ARMY AND NAVY
Lock Mulligan Is In the service, Co. F.
44th U. S. Inf., Camp Lewis.
Sergeant Oliver Hopper is now chief
clerk in the Mustering OfTice, Fort Riley,
Kansas.
Word has Just been received that Chns.
Heacock arrived safely overseas on his
eighth trip.
C. W. Bland has enlisted In the cavalry.;
the first of any of the Island boys to en-!
•1st in that branch of the service.
James P. Momb Is now a sergeant ini
the 31st Engineers’ Corps and is in Cen-j
tral Officers' Training Camp. Lee, Va.
Dr. Wm. Pallister, of Juneau General;
Hospital, has been commissioned a captain
in the U. S. Medical Reserve Corps.
Colonel Pullen, Major Rosenberg, Cap
tain Pullen, Captain Cogswell, Sergeant
Major Wurzbacher. Chief Gunner Pyke,
are some of the Skagway boys in the serv
ice of Uncle Sam.
Guy Johncon, formerly underground
Safety Inspector at Treadwell, left Lead,
8. D., to enlist In the 1st Engineers’ Train
ing and Replacement Regiment, Washing
ton, D. C., Barracks.
Allen Chamberlain has received a com
mission as Captain in the Engineers’ Re
serve Corps and will go into training at
Camp Humphreys, Va. He was formerly
of Juneau and Perseverance.
Mrs. Harriet S. Pullen has received a
cablegram announcing the arrival of her
son, Captain Royal R. Pullen, in England,
on his way to France. Captain Pullen’s
wife has returned to her duties at Wash
ington.
Joe Meherin, the well known Alaska
traveling man, has been accepted for serv
ice in the United States Tank Corps, with
the rank of First Lieutenant, and will
Immediately go to an officers' training
school for instructions.
Oscar Fritzberg, for a long time em
ployed in the J. W. Martin store and also
assistant Are chief at Douglas, has been
transferred from Puget Sound Naval Sta
tion to the Quartermasters’ School, Naval
Base, Hampton Roads, Va. Oscar volun
teered before the draft and was stationed
at Puget Sound for several months, and
the first intimation that local people had
that he had been transferred was con
veyed in letters that Just reached here.
Marshal Tanner reporta Fred Hamburg
and John Muaeth trained to the minute at
Fort Seward. Muaeth has loat 22 pound*
In training.
James Fltsmorrls, formerly employed at
the P. H. Fox store In Douglas. Is now r
soldier boy, being located at Camp Lewis.
Washington.
Word from somewhere on the Atlantic
was received by Carl H. Erickson that
Ernest J. Powell, of Evacuation Hospital
No. 9 was on his way to Berlin.
E. M. Polly is to leave for Camp Humph
rey. Va., to enter the engineers’ training
camp. Mr. Polly was employed at the
Alaska Juneau. Mrs. Polly will remain In
Juneau.
H. Harold Townsend has been commis
sioned a First Lieutenant of Engineers.
He was one of the corps of engineers who
worked on the surveys for patent of the
Alaska Juneau Company’s mining claims
and was afterwards in the employ of that
company.
Allan FIngor, or Tread wen, nus receivcu
his commission as a First Lieutenant in
the Machlue Gun service. He iB now sta
tioned at Camp Hancock, Georgia, 23rd
Go., Main Training Gimp. His many
friends predict a bright future and wiah
him much success.
Frank D. Caraway's name has been
added to the Honor Roll. He left Tread
well to enlist in the Engineers, but could
not make it owing to underweight. He
then enlisted in the Aviation Corps, but
ills health failed and he was given an
honorable discharge.
Harrv Sabin, of Juneau, has finished
his schooling at the radio school at Har
vard and is now a wlreiesc operator on a
boat running from "an Francisco to New
York through the Panama Canal. Charles
Sabin, his elder briber has recently en
listed in the Merchant Marine.
Richard McCormick, Jr., and Angus
McMillan have been inducted into service
and will report to Fort Seward. Dick Mc
Cormick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard McCormick, or uougias. ana was re
fused admission to several branches of
the service when he attempted to volun
teer last year. He is the 3econd of the
McCormick boys to be in the army. John
volunteered last spring and is now a cor
poral in Co. C, 14th Infantry. A. McMil
lan formerly conducted the Orpheum thea
tre and was recently married. He is the
last of a family of several boys to go in
the army; he has one brother killed and
one wounded fighting with the Canadian
army. Hg is accepted for limited service
only.