Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Wednesday, June 26, 1946
Forecast and weather report for
Nome and vicinity:
Rain tonight and Thursday,
with fresh southeasterly winds.
Lowest temperature tonight 45.
Highest temperature Thursday
l 50.
Nome data as of 8:30 a.m. to
day:
Precipitation last 24 hours a
trace.
Total precipitation this month
2.38.
Temperatures last 24 hours,
Highest 52. Low'est 45.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
16 mph from the East.
Sunrise 1:23 a.m. Sunset 10:47
p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: Highest 42, Lowest 37.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907:
Lowest 29 in 1918.
Highest 75 in 1911.
Data for other selected stations
as of 8:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 32 Cloudy
Kotzebue 56 Cloudy
Shishmaref 39 Cloudy
Wales 50 Cloudy
Gambell 38 Cloudy
Nome 52 Rain
White Mt. 52 Cloudy
Unalakleet 58 Cloudy
Bethel 53 Partly cloudy
McGrath 61 Cloudy
Anchorage 60 Cloudy
Fairbanks 64 Cloudy
Juneau 59 Cloudy
Whitehorse 62 Cloudy
Ketchikan 54 Rain
Edmonton 53 Cloudy
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his fingers solid by dipping them
in liquid air.
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Hoover Reports
FBI Activities For
1945 Fiscal Year
CHICAGO, June 26. —All of the
! 18 kidnappings which occurred
j in the United States during the
I fiscal year 1945 were solved, re
sulting in 34 convictions, accord
' ing to a report prepared by J.
I Edgar Hoover, director of the
I Federal Bureau of Investigation,
j for the 1946 Encyclopaedia Brit
! annica Book of the Year. From
i the enactment of the Federal Kid
j napping Statute in 1932, to the
| close of the 1945 fiscal year, 277
out of 279 kidnapping cases in
vestigated by the FBI were solved
and the remaining two cases were
still under active investigation, the
FBI chief says.
A total of 97,497,563 fingerprint
cards were on file in the FBI’s
identification division by the end
! of the fiscal year 1945, Hoover
i points out. A special war cas
ualty file, containing 163,500 fin
gerprints, was used to identify
unknown deceased casualties for
the War Department, according
to his Book of the Year report.
Of 829 requests from the War De
partment the FBI was able to id
entify 531.
Selected for special handling,
140,660 single fingerprints repres
enting the records of 14,066 crim
inals believed to be outstanding
gangsters, extortionists kidnappers,
bank robbers and fraudulent check
writers, were on file in the bur
ea’s single fingerprint division.
Hoover says.
Cases investigated by the FBI
in its war against crime during
the fiscal year 1945 resulted in
13,813 convictions, the Britannica
j Book of the Year reports. Only
! one death sentence and six life
sentences were pronounced as a
result of these convictions, but
imprisonment sentences totaled
31,962 years, four months and six
days, according to Hoover’s sta
tistics.
He reveals that 96.9 per cent
of the persons brought to trial by
the FBI were convicted. Fines,
savings and recoveries brought a
bout by the FBI amounted to $16,
534,436.
During the fiscal year 1945, the
FBI and co-operating law enforce- j
ment agencies took into custody
5,090 Selective Service fugitives.
Three thousand ninety-three were
convicted on Selective Service
charges, according to Hoover’s
Book of the Year article. There
were 974 convictions for illegal
wearing of the uniform, and the
number of violations of this type
rose 40 percent in the fiscal year
1945 compared with 1944, Hoov
er discloses.
FBI statistics show that 7,892
stolen automobiles valued at $6,
$)2,439 were recovered by the
bureau and 2,418 car thieves were
convicted. Investigations under
the White Slave Traffic Act re
sulted in 338 convictions, accord
ing to Hoover. Of 1,607 prison
ers of war who escaped during
the 1945 fiscal year, only 22 were
still at large on June 30, 1945,
Hoover states.
Among other convictions re
ported by the FBI chief in his
article are 215 for violating the
Servicemen’s Dependents Allow
ance Act of 1942, 334 for war
frauds, 62 for extortion and 139
for embezzlement by bank em
ployees or officials. More than
twice as many hijackers were con
victed than in 1944, totaling 1,426.
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