| Summary: | Dimond Fears Armed Conflict in Bering Sea DIMOND FEARS- WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. (AP)— A move to protect American salmon fishing in the Bering sea was supported by Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska delegate to congress, today, with the assertion that "armed conflict" might follow Japanese "encroachments" on Alaskan fishing grounds. He suggested that possibility in a statement prepared for the house merchant marine committee's hearing on a bill to protect the territory's fisheries. Fears Conflict. "I am gravely apprehensive that unless suitable legislation be passed there will be an armed conflict in Bering sea," he said. He said he had reliable information that American fishermen, faced with the knowledge that Japanese encroachments would exhaust the salmon fishery, would resort to force against the Japanese if the government did not protect them and their jobs. The bill, introduced by Dimond, would make it unlawful for any one to fish for salmon in waters adjacent to the Alaskan coast except under commerce department regulations.
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