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Vol. 1. _Moose Pass, Alaska - November 30, 1939_
No. 37.
GARNER SAYS HE'LL RUN FOR
PRESIDENT
Managers of the "Garner-for-president"
campaign Saturday announced that Vice Pres1
ident Garner is in the presidential race
to y/in, regardless of whether President
Roosevelt seeks a third term.
President Roosevelt, meanwhile, has
failed to disclose whether he will be a
candidate. Recent intimate callers at
the 7/hite house expressed the view that
President Roosevelt is still undecided.
Representative Taylor (Dem.) of Colora
do, is recovering from a sever illness. He
is 81 years cld. He is chairman of the
house appropriations committee from which
Col. Otto Ohlson, general manager of
The Alaska Railroad expects to wangle four
million dollars as a starter toward remov
ing the railroad terminus from Seward to
Portage Bay.
Four eastern states were shaken by eartl
quake recently. The shock extended to
Bridgeton, New Jersey, west to Baltimore,
north to Allentown, Pa., and as far as
Delaware.
The "North Star" with the Byrd Antarc
tic expedition party, sailed from Boston
on November 18. Mrs. Oscar Plowman'e
nephew is a member of the crew. Alaska
will miss the North Star during its absenc<
from Alaskan seas. To the Antarctic, be
sides the members of Byrd's party and the
motoship’s crew, it carries a 27-ton snow
cruiser,sled dogs, bales, boxes and bar
rels of food, phonograph records and what
not .
The Wage and Hour division granted sea'
sonal exemption from the wage and hour law
for open cut placer mining in Alaska and
the Pacific Northwest.
Exemption entitles the industry to work
employees 56 hours weekly without payment
of time and one-half. The exemption runs
for a maximum of 14 weeks. The division
noted weather and lack of water forced
such operations to close about six months
yearly.
Despatches from Maracaibo, Venezuela,
stated that the important oil port of La.»
gunillas on Lake Maracaibo was destroyed
by fire November 14. Eight hundred per
sons were said to have been killed or in
jured.
An offer of 200 men of Provo, Utah, to
come to Alaska "to pioneer and get a start
on the last frontier" has been received at
the Governor's office in Juneau.
FORMER MOOSE PASS GIRL
TO WED DURING HOLIDAYS
Mr. and Mrs. John 0. Ebing of Sitka,
’Alaska, announce the engagement of their
daughter, Alice, to Ensign Eugene N. Webb,
of the U. S. Naval Air Force. The exact
date of the wedding has not been decided
upon, but it will be some time during the
Christmas holidays.
This news is of much interest to the
bride-to-be's many friends in Moose Pass
where she lived for many years.
Ensign Webb is now stationed at San
Diego, Cal.,and the newlyweds will make
their home there until such time as his
squadron may be transferred to some other
Air Base.
Ensign Webb's home-town is Kansas City,
Mo. The young couple met at Sitka and
his transfer to San Diego decided them to
be married at Christmas time instead of
in June as they originally had planned.
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Mrs. Antoine Velanis was first to un
scramble the lakes in last week's contest.
They were Sweetheart Falls, Minchumina,
Tasepuk,Klutina, Tazlina, Aleknagik, Bech
arof, Iliamni, Russian, Ugashik.
Two months' subscription to the MOOSE
PASS MINER will be given to the one who
first unscrambles the following ten contemp
orary writers:
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2- Ma et e roh egummsa_
3- Ritit e shahgac a_
4- Almagtrimlerthec
5- Obt aingrott onbh_
6- Caferdilleh_
7- Horselinktearn_
8- Wailernisscli_
9- Jondarrinc_
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Lyman Graves returned Friday from the
Rainy Pass region where he has been direct
ing CCC boys in building shelter cabins,
trails and bridges.
Ed. Tulare will sail around the 15th of
December for the States. He will be gone
two months or more.