The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 8, 1935, Page 16

I s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 1935. e e v, U. S. Returning to ““Lap of Luxury”; Demand Is Increasing, Figures Show 1932 1933 1934 1928 1928 © 1930 1931 Fine feathers . . . jewels . . . fast mctor cars . demand attention as the United States loosens its p sends the “luxury market” soaring. The chart shows he cox tion of “luxuries” from 1928 to 1934, inclusive, with thc 1935(ESD rings and | Owl Starts French Forest Fire NICE, France, Nov. 8. — An owl by landing on a high tension wire set ablaze several hundred acres of pine forest in the Magnan Valley. The birds' weight caused one wire to sag against another. Sparks, flying from the short circuit, ig- nited the dry underbrush. The owl was electrocuted. - - Cracow, an ancient of 240 P30 | inhabitants cn the Vistula was Po- {land oronation city for many years. £% W ar of Intellects Breaks in France on Italy’s Tactics === Jules Romaine, Andre Gide and ticial differences between France's intellectual leaders has finally burs:i into flame over the Italio-Ethiopian | conflict. | Members of the French Academy snub each other when they meet. Outstanding persons in the intellec- tual “Who's Who" are calling and beinz called names. First shot in the intellectual war 3 a manifesto, which appeared in | Leon Daudet, Louis Bertrand, Ber- | llization over a few African barbar- consumption for 1935. NEW YORK, Nov. 8—~The Am- erican man again is seeking ways of enhancing the pulchritude and charms of his wife and daughter Prom diamonds to European tou the demand for luxuries is grow- ing. Perfumes and high priced mo- tor cars are also being bought in greater quantities. Sales of rough diamonds from South Africa are running 50 per cent above last year and wholesal2 sales of the gems in the New Yo area - are averaging 15 pe above 1934, In this same area, J 1935, showed an increase of 41 p cent in sales over the June of 1934 Fine Cars Bought | Surveys of previous years have shown that as American income increases a greater jon of it i spent on those ob. ices that bring promine: ap- proval. William H. Lough, author of “High Level Consumption,” says that luxuries fall in these cate- gories. Milady is also casting fond glanc- | es at luxurious automobiles. The| increase in sales of cars of over $3,000 at wholesale is comparable to the large increases in some other luxury fields, it being 13 percent above 1934, the highest level reach- ed in the last four ye! Perfume Dcmand Climbs The woman who chooses the high | priced foreign product to American | perfumes has also expressed her preference both this year and last| In dollars and cents. Imports o{’ this commodity are still below lhose‘ of the first half of 1934, but the six months imports of 1935 are| greater than were those of the en-| tire years of 1932 or '33. | One expensive luxury in which men indulge as much as women is, travel abroad, and travel agencies estimate that it will be 20 to 30| percent better than last year, which | would make this the best year since 1932. - -, Vienna Has Restaurant | for Needy Intellectuals VIENNA, Nov. 8—A homt for in- tellectuals, including a restaurant, ‘where the mind as well as the stom- | ach may be nourished, has made its appearance here. Intended to serve penny- | intellectuals, it provides at a cost| of two cents a day, coffee, tea, bread and butter. As mental fodder, books | and music are available to custo- | mers. When the establishment was op- | ened only 200 of the 700 applicants— | lawyers, physicians, musicians and writers—could be accepted. GENERAL ¢ buil Berliners Raise Rent Anticipating Olympics BERLIN, Nov. 8. — Hou:ehunters S here are findinz that landlords are anticipating the 1938 Olympics by raising rents and preferring leases that expire before next August. Franz Seidte, Minister of Labor, has announced that “unjustified rent increases must be stopped” and that the nment has appropriated 185,000 000 ks to encourage the 1ding of | SPECIAL DELIVERY 1TV DOUG-| S! Daily at 10:00 am. and 2:30 .m. Kelly Blake’s SPECIAL DE- LIVERY—Phone 442. adv, Model 856 1JUST BOUGHT AN Arwater Kent WITH THE NEW METAL TUBES.AND BELIEVE ME ITS THETOP/ | | W.P. Juneau Distributor ELECTRIC Johnson WASHERS are giving comple Over 150 Char ete satisfaction to wnel Residents Join the crowd and do your heavy work the G.-E. way. range from $60.00 to Choose from a full line. Prices $160.00. Sold on Easy Pay Plan Alaska Electric Light and Po JUNEAU—Phone 6 wer Co. DOUGLAS—Phone 18 R Romain Holland led leftists intellec- PARIS, Nov. 8.—Shouidering poli- | the nationalistic “Le Temps” as Ital- tyals in a vitrolic denunciation of They attacked the right group as “fascists,” interpreted | tellectual life. If we did not disagree criticism of sanctions as a move to “junk” the League and “resort to greater the disagreement —perhaps ian planes bombed Aduwa. their fellows. Over the signatures of 44 writers, artists, poets and scientists, including nard Fay and Charles Maurras, the national barbarism.” 4 * leaders of French thougli, and warned of “the suicide of civ- ians.” with a rush of orders. The manifesto was the signal for a split of intellectuals into two groups |—right, nationalist and fiscist | ator has appeared. Paul Castiaux, against left, anti-fiscist and com- Within a week long-standing friend- | condemned sanctions against Italy ships were shattered in arguments over the ‘tables in cafes and pam- phlet printers were snowed under the responsibility of acting as medi- a poet of the left group, met arbi- shrug. “What do you expect?” he said. “Without ditferences there is no in- we would not progress, and the ithe greater the progress.” e Okolona, Miss., has a “Progress Chart” in its city square. Each square on the chart represents a goal and when the goal is reached, the mayor To date no one willing to accept paints the square red. tration suggestions with a Gaelic| Defies Bureau to Collect Club Tax BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 8.—Bri- gadier-General John Philip Hill, former Maryland Congressman, de- fied the Bureau of Internal Reve- nue to collect $30,66 club tax while the NRA organization continued. 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