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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-08
WOMAN ATTORNEY OF DETROIT
ADMITTED TO SUPREME COURT
Mrs. AIean B. CIutts One of
20 Allowed to Practice
Before Tribunal.
Regards Prohibition Law
Greatest Problem of US.
People Today.
BY GRETCHEN SMITH.

The last rung on the ladder of legal
practice was attained Monday by Mrs
Alean B. Clutts of Detroit, Mich, when
with 10 masculine comrades in law
she was admitted to the Supreme Court
of the United States upon the occasion
of its opening session.
Mrs. Clutts is graduate of the Uni
versity of Detroit and has practiced
her profession in every classified court
in the State of Michigan. More than
16 years after she had left school, dur
ing which time she took prominent
part in the social and civic activities of
Detroit, Mrs. CluttS entered upon her
law studies at the university.
MY civic work." said Mrs. Clutts,
showed me how often women and chill
dren needed legal help and yet were
financially unable to obtain that help.
1t was principally with the object of
helping women and children that took
up the practice of law. More than half
of my cases are taken gratuitously," she
added, land in all the years I have
practiced I have never lost civil CASE"
Holds Prohibition Failure.
Mrs. Clutts from observations made
throughout her own State, believes
that prohibition has proven a failure.
THE argument is frequently advanced"
she said, that children are now clothed
and fed properly, whereas in pre-prohi-
bition days, they were hungry and
ragged. Persons who advance this ar
gument, lose sight of the fact that chill
dren are fed and clothed not because
of prohibition, but because most prob
ably their mothers are now in the in
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COL. CREECY INQUEST
REPORT SENT ADAMS
Legality to Be Passed on by Judge
Advocate General Before Find
ings Are Given Out.

The findings Of the special board of
inquest appointed by Mai. Gen. Ben H.
Fuller, commandment Of the Marine
Corps, to inquire into the death of
Lieut.. Col. Richard B. Creecy, have beer
put into final shape, it was learned yes
terday and forwarded to Secretal
Adams by way of Gen. Fuller.
The cabinet officer will transmit the
report to Rear Admiral David r. Sellers,
the Judge advocate general, to pass on
its legality.
Members Of the board declined to
divulge the conclusions which they
have reached and insisted that any
information upon it would have to come
from Secretary Adams. The Secretary
Is expected to make any announcement
he desires on the report late this week
or early next.
Marine Corps headquarters has
named Lieut.. Col. Clayton B. Vogel as
chief of staff and assistant commandant
of the Garde d'Hait, succeeding Col.
Creecy. Col. Vogel, now on leave from
his station at Hampton Roads, Va, is
scheduled to sail for Port Au Prince
aboard the U. S. S. Kittery on Novem-
Der S.
Marine Corps officials said that Maj.
II. w. Stone is being considered for
promotion to the lieutenant colonelcy
made vacant by Col. Creecy's death.
Col. Vogel was born In Philadelphia,
Pa, on September 10, 1882. He has
served on various ships and stations In
the service and has been at Quantico,
Va. From 1926 to 1929 he served in the
Judge advocate generals ONCE a. the
Navy Department. Recently, he has
been on duty with the Nicaraguan Ma
tional Guard. as chief Of staff, return
ing TO the United States In June. Col
Vogel Is to be given the Nicaraguan Or
der Of Merit for his assistance to the
Nicaraguan government.
He has had a lengthy tour Of duty in
Haiti previously. as he served the West
Indian government with the Haitian
Constabulary from August, 1916, tc No
venber, 1918. Recently, Col. Vogel par
ticipated In the Camp Perry, Ohio, ma
tional rifle matches.
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dustrial field helping support the
family.
1T believe" she continued, that as
long as prohibition is constitutional
law, it should be rigidly enforced. How
ever, some adjustment must be made,
as do not think it possible to enforce
prohibition. think prohibition is the
greatest problem before the people of
the United States today"
Mrs. Clutts believes it is quite justi-
fable for women to enter into indus
trial fields when it is question OF
necessity or self support.
81 do not believe, however, that wom-
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en- should enter into the working world
when their husbands are well able 20
support them" she said. Nor do
believe 1t is usually possible for a wom-
an to raise her children properly at the
same time that she follows q public
career. Some women have proven
themselves quite capable of doing both,
qualified to do so through education
and training. I believe while women in
the industrial field have revealed wom-
ems efficiency, at the same time wom-
ems entrance into the industrial field
has been overdone.
IT believe a married woman's first
place is in the home raising children.
I also believe that their husbands
should be made to support them"
Favors Adopting Children.
Mrs. Clutts strongly advocates child
less married couples adopting children.
Il have found" she remarked, that
people hesitate to adopt children for
fear of how they may grow up believ-
ing that undesirable inherited traits
may develop in the child Inherited
tendencies rarely cause harm, if the
environment of the child's upbringing
Is the proper one. My observation has
been, that in families with children of
their own, where another child has
been adopted, the adopted child shows
more gratitude toward parents than the
real children of the family.
"A few years ago statistics showed
that less than one half of per cent
OF children brought before the Juvenile
Courts were foundlings."
Mrs. CluttS motored from her home
with her brother, Mr.. Brisley, a business
man of Detroit, and is staying at the
Wardman Park Hotel while in WASH
ington.
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CUSTOMS DIAMOND
SQUAD EFFECTIVE
Report for Fiscal Year Shows
1854, 564 Profit to Treas
ury in SmuggIers' Capture.
~ the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
The diamond squad of the United
States Customs Service, alert watchers
of the New York water front, made the
National Treasury richer by $664,564 in
the 1880 fiscal year.
The annual report of this superdetec-
tive group, just received by Comms..
eioner F. x. A. Eble of the Bureau OF
Customs, showed 118 non-commercial
seizures, for which $453,397 was collect
ed in fines and $50, TAB in merchandise
not redeemed.
It showed Is commercial seizures,
netting merchandise valued at $115,-
$50. An item of SCI, $50 was added for
recoveries made in other districts on in
formation furnished by John w. Rob-
ertS, chief of the diamond squad, and
his wary men. The previous year a
total of $732,529 was collected from
these sources.
Smuggling Grew After War.
Rising in the wake of the World
War, Syndicated diamond smuggling
had assumed such proportions by 1928
that organized Legitimate diamond
dealers and the American consul gen.
eral at Antwerp, center of the industry,
united in testifying to tariff commit
tees that one diamond was Struggled
into this country for every diamond
that went through customs.
George w. Messersnith, the Antwerp
consul general, testified the syndicate
was so firmly entrenched and so sure
of results 1t furnished security for safe
delivery equal to the value of the dia-
mond. Five or six smuggling brokerage
Offices operated openly in Antwerp, he
said, and honest diamond dealers were
crowded to the wall"
= U. S. Buys 80 Per Cent.
sBefore 1914, Russia, Central European
nations India and the Orient were
heavy purchasers of diamonds, but war
wiped out those markets. Prosperity's
tide turned to the United States, and
her citizens became purchasers OF 30
per cent of the gems.
In 1918 the diamond duty was raised
from 10 per cent ad valorem to 20 per
cent. Smugglers discovered they could
operate prof1tably on 6 to per cent
commission with a product so con-
yenient that $4,000 worth could be
carried In an inoffensive-lo looking foun-
tain pen. Like the honest Antwerp
dealers, the honest American dealers
were crowded to the wall"
Congress granted the 10 per cent re-
duction they asked With that to les
sen temptation, and the diamond squad,
now two years DID, to add to the haz-
ards, it was hoped commercial snug
Cling would decline. Though the tariff
was in effect only a ha1f-month before
the fiscal year closed. customs &C "-als
saw In the diamond squad report q
slight elimination over 1929, wa
they attributed to those causes.
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FOUR DESTROYERS
TO JOIN RUM WAR
Navy Announces Turning Over
Craft to Be Reconditioned
for Coast Guard.

-Four more destroyers have been
turned over to the Coast Guard, the
Navy Department announced yesterday,
and there will be used in rum-running
activities of the Atlantic Coast.
The craft. completed in 1920 and
1921, have been out of commission at
Philadelphia, where they will be recon-
ditioned for the Coast Guard and put
into service under the Treasury De-
partment, when that work is completed.
The destroyers are the u. S. S. Hunt
Herndon, the George E. Badger and
the Welborn G. Wood. Each is of
1,05l tons displacement and would or
dinarily become obsolete in 1886 and
1887. These vessels are equipped with
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four 4-inch guns and one 3-inch anti
aircraft gun, each.
The destroyers, with numerous others,
were placed In decommissioned status
In 1922 at Philadelphia, in keeping with
the Nays policy Of getting back on a
peacetime basis. The ships were part
OF the war-designed feet and were con-
structed at the Newport News Shin
Building & Dry Dock Co. at Newport
News, Va. They are rated at speed
Of IS knots.
Previously the Navy has turned over
TO the Coast Guard as part of its fleet
Tor the offensive against rum running
20 destroyers, some Of them completed
as far back as 1914.
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Workers in India are complaining
that men going from the country to
cities to seek work often must bride
some one to get a job, and usually the
money must be borrowed at a very high
rate of interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-08

Czechoslovakia's 1880 sugar-beet crop
will weigh 100000 tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-09

Film talks from the naval
delegates. Secretary of State
Stimson standing in the fore
ground with the delegates of
the other powers at the Lon
don Conference as he delivered
a short talk into the micro
phone. The scene is in the gar
dens of No. 10 Downing street.
g Underwood g. Underwood.
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06

when the fish get past all the fish traps, they should be allow ed to play around the streams and go up in peace.
 But I ask you, is the result just to us residents?
 I fished in Salmon Bay and with other crews therein, never exceeding five of late. We aver aged 2,0O0 sockeye per season, so that our total would be 10000. About one mile down the chan nel from us, the famous Pit. Col poys fish trap would catch up- wards of 100000 red salmon per season. I ask you this, why should be compelled to give up my little 2000, or all of us give up our 10000 salmon and no bur- den at all placed on that big trap which was so efficient that now nobody fishes at Salmon Bay. MT. O'Malley still allows the Pt. Colpoys trap to fish while Salmon Bay is closed.
 To Be Continued
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06
THE LITERACY TEST

It might be well for the Juneau Association of Federal Employees and their henchmen and allies, to give their party vote the once over.
 Out of 257 votes in the Demo- cratic primary five were spoiled.
 Out of 4,296 Republican votes, which include others, were only a dozen or so spoiled votes. Why the difference.
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06

or remaining stationary. If you are going to write more on fish cries you should get that docu- ment because it has WithStood all the assaults of the Bureau of Fisheries and their allies, the big packers Except for addition al facts, my conclusions publish ed therein remain the same.
 The White Fish Law was op- posed most bitterly by MT. Hoov- CT and MT. O'Malley because they wanted the blanket power to say who should fish, where and when they should fish, a power which they had already usurped under their reserve system and had all ready abused. (See hearing on H. R. 2714 of Jan. 31, Feb. l, 6, ', and 8, of 1924.
 You have stated a great truth: "Its sole aim (the Bureau of Fisheries) was to aid the can ners." They have done so by making the regulations for fish ing such that the form of gear
 used by the canners is the only gear that is now effective. You know the cannerS are almost the exclusive owners of fishtraps, whereas the residents of Alaska (of whom the Natives form a large part) use mainly seines. With the publications of the Bu- reau of Fisheries as my author ity, I say this: that whereas the percentage of the seine catch has been reduced 38 per cent to 25 per cent since 1923 to 1928, the percentage of the trap catch has been increased from 57 per cent to Fl per cent; but the proof of O'Malley's discrimina- tion against the residents of Alaska and his deceit in the use of the term conservation" is in this-in the years 1914 to 1919, "war years," of admitted over fishing, the average case pack was 5,215,332, whereas the aver age case pack for the years 1924 to 1928, a time when O'Malley, now clothed with full power by Congress, had issued many regu- lations which you yourself are praising highly and which result ed in the above decline of seine fishing and increase of trap fishing, was above decline of seine fishing and increase of trap fishing, was 5,2O9, ,177-with- in 14,0OO cases of the war years. The answer is this-THERE HAS BEEN NO CONSERVATION. And the "sole aim" was indeed "to aid the canners" for nobody else has been aided.
 Your quotation that somebody told you that MT. Hoover lis out to ruin the country and to de- prive every honest man in it of a chance to make a living" is a trick of writing that writer of your class should not use. The people of Alaska do not believe that, and if some individual told you that, you should not dignity it and give the reading public an idea that such a sentiment is general. What We do believe is this-that MT. Hoover does not know anything about the situa-
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06
TRANSFERRED TO HAYNES

y. s. Deputy Marshal c. J. Sul- livan, for the past three years stationed at Tenakee, has been transferred to Haines to fill the position formerly occupied by the late Marshall Sherman. No
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06
These reserves were created

These reserves were created to conserve fish," said O'Malley, and by executive action because there was no adequate law" the necessity being urgent because depletion was already far ad- vanced." And yet, whereas in the good years of 1916 to 1919, Lib by, McNeil and Libby at Kenai had an average pack of 28,432 cases, MT. O'Malley in the name of MT. Hoover gave this company permit to pack 10000 cases in 1922. It actually packed 14,611 that year.
 I had long supported/a bill be- fore Congress giving the Depart -ment of Commerce full power to handle the situation. Although O'Malley would commend my proposals privately he refused to assist in passing the bill because he said his department was an executive department and not a legislative department But that did not prevent his department :. from causing a bill to be introduc ed legalizing the reserve system. The Bureau wants the power to say who shall fish and where. Our proposals agreed with theirs in everything except that point; for to submit there was to sur render our right to live in Alas . ka into the keeping of a despot with the usual result that his tory shows accompanies all des- potisms.
 You say that about 1924 it be- gan to be borne in on more and more people that something would have to be done about it. The realization existed at first in the minds of a few conserva- tionists, but the impression spread among the public at large and was increasingly entertain ed by more enlightened cannery men.
 You would do we'll to read my speech before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of January IT, 1922, on H. R. 2394 which would enlighten you on the situation that had devel- oped three years prior to your date of 1924. In that speech I made historical proof of the facts of depletion which up to that time had been denied by the Bureau of Fisheries, who at tempted to prove their conten- tion by citing the fact that the total pack was either increasing
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06
RADIO IS NUISANCE

A recent ruling of the Appel ate division of the supreme court of New York, is to the effect that the sidewalk radio loudspeaker is a nuisance when it disturbs the repose, comfort and health of a neighborhood.
 Emanual Hellner, proprietor of a Brooklyn radio store, who had been fined $2OO on a charge of maintaining a nuisance, appeal ed the case with the above result. Elections should be elections and mt aygcfinY0c
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06

appointment has been made by Marshal White to fill the vacan- cy at Tenakee.
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06
tion but relies entirely on what MT. O'Malley tells him.

tion but relies entirely on what MT. O'Malley tells him.
 Where does Henry O'Malley come in? l can only guess about
 his responsiveness to the wishes
 of the "big interests" but my guess is borne out by the fact
 that he pleases certain ones.
 However it may be that MT. |O'Malley is really doing the best he can unintiuenced by any big
 interests. If that be true, then
 the record is all against his eff
 feciency even if we go no farther
 than your summary. O'Malley
 was given full authority in 1924,
 and yet you charge him with be- ing so derelict that in spite of the imminence of depletion in
 1924 (See his own statements in
 the hearings on H. R. 2714) he did nothing until 1927 although "the industry went blithely on
 building more boats and more traps and generally preparing to eat further into it's fast di- minishing capital. x * The pack leaped to the impressive total of more than 6,50O,O0O cases. x x That was a year of greatest ex- pansion, and at the same time a tremendous falling off in the average catch per unit of gear. :" WhereupOn you say MT. Henry O'Malley, of the Bureau of Fish cries, promptly countered this situation by what he himself de- scribes as a drastic curtailment in fishing"
 Did he really counter, Mir. White? Or are you, too, among the fooled? If he countered, why doesn't it show in the pack? The pack was over 5,200,000 cas- es, ten per cent reduction from 1927, not at all due to regulations covering the big packer but to regulations touching the resident seiner, together with a falling of the run of that year.
 What were these "curtail- ments" of 1927 that you speak about The regulations of 1928 do not indicate any such thing. But the regulations of 1928 show ed drastic curtailments" all right. These, however, only af- fected the resident seiner, who having been driven from his fish ing grounds was compelled to fish in the trap areas, and there upon began the trap method of namely, with a hook-off. The hook-off is the device of ty- ing one end of the seine to the shore (like a trap Iead) and thus forcing the travelling fish to, school whereupOn the purse" is completed. MT. O'Malley prohibited this device, he did nothing about the traps hook-off, an identical device.
 You speak about MT. OMalley as being "open minded and f1ex- lble changing his regulations in stantly when new information convinces him that the change is for the better" If that is true, you have discovered something about MT. O'Malley of which no- body else has heretofore had hint.
 In 1928, O'Malley stood on Oemmert'S dock in Klawock and saw one million salmon in the pay when the stream was so full of fish that not another one could enter. It was evident that ] none of the salmon in the bay could spawn, for during that en- ire summer the KlaWock river 'ad been kept packed to capac- ty. O'Malley could have per nitted a half million to be pack
The Alaskan., 1930-06-06

boats on suspicion and under
 threat that the boat would be conf1Scated the owner would con- sent to pay fine of about $400 and enter a plea of guilty to un- lawful fishing. Such was the Peer Gynt case, the Rotor case, the Vivian June case, the Du- brovnik, the VeribuS and Over the-Top cases, and many others wherein the crews were absolute ly innocent. But who would not pay a fine of $400, when to stand on a plea of mot guilty" would mean the loss of the entire fish, ing season for that year since an admiralty action would entail
 ust that? Then when MT. Suth> erland introduced bill in Con- gresS to require the Bureau of Fisheries to obtain a verdict of guilty against the crew BEFORE proceeding against the vessel, MT. O'Malley told MT. Sutherland that he, MT. O'Malley would fight the bill. We have good pre- cedent for asking for this bill aside from our proof of the abuse of the present law, namely, that it is the practice in the Prohibi- tion cases. If the Bureau would proceed against the individuals first, these men would stand prompt trial in the justice court, and of course, the innocent would be freed, to the detriment of the many convictions" now gracing the record of vigilant 11Sn WdIQG11S,
 But let us move to the funda- mentals of fishery legislation on which I have said Henry O'Mal- ley is wrong.
 The problem is not correctly stated by Mir. O'Malley.
 He says his job is to conserve the fisheries.
 We insist that the problem of statesmen is to conserve fish and people.
 But going to the matter of his fundamentals, what are they? They consist of (1st) the closed season; (2) permanent closed areas; (3) spacing of fish traps of one mile and one and one half miles; (4) curtailment of seines, gill-nets and trolls.
 AS to the first, I antedated ev- en pr. c. H. Gilbert in saying that If you breed late fish, you will get late fish" Experts may have no respect for my learn ing or experience, but I am proud to say that I made this state ment even before pr. Gilbert's statement of October, 1923 in the Pacific Fisherman. In that issue pr. Gilbert presented the very same reasons that I had I am willing to grant hat undoubtedly he had not heard of my utterances before the Alaska legislature of 1923 (March and ApriD when I op- posed the closed season vigor- ouSly.
 The facts now bear me out, that I was right.
 MT. O'Malley admitted to me that he did not have full conf fidence in that. system and that perhaps I was right. I am right. Whereas we formerly fished as early as June 18th, today nobody complains when fishing is pro- hibited until July 10th. Indeed, the Natives in their late conven- tion recommended that fishing be closed until August 1st of each l year in Southeastern Alaska. 1 This consequence of the seasonal method of conserving fish is so we'll recognized here now that I will not go into more proof. It
Imperial Valley press., 1930-01-04
Valley Chambers
Hear Discussion
On Hay Situation

The present condition of the hay
situation in Imperial Valley was
the topic of discussion at the meet
ing of the Associated Chambers of
Commerce in the Calipatria high
school building last evening.
Speeches by Sam Robinson and c.
G. Halliday, we'll known valley
hay growers, we- followed by an
open forum, during which questions
eiative to hay growing IN the coun-
ty were discussed.
During the business meeting a
resolution was adopted thanking
Congressman Phil d. Swing for his
efforts in obtaining the adoption of
the Southwestern Air Mail route. c.
{. Jenkins, postmaster OF FL Centre,
gave an interesting resume of his
recent trip to Washington.
About 125 members attended the
dinner in the course of which musi.
cal entertainment was furnished by
Miss Gertrude Werve who played
several cornet solos, accompanied
by Miss Moore. President Sam
Rowe presided at the meeting.