I said so far as was known in Wash
! ington there were no U.S. casual
ties.
As for the nationality of the
i Mig pilots, he said only, “It is
! safe to assume they were Com
munists.”
i This was the first known clash
I between U. S. and Communist
; planes since the Korean armistice
| was signed July 27. Whether by
| coincidence or not, it occurred on
| a day of considerable tension—•
Jan. 22 was the day on which Uni
ted Nations officials released to
civilian status prisoners of war
who refused to be repatriated to
Red-held territory. The Commu
nists had insisted they must be
! kept in neutral custody. However,
no serious incident developed.
The Air Force gave this account
ot the plane incident:
A U.S. RB-45—a light, jet-pro
pelled bomber fitted for recon
naissance work—was flying a re
connaissance mission Jan. 22 over
international waters northwest of
Sok-To Island, off the west coast
of Korea, when “a large formation
of Mig 15 fighters” attacked it.
F-3G jet fighters guarding the
bomber opposed the attack and in
ithe* ensuing fight 5hot down one
! Ivlig 15.
The clash apparently took place
north of the 38th Parallel, the
old dividing line between North
and South Korea.
Eisenhower May Endorse
Proposed Compromise
On Bricker Amendment
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Eisenhower looked over the latest
proposed compromise on the
Bricker treaty-power amendment
today, and was reported to be
inclined to endorse it if one “ma
jor legal and Constitutional prob
lem can be cleared up.”
Sen. Knowland of California,
the Senate Republican leader,
gave that report to newsmen after
he and other GOP leaders re
viewed the controversy with the
President at a 2V£-hour White
House conference.
Knowland declined to say just
what is the legal and Constitu
tional problem to be cleared up.
And he emphasized that there
was no definite agreement on the
part of the President to support
the proposed compromise.
Bricker, author of a contro
versial proposed Constitutional
amendment to restrict treaty
making powers, announced yes
terday he would accept a compro
mise drafted by Senate GOP lead
ers if Eisenhower in turn would
agree to support it.
35 PERISH IN CRASH
OF AIR FORCE C-46
COURIER OFF JAPAN
TOKYO, UP)—A U.S. Air Force
plane only 10 minutes from
landing plunged 34 American
servicemen and an Armv civil
ian employe to death today in
icy waters off Hokkaido Island,
the Air Force said.
None of the 30 passengers and
5 crewmen survived the crash
of the twin-engine C-46 Com
mando, a courier plane shuttling
mail and supplies to a base in
northern Japan, said an Air
Force spokesman.
ILWU Member Turns
Down Post Of 3d Division
Labor Representative
JUNEAU, (J”—Gov. Heintzleman
j Saturday advised his assistant,
| Robert Dearmond, that Homer
j Boe, member of the International
j Longshoremen’s and Warehouse
| men’s Union (Ind), will be unable
to accept appointment as the
Third Division labor representa
tive to the Employment Security
Commission.
The governor, in Washington,
D.C., gave no explanation and did
I not indicate whom he might name
instead.
Boo was named to the commis
sion this month to replace Fred
Williams, who resigned to become
I marshal in the Third Division.
Kotzebue People
| Ask Liberalizing
Of Hunting Laws,
KOTZEBUE, WR—Residents of
this extreme northwestern Alaska
; area recommended liberalizing of
| some of the hunting regulations at
a recent conference here.
Favor was expressed for ex
tending the caribou limit from
three to five per hunter each sea
son in this Eskimo country. The
residents also proposed two addi
tional caribou be allowed to a
hunter who kills an arctic timber
wolf or wolves during the se"
because the wolves prey on
bou and other game.
Opening of the season on
also was advocated. A simile:
posal was made recently in . a
Bristol Bay region, where native
fishermen were hard-hit by the
poor 1953 salmon season.
The residents proposed five days
more for mountain sheep hunting
and a 10-day earlier opening on
waterfowl.
There was agreement on leaving
the rules unchanged on moose and
polar bears—no season on moose
and a limit of three bears per
hunter, after a lively no-decision
discussion of how many polar
bears there might be in the arctic.
Regulations are subject to the
Alaska Game Commission and
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice. The residents made their
suggestions to Dr. John L. Buck
ley of the University of Alaska
Wildlife Management Department
and Ray Woolford of the FWS.
They said a tak^ of 200 to 300
polar bears annutally is reported
to the Alaska Game Commission. |
Russian Flan For Germany Without
Free Elections Would Revive Causes
Of World War II, Says Bidault
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Former Nome Prospector
D:es In Seattle At 85
SEATTLE, WP>—James Allen Da
vidson, 85, retired Alaska pros
pector, died Friday after a long
illness.
He was born in Clinton, 111., and
after spending 40 years prospect
ing in Alaska, mostly in the vicin
ities of Nome and Bethel, came to
Seattle in 1940.
Mining Conference
Lashes Free Trade
As Fraud, Delusion
DENVER, (41—The resolutions
committee of the National West
ern Mining Conference submitted
a nine-point report Saturday call
ing for enactment of laws to pro
tect the American worker’s stan
dard of living and equalization of
foreign and domestic ores produc
tion costs.
The sharply worded report
lashed “free trade” as a fraud and
a delusion,” and. summed up the
domestic mining industry in these
words:
“(The' metal mining! industry
has long been the nation’s guinea
■ pi i which have been tested
impractical and unworkable econ
omic and political theories.”
It attributed to “that ‘great fi
nancial genius,’ the late Harry
D- xter White,” the formation of
the International Monetary Pact
and the Bretton-"Woods Agree
ment.
“These two pacts,” the report
said, “gave a dishonest and ficti
tious value to paper currency, and
condemned tho world to continued
inflation and political unrest.”
The report proposed amendment
of Public Law 250 “so as to vali
date all uranium and similar min
ing claims located within the
boundaries of oil and gas leases”
Tithin public domain since Jan. 1,
i 53, and all future locations. It
o called for foreign nations to
• required to adopt anti-trust,
ocial security, compensation “and
other laws” to protect the Ameri
can workman’s standard of living
“before any attempt is made to es
tablish so-called ‘free trade’ be
tween those countries and the
U.S.; and asked abrogation of
pacts prohibiting the unlimited
coinage and free exchange and
ownership of gold and silver coins
and bullion.
New Fairbanks-Seattle
Speed Record Of 5 Hr.
Set By Pan Am DC-6B
SEATTLE, W)—A new speed
mark for a commercial plane be
tween Fairbanks and Seattle was
set Sunday when a Pan American
World Airways DC-6B Clipper
flew the 1,530 mile route in 5
hours and 1 minute.
The new time broke the mark
of 5:13 set 10 days ago on the first
flight of a Pan Am DC-6B over
the route.
BERLIN, UP)—French Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault declared
Saturday the Russian plan for
establishing a government for
Germany without free election?
would revive the very elements
that brought about World War II.
Bidault declared at the final
session of the first week of the
Big Four conference that the Rus
sian proposal would create a Ger
many “dominated by militarist
elements playing one camp off
against the other.”
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov has insisted that Ger
many be unified by merger of the
two rival governments and that
only after a peace treaty is signed
should the question of national
I elections be considered. This
would give the Russian satellite
East German regime parity with
the freely-elected Bonn Republic.
The French diplomat assailed
the Moscow plan and at the same
time put in a strong word for
British Foreign Secretary Antho
ny Eden’s five-stage program for
German unity which starts with
free elections at the outset.
The persistent Soviet diplomat,
who refused to accept ho for an
answer on this same issue Friday,
brought the subject up soon after
-he sixth day’s session opened.
The American, British and
French ministers vetoed the Rus
sian in turn. They repeated their
reasoning of before—that the two
Germanys haven’t got a govern
ment that can either speak or lis
ten for the German people and
therefore the rival regimes in ex
istence cannot be allowed to take
■part in the discussions.
The Russians aren’t much in
terested in whether the Western
government of Konrad Adenouer
takes part. Their aim is clearly to
get some kind of recognition for
their satellite Communist ma
chinery which rules the Soviet
Zone and its 18 million people.
Big Four, Meeting In East
Germany Face Problem
Of Uniting Germany
BERLIN, —The Big Four for
eign ministers convened in the
Russian sector of divided Berlin
this afternoon after a Sunday re
cess in their global talks which
are now pinpointed on the vexing
problem of uniting Germany.
The American, British and
French ministers in succession
drove through the old Branden
burg Gate onto Unter den Linden
and swung through the iron por
tals of the Soviet embassy shortly
before the opening hour.
As host and as chairman for the
day, Soviet Minister V. M. Molo
tov greeted his1 colleagues in the
“Hall of Mirrors,” where a round
table 12 feet in diameter was set
up for the parley.
The Western three went east,
braced to ward off a “Molotov
cocktail”—a plan for a unifi? d
Germany too weak and isolat d . >
resist Russia.