The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1931, Page 2

"SPEED MADE INDISPATCH DEBT GABLES We’re not just talking :Grcat(’sl of Activity Pre- te L] VALUE { vailed During Recent 1 o6 ‘Ve,l'e [ Negotiations days of the World War, was there | such iv rist vity in Uncl |Sam’s griy old State, War and Navy ling, the street | s during I ations aps it in_the n of communications and records| ided over by that vateran,| Salmon, thal activity was/ atest. | were handled all of the ages to and from Washing American embassies in | Berlin, London and Rome| rning the moratorium | riphammer action was at all times—as well as the utmost | One spl(’ndid exnmple secrecy Nolma‘(t how Irns;’ vl!:v‘ might be, s impera- of what we’re delivering ;.. W5’ delfvered. to ' the in the way of better value | proper authority in the shortest is Middishade Clothes— |PossiPle time. the suits you've seen ad- vertised in The Saturday Evening Post. Middishade Clothes stand out as the great new value of this new value era. In every par- ticular...individual styl- p hoice fabri ~actually the work was g . s CROICE ABDEIOOS- o | cent of inormal expert care lavished on “My force was like a tailoring details... Middi- hunting dogs after a fox,” is the g e way Salmon described them. “There shade Clothes have every |y5 no thougnt of stopping as long outward appearance and | as tfiere was work to do.” every inner perfection Messages drafted by the White 3 House and State Department wert of far more expensive - clothes. l!_v HE IXFI{ I PLUMMER from was divi- the required Words—Plus Action This work of codin and receiving mes period from June 20 t clusive required the people, each an expert A 24-hour service ed and the worker ing of w each day. T normal amount of wor dispatching { during the [ in his line. s maintain- thought ||l>~h- and 17 hours four times the was done 400 per pack of hed to Salmon. There they were ded and dispatched by private | telegraph wire to the commerciai » office in New York, thence y cable to the cable office abroad, and then by telegraph to the Am- erican embassy addressed, Similarly were m es emanat- Leeps the price down to ing from foreign capitals transmit- ted to th: State Department in $3 7 .50 Washington. ages Didn't Loiter B. M - o IVE. ~Speed records were probably bro BEHRFNDS en in the transmission of these| l.\v:\ on the long communications there was a 15 to| C(). I"(‘. 18 minut: service to Paris. One ? short message from the French| capital was in. the hands.of .the| te Department seven minutes| from the time it was dispatched | and within two minutes was de- ilvered to the property authority. MIDDISHADE CLOTHES Spced was the all-important thing, As quickly as a telegraph| An Achievement in Specialization operator here finished a page, a| code man grabbed it and began translating. Then it was turned| Rl over to a reviser and from there PARIS—Steam h:at and plumb- to_a stencil cutter. ing are making the population of sently when the telegraph Paris twell, says the census taker. finished his last page, Figures show 4,887,764 inhabitants mimeograph machines were grind- in Paris and the suburbs, an in- ing out the first page of the manu- | crease of 319493 over 1925, which script ; is noted principally in the indus- ————— | trial suburbs. These show an in- MAINE LIGHT GAINS POWER | crease of 286,870 for a total of WASHINGION — Wood Island 2,016,425. The population of in- Light, the picturesque stone tower tramuros Paris remains practically which has stood at the entrance unchangsd with 2,871,039, a slight to the Saco River, Maine, for a| increase of 32,623. century and a quarter, is again to reflect the march of progress. The Lighthouse Service of the Depart- PANTORIUM ment of Commerce, announces that | CLEANERS it is installing a new lens which “We Call For and Dellver” will increase the power of the light | TEL. 355 to 30,000 candlepower, four times | what it is today. | T ST . fre e = | U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRIQULTURE, WEATHER RUREAU The W eather (By the U. S. Weather Bure2s) Yet specialization... big scale specialization... and involved | Juneau’s Leading Department Store LAM HEAT AND CENSUS Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., August 15: Probably showers tonight and Sunday; gentle variable winds. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp., Humidity Wind Velocity 30.10 55 90 s 6 30.10 54 93 SE 6 CAGLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4pm. | Lowest4am. 4am. Preclp. 4am. Station— temp. temp. | emp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Barrow 38 38 Nome 52 52 46 46 6 Bethel 52 52 40 40 6 Fort Yukon 58 58 | 46 46 ® ‘Fanana 60 60 34 Tairbanks 60 60 40 Eagle 62 58 | > Bt. Paul 50 48 46 Dutch Harbor 56 50 44 1lodiak 58 56 52 Cordova 64 62 50 Juneau 55 55 52 Bitka 59 - 54 Cldy Ketchikan 64 62 52 Cldy Prince Rupert 62 62 | 52 5 dy Edmonton 4 72 1l . el Clear Beattle . 74 72 | s2 &2 Clear | | Weather Rain Rain Time 4 pm. yzst'y 4 am. today Trace Rain 02 Cldy Clear Clear Clear Pt. Cldy Rain Cldy Cldy Cldy Rain Portland 80 8 54 54 Clear . 60 60 54 54 Pt. Cldy *—Less than 10 miles. The northern low pressure area has moved eastward to central Canada and the barometer has risen in the Interior accompanied by clearing weather in that district. Another low pressure area has appeared near Bering Strait with light showers in Bering Sea. The pressure is above normal in Southeastern and extreme Southwestern Alaska and highest over the ocean to the southward. Cloudy weath- er is general in Southern Alaska with heavy rain in this vicinity. Temperatures were higher yesterday from Barrow to Cordova and Jower at Kcdtak, and lower in the Interior last night. Ban Francisco old rroduced a carload of lumber, 1617) | board feet FATHER OF GIRL | ADMITS KILLING HER COMPANION Denver, Man Shot Youth Who Was With Daugh- ter in Automobile CCLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Aug. 15—Roy G. King confessed today that three weeks ago he shot and killed Lewis Palmer, 20 years after having' followed the lat- omobile to the outskirts do Springs. Palmer was by King's daughter SSUDY PSR TREE MAKES CAR OF LUMBER | BATON ROU La., Aug. 12— s tree, probably 1200 yoars on the Amite river swamp cypr id, cut The swamp giant had L total length fo 80 feet and the | tump diameter was 92 inches their crops. COMPLETE e Dafiy ALASKA mflgflf% Y17 / A¥ "AUGUST Ii 1931 Assaciated Press Phote Part of a throng of more than 1,000 Union county, South Dakota, farming people Is shown kneeling bes fore an outdoor altar near Jefférson, imploring divine aid in combatting hordes of grasshoppers devastating On the same spot 6 years ago similar rites wera heid. 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