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WORLD MAY EXPECT
DRY SPELL COMING
YEAR, SAY SCIENTISTS
LONDON, Jan. 14—The year 1925
will be the driest the universe has
experienced this century, an offi
cial of the British Meteorological De
partment told the Associated Press
in explanation of a new discovery
which departmental experts have re
cently made and which, it is declar
ed, enables them to pick out the wet
and dry years to come.
St. Swithin will have twelve months
of large scale unemployment after
Christmas, the department has em
phatically predicted, and the drought
to come will not only dry up these
soggy islands, but extend to the rest
of the world.
f This statement was made after
much study on the part of weather
scientists and as the result of the
discovery that a close connection
exists between rainfall, particularly
in Great Britain, and the frequency
of solar prominences. The latter
are explained to be the tongues ol
flaming gas that dart out from the
sun’s surface, sometimes to a height
of 250,000 miles and at a speed of
more than 150 miles an hour.
Experts have spent three years
studying the relation of this phenom
s enon with the fall of rain and have
learned that the interval between the
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dates when these giant fireworks
are most active has grown progres
sively shorter during the last half
century, while the periodicity of wet
years in England has shown a cor
responding change. The mathemat
ical curves indicate a relationship
that is too definite to be overlooked,
say the department chiefs.
This relativity is nothing new. It
was noticed about 1865, and for
the next 25 years, every fifth year
in England was wet, the other four
being dry and normal. All this time
the solar prominences were appearing
regularly and normally. At the end
of the 25 years the flames appeared
oftener and continued to appear at
regular intervals for 20 years, when
every third year was wet. From
1910 to 1921 the flames were more
active and alternate years were wet
and dry.
The droughty year of 1921 appears
to have been the turning point, for
now the department experts have
i figured out that for the next period
I of increased solar activity the years
| will be in cycles of three, two wet
I years and one dry one. The year
1922 is reckoned as the last year on
| the late period, therefore the years
: 1923 and 1924 have been the wet ones
land 1925, if any faith can be placed
! in the constancy of the solar prom
i inences of the sun, should be a dry
j cne in England and a droughty one
I for the rest of the world.
INVESTS HIS LAST $5 IN
LOTTERY, WINS $31,250
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 14.—Miguel
; Perez, penniless and out of work, in
vested his last ten pesos in a lot
' tery ticket. Yesterday he won 62,
■ 500 pesos, approximate $31,250, one
| quarter of the grand prize of the Mex
j ican lottery.
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Anchorage Times
At the regular monthly meeting of
the Pioneer Igloo No. 15, at Anchor
age this week, the officers recently
elected, were installed by Post Grand
President T. W. Nelson, assisted by
Grand Guide Silver. The officers in
stalled were Past President J. L. Wal
ler, M. W. Sinclair, president; H. W.
Ross, 1st vice president; Axel Nelson,
2nd vice president; R. B. Lathrop, sec
retary; H. S. Sogn, historian; I. Bay
les, treasurer; J. B. Phillips, chaplain;
George Howe, sr., sergeant at arms,
and R. R Webb, trustee.
A JOKE ON SANTA.
Freddie, aged 7, and Bennie, aged 5,
agreed to stay awake and watch Santa
Claus fill their stockings. But the
sandman was too much for Bennie
and he went to sleep. At about 11
o’clock he roused enough to ask Fred- |
die sleepily:
“Did he come?’’
“Yes.”
“Did you see him?”
“Yes.”
“What did he do?”
“Oh, he just fussed with our stock
ings a bit and then he went and got
in bed with mother.”—Ex.
LONDON SHOWGOERS DON’T
LIKE TOO MUCH PERFUME
LONDON, Jan. 14.—London show
managers have begun a campaign
against the use of too much pow
der and perfume by women show
goers. Regular patrons have com
plained that some women are so
sprinkled with pungent odors that
they distract attention.
THIEF CONVICTED WHEN
VOICE IS RECOGNIZED
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 14.—Ben
Boycj is blind. He could not see a
man who robbed him. When George
Sang was arrested as a suspect he
was brought before Boyd in court
and ordered to speak.
“That’s the man,” said Boyd, with
a blind man’s memory for voices.
Sang was found guilty and sen
tenced to prison.
WORLD’S OLDEST MAN
IS 150 YEARS OF AGE
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 14.—The
oldest man in the world, Zora Agba,
a Kurd, living in this city, celebrat
ed his hundred-and-fiftieth birthday
recently.
His birth registration papers show
that he was born in 1771.
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SUPPLY TRAIN IS
NEW RY. FIXTURE
The first of the supply trains to be
run monthly by the Alaska Railway
arrived in Fairbanks last week after
a successful trip from Anchorage.
It is the plan of the officials of the
railroad to run a regular monthly
supply train along the line, endeavor
ing in this way to keep the section
houses, local stations and shops sup
plied with necessary equipment and
staple articles.
2,800 Seattieiates Must
Pay Income Tax To U. S.
SEATTLE, Wn, Jan. 11.—Twenty
eight hundred employees of Seattle
utility departments who heretofore
regarded themselves exempt from the
Federal income tax, will be required
to pay such a levy and also back tax
es, under a ruling announced by the
Federal Internal Revenue Bureau.
QUIZ IN POOR FARM
INMATE’S CASE SET
CEDAR RAPIDS, la., Jan. 14.—
Friends of Jerry Hartle, 75 years old,
inmate of the county poor farm here
who was held to the grand jury in
Jones county today on a charge of
embezzling $2,000 from his late sis
ter’s estate, will launch an investiga
tion in Excelsior Springs, Mo., to
learn if Hartle was swindled out of
more than $50,000 by confidence men,
operating there.
Hartle told the court that when he
left here for Excelsior Springs last
spring he had more than $50,000 and
that in financial dealings there he
lost it all. He had to borrow money
from a friend to get back here, he
said.
When nieces began to make" an in
vestigation to learn what had become
of $2,000 left by Mary Coppess, Har
tle’s sister, they learned he was in
the poor house. They called on his
bondsmen to make good the alleged
embezzlement and the bondsmen
swore out a warrant for Hartle.
Hartle is free on bond.
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SOME TRAGEDY
The following is from the_ Independ
ent Squawk, a paper published aboard
the Victoria on one of her recent voy
ages north:
“It was the summer of 1922 when
Douglas Fairbanks rode into Nome on
a White Horse. Here he met Ruby,
a beautiful daughter of Nome. A
whirlwind courtship followed. He
had a Skagway about him and was
willing to Teller anything. Juneau he
won her. They were married by St.
Michael at Holy Cr^oss. Now it is
learned that the wedding was a fake,
just a Bluff. He cast her from his
home clad only in an East Cape. A
Council was called in Nome and the
I Marshall is hard on his Trail. It is
rumored that the villain Fairbanks is
J seeking Anchorage in Dime Creek. Al
I aska. Law must act with Hot Springs
! and play the Rampart, Circle the Ter
j ritory, if necessary with an Eagle
! boat, looking ever to Seward, but put
the fiend where he will never leave
another beautiful daughter of the
Northland Flat Some Windy guy.
CHRISTMAS BABY TO
MOTHER. ALSO BORN
AND WED DEC. 25
DENVER, Colo., Jan. 14.—Christ
mas is a significant day for the
Best family here. Christmas is the
birthday of Mrs. Carl E. Best. She
and Mr. Best were married Christ
mas day several years ago. Christ
mas a baby boy was born to the cou
ple. “At any rate, it ought to help
solve the birthday gift problem,” Best
mused after an interview.
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