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Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-01
POPULATION OF
COUNTY JAIL IS
GROWING LARGER

Sojourners at the county Jail now
number l48 while Is days ago there
were but II occupants, according to
records at the sheriffs office.
Recent raids by prohibition Off
GERS contributed to the increase but
the advent of cooler weather is
blamed for much of it.
Cooler weather in this section
brings travellers this way and Off
GERS always are faced with the nee
essity of handling the undesirable
ones. A pleasant place to spend
the winter attracts Migrants and
the like, deputies explained.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-01
FILM STAR SAYS
SHE is NOT TO
WE'D NOBLEMAN

NEW YORK, Sept. l. W.P)-Con-
stance Bennett, blonde film star,
arrived aboard the liner Paris to-
day and denied she was engaged or
married to the Marquis de la Fa-
laise who will be Gloria Swanson's
husband until their divorce decree
becomes final November 7. The
marquis, also a passenger, was less
positive.
rs it not customary for the
young lady to set the date?" he
asked.
Miss Bennett will leave for Hol-
lywood tomorrow to start work on
her next picture.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-01
Months First
Permit Given

September's first building permit
was issued to L. l.. Duff this morn
ing for the construction of a $4,000
stucco residence at SOL Sandalwood.
The last permit for August was
issued late yesterday afternoon to
w l. Stone for construction of a
one-tsory frame residence, 1913
Woodward.
This brings the total for the year
to S388,511.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-01
DYNAMITE OVERHEARD

PANAMA CITY, Sept. l. U.P)-
The U. S. submarine WIZ collided
with barge in Culebra Cut last
night and knocked seven and a half
tons of dynamite overheard. Navi-
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-01

A concrete bridge costing 500, 900
is being built acros Fern Canyon.
in the mountains back of La Cana
da, near Los Angeles. This is on
the Mt. Wilson lateral.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-01

cation was held up until the ex-
plosive was recovered. The SUBJ
marine proceeded to Balboa under
its own power.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-01
UNEMPLOYMENT
BODY is HEADED
BY OWEN YOUNG

WASHINGTON, Sept. l. U.G-
Appointment of Owen D. Young as
chairman Of a committee to coord-
mate collection of funds to provide
relief for the unemployed this VIM
ter was announced today by Walter
S. Clifford, director of the Presi-
dents organization on unemploy-
ment relief.
Young has accepted chairman
ship of this committee of 10 which
will be concerned with public and
private efforts to provide relief
funds. The committee will be
known as the committee on mobil-
ization relief resources, Clifford
said.
In Oregon irrigated loganberries
paid a profit of S60.26 an acre. Un-
irrigated showed a loss of S1354 an
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-13

grooves, enabling the photogra- phers to keep abreast of the plays and keeping the principal players in a continuous closeup of action and dialogue as the game pro gressed
 Good News" as it comes to the screen, brings such spectacular scenes as these, which were only suggested by off-stage cheering and dialogue in the original stage play. The canoeing love scenes on the moonlit lake. also are welcome changes from the suited theatre action.
 Bessie Love heads the cast in the screen version and others featured are Mary Lawlor, Lola Lane, Cliff (Ukelele Ike) Edwards, Dorothy McNulty, Billy Taft. Frank Mc- Glynn. and Tom Jackson.
 Abe Lyman's famous band plays the musical score of Is hits throughout the picture. The spec taculr football wedding finale filmed entirely in natural colors is an additional attraction
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CAPITOL HAS GOOD NEWS
 FOR Il|' TONIGHT II!
Football Scene Is One of Graphic Features of
 Pleasing Play

Trenches, roller-coaster tracks and monorails provide means by which unusual action scenes of the football struggle were obtained for the .filmization of Good News" which will open tonight, at the Capitol Theatre as a new Metro Goldwyn-Mayer offering
 Edgar MacGregor and Nick Grinde, who directed the screen version of the famous stage musi- cal comedy hit, obtained the serv- ices of the University of South ern California football squads for the thrilling sequences that climax the action of the story.
 When the company went on loca- tion at the Los Angeles Stadium where the Trojan players won their outstanding gridiron triumphs, such pigskin stars as George Dye, Leo Kelly Marshall Du fife Id, Tony Stenonovich. Frank Anthony, Dick Templeton. John Alden, Harry Dur kee, Bud Eli h CT, Dov Harwood, Tony Jurick, Ames Lane, Bill Sietz, Bull Purcell, Jim Musick and Amos Sherman answered rollcall.
 Put in Real Actors
 In their ranks the directors p1ac- ed Stanley Smith, leading man, and Gus Shy and Delmar Dawes who also are featured in the cast.
 For the unusual action shots, trenches were dug in the middle of the field and cameras and micro phones were showed into the pitss protected from the stampeding players by iron shutters. Along the line of action as outlined by the script, was erected roller coaster track, upon which camera peram- bulators were mounted in the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-13
Big Brown Bear

And bear it was; a big brown
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-13
THE SEA COD' IS HEADLMER
 AT COLISEUM
Fay Wray and Rich ar d Alen Star in South
 Sea Island Play

The Sea God" founded on John Russell's famous story, The Lost God" will be the headline attrac- tion on the new program to be presented at the Coliseum theatre tonight.
 The Sea God" stars Fay Wray and Richard Arlen," It is a fasci- hating story of love and adven- ture. The locale is an island, off the shores of which are beds of rare pearls, and the name of the play finds it's reason Sn the fact that the cannibals on the island regard a deep-sea diver encased in his equipment as a divinity,
 Arlen portrays the diver, who temporarily adopts this calling to gather pearls from the bottom of the sea.
 But the acquisition of the gems is not all. They must be retained. They excite the cupidity of vil- lainous sailors who come to the island, and Arlen passes through many trials before he emerges tri- umphant with his wealth and his sweetheart, who also is coveted by his enemies.
 Interest through the picture is highly maintained. Action is swift and exciting. The play is all that a play involving a South Sea island should be.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-13

charts. After several calculations by different officers the concensus of opinion finally identified the glow not as marine light but as coming from the geographical po- sition of Aniakchak.
 The ashes. of Aniakchak blown high into the air and carried by the wind, settled in conspicuous depths far from the place of their origin. At Chignik, sixty miles south, they fell a pound per hour to the square foot.
 15O Miles Away
 A similar distance north at Ugashik they fell even heavier and on Kodiak island, Katmai national monument, Nushagak and points over 150 miles distant depths of ash to a quarter of an inch covered everything. Even in the interior of Alaska ashes fell along the Kuskokwim, 300 miles away, and probably investigation would show effects of the ash fall at even greater distance.
 The fineness and solubility of the ash of Aniakchak's eruption were quite out of the ordinary. Deposits were either washed entirely away or dissolved in the rains that fol- lowed the first eruption. Much sulphuric acid was present, tarnish- ing metal even off in the Kusko- kwim.
 Animals Lose Lives
 As is usual in the volcanic cata- clysms of the Alaska Peninsula volcanos, great loss in animal life resulted from the explosion of Aniakchak. The most distant suf- ferers were the reindeer in the in-
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crupting volcano and the sides of the mountain reverberated to the sound of falling rocks. A closer sound soon aroused the already ter rified people of Meshik when peb- bles first the size of peas and then as large as eggs beat tat too on their houses. The eruption lasted uninterruptedly until May Il when a final terrific explosion shook the surrounding country and sent rocks and ashes into the air that made it pitch dark for several hours at noon time at distances 60 miles away from the crater.
 Wilson left Meshik after the last explosion on May Il and on the way to Bristol Bay where he met the author and narrated the story of the eruption, had the paint scraped off his boat and his engine ruined pushing his way through over five miles of floating pummice the size of water buckets. On May 20 rumbling from the volcano and local earthquakes followed by an ascending smoke cloud indicated the last major explosion of Aniak- chak.
 Ashes Fall on Ships
 Ashes fell on vessels plying both in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea and one of the Govern ment ships heading towards the had an interesting ac- count to narrate.
 While still great distance from land and while trying to pick up a light for observation a con- spicuous flickering light drew the instruments, but it's position was far from any light marked on the
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bear less than fifty feet away. He seemed as surprised as We and halted in indecision. We didn't move either, but each one men, tally picked out a convenient spot on the rim preferring to jump over and avalanche down a few thousand feet rather than mix It with Alaska's most formidable car- niyerous monster. We had fool ishly left our rifles in camp not expecting such an encounter The big bull bear sniffed at us and stood up. still maintaining his po- sition. I thought it was time to start something so I took my ice pick and started clinking a rock on it. The noise irritatrd the bear and he turned and ran. Up the snowfields and rocks he went, his rasping breath and growls showing the eagerness of his retreat.
 What in the world is a bear doing up here" said Began with the first calm breath he could op- crate.
 Tt is surprise to me- I an- swered, but I suppose that bears like men are curious too and want to see what Aniakchak is doing"
 Sanctuary for Bears
 The floor of the great crater had been sanctuary for many gener- ations of bears and with it's album dant food, it's salmon and it's min eral springs was evidently much to their liking. The eruption and con- sequent eviction from their homes had no doubt been quite a puzzle to the crater bears, and bent on investigation they had sought the rim along the same route we had used.
 Greatly relieved bg the bears departure we returned again to the crater edge and endeavored to take few pictures in spite of the poor visibility. Seeking a point of rock above precipitous snow-filled draw leading from the inside of the crater Douglas and I were climbing ahead when a peculiar sound coming from the draw ar rested our attention. It was a sort of whimper and howl combined. It was followed by heavy rasping breathing. Douglas peered over the edge as crawled beside him.
 One Glance Was Enough
 One glance was enough. A tiny cub brown bear was parked on ledge of rock not twenty feet be- low us and his lovely ten-foot long mother was climbing up to her darling. She saw us at the same time that we saw her and with a flash of teeth and a growl made half lunge up the cliff in our di- rection.
 Changing her mind about the di- rection she made for the cub to zee if it was all right. We did not
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GLACIER PRIEST
 TELLS0F BLAST !. BY ANIAKCHAK
Recent Eruption w a $ Greatest Tn World
 Since Katmai's S
(Continued from Page One)

clouds. 1t was probably steam generating from some Assure in the volcano that allowed water to reach the buried, heated rocks.
 Then at 12 o'clock came terrific explosion and dense black cloud rushed over twenty thousand feet into the air, spreading out funnel shaped and then starting to descend rapidly. Wilson and his family rushed to their cabin as did the few fear-stricken Aleuts of Meshik. The earth shook, flame and smoke rose thousands of feet high and the pyrotechnic display of indi- vidual lava bombs hurlting through the air combined with the light ming forming in the cloud and coming from the earth to make a truly inspiring sight.
 Thunder Adds to Din
 Thunder added it's din to the almost constant explosions of the
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to see Paradise Lost after having
 lived in Paradise Found the previ-
 ous year. Kneeling as is our cus-
 tom on such occasions, we said our Hail Mary aloud then crossed
 ourselves and crawled cautiously to the edge.
 Silence. Nobody wanted to speak.
 There was the new Aniakchak, but it was the abomination of deso- lation; it was the prelude of hell. Black walls, black floor, black water, deep black holes and black vents it fairly agonized the eye to look at it. No longer did the beautifully colored lavas and shiny volcanic glass strike the vision.
 No streams coursed through the flower-strewn meadows, nor gras- sy slopes lead up to former vol canic vents; no glistening glaciers. nor snowfields broke the monotony of the huge crater walls.
 No Contorted Lava Flows
 No contorted lava. flows. pleased With the sinuous windings of their cooling mass. The Avernian cob web in the distant half cone was leveled with volcanic ejecta. Vent mountain rising in the center of the great crater had an omi- nous crack in it's side and it top covered with clouds and gas. Beau tiful Surprise lake nestling under the northern rim was choked and muddy and black were it's shores and filled it's coves. And the cause of it all? Far off under the oppo- site rim to us more than six and a half miles away, a new sight greeted our eyes. There was a huge black crater built out from the wall and from it's black nav, yell 10 wand brown gases were pouring and clouds of escaping steam. A few miles to the left of this new main vent a lava hill was being push l ed up above the crater floor, it's top mass of cracking, tumbling blocks the size. of houses, and [ from. every crack streams of gas i and steam issuing.
 Beyond the moving hill seem- ingly bottomless pit had been blown out of. the crater floor and smoke was pouring from it too. But the terrible blackness of it all got on our nerves.
 Visibility Was Impaired
 Visibility was none, too good as t had not rained for few days | md dust whirlwinds danced along he crater floor like some mad | ghosts that danced their Devils Ball in the deadly smoke and gases ,f this prelude. of hell in Aniak- 'hak. A good strong whif of hydro zen sulphide brought us to our enses and choking we dodged | way from the rim of the crater to where a ravine wind outside the 'olcano cleared the air. None of IS said anything. There was noth- ng to say. It was all see, and 'ach one felt himself as in the ,rasp of chilly nightmare that le could not shake off. Nor were ve the only ones that sought the i'm of Aniakchak that day.
 We all seemed to see him at the anne time for he popped out sud- lenly onto the black snowfield from 'ehind rock on the rim. Look tt the bear!" came the common 
 Big Brown Bear
 And bear 1t was; a big brown
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walt Tor anything more. Run"
 yelled to the boys and we streak
 ed across the ash covered glacie. i expecting every minute to sec in
 hurried backward glance, the
 head and shoulders of an irate mother bear coming up over the
 cliff She stayed with her cub, how ever.
 Three bears on the same section
 of Aniakchak's rim as we chose for observation were just three too many so respectfully leaving our scientific observations and pho- tography for another day, We has, tened toward our camp at the foot
 of the volcano. Satisfied with our reconnaissance we treked the long
 miles back to Kujulik bay to col lect our heavier equipment and re-
 turn for a thorough exploration of the inside of Aniakchak.
 Adventures in tile air and in the | interior of the erupting volcano marked the next few weeks. Load led with specimens of mineral forms, gases and mineral waters and with
 fifteen thousand feet of motion pie lures and hundreds of still photo graphs we at length brought our summer to close. Next spring will see a continuation of our study of the worlds largest era ter.
 l feel particularly attached to the Aniakchak volcano. It is the larg- est in the world and I like big
 things. Also it marks one of my
 most successful attempt at scien- tiflc prediction. In an Associated Press dispatch of January 30. after l had spoken to the Chamber of Commerce at Seward and explain ing the recent earthquakes there, had clearly stated that the center of the Alaska Peninsula, Aniak- chak or Chiginagak would have a major eruption this summer as great as Katmai's, the rest of the world was duly informed that I was not afraid to call my shotl Aniakchak did the restl
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terior back of Nushagak. It was fawning time, and when volcanic ash covered the feed the reindeer started to migrate leaving the help
 less young to perish. Reindeer and caribou ground their teeth down to the gums from the grit in the grass, and died. Dead
 swans and geese floated down the rivers from lakes of the Alaska peninsula and cutting them open revealed the cause of their de- struction, entrals full of volcanic ash. Alternating bears, squirrels and small game living inside the crater probably were consumed in the first great explosion
 | So much heat suddenly liberated as well as millions of tons of tiny ashes filling the air caused an in- teresting phenomenon shortly aft CT the eruption. Clouds condensed rapidly all over the region and raindrops forming about the tiny ash bits started falling.
 Literally Rained Mud
 Turning the ashes to mud it literally rained mud for hours, making the snowfields and glaciers black as ink and causing the sur- rounding country to look as though covered with a huge funeral pail. The ash mud was, sticky, too, and insisted on getting into every crack and corner and penetrating the closest woven cloth.
 Chisholm, Douglas and Began, my student party of this year, arr rived at Chignik shortly after the middle of May, when everything was still in turmoil from the eff fects of the eruption. No definite news of the actual eruption had reached the outside world other than another Alaska volcano had exploded in major eruption. An iakchak was suspected and Chis- holm sent me a radio message to Holy Cross where I was chafing under the forced inaction of wait ing for the mighty Yukon to break up and let the ice out so airplanes i could land.
 Flies Down Kuskokwim
 Finally on June 2 Chief Pilot Harry Blunt of the Pacific Inter- national Airways of Alaska with co-pilot Al Monsen flew Fair | child plane to Holy Cross and started me off on the pioneer flight l down the lower Kuskokwim and along Boring Sea- After many ad- ventures we landed at Chignik. A partial and rather dangerous re- of Aniakchak from the air revealed little but smoke l and gas filling an immense black maw of the still .erupting volcano. For greater safety we put off aeriali until later on in the summer, determining to investigate | the volcano first on foot. By | plane and boat our party and were transported from ! Chignik to Kujulik bay, the nearest ! on foot to the volcano Blunt then flew part of the equip ment to Meshik lake on the Hanks of the volcano and left for his !, headquarters at Anchorage, to re- turn in few weeks time.
 With sleeping bags, cameras and food for a few days the threel students and started from Ku-,, iulika bay'Ato traverse the coastal | barrier mountains across the An Iakchak river valley and gain the
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NEW BUILDING MATERIAL

BERLIN, Aug. 13.--A new build ing material consisting of artificial pumice has been developed in Ger many. It is claimed to be an ex- cellent fire-proof material.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-13

Mary: My husband wanted me to wear cotton hose.
 Molly: The brItel I hope you shot him. dearie.
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rim of the volcano. The air was
 dry and a slight breeze blowing.
 Wished For Change
 We soon wished that it would
 change to rain. Every time our
 foot descended on the messy tun-
 dra clouds of volcanic ash rose up filling our eyes and ears and
 throat and making our hair like wire brushes. Dust whirlwinds set in motion by cross currents from the numerous mountain canyons sent myriads of miniature tor- nados into the air making the setting appear more like a scene iin the great American desert than an Al a S k an landscape. Bleak, rocky, open spaces were crossed, deep gullies laboriously climbed, dense alders struggled through and mountain streams forded for many hours. I was real proud of my party
 The pace was steady and the go- ing tough and though the two younger boys fell asleep from sheer exhaustion nearly every time we stopped for few minutes rest, they struggled on manfully until ten o'clock at night, or rather at Alaska daylight, when We made camp at the foot of Aniakchak. We covered close to thirty miles that day. M
 Start to Climb Volcano
 Next morning we started the climb to the volcano rim. Winding through canyons, crossing slipes of volcanic ash that rose in choking clouds, we struggled along the loose ground until long ridge was all that separated us from the highest point of the rim near the rocky prominence named Black Nose. Last year could not see the ap- propriateness of the name as Black Nose though it's sheer cliffs were of black basalt and obsidian, yet it's notable head. glacier cov- cred glinted in the sun and at eventide took on all the roseate fllies of Alpine coloring. But now the closer we approached the blacker it became. Black were It's snowfields and black it's gla- ciered head and even the clouds that lowered about it looked black In that desolate setting. l
 Climbing to the crater rim we were. going through valley of death in which not blade of grass or flower or a bunch of moss broke through the thick covering | of deposited ash. Black cinders slinked under our feet and slid away. It was like walking on wheat in a huge bin and equally difficult. Fl
 Jutting rocks along the ridge ne- ,essitated more climbing but this vas far more preferable than the i sliding cinders and choking ash. A lew hours of hard work and but lew feet separated us from the he coveted goal, the rim of Aniak- ,hak and the first glance into the treat abyss.
 m Waited for Began
 We waited for Began to catch up IS troublesome shoes had caused | 1im to come up slowly. Different emotions surged through us, all # expectation, but different in sild. Douglas and Began were f Q see the immense crater for the first time and were tense for theI ipectacle. Chisholm and I were
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