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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-02
Charles H. Granger
 Postmaster At Banquet

Charles Fl. Granger, vice-president of the Waterbury Clock Co, was toastmaster at a banquet held Sat urday evening at the "" at which were present officials of the local company and officials of the InGra- ham Clock company of Bristol. Bas- ketball players representing both or ing taken part in a game at the "" earlier in the evening.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23

trollers is only. $500 a year and asserted it was some S3,000. .a6s
 He admitted that the Appellate Court had held, when a demurrer was filed to the complaint, it was tantamount to an admission of the truth of Freeman's allegations, and that therefore it must be taken as admitted that the tax was pro hibitive. But, he said, the Court also held that the naked power to impose taxes and licenses, or to make reasonable discrimination be- tween residents and non-residents is not involved"
 The Court also held, he added, that the White Act was designat- ed to confer equal rights to all citizens of the United States to fish in the water of Alaska But this, the Court held, did not prevent the Legislature from discriminating by power of taxation against non residents, but that if the tax was so heavy as to be prohibitive 1t went counter to the equality pro visions of the White Act
 Question of Jurisdiction
 The question before the District Court, MT. Rustgard contended, or the present status of the case i; whether or not it is the intent nt the Court of Appeals to say that i it is the province of the trial court to determine whether or not tax is reasonable and whether ol not the tax in question in the pres ent case is reasonable.
 Heretofore, he pointed out, the Federal Supreme Court has helc that court has no jurisdiction sc
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23
CHURCH, YACHT
 PERATOR MERE; FINE
Trade of Seven Craft Is Double This
 Year Over Last

Business is twice as good this year as it was last year in our line" said Campbell Church who controls a fleet of pleasure yachts for charter and who operates them in Alaska waters. Mir. Church is in Juneau today, having arrived last night on the yacht Nooya Aboard the craft with MT. Church are Campbell Church, Jr,, MT. and Mrs. Ray Veatch, of Ketchikan, and Fred Hopkins of Minneapolis, Minn. Mir Veach is associated with the younger MT Church in the management of the yacht char tering enterprise MT Hopkins is a retired wholesale hardware mer- chant.
 On Charter 735 Days
 There are seven yachts in the Church fleet" declare MT. Church. This season, they have been on charter 735 days, or an average of about three and g half months for each craft. A total of 10 or IS persons is carried aboard every boat every cruise, and of this company or 8 are guests and 4 or 6 are members of the crew. The cost of a charter averages about $200 a day. The duration of cruise is about 40 days.
 The fleet this year is nearly double what it was last year, and the increase in business is pro- portionately as great.
 Business next year will be bet ter than this year Some char ters have already been made for then. For instance, a charter for three months next summer on the yacht Westward has been closed.
 Very Few Hunters
 Nearly all-at least 80 per cent of the members of the yachting parties come north to enjoy the de- lightful summer climate, to view the wonderful scenery and per- haps to fish a little. Only com paratively few-not to exceed 20 per cent-hunt wild game.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23

We are concentrating our ef- forts on Southeast Alaska. Scenery cannot be excelled; fishing and hunting are the best; waters are sheltered in this section. We are gradually making Ketchikan our home port, and it is our intention to have our charters begin and end either there or at Prince Rupert, B. c.
 We have only two charters to the Westward this year. Two of the boats will take game hunters to Kenai Peninsula in the fall
 Recruited from Alaska
 Our captains and crews are re- cruited as far as possible from among Alaska residents. Many of them are licensed guides and na- turally we like to have as many as possible thoroughly ia milia r with Northern waters and other Northern conditions.
 Our chartering bu siness was started in 1924 when George East man of Kodak fame, took the yacht Westward for a cruise in Southeast Alaska waters. He sailed that year on July 10, the seventieth anniversary of his birth. He has since made three cruises in our yachts in these waters"
 The Nooya on her present cruise | left Prince Rupert about two weeks ago She has been around Chichagof and Baranof Islands. She came here from Glacier Bay. On departure from this port she will proceed toward Ketchikan. She is not scheduled to arrive there at any definite time.
 Whale Leaves Water The members of the party have been enjoying themselves fish ' ing for salmon and trout and talk ing motion pictures of wild animal life.
 1 An unusual spectacle was wit messed Tuesday. The Nooya and Westward were cruising together in Icy Strait, when a whale was sight ed. The Westward took after the leviathan. Two harpoons were z hurled, but both struck glancing blows and fell into the water. Dur ing the course of the chase the whale twice jumped completely out of the water, daylight showing between the mammal and the sea.
 What would the Westward have done with the whale if she had got it?" was asked Capt. Henry Durham of the Nooya
 "Oh, she would have lowed it ashore and given it to some fox rancher," he answered.
 ] The Nooya is the smallest of the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23
Law Curricula No
 Good, Says Darrow

MEXICO, Mo, July 23.-Law courses today are made to keep young lawyers out so the old ones can retain the business" Clarence Darrow wrote to Billy Van Matre, student at Westminster College here.
 The noted Chicago criminal at torney advised Van Matre in re- sponse to a question of legal train- ing that its discouraging to pre- pare for admission to the bar, since there isn't the slightest sense in the law course of study"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23

,ac.ure pharmac e lii al products, and maintain a large research de- partmcnt
 If halibut liver oil should prove to be efficacious and it's extraction m de practicable, a production plant would probably be establish ed in Alaska. Handling the ma terial in this Territory would be more feasible than shipping it to Illinois"
 The Laboratories are paying g cents a pound for the livers. This part of the fish is now being thrown away.
 After concluding his investiga- ticns in Juneau, MT. Lanwermeyer will return to North Chicago. He is staying at the zynda hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23
RED FISH PACK
 ID WEST LARGE, REPORTS REVEAL

With a total pack of 1,063,500 cases of salmon, commercial fishing was closed in Bristol Bay last Sat urday night until August 3. Ninety three percent of the total was red fish, said official advices just re- ceived at local headquarters of the United States Bureau of Fisheries.
 In the western district, comprls- ing Bristol Bay, the north and south side of the Alaska Peninsula and Chignik, the red salmon pack to date aggregates about 1,22o,o0O cases, almost three times as large as last seasons pack at the same time. It is approximately 10000 cases less than the total pack for the same district in 1926, which was the best in. the past decade, and the preceding red fish cycle year. ' To last Saturday the south side of the Alaska Peninsula had a back of more than 230,000 cases and the north side some 58,000 cases. Chignik had put up about 44,000 and Prince William Sound about 140000.
 4 The Southeast Alaska pack last Saturday totaled 210,000 odd cases. Icy Strait packers, owing to great ly reduced fishing operations, were well behind 1880, but most of the other districts, particularly Ketchd- kan and Wrangell were materially ahead of last season. Fish contin- ued to run unusually large in size, ranging about II to the case.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23
HpLIRUT LIVER
 OIL THREATENS
 GODS PRODUCT
Extract from Flat Fish Is l5 Times Stronger
 than Old Remedy

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23
THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THuRsDAY JULY B, I93I. !

pass upon the, reasopableness of a tax; its sole function is to dsterm inc whether or not the taying pow CT exists; and that if the court finds it does exist, the functions of the court is ended. If, he assert cd, the Legislature abused it's au- tho,ity the remedy cannot be had through the courts, but through the actions of Congress in disap- proving the legislation.
 Taken Under Advisement E Following the presentation of the arguments, Judge Harding took the matter under advisement.
 It is not expected he will rem der decision for several weeks It is likely that an appeal will follow no matter which side wins
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23
RUNS AMUCK;
 FIVE KILLED
Slayer Is then Ducked in
 Lake to Cool Him Off
then Arrested

MERGER, Penn, July 23.-Mano Demofonti, aged 46, ran amuck in the Sharon coal and limestone mine, killing five persons, including his wife and sister-in-law and wounding two others.
 George Master Guc-asi Dem1fonti in a lake to cool him off. then turned him over to the sheriff.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23
TROLLERS SUIT ON NONRESIDENT IS ARGUED
Territorial License Tax of 1929 Is Upheld and
 Assailed by Counsel

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23


 urged that this language by the Appellate Court, taken in conjunc- ton with the rest of the decision, merely meant that such a question was. not at issue since the enact- ment of the White Act of 1924, the legislature no longer had the pow CT to make any discrimination in taxes and licenses between resi- dents and nonresidents, and that under the White Act all citizens, whether residents or not, must be treated alike.
 View Vigorously Opposed
 This view was vigorously assailed by Attorney General Rustgard, who declared that the only question to be decided was whether or not the $25O nonresident license fee for trollers is a prohibitive tax. He attacked F'reemans allegation that the average earnings of Alaska
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23

Church fleet. She is 68 feet in length, 14.3 feet beam, 5.26 feet in depth draft. Her tonnage is IS gross and 40 net. She can develop 40 horsepower.
 The other yachts of the fleet are the Westward, Caroline, Winl- fred II, Alarwee. Rio Bonita and Pandora
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23

but nvor is oil, while 50 per cent of the cod liver is oil.
 Fifteen Times Richer
 A conservative estimate places hanous liver oil as about 15 times richsr than cod liver oil in their kn2Nn medicinal properties.
 These properties are called vii tamins. Scientists do not know what vitarlins are but they do know what they will do. They are classified by what they will do
 ITO date, in the experiments conducted by the Abbott Labora- tories, halibut liver oil has been administered to animals only. The results have been such as to en- courage the present investigation md research.
 Fha~ ~macaUsioGi Products
 The Abbott Laboratories manu-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23
Another Woman Plans
 Flight Over Atlantic

LIBERTY, N. Y, July 23.-Mrs. Umberto Loffredo, Buffalo and New York photographer, has bought the plane Liberty in which Hillig and HoiriSs flew across the Atlantic to Denmark and she hopss to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone. She hopes to hop off from Harbor Grace to Rome next month.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23
] MINT FEWER COINS IN 193O

WASHINGTON = The value of coins struck off at the three United States hints Philadelphia, San Francisco and Danver = decreased by more than 60 per cent and the number approximately 75 per cent this fiscal year as compared with last.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23
GIVES BIRTH TO SON

Mrs. Bernard Ilowdahl of Tread well is the mother of seven pound son, born last evening at St. Ann's Hospital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-23

GUS MESSERSCHMIDT ILL Gus Messerschmidt entered St. Ann's Hospital this morning for medical treatment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-10
Doubt Vacancy in
 Democratic Seats
Party Must Drop One Member From Board
 of Education

There will be no vacancy on the
 board of education in the demo- cratic ranks to be filled at the school convention If five of the present six members decide to seek renomination and are supported by the delegates. The democrats now have six members on the board but will be obliged to drop one man due to the provisions of the new charter adopted by the 1881 ses- sion of the Connecticut legislature. On the other hand the repuo- |licans. who have had only four members on the board, will be In
 a. position to increase their rep resentation to. five.
 The new charter specifically states that each party shall nom
 mate five candidates for the board
 of education and that the nine can didates receiving the highest num- Der of votes shall be declared of ficially elected. This means that the republicans will have the power Of naming an additional candidate while the democratic party will have to cut down it's representa- ,tion on the city ticket from the present six to five.
 The names of several persons have been presented for consldera- tion already in view of the belie1 that the democratic were planning on making one or two changes on the board of education. Prominent among those mentioned are Joseph Mulville, George Culhane and AL , torney James M. Lynch.
 IlxS nnn O.
 that School Commissioner Henry Butler will not be considered for renomination due to his opposition to the administration in the recent
 Hayes primary battle. Be- lief has been that with MT. Butler closed out a vacancy would be created which might be filled by another democrat. But under the new charter the dropping of Com
 missioner Butler will merely reduce
 the board to the new ffve-man limit provided for in the charter It is rumored that all the other members can have renominatoin if they so desire but 1t is understood
 that no conference has yet been the present democratic incumbents will all want to run again. The
 matter is expected to be settled within the next few days so that when the democratic conventions take place either on the 17th or
 18th and procedure will be har- monious.
 The republicans will nominate their candidates tonight. Mrs. Frederick Webster is believed like ly to be the nominee to succeed
 Mrs. Aletta B. Deming. Commis- sioners Harry J. Beardsley, Vincent Miller and John Burrall are assured of renomination if they desire such action. One more place will yet re-
 main to be filled and Mrs. Dorothy Vandercook is being boomed for the post.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-10
|DOHERTY GIVES $5OO,OOO TO OSTOP
 THE DEPRESSION
Will Increase It to $5,- OO0,OOO If Some Suit able Plan Is Discovered That Will Change Things

Kansas City, Mo, Sept 10- (UP)-Henry L. Doherty, public utilities magnate, and part owner of the Kansas City Journal-Post, has established fund of $500,000 in a Kansas City bank to be used by the American Society of Me- chanical Engineers in studying means of relieving depression. An nouncement of the gift, which Do- herty said he would volunteer to increase to $5.000,000 if any sound ideas for correcting economic problems facing this county were found, was made in wire ad- dressed by the power magnate to Dr Roy V. Wright, president of the engineering organization, and edi- tor of Railway Age. The establish ment of the fund followed state ment made by Dr Wright in an ad- dress to the National Association of Power Engineers, in convention here, that engineers and scientists caused the industrial depression by invention of labor saving devices. It is up to them to solve it."
 Dr Wright, in his address, urged that engineers obtain a $500,000 research fund to provide for study of the present depression and for working out of ways to remedy it.. Doherty, in informing Dr Wright
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-10

tends to encourage needless exam nations should be met by the states to avoid waste and extrava- gance and for special examinations we should charge actual expenses only"
 When it Is necessary to exam inc a. company, either by reason of a well-founded belief that such an examination Is warranted by the facts and circumstances or by the mandatory provisions of the law, such examination should be conducted in a manner to give as little inconvenience to the eXamin- ed unit as possible, and expedited in every way so that inconvenience and expense may be minimiZed.
 "In discussing the commission CTS duty in regard to examinations 1t is well to make some distinction between companies incorporated in his home state and companies ir- corporated in other states Com missioner Durham said, but it Is also we'll to remember that there is no fundamental difference in principle. It is his duty to satisfy himself as to the soundness of all companies which he permits to take money from policyholders in his state.
 There is no Justification for a multiplicity of examinations by the several states. if an examination by the home states or by any one of the states is in competent hands and can be relied upon with a req sonable degree of confidence by other states in which the company | is transacting business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-10
Com. Dunham Talks
 To Insurance Group
Representative Makes Plea Against Need
 less Examination Expense at Portland, Ore

Portland, Ore, Sept 10.-A plea that insurance companies be spared needless expense in conducting ex- aminations by insurance depart ments was voiced by Insurance Commissioner Howard P. Durham in an address on Examination of Insurance Companies" delivered to-day before the National Conven- ton of Insurance Commissioners in Portland, Oregon.
 Declaring the conduct of exam- nations of insurance companies to be probably the most important or the multiple duties of a state 1n- surance commissioner, Colonei Durham pointed out that such ex- aminations are made by the insur- ance departments of the various states for the purpose of discover ing any element which may be pre- judicial of an insurance company to meet its obligations. "They are a check on the accuracy of d com pany's annual report" he said From information I have collected there were 1905 of these examina- tions made last year in the United States which rather shows the magnitude of the work"
 Ut is fundamental that the in surance commissioners prime rune ton is the protection of policyhoid- CTS" he said. ITO secure this pro- lection he must take care that only sound and reputable companies are permitted to sell insurance in his state. From an audit of a com panys statement he can tell 1T 1t IS in a sound condition, provided ne is sure that the statement as rem dered is correct; that the assets are properly valued; that the reserves are adequate. He can be sure or this only if the company is ex- amined frequently enough 10 sat- isfy him that it is accurately pre- pairing the statement rendered.
 While asserting that "manlrestly an examination into the afralrs or these companies at periodic inter- yals is necessary if the public good is to be conserved" Commissioned Durham made it clear that the "powers delegated to supervising officials are only those Of super vision and regulation and em.. phatically not of management ana administration" and that with regulation obtruding itself into the place of management, the skill ful operation of any branch oi business which is affected with a public interest will in a great meas ure be removed" Discussing the cost of examina lions. the commissioner said:
 "The presence and activity Of ex- aminers add materially to the ex- pense of the company examined and also interfere with the order
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-10
Capt Healey
 Laid at Rest
Police Department Sends Big Representation
 to Funeral

The funeral of Maurice T. Healye took place this morning at 8:30 O o'clock from his home, 199 Chest nut avenue, to St Margaret's s church where a solemn mass of requiem. was celebrated by Rev Peter Daily, assisted by Rev John E. Ryan, deacon, and Rev John Mccarthy, sub-deacon. A special musical program was rendered under the direction of Professor ly was the soloist. The police es- cort included Lieut. James Mulyille. Patrolmen Charles Nolan, Patrick Joyce, James Girch, John Moyni- han, Thomas Bedding, John Whis- ton, Frank Boyles and Edward Hayes. The color guard consisted of Patrolmen John Collins, John Parker and Leo McKenna.
 Other officials in attendance were Superintendent of Police Jo- seph Mclean, Deputy Superintend- ent of Police Edward Mullings, Captain William Keegan, former Superintendent of Police George M. Beach, and former Commission CTS of Public Safety John c. Dow ney and John O'Brien, former Lieutenant John J. Bergin.
 Services at the grave were by Rev Peter Daly assisted by Rev Leo Finn of St Mary Magdalene's church. Burial was in the family plot in old St Joseph's cemetery. The pallbearers were Patrolmen Thomas Bergin, John Pannone, William Carroll, Richard Kenny. Robert Hurley and John Walsh.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-10

ly and ordinary conduct of its busi- ness and while examinations are both mandatory and necessary the commissioners should exercise the degree of latitude givn to them un- der their laws to the end that pro- longed and unwarranted examina- tions may be avoided.
 From the amount of taxes paid by the insurance companies, $609,- 396,950 for the last ten years, of which $99,991,472 was paid last year, 1t would seem that no fur ther charges should be made for examinations, but states generally don't reason this way and heavy additional charges are imposed for the work required to be done by statute. The charges and ex. penses for convention examina. tions last year alone by ten state. reporting to our secretary amount ed to $54 ,480 and the amounts pait | by the companies to their hom, states probably amounted to con siderable sums.
 Speaking of the tremendou. costs to the companies for exam. nations, I think it unfair for the companies to reim purse the states for the costs of examination. II
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-10
Gaughan Stationed
 At Houlton, Maine
Waterburian Returns From Emigration Post Abroad
 After Stay of Seven Years

Gerald Gaughan. son of MT and Mrs E. T. Gaughan of TAP Cooke street, is back in this country after spending several years in Europe as a representative of the United States technical adviser to the emigration commissioners office, with headquarters in Dublin. MT Gaughan was relief man in that department in different countries. his last position being in Italy. At present MT Gaughan Is located at Houlton, Me, and expects to be sta tioned at Hartford in the near fu- ture.
 MT Gaughan is a graduate of the Sacred Hnc-t parochial school and of Crosby nigh. He also took a course in Posts Business college and the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He specialized in the emigration law of the United States and also acquired a good knowledge of five languages, so that he was able to relieve men in different nations of the old world.
 During the World war, MT Gaughan was a sergeant-major in Coast artillery service, his principal duties in that capacity being cler- ical work. He has wide circle of relatives and acduaintances in Wat erbury who will be pleased to meet him when he visits his home town.