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...nose. Last February an agreement was reached tending to facilitate payment of French commercial credits owed by Japan. Recently French creditors informed the French Foreign Office that Japan had failed to keep the bargain. In retaliation, France suspended for six months import quotas on porcelain and canned salmon from Japan...
...Inspecting the East for the first time, Cinemoppet Shirley Temple, 9, in a blue shirred frock and red hair-ribbon called on President Roosevelt squired by her father & mother, Mr. & Mrs. George Temple. The conversation ran on lamb chops, a tooth Miss Temple had lately lost, a salmon she had caught in Vancouver. Leaving the White House she exhibited her autograph book, which she considered "a very important book now." Inscribed across one whole page was: "To Shirley, from her old friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...good 60% of the world's salmon, including 90% of the U. S. supply, comes from Alaskan waters, where also abound halibut, crabs, and diverse marine edibles. U. S. fishermen consider that by God and treaty they hold sole rights to the Bristol Bay area of the Bering Sea, where more than $40,000,000 worth of salmon is netted each year. Within the past eight years, Japanese vessels, equipped to zip a fish from the sea and can it aboard have appeared off Alaska in increasing numbers...
...Anthony J. Dimond* informed the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee: "I am gravely apprehensive . . . that there will be armed conflict in the Bering Sea." Concerned not so much for its nationals as for U. S.-Japanese relations, Tokyo's Foreign Office promised that Japanese vessels would leave salmon alone, would net crabs only beyond the three-mile limit...
...question remained to be settled: whether fingerling salmon that are swimming downstream now can get past the dam uninjured. It is hoped that even if they fail to find the exits provided, they will pass unharmed through the turbines revolving at 75 r.p.m...