The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1938, Page 2

Clearance Woolen Fabric Coatings Suitings Dress Flannels and Novelty Weaves 36 inches wide $1.50 yard [ ] B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. “Junes MAN TURNS TO No Kidnaping; ROBBERY AFTER Girl Involved in REPBRED DEAD Elopement Case Official Death Prevented Six(ccn»Yv:u‘-()l‘(l Daughter Job, Government of Ford Official d r u’s Leading Department Store” « « t iett said his daughter might as well have told him if she wanted t L married “because my daugh- ters run me anyway. > > Millards Refurn From Trip South — [ Fl‘li;l_‘ Cove Residents End T'wo-Month Visit to i i marry a school teacher. She is stop- ping at the Gastineau. Vi \ S A L E s { isconsin With r marking their from Alaska to | all the Every Month in the Year Wisconsin, Mr w‘i Mrs. D. F. Mil- B o e s lard returned Juneau today fol- | ALE! low a4 two month trip in the! States Accompanied by their daughter, 1938 Miss Bess Millard, who is remain- January 12 July 13 | ing in Seattle, the Millards visited | February 9 August 10 for a month i\ Chippewa Falls, March 9 September 7 Wis,, former home of Mr. Millard April 13 October 12 | where his mother and two brothers | May 13 November 9 lland a sister live. They .then pro- June 8 December 14 ceeded to Minneapol here they Special Sales Held On visited with another brother, and spent the rest of their coma and Seattle | Miss Millard plans to stay in Se-| ftle for some it and later ex- pects to move to San Francisco. | The Wisconsin trip was Mr. Mil- lard’s first visit home in 34 years, and the first trip East for Mrs. Mil- lard and Miss Millard. Mr. Millard returns to his office {here with the Alaska Road Com- | mission. Request of Shippers time in Ta- Advances will be made as usual when requested. Transferred by telegraph, if desired. ® WEKCHANGE 1008 Western Avenue Seattle, Wash. | R AN The chief military camp in Eng-‘ land is located at Aldershot, 34 miles from London. 5215132134)51]15)1 1/a4]14]1152}33 | Mossoge inerpreted WE MOVE AT DAWN ] still lyst of the War Department, Lieut.) where And the size of Friedman's staff is ticulous mind of the school but is not telephone, pedantic, . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 4 War Code Sleuths Find | fiqg (m} i : K Raw Nerves Worst Foe i f e |\ orin I ZND FIGURE 5 T el 1A E| secrer ‘ & KEY 2 |(F K o ‘ 18T B AN K FIGURE 3L i 12 H 33 25 } 41Q U i | 5(V / | Message: WEMOV EATDAWN 521532345115114414115233 12113325[12 1 3325]12 113325 642665596326446926228558 ‘ Value of letter Key values Added 64266 55963 26446 92622 8558 64'26!65 59 63(2644!69126’22'85!58 12[1133[25012 11'3325J12‘11.‘§372§ Message as sent Message as received Key (subtract SIMPLE—IF YOU KNOW HOW This sample of an clementary secret code used by Russian Nihilists in the early 1900's is “kindergarten stuff” to professional crytographer: (Note that the values of the letters in the secret key wor U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicin inning at 4 pm, Jan. 4: Rain tonight and Wednesday; fres to strong southeast winds. ‘ Weather forecast for Southeas Alaska: Rain tonight and Wed- i inesday; fresh to strong southeast wi cept strong over Lynn Canal, 4 Chatham Stra Clarence Strait and Dixon Entrance. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Strong east to south winds along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchin- brook. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weathet in this case, “bank”—are added to the values of the letters in the mes- sage being coded. in de-coding, they are subtracted. Yet the pro- cedure of solving even simple erytograms e this when there is no key is so invelved that the expert will not attempt to explain it for the layman. ] By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE 1916 he turned his attention to AP Feature Service Writer {military and diplomatic codes at WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 An the suggestion of Fabyan, who an- art as old as the pyramids but ticipated we would be drawn into ¢ the war. ! Soon the government, which had no agencies prepared to do the work, It is cryptography—the I“,I,.”m",lbegan sending Friedman - cryplo- | ind solving of secret codes. |grams for decipheving. Next thine Battle field operations during he knew, he was a First Lieutenant | « war take place intermittently but i military intelligence, translating battle of wits between crypto- German field codes on the western sraphers goes on continuously, says {ront. : 45-year-old principal crypana- JACKET FROCK Jackets are important in the mi 1-season fashion picture. An Ameri- chen can designer links cne of d blue knit wool, plaided in @ ray heavily veiled in mystery lestined to play a vital part in the 1ext great war. make a run-about freck. with a pleated blue wool skir Faster ‘ eir 1938 Bonnets 7y | Planes to Step InTh Hindenburg’s Success Secret At the peak of its operations in U. S. Signal Corps sent 47,500 teleg averaging 60 word each, in one day. Most of sent to the combat arca were in se \ret code. Cipher keys and codes were cha ed every two or three day In Jol. William F. Friedman. Even in peace, the utmost recy is maintained Visitors are barred from the rooms n the squad munitions building the work is actually done. _'France, the 4 1 se those kept secret. g ;lurv wa ys Friedman, there wi More Work Than Mystery be a multiplicity of complex cryp- To Friedman, who has the me- tograms transmitted 1 tele radio-telegraph, and dio-telephone. He cites Hindenburg’ victories over the Russ there is more perspira- ion than mystery in his job. \ smashi: Several have had to abandon the' n armies A togethe r. the outlet slots. FORMER JUNEAUITE ROTARIANS TO BE | SUICIDES BY GAS = GUEST OF PRESIDENT | IN CLOSED SEDAN BEALE A'l;CAPlTOL President C. D. Beale cf the Ju- au Rotary Club and Ma the Capitol theatre, will be host t Juneau Rotarians Thursday at the first show at the Capit community sing will be a feature | of the evening and the Rotarians are | expected to strub their stulf as vo-| calists. Ex;d of_ An “Office Wife” d has been received he of the death & c Chandler Hi for the Ala ) \ir and last summer employed by Marine Airways Hicks was found slumped over the steeri his car, a Christmas her beside him, on Christn |A hose had been run from the ex haust pipe into the He been despondent, friends said. Louise Hicks, wife of the dece survives him by 1 Glasses Could Take It RENA, Wis.—When Mrs. Gerald 1ardson of Spring Green went an airplane ride, the pilot cir- i over the farm of her father, lliam Roberts. When she looked her gla fell off. Two later her father found vith only one lens broken. - SON RETURNS ~ | AU WITH MOTHER car had sed - > | Shadows of Hospitals [ Falls on Honeymoon wn, FOND DU LAC, Wis., Jan. 4—Mrs. Leonard Schelbach, a bride of only |a few hours, spent what was sup- |posed to have been her honeymoon in a hospital bed, recovering from |an appendectomy. She became ill before the cere- mony, but refused to postpone eith- jer the wedding or the reception | which followed. At the latter, how- ever, she collapsed and underwent Bt e v iy with g€ erati s nd y here, r ¥ A Seran n-m.ra.lxon. ;hcr daughter and son-in-law, Mr. |and Mrs. Art Burke. ; PAA PLANE LEAVING P A Pacific’ Alaska Airways Electra| A “fly-proof” toothpick has been will leave for Fairbanks tomorrow invented by J. N. T. Sanchez of moerning from the Mendenhall Air- Houston, Tex. The toothpicks held port piloted by Jerry Jones and S.|/in a dust-proof cone-shaped box, E. Robbins, weather permitting. |are shaken out only one at a time. Louise at Percy's last night ing a with her Mrs Louise arriv son, popular waitress fe, returned to Juneau n the Northland follow- visit in Ketchikan | parents. | J. M. Nelson, mother of! and Mrs. Art Burke, also| ed on the Northland. She will The body of comely Bertha Nolan, secretary to Mariano Fanti, rich New York importer, is shown above, in Fanti’s car, after he had shot her dead, then shot himself through the head. Fanti, in critical condition, killed his secretary after a quarrel said to have been brought on by his jealousy. Nolan, mof of two daughters, both in their teens, had becn in 'anti’s employ more than a decade, 128.70 inches at latitude 45 degrees north and longitude 155 degrees west. . 4 p.m. yest'y 29.86 43 69 SE 12 Cloudy 4 am. today 67 41 SE 12 Lt Rain . Noou today 29.99 41 8 w 3 Lt. Rain RADIO REPOR !5 li TODAY § Max. temp. Lowest 4a.m. 4am. Precip, 4am. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 2: hrs, Weather Atka 30 28 30 14 07 Pt. Cldy Anchorage 29 16 - 05 row -14 0 Clear Nome -10 0 Clear el -10 0 Clear anks -14 T Show son -4 0 Cloudy 5 Paul 8 06 Snow Dutch Harbor 32 24 02 Cloudy 34 28 0 Clear a 38 34 2.54 Ra 16 a1 : 41 38 16 tehikan 44 38 21 Prince Rupert — 36 — Edmonton 40 14 0 Seattle 42 32 0 Portland 46 38 0 les San Francisco . 56 46 0 cClowy "§ Nek Y 38 26 32 10 0 Cloudy i Washington 40 30 30 4 0 Cloudy WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle (airport), clear, temperature 32; Blaine, clear, 30: Vie- ’ toria, ciear, 39; Alert Bay. clear, 38; Bull Hirbor, raining, 43; Triple B cloudy; Lamgara Island, raining, 45; Prince Rupert, drizzle, 44 b Ketchikan, misting, 4 Wrangell, raining, 40; Pet- ® ersburg, raining ; Radioville, showers, 40; Hoon- » ah, cloudy, 38; . 40; Juneau, raining, 41; Skag- ¥ way. raining Hinchinbrook, raining and snowing, 36; St. Elias, cloudy. raining, 3%; Chitina, cloudy, 10; McCarthy, * cloudy, 30; snowing, 25 urbanks, snowing, -11: Hot E€prings, snowing, 0; Tanana, snowing, -6; Ruby, clear, -20; Nulato, clear, -40; Kaltag, clear, -40; Unalakleet, clear, -52; Flat, clear, -37: Chogamute, ¢ -30 Juneau, Sunrise, 8:46 am.; sunset, 3:25 p.m WEATHER SYNOPSIS G A storm area continued this morning over the northeastern por- tion of the north Pacific Ocean Wwith the lowest reported pressure of ur ssure Barcmetric pr was below normal throughout Ala while high barometric p prevailed over the west coast states. This gen- ral pressure distribution has been attended by rains along the coast- al r ns from Bull Harbor northward to Cordova, by snow over the Aleutian Islands and at Fairbanks and by gen lly fair weather over the remainder of the field of observation. Temp ures were warmer last night at Dawson, Mayo and Barrow and much colder over the Ber- ing Sea region. *». f DOUGLAS -l'l Some discussion, with the School I |Board participating, took place in |reference to equipment being sup- |plied for the new school. Mayor un reported the city had be- | | come possessed of some tools lett i | |by the late Charles Eppens, donat- | | |ed by the Territory which assumed * 4 (he expense of the deceaseds stay ROUTINE RUSINESS IS . 28 unEr totaling $514.33 er and ordered paid. | were gone DISPOSED OF BY COUNCIL g : 3 dhaiier o0 work, he says because of their ina- | Ahatah. or an e e g | Regular mo session of th : S e ¢ Aid, Is Claim Causes Worry bilty to get it ott thelr minds and :Lt,i,l(?; e el {Douslas City Council was held last| LoRDIoaaR, Y \ o - relax in o ours. He himself was ¥ eve W souncilmen R | R £ EVERETT, Wash, Jan. 4—Harley| DETROIT Mich, Jan. 4. — Capt. on the verge of nervous exhaustion “g::’mn e U e lg:”i:,‘ 'fdm'l"";‘,';]"‘,:,“l‘fi" Miss Grace Pietsch of the Doug- == G. Weston, 36, told authorities to- Donald Leonard, of the State Police, for four or five years and has to be o eh amiqua'u,d aadsnate e t5on anid Onaleh. absent {ias Children's Home is expecting her L day that he had turned to robbery .mmmnw@ that (;-fu.‘un- Bennett,, careful now. He plays golf for a let- {mtl.p‘,md by the PR experts &/ Under - untintatien business, the |8t and mother, Dr. and Mrs "a = olter he failed to get a job or so yissing daughter of Harry Ben- down, does considerable outside with™ the result that Hindenburg i matter of condemnation of the old|Wiliam E. Pietsch of Los Angeles, ol seeurity number because he was n Ford’s Personnel Director, and reading, particularly of history. His pnayw exactly what the Russian ... AND THIS YEAR’ Children's Home building, and for-| ' arrive here I‘h(- middle of the i tici dead Russell Hughes, were married special hobby is trying to decipher forces were going to do. In the bennets on { In the bennets designed for this 'merly the Maki Boarding House, as| Month for a visit and on business ‘ He said that he left his home in yesterday in Auburn, Indiana. heiroglyphics of the ancient May- the air passes year's planes, the air enters 10 |3 fire hazard as asked by the Fire|connuected with the Evangelization : Glendive, Montana, five years ago| Capt. Leonard said he learned of an civilization. Foils Prison Break and cut throt coci the ne nd the pro- |Department, was ordered referred|ScCiety. = r a dispute with his w He 'lie marriage from the County Clerk Plant breeding seems a strange Knowledge of how to prepare rear. I's standard e pedier hub and is brought out [y, the :,vn}-n of the buildir in| SR T SR 1 .+ Wwent to work on a Government prg- at Auburn introduction to secret cpde work, cryptograms of sound merit is on nearly all Ame through the “nose slot” just be- |portland, Orezon. Clerk Tuckett was | = Ject where a man who was acci-| The couple Had not been located but that is how Friedman got into scant, according to Friedman, while, plan hind the first ring. Bish) prdered i BEN A Mather T SAnts | == dentally killed was identified as H. at 1:30 c'clock this morning. it, knowledge of how to solve them is - i |Degan in response to his request * = G. Weston. Bennetf notilied the authorities He set up a plant breeding labo- possessed only by a small circle of WASHINGTON -cooled bon-{The rear cne can be mo % ifor refund of part of costs on the| “I let it go at that,” he sazid. his daughier 15 miscing for 12 ratory on the estate of the late Col. professional government crypto- nets will be the style for this year's and forth to adjust the lo {Myrtic Berry property rock fill { . = He is accused of robbing a filling hours and it was feared she had been George Fabyan, near Chicago, after graphers. airplane engines cowling to the air-minded—air flo Some nade. 1o the \"I'm'[’u:)(i‘ FULF station and was sentenced to 15 kidnaped because of threats against graduating from Cornell in 1915, Cryptography ite peacetime| Is & fashion that will bring new inever e engine and out through by paw .y thers Wiks Teportad of no~ . ye in prison. His wife in Man- him in connection with labor trou- Fabyan, convinced that Frahcis uses, too. A few years ago Fried- speed records, say engineers of the the skirt at the r The new co ount of the storms, by Cnunci]m'\n‘ 3 hattan, Montana, doubts that he is bles. Bacon had written the Shake-|man foiled a prison break in a mid- National Advisory Commitice for ling takes air in through the center Riedi Cnum-llm'm..N\xn:\nmkcr ’jl‘_; EDINBURGH, Jan. 4—England ? her husband. However, the Federal Bureau of spearian works, had assembled a western penitentiary by deciphering Aeronoutics, who sel esent|aneping Behind (he propelier, passes fil iy o 3 Suionaty Sitcts 50| Pinally b TolENed 8. Dledan iads | A S Investigation in Washington said it staff to study the Shakespeare-Ba-|the prisoners’ plan. It had been practical speed limit at five miles a it over the cylinders and then re- ¢. % SO0 800 BEE S TERE Bo fy b e TO MARR not believed the girl had been con ciphers, believed by some to|found in a code on the mother of minute. The new bonu they | varses shfcHlow. fo ssd the.alr out | ol o L Bat e ianptat dr R i St it (hapaitur tie. Ton~ Miss Beatrice Sturdevant, of - kidnaped prove Bacon's authorship, one of them as she was leaving the hope, will make it possible to {ly through slots a few inches be '““d‘m.“" rty froze up during the cold don Public Record office has re- halis, Washington, arrived u- The girl and boy were fellow stu- Friedman became interested. In prison after a visit. even to fifteen mile the point where it _“““lr','(l : . A valve in the water main|turned nine documents wh ich nva;x lz:dn::‘ '.\bnm-[d nn(\luv:;m r bar- dents in college. ”Klm‘v“ r‘»”,"]‘.»]u «‘vx wu g " i looks With the old type of bonnei «en opened up on Front street | should have been returned under < anof, heading for Chichagof to| I WG, SoMERRiL Sive nd the pip: Mr. Ba- the treaty of Northampton in 1328. reported. | They include: Committee on police was asked to The marriage contract between check on automobile licencees here Eric, King of Norway, and Mar- 5 cleaned out, to obtain all licenses due at this garet, daughter of Alexander III, time. The City Clerk was di- King of Secots; and Papal bulis rected to write the Mason Clinic in |recognizing the independence of Seattle concerning ‘Marshal Du-'Scotland from England in eccelsi- pree’s condition. astical matters. = ’ Don't struggle with an old washer, turn it in on a NEW GENEREL ELECTRIC. Long Life Model. Save ‘money on ‘your clothes as on your laundry bills. 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