The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 23, 1940, Page 2

6H 2 THE W (By the U. S. Forecast for Juneau znd vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Feb. 23: Fair ar tonight Forecast for perature ionight becoming easterly er Forecast of wiuas Moderate to fresh east 10 no Gulf of Alaska from Dixon Enti day Humidity Wind Veloc 3:30 pm 3:30 a.m. tod Neon teday 30.10 Max. tempt last 24 hours 40 35 St Dutch Keodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketehikan Seaitle Portland 52 San Francisco Harbor nd Saturday; lowest temperature rate nortk rly winds. : Fair ith little change in tem- aturday; moder to fresh northerly wind the southern portion Saturday along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska vheast winds along the coast of the ance to Kodiak tonight and Satur- LOCAL DATA r Time Barometer ‘1emp. 32 8 NNE 17 Clear 25 23 NE 18 Clear 24 25 ENE 10 Clear RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Lowest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:30am temp temp. 24 hours Weather 37 37 30 Pt. Cldy 10 12 0 Clear -18 -6 0 Cloudy 25 28 0 Pt. Cldy 13 15 0 Clear -22 -17 0 Clear 33 34 03 Rain 40 41 56 Rain 31 32 0 Clear 30 31 0 OClear 21 25 0 Clear 25 0 28 28 o Clear 39 41 12 Rain 41 42 0 Cloudy 53 53 09 Rain | WEATHER SYNOPSIS Alaska and Yukon Territory, with High pressure persisted over centered off the re area F winds over that section. The remained nearly stationary, with p inches centered this mor Fair weather continued over most of Southeast Alaska and the In-| terior, with cloudy weather and scme light precipitation persisting over the itians and the extreme western portion of Alaska Temperatures were slightly lower over the Interior and Southeast Al-| ska this 1 ing. junczu, Feb. 24—Sunrise 7:1 FORTUKA LEDGE JUKEAY VISITOR Hunter Recently Complet- ed Census Taking in Big Northland Precinct H. R. Hunter, Pestiaster of For- e extending southward over the Gulf of Alaska ing was causing cloudiness with light rain and fresh southeaSterly | U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU ‘EATHER Weather Bureau) A weak low coast of Vancouver Island this morn- | intense western disturbance has| the lowest reported pressure of niag about 300 miles south of Atka.! D S~ 7Rursrsriai Speed; V Cdnal System White Sea-Baltic canal connects the two seas through Lake Onega and the Neva river. ‘ ES A, % & Work' under way near 5 Rybinsk will create lake to regulate Up- per Volga and connect navigable routes as shown. Project includes system being recon- two. n structed in connec- jon with plans to make the Upper Vol- ga navigable at all times by means of lake at Rybinsk. 2,700-square-mile lake to be created here by Kuybishev dam as part of project to shorten Samara loop, raise level of Volga 105 feet. power plant planned. Moscow-Volga canal opened to traffic in 1937 makes Moscow a Volga port and with other canals and wa- Wartime Russia is going full speed ahead on an imland waterway program designed to make Moscow a port of five seas by 1945. Begun in peacetime, the project will have a direct bearing on the wars iif they continue. For its completion will enable sea-going vessels to travel through the heart of Russia. Thus the system will make it possible to divert fens of thousands of tons of freight from Russia’s over-taxed 1 am,, sunset 5:17 p.m. H IMUSIC RACKET CASE COMING BEFORE COURT Montana Won't Put Up with Extra Charges for Use of Music, Shows Feb, 23 MISSOULA, Mont,, ) spending a few days e tuna Ledge, is spending W CaYS | suthorities have telegraphed an ar- in Juneau enroute -Outvide Irom his Lower Yukon home Hunter, the father oi Mrs. Wil liam Odell (Fortuna Hunter) of Ju- neau, recently completed faking the census in the Wade Hampton b cinet, an area larger (han four states in the East, which he cov 1 en- tirely by dog sled and in which he counted 1,836 persons outside of the missions, which were enumerated separately. 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ASK FOR FREE BOOK Giyes full detsils and 100AY JOR FREE B0 witou ‘ fo complerc iaformytion 00K » i IsRevealed & Not German rest warrant to Phoenix, Ariz, for President Gene Buck of the Ameri- can Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. The warrant charges Buck with attempted extortion and conspiracy to -extort; Montana radio stations and theaters signed the complaint, claiming that Buck and other |ASCAP. officers threatened to revoke their licenses to play music owned by the society unless certain monies were paid. Service of similar warrants in the case were refused recently by New York authorities. Mystery of - Spirifism | AP Feature Service | sAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb. 23—A public .exhibition of old metal cross- es has direeted atfention to a mys- tery of spiritism and buried treas- ure of the Oalifernia mountains. The objects were dug up between 1914 and 1924 af various locations between San Luis Rey and Bakers- | field at locations specified by a| Mrs. Parent, now dead. Mrs. Pwrent claimed clairvoyant | powers and directed neighbors to more than 100 locations where she said buried treasure existed. The search attracted the attention of the writer Hamlin Garland, who made an investigation. He says that participants related finding gold coins and currency valued at about $10,000, in addition to values in silver in the crosses themselves. Though one expert says the crosses are of modern manufacture, others see them as relics dating back hundreds of years. - - 'come here, those Nazi mapmakers, railways, freeing thousands of cars for military freight. This map shows how new projects will tie up with canals already built, con- necting Moscow indirectly with the Caspian, White, Baltic, Azov and Black seas. Included in the plans are huge dams and power plants which will provide for an annual electrical output of sixty-billion kilowatt-hours, as well as irrigation for the vast fertile, but drought- stricken, Volga steppes Switzerland in that group. To drive theé point home the at- las states thab “there are three mil- lion Germans living in Switzerland. The Swiss objected, in their news- papers and by word of mouth, to being called Germans. “Let them Oil Takes Fire af Alaska Arc Welders Lubricating oil warming besides let them come and listen to what | a stove this afternoon, caught we think and they’ll learn we're land gutted the roof of the Al Swiss, not German,” said the Zurich Arc Welders building mear Kecny's Volksrecht, a German language Float. newspaper. Firemen, called out shortly be- | - e — | fore 4 o'clock, quickly turned heavy i (4 )water on the flames and put the Gilbert Pa‘’ -~ wno wrote the yiop gown, but a re-roofing job “Frank Merriwel.” stories of dime | apparently in order. novel days, received six dollars 4 s o for his first two short stories. | Empire want Ads Bring Results. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, FEB. 23, 1940. NEW SUPT. FOR News-Miner several years ago. A guest at the Baranof Hotel, McPherson will spend a few days 'GUERIN RETURNS FROM TRIP OUT‘Seeks Higher Pay pOlARB_TAKU ) Juneau getting acquainted be- y o 5ot e e wia| okey cumin, young sunens| EVEN @S Prisoner ill join him in a few weeks. | man who has been Outside since ARR!VES IODAY E o early in January, returned on the| MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Feb. 23 MAHON RETURN | Princess Louise today. Marvin O. Griffin, twenty - tw . y Marshal and Mrs, William| Guerin traveled from Seattle to|Yie¥ed his prison term with a bus- nk McPherson, new Superin- T Mah pabirniBd oo the Norths | Bt Louls, ub through Hinols. i |o g ae ove, Whetl his caue Up, tar tendent for the Polaris-Taku mine, Jang t from a round frip to the lake states before turning| Sicnce on a burglary charge. arrived in Juneau this morning on Sitka. homeward. »HP asked the Judge to commit the amer Princess Louise. Bl e EHO PN lulm. not to the state r(]*lummmz- McPherson is replacing B. B. o | R where prisoners earn only 6 cents Nieding, who is {“],,,,.h., f‘nm Yo B z »Km})p ,“RE | GOING SOUTH a day, but to the state penitentiary t 1o sshe sSHates desause 1of: JHis 'Tl norning’s 4-8 fire alarm cal Mrs. Amelia Perez is a p where they earn 50 cents a day health oo to Charles Lang's ger aboard the Northland from Sit-| The Judge pronounced sentence The new superintendent comes 'Bl:‘lL(AX“y g”;: S:"Hht‘u;[ ka | ka for Seattle on a visit —up to five years in the peniten- ilding to extinguis Inor -y from Butte, Montona, where he roof plaze e Somi | e 2 | iy, has been with Basin-Montana, a - St te. HESBURG Fe A i P . o O Eddie Nelson took passage on the Amo i o lead-zinch operation. Last sum- Empire classifieds bring results | Northland for pml.,-:bu,-g bwecmsflgmd‘::edar;]c‘:i)::v T mer, McPherson was in charge of Nome. 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