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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KENAI PENINSULA
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Moose Pass, Alaska - July 11. 1939
No.23
SECRETARY OF NAVY DIES
Claude A. Swanson, United States Secre
tary of the Navy since 1933, died on the
morning of July 7 at Rapidan, Virginia.
I7is death was caused by a cerebral hemor
rhage r.nd wholly unexpected. He was 77
years old and is the third member of the
Roorevolt cabinet to die while in office,
^ur’al services were held at Rapidan yes
terday
ARCTIC TRANSPORT SERVICE WILL
ESTABLISH BASE AT SEWARD
Not later than August Seward will be
come a plane base. The Arctic Transport
Service, operating three planes - two on
wheels and one on pontoons, will be based
at Seward according to the Gateway.
A. Aiken is the owner-manager of the
company and has leased for three years,
the hangar at Seward airfield. Mr. Aiken
plans to establish schedule flights from
Seward to Anchorage, to Fairbanks, to the
Kuskokwim and to Nome.
DEATH CALLS SOURDOUGH
Wilbert D. Fuller of Cooper's Landing,
affectionately known as "Dad" Fuller,died
in his deep on the morning of July 4, at
Seward General hospital. He was taken
to the hospital from his cabin at Coop
er's Landing a few days before his death
occurred. He was 78 years old, a native
of Peoria, 111. He has lived on Kenai
Peninsula around 35 or 40 years, most of
the time at Cooper's Landing. He is
survived by two nephews who live in Idaho
His funeral services were held Friday
in Seward, the Rev. A.J.Clements conduct
ing the services.
Lyman Graves has secured a job with the
Forest Service supervising a crew of
CCC workers at Rainy Pass on the South
Fork of the Skwentna River, They are
building an airplane landing field and a
shelter cabin. Mrs. Graves accompanied
Mr. Graves and they went to Anchorage by
train and from Anchorage to Rainy Pass
by nlane.
The net recoipts of the Louis*Galento
fight wore $289,000. Louis* share was
$114,000 and Galento got $50,000.
While coming to Moose Pass from Anchor
age via the Alaska Railroad, Mrs. Ralph
Reid saw a bear, a moose and some moun
tain sheep thru the train window.
There were some clever floats and dec
orated bicycles and tricycles in the par
ade at Seward on the Fourth of July. ,
FOURTH OF JULY
By M. R. S.
Festivities started on Saturday night,
The sitz of the cracker, the skyrocket's
light,
The honking of cars and the hint of a
fight,
The milling of people, both sober and
tight,
All in the honor of Fourth of July.
What are we here for, in gala array?
Crowding and shoving and pushing our way,
Making a noisy, excited display
In pseudo-respect of a glorious day,
Known by the nation as, Fourth of July.
What if our dignified forbears could see
Such a hysterical, mad jubilee;
Anything noisy, and nothing that's free,
More than their foresight could ever
decree;
Commercializing our Fourth of July!
Does anyone know the primordial cause?
Is there anywhere, time, for a reverent
pause
To ponder and study the generous laws
Proclaimed in the message, with eloquent
clause;
The birth of our Independence Dayl
OVERLOADED BOAT TAKES
NOSEDIVE IN TRAIL LAKE
Last Wednesday morning Lewis Tulare
| and Jay Hunt loaded Mr. Tulare’s boat with
,a mill for the mine at Grant Lake, sup
plies and other equipment and started
across Trail Lake.. The front end of the
boat on which the mill was loaded turned
out to be too heavily loaded, for they
didn’t get far away from the shore before
the boat took a nosedive and settled into
the lake. Both men were thrown out of
the boat and swam and waded to shore.
Not until Sunday afternoon was the boat
with everything in it, recovered. On
Sunday there were enough men in the set
tlement from the various camps, to help.
The boat and its contents were recovered
with a B-B-hoist.
Mr. Tulare has been having a lot of
luck and all of it bad. His cabin,black
smith shop and arastra were flattened out
by a snowslid and had to be rebuilt. The
boat accident tops that - but from the
appearance of some ore he took from the
new workings, he is due to have a lot of
luck - and all of it good.
Richard Haliburton who sailed from La
guna Beach,Cal.,March 26 in a Chinese junk
to cross the Pacific Ocean, is thought to
have perished.He has not been heard from.