The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1939, Page 2

AR S e o 1 737 AR WOMAN DIES IN Women's SEATTLE AT 86 Raincouts 12 to M4 Sizes Day Resident Here, G‘ /) 33D wna o Passes On word was received in Juneau to= . day that Mrs. P. M. Mullen, pioneer resident of Junedu, passed’ away | 1 Seattle vesterday at the dge of | Children’ Mullen was the mother of President of B. M.| tle today. e CONSTRUCTION FIRMS, BANKS TAXED.IN BiL Senate Measure Would Li- i | cense Establishments the Goid- . . lory of | in Territory the Ju- ntal Clin struction by A Dbill which would impose a tection of the license fee on banks based upon v fi the amount of total deposits was iebris and roduced in the Senate this after- = < e I ¢ e up its|noon by Senator Victor C. Rivers “resid man,” ir tents 1 1 hape. The of Fairbanks: Also licensed, at a 4 box had evi- |fee, under the bill are construction fall from |business firms, A hole| The measure, Senate Bill No. 55, wreat | provides that banKing i-}nunh pay an annual license fee |to the Territory amounting to one- combus- | {enth of one percent of total de- ts over $100,000 license tax on construction rms, with those relating to mines ing exempted, would be $20 per r on resident, and $500 per year dent companies. Flood Control Liability sther bill introduced today by or Rivers (8.B. 56) declares policy of cooperation with the deral Government in flood con- and river and harbor improve- ment projects, and assumes for (vr Territory liability for damages ing from construction of such cis. require one T r * dence 3 Coffey ir i H harm to cc th today that would define such, and w r er man ritory for at Y t ne year the ltmuv for e 1 i n on LECTH A i’EADS i - i ) 14 Se D .{! TH THROUGH |- CLEARED SK!ES thi: Late yesterday afternoon Sena- Henry Roden of Juneau intro- travel Smith ar ed r ith 7 passenge wboard | tox Flor J i ' and Fairbank. ‘dueed a new bill to license insur< s 3 A ¢ T 15 of the plane are|ance assoeiations. The measure, tart and Bert Lein. Tn the Senate Bill No. 54, was introduted for Whitehorse, Thomas |after Senator Roden obtained un= Fair-lanimous eonsent to withdraw his ! Pil- gsenate Bill No. 26, a similar meas< ure. Earl Pilgrim, Mrs. F Relief Bill Withdrawn Also withdrawn yesterday afters noon was Senator’ Norman R: ASI“ MANEY END | Walker's Senate Bill No. 12 which Ao TARAINL Y would have appropriated $150,000 UNCE |in relief funds to aid incorporated e | towns. £ The Senate met briefly at 10 o'4 A minor ay MEASUre There is money selling safe clock this morning and recessed was ir Hi as.there is in | books or dog until this afternoon, when it re- Represent cu sumed its work at 2 o'clock. ‘' At ing Y - J W ress' time, the body was still dis- 1y Love for ranged in: ¢ cussing in second reading, Senator two hospi f *s rendered v him to the Juneau \Iwnr al Rivers' lengthy bill to license ‘en< the Territory i Dental Clinic turned out to be cers and architects. The cl are for the so secure that the first documents, Two measures, Senate Bill ‘No. ssion of |53 by ched check t to the of a cto d the first chec s one | n the bona fide signature of iy General nard Co! were Rivers, dealing with repeal section relating to garnish- and Senate Bill No. 41, deal- with custody of records of the ‘[)v];w(m(-nt of Public Welfare, re- € ‘do not pass”’ recommenda- from Committees. Two Rewritten Two House measures were re- ned from the Judiclary Com- m'w(- extensively rewritten. House 1t Resolution No. 4, naming the 1k Hospital the Edward W. Memorial Hospital, was re- rawn to provide that the hospital be marked with its title in' ‘a | place, no provision Being |made for a bronze plaque Mmarker. The other measure rewritten was House Bill No. 18, restrieting travel le Alaska of Territorial of- made ou tion able “Do pass” ven the recommendations were following: Seénate Bill No. 50, prohibiting nepotism; Sen- Bill No. 51, providing that > called for jury duty bé paid appearing; §enate Bill No. the Territorial law matching Federal mds for vocational education; ¢ Bill No. 34, defining habit- kards, and Senate Bill No. 39, allowing package liquor stores tobacco products and non- beverages. .o - shell from Louisiana shell- fish areas have been shipped as far :ow, Scotland, for grinding and using in the preparation of livestock feed 1 for 43, repealing oviding for aleocholie Oyste -ee Dr. Walter H. W. Marseille, Ger- man psychologist and mathematics man p: y i vehologist and mathematian, UPPLY CO to have invented five suit ive Alsska INC., Seattle, istributers, Mrs. P. M.mllen, Early - . is g Mulien INCOGLsS Jehrends Bank, and resided in| Sizes 4 to 18 1 with Her husband = and ; ot for many years. ng to the North in the early | s &t A L i, 2.5 the Mullens went first to| wart and then a short time @ ter to Juneau, where Mr. Mullen jied in 1916. Mrs. Mullen and her daughter, | 22T 2Tl Mrs. J. F. Hebert, left Juncau in é’fl!’ l,l 1924 and have been living in Se- F W . attle since. a/ne g” ¢ 0’(’5 J. F. Mullen was in California o it the time of his mother's death D7D ind is expected to arrive in Seat- establish- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE FRIDAY FEB. 17, I939 By HOWARD W. BLAKE: Associated Press Science Editor NEW YORK--The earth’s last geo- graphical frontier, the bottom of the sea, has found its Columbus. The first explorers this greatest of all frontiers are back in port with [mmm«: of wealth undreamed They opened this vast area with a new kind of big gun, which lowered | to the bottom, even as deep as Six | miles shoots a long, narrow open- lend steel can which goes 10 feet into the earth and comes up filled with samples. They were voyaging only after scientific information. But they have | come back with phosphate fertilizer | rock from a mile deep, and mangan- ese from ocean pavements of this metal which is one of the sinews of isteel making. The situation at this moment is as dramatic as Columbus’ discover-| ery of America. For these samples of future resources were found in the first few random shots. Three- | fourths of the earth’s crust on ocean| bottoms is still undisturbed and un- | sampled. \ Dr. F. P. Shepard of the Univer- | sity of Tllinois found the phosphate, i Charles Snowden Piggot, of the Carnegie Institution of Washingion, reported the manganese, but to | whom science will give the title of | Columbus of the bottoms is not| known. For many persons cooperat- ed in this scientific caravel. Four Glacial Periods The first job is mapping. Fxrcn for the water has protected much | of the bottom from the erosion that | | has wiped out the story of land up- | heavals. i Thus, nine “shofs” strung in 2 line across the Atlantic from New- foundland to Ireland, reveal laye showing four glacial periods, when this ocean bottom was ice. And in between lie marine shells showing | that there were intervals of water and that it was as warm as today. | Selenium, a metal not previously supposed to be in sea bottoms, found in these samples. The eartl magnetic history has been “foot-printed,” by buried magnetic| particles. They point in the direction of what was the magnetic pole when they sank. the sea bottom is not a wild dream. ¢ For within this decade science has|f possible with the ocean. Sea Bottom Yields Oil Oil is already bottom, at still shallow depths is true, off California and the Gulf of Mexico coasts. But petroleum ex- perts have discussed going down| through 1,000 feet of ocean for oil. | Gold has been extracted from sea water. Tests indicate that the seas contain enough gold to pave the roads of the world, silver to roof the earth. | from the sea off North controls the speed of gasoline in (I\ri majority of the American cars. Some of the metal in milk of magnesia ] comes from Pacific waters. | Fhe ocean bottom has been a vast storehouse, accumulating siftings | from all depths. Once these were| thought of as useless muds. Now no| one can predict. Within the wear, for example, radium has been found | accumulating there not enough to be useful, the very presence of rad- jum and its accumulation, along with ; the other riches, begins to make the | bottom of the sea resemble Aladdin’s | lamp. ——————— | \""BIG FIRE" MERELY BURNED UP ROAST BALTIMORE, Feb. 17—Five po- licemen failed to avert a domestic tragedy here. Three rushed up in a radio prowl | car and two more came running | afoot when someone smelled smoke | next door. | The - police jimmied a window— | then disgustedly turned off the gas under an overdone lamb roast they found in the kitchen. |Explorers’ "Gun” Uncovers | Rich Ores on Ocean Floor maps brought unexpected results, | foma | SPENCER LEAVING four times dore the seemingly im-|and north was cancelled when it wa taken from the sea |nounced the Baranof will sail Sun-| it day. | St. Ann’s Hospital recuperating from | o'clock in the City Hall, with Mayor an operation performed two weeks| Harry I. ago, and enough | WS Bromine | JUn Carolina |~ APA REPORTS | HEAVY LOSS 1938 SEASON Cannery Deficit Exceeds Half Million, Says Annual Report SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 17.— The Alaska Packers Association, op- erator of a dozen Alaska salmon anneries and one on Puget Sound, | orted in its annual audited state. ment today that 1938 operations re- sulted in a net loss of $521,520. President William Timson said: “Owing to unreasonable demands | made by labor organizations only five canneries could be operated | during the year. I call attention to| the company’s tax bill totaling more | than $10,000,000 in the last ten years in which the company made only‘ $1,352,103 net profits. “Marketing of canned salmon at low prices this year along with op- | erations losses cut the surplus down to $4,131,589 from $4,940,649. - A BRIDGE PLAYERS GET PERFECT HANDS SOUTH BEND, Ind, Feb. 17— | One perfect bridge hand is unusual | but four at one table, that's almost ‘a miracle. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob | F=oir] Lechner were playing at their home | Prving with their son, John, and Jacob | Seeger, their opponents. John shuf- |fled the deck and it was then cut.} # g . |Fach player received a perfect hand, Wit “dlits device, solenoe B | i thirteen cards in one suit. Mr. | opening up the “last frontier,” | ; { | A5 finding #t rich i resoutoss, - |Lechiner made s grand glam on 8 ‘bnd of seven spade: The bit, a 10-foot open-end can, U. 5. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 pan,, Feb. 17: Rain tonight and Saturday; moderate southerly winds. Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Rain tonight and Satur- day, moderate southerly winds, except strong over Dixon Entrance and fresh over Clarence Strait, Chatham Strait, Frederick Sound, Steph- ens Passage and Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Strong southeast winds tonight and Saturday from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 3:30 p.m. yest'y .. 29.79 40 91 s 11 Lt. Rain 3:30 a.m. today 2094 36 92 s 3 Cloudy Noon today 20.88 39 83 w 3 Lt. Rain RADYO REPORTS $ TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Preclp. 4am. Station last 24 hours temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Atka .. : 34 30 34 22 95 Cloudy Anchorage ... 32 32 32 4 05 Lt Snow Barrwo -18 | =20 -20 1 0 Clear Nome . 24 10 10 4 .04 Lt Snow Bethel 24 10 10 12 02 Cloudy Fairbanks . .22 8 10 4 18 Lt Snow Dawson 12 6 12 6 T Cloudy St. Paul e 82 20 24 4 0 Clear Dutch Harbor ... 36 28 28 4 35 Clear Kodiak ................ 40 30 30 14 .01 Clear Cordova ... 40 3¢ 36 4 248 Pt. Cldy Juneau . 36 36 3 146 Cloudy Sitka 34 -~ - a7 Lty Ketchikan . 44 38 40 4 22¢ Lt Rain Prince Rupert ... 46 36 38 4 172 Hvy.Rn. Edmonton ... 32 42 20 22 Cloudy Seattle 38 38 4 0 Clear Portland 36 36 4 0 Cloudy San Francisco 64 | 44 56 6 0 Clear New York 2 [ 14 20 6 0 Cloudy Washington 30 24 26 4 0 Cloudy WEATITER SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure prevailed this morning throughout Alas- ka and over the northeastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, there being two storm centers, one of moderate intensity over the Gulf of Alaska with a pressure reading of 29.54 inches and the sec- ond storm center over the Aleutians, the lowest reported pressure being 28.50 inches. High pressure continued over the West Coast States, the crest being 30.62 inches at Portland. This general pres- sure distribution has been attended by precipitation over most of Alaska and by fair weather over the West Coast States. It was colder last night over the Interior and Western portions of the Territory. Juneau, Feb. 18.—Sunrise, 7:27 a.m.; sunset, 5:03 p.m. filling up with a layer-by-layer HIRST DELAYED | sample which allows accurate Claude M. Hirst, Superintendent geclogical study. | of Indian Affairs for Alaska, will sail | % 7 |from Seattle March 11 for Juneau, is driven into the ocean floor, 1 | | | |day. Hirst has been detained in| SEAT".E SAIURDAYiWa\hmgNm by |mr|gol hearings. FARRELL RETU RNING SEATLE, Feb. ~Coast Guard | Expectation of great things from|cutter John C. S]mxu cr leaves Seat- | Arts and Crafts for the Office of In-| tomorrow carrying |dian Affairs, will leave Seattle Feb- Valdez | Tuary 28 to return to Juneau. He has | been at San Francisco arranging for food supplies |an Alaska Indian exhibit at the ex- an- | position there. le at 8 o'cl irst class mail for Seward, Interior. The plan to carry | | | COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT | The Common Council of the City who is at|[of Juneau will meet tonight at 8 Paul Jones, of Cordova, Lucas presiding. 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Our large, assorted stock is for your benefit. i Mo 5 south on business, is returning to according to word received here “*Nxmmu aboard the North Coast. SOMMERS COMING passenger aboard the North Coast R. J. Sommers, who has been |for Juneau. B ED PREVOST ILL L il IS ON NORTH COAST Ed Prevost was admitted to St. Mrs. A. W. Quist, wife of the |Ann's Hospital last night for medi- Virgil Farrell, Superintendent of | |builder of the Baranof OHtel, is a cal care. Maska Electric Light & Power Co. JUNEAU——ALASKA——DOUGLAS Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Ceems HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 17.—Her monogram is F. D. R., but there isn’t any Jones after it. The name is Florence Davenport Rice and she isn’t politics-minded. She is young (about 26) and blonde and pretty—and she has the clearest, bluest eyes this side of a Technicolor lake. Sort of forget-me-not eyes, those—but she had quite a time, at first, making Hollywood forget that she was the daughter of a celebrity. Grantland Rice, the sports expert, began taking her seriously— as an actress—after she appeared in “Fast Company” with Melvyn Douglas. At least that's what she thinks. And curiously or not, that's when Hollywood, too, began taking her seriously. Hollywood showed its appreciation by planting her in five pictures, one after another with no rest, in eight months. She's now at Palm Springs, resting—and did she need it! She has always been crazy about pictures. Used to idolize Norma Talmadge. Parents used to get good behavior by threat- ening: “If youre not a good girl you can't go to the movies.” Her first movies in Hollywood were such honeys they could have been used for discipline—oppositely: “If yowre not good, Sonny Boy, I'll MAKE you go to those movies!” She thinks it was easier, breaking in as G. Rice's daughter— but believes (and rightly) she has managed to stay in on her own. She never fancied herself as an actress, or had any ambitions that way, until she was drafted for the role of Portia in “The Merchant of Venice.” It was a school production, but the acting bug bit—and kept on biting. She got a job on Broadway in “June Moon” and she was second lead in “She Loves Me Not” when £ ahigh spotinyourday... That's luncheon time at PERCY’S. That big plate lunch served there daily for only forty cents is just the ticket to send you back to your work with a new PERCY’S movie scouts grabbed her. She came to Hollywood and wanted to go right back. Then the climate got her—she's a “goner”: gone native. Feels better about it because her idol, Margaret Sullavan, has done the same. She is fair at golf, likes tennis better, and swimming. Lives at the beach, Playa del Rey, in the midst of a forest of oil wells. Except for servants, lives alone. The view from her living room is all ocean and sand, not an oil well in sight. Advantage of the wells, to her, is that they keep crowds away. Likes to swim, but admits honestly she gives it up in November, waits till spring to resume. Thinks it would be nice if she could want to be a Great Actress, but is afraid she doesn’t. She wants to get typed com- fortably (“like Wallace Beery”) so she can be sure of a fairly lasting place in pictures. This makes her unique. She hates swing dancing, loves the rhumba, fox-trot, anything else. (“It'ssthe people who dance swing, who oughtn't to, that I .don’t like.”) She plays the piano, reads a variety of books, is a “someday writer.” Meaning that “some day” she’ll get around to it. She's a sartorial extremist: likes slacks and hamburger joints, or dolling up and rhumba-ing in the swankiest clubs. Said once she didn't like dates with movie actors—because they talked shop too much. Se she’s been going with Tom Neal, new actor, who apparently doesn’t talk shop. There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising v T