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MEMBER AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 187.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WILKINS SUBMARINE
W III KIM;
MUTEIDVENTBIT
aboard submarine nauti
lus, Aug. 13. (£*)—The Nautilus
again encountered trouble with
her power section on her voyage
to Spitzbergen, but repairs have
been effected.
Two hours after leaving Tro
mace, the submarine stopped to
recharge the batteries, when a
field resistance burned out. This
was repaired, but at that time the
port engine gave trouble.
It is expected that the under
sea ship will proceed to Advent
Bay tomorrow.
LINDBERGH BELIEVES
ROUTE II BOOB ONE
NOME, Aug. 13. {JPh-Colonel and
Mrs. Lindbergh are now at Safety
Bay after a short flight from Shis
niarof on the Seward Peninsula.
Col. Lindbegrh said they were
specially interested in the Terri
tory they had passed through and
saw no reason why regular air
schedules should not be estab
lished in tile near future. An
airplane traffic was not only prac
ticable but a beneficient factor
in the lives of the residents and
population of the country.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT TO
DICEfl; WRIST HURT
3AKER FOREST, Aug. 13. (/P>—
Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin,
former dancer, was suffering from
a painful injury to her left wrist
as a result of her penchant of
riding spirited horses.
She was thrown when her horse
bolted, and it is feared her wrist
is fractured. Mrs. Castle has been
injured in a similar manner sev
eral times before.
HELD UP BY RAIN
NOME, Aug. 13. (/P)—Heavy rain
here is holding Colonel and Mrs.;
Lindbergh.
LIVED 24 HOURS
MONTREAL, Aug. 13. (/P)—John j
C. Webster, Canadian aviator,!
lived 24 hours after crashing at
St, Hubert airport Monday.
ENROUTE HOME
MARSEILLES, France, Aug. 13.
(JP)—Boardman and Polando and
their plane Cape Cod embarked on
the steamship Excalibur for New
York.
SEARCH FOR LEADER
HAVANA, Aug. 13. <£>)—’The
death list from the revolution is
more than 60. Police are search
ing houses for arms and troops in
Pinar del Ric province are hunt
ing for former President Menocal,;
reputed leader.
27 BLOWN TO MAKER
HONGKONG, Aug. 13. (/P)—The
explosion of 10 tons of gunpowder!
stored underground killed 27 per- I
sons and injured many in the
Macao Portuguese colony. The ex
plosion is ascribed to spontaneous
combustion.
A SOUL-STIRRING AND EPOCHAL ADDRESS
The Gateway is in receipt of a copy of President
Herbert Hoover's address at Valley Forge, Pa.? May 30,
and after reading it we have come to the conclusion the
address will take its place beside other epic presidential
speeches such as Lincoln's address at Gettysburg. We
commend it to our readers as one of the most brilliant
yet simplest ever read.
President Hoover, upon taking his high office,
|stepped into national chaos; he has stood up under the
brunt of criticism as only a strong man could. Like all
leaders of nations, past and present, he has been the
! target for pointed attacks, but, without a doubt, in the
! pages of the nation's history, he will take his righteous
place amjong the truly great. . * V
At the Valley Forge address, he spoke of those
things which lay in his heart; beautifully expressed, he
paid tribute to George Washington and his courageous
men; of the ideals and observance of Memorial Day and
i of the present-day stress in the soul of the American
nation.
| With sincere respect and admiration, we present
our President's address in its entirety:
ADDRESS
“We are upon the eve of the celehration of the two hun
dredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington. It
is. therefore, appropriate that our observance of Memorial Day
should this year be at this place, so intimately associated
with the moral grandeur of the Father of Our Country.
“This national shrine needs no description; the events
enacted here require no recounting to the American people.
The very namp, Valley Forge, swells within us a pride of na
tionality. These peaceful fields hold a glory peculiarly their
own. The sufferings of Washington’s Army in that dreadful
winter of privation have made this place famous among all
men.
“It was not the glory of battle for which these fields are
remembered. No great battle was fought here. It was not the
pomp of victory, for no martial triumph was won here. It
was not the scene where peace was signed by which independ
ence of a great nation was won. It was not the tombs of
courageous men who, facing the enemy, gave the supreme
sacrifice for their country to which we bow in reverence. A
thousand other fields mark the courage, the glory, the valor,
the skill, the martial triumph of our race. Yet the instinct
and the judgment of our people after the abrasion of the
years has appraised this place as a foremost shrine in the
War of Independence and in our Nation. It is a shrine to
the things of the spirit and of the soul.
“It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of
these men who in adversity and in suffering through the
darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here
men endured that a nation might live.
“George Washington and his men at any moment could
have accepted the counsels of an easy path to an easy end
of their privations. They could have surrendered their ideals
to the widespread spirit of despair and discouragement. They
could have abandoned their claims to freedom. They could
have deserted their hopes and forsaken their faith. Instead,
they chose the harder way of steadfast fortitude and for
many of death.
“Here Washington and his little band of hungry and al
most naked patriots kept alive the spark of liberty in the
lowest hours of the Revolution. They met the crisis with
steadfast fortitude; they conserved their strength; they hus
banded their resources; they seized the opportunity, which,
with the turn and the tide of war, led on to victory. It
was a triumph of character and idealism and high intelligence
over the counsels of despair, of prudence, and material com
fort. This was one of those moral victories that are the glory
of the race. Without such victories the life of man would
descend to a sheer materialism for “where there is no vision
the people perish.” Lacking these high inspirations, mankind
could claim no distinction higher than the beasts of the
field, that sing no songs, dream no dreams, inspire no hope,
and grasp no faith.
“It is this high spirit that we commemorate when we pay
our yearly tribute of reverence to those who in all wars have
stood steadfast and those who have died in the service of our
country. Our citizens in every war have flocked to arms at
the call of the country. They have responded willingly, be
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READY TO PROCEED
VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 13. (/P)—
Ernest Walker Sawyer, at a meet
ing with Premier Tolmie and other
Canadian officials, said the Unit
ed States representatives are
ready to proceed with the examina
tion of the extension of the Pacific
Highway to Alaska as soon as the
Canadians are prepared.
IMEH tin
ORDERED JAILED JAPAN
LONDON, Aug. 13. (JP) — Hugh
Herndon Jr., and Clyde Pangborn,
American aviators, were ordered
jailed by the public prosecutor of
Japan.
The two aces gave up their orig
inal plan to break the record held
by Gatty and Post and flew to
Japan from Khabarovsk, Siberia.
On the way to Tokyo, they pho
tographed Japanese fortifications
without knowledge, they declared.
They were flying over prohibited
territory.
CUBA CONTINUES TO OE
UNDER 1RTME LEW
HAVANA. Aug. 13. (A5) — Cuba
continued tense last night under
a state of martial law, proclaimed
yesterday by President Machudo.
Several reports of rebel movements
and fighting were brought to this
city during the day from Santa
Clara.
The dispatches said that 300
rebels invaded Santa Clara late
last night, killing 30 soldiers and
retreating before superior rein
forcements.
LINDBERGHS RECEIVE NUGGETS
NOME, Aug. 13. (JP)—Rain and
fog heemed likely to delay the
Lindberghs’ takeoff. The Lind
berghs enjoyed a breakfast of
Nome-laid eggs, the first since
leaving Ottawa. An ancient sour
dough insisted on gretting the
pair with a dinner; he presented
the pair with gold nuggets.
AMERICAN
New York 18-7, Cleveland 1-17.
Boston 6, St. Louis 5.
Washington 1, Chicago 11.
Philadelphia 6, Detroit 7! twelve
innings.
NATIONAL
Pittsburgh 6-0, New York 4-9.
St. Louis 5-8, Brooklyn 0-5.
Chicago 5-12, Philadelphia 3-1.
Cincinnati at Boston, rain.
PACIFIC COAST
Seattle 1, Sacramento 3.
Los Angeles 6, Hollywood 4.
Missions 9, Oakland 4.
San Francisco 4, Portland 2.
* * * *
ALLOWS ONLY FOUR HITS
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. (&)—
In the eighth inning a rally of
three runs gave the Seals a 4 to 2
win over Portland Wednesday
night. McDougal .pitching for the
Seals, allowed Portland only four
hits.
EXCEPTS INVITATION
PARIS, Aug. 13. (/P) — Premier
Laval accepted Chancellor Bruen
ing’s invitation for a return con
ference in Berlin. The trip is set
for August 28. Briand was also
invited.
ASSERTS ALASKA
IS STIMULATED Bf
NEW COLO RUSH
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13. (/P) —
Alaska was pictured on the eve of
a new development period that bids
fair to surpass and similar one in
more than 60 years by C. A. James,
assistant manager of the Los An
geles Chamber of Commerce for
eign department. He returned from
a month’s Alaskan survey.
Gold, although by far not the
chief resource of the territory, he
said, will stimulate activity. James
said the Territory was in the midst
of a “new gold rush,” less produc
tive, however, than the noted one
of the last century.
“Recent lowering of commodity
levels with correspondingly higher
purchasing power of gold,” he said,
“is serving to interest both capital
and individual prospectors in a re
newed conquest of Alaska.”
James said many properties which
have been dormant since 1920 when
commodity prices reduced the rela
tive value of gold are being reopen
ed, new discoveries are being made
over widely scattered areas and
acquirement and consolidation of
claims is being carried on by large
I financial groups.
I He called attention to what such
; development means to the Pacific
! coast retail businesses. James as
serted Alaska’s fisheries, timber and
wood pulp, fur farming and rein •
deer industries all show promise of
considerable expansion.
“Pacific coast retailers and
manufacturers would do well to
look to Alaska for a new out/iet of
: products,” James said. “Most of the
| equipment needed to expand such
! industries necessarily will come
POLICE, COMMUNISTS
AGAIN CUSH GEflMANT
BERLIN, Aug. 13. (£>)—Police and
communists clashed in southwest
ern suburbs and in an exchange of
shots, one communist was serious
ly wounded and a score of others
less seriously.
The communists gathered for a
demonstration in the Nornzistrasse,
and refused to disperse at the
command of police who used their
clubs. When shots were fired
from adjacent houses, fire was re
| turned by police.
RESIDENTS TERRORIZED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 13.
! (/P)—Residents of North Takoma
Park were terrorized as fire, orig
inating in a tar wagon, spread
more than 150 feet over tar-sur
faced streets. Flames leaped from
the truck and swept down the
streets in the process of being
paved.
ORDERED NOT TO LEAVE
TOKYO, Aug. 13. (/P)—Pangborn
and Herndon were ordered not to
leave pending decision of the
charges of photographing fortified
areas. They were questioned in
separate rooms for more than
seven hours. Patriotic organiza
tions are demanding a severe
penalty.