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INSTALLMENT PLANTOBE REGULATED FDR May Order Mmlmum Down Payments on 18-Month Terms WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 18 Close regulation of installment buy- ing, proposed by the Federal Reserve Board, may be ordered this week. sed on powers of the Admin- istration during the first world war, the order will probably come from Precident Roosevelt and will require bigeer down payments and place a limit of 18 months on the time over which payments may extend It is tentatively planned to require minimum down payments of one- third on autos, motorboats, all other seac:aft, and motorcycles; 20 per cent on radios, refrigerators and houschold appliances; and 15 per cent on plumbing and air condition- ing cquipment. Regulation of charge accounts or loans payable in lump sums is not dered for the present - Gl& ME INCREASING JEWELL REPORTS - Game and fur bearing animals cn the increase in Alaska this , according to the report today of Homer W. Jewell, Assistant Ex- ceutive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission, who has just returned n an annual trip of inspection stations of the Fish and Wild- life Service throughout the Terri- ar tory receiving 40 per- ago for beaver Jewell stated prices are un- ppers have been ranging from 25 to year pelts, fur I1 abov and muskrat althcugh other changed Jewell particularly noted the in- of grouse, ptarmigan and in the Territory. Thesc bi end animals seem to cn an 11 cycle, Jewell point- out, and e been on the in- s for the past three year - To make the aluminum quired for defense purposes in 1942, encugh power will be necded to light New York City and keep the wheels of its in- Gustrics turning for three and one-half years, Hear > CLEARLYZ with SONOTONE D o emderstand. | AS ADVERTISED trouble understand- ing? Then call for full information_on new | LIF E S iy DR. RAE LILLIAN CARLSON Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636 cent crease rabbit. run re- audicle which is help- Hungarians Capture Heavy Russian Tank a— & More than fifty Hungarian soldiers work together in an effort to salvage a disabled Russian tank, re. _por tedly captured by l{ung;nan iorcel eoopernhnz with H\tler m his war against :hp, Soviat. Roosevelt Considering " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUG. 18, 1941. Nau Ace a Suncnde? Strike Move; Navy Recommends Gov- ernment Taking Over Plant at Kearny (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) President Roosevelt has consideration -a Navy Department recommendation that he sign an order empowering the government to take over the Federal Shipbuild- ing and Drydock Company Kearney, N. J 1e strike, which lasted several weeks, has $493.000,000 worth of naval nt ship construction. Federal conciliators the Association of Workers, an independent at : has mands for a working promised panel, and to representatives ciliate on the tract, but the issues are not closed. ———————— Newsprint paper is produced in Australia now from |‘hardwood. - ee———— BUY DEFENSE BON under yards already halted mer- being local | sCHE NLLEY and treat yourself and your guests to the whiskey bottied at the “Peak of Flavs” Schenley Black Lobel 65% Grain Neutral Spirits, M.a-hool.' Schenley Red Lobel 724% \Gmin Neuwtral Spirits, 90 Prool. Both Blundsdflhhhy. Schenley Distillers Corp,, N.Y.C. | pm, persuaded ! Communication union, not to walk out in support of de- agreement with Western Electric. Government to con- act soon on the dispute over the con- dis- General Ernst Udet well known to millions of Ameri- can aviation fans for his spectacu- lar stunt flying at aerial circuses held in the U. 8. in other years, General Ernst Udet, Germany's ace airplane pilot and creator of the successful paratroop corps, | now is reported in the British | press to have committed suicide | after his arrest for having op- | posed the invasion of Russia. General - Udet appeared several times at the National Air races when they were a fixture in Cleve- | land. | | KIEV SAID SAVED BY RESISTANCE (Continied 1rom Page One) 1eported to have repulsed other Nazi columns in large scale counter-at- | iacks near a city identified only| “us . German losses are put at 5,000. Soviet sources acknowledsed that troops, knifing across the reart of southern Ykraine, had cap- tureq the big port of Nikclaev, 60 | red e city’s shipyards were hlown (¥ in'$he ‘Withdrawal. Red Army officials also admitted | the fall of Krivoirog ‘ron ore | center i olaev, which the Germans claimed was in their hands last week ihoritative | London quarters said that Hitler's armies apparentiy had launched a major new oifen- | ive in the rorth, driving from| stonia 1 rd Leniu; London wd s said the Leningrad thrust ras timed with the withdrawal of rarshel Budyenny’s Red armies &\ the somth where they are taking up jew defense lines along the mile wide Dnieper River. | and | extension | ington. | similar | kan. | canneries in the { Invents New Method | | totem pole pictures. niles northeast of Odessa, but de- | 4 100 miles northeast of Nik- | ¥ SPEEDY, SURE / RELIEFFORACID ¥ INDIGESTION | Butler-Mauro Drug Co. The Rexall Store | and holds numerous tennis trophies. | | | | | FISHINGIS EXTENDED TWODAYS Chatham Straifs, Fredrick Sound Not fo Close Until Wednesday ing in the east- ern and western districts of South-| east Alaska will be extended two days, it was learned here in aj| cable message from Washjington, | D. C. which arrived here about noon today. Originally slated to close at 6 today, fishing in these areas| will be continued under the u\dl'l until 6 p.m. Wednesday. The western area includes Chat- ham Straits and the west coast of | Baranof Island. The ern sec- tion includes the lower end of] Chatham Straits, Frederick Sound | Stevens Passage. i The extension of the fishing sea- | scn was a direct result of a five- day check-up trip made last week by Clarence Olson, Fisheries 'Man- agement Supervisor of the Fisherfes! Division of the Fish and Wildu(eI Service. On his trip, Olson made ] close ervations of the unexpect- | ed heavy run of pink salmon in| the districts, and it was frem his| recommendations that the season was granted in Wash-| Olson left Juneau again to make investigation of the - sal- mon run in the Sumner and Clar-| ence Straits districts near Ketchi- word was received wires were sent to| districts affected by the extension, notifying them of the two-day continuation of fish- A Fish and Wildlife Service ne was also dispatcheéd to the districts, to bear onal confir- mation of the extension to can-) nerymen. Immediately here today, ing. Dr. Else K. La Roe | Dr. Else K. La Roe, New York plas-' tic surgeon who has devised new techniques in facial and body recon- struction which she demonstrated recently, might easily be a model for the results of her operations. She’s a sculptor, deep-sea fisher- man, champion skier, trapshooter A native of Vienna and graduate of Heidelberg and Paris, she is now an American citizen, e — Subseribe ifor The Empire, | Nobles of the Nile Temple, Seattle, | Juneau headed by Illustrious Po- | groups | monial on August 27. From | grimage to Alaska | marks the | Sperling’s Shrine Magic CarpetisDue, Juneau Today INile Temple fo Drop from Skies — Banquet at Baranof Tonight A magic carpet with propellers, that's the role the PAA Lodestar will be playing this afternoon, when it arrives in Juneau with -eight Order of Mystic Shrine. Making its first flying trip ‘o conduct ceremonials, the Divan of the Shrine Temple will come to tentate Lewis L. Dowell. Tonight,| the Shriners will wear their fezzes | in the Gold Room of the Baranot Hatel, where- a dinner party for all Shriners and their ladies is to| be held at 6:30 o'clock. Visiting| Shriners and their ladies from| other Alaska cities were being es-| pecially invited to be on hand. First of four ceremonials to be held on the trip will take place in Juneau tomorrow, after which the party will divide into two/ to fly to Fairbanks on| Wednesday and Thursday. The, ceremonial in Fairbanks will bs; held on either Friday or Saturday | of this week, after which the Al- aska Railroad will transport the | Nobles to Anchorage for a cere- An-! chorage, they will board the Alaska | for Ketchikan, where a ceremonial | is scheduled for either September 2 or 3, after which the th'inels‘ will return to Seattle aboard the Denali. Nile Temple made its first 1)xl in 1909, when‘ a large delegation of the fezzed | Nobles traveled to Nome for a cere- monial. This year's Alaska trip| 18th for Nobles of the Nile Temple. | Along with Potentate Dowell will be James W. Woodford, assistant rabban; Harold E. Gray, oriental guide; T. Harry Gowman, 1st cere- monial master; M. O. Anderson, 2nd ceremonlal master; George R.| Cooley, director; Henry Foss, po- | tentate of Afifi Temple of Tacoma, and Marshall T. Cornett, of Kla-| math Falls, Ore, ‘a member of| | Hillah Tem];le. Ashland, Ore, i CAMERA CAPTURES | TONGASS BEAUTIES Theater audiences of the world | are going t¢ have the wonders of | Southeast Alaska’s Tongass Nation- al Forest unfolded before their eyes, , according to the report broughtl back to Juneau today by Harry Sperling, Chief Administrative As- sistant of the Forest Service, who | has been in the Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island districts the | past two weeks, assisting in the filming of a movie short. Cameraman for the filming of| the forest picture is Joe Yolo, of Yakima, who shot a film on Al-/| aska wildlife in 1937 and '38. Spel'<l ling and Yolo, aboard the Forest Service boat Ranger Nine, round- ed Prince of Wales Island, calling in at Hydaburg, Klawock, Craig| and a number of logging camps to get pictures. | In all, they shot 1300 feet of film on the trip, showing the har- vesting of the Tongass timber crop by commercial loggers in several locations and picturing totem poles at ‘Klawock and Hydaburg. Witn| return to Juneau, Yolo remained at Ketchikan, where he| plans to take pictures of cannery| operations and mill work, then will! go to Saxman and Kasan for more | He will con-| clude his piclure taking at Wran- gell and leave for the States nbuub; the middle of “flmember FORD'S VERROR ANI l TRACY ARM VISITED BY JUNEAU 'TOURISTS’ ‘When Alaskan. “‘rave” about Al- aska's scenery it should @ news. Back from a two-!:y sight-see- ing trip to Ford's Te.ror and Tracy Arm, Mr, and Mrs. J. J. Meherin, Dr. and Mrs. R. H, Williams, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Schoettler and Mar- ja Schoettler are telling today of the beauty of the spots visited. The trip was made aboard Capt. G. Bixby's Leota and though a few salmon were caught the ob- ject of the journey was picturé- taking and sight-seeing. We Do NOT Paironize Montgomery Ward Co. | Procter & Gamble Products || Gatner & Mattern Knit Goods * Carnation Milk Co. Bye Bye! EASY PAYMENTS Buy Buy! Very shortly legislation will be passed curtailing installment buying in an effort by the Government to prevent inflation. This legislation is designed primarily to prevent people in the Staies now earning big money from getting too deeply in debt making no future. over buying . . . provision for the HOWEVER, any legislaticn applicable to the States would also apply here. Steps Should Be Taken NOW!? TO BUY: AIR GALE COELEMAN oil heater RAY burner L@ oil burning range refrigerator While stocks are available and advantage can be taken of our slogan: “It’s Easy to Buy and Pay oo the Rice & Ahlers Way?> Rice & Ahklers Company THIRD AT FRANKLIN $1-Down Buying Curb Urged Leon Henderson and Marriner S. Eccles Because of a decision to include curbs on instalment buying of the “dollar down, dollar-a-week” variety, the administration’s proposed price and rent control legislation has been shelved indefinitely. Such was the announcement in Washington following an important con- ference between President Roosevelt, Leon Henderson, price control sdministrator, and Chairman Marriner S. Eccles of the federal re- serve hoard, Other sections of the price control bill, agreed on, au- thorize the president to fix, at his own discretion, ceiling prices on general commodities and rents in defense areas as of the year ended June 30, 1941, Henderson, left, and Eccles are shown above after the conference. m%mn ,lufflialed with American Tpderafion of Lafior" ndon- lord mayor tries out one of the twelve mobfle canteens pre- England by non-British employes of the Buenos Aires Great .. hern. Wefl.ern and Midland Railways. The mayoress is shown serv- | : tea: to-the mayor (right) and J. H. Eddy, chairman of the railway, ‘who made the presentation for the Argentines. | PHONE 34 H STILL UP IN AIR WASHING -GV, Aug. i8- -Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull said to- right that Japan has given no sat- 1factory explanation for refusing to allow some hundred private Amer- |ican citizens to leave the country. He said the matter was still under i discussion. | poeee— “HEAR” ELECTRO EAR $35.00 Free Demonstration DR. DOELKER Phone 477 with Insured Safety 4 EARNINGS On Savings Accounis ® Accounts Government In- sured up to $5,000. ® Meney available 2t any time. ® Start an account with $1 or more, Current 4% Rale Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Assn. of Junean ‘Phone 3 \

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