DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KENAI PENINSULA
Vol, 1. _Moose PasSj Alaska - i.yrlh 10» 1940_No.49.
NIGHT SCHOOL CLASSES OF THE
MINING COURSE- UNDER WAY
Thirty seven interested people were^in
attendance Monday night when John Dorsh,
instructor from the University of Alaska
gave his first lecture opening a five
weeks course in mining. Twenty-six en
rolled for the entire course.
"General Geology" was the subject of
Monday night's lecture, "Placer Formations"
of Tuesday night's lecture. Tonight the
subject will be "Deterraininative Mineral
ogy" and blow pipe analyses will be taken
up. Miners with much experience are in
attendance as well as novices.
Radio report Monday night was thatGer
irany had moved in on Denmark taking over
Copenhagen in less than an hour. German
troops were being landed on the south of
Norway and there were conflicting reports
that war had been declared between Germany
ana Norway. England was reported to have
sent three German ships to the bottom of
the sea - one of then a transport with
many soldiers and horses on board.
At the primary election in Illinois the
vote for a third tern for President Roose
velt stood six to one. Dewey for presi
dent carried Nebraska.
Primary election in Alaska April 30th.
Watch your step! Vote for the man and if
he is a member of your political faith, so
much the better - but if the best man is
not of your political faith, for your own
sake vote for the man and not for the party
A till introduced by Delegate Dimond in
March will, if enacted, amend the Act of
Congress relating to wages of laborers and
mechanics employed on public buildings of
the United States, which requires that
contractors and subcontractors on such pro
jects pay at least the prevailing rate of
pay in effect in the States in which the
construction is undertaken, to extend its
provisions to the Territories of Alaska and
Hawaii,
From J.J.Eckles' WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER:
"Mayor Don Carlos Brownell, of Seward, who
is in Washington in the interests of road
construction to connect Seward with other
points on Kenai Peninsula and with Anchor
age, has discussed the subject with Secre
tary of the Interior Ickes and other offic
ials. Mr. Brownell reports that no con
sideration will be given by the Department
of the Interior to Col. C.F.Ohlson's pro
posal to abandon Seward as the coast ter
minus of The Alaska Railroad until Septem
ber at the earliest.
FAN MAIL FOR ALASKA'S NELLIE
Every mail boat brings Mrs. Nellie Neal
Lawing a large number of fan letters from
thoee who have seen the picture "Alaska's
Nellie." Several hundred have arrived
to date. The letters bear only the ad
dress, "Alaska's Nellie" and Uncle San
helped along when one letter from Pitts
burgh, Pa., came thru without a stamp.
By the time Mrs. Lawing had personally
answered 75 of her fan letters she had ac
quired what is known as "writers' cramp,"
The U.S.State department, making its an
nual summary of U. S. citizens living in
other countries, finds that 350,797 per
sons having American citizenship live in
countries other than their fatherland.
Italy is the most popular second hone
for Americans,19,561 living there. Great
Britain is next with 7,914 American expat
riates and France, with 5,927 ranks third
in popularity.
In Canada, 11,172 make their home but
bany of these are border-line expatriates,
living in Canada but commuting to such
American cities as Detroit for business.
By continents, Asia ranks second to
Europe in the number of Americans, having
33,118. Of these 8,145 live in Japan,
7,063 in China and 8,500 in Palestine, with
the rest scattered among 12 ether eastern
countries. There are 16,502 U.S.citizens
in South America.
Aitho Soviet Russia is the largest coun
try in the world, only 400 American citi
zens are registered as living there now.
The 1940 census taking in recording
districts in Alaska shows as many losses
as gains:
Circle
Fort Gibbon
Forty Mile
Hot Springs
Hyder
Konai
Ketchikan
Koyukuk
Kuskokwim
Mount McKinley
Menana
Palmer
Rampart
Seward
Tolovar.a
Valdez
VTasilla
1939 1929
766 631
425 438
140 90
170 199
97 213
623 468
7,967 6,468
285 271
793 722
394 290
611 768
1,444
228 180
1,536 1,279
246 217
915 1,085
548
Bernarr MacFadden,Liberty magazine,has
has filed for the Democratic nomination as
U.S.senator from Florida.