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_ Chilkoot Barracks, Haiaee, Alaska,_
Published without expense to the Government.__ ’
Vol.5. ----:-* Friday. April 24th., 1925. ---- Ho.16.
50^ Quarterly. $2.00 Yearly
MEWS OP THE WEEK.
To the cheers of officers, soldiers, workmen and spectators,
K-33 moored last Friday morning in Puham, England, after a 28 hour
battle with the elements over the Horth Sea and East Coast of Eng
land. A favorable wind enabled the crew of the big dirigible .to turn
the course near the Dutch Coast, after daylight and made a steady
flight. The R-33 was torn loose from her mooring in a terrific gale
early Thursday morning, April 16th.
One hundred and forty, including 20 women and children, were
killed thursday, April 16th.,in Sofia, by the explosion of an infer
nal machine in the cathedral called Sveti Krai during the funeral of
General Georgheiff, who v/as assassinated on the streets April 9th.
Six general^ and thirty officials were killed and Sofia is in a
state of disorder. Partial law has been proclaimed throughout Bul
garia. The streets are cleared at 7 o’clock every evening.
New Cabinet has been completed in France. Paul Painleve is
Minister of War and President of the Council, Briand is Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Joseph Caillaux,Minister of Finances, Andrew Hesse,
Minister of Colonies, Ameile, Karine, Charles Chaumet, Commerce,
Jean Durand, Agriculture, Pierre Lavel, Public Works, Jules Steeg,
Justice and Vice-President of the Cabinet, Anatole de Konzie, Public
Instruction and Senator A.Schrameck, Interior. 'Parliamentarians
describe the Cabinet as composed of safer and saner elements of the
left groups with pronounced leanings toward the center right parties.
There are three candidates in the German Presidential race.
At the close of the Presidential nominations on April 16th.three
candidates were on the ballot for the election as follows: Field
Marshal von Hindenburg, for the United Right; Dr*Larxg for the Peo
ple’s “Bloc and Ernest Thaelmann, for the Communists.
New Ambassador from Cuba coming to the United States. Rafael
Sanchez Aballi, will be the next Cuban Ambassador to Washington to
succeed Don Coame de la Torriente, who has resigned.
The New York World is authority for the statement -that the mer
ger of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and the Ivexican Petroleum
will be followed by further large consolidations of oil interests
in the near future.
Floyd Siverly, convicted slayer of policeman Litsey last January
was sentenced last Friday in Seattle, to from 35 to 40 years- in pris
on, by the trial judge.
Henry Ford has announced that he will pay the minority share
holders in the Detriot, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, $102.00 a share
for all the stock they have to sell. Alien Ford took over the prop
erty five years ago he paid ?1 a share for the common and $5 a share
for the preferred stock.
The dam of the power plant of the Ford lotor Company at Flat
Rock, Michigan, hurst on April 14th. and released millions of gal
lons of water, covering 5000 acres to the depth of 12 feet.
The State Police warned the inhabitants of the threatened area when
guards at the dam telephoned them of the impending danger.