The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 22, 1934, Page 2

Womer’s Winter COATS FUR COLLAR and SLEEVE Y TRIM Regular $35.00 Values Now $16.75 ALL CHILDREN'S COATS—HALF PRICE Wool Skits . ... Men’s Overcoats ....... Fleece Lined Mitts ..... Women’s Men’s All-Wool Toques ....,.. .$.195 11.75 1.50 1.25 chgee. Children’s Fleece Lined Ledther Mitts and; GIONEE iute ios wisissaittima. s Women’s Silk and Wool Hose ......... Women’s Children’s M. Behrends Juneau’s Leading Department Store 125 125 s Silk and Wool Underwear, suit Silk and Wool Underwear, suit Women Holp Write Htstory of 1933 n “Buying” Drive A gamst Depresswn By SIGRID ARNE | 100 22 WASHINGTON, Jan. 22— Women moved into a position greater | importance in the national m chinery last year, women le: believe, due to the cumstances in the drive 3 depression. “Women showed civic consciousness 1 ulous,” says Mrs. Poole, president Federation of Women's an realized they are an imp in the national machin swung into action rapi the NRA program Wemen Can Control “In most Tities it was the wom- cn’s clubs that S pledges to buy with 1 The drive made the through their control of bugdget, they can also co large part, the econam:r the nation. “In many of the rural mmm'xm kept the schools open t sheer determination. In turing cities they banded t to give the unemploy:d wo study for their enforced leisur From her office at the Consum- | ers’ Advisory Board, another wom-! an leader, Emily Newell Blair, for-| mer vice-préSident of the National) atch- | Democratic Party, has been ing the turn of events w ing of enthusiatm co place of women in picture. “For the first time the woman's wviewpoint has been written into pattern of industrial econom: she says. “The old philosophy W ‘completel; s pattern, built on the x:yofl: ::‘:;ve e {in factories, and women returning | ‘«Now women have a chanc:, both to the payrolls stand out as high executives and as a buying force, spots in 1933 when the past year| see that some emphasis is placed is considered by Secretary Fran- and human welfare, | CeS Perkins, of labor, who was h“r-. »y united as the ‘new deal’ un- self a ‘high spot’ in the ye for example, to insist on|cvents when she entered the cah d t.h-t would write the|net. shop out of the American (AN [FES JMARJAPR | [SePLOCTINOV JOEC | Holding the strings to the family budget, and proving thelr worth in executive positions, wemen became a more positive force in national affairs during 1933, their leaders assert. Progress of the “woman's viewpoint” was seen in the moves toward abolition of child labor. AR, AND MRS. J. J. MEHERIN RETURN FROM SITKA SUNDAY Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Meherin 7ye- turned to Juneau yesterday from a |round trip to Sitka on the motor- ship Northiand. Mr. Meherin, mer- | chandise broker, and, representative ‘of Hills Brothers coffee, has eom- pleted a business tour of the cities of Southeast Alaska. ——— (Contiwued on Page Two) E. B. FOWNSLEY ASSUMES MANAGEMENT OF SHOE DEPARTMENT OF LEADER E. B. Townsley, who today as- sumed the management of the Leader Department Store Shoe De- partment, has announced several changes in his department, includ- ing, a separate fitting room for ladies’ footwear and one for men and boys. Mr. Townsley, who succeads Charles Devlin, has had many years experience as department head of leading Eastern Washing- ton rurnls{mu stores. G. E. KRAUSE u:Avas POR PETERSBURG ON 10-RAY BUSINESS TRIP Ta be gone for a week or ten W‘\ G., E: Krause, Juneau con- tractor, left for Petersburg on the motorghip Northland. Mr. Krause, who will ‘supervise alterations on the bake oven of @ Petersburg bak- ery, is accompanied by Knute Tron- stad, who wil lassist in the altcra- tgn, york, w&m's'mocnulc cLus 'DISCUSSED AT AT MERTING SAT. f Tq discuss the formation of a Women's Democratic Club in Ju- neau, several women members of thet party et informally on Sat- urday, evening at the residence of Mrs. Robert Coughlin. A general call to all women in- terested in such an organization will be issued for a meeting tenta- tively set for January 29, to be held in the Council Chambers of the City , Hgll, 2 ——— A. VAN MAVERN RETURNS FROM ROUND TRIP, SITKA A. Van Mavern returned to his Juneau headquarters from a round trip to Sitka on the motorship Northland, Sunday. Mr. Van Mav- ern made the trip on business in connection with the West Coast Grocery and other accounts which e CHET JOHNSON ARRIVES # FROM BUSINESS TIRIP Chet Johnson, representative of the National Grocery, is in Juneau after completing a business trip' 4o cities of Southeast Alaska. b BY U. S. HOUSE |Lower Sect-ioT-of Congress | Passes Bill by Overwhelm- | ing Vote of 360 to 40 (Contin:ed Trvin Page One) Idelay in view of the move of the | silver bloc to attempt to amend {the bill' to aid in rehabilitating | the white metal. | 60 Cents Is Limit Specifically the measure proposes | four things—it would give the | Treasury title to all the Nation’s |monetary stock, including that of the Federal Reserve banks; fix the ‘60 per cent of the dollar's pres- ent gold content as the upper lim- | it of the old value of the dollar | |after devaluation; equip the Ad- | ministration with a fund of two| billion dollars to be used in the purchase of foreign exchange and |other commercial items for the pur- | pose of stabilizing the foreign value | of the dollar, and Iorgo the ' DEVAI.UATII]N UF ' DOLLAR BACKED - scope of the Treasury with author- ssuance’ of. the flotation of ment securities to simplify huge financing task that 119» SENATE COMMITTEE MAY ALTER WASHINGTON, Jan ~A drive | within the closely divided Senate | Banking Committee to alter the devaluation bill is disclosed despite pleas from the Administration thav‘ the measure be enacted unchanged to a hairline. The committee voted on the pro-| al to limit operation of the two| 7 dollar stabilization fund to| , 1935. MEASURE It is authoritatively forecast that an effort will be made by the committee to also limit the powers. of the big fund. Senate Democratic leaders con- ceded there will be many fights over proposed amendments when the measure reaches the floor but they asserted they have sufficient votes to shoot the measure through although perhaps, not by the sameo ratio as in the House. TR 3 R ATTENTION MASONS Stated Communication Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock, Masonic Temple. Balloting. Probably De- gree Work. By order of W. M. J. W. LEIVERS, Secretnry —"d\ MYSTERY NOTE, ' BREMER KIDNAP | | Authorities Believe Bank- er Alive — Trying to Contact Abductors (Continued from 2age Ome) to start werrying until Sunday or| Monday.” Release ‘Well authen' Was Expected icated sources, who CASE, IS HOAX JAPANESE WAR MINISTER HAS STEPPED DOWN General Araki - Resi gns Position — General Hayashi Successor TOKYO, Jan. 22, — Gen Sadao Araki;. who in the eyes of the {world 'is the .personified militant spirit with - which Japanese have been. imbued during the last two declined to be ‘guoted, indicated ac-, years, has remned as Minister tual contact with the young bank-|of War. er’s abductors might be made last Saturday night or sometime Sun- day with his release expected soon after in Minneapolis or near that city. The authorities, after looking at the mystery note from all angles, that cided it was a hoax. e W w— A gavel made from a branch of | the General Sherman tree in Se- quoia National Park, California, has been placed in the musuem of the Warm Springs Foundation at | | warm Springs, Ga. Gen. Sanjuro Hayashi succeeds | Gen. Araki. Gen. Araki i§ bedridden. | —————————— | WALLIS S. GEORGE RETURNS FROM ROUND TRIP TO SITKA Bremer had been killed, de-| Wallis S. George, President and | General Manager of the Juneau Cold Storge Company, returned yesterday from a tound trip to Sitka on the motorship Northland, Mr. George made the trip on busi- ness in connection with his com- | pany. IllllllllllmlllllllIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIfllIImllllmmMNWWWIIIIHIIIIMIHIIIIIIIIIIIflHIIIHIIflm‘IHIIIIIII‘IIIAIIIIHIfllH [T gmmmmmmlmulmmlmmmmlmflnmnmmmmmmmlm||||m|m Whether they buy YOUR product or SOMEBODY ELSE’S depen YOUR choice of a PRINT- ED Salesman. 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