SEWARD,
“CENTER of
EVERYTHING”
Sewa
COAST TERMINAL OF TIIE
ALASKA RAILROAD
Gateway
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DAILY AND WEEKLY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 217
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1929
PRICE TEN CENTS
1J. MULLENS. ;!
E1LID HIES !
FOR GATEWAY i.
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DISTINQUISHED BRITISHER h
KINDLY CONSENTS TO
RELATE IMPRESSIONS
Through the courtesy of Sir 1
John Mullens, influential English
hanker who is now in McKinley |
National Park and who is in :
Alaska primarily for the pur
pose of hunting big game, the (
Gateway is privileged to publish
the follwing article which was ;
sent upon request:
Dear Sirs:
Since my arrival in Alaska I
have received nothing but the
greatest courtesy, kindness and at- j
tention from everyone that it has
been my pleasure to come in con
tact with, and it would therefore
seem somewrhat churlish on my
part if I refused to send you just j
a few lines, as you have requested j
me to do, concerning my impres^
sions of your vast country. But only
being an ex-city worker (from Eng
land) I am only able to state brief- I
ly and at the same time I fear ex- j
press myself poorly with reference,.,
to your marvelous and wonderful
country.
The scenery is beyond descrip
tion of a far abler pen than mine
and the glaciers, rivers and moun
tains as they come into one’s view
fill one not only with a sense of
their magnitude and grandeur, but
with ever unfailing amazement of
what nature can produce at the
height of its magnificence. The
road or highway from Cordova to
Fairbanks was very deep in places
but I understand that the wet sum
mer has made the upkeep difficult
to handle, but having arrived with
out misadventure there was little
to complain of but high praise in
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DROVE BOAT SO CLOSE TO
BLAZING WHARF ARM
SEVERED
' ORTLAND, Maine, Sept., 17, (JP)
—Eight fishermen were overcome
i: smoke and damage estimated
u; $400,000 was caused by a fire
which destroyed the huge sul
phur warehouse on the water
front.
The fishermen were prevented
from leaving their ship by the
threatening hose nozzles held by
officers and members of the Col
lier’s crew composed mostly of
negroes who cut the boat loose
as the flames curled arund it’s
hull, then cast themselves into
the harbor.
Captain H. M. Morrison, of
Small Point, drove his 28-foot
fishing bat so close to the blr-king
wharf in an effort to save those
who had jumped overboard, that
one of his arms was severed and
burned.
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iOlllET PLANE IS
DELATED IT STMS
NIKOLAYEVCK ON THE AMUR
Siberia, Sept., 17, (JP)— Siberia cy
:lones and typhoons over the j
Ureat Sea of Okhotsk, delayed j
Shestakov and his three compan
ons on their departure in the
lirplane “Land of Soviet” for the
lext flight to Kamchatka, the
:inal hop before flying to Dutch
Harbor and Seward enroute to
Sitka and New York.
SMOKING REVOLVER, EMPTY,
BESIDE FATALLY WOUND
ED OFFICER
FLORENCE, Kansas, Sept., 17,
(/P)—A. J. Eichenberger, chief of
police, was shot and killed when
he came upon three burglars as
they were preparing to rob a de
partment store. i
A fusillade of a dozen shots
and a cry of pain aroused Chas.
Lankin and I. W. Draper from
their homes near the store and
they found the officer shot twice
through the right chest.
He was unable to talk; a smok
ing and empty revolver lay beside
him. The door of the store had
been jimmied but not open.
BE APPOINTED IB
VI. BRIAND’S DREAM OF A
UNITED EUROPE MAY
BECOME REAL
GENEVA, Sept. 16. (/P)—For
eign Minister of France, Aristide
Briand witnessed the first step
toward the realization of his great
dream of a united states of Eu
rpe when -representatives of 28
nations convened at Geneva to
weigh the possibilities of the idea.
The representatives listened to
M. Briand outline his plan for a
federatiop of Europe politically,
economically and socially, with
out interfering with anatomy of
the states involved. He will then
ask for suggestions and request
those present to place the schme
officially before their govern
ments.
M. Briand will further suggest
that a small committee of a half
dozen men be constituteed at
once to examine the idea in all
its particulars and make reports
and recommendations as to its
practical operation. This report
may be submitted this winter oi
next.spring if sufficient progress
is made among the home govern
ments.
CHAMP KILLED
PARIS, Sept., 17, (/P)-Pierr<
Maneuvrier, the French amateu:
i golf champion, was instantly kil
| led when his automobile left th<
' road and overturned while driv
i ing near Pontis.
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CHICAGO, Sept., 17, (/P)—Mick- |
ey Walker’s title as world’s j
middleweight champion has been {
declared vacated by the National j
Boxing Association because of! n
* his failure to defend his crown ;
since June 1, 1828.
The National Boxing Associa
tion demands champions defend
; their titles once every six months.
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i GUILTY DEFRAUD
i ON SIX COUNTS
j ALL COUNTS RELATE SPECI
FIC USE OF MAILS TO
DEFRAUD
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| NEW YORK, Sept., 17, (/P)—An
| indictment containing six counts
charging using of mails to de
raud, were returned against Wag- i
goner, president of the Bank of j
Telluride, by the Federal Grand1
Jury which has been probing j
the method by which he fraudu- I
lently obtained $500,000 credit
from six New York banks.
All counts related specific use
of the United States mails, by
' j Waggoner, in his manipulations.
. | The indictment alleges “He and
j | others unknown to the Grand
- j Jury’’ hatched the scheme “On
1 or about May 1.”
STEEL WELDS LADDER TO POWER FOR SONS OF IMMIGRANT PAIR
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At Mansfield, Ohio, these brothers a re associated in the same steel bus
iness. Left to right, upper row: John, William, the leader; Samuel. Lower
row: Albert, Harold, Austin, James.
BIOS EXPECT TO
SECURE FARMERS
BACKING. FIGHT
:ariff schedule is an un
certain POLITICAL ISSUE
OF 1930
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. (/P)—
V whirlpool of political jockey
ng, clash of special interests, and
lard fighting all along the line
vill be stirred up during the de
bate of the tariff bill.
Both the Democrats and the
Republicans will have their eyes
m the 1930 political contests as
:hey meet in a battle over the
various tariff schedules. The fight
uvill be complicated by the fact
;hat the progressives have decid
ed not to support the demo’s
in every case and that the coali
tion between the factions will
therefore operate only at times.
The farmers, who make every
political campaign uncertain, are
still registering many complaints
against the low rates on farm
imports contained in the pend
ing tariff bill and the democrats
are expecting to gain their back
ing by a hard fight for higher
schedules.
BRITISH PREMIER
G0MH6 AMERICA
FOB 01PURPOSE
ITINERARY CALLS FOR HIS
SAILING SEPT. 28; AR
RIVE N. Y. OCT. 4.
WASHINGTON. Sept.. 17, f/P)—
Whatever else Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald talks about
on his visit to Washington it
will not be the British war debts,
j it is authoritively stated.
His mission to the United
States will be confined to the
establishment of good will between
the two nations.
The Premier is anxious and
eager to bring the two countries
closer together and put to an
end any atmosphere for the
j baseless suspicion which may
j exist. The revised itinerary calls
for his sailing on the S. S. Ber
' engaria on September 28 and his
I arrival in New York on October 4.
REHSMTIKVALE
l BURNED DEATH, HOME
I WASHINGTON. Sept., 17, (/P)—
I Representative O. J. Kvale, farmer
laborite from Minnesota, was burn
led to death at his summer cottage
jin Fergus Falls, Minn. The cottage
jwas burned to the ground by a
! blaze supposedly started by the
overheating of a wood burning
j stove.
Kvale was a Lutheran minister
land was elected on a dry platform
I as the successor to Andrew Vol
jstead, author of the 18th amend
ment. Kvale held pastorates until
! his election in 1922, when he de
feated Volstead.