The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1948, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA You are cordially invited fo Behrends "Coffee-time” Style Preview of Autumnal Fashions Saturday Afternoon, October 2nd at two-thirty o'clock in the GOLD ROOM of The Baranof Hotel — 0 SHOWING OF ORIGINALS including: B. H. Wragge - Philip Mangone Phil of Hollywood Joseph Halpert - William Bass Ceil Chapman - Marbert Remle’ of Hollywood G. Howard Hodge - Hattie Cargnegie Country Club - Handmacher - Rosenblum e g - ) - - 4 )04 ) D4 4§ S D ) G ) D) ) D ) JUNIOR ORIGINALS Dorsa — Madlyn Miller Emma Domb - Junior Clique SPORT TOGS Lynn Starr of California Jantzen White Stag . 8 d/% Bz[z'zgm/i ea. QUALITY SINCE /887 (0o e oy i g e A - 4 4 g P g 4 A R e e B ) 2 2 D 4 % | = i 3 | § | ; Ei 3 | | | i | % | % 5 i | ! i % EXPEDITION - OFF ICE (AP INBLIZZARD Party Returns to Juneau After Reconnaissance Work on Glaciers Coming from a tlinding blizzard: on the Juneau ice cap into balmy !fall weather was a real pleasure for six men of a geological expedi- tion who came in Sunday after {three weeks in_ the glaciér aren |above Taku. ; The expedition, headed by May- \narq Malcom Miller, geologist and | glaciologist, and Willlam Latady, metcorologist and glaciologist, broke camp Saturday in a 45 to 50 mile- jan-hour blizzard at 4,250 feet. { The men ran into difficulties when the extreme weather slowed their hike out and they were late in reaching Twin Glacier Lake, Ipoint at whith they were to meet a | boat seny from Taku Lodge. Two of the party succeeded in getting to the lake shortly before jdark in time to make contact with |the Taku party, only to make a treacherous trip_down the rapids of Twin Glacier river to Taku river before reaching Taku Lodge. 1 “We spant a full hour,” Latady related, “motoring around the lake dodging ice floes in pitch dark looking for the river outlet. We jstill don't know why our boat didn’t hit a berg and sink., On our way| down river we got out in hip-high jce water to guice the boat through ithe rapids.” | i Camp On Ledge | Miller spent the same night jcamped ocn a narrow ledge in a idriving rain storm, sharing a two-| {man tent with three other mzmbers of the expedition. Slowed down by! theavy packs and bLad weather the; 'group was unable to get to the lake for tke toat pick up and camped (out when stopped by nightfall at 300 feet above the lake. “One of the biggest thrills of the iwhele trip was seeing an Alaska | Coastal plane come winging in to land on Twn Glacier Lake the snext meorning to pick us up and fly us to Taku Lodge,” Lowell Cham- berlain, President of thz Harvard Mountaineering club and member of | |the group, said. Beginning Phase The expedition just completed is 'the Leginning phase of one of two first major attempts to study ice Imasses at high level on the North {American continent, Miller said. {The other sur 1Snow Cornice, made earlier in |the year in the St. Elias Range north east of Yakutat, led by Col. Walter A. Wood under the auspices of the Arctic Institutc of North America. “Main objective of th2 Juneau ice |cap exploration was to make a ireconnaissance of the area and to !set up equipment to determinz what lis happening meteorogically and geologically in the vast reaches of snow and ice,” according to Miller. “Next summer’s expedition will have an opportunity to check equipment set up by this expedition and to go on from there in the long range project that is in the making.” Tep Ski Area Important phass of the trip was an investigation for Pan American Airlines of a summer ski area at high altitudes. * “We found an area with definite possikilities for ski recreation,” Mil- ler said. “A ski bowl on the upper Twin Glacier at 4,200 feet has smooth slopes of all degrees of dif- ficulty with miles of clear area and good. snow at this time of the year, {the maximum period of melting for the summer.” ' The ar2a, dubbed Harvard Basin by the party, could ke reached in a day’s hike from Taku Lodge, if a trail were constructed up the ridge between the Twin Glaciers, Miller TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1948 said, adding that the terrain is qune‘ adaptable for trail construction. ‘ Field Surveys Made | Surveys in the field were made from a main camp site on the upper reaches of Harvard Basin between the upper ice cliffs of the Twin Glaciers at 4250 feet, looking out to Devil's Paw, four-fingered peak at the head of the glaciers. A vast smooth highway of high level snow stretching for 10 miles from this base camp toward Deyil's Paw was named Haedes Highway by the party. A number of other new names were given to prominent fea- tures in the area surveyed, and will Le sukmitted to the Board on Geo- graphic Names in Washington, D. {C. this fall. | Markers Set Up | Cne of the main projects of the expedition was ,the setting up of markers to determine vertical and | herizontal glacier movement. t “We established a series of stakesf and flagged and located accurately | with the plane table method of | mapping. By observing the position | of the markers on our next sum-; mer's trip, ‘we hope to be able to de~ ! termine something atout the 'chax-‘, acter of upper ice movement and also gain data on the amount and | character of winter accumulation of l snew. There are new techniques | being testzd for such study,” Miller | Iysaid. | Members of the expedition, along; with Miller'and Latady, were Tony | Thomas, Jun2au, observer for the U. S. Forest Service; Melvin Mar-| cus, undergraduate: in geology at| Yale University; Lowell Chamter- | lain of Harvard University and W.i Lawrence Miner, Jr., graduate stu-| dent in the Collgge of Business,| Stanford - University. | Squirrel On Ice Field t “Most astonishing sight of the| trip was a bushy tailed squirrel hop- | ping across the ice field at 4,000 | feet,” aecording to Lawrence Miner, ! who said there were no trees for 110 miles in any direction. Only oth-| er sign of animal life on the jce cap were several weasels seen at the same level. Members of the ex-| pedition had no explanation for the | existence of the small animals on| such unadaptable terrain. A collection of flora on isoialed rock islands and ridges on the ice field was made by Chamberlain for | an analysis in regard to plant mi-| gration. Observation of plant life at low leyel of the glacier appears to' indicate a very great advance of ce ketween 50 and 75 years ago,| Miller said. 1 The eoxpedition got unger way from Juneau September 1 with rour} men forming an advance party to| reach the high camp site. Miller| and Latady went to Annette Island| to make arrangements for a Navy | plane to drop food and supplies. | Short On Rations | Miner, who was a- member of the advance party described difficulties called Projecti; ootting to the high altitude food | woman's unmentionables; and drops. | “We made two trys to get to the ice field and had to turn tack be- cause of bad weather. We had five | days supply of K-rations for three men and had to make it last for nine days when on finally reaching | our site, blizzard conditions prevent- | ed us from getting out to search| for the food dropped by the planes.” ! The two parties met on September ! 9 and sat out another 9-day bliz-| zard. i Coldest temperatures -encountered on the ice fleld was 15 degrees above | zero, according to Latady who act-| ed as meteorologist for the party. Maximum and minimum thermo-| meters were left at high levels on | the ice cap to get a record of win- ter temperatures. Also left in the area were caches of food and equipment which will be used by the group in next summer’s explorations, { The expedition was the first to go back into this ice field area, and | was in virtually unesplored country. “We found the area to be a se- ries of intérlocking ice fields with | mountains jutting up through, and not a rounded ice cap as has been popularly believed,” Miller said. Latady will return to duties with| the Aeronautical Chart Service for the Armed Forces in Washington, D. | C. Miller will continue graduate, WHITEHORSE JUNEAU KETCHIKAN SEATTLE NOME Swift, convenient flights in big 4-engine Clippers. Youll enjoy delicious food, expert service — as a guest of Pan American, world's most ex perienced airline.. Ask for details and reservations at - e+ BARANOF HOTEL Telephone 106 ERICAN study in geology at Columbia Uni- versity where he is working on his Doctor’s thesis. i o > - i GOODIE SALE ! The Lutheran Ladies Aid Society, Friday, Oct. 1st, 11 am. at Sears’ Order Office. 02 3t A between 1l and 18 feet high, roped | § Rex Ingram, 53-year-old Negro stage and film actor, puffs on a pipe as he leaves office of the U. S. Commissioner Isaac Platt in New York City after being ar- raigned on white slavery charges. FBI agents who arrested Ingram, charged him with bringing a 15- | year-cld girl from Salina, Kansas, to New York City for immoral purposes. He was held in $2,500 bail for removal to Kansas City. ® Wirephoto. PR ol LA R BUYS LOCKER FOR §22.50; SHE FINDS $20 BILL IN POCKET The Alaska Railroad unclaimed baggage auction came to an end yesterday with the usual run of cddities, says the Anchorage Times of September 25, A housewife paid $22.50 for a foot locker, found a $20 bill in the pocket of a pair of trousers which were in the locker. An- other footlocker, sold for $17, yielded a .45 caliber revelver; a man picked up a suitcase for $11, found himself in possession of a housewife made off with 12 new coffes makers and six toasters for $65. The total “take” run up by the rapid fire autioneering of Coun- cilman “Red” Summers, hit $5272.90. Of that amount, the ARR will ex- act its fee for storage and freight charges, send the remainder, if any, to the shipper. Nearly two tons of welders elec- trodes went for $320, two $90 bath- tubs, placed on the block, sold for $39 and $42 each. Sandra Garvin Is Surprised by Party Monday evening a. group of close friends of Sandra Garvin surprised her with a farewell party at the . kome of Marilyn Crooks. Singing around the piano, monop- oly, and the public address system cr the radio were the main diver- sions of the evening. An _jvory necklace was given the honoree as a parting gift. Light refreshments. were served to Joyce Rivers, Elizabeth Wyller, Molly Jo MacSpadden, Dorothye Ro- bards, Yvonne Swanson, Sherry Gray, Beda Clauson, Sandra Gar- vin and Marilyn Crooks. ———eteo €AA' MAN. HERE At the Baranof Hotel :from An- chorage are Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Woods, He is with the Civil Aero- nautics . Administration. p—— 43 n the West SICKS’ SEATTLE BREWING & t's MALTING CO., SEATTLE, U.S. A. Distributed throughout Alasaa by ODOM COMPANY