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CANADIAN ROYALTY IN JUNEAU house during the visit of the xmal couple In the middle of the gangplank Juneau'’s blatant fire wte of welcome— royalty or no marching horn added its but fires will start | royaity The party left for Skagway and Whitehorse and will look the high- way over from there It has been known for some time | that the Governor General and the h 52 ARRIVE ON following passengers: THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 'BIBLE CLASS TO BE 5 PASSENGERS T0 SITKA TODAY ON ALASKA COASTAL After a weekend of inactivity due| to the stormy conditions, the Al-| SATURDAY; 11 T0 SKAGWAY The northbound steamer arriving ere Saturday evening brought the From Seattle —Wayne W. Call, [Suka this morning with the follow-| aska Coastal Airlines made a trip w\one who desires to attend. -JUNEAU ALASKA FORMED WEDNESDAY An informal discussional Bible Class will be held in the Northern | Light Presbyterian Church at 7:30 | Wednesday evening. This class has been requested by several persons, |and is to be made available to any- The discussion this week will be Activity in Burma Areas Fire late Saturaay night did some i |BASEMENT FIRE SATURDAY NIGHT MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1943 Fifth and East Streets, from the furnace. Members of Juneau Voluntee! | Fire Department put the blaze ou before much damage was done. bl starting! mage to the timbers in the base- ment of the C. Robar residence at| Empire Classifieds Pay! Is Reported === it 'GETTING SCARCE' anes troops and communications @cssse’ssserssssssssssssscnnns in Burma yesterday. | Railroad yards at Sagaing were | To keep your pen writing, use Quink containing SOLV-X1 |nit, oil tanks, factories and rail equipment were destroyed on the Irrawaddy. Rail yards at Naba Junction were | also demolished in bombings. @ War has curtailed the making of foun- Weather is reported exu»mel\ tain pens. Protect your fine -pen with Parker Quink—the only ink with solv-s. Magic solv-s ends gumming and clogging =—prevents corrosion and rubber rot from highly acid inks. Get Quink today. Princess Alice would ‘be in Juneau | on September 11, but in answer to military requests that strict secrecy be observed by the press, nothing has been printed The Earl last week visited Prince Rupert and a Canadian manned defense post near Ketchikan, flying his own pl'\)w -e Dale S. Deane, Evelyn Jane Deane,|ing passengers: Charles Metjay, Elizabeth Evans, Laura L. Friesen, |[Robert G. Boes, Harold Bates, Lydia Adah Friesen, Caryl Friesen, Roy|O. Tilson and H. V. Wyckoff. | Noble Galli, Mary E. Galli, Ralph ¥ e ‘ H. Gabrielson, Juanita Gustafson. |class which is to be held weekly. WELL BABY CLINIC | The class will be led by the Rev. Harold W. Gray, Carl Hedlund, Edwin H. Mattoon, Guilford Moe, SET FOR TOMORROW Willis R. Booth. The public is cor- dially invited to attend. | Mary Mitchell, Mabel Miller, Mar- b garet McAlister, Patricia McAlister,| The regular monthly Well Baby ° o TR R Ivan Thomas, Hazel McCorkle, Mar- | Clinic for native children is sched- ion McCorkle, Thomas H. Payne,|uled for tomorrow afternoon at one :D-;llmm](t) Px;sley Gasper Perrone.io'clock, according to Mrs, the Earls second visit to BACK FROM SOUTH| rocimusen, rances micnarce, otpo |oomreiss, mndian Service il |ander in the Distict Oourt: dox n (l\l 16r s AR A igcknakie Chatlott 0 nurse. The clinic, as usual, will be Thomas L. George from Lillian i . Schneider, ~Charlotte Sherrill, |y, the Government hospital build- | Elvira George:; Lois Wyckoff from wife Russell Hermann, owner of the|Kate B. Smith, Mae E Westphal, (i, " Warier AL, The United States Coast Guard juneau Drug Store, returned this Jean Williams, Blanche E. wuhams,‘ %) . ‘ X AT SRR TR band played God Save the King as|morning after several weeks in the | Arkley Jackson Wright. the Canadian party, on its “flY»s,muh where he underwent sur- Prince Rupert —John R. north for a trip over the Alaskal gical care. Highway, marched down the gang-| My Hermann is looking and feel- plank in a drenching rain, and this!jno much better, and his last few number was followed by the Starlgavs jn the states were spent in »‘;-pflnglfl‘i B‘d;m:"' PN“(’;S“GO‘("‘: selecting merchandise for his store. the boat and those on 3 4 Nor ot ottt B g L tomoo n Webstngtors Wb traveliing. OF . arduous at this time, he said, and An Alaska official party headed |, ;o"ipankeu) to be back in Ju- by Governor Ernest Gruening “""um,m comed the Canadians to Juneau and | during their brief stay here they| BArbara Hermann has been men- were entertained at the Governor’s |88 the Drug store during her house. Others in the welcoming|fathers absence. party included Lieut. Col. Roy w.| Riegle, who commands the post/ here; Commdr. Robert Schoettler of the Navy, aide to the Governor; ! i Maj. Carl Scheibner, military ;ude: High tide—1:37 a. m., to the Governor; Maj. T. J. Harlle,; Low tide—7:52 a. m., ‘second in command of troops here, High tide—2:09 p. m., and Lieut. Warren Caro of the| T,y tide8:14 p. m., Coast. Guard, port captain. } = S-ge A military and naval guard of 4 honor was on hand as the visitbrs BUY WAL BONDS, marched down the gangplank. Mili- ' tary units patrolled the streets lead- | ing to and around the (;o\mnol’s on the Gospel of John. At this meeting will also be discussed the best time for the meeting of the Princess Alice, Earl of Ath- lone, Here Satur- day Night was honorved last visit of the Satur- Earl of Gen- | cess | Juneau day with the Athlone, Canada’'s Governor eral, and wife, the Pr | RUSSELL HERMANN Alice, aunt of the King of England. | DIVORCES GRANTED The following divorces have heen EWira | granted by Judge George F. Alex- e bad. e ATTENTION MASONS Stated Communcation of Mt Juneau Lodge Monday evening ut‘ 17:30. Balloting and work in thm M. M. Degree. It was Alasi ®®00000cessceresessrssrrtescsenes e Pa rke r QU in CLEANS YOUR PEN AS IT WRITES esssseevsssnce The present ration of meat and Iron, nickel and copper are be- ‘poxk in Sweden may be increased 'lieved to be present in a gaseous R dunng the coming winter. state in the sun’s atmosphere. From Martin, From Ketchikan—C. F. Craft, David, A. L. Florence, P. M. M()a— bacher, Mildred Noftz, Georgia Ne]- and Mr. and Mrs. W. Roblrt-‘ son, Jr. | From Wrangell—V. Aguda, Pete| Assis, Mrs. W. C. Chisholm, Mrs. A.! Lemieux, Louis Lemieux, Eleanor | i : [ ] McCormack, and Leonard Taylor.| ™ | Taking passage for Skagway were Irma R. Ask,. Charles Ask, Jean | [ - J. W. LEIVERS, Secletary ¥¥¥4¥‘44¥44444¥¥44#'#“4 son Ask, Annie O. Blanchard, Lt. Col.| T. J. Hayes, Major A. K. Ries, Mfljoxu H. L. Gordon, Hollis J. Farwell, Guy | '"DES 'I'OMORRow i‘p;);:,],l‘ Mrs. C. Sipprell, and (:Ifin —_—————— FROM: The Secretary of the Treasury SUBJECT: 1he New Pay-as-You-Go Method of Collecting Your Income Tax 1L A.MACHINISTS Meets 2nd & 4th | - i Stlrfini July 1st, both your Income and Victory Tax will be col- dependents), which is deducted from the $3,000 earn before o TIGEOEEE‘FSI} g/\u‘ Mondays 8 p.m. lected by an entirely new and more convenient method. your tax is computed. You are thus paying tax on $1,128, of which Under the old system, you were obliged every March 15th to pay your employer will withhold 20%, or $225.60 for the year. There- either the full tax for the previous year, or a quarter of that amount. _ fore, in your pay envelope, after July 1, you will receive about Under the new system, you will keep paid up from month to month. $4.40 less each week. After July 1st, your employer is obliged by the new law to with- In March, 1944, when you ordinarily would be faced with paying hold every month a part of your wages and turn the money into the taxes on your 1943 income, you will file a return showing how much United States Trealury as payment on your Income and Victory you have' already paid, and how much your total tax actually Tax. amounted to. If, by that time, you have already paid more than your Of course, fi'n amount that your employer withholds will dep.nd actual tax due, you will be.given cr?dit for the .diflonnoo. If you upon your pay and your exemptions. But this is the important point: owe more than you have paid, you will pay the difference. For most of us, the amount withheld over a year’s period will add Since this plan starts July 1, many wonder what happens to the up to the same that soe’re paying now—plus or minus a few dollars. tax payments they will already have made by that time—on March At the end of the year, we may owe the Government a few dollars 15 and June 15. or the Government may owe us. (See the tables below.) For a great mnjonly of people, here is what l‘llmfll. +++ Your You may have heard 20% mentioned as the proportion of your 1942 income tax is “forgiven” (either all, or most of it). The March wages that will be withheld. Actually, this is incorrect. To figure the and June installments which you originally paid on that 1942 income amount that will be withheld, take your total wages and subtract tax are credited, instead, as payments on your 1943 tax. With the your allowance for exemptions and allowance for dependents; result that on July Ist, with the year half gone, you have already 20% of this lesser amount is the total that will be withheld. paid fax on that half-year’s income. In short, you are “paying as Now please remember this: You must claim those exemptions to you go. i . 4 5 ? take advantage of them. Before July 1st, you must file with your There is one thing more. Since this pay-as-you-go method leaves employer an Exemption Certificate. If you do not do this, your em- you just as much of your net income as you had before, you will ployer will have ne choice but to deduct 20% of your full pay check. probably find it possible to af least maintain your present rate of Here is how the new tax collection method will work: Let’s say buying War Bonds. Do this by all means! you are a working man earning $3,000 a year ; that you are married, Taxes alone will not bring to the Treasury nearly enough money and have two children. to finance the great invasion war that lies ahead. The war needs First of all, as & married man you are allowed a personal with- every cent of your money that does not go for the necessities of life. holding exemption of $1,248, plus an exemption of $312 for each dependent (other than your wife). This makes a total exemption of $1,872 ($1,248 for yourself and wife, plus $624 for your two >-oee 18.9 feet. -24 feet. 19.0 feet. -15 feet. MRS. BURFORD RETURNS Mrs. Betty Burford, wife of J. B.‘ Burford, of the office supply and ! stationery store, arrived from the | south this morning after a short visit on the Outside. | fm~~~m~.m~~-~m FEE Chinese Colors in New FALL FASHIONS! 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