NATHAN STRAUS DEFENDS
DR. WISE.
Nathan Straus, noted Philanthro
pist of New York, is defending Dr.
Wise and has urged him not to re
sgn as Chairman of the United Pales. !
tine appeal. Mr. Straus has contri- j
touted $650,000 for welfare work in
Palestine and has just authorized
Rabbi Wise to announce this contri
bution as a token of his confidence
in Rabbi Wise.
Geo. Sexton Leaving
Washington Few Days
George Sexton, Republican National ;
Committeeman, and resident of Sew
ard, who has been at Washington. D.
C., for the past two months, in a let
ter received locally in the last mail,
stated he contemplated leaving the
East for home about the first of the
month. Things are progressing sat
isfactorily, he wrote, but slowly.
ISLAND VOLCANO
SHUSHALDIN, IS
STILL SMOKING
WESTWARD ARRIVALS IN SEW
ARD REPORT DENSER
CLOUDS SMOKE
The Aleutian Islands are a con
stant source of mystery and to sci
entists, the world over, one of the
most fascinating studies of the pres,
ent age. The eruption of Pavlof
and Shishaldin, some years ago, was
the signal for numerous expeditions
to rush into the westward volcanic
fields, the results of which were la
ter published. The last named eny>
ed about three years ago and since
that time has been smoking steadily.
Seward arrivals on the steamer
Starr, last Sunday, stated the peak,
which is located midway on Unimak
Island, is emitting dense columns of
steam and smoke, proibaJbly a little
greater in volume than has been no
ticed for many months. It was stat
ed, however, this was no indication
that the volcano was due to erupt,
j Scientists have yet to determine a
i time schedule for these earth explo
! sions though there have been many
who believed they could forcast
such an event.
The whole island has been describ
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ed as the vault of a subterranean
smelting furnace with many chim
neys through which .flames, sparks
and ashes ascend from the molten
masses beneath. In the earliest
times since the discovery of the is
land by the Russians whole ridges
of mountain peaks have been ob
served to split open and emit huge
flames, torrents of lava, and clouds
of ashes. These manifestations were
always accompanied by the most vio
lent earthquakes, tidal waves, and
floods, the latter caused by the sud
den melting of masses of ice and
snow on the mountain tops'.
'The greatest activity on record up
to the Pavlof distubance and crea
tion of the Valley of Ten Thousand
3mokes in August 1924, occurred in
1796, 1824 and 1825, and as late as
1827 burning lava was observed des
cending from tihe craters. Shishaldin
and Unimak volcanoes have from
time immemorial been the Aleutian’s
great storehouse, from which they
obtain sulphur and obsidian, the lat
ter employed, in the early days, in
the manufacture of knives, spears,
and arrowheads.
Describing the March 10, 1824 oc
currence, the Russian missionary,
Veniamof, who witnessed one of tihese
eruptions wrote:
After a prolonged subterranean
noise, resembling a heavy cannonade,
which was plainly heard on the is
lands of Unalaska, and the southern
end of the Alaska Peninsula, a low
ridge on the northeast, east of Uni
mak, opened in five places, with vio
lent emissions of flames and great
masses of black ashes, covering the
•country for miles around. The melt
ing snow and mountains descended
from the mountains in a terrific tor
ret five to ten miles in width on the
eastern side of the island. Until
late in the autumn the season that
; coast water was turbid.The Shishaldin
j crater, which up to that time had also
! emitted flames, continued to smoke
I only, while about midway between
| summit and base a new crater was
! formed. On October 11, 1820, a small
peak in the interior of the island
opened under violent explosion of
fire and a rain of ashes, which cov
ered not only the southern end of
the peninsula, but Sanak, Unga and
other adjoining islands. Since that
j time smoke has been emitted from
many places among the loose masses
of rocks on the mountainside. All
the streams and ponds in the vicin
ity -were hot enough for years to
emit steam in midsummer.
Exploration parties who visited
the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
last summer brought back reports
to Seward that many of the smoking
fumeroles had disappeared and that
the disturbances were le^s frequent
than in previous years. According
to records of earlier disturbances,
and providing they would be anything
of a barometer with which to gauge
the eruptions, it will be many, many
years before a like occurence takes
place again.
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NOTED VIOLINIST
Jascha ' Heifetz, internationally
known violinist, who is in the Unit
ed States on a short tour. Although
only 24 years old, he is a favorite
of the music lovers. He was born
in Vilna, Russia, in 1901, and began
learning the violin at the age of 3.
He made his first public appearance
at the age of 5 and since has played
in every large city of the world.
Sea Travel in 1925
Highest Since War
NEW YORK, Jan. 25. (/p)_More
persons were transported across the
Atlantic Ocean in 1925 than in any
year since the war, according to of
ficial figures which show that 732,
151 persos were carried, as against
585,471 in 1924, a gain of 146,680
ITne figures show a gain in all class
es for both eastbound and west
bound traffic. Only in the case of
consular passengers, deportees and
stowaways, none of which are of any
financial benefit to the lines, was
there shown a loss.
engineer hunt in n. y.
'Mr. Hunt, who will be remem
bered by many Seward residents as
being formerly the first assistant,
engineer on the steamr Starr, now
calls !Nw York his home port.
A man’s strongest friend is usual
ly his pipe.
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Daring Attempt Made
In Flight to Arctic
Norwegian Officer, Trying to Fly to
Spitsbergen, Is Forced Down.
OSLO, Jan. 25. (£>)—In a daring at
tempt to demonstrate the possibility
of flying to Spitsbergen, Norway’s
Arctic possession, in Winter time a
flying boat, owned and piloted by
Lieutenant Eliassen of the Norwegian
Navy, hopped off from Horten this
morning. A snowstorm, however,
forced the aviator to come down
seventy kilometers northwest of Liple
hammer. The journey will be contin
ued when the weather clears.
The flight is considered especially
hazardous because darkness prevails
day and night north of th Arctic
Circle at this season.
Lieutenant Eliassen is planning to
make a flight to the North Pole,
startig from Nova Zembla, north of
Russia.
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