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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 263. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30,1927
PRICE TEN CENTS
NEW REGULATIONS
MUST BE REGARDED
AS EXPERIMENTS
OR. THOMPSON, AFTER STUDY,
CERTAIN HALIBUT INDUSTRY
CAN BE PRESERVED
VANCOUVER, Nov. 30. </p)—-Dr.
’JF. F. Thompson, fish scientist, said
jStoat all regulations must be regarded
4s experimental when first enforced
because the commission can do no
more than what is believed will be
beneficial to the industry. "By furth
er study I am sure the industry can be
preserved. but to what extent only
future investigations will reveal." He
urged cooperation in the industry was
essential to this.
A L. Rger, appearing for the New
England Fishing Co., said if the gov
ernment decided to close some of the
depleted chicken halibut banks, such
as those off Goose Island, he can see
no great reduction in the annual catch.
Me said another feature worthy of con
sideration by the commission is in the
reduction of -the catch, which even if
only slight, will cause the price to go
up and would automatically result in
greater importation of halibut, in a
frozen form, from Japan.
Fishing companies are already
greatly handicapped by prices they
had to pay fishermen for the product
and he said the Japanese improved
freezing process and quality is better
than the first year’s in 1925 and 1926.
He added packing companies had the
same experience with salmon and it
had taken the Japanese 12 years to
perfect their canning. Other pro
cesses, he feared, would be the same
as in the case of halibut.
Dr. Thompson stated the natural
rate of increase of halibut is two fish
per pair spawning fish.
Henry O’Malley, U. S. Fish Com
missioner, said the natural rate of in
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crease for red salmon was three iper
pair spawning fish. The rate amount
<ft other varieties is unknown.
' RISING TIDE TRIPS
THREE MEN; OYSTER
REDS iSRINGTON
1LWAC0, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Not. 30. (/P)—How, for lour hours,
throe men suffered a living death—
death came to them ultimately—as a
rising tide crept inch by inch upon
them, was told by three Japanese en
gaged in taking oysters from the sea.
The men were working an oyster bed
a quarter of a mile from land at low
tide when their boat got away and the
•men were marooned in the rising tide
and etormy night.
NOT UNTIL AFTER XMAS
WASHINGTON, Nov 30. (£■)— Re
publican leaders doubt if the Decem
ber session of Congress can enact
any important legislation because of
I split over farm relief.
RUM RUING DOES
NOT PAY SAYS ROY
OLMSTED IN PRISON
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CAN’T TREAD ON LIVE COALS
I WITHOUT GETTING SCORCH.
ED; POOR BUSINESS
j McNEILS ISLAND, Nov, 30. (&)—
Wm. Roy Olmsted, once acknowledged
as the head of the Pacific northwest’s
largest rum ring, entered prison to be
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come a convict in expiration of his
d«ht to society.
i "Rum running does not pay and can
not pay," he declared as he stepped
within the walls to serve four years
sentence, “and that goes for any oth
r criminal enterprise. You can’t
read on liive coals without getting
your feet scorched. I have known
hat always. Pm not complaining now.
I violated the law and that is always
rrrong. I am going to pay the penalty
ut it is my own fault.
“Every bootlegger goes into the
game for one thing, the dollars. Aj
xian might violate the law for quite a|
while and make huge profits but un
3 ss he pulls out of it he will be caught
nd punished.”
ABOLISH DEFENSES
: IS PROPOSAL SOVIET
I CHIEF AT GENEVA
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MAXIM LITVINOFF THROWS BOMB
SHELL INTO RANKS DISARMA.
MENT COMMISSION
GENEVA, Nov. 30. {JP)~Soviet Rus
sia 'threw "a peace bomb” into the
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opening session of the preparatory dis
armament commission by. formerly
proposing complete abolition of all
land and marine air forces.
\ Admitting the Soviet project was a
radical suggestion Maxim’ Litvihoff,
chief of the Soviet delegation, called
for dissolution of all land, sea and air
forces and non admittance to their ex,
istance in any concealed form.
The proposal created a sensation at
the conference altho many delegates
smiled as if they considered the
scheme more than utopian. The Rus
sian delegate submitted other cardinal
points of project that all. ^weapons,
military supplies, means for chemical
warfare and all other material forms
of armament, be destroyed and all war
ships, military air craft be scrapped
and the system calling upon citizens
for military training be discontinued.
SEND SOME NORTH!
| BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 30. (ZP)—
Phenomenal heat wave at Santiago
and Del Estero has sent the temper
ature to 112 degrees.
SOME MORE RESIGN
BRUSSELS, Nov. 30 (/P)—Foreign
Minister Vandervelde and three
■ other socialist members of the cabi
net will resign over failure to reach
accord on army and navy.
WORSE THAN WAR, ALMOST!
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. (^—Au
tomobiles caused 686 deaths in 77
I cities in four weeks ending Novem
ber 5. «■_: ; s' r
! REMUS MURDER CASE
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FORMER ALASKAN ASKED ABOUT
CONTACTS WITH ALLEGED
BOOTLEG KING
1 CINCINNATI, Nov. 30. (/P)—.John B.
Marshall of Juneau, formerly United
States Commissioner and Alaska pro
hibition director for Alaska, was call
ed as a witness in the murder trial of
George Remus, alleged bootlegger
charged with killing his wife. Mar
shall was asked about his contacts
with Remus as " special United States
Attorney General in the Jack Daniel
case, St. Louis.
I The prosecution objected to the in
terrogations saying they had no bear
|ing on Marshall’s opinion as to Rem
us’s sanity. Assistant Prosecutor Eas
ier said “since Marshall used Remus
as a witness in the Daniel case Remus
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must have been sane.”
"His Broadest Smile
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MS FISHERMEN BE
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TOTAL HALIBUT CATCH PAST
I SEASON DECLINED; ENORMOUS
INCREASE GEAR
VANCOUVER, Nov. 30. </p)—AJth*
there is an opportunity to revive tie
halibut Industry fishermen were atf*‘
vised by Dr. W. F. Thompson to Se
prepared to operate under stringent
regulations which will be made by the
international halibut commission.
Dr. Thompson, who is director Bor
scientific research under authority oi
the commission, spoke at the confer
ence here and declared statistics ehotr
conditions on the banks are very eer
ious. The total catch declined and an.
enormous increase in amount of gear
was used.
Vancouver representatives of the in
dustry approved of the closed halibnt
season and -two suggested the closure
might be extended two weeks, each
prior to the beginning of the end of
the season. Dr. Thompson declared
with the decline of fish and increase of
gear the conclusion necessarily fol
lowing means stringent regulations
must be adopted.
The immediate and future migration
of halibut was found comparatively
small and different regulations in each
area will be enforced. Owing to the
distinctly different rates, growths and
habits, it probably will be necessary
to set aside great spawning reserves
to protect the smaller fish.
SHE OF ITER IN
I JUNEAU AND DISTRICT
JUNEAU, Nov. 30. (jP)—There has
been no rain for five weeks and one
third of the (town is without fresh
I water. Travelers, reaching Juneau
jfrom Hot Springs and Porcupine Har
bor, reported the springs have ceased
flowing and hoi water is now issuing
I instead of cold water. The change i»
believed to be the result from the re
cent earthquake.
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JUNEAU, Nov. 30. (£>)—Patients ia
the hospital here were hurridly remov
ed to safety when fire broke out In
the institute during the coldest Novem
ber day in 18 years or at a tempera
ture of six below zero. The fire was
confined to the basement.
MINISTER POLICEMEN?
GENEVA, Nov. 30. (JP)—Protestant
churches have launched a movement
to suppress gambling in European
casinos.