NEWS O1^ THE WEEK.(continued ^row rja^e l5*
1st Lt. L.Hoyt Rockafellow, Mrs, Rockafell-w, and their two children.
Margaret, age three and hal**, and Frances, age six weeks, arrived *n The Admiral
Rogers Sunday night. The garris-n extends a hearty welcome to them. Lt.Rocka
fellow is a gradua te the U.S.F.A. antrv School(l921) at which
latter place he was retained as an instructor in bayonet and grenades. Ke then
accompanied General Paul B. Malone as the General* s Aide-de-Canr t* ^t.Sill, Okla^
h-nr and later t* rt. Sam Houston, Texas, where General al*ne Commanded the 2nd.
F-A.Brigade. Lt. R^ckaf ell‘",w comes here from Ft,Logan, Denver, Col-rad*, where hr
has been on duty with the 38th Infantry. Lt. Ro ckaf ell *,rr s home t*TTrn is Factor,
end his wife’s, Camden, S.C#
The cable has broken again between the Post and Juneau. Communication wi
Skagway remains intact.
The score of the New Year’s Day fo-tball game between N*tre Dame and
Stanford was Note Dame 27 and Stanford 10. The same day Pennsylvania's defeat!e >.
barque "Football" grounded on the past season r-ckc whan Calif~mia "-n East-West
f ootball game by a score of 14 to 0.
Equipment costing 040,000 is being assembled for use in extracting g‘ld
values from the tailings at the old Treadwell mines.
The Senate has approved the H-uce bill appropriating $925,000 f*r c*nstruo_
ti-n of a cutter to replace the Cutter rear which has served the Arctic remi-ns
for a quarter a century.
A detachment of American - arinen ha s landed at Nanking, China, t* pro tecl
foreign district following l^-tinm *f large silk stores which suffered l*sses estj
mated at $800,000.
N"el W. Smith wh*ce services were loaned temporarily by the Pennsylvania r *
to The Department Of the Interior f *r work on the Alaska * *R* has beer '"op^inted
General Manager *f the letter rr'.L
Rear Admiral L. .Nulton ' .11 succeed Pear Admiral >il*'*n on Feb. 25th as
Superintendent U.S.Naval Acr.dany.
Dean Anderson r.f the College of Engineering, University ">f Kentucky has
introduced the tferd Puzzle in the college curriculum* He says he regards it
as "one of the greatest agencies in enlarging one's vocabulary and promoting gen
eral knowledge"#
General T?.P.Richardson, the builder of Chilko t Barracks, has bitten to a
friend in June°u saying that he expects t* visit Alaska, during the coming summer.
Widening the Strand, in London to relieve traffic c^ngesti^n is casting
$25,000,000 a mile.
Investigation of the Prussian State Bank discovered a record. l#en *f
$500,000 which King Edward of England w*n *ne night in the middle nineties from
con of Prince Radiziwill ~f Berlin.
H.Fowden Marshall, Federal At^rney early in the recent war, is authority
the statement that Samuel Gompers refused “millions”- without number” t* Germany
by stopping the fleww of munitions to the allies,thru strikes of transport workers
The foil-wing is a news dispatch fr^m St^ckt^n, Cali*~rnia, Dec. 31st. i
LEE.Lemons yesterday hit Frank SSurveda with his delivery car. ’While Lemons was
putting Spulveda into his car, another hit it, throwing Spurveda unconscious to t i
road. Uhile the second driver was helping Lemons to pick up Spulveda, a third car
hit the delivery car of Lemons and sent it and Spulveda into -the ditch. A f*urth
car stopped in time to avcid another accident and took Spulveda to the hospital.
Heard By Radi-: Alaska and the Arctic will be manned tymn Airship this
c-ming suftmer.
5,600,000, 000 pounds of News Paper used last ye^r(The Chilko-t P-ct not
included in this) -
Berlin - President Marx is still trying t* form.a cabinet.
Whistler, Cal. Earthquake sh--k this town lasting f-ur cec-nds t-dry.
Christmas mail br'ke all rec-rds this yecr.
Initial payment *f The National S-ldier B*nus made t*d'y.
Chicago - 40 Osage Indians invaded this city on their way to Washington
to beg Congress to cut their incomes to about one third of present amount. They
are all olB milli^nairs.