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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-31
WATER POWER
BIG FACTOR IN
ALASKA FUTURE
100000 Horsepower
Ready for Development
in Southeast Streams
BY HARRY SPERLING
u. s. Forest Service

The important water power re-
sources of Alaska are largely con-
fined to the mountainous section
of the southern coastal area and
thus lie within the boundaries of the
National Forests. An abundance OF
power is found here and it occurs
in units of suitable size for indi-
vidual industrial plants. Power can
be developed at exceptionally low
cost due to the possibilities for good
water storage in high lakes, the
large runoff due to heavy preci-
pitation, nearness of the sites to
navigable waters and the opportun-
ity to locate Industrial plants ad-
jacent to the place where the power
is to be developed.
Investigations and surveys of the
undeveloped powers of Alaska were
started extensively in 1915. In that
year study of the stream flow
on the then known powers of Soth-
eastern Alaska was begun by the
U. s. Forest Service and the Geolo-
gical Survey, using clock driven au-
tomato stream gauges which oper-
ate continuously throughout the
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-31

year, to get satisfactory record of
the amount of water flowing at all
times from the watershed of each
power stream. Good year-round
flow records for an extended period
of years have now been obtained for
many sites.
New Sites Found
Power explorations in the past
decade have disclosed many new
and important sites that had not
previously been known or at least
reported All of the better sites
have now been surveyed to determ-
inc power capacities and methods
and costs of development. The in
formation is available in the form
of Government bulletins.
Some 100000 horsepower has been
covered by surveys to date. The
largest single power site SO far in
vestigated has a yearlong capacity
of 80, 900 horsepower. In many
places power from several sites can
be economically concentrated at one
manufacturing point. Only So pro-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-31

devised by Pete Miscovich and first
used on his placer property near
Flat, and the use on the same prop
erty of modified type of trench
hoe for es eavating in dry bedrock
that contains potholes.
Jobs For 6,150
The number of men directly en-
ployed in mining operations was
augmented by about 400 during the
year, the total having been about
6,15O. This increased employment
was wholly within the placer min
ing industry. There was a slight
falling off in the number employed
at lode mines owing to the closing
of several small operations that
had beer active during the previous
year.
Fatal accidents tn occurred
in and about mines during the year
numbered four, Of which three oc-
CURED in connection with lode
mining and one in connection with
placer mining operations. During
the previous year there were seven
such fatalities. The number and
severity of non-fatal accidents was
substantially the same for the two
years.
Although there was noticeable
increase of activity in exploratory,
ground-testing and prospecting work
throughout the placer-mining fields
that was attended with quite ia
vorable results during the past year,
there was on the other hand a dis
turbing diminution of such activity
in many mining areas. There
was a substantial decrease in the
number of lode properties under
initial development and in the num-
Der of men engaged in such work.
Prospecting Necessary
The provision of suitable means
for extending the scope and eff
fectiveness Of exploratory and pros
pecting operations in the Territory
continues to be the most urgent
need of the local mining industry.
The U. S. Geological Survey con-
tinued to render its customary val
liable assistance to the industry by
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-31
ALASKA GAS,
OIL PROSPECT
LEASES EXPIRE
Administration Of Nation S
Petroleum Resources
Now on New Basis

All oil and gas prospecting per-
mits, which allowed their holders
to develop public land or let it stand
idle, expired at the beginning OF
1910 and the Nations oil and gas
resources are now being admins
tered on a new basis.
Approximately $3.50 oil and gas
prospecting permits, some Of them
covering public domain in Alaska,
expired last December 81 Their
holders were privileged to exchange
them for new fiveyear leases. A
year ago when 1850 permits were
terminated by operation of the law,
the District Land Offices received
$500 applications for exchange leas-
eS.
Progressive Abolition
Congress, in the oil and gas pros
pecting law of 1885, provided for
progressive abolition of the old SyS-
tenn under which it was possible to
obtain an oil and gas prospecting
permit covering 1850 acres of pub
lie land by the mere payment of a
filing fee of $32. The law extended
the life of some of the outstanding
permits but provided that all should
expire finally on December 81, 1888.
Under the regulations for ex-
change of the outstanding permits
for the new prospecting leases, ap-
plicants will be exempt from the
payment of rental for the land to the
Government during the first two
years of the five-year lease period,
after which rental will be charged
at the rate of 25 cents an acre.
Failure to make valuable diScoy-
cry of oil or gas within the five
year lease period will result in the
termination of the lease privilege.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-31
SpECTR0GRApH
Scientific AID
pR0SpECT0R
New Wonder Eye Identi
flies Trace Elements
in Ore Samples

Installation of an instrument
which will identify and accurately
measure the component parts OF
sample that could be held on the
head of a pin is announced by
Laucks Laboratories, Inc, consulting
and analytical chemists of Seattle
and Vancouver.
This wonder eye of science, the
diffraction grating spectograph, is
the modern adaptation of the spec
troscope with which astronomers
discovered helium on the sun be.
fore 1t was known to exist on the
earth.
Detects Rare Metals
In the hands Of an expert chem
list, the spectrograph will resolve
and identify trace elements meas
uring 00l per cent of the specimen
examined. Rare but now market
able metals such as berylium, cerium
iridium, palladium. tantalum, thor
ium, thallium and titanium, the de-
examinations of which would other
wise require expensive and pains
taking chemical procedures, can be
readily analysed by the spectre
graph at a fraction of the cost OF
ordinary chemical methods. Fur
Their than that, one spectrographie
ANALYSIS suffices for the determine
ton of the nature and quantities OF
practically all elements presented II
sample, which means that the
prospector pays for but one analysis
and gets actually 10, 20 or more COM
plete determinations.
1t becomes economical then fol
| the miner to explore abandoned Oh
commercially doubtful ore bodies
| for the rare trace metals Seventy
of the so possible types of elements
can be detected and catalogued by
the probing eye of the spectrograph
Spectrographic analysis of ma
| terials is based upon the fact that
each element when subjected to the
intense heat of an electric arc emits
radiation composed OF characteristic
wave lengths known as spectral lines
These wave lengths, which are in
reality the characteristic colors CIV
en- off by the heated substances
are different for each element.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-31
MINERALS0F
WAR SOUGHT
IN TERRITORY
Congress Sets Geological
Survey TO Studying AL
askan Deposits

Coincident with developments
abroad frightening the Importance
of war materials, intensive geolog-
ical survey work has been carried on
in Alaska during the past year in
search of minerals used for war
supplies
DR.. Phillip S. Smith, Chief AL
aska GeologiSt of the U. S. Geo.
logical Survey, is directing the sur
vey. The War Department hopes
to utilize Alaska's nickel, chromite,
antimony and tin.
The survey was made possible by
the war materials stack pile bill
passed by Congress. Under this bill
$10,0O0,000 a year will be appropriat-
ed for four years for the procure
ment of strategic minerals and war
materials.
Geological Survey
The Geological Survey is to re-
ceive $150,0O0 a year for invest
igation of strategic mineral depos-
its. The Bureau of Mines will re-
ceive $350000 a year which, it is
believed, will be for operation and
development of mines.
The strategic mineral survey in
Alaska is concentrated in the vic
unity of Cape York on Seward Pen
insula for tin and in Southeast Al
aska for nickel.
DR.. John Reed, Survey Geologist,
mapped the Chichagof area last
summer. He also has mapped far
enough north of Chichagof to be
in the nickel area in the vicinity of
Yakobi Island He is devoting his
time particularly to nickel survey
work
j. B. Mertie Jr is surveying tin
deposits at Cape York.
Kenai Study
Further mineral study will be made
in the Kenai Peninsula country of
chromite deposits which were work.
ed in small way during the World
War. and also in Southeast Alaska.
Anthony will be examined in the
Interior, near Ignite, on the AL
aska Railroad, and on Cleveland
Peninsula, near Ketchikan.
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making geologic studies and car
rying on topographic and geologic
mapping but the funds made avail
able for such important work are
regrettably inadequate to meet the
obvious needs.
AS a means of attempting to de-
termine the applicability in Alaska
of some of the modern methods
of locating and outlining the limits
of mineral bearing areas that re-
Gently have been successfully en-
p1oyed elsewhere, the Territorial
Department of Mines carried on dur
ing the year initial experimental
work in geophysical prospecting. A
preliminary report on the results Of
this work is in course of prepara-
ton and will be published when
completed
Field Work
The Department of Mines also
continued its program of assisting
prospectors and small operators by
making field examinations of pros
poets and properties in initial stages
of development and by giving tech
meal advice when requested A
modest program OF large scale geo.
logic mapping of limited areas that
give evidence of being potentially
mineral bearing and of preparing
geologic and assay sketches of in
dividual prospects was also con-
tinued. In that connection the De-
partment cooperated with private
operators in carrying out small
project of aerial photographing of
a small placer region with view to
testing the effectiveness of such
work in defining the positions Of an
Gent stream channels and also in
distinguishing the limits of glac-
lated belts from those that had es-
capped glaciation, as a m e a M of
guiding prospectors in their search
for existing placers.
Without question Alaska has a
wealth of unrevealed mineral re-
sources, but unremitting search with
all the assistance that modern meth
DDS of exploration and prospecting
can furnish and a m C h larger
corps of trained prospectors than is
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jectS aggregating $4,000 horsepower
have been wholly or partially de-
yeloped. Forty of them are pro-
iucing power at this time.
The water power resources Of the
Alaska coast will doubtless prove to
&c a strong factor in furthering the
,eneral industrial development of
that region, and more especially the
establishment of the pulp industry
and the extension of lode mining.
All waterpower sites are publicly
owned and can be leased under the
Federal Power Act for periods as
long as SO years.
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now in the field obviously will be
required to build up new mineral
reserves that will be adequate to
offset the rapidly increasing rate of
action.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-31
new CUSTODIAN FOR
NATIONAL MONUMENT

A new Custodian for Sitka Ma
tional Monument, the first that ST.
acre reserve has had in its 30 years
of existence, took up his duties in
Alaska recently.
He is Ben G. Miller, formerly of
Glacier National Park, where he was
District Ranger.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-31

The first permanent settlement of
the Russians was established at
Three Saints Bay, Kodiak Island.
in 1874.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

r In bankruptcy or recefvership or being
reorsanized under the Bankruptcy Act. or
securities assumed BY such companies,
Rates OF dividends in the foreRoing table
are annual disbursements based on the
last quarterly or semi-annual decIara-
tion. Unless otherwise noted, special or
extra dividends are not included Also
extra or extras. Accumulated dividends
paid las. year Declared OF, paid 50
far this year; 4 Payable in stock Paid
last year. Cash or stock Accumu-
lated dividends paid or declared this year
ur Under rule. WV With warrants ~
Without warrants war Warrants
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Germany claims it will produce
sufficient sugar from sugar beets this
year to supply all it's people and
have a surplus for making alcohol.
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G. u R B

Transactions on the New York
Curb Exchange on Saturday, August
3, 1910.
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BON DS-

Transactions i'm Bonds on the New
York Stock Exchange on Saturday,
August 3, 1910.
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In bankruptcy recevershp being
Bankruptcy Act securities
Rates of dividend the foegong table
burSements
Unless otherwise noted special extra
included. - -
Ex dividend; rights Al.e extra or extras Ae.
paid
XseuMuatsd dividends paia declared thi yssf " '.
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By private wire direct to N. star.

Stock ana Sales
Dividend Rate Add 90. High. Low Close.
Aero Sup (B) Use Q 5sk 5h 5st
Alum Co Am (2e) zoos l6l 161 16l
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Two Veteran Actors Die;
Both in Pickford Films
9y the Associated Press

Sy the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD. Dec. l4-Death,
striking almost simultaneously, has
taken two veteran stage and screen
figures. each of whose careers had
received a boost from Mary Pick
ford.
Wilfred Lucas, SO. pioneer silent
film actor, an associate of David
Wark Griffith and one of Miss Pick
ford's first directors, died late yes
terday after an illness of six weeks.
A native of Ontario, Canada. he
entered movies in 1907 after % years
on the stage His lead role in "Ac-
quilted" won him the outstanding
player award CT several film maya
zines in 1916. The title part in
"Encch Arden" also was his. He
had been a character player since
George Regas, so, native of Sparta.
Greece, was playing on the New York
stage when Miss Pickford induced
him to enter films in her Love
Light" His last part was in the
recently released The Mark of
Zorro" He gave other outstanding
character performances in viva
Villa" "BordertoWn," Lives of a
Bengal Lancer and Rose Marie" :"
He came to the United States in
1917 after playing Shakespeare and
Ibsen on the stage in Greece, the
Balkans and Egypt. He died in a
hospital
Evening star., 1940-12-14
day became the 50th Government
agency to join The Stars Christmas

day became the 50th Government
agency to join The Stars Christmas
campaign.
Harry B. Mitchell president of
the commission, announced a
Christmas celebration" to be held
at 3 pm next Friday in the COM
mission building.
Employees will be given an op-
portunity to contribute toy or gift
for a child" Mr.. Mitchell said. The
Arrangements Committe has in
formed me that it will be glad to
turn these gifts over to your paper
for distribution. On behalf of the
employees of the commission, I as
sure you that it is pleasure to CO.
operate in connection with this
worthy cause"
The Justice Department is spur
ring its collection by erecting 10
Christmas trees in the department. S
central building and in a number
of outlying Offices, it was announced
today. According to custom, each
tree will be the center of a party
and large number of Yule con-
tributions.
A steadily increasing stream of
givers comes each day to The Stars
Christmas House. Yesterday Hugh
V. Keiser, district governor of the
Lions Club, president of CHM & Co.,
and head of the Washington Self
Help Exchange, came by to leave
cash for The Stars fund, and his
congratulations on "a great work
Mrs. j. Lloyd Black brought her
Sunday school class from the Park
view Christian Church. Each girl
in the class presented two or three
dolls she had dressed in home
made garments. Three huge dolls
also were presented by the Kay
Jewelry Co.
The price bid for the water
color painted by Joseph Atchison
well-known Washington artist. to-
day went up to $1O.01-the offer
of C. M. Hughes, 1919 Thirteenth
street NV. The picture will 60 to
the person who comes down tc
Christmas House, takes a look at it
and bids highest. The entire pro-
ceeds will 60 to The Stars fund
for needy families.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Christmas
Continued From First Page)

other children, the children whose
mothers and fathers can't help
Santa Claus.
At one theater, the Kennedy, a
toy matinee was held for the first
time The attendance was sur
prisingly large" according to the
manager. And at the Tivoli. which
has held a toy matinee every year,
the manager said he had never
seen anything to equal this years
crowd.
At the Ambassador the gifts nearly
doubled those brought last year and
everywhere they were bigger gifts,
newer gifts, gifts that would last.
A lot of the grownups who regu-
larly play Santa Clause to their
own children also came to play
Santa Claus to other parents chill
dren. At the Ambassador some
adults waited until the children
had all gone inside the theater
and then drove by leaving new heaps
Of toys under the Christmas tree
in the lobby At the Tivoli white
haired woman who explained that
her own children were far away
left three gifts in the lobby, leaving
instructions that if three children
came to the theater who couldn t
afford to buy gifts they were to be
admitted on her toys.
One Boy Empties His Bank.
AS to the gifts themselves, they
ranged from toy rolling pins to a
miniature pipe organ. One theater
manager looked at a pile of drums
and said, The kids can make a lot
of noise with them"
Some mothers brought their chill
dren to a movie house for the first
time, explaining that they couldn t
think of better occasion than the
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Case 40

Father had an excellent work rec
ord covering II years as bus driver
for a reliable company. He earned
S37 a week. Mother was good
manager and was able to furnish
an attractive and comfortable home
for the family They were a de-
voted souple with four children
below teen age. That was up until
June of 1899.
At that time. after months of
feeling exhausted, father sought
medical advice and learned he had
tuberculosis involving both lungs
Mother was pregnant. The small
savings melted in short time
Compensation of a small amount
supplemented the relief allowance
but that ceased in June, 1910.
Other blows have followed; the
baby born in January, 1910, has
tuberculosis and is also in the sana-
torium. Charlotte, 8, became lame
in her right knee last spring After
long disqualification she has re-
turned home with her leg in cast
tuberculosis Of the bone is feared
but not vet diagnosed.
The four room and bath apart
meut in which the family lives rents
for $50, but they must furnish heat.
After rent is paid there is s13 left
To this a relief agency adds one
monthly delivery of surplus food
and an occasional half cord of wood
The home is still attractive, fur
nished, but it is now unheated. The
children all have colds. Food for
Christmas will be the usual cheap
starch diet. Toys will be the broken
left over from fathers working days
Evening star., 1940-12-14
Case Al

Mr. K has been plasterer since
he was Is He and his wife have
lived in Washington all their lives.
They have six small children. the
eldest of whom is Bill. age II.
For the last few years Mr. K. has
worked on w. P. A. during those
seasons when he has not been able
to get work on the outside.
Things went fairly well until about
three months ago when Mrs K. was
taken i'll with pneumonia. Then
mother was taken to the hospital
and the neat five-room apartment
lost its freshness, meals were irregu-
lar, clothing was washed only when
father could get some one in to
help.
Then about two weeks ago IL
year-old Bill took hold, we can't
let mother come home and find the
place in this kind of mess" He
marshaled the children, even the
youngest, who is 3, and assigned
each a duty. The smallest one got
the Job of busting the rungs of the
chairs, even father came in for his
share of the house work. His job
was to wash the windows which
none of the children could reach.
The house is back in its usual good
order now. The children have their
meals on time and things will be in
good running order when mother
comes home next week. The chill
dren's clothes are threadbare. ano
there isn't much prospect of either
clothes or toys for Christmas, bu1
nobody minds that very much, be.
cause mother will be home fol
Christmas.
Evening star., 1940-12-14
U. 5. Embassy in Paris
Seeks 10 Free Second
American Woman
Nature of Nuzi Charge
Against Mrs. Shiber
Not Known Here
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The United States Embassy in
Paris, the State Department said to-
day, is making a determined effort
to secure the release of Mrs. Eta
Kahn Shiber, the second American
woman to be taken into German GUS
tody in occupied France within the
last two weeks
Beyond the fact that Mrs. Shiber
was detained by German authorities,
little was known here The Paris
Embassy was not able to determine
the nature of the charges against
her, or where she was held.
On December l the State Depart
ment heard that members of the
Nazi Gestapo (secret police had de-
tanned Mrs. Elizabeth Deegan,
clerk at the United States Embassy
IN Paris. Maynard Barnes, Embassy
Charge d'Affaires, later located Mrs.
Deegan in a small hotel. but officials
here did not learn whether she had
been released In her case it was
understood the Germans we're inves-
dISuSdliOllo lIldI SIlc lldu
helped British officers escape from
occupied France.
Mrs. Shiber's brother, Chester A.
Kahn of Syracuse, N. Y, said the
notification he received from the
State Department yesterday. inform
| ing him that his sister was held, was
the first word of her he had received
| in four months.
He said she was 81 years old and
Vas the widow of William Shiber, an
editor of the former New York Jour-
nal. She had been living in Paris
with an Englishwoman, who was
married to Frenchman.
Mr.. Kahn said the State Depart.
ment told him it was making every
effort to be of assistance to her"
Evening star., 1940-12-14
CT. Bonhage Dies al Desk
In GEOLOGICAL Survey

Christian F. Bonhage. Al, senior
photographer with the Geological
Survey, Interior Department, since
1881. dropped dead at his desk yes
terday shortly after 4 pm.
Mr.. Bonhage, who made his nome
at 4203 Jenifer street NV, was a
native of Baltimore and had worked
as photographer in that city before
entering Government service.
His widow, Mrs. Eva Bonhage, and
two children, Carol and Eugene, sur
vive. He also leaves his mother and
two sisters in Baltimore.
The funeral will be held in Baltl-
more at the home of his brother
in-law, William T. Geipe, 4128 Marx
avenue, at a time to be set later.
Evening star., 1940-12-14

British convoy in the Atlantic by
an Italian submarine December 5
1t said also that British bombers
raided the Southern italian city of
Crotoni last night, damaging one
house, setting fire to two sheds
and injuring two persons.
Italian planes, the high command
declared, again bombed Micabba
Airfeld on the British Island OF
Malta.
The communique told of a daring
rescue" of the commander of an
Italian air formation whose dam
aged plane was forced down in enemy
territory during a raid on Coz Regeb
Airfeld in East Africa.
1t said another plane in the
formation landed alongside the dam
aged plane, took the flight COM
mander aboard, and got away safely