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Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20
LESLIES ORCHESTRA

The ticket selling committee for the big dance tomorrow mite, report the sale is progressing better than had been anticipated, which is welcomed news to those who are nursing along the treas ury of the Seward Athletic Club, sponsors of the dance. Leslies' orchestra has been engaged for the evening insuring perfect musical evening.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20
RATIONS OF GROG
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20, t47l- Sailors on French and Italian vessels may receive their rations of grog required by their shipping laws while in American ports. the Department has ruled. Orders to this effect were rel ceiyed at the Custom House from Washington
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20
ENGAGED TO WED

NEW YORK, Feb, 20, (P>-- Miss Eleanor Hoyt, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Richard FarnSWorth Hoyt, and A. Felix DuPont, Jr., son of the manufacturer, both fliers, are engaged to wed.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20
EXCELLENT RECORD

TOPEKA, Kansas, Feb, 2O, tPl
 Santa F'e railroad lines com pleted their 85th day without fatal injury to an employ on duty Isiatha Henry Hale, safety SUI perintendent of the system an nounced here.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20
3s GUARD CAMPS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. tH) - The War Department announced million dollar construction pro- gram to provide 39 national guard camps in 34 states Funds for this work are provided in the recently passed first deficiency appropria- tion bill.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20
SNOW HELPS WORKLESS

NEW YORK, Feb, 20, (P- Snow, followed by drizzling rains, brought work and water to New York, both of which were needed It wasn't a heavy snow which fell, but between l5,OO0 and 10000 unemployed found work removing it from the streets.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20
CAR STRUCK BY TRAIN

INDIO, Calf, Feb, 20, tP-Mr and Mrs. Homer Smith and Mrs. J. w. Walker, mother of Mrs. Smith, were killed when their car was struck by freight train at a crossing near Heber, Calf
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20
sHAKEDOWN CRUISE
SAN FRANCISCO. Feh 2n

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 20, (Pl- After her shakedown cruise at sea, the new Coast Guard cut- ter Shoshone will be stationed in the San Francisco district as the flagship of the coast guard fleet, it was learned here.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20
42 HOURS FLYING
PORT ALI PRINCE. Haiti.

PORI AU FhINOE, HAUL, FVU. 20, (P)--Lieut. F. LoomiS, Jr., Marine Corps and Mrs. Loomis arrived here in their own plane after a flight from San Diego They started January 18th and the trip took 42 hours flying time, with several intermediary stops. Mrs. Loomis, who was taught to fly by her husband, handled the controls over half of the distance.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20

Tonight's basketball game be- tween the Cedar and City squads will start at o'clock Peer Gynt will referee. #. ...##.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20

Dr. Sutherland of Cordova en- tered the Seward General Hos pital today for an appendicitis operation. "
Seward daily gateway., 1931-02-20

J J- Chisholm, Anchorage bro- ker who has been in the States for some weeks past, returned on the SS Yukon.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-07
May DAY

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Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-23

New assortment of beautiful Easter oards now on display at the Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-23
MAYOR'S RACE AT
 HAMMOCK bROT OUT
 SPIRITED CAMPAIGNING

All previous records at the polls were excelled in Klawock at the recent election, held April 2, ac- cording to information sent to The Gateway in the last mail, and the campaign was exceptionally keen for the mayorship. The caucus was held a month pre- ceding the election, the outcome of which led to the creation of three tickets, each led by R. J. Peratrovich, Frank Johnon, Frank Peratrovich.
 Campaign spirit prevailed strong ly for all sides up to the casting of the last vote. Each party felt they had the winnng ticket, but Mayor Frank Peratrovich was re- elected for his fifth term. He stated plainly in his campaign speech that this will be his last term and introduced Frank James, who he will support for mayor at the next election.
 Frank Peratrovich'S ticket won by a six to one vote over R. J. Peratrovich's, and three to one over Frank Johnson's.
 The spirit shown at the election and the manner in which it was conducted, contradicts the state ment often made that the natives are not yet ready for full citizen ship.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-23
KING COVE NEWS

The SS North King arrived with the first of the cannery crew on April 6, bringing 69 passengers to King Cove as a starter for the 1881 season. MT. E. B. Morgan will act as superintendent.
 Miss Georgiana N. McMahan, school teacher at King Cove this past term, is leaving for Seattle via Seward. Miss McMahan ex- poets to be married upon her ar- rival in Seattle to MT. Virgil Wad- dell of Meadows, Idaho, where MT. Waddell attends to the wants of tourists in the line of garage work.
 o. ". Brehmer, postmaster of King Cove, says he spent 8 very nice winter here and looks for ward to busy summer.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-23
UTILITY COMPANIES
 GROSS, NET DECLINES

NE WYORK, April P, (P)-Out of 12 utility companies reporting results for the month of February nine showed substantial declines in both gross and net, while a major ity of the companies revealed earn ings for the year ending February 18th.
 In the entire utility field the only branch that is likely to re- port gains for the month of March is the water company which has profited by the drought.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-23
NOTICE

Applications will be received at the office of the City Clerk, up to the hour of 3 o'clock P. M Thursday, April 23. 1881, for the following Municipal offices, for the ensuing year:
 For combined office of Fire Chief and Chief of Police at salary of S2O0 per month.
 For combined office of City Clerk, Magistrate and Assessor, at a salary of $150 per month.
 For office of City Attorney, at salary of $50 per month.
 For office of City Health Officer, at salary of $75 per month.
 For office of City Treasurer, at a salary of $l00 per annum.
 Dated at Seward, Alaska, April 21, 1881.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-23
FILLING STATION B|GGEST D|R|G|BLE
 |S A YEARS TASK
HAS GAS CAPACITY NEARLY TWICE THAT OF THE
 GRAF ZEPPELIN

AMARILLO, Tex. April 9, (P Manufacture of helium to in Hate the worlds largest air cruis- CT, the Akron" nearing comple- tion at Akron, O., is under way at the governments $2,000.000 plant near Amerillo.
 Storage units at Akron and Lakehurst, N. J., are being filled rapidly, and by the time the big ship is floated, probably next month or possibly June, enough helium will be available to initiate it to capacity. There will also be a reserve supply sufficient to take care of any losses through leakage in the new gas bags.
 The "Alnon's" capacity of 6,500- 900 cubic feet will require more than two-thirds of the 5000, 900 cubic feet of helium ordered by the government to supply both the army and navy for the fiscal year ending June 30.
 Its capacity is almost three times that of the Los Angeles. the largest dirigible in use by the United States, and nearly twice that of the famous German ship, the Graf Zeppelin.
 Anticipating bigger demands on the local plant, with the navy's new cruiser in the air, officials of the helium division are pre- prepared for increased produc- ton.
 New assortment of besutifui Easter cards now on display at the Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-23
WILL REVISE VICE SQUAD

WILL REVISE VICE SQUAD
 NEW YORK, April p, (R-The elimination of stool pigeons as a source of information and a com plete revision of the vice squad was announced by Commissioner Edward Mulrooney as the first of the reforms resulting from an investigation of that corps.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-23
ATTEMPTED FLIGHT FAILS

NEW YORK, April g, R-Cap- tain Ira Baker failed to set a new record for transcontinental flight from West to East when motor .trouble forced him to land at Co., lumbus Airport. He had planned to better Captain Frank Hawks mark by about one hour
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-23
CHICAGO AFTER CONVENTION

CHICAGO, April P, (P-With hopes bolstered by the Nations favorable reaction to the election of Commerce is reported speeding Chicago, the Chicago Association of Commerce is reported speeding it's plans to bring one or both of the national party conventions to Chicago in 1882.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-23
NOT so HOT.

NEW YORK, April 9, (P-The temperature here yesterday reg istered 49 minimum and 67 at the maximum.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-04-23

N0E-'MANYy MORE DAXS UNTIL. MO- THEIRS DAY COME IN AND SIZE OUR BEAVT1FULuASS0RT1 OF MOTHERS DAY CARDS. ALASKA SHOP.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-24
Law as a Cloak for Crime.

An inquiry Is in progress in New
York City into the matter Of police and
magisterial grating. Much evidence
has been adduced to show that Official
blackmail has been practiced upon Of
tenders against the laws, some who
we're not precisely offenders but who
might have been but for police prompt
ness, and even some who we're not
offenders at all but were Just out Of
luck. In the course Of the investlga-
ton positive proof has been given that
certain policemen. mere patrolmen and
slightly higher ranked members of the
force, have for some time past been de-
posting large sums OF money in bank,
under their own names and those of
members Of their families, and have
afterward withdrawn considerable por-
tons of these deposits. SO out OF pro-
portion to the legitimate resources OF
these men have been the deposits and
Withdrawals that the assumption has
been logical that the funds have come
from an Illicit source. and also that they
have, in part. later gone to the tradi-
tional "higher-up" personages Of police
department and others in the circle oil
municipal managers and manipulators
The referee in this inquiry has sought
by subpoena ito obtain records Of de-
posts and wiz drawa's from others thar
the minor Of @ars. The purpose is clear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-24
Special Tags.

The Congressional Tag" amendment
10 the trafic BILL TO which the Senate
has agreed, is an improvement over
the former lack of dehnitive rule or
regulation relating TO the issuance of
these special markers. It restricts the
tags to the automobiles of the members,
and while 1t permits certain special
parking privileges it guards against the
abuse Of such safeguards as the no
parking regulation near fire plugs or
street loading platforms. The ques-
ton now Is whether the special privi-
leges will end with the members Of
Congress, or whether the amendment
Is merely an opening wedge for the
grant Of fayors TO other classes of Capt.
tai residents.
Diplomatic" tags are now issued TO
the members of the diplomatic corps.
These are intended more as a warning
10 the members of the police force than
anything else, serving notice, as they
do, Of the immunity enjoyed by the
holders. They confer no special grants
of course, to violate the law or the regu-
lations Doctors sometimes embellish
their tags with special markers, which
are presumably intended to serve no.
tice that the automobile is probably on
an errand of mercy or emergency that
might be construed as demanding
leniency. The oficial cars Of some Of
the higher Government officials are
marked by seals. which certainly serve
10 impress q policeman with the august
mAaractAr Of the passengers. And an,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-24
Prom the San Antonio Express.

Prom the San Antonio Express.
Perhaps the most striking circum-
stance about the recent strange grade
crossing accident in Salt Lake City
involving passenger train and a
powder truck-was that only three per-
sons were killed.
The dead are the two who were in
the motor vehicle and the engineer on
the locomotive; the fireman was criti-
cally, perhaps fatally, hurt. But the
passengers in the two day coaches es-
capped serious injury!
The physical damage was such as
would be expected when q cargo of ex-
plosive was set off The truck was scat
tered all over the neighborhood; part
of 1t was buried in the ground; one
side of the big locomotive was caved
in; a box car on a nearby siding was
split open; a steel rail was cracked
down the center; windows were shat
tered for two blocks around.
Certainly material of such potentially
destructive force should be handled
carefully. 1t may be questioned
whether such a load should be per-
mitted on the streets at ALL but at
least it might be restricted to hours of
comparatively light traffic. And every
such cargo should carry a conspicuous
red banner indicating its dangerous
nature.
Perhaps the driver was observing the
regulations-which were insufficient to
avert disaster However, he must have
known he was approaching railroad
tracks; and carrying so hazardous a
load, he should have taken unusual
precautions before venturing across.
If the driver of a powder truck can
not be trusted to stop at a grade cross
ing and see that the way Is clear, who
can be so trusteA?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-24
Italian Sensitiveness to Criticism

It may be that the Ambassador OF
zeal of the editor of an Italian-American
newspaper who reported to him the
other day that a certain official of the
American Government had made some
sighting" remarks about Premier Mus
solini in a semi-public speech. Quite
probably the Ambassador wishes that
the earnest supporters of the Italian
ministry would not be so prone to take
offense. For surely there will be no end
of trouble and friction If everything
that is said in this country about Mus
solini Is carried to his diplomatic rep
resentative at this Capital for investiga-
ton and complaint. True, there can be
no case" unless what is said falls
within the range of Official improperly,
being said by member of the admin
istratlve, judicial or military-naval
branch of the Government. 1t does not
lie within the scope of international
protest If the remarks are uttered by
members Of Congress, who can say
whatever they please without being sub
ject to administrative reproof at the be-
hest Of foreign government, even as
they are free from question by an
American citizen.
The latest instance Is not one of mo-
ment, however annoying 1t may become
as an item of international correspond
ence and action. A subordinate Official
Of one of the Government departments
expressed in a speech his hearty graft
tude that I'VE do not live in such a
country as Italy, where the dictatorship
Of one man can make horizontal slice
in wages" In this instance there Is no
doubt as to the facts, as there was in
the case Of Gen. Buffers repetition of q
story told him by q friend. The pre-
mier of Italy did indeed recently, by his
own order, effect a cut In government
pay amounting to twelve and a half
per cent. The only question involved Is
whether reference to the fact is permis-
sible on the part of an oficer of the
American Government.
If comment upon foreign affairs is
to be censored, the censorship should
be exercised by this Government, with
the limits of observations by members
of the administrative forces laid down
as office rules" 1t would indeed be
much more to the taste of the Ameri-
can people II the whole matter of re-
Duke and correction we're left with the
tive from representatives of the foreign
governments stationed at this Capital.
For 1t Is entirely conceivable that in
some instances the American Govern
ment may not consider that ofiense
has been committed, and If in such
cases complaint has been made from
abroad it becomes the dificult duty of
this Government 10 return a refusal
to act in correction or rebuke. The
only alternative TO such a mode Of
procedure is to prohibit all officials Of
the Government, of whatever grade or
relationship, from speaking in public
on any subject that might be connected
however remotely with the government
of another country Such a denial Of
speech would never be tolerated by the
public Good taste and ordinary dis
cretion are far better guides to propriety
Of public uttersnce than any gag rule
that can be devised
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

Lincoln, the Man"
wherefore we think ourself fit tx
write something about it.
Most of the writing you have reac
about this book hitherto has beer
by men who haven't read 1t.
Perhaps no single book in literary
history has had so much written about
1t by people who have not read 1t.
They read reviews about it (probablJ
by reviewers who had not read 1t
with their indignant reactions.
We do not presume to review Mr.
Masters tome on Lincoln, but merely tc
make few comments about it. Maybe
we shall review it after we have finished
it, maybe not.
r **
If you want to get a literary cold
bath. this book Is 1t, shiverS, reaction
and all.
Most of the words you have read else
where about it are merely the reactions
All of us, products OF the American
educational system, have ready-madt
are as much part Of US as our very
hands and feet.
If we are honest with ourselves, we
will have to admit that we have never
done bit Of thinking especially critical
thinking, about Lincoln, or about Wash
ington, or even about Roosevelt.
We have accepted them and theil
place in history as the majority opinion
has made that place.
+ 4
Mr. Masters simply has refused tc
accept that majority opinion. that over
whelmingly majority opinion, in the
case of Honest Abe Lincoln.
He sneers.
To him, Lincoln Is no hero at all, and
he honestly cannot understand how the
man ever got to be hero and specially
such a hero.
He is so terribly earnest about his re-
fuSal to bow down before Lincoln that
he makes the mistake, as we see it, OF
all terribly earnest persons.
He lacks hunnor.
When a man writes without a sense
Of humor. he runs a great risk of being
largely unfair TO himself, his reader
ject.
Upon these three points we at present
reserve judgment until we have finished
the book.
We are willing to say, after about
100 pages Of the volume, or one-fifth OF
the total, that Mr. Masters seems to
have committed the very fault of which
he accuses 'refcrmers," for whom he
has no love-
He has set out to prove his contention
that Lincoln was no great man, after
all, In such whole-souIed fashion, that
he leaves the reader-at least one reader
wondering how Lincoln ever got as far
as he did, II he were nothing more than
fhe man here Denoted
The only honest reply which the
reader-at least this reader-can make
to himself is that he must have had
something else which the writer does
not bring out.
This something else" was the politi-
cal sense.
A hundred years from now some
puzzled gentleman may set out to write
book about Calvin Coolidge, and un-
less he remembers that Cal was a
tremendously shrewd politician, while
at the same time giving no particular
outward indications of the gift, he may
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-24

to find out who has been getting these
funds. But Immediately an effort Is
made to blockade the research. An at
torney, acting for one Of the policemen
involved, who has refused to testify on
constitutional grounds" has interposed
a plea for an order restraining the
referee from seeking the financial rec
ords of the fifty-one higher-ups of the
police department. His move is ex-
planned on the following grounds:
Referee Seabury is empowered to in
vestigate the magistrates courts and to
investigate policemen only in so far as
they are connected with these courts
When he has specific evidence that in
dicates there is an unlawful connection
between certain police officers, then,
and only then, he is empowered to
subpoena that officers accounts. How
ever, Referee Seabury has been working
the other way. without evidence, save
suspicion, he has subpoenaed the ac-
counts of large group of officers and
is endeavoring to find evidence of cor
ruption in the magistrates courts
through an examination of their ac-
counts. He has not laid a proper legal
basis for this. He Is merely on a fish
ing expedition. The law provides that
before the personal business and affairs
of a citizen can be publicly pried into
there must be evidence that he has vio-
lated the law. Suspicion is not legal
evidence.
Technically this may be correct
There are, however, other considerations
than the technical limitations of the
law to warrant even a fishing expedi-
tion," when evidence glaringly presents
itself that there Is corruption. Common
sense says that these police officers
have not been banking legitimate funds.
Common sense declares that they have
not been collecting graft money for
themselves alone. Common sense holds
that there are higher-ups who are
splitting the fess and dividing the
blackmail. Common sense maintains
that it is justifiable to use any means.
even II technical limitations prohibit.
to find out who has been getting that
graft.
One Of the gravest evils Of municipal
corruption is the abuse of the technical
law for the covering OF the guilty. Graft
has flourished in New York and else
where in this country under the cloak
of the law. When exposure comes the
law which has been outraged in a long
series of blood-sucking outrages upon
the people should not be invoked to stop
the probe and prevent punishment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-24
HigghIigghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

ceptance in the present mode. Alas
much that was picturesque and conven-
tionally native has been banished with
the caStanet!
TalkieS Have Done Much
To Uplift People Of Ireland.
Belfast Telegraph excerpts from
article by moving picture critic):
Recently I have read a good many
attacks on the "talkies,' based on the
ground that they made It too easy for
people to waste time. But the people
who waste time at the "talkies" would
waste it some other way If the motion
picture had never been invented
In my youth idle women wasted their
time gossiping over back fences, while
their equally idle husbands used to sit
around pool rooms and livery stables to
waste it.
The theory that II there were nc
"talkieS" there would be less idleneSs
Is not founded on an understanding OF
human nature.
You do not find busy men or busy
women becoming drones because, for q
small price, they can spend an after
noon at a cinema.
Some of them were born droneS, and
some of them become drones because
up with the procession.
Before there were any "talkies" WON
en- who did not like to bother about
their household duties rushed about
the neighborhood visiting other equally
lazy women, and lazy men sat around
barroomS and shook dice or played
pool.
AS to the "talkies" themselves, they
have done much to take people out of
their dreary surroundings and show
them glimpSeS Of the whole wide world
1t is little wonder that woman,
whose life has been spent cooking meals
and caring for children. likes to be
transported to a different world, and she
Is hardly to be blamed If sometimes she
spends more time at a cinema than
she really has to spare.
Whether or not this can be conSid-
cred time wasted is debatable. Only
men and women who are so intensely
interested in their work that they would
rather follow it than anything else in
the world are free from some guilt of
this sort, and these are comparatively
few. Most new amusements are viewed
with alarm, but the world has not
grown much worse with the arrival
and vogue of many of them, and those
who want to destroy themselves or their
usefulness can do it very easily today;
but they could do it a hundred or a
thousand years ago, too, and often did
There has never. since the world began,
been any lack Of opportunity to be lazy