The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1939, Page 2

TONIGHT JUNEAU TBANSPORT WORKERS—LOCAL 172 UNION HALL—8 0'CLOCK ‘IMPORTANT BUSINESS | the grain of photographic film. By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor NEW YORK, July 20,—The canals !of the planet Mars are about to | furnish telescopes with the first close-ups in 15 years. On July 27 Mars will be 36,033,- 000 miles from the earth, the closest since 1924. Once again astronomers | will look for the canals, which are | the only evidence ever found of possible life outside the earth. The astronomical controversy not whether these canals indicate intelligent life, but whether the markings exist at all. The diffi- culty is that the lines are thinner than the grains of photograpic film, hence they never have ap- peared on photographs. Only the human eye can see them, If they are not optical, or mental [ illusions, then it is an important fact that nothing as yet known in nature, except intelligent engineer- ing, can explain them. They are from 100 up to -2,000 miles in length. Ninety percent of them are perfectly straight, parts of great circles over the planet's face. Nearly 800 have been seen well enough, to be not only mapped, but named or numbered. They come into the picture only during fortunate circumstances. These are when, as now, Mars is closest to the earth, and when, at | the same time, visibility happens to be extra good. The living astronomer who, has seen most of them is E. C. Slipher, of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, | Ariz. In 30 years at Flagstaff he has seen enough to make 2,000 drawings of them. Schaparelli, the Italian, was the first to see them in 1877. “If,” said Mr. Slipher, “the pres- ence of a canal network as com- plete as indicated by observatinos seems to be on too enormous a scale for acceptance of the intelli- gent-life theory, we must remem- ber that this drying up condition did not come at once, but developed very, very gradually, during eons of time. “In order to escape otherwise in- {evitable death the inhabitants of America’s Most Modern ‘ 0il Range is Finished in acid-resisting white porcelain enamel, rounded corners, easy to clean. 10-point dial provides widest range of cooking temperatures. Forced Draft assures clean-burning flame. Priced at $169.00, which includes coil and hooking up to existing piping. Terms. ON DISPLAY RICE & AHLERS CO. FRANKLIN AT THIRD PHONE 34 S LA T General Electrice WASHERS Mars would most naturally seek means to utilize their remaining water supply, as we are doing in 'arid sections of earth, and provide | by irrigation for production of suf- ficient plant | life.” growth to sustain IT'LL BE BEST CHANCE EVER FOR PHOTO ASTRONOMERS | In one way, this year will offer | the best chance astronomy ever has | had to. study Mars. Mars was comparatively close to [the earth in 1924. But since. then photographic film has been so much | improved that the size of telescopes, so far as picture taking is con- cerned, has been doubled; And pho- tography is the mainstay of star study: Mars will change from a mom- |ing star to an evening star after | July 23, The ruddy planet will rise. in the east in the evening, direotly. oppo- site to the sun, setting in the west. As it crosses the sky, Mars will fol- low exactly the path of the sun. Listen to our Radio Pregram at 12:15 P. M. and at 5:45 P. M. over Other models for you to choose from— j ASK TO SEE THEM TODAY! Station KINY. NAKAT CANNERY H. B. Friele,’ 4 i General Mahl.gz'mgfr mfia‘knt Packing Corporation, was to ar- rive in Jupeau aboard a PAA Electra from Fairbanks this after- noon after spending a few. weeks in Bristol Bay inspecting aperatipns of his company there, Friele was to be met here by B 7.pounds capacity ® G. E. Activator Herb Munter, Ketchikan, pilot, and, B No Oiling ™ Permadrive Mechanism flown directly to Waterfall, on M Qujet Operation ® Powerful Pump the West Coast of Pringe of Wales ® Mullins Wringer ® G, E. Guarantee Island, where Nakai operates apr other cannery. | $89.95 Less $20.00 —ONIY BUT SILL COPS painted: Bath's first policewoman— Anne will. remain ‘here. R e o Try The Empire classifieds for rmulta. IIIHIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||II|I|IHIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIlIIIImlllIIII1I|I1III1"III|I|I"_HII There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising for your old washer 69.95 ' e s - - & es 'y 2 Alaska Eleciric Light & Power Co. [f/x: voiceroneo asiers anoe ana JUNEAU ALASKA DOUGLAS service together om- the Lelcester force. Dora Constable has been ap- | The camera sees ho canal on Mars. Like all photos of the planet, this one fails to show | the supposed canals, which are too ‘fine for turn blue-green in a Mars summer. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939 ' MARS POSES FOR CLOSE-UP ON JULY 27 LIGHT PLANT, Enlarged, Now On Sale; $1.00, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU | - « THE WEATHER i - TH{A’RE p o (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) =y L] | Forecast for Juneau and Vicin ity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., July 20: Cloudy. with showers, tonight and Friday; moderate southerly winds . Go IN BlAZE Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Cloudy, with showers, tonight and i Friday; m derate southerly wina:, except moderate to fresh over Lynn i s | Forccast of winds along the ceast of the Gulf of Alaska: Lynn Canat Town Hif by scacrate to trean cast and souwtheast winds tonight and Priday E I M . i frcm Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook N arlyMorning Loc ‘ CAL DATA conflagra'iOn ] Time Barometer T:-n.1r) Humidity. Wind Velocity Weather {, 8:30 pim. yest'y 29.99 56 SE 18 Cloudy —trt | 8:30 am. today 3 88 9 Lt. Drizzle (Continuea rror: ge One) ; Nocn today 33 67 SE 12 Cloudy . N i RADIO EEPORTS by Judge George F. Alexan- | TODAY der and Territorial Treasur- empt Loewest 3:30am. Precip. 3:30a.m. er Oscar Olson stated that all ,“7[ ,\“ ’i"w L, 24 Yous g Ltg:r). s hf‘)ms We?,",?;, ~H records of the United States Barrow 36 m.(;l;ly { Commissioner Schombel have Nome £ 55 Drizzle " THE BIG QUESTION: ARE THERE, OR ARE THERE NOT, CANALS ON MARS? been lost, office equipment| Bethel 36 58 Clear ‘ The humsn: eye séws “SABAls ofi Wars. This destroyed, also liquor stumps.“ [Dl.m.bfl"k\ o - 4 gl chart, drawn at the Lowell Observatory, Flag- | b Rl : e 0 50 0 Clear [ 3 5 | The safe was early this after-! St. Paul 2 staff, Ariz,, shows how they run. To the eye, | | Dutch Harbor 43 ™ v The light areas however, the canals appear dark on the light noon too hot to be opened to I,‘( diak 3 . . Gloudy surface of the planet. see if the contents were de-! i | o ;i Driszle i § see £ | Cordova ; | 55 0 Pt. Cldy g ———— |stoyed by the heat. | Juneau 55 T Drizzle i . [ [ | The ' three buildings de-| Sitka | 0 ol ro Flies the Mai vt wor o saaten o Ko =8 oo | & lother frame structures nf‘ Edmonton | 14 Cloudy g n [ early day construction but| Seattie | ; ¥ "o osl I(e oo whether they were burned or Fortland | 53 53 0 Clear S San Prancisco | 3 53 0 Pt. Cldy Y only slightly damaged was not learned early this after- WEATHER SYNOPSIS ] noon. High barometric pressure prevailed this morning from Cordova o piohesis B southeastward to the northern portion of California, the ¢ A radiogram received from 3035 inches at Retchikan, elsewhere over Aloska low b there said temporary light svailed. . A storm area prevailed over the North - and power will be supplied 3 at (l.;grgx;u.: )]z degrees and Jlnr.»ir‘xqc 156 degre where a fi R 3 g s ressure of 28. inches was reporied. his general pressure distri- from the plant at ( hilkoot hugion has been attended by cloudy weather and scattered light rains Barracks so the town will not Southeast Alaska and western British Columbia, by general be in darkness. rains over the Alaskan Peninsula, and by generally fair weather Without Water | over the interior and western por.ions of Alaska, 1 S The city of Haines iz seri- Juneau, July 21.—Sunrise, 3:28 a.m.; sunset, 8:44 p.m. B 9 \ "~ ously ntitsnoed o frkting: ik = A T3 GBI T LL 1sly handicapped in fighting ) > Ry be . = 1 4 f_nj'f—‘.a \% | fires, as it is without a water PHILADELPHIA i\ E i " lPoST OFFICE ]2 SR mmnS b\ | system at present. Z7 i ) Z7 e % | For two hours a day, water E P4 27 e —— ; is turned to city mains from ot \ == S0 ¥ < Yoy X ‘\% X || Chilkoot Barracks, but the RPhia " CAMDEN ‘\ town’s \mt&-rwm'kf are still { g AVWRPORT [ in the process of develop- D o7 [ ment, and the $25,000 water b o project is as yet not started. £ e o ——————— <l SCHWAMM (OMES Here's the “World’s Shorest Air-Mail Route.” | I" w"“ WA(O 1 ‘ Tony Schwamm flew up from PHILADELPHIA—A combination wAR IS SIARIED Petersburg thi§: merning in - his of assets is giving Philadelphia the red Waco cabin plane, ! ng in first autogiro mail service in the Il y one passenger. U. S. The assets: | ON SONG SHARKS The passenger was Gordon Me- (1) A blie-andssuver autogiréfj! | Donald, Petersburg lumber man (2) A flat-roofed postoffice. S Both are at the Gastineau Hotel (3) Johnny Miller, a 6-foot- r int H and Schwamm said he wauld re- inch, Boboound vieior. . Amateurs Are Joining Sing {1 SISl Every day, except Sunday, the H H ict i - - > autogiro will take off five times HI' Gu'ld Io Enth !n COUNCIL MEETS TOMORROW Lo from Camden, N, J,, with mail for i i ineau’s City Cou will hold Philadelphia. It must be an auto- Wlde campa'gn its regular meeting tomorrew niga " giro, because no ordinary plane QB e EEe 5 at 8 o'clock at the City Ha could land atop a building. NEW YORK, July 20.—The Ad- ,oytine business is in pr : 5 3 visory Bosrd-af 1he Sone Bt Gulln, oot | AR PR OMNE OF THE FEW_To pretty Mrs. Ariene Davis, a e {13t root it fhe.post affiar i % e pordiga 10 (Qity 'Qlegk Herlay, J. i ‘lev d, has been awarded aviation’s coveted important, b the roof. f | 1619 Broadway, headed by Paul E sociaiite from Cleveland, has th < B b, | Decaipn €5 T008 i i TUrB; “4-7M" air rating which makes her one of the few women in the most buildings are cluttered with | Whiteman, Kay Kyser, Billy Rose R 0 5 . T '-;ld ualified to fly transport planes. She’s shown at the con- obstructions and are otherwise and Guy Lombardo, reports more gy, Book ALASKA, Revised and nools 0?: big twin-motored amphibian at Boston airport. She’s unsuitable for landing (and tak- than 5000 amateur song WrllerS ppjargeq, Now On Sale; $1.00. the wife of an important packing company executive. ing-off) fields even for autogiros.|have enlisted in the campaign _ L —ee — ————— Philadelphia planned its post of- | 28ainst song sharks. Early this year, fice roof for this purpose back in|the Guild announced the ditribu- b 1931, | tion of its folio containing lyrics Johnny Miller is important, be-| (Without music) and music (without #» cause he is one of the very few lyrics) by famous song writers. Tal- autogiro -pilots in the U. S. He|ented unknowns are invited to col- plans to fly about 1,000 feet high laborate with these established writ- ? on. the Camden-Phlindalphxa route, | ©rs including Johnny Mercer, Ray and will not fly at all when '_heyHendEl'Son. Sammy Fain, Nick Ken- ¥ . ceiling is lower than 300 feet. Too | ™V Charles Tobias, Benny Davis o s gegsedienedate T P 7’ B much danger of tall buildings. {and others of equal note. Hundreds The idea of the autogiro ma“ior these amateur-professional col- is to save time. It’s six miles from laborations reach the Guild weekly ¥ Camden to the Philadelphia P. O | although the October 1st deadline and takes five minutes by autogiro | S Stll months away. - or 25 minutes by truck. By providing novice authors and L o ¥ 'S vich this opportunity Tk % an le, | composers w 8 sznmcz’tdi:y”:a pnv?::e m;iilix?le‘ and subsequent publication by an hold;s the e B accredited, majors publishing firm, ; I the exmxu{ent e it the Guild has paved the way for de- fully at Philadelphia, it h“ livering the first telling blow at the S‘IIC:‘!; u}; copy it ‘in ol:her. citie;' Hears of the Song taokeh. plal s Ng’;’ York. - Cleveland, | . Santly-Joy-Select, one of the lead- cdh' e)sév’;here-wherev tie 'saviné; ing music firms and publishers of an| will be th o such hits as “Pennies From Heav- o in time will as much as anien» «rThree Little Fishes” apd “The hour: i | Music Goes 'Round and Around,” | 2 | will give advance royalties and a 4 2 regulation’ contract (as provided by Airplane Romance | ascap) to writers whose work is judged acceptable for publication by | {'the Advisory Board. This, in con- trast to the song shark who requires | the amateur writer to invest his own money for alleged- publication | ‘and exploitation of “accepted’ souss. ! | whe song Hit' Guild, with head- | i quarters in the heart of Tin Pan | Alley, 49th Street’ and Broadway, - | has been organized to serve as a| permanent agency to guide unknown | song writers. “An end to song sharks | pRcHe Sirsl obisetive. 1 ¢ hand she first brings her arms up over her head, then bends forward to touch the ball to her insteps. Note both heels are on the floor. Anglo-Egyp! Trade By BETTY CLARK They rely on exercise and diet.| 2. An exercise to make way for STOCKBRIDGE DOWN, Eng-| AP Feature Service Writer Cutting down on desserts and LhL“ the waistline: Lie flat on the floor, land, July 15.—Egyptian beads| A jot of smart women who mever |starchy foods is the slow, but sure|stretch your arms above you, keep- i | found in a bronze age burial bar- | pave worried much about such a|way. Doing some simple exercises ing you rentire body pressed against jrow here indicate commerce be-|thing, have begun to concentrate|absolutely regularly usually finish- | the floor. Now, swing your legs o g v y regularly tween this country and the Medi-|on achieving a good, old-fashioned |es off the good work. ‘around to one side and stretch your terranean as long ago as 1700 B.C.|wasp waistline. o arms in the same direction. (Your Here are three good ones: | ~ 5 | wrvermr A They know that by fall a few body will be in a half-moon shape). PETERSBURG OFFICIALS weli-moulded curves indented with| 1. This is simply a leg-swing to | Straighten out and stretch in the 1 Mayor Pete Jorgeson and Mrs.|a well-defined waist wil] be a fi-|loosen the muscles ‘around :\'Oul“olher direction. | A, Lee, Councilwoman, flew in| gure must, particularly if they mean middle and those in your thighs. 3. Good, old-fashioned “trunk had. left her bome with a barn- |from Petersburg today with Pilot|to try out a bustle or two. First, swing one leg forwa as ling.” Sit, with your hands on | storming uigbur in what was sus- | Tony Schwamm in connection with| So, instead of relying on a cor- high as you can. Then swing the | your hips, as tall and straght as 'to Be a stolen plane. The City business. setiere to accomplish the impossi-|same leg backward, arching your possible, then swing your body flier ' deposited the girl in a field Pl SO S ble they are in training now, pre- |body. Repeat eight or ten times|around, clock-w After swings, « near Wyatt, Mo, 165 miles from | pe Book ALASKA, Revised and Daring for the contour revolution.|with that leg, then do the same with rcpeat the exercise, counter-clock- ber home. i (Or should we say evolution?) the other. wise, L