The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1941, Page 5

v “ LENINGRAD: Has R vEeT— M THE THREE MAJOR OBJECTIVES OF HATLER'S FIRST DRIVE INTO RUSSIA W: Showplace 3 KREMLIN is the term applied to the walled-in central areas com- mon in early Russian citie: In cluded the palace and cathedrals. lins includes Soviet government were cathedrals . BOMB SHELTERS? Moscow has constructed about 30 miles ‘of subways since 1931. Elaborate dec- Moscow under the Czars this in- Today this best known of Krem- buildings and the museums that orations and lighting effects made the subways famous. They may AP FEATURE SERVICE Second to Moscow among Rus- sian cities and the fourth largest in all continental Europe, Lenin- grad has a population of 3,200,000 and - industries that are vital to Russia’s defense. oter the Great founded the city at the beginning of the eight- centh century and called it (after himself) St. Petersburg. He sought to give Russia a capital that would compare with cities of western Eu- rope. 2 The name of the city was changed to Petrograd early in the World War and to. Leningrad after the revolution. In 1016 Leningrad had a popu- | Jation of 2,400,000, but by 1920 the figure had shrunk to less than 725,000 as a result of the revolu- tich end removal of the capital to M A tion, the city has made steady populatien gains. cow. Since Soviet industrializa- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUG. 5, 1941: ] THE UKRAINE Has Wealth _(And Signs of Poverty, Too) the Old ——— of New Russia, and AP FEATURE SERVICE Moscow is larger than Chicago and has been growing faster than Washington, D. C. With a population of 4,000,000, the Soviet capital is more t twice as large as it was 20 years ago. Among cities of the world it ranks sixth, behind London, New Yoik, Tokyo, Paris and Berlin In the Lab: latitude as northern cow s the farth- major world capitals 1d its life is geared to long win- ters when the rivers freeze sol and become roadways for horss drawn sledges. ador, Mc est north of Summer comes to Moscow not in the mild form known to Ber- lin, Paris and London, but with extremes of heat to match the winter cold. In these extremes Moscow climate is comparable to that of the northern plains states of the US.A. On: the ancient trade route be- tween the Baltic and the Caspian, Moscow existed as. far back as 1147. it was the natural center of the ovement which united the feudal Ru:rian states. The city d 2 setback in the early eighteenth century when Peter the Great moved the capital to a site cn the Gulf of Finland, where he built St. Petersburg (Lenin- grad). When the Soviets took the capi- tal back to Moscow, the tradi- tional center of Russian life, they undertook to build a modern city over and around one that had pro- gressed little in the preceding two centuries. New buildings bobbed up among the old. Great areas were cleared to provide for the squares for which modern Moscow is well known. sutf A RURAL SCENE IN THE UKRAINE, where farming is concentrated to such an extent that in its 2 per cent of the area of Russia the Ukraine has one-fifth of all land under cultivation. About the size of Colorado and Wyoming combined, the Ukraine in a normal year produces 200,000,000 bushels of wheat, nearly a fourth the average annual crop in the United States. MODERNISM: In contrast to the Kremlin and other areas of Mos- cow where signs of the past remain, there are many miles of streets that are strictly modern in the Soviet conception of municipal plan- ning. This is Gorky Street, with its trolley buses and automobiles— the Fifth Avenue of Russia. RICH AS THE UKRAINE is pictured in accounts of -its importance to Russian eccnomy, with its run-down dwellings. This is .a street % ' ’ v MAN OF THE UKRAINE: Tdle in Novograd-Volynsk. The Ukraine has minerals as well as soil, R B e i = - teller. ‘A story for a coin. He and iron and steel foundries are among its industries. Hydro-electric INFORMATION BOOTHS — scattered about Moscow — display can stretch his yarn to any power has been developed extensively and electricity is enjoyed on specifications. ' thousands of farms as well as in the cities, , protection. furnish air-raid signs in French, English — and German. Mad s Ups and Downs nthe Past, and Two Changesof Name = THE MOSCOW RAILROAD station and Vosstanie Square in Leningrad. Lavishly laid out, with palac bridges, Leningrad is one of the grand is an important center of Soviet education. The farthest north rail line in the world extends from Leningrad to Murmansk on the Arctic. | Important tool and munitions plants are included in Leningrad’s extensive industries. e £ i 1 i o s PETER THE GREAT pictured his new city as.a “window to look out upon western Europe.” His dream was slow in coming true, because inadequate water connections with the Gulf of Finland were not * remedied until a ship canal was completed in the nineteenth century. Still better connections with the | west were added when the Leningrad-Murmansk railroad was finished in 1916. es, parks, boulevards, canals and places of Russia. Ornate homes of the Czarist era now are museums, hospitals and clubs. The city INDIAN OFFICE | HEADS COMPLETE TRIP T0 NORTH To familarize themselves With the problems and resources of the Eskimos, has been the purpose of a trip which has taken four Indian Affairs officials over the greater | part of Northern Alaska in the last two months. Starting from Juneau on June 10, A..C. Colley, Director of Extension for the Office of Indian Affairs in Washington; L. D, Arnold, Director, of Forestry and Grazing for the seme depaftment; Ls B. Lenzie, Regicnal Porester for the Office of Indian Affairs in the Northwest, and J. N. Cooper, head of the Hus- landry labofatories for the Navajo reschvations “in”the ‘Southwest, - flew- 1o Nome where they started by boaty to the Kuskokwim ebuntry in which they roughed' it for two nwnu?l investigating and reviewing the pro- blems of the Eskimos in the differ- ent towns “There is a marked similarity in the physical characteristics of the Bskimos to that of the Indians of the Southwest,” stated J. N. Cooper who has made this trip his first to Alaska. “Overlooking the living habits of the two peoples which vesult of course from.the différence in climate, the similarity is strik- ing and surprising,” said Cooper . Cooper and Arnold, who arrive in Juneau from the West Sunday, are waiting for Colley and Lenzie to join them here before continu- ing South. —e————— NOTICE Scns .of Norway will meet at the home of H. Aase, 136 Seward St., Wednesday, at 8 p.m. GERTIE OLSON, " Secretary. _ ——————.—— Subscre W ‘the Dally Alaska Empire—the paper with the larges, | pald circulation. adv. stated. They separated at Kodiak on July 6 of this year, it was de- clared, Principal grounds - upon which divorce is asked are incom- patibility. | asked divorce from Raymond Sophy, soP“v Dwou([ now reported to live in Kodiak, in Is BEI“G ASK[D'fio:rotmlrx)‘l-:,“ filed in the Federal | The couple was married in Juneau | Virginia Coke Sophy, of Juneau,!on August 15, 1939, the complaint | Recently there was another quake. water. This time is increased the flow into ‘?{lfi" 1935 there ,w good flow | & reservoir on Oro Fino Gulch about e of ‘water in nearby Guich but | 100,000 gallonsa day. HELENA, Mont., Aug. 2—Earth- |it disappeared almost lmmedlalely] ual ertainly play tricks on the 'aftér:a quake. 'Y DEFENSE BONDS quakes ct ly p~v Iter:a qt ‘_*fi%“ 04 0 5 9 NDS a4 ""_ BRINGING UP FATHER . H - THE AND ET. TH' TRY ERTAINLY. AT— iT's, D TO.BE ALONE WITH springs that supply Helena with | i — BUY DEFENSE STAMPS - By GEORGE McMANUS - NEIGHBOR -1 T JusT TH; 'D SAY-"HELLLO% WHAT'S T TOTAL M?