Winter Habitat
Of Alaska Seals
Still A Mystery
WASHINGTON, (A*) — The fish
and wildlife service acknowledged
failure today in an attempt to j
solve the mystery of where the
Alaskan fur seal spends the win
ter.
The agency made some head
way, however, in determining the
food habits of the strange, sea-go
ing mammal which summers ex
clusively on the Pribilof Islands,
north of the Aleutians.
And next spring it may get rid
of the old bulls that dominate the
herds year after year. It would do
this with the supposition that
younger bulls might be more pro
lific, and might produce stronger
stock.
“The seal’s food of choice is
squid.” said Seton H. Thompson,
director of the service’s division of
Alaska fisheries.
“On their spring migration
northward, seals off British Co
lumbia also eat some herring and
hake and a fish that has never
been identified because it has been
found only in the stomach of seals.
We call it the sealfish.”
Thompson said the agency’s mo
torship Black Douglas, assigned to
track the seals on their winter
travels, gave up the search early
this month and put into Seattle for
repairs.
The former schooner yacht had
been scheduled to follow seal
herds westward and southward
this fall and winter—as far as the
international dateline if necessary
—to determine whether they cross
over into Japanese or Russian wa
ters.
Japan in 1941 used the charge
that Pribilof seals were damaging
Japanese fisheries as an excuse to
abrogate the Russo-British-Ameri
can fur seal treaty of 1911. That
treaty prohibited killing of seals at
Babe Survives Attempt
To Throw It Away
HONG KONG, (^)—Ip Lin, an
amah (servant) of the Kowloon
Hospital, is the proud adoptive
mother of what she describes as
‘‘a miracle bay.”
The child—a girl—had her first
look at the world in a side street
in Shamshuipo. Her mother, a 23
year-old street sleeper, already had
four children. When the fifth was
born, the mother, without tying
the umbilical cord on her child
dropped the infant down a 14-foot
nullah.
The nullah was filled with
about a foot of water which cush
ioned the baby’s fall. While the
child’s body was submerged its
head rested on a sandbank which
lifted the nose and mouth above
the water level.
Two passing Chinese heard the
cries of the baby. The mother,
found lying a few yards from the
nullah, is now awaiting trial.
sea.
Thompson said the Black Doug
las went as far as Attu, at the
western tip of* the Aleutians, but
found the seal herds so small and
so few in number that it was im
possible to follow them in the con
tinually stormy weather and rough
waters.
Mechanical difficulties, stem
ming from the vibration of the
vessel, added to the decision to
call off the search.
“Even when killing at sea was
legal, sealers never could find the
animals in December and Janu
ary,” Thompson explained.
“The first seals reappear in Feb
ruary off Southern California.
From that month onward, we have
good records on their migrations
up to the Pribilof’s. We’re plan
ning another survey in February
or March, and we still hope to
gather more information some
other year on the winter routes.”
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DISTAFF DIARY
OF 1947
(By CYNTHIA LOWRY)
((A1) Newsfeatures Writer)
It was a busy year for Aunt
Samanthy, just keeping up with
the activities of Uncle Sam, as
well as indulging in a few of her
own on the side. Here is her 1947
diary:
JANUARY—The 80th Congress
organized with seven women
members—none of them Senators
. . . Anne O’Hare McCormick and
Marion Craig Moore were elected
to the National Institute of Arts
and Letters. . . . Pearl Lusk, inno
cent dupe in a New York City’s
“camera shooting” was freed. . . .
A baby was born in a passenger
plane flying over the Bahamas. . . .
Singer Grace Moore was killed in
a Scandinavian plane crash. . . .
Mrs. Roosevelt was elected chair
man of the United Nations Human
Rights Commission.
FEBRUARY — Unionized char
women of New York flatly refused
to clean any more cuspidors. ... A
gas blast lifted a manhole cover
and dropped Mrs. Sara Young into
the sewer. . . . Margaret Truman
celebrated her 23rd birthday with
a theater party. . . . Princess Juli
ana of the Netherlands had her
fourth child, another daughter. . . .
Miss Alene Wood, only woman
mamber of the Arkansas Legisla
ture, received a Parliamentary
marriage proposal from a col
league, delivered from the legisla
ture floor. . . . Buffalo, N. Y.,
school teachers went on strike for
higher wages.
MARCH — Hatcheck girl Renee
Carroll celebrated her 20th anni
versary on the job by tipping cus
tomers. . . . Mrs. Matthew Lies of
Andale, Kas., was chosen as the
Catholic Mother of 1947 by the Na
tional Catholic Conference on
Family Life. . . . Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Catt, leader in women’s
movements, died at 88. . . . Olivia
De Havilland won an Oscar for
her 1946 performance in “To Each
His Own.” . . . Singer Kirsten
Flagstad returned to America and
defended her conduct during the
war years in numerous interviews.
. . . Soprano Margaret Truman
made her singing debut with three
songs accompanied by the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra and picked
up one of the highest Hooper rat
ings of the year.
APRIL — Radio commentator
Bessie Beatty died. . . . The Wo
men’s National Press Club cited
Dr. Esther Caukin Brunauer of
UNESCO, Magazine Editor Beat
rice Blackmer Gould, Actress Eva
Le Gallienne, Mrs. Eugene Meyer,
Dr. Helen Brook Taussing and the
late journalist Dixie Tighe for their
achievements. . . . New York City,
where a number of cases of small
pox broke out, had mass vaccina
tions. . . . Mrs. Frederick G. Mur
ray of Cedar Rapids was chosen
the American Mother of 1947 by
the Golden Rule Foundation. . . .
Author Willa Cather died at 70.
. . . A piece of modern sculpture
called “Lovers” by Mitzi Solomon
was barred from the show of the
National Association of Women
Artsists. . . . Movie mogul Louis B.
Mayer and his wife of 43 years
were divorced—she received a
cash settlement of more than three
million dollars.
MAY—Pauline Betz and Sarah
Palfrey Cooke joined the ranks of
tennis professionals. . . . Col. Mary
A. Hallaren was appointed new
director of the WAC. ... A New
ark couple swapped jobs for a
week to settle an argument on
whether a business man or a house
wife worked harder—and the hus
band appeared ready to go back to
work in one day. . . . Alfred Lunt
and Lynne Fontanne celebrated
their silver wedding anniversary.
JUNE—Mrs. Ella feoule quit the
presidency after 16 years as chief
voice of the Women's Christian
temperance Union. . . . Sugar ra
tioning finally ended. . . . Novelist
Mary Roberts Rhinehart had a
narrow escape when her trusted
Servant went berserk and attempt
ed to attack her. ... A swiss girl, I
en route to marry an ex-GI, fell
in love with the ship’s surgeon
and called off plans to wed the
New Haven, Conn., lad who was |
bringing her here. . . . Martha
Firestone of Akron married Wil
liam Ford of Dearborn. . . . Mrs.
J. L. Blair Buck of Richmond,
Va., was elected president of the
National Federation of Women’s
Clubs.
JULY — Andrei Vishi n s k y ,
USSR deputy prime minister, said
i “women talk too much,” when dis
| cussing the failure of a score of
Russian women to leave the coun
try to join their British husbands.
... Ex-King Carol of Romania
married his old friend and com
panion, Magda Lupescu, in a
"deathbed ceremony” at Rio de
Janeiro—and she recovered. . . .
King George announced the en
gagement of Princess Elizabeth to
; Lieut. Philip Mountbatten. . . .
Mrs. Martha Truman, mother of
the President, died at 91.
AUGUST — Paris collections
drop hemlines below the calf. . . .
Mrs. Viayalakshmi Pandit arrived
Diary—2 .
in Moscow as Indian Ambassador
, to the USSR—the first women to
represent her country to a major
■ power. . . . Mrs. Roosevelt inher
| ited a 150-acre farm at Greenville,
, Tenn., from an itinerant clergy
man she had never seen. . . . Babe
Didrikson Zaharias turned golf
professional so she could accept a
$300,000 movie contract. . . . The
Dallas, Tex., rebellion—‘‘The Lit
tle Below the Knee Club”—got off
to a roaring start to protest the
new, long skirt-line. . . . Mrs. Tho
mas A. Edison died at 82. . . . Mrs.
Lee Hutton of Excelsior, Minn., I
j was elected president of the Amer
| ican Legion Auxiliary.
SEPTEMBER—Doris Duke, to
bacco heiress, married Dominican
diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa in a
Paris ceremony. . . . Food prices
hit the year’s high. . . . Pope Pius
urged women to take more active
roles in politics to fight Commun
ist influences. ... A survey show
ed women were better adapted to
automobile driving than men. . . .
A Ridgewood, N. J., minister ask
ed women to send their discarded
short dresses to the needy in Eu-;
rope. . . . Mrs. Roosevelt was
chosen to answer Vishinsky’s UN
Wins Divorce;
House Too Cold
BALTIMORE, (/P) — Testimony
that her clergyman husband kept
the parsonage at a temperature of
less than 60 degrees and told her
to “put on more clothing, a robe
and long underwear,” won a di
vorce for Mrs. Nettie S. Philips.
Mrs. Philips told Judge Edwin
T. Dickerson in circuit court No.
2 yesterday she married the Rev.
Euclid Philips in November, 1944,
and had to leave him two months
later when she contracted a severe
cold and a sore throat.
She testified the Reverend Phil
ips sat around the house "in his
overcoat and muffler around his
neck, and rubbers.” The parson
age and heat, she said, were sup
plied by the parish.
Organize Britons
For Protection
LONDON, bP)—Every adult and
child in Britain will be trained
for self protection against air at
tack in the atom age under a gov
ernment plan to reorganize the
civil defense service.
A highly mobile, full time force
will be available at short notice
for duty in any part of the coun
try to augment civilian groups.
The new civil defense service,
to be planned by a joint staff, was
disclosed yesterday in a Home Of
fice memorandum which said:
“After a major attack on a large
center of population, the task of
civil defense will be so onerous
that every able bodied man and
woman will be required to make
some contribution to the measure
of relief and restoration.”
“warmongering” attack. . . . Meat
less and poultryless days were in
augurated. . . . Mrs. Edna Iamb
of Maurice River, N. J., an oyster
oponer, won the national clam-eat
ing championship by consuming
186 cherrystone clams: her closest
opposition was a man who down
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