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Alaska Notes !
Gathered From Territorial
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— The abandonment of further drill
ing for oil in the Yakataga field has
- been decided, upon by .the General Pe
—iroleum Comp -ny, it was made known
recently h... J. Pt.Srmuelson, field rep
resentative of the company. The ex
, . pburatioif o>UY kataga’.was carried on
uninterruptedly fort-two seasons, be
i ginrjjngl’ai.ouv the middle of May,
J926, and lasting until the end of last
. November, the hole reaching 2,000
1 £eet.. Th*- cost of operations was al
» most*. $250,000. Mr. Samuelson will
l, ^iunervise the removal of the com
! 'rpany’s equipment from the scene of
t? the; ldrilling to tidewater, which, it is
c- expected, will take almost two
i months. The failure of the explora
i tion to bring in a producing well
means nothing except that there was
i no oil encountered in that particular
v operation, Mr. Samuelson said. He is
: : still dortfid.-nt oil deposits are present
•in the region. Thev seepages give
proof of toat, but they do not indicate
the location. It is possible, he said,
t1. that .the surface oil found in the dis
trict may come from a considerable
< distance,, forcing its way to the sur-.
f face from great depths. He believes
that some day a big field will be i
1: brdugrit in somewhere there, but it
may he even 75 or yOO miles from the
mite Of the recent drilling, he de-1
< claredi Conditions in the oil industry
;v are not encouraging for prospecting
in new fields at this .time. There is
a a^heavy otoduction of oil in nearly
. all the fields and a very large percent- i
age of the California production is
shut in. Many wells have been capped
r and thousands of workers in the fields
have been thrown out of employment
in recent months. .The surplusage
has affected the market seriously.
Prices, have dropped-sharply, making
production unprofitable,,'Mr.: Samuel
aon said. While such’economic pre
vail there is apparently little likeli
1 hood that prospecting of Alaskan
folds will be .resumed by .any of the
'.:larger corporations.
7 Hope that the pulp and paper de
velpomept program for Alaska would
go through unimpeded and assurance
that resources and local conditions
_ _ favored such development, were
voiced recently to the Juneau Cham
ber of Commerce by representatives
and engineers of the Zellerbr.ch and
i . Camron interests who are conducting
surveys both- near Juneau and at
Ketchikan
Those speaking in regard to the de
velopment were Joseph H. Cameron,
; San Francisco, whose brother, George
T. Cameron, heads the group interest
< ed, Don Meldrum, forest engineer in
charge of the timber survey, and
Wendell. Dawson, engineer in charge
. of water power studies.
Mr.-Cameron was hopeful of the
. outcome of the proposed program.
While disclaiming any knowledge of
. the detailed plans of the group inter
v ested locally, he declared: “We are
up here and we hope to stay here and
. to hav everythin ggoing some day.”
The., natural resources and favor
_■ able conditions for their utilization
will eventually make of Southeastern
. Alaska one of the big paper manu
facturing centers of North America,
declared Mr. Meldrum. For the past
25 years he has been connected with
pulp and paper enterprises on the
Pacific coast and during that period
has been over most of its forested
aeas.
He told the Chamber he was in
Alaska to study the pulp areas in
both the Ketchikan and Juneau dis
tricts. “You have here the primary
.requisites for large development, that
fa power resources and timber. As
far as ou investigations have gone,
everything seems favorable,” . he
added.
Mr. Dawson, who has been study
ing streamflow conditions and water
power sources since last-.. fall^ also
commented: “I came up here last
year to look for water, and after I
had been in Ketchikan a few days I
decided that my work would neither
be difficult nor extensive,” he humor -
| ously declared. The object of his in
vestigations, he added, is to find
enough water to supply the needs of
a big paper manufacturing plant.
SCIENTIST DECLARES THAT
SHARK WOKE THE FIRST FACE
WASHINGTON. — Through just
what stags the human face passed in
development its present physical
characteristics became the subject of
a learned dispute today at a joint
meeting of the American Otological,
Rhinological and Laryncological so
cieties.
Dr. H. H. Briggs, of Asheville, N.
C., credited to the shark the distinc
tion of being “the first vertebrate
with a face of typical form.” From
this beginning he traced its evolution
through the dog and monkey to man.
“The mouth is the oldest part of the
face,” he said, “and the recession of
the snout, correlated with the increase
in the size of the brain, is the funda
mental influence in facial evolution.”
He argued that hhe mouth, thrust
forward in the shak to seize food,
gradually receded with the develop
ment of the arms and hands as a
mans of procuring sustenance.
“On the contrary,” contended Dr. J.
H. Ingersoll, of Cleveland, “the whole
change in the face is the result of the
development of the fore-brain, rather
than the change of food.” As the size
of the “thinking part of the brain”
has increased, he explained, it has
has pushed the face forward and
down until it is below the cranium in
man, instead of on a level with it, as
in the lower animals.
Several popularly accepted ideas
were contradicted at the meetings of
the various societies.
Biologically, twins are really only
one person, though they have two
identical bodies, Dr. Julian M. Wolf
sohn, of San Francisco, told the
American Neurological Association.
An almost mystic bond unites this
dual person, he said, and the two
: members of the twin person fre
' quently suffer from the same diseases
even though living apart.
Contrary to the usual belief,
i “neither cocee, tobacco nor alcohol
have any deleterious effects on the
normal heart,” Dr. Paul D. White, of
Boston, told the congress.
The supposed injurious effects of
tobacco on the throat was also re
ferred to by Sir St. Clair Thomson,
president of the British Royal Med
j ical Society, who said the women pa
1 tients he had operated on for cancer
of the throat were all non-smokers.
The award of the Kober medal for
general distinction in medical work
was made today to Dr. Victor C.
Vaughan, of Ann Arbor, at the clos
ing session of the Association of
; American Physicians.
JOBS GROW SCARCE IN
MOTION PICTURE WORLD
HOLLYWOOD, Cal.—This village
lage, to which the world looks for
laughter, is in the doldrums again.
Most of the sctudios which special
ize in comedy have closed or are pre
paring to close for a month or two,
and the players who depend upon
laughs for a living are trying to-see
the funny side of announcements to
the effect that the splendid speed with
which the season’s quota of pictures
has been completed enable the studio
and its employees to enjoy a little
breathing spell before harvesting an
other crop of celluloid.
In the cases of a few stars and im
portant players contracts already
have been renewed and salaries are
paid whethe they work or not. But
players who work from picture to
picture, paid only \tfhen they work,
are finding it difficult, to view the sit
uation philosophically
As this is written,' 17 of Holly
wood's comparatively 300 directors
are.directing an aggregate of about
90 recognized screen players and 800
extras and bit-players on the various
studio lots or out of town on loca
tion. There are more than 4,000
players and about 15,000 extras who
would be working if they could. All
this looks worse than it is, for there
usually are as many directors busy
on preparations for new pictures as
on the actual photographing of pic
tures, and even when production is'
lively throughout the studio- area
there are seldom mare than 6UW, parts
open to the 4,000 qualified players
looking for them. The number of
extras earning a day’s pay depends
on the size of the mob scenes rathe/
than on the number of pictures in
production.
But the figures indicate that there
is more than the usual unemploy
ment among players, directors and
other studio employees.
Even among executives opiniens
differ as to just what is happening.
Some call it the “usual seasonal lull
in production;” others say there is a
temporary “tightness’ of money
available for production, due to the
vast sums invested by producers in
the acquisition of theaters and the
ater chains as outlets for their pic
tures; still others say it is the old
story of 800 pictures being made
every year for a market that could
get along with 200.
Whateve the real explanation, no
one seems ready to predict any gen
eral quickening of productive activi
ties until late in the spring or early
summer.
5 HEAR MEDICS DOOM
THEM TO SLOW DEATHS
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NEWARK, N. L— Five girls, who
are suing the United States Radium
Company for damages totaling ft
250,000, heard physicians doo mchein
to slow and pain Cm deaths today.
Medical expertts, in a hearing be
fore Vice Vice Chancellor John H.
Backes, testified that science had
found no means of combating the ra
dium poisoning from which the girls
are sulfering. They were poisoned,
they said, by wetting brushes with
their mouths while painting clock
and watch1 dials illuminated by a ra
dium compound.
The hearing was had to decide
whether the suits, which were filed
five years after the girls had left the
employ of the company, could be
tried in supreme court despite the
j statute of limitations. That statute
i provides that suit must be filed at
' least two years after an alleged in
; jury.
The girls contend they did not
realize the extent of their injuries
until the two years had elapsed.
j “DDad, I’ve decided to become an
1 artist.”
“No objection, provided you don’t
draw on me.”
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