The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 11, 1948, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT ALASKA HIGHWAY PATROL TO HOLD THREE-DAY MEET The Alaska Highway Patrol and representatives of the State Patrols of Washington, Oregon and Califor- nia will hold a three day meeting in Juneau next week beginning on Wednesday, September 15. Mutual problems will be discus- sed by the 14 Highway Patrolmen and they will hear talks on law en- forcement problems given by the three representatives from the states and Territorial officials. Frank Met- calf, Territorial Highway Engineer, has planned the three day program and will officially open the sessions on Wednesday morning i@ the Se- nate Chambers. Anyone interested in the sessions in invited to nuendv[ Gov. Ernest Gruening will px'e-; sent the welcoming address on | Wednesday morning. and Mayor; Waino Hendrickson of Juneau, May- | 2r Bob Ellis of Ketchikan and Mayor | Mike Pusich of Douglas, have been | invited to speak also. At the Wednesday afternoon ses- | sion, Judge' George Folta will pre- | sent a resume of law enforcement | problems. Gov. and Mrs. Ernest| QGruening will entertain the visitors at dinner following the first day's | session ! On Thursday, tne visiting chiefs | from the States will speak and Ralph Rivers, Attorney General,’ will talk on special problems of pa- | trol enforcement. The men will at-, tend the Chamber of Commerce ;vhmn at noon and their wives | A FIVE-HOUR STRUGGLE RY A man-and-wife team of deep-sea fishers landed this 400-pound broadbill swordfish at Santa Satalina, Calif. Hugh and Virginia Wright gaffed the monster after hooking it on regulation 26-thread line with breaking strength of 66 pounds. The broadbill towed their boat 10 miles out to sea during the battle, with Mrs. Wright maneuvering their fishing cruiser, the “Stormy,” be entertained by Mrs. Frank ' ‘tealf at a luncheon in the Iris Room of the Baranof Hotel. Fhat evening there will ce dinner and | dancing at the Salmon Creek Coun- | hile W ght 1l o {hy Clib for the Hlghway Patroi| While Wright fought his catch. (International) members, their wives, and invited guests { in Mexico before ng on loI PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — For- | Odessa or' Leningrad. The two consulates, the only ones | the Soviet Union maintained in | this country, were closed after the U. S. asked Russia to bring home the New York Consul, Jacob Lom- akin. . mer President Eduard Benes was buried in a tomb in the garden of his country home at Sezimovo | Usti, with Protestant and Catho- | lic services at the graveside. On Priday, Sgt. Emmett M. Botel- ho, Sgt. Wesley 1. Gilman of An- chorage, and Sgt. Bob Brandt of Fairbanks will speak at the meet- ing and in the afternoon, George Sundborg of the Alaska Development Board will address the “Influence of the Highway Patrol on Future Development of the Territory.”, Judge Felix Gray, U. S. Commis- sloner will also speak on Friday af- ternoon. At 4:30 the sessions will Kcdink are Sidney A. Banks and | conclude and a cocktail party will E. D. Compton be held at the Elks Club, to be fol- — - - - - I lowed by dinner and dancing at . Mike's Place in Douglas. ‘The members of the Alaska Highway Patrol, who will be in at- tendance at the meeting are Sgt. Emmett M. Botelho, Juneau; Sgt. ‘Wesley 1. Gilman, Anchorage; Sgt Bob Brandt,Fairbanks and the fol- lowing Highway Patrolmen, John P. Monagle, Juneau; Casey Moran, Ketchikan; Ernest L. Mayfield, Tok Junction; Charles J. Davis and Harry H. Marlowe, Anchorage; Adolph C. Lubcke, Haines; W. L. Dickenson and J gy W. L. Wilson of Fairbanks; Stan- | -~ FIRM, BUT SOFTLY # MODELLED, INDICATES -> FROM KODIAK Registered at the Baranof from | HAVE YOUu ‘ CREATIVE" CHIN ? ley H. Laird, Tok Junction; Gt G. Puckett, Seward and John D. | CONSTRUCTIVE -ruo:gm: ‘ HIGH GRADE Brndshnv. 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The same ! polictes caused the downfall of the | two governments. To adherents of Gen. Charles de Gaulle, the Premier tendered a ! | vague promise to consider the gen- | eral elections which they are de- manding. He said the question of | =———————— Ao WAGNER ASKS FOR" PERMISSION FOR NEW RADIO SPOT WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—(#— William J. Wagner, trading as Alaska Broadcasting Co.- Sitka, Alaska, today asked Communica- tions Commission authority to| build a standard broadcast station, He asked authority to operate on 1400 kiloeycles, 250 watts day and We think that the Vol- unteer Fire Department of Juneau is an excep- tionally fine organiza- tion . . . We urge you to % nizeluahow... “I . VE ‘LFOS(;Y’BLE:G? be resen tem 15 and 16. SPECIAL vidually with the trucking cmu:u-m,’ further “loosened the l-day tieup ] CUT, TAX RAISE politan area’s supply channels. PARIS, Sept. 11 John E. 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