The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1940, Page 2

2 Agriculture history The se i grew out of the first.|market for all their produce. Sci- | That ir 1 crisis came during the |jence and technology had made farm Civil War. The North, cut off from |production power greater than its aericultural supplies of the South, market. Surplusses accumulated. a ruu e fcund itself short in farm products. | Prices declined and incomes of the The Federal Government stepped in|farmers suffered. Producing plenty y about it ymmendation of to do somethir ast Decade ... President Linc story protests onomic in- a Department 1alists, ulture Second Major Crisis Took Place in Ten Years, io"clon"ina produce " mprove ams, that row bet- ice improved ided, American agriculture nd soon was reaching out ets, This expansion during the World hen Europe, its farmers 1sferred to *d By OVID MARTIN ed Press Farm Whiter Ameri- y -40 dec- the trenches, need World’s largest selling straight bourbon! YOUR SAVINGS ARE INSURED, ARE INSTANTLY AVATLABLE AND EARN GRFAT-. ER RETURNS WITH THE ALASKA FEDERAL Savins and Loan Assa, of Juneaw TELEPHONY 5 At your favorite restau- | rant or pack- age store | GREEN TOP CABS—PHCNE 678 BUY GREEN TOP RIDE COUPON BOOKS: #6.25 In rides for $5.00 PROOF ... { 9! £3.00 tn rides for $2.50 L COPYRIGHT 1939, SCHENILEY STILLERS CORPORATION, NEW YORK CITY For Saturday SPECIAL We are reducing garments from our various groups of CLEARANCE SALE MERCHI \DIST Values ta $3.95 1.00 Van Raalte GOWNS and 8 SLIPS All Colors and Sizes BUY AT HOME and SAVE Special for Saturday THE $1.85 JONES- STEVENS » faced the second major crisis of wide industrial depre: Congress, | growers felt a cruel paradox of rushing aside | debt, DIFFERENCE! on. Ameri- can farmers could not longer find a | nt. | Thousands lost their land through foreclosures. Serious farm strikes followed. | As in the Civil war crisis, the Fed- eral Government stepped in to try {to relieve the situation. Again eco- nomic individualists protested. The Administration enacted crop control Jaws and paid out several hundred million dollars annually in subsidies to farmers who cooperated with programs designed to reduce surpluses and improve prices. It did not stop with production control measures, but moved into the marketing phase as well Through subsidy programs it has i Through relief pro- ams, it has been buying perish- |among the city poor. { Farmers A Vassal? | The Government's efforts to meet | | this crisis of overproduction has been | the subject of hot debate. Critics | contend that the Administration | denies that the farmer has been | reduced to the status of a vassal in | a system of “socialized agriculture.” | Whether the Roosevelt programs will return agriculture to previous |levels of prosperity is a question| have to answer. | FARM INCOME RISES | FROM DEPRESSION LOW | WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — The| yardstick by which officials meas- | ure agrioultural prosperity is the amount of cash farmers receive for | sale of their products. | This income climbed to $11,221,- 000,000 in 1929, but slumped to a depression low mark of $4,606,000,000 |in 1932. It rose to $8,020,000,000 in 1938, and officials estimate it will total about $8,500,000,000 this year. "Millwood & Forestwood and a few loads of KINDLING FULL LOAD $5.50 CALL GRBEN 113 S BRGS. e - Eat Qui Today! BEVLIN'S ¥ g Evening Sandals To go with your most “fetch- ing" frocks . . . Never have shoes done so much for your feet. New in every line and detail—gold and silver kid- skin, white and black satin, and in multi-color combined i with gold. - $5.95 BEVLIN'S | able surpluses and distributing them | | which the decade of 1940-50 will| giv THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JAN. 12, 1940. Regains Husband Mrs. Natalia Modzelewska and baby Andre, 2%, arriving in Jersey City, N. J., aboard the President Garficld receive a cablegram from London announcing that her husband i: alive and safe in England. She had en him up for dead when the Polish ship Slaska, on which he was aa officer, struck a mine and sank at sea in August. RARTY PUNDIT —Be- hind a typewriter sils Charlie Michelson, Democrats’ veteran publicity man now mapping his strategy for 1940, which he’ll fight out “on the record.” INVENTORY| VOGUE SALE CONTINUES SKIRTS All Wool Flannel Values to $4.95 | $1.95 BLOUSES Silk- Crepes Values to $4.95 . NOW AT $1.95 " Broken Lots in BOLLIN HOSE SPECIAL AT ey M oy ' Leota’s in the Baranof Hotel | (Regardless of Former Price) JLLUSTRATED POST OFFICE: " BAD AXE, MICHIGAN SianoriNa PINa CavAzz, | [For 64 YEARS BRIDE OF PRIMO CARNERA, | A LETTER WAS WAS ONCE A POST OFFICE | IMPRISONED (N CLERK IN HER NATIVE ITALY.| THE CALAVERAS, DRAWN BY JorNBpeR—_ COUNTY JAIL(CAL) On March 17, 1936, Joseph Zwinge, sheriff of Calaveras County, California, sat questioning a prisoner in the old jail. The clear eyes of the sheriff pierced the prisoner’s. Dodging the truth and candor of the officer’s eyes, the prisoner turned away to examine the old walls. Idly back and forth he scratched a burth match, following the depres- sion between the stones. Bit by bit the mortar crumbled away A speck of white appeared between the stomes. It was a letter dated 1372, still stamped and in good condition, . . . Odd, Isn't It? U-Boat Nemesis Credited with sinking two German submarines in three days, this young commander of a French destroyer is shown (left) being congratulated by French Admiral Laborde on his return to port. Neither the name of the destroyer commander nor of the port was given in the caption passed by the French censors. Last Call EVENING DRESSES $18.50. Value $9.95 ANOTHER for 5S¢ $12.50 Value $7.50 ANOTHER for 5¢ Aflerr{onn DRESSES $18.50 Value $9.95 ANOTHER for 5¢ $12.50 Value $7.50 ANOTHER for 5¢ PRICE SALE Including All Coats General Clearance (Hosiery and:Foundation Garments excepted) SPECIAL! Saturday Only! 1 tahle HATS . 50c 1 table HATS $1.00 1 table HATS $1.95 . COATS. at Half Price GLUVTEX UNDERWEAR Gowns and Pajamas $2.75 Each, ANOTHER 5c¢ CHANNEL APPAREL SHOP.... ~Ga VOGUE SHOP On Relief:, Ex:&';ill]lilvhlf'ée othe Leaves ‘ $113,777 sibly a paid neither Federal nor State in- | come taxes for over twenty years. Peterson $113,777. Surrogate James A. Foley approved the accounting filed by Emilie G. Hubbard of Southamp- C S A |_ E | Today am:' Saturday CONTINUES| > M BEHRENDSCO. U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Jan. Light snow tonight, cloudy and slightly colder Saturday; mode changeable winds. Minimum temperature tonight about 27 degrees. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Light rain except light snow in extreme northeastern portion tonight; cloudy, slightly colder Satur- day; moderate changeable winds, becoming northerly over northern portion Saturday . i Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Winds from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook will be mederate to fresh southwesterly; and from Cape Hinchinbrook to Kod moderate westerly. LOCAL DATA rime Barometer Temd Humiditv wina Velocity Weathes 3:30 p.m. yest'y 30.11 28 84 sSwW 3 Cloudy 3:30 am. today 30.06 32 89 SE 8 Snow Noon today 29.88 36 93 NE T Lt.Rain RABIO REPORTS 1 TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 3:30am. Preclp. 3:3Cam Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. 24 hours Weather Atka 42 | 39 40 18 ) Anchorage 36 37 [ Barrow -33 -26 0 Ncme 12 13 33 Bethel | 31 32 03 Fairbanks 31 | 18 31 a1 St. Paul 36 i 33 33 .03 Dutch Harbor .. 39 35 317 02 Kodiak 49 38 48 [ ordova 32 | 27 30 0 Juneau 36 | 27 32 .03 Sitka 45 17 40 Ketchikan 41 | 3t 33 .07 Cloudy Seattle 40 | 33 34 25 Cloudy Portland 43 | 32 33 11 Foggy San Francisco .. 59 52 52 18 Cloudy WEATHER SYNOPSIS Storm areas prevailed this morning over the upper Yukon Valley and over the North Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of the Aleutians. High pressure prevailed from Nome and Bethel southeastward to the Pacific Coast States with a crest of 30.65 inches over the Pa- cific Ocean at latitude 49 degrees north and longitude 146 degrees west. Precipitation has been general over most of Alaska with the exception of the northern portion of the Gulf of Alaska and the southern portion of the Alaska Railroad Belt. Moderate to heavy snows fell over the Tanana and upper Yukon valleys. It was farmer last night over Interior Alaska. Colder weather will overspread In- terior - Alaska ionight and Saturday. Juneau, Jan, 13.—Sunrise, 8:39 am.; sunset, 3:39. p.m. \ sister of Pete! sters, e will share the and three nephe estate. ments. £ He also ordered a claim of $159, filed by partment of hospitals, & 12.—Osten- | asl Peterson | fare for the refund ol - ments, be met. .- - NEW YORK, pauper, Jan Laurids i in Bellevue Hospital a year ago received in an auto- Try an Empire ad. .- SEVERAL foreign plants flour- ish wild on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the seeds brought there in dirt clinging to ship bal- last ock: However, it came to light that left a gross estate of e oo Empire classifieds bring results. WHEN YOU Bay at Home MEN'S Pajamas Values to $2.50 You Are | BUYING | THRIFTLY Do you s-t-r-e-t-c-h every dollar so. that every cent of it does its. work well? If you t do, you know: how all-impor- tant; those questions of what, 3 where and how to buy really are! You know that a real bargain is a standard piece of merchandise selling below the standard price But did you know that the best and eas- iest way of finding real bar- galns is simply occupying your easy. chair and checking every Empire advertisement? This way leads to dependable '$1.00 4 pr-$1.00 merchants and merchandise MEN'S HEAVY without: physieal effort! WOOL SOX | ¢ susens vioms, emvers of the Retail Merchants Asso- 50c Values: ciation’ of' Juneau, will' re- main open SATURDAY and MONDAY NIGHTS UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK. .. " Read Your DAILY Union Suits $1.00 B. M. Behrends Co. ALASKA EMPIRE