The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” sz Y VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,798 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1948 MOHANDAS GANDHI KILLED BY ASSASSIN (OLD WAVE NINTH DAY LINGERING N FOR TRIAL OF MEEKS Witness Says Accused Man WAGE SCALE FORSALMON | FISHING UP MANY AREAS | | Early Sefllefit Proposed Rising Tem to Avert Tie-up of | Big Industry | SEATTLE, Jan. 30.—(®—Union of-; ficials representing most of the 200 workers in the Alaska fishing in- dustry will “throw their weight” to- ward an early settlement of a “le- gzal and jurisdictional battle” which| they fecl threatens to tie up the sea- son’s $75,000,000 industry. The unions named a three-man| committee yesterday to investigate 8atures on | Way for Aid ' Heat- | ing-Fuel Problem | | i Couldn't Have Bought Campbell Watch CHICAG Jan. 30.—P— Coldi Both sides rested in the | weather lingered in parts of the| Meeks case at 2:43 o'clock this | midwest and east today, increas-| afterncon. ing the heating-fuel problem, but | sing temperatures were on the| way to many sections of the cen-|rebuttal witness to take the stand tral, southern and mountain states.! for the government this morning Shortages of fuel still affected|at the first degree murder trial of scores of communities and be- George Harriscn Meeks continued came more acute in some areas fol- | in U. S. District Court here today. William E. Didelius was the only | about an hour. | got her to admit that .‘cu"ed her testimony with the Dis-| | trict Attorney and the FBI 1 | left the soldier while at the Key-i the dispute involving local 7, CIO-|lowing the several recent cold| Didelius, who was an FBI agent| Cannery Workers Union, and the| snaps. Industries across the coun-|at the time of the murder o. new independent union, the Sea-!try forced to close because of theClarence J. Campbell, a 28-year-old | food Waorkers. | curtailment of gas suppiies have | Seattle ccnstruction worker, pri- | The committes includes John|made idle more than 250,000, work- | marily reviewed some of his pre- Wood of the Cordova District, CIO| ers vious testimony today and made' Fishermen's Union; I. A. Sandvigsin, Today's coldest weather was in|@ few additions Independent Machinists' Local 79,/ c0,itereq sections of the country, | Objects To Testimony { Seattle; and Oscar Anderson, CIO-\ Gy pelow zero temperatures re-| His appearance on the witness Alaska Fishermen’s Union. | ported in the Dakotas, Michigan, stand was opposed by Defense At- Sandvigen said the Committee Will| o p o " New York and parts of {tcrmey M. E. Monagle on the report back to the various unions g, pnojeng | grounds that Didelius had been Fzb. 5 for a determination of action. Walter Sharp, representative of the Alaska Salmon Industry. Inc, said cmployers have refused to ne- gotiate with Local 7 because “we, don't know whether we can recog- | present in the courtroom two days earlier at a time when he was not jon the witness stand. This is con- {trary to the court rules, but Fed- |eral Judge George W. Folta over- Cold Air Bpreads { A fresh mass of cold air over 1 Lake Superior moved into Michi- gan, spread across the middle At- lantic states and into New Eng- accused man. He declared that as|times won a few dollars in gamb- a result of this and continued |ling at the Plantation, but said questioning by the FBI, signing|his bizgest winnings amounted to of the formal statement by Meeks'only approximately $150. He claim- . Meeks, [ ed that was not mentally voluntal when questioned by his defense|at the Plantation. counsel, declared that these cir- Kalinowski also claimed to have cumstances “scared me.” met Campbell in Meeks' room at Helps Both Sides the Keystone about 9:30 a. m. on Amy Ebona was the final de-|Dec. 9, 19 He identified Camp- fense witness to be called to the|bell's -picture and said that, he stand. She eorroborated Meeks'|couldn't be mistaken. He accused | statements that she and an un-|Meeks of lying when the latter | identified soldier had used his|sald that Campbell had not been rcom at the Keystone Rooms on'in his room the of December 10 for | - She appeared slow testimony and Pn“l'REplv Io morning to give her he had dis- She said that Meeks gave them | the key and told the soldier to lock the ‘door when they leit. On| cross examination by Boochever, | she stated that she had never| | stone. She deéclared that Meeks had not purchased any watch (mm= the soldier. | Under date of Jan. 28, Atiorney Motion Denied |General Ralph J. Rivers has writ- Following the conclusion of their twn to William Semar, General Man- defense presentation, Monagle andfager of the Northland Transporta- Paul entered a motion to strike the [tion Co., Seattle, the following let- testimony of FBI laboratory ex- ter which explains itself perts Beach and McDaniel, FBI Lear Sir: Agen Didelius and witness Hart-{ Regarding your challenge to ac- ness regarding blood on the clothes curacy of the allegation in our re- of the defendant. Paul stated that!cent Petition that Northland has this testimony should be stricken be- |a disproportionate overhead of 20 cause clothes of the deceased hnd!PeTCle of gross revenue, I have been destroyed and it im- | written Don O’Connor, the Terri- possible to make womparative blood | torial Economic Consultant for tests. tification of said figure. Mr. O'Con- Rebut:.' 3egins { 5 _ Original rebuttal testimony of the 1o ‘[‘g‘:b;efi"o‘:‘sr ‘:::lc«vrz:?g‘;“zug;‘;' late Lloyd J. Ca 11, father of i i g 4 " e Cibsipod i |kound movement. He, on the other he had never been drunk 3 BULLETS TAKE LIFE OF'BAPU’ Shirley Becomes | Mother ;| Killer, Hingu from Poona, SANTA MONICA, Calif,, Jan. 30. —(#—Shirley Temple, who only yes- |terday, it seems, was a curly-haired ATTY. GEN. i“Little Miss Marker,” became a mother today at the age of 19. \ Her daughter, weighing seven | pounds, six ounces, was born in the same hospital where Shirley herself |entered the world April 23, 1928, John Agar, the actress’ handsome | hustand, paced the waiting room| after Shirley--who entered the hos- | pital late yesterday—was wheeled | linto the delivery room. ; | What the baby will be named was | still a question, Shirley's mothn‘.! | Mrs. George Temple, said at first | that Linda Susan had been selected. Later she said Shirley and Agar had | decided to think it over for awhile.! - | | Quickly Arrested-World ! WideConcern Expressed (BY G. M:LTON KELLY) NEW DELHI, Jan. 30.—M—Mo- handas K. Gandhi was shot to death tonight by one of the Hindus he led (tc independence. | The frail and wizened little polit- lical and spiritual leader was the Imrgez for three bullets fired at close {range at his prayer meeting on the !lawn of the sumptuous Birla Man- sion, the estate of an Indian indus- |trialist who long had supported |Gandhi. He was 78. Police arrested the assassin im- MOHANDAS K. GANDHI ANOTHER CHARGE nor points out that your 5 percent| | mediately, They sald only that he z !wns a Hindu from Poona. He was held incommunicado at Police head- |quarters. MORE FACTS | | i | Sobbing bitterly, Gandhi’s person- oN (oMMIES MOS(ow Radlo 3ays Un"ed al secretary, S. Kalyanam, told the !As“ocinted Pres ‘ S'a'es vlo]a”ng “alian i is the affectionate name ‘Bapu is dead.” ARERELATED Peace Trealy fions of hs folowers, e wia Known Bapu {lions of his followers, he was known LS . e X |#s Mahatma, or great-souled one. LONDON, Jan. 30.—(®—The Mos- His ful name was Mohandas Kar- nize it or not” under the Taft-Hart- ley Act. TWO BIG FARM ORGANIZATIONS WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—®—; Leaders of two big farm organiza- tions backed the Marshall Plan for land. Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich,,| ! reported a low of -71 while marks ! of below zero prevailed in north- ern lower Michigan. Below zero temperatures hit nerthy New York eafter a bliz-| zard swept the area with a snow-' fall measuring from 10 to 12 in- ches i Watertown. The mercury uel Shortage New York’s fuel shortage promp- ted the State Fuel Coordinator to| request oil companies to regulate ruled the objection because Mon- agle could not furnish proof as to ‘the murder victim, was first to be entered by the government in its Dnd, ehdgarored to oover other the length of time the witness Was| rebuttal. ‘The testimony stated |BOYUions of an operating year. Mr present. | that his son never went anywhere‘losn,"no” SEPInaion 15,88 fol- Didelius testified that when without his glasses. {lows: | “Re your question on NTCO, con- Eddie Schwaesaall was the next sider following: rebuttal witness. He described the | “Exhibit A-2 NTCO Statement of fight at Gulkana between Bluckie‘rResuns of Operation of WSA Con- Meeks signed a written statement in the presence of Jack O'Connor, as a witness to the signature, the| accused man had declared the former called Meeks a very bad|Alaska Trade—First six months— name and that Meeks then struck 'year 1946 in memorandum to USMC him and knocked him down. On cross-examination, the former FBI agent admitted that Meeks| had not been under oath at the| time he signed the statement. Statement ~ Incorrect times, picking him up each lxme‘mlued Ly Alaska Steamship Com he went down and hitting him pany and Northland Transportation . deliveries, with home owners, pub-| Didelius also declared that he ... | Company-Ndv.. 19, 1048 aid o Europe today. {1ic - tustitutions and food pro-| had told Meeks that the Plantation {*6810- - o0l B g | COMPERVTECE, S Even as tney were telling a Se_nale ducers to have priority over non- | Club a.t Anchorage had been clos- he had loaned Mceks $60 for trans- | Revenues $443,187.32 Committee they support the idea, essential users Many homes in the | ¢d during the time he said he had | o oo T Lo ot admitted | All Expense $697.500.79 Republicans brushed off President metropolis are without heat and| Won money in gambling there but!“ml he had frequently left large|Deficit $254,313.47 Truman’s new plea for $6,800.000.000| puplic buildings and hospital are | that Meeks had stood by his state-| (o ot money with the defendant Total Administrative to gei it started. running lows on oil. Residents in|ment and insisted it was the truth. }(11- safekeeping. Expense Senator Taft (R-Ohio) told a Ye-|some apartment houses faced with| The former FBI agent also testi- “The overhead ratio if calculated porter, “there will certainly be a'fyel gshortages have moved into!fied to hearing a conversation be- No Money For Liguor las administrative expense revenues cut in the amount.” hotels tween Meeks and JJohn Kalinowski| John Ritter repeated that heljs 3334 percent; if calculated as The farm leaders are President| mhe co1q wave in Texas, with a ab the former's room in the Key- had written a letter to Schwaes- | administrative 4 revenues American Allan B. Kline of the week of snow, ice, rain and be- expense stone Rcoms. He said that Meeks Former Newspaperman: Joined Organization fo | Get First Hand Info | SEATTLE, san. 30.—(#—A news- | Byrne and Meeks. He said the trolled Vessels Employed in S. E.'PaPerman who said he entered many ¢ wparshall Wednesday. | dropped to -14 at Canton, N. Y.|facts in the statement to be true.| OK MARSHALL PLAN ::i"acs | F party strategy councils as an ed-| itorial executive on Communist-; | Longshoremen’s Leader, and sev- (eral leaders of the Washington Pen-, sion Union and International Wood- | {workers of America to have been members of the Party. | The witness at the Legislature's; ‘Un-Americnn Activities Committee hearing, who said he was a party| $147,774.18 member from 1927 to late 1939, was; Treaty. Nat Honig, Los Angeles and former Scattle Newspaperman who spent parts of 1934 and 1935 in Moscow | |as an American Labor Organization Farm Bureau Federation and J. T.' |, freezing temperatures, appear-““d asked Kalinowski to leave Sanders, counsel for the National: .4 ended and warmer weather, town so that he could not testify Grange. They gave their views 0, was forecast. Sixteen deaths were that they had taken a drink with the Senate Foreign Relations COM-| 44iihuted to the cold weather in, Campbell in Meeks' room on the| mittee. | the last seven days. The heating-|mcrring of December 9, 1945. | ! fuel problem eased after three Didn't Buy Watch | million gallons of butane gas were| Questioned on his tracing of the 1 | released from refi _|dead man’s wateh, Didelius told The w a s h 1 n g i On | :in;l sus(flrs (rlr])lr :if)rr:]:xfic fl‘:l: i f lha‘t l::’“l!]l'sace:a i‘; lhmu;?:usfl ;e» Merry - Go - Round | e I | attle source after it was brought By DREW PEARSON > Meeks' room for about an hour on| | the morning of Dec. 10, had told dall at Meeks' request stating that plus deficit to e covered it is 21.18 Delegate. the latter was broke and would percent. Calculated either way (the The slightly-built copy desk edltori pay him back as-soon as he had'latter is preferable), the ratio is from Los Angeles testified that, as. a job. He also stated that Meeks |incredible. The 21.18 percent figure Managing Editor of the Western had someone else write a letter is just about double the highest' Worker, he attended San Francisco | to Schwaesdall asking him to say | percentage I've heard about in mari- conferences in 1936 for the purpose nothing about the loan if ques- time trade and, of course, the 33.34 of “drawing Communist Party plans tioned |percent is about three times the‘lor calling and conducting wnter-' Ritter also said that he gave| highest. NTCO is simply fooling with [front strikes, and hoy Communist scme money to Meeks and guaran-|its rebuttal figures—it's ratio is members could be recruited during teed his hotel bill but did not|tound to be very low if it covers'the strikes.” | give the accused man any money |only shipping during the period of| He said Bridges attended the con-! for a bottle or whiskey. |the cannery southbound movement.” ferences, when he was in the city, Stayed With Meeks | e jand frequently was called “comrade” n Parents Kick - - .. {to him by Nathan Skinner. He DIXIe ReVOI' |said that Amy Ebona, who, with 1048, by The Bell Syndicate, | N [ ; “Not Worrying (Copyright |an unidentified soldier, occupied | | { ASHINGTON— For thirteen long years under Franklin Roose-; | velt the Navy had the inner track’ Demo pa r' ‘ at the White House. Now, under | ex-Captain Harry Truman, former | commander of Battery D, 129th); ! Field Artillery, the situation is re-| WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.~411fl7i versed. | Dgmocratic leaders refused to show! nervousness today about a rising Political reports from various|Dixie revolt” against the policies of ! parts of the country indicate that President Truman. Truman’s loyalty to his personal! They insisted that harsh words| doctor, Brig. Gen. Wallace Gra-|from Alabama, Mississippi and South | ham, will cost him perhaps a mil- | Carolina are no sign there is going lion votes. The public seems to|to re a sort of “second secession.” resent the fact that Graham, sit-: The solid South may continue to| ting at the right hand of thejcomplain about .anti-poll tax, anti-| President, speculated in the grain lynch and no-color-line talk from market, even more than they re- the White House, they conceded; sent the speculations of Ed Pauley, privately. But they said it still willl who wasn't so close to the Presi- go solidly Democratic when the Pre-| dent. Nevertheless, Truman re- sidential election comes in November. mains loyal to the Army doctor. | At Columbia, S. C., 49 members| : jof the South Carolina Legislature Meanwhile, almost unnoticed by got into the act yesterday. the public is the fact that Rear| Adm. James Foskett has left the ‘White House for “sea duty.” Ad-} STE‘MER MOVEME'"S miral Foskett is the President’s| Baranof scheduled to sail from! former Naval afde. Actually the Seattle 9 a.m. tomorrow. | reason for his exit is not necessity| Jumper hiwch scheduled to sail for going to sea, but the fact that)from Seattie February 3. he had a row with the Army—| Square Sinnet scheduled to sail| the Army in this case represented|from Seattle, Feb. 4. ! by Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughn. Princess Norah scheduled to sail| General Vaughn, a former manu-|from Vancouver, Feb, 6. | facturer's representative in St.| Denali, from west, scheduled Louis, who used to train with Tru- |southbound 7 a.m. tomorrow. man in the Missouri National| Aleutian, from the West, sched- uled southbound 6 p.m. Sunday. ———.—— ANCHORAGE MAN HERE W. J. Swift of Anchorage is stay- ing at the Baranof Hotel. Guard, has got the ®resident into all sorts of personal pickles. But| despite that fact, he continues to (Continued on Page Four) him that she was positive Meeks Bar about 8 p. m., Monday, De- tended the conferences, cow Radio said today that Russia “Mchand Gandhi. has formally charged the United Gandhi Slumps Down States with violating the Ttalian' Bystanders said Gandhi siumped Peace Treaty by sending U. S. war- forward as the third shot rang out. ships to Italian ports \ ;He seemed unconscious as he was The broadcast said Alexander 8,|carried to his quarters in Birla Panyushkin, the Soviet Ambassador | House. “The ~secretary sald death in Washington, had sent a protest/followed within a half hour. note to Secretary of State George, A crowd of several hundred per- | sons formed about Birla House, many ‘The Radic said the Soviets also Of them weeping. sent the note to the French Govern-| Death came less than a year after He relative to resumption of private controlled papers testified today that|mony “with a request to make its he achieved his life’s main goal of sald that Meeks hit Byrne severalloperation in the Alaska trade sub- he knew Harry Bridges, West Coast/conionts known to the Allied and independence from Great Britain Associated Powers which had signed |for the teeming subcontinent of In- the Peace Treaty with Italy. dia. Paradoxically, however, Gandhi It was the second such protest this considered his triumph a failure be- wesk. Yesterday Russia complained, cause India and her 400,000,000 peo- lto the U. 8. and Britain over the|Ple were divided into separate dom- proposed reopening of Mellaha ,,,rimlons of India (Hindu) and Pakis- base in North Africa. This protest'tan (Moslem). The partition resulted also charged violation of the Italian!in bloody, destructive communal ! warfare between Moslems on one !side and Hindus and Sikhs on the others. > ! p H | His Last Fast ) ,‘a(que'lne Horner | 1t was in an effort to end the | Lloodshed that Gandhi undertook this month the last of his many fasts. After five days in which he {threatened to starve himself to death, Gandhi broke his fast Jan. 18 Is 1o Be Ward of Juvenile Court uvenl e ou ion the “pledge and counsel” of |friends in toth dominions. He said SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30. f‘lfl—;lhey had assured him of “complete Jacqueline Horner, 15-year-old run- unbroken friendship” between all away from Hollywood prominence communities. and piano exercises, has been made 4| During the tense days of his fast, ward of the Juvenile Court and, to- some of the more militant shouted day, was reluctantly awaiting trans- |Litterly in the streets and before portation home. {his living quarters: Juvenile authorities said the.pret-| “Let Gandhi die.” ty plano prodigy would be returned! But there was every indication jto her mother, Mrs. Clara Horner, | that this was the view of a tiny min- | FBI was not asked for this cloth- | | Campbell's body and which, Dora Kuich testified that she| ‘and addressed others by that title. had seen Meeks in the Occidental | He said no one but Communists at- cember 10, 1945, and that he‘on E‘ams '0’ NEW YORK, Jan said that Kelso Hartness had de- livered a Christmas package to her | earlier that afternoon from Meeks €0ts of New York City High School which contained a purse and a S‘udints have protested that a re- sweater. 3 ‘cent State Regents History exam She admitted staying with Meeks|Was too tough for the youngsters. in the City Cafe Rooms for| But difficulties posed by the test about a week and admitted also|Were taken into consideration, As- that the $50 was in payment for Sitant Superintendent of Schools !that. She said she seen Meeks| William A. Hamm said. Students | again on the following evening in|Were given the benefit of the doubt the Salo Rooms with Lena Brown if they gave any sort of reasonable and Kelso Hartness, answers. _ Campbell With Meeks For instance, Hamm explained, if of the way through the after-. Upon questioning from defense| /€Y Were asked to name “two an- noon session yesterday. He told | counsel, she admitted talking to|CleDt sports” and replied Anthony the courtroom that Didelius, the| Gilmore and Boochever within the |24 Cleopatra,” they got full credit. former FBI agent, had told him|past few days. She also admitted | R it wasn’t necessary for an attor- | that she wasn’t asked anything “O(K ou IAI'ONS ney to be present when he about the letter, accompanying the £ signed a statement for the FBI.|$50 in the original trial. ! i ST & With prompting by Defense At-| Virginia Brown testified she was tu:‘:;: ‘;!0:1:5‘:{3" J‘f:;laf]::“:f :';;’k torney Monagle, Meeks said he was | absolutely sure that Clarence |y ot o Al not permitted to call William L.|Campbell had been in Meeks' room | o 4. a3/ Curtiss-Wright 5. In- Paul, Jr, who he had already|at the Keystone on Sunday, Dec.|iernaiional’ Harvester 89 1-2, Ken- retained. |9. She said she knew both Camp-|necoty 46, New York Central 14%, At this point, Monagle attempt- | bell and John Kalinowski, but m'!Nort.’lern'Pacmc 20%. U. S. Steel ed to read a fopy of the Empire iterated that she saw Campbell | 5 Pound $403% 4 for Deo./ 10, INERIWMER Garriad (8 | there; . Sales teday were 870,000 shares. story concerning the finding of Kalinowski Called Back Averages today are as follo In- he| She was followed on the Witness|qustrials 17475, rails 51.68, utilities said, was read in part to Meeks|stand by Kalinowski, himself, wha:nsg‘ that evening. The jury left zheisald he was positive that he had room while the point was argued.‘never gene to the Plantation Club and was finally denied by Judge| near Anchcrage in the company Folta. | of Meeks. He claimed to have met| Rachel Scott was sentenced to When the jury returned, Mon-|the defendant at a tavern in'serve three months in the Juneau Anchorage during October and not Pederal Jail yesterday afternoon agle argued that the reading oll the article by Chief of Police John.whfle both were employed by the by U, 8. Commissioner Felix Alaska Railroad. Monagle to Meeks had caused mental worry and anguish to the Kalinowski stated that he some- could not have bought a -watch from the soldier. He also went over his disposition ol the slain man’'s clothing, which he said were not disposed of until after Meek’s first trial. The bloody, torn and dirty clothing were bum-‘ ed by him and the ‘remainder | turned over to U. 8. Commission- | er Felix Gray for shipment to the man’s parents. He said that the' ing by Meeks or his attorneys. YESTERDAY AFTERNOON Meeks concluded testifying in his own behalf about one-third RDERLY —— e DRUNK AND D! | Gray on & charge of being drunk and disorderly. 30— -Par-| “I know they were Communist{®S Soon as transportation could be|ority, embittered by communal war- meetings” he said, because I was|arranged. fare. assigned by the Secretary of the| BShe was found in San Prancisco! kst Communist Party to attend them.”|Jan. 21 after an eight-day search.| TRAGIC LOSS Honig also testified that in Mos- | Police located Jackie in a hotel room WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—(P— with 19-year-old Wallace Wells of | president Truman, grieved over the Hood River, Ore, a Navy Seaman.|ggsassination of Mohandas K. The two told authorities they had|Gandhi, today was said to regard done nothing wrong. Investigators the Indian leader's death as “a agreed. tragic loss to the whole world.” Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross thus descrited Mr. Truman's cow in 1934 “we discussed Bridges as ‘Comrade’ and I saw a letter from | Earl Browder to 8. Lozofsky (a Com- |munist International Labor Execu- tive in Moscow) referring to Bridges |as ‘Comrade’” He sald it came to his attention| as a Communist official that Bridges E. Guest of Seward is registered | _ R, 1 6% was issued a Communist Party card|at the Baranof Hotel (Continue. on under another name. s ko - - fioa B -+ - - Syan of Alaska Fur Seals .. — - SEWARD VISITOR | . . . * WEATHER REPORT * . (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU o . | ® (Past 24 houts ending 7:30 a.m. today @ | evmemiwt For Maine Seed Lobsters | « minimum, 32. . ' ® At Airport— Maximum, 34; e e 5|5 Proposal Advanced . WEATHER FORECAST . - (Juneau and Vielnity) . ® Mostly cloudy with occa- e! - - | —— et e sional snow flurries this af- | AUGUSTA, Me., Jan. 30.—®—Al- paip ceqls in an attempt, Reed said, o terncon. Cloudy with occa- e aska fur seals and Maine seed 10b-| ¢, Lroduce a seal worth hunting, sional snow mixed with rain e |sters may be swapped to give Al-| Tne whiskery black heads of | @ tonight. Variable cloudiness e |aska a lobster industry and Maine|yroine seals popping up offshore de- | @ saturday and little change e |& seal offering something more than\l“gm bathizs. Pishebmen. whoss nets e in temperature. o |amusement for youngsters at the|gng traps seals damage, accept them 1® PRECIPITATION L4 |be“h | much less cheerfully. @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 am. t)day @ | Emery F. Tobin of Ketchikan, Nearly worthless commercially, i ® In Juneau— .28 inches; e |Alaska, Editor of a sporting publi- the seals have propagated unmolest- | ® sinee Jan. 1, 11.09 inches; ogcatlon, expressed interest in lobster-|ed, If the Alaskan strain improved ® since July 1, 7281 inches. e ing in a letter to Richard E. Reed,!the skins, the control problem would ® At Airport— .20 inches; e Mainc Sea and Shore Pisheriesi[.ke care of itself, Reed believes. |® since Jan. If 686 inches; e Commissioner. | Outright sale of Maine seed lob- | ® since July 1, 4318 inches. ® Reed suggested seed lobsters mxgmiswrs is illegal, Reed said. An ex- ]‘ ®'be traded for bull seals. The furichange in which Maine’s industry » ® o & e e e & o sals would be crossed with Maine might benefit would te permissible.