The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 2

TO THE NEW YEAR | ' GREETINGS | May the New Ycar hold 365 days of Health, Hap- piness and Prosperity for ‘ you and yours! THE Turtledove gray and very chic for those frock being spoiled at the first DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 31, 1928. WINTER ¢ PORTS Time Is Here! Ice skating hockey — what gives the sport loving person more fun than the merry games of winter? . Get equipped here. We have the best equipment . in town for all cold-weather J, sport. J uneau Young Hardware Co. ; Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. S. Weather Bureau | Forecast for Junean and vicinity, beginnmg 4 p. m. today: Fair and mot so cold tonight and Tuesday; moderate north- i‘ erly winds. s LOCAL DATA i time— Barom. Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4 p. m. yest'y 30.30 24 60 SE 4 Cldy | !4 2. m. today..30.33 23 81 w 6 Cldy | Noon today 30.15 26 51 L) 7 Cear CABLE AND RALI0 KEPORTS T YESTERDAY TODAY (! Highest 8 pm. | Low B8a m. 8am. Preclp. $am. i Statlons— __temp.__temp. temp. temp. Velocity 24 hrs. Wenther Barrow 6 =18 10 0 Pt Cldy | Nome 16 2 12 02 Bethel 20 0 2 4 02 i Fort Yukon 16 0 ) Tanana 4 - 0 it | Bagle | : 0 | /| st. paul | 12 0 i Dutch Harbor. 3 | Kodiak 36 ! 4 0 ‘ Cerdova 32 i 3 0 14 ! Juncau 26 23 6 0 Ketchikan 38 R 09 7 Prince Rupert. 40 38 36 0 04 | Edmonton 1 4 4 4 02 i Seattle 41 | 42 4 22 P land 50 42 El 64 ¥ ¥ San Francisco. 58 46 46 . 0 Pt.Cldy | | ¢—Legs than 10 miles. | NOTE:—Observations at St. Paul, Dutch darbor, Kodiak, Ju- | neau, Prince Rupert, Edmonton, Sattle, Portland and $an Fran- | cisco are made at 4 a.m., Juneau time. ] The pressure is high from Northeastern Aluska to the Pacific in the ocean nea Light rain ates and low r the fiftieth parallel. s fallen in the Gulf of Alaska and light snow has fallen in NN | Western Alaska. Clear weather prevails throughout the Inter- Temperatures remain low over moest of the Territcny with minimum of 48 degrecs below zero at Fort Yukon, but with considerable rise at Eagle during the past twelve Bours. i WANT LEGISLATURE | Texas Congressman | PARIS. chiffon is one of the luxuries of the moment who can afford wearing. to take the risk of a At Philippe et Gaston’s [there is a dove gray evening dress almost as fragile in effect as B. M. Belrends Co., Ine. Juneau’s Leading Department Store S | s. Hoover Writes 3 To Present Occupani | Of Old Kansas Home| Memories of her old Clearwater, Kans., home (above) are re- «called in a letter Mrs. Herbert Hoover (right) has written to Mrs. Lela C. White (lcft), present occupant of the house and editor of the wegkly paper in the town where Mrs. Hoover's father was a bahker. CLEARW "While gat items weekly nowspaper, Mrs. White has learned that charity, begins jat home 01d “settlers of. Clear water in “form her that the house in which "¢ she and her husband live was onc the e ~f Lou Henry, now Mrs Herbert Hoover, who will becom Dee. 21 for Lela news, Loy | BF8at ex; se cf the prairles and ©.|the happy memories ‘of the onc like |Summer she spent in the valley ot the Ninnescah. She recalled, tvo, |the night she counted 13 prairies res as she stood on the crest of ) 0Old settlers in Clearwater think ¢’ Lou Henry as a frail little girl Wl lady of the land next Mar ho spen: many hours painting jearing that Mrs. Hoover for. |Pictures of flowers on canvas. Mrs, rly had lived in this litide Kan {#loover stil has a large painting sas town, Mrs. White semsed o °he made of a great armful of sun- “good story for her paper. Leaving | Towers, the emblem of Kansas. the office of the Clearwater News| Three substantial citiz ns of this in’ charge of her hushand, Harry Vicinity, who were mischlevous White, a blacksmith, she set ou 4 |Woys when Lou Henry lived here, interview all the pioneers who| memab hew her kindness and ght have known Mrs. Hoov | quick once saved them from Prom them she learned that Lou |4 embarrassing situation, i y camie here as a 10-year-old| The e were being chased _with her parents, Mr. and Mr ng the road by a man who had D. Henry, from Water! ,, suted them out of his watermellon er birthplace. That was in|balch. Just as the angry garden- Mrs. Henry, a banker, pur. |€r was about to collar the youth- 2 dwelling now occupied | tul pilerers, a girl stopped him to Vhit There the Henry|ask the price of some. vegetablos. " for several months be. |She kept un a lively conversation « to Monterey, Cal. until the bHoys were safely aut of wrote Mrs. Hoove: 'sight, then she thanked the man ‘for further details, |and went her way. . ive in. which Mrs In the fTont yard of the White . told of her family’s arriva) |residence is a tall, stately elm s spring was breaking | which was rlanied when the Hen- es.” ;i rys lived there. Both the house ould al.|and the graceful old tree have be- € first| come cbjects of historic pride to the'the people of Clearwater. i S P chiffon, but has a long, actually the ends strass, swathed and with scattercd hips are ed brold: made of mgre uneven skirt, just clearigg the carpet durable crepe it The em- georgette, in back. knctted girdle are knot ou the shoulder RITA. of the like the YAKUTAT BAY OUAKE CAUSES EARTH UPLIFT Change in Mean Tide Level Indicates Uplift as far as Lynn Canal That the great Yakutat earth- quake of 1899 caused a vertical lift in the land mass as fir east as the west shore of Lynn Canal is indicated as a strong proba- bi by a study of mean tide levels made by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Bench ! marks established on that shore' by the bureau in 1890 showed an average, increase cf 2.4 feet in elevation in 1922, This fact is noted in a recent bureau publication, “Tides and Currents in Southeast Alaska,” | which points ou the value of .a |plane of mean tide level, or of |mean sea level, as a means of dctermining disturbances of the |earth. Haines showed an increase of 2.53 feet in elevation, William Bay, 2.37, and Pyramid 7 feet. Funter Bay , Hocnah Bay 1.39, |Har sho (and ed 1.8 Mud Bay .96 feet, and Sitka and Taku Harbor lesser increases. Metlakatla changed. “If we assume that the bench marks remained constant, it would have been impossible that the plane of mean tide Ilevel would be altered by these amounts,” declared the bulletin, addizg: “To bring about such 0 great lowering of the plane of mean tide level enormous physical changes would have had to take place in the cress sections of the waterways leading up to these tidal stations. No changes of note have occurred. | Vertical Displacement ““A study of the establishment of the three bench marks (Haines, William Henry Bay and Pyramid Harbor) shows they were well nough located so that it was utterly impossible for them to have been raised over two feet excepting by a vertical displace- ment cf all the surrounding land mass." This conclusion led to a study was virtually un- of earthquakes in the region. Only one of sufficient magnitude was revealed, that centering around Yakutat Bay in 1899, An investigation, reported by Tarr and Martin, showed & maxithum uplift amounting to 47 feet in places in the immediate reglon, and rapid changes-in the glaciers in the district as far south and east as Taku Gacier, the most notable change being at Muir Glacfer. Evidence Is Strong That it was not only possible but very probable that the land lying easterly to Lynn Canal was all uplifted by the tremblor is indicated by the facts assembled by the bureau which pointed out the proximity of Lynn Canal to Muir Glacier and said: “Inasmuch as this glacier was materially disturbed by the earth- quake of 1899, it is reasonable to assume that the west shore of Lynn Canal, only 30 miles dis- tant Muir Glacier, migh! have Dbeen affected by the same’ ‘enth movements that a 47-foot local uplift. “Residents of Skagway, at the head of Lynn Canal, 160 miles cast of Yakutat reperted six or seven shocksg, ‘the vibrations in- creasing until everyone felt the motion distinctly.’” There were literal earth waves, both motion and feeling being exactly as if on board a vessel. Many cracked chimneys and gaping walls re- sulted from these tremors. “Juneau peported three hard shdcks, one very severe. Taku Inlet, Stephens Passage and G tineau Channel were filled with icebergs from Taku Glacler for some time after the shocks. “These observations of per- sons experiencing the Yakutat quake at distant stations are further evidence of the far-reach- produced movement alcng Lynn Canal.” Other es Noted The bureau checked other sta- tions up on its theory. “To as- sign the earthguake of 1899 as the immediate factor which brought about the changes in the {level noted,” it said, “it would Ihuve heen necessary to have had tidal obseryations and level made Just previously to, and immed- Jately following the disturbance. In an effort to ascertain if any subsequent changes in elevation might have oceurred, the eleva- tion of reliable bench marks es- tablished at Hoonah and Mud Bay in 1901 and 1920 were re- ichecked in 1923. Here, too, were [founa increases in elevation, amounting to 0.96 and 1.39 feet. One might assume that these figures came within the allowable limit of sea-level variation, and therefore that factor could be as- signed as the sole cause of the differeing elevations. This may be the case, though the tidal ele- vations at Hoomah were of four jmonths duration in 1901 and six months in 1928, both sufficiently long series to obviate most of the error in planes of mean tide level derived from geries of tidal ob- servations less than a year in length. Therelore, we must grant the possibility of earth move- ments subsequently to those of 1899, which may or may not have been due indirectly to the disturbance of that year. Such an assumption i§s strengthened by the knowledge of the vast changes which took place in Muir Glacier between 1899 and 1907, and the occurrence of a severe earthquake in 1907, which was reported chiefly from the Lynn Canal region, notably at Skag- way.” — -t MARQUAM @IVES BOND el € The bail bond for T. A. Mar- quam, recently arrested at Fair- banks under a Washington in- dictment chaging him of violat- ing the corrupt practices act in failing to file his eampaign ox- pense account whem Me ran for Delegate to Congress, was fixed at 5,000 by Judge €ecll H. Clegg. The bond was furnished immediately. ————— AUZO DRIVERS, NOTICE Notice is hvr.& ‘given that lfi lights, and partieularly the rear times. Violators By o G ._."" |ing effects and likelihood of earth | T0 MEET EAB.LIEB] 7 i Belicving ta convening of HIA-} Territorial Legislature in March | works a hardship on representa- | tives from the Fourth and Second | Divisions, the Executive Commit- | tee of the Fairbanks Commercial | Club has adopted a resolution | urging that the Legislature meet on the first Monday in February | el instead of the first Monday in March, as is done at present. Advancing the date a wmonth | would, the Commercial Cub be- | Heves, give representatives from Divigions farthest away from | Juneau time to return to lhr.r: homes for spring busine; It pointed out that under presen conditions lawmakers often tim congiderable financial L being able to attend suffer by not to business in the best season of the Wright Patman of Texarkana, year. Democrat, Is representative-elect Another change desired by the|dn the first Texas congressional Commercial Club is in the elec- | district. He Is a lawyer. tion date. The change desired is -> > from the first Tuesday after the PARISH CARD PARTY PR Your needs promptly supplied from our complete stock Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc. Lumber For Every Purpose Specializing in Best grades of Spruce and Hemlock LUMBER ey We handle CEMENT, SHINGLES, FIRE BRICK, FIRE CLAY oo S To the Public : For the present Brunswick Machines and Records will be sold from rooms adjoining Candy Factory on Lower Seward Street. 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