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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-04
SEAL TAKE FOR
 THIS YEAR PUT
 AT 49,3S1 PELTS
Total Is l93 Less than for 1931, Due Entirely to
 Stormy Weather

The Pribilof Island seal take this season aggregated 49.381, it was announced today by Commissioner Henry OMaley. It is 193 less than the take for 1881, due to abnormally stormy weather which kept the younger animals from coming ashore.
 The rehabilitation of the seal herds is one piece of conservation that stands out clearly that the country can put its hands on and say there it is" declared the Com missioner. Under Government con- trol there has been a consistent and sustained growth in numbers
 The seals were turned over to the Government in 1910, at which time the number was estimated Q be 130,000. Today there are l. 250,000 in the herds which congre- gate on the Pribilofs every sum- mer.
 In addition there have been hun dreds of thousands killed by the Government. Two modern villages have been built on the islands, all expenses being covered by the pro- ceeds from the industry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-04
Steamer Movements
NORTHBOuND

Prince Rupert due at 6 o'clock ) tonight.
 Alaska due Saturday fore noon. Admiral Evans scheduled to arrive Saturday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-04
FOR SALE

S65 cash takes Chev. coupe; bal ance. $50, terms Good engine and rubber. See Connors Motor Go.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-04

tonight. [ Alaska due Saturday fore { noon. [ Admiral Evans scheduled to . arrive Saturday. [ SCHEDULED SAILINGS | 6 Queen scheduled to sail from ( Seattle August 4 at 9 p. m. ( . Prince Robert scheduled to ( sail from Vancouver Aug ( ust at 10 D. m. ( Aleutian scheduled to sail { from Seattle August 8 at ( 9 a. m. [ . Princess Louise scheduled to | sail from Vancouver Aug { ust at g p. m. [ . Northland scheduled to sail ( tlom Seattle August at q p. m. . Prince George scheduled to ( sail from Vancouver Aug. ( . at 10 p. m. . - INOIJtlNtStSIll SCIltOultQ IO sail f:om Seattle Aug at . 9 g. m. . . Admiral Watson scheduled to . sail from Seattle August 10 e at 10 a. m. Q . Admiral Rogers scheduled . to sail from Seattle Aug . ust II at 2 D. m. . . Princess Alice scheduled to . sail from Vancouver August c B at 9 p. m. . Norco scheduled to sail from . Seattle Aug. Is at p. m.
 SOUTHBoUND SAILINGS . Prince Charlotte due in port . . at 5 o'clock tomorrow morn . ing and sails 2ia hours la . ter. . . Yukon scheduled southbound . net Monday. . LOCAL SAILINGS .
 Estebeth leaves every Thurs . day night at 6 p. m., for .
 Sitka and way ports. . Pacific leaves every Thursday .
 at 10 a. m, for Petersburg. .
 Rake and way ports. .
 c Q .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-04
SALMON PACK
 MOVING EAST

SEATTLE, Aug. 4.-Portions of the 1882 salmon pack of the Pa- cific Northwest is already moving to the East on intercoastal ves- sels, the agents here report.
 Heavy cargoes are also arriving from Alaska on every steamer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-04

Alaska, in the first half of 1892. produced $2,635,131 worth of gold.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-04
FOR RENT

FOR RENT - SeVen-room house. Inquire at Bishop Apartments. FOR RENT-7-room house. Apply George Brothers.
 MODERN offices in Goldstein Building at low rental. Will re- model to suit tenant. FOR RENT Furnished, steam heated apartment. Nugget Shop. ., q 4 APAR MFNT available Aug. l. MacKinnon Apartments. FURNISHED Broom apartments; housekeeping rooms. Ch n n ei Apts, Phone 436.
 ------------- MCBRIDE Apartments. Phone 570l.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
$25O,OOO Schiff Gift
To Train Scout Heads

NEW YORK, May II QN.S0.
A $250,00O gift to establish and
endow a training school for Boy
Scout leaders, made by Mrs.
Jacob H. Schiff as a memorial
to her son, Mortimer L. Schiff,
was announced today.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
REV. DIR. MAGEE
LEADS IN POLL
Staff Photo

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., May
II Q.NLS0.-The Rev. DR.. j.
Ralph Magee, of Seattle, Wash,
appeared likely to be the first
new bishop elected by the gen.
eral conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church here today.
He polled $40 votes on the
seventh ballot, the next highest
being $50 votes polled by the Rev.
DR.. j. M. M. Gray, of Detroit. It
is necessary to poll $50 votes for
election.
On the first ballot DR.. Magee
was third. The leaders at the out
set of the voting were DR.. Gray
and the Rev. DR.. Lewis o. Hart
man, of Boston, who were dead
locked for the Episcopacy at the
conference in 1928.
DR.. Hartman's vote decreased
on the fourth ballot, while DR..
Gray's increased by only IL. A
possibility that the two veterans
might not be selected at all, and
that the second bishop would be
the Rev. DR.. Albert E. Day, of
Pittsburgh, presented itself, when
DR.. Day jumped into third place
on the sixth ballot. He pole 254
votes.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
MOUNTAIN TREK
TAKES 8 LIVES .

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May II
G.N.S0.-Fear that third mem
Der of the Inflated Beckwith
"Cosmic Ray" expedition had lost
his life in the treacherous crew
asses of the Muldron Glacier on
Mount Mckinley was voiced here
today by E. P. Beckwith, leader
of the party.
Beckwith, who had hoped to
capture" the cosmic ray on
Mount Mckinley, was rescued by
plane from the glacier after being
found in a critical condition from
a mysterious abdominal ailment
that caused him to suffer agony
for six days.
He said he feared that Nicholas
Spadevachie, missing for five
days, had plunged to death at
the bottom Of some crevasse. Two
other members of the expedition
met death in that manner-The'
odore Koven, %, of Jersey City,
N. j., and Alden Carpe, SO, Of
New York, engineer for the
American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company.
Carpe had the distinction of
being the first mountain climber
ever to attain the peaks of MtS.
Logan, Fairweather, and Bona.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
DENIES KILLING
HADEN CLARKE
WELLS

MIAMI, Fla, May II Q.N.S0.
Capt. william N. Lancaster, Brit
ish war flier, pleaded not guilty
today to a first degree murder
charge in the death of Haden
Clarke, 26-year-old writer and fl
ance of Mrs. Jessie NJ Keith
Miller, noted Australian aviatrix.
The flier displayed no emotion
when the murder indictment,
charging he shot the youth in
the Keith-Miller home here the
night of April 20, was read in
circuit court.
Motion of defense attorneys
that siX-week delay be granted
in fixing trial date in order to
permit time to summon character
witnesses from England was
taken under adviSement by the
court.
Lancaster, though admitting he
forged two suicide" notes, has
maintained the youth shot him
self.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
IN WOODS,
SAVANT SAVED

AURORA, Me-, May II Q.N.S),
Bringing a story Of 4S hours Of
wandering without food through
the swamps and dense woods Of
Northern Maine, britten continu-
ously by black flies and with his
body scratched and bruises by
brush, Prof. Roland D. Levinson,
of the University of Maine phil
osophy department., wandered
into this hamlet today.
Since he became lost, Prof.
Levinson had nothing to eat ex-
cept water-cress, the roots of
green shoots growing on the,
banks of lakes and rivers in this
vicinity.
When he arrived here, he had
nothing in his possession but a.
match. He had discarded all his
fishing equipment in an effort
to facilitate his weary trek
through the swampy wilderness
and woods. e
Prof. Levinson is the son Of
Oliver Levinson, prominent Chi
cago attorney.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
KIN CALL MONA
A GOOD GIRL

NEW YORK, May II QN.SO.
Mona O'Connor's friends had the
last word today.
Before Justice Edward j. Nc
Goldrick and a Supreme Court
jury they took the witness stand
and Swore she was good girl
before she came to New York
and became the ''love slave" of
Otto Young Heyworth.
About all this talk of parties
for IA nights in nude, semi-nude,
and other stages of undress, her
sister, Mrs. Gloria Mattern, of
Boston, said:
"That is impossible. She
wasn't away one night and I
have never SmelIed liquor on
my sisters breath"
With a few other witnesses in
rebuttal the $250,000 suit, brought
by Mona'S mother, Mrs. Gerteress
O'Connor, against Heyworth and
his mother, Mrs. Selma C. Young,
is ready for the jury.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
DOUMER KILLER
BLAMES 'DAE'
CURTIS

PARIS, May II Q.N.SJ-The
statement that he was in a
"dazed trance" at the time he
shot and killed President Doumer
was made here today by DR.. Paul
Gorguloff, Russian emigre who
assassinated Frances chief execu-
tive. He said:
81 came up from the Riviera
in a daze, ObSeSsed with the
idea of killing President
DOumer.
81 attempted to rid myself Of
the ObseSsiOn. / spoke to a
policeman, hoping he would
notice was acting SuSpiciOusly
and place me under arrest.
Then I drank a whole bottle
of COgnac, hoping / would fall
down drunk. But 1 didn't, so
/ went ahead and proceeded
with the shooting"
Gorguloff declared he was not
responsible for the force that
motivated him to assassinate the
president, stating he fought with
all the power at his command
against his "obsesSion."
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
HOPES To FIND
z UNCHARTED
CONTINENTS
Little America Again to Be
Scene of Intrepid
Explorations

BOSTON, May II (I.N.S.).
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn
Byrd, who has defied death
by flying over the treacherous
ice wastes of the North and
South Poles, intends making a
second dash over the South
Pole-and perhaps beyond.
He revealed this exclusively to
International News Service today
while discussing preparations for
his return to Little America in
the South Polar regions, 1900
miles from the nearest habitation.
He said:
I'VE will fly over the South
Pole again and possibly beyond"
Two Continents There?
Beside the continuation of the
scientific work started before,
there is one thing in particular
which Byrd wants to prove to his
own satisfaction. This is whether
or not the South Polar region is
a continent, or two continents.
He said:
at is land down there, COW
cred with many feet of solid ice.
OF that 1 am sure. BY flying
over the mountains we could see
the jagged rock and barren,
frozen soil.
1--WE plan to go back to Little
America and to the biggest piece
of unexpIOred territory left in
the world.
"There may be two CONT
nents down there. Generally
speaking, we believe that one Of
them is as large rs this country
and the other about the size of
Australia.
"We're still in the thick Of
completing the scientific data
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
-K|DNAP| inc
. LAW PUSHED

Members of the House Judici-
airy committee moved swiftly to-
day in an effort to enact anti
kidnapping legislation before Con-
gress adjournS, as an aftermath
of the kidnapping and murder of
the Lindbergh baby.
The committee appointed a
subcommittee, headed by Rep
resentative Montague CD of
Virginia, to consider bills making
the kidnapping of persons across
State lines a Federal offense
with death or life imprisonment
as the maximum punishment.
Montague called the subcom-
mittee to meet tomorrow. At that
time it will also consider the
proposal of Representative Doug
lass CD of Massachusetts for
Congress to offer a reward of
100000 for the capture and con-
viction of the Lindbergh kid
naperS and murdererS.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
REPEAL Of LAW
WON 7 AFFECT
STATES
Supreme Court Rules That
Act Governing Shipment
of Liquor Still o. K.

States which wish to remain
dry have ample power to do so
regardless of the outcome of
the drive to repeal t h e
Eighteenth Amendment and
Volstead act, the Supreme
Court had ruled in effect to-
day.
This Interpretation was placed
by legal observers upon the de-
cision handed down yesterday by
Chief Justice Hughes in holding
the constitutional clause against
interference with interstate COM
merce is no protection to drug
companies selling alcohol extracts
in West Virginia.
Decision Causes Stir
The decision attracted wide at
tention among both wet and dry
leaders because the question of
protection of dry States has been
raised in all attacks on national
prohibition.
In the West Virginia case the
out-of-State drug companies were
required to pay an unusually high
license fee to sell preparations
containing alcohol within the
State.
The preparations, the drug
companies said, were not bever-
ages and could not be taken as
beverages without producing i'll
effects. Nevertheless, the court
construed existing laws to give
the State broad authority to en-
force it's own constitutional prohi-
bition.
The court pointed out that the
act, prohibiting shipment of liquor
into dry States, is still in effect,
and would remain effective regard
less of the Eighteenth Amend
ment.
Text Of Decision
The decision said:
"The Congress has not ex-
preSSly repealed that act
(Webb-KenyOn), and there is
NO basis for an implication of
repeal. The Eighteenth Amend
ment and the national prohibit
ton act have not superseded
State prOhibitOry laws which
do not authorize or sanction
what the constitutional amend
ment prohibits. Such laws de-
rive their force not from that
amendment, but from power
originally belonging to the
States and preserved to them
by the Tenth Amendment.
GAS the prOhibit0ry legislation
Of the States may thus con-
tinue to make effective opera
ton, there is no reason for de-
nying to the Webb Kenyon act
its intended application to pre-
vent the immunity of tranSac-
tiOnS in Interstate Commerce
from being used to impede the
enforcement of the States valid
prohibitions"
The drug companies pointed
out that the national prohibition
act excerpts medicinal and toilet
preparations, proprietary medi-
It ineS, and flavoring extracts.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
Bridge, Dance Slated
BIZ Las Amigos Club
MRS. WELLS

A charity bridge and dance
will be given by the Las Amigos
Club at the Arlington Hotel
Thursday. This affair will be
one of the largest of it's kind
ever held here by the club.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
MGSSeur Must Pau
For BreGkinq Back

CHICAGO, May II G.N.SO.
Samuel Wenk, grain broker, to-
day has $4,000 damages coming
to him after convincing a Cir
cult Court jury that a health
club masseur had broken his
back. He explained;
When I went in to get a
massage, the maSSeur said /
had a misplaced vertebra. He
yanked my leg back to my neck
and the vertebra wasn't just
misplaced; it was broken"
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
DIR. CigrGnd, Founder
Of FLAG DGy, Dead

CHICAGO, May II GN.S0.
Funeral services were being ar
ranged today for DR.. B. j. CT
grand, of Batavia, Ill, founder
and president of the National Flag
Day Association. DR.. Cigrand col
lapsed in a restaurant here yes
terday and died several hours
| later. He was 66. .....--
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
Hollywood Writer
WedS Eastern Girl

HOLLYWOOD, May II GN.SD.
Jerome Sackheim, who wrote
when the Bough Breaks" a
stage play, for Pauline Frederick
and now is story editor at film
studio, is on his honeymoon to-
day with the former Miss Gene
Davis, of Springfield, Mass.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
Baltimore Women
Win Brid0e Event

Mrs. Bell Emery and Mrs. Viii
liam Cheeks, both of Baltimore,
won in the east-west positions,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Ham
lin, of 5000 T st. N. W., in the
north-south positions, at the
bridge tournament held at the
Hotel Gordon last evening un-
der direction of Mrs. Alma Byrne.
The Washington times., 1932-05-17
DIR. AND MRS. GECHI

1 gathered before, and until
that is finished, there will be no
telling just when the second
expedition will start"
The second expedition will con-
sist of from 80 to 35 men, Byrd
said, 80 per cent made up Of the
hardy band that followed Byrd
into the frozen southland before.
Evening star., 1932-05-15
MANY June WEEK
FEATURES PLANNED
Naval Academy Exercises to
Begin May 27 With In
formal Gathering.

Colorful exercises at the Naval Acad-
emy at Annapolis, Nd, will initiate
the program for June week. on Friday,
May ~. with an informal gsahering
at Dahlgren Hall, followed by a band
concert and moving pictures in the eve
ming. The throwing of the graduates
caps in the air that has made the
graduation a classic, weddings Of the
newly commissioned er1signs and
awards of prizes and trophies will be
made more cheerful this year by Presi-
dent Hoover's signing Of the measure
to commission the entire class, an un-
usually large one comprising about 42o
members.
Dedication of Gates.
Dedication Of the new main gates,
presented by the class of 1907. will be
one of the features of this years June
week ceremonies. Another attraction
will be participation Of crack athletes
from the District, represented by win
ming base ball and track teams, who
will compete with the Plebes of An
napolis on Saturday, May %. Track
representatives from Ohio State Uni
versity, tennis from the University Of
Pennsylvania and lacrosse and base ball
from the University of Maryland will
likewise be seen on that day, with the
hop of the first, second and third classes
taking place that evening at Dahlgren
Hall.
Two weeks from today, the sermon
TO the graduates will be delivered In
the chapel. Monday will be given over
to band concert and moving pictures
in Mahan Hall. On Tuesday, various
drills will be featured and at $50 pm,
dress parade will be held on Worden
Field, with the presentation of colors.
Garden Party for Glass.
The superintendent's garden party
for the graduating class. will be held
from to 1880 pm. On Wednesday.
regimental physical drill will be held
on Worden Field at 1890 am, with
the graduating class ,rehearsing its pro-
cedure at 2 pm. Dress parade will be
June /, with the presentation of prizes
and awards. From pm. to midnight,
the farewell ball will be held for all
classes at Dahlgren Hall.
On Thursday, graduating exercises
will be held in Dahlgren Hall at IL
am. A band concert at 4:30 pm. will
bring the proceedings to close.
Rear Admiral Thomas G. Hart,
United States Navy, superintendent Of
the Naval Academy, has charge Of the
arrangements and his aide, Lieut..
Comdr L. D. Mccormick, United States
Navy, is assisting in shaping the pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1932-05-15
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington Theaters.

seeming to act at all and who can
make a very small role seem very
big, takes the part of Mr.. Williams
faithful secretary-and one who
loves him in a big, human way-and
one who finally Is with him when
(because he has exposed q gangster
crony) is put on the spot.
The change of mind in Mr.. VIII
liams court tactics is brought about
by his unrequited love for Celia
(Sidney Fox)-this young lady from
Kentucky having proved to him that
the seamy side of life is not the
happiest. He, Of course, has to pay
for having played around with fire
and as the curtain descends is
about to go either up or down TO
q future haven of rest. Before this,
however. Miss MacMahon gives you
q splendid idea of how to revive a
man after he has had overdoses Of
speakeasy lotions"
Featured In this weeks stage show
are Peter Higgins, famed singer OF
radio. stage and screen fame, with
a fine accompanist, Betty Jane
Cooper, and the Lathrop Brothers,
who are able dancers and provide
particularly good opening act;
Russell, Marconi and Jerry in o few
merry moments, and Wally Vernon,
the "aristocrat vagabond," who
takes the place Of the Four Ortons.
e. de s. MELCHER.
Evening star., 1932-05-15

comes the right hand of those crinai-
mails who find they must have a
lawyer. 1t is IN defending one Of
these gangster boys that Mr.. VII
liam does the amazing stunt Of
swallowing half a bottle Of poison
$50 as to make believe that it isn't
poison at alb whereupon he Is rushed
to the hospital and has It pumped
out of his system Just as Mother
Death Is about to grab him.
There Is a great deal that Is COM
mendable In this film (h one can
stand hearing about gangsters these
days., and q rare kind Of hunlor is
provided by that excellent actress,
Aline MaoMahcn. Miss MacMahon,
Who has the happy facility Of never
Evening star., 1932-05-15
HOUSE GROUP ASKS
DEBTS SHOWDOWN
Coinage Committee Urges
World ParIey to Raise
Commodity Prices.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House Coinage Committee yes
terday oficiaIly demanded q showdown
on international debts.
After a lengthy study Of silver and
monetary exchanges 1t submitted to the
House q resolution requesting the Presi-
dent to invite the nations to round
table discussion for ''the restoration Of
the commodity price level" and added:
"The raising of the commodity price
level should have instant appeal to
those nations which are debtors to the
United States II for no other reason
than that international debts will be
reduced in inverse ratio to the rise
in commodities.
Refusals Interpreted.
"The nations which decline to at
tend a conference which will be called
for the sole purpose Of re-establishing
the normal basis Of economic relations
between debtors and creditors, thus
materially favoring such nations as are
debtors to the United States, will auto
matically have served notice on this
country that their true intention Is not
to reduce their debts, but rather to In
duce our Government to establish the
principle of the capacity to pay at
time when that capacity Is virtually
non-existant."
This statement was included in q
lengthy partial report by the commit
tee after a three months investigation
of silver and monetary exchanges.
Minority Returns Report.
Five Republican members of the COM
mittee signed a minority report indorsing
the conference idea, but saying they
differed with some conclusions drawn
by the full committee They did not
explain what these conclusions were.
The full committee said:
ssIt- is well to bear in mind that the
war debts must be paid. They must
either be paid by those who owe them
or by the taxpayers Of the United
states. Every nation Is anxious to pay
these debts, provided it can secure the
money. If we can raise commodity
prices we automatically reduce these
debts, which can then be paid. II COM
nodities are kept where there Is no
profit In their production. then the
American taxpayer will pay these war
debts. The choice is clear. There Is
no other alternative"
The committee proposed that the con-
ference be convened not later than July
], 1882, and recommended:
Recommendation Is Made.
s"That ii be conveyed to the proposed
conferees that, as debts Of all nature
are fixed and measured In money, but
in fact are paid in commodities or their
proceeds, the problem should be ap-
preached from the angle OF the price
level. which can be most effectualiy
controlled through the money systems,
because these systems have dispropor-
tionate powers of leverage on the large
body OF commodities through the price
level which regulates their movement.
"All these systems, whatever their
local nature, have their bases In the two
precious metals, so that a normal rela-
tionship between these two Is pre-
requisite to equilibrium In money, and
through money in the price level Of
commodities
Evening star., 1932-05-15
"A. w. ATWOOD IS ELECTED
TORCH .ycLUB PRESIDENT
Saturday Evening Post Editorial
Writer is Chosen at Session
of Directors.

: Albert w. Atwood, editorial and staff
writer of the Saturday Evening Post,
has been elected presient Of the Torch
Club of washington at a meeting Of
the board Of directors.
: Other officers chosen were DR.. Fred
eric w. Perkins, pastor of the Univer-
-salist National Memorial Church, vice
president, and Elwood Street, director
Of the Community Chest, secretary
treasurer. Dr.. George F. Bowerman,
librarian of the Public Library, the re-
tiring president, win serve as ex-oflcio
q member of the board of directors.
: The. meeting Of the board last Mon
day was followed by q dinner meeting
at which Sir Willmott Lewis, CORE
eSpondent of the London Times, spoke
on "Interdependence Of People" The
play, Suppressed Desires" was given
by members of the George Washing
ton University Players Club.