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SATURDPAY—MONDAY All items below are ~SOTTON HE FHOIT E SETS JANTZEN SWIM SUITS | |: One Third Ofi Regular Price B.M Behrends (Co., Inc. Juneau’s Leadir Automatic Spacer Eliminates Ragged Line educed to :bl.‘,5 fiexdud a8 ifie e fii a screen test, Sonja Menle, 23-year- old Norwegian who has held the world's fancy skating championship for 10 years, was given a five-year contract by a Hollywood movie studio. (Associated Press Photo) ANDBAGS EXPLUSIVES ARE SEIZED INBIG RAL PANTIES Bombs, Gelignite, Fire- arms Confiscated LONDONDERRY, Ireland, July| Explosives, described as' paring were | time, hardly more than a year hen:e ! when he alone will sign de 17, - “enough to seized today spectacular destroy a by the city,” police in Large quantities of gelatine dynamite, gellignite, firearms, were confiscatted. e gnite, three coils fuse loaded revolver Bombs were house of found in -eo - Bermu;la United States partment Store LONDON, Jnl\ 17. - establishment of an air mail and | coming autumn, in Typewriting This istry D The average number of Six Men Ale in Custody-—‘ raid on twelve houses., men were taken into custody. a| He bears himself with simple d am- munition and Irish Republican lit- at authorities said one house had 68 and one-half sticks of geli- and a another Air Serwce Is Planned| Prepara- | tions are under way looking to the and passenger service between Bermuda the United States during the is the an- nouncement made by the Air Min, bacteria ' of YOUNG KING OF EGYPT IS STORM CENTER Sixteen-Year-Old Monarch Inherited, I rouble Thlone, ) CAIRO. Egyptiilwly 17—Lifted to throne at the age of 16 by the th of his father; King Farouk of 3ypt has had a full diet of turbu lent Egyptian poltics placed befo: him The youthful King, still busy with his school books, has become the \prize in a closely veiled stru for power between the Wafed, or na- {ionalist party, and the gourt. | For the Wafd, in power agair after six years, is determined that | Farouk .shall not, as-did King | Puad for a time, become the s | master of Egypt One of the intended Wafd mov it has been indicated, is the ap pointment of a “palace minister | for the purpose, say- enemies of Waid, of gaining control over a young and inexperienced ruler Another plan charged to the Wafd is a law which would make it crim | inal for a minister of state to al the Egyptian constitution of 1923 { This would prevent a minority pai- | tv leader, should such a party gain | power, from abolishing the con | tution and playing at dictator. T | Wafd tried to make King Fuad sign such a law in 1930 but Fuad fused and the Wafd cabinet that day resigned King Farouk relies on a tre- mendous popularity to carry him along until, as full-fledged ruler “Wlll be in a position to make | own decisions. Today the young monarch is pre- himself diligently for the of rees, or- ganize cabinets and conduct state business. nity, a tall, well-built youth, at letic in appearance and manner. A few months ago, lunching with his sisters at Kenry House in London, as a student, he was full of fun and merriment Now, presiding over a luncheon table at which the guests are the three regents and his cabinet min- isters, he smiles only occasionally He is greeted with spontaneous applause whenever he appears in public. His youth, handsome ap- pearance and winning ways count for this. He is genuinely cratic, and will chat with the hum- blest servant in his palace. Education is one of his principal tasks. Professors of economics, his- tory, English, French, Italian are being invited from abroad. The new king is also learning Arabic, Turk- ish and Persian. The general plan his educa carried by®Ahe. common housefly ex- by his father s a million. B N Each Friday at 11 a. m, he drives demo- n was mapped out THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1936. White Suits Step Out to the Country Club White suits are big favorites fer casual occasien: at the country club. These are and wein with colored Ascct printed in cati leather—both bags is linen, brown” paient Exposition. from Koubbeh Palac the bright red motorcar loved s0 well, to a mosque erve the Moslem Sabbath The poor crowd about him at the mosque. On one occasion he ordered grand chamberlain to distribute 0 among these poor, and chided a police officer who ordered his men to keep the crowd back - - ALASKA in his fa to ob- one NURS Miss Elizabeth Rg can Vizard of Ottaw: gers akoard the Car 1 teamer Prince George. Miss Ro- gers is instructor of nurses at the Jivie Hospital in Ottawa, and Miss uperintendent of nurses me institution —————————— SHOP IN JUNEAU! Even If You Can't D R ] N K After One o'Clock Yau Can Still D A N c E ALL NIGHT AT Sergei M. Toman, young Russian immigrant, demonstrates his spacing device to produce typewritten manuscript with even mar- gins on right as well as left. By SAM J/ (Associated Pri STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal July 17—How to make a type- space to produce even margin on the right hand side of the sheet has puzzled inventors for years. A young Russian immigrant here says he has solved the prob- lem. By flipping a little lever on the side of his machine, Serel M Toman now turns out neat columns of typewritten copy resembling those of a newspaper or magazine Gone are the ragged, irregular line endings Toman developed his ¢ der a grant from the University Press, "KSON Staff Writer) vice un- Stanford execut whose ves This demonstration of the new sutomatic spacing device for typewriters is made for Associsted Press by its inventor, s:x-ge: M. Toman. The top speci fexnibits the ragged r ‘margin of ordinary typ while the lower one sho \Toman's device evens n.‘ny. 2 This demomstration of the mew sutomstic spacing device for typemriters is made for The Associated Press by its inventor, Sergei M. Toman. The bop specimen exhibits the ragged right-hand mergin of ordinary typewriting, while the lower ome shows how Mr. Moman's device evens it up.” an immediate use for it in| to-lithogra hic, or offset print- ing, used for cheap reproduction | of reports, scientific treatises and “the like. Simple, He Says How far the spacer will gel o America’s vast volume of business correspondence, Stanford Press ex- | ecutives say, will depend on how | much importance business men at- tach to having their letters look like a printed page. | “The principle of the thing was simple,” Toman says, “and I had to build only about five models! before getting this present one,| which works.” b Production ot evenly aligned type- | writing involves a double process. | The original draft is made on graph paper, which shows at a glance how much each line must be spac- ed out tc ch uniform width. | Inventor a Musician | "or re-copying. an indicator is set at a number, usually from one to seven, corresponding with the number of extra spaces needed in a particular line. The automatic| pacer does the rest, evenly dis-| tributing the cess space through llx« entire line. an says device operates regulating movement of he typewriter carriage and can be| installed on any machine. Twenty-six years old, Toman was born in Russia but has spent most | of his life in Harbin, Manchoukuo, where his father is a civil engin-} cer. He came to America seven ars ago for an education. Al- a trained musician, suys tion is to be his career. the the e - MRS. ORME ENTERTAINS Mrs. James Orme is giving a tea | tomorrow afternoon to afford her Juneau - friends an opportunity to | meet Mrs. Olga Weiss, aunt of Mr. | Orme, who is visiting here from | California with Mrs. Grant Bald-| win, MIKE'S DREAMLAND BEST OF M R e e e RN uUsIcC! searfs brand inspired and Panama hats. design; the other by the Texas ¢ BOMBER PLANE made of spun rayon suiting, tailored on trim lines One of the s “saddle entennial CONTRACT LET WASHINGTON, July 17 Navy Department has 4,898,000 contract for 50 trol bomber planes lated Aircraft Corporat Diego, Cal > REALTGR MAKES Arthur E. Hoagland Bakersfield, Cal., his son, Kenneth W. a round trip Prince Robert re passenger - o SHOP IN JUNEAU! e £ g - Dreamland IN DOUGLAS | AFTER 1 A. M. for a nominal charge of 25¢ on Week Nights and for 50c. on Saturdays and Holidays, you can dance and make merry all night long at CHICKEN DINNERS, as well as a variety of Delicious SANDWICHES, can be had at all hours. "BEST OF FOOD! An All Niqh_t Dancing Palace! VPB TRIP altor accompanied Hoagland. on The warded pa to the Consoli- n of San of by is U. S. DEPARTMENY OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAT? THE WEATHER (By the U. 3. Weather Bureau) Fon-cu‘ for Juneau aud vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., July 17: Partly clondy tonight and Saturday; light to moderate variable winds, mostly easterly. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Veloelty 29.92 7 35 sw B 29.99 52 86 SwW 2 30.05 69 44 E] 7 CABLE AND IADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4pm. | 4a.m. Preclp. 4am wmp temp. | “elocity 24hrs. Weath: 0 Time 4 pm 4 am Ncon Weathet Clear Pt. Cidy Clear today today Lowest4a.m. temp. temp. 42 a2 52 50 50 48 42 42 Station Barrow Nome Bethel Fiirbanks Dawson St. . Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan 48 10 02 Cldy 54 4 0 Cidy 50 0 0 Cleax 50 0 0 Cl ' 50 Trace Cldy 44 01 Cldy 42 Trace Pt. Oldy 60 0 Clear Trace Clear Pt. Cldy 70 Pt.i Cldy Pt. Cldy cldy Cldy Pt. Oldy Cldy Clear Clear 80 30 84 66 84 88 66 WEATHER CONPATIONS AT 8 A. M. partly cloudy, temperature, Craig, cloudy, Wrangell, partly cloudy, 61; Sitka, cloudy, Soapstone Point, cloudy; Juneau, cloudy, 57; Skagway, cloudy, 58; y cloudy, 60; Cordova, clear, 61 clear, 62; clear, 58; Portage, clear, 53; Anch- 61; Fairha clear, Nenana, ¢ 2; Hot Spring nana, partly cloudy, Ruby, 56; Nulato, 50; cloudy, 58; Crooked Creek Flat, partly cloudy, 58 WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometric pressure has risen during throughout Alaska, the pressure being high MacKenzie River southwestward t> Midway 3040 inches. Low pressure prevailed ward to the Hawailan Islands, thz lowest reported pressure being 29.60 inches over the ocean about 1000 mile west of Vancouver Island. This general pressure distribution has been attended by ers over portions of the upper Yukon and MacKenzie valle by fair weather over the remainder of the field of observation. SA attle Portland San Francisco New York Washington cornmnnnn | nbrabn Ketchikan, 61; part- Yakutat, McCarthy, 58 partly Chitina clear, , 60; T cloud Kaltag cloudy, 60 the past 12 from the mouth Island, the cre: m the Gulf of Al hours of the being south- This is an economy measure, for none of the cars shows extended mileage and the king is said to have concluded that it would be extrava- gant vo buy a new vehicle each year. {Lipstick Compartment | in King Zog’s Automobile VIENNA, July 17—A compartment {for lip sticks and manicure |has been built here into a special body constructed for a long, low | limousine belonging to King Zog of | A!l):\l)lzl The king, who sometimes com- y!l..ms that he has “too many auto- {mobiles and too few roads,” sends cne of his three cars to Vienna each fall and through the winter skilled workmen construct a new body, fol- lowing the king’s own specifications. — e, SERVICES Hiiu TOR INFANT Funeral services ror 16-day o.d Anastasia Baroumes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Baroumes of Douglas, who died at 8 o'clock last evening, were held at the Carter Mortuary Chapel at 1 o'clock today with Rev. 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