One Signal Is
Undersood, Came
, From Red Globe
?
NASHVILLE. Tenn., Dec. (/P>—
One signal from Mars that can be
explained is reported by Latimer
J. Wilson, an amateur astronomer
here.
Last May while watching Mars
in a 12-inch telescope mirror he
saw a series of bright flashes from
the red planet’s surface. They
were close to Mars’ south pole.
They were tiny white spots.
They passed in a patch from left
to right across the "chin” of the
planet’s face. Some of the spots
seemed to coalesce. Mr. Wilson
reported in Popular Astronomy,
to swell into a brilliant white
spot, then became yellow, then
yellow-red.
The explanation, he thinks can
be understood by everyone who
has watched a row of distant win
dows flash into bright light, then
pale to yellow in reflected sun
light.
The place where these Martian
flashes appeared is covered with
ice. This at least is the belief of
astronomers. It looks like snow
in telescopes. It changes with
the seasons. The sun on May 30,
when he saw' the flashes, Mr.Wil
son says, was at the right angle
to make window flashes from
Mars.
Weather Today
(U S. Weather Bureau)
Air pressure is HIGH over the
interior of Canada and also in the
Bering Sea area. LOW pressure
of great intensity centered in the
Pacific off Seattle, extending Nor
th into the interior of Alaska and
also joined by a trough to anoth
er LOW over the Dakotas is caus
ing rain and snow over the Paci
fic north-west with an excessive
fall of rain at Portland, Oregon,
| .measuring 4.17 inches. The inter
I iors of Alaska and Canada ra
. main fair and cold.
The lowest Nome temperature
i last night was 5 above and the
highest yesterday 37.
FOX CHASES FARMER
LAFAYETTE, Tenn., Dec. (A>>
—Investigating a noise in his hen
house, John Wisdom discovered
that the marauder was a fox. In
stead of routing the fox, the fox
turned on Wisdom. Wisdom fled
into his house with the fox nup
ping at his heels. He finally sub
dued the fox in the house with
1 a poker, but only after he had
been bitten five times.
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WINNERS OF THE POLET STORE
CHRISTMAS BARREL
1 No. 1326—Turkey,..Fred Allyn
2. No. 12364—Glace Fruit, . Mrs. G. Waldheim
3. No. 16685—Box of Apples,..B. W. McCarthy
4. No. 11814—Ice Tub,.Lincoln H(tel
5 No. 3245—Turkey, .'Carl Yager
6 No. 33253—Electric Lamp,. S. Sango
7 No. 14999—Case of Ginger Ale. June Engstrom
8 No. 1754—Fancy Basket,. H. Knutson
9 No. 21900—A Rug,. Donna Edwards
10 No. 16311—Capon,. Fred Barnofsky
j 11 No. 438—-Thermos Bottle . A. Castell
12 No. 20611—Furlined Gloves Tolbert Scott
13 No. 16230—-Wool Scarf C. Jacobs
14 No. 13769—Picnic Basket J. Vlaar
15 No. 17100—Roaster E. Balsiger
17 No. 16059—Wash Boiler . .. Carl Lindell
18 No. 11460—Flashlight . Chas. Levine
18 No. 21588—Card Table . Mrs. A. L. Keane
19 13361—Chocolates . Harry Longley
20 No. 10404—P. P. Fowl Sandy Mazen
21 No. 3610—Towel Set. Mel Jolliff
22 No. 13166—Pipe and case.Ed Bergstrom
23 No. 21677—Water Set. Aimer Rydeen
24 No. 20455—O’Cedar Mop. -H. Greenberg
25 No. 20638—Pyrex Dish...-.S. Ring
26 No. 34724—Orange Juice.Sparrow
27 No. 2421—Doll .-.Sam Mogg
28 No. 15707—Pocket Knife.Emil Houser
29 No. 11359—Range Set.L. W. Smith
30 No. 21562—Tie and Socks.Airs. L. W. Keane
31 No. 33484—Flower Vase. Bob Larsen
32 No. 13884—Traveling Bag . .Mrs. Teddy Reed
33 No. 13181—Table Cloth. J. Solomon
34 No. 15775—Fancy Cakes. Mrs. C. F. Jannson
35 No. 12971—Glace Fruits. Rita Gregory
36 No. 31739—Luncheon Cloth. Keith Hidreen
37 No. 32709—Keytainer . .Gene Comer
.38 No. 34530—Sugar and Creamer Dr. Fromm
39 No. 10825—Flower Vase.-. B. B. Mozee
40 No. 17439—Purse.Bessie Topkok
41 No. 20639—Chocolates. Tolbert Scott
42 No. 16970—Cigarettes..-.Ed Horn
43 No. 14075—One Dozen Glasses.Laura Walker
44 No. 12748—Salt and Pepper Shakers.Mildred Rude
45 No. 21871—Xmas Candy Tin.Carl Lindell
46 No. 21485—Tea Pot.E. D. Sheldon
47 No. 10021—Candy Dish..Geo. Comely
48 No. 33105—Socks, Tie, Hanikerchiefs. Jack Skain
49 No. 1127—Chocolates.John Vlaar
50 No. 19025—Cigarette Box...Geo. S. Maynard
Tweet Family
Said Enjoyed
Life far North
(Juneau Alaska Daily Press)
Mr. and Mrs. James Monagle
were getting acquainted with
their three grandchildren and
son-in-law, recently, and the
children were solemnly inspect
ing “Monagle Grandma and Mon
agle Grandpa”—who had promis
ed to take them to something at
Juneau called a “movie” soon.
The children’s mother, Mrs. E.
S. Tweet, is Mr. and Mrs. Mon
agle’s daughter. Graduated from
Juneau High School in 1918, she
studied at B llingham Normal
School and returned to Alaska to
teach, but 12 years ago, she met
E. S. Tweet in Teller—where this
story begins.
Teller, 100 miles north of Nome,
has been the center of Mr.Tweet's
world since 1903, when his par
ents moved from Minnesota, bring
ing their infant son with them to
the Arctic post. He has not been
Outside since. With his parents
and three brothers, he holds a
partnership in Tweet and Sons, a
gold dredging company.
“I met Mrs. Tweet while she
was teaching school in T Her,”
he explained. “We were marr
ied and for 12 years we have
been planning to come to Juneau
to see h:r mother and father, but
something always arose to pre
vent us from making the trip.
inis year, the entire company de
cided to boss the work instead of
letting the work boss us. We just
shut dovfti operations three weeks
early and here we are!”
The Tweet family will spend
two or three weeks here before
going Outside to spend the win
ter. They don t know where they
are going—maybe through the
Panama Canal when the winter
gets too long in the States”—but
they’re going to have a grand
time, for it will be the first Out
side trip that four of the five
Tweets have known. Mr. Tweet
does not remember the States &
the three children. Evelyn, 8;
Phyllis, 6; and Edgar Glen, nine
months old, have passed all their
lives at Teller.
The children are real Alaskans.
They don’t like real milk—cann
ed milk was all they ever knew
before they left Teller on the air
plane this fall. They had never
seen a tree until they made the
aerial journey, and they hrve nev
er seen a moving picture show.
But “Monagle Grandma.” as they
jcall her, is going to fix that:
“We’re going to see a lot of
movies, now that we have our
grand-children with us for the
first time,” Mrs. Monagl exclaim
ed. "Mike, R >se, Ellen, our two
other childrrn will be home soon,
so we are going to have a real
family r< union.”
But Teller is :he r al home of
the Tweet family, so they will be
goir » home !n the sprirg. In
Toiler, the Twee's say. you get
perf • radio reception from Eur
ope 24 hours a day and the regu
lar news broadcast from London
at 5 o’clock in the evening is a
daily event. They keep up with
the world bv listening to the Eng
lish broadcasts from Paris, Mad
rid. Rome and London.
How.ver, Mrs. Tweet has to do
her Christmas shopping earl
Teller. The average open season
is about 100 days, during which
the first ship from the sou'h ar
rives around the end of June and
the last boat about the end of
September. Mrs. Tweet orders
her Christmas suppi.es in July,
so they will arrive on the last
September boat.
“We even heard Juneau a few
times this summer," Mrs. Tweet
said. “The European reception
is better, of course, because it
comes straight across the North
Pole, but we also listen in on the
States and Canada.”
DROWNS DOG AND SELF.
MUNSING, Michigan. Dec. 24—
Deciding to drown his dog. Char
les Mattson took him to Munising
Bay. In some manner, he must
have slipped in too and was
drowned. A Coast Guardsman
found the 58-ycar-old man’s brtdy
and the dog’s near the city dock
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