The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1938, Page 2

R BT WA PATE IR . 8 » " " ] L " ¥ . 4 ’ . ] ] FEBRUARY, 1938; ™! By VOLTA TORREY AP FPeature dervice Writ ! Last PFebruary, Ii s, after fiie Reichstag bu Corporal Adolf Hifl had' far m power than a kaiser. But in C ghurches and army there mdependent spirits. Of, the clovics, the most defi- ant was the Rev, Martin Niemoel- ler. He was tried for treason and left in jail, Of the generals, the star was ‘War Minister Von Blomberg. He “~and a dozen satellites were “busi- ed.” | Simultaneously, Hitler shook up y his diplomatic department and ,roared at Austria and British For eign Secretary Eden. In Vienng Chancellor Schuschnigg promptly appointed ‘a Nazi, , Arthur Se) Inquart, to his cabinet. In London, Prime Mini Chamberlain ac- - ~eepted Eden's resignation. Prophecy and Reality “I am no Trojan horse . tria must sbe independent . . further changes are forese Seysz-Inquart. And he did not hand Hitler the keys to Vienna until the following month. “The peace of "Europe” berlain counseled Com: depend on Germany, and ourselves,” And he set out to patch up, first, the rift between London and Rome over interven- tion in Spain, agitation among Arabs and “piracy” in the Med- iterranean. U. S. retary of State Hull, meaniwhil¢, denfed Uncle Sam had any ‘war’ alliances with John Bull <) ] Pre-Inventory BLANKETS I-Weel BPouble Blankets $9.95 ’ Values to $14.00 Part-Weool Single ' Blaniket. Coiten Sheet Blanket | 70 B.M. Behrends Co., Inc. | | ' “Juneau’s Leading Department Stere” ABINETS ARE SHUFFLED AS DER FUEHRER 0. 81.25 r4 ON THE AMERICAN FRONT--Lit toss out a conferee. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28 BOURCES OF DATA: U S BUREAU OF FISHEAILS PACIFIC FISHERMAN Al Grdphicdl Studies of 1938. Territory’s Basic I ndustriesf TERRITONAL AUDIT! Sale LEGEND SALMON PACK ar species Jrinns | B vies siin ] cwums - conots 82.95 vaLuE o ALLFISH PRODUCTS CANNED SALMON ALoTwER saLuon HALIBUT HERRING HEREE A omnen PooveTs WAGES PAID v SALMON ARERING INOUSTRY MOIE Fisntauen's wasEs AT NG INCLUBED ATTER 1928 EMPLOYMENT (I whites WnaTives wy] oTHERS o }:u':o- F1snemen] MORTRY g CPCRATION s cLosen SALMON CATCH oy pERCENT o 6EAR V3ED EEE) Taars GILL NETS [T seimes ROARS TWICE | TATRSKA PLANNING COUNGIL. (This is the tenth of a series | of graphs prepared by the staff | of the Alaska Planning Council, | dealing with the administrative | and fiscal affairs of the Terri- tory. Others will appear in later | issues of The Empire, It is the first study of its kind ever to have been made in Alaska and gives a picture of government | and of industries based on min- | erals, fish and wild life never before made available. Most of the graphs are plotted accumu- | Tatively, showing the individual values in subsequent strips of different shading as explained | in the legends.—Ed. Note) ALASKA FISHeRD 1 Salmon pack by species The breakdown into species clear- | Iy shows that the all-time low pack of 1921 and the all-time high of 1936 | | was caused chiefly by variation in| ! the pinks and to a lesser degree by | the chums, This is also true for the minor total pack variations. The | reds—combined here with kings, as| the latter were too small in num-| bers to .be plotted alone—show the least variation during all these years, | with the exception of 1935, when the | Bristol Bay area was closed. Com- parison of the widths of the indi- | vidual strips affords a fair appraisal | | of the share of each species in the {year no data on fishermen's wages ALASKA FISHERIES AY 3 & Ly B cod ranking third and fourth in total amount but vary some- Wages paid by salmon industry— what in different years. The total and total employment: trend of these tax receipts follows Most conspicuous in these two closely the ups and downs of the strips is the peak during the years |salmon pack and has generallyy 1918, 1919 and 1920, reflecting not |been upward since the early twen- only the war and postwar wage |ties. | {level but also the increase in total Immediate comparison of the employment during those years. In trends of salmon catch by traps general, the wage curve for the salmon packing industry runs strik- ingly parallel to the total employ- ment curve up to 1826. After that and of taxes received from trap fishing should ajd in an intelli- | gent future study of the fish trap | controversy. Revenues from h traps and excess trap-caught fish | increased steadily until 1927 (rep-| resenting taxes due for 1926), when an all-time high’ of $194,000. was | earned. After 1928 receipts from this source show an almost steady | decrease until 1937 in which year | the record salmon pack of 1936 | came to bear in form of generally | increased fish revenues. Still, the trap taxes collected in 1937 were almost $50,000 behind those of 1027. | (See also Graph A-5) | There were 637 traps in opera- tion during 1926 compared to 453 in 1936, a revenue loss of $200 per | trap on the difference of 184. | For the same period, the num-| ber of fishermen employed in the salmon canning industry and the; income from fishermen’'s licenses shows changes which are not always consistent with the changes in ere available, and the wage curve, | accordingly, appears to drop. | Four even peaks of employment stand out, 1918, 1928, 1936 and 1937. It is noteworthy that the em- ployment peaks do not exactly coin- cide with the pack peaks; for in-| stance, the lew pack of 1927 was produced by more men than the high pack of 1926. The distribution as to whites, na- tives and others (largely Oriental labor): shows a rather large per-| centage of the latter and an in-| creasing trend in the employment | of natives. The number of fisher- men in the salmon industry is sur-| prisingly uniform and should be | compared with the trap curve shown in a later strip of the graph. 4 Operation of canneries: | closed The varying number of E—— T . U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU \ THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Dec. 28: Fair tonight and Thursday; continued cold; moderate to fresh east to north winds. Weather forecast for Southeast Alatka: Fair tonight and Thurs- day, continued cold; moderate to fresh east to north winds. except strong north wind over Lynn Canal and strong east winds over chan- nels having an east-west direction, and gentle to moderate east to north winds at Ketchikan, Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh (o strong east and northeast winds tonight and Thursday from Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer and moderate to fresh east to north winds from Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook, except strong over mouth of Copper River. B LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 3:30 p.m. yest'y ... 30.09 9 63 NE 18 Clear 3:30 a.m. today 30.18 7 51 N 16 Clear Noon today 30.11 8 33 N 15 Clear RADIO REPORTS i | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 4am. 4a.m. Precip 4am Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Atka 38 | 28 28 4 30 Clear Anchorage 16 12 14 14 0 Cloudy Barrow -10 | =14 -10 12 0 Clear Nome 18 -2 12 0 Clear Bethel 14 8 12 26 .02 Snow Fairbanks -18 -30 4 0 Clear Dawson -52 -52 8 0 Clear St. Paul 38 36 10 Trace Cloudy Dutch Harbor 40 34 6 .03 Pt. Cldy Kodiak 36 | 36 12 52 Rain Cordova 24 | 22 4 0 Clear Junecau 10 * 7 16 0 Clear Sitka 23 — - 0 Ketchikan 22 14 4 0 Clear Prince Rupert 24 14 4 0 Pt. Cldy Edmonton -26 46 0 0 Cloudy Seattle 48 46 16 20 Cloudy Portland 50 44 8 54 Pt. Cldy 8San Francisco 56 48 6 0 Clear New York 52 20 20 26 0 Clear Washington 48 22 22 12 0 Clear WEATHER CONDITIGNS AT 8§ AM. TODAY Seattle (airport), cloudy, temperature 45; Bellingham, raining, 33; Victoria, part cloudy, 39; Alert Bay, snowing, 31; Bull Harbor, cloudy, 29; Langara, snowing, 24; Triple Island, cloudy. 25; Prince Rupert, clear, 13; Ketchikan, clear, 15; Craig, cloudy, 15; ‘Wrangell, cloudy, 9; Petersburg, part cloudy, 2; Sitka, cloudy, 18; Windham Bay, clear, 10; Cape Spencer, clear, 20; Hoonah, part cloudy, 10; Tenakee, clear, 5; Radioville, clear, I ; Skagway, clear, -2; Klukwan, clear, -13; Haines, clear; Eldred Rock, clear, 9; Juneau, clear, T7; Taku Lodge, clear, -7; Tulsequah, clear, -13; Cordova, cloudy, 20; Chitina, cloudy, -24; St. Elias, cloudy, -30; Seward, cloudy, 28; An- chorage, cloudy, 13; Fairbanks, clear, -32; Nenana, clear, -4; Hot Springs, clear, -22; Tanana, clear, -10; Nulato, cloudy, Ruby, cloudy, -2; McGrath, cloudy, -1; Flat, cloudy, 8; Stuyahok, snowing, 1; Crooked Creek, cloudy, 5; Bethel, cloudy, 18; Nome, cloudy, 15; Solomon, cloudy, 12; Golovin, cloudy, Council, cloudy, 11. Juneau, Dec. 29.—Sunrise, 8:50 a.m.; sunset, 3:15 p.m WEATHER SYNOPSIS The general barometric pressure distribution over the mnorth- western portion of North America has changed but little during the past 24 hours, being abnormally nigh from Barrow and Aklavik south-southeastward to Alberta, there being two crests, one of 30.74 inches at Fort Norman and the second at Edmonton where a pressure of 30.62 inches was reported. Low birometric pressure continued over the Aleutians and over the northeastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean. This general pressure distribution has been attended by pre- cipitation from the Aleutians eastward to Kodiak, also over the lower Kuskokwim Valley, and over Washington and Oregon and by gener- ally fair weather over the remainier of the field of observation Cold weather prevailed over tie Canadian Northwest and over the eastern and southern portions of Alaska, the lowest reported temperature being 58 degrees below zero at Mayo. The lowest tem- perature at Juneau was 6 degrees above zero. It was much colder this morning at New York and Washington, attended by a north- west gale at New York. [ 4 . The Japanese, refused to talk about total pack. Pinks rank highest in the percentage of trap-caught fish pattleships they were building, . | number, reds second, chums third, |canneries is shown by the upper|and in tax income from fish traps. Chinese airmen bombed Japanese ¢ | while cohoes contributed by far the [dark strip; As this number includes| The apparent complexity of this | sofl for the first time in history. | smallest portion. Kings, if plotted, {many obsolete plants which became | interplay of cause and effect sug- Britain's | $150,000.000 e | would show as a thin line only, replaced by modern plants of igests a much more detailed study of the Orient,” the Singapo ON THE EUROPEAN FRONT—Anthony Eden (left), steps out of the }:;?::;une-fourm to‘one-third of the g::";;;g:flccl::idm:g s;l:zen:sdii;:han the me:fga:m?: s:'mlésisBof Vi DENE: vitish Cs . A . S g steps i v ) | figures compiles e U. 8. Bu- :::i: 1:;:):; —Oh:‘, :d st carried out—| ____ _Bf“h sl A“mi‘, g ,/‘,n,\f‘u:m e ke Au-sflan Cabmet_, 2 Value of all fish products: the number of lines, care must be\}regau: of Hsi)]eries znn convey. for aaiing: AT 8. Bel Sh AOharS Four major phases of fishing are |taken not to misinterpret this part | ERPETT TS SR many. And Congréss snowed, threw. & mammoth tea party for | the North Pole for mz_)mhs on an shown by anpual gross production{of the graph. It is evident that| S o et eud Paul V. McNutt, who was being|ico floe were rescued just as their | values, namely canned salmon, other |large plants and general 111creasc?BER'l NE'D'“G L) against more men-of-war talk up for the presidency floe began to crack up off Green- | salmon prodycts (chiefly mild cured, /in plant efficiency have balanced | ™™ R M Bl aws L cniigren than usual had |land’s rocky coast | pickled and fresh salmon), halibut [the often staggering number of | or TUI.SEOUAH As doughty as miniature gufo measles, ?I Cu]!()'li\| ‘?'| i lan{fh:fl;;r:znl be el plantsl closed | . 000 little busines uffering from “mental disturba . H 2. | elr all5 Salmon catch hy percent of i ::fr:n.ll i;ofi l,,;“n‘-:‘,;xn”\:.h; k:“f‘: es” Hervey S. PFircstone and O. O. T rini t y Ch"S'maSi‘”“e' represented by the top line,| gear used: | BA(K 0" .IOB ) make , themselves heayd clamored Laosen cr , stores, re- | vive. NR c. Though ag hing- | W ton is, to public politicians couldn’t as these vocifergus it out. A new AAA was created. The | Cha anti-lynching . bill as Price -controls, -super - highways, Ge monopalies, with CIO. United Mine expelled Bill Green, who was busyi lambasting Labor's . Non-Parlisan League as a CIO “dummy” bent on forming a farmer-labor party.|Fc ‘1 TELLS YUH SHE €UT LITYLE HEARTS OUTA TH' KNEES O MY BEST BRITCHES ! [ niiidimet® Intyre died. I the|geles ji take it as fast|wife and b visitors dished and ruled he was insane at the | time- nd Iy C Paul A grime Marches On bloids told of the vight trial, in which a Los An- d the slaying of his t friend manslaughter the killing of Dr. H. Lee, T, law-and-order| ., goly Innocence Day, with gifts] shelved. | erusader, on St. Simons Island off | exonanged during the gathering. a's coast. And the crime of| trade treaties and the month was the kidoaping of pary of the aft¢rnoon being spent|and minimum production in the equal rights for women were de- Peter Levine, 12, of New Rochelle, | jn playing games. bated. . U. 8. Steel renewed .its pact |N. Y. whose headless body was Workers | found on the shore of Long Island | Mrs, Waino Hendrickson and Mrs.| maintained, in general, a uniform sourd three months later. | But the winter's great adventure | y saga 1 ended happily Russian And genial gents from Indiana|who had drifted southward from |building th "PQLLY AND HER PALS in February: | weather observers | NOW, SAM'L., THINK O WHEN ~ou WUZ A YOUNGSTER, ~ERSELF | is roughly identical with the trend | of the total salmon pack, as salmon | constitutes an overwhelmingly large | part of the Alaska fisheries. Among | the trends exhibited by the minor | phases of fisheries, halibut showed {29, Inorease, from 1926 to 1930, fol- Tree Commemorates Holy Innocence Day This affernoon at Trinity Hall is the Christmas tree annually held ing the years since 1931. The herring industry is characterized by a num- ber of ups and downs, with maxi- A program is being presented, with | mum values in 1925, 1926 and 1927, | years before 1918, in 1921 and again In charge of the Trinity tree is|in 1928. From 1031 on the industry modest level with a slight increase ‘| towards 1937. Among the fish pro- ducts’ included in ‘“all other pro- John Dolenc. - — Kentucky's first postoffice, was Increase of trap fishing over gill nets and seines is obvious, but not as spectacular as might be expect- jed. In, fact, 1920 registers a higher | percentage of trap caught fish than 11936 and 1937. As the use of gear varies consid- | B. B. Neiding, Superintendent of the Polaris-Taku mine at Tulse- quah, returned on the Mount Mc- ' Kinley after two months Outside on | company business. Neiding said Juneau “looks good’ | lowed by a conspicuous decline dur-} diably ‘with fishing Tegions, a dé- after severe weather in the Great tailed " discusston of this phase of | Siics TPBIoR Wheve on one ccoaeion the fishing industry is reserved for jo caiq he saw @ Great Lakes the regional part of this paper. freighter come in heavily iced down 6 o’t“al.;est:‘r::: u;:xglsshl:rs; m;‘ll::trey‘;iamr a trip Itmm Detroit to D\;t)ua(.: : “Out of fifty new Chryslers - which were collected by the Terri- | eq at Detroit, there were only four torial treasury. Salmon pack taxes jeft on the deck when they dock- ymake up the major portion of the ed,” Neiding said. “The rest had total, followed by fish trap licenses. been swept overboard and the four Taxes from salteries, oil and fer- remaining were frozen to the deck.” established at Danville in 1792 in a t is still standing. ducts” whaling and shrimo hold first |tilizer plants and receipts from | - ., — fishermen’s licenses are about equal| Today’s News Tuaay.—Empire. and second place, with shellfish and THAT'S JESS WOT I'M DOIN'. WHEN I WUZ A KID MY PAW CUT 5'MZ . SWITCHES --- - -+ THAT NOBUDDY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD EVER HADDA PAY . T' HAVE THE\R ORCHARD! PRUNED! - © INs. CO. M. A FIRE is not the only destroyer of property. Other hazards take heavy toll, too. For a surprisingly small premium, have an Extended Coverage Endorsement attached to your fire insurance policy. 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