--THE CHILKCCT POST
_Chi Ike ot barracks, Haines, Alaska._
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Volume 5-January 30th, ,1925. -Ho. 5.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A radio dispatch states that Dr. Sun Yat Sen, president of the
Chinese Republic is lead.
The Kreuz Zeitung, a news paper of the Prussian Conservatives
complains that malicious statements concerning the financial positi^
of the ex~kaiser are constantly being circulated. It explains that
the household of their Majesties at Doom corresponds to that of a
country family and then follows with the statement that The Ministry
for Finance sends monthly to Doom the equivalent of $100,000 for tic
maintenance of the forty persons that compose the royal household.
Frisco papers report that the cross word puzzle craze has made..;
necessary tc limit the use of the dictionaries in the public libra.,;
to five minutes per person.
Washington has never seen any one just like Frank W.Stearns, fr:
and counselor to President Coolidge. The nearest approach is said
to have ^een Col. F. Id. House, ai visor to Woodrow Wilson, who was so
singularlv good at holding his tongue that he gained a reputation at
a mysterious person. ^esi^e l.rr. Steam, reports the Wfell Street Jou;
nal, "Colonel ^ouse looked like a movie sibair with a full publicity
staff".
Three hundred thousand metal roofs in Tokio, most of them tin
an^ galvanize! iron which were put up since the earthquake are addi
appreciably to the discomforts of one of the hottest summers in rect
years. Accompanying the heat is the worst drought experienced in 3C
years. It is argued that the city gets nc rain because the metal
roofs reflecting the suns rays, generate a body of superheated air
which rises and car rie s ’ the rain :■1o u l s away.
Deputy Coll ctcr of TJ. S. Internal Revenue, Arthur S.Dening stat
from. Seattle the middle of last rx *»tr cn a 11, ICO mile seven month
trip landing first at Seward and from there going to Fairbanks, the
..Ten an a coal fields and the Li ^ i go o d country, then down the Yukon a
across to Iditarod and 1'cGrath o*rer to the Kuskowim and good Tews 3
section, cohering Bering Sea and returning via Jenana.
Secretary Wilbur stated vefore the House Yaval Committee that t
U. S. had purposely made ships slower than Great Britain’s believir. -
that the weightisx in armor and guns was more valuable than in e.nri
He pronounced as rediculous the ilea that a 2C001b bomb dropped on '
ship would jam all the gun turrets and incapacitate the crew.
Women are now, it is announced, to be admitted to smoking care.
George IWacAdams laments in the Yew York Times that this is the last,
of the four sanctuaries saved to the male sex to go, the others be.
the barroom, the boc-tbiack stand and the barber shop.
At the recent convention in Atlanta of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ, Dr. Charles Clayton Forrison offered a resolutic
urging the Council to recommend that the churches "Cease to make
themselves a partv to militarism by the appointment of Chaplains to
the Army and Yavy". The answer was the adoption of a proviso urgin
a greater number of chaplains.
Corparal Stewart of Coimoany "E" wrenched his hip in a skiing
accident last Saturday.
A. Valentine Dance for the benefit of the Haines School will
held in the A.B.Hall Friday night, February 6th, The admission
of one dollar will include a light lunch.
The troops of this Command will be paid tomorrow morning at
LOST. Iv,r. Sartin would like to know what has happened to that
Japanese Current.
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