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Vol. 2
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KENAI PENINSULA
Moose Pass, Alaska - December 24, 1941
No•_32•
Prime Minister of Great Britain, Win
ston Churchill, arrived in the United
States Monday and is a guest at the Whit<
House. No announcement was made as to
the reason for his coming but of course
the word "conference" covers it.
The Prime Minister being half-Americar
(his mother was one of the famously beau
tiful Randolph sisters of Virginia)he is
whole-heartedly devoted to the United
States. The President and Mrs. Rooseveli
and the Prime Minister are friends of long
standing.
So far the Japs have taken Guam, an
island 30 miles long and four to eight
and one-half miles wide with an area of
225 square miles, 1506 miles distant from
Manila. It is a U.S. naval station and
there is a powerful government radio sta
tion there. It is 1500 miles southeast
of Tokyo.
It was guarded by less than 400 navy
men and 155 marines who put up a grand
fight to hold the station.
Marine corps and navy personnel have
valiantly defended Wake and Midway Island
which are landing bases for trans-Pacific
airplanes, in the direct route from Hawaii
to Hong Kong, from attack upon attack by
the Japs.
Successful defense of Luzon, largest
island of the Philippines, on which Manila
is located, continues. Beyond landing
small groups in unimportant sections of
the island, the Japs are unsuccessful.
They are now turning their attention to
Mindanao and Mindoro islands, of the same
group.
Secretary of the Navy Knox flew to
Pearl Harbor on Thursday following the
sneaking attack by the Japs, December 7,
to learn why such an important outpost had
not been more alert to enemy attack. He
found an immense amount of evidence of
fifth-column activity on the island and
drastic measures are afoot to squelch it,
Colin Kelley of Florida, pilot of a
bombing plane, is credited with having
sunk the 29,300 ton Jap battleship,Haruna,
After releasing his third bomb and the one
which struck the battleship with the re
sult of sinking it, his plane fell and he
was killed. He is survived by a wife and
a two-year-old son.
President Roosevelt has written a lette:
to the United States president in 1958,
asking him to give Colin Kelley, third,an
appointment to West Point,
A distressing accident happened to A.C.
Watkins on Saturday afternoon, December 6,
i when, rounding a curve at Mile 18 on the
Seward to Hope highway, he ran into the
j heavy truck of Dennie McCart. One of his
legs was twice broken and he received oth
, er serious injuries.
He was taken to Seward General hospital
[ and is recovering slowly.
Flood waters from glacier fed streams
tributary to Snow River have destroyed the
highway bridge at Mile 18 and greatly dam
aged the Alaska railroad bridge at Mile 14,
For more than a week the men of the Bureau
of Public Roads worked night and day trying
to save the highway bridge but the combined
crash against it of a huge cake of ice and
a huge log took it out at 5*30 last Sunday
morning.
Thus ended all traffic to and from Sew
ard over the highway and for several days
the railroad was unable to use it's bridge.
Passengers and freight have been trans
fered for a time from trains at one end of
the bridge by foot passage over the bridge
to trains at the other end. Coming at
the holiday season, the closing of the
highway for many weeks until the bridge
can be replaced works a great hardship up
on the hinterland. As soon as Kenai Lake
becomes frozen over to a depth that care
and trucks can pass over it with safety,
travel to and from Seward will be resumed
in the style afforded the pioneers prior
to 1937.
The following Christmas program will be
given by the pupils of Moose Pass school
at the schoolhouse on Christmas Eve , be
ginning at 7i30 o'clock:
Opening Song - Deck the Halls - School
Flag Exercises - School
(a) Songs - The Star-Spangled Banner
(b) Flag Salute
(c) Song - God Bles6 America
; Recitation - Evelyn Velanis
" Beverley Seater
" Garwin Smith
'Exercise - Trimming the Christmas Tree
- School
Song - Jolly Old St. Nicholas
Recitation - Marjorie Velanis
" John Thurston
Song - Come,All Ye Faithful - School
Recitation - Donald Smith
" Helen Velanis
Song - Hark, the Herald Angels Sing - School
Recitation - Robert Condit
• " Iris Smith
" Teddy Velanis
Song - Silent Night - School
" Up On The Housetop - School