QUESTIONS WISDOM
WASHINGTON, April 10. (JF) —
The American State Department’s
interest in 99 islands in the Paci
fic and Atlantic, the soverignity of
which is in dispute, took a big
slump as a result of President Hoo
vers pessimism over the future of
the Virgin Islands. The President
questioned the wisdom of paying
Denmark $25,000,00 for the Virgin
Islands.
Orlander
Jeweler
Dealer In watches and
clocks, nugget Jewelry,
old Ivory, curios and a
(nil line of goods us
ually carried in a first
class Jewelry store.
Watches repaired «
short notice.
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Babbles from the Vat
Owing to the thousands of in
quiries constantly pouring into
The Gateway sanctum sactorium,
as to the identity of the author
and what “Bubbles of the Vat”
really looks like, it is with great
pleasure The Gateway republishes
a broadside view, northeast by
southwest, of the mysterious vat
wherein bubbles are vatted. The
only thing lacking, says Sourdough
Bill, oracle of the Northland, is
the vat net through which the
bubbles are strained. The hand
some young chap pictured above
gazed at the water, thought he
was crossing the Gulp of Alaska,
got seasick and responded to
Nature.
IP YOU HAVEN'T TRIED HORLUCK'H
DANISH ICE CREAM YOU RAVE M188KD
SOMETHING GOOD. 6*M entjr at the Gandy
Ce<U«e.
Editor, Seward Gateway:—
“Say, how come? The new May
or and Councilmen of Seward
treated our men-folks to cigars,
but what did the ladies that'work
ed the hardest to elect them
get? Just—‘We thank you for
your vote.’ Yes we really think
they do, but—the shoemaker’s
rooster starved to death on thank
you!
“We do not expect much but
what about candy for the sweet
things?
“Just a Voter.”
(Editor’s note: The candy will
be delivered to the right person
if left at the Gateway office.)
SITUATION IMPROVES
WASHINGTON, April 10. (JP) — A
daily improvement in the unecn.
j ployment situation was pictured by
| Secretaary Doak. Many of the men
iwho have been idle, he said, are
rturning to work and labor con
ditions ar bound to get better.
There is not as much unemploy
ment now as last month. He ad
dressed a radio audience over, the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
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VENEZUELA REBELLION
PORT OF SPAIN, April 9. (/P) —
Venezuela rebels had captured
three towns and were laying seige
to a fourth, according to messages
received from revolutionary head,
quarters. The revolutionists claim
the capture of Achoyuas, Yaguai,
and Juesdualito. Their present ob
jective is San Fernando. The dis
patches announced heavy casual
ties among the federal troops.
FOR PROHIBITION
WASHINGTON Ap'll 0.
A national com/.i:&$ton o' ?.I wo
men on the Eig usentM /.mend*
ment will stale ;:t a meeting that
| the majority f ' nc wom-n In the
United States aic singly for a
militant backing . ? ?!w C-ontiitu
tion, acording *.o Mrs Henry I*pa.
body, Chairman of the Women’s
National Committee *or law cn.
forcement.
ACTOR RETURNS HUNT
BOMBAL, India, April 10, (A1)—
With a collection of tigers, pan
thers, leopards, and other trophies
of his Indian hunts, Dug Fair
banks arrived here from New Del
hi, where he was a guest of Vi:tr y
Lord Irwin. The actor will sail for
Cairo, Egypt, where he will be
joined by his wife, Mary Pickicrd.
SOCIETY WOMAN PASSES
NEW YORK, April 9. (JP) — Mrs.
Adriata King Tselin, wife of the
noted financier, and one of the
foremost figures in New York so
ciety—well known enemy of ‘so
cial climbers” died at the age of
80 years. Mrs. Iselin was said non
to have added a name to her visit
ing list in a quarter of a century.
Jack Chovin, pioneer of the
Northland and for many years
in the electrical business at An
chorage, returned today from Cal
ifornia.
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LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE DISTRICT COURT POR THE TER
RITORY OP ALASKA. THIRD
DIVISION
II- THODY, as a stockholder of the
reward Lumber Corporation, Plaintiff,
SEWARD LUMBER CORPORATION, a
corporation. Defendant,
and
ELWYN SWETMANN. Receiver.
No. S-293
NOTICE TO PRESENT CLAIMS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
undersigned is duly appointed, acting and
qualified receiver of the Seward
Corpora ton, a corporation, and that in ac
cordance with the order of appointment of
such receiver, public notice is hereby siren to
the creditors of and to all other persons In
Greeted, to present and file their claims. If
any they have, with the receiver and to submit
proof thereon on or before the 4th day of
May. 1931, at the office of L. V. Ray, at
torney at law. Seward. Alaska, which office
the receiver designates as the place for the
transacting of all business connected with and
incident to, said receivership proceedings
Dated at Seward. Alaska. March 24. 1981.
Elwyn Swetmann.
Receiver, Seward Lumber Corporation.
Date First Publication Mar. 25. 19*1.
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H. G. MOODY, Editor of the Redding (Calif.) Search*
light, says:—
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That business men and citizens generally should not
fail to realize that newspapers are in the public service;
that they are not parasites living for their own profits and
that the community needs for a newspaper are such that,
should there be no newspapers as a private enterprise,
then the public must for its own good tax itself to pro
vide for them.
To often we find business men regarding their home
newspaper patronizingly as an institution that lives off
their largess; something that they are privileged to for
get if the times are dull and may recall to mind in those
richer days when profits are large.
The newspaper is a function, a concordant, recipro
cating service in the community it lives in, an integral
factor in everything it helps to motivate, hence is as
worthy of its hire as the judge in the docket, the sheriff
or the tax collector. In fact, as an institution, the news- *
paper is far more embracing than any or all; it is the
completed expression of the daily round of life, without
which we would have to return to the chaos of disorgan
ized society.
Such facts are recognized by advanced persons but
sometimes ignored by the ignorant or the indifferent.
They aim to keep the newspaper “in its place” \by; with
holding a just tribute. They have their own inferiority
complex to deal with and their only object is a kind of
self satisfaction that comes from retarding the wheels of
progress.
These opponents to printed enlightenment usualty
demonstrate that they need the inoculation of the very
spirit that makes a. newspaper. While they are keeping
the newspaper in its place they are keeping themselves
there also. Their backwardness will be indicated by their
tenacious clinging to outworn practices, outmoded es
tablishments, slow conceptions of competitive requirements.
Let the emmunity that wishes to step ahead make its
newspaper the staunchly supported banner carriers of its
forward movement. The newspaper gladly undertakes the
challenge to leadership and invariably will push onward
against every obstacle. The only time the newspaper
weakens is when those it serves are weak.
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