The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-03
0'MALLEY HERE
 WITH PARTY OF
 NOTED VISITORS
Fish Commissioner Brings Notable Guests Here
 for Over Fourth

On his annual administrative visit to Alaska, Henry OMalley, United States Commissioner of Fisheries arrived here this morning aboard the Fisheries patrolship Penguin Capt. O'Donnell.
 He was accompanied by Senator Frederick Walcott and the latter's son, Congressman Albert Carter of Oakland, Calf, two assistant Fed eral Attorneys General, Charles P Sisson and Charles Rugg, Wash ington, D. O., Paul Redington, Chief of the United States Biological Survey, Carl Shoemaker, Secretary of the Senate Committee on Wild Life Conservation, and P. B. Fouke St. Louis fur dealer.
 Leave Saturday Night
 The party will visit here until midnight Saturday when it will sail on the Penguin for Pribilot Islands. It will continue it's visi- tations through Bristol Bay, Ko- diak, Kenai and the interior to Fairbanks. Commissioner O'Malley will leave the party at Seward on its return from the far west. He will cruise through Prince William Sound to Cordova and come here by commercial steamer about July 23.
 He will remain in Southeast AL aska for the remainder of the sea- son. He expects to meet Senator Wallace White, Jr., of Maine here shortly after he returns from the west. Senator and Mrs. White are expected to sail from Seattle on the Brant about July 20.
 Indications Are Favorable
 While it is too early in the sea- son for Commissioner O'Malley to make any forecasts about the 1881 salmon pack, ile said cautiously that the reports from nearly all parts of the field indicated good early runs. But since he does his forecasting at the end rather than the beginning of the season, he declined to be more than hope ful' as to the final outcome.
 At Anan Creek, where the party visited enroute here, 35,000 fish have already been counted through the weir into the creek. Icy Strait pack reports from the caneries operating in that district showed them ahead of comparative dates last year.
 Copper River had a good red run. Reports from Bristol Bay and Karluk, where the season re- gently opened, show good runs at the outset.
 Spend Sometime Here
 The Commissioner will spen d some time here going over the dis trict thoroughly and gathering data on which next years regulations will be based Senator White, he said, will also spend considerable time in Southeast Alaska.
 The Maine Senator is deeply in- terested in the Alaska fishing in- dustry. AS Chairman of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and author of the so-called White Fisheries Law, he took an active part in framing that law and putting it through Con- gress.
 Gathering Much Information
 All of the members of the party with the Commissioner are keenly interested in Alaskan affairs. Sen- ator Walcott is delving into wild life statistics and studying condi- tions affecting game and fur-bear- ing animals as well as the fish, cries. MT. Redington is lending him all of the assistance possible since the game and fur-bearers lie with in his jurisdiction as Chief of the Biological Survey.
 The Department of Justice rep 1esentatives, MT. Sisson and MT. Rugg are studying conditions af- fecting the administration of de- partment activities in Alaska. The former is making his second trip here. Last year he covered the Territory from Ketchikan to Nome.
 MT. Carter, who is serving his fourth term in Congress, is gath ering information about the Ter ritory's resources and conditions generally
 MT. Fouke's firm. Fourke Fur Company. has had for many years a contract with the Government for dyeing the fur seal skins taken from the Pribilof Island herds and is making the trip primarily to ob- serve the sealing operations on the islands
 SOLDIERS ARE COMING