Roger Bockman Promoted
To Second Lieutenant
FORT BENNING, Ga. — (Spe
cial) Roger Woodard Bockman, of
Nome, Alaska, was commissioned
a second lieutenant in the Army
of the United Stages on May 7,
1945, upon the successful comple
tion of the Officer Candidate
Course at The Infantry School at
Fort Benning, Georgia.
Lt. Bockman is the son of Mrs.
Helen M. Bockman of Steadman
Ave., Nome, Alaska. The new lieu
tenant was inducted into the
Army on June 19, 1944, and
served with the 52nd Bn. A.A.,
Fort Bliss, Texas, before going to
Officer Candidate School four
months ago. He held the rank of
Pvt. before being commissioned.
The new officer is a graduate of
Wins Richest
Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, June 9 — (JP) —
Hoop Junior splashed through
mud to win the seventy-first rich
est Kentucky Dprby by six
lengths to claim the sixty-five
thousand dollar prize.
Pot ’O Luck was second with
Darby Dieppe coming in third.
The winner was expertly ridden
by Jockey Eddie Arcaro and ran
the quarter mile in two minutes
seven seconds.
Air Sailor was fourth in a field
of sixteen. Pot O’ Luck had half
a length over Darby Dieppe.
Nome High School at Nome, Alas
ke, and attended the University of
Washington* at Seattle, Washing
ton.
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Coast Guard
Repeats History In
Philippinelnvasion
With the strange irony of his
tory, Unied States Coast Guard
ships were among he first to fire
in the liberation of he Philippine
Islands under the direction of
Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
For 46 years earlier it was a
Coast Guard ship which fired the
initial salvo in the naval operation
in Manila Bay which resulted in
the capture of these same islands
from the Spanish.
The first shot fired at Manila
Bay on May 1, 1898, in the great
est batle of the Spanish-American
War, was shot from the Coast
Guard cutter McCulloch. She
came down from Hong Kong with
Admiral Dewey’s squadron, push
ing southward through the China
Sea, to steal into the bay after the
Spanish fleet.
In the middle of the night, while
passing the enemy batteries off El
Fraile Rock, her stack caught fire |
and shot a tell-tale finger of
flame into the sky. The shore bat
teries opened up on the cutter,
which immediately returned the
fire from her after 6-pounder.
The squadron passed the batter
ies safely, and in a few hours the
Spanish fleet was a smoking
wreck off Cavite, and the Philip
pine Islands became an American
possession.
And again, the Coast Guard was
represented, as in October, a great
fleet, beside which Admiral Dew
ey’s would have paled into insig
nificance, stood into Leyte Gulf in
the Central Philippines.
It came, as did Dewey’s, at night
—passing through the mine fields
and beyond the shore batteries
PIONEER WOMEN MET
FRIDAY EVENING
The Pioneer Women of A’askp
met at the home of Mrs. Antonio
Polet for their regular June meet
ing last Friday evening. The usual
cards were played, wih Mrs. Ben
Gillette, Mrs. Robert Baldwin,
Mrs. J. J. O’Leary and Mrs. T.
Lehmann the lucky winners.
without a sound—line after grey
line of battleships, cruisers, de
stroyers, transports, landing craft,
and auxiliaries.
FAMILY LIFE IN THE FOREST
DENVER—</P)—Two does found
refuge on the large military reser
vation surrounding the Denver
ordnance plant during the hunting
season. How they got over or un
der the high fence surrounding the
plant nobody knows but when of
ficials saw them there they ob
tained a buck deer from the state
game department and turned him
loose with the females. Orders
were issued the little band of deer
is not to be disturbed.
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