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__ DEVOTSD TO TH5 INT30ESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND. KENAI PENINSULA_
Vol. 1
Moose Pa3St Als.ska - November 11. 1939
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CENSUS OF ALASKA MAY RUN
WELL OVER 73,000 FOR 1940
Mel Homer, enumerator for the 1940
census taking - now underway in Alaska -
was counting .the population of Moose Pass
and vicinity for several days this week.
Mr. Homer has done some werk in Seward so
far and all of his work of enumeration in
the island towns south,east,and west of
Seward. He has yet to cemplete counting
in Seward arid in the north and west end of
Kenai Peninsula. From Hope he v/ill have
t* visit the outlying districts by dog
team.
Mr. Horner was enumerator for this same
district ten years ago. He says that at
that time the population of Moose Pass in
cluded Mr. and Mrs. George Lindsay, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Roycreft, 77ill, Sam, Ed and Bob
Estes, George Severson and Oscar Christen
son.
On the road to Hope were Fred Woedeman,
and E.R.'/eaver and at Sunrise were Mike
Connolly and Chris Amedt. There were 11
people at Hope.
Mr. Horner thinks Seward will go well
over 1,090 in population now and he says
that if other sections of Alaska have in
creased in population to the extent that
his district has increased since 1930 -
and he thinks they have - the 1940 popula
tion of Alaska is well over 73,000.
The death of another highly-valued long
time resident of Alaska occurred last Fri
day night when Lyman G. Sands passed away
sometime during the night in his room at
the Overland Hotel in Seward.
As we announced in the last issue of the
Miner, Mr. Sands planned to stay in Moose
Pass this winter and had rented the Moose
Pass store's cabin# He came in from Mile
44 Friday, left his luggage at the cabin
and went to Seward to spend a day or two.
His death occurred the same night.
Mr. Sands was around 60 years old. He
was never married. He is survived by a
sister, Mrs. Gertrude Sands Richardson of
Oakland, Gal., and a twin brother, Jesse
Sands of Auburn, Cal. His body was sent
out on the ss Yukon and burial will be at
Auburn, Cal.
The Roycroft-Estes brothers are prepar
ing to provide Moese Pass with electricity.
P#les were erected this week and v.ithin
two weeks the current will be turned on.
Sidney Denison will be succeeded as
district Ranger for Chugach National For
est by E. Norgarclner of Roseburg, Ore.
Mr. Norgardner arrived at Seward, accom
panied by Mrs. Norgardner and their two
children - Saturday on the ss Yukon.
HITLER ESCAPES DEATH
BY TWELVE MINUTES
In Munich last Wednesday night, a time
; bomb exploded in the Burgerbrau Boer
1 House just 12 minutes after Adolf Hitler
and accompanying officials had left the
beer house. During the evening, Herr
Hitler had been addressing a gathering of
several hundred people. When the bomb
: exploded six were killed and around 60
were seriously injured. Others were in
jured but not seriously.
Immediately propaganda was spread that
the bomb had been placed by English or
French machination but it is evident that
i even Herr Hitler does not believe that as
, he immediately ordered the arrest of any
German v.ho had made derogatory remarks
about his (Hitler's) talk.
The special session of Congress adjourn
; ed at 6:35 o'clock November 3 after ap
i proving President Roosevelt's administra
tion bill repealing the arms embargo meas
ure of the neutrality act and substituting
a system of cash and carry sales to belig
1 erent countries in Europe.
The Senate vote was 55 to 24 in approv
al and the Ho. se vote was 243 to 181.
The President signed the bill at noon
Nevember 4 and immediately issued a procla
. raation making it effective as applied to the
war in Europe.
Twenty one vacancies in the Matanuska
Valley Colonization project are to be
filled with Alaskans who have been farmers
in Alaska. Despite 2,000 applications
on file, Colonel Ohlson has announced
that resident Alaskans will be given pref
erence over applicants from the States
with an equal knowledge *f farming.
Alice Brady, stage and screen star,
daughter of the famous producer, Yilliara
A. Brady, died at the age of 47 in New
Yerk on October 30.
Opie Read, author of "The Arkansaw
Traveler" died in Chicago November 2 at
the age of 86.
The Democratic Territorial convention
will meet in Juneau January 16. It will
be the first convention of the United
States to be held in 1943 and will either
have to endorse or say nothing ab#ut a
"third term for President Roosevelt and is
it in a spot? It is.
Winnie Ruth Judd, convicted murderess,
who escaped last month frem the Arizona
asylum for the insane, wandered around
until hunger overtook her and then wont
back to the asylum.