MOO
DEVOTSD TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KE..AI PENINSULA
Vol. 2
Moose Pass. Alaska - June 16. 1941
No. 22
ESaeS:
DIAMONDS AT HOPE
I
When J. R. Kelsey was
sifting Hope's soil last
season to determine its gold
content, he found minute but
perfect diamonds.
Mr. Kelsey knows diamonds
from having v/orked the Kim
berley fields in South Afri
ca.
President Roosevelt and
Mrs. Roosevelt plan to visit
Canafla in the near future.
Their visit to Ottava may be
timed so that the President
can personally address the
Canadian House of Commons.
That the- United States is
vase in training air troops
for this war is evident when
one reads an item like the
following:
"An Australian lieutenant
in command of an anti-air
mcraft gun on a mole at Cand
ia when the first German
parachutists dropped from
planes, states that the at
tack was perfectly executed.
The parachutists descended
in almost unbroken lines and
as they floated down threw
hand grenades and fired tom
my guns. Heavy strafing by
high-level bombers, and dive
attacks, made everybody go
under cover. Then followed
tri-motored troop-carriors,
each carrying 20 to 30 men.
They fie-./ low over the
sea and when they reached
land were not more than 200
feet from the ground.
Some of the planes car
ried field guns supported by
three parachutes, one attach
ed to the breach and one to
each of the two trunnions.
Their timing was perfect.
Fifteen planes would cone in
drop their men and then move
out again and 15 more would
come in. The airplanes by 1
no means dropped their men
haphazard. They were 'l
plainly working by a set j1
plan and by the time they 1
had finished, Candia v/as en-1
closed by a semi-circle of
troops stretching right a
round behind it from the sea ^
on one side to the sea on thd
other side. ■
INTERNATIONAL HIGH/AY
IN NEXT T'./O YEARS
Governor Gruening, who
is a member of the American
Commission on the Internat
ional Highway which is meet
ing in Juneau this month,
announces that an early
start on the highway is
planned, the v/ork to be com
pleted in two years. He
states that the Commission
feels it imperative that
construction work be com
menced immediately.
The defense angle of the
proposition, hitherto kept
in the background, is now
out in front. The governor
points out that in the event
of the United States getting
into the war, with the ship
ping situation getting more
acute, the International
Highway will become, in ef
fect , the "Burma Road" for
Alaska.
Congressman Jed Johnson
of Oklahoma, acting chairman
of the sub-committee of the
Committee on Appropriations,
Last month urged the immed
iate construction of the
highway, saying "it will
materially promote our aims
in national defense and may
even conceivably make it
possible for us in the fu
ture to avoid the anguished
reproach of 'too little and
ioo late'
Denney McCart says that
io has seen more game this
summer, on his route between
Seward and Hope, than he has
:ver seen before.
S. A. Liening of Tacoma,
issociated with the Falls
Jreek mining company, has
irrived , bringing consider
ible mining equipment with
lim.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. (Bob)
/IcEachern are the parents of
i daughter, born in Seattle
>n May 10. Her name is
ranet Joan McEachern.
Leo Ohnhauser has moved
;o Mile 20. The Y/atkins'
ire .farming Mr. Ohnhauser's
lome stead.
SCHOOL CLOSES '.JTTH
PICNIC AND FIELD DAY
School closed on June 5th
with Helen Velanis and John
Thurston holding the enviable
record of not having been ab
sent or tardy all year.
The teacher, Kirs. Carl
Weidiaan of Juneau, v/ith her
young son, Carl, sailed on the
Aleutian for their home, that
same evening. kirs. ,/eidman' s
term of school was very satis
factory from the standpoint of
both the school children and
their parents.
On June 2 a picnic v/as held
on the shore of Lower Trail
Lake attended by »urs. .Veidoan,
Roy Luckey, liargie Volanis,
John Thurston, Teddy Velanis,
Beverley Seater, Evelyn and
Helen Velanis, Carl Jeidman,
Harold and Elvood Seater and
Arlenu Velanis and Bobby Con
dit.
Field day exercises on the
school ground resulted as fol
lov/sj 200 yd. dash-boys 13 to
18, v/on by Roy Luckey} 25 yd.
dash, boys 8 to 11, Teddy Vel
anis} 25 yd dash, girls 9 to
11, Beverley Seater; 25 yd.
dash, boys and girls under 9,
Helen Velanis; relay race,
girls under 11, Helen Velanis;
relay race, boys under 11,
Teddy Velanis; sack race, girls
all ages, Beverley Seater;
sack race, boys all ages, Ted
dy Velanis; high jump, all un
der 11, Teddy Velanis and Bev
erley Seater; high jump, all
under 18, Harold Seater. A
ball throv/ing contest closed
the program, for which peanuts
were received for every ball
made.
her daughter, .oiss Alice Cal
houn, Mrs. 0. Hunley, all of
Beverley Hills, Cal., are vis
iting Mrs. Nellie Neal-Lawing
at Laving.
Mies 3thcl Smith of Topeka,
Kan., is a guest at Lawing
Roadhouse.
The Misses Lubin, Noess and
Smith, nurses, spent last week
end as guests at Russian River
Rendezvous.