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HAIL A HARDY MARINER
Many people have congratulated Captain Heinie
Berger and his good ship Discoverer on ms new con
tracts for carrying the United States mail along the
highways and byways from the Port of Seward, Cook
Inlet to Anchorage, but we are wondering wnetner
Captain Berger should be commiserated with and the
people he is to serve congratulated.
“Cap” has certainly picked out a nice bed of roses
for himself. He has picked out the roughest seas this
side of Cape Horn and he proposes to make regular
trips that the far dwellers may keep in touch with the
world and know that there is still a U. S. A. He is stak
ing his life and his vessel against some government
money, it is true, but if you know ‘Cap’ you will know
there is something more behind it. He is going into it
because he loves the game and the hazvds and because
he is doing a real service for people who really need
it—a service that is given with a smile and a heartiness
that mask the real dangers and hardships that lay
fore and aft, to starboard and to larboard.
Captain Berger isn’t just an ordinary mail car
rier. He spells transportation to the outlying places
with a capital “T”, and he has done more to improve
the morale of the isolated communities of Cook Inlet
and the Iliamna country than any individual in recent
years.
He has done this because he will go a long ways out
of his way to do some one a service not strictly called
tor in the letter of his contract and for that reason the
people of the Inlet have come to rely on him for extra
ordinary performance. His weakness in saying ‘No”
has cost him a lot of trouble and money too, and he
nearly lost his boat trying to do some one a favor, but
he comes up smiling and ready to tackle it again.
Anu he has gone farther than that. He has improv
ed his ship until it is now one of the staunchest vessels
in the northern waters; and he knows how to run it.
He has established contacts with towns and districts
which insure the inhabitants thereof that at such and
such a time they can move their mail, their goods or
themselves whither they might go.
Many towns of Cook Inlet and the people of the II
iamsa had a tough time thru the past few years because
of lack of service and they have frequently been cut
off from the outside world for months at a time. Cap
tain Berger has changed that. H? and his ship have
been a great asset to all concerned
The Gateway is sincerely pleased and thankful
that “Cap's” contracts call for his smile and service in
our midst for four years and then some. More power
to the hardy mariner.
THIS YEAR’S BUSINESS
Many expressions concerning the business outlook
for this year have been published, the concensus ap
pearing to be that while there may be a perceptible
slowing down here and there the general prospect is
favorable.
There has been some slowing down in automobile
lines, chemicals, furniture, iron and steel, and a few
other industries. On the other hand, expansion on a
large scale is promised in public utilities and railroads,
an unusual program for the contruction of public
buildings, roads and other public works is announced
by the government and various states, and sales efforts
in practically all lines will be pushed this year with
vigor. From present indications 1930 should be at least
an average business year, if not above the average.
A returned explorer tells that among certain Alas
kan tribes young girls are starved for several days and
given a good beaten just before they are married. A
foretaste of the joys to come, as it were.
PIKES WILL
CM BN FIGHT
BAIL
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IS S CORED E BY JUDGE WHO
SAID ATTEMPT MADE IN
FLUENCE HIM
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 31, (/P)—
Repulsed but nat surrendering
Pantages is preparing an appeal on
Judge Fricke’s refusal to admit him
to bail.
| Attorney Davis, Pantages’ chief
I counsel, said a writ of habeas
corpus, also the original writ of
; application, will be filed in the
court of appeals today or Mon
day in an effort to obtain the
prisoner's release in order that he
may have expert medical care
( for heart ailment,
i Court physicians said Pan
tages condition was due to senile
ranges. The defense said he was
suffering from heart disease.
Pantages family and friends
ured by Fricke who said
they had attempted to influence
him in his decision.
^he Seward high school bas
ketball team lost to Anchorage
again last night, at Anchorage,
; according to the local report.
The score was not ascertained.
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TROUBLE SATISFY
IT'S DOIMONS
FRENCH COMPROMISE PLAN
IS DISMISSED RY SPE
CIAL COMMITTEE
LONDON. Jan.. 31. f/P)—Chang-!
ing Its plans overnight the five
| "owrr naval conference went in
to executive session yesterday af
ternoon for the purpose of
smoothing out features and make
,1" otir-r procedure.
The special committee decid
ed yesterday :>n dismiss the
French compromise o’an for
of naval power.
As the delegates come togeth
er reports were widespread that
the Eritish were having diffi
culty in satistM-"'*' it* d^Pniors
as to representation at the con
h re jce of committees.
While Miss Cecil Leslie is confin
ed to her home on account of ill
ness, Miss Katherine Neville is em
ployed at the Candy Cottage.
WOLVES ADVANCING
Reports coming down from the j
Interior bring word that the ad
vance guard of wolves, tryant of the j
predatory killers, is coming over the
ridge from the Interior and slowly
advancing toward the coast. This
more than any other one thing Is
thought to be responsible for ap
parent shortage of fur-bearing ani
mals, the latter animals having
been driven away from their usual
habitante for shelter.
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