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^Legislative Force’ Urged By Bartlett In
Bringing Japan Fisheries To Agreement
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON UP) — Senator
Bob Bartlett said today the
United States “must use legisla
tive force if necessary to get Ja
pan to retire its North Pacific
•fishing activity westward.”
Departing for West Coast hear
ings on a bill designed to ban im
ports of Japanese-caught North
Pacific salmon, Alaska’s senior
senator conceded Japan’s activi
ties are altogether legal so long
as its fishermen stay west of the
175 degree west longitude — the
provisional line accepted by the
Japanese in 1953 as the eastern
limit of their fishery.
“It is also true, however, that
the preponderance of scientific
evidence shows the Japanese are
catching Alaska-spawned salmon,”
Bartlett said.
Unless the Japanese relent, Sec
retary of the Interior Seaton al-*
ready has given notice he plans
to close down the once-rich red
salmon fishery in Alaska’s Bristol
Bay.
Seaton said too few fish would
escape the Japanese high seas
harvest to provide escapement for
spawning purposes if a domestic
season was permitted.
“Why should Alaskans be out
of employment,” asked Bartlett,
“because the Japanese have no
idea of conservation?”
He said he believed the Japan
ese should be willing to go along
with the spirit of the 1953 treaty
and confine their fishing to an
area farther west, “Particularly
when it seems obvious that if they
keep fishing there won’t be any
fish for them, either.”
The Alaskan also disclosed he
has urged Secretary Seaton to be
Christians Over the World
Celebrate Resurrection In
Solemn and Gay Pageantry
(By The Associated Press >
Christians over much of the
world celebrated Easter Sunday
with services and prayers for
peace. Outside American churches
there were the usual fashion
■parades.
Pope John XXIII, in the first
Easter Mass of his Pontificate,
pleaded for peace. But he d^cia-'H
that “The good Christian du°s
not yield and is wary of en-norn
mises.”
Despite an all-dav do”Tnoour,
100,000 persons were in S‘ Pe
ter’s Square for the ^ontif^s ’-1 ^ -
sing. Among them were con
test winning newsboys
U. S. newspapers.
In West Berlin, a record * ,'\n,'0
tourists converged on the r:
miles inside Communis1 ^ast
Germany.
Pilgrims of numerous df'~u ' - -
tions hailed the resurr^c1'
the Jordan-occupied olJ '■' - T
Jerusalem.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and
her 16-year-old gran-^’-v: -
Nina attended Pontifica1 'J! *h
Mass in the Basilica of th» Church
of tiie Holy Sepulchre. Jordant *■>
newspapers had protested M '
Roosevelt’s visit because r>t ’* -
friendship for Israel, but h
were no incidents.
Rain dampened the day in par -
of the United States. The sun
broke through over New York,
but cool temperatures kept Fifth
Avenue Easter Paraders down to
an estimated 800,000, compared fo
the record 1,200,000 who strolled
in 1957.
prepared with an over-all program
of federal aid for the Bristol Bay
area residents if it is found neces
sary to close dowriTishing.
Enroute west, Bartlett was to
stop in Chicago today to address
the American Hotel Association
on Alaska’s tourist potential.
16 Witnesses Called To
Juneau Fishery Hearings
JUNEAU, — Sixteen wit
nesses, the bulk of whom are from
■major fishing communities, were
named Saturday to present testi
mony before a Senate Interstate
and Foreign Commerce Subcom
mittee hearing into recent Alaska
fishery restrictions.
Primary attention will be given
to the closing of Bristol Bay —
an action which prompted acting
Governor Wade Saturday to de
clare the area was faced with
“total economic disaster.”
The subcommittee hearings, to
be conducted by Sen. Bob Bart
lett, are scheduled Wednesday
and Thursday.
The Juneau sessions and a Fri
day hearing at Seattle are de
signed to gather grass roots senti
ment on a bill pending before
Congress which would ban the
import of Japanese canned
salmon.
Fishery experts blame exces
sive fishing by the Japanese for
the depletion of Alaska salmon
runs which resulted in the Bristol
Bay closure. The recent appear
ance of a large Russian fleet in
western Alaska waters poses an
other threat to the new state’s
fishery resources.
Acting Governor Wade alsb is
| scheduled to testify.
Eddie, Liz Mum on Plans
\* Nevada Resort
LAS VEGAS, Nev., UP) — “Miss
Taylor is here to rest and I’m here
to work.”
Eddie Fisher was speaking to
reporters between rehearsals at
the Tropicana Hotel where he
opens his night club act Wednes
day.
Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor ar
rived Sunday in this desert gamb
ling resort. The actress, accom
panied by her three children, a
nurse and valet, went into seclu
sion at a $500-a-week ranch out
side of town. A guard patrolled the
entrance as a steady procession
of sightseers tried to get a look at
the raven-haired actress.
Fisher, recently divorced by
actress Debbie Reynolds, declined
comment on whether he and Miss
Taylor will marry during their
Nevada stay.
HAPPY EASTER PARADER
VXBRIDGE, Mass., UP) — One of
the proudest Easter paraders Sun
day was Elizabeth (Lili) Sargin, 8,
r' 'mugh she had to use crutches.
Easter, a year ago, the child
touched off a cigarette lighter on
' er return home from church and
set her clothing afire.
She was burned over 81 per cent
of her body. After 36 operations
Lili was discharged from a Wor
e 3.nr hospital Easter eve.
EASTER BUNNY BITES!
PROVIDENCE, R. I., UP) — If
ane Sicard, 5, has no faith in the
Easter bunny, there’s a reason.
A bunny she received for a
gift bit her on the index finger.
Diane had to be treated at a
hospital.
Both Houses Seek
Mid-April Juneau
Adjournment
JUNEAU, UP, — The House ap
propriated enough money Satur
day to pay for legislative expenses
through April 15th while in the
Senate a proposal for adjourn
ment by April 11 was offered.
The House-approved bill appro
priated $76,120 for the period
from the 61st legislative day
through adjournment. The funds
will last until April 15.
Sen. George McNabb, mean
while, introduced a resolution in
the Senate urging adjournment
of the Legislature by April 11.
The resolution praised the law
makers for the expeditious man
ner in which they handled the
problems of the new state and said
it appeared major legislation re
maining could be enacted within
the next two weeks.
McNabb said the resolution rep
resented only his personal views
and not those of the Democratic
majority policy committee.
Both houses accepted a confer
ence committee report Saturday
giving Palmer and the Matanuska
Valley Fair the nod as the state’s
official fair for 1959. The action
scotches a bid by Fairbanks’ Ta
nana Valley Fair to become the
official fair on alternate years.
Major legislative action centered
in the House Saturday where
members reversed themselves and
went along with the Senate-ap
proved workmen’s compensation
bill with an unlimited death bene
fit payment provision.
Friday House members voted a
$52,400 limit to the payments,
but under reconsideration voted
for the open end benefit provi
sion.
The bill was returned to the
Senate for concurrence in House
amendments.
New York Family Delayed
On Alaska Journey
PORT HIRT, Mich., UP) — A
band of New Yorkers bound for
homesteads in Alaska were stalled
here yesterday with a broken
trailer hitch.
Harry Mackey, 59, leader of
the 13-member group, said they
would continue their journey to
the Goose Bay area of Alaska to
day as soon as the hitch was re
paired.
The group, all from Newburgh,
N. Y., consists of Mackey, his
wife and young son, another son,
Wayne Mackey, 25, his wife and
two children, and Mackey’s son
in-law, Campbell Hodge, 32, his
wife and four children. They are
traveling in three station wagons.
Mackey said they wanted to
complete the 5,000-mile journey to
Alaska quickly in order to get
there while “some land is still
left for homesteading.”
P-TA HOT DOG STAND
NETTED $60 FOR LOCAL USE
The P-TA Hot Dog Sale held
last Sunday during the Dog Der
by netted the organization about
$60, it has been reported.
The P-TA wish to express their
appreciation publicly to the Alas
ka Airlines for the use of their
office, which made the handling
of the stand very convenient.
The committee was headed by
its president, Roscoe Wilke, Au
drey Bayer, Mary Diede and Dora
Johanson. Young teen-agers as
sisting were Clarice Hardy, Sag
Savok, Roger Wallace and Albert
Diede.
U. S. Strength Could ‘Break the Back’
Of Soviets In War, Say Defense Chiefs
By the Associated Press .
The nation’s military chiefs told
the free world today that Amer
ican air, atom and growing missile I
might can break the Soviet Union’s I
back — destroy her “many times I
over” — if the Kremlin opens
World War III.
The assurances came as mem
bers of the 15-nation North Atlan
tic Treaty Organization pre
pared to open Thursday a
strategy conference' here mark
ing the 10th anniversary of the
NATO pact. -
By intent or coincidence, the
soberly confident statements put
the Soviet Union on notice the
Western Big Three will be leading
from strength if they take seats
at a summit conference this year..
Secretary of Defense McElroy
told a Detroit audience America
has airborne nuclear power,
poised and ready, in sufficient
force to “destroy the Soviet
Union if it should attack us.”
It is coupled, McElroy said, with
mobile forces which have proved
their ability to land by air or
sea and stamp out brushfire wars
in the world’s far corners.
'Gan Destroy Her Many Times'
Admiral Arleigh Burke, chief
of Naval operations, asserted that
if the Soviet Union launches all
out war “We can destroy her many
times over with the weapons we
now have in existence. We would
break her baok.”
Burke and General Maxwell D.
Taylof, Army Chief of Staff,
agreed the nation has “too much
retaliatory power.” Thousands of
manned and unmanned vehicles
could pour nuclear devastation
on the Soviet Union, said Taylor,
whereas the job could be done
with hundreds.
By FRANK W. VAILLE
(AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, UP) •— Eyes of
Alaskans — just as in territorial
days — are turned to the nation’s
capitol, where events of the next
few weeks could have a marked
effect on statehood’s infancy.
Early in April, probably April
8, attorneys for Alaska’s fish trap
operators and the government
clash in U. S. District Court over
Interior Secretary Seaton’s order
banning trap operations.
About the same time, possibly
a little later, Congressional com
mittees are expected to hold hear
ings on the Administration’s om
nibus bill, containing financial
grants and responsibilities for the
new state.
Both issues include matters re
quiring early decisions to be
meaningful.
In the case of the traps, oper
ators say they must have a deci
sion within the next few weeks
in order to make arrangements
for the fishing season.
In the case of the omnibus bill,
the money provisions are only
authorizations to appropriate. Be
fore any money can be forth
coming, Congress must follow
The Army and Navy chiefs
urged Congress to devote a larger
portion of defense spending to
building alert, mobile forces for
small wars in which the Soviet
Union might not be a direct par
ticipant.
General Nathan F. Twining,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, told Congress that the So
viet Union would have to depend
today almost entirely on manned
aircraft to deliver a nuclear as
sault.
And the Soviet air threat, he
went on, is “not half as big as
ours and not nearly so effective.”
His testimony showed the Air
Force is sure it knows the loca
tion of major Soviet strategic tar
gets and can pinpoint its A-bomb
and H-bomb drops on them with
accuracy measured in feet, not
the miles expected from long
range missiles. .
'Out On A Limb,
Charges that the nation’s ar
mor has its chinks were leveled,
however, by Rep. George Mahon
GD-Tex).
The joint chiefs, said Mahon,
have left “the American people
out on a limb” by failing to agree
among themselves on vital arma
ments issues."
The chiefs have concurred on
broad strategy, he said, but never
have reached decision on how
many American divisions, ships
and air wings are needed to exe
cute the plans.
But Mahon, too, stressed that no
one should underestimate Amer
ican power.
Everyone should realize, he
said, that: “We have a terrific
capability for launching an un
stoppable counteroffensive if at
tacked.”
through with further action.
• • •
Alaska’s Governor William
Egan has shown by his recovery
from a series of operations that
he can take it, so he probably
can stand this latest shock. The
Administration’s omnibus bill pro
vides that he will get only one
free copy of the Congressional
Record instead of the five which
Governor Mike Stepovich got as
a territorial official.
• * •
The omnibus proposal also
would get the law in conformity
with geography by spelling out
that the phrase “Continental
United States” shall mean the 49
states of the North American, con
tinent and the District of Colum
bia when used in future laws.
Explaining why the omnibus
bill contains a provision to ex
tend protection to the bald eagle
in Alaska, the Budget Bureau
noted that the national bird was
virtually extinct everywhere but
in the 49th state.
As the law now reads, the bald
eagle is protected “within the
United States or any place sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof,
except the Territory of Alaska.”
• • •
“. . Alaska now has the largest
percentage of unemployment of
any state under the flag, and the
responsibility for it can be "laid
directly at the door of federal mis
management by the agency which
had and still has control of our
fisheries.”
Thus spoke Sen. Ernest Gruening
during Senate debate on legisla
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