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Scientists Find Suspected Source
Of Destructive Pacific Seawaves
WASHINGTON, (fl—U.S. Gov-«
ernment scientists say they may
have found the source of the seis
mic seawaves which periodically
■arce southward thru the Pacific
and smash into the Hawaiian Is
lands and Japan.
It is a huge crack in the ocean
floor of the Gulf of Alaska, 250 to
400 miles long, 500 to 700 feet
deep, and 2 to 3 miles wide.
Rear Adm. H. Arnold Karo,
director of the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey, said Monday survey
ships found the crack with elec
tronic echo-sounders which, in
effect, show a profile of the ocean
floor.
The crack may be responsible
for underwater earthquakes just
as the San Andreas fault is re
sponsible for the damaging earth
quakes in California.
When the earth slips along the
San Andreas Fault line, earth
quake waves cause the ground to
roll and tremble. When the same
thing happens undersea, pressure
waves hurtle thru the ocean at
500-600 miles an hour.
The pressure waves fare not vis
ible from the surface. They could
race right past a ship, for instance,
and never be noticed.
However, when they near a
land area jutting out of the ocean
they| tend to “pile up” and cause
what are commonly, but mistak
enly, known as tidal waves.
When an earthquake occurs
deep under the ocean floor the
earth movement along the fault
line is of minor importance, but
the tremendous sea wave it gen
erates may cause untold destruc
tion as far away as California,
Hawaii or Japan.
The waters of the Alaska Gulf
above the trough vary in depth
from 9,000 to 13,000 feet.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by The
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight and to
morrow with increasing cloudi
ness Thursday afternoon. Winds
easterly, 15 to 20 mph. The low
temperature expected tonight 45
to 50 and the high tomorrow 55.
Nome date last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest temperature
52, lowest 44. Max. wind 9 mph
from the S.E. Sunrise at 5:13
a.m., sunset at 6:42 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 53, lowest 45. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 63
in 1929, lowest 25 in 1914.
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Edmonton 43 Smoke
Fairbanks 61 Cloudy
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Seattle 75 Clear
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Challenge to U.S.
Mid-East Policy
WASHINGTON, W—Secretary
of State Dulles said yesterday he
believes the Syrian situation will
be worked out peacefully altho
there are elements which could
lead to serious trouble.
He told a news conference the
United States does not believe in
peace at any price and under cer
tain circumstances would act, but
he did not define the circum
stances or indicate the possibili
ties of action.
Dulles said the Soviet Union is
trying to realize Russia’s tradi
tional policy—going far back into
czarist days—of gaining control
of the Middle East.
Moscow appears to be trying to
challenge the policies of the Unit
ed States in standing up for the
independence of Middle Eastern
countries, Dulles added.
He ruled out any kind of con
sultation with Russia aimed at
developing a general hands-off
agreement toward the highly
strategic area.
The United States, Dulles com
mented, is highly skeptical of ar
rangements with the Soviets for
hands-off policies because they
are liable to lead to Western
“hands off” and Russian hands
“under the table.”
U.S. Ambassador Makes
Diplomatic History
Landing on Swiss Alp
SION, Switzerland, UP*—U. S.
Ambassador Henry J. Taylor to
day made diplomatic history by
making a glacier landing near the
Matterhorn.
Taylor flew with Switzerland’s
famed rescue pilot Herman Gei
ger to the 11,000-foot Theodul
Glacier. He was the only passen
ger. The flight was to demon
strate Geiger’s glacier landing
technique in his Piper Cub plane,
which was specially equipped.
Taylor, a former war corres
pondent and news commentator
from Charlottesville, Va., spent
half an hour on the glacier tied
to Geiger by a climber’s rope. He
peered down a 200-foot-deep, ice
packed crevice.
Appropriate Gifts
At Postman’s Retirement
DETROIT, UP*—This time the
honored guest turned the tables—
he pulled out gifts for his fellow
workers who came to his retire
ment party.
Courtley Laghtfoot, a 55-year
old mail carrier with 35 years of
service in suburban Garden City,
gave his colleagues shoeshine kits
and dog candy.
They gave him a lounge chair.
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