Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
Published Daily except Sunday by
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered In the DOBt office at Seward, Alaska, as second-class matter
H. V. HOBEN and E. F. JESSEN, Proprietors
E. F. Jessen Editor and Manager
Otto G. Sandbeck. Associate Editor Bdwln A. Sandbeck, City Editor
MEMBER of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMBR of THE INTERNATIONAL TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION
This paoer reserves the right to reject any advertisement It so desires.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Dally, by Carrier, per month,."-‘J
Dally, by mail, per month,. j'®®
Daily, by mail, per year, , 10.00
Foreign postage (Extra) Daily! SOOlssues,. 6.00
Weekly Gateway, by mail, per year,. 3.50
DWIGHT W. MORROW
Dwight W. Morrow, Diplomat-Senator, died Monday
at his home in Englewood, N. J., from a cerebral homor
rhage.
When Calvin Coolidge, as a senior at Amherst Col-,
lege in 1895, voted for the man in the class “most likely
to succeed/' he picked Dwight Whitney Morrow. Thirty
two years later the then presient of the United States
helped make his prophecy come true by naming his class
mate as Ambassador to Mexico, a post which brought Mr.
Morrow an international reputation and paved the way
for his election as United States Senator from New
Jersey.
But previously the Coolidge estimate had been vindi- j
cated by Mr. Morrow's successful career, first in law, then j
as a member of the banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Com
pany and as an adviser to the Allied Maritime Transport
Council in the World War days of 1918.
And after Calvin Coolidge had left the White House
President Hoover confirmed the judgment of his prede
cessor as to the Morrow talents and capabilities, by nam
ing the Ambassador as a member of the American delega
tion to the five-power London naval conference of 1930.
Mr. Morrow’s list of achievements in professional life, business,
diplomacy and practical politics sprang from an intellectual heritage,
but a background of decidedly moderate worldly possessions. His fa
ther, Prof. James E. Morrow, was president of Marshall College at Hunt
ington, W. V., when his second son was born there on January 11, 1873.
The mother was Clara Johnson Morrow, reared on an Ohio farm but
kown to her girlhood neighbors as “literary” because of the number of
books she read and because she was a champion speller. They named
their second son for Prof. William Dwight Whitney of Yale, author of a
famous English grammar.
The future diplomat got himself a job as law clerk with the firm
’ of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett in New York in 1899, persuading them
that he was worth $60 a month to start. Six years later he was a mem
ber of the firm and nine years after that, in 1914, he transferred his
allegiance to finance and became a partner in J. P. Morgan & Company.
With that famous house he specialized in international loans,
spending considerable time in Cuba and also devoting attention to the
increased European business that followed the outbreak of the World
war.
It was President Coolidge’s knowledge of Mr. Morrow’s talents as
a conciliator that prompted him to appoint the banker in 1925 as chair
man of the board which studied the dispute over airplane defense be
tween General William Mitchell and high army officials. This board
sifted the wheat from the chaff of the controversey, then made unani
mous recommendations which within a year were made effective by
Congress and put in force as government policies.
Two years of continued business success followed, then on Septem
ber 30, 1927, the banker became Ambassador to Mexico, first resigning
his partnership in the Morgan concern.
Mexico was then just beginning to emerge from a long period of
tumult marked by civil wars, the overthrow of several administrations,
wide-spread banditry, revolutionary laws relating to property rights of
foreigners and anti-religious propaganda. Outstanding in the pending
questions with the United States was a controversey over oil rights on
which 40,000 words of notes had been exchanged with Washington
without tangible result.
Ambassador Morrow found that confidence between the two gov
ernments was a decidedly minus quality. So first he started to make
the Mexicans believe in the United States and hi6 own country believe
in its smaller southern neighbor.
Before this Mr. Morrow had thoroughly convinced Calies and other
Mexican leaders that he was actuated by sincere friendship for the
Mexican people. They saw his belief firmly intrenched in the popular
mind. Marriage of “the" Ambassador’s daughter, Anne, to Charles Lind
bergh on May 27, 1929, helped enhance the popular regard for Mr. Mor
row and his family. The fact that the young people met when the
famous aviator reached Mexico City on the first of his good will tours of
Latin America, and that “Leendy” came back by air to make several
visits with the Morrow family, appealed to the love for romance inherent
in a Latin people.
After a brief rest, Mr. Morrow plunged into the Senatorial election
campaign in New Jersey. He had been selected for the Republican nom
ination months before as a primary which saw him roll up a plurality
of more than 400,000 votes over two opponents, the big victory being
attributed mainly to his stand against continuation of the prohibition
experiment in the United States.
In that pronouncement he advocated repeal of the 18th Amend
ment. He also proposed that control of the liquor business should be
entrusted to the individual States.
Mr. Morrow's election in November, 1930, entitled him to add the
desccription “statesman” to the list of “lawyer, banker, diplomat” which
had epitomized his earlier vocations. It came by a majority of nearly
200,000 in a Democratic year and again focussed attention on him.
Talk of him as probable Presidential timber, which had started after
his nrimarv success, was revived.
BRITISH COLUMBIA GOLD j
LURES FORMER SEWARD i
Frank “Pat” O’Cotter, author of
“Rhymes of a Roughneck” and
other poems of Alaska and foi
many years associated with the i
Alaska Weekly, recently hit for
the tall timber in British Colum
ia where he is interested in some
promising gold lode properties.
Mr. O’Cotter is well known thru
out Alaska and old-timers will re
call when Frank came north in
the early Klondike days, engaging
for a time in the newspaper game
at Dawson, then going to Fair
banks where at one time he was
interested in a newspaper there,
his old partners “Casey” Moran
and E. Struthers Bunch being as
sociated with him.
When the bonanza district of
Iditarod sprang into prominence,
Mr. Cotter took clothing and gen
eral miners’ supplies and hit the
trail for the scene of the new
stampede. After remaining there
three years he then transferred
his mercantile establishment to
Anchorage where he met “Babe”
White, daughter of “Mother”
White, whose aid to the needy
among old-timers in the Cook
Inlet district is now a matter of
history, and a wedding soon fol
lowed.
He later moved to Seward and
entered business here and served
as councilman for two years and
was mayor for one year. After
disposing of his business here*
Mr. O’Cotter went to California
then to Australia, engaging in the
moving picture business there.
Thence to Kobe, Japan where he
lost everything except his good
nature, a bathrobe and a pair of
slippers, in the earthquake which
razed the City some years ago.
He returned to Seattle and for
several years was engaged in the
importing and exporting business
after which he became associated
with the Alaska Weekly.
28-INCII RAINBOW
A 28-inch rainbow trout in
Ptarmigan Creek, near Lawing’s
Lodge, the other day, got familiar
| with the baited hook which Gus
Manthey, local manager of Car
stens Packing Co., threw into that
famous stream. The big fish at
tempted to swallow the bait, hook,
sinker and line but Mr- Manthey
j hauled him out and brought him
i to town. The rainbow trout is
now on display in the Carsten’s
window, along with a mess of
other fish, whose weakness is
baited hooks.
BROTHER ILL
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5. (JP)—Jack
Pickford, motion picture star and
a brother of Mary Pickford, is crit
ically ill, following a relapse. He
caught cold during a motor trip
recently and complications set in.
m THE HOTELS
VAN GILDER—Lyle F. Hebert.
SEWARD—James Berg.
GILLILAND—H. W. Cramer.
Boats in port this morning were
the US LHS Cedar, MS Yakobi, Ex
plorer, Flattery, Bavaria, Joan, Roy,
Marian, T13048 and the Heildiver.
WARFARE BREAKS OUT
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Oct. 5. CP)—War
fare between Bolivian and Para
guayan troops broke out in the dis
puted Chaco district, according to
official dispatches to Bolivian mil
itary headquarters. Six Paraguay
ans were killed, but the Bolivians
suffered no casualties, the reports
said.
Phone for Horluck’s Danish Ic<
Cream and we will deliver. Cand5
Cottage.
I WALL PAPER
i i4ron Ericson
i
» Painter and Decorator
A
'Outside the Law’
Wednesday’s Program
l
Healy River Coal
Economical Dependable
Safe
FREE FROM SOOT
GRADED TO SUIT EVERY NEED
PRICED TO SUIT EVERY PURSE
Healy River Coal Corp.
HOME OFFICE: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
d
PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL AIRWAYS
of ALASKA
BASES AT VALDEZ, ANCHORAGE and FAIRBANKS
Operating Alt Cabin Planes To All Points In
Alaska, Maintaining Weekly Scheduled
„ Operation To Kuskokwim Points
Main Office Anchorage, Alaska
Auto Servicing and Repairing
Plumbing, Sheet Metal Work, BJacksmithing, Gunsmithing,
Acetylene Welding;, Battery Charging and Repairing and
General Servicing, Oiling and Greasing
SEWARD METAL, WORKS
JACK SHEA — ROBERT MANTHEY
PHONE MADISON 65 — P. 0. BOX 65
CAL M. BROSIUS
BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES
Crosley Radio 124 Series—Eight Tube Supers
PRICES: $49.75 — $65.00 — $75.00 — $85.00 — $95.00
EQUAL TO THE BEST AND BETTER THAN MOST
Chas. Curtice for Installation and Servicing
C. M. B
SEWARD, ALASKA PHONE MAIN 101