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PAGE EIGHT - ~_THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA OVERALL 1945 World's Larges! Plane Under Consiruction |COUNCL Wi —— s | SALMON PACK =— " MET MONDAY |Equalization Hearings Ex- PICTURE POOR | | & | | fension Expected— : ‘ udget i ! Only Central Secior Making| BudgetUp Again j | | { Befier Re(OI’d than | | In order to assure wnat all Juneau | | propetry owners with complaints | LBS' Year | regarding assessments will have op- : i portunity to be heard, the Juneau L] - Common Council is to sit in special This season’s salmon pack in the ; ) e illig | session next Monday evening. '\"',',‘,'-1‘ i ,,{,;(f‘:,“, w:‘,':‘,’" | Monday night is the ordinance i e A L | deadline for Board of Equalization v 1":', ‘.\mm(;;n',‘"“td l‘.l(,k Thratis | hearings, but in view of the present “,]’5 e 1”' ¢ ¥ohay {,\ the Fish| cmergency situation, the Council released y‘(x-’s de y !1.& expectad to vote continuation of m":m\"(f: ‘;v(”“;':" mé(’)““,l is, howsl the appeal hearings until considera- S s, 2| | has be iven all protests. { ever, the only Alaska sector making | { ““:neisspefig“’fg Yok h:“‘r’:e:‘: o i a showing that can be considered | review talle throuul s Wk, tie ‘ encouraging. Nearly all of South- | cast Alaska is trailing the poor| output of last year even. Ketchikan | district is ahead of last year, but is not producing on a basis com- | parative to seasons before the fish | drougth of the last few years set| in Board of Equglization will receive a weckend respite commencing this | evening. The hearing set for this evening has been called off. The Board will resume its work Monday: The much-juggled city budget is also scheduled to again be presented | on Monday evening, thiz time by ; < i A & e 4 S ik | the Council Finance Committee, and | 0 < Bics i Per: | 15 expected finally to receiv Couns IN PERSIA—Amerisan trucks throng this fig-zagging road which spans wastes of the . Persian, desert. cil action. In Central Alaska, Kodiak is slightly better than last year, but | Cook Inlet is at an extreme low.| Pack reports for the period ending | August 4, with comparative totals| | for last year, follow | Southeast Alaska i Ketchikan District—Reds, 20811 | cases; kings, 535; pinks, 144,960; chums, 31,392; cohoes, 14,078. Total 211,776. Last year, 158,205. | West Coast—Reds, 3324; kings, | 74; pinks, 5355; chums, 1949; co- | hoes, 5,836. Total, 16,538. Last year, | 24,120 Wrangell-Petersburg — Reds, 12,- 507; kings, 83; pinks, 18,968; chums, 6,458, cohoes, 3,419. Total, 41435. Last year, 64,853. Eastern—Reds, 7,635; kings, 153; | pinks, 9,915; chums, 13,408; cohoes, | i - 1,558. Total, 32,669. Last year, 74.- } Upper photo shows the mighty wing of the Hughes Hercules, biggest plane in the world now nearing com- 126, | pletien in the Hughes Aircraft Company plant at Culver City, Califcrnia. The wing is 320 feet from tip Western—Reds, 15910; kings, 19;| (, yin and 13 feet thick at the hull. The plane, built entirely of wood at a cost of §20,000,000, will be pow- gm:s.2;§é15¥m:lh|$i,m qizzsst\::r ered by cight engines cach developing 3,000 horsepower. When completed it will have a gross weight of ] 193456, S itiat i '; more than 200 tons. Lower photo shows the huge hull, 220 feet long, 30 feet high and 25 feet wide, (AP Icy Strait — Reds, 9,098; kings,| Wirephotos) 212; pinks, 14,231; chums, 17961; rid cohoes, 2,065. Total, 44467. Last I T SLAYER SOUGHT | S E l E ( T I v E D E A l E R THE (OMPlHE LINE OF HOTPOINT HOME APPLIANCES Announcing . . . our appointment as a 863; chums, 5. Total, 18,789. Last FOR 2 KIl“NGS year, 16,231. Central Alaska | ,n, Copper River (final)—Reds, 70, AI ROSE INlEI\ 997; kings, 6,021. Total, 77,018. Last year, 65,018, Resurrection Bay (to July 21) Reds, 2,313; pinks, 482. Total, 2,795. Last year, 1,730. Prince William Sound—Reds, 14,- 289; kings, 106; pinks, 482,870; chums, 148,446; cohoes, 3,901. Total, 649,612. Last year, 395,019, Ceok Inlet—Regs, 117202; kings, 22,108; pinks, 42,145; chums, 26, 248; cohoes, 27,235, Total, 234,936 Last year, 306,203. | Reports of a dual slaying at Rose Inlet, Dall Island, were received here this morning by U. S. Marshal Wil- lliam T. Mahoney. Victims were identified as a Mrs. Nix and her son Joe, nati Identity of their al- {leged slayer is known but he had not yet been placed in custody at noon today. U, S. Deputy Marshal Nate Hardy stationed at Ketchikan, is reported ] lenroute to the West Coast cannery Kodiak—Reds, 136,683; Kings, 477 | \jjjape, accompanied by Dr. Louis pinks, 275200; chums, 45447 CO- slazar, Alaska Native Service phy- hoes, 1,507. Total, 459,404. Last year, ‘sician. An inquest is to be held at 430,845. Craig, Alaska. | i e Chignik—Reds, 18,219; kings, 221, Reports of the twin killing were f” pinks, 10,471; chums, 10,082; cohoes, 'yeceived here from P. E. Harris and 166. Total, 39,159. Last year, 68,161, ccmpany cannery officlal | Alaska Peninsula (final) — Reds, | - - % | - 60,450; kings, 1,876; pinks, 48.071; | chums, 54,756; cohoes, 5,776. Total 170,929. Last year, 233,560. u. S. SUBMAR'“E i7estern Alas. Port. Moller (final)—Reds, 32,621° | REPORIE loST kings, 23; pinks, 124; chums, 24,- | . 874; cohoes, 4958. Total, 62,600.| oy Last year, 44,234. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The U. Bristol Bay— (final)—Reds, 560,- Submarine, the U. S. Lagarto, is 831, kings, 4,288; chums, 65540; overdue from patrol and presumed | cohoes, 2204. Total, 641,953. Last lost, the Navy announced ynswrdf\y.\ SIMPLE BUT EFFECTIVE was this smoke-screen defense against Jap sui« year, 928,802. | The next of kin of casualties have | cide planes off Okinawa. You sce the screen forming (top) as a busy Pack Totals been notified. | little LCVP fitted with smoke equipment flits past the bow of an LST— | > > - and formed (bottom), already hiding the hull of the LST and rising to Southeast Alaska—Reds, 87,917; kings, 1,639; pinks, 213,072; chums,’ 115,798; cohoes, 29,739. Total, 448,- | MARRIAGE iN NEws e 165. Last year, 636,352. | “ Central Alaska — Reds, 420,153; | b, kings, 30,809; pinks, 859,320; chums,| MEMPHIS. — Staff Sgt. Willlam f G 284,977; cohoes, 38,585. Total, 1,- A. Bickers and Miss Martha Ellen ebscure the superstructure. U. S. Navy photo, (International) 633,853. Last year, 1,500,536. Guthrie decided they wanted to be 3 Western Alaska — Reds, 602452; married by the pastor of their ® kings, 4,311; pinks, 124; chums, 90,- | church, the Rev. M. L. Mack. PRUTEBTS PENS 414; cohoes, 72562. Total, 704553.| They located him in the com- win. Last year, 1,027,036 | posing room of the Commercial All-Alaska Totals—Reds, 1,110,522; | Appeal, where he works regularly . 3 2 kings, 36759; pinks, 1072525 The minister changed clothes and We are proud to have secured a franchise headquarters for “Your Next Kitchen 'c‘hums' 491,189; cohoes, 75,576. Total, performed the ceremony to the f""" Ly for the nationally famous line of electric Center”—a plan that enables you to own 2, 786,571. Last year, 3,163,924. rattle of linotype machines. | appliances — HOTPOINT. The name a complete electric kitchen on convenient gmstm——— HOTPOINT has been famous for 40 terms. 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