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Famed Old Ship
Now Freighter
Veteran of two wars, the fam
ous old Coast Guard cutter Al
gpnquin is being rebuilt as a
freighter and soon will be ready
to do her bit in the titanic strug
gle with the Axis powers, it was
learned here recently.
Purchased by the navy from'
the Foss Company of Seattle, the
Algonquin will be placed in an
undisclosed service after she un
dergoes extensive alterations.
With her tall stack cut down
and changes made in her decks
and upiperworks, little resem
blance will'be left of the Algon
quin which saw service in the
Spanish-American War and was
the flagship of the United Statey
squadron at Gibraltar during the
FJrst World War.
The decks of the famous ves
sel where commands rang out
apd men hurried to stations in
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Puerto Rico, Alaska, at Gibraltar
and off the Mexican coast, soon
will be piled high with freight
as the former coast guard cutter
plies from port to port as a cargo
vessel.
Retired from service and re
placed by a more modern cutter,
the Algonquin was sold to the
Foss Company in Oakland, Calif.,
and brought to Seattle where she !
was kept several years and then
taken to moorings at the south
end of Lake Washington.
After a long idleness in the
lake, the Algonquin was chartered
by the navy and towed to Ko
diak, where she served as an ,
electric generating plant for op
erations ashore. A 1,200-kilo
watt generating plant was in
stalled in the vessel before she
was taken north.
Veterans of the waterfront still
remember the Algonquin when
she was a member of the coast
guard’s Bering Sea patrol fleet.
The vessel was commanded by
Lieut Comdr. C. F. Howell and
carried as her mascot Devil, a
Boston bull terrier, which had
the freedom of the cutter’s decks.
Capt. G. C. Carmine commanded
the cutter during the First World j
War.
Lieut. Comdr. Ben C. Wilcox of
the coast guard, now on duty in
Seattle, was chief engineer of the
Algonquin four years and made
three Bering Sea and Bering
JStrait cruises in the vessel. He
says she was, in the heyday of
her service, one of the finest
ships of the coast guard fleet.
Among the fruits grown on Si
cily are lemons, oranges, citrons,
olives and grapes.
The average U. S. cow gave
2,204 quarts of milk last year.
The United States uses lead at
a rate of 12 pounds a year per
capita.
SHOP CLERK CHASES
THIEVING CUSTOMER
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP)
—Seventeen-year-old Georgia
Hart is a clerk in a department
store, but she might be converted
any day now into a floor detec
tive.
The other day, she said, she
spied a 40-year-old man slip a
man’s suit under his raincoat and
hurriedly leave the store.
Georgia, pretty 100-pound high
school student, gave chase. She
caught up with the culprit,
shamed him and he returned the
suit to the store.
GOLDEN RULE
VEHICLE STYLE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—A.
J. Hanson isn’t the sort to hold
z guy when he’s down.
He haled into court a hit-and
run driver who had damaged
his automobile. The offender
explained that he had made aiV
rangements to pay the damages,
but that he did not have $5 to
pay the assessed traffic fine.
Hanson paid it for him.
HAYS, Kas. (AP)—Hays police
officers really know their mili
tary uniforms. The other day they
picked up a sailor because he
was wearing brown shoes. He
turned out to be an AWOL sol
dier who had traded uniforms
with an AWOL sailor.
PUP TREES BEARS
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) —
This is the heart of the Great
Smoky Mountains where bears
are big and little pups are brave.
A C. Cochrane’s puppy dog
spied a mother bear and two cubs
coming from a grove of hem
looks. The pup barked and—
Mother bear spanker her cubs
up a tree and climbed up behind
them. Folks say the pup kept the
bears treed there for hours.
115 MILLION
IS COST OF
ALASKA ROAD
Senator Burk Says Expenditures
Justified by War Demand
WASHINGTON—General Gee.
C. Marshall estimated the cost of
the Alaska Highway at $115,
■090.000, including improvements
which will be completed by the
end of the year.
Reporting to Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson, he said the
project got under way February
14, 1942, with orders for the
chief of the U. S. Engineers to
prepare plans. Actual operations
began in March with the arrival
of Quartermaster Engineer troops
at the railhead at Dawson Creek.
(Nine miles were built by April,
1$42, and the last gap of the 1,
480-mile pioneer road was closed
at the end of October.
Improvements scheduled for
completion by the end of this
year include making the road a
26-foot roadbed with surfacing 20
to 22 feet wide.
Expense Justified
EDMONTON—Senator Douglas
C. Buck, former Republican gov
ernor of Delaware, said he be
lieved expenditures on the Alas
ka Highway justified by the de
mands of war.
Buck praised the engineers,
contractors and workmen on the
highway. He arrived this week
enroute home, accompanied by
Senator James Scrugham of Ne
vada, Democrat** chlafeman ofl
the investigating sub-committee,
and Senator William Langer of
North Dakota.
Buck said “if there is any mis
take it is one of policy, not con
struction.”
Senators Homer Ferguson of
Michigan and Harley Kilgore of
West Virginia are expected to
arrive soon. Others returning
with the senators included Major
General Philip Fleming, Federal
Works Agency Administrator and
Thomas McDonald, chief of the
Public Roads Administration.
DELICATE SOLUTION
TO BOYPOWER PROBLEM
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—
James A. Gleason, Knoxville
businessman, displayed .some psy
chology in preventing looting of
his office.
He waited until street urchins
attempted an entry after dark,
succeeding in catching a fright
ened youngster.
Then he hired the boy, along
with some of his friends, at 10
cents a week to guard his place.
Everything has gone peacefully
since.
SITS ON HOT CASE
BUTTE, Mont. (AP)—When a
woman called the Silver Bow
county ration board to inquire
whether her application to pur
chase a stove had been approved,
she was told: “The board hasn’t
sat on that case yet.” -i
The next time the lady called
she inquired innocently: “Has the
board sat on my stove yet?”
ors LIKE
TECHNICAL BOOKS
FORT JACKSON S. C (AP)
—Technical books hold a twro-to
one popularity over escape liter
ature among men of the 106th
(Lion) division at this infantry
training center.
Miss Estellene Walker, libra
rian, said a survey showed that
poetry and fiction were second
choice after text books on aero
dynamics, mathematics and other
scientific subjects. Soldiers in
the medical corps, she said, were
| the most avid readers.
ATTENDS CHURCH
WITHOUT PANTS
ATTU, Aleutian Islands —
Chaplain Francis W. Read, of
Glendale Calif., has a subject he
wants to preach on when he gets
back to civilian life—“The Sol
dier Who Came to Church With
out His Pants.’’
Chaplain Read said the episode
occurred like this:
“A lieutenant came to me fol
lowing services held in a mess
tent and I saw he had attended
the services without his pants.
All he wore was a pair of long
drawers and a field jacket. He
explained that he had had his
pants cut off so a doctor could
get at a wound and that as be
tween coming to churoh- without •
pants, and not coming at all he
cho^e the former.”
The chaplain said “It was
amazing how the men would
stand in rain, fog, cold and wind
and almost knee deep in mud to
worship. I held services in every
war tent and in other locations
and when I inadvertently missed
a tent the men felt it keenly.
It was not unusual to hear men
say Chaplain, we’ve been sweat
ing you out all day.’ ”
STAMPEDING NORTH
EDMONTON — Fifty mining
men said the scope of the hunt
for strategic war minerals in the
North was demonstrated hv the
fact that more than 100 field men
and engineers, representatives of
some of the largest metal firms
in North America, have passed
through Edmonton in May and
June, enroute north.
“If these men don’t make hun
dreds of advantageous discover
ies for the mining world, no one
ever will,” said one mining offi
cial.” Included in the parties now
in the North are some of the
most outstanding field men and
engineers in Canada and the
United States.”
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