--THE CHILKOCT POST
Chilkoot Barracks, Haines Alaska.
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Published without expense to the Government.
Friday, May 21st., 1926.
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PEvTS OF THE WEEK. . * ; v ’ “f1^
President Coolidge has decided to spend his summer vacation
ir the Adirondack Mountains at the summer home of Erwin R.Kirkwood,
publisher of the Kansas City Star.
Restoration of sterling .exchange to a gold parity basis at
^40 86 came as a dramatic climax last week in ATew York to years of
erratic fluctuations in British currency, which at one time in 1920
drove the rate to an extreme low price of $3,. 19.
The Government steamer service operated in connection with
the Alaska Railroad has started with the departure of the stern
wheel steamer, General Jacobs, from Nenana for Ruby, on the Yukon.
Unprecedent shipments of freight are now enroute on the Alaska
Railroad for interior points, chiefly the Fairbanks district.
President Coolidge has received a message from Lincoln Ells
worth, co-director with Capt .Amundsen on the Norge saying; "Trans
polar flight successful". Ellsworth is the only American aboard the
dirigible. Twenty five men have seen the North Pole. There were
six men in the Peary party, Commander Byrd and Pilot Bennett and 17
on the Norge last week.
The winter ice in the Yukon River started to move at Tanana
at 5:30, May 10. The big overflow came down the Tanana River May 2
and cleared the Yukon from all ice from the mouth of the Tanana
down for a long distance leaving the Yukon above undusturbed* The
breakup was two days earlier than Is.st year. The first boat from
Dawson will follow the ice down the river then go up the Tanana
River connecting with the Alaska Railroad at Nenana.
The machine gun of 1925, a 50 caliber Browning type, appears
as a challenge to the effectiveness of the Seixante-Quinze artillery
piece of the World War. Exteriments and maneuvers executed by the
76th Field Artillery, at Fort D. A. Russell, disclosed that the im
proved machine gun has an effective range of 4,000 to 5,000 yards
and a maxim range of 7,000 yards. The use of a new design bullet,
with beveled streamlike base, instead of the former square base, is
said to be responsible for the increased range. The gun shoots at
a rate of 500 bullets to the minute and falls on a 45 degree angle
on a battery redoubt, thus being a possible factor in wiping out
an entire battery crew.
Young Stribbling last week administered a drubbing to Johnny
Risko, Cleveland heavyweight, in a slashing ten round battle in Mad
ison Square Garden, Yew York. About 15,000 fans witnessed the 21
year old Georgian spot his opponent for 14 paunds, then let loose
with an attack that smothered and harrassed the Cleveland man.
Almost from the start to the finish, young Stribbling outfought
out generaled and out boxed Risko and had him groggy under smashing
rights to the chin, especially in the fifth and seventh rounds.
Babe Ruth has made his 11th homer this season making his total
of home-runs 320 in his 12 years career with the majors.