Vol, 2Moose Pasat Alaska - January 31, 1941 :
TABLOID NEWS
1940 gold production in Territory seta
new record of $25,375*000. More than the
entire amount mined in the great old gold
rush days. The 1940 production brought
the gold output since the beginning of
recorded mining in 1880 to $561,311,000,
Premier General John Metaxas of Greece
died Wednesday morning following a short
illness. Hitler immediately put forth
the propaganda that the British had as
sassinated Metaxas - but that theory is
not being accepted in the best circles.
Metaxas has been premier Bince 1936 and
has tried to fashion a Fascist state.
Among bills introduced recently by Del
egate Dimon'- is one prohibiting the ap
pointment of anyone except a resident of
Alaska as governor of the Territory.
(Loud applause from the Alaska gallery.)
Wendell Willkie's latest effort to keep
himself in the limelight is to desert the
Willkie clubs and appoint himself emissary
to England.
It took The Alaska Railroad four days
to move that last consignment of some 900
soldiers from the railroad terminus to the
Anchorage bottle-neck. It is to be hoped
that when the enemy rows into Resurrection
Bay , it(the enemy) will wait patiently
for the soldiers to be returned to the
coast be fore it(the enemy) swipes the
terminus of The Alaska Railroad, n
Vi/hen we mentioned the above to an of
ficial of The Alaska Railroad, he waved
his hand airily and said, "Oh, we'll get
them back somehow." "Somehow" is right.
John E. Ballaine, promoter of the Alas
ka Central Railroad, now The Alaska Rail
road, die' in Seattle January 15 at the
age of 72. He was a leader in the pro
ject that resulted in the building of the
government railroad and an advocate of the
route as it stands.
Karl Theile, former secretary of Alaska
cannery operator,and miner, died in Seattli
early in January, at the age of 53. He
was appointed secretary of Alaska under
Governor Scott C. Bone in 1921 at the age
of 33. He served in that office thru the
administration of George A. Parks and unti!
1933 under John W. Troy. He at one time
operated the Diamond K Packing company at
Wrangell and at the time of his death was
mining in the Candle district.
WRECK AT PRIMROSE
On the return trip to Seward, after
engine 801 had delivered its third and
last eight coach train loaded with sold
iers at Anchorage, an axle on the last
car broke at Lawing. The switch was
"right" so the string of empty passenger
cars rolled on to Primrose before it was
derailed, ripping up the track from the
warehouse at Lawing to Primrose. Because
there were no passengers, no one was hurt.
The annual Fur Rendezvous will be held
at Anchorage February 18 to 22. An elab
orate program of entertainment is being
prepared.
Vice president Garner, very ex now,
wore his formal cutaway coat and morning
trousers every day, all day, during his
last days in Washington.
"I can't wear these in Texas," he ex
plained with a grin, "so I want to wear
them out before I leave Washington."
The foilwing item from the Alaska Week
ly, will interest Moose Pass, which was
until three years ago, the summer home of
the E. F. Jessens:
"Four and 20 tropical fish in a thermos
jug swished around for two days, probably
wondering where they were going after they
left their home in Seattle. Sailfish,
goldfish, angelfish, guppies and even one
with a lighter stop signal on its tail,
found themselves eventually, after a two
day airplane ride, in the lukewarm tanks
at the E. F. Jessen home on Garden Island
in Fairbanks. 'Tis said that after a
big meal of canned dried insects, the cho
r s of 75 gaudy finned, creatures can be
heard humming, "South of the Border."
Ethiopia is snapping at Italy's heels.
The worm turns at a very opportune time.
The Moose Pass library board is prepar
ing a list of new books to be ordered.
The Alaska Game commission announces
that during the calendar year of 1940 the
value of furs shipped from Alaska totaled
> $1,958,533. This amount is $48,422 great
er than for 1939, due largely to a banner
catch of muskrats.
The Alaska Miner says, "It will be com
forting to baldheads of Alaska to know that
La new hair tonic made from bear grease, is
free of barium, pyrgallic, anacaradium or
phenylene-dianine." Of course there are
not many bald heads in Alaska. So many
men are bachelors.