SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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THE CALL OF SPRING
The fact that cleanliness is rated
a virtue next to Godliness probably
accounts for the mysterious urge felt
by mankind in the spring to assist
nature in the work of "cleaning up
around the place.” For some inex
plicable reason this is the season
when the front yard is carfully
groomed, when the missing pickets
on the fence are replaced, when the
trash-littered region between the
back porch and the alley gate as
sumes some semblance of order,
when the shutter is made to swing
two hinges instead of one, when
whitewash begins to flirt with dirty
stone wails and the paint brush to
brighten dingy clapboards. Spurred
it seems by nature's example, the
initiative human element also seeks
to "doll things up a bit.”
This call to cleanliness and order
liness which comes with each re
curring spring is probably the reply
of our subconscious minds to nature's
appeal for beauty, rt comes just as
naturally as do the April rains to
wash down the hillsides and flush
out the valleys. It is just as neces
sary as March winds, just as wel
come as May sunshine. Undoubted
ly it has its place in the cosmic
scheme of things, hence it should be
the part of wisdom for humankind
to heed this springtime urge to
“spruce up.” Make it your business,
therefore, to get out the shovel and
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the wheelbarrow, the rake and the
hoe, the hammer and the paint
brush. With nature setting her dizzy1
pace of spring, there is no real rea
son why mere man should not do his
part to make his surroundings more
clean, more orderly, more beautiful.
Clean up a bit; brush up your sur
roundings. You owe it to this won
derful season of the year, and to the
tourists that will visit us the com
ing year. They will leave with a
better impression of your town.
SEATTLE PLAYER
SUFFERS INJURY
(By Aaiociated Press)
SEATTLE, Apr. 17.—Ace Elliott,
of the Seattle nine, a first baseman
received a green tree fracture to
the big bone in his left leg in yes
terday’s game with Sacramento, when
Watson, coming home, hit him as
Elliott was covering the plate.
A little over a year ago, Elliott
broke his other leg while playing
with the Cubs against the Pirates in
Kingman, Arizona.
Mrs. Margaret Kruscher of Chi
cago, 3 feet 6 inches tall and weigh
ing 75 pounds, is the mother of a
5-pound baby son.
“THE DRIVIN’ FOOL" — LIBERTY
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Announced for presentation at the
Liberty theater, tonight is the W. W.
Hodkinson feature, "The Drivin’
Fool," with Wally Van and an all
star cast including Patsy Ruth Mil
ler, Alec B. Francis, Ramsey Wal
lace, and others. No photoplay brot
to the screen in recent years con
tains such a conglomeration of speed
and fast-moving action as does this
special, produced by Regents Pic
tures Corporation, and which won
praise from the critics on its pre-re
lease showing.
"The Drivin’ Fool” has been des
cribed as the fastest motion picture
ever produced. In addition, it com
bines clean.cut comedy with a sweet
little love story and demonstrates
what excess energy may accomplish
When devoted to useful pursuits. An
automobile dash across the conti
nent,' pursuit by autos, motorcycles,
airplane, traffic cops and crooks,
wild bursts of speed thru mountain
and plain, and a final dash into New
York City on the running board of
a piece of fire apparatus, these make
for genuine thrills which keep the
spectator at feVer heat during the
entire unfolding of the story.
Wally Van, as Hal Locke, has a
mania for fast auto driving which is
constantly getting him in hot water,
not only with the law, but with his
father and likewise his sweetheart.
But, when the family fortune is at
stake, and it is necessary to deliver
a check from San Francisco to New
York within six days and with the
railroads of the country tied up by
a nationwide strike, it is Hal’s fast
driving, in the face of seemingly in
surmountable odds, that turns the
trick and thwarts the scheming Wall
Street broker, who through a techni
cality plans to take over the busi
ness and fortune of Hal’s parent and
his partner, the father of Hal’s sweet
heart.
The decision and photography are
especially good, the scenes in the
snow capped Sierras, and across the
Rockies being unusually effective.
Alec Francis appears as the senior
partner, and father of Hal’s sweet
heart, Patsy Ruth Miller, with Wil
ton Taylor cast in the role of the
elder Locke. Ramsay Wallace and
Wilfred North play heavy roles,
while considerable comedy is inject
ed by Jesse J. Aldriche, in the role
of Horatio Jackson Lee St. Albans.
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TONIGHT
“The Drivin’ Fool”
This is considered by many as the fastest picture ever pro
duced by a camera. It is one continuous action, from start to
fiinsh. To those who love tense situations in adventure and not so
much loving, this is the picture they should see.
COME AND HAVE YOUR BREATH TAKEN AWAY
There will also be a Bruce Travel Reel and a Popular Fable
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MERCHANT CAPTAINS
FIND PROTECTOR IN
SECRETARY HOOVER
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 17.—
To save time, money and annoyance,
Secretary Hoover favors a simplifi
cation of the tortuous legal process
thru which a merchant ship must
pass under present regulations when
-she enters an American port.
These regulations bring an arriv
ing vessel into contact with five dif
ferent departments of the govern
ment, and innumerable bureaus. The
process is described by Mr. Hoover
as follows:
The master of the vessel first en
counters the health authorities, rep
resenting the public health service
of the Treasury department, who
board the ship at quarantine and ex
amine into health conditions of crew
and passengers.
At the same time customs officials
arrive. They also are officials of
the Treasury department, but in this
particular instance they represent
the commerce department. On be
half of the treasury they have va
rious duties in connection with the
collection of customs, and receive the
manifests and other documents from
the master. As representatives of
the department of commerce, if there
are steerage passengers on the ves
sel, they examine sanitatary condi
tions and other matters relating to
the enforcement of the passenger
acts. /
The immigration officers likewise
board the ship, representing the de
partment of labor, and perform their
duties in connection with the en
forcement of the immigration laws.
The ship then leaves quarantine
and next meets with officials of the
coast guard, who designate anchorage
grounds, acting under delegation from
the war department, which has this
duty under the law.
If the vessel violates any of the
navigation laws, in proceeding thru
the harbor, the penalties are consid
ered and enforced by the bureau of
navigation in the department of com
merce. The officers guilty of viola
tions are subject to trial by the
steamboat inspection service.
When the ship finally docks, a
formal entry is mqde with the col
lector of customs, who supervises
the entry and unloading of the cargo.
In receiving the entry, the collector
acts as an official of the department
of commerce. In supervising tiie un
loading, he acts for the treasury de
partment.
The next official who deals with
the vessel is the shipping commis
sioner, also an officer of the de
partment of commerce, before whom
the master discharges his crew. If
he wants charts, he must go to the
representatives of the coast and geo
detic survey of the department of
commerce for those covering inland
waters,' and to the hydrographic bu
reau of the navy department for those
covering ocean waters.
MEN DECLARED DEAD
ASK COURT FOR RULING
NEW ORLEANS, La., Apr. 17.—A
mandate of the state supreme court
will be necessary to restore legal
life to two residents of this city.
Both have been entered on the of
ficial lists of the board of health as
dead, and although they are living,
have lost the right to vote and other
advantages because of their legal
status.
The body of a man found in a
gas filled room of a boarding house
was identified by a son as Frank
Miller. A body found in the Mississ
ippi river wras identified by relatives
as Charles W. Burdette.
W;hile preparations were being
made for their interment under these
names the two men made their ap
pearances alive. They immediately
called on the health authorities u
remove them from the list of dead
This was refused on the ground tha'
once entered on this list they mus.
remain there until ordered erased b>
the supreme court.
The train scheduled to leave hert
Sunday morning will not leave unti
1 o’clock in the afternoon.
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