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Moose Pass. Alaska - December 11» 1939
No. 38
MOOSE PASS SCHOOL CHILDREN TO
GIVE ELABORATE CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
On Friday evening, December 22,at 7i30
o'clock, an elaborate Christinas program
will be given at the schoolhouse. Every
body is invited to attend. The program
follows:
1- Welcome - Helen Velanis and Joanne Nelson
2- The Christmas Tree - Evelyn Velanis
3- Ready for Christmas - with a Santa Claus
4- Song - Come Light the Christmas Candle
5- A Christinas Acrostic
6- Reading - Once More - Geraldine Griese
7- The American Stocking - Joanne Nelson
8- Mother Goose's Visit to Santa Claus
9- Christinas in Many Lands
10- Beautiful Star
11- Reading - The Arrest - John Thurston
12- Luther's Cradle Hymn and story
13- D-e-e-r S-a-n-t-a - Donnie Cook
14- Reading-Mother Goose's Tea Party
Dolores Laubscher
15- Song-Christ Was Once a Little Baby
16- Piaylet-Santa Has his Troubles
Dolores Laubscher and Don Cook
17- We Three Kings - - - - Don Cook
Teddie Velanis
John Thurston
18- Doll Song - Evelyn Velanis
19- First Aid for Santa - ending with
Merry, Merry Christmas Bells
Radio report Tuesday night was that
Douglas Fairbanks, Senior, died at his
home in Santa Monica, Cal.,Tuesday from a
heart attack. World Almanac says that he
was born in Denver,Colo., in 1883.
The German ship "Bremen" finally reached
German waters Tuesday.
Dr. Ernest Gruening, newly appointed
governor of Alaska, arrived in Juneau Dec
ember 1. He is accompanied by Mrs. Gruen
ing. Their son is in school in the States,
Shortly after President Roosevelt ap
pointed him to the new post, Dr. Gruening
urged that American territories be prepared
for political equality with the states. He
said: "a democracy has no business having
colonies."
Russia was said Tuesday to be mobilizing
one million men.
The largest land action between the Rus
sians and the Finns, up to December 2, was
fought at Suojarvi where Finnish machine
gun fire annihilated two enemy companies to
the last man. Radio reoort Tuesday was
that Finland had destroyed four Russian
battalions. Officials said a dozen in
vading tanks were destroyed on the Karelia
front by the Finns.
SEA ELEPHANT IS FOUND ON
BEACH AT KASAAN
The Alaska region Forest Service sends
a news release that a sea elephant or el
ephant seal was recently washed ashore on
the beach at Kasaan on Prince of Wales
Island, Tongass National Forest, where,on.
November 6 it was viewed by Forest offir
; cars from the launch "Forester"*.
The elephant sea. is the largest mem
ber of the seel family, the males attain
ing a length of 22 feet and a weight ap
proaching three tons. The name is de
rived from the curious flexible snout of
the males, which, when relaxed hangs six
to 10 inches below the muzzle.
The specimen found at Kasaan is report
ed to have been shot in Kasaan Bay sever
al days previously. It was a large male
14 to 15 feet long and estimated to weigh
between 3030 and 4000 pounds.
Scrambled word contests will be resumed
early in the New Year. The editor crackec
the alleged brain during the scrambling
process and it will have to be glued to
gether with Christmas cheer - or something,
Mrs. Antoine Velanis was first to re
port with the authors unscrambled. They
were Susan Glaspell, Somerset Maugham,
Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell, Booth
Tarkington, Rachel Field, Kathleen Norris,
Sinclair Lewis, Dr. A. J. Cronin and
Philip Wylie.
Alaska's delegate to Congress, Anthony
J. Dimond, gave a splendid talk from Fair
banks over KFAR. He spoke of defense plar
of the United States in Alaska and said
they were only beginning to be carried out
that much more was to follow. He regards
the naval bases at Kodiak and Sitka, the
army field at Anchorage and the air base
construction work at Fairbanks as but
preliminary steps toward establishing
sound defense projects in Alaska,
On the subject of refugees he said,
"should the States open doors to a par
ticular set of refugees, Alaska too
should welcome them and assist them in
reestablishing their lives, V/e are given
all the privileges of citizenship grant
ed to residents of the States, hence we
should be willing to share whatever dis
advantages accrue from those rights,"
About the status of gold he saidj "I
foel certain that the Administration will
not lower the price of gold, us the re
sult v/ould be deflationary economics, and
would prove disastrous to those engaged
injproducing the metal. On the other
hebd, I see no probability that the price
mo.y be advanced."