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Bar lett Asks Study
Be Made of Polar
Bear And Walrus
WASHINGTON, <#—Del. Bart
lett is urging the Department of
the Interior to assemble some
“worthwhile information” as a
basis for protective measures for
Alaska’s polar bear and walrus.
Information contained in a re
cent Fish and Wildlife Service
report, he said in a letter to Ross
Leffler, an Interior Assistant Sec
retary, is “general to the point
of being discouraging.”
“For example,” he’ said “the
statement is made ‘the walrus is
said to be to the Eskimos what
the bison was to the plains In
dians’; etc. A generality is* not
here required. I think without
any additional appropriations it
will be fairly simple to discover
what economic importance the
walrus is to the Eskimo.”
Bartlett recalled he had talked
earlier this year with Leffler and
other Fish and Wildlife Service
officials about the probable need
for early action to save the polar
bear and walrus from exterm
ination.
He said he had suggested the
possibility of the department ask
ing the State Department to con
fer with Canada and Russia on
a three nation agreement.
To this, Bartlett said, Leffler
had replied he felt there was
need for more reliable informa
tion on the problem befbre un
dertaking any negotiations but
the department had no money to
finance a study of polar bear
and walrus herds.
The Alaskan said he felt first
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the department “over the years
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worthwhile store of information.
Also, he said, “if the situation
is as urgent as I thought we had
all agreed,” then the money
should be made available with
out delay by seeking a supple
mental appropriation from Con
gress.
“I suggest that even without
any large appropriation some
authentic worthwhile information
can be speedily assembled even
if only one competent member
of your staff is assigned to the
project for just a few weeks,”
Bartlett said.
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Khrushchev Denounces
Japanese Refusal To
Sign Peace Treaty
TOKYO, CP — Soviet Premier
Khrushchev has accused the Jap
anese government of damaging
Japan’s fishing industry by ob
structing conclusion of a peace
treaty with Russia.
Khrushchev’s statement was in
a letter dated April 14 and de
livered to Mosaburo Suzuki, chair
man of the Socialist Party, main
opposition to the ruling Liberal
Democrats.
Khrushchev replied to a letter
from Suzuki urging the Soviet
Union to agree to a new fishing
pact even though a peace treaty
never has been signed with the
Soviet Union since the end of
World War II.
The fishing talks between the
two powers now are reaching
the final stage in Moscow. The
pact is expected to all but close
the Soviet sea of Okhotsk north
of Japan to Japanese fishermen.
These were important fishing
waters for Japan in the days
when it controlled Southern Sak
halin and the Kurile Islands
along the eastern boundaries of
the sea. The Soviet Union took
over all Sakhalin and the Kuriles
in the closing days of the war.
Japan wants at least the Southern
Kuriles returned and this demand
is one of the chief stumbling
blocks to a peace treaty.
Khrushchev wrote Suzuki that
in the fishing agreement the
Soviet Union did not seek any
special interest' or privilege but
was concerned only with conser
vation of marine resources and
their logical utilization.
ASTRONOMY NOTRS
By OLAF HALVERSON
Towards the close of the 18th
century, the German astronomer
Bode invited his colleagues to
share in a search for a planet -be
tween .the orbits of Mars and Ju
piter. He pointed out that a ser
ies of numbers, whiclj later came
to be called Bode’s Law repre
sented the relative distances of
the planets remarkably well,
with a single exception. No
planet had been found corres
ponding to the number 2.8.
While the search was being
organized, the missing planet
was discovered quite by accident
by Piazzi in Sicily, on the 1st of
January, 1801. Its motion from
night to night among the stars
he was observing declared that
it was not one of them. The
mean distance of the new planet,
which Piazzi named Ceres, proved
to be almost exactly 2.8 times
the earth’s distance from the sun.
Three other asteroids, Pallas,
Juno, and Vesta were discovered
the following few years.
NC Store at Anchorage Receives
Special Citation In New York
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a finalist in the 10th annual Re
taielr-of-the-Year competition, it
was announced in New York to
day.
Northern Commercial was cit
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and distribution of manufactur
tiveers’ trademarked products and
for accomplishment in inter
preting to the public the con
sumer benefits of the competi
tive brand system, president of
Brand Names Foundation Henry
E. Abt, sponsor of the competi
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Northern -Commercial is eligible
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of the 25 finalists at the Waldorf
Astoria April 16. More than 1,500
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