What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Intervenors who participated as parties at the courts of appeals should be counted as either appellants or respondents when it can be determined whose position they supported. For example, if there were two plaintiffs who lost in district court, appealed, and were joined by four intervenors who also asked the court of appeals to reverse the district court, the number of appellants should be coded as six.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 

Your task concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Your task is to determine the gender of this litigant. Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity (e.g., the sex of "Chris" should be coded as "not ascertained").

Opinion:
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INS. CORPORATION v. ALKER et al.
No. 8805.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Argued June 3, 1947.
Decided July 30, 1947.
Rehearing Denied Nov. 25, 1947.
See 164 F.2d 469.
Robert T. McCracken, of Philadelphia, Pa., for Alker for leave for District Court to Reconsider Motion for new trial.
Allen S. Olmsted, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee.
Before BIGGS, McLAUGHLIN and O’-CONNELL, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
The petitioners, Alker and DuBan, the appellants, who suffered a judgment against them in the court below affirmed on appeal to this court, 3 Cir., 151 F.2d 907, have filed a petition in the nature of a bill of review, seeking to obtain from this court leave to apply to the court below for a new trial. The basis of the petitioners’ application is alleged newly discovered evidence. Assuming that the evidence upon which the petitioners seek to base their motion for a new trial is precisely what the petitioners say it is, none the less it is not such as to overcome the effect of the ruling of the Supreme Court in D’Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Ins. Corp., 315 U.S. 447, 62 S.Ct. 676, 86 L.Ed. 956, and the pri- or decision of this court. See 12 U.S.C.A. § 264(s). In our opinion we assumed the existence of a valid oral contract' of a kind then claimed by the petitioners to have existed. We stated that the Integrity Trust Company had no record of this “valid oral contract” not to disturb the owner of the collateral until security values had risen to such a point that Alker could recover his “equity”. See 3 Cir., 151 F.2d at page 908, We note that there is a slight but immaterial change in Alker’s position in that he presently contends that the loan was not to be disturbed for a term of years. The evidence which Alker and DuBan seek now to offer to the court below as a basis for a new trial does not touch the issue of a “secret” agreement as that phrase was used by us in our decision and by the Supreme Court in D’Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. supra. It follows therefore that there is no ground for allowing a bill of review for the issue is not even doubtful. See Pittsburgh Forgings Company v. American Foundry Equipment Co., 3 Cir., 119 F.2d 619, and the authorities cited therein.

Question: This question concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". What is the gender of this litigant?Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity.

Choices:
not ascertained
male - indication in opinion (e.g., use of masculine pronoun)
male - assumed because of name
female - indication in opinion of gender
female - assumed because of name

Answer: 1