The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 13, 1948, Page 8

‘PAGE EIGHT FIRES AT FAIRBANKS UPS RATES THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE——JUNEAU, ALASKA Mayor, (10 Clash Over Loyalty 2 ALASKANS e s 5UY MINING TOWN, IDAHD COUNCIL HEARING ON POWER RATES T0 BE HELD LATER Persons interested in the rte hearing originally scheduled for this| evening are reminded that, by WINTER IS HERE; ; TAKU WINDS HIT JUNEAU, WEEKEND was a Trku wiid, at least in that hit Juneau yesterday ith a velocity measuring between Tt MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1948 | it is just blowing or t the locally-famed Taku winds Several windows were reparted broken in the Baranof Hotel and signs were torn down by the wind. The Weather Bureau said ortheasterly winds will continve in gusts tod and tomorrow. The temperaiure ov end was up and down. On Satur- night is dropped to 14 and by Saturday afternoon it was up to the week- the | that the temperature will be nea 12 tonight and that it will go up tomorrow. .- LPAVES ON PAA | Miss Ruth Gustavson, who has been employed with the Alaska Na<] tive Service for several months, left| by PAA Clipper today for a six week's leave in Seattle, Minneapol- is and New York. ,es Insurance May Soon Be Hard to Gei-Warn- ing Is Issued fires, which reputation FAIRBANKS, Dec city's record of cost has been earning it a as “the town that fire built,” is bringing an insurance problem. Men who write the polici predict that it may shortly be even harder to buy fire loss pro- tection In ly increasing of the u review X Nelson Meye situaticn, George wrote in the Daily ws-Miner } “In 1945, a single agency here represented 23 companies willing to insure Fairbanks mercantile es- tablishments against fire. Other companies were eager for represen- tation ! “Today the same agency repre- sents a firm which in 1939 w | accept a policy risk up to $35.000 for a business building. Today in surance firms of similar assets have clamped a $2500 limit on policies wherever needed in the Clarence for structures in the same block The original firm, the willing firm oi 1939, has been “burned out of business Insurance agencies warn that un- less the city rids itself fire hazards and bolsters its fire pr tection facilities, there may a time when no ins will be available “It's a warning be experience.” After the dev 1919—the city’s second ¢ loss—no company wou protection in the 3 years. 1 of D § ki i A MADL ALeSKA SALMON PACK PACK SEATTLE, Dec. 1 P —The s son’s final Alacka semor report 1'sts the 1948 total nine cent below 7 cent below the si The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Serv- ice report listed the total at 3.974.- 540 cases. Last year’s total was 4,330,423 per was a drop of 430,000 cases in the pink pack and 253,000 in the Reds. An estimate of close to $96,213,00C, the value of the 1948 pack was made by McGdvern and McGovern, a leading Seattle broker. The total fina! red pack was 1,- 634,466. The pink total in wh.ch the red pack had exceeded the steadily shrinking pink pack The totals by districts (with 1947 in parenthesis for comparison) in- cluded: | Southeast 1,283,791 Bristol Bay, which closed gust—1,316,168 (1,372,257 ; Alaska which ended with in Au-! Central a Sept - e—-— SPERLING FAMILY TO HAVE HOLIDAY REGNION, PORTLAND The Harry Sperling family will hold a Christmas reunion at Port- land, Oregon, tk Sperling and his son, Bill, plan to leave for the States on Friday. David, who is in his first year at Annapolis, and Harry, Jr., who is ta law course at the University of Washington, will meet their fath- er in Portland. Also joining in the festivities will be Mrs. Ernest Ely, the form- er Mary Sperling, and her hus- band, who are attending the Uni- versity of Oregon. Mr. Sperling and Bill will turn to Juneau on January re- $ICKS' SEATTLE BREWING & MALTING CO., SEATTLE, U.S. A, ing a pre- - tual consent, the Junea cil and and Power Company, ed 1t. the Alaska F have postpon- ‘The Council requested “breakdowns” of stati: stics Power Company representativ last week could not onight Another reminder: be pre The ared by approv ven by the Council for most of the The apr'ications wil are to the District Clerk of Court S urday, t ret await final ac of Judge the District bench - "¥'S CONTROLPLAN | "ROTECTSRE ration of the rogram pr is being to ector of i‘e has Service. tart a we been reduce 1:1s to 500. - R A VIRLT] §d FRAUD REF ORTED (UDAY, ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES, Dec. was 1307,- Federal police today charged 14 pe 256. It was the second straight vear sons, including some of presmemi closest Juan D. Peron’s with defrauding the A nment of at least 11,000,000 pesos | ($2,100,000) Feceral Judge Oscar Palma Bal- (1,090,456) ; tran, who conducted a preliminary the an of Ari of a non-existent 30 final report—1,316,495 (1,821,701). aluminum plant from Italy to Ar- investigation, said volved obtaining a 1 unds for transfer | Jentina. He pesos ($640,000) of the |brites to Argentine officials eharged {with helping the deal - "CAPPY RICHS” IS DEAD IN ABERDEE! ABERDEEN, Wash Capt. Ralph E 83, veteran seafarer ick: three- He young author Francisco, and Distributed throughout Alaska by ODOM COMPANY George |from Anchorage, where he is serving |temporarly on Third the left Ancherge d three Italians who origi- |nated the deal set aside 3,200,000 (Matt) and Peasley” of the Peter B. insurance 37 applications for liquor licenses s 1 recommendation onl, | 1 be returned te tion after the W. Folta Division | MAYOR FLETCHER his forefinger BOWRON shal at union official to prevent city employees taking loyalty oat this snit in tk official Berland. NDFER | edatol carrie » interests of the Soviet Union?" he de U for control pro- olves pr . This s that other vil- reindeer ially reduc- 1s in the last { time, the . « d from 1,200 | Hgha i i il A FOGC ndarmes stand near a street during an unusually heavy fog Paris. BULLETINS light | KMENT i onetin Cotton. night in a hospital ige he had been m: five times and was quile wealthy. LONDON.—king George's physi- cians announced tod that the king s made substantial“progress btinz a a'lment. n B ay died last of and New- reement the TIAWA cunciand h admitting Canada e signed an a 13— serious ! advisers, rgentine gov-| summer. - - U WOMEN SAiL ON ‘NORAW' their husbands car the Territorial Patrol up the Alaska and to Anchoraze, M Metcalf and Mrs. John A. have cnjoyed a further and are returning to boat ANCHORAGE as identiiied the flier lane cra und J. Maidhol lew York. He v tar veteran of the ndia theatre after ge iss'on in 1943. T fraud n: While driv- entine ) for hway hway ank A onagle stay Outside of ex- June by stratic They will the CPR from V Metces LOS ALAM Touse su:ccmmittee oday to check on ‘av c the fof the Los roject be hearin reporis admin atomic an 11,000,000 for this evening along. - I 1 ener ver is head of Patr ationed in Ju 1f an nd MIAMI, Fl. t seem 1o Dec. 1: 2B ngeranee ‘ifij?:fl bt ] . s TELEPHONI ENRY M. 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