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NOTICE ID VOTERS

If you believe in exercising your choice of candidates in a primary election, vote today.
 If you believe in party organi- zation, vote your party's official ballot, today.
 Personalities of candidates are very fine to rely upon in daily life, but no individual ever yet was greater than his party.
 Ask for, demand from the cleo tion officials an official Republi- can ballot and make your own per- sonal selection, otherwise, a pri- mary law may be a thing of the past.
 All legislative Republican candi- dates of this Division favor pri- mary law. Remember this, and vote the Republican ticket.
 Steward Republican Club
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Seattle Purity Ice Cream; most delicious. ALASKA SHOP.
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APPLICATIONS FOR CITY
 OFFICES

Applications will be received at the office of the City Clerk up till the hour of Noon, Monday, May 2, 1882, for the following Municipal offices:
 For combined office of Municipal Clerk, Magistrate and Assessor, at salary of One Hundred ($10000) Dollars per month.
 For combined office of Chief of Police and Fire Chief, at a salary of One Hundred Fifty ($15000) Dollars per month.
 For office of City Health Officer, at a salary of Fifty ($50O0) Dollars per month. For office of City Attorney, at a salary of Twenty-Five ($25.OO) Dol lars per month.
 For office of City Treasurer, at a salary of One ($1.0O) per annum. Dated at Seward, Alaska, April 18th, 1882. A. D. BALDERSTON,
 Municipal Clerk.
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something, where will the socalled economy be? Such an accident may happen at any moment. When the street lights are turned off at night and citizens flashlights are brought into play, a stranger with in the gates might we'll believe he has the well known "heebe jee- bies;" that footpads and burglars have taken over the village.
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PENNY WISE AND

There is such a thing as carry ing economies too far. Such seems to be the case with the Seward City Council which has decreed to save a few pennies by cutting off street illumination in the dark hours after midnight. Should any, one miscalculate a step on some of the streets and break a leg, or
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-26
RIFLEMEN ATTENTION

An important meeting is called for Wednesday evening, April 27 to decide matters of great interest to every member Each of you are urged to be present at American Legion clubrooms at 8 D. m.
 J. H. FLICKINGER, Pres
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NO SPECIAL RETURNS

In line with general local re- trenchment, The Gateway is omit ting special telegraphic services from other towns in this and other divisions covering primary election returns. All reports will come thru regular channels probably Wednes- day or Thursday.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-26

The SS Admiral Evans was sched- uled to arrive in port this after noon from the South and after dis charging a cargo of freight here will proceed to the Westward.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-26

The SS Starr, due in port Mon day, was reported storm bound at PortlOck overnight.
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Fancy Winesap Apples, $2.OO per box. Brown &. Hawkins.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
REWRITE STORY OF FLOOD
Excavations Now Show Il
Was Local Affair.

Philadelphia.-Pick and shovels
Of modern archaeological expeditions
are rewriting the Biblical study of
the flood on the banks of the an
cient Euphrates, in MesOpotamia.
A series of moving pictures, taken
by the University of Pennsylvania
museum expedition, under the lead
ership of Or. @. Leonard Woolsey,
were brought to the museum by
Doctor Woolsey and exhibited to
the public.
These show that the Biblical re
cital of the rising waters, which
eliminated the races Of the Eu-
pirates, is a legend recOunted by
succeeding generations of the AS
syrians, long before the Jews in
corporated it into their Old Testa-
ment. Doctor Woolsey said
Excavations of the expedition also
prove, he declared, that the flood
occurred many years before the
Hebrew tribes trod the soil of Mes
OpOldHild.
Tunneling beneath the underpin-
nings of structures built by races
who dwelt in the section after the
waters of the Biblical flood had dis
appeared, the excavators found the
silt left by the flood near Ur of
the Chaldees, which must have oc-
Cured between 5000 and 1000 B. c.,
according to the calculations of the
Psychologists.
The Biblical flood, according to
Doctor Woolsey, was purely local
phenomenon and consisted merely
of the overflowing of the Euphrates.
1t was not a worldwide flood, as
the Bible relates, and not all the
people of the earth were drowned,
he said.
According to the Biblical account,
the only family to survive the ris-
ing waters of the river was that of
Noah, but the archeoIogist said that
there were no Jews thereabouts at
that time.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
Body Left Undisturbed
In Attitude of Prayer

Scattered throughout the world
are many famous tombs, among
them the quaint kubas or last rest
ing place of Mahometan holy men
which one finds all over northern
Africa. Substantially built of stone.
often the size Of large house,
these hold the bones Of various der.
wishes who have left their impress
sion of religious life upon the peo-
pie. To pray before the walls OF
these, pilgrims make long voyages.
Probably the tomb which ranks
as unique is that in little noun
tain village of the Pyrenees near
Lourdes. 1t is of a priest greatly
loved by his parishioners. This old
man died while alone at prayer. Not
discovered until late the following
day, it was necessary, If he was TO
be undisturbed in his position, to
built tomb fitted to his attitude Of
devotion. This was made of wood
overlaid with cement.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
Men and Monkeys Alike
in Badness Patterns"

Men grow bald and their hair
turns gray because they have to fol-
low certain fundamental patterns"
in the great primate family to
which the human race belongs. This
is the conclusion of Garrit S. Miller,
Jr., curator of the division of man.
mails of the Smithsonian institu-
tion, after a study extending over
several years. When the male of
the human species begins to lose his
hair, the study shows, the spread of
badness tends to follow certain
definite patterns similar to pat
terms characteristic in bald Chin
panzees, Celebes black apes, mac
aques, South American monkeys and
other primates. The process of turn
ing gray, the anthropologist says,
affords even more striking like
nesses running through the primate
family. But the patterns" of bald
ness and gray hair common to men
and apes, he explains, do not mean
the two groups are closely related.
They show only that the patterns"
are not characteristic of man alone
but Of a large branch Of the animal
ngdom.-Pathfinde Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
THEFT OF WORKER
new SOVIET RACKET
Shortage of Labor Brings
Keen Competition.

Moscow.-The shortage of labor
in the Soviet union has led to keen
competition for working hands
among various state organizations.
carried, in some instances, to the
extent of stealing" each others
workers.
The Turing of peasants bound for
one job to halt at another en- route
has developed, according to charges
in the Moscow economic press, into
a profitable racket for those en-
gagged in it. The Russian slang name
for a racketeer or swindler is
beetle" 1t appears that railroad
stations are infested with beetles.
who waylay and capture" raw la
Dor power, using vodka, cigarettes,
tall promises. and sweet words.
Beetles Get Five RubIes.
The beetles receive five rubles,
and sometimes more, for every la
borer lured into the employ of or
ganizations suffering from lack of
labor.
The newspaper Ia Industriali-
zatzie reveals that of 1920 peas
ants enlisted in the Tartar Soviet
republic for service in the Donbass
coal fields, only $3.50 reached their
destination. For weeks the 1880
missing men We're sought by the
Danbass authorities. Finally it was
established that they had been de
cOyed to construction jobs by beetles.
A graphic description Of the labor
thieves at work is given in an indig-
nant attack on the racket in the
press here. A train bound for Don
bass arrives in the Moscow station.
A group Of peasants gets Of to look
around. Soon they are spotted and
approached by a beetle.
The Bottle of Vodka.
At first the peasant distrusts the
man, but in few minutes he wins
their confidence. He sits down with
them in the waiting room, gives
them better cigarettes then they are
accustomed to and mysteriously
bottle of vodka appears. In a few
minutes more the peasants are con-
vinced that they have met true
friend.
They go back to the train only
to fetch their bundles and remain on
tho citation raifipn for tho Oavt
train to a nearby town, where a
large chemical combine is under
construction. Their friend" re-
ceives his reward, plus expenses,
when they are delivered to the con-
struction manager.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
BREAK HOODOO' WITH RADIO
Wireless Plea Brings Aid to
Ailing Seamen.

New Orleans.-The story of how
a wise old sea captain used the
ships radio to break the 'spell of
a hoodoo" after four deaths had
marked a voyage from South Amer
lea, was told by the crew of the
steamship West Segovia, which
docked here recently.
The captain, Charles E. Edgely,
was nothing short of hero, the sea-
men declared.
The trouble started, it seemed,
when the ship took on a load of cat
tie bones at BuenOs Aires, late in
September. A longshoreman was
knocked into the forward hold and
killed.
A short time after the night
watchman fell dead on the forward
deck. Doctors at Buenos Aires de-
clared it was heart disease, but the
crew was certain there was jinx.
At Port of Spain, Trinidad, two
West Indian negroes in humboat
sneaked under the rear Of the ship
and tried to sell souvenirs to the
crew. Just then the skipper, not
knowing they were there, gave
the signal to get under way. The
negroes and their boat were chopped
up by the propeller blades. The
third mate put out in boat to look
for the negroes, but only bits Of the
boat were found.
The superstitious seamen were
stricken with terror. Then Ramon
Sanderson, twenty-six, an engine
wiper, was taken ill. The seamen
worried. There was no doctor on
board, so the old captain undertook
TO "break the hoodoo."
He ordered the wireless operator
to get busy and dig up a ship with
a surgeon. The operator contacted
the Munamore Of the Munson line,
bound for New York and too far
away to help the sick man. Then
the captain had the radio operator
describe Sanderson's symptoms to
the Munamore's surgeon. Following
the doctors instructions, Captain
Edgely took Sanderson's tempera-
ture and watched the symp-
toms. The Munamore physician de-
scribed the case as appendicitis,
and Captain Edgely ordered the ship
put back to Trinidad, where the
youth was removed and placed in a
hospital.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
SEEK NEW ROAD
EASTERN SHORE
Business Men Ask for Direct
Highway to Eliminate
Dangerous Curves
WOULD SAVE z MILES

At recent meeting of the Fed
eralsburg, Mo, Chamber of Com
merce, presided over by the vice
president, Edwin v. Unger, a dele
cation from the Business Mems As
sociation of Sharptown was pres
ent to enlist the cooperation of
the fredericksburg trade body in
seeking to secure a new and more
direct highway from Salisbury to
the Matapeake Ferry, via Sharp
town, fredericksburg, and Denton.
This cooperation was promised
and a local delegation will join
that Of Sharptown when the plan
is presented to civic leaders of
Denton, Md. At the present time
most of the traffic from Denton or
this town to Salisbury passes
through lower Delaware via Sea-
ford and Laurel, which is indirect
and incidentally causes a loss of
revenue to the State Of Maryland
through gasoline tax. Since the
road from Matapeake to Denton is
one of most modern construction
and engineering, eliminating prac-
tically all dangerous turns, the
problem which arises is to make
the present highway from Denton
to Salisbury correspondingly safe
and direct. At present, this dis
tance of 48 miles crosses three mill
dams with several right angle
turns and numerous dangerous
curves. Under one proposed plan,
this can be shortened to about Il
miles with present dangerous fea-
lures eliminated by the construc-
tion of the following new road re-
locations: Caroline county, 3 IL
miles; Dorchester county 4 II
miles; Wicomico county 3-8 mile
and improvement of an old ma
cadam road of miles; in Della
ware 5-8 mile. Under this propos-
al the distance saved per county
would be: Caroline, 1 IL miles;
Dorchester, / Ia miles; Wicomico,
3 1-2 miles; Delaware, So mile,
thus saving a total distance of
more than Z miles, and obtaining
an almost complete Maryland
route with only the 5-8 mile in
Delaware as against the Is miles
traversed in that State now by
many motorists going to Salisbury.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
Trace Shorthand Notes
to the Ancient Romans

The cute little symbols which
American shorthand writer's scrib-
BILE on their pads are of ancient
Roman and not American origin,
archaeological study has revealed.
As a matter Of fact, Romans were
widely using a uniform system Of
shorthand writing 200 years before
Christ. After the fall of the en-
pire the use Of abbreviated writing
fell into decay until modern Ameri-
can business methods revived the
need.
Such are the declarations in a
scholarly investigation of Gino Mas
sano, Italian savant. His studies
have brought to light the full alpha
bet of ancient Roman shorthand
writers, and, curiously enough, the
symbols are much similar to those
employed today. The basic idea is
the same.
Seven centuries before Christ,
when Rome was extending her prov
inces into every part of the world,
the need for speed brought forth
several forms Of abbreviated writ
ing by symbols, which were swiftly
adopted by commercial enterprises.
Ancient records show most of the
accounts and letters of Roman
firms were written In shorthand
without transcribing. as the recipi-
ent was perfectly familiar with the
code employed.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
IMPROPER DIET
HEALTH MENACE
Carried Too Far and Leaves
Victim a Prey to Disease
and iii Health
SCORE WOMEN DIET FAD

Washington.-"The is one wide
spread practice which is undermin-
ing health throughout the country,
particularly among women, on
which, unfortunately, the public
health service cannot secure statis-
ties said Hugh S. Cunning, sur
geon general, United States public
health service. 1T is what is COM
monty known as dieting" he con-
tinued. 1T is not done on the ad-
vice Of physicians, but almost in
variably on the initiative of the in
dividual who practices it. Neither
is it done for health, but for looks.
sit cannot be recorded that peo-
pie die directly from dieting, but
thousands Of deaths are attributable
indirectly to improper and foolish
dieting Dieting simply to pro-
duce a slim figure lowers the sub
ject's resistance and leaves her
prey to disease.
"Oficial reports for the year just
closed show happily that the gen
eral health of the nation is improv-
ing. The tuberculosis curve, thanks
largely to the vigorous fight con-
Quoted against the white plague, is
dropping. A sad thing, however, is
that there is too much of that dread
disease showing up among young
young women from fifteen to TWEEN
ty-four years of age.
"This may be attributed to sew
eral things on which there are diff
ferent theories. One thing is sure,
however, that is, woman's disdain
for curves and her desire for
stream line body, to attain which
she will sacrifice almost anything,
is not helping her health.
diet fads, food fads, no butter,
no bread, are the undoubted under
lying cause of many wOman's ills.
Good old-fashioned bread and but
ter is vastly preferable to many Of
the present-day fcod cOncoctiOns
with which the foolish are fed.
1T is of no consequence to the
city girl or matron, suppose, how
great assistance she could be in
helping the farmer and Uncle Sam
solve the problem of surplus wheat
by including bread in her daily diet,
but she should at least be interest
ed in helping herself to health"
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
DAD WOULD PAWN TWINS
Gets No Takers, So Flees in
Fear of Charity.

Hutchinson, Kan.-Sam Harris
thirty-fve, of Hutchinson, had ia
have an operation on his nose and
offered to pawn his twin baby sons
for the 5000 needed for the opera.
ton.
Harris was out of a job and fig,
ured that the only way that he could
obtain money for the operation was
to pawn something. He didn't have
much to pawn except the twin ba.
bies.
So Harris informed A. B. Leigh
probation officer, and Mrs. Jack
Campbell, police matron, that he is
willing to pawn the twins for $3.50
The twins names are Daniel and
Delbert.
Il can't get a job" he said as he
sat with his wife and babies in
their one-roOm tenement home. 4
have nothing that 1 can mortgage
and won't accept charity.
"The twins are the only security
that l can offer for a loan" he said
IF some one will lend me 5000, he
can adopt the twins. Later on
when I get steady work, III redeem
them"
Leigh and Mrs. Campbell recon-
mended that Harris go to the coun
ty doctor for his operation, but he
protested, saying that he would moi
accept charity.
The twins are six months old ana
have been described by doctors as
being in perfect health.
A few days after Harris made his
offer he fed from Hutchinson, TAX
ing with him his wife ana babies
He had confided in friends that ht
had feared that city and county au
thorities would take action against
him, since he had refused to move
to the county farm as a charity
family.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
Ornitholcgists Puzzled

For years ornithologists have
hunted in the countries of South
America without finding a single
specimen Of the northern variety Of
swift. They merely guess that the
birds winter in the interior Of Bra
I'll, and they would like to have
some explorer prove 1t. The mys-
terry Of the swifts' hiding place is
probably not momentous. It Is teas
Ing. none the less. since those COM
panionable visitors Of the northern
summer are said to be the only
birds whose winter residence is not
precisely known-a rare achieve
ment of privacy in a world grown
almost too obvious.-New York Her
aid Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
SEA LIONS FURNISH
THRIVING INDUSTRY
Catching Animals for Cir
cuses Is Profitable.

Santa Barbara, Calif.-California's s
gift to the circus is the sea lion,
that sleek brown-black animal, half
fish, half mammal, which is the most
adroit juggler in the world.
Capturing sea lions for training
purposes is one of the states little
known industries. Indeed, only a
California seals habitat is practi-
cally restricted to the Santa Bar
bara Channel islands, % miles off
this city.
Here several hundred young seals
are captured yearly. to be sent to
ZOOS throughout the world. and to
the famed Hagenbeck's circus, in
Hamburg, Germany.
A young bull seal. weighing from
100 to 2O0 pounds, will bring any
where from $3.50 to $500, so it can
be seen the work is profitable.
Capture Simple.
Capture of the animals is com
paratively simple operation. Capt.
George Mcclure, short, grizzled,
good natured and wearing drOop-
ing gray mustache, explained the op-
erations at his home here.
I'VE get our best seals from Santa
Cruz islands," Captain Mcclure ex-
planned. 'At low tide the seals
Chamber into little caves. Four men
stand at the entrance with nets
made of strong hemp rope. A fifth
enters and beats the water with
a stick. Out comes the seals, head
ing for the open water.
"The larger bulls and cows we
don't touch-let them go by the
sienes. The smaller we place in
wooden crates, where they docilely
accept proffered fish.
Indeed, within few minutes Of
their capture and feeding, they will
permit their heads and backs to be
scratched, and then enjoy it as
much as dogs.
Kept in Crates.
OSudlly we Keep luen III thSlA
crates for a week after their cap
ture. If they eat regularly, they are
sent to the buyers. If they don't
accept capture readily, they are
placed back into the ocean"
Young seal pups never are taken,
Captain Mcclure said. They not
only require their mothers milk for
the first six months, but have yet to
learn to eat fish and to swim.
Captain MCGUIRE send several
score seal year to Hagenbeck's cir
Gus. The most noted animal train
ers in the world are employed there,
and after a period of several
months training, they are again
sold to circuses and ZOOS through
out the world.
Few seals are ever accidentally
killed or die in training. he added.
The California law strictly prohib-
its the killing of seals, although
fishermen often are accused of
shooting them because they find
their nets torn by the animals.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
Salmon's Life in Ocean
Shrouded in Mystery

The story of the salmon industry
begins necessarily with the story of
the salmon itself, but strange to re
late, most of the chapters of the
tale are missing. In the clear lakes
and the cold streams that flow from
the snow clad mountains of Alaska
and the Pacific Northwest small, or
ange-colored globules lying along
the shallow rifles hatch into tiny
fish.
The parent salmon. their life's
mission ended, vanish from the
scene. Then begins the trip of the
young ones from the sparkling fresh
water downstream to the great
ocean. Sometimes the trip takes a
year, sometimes it is accomplished
in the season of birth. but in any
case the salmon live their lives in
the salt sea. returning to the stream
or lake of their birth only when Ii
comes time for spawning. Even sci
ence is baffled in determining what
becomes of the young salmon when
they enter the deep seas.
1t Is on the return trip to fresh
water that the "silver horde" fat,
healthy, and full of life, is caught
off the coast of Oregon, Washing
ton, British Columbia and Alaska.
When a salmon starts for the
spawning ground it is at the full
flush Of maturity, so the nearer the
beginning of the journey it is caught
the better the quality.
Smyrna times., 1932-03-23
Founded by British Royalty

William and Mary college was
chartered in 1903 by the English
king and queen whose names II
bears and fostered by royalty and
the care of the bishop of London
The college of William and Mary
soon after its establishment became
associated with all of the aetivl
ties of early Virginia. DR.. James
Blair was the moving spirit in the
organization of William and Mary
college, and was the president from
1862 to 1743.