The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-31
DUFRESNE SEES AL SMITH HOOK
 TROUT IN TANK
Game Executive Reports Good Chance for Length
 ened Duck Sc ason

ocSuiS DIOWu-UeTDleQ Al OmlUl catching trout at the New York Sportsmen's show; convincing Fran cis w. Olin, President of the Win chester Repeating Arms Company of New Haven, Conn, just how those rainbows bite in Russian River, and convincing him so successfully that the wealthy arms manufacturer is coming north this summer to try it himself; plugging for longer duck season for the hunters of Alaska.
 These are just some of the inter esting things that occupied the time of Frank Dufresne, Assistant Exc cutive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission and well known Alaska writer, on his extended trip east from which he returned this morn ing on the Alaska.
 May Lengthen Season
 For sportsmen, Dufresne brings back the good news that the Biologi- cal Survey bureau chieftains in Washington look wi tn favor on lengthening the duck season What action will be taken is problematical but there is reason to be hopeful, he reported.
 It was at the New York cno-ts mems show with Corey Ford and Al- aStair MacBain that 1u.res1i, s..- joyed the feature of his trip. Herb Welch, American fly-casting cham plon, had just been revealing his prowess as caster and, as the AL askan can testify he's real cham pion, when Welch invited New York's famous Al to try his hand The casting was going on in a bis l00-foot tank especially arranged for the show and there were a few real trout in it. Welch changed flies before former Gov. Smith cast and about the second or third time that the good-natured politicians fly hit the water, a beautiful rainbow struck. The cheers that went up when Al landed that trout could have been heard in Alaska if we had been listening, Dufresne believes.
 Defends Stories
 Up at New Haven, the Alaskan was called upon to defend his fish stories that have gripped the popu- lace of the United States these many years.
 Are you the guy who has been writing all those yarns about fishing in Alaskan" demanded President Ol- in of the Winchester Company, an ardent fisherman himself. But be- fore Dufresne had much more than an opportunity to admit it, MT. Olin was after him with, "how do you get to Russian river and do you suppose an old man like me could get in there without walking too far?"
 After one of the most p1easurable interviews of the entire trip, Du- fresne left with the assurance from MT. Olin that he would come to fish Russian river this summer, and, furthermore, he's coming to Juneau and make the Game Commission executive prove there really are brown bear hereabouts. He wants just one trophy.
 Sportsmen Coming North
 Scores of sportsmen are coming north this summer, Dufresne says. and it will be an especially heavy season for hunters, with the probab- ility that every guide in the Terri tory will have all he can do. Among the horde coming north is Myer Prussian, wealthy Detroit manufac- turer of automobile machinery, and party of friends. Many others told Dufresne to expect them.
 The Alaskan was in attendance at the Wild Life Conference and presented the Alaska picture. Rep- resentatives from Canada and Mex ico were in attendance in addition to representatives from all the states and many of them were awed with the wild life abundance of Alaska,
 There just isn't any hunting ana fishing left in the States" Dufresne was told time and time again. It was the concensus of the Wild Life Conference. Thus it was that the story of Alaska was so warmly re- ceiyed
 Confers With Dimo,ld
 In Washington. the executive con- ferred with Alaska Delegate An thony J. Dimond, especially taking up the matter of $30,000 appropri- ation for wolf control in the Ter ritory. The amount is now in one of the deficiency bills and the Dele gate believes it has good chance of being approved. If granted, the money will be expended in helping trappers and other residents of the Territory in capturing the wolves who are known to do great damage annually. A
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