WEEKLY ’WEATHER REPORT
FOR PERIOD MAY 24 TO MAY 30 INCLUSIVE
MaTANUSKA VALLEY
STATION
OBSERVER
Date
Max.
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Min.
Temp,
Total
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Matanuaka Exp.Station
Mary Ebert
25
65
28
35
.14
Butte
Irving Newville
26
J?JL
66
.35.
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Matanuaka
Mrs. Lee Marshall
TT
TF
.02
Palmer
Max Sherrod
28
TT
33
tst
.06
Anchorage Weather Bureau
28
33
.03
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(Rosa.Continued from page 2).
fruits that can be produced by Alaska
farmers and made available for the thous
ands of defense workers and armed forces
in the Territory will make that much more
shipping space available for military use.
"Farmers should make every effort to
produce those foods which require a mini
mum of outside feed or supplies that must
bo shipped.
"Secretary ffickard has requested the
Farm Security Administration to make fac
ilities of its agency available to all
Alaska farmers so that no stone would be
left unturned in securing the maximum
production of important foods with Alaska's
present land and farm rosources.
"Special war loans for food production
will be made to all Qualified Alaska farm
ers or part-time farmers who can increase
food production for family use or market,
l "Preliminary surveys indicate that many
\ farmers lack adequate credit for livestock,
J feed, seed, equipment and storage necessary
I for full utilization of their land resour
ces and experience for food production.
"It behooves every farmer, who has not
now adequate storage facilities, to see
j^that his croos are properly stored if nec
essary. In most cases the farm can sup
ply all necessary materials for a satis
factory storehouse."
Applications for Farm Security food
loans nay be made by writing to Farm Se
verity Administration, Anchorage, Alaska.
Attorney General Biddle, on May 28, or
dered the deportation of Harry Bridges in
a ruling reversing the board of immigration
appeals which canceled the proceedings of
January 3.
He ruled on two major point si
(l)-that the Communist party advocates the
overthrow of government by force and viol
ence, and (2)- that Bridges is a member of
such organization.
BUY VICTORY STAMPS AT THE TRADING POST AND
GENERAL OFFICE.
Al Jolson, Hammy singer and famous
comedian of stage and screen, arrives at
Fort Richardson this week and will visit
all other posts of the Alaska Defense
Command. He v/ill entertain the soldiers
as did Joe S. Brown when ho visited the
Territory last winter. He has an accom
panist v/ith him.
For the first time in the history of
the United States, women enrolled at reg
ular army recruiting offices on Hay 27.
The response was tremendous. Lines
in front of recruiting stations were
blocks long all during the day. 7/omen
for officers' commissions will be selected
from the first candidates and sent to
the various training schools.
- - -
Roy A. Gotineff, 47, was Killed Hay 27
while working in a tunnel under construct
ion on the Alaska railroad Portage Bay
cut-off.
"Lucky" Baldwin, pioneer Anchorage gro
ceryman, 78 years old, who has lived in
the Territory since 1898, died last week
in Anchorage.
Mrs. J. II. Collins, one of the owners
of Evan Jones coal nine, diod last ,/ednes
day in Seattle. She spent two months in
Anchorage last summer.
Major James Doolittle, who commanded
the American fliers who dropped the first
consignment of bombs on Tokyo, Yokohama,
and Kobe, was an enterprising youngster
who sold newspapers on the streets of Nome
40 years ago. With his parents he moved
to the States in 1910.
"I beg your pardon, sir," said the bonk
teller, "but what is your name?
"My naaeJ" howled the customer."Cah't
you see my signature on the deposit .slip?"
"Well, sir, that aroused my curiosity."