The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-09
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 be a paper mill at Thane and Ju neau will be better than it ever wa before. in fact, the best town flask; has ever seen, declared H. L Faulkner at the close of a brief re the Juneau Commercial Association today Eastern interests are agai1 reviving their activity in the pro ject, he said, and work will be don, before great while.
 Alaska, said MT Faulkner, is get tng a great deal of publicity throughout the country, some of il beneficial and some of it unques- tionably of harmful nature. Some of the discussion going on, he said has a decided tendency to make Con gress relucant to ease up on restric- tions even in cases where relaXa- tion is necessary for development International as well as national conditions are showing some i'm provement but there will be no per manent prosperity until the situation clears up in Europe.
 Confers with Curry.
 Mir. Faulkner said that he was able to meet Representative Charles F. Curry and talked over with him the Forest Fund road provisions con- tained in Mr. Curry's newest Alaska measure The Californian was in clined to stand by the original pro visions but agreed to make any all iteration approved by Assistant Sec retary of Interior Kinney. With for mer Governor Riggs, MT. Faulkner went to see Judge Finney and the latter readily made the change asked for and also included a provision that road appropriations for the for est sections should not be less each succeeding year than that made for the current year Mir Faulkner took the matter up with MT Curry at the suggestion of R. F. Robertson who outlined the situation to him in a letter.
 Wireless Phone Station.
 At the suggestion of A. G Mosier, Superintendent of the Gypsum Min ing Company at Gypsum, the Asso- citation will start a once an effort to induce the Navy Department to install wireless telephone facilities at the local navy radio station w. c. Johnson was appointed as com mittee of one to take up the matter with the chief operator of the local station and through him with the Navy Department.
 In short talk Mir Mosier pointed out what is being done with wire less telephones on the Pacific Coast. The installation of the system with Juneau as central station would be of very materal benefit not only to- the operators in various industries in this vicinity, he said, but also to the community. The cost of in stallation by the navy of complete equipment here would not be large and would enable all operators of cannery plants or mines near here to have instant cheap communication.
 With MT. Johnson, Mr Mosier vis- ited the local radio station yester-I day and said he was informed that the Navy officials have the wireless telephone systems under study and their plans call for the installation Of various test statons, with Ju-I neau to be among the first estab-I lished.
 White Bill Dangerous.
 The proposed fish trap restriction provisions of the latest Alaska fish cries legislation reported in Congress were characterized by w E. Britt as being dangerous to the industry in Alaska and not in them selves calculated to preserve the fish. The seine, he said, is as dan. gerous to the fish as any other me thod of catching them The state ments of w. L. Paul before the Mer- chant Marine and Fisheries Commit tee of the House of Representatives he said, 'are so full of mis-state- ments and absolutely false state ments as to be pitiful" If enacted into law. the fish trap provisions would virtually destroy such towns as ketchikan, contended Mir. Britt.
 In the general discussion of the trap clause, Mir. Britt's views were supported by H. G. Fisher, Charles Goldstein and others. The Associa- ton deferred any action on the mea- sure until a complete copy of the bill is received. Chairman Faulkner. of the Legislative Committee, MT.