Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1931, Page 6

$123000,000 FISH U.S. YEAR'S RECORD Importance of Industry Indi- cated by Commissioner 0’Malley’s Report. American fishermen pulled from the in this country and Alaska )00,000 pounds of fish, yielding in of more than $123,000,- ( to the annual report of of Fisheries Henry O'- 2 activities during the > the sum importance of this | cial fisheries s indi- | byt 4 that they gave-em- ¥ t to 191,000 persons, of whom 123,000 were fishermen. Increasing as Pastime. a pastime is steadily in- | sularity, the report said, imated that the number for racreation, ex- value of fishing | i was placed by O'- 000,000 | au of F eries, in connec- propagation carried on | and the District of | rom its stations , including ater species 1al importance and highly | ame fish. | ipplied, according to the | operative nurseries with | fish, increased its ling fish by 28 per than 182.500,- | ppi River sec- | report. over 4,000,000 ¥ own output of fing cent and salvaged m 000 fish in the Missis tion. 576,000,000 Pounds Packed. The report shows that more than 576,000,000 pe ds of fish, valued at $82,850,000, v canned and packed curing the Jast fiscal year. In excess | of 80,000,000 pounds of fresh fish, \fll-; ued at $12,500,000, was prepared for the | market by the packaged fresh fish trade and 139,207,000 pounds of fish were frozen. Secondary fish products to the value of $23721,000 were pro- duced by the by-products industries. During the previous year the produc- tion of cured fish amounted to more than 110,000,000 pounds, valued at $17.- 500,000, and in 1930 imports of fishery products for consumption were valued at $50,830,000, while the value of do- mestic cxports was $17.276,000. In comparison with 1929, the report pointed out, there were decreases in the value of packaged fish, canned fish, secondary products and imports and exports, while the production of frozen fish increased. CONGRESSMEN SEEK DATA ON SALES TAX United States Officials Workings of Canadian Levy on Visit. Discuss By the Associated Press. MONTREAL, November 16.—Seventy- five United States Senators, members the House and Government officials, who are guests in Canada of the pul lisher, William Randclph Hearst, dis- cussed the workings of the sales tax today with members of the Montreal Board of Trade. Hearst organized the journey so the visitors. might study the tax with a view to possible legislation to inaugu- rate it in the United States. The party arrived in Montreal yes- terday. It will visit Quebec and Ottawa before returning to Washington. Han- ford MacNider, American Minister to Canada, and Mrs. ‘MMNlder are ac- companying the visitors. 'fl"l’e v(slt;‘ors will be guests tonight at & banquet at which Sir Henry Thorn- ton, president of the Canadian National Railways, will preside. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Washington Board of Trade, Willard Hotel, 8 p.m. — | Meeting, Monday Evening Club, Wil- | lard Hotel, 8' p.m. Installation of officers, Department American Legion Ayxiliary, Willard Ho- tel, 9 pm. Card party, Ladies of Charity, 2800 K street, 8:30 p.m. Meeting, Progressive Citizens’ Asso- | ciation of Georgstown, Curtis Séhool, | O street between Wisconsin avenue and | ‘Thirty-third street Meeting, Lincoln ] sociation, Bryan School, B tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets northeast, 8 p.m. Meeting, Delaware State Soclety, Thomas Oircle Club, 1326 Massachu- setts avenue, 8 p.n, . Card party, Lincoln Woman's Relief | ©orps, 1015 L street, 8 p.m. | FUTURE. Book review, Women's City Club, 736 Jackson place, tomorrow, 4:45 p.m. Davao, in the Philippines, has had an fmitation of war of its own, Japanese | closely watching developments in Mnn-' churia and -distributing propaganda handbills as they thought it necessary, | the Chinese doing the same and in Id~' dition holding nightly meetings. | il A Proud of Chinese Junk STAR, WASHINGTON, MRS. HOOVER TAKES THE EVENING ASSISTANT NAVAL SECRETARY GETS ORIENTAL GIFT. explaining the fine points of the Chinese junk just sent him by his former aide for navy yards, Rear Admi THE Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Ernest Lee Jahncke, is shown here of the Yangtze River patrol in the Orien model, with its accompanying two admire the neat handiwork and the f Jahncke had an officer who served on when it arrived plecemeal. Models of st with the oars on deck. A small table vessel is said to be made of Chinese pine The junk has an eye in the bow, as must be able to see where they are going. naval operations, who has served a long pronouncing it true to life. PART IN DEDICATION First Lady Delivers Speech to Children at Home Ceremonies. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star ALTA VISTA, Md., November 16.— Surprising her hearers by making a| short speech during the exercises, Mrs. | Herbert Hoover yesterday afternoon par- | ticipated in the dedication of the Bap- | tist Home for Children, located on Ced: | lane here. Seldom has Mrs. Hoos made a public address | " Standing on the form erected in | & natural amphitheater and under the | branches of a large oak tree, the First Lady told the more than 500 persons who had gathered how glad she was to | be present at the ceremony. ‘ Wishes for Happy Lifc. T “We all hope,” Mrs. Hoover told the || | boys and girls of the home, “that you | will have a very happy: life in the home, | and that the home will have a long life after you have gone into the world | from it." It is most appropriate” she said, “that these wonderful buildings are lo- | | cated in the country, amid the flelds The site s wonderful and I | and trees. feel that the children are fortunate. Mrs. Hoover's presence at the exer- | cises had been expected, but when E. | Hilton Jackson, president of the Board | | of Trustees of the Home, announced | that she would speak, it came as a sur- prise. Her talk was warmly applauded | by the gathering and a choir of boys | and girls of the home sang. ‘ The other speakers were Daniel C. | Roper, former commissioner of internal | revenue and member of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, | and Judge Kathryn Sellers of the Dis- | trict_of Columbia Juvenile Court. A | telegram_of congratulation from Chief | Justice_Charles Evans Hughes of the o small ships, in his office, where visitors | aithful details, down to its sails. Mr. WRINGERLESS WASHER | the China station assemble the model | ailors are carved in wood and are seen il give e i | you 10 Ibs. ral Yancey S. Willlams, now in charge Mr. Jahncke has placed the [ w SCORES WADSWORTH FOR WET PROPOSAL National Prohibition Board De- clares Republican Repudiated in | Own State Because of Stand. By the Associated Press. ‘The National Prohibition Board of Strategy, representing a number of dry | organizations, today said James W. Wadsworth, jr., former Republican | Senator from New York, had been “re- pudiated in his own State because he was wet.” A letter from Wadsworth to Senator Fess, chairman of the Republican Na- tional Committee, has urged the Re- publican party to advocate a referen- dum on the prohibition question. “That Mr. Wadsyorth should have the nerve to rehash this old argu- ment,” the prohibition board said in a statement, “shows that he thinks the people have forgotten the devastating defeat of Charles H. 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