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Vol. 1
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KENAI PENINSULA
_Moose Passt Alaska - September 22. 1939_
No. 31
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
Germany and Soviet Russia continue their
plans to divide Poland with Germany with
drawing troops from Poland to mass for a
monster battle with England and France on
the western front. Russia was advancing
on Warsaw Friday but Poland continues val
iantly to fight. Radio broadcast from
Warsaw said; "Polish troops advanced over
two miles in the western sector. In a
fierce bayonet charge infantry units have
retaken completely the suburbs of Araga
and Wola, capturing many prisoners, three
machine guns of the heavy type and seven
light machine guns.
Soviet Russia and Japan are said to
have declared an armistice in their unde
clared war in Manchoukuo and on the Mon
golian border. Germany has been trying
to effect reconciliation between Moscow
and Tokyo since the signing of the German
Soviet non-aggression pact on August 24.
The anticipated tie-up of coast ports
when present working agreements expire
September 30 seems to have been averted.
Union longshoremen and water-front employ
ers, breaking months of impasse, reached
an agreement to resume negotiations and
to keep the old contract in force until a
new one is signed, or negotiations dead
locked.
Exclusive of Navy and Marine Corps for
ces, the U.S.Army and Air Corps now have
18,500 men stationed at the Panama Canal.
The owners of the ss Athenia, which was
torpedoed by a German submarine, announce
that 128 passengers are missing or dead.
The U.S.government has in operation and
ordered 3033 Army planes and 2500 Navy
planes. Congress has allowed the Army
$120,000,000 to purchase more planes to a
limit of 6,000.
The U.S.Navy has awarded a contract es
timated at $12,070,339 for the construct
ion of the Kodiak Island and Sitka naval
bases.
Mrs. Minnie De Back, allegedly injured
while traveling on the Alaska railroad in
1931, was awarded a $10,213 judgment
against the U.S. sovernment, by Federal
Judge St. Sure in San Francisco.
Due to the fact that Canada has entered
the war, Alaska pilots have been notified
that they cannot fly over CJanada without
special permission.
The University of Alaskfe has an enroll
ment of exactly 201 students this year.
FOUR MURDERS IN MINING
CAMP HORRIFY ALL ALASKA
FBI men investigating the violent
deaths of a woman and three men at a min
ing camp on Willow creek, are not giving
out anything about it if they have learn
ed anything.
The dead are Mr. and Mrs. F.Vv.Jenkins,
Dick Francis and Joy Brittell. District
Attorney J.'.V.Kehoe of Seward has made
personal investigation at the scene of
the crime. It is believed that the mur
ders occurred September 10.
The bodies of Jenkins and Brittell were
found covered with a blanket a half-mile
from the cabin of Francis. The body of
Mrs. Jenkins, which bore marks tending to
show that she had been beaten to death,
was found a mile and a half from her cab
in. The heads of Jenkins and Brittell
had been crushed and their throats cut.
Mr. Francis was found dead in his cabin.
He had been shot twice.
The Seward Gateway says: "It is a mat
ter of common knowledge that the Jenkins
and Francis claims had been in litigation
and that trouble between the two men had
raged over a period of years, both in
and out of courts. Water rights and
dumping of tailings were factors that had
kept up the feud."
Fifty-four ounces of gold were found
in the Jenkins cabin where he lived with
Brittell. The latter, a young man, was
a brother of Miss Agnes Brittell, teacher
at Squaw Harbor.
News of much interest and very gratify
ing to this section is that Norman C. Stines
of~San Francisco, original organizer of
holdings now operated by the United States
Smelting Company at Fairbanks and proven
properties at Nome, has taken option on
the Hubbard and Ogle ground which embraces
around 1200 acres between Copper Creek
and Russian river. Prospecting in the
form of drilling will begin immediately.
The winter schedule of the Alaska Steam
ship company has gone into effect. From
now on until Llarch 27 two passenger ves
sels will alternate sailings each Satur
day for southeastern end western points,
with a freighter to sail once monthly.
The two winter ships will be the Alaska
and the Yukon, to alternate each other,
beginning October 7. The Mount McKinley
will replace the Alaska December 9 while
the Alaska goes into dry dock. '<7hen the
Alaska is again in commission the Yukon
will be taken to dry dock.
The ss Baranof has been chartered for
a 71-day cruise around South America,to
sail January 5.