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2 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY FEB. 21, 1940. ———— B ’ S N/ . 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICIJLTURE. WFAT"EE BUREAU 2 FIFTEEN DEAD, 450 INJURED, IN ALBANY, GA., TORNADQ [British Seize Nasi | | oy THE WEATHER : (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juncau and vicinity, beginning at ) p.m., Feb. 21: Cloudy t ht and Thursday; low:st temperature tonight about 30 degrees variable winds Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Cioudy ' tonight and Thursday, i htly warmer tonight. Gentle t> moderate northerly wind, be- | ing easterly over southern po tion Thursday. ; Forecast of winas along the coast of .the Gulf of Alaska, | Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbréok, moderate easterly, and from : Cape Hinchinbrook Kodiak modletate to fresh east to southeast- | erly | LOCAL DATA | Humidity Wind Velocity' Weather Time Barometer lemp. | 3:30 p.am 40 57 w £ Clear 3:30 am 28 86 Calm ' 0 Clear | Noon 35 70 w 9 Claudy RADIO REPORT fa | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 3:30a.m Precip. 3:30a.m. 1 | Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weather Anchorage 34 23 27 0 | Barrow -2 -18 -5 [} 1 Nome 31 29 30 07 ‘ | Bethel 38 31 0 | Fairbanks 9 -3 0 y 4 St. Paul 34 31 0 Cloudy | Duich Harbor . 39 36 210 Rain Kcdiak 2 ¢ 36 Trace Rain Cordava 43 34 11 Cloudy ** Juncau 42 26 0 | Sitka 46 27 0 {4 | Kerchlkan 40 36 31 0 lear ! £ 50 36 37 0 Clear L | Portland 54 | 39 39 0 lear San 'Francisco . 61 53 54 0 Cloudy " AN Only two or three buildings were lo't standing in this section of Albany, Ga., after a tornado struck. Homes &nd business houses were splini- p WEATHER SYNOPSIS ered and hoxcars overturned like tdys. At least 15 persons'were killed and 450 injured. Damage was estimated at $5,000,000. & : : The unusually high pressure crested over the District of MacKen- * ? g b - y - % zie yesterday continued to build ub and was extended this morning 1 - With a shot acress the bow o¢f the Japanese liner Asapma Maru, a over a wide area, reaching from the Interior of Alaska southeastward 3 | | the averege Briton likes, 40 hear the II 5 F‘ st British cruiser stopped the line miles off the Japanese coast and to the Northwestern States. The intense western disturbance has . - | :bom Limgelf from foreign ow ast removed 21 German seamen enroute to Germany via Japan and Si- | remained nearly stationary, with the lowest pressure of 28.88 DR | beria. The Germans had been on Standard Oil tankers in South inches reported about 400 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor. Clear Lord Haw-Haw's identity has 2 s ‘,,“,n ot ool (S ol (e Ar(} Th(?’y American trade. Here a lighter from the British cruiser is shown | to partly cloudy weather prevailed over Southeast Alaska and the ” ,.mm;u, UG R Who - abound L SR alongside the Asama Maru as the Germans were being removed, pre- Interior, while it continued cloudy over the refainder of Alaska, VEmzlmd Piasl-gimines wae Captain ROME, Feb. 21 r.H‘m:,e carriage paratory to being put on the cruiser. with light rain from the Aleutians eastward to Kodiak and some Baille-Stewart, the Sc Pricer wivo' 202 direct. competitive basis with _ e light snow in the Nome region. ‘ AL T T e, Parkge 165 Rownm, DRNCRATNEN B S xi- ¢ Juneau, Feb. 22 —Sanrise 7:16 a.m., sunset 5:12 pm. languished-in the Tower some time o N l P : f W FAVORITE OF ENG[ISHMEN Rk fah ERRCaT g eIt "\E_lffi-c l,’l;‘l:fi .prwc of gasoline—one eutra risoners o ar newspaper discowers who he is and dollar & gallon—as well as the pro- - . | gives details.s 3 m i 5 " hibition: of private motoring, has uo'fi’_‘uf"‘“’“‘“mfi’f “';' g SO¥Y taken most cars out of circulation 1| Baw-Hawds EdwardDietze, a Glas- ., g increaged the demand for. horse- AP Feature ervice oiieiy. G A “LORD HAW HAW" ) 1 gow-born « LONDON-—The man who worrie iy AW" { 11 gow-born\ Nazi, who had @ Scotch goowon ™o ec i the British most is neither Hitler ING-- mother and &- German m().u and " preters on the horse cariages nor Stalin but an English-speaking p g \ EILITLER/ / || who commented on Br WS in ik oSbaliag cqll “carozsa” or i radio announcer who broadcasts Englisly grom ¥ Berlin ®tation be- .yoiyrautiek off & bill about equal i each night from Hamburg. Ger- fore the W, i to that of the taxloab on short trips el SRl S frfim)"uv i NOT 50 BAD | ALASKAN | caos i s Coach Bo McMillan advises Indiana Telcphone 713 or write supporters to say e tied witl Minnesota" .when (i re asked how The Alaska Territorial Employment. Service many, and whom the newspapers have dubbed “Lord Haw-Haw.' it is a good bet that 90 per cent of the dials on British radio sets swing o to the Hamburg station each evening—just after the Brit- ish Broadcasting Company's news resume hag been complated—and their manipulators settle down to a quarter-hour of helpless rage and indignation while the announcer’s voice, in faultless but fruity En- glish, purrs on. Hundreds of Jokes The only ammunition yet used Indiana fared in the Big Ten grid- iron race this fall “‘Of course you don’t have to say what we tied for,” he adds, “but it sounds pretty good to say we tied with Minnesota.” (Note: the tie wa for seventh place.) [T — LABORER-DECKHAND—Alaskan native, single, age 27, high school graduate. Experienced in building against him is ridicule. construction, deckhand, fisherman, A song, “Lord Haw-Haw, the | common labor, steam firing. Intel- Humbug of Hamburg,” is s 3 Do PR . lu.ont good worker. Call for ES 3 ' ug of Hamburg,” is sung over 3 o Paderewskl Namcd the B. B. C. with grim determina- es on “the distre J ticn. There has been a bumper crop unemployed. He r fails to v of jokes, too strained to be funny. tion “tthere has been no unemploy- 2} B T | e e o poter: | Studeditib Bl ing Haw-Haw angry. He continues years, indeed there has been a lack Inl: to comment blndly on those vory of skilled workmen.” i- l d T features of Britain that most think- He's Dozens of People !c ! ay omorrow ing Englishment deplore. Recently Alternativ: apons against Haw- | Programs were given in the Juneau he remarked: ‘“The King of Fn Haw are bein issed. One is @ | Grade and High Schools this after- land, a member of the of the wor blackout of sound over Haw-Haw's noon in commemoration of the richest families, gave $101 to the wave length. Another is special |birthday of George Washington and fund which is buying tobacco for British propaganda program in an- shortly after 2 o'clock students the BEF.” swer to his talks, to be sugared with |were dismissed until Friday more. Usuallv his barbs go deeper iJe muic, comedians and songsters. |ing when classes would again be re- has a field day whenever he to hese are hardly necessary because 'sumed | 0 O S - Ernst Bohle Mary Mills \ccording to reports, Adolf Hit- er already has picked his “vice- oy of Britain” to rule if and w~hen Germany wins the war. He s British-born Ernst® Wilhelm Bolhile, 36, pictured’ above. Police continue their investiga- iy . tion of the strangling of Mary Aade from a British contraband trol launch as it set out on'a tour Mills, 34, of South Barre, Mass., £ duty, this photo shows some of the neutral vessels lyitgr at anchor in | )0 was found in the back seat . English harbor, awaiting scarch and seizure of forhidden g00dS. | of'tne car owned by Joseph Dowd. the United States has protested repeatedly against detention of Ameri- | the girl's sweetheart. s and censoring of United States mail. ! s e successhorng | L0GICAL WOMAY OKLAHOMA CITY. Feb. 21 | Roger Rogers, deputy sheriff, knock ‘ed at a door and handed a housewi! |a summons to divorce court “Now who in the world could |be suing me for divorce?” she ex- IOWA CITY, Feb, 21.—Dr. Eddie | Anderson, whose coaching was a majar factor in restoring Towa foot- ball prestige this fall, started his | gridiron tutoring career with an | 3 cray g | kone 33 £ Sor NN, fl"’ PLINTIRG . YERY T RPBSE undefeated team at Columbia mowwd?}m"d ; RN | Loras) college at Dubuque, Ta., in | ‘Must be your husband,” Rogers 1922. Only one touchdown was scor- 1vol‘untee1fld g R _ od against Columbia. Yes, sir, I'll bet that’s just who " did it.” . . | The previous year Anderson cap- 3 Ignace Jan Pade; 3 DRI ST i Eaderewhki ‘ [tained the Notre Dame team that | e 3 Once again Ignace Jan Paderew- | lost only to Towa. | Broccoli is said to have been ski, world-famous pianist, heads ' i A | brought to England from Italy in he Polish government. Paderew- | Empige classyieds pay. 'the 16th century ski, who led his country’s fight ‘ for independence in 1919, has been elected president of the Pol- | ish National Council, the parlia- | ment of the Polish government in exile in Paris. THE EMPIRE PLANT DOES IT BEST! PORTRAIT OF A LANDED GENTRY Honcymoonmg CRAFTSMANSHIP is the word that best expresses the quality of printing work . that we tusn out, and that means complete satisfaction for you. No job iis teo: hig..mor. 400 small for THE EMPIRE Plant to handle. Phone 374 for full information. Patty, Maxene and LaVerne Andrews The singing Andrews sisters of radio and stage, Patty, Maxene and LaVerne, pop into the news as plans are made for Patty, 20, and Maxene, 22, to get married over the protest of their Orthodox Greek bt & Dariit. Falioe higks Iato the Androws’ sperimicat o o Washington Made the Interests anonymous tip that the father waved & pistol while trying to con- o % i of His Fellow-Patriots His Own L3 } vmoe his daughters not to try to harmonize music and marriage. There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising N Wiy i ovmet, NG SHB-SS: | .. . . yet one of the great idols of the common man. George Washington's sacrifices and energies helped moke pos- sible this great democracy. - HODEBN EQUIPMENT . 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