The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1931, Page 2

i i I e Ve i IR 'BLACK WALNUT CO stume OF MT. VERNON Jewelry in the Proper Types Shrine to Be Planted on Capitol Grounds Ve on the Capitol y with Fitting ceremonies FRENCH LIGHT WEIGHT BEAD NECKLACES mission and is due to arrive on t! teamer Alaska next Tuesday. milar ceedling was capitol wwith colored settings grounds AND CRYSTAL COMBINATIONS in Black and White PEARL 20, last, at the capitol and Territery. H from a nut picked from a tree HIR Hl Beautiful Chokers of Coral, Jade, Lemon, {lh on the Mt. Vernon plantation Yellow, Gardenia, White and Ivory Colored BEADS a part of the program, sponsored CLIPS and designs. Briiliant set in several new shapes < g One of the most useful and the iation of which calls for 5.000,000 black nut plants to be set out in t next five year atterad throug jcut the count One million w “hr' planted annually for the ne: || five years, Mr. Dunn seid. | The program fi the local ex- |\l | ercises was anncunced by him to- | as follows: Walnut Manufacturers practical items for ornamental purposes. ‘ We close all day Saturday, May 30th, MEMORIAL DAY. This is in conform- ity with the Merchants’ Closing Agree- (Color bearers a Legion. chargd of the Program. —e—weTrr nd will always stand ready to this and other living trees.” fea” Band S CONFIRM SUB SINKING “Juneaw’s Leading Department Store” HELSINGFORS, n authorities ha : of 341 in mes. The ecxpert hailed him as a real baseball “find." | Russi But he slumped in 1929 and hit only in 79 games; so the Cards |maneuvers in the gulf of Finland FAST WORKER ::: 1S SENT HERE Seedling from Washington A black walnut seedling from Mt. ¢ , home of the nation’s first and greatest hero, will be grounds ounced today by John Division member of | 2 Committee on the Wash- | &t the bottoms of the great ocean A| Water rises planted on on and others will be | Weddell and Ross seas, Dr. Meents | of each| The seedling sent here was grown | X sajdjea“h at the poles, which causes a have been planted by Washing- | il | The Boy Scouts and pupils of the il [ schools of the community will have \|a prominent place in the ceremo- | nies which will open at 1:30 p.m.| | The pianting of the seedlings is q|the great ocean currents. y the United States Forest Ser-| | the Boy Scouts of Amen:\‘k‘ the United States, | DO | 1. | duits are nearly one mile in diam- l:[ vance Flag—all pledge to BIOTNE O e (WIVEL the con e A L1 e “The vertical p ir con- | 5 ment, as fostered by The American i gi;“}fmd sl Band | duit below the Arctic ocean basis Noon for Sitka and S ; " in floor may be about five miles. As “ Introduction ....John H. Dunn 4% porage maximum depth of the Way Ports | May 20.—The: 8¢ e confirm- ed the sinking of the Russian sub- marine of a week ago during fleet DALLAS, Texas, May 29.—A sni-: entist's belief in a great bottomless ! hole at the tcp of the world may | be tested by the depth finders of | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1931. Belief in Bottomless Hole in Earth to Get Test by Submarine Soundings, the Wilkins submarine at the North | Pole this summer. The existence of this hole is ar-| gued by Dr. Richard Ommo Maents, | who holds the degree of Ph.D. and| is professor of geology at Bouth- ern Methodist University here. The hole takes a zig-zag course | through the crust and from there on continues in a straight line to| the center of the earth, he holds. | bringing upwelling water which s fed to it from huge fissures located | | WATER WELLS Bi-Contennial Oslebration, | deeps” north and scuth’ of the UP THROUGH SEVWTER TR . ACFTF 4 lant is being furnished by | 2qu2t Tl?esc fissures converge | HOLE PEWTER CHOKERS and BRACELETS e piat b QSRR by | o ais rnler ‘, Similar At Scuth Pole ‘ similarly in con- duits under the south pole, pruba-,‘ Ibly emptying into the bottom of | | sa; He accounts for the polar up- | welling and the equatorial sinking | |by the 26-mile flattening of the | difference in hydrostatic pressure. | .| Dr. Meents bases his belief upon study of ocean currents. He has| written a paper to shcw why ne! ither temperature differences, salini {ty differences, winds nor earth's | rotation account satisfactorily for Asked what verification the Wil- ns expedition may find he say: .| “Judging from the oceanic ph: | nomena, T would say that the con- L | eter. They enlarge in a funnel shape before they intersect the sea ‘ ESTEBETH PUTS expedition takes soundings in the being a sort of ‘jumping off place’ at the be- inning cf the funnel, | Arctic ocean, a sudden increase in i |depth will be noted as the conduit | | Bugle Call|iS approached, ther Motorship Gets Away at | Arctic thus far reported is be-| | There ! Arctic conduit, Dr. Meents says, hut due to the basin-like nature of the Arctic he favors “one gigantic of her scheduled weekly voyages. With engine in fine working or- der, she departed on regular time ;f:i ik f.“l, tween two and three miles, I would' Il fortune has been conquered il = M ot et op Mioe : cay that soundings which indicate D¥ the motorship Estebeth. She il e !4 sudden increase in depth of about 8% away at ncon today. for Sitka | H Mrs. M. L. Merritt and one-half miles to anywhare and way ports and Is expected to il ’ I C I : il | Charg .} Llh Scou } ur;):! Ln:llli ahove that figure may be accepted rc;;nn ;Du.hm,:\u kMondawh H ]‘1 B . H ree oy Scout: At e Imost three weeks A - I B. . enrenas Ou’ nc. H Bt s as @S those taken within the throat| - Fra ”llc Adiosh aflr_:ou;: ves ] Ha e £ vigor and apright |Of the conduit.” P Bl e f i | "ymbols of vigor and prig may be more than one pairs of which made her miss two H H H b somewhat circular opening” ap- evening on the Sitka trip. | directly under the hours out of this gport, she al pole broke her crank shaft. She rig- 3 i o ged a sail and beat her way back |tosJuneau. NORCO DUE HERE { This noon with good crank shaft TOMORROW, 2 P. M and repaired engine, she started i again, with every prospect cf ex him to the New York Giants. (It is understood 35 men were ' perie; ; 11 iffi With McGraw's team last year he |aboard the craft at the time of Motorship Norco, of the N"r‘l“.“pTlxgm?gss?lo emu;g:ilddlgful;fi_' S 3 vas unable to hit more than .2fl3|‘\h(,' sinking. {land Transportation Company, Is' . oo "o o0 Sitka and way- Reds Can’t Keep Him/|and was sold down the river to SR 2 e o Bt b2 o'clock {OMOTTOW 1oy The passengers are: ; the lowly Reds FOURTEEN MEN KILLED |afternoon. c_ QLA V. " ‘For Hoonah—Max Peterson and Down; Refuses to Stay iR B ) here four or five hours hefore sail-| For Hoonah—Ma » months and better timing, | combined to send him of stnsational start in his 1931 ccmebaci campaign. or So ef Put Anywhere [ W ologl region, men, engaged NEW YORK, May 29.—Dan How- ley's Cincinnati Reds are deep in the “red"—almost all -of them ex-} « Roettger. spite all the ills that came to & Reattger just refuses to siay put (mates he topped the league in bat- among the baseball ne'er-do-wells | ting against probably the best nnd has-beens. Off to a fine t | pitchers of the circuit, with .400 o: despite his team'’s reverses, b were killed this upon them. - I CAIRO, Egypt, May 29.—Four-/ing south. in arch- 1 excavations in the Lux-! after- tive was his bat that de- }ncou when sand hills caved in DOG “JOINS” POLICE FORCE | : 2 VERSAILLES, Ky., May 29— |1y this afternoon in answer to an better figures. |“Nick,” a dog of questionable breed- | On the trip south the Norco will call at Vancouver, B. C. LIRS N & |FIREMEN EXTINGUISH FIRE IN DELIVERY MILK TRUCK For Tenakee—J. F. Buchanan. For Killisnoo—F. A. Boyle. For Sitka—Einar Olson, McKay. Valvin Australian Writers War On American Magazines \ | | . | A run to the Juneau Dairy was {made by the Fire Department ear- alarm turned in from there. Faulty CANBERRA, MAY 29—Authors and WATER FROM BOTTOM OF OCEAN'DEEPS” NORTH AND SOUTH OF EQUATOR, THROUGH FISSURES CONVERGING AT, CENTER OF EARTH, WELLS THROUGH HOLE TO ARCTIC BASIN AND THROUGH SIMILAR HOLE BRANCHING INTO BOTTOMS OF WEDDELL AND ROSS SEAS ! Arrest Investigated i ! Assoctated Press 'hoto The arrest of Count Felix von Luckner, German naval officer dur- ing the world war, by two policemen in Dallas, Tex., brought an apology nd Investigation, He was arrested n “suspicion.” .~ mises to come back to the position he held during his first year major leagues. Baseball fortunes uava Deen uigh and low for Roettger since he fi) broke into the major leaguss 1928 in a St. Louis Cardinal uni- the | Pl ing, is the self-appointed MACCN, GA—Fort Hawki }[irst Indian trading post authorized by congress south of the Ohio riv ly when an alarm is sounded. onstrated the power of his cannon f \ 'ON | huy Nick a licepse and collar. to the Indians by felling a tree with e — Old papers at the Embire office "pollcc‘ig“mm‘ caused a lot of smoke dog” of Versailles. Incidentally he 2nd a small blaze on one of the S 1s the “fire dog,” too, for he rare-|dalry delivery trucks which was § 4 3 misses hopping the fire truck extinguished before any material;American periodicals in Australia. i1t : | An- | |1s being rebuilt. Here DeSoto dem- nually county officlals chip in tu| damage resulted. -~ - The Montana state gameé and fish commission spends $1.27 to rear a pheasant at its game farm. publishers are protesting against |the “dumping” of back numbers of It is urged that the imported literature competes unfairly with Australian writers. The Society of Australian Au- thors also issued a statement brand- i Sai \_yhuf of form. During that season he ham- two cannon balls. Where Speed Kings Will Meet - TEoN DurAY RALPH De ParMa BiLLY ARNOLD Courting death on drivers will fight it out at the Indianapolis Speedway May L of Suesd Kk 0F Awarica, Among those sntered aredli Chicago boy winner of last year's race, and the ve! B na, vinner in 1915. Peter De Paolo, nephew of De Palma, and the 1527 grind, William “Shorty” Cantlon, second in 1930, the starter. Two veterans of the crown fall to one of the famous Arnold was last year, bring home CiirF DuraNT SHORTY CANTION ry lap of the 500-mile race, a score of daredevil®and Louis Meyer, third place winner in last year’s race, will also face for thi Duray, will be on hand to hold the youngsters in check. C00 spectators will witness the classic of the auto racing world. ing the contents of some of the periodicals as unsavory. INDIAN WOMAN DIES FEDERAL HOSPITAL Mrs. Fannie Horton, an Indian woman, died yesterday in the United States Hospital in Juneau: Her body was sent to Hoonah to- day for burial. Mrs. Horton is survived by her husband, William Horton, four children, three brothers and a sister, all of Hoonah. -— ‘MRS. MANAHAN GOES HOME | “Mrs. W. J. Manahan and two sons, who were house guests of “|Mrs. Winifred Jones, lefi this morn- ing on the steamship Admiral Rog- ers for their home in Ketchikan. {Mr.:Manahan is agent of the Pa- ‘cific Steamship Company at Ket- ‘chikan. ——————— "United States department cf com- merce records show 977 gliders reg- istered as of Jan. 1, 1931, against 45 one year earlier. FEVYTVEVTY motor track, Cliff Durant and Leon Will the or will an unknown, such as Billy} he major honors? More than 150, CYVOYTVVIVY 7YVYUVVVTYTVYVY % SPECIAL HOLIDAY DANCE ELKS HALL TONIGHT Serenaders Music U. 5. DEPARTMENT QF AGRIOOLTURE, WEATHER BUREAU The W eather (By -the U. 8. Weather Burean) Forecast for Junean and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m. May 28. Showers tonight and possibly Saturday; moderate westerly winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer ‘Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity —Weather 4 pm. yest'y . 30.00 43 92 SE 8 Rain 4 am. today . 2099 47 92 w 4 Rain 12 noon today ... 3012 47 86 s 8 Rain ©ABLE AND RADIO REPORTS Highest 4p.m. dam, Pr Staton— __temp. femp. | emp temi weiboty sunre Wasther Barrow ML 3 30 24 % 0”7 Clear Nome . 38 34 24 24 4 Trace Snow Bethel 40 34 30 30 14 04 Cldy Fort Yukon ... 46 46 e 40 4 16 Rain Tanana 42 50 32 32 — 0 Cldy Fairbanks 44 42 | 36 36 10 A6 Snow Eagle ... 56 56 40 40 4 .08 Cldy St. Paul . 40 40 28 28 . 0 Clear Dutch Harbor ... 48 46 32 34 —_ Trace Pt.Cldy Kodiak 52 4“4 36 38 10 0 Clear Cordova 46 40 38 42 8 248 Cldy Juneau 50 48 4 4 4 53 ... Rain Sitka 54 - 43 45 4 94 Cldy Ketchikan 54 48 | 46 48 4 186 Cldy Prince Rupert ... 56 56 | 48 48 4 70 Rain Edmonton 72 68 38 46 10 [ Clear Seattle 0 10 54 56 4 0 Clear Portland .. 82 82 | 58 58 . 0 Clear San Francisco ... 70 68 52 ' 0 Clear 52 *—Less than 10 mlles, A low pressure area has moved from the Gulf of Alaska to.the upper Yukon Valley attended by heavy rains in the eastern por- tion of the Gulf and Southeast, and showers in the eastern In- terior. Another low pressure area has appeared in the western Aleu- tian Islands accompanied by fair weather over most of Southwest- ern Alaska. Temperature changes have been slight in all districts. e . HERAC WHEN THINGS WAKE UP Spring—hanging up another worn-out Winter— unlocks the sunshine, flowers and bunnies. Mankind seems to begin again with new hope, new ambition, and new determination to be prudent, learning what to seek and what to shun. A bank account of your own is a thing worth striv. ing to have. Make this your Bank. 1 First National Bank I UL TU LTI T IIlIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllll! e SINGER ELECTRIC SEWING MACHINES PORTABLE AND CABINET MODELS Sold and Rented T T T T T T T T Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS, ALASKA Phone No. 18 e O L I S S s R YR TR AT Phone No. 6 Desk Supplies—Ink—Desk Sets— Blotters—Office Supplies Geo. M. Simpkins Co. WALL PAPER —at— Juneau Paint Store D e BT T PHONE 487 MARKOE STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHS OF QUALITY PORTRAITURE, PHOTO FINISHING, CAMERAS, ALASKA VIEWS, ETC. First National Bank Bldg. Juneau, Alaska - - > o