TORNADOES SELDOM
STRAY BEYOND AREA
OF CENTRAL WEST
(Kv Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, P. C., \pr. 16 —
The vi.varies of tornadoes, one varie
ty of which recently snuffed out up
wards of S00 lives in the. middle
west, have almost completely baf
fled the resea relies of science. The
suddenness with which they strike,
and the destructive force of their
attack, have made scientific study
extremely difficult.
Prof. Wiiliam J. Humphreys, *• of
the weather bureau, describes a tor
nado as "a violent rotating storm of
small dimensions.” The chances are,
he says that not once in a thousand
years would a tornado hit the same
spot twice.
The name tornado originally was
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applied lo a violent thunderstorm on
the west coast of Africa. The va
riety of storm now called by that
j name, however, is peculiar to the
j Mississippi valley region of t.he Uni
! ted States, and rarely occurs in any
! other part of the world. Dr. Hum
phrey's records show that it does
not occur west of Denver; is found
only occasionally in southern Cana
da; is rare in eastern part of the
United States, and is not destructive
in or east of the Allegheny moun
i tains, except in Alabama and Geor
gia.
The explanation is that the rocky
i
mountains, extending generally north
and south, guide the cold air drain
ing to the south from the Canadian
Rocky region. The drift of winds
comes across the warm waters of the
Gulf of Mexico and starts north
across the United States. The meet
ing of these cold and warm cur
rents of air starts up a rotation be
j tween them, Dr. Humphreys explains,
adding that no other part of the
world has that geographic configur
ation existing in the Rocky Gulf
j area.
j The passage of these currents es
i tablishes violent rotations at cloud
levels and the whirl beats itself
| down to the bottom, usually from a
levi i of less than a. mile above the
earth, to the ground.
The tornado only occurs in connec
tion with a big rain or snow-jbring
i ing storm and is usually from 1,000
i to 1,500 feet wide.
The peculiar phenomenon of the
tornado “skipping,” striking a spot
i and jumping over a stretch of coun
J try leaving it undisturbed, is not so
well understood. The upper part
of the tornado seem for some rea
son to move ahead, breaking off its
; lower portion, and then, as it speeds
i on, the whirling wind finds its way
j to the ground again.
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(By Associated Press)
MANILA, Apr. 16.—The question
I of the validity in the Philippine Isl
ands of a decree of divorce obtained
|in a court in the United States, was
'decided in the affirmative today by
j Judge George Harvey of the court
i of first instance.
Mrs. Jose Ventura of Manila ob
tained a decree of divorce from her
j husband in the state of Nevada in
! March, 1924, and upon her return
; to Manila applied to the court for
authority to dispose of certain prop
erty. The court held that Mrs. Ven
tura acquired a bona fide residence
in the state of Nevada, that the di
vorce proceedings were legal and
valid, and must be given full effect
in Mus jurisdiction.
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{REINDEER TO GIVE
NEW KIND OF MEAT
FOR DAILY MENUS
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Apr. 16.—Alaska has
its eye on the gradual falling off in
American bee!' production, and as
pires to develop an equivalent of the
once famous Texas steer in its own
Arctic reindeer. Charles DeWitt
Brower, a New Yorker who has lived
41 years in Alaska, told a gathering
at the City Club recently that. New
York City was already taking 150,
000 pounds of reindeer beef a year,
and predicted by the end of 1925 it
would consume 375,000 pounds.
What Mr. Brower called a defin
itely established beef industry in the
north rested, he said, upon herds of
300,000 beef-bred reindeer which fat
ten in a great grass triangle as large
as Texas whose apex is Point Bar
j row, 200 miles north of the Arctic
Circle. By 1940 he expected 4,f»00,
! 000 head.
j Nome was the packing house cen
j ter, and so far the meat output
was only about large enough to meet
1 he domestic demand, according to
Mr. Brower. However, the nucleus
of a future export business was pro
vided in the growing New York
| trade, and refrigerator boats were
bringing beeves direct to the Hud
son River by way of Seattle and
the Panama Canal.
The reindeer, Santa Claus to the
| contrary, had become synonymous
with steaks and chops in the north
country rather than sleigh bells, said
Mr. Brower. Sledging there was now
done exclusively by dogs, which
could traverse stretches reindeer
could not.
Beef possibilities of the reindeer
were first discovered when Dr. Shel
don Lewis, a missionary, imported
them from Siberia to succor the Es
quimaux who were threatened with
starvation by extinction of game an
imals. The present herds have been
bred up from the 1,280 original ani
mals brought over Bering Sea be
tween 1892 and 1902.
Reindeer calfskin furnishes what
Mr. Brower said was the warmest
fur for its weight in the world, spec
ially favored for clothing by Esqui
maux and Chukchees, inhabitants
and explorers. Alaskan calves, how
ever, were to valuable as beef, and
Alaska is arranging to buy skins
from the Russiana Soviet in Siberia,
where there is at present an oversup
ply of reindeer meat.
j JACK LONDON MANUSCRIPTS
SOLD LIBRARY FOUNDATION
(By Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, April 16—The ori
ginal manuscripts of Jack London,
collected by London from 1955 up to
the hour of his death, was sold to
the Henry W. Huntington Library
Foundation, Charmion, his widow an
i nounced.
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STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP
Statement of the Ownership, Man
agement, Circulation, etc., required by
Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, of
The Seward Daily Gateway, published
daily at Seward, Alaska, for April,
1925.
United States of America, Territory of
Alaska, Third Division, ss.
Before me, a notary public in and
for the State and County aforesaid,
personally appeared H. B. Selby, who,
having been duly sworn according to
law. deposes and says that he is the
publisher of the Seward Daily Gate
way, and that the following is, to the
best of his knowledge and belief, a
true statement of the ownership, man
agement and circulation, etc., of the
aforesaid publication for the date
shown in the above caption, required
by Act of August 24, 1912, embodied
in section 443, Postal Lawsi and Regu
lations.
1. That the names and addresses
of the publisher, editor, managing edi
tor and business managers are:
Publishers, H. B. Selby and Harry
V. Hoben, Seward, Alaska.
Editor, H B. Selby, Seward, Alaska
Managing Editor, none.
Business Manager, H. B. Selby.
2. That the owners are: H, B
Selby and H. V. Hoben, Seward
Alaska.
3. That the known bondholders
mortagees, and other security holders
owning or holding one per cent oi
more of total amount of bonds, mort
gages, or other securities are: None
4. That the average number of cop
ies of each issue of this publicatior
sold or distributed through the mails
or otherwise, to paid subscribers dur
ing the six months preceding the date
shown above is 320.
H. B. SELBY,
Editor
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 15th day of April, 1925.
(Seal A. E. RUCKER,
My Commission expires Nov. 21, 1925
New Memorials to Grace
Potomac At Washington
(B7 Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 16.—
The Potomac River’s proverbial ser
enity will be seriously troubled this
summer, for work is under way on
two memorials on its banks, and a
majestic bridge to span its bosom.
One of the monuments, at the foot
of New Hampshire Avenue and E
Street, will commemorate those who
lost their lives in the Titanic dis
aster, in a figure with outstretched
arms. John Ericsson, inventor and
constructor of the Monitor of Civil
War renown, will be remembered in
the other piece of statuary, 900 feet
south of the Lincoln memorial, not
far from the Titanic statue.
The Arlington Memorial Bridge,
running southwesterly from the Lin
coln memorial to Columbia Island,
so as to form an avenue toward the
Lee mansion at Arlington, is to be
come one of the most beautiful in
the world. For its construction the
Sixty-eighth Congress authorized an
appropriation of $14,750,000 over a
ten-year period. Preliminary work
on laying the foundations, which
will link the Lincoln and Lee high
ways, lias just been started, under
the direction of Colonel C. O. Sher
rill, officer in charge of public build
ing and grounds.
The Arlington Bridge commission,
headed by President Coolidge, has
planned the span as a fitting ap
proach to the national capital and a
symbol of the union of north and
south. It will befaced with the Col
orado yule marble of the Lincoln
memorial, and from the southern
approach will have that memorial,
the Washington monument and the
dome of the capitol for a background.
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yor of London, is the owner of a
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Compulsory Literary Studies
Opposed By British Author
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Apr. 26.—‘"Tbeiv is too
much literature and not enougo me
chanical arts being taught in the
schools today. ’ This opinion is from
Hilaire Belloc, the author oi a good
ly number of volumes ot essays and
other literary works, in a lecture
on “Education" at Manchester recent
ly.
The pupil shut-.l determine what
his natural bent is, Mr. Bell >c ai
gued, and if it is not in the line o:
literature he should not be forced
to study it or allied subjects. The
pupil, he said, should spend his time
learning the profession or trade ho
is most interested in and be capable
ef entering i; when he leaves school,
instead of having to serve an appren
ticeship because he spout his time
on useless subjects, as is the case
under the present sys eir..
Miss Helen Cluston, English nurse
heroine of the war and now an in
valid, has been presented with a
radio set at the hospital in Aylsham.
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