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Picture Y oursel in Nine, Middishade blues— plain, striped, unfinished, her- ringbone; . basketweave, and four navel weaves. Styled with genius, tailored with rare skill —in models for every build and preference. YOU'LL “look pleasant” be- cause Middishade value will prove a pleasant surprise. It’s simply a matter of arithmetic. It takes big people to do big things. For Middishade—the spec- ialized blue suit—is made by America’s large st “sergical specialists. operating on bluc suits only.” Middishade has taken the color that men like best—and brought out all that is best in 1t, MIDDISHADE The Specialized BLUE Suit Your Middishade dealer is in a position to fit every man —even those who usually have a hard time of it. And there’s an honest-to- “goodness guarantee that makes you the judge and jury of sat- isfaction. : “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRIOULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU The W eather (By the U. S, Weather Burean) Forecast for Juneau ana vicinity, beginning at 4 p. m, January 29: Rain tonight and Friddy; fresh southeasterly winds. 2 LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather By ROBBIN COONS 4 pm. yest'y 2943 41 99 s 1 Rain | HOLLYWOOD, Jan, 29. — As 4 am. today 2083 40 83 E 12 Cldy |ihough determine= : t {20 fo g 3 4 e ! Rats, |though determinc= o laugh of P any thought of économic depres- CARLE AND RADIO HERIELS sion for the new year, filmland is YESTERDAY | T TODAY _ planning to launch a new tidal Highest 4pm. | Lowestdam. 4am. Precip. 4am. |wave of comedy in 1931. | - Station— temp. temp. emp. temp. velocity 24 hrs, Weather| When thinks looked pretty dark Barrow .. ~26 ~26 230 -28 o 0 “Olear {in a business way last year the Nome 14 6 -4 0 . 0 Clear | ctudios discovered at about the | Bethel -2 -2 | -6 -4 26 0 Pt Cldy|Same time that the American pub- . Fort Yukon -4 -4 | -4 -4 6 0 Cldy | lic wanted to laugh away its troub- Tanana -4 -8 -8 0 - 02 Clear | les and would pay good money for Fairhanks £5' D 0 10 -10 . Trace Clear | the privilege. So comedy after com- Eagle 8 8 14 2 6 01 Pt cmy}edy rolled from the movie mills, 8t Paul 32 24 18 18 40 0 Cldy | and the majority made money. * ‘Dutch Harbor 36 34 | 32 34 — 44 Cldy| This year they're taking up the ! Kodiak 38 36 TR | e 22 50 Clear | laughter theme with new energy, * “©rodova 44 34 | 32 34 18 64 Snow(and the cinema clowns appear to Juneau 44 11 | 36 40 12 31 Cldy | be at the gateway to their biggest Sitka 46 - R _ 6 Pt.Cldy | boom. tehikan 48 44 4 4 4 104 Cldy ince Rupert 50 48 40 42 4 148 Pt Cldy|Guffaws and Grins 4 42 36 36 4 0 Cldy| The ranks of outstanding come- 66 58 | 46 46 . 0 Foggy | dlans were increased remn.rkablj 64 60 | 44 46 . 0 Clear |In 1930. t .. 64 64 48 48 * 0 Clear| Some of the successes were scor- *_less than 10 miles. |ed by newcomers, but the most im- s —_— | pressive showings were made by | The préssure cohtinues unusually low near the Aleutian Islands|old-timers who were re-discovered. decidedly in the Interior. It is moderately high on the Arc-| The rise of Marie Dressler as }ié codst abd from the Pacific States southwestward. Rain has|comedienne and dramatic actres§ ‘Southerh ‘Alaska and was heavy at Ketchikan and Prince|was a personality feature of the prevails over nearly all other portions of [year, for she achieved at her ad- tures fell on the Bering Seacoast and rose|vanced age a new career of star- Valley, | .with slight change near the Pacliicjdom. Only less interesting was the CONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED Intensive specialization brings you $50 style, $50 needle- work $50 woolens, $50 qual- ity in every respect for $37.50 B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. This full page advtrtisement appears in the January 31st issue of the Saturday Evening Post Look up the Middishade dealer in your town — and look for the Middishade label. Every Middishade is a blue suit—but every blue suit isn’t a Middishade. cdmel&l:k of W}:-llm Beery, who likewise - forged to top billing after a period of decline. El Brendel during the year made his way to stardom, after two years in supporting roles and two pre- vious'years in little miore than bits in silent movies. Teams ‘and Singles Moran and Mack, the “Two Black Crows,” faded from the contract lists, and another black-face team followed suit, but Amos and Andy made a successful dshut, and the Four Marx Brothers repeated their success of 1929. Wheeler- Woolsey team s ned its hold with three features, and is set al retdv for more in 1931 ¢ Joe E. Brown ana Winnie Light- ner, whether playing individually or together, never failed to ring the box. office bell, and both were crowned. as stars during the year. Eddie tor and Leon Errol were important acquisitions from the stage, and among youngsters who progressed exceptionally were Stuart Warren Hymer and “Skeets” Gallagher. —————.—— A total of 84,138 carlot ship- merits of fruits and vegetables was sent from Florida during the 1920 30 season, « medity control measures. Ten years . bacco in 1620 there was a surplus. < /Tobacco became legal }.plan now in use the world over and isome that are still contemplated to| | .| protect tobacco values. y - {Capadian governments to control jwheat 4 “Iported more grain than the official | .|80,000,000 bushels and foreign im- .| forced to consume native grains. ? age ‘and a return to domestic con- HIGHER WORLD PRICES SOUGHT - BY SUGAR PACT | X | * (Continued trom Page One) Eventually the British discovered |they merely had created a £ market for their comp: T | | their own interests suffered When‘} they came back into the markat prices dropped like a plummet. Brazil, under the “coffce v.flurl-" jon" plan, has had similar ex-| ience. When the government in- | uted an export tax and up | chinery for the physical |cf exports, Brazil had practically |the entire world business in coffee. | By clearing all exports through| o Paulo and allowing only | stipulated amount to reach the | port of Santos, the Brazilians were able to feed the market just the quantity it would absorb and prices greatly advanced. mmediately coffee plantations g up all over the back hill and stocks piled up until 1 still has between 16,000,000 | 000,000 bags of coffee she| sell. Controlled By Brazil countries suitable to coffee | re ctarted producing to such extent that Brazil now controls y about two-thirds of the world ustry. | Coffee prices have tumbled and zil is in a maze of credit diffi- ies. A loan recently was obtain- 1 this country. In coffee, it \ the possible break-up of a| Itypical commodity control system { and no one.seems to know what is |gaing to happen. The Australians tried a little dif- ferent °n the country got | so full of butt it had very little |value. The ernment pald an { bounty and put Australian |exports in position to undersell Ithoze of other countries. | Butier Bobs Up Soon Australian butter was |crowding the Canadlan, New Zea- and Europ: of n markets and | it c to the United| inst their sister domin- 1l New Zealand that the Aus- [tralians could not scale. There have been several less im- fportant attempts to control other | commodities, such as the Greek iplan to stabilize the currant indus-| [try and the Yucatan attempt tof icontrol sisal. The American colonial industry ran the gamut {land tobacco | of com- ‘after Virginia started plalting to- teador and ry life of the colony depend- ed;on it. P Economists say that in the 100 years followinz, during which to- J.bacco production and surplus dif- {ficulties spread to other —colonies, ‘the ecarly Americans tried every | Closer. to the moment, the North ! American continent has seen the efforts of the United States and surplus. iy Wheat Dammed Up .. Fhe Canadians dammed up their ‘great flood of wheat in 1929 in an- {ticlpation of beiser prices which | inever came. While they held some to ease the pressure, shipped wheat pntil she had ex- |espimates figured the total crop yield to reach. . Whetr {shall vising engine.r of United Depar | definitely known | than Saturday. His condition i 000,000 bushels off the market g Argentina |1 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE: THURSDAY, JAN. 29, 1931. - 0CCUPANGY OF CAPITOL AWAITS TREASURY WORD Whether Mars};a]l’s Tllness| Affects Moving to Be | Known Friday Treasur ment, fall that necess ertaion,, will the Capitol delay Buildin; unt While the opinion preva federal officials will begin mo into' the new @structure next fermal authorization musy c from Treasury chiefs at Washin: ton, D. C. Mr. Marshall was charged wi the duty of making a final ins) tion of the building this we it complete as to all specifications | of accepting it from the J. P.| Severin Company of Chicago, the| firm that erected it, His acceptance |on behalf of the government wa expected to be announced not later preving but he will be confi St. Ann’s hospital for ten or twel days. | Information relative to Mr. Mar- | shall's illness has been communi- cated to the Treasury Department. Instructions from it as what course chall be pur: in the ecircum- tances are expocted tomorrow. iy Thomasvilie, 7 \ia., poultrymen are planting pestures in rape; Aus-] tralian peas {eed for the egg production. flocks to stimulati are reasonable. and oats as winter| — °|Old Papers for sale at Empire Office Indoor Golf America’s New Winter Pastime Play the game that all America is finding so entertaining ;l.nd so thrilling in keen competition. Tt is competitive from the first shot until a player holes out at the 18th cup. 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The next year the United States started a wheat-holding program | and Russia, which had exported | 6,000,000 bushels the year before, into -the market with close to porting countries bocsted tariffy rates so high their nationals were @oth countries are hopeful of ngling the situation—the Unit-/ Btates by the reéduction of acre- sumption basis—but at the pres- ent their holding programs has resulted in the Canadian wheat pool facing bankruptcy and the Amierican government coming to the rescue of its plan with somaj $118,000,000 in emergency stabiliza= | tion ‘funds. CHIKAN BOWLERS ARE GOOD SPRINTERS If members of the Ketchikan Elks bowling team had shown as much speed in competitive play early this week as they did in catcHing the steamship Queen last hight, the pin smashers that rep- resehted the Juneau Elks in the recent tournament would have been left, so far behind as to be unable to See the leaders at all. _The Queen had whistled a short blast for the taking of the gang- plank aboard, when the Ketchikan bowlers left the Elks Club for the steamship’s wharf, some three or four blocks away. They stepped the distance in nothing flat. They were well aboard with time to spare before the ship cast off her lines. i The sprinters, anxious to return tome, were Peter Zurich, Fred J. Dhepman, Alfred Thibodeau, Em- ) PHONES 83 OR 85 : b THE SANITARY GROCERY “The Store That Pleases”