Vol. 2
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF MOOSE PASS AND KENAI PENINSULA
Moose Pass. Alaska - July 28t 1940
PRESIDENT FOR A THIRD TERM?
Democrats unanimously nominated Presi
dent Roosevelt to run for president for a
third term, at the national convention in
Chicago. Secretary of Agriculture,Henry
A. Wallace was nominated to run for the
vice-presidency.
President Roosevelt accepted the nomina
tion by radio from his study in the White
House.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor paid
New York a visit this week while flying
to the Bahamas over which the Duke has beer
appointed Governor and Commander-in-chief
with a salary of $12,000 a year.
Henry Ford has issued the following
statements "The Ford Motor Company of
Canada, Limited, at Windsor, Ontario, and
other Ford plants located in the British
Empire are using their facilities to the
utmost for the production of military e
quipment for the defense of the British
Empire. They are serving their people as
they should do and as I would do if permit-i
ted and if occasion required."
Jim Busey has made his Alaska magazine,
"FRONTIER" bi-monthly. Those who have al
ready subscribed will receive 12 issues
for their money. The July-August number
is very interesting. There's e.n excellent!
editorial on "Fishermen, Miners and Wars."
A story of the Eklutna school is full of
facts and information. Another story,"You
ought to see Fairbanks# is equally meaty.
There is a splendid article about Kenai
Peninsula. Several pages are fievoted to
Wit and Wisdom, Book re views,Poetry North
ern Notions, and a whooperoo of a tale by
Sinbad the Sourdough. Don't make any
mistake - FRONTIER is worth 250 of anybody"
money.
Colonel Louis Johnson, assistant secre
tary of War, has resigned and Federal Judge
Robert Patterson of New York has been se
lected by President Roosevelt to assume
that office.
A forest fire in San Bernardino county,
Cal., destroyed 10,000 acres of trees and
one near San Diego burned over 5,000 acres
of land last week.
Headquarters of the League of Nations
has been moved from Geneva to Princeton
University,U.S.A. for the duration of the
war.
Great Britain is confident that she will
be able to "stop Hitler."
BILL WELCH RECOVERS PLANE
Bill Welch and John L. Nelson,working
for an entire week, raised Mr. Welch's
monoplane from Kenai Lake near Porcupine
Island, where it sank on July 19. Mr.
Welch found his plane undamaged but he
shipped it to Anchorage by railroad for a
thoro overhauling. He was 1,000 feet in
the air when his engine died but he kept
his brain working, made a dead landing in
the lake and swam away from the plane as
it struck. Moral* Aviators of land
planes as well as sea planes should be
good swimmers.
When Mr. Welch was near enough the
shore to begin wading, he saw a big brown
bear looking him over so he stood in the
icy water until the bear left for else
where. Ho began the long hitchhike to
Moose Pass but was fortunate enough to be
picked up by Tom Jones and F. W. Stilwell
and brought on in to the Pass.
Roy Luckey:Sr., and Sam Griese are re
ported to have uncovered rich ore at the
John Dryer mine. Ten tons were milled at
the Oracle mine and ran $90 to the ton it
is reported.
Surveying is underway on Resurrection
creek and valley at Hope preceding some
extensive dredge project. It is said
that four dredges will be at work there
in the near future.
Wyman Anderson of Falls Creek mining
company suffered serious injury to one eye
and spent last week in Seward having his
eye cared for.
United Mining and Development company
continues to make satisfactory showing. A
£alf dozen "buttons" valued at around 28
hundred dollars each hnve been produced
already this season.
Northwest newspapers in the States car
riec a picture of Miss Alaska and Mise
Nome standing in front of The Chieftain
Press building holding copies of Mrs. Law
ing’s autobiography} "Alaska Nollie."
The L.E.Brenner family, for many years
resident of Hope but latterly operating the
Annex apartments in Seward,are moving to
Fairbanks.
Postmaster General James A. Farley,re
signing that office, will become head of
the vast Yankee baseball club. He is
backed by ex-governor Cox of Ohio in pur
chasing the $4,000,000 baseball holdings
of the Ruppert estate.