The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1936, Page 2

GIRLS’ COATS Plaids and Swagger Checks 5 i Sizes 2 to 16 Sizes 2 to 12 Sizes 6 to 16 GIRLS’ SWEATERS Priced from $1.00 up Reasonably Priced at Moderate Prices. $AVE ON $EPTEMBER $PECIALS chcol Clot Some with Caps to Match! Belted—Semi-Belted Priced from $4.75 to $12.75 BLUE CHINCHILLA COATS Some with Berets and Leggings Priced from $4.50 to $5.95 GIRLS’ SKIRTS—$2.50 each Long and Short Sleeve Slip-Ons GIRLS’ COAT SWEATERS GIRL'S TWIN SWEATERS Complete showing of CHILDREN'S STOCKINGS and UNDERWEAR B. M. Behrends Co. Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store*’ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY SEPT. 9, 1936. i, T es = I SRR 000 A SPANISH REBEL BOAT DESTROYED the rebel ship “Dato” and destroyed it. Here, picture was smuggled into Gibraltar and forwarded to London. Long Ta;x Paymg Pull Ahead Before Public Debt Is Paid| mates were blurred by invalidation of the half billion dollar processing taxes and enactment of the 1936 aimed to make up the loss. re either of these events, h the Administration esumated itures would be trimmed to 606,000, or about a billion dol- | over estimated receipts. The iwo-billion-dollar bonus payment not included in that estimate WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—FEager- ly as the general public may have accepted Secretary Morgenthau's statement that no new taxes would be necessary next year, Treasury experts are not blind to the long pull ahead if the public debt is to be reduced. Here is an approximate picture of the debt. wa, On June 30 this year the gross Since the bonus will not recur| debt was $33773543,000, which| (at least for a year or two), thi scales down to $31,097,033,000 when | appears to put the” Treasury within cash on hand is deduct swelling because expendi tinue to exceced revenues In 1935, the last year in which actual receipts and disbursements are recorded (1936 and 1937 figures involve many estimates) the Treas- ury reported receipts of $3,800,467,- 000. Expenditures, general and This is es con- approximately a billion dollars of | balancing. If so, then.is it possible increas-! ing revenues due to prosperity will permit a balanced budget by 1938 or 1939? WAR DEBT DOWN IN 10 YEARS The President says epecial, fotaled $7375825,000, leav- , [0 PreSoent savs fax revelpts ing an excess of expenditures over y.n.. pow fast he says. may be receipts of $3,575,357,000. Such an B swells the public debt. estimated in a short time. Before debt retirement can be- gin, tk nnual lag between income and ou SPENDING EXCEEDS INCOME For the fiscal year 1936 ending last June 30, the Treasury estimated the excess expenditures would be $8,284,507,000, or roughly a third of opmhlla- than' for-1835. Expen- 3 were put at $7,645,301,000. 1937 (present) fiscal em-l , must be taken up and enough excess of revenue piled up to begin paying off the old bills. How fast can debt be retired once the lag is taken up? The debt after the war was $25,- In a surprise attack the Spanish government battleship “Jaime Primero” the commander of the Dato is inspecting the twisted wreck- age before leaving his ship for the last time as it lay half submerged in the harbor at M eciras. This (Associated Press P 0, whether it be one billion' 478,592,000 on August 31, 1919. In $300, BY LOYAL SHIP - opened fire at close range on oto) a little more than ten: years a bit| more than ten billion: dollars (uo.-‘ 759,308,000) was knocked off, a bil-| lion a year average. { To repeat that feat will require presumably a like perjod: of? pros- verity—and taxess Former Screen Star to Be Repaid Money Lost byEmbezzlement LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept: 9.4« Leslie Henry, former Pasadena civ- ic leader, has been ordered to repay $116,532 to Mary Miles' Minter, for- mer wellknown film star, her moth- _ Wl" A mmuulmmmum' i | serviee. i nia. I_lI~I|WI|I|IIII|IIIIIIIIII|IIHIIIIIIII'HIIIIIIIIIlflllllIIIIII|I|I|IIIIINIIIIdIHHIINI|IIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIl||III||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIgTms"fljss HAT ‘VISITS: | JUNE AU NOW World's Most Traveled Hat Is Here Enroute to | Nome by Air ‘ Ghmaxm; six months of world | : =={travel, “Wickie” came to Juneau! =|yesterday aboard the steamer Yu- | kon enroute to Nome and will visit in the Capital’ City' until the flight'| of the PAA Eleotra- to Fairbanks | next week. | “Wickie,” a 17 year old green stet- | son hat, was released to follow the’ urge’ of its gypsy blood in April of this year with the following identi- fication tag: “This hat used to belong to Wick- ey, express handler at St. Louis, 'Missouri, who retired on April 30, 1936. He wore this hat for 17 years while employed by Wells Fargo and American. Railway Express and. the Railway Express Agency. Give it a good ride.” Buried by Souvenirs The idea caught on and air lin2 offiolals and other travel agencies have futthered the plan. of the St. ‘Louis raillroad man, who, unable to ‘make a long-dreamed-of journey jaround the world sent his hat in- stead. Now almost buried beneath the travel labels, souvenirs, and ex- pressions of bon voyage in a variety of foreign. languages, “Wickle” claims the title of the world's most traveled fedora, It has cross- ed' the Atlantic on the dirigible Hin- denburg, and has as a memento of that trip a swastika branded on its crown. It has flown to Africa and to South America, where in Huen- cayo, Peru, this label was attached: “Wickie has just completed his first trip over the highest sched- uled’ airline in the world (17,000 feet to clear the pass.)” Sees the Orient Little known French Indo-China is ‘an open book to the hat-without- a-tourist as are the other parts of the Orient. Returning from the East. “Wickie” was, according to an- other of its attached placards, “the first express shipment from the Orient to the U. 8. Al that used Pan-Américan Airway's new expre:s Manila-Alameda, Califor- Arrived in Alameda August 26, 1936 after' 60 hours and 25 min- utes.” Pacific Alaska Airways pilots have == 'been. instructed to take good care of “Wickie" and show it as much of the Tertitory as possible before it |starts south and home to its owner /i, St, Louis, after traveling more ! than 70,000 mfles FARNSWRTH SEEKS “0UT” WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 9— ;'rhe Washington Star, daily news- ‘ paper, says John Farnsworth, for- mer Naval officer, has written to the Japanese Abmassador, request- ing affidavits from five Japanese navali officers in an effort to clear | imself of the charges of conspir- acy to deliver Navy information to the Japanese. He asked the Am- bassador to communicate especial- ly: with Commanders Yoshiyuki It- imiya and Okira Yamaki, formerly ltflghed to the Embassy here, but | noW in Tokyo. mones ‘ C. 8. DEPARTMENT O AURICULTURE. ‘WEATHER BUR.EAT" THE WEATHER (By the U. 3. Weather Burean) & for' Juneaw sud' vielnity beginning: at' 4 pm., Sept. / Showers tonight and Thursday;moderate southerly winds. 0 e § LOCAL DATA - Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Veloeity Wesathet | 4 pm. yest'y 29.97 50 3 s 1 Cldy ; Sooe S ] | 4 am. today 2099 43 90 E 2 Cldy . ; Noon today ..2092 48 [ SE 10 Lt. Rain CABLE AND KADIO REPORTS * YESTERDAY | TODAY o Highest 4pm. | Lowestdam. 4am. Preclp. 4am ‘, | Station temp. temp. | temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weath: a Atka oo =8 50 56 10 Trace Rain | | Anchorage 48 - 2 — — 0 —_— Barrow 28 28 | 24 24 10 Trace Cldy b4 Nome 38 38, | 28 30 4 0 Clear | Bethel 50 42 (S cepen 0 0 Clear e | Fairbanks 40 38 [ ‘a9y a2 8 .02 Cldy Dawson 40 40 | 34 36 2 0 Cldy 13 St. Paul 53t 52 | 48 44 10 10 Rain | Duteh Harbor 56 50 50 50 0 0 Cldy Kodiak . 52 48 IR Clear Cordova Q52 38 42 6 0 Clear Juneau 52 50 2 @ R Clay Sitka .. 5, — | @8 — =, B Lo Ketchikan 58 54 | 46 48 4 14 Rain ¢ Prince Rupert ... 58 52 - | 44 48 O cuy ,* Edmonton 66 60 38 . 38 4 o Ptlody ¥4 Seattle 72 0 52 52 4 0 Clear 4™ Portland . T4 54 54 4 [ Clear P San Francisco 90 74 58 58 4 0 Clear ¢ New York 86 80 7 6 4 0 Clear %; | Washington 92 82 T3 N0 4 01 Pt Cldy o clear, ngh Hats Top Two-Piece Frocks Nenana, cloudy, 32; Hot Springs, cloudy, 24; Nuiato, clear, 24; Kaltag, cloudy, 30; Crooked Creels, cloudy, cloudy, 36. :fAE: CONPYIIONS AT 8 A. M Ketchikan, cloudy, temperature, 54; Craig, raining, 49; Wrangell, cloudy, 48; Sitka, cloudy, 48; Juneau, cloudy, 44; Radioville, partly cloudy, 36; Skagway, cloudy, 42; Soapstone Point, missing; Yakutat, . clear, 43; Cordova, clear, 44; McCarthy, clear, 48 Chitina, cloudy, 38; Portage, clear, 36; Anchorage, clear, 30; Fairbanks, snowing, 30; - ; Tanana, cloudy, 30; Ruby, [ clear, 33; Unalakleet, partly 23; Flat, snowing, 33; Bethel, WEATHER sXNOPSIS Abnormally high barometric pressure’prevailed this morning from Barrow southward to the Hawaiian inches over the North Pacific Ocean at latitude 48 degrees ,north and longitude 152 degrees west. the far western portions of the Al:utians. vailed over the upper MacKenzie Valley. tribution has been attended by fa'r weather from the Bering Sea re- gion southeastward to Yakutat, elsewhere over the field of observa- tion cloudy weahter and precipitation were reported. Temperatures were freezing or ktclow and northern portions of Alaska. Island, the crest being 30.64 A storm area was developing over Another storm area pre- This general pressure dis- over the interior, western, Read the Classified Ads in THE EI\;IPIREi p These outfits are designed to give a fall touch to returned va- cationists’ wardrobes. Both are two-piece and designed of nubbed worsted. The one cn the left, fastening with buttons from neck- line to hem, is black with a touch of white at the throat and is worn with a high twisted toque of black felt. The frock at the right is autumn red finished with four flat pockets and black leather belt and buttons. It is worn with a Napoleonic bicorne of black velvet. G. Howard Hodge designed both hats. TWO COUPLES MARRY issued a marriage George Willlam Hillman, 36, sk per on the A. J. tug, and Dai Catherine McKibben, 2 married Saturday af S. Commissioner J. F. and Mrs. Ed. G. California license Satu missioner Mul we! 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