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Vol. L
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KENAI PENINSULA—
_Moose Pass. Alaska - Dec. 31.193X.
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SIX SNOTSLIDES IN TWO MILES
Following the t remend ou^r=*'Nsnew fall
on Christmas Eve, six snow / / slides
blocked the Seward to Hope*' // // hieh
between Mile 36 and Mile T>~. /jw/l
A slide between Mile 2Y'
and Lakeview occurred with the
snow plows and bull-dozers on the sou'
side of Mile 21 - with the result that
only tho Forest Service bull-dozer i§]/ (/
at work between Miles 36 and 38. No car
were able to come thru Hope all week and
The Rumanian
government took heart
recently when II ——
•Duce warned the *———
.S.S.R.ot the end—
of the meeting v
f the FAscist
grand council that / >
~y ' 1
.'an
( W®
X
he would
brook/any
jterference
low
Danube
warren Nutter anc Denny iicue.rt ,mau. car
riers were blockaded on the Hope terminus
of the highway. Lisle Saxton was al90
snowed in on the Hope side.
The crushed plane of Hans Mirow, Nome
owner of a fleet of planes,was sighted by
Charles R. Burnett, Civil Aeronautics Auth
ority inspector stationed in Fairbanks and
companion searchers by air, 10 miles from
Kaltag. Landing, they found the bodies o
Mirow and his co-pilot,Peter Beisted,in th
wrecked plane. Indications were that the
plane had struck the ground in a nose dive
Hans Mirow, 35, was one of Alaska's bes
pilots. He is survived by his wife and
two children.
On the flight in which he lost his life
he was searching for one of his planes los
in t^- vn) yR’NNulato district. A woman
(/(/{ S) <^rfand her 15 —^ months
^ ^'old baby,}' ** _t'
// — aboard
plane for whi
v - ,,was searching.
V (were rescued
taken .to
r=7
\ were
Vji./They
the
he
. ^and
Nulati
^ dog’
N/
*: T) A flying pa-i .
~\4trol boat, J(
)
U t j new experimental ampBibian
plane, has made a successful
'1 z. non-stop hop between San Diego
^ -land Pensacola.
Bob Faller, Cleveland
) Indians star hurler,
. /nae secured permission
y/rom club officials to ac
:ept a movie contract.
The General Electric Company, V/esting
louse Electric and the Grayber Electric
Jompany have been indicted by the federal
jrand jury sitting in Detroit for viola
lions of the anti-trust law. They are
iccused of violating the Sherman Act thru
inlawful price fixing.
We could get along with fewer economist;
md more economizers. —Dallas Mew®.
/"“^statement ox xn
head of the Fasc
ists resounded not
only thru the Bal- \
kans, but thru Eu- \
fope and wbb greet -\
ed with cheers in '
"Washington.
The Finns are now \
.fighting on Russian \
■ Five death-dealing mai
were captured from the
^yesterday. Radio re
■that Russians went .
eight army planes ye^»
and dropped bombs f on a
soil,
hines
Russians
port iB
aloft in
'terday
’detachment
!of their own sol- V diers because the sol
'diers were in
^some kind of revolt.
£ **
The Alaskay' Steamship company will raise
its fares £ from Seattle to ports in Al
aska on J January 2. The schedule of
1increas-^ es includes the following*
.jt. Between Seattle and Seward,first
/ class upper deck now $72.50,will
*be I $78; first class lower deck, now
ey r9 $78; first class lower deck, nc
'. $65, will be $70; steerage now
/ / s $41, will be $43. no increase in
/ r
id.passenger fares between ports in
/ ^Alaska.
No announcement is made respecting
’freight rates. Freight rates were raised
[about a year ago.
Col. Chcrles Lindbergh has resigned
from the National Advisory Committee on
Aeronautics. He said that he did not
plan to concentrate on aviation in the
future.
Cal M. Brosius was elected Worshipful
Master of Seward lodge 219, F. and A.M.
Heywood Broun, columnist, died at the
age of 51, in New York.December 18.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Cunningham at Fairbanks December 26. Mr.
Cunningham, with The Alaska Railroad, has
many friends in Moose Pass.
The ss Baranof will sail for Seward
from Seattle January 13 and 27.