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at
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Reopened under new
management
Chop Suey and Noodles
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OPEN ALL HOURS
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IN
Anchorage
IN THE HEART OF TOWN
Reasonable Rates
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Barber Shop
FRED MTLLER
BATHS-:-OPEN SUNDAY A.M.
TAILORING
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a Suit. Guaranteed Fit.
C. HENNING
Seward, Alaska
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Sanitary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prices
Keep Us Busy.
JESS LANDER, Propr.
For Electrical Work
CALL TOM 0SB0
Residence—Madison 123
NEXT YEAR S WORK
ON RAILROAD BE
ON SAME SCALE
ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER
HORN GIVES RESUME OF FU
TURE ACTIVITIES
“All construction work now being
clone on the Alaska Railroad is with
the view of permanency, and in the
spring bridge construction will be car
ried on, additional ballast for the road
gotten out, and the filling in of num
erous wooden trestles, continued,”
stated Horn, assistant general mana
ger of the Alaska Railroad, during an
interview granted the Gateway. “It
is expected,” Mr. Horn resumed, “that
with the arrival of spring the sum
mer forces will gradually work up to
the regular number, or that of last
season, from eleven hundred to thir
teen hundred men. This means for
the entire operation of the railroad.”
Scrap material such as iron and seel
of which there is estimated to be in
the neighborhood of one thousand tons
in the Anchorage yards, will be ship- i
Pea out where it will be disposed ol
; i to the highest bidder. Some tonnage
j has already been sent to the states
< and on the presemt trip south of the
| Boxer, a large shipment goes out. The
j scrap has been accumulating since
j early construction days. The mater
J ial, which was scattered along the
| right of way for years, has been sys
; tematically gathered during the past
| year or so, and stored in the Anchor
• age yards where sorting crews listed
; and stacked thousands of items. It
} is expected shipments of the material
( will flow steadily southward until it
] is all cleared up.
In the work of constructing the ex
■ tension of the narrow gauge railroad
up Moose Creek, to the Howard-Jes
son coal property, which w^as recently
completed, the river channel was
changed in four places, cutting off
points to avoid washouts and for the
purpose of reducing the curvature of
the line. This work was accomplish
ed in line with the future possibility
of converting the narrow gauge into
a standard gauge road. It would have
been impossible to operate a standard
gauge road over the original roadbed.
Mr. Horn arrived in Seward Mon
day night from his Anchorage head
quarters, in connection with official
rail matters on this end of the system.
He plans departing tomorrow morning
1U1 uuice. wane in town the Van
Gilder is his headquarters.
PRINT GERMAN EDITORIALS
IN ENGLISH STOP SUSPICION
ST. PAUL, Jan. 13. (/P)—Daily edi
torials in German are republished in
English each Saturday by the Tagliche
Volkszeitung of St. Paul.
The practice was instituted with the
announced intention of making the
editorial policy thoroughly understood
by the English reading public and to
minimize “an element of suspicion
with which an American unable to
read German or any other foreign
language might naturally look upon
any newspaper printed in an alien
tongue.”
There are now more than eight hun
dred women barbers in Chicago alone.
CAREER OF BUCK
PRIVATE IN U.S.
ARMY IS LAUDED
DESCENDANT OF VIKINGS SLOW
LY CARVING OUT CAREER
IN UNITED STATES
NEW YORK, Jan. 13. (JP)~Kipling
didn’t invent his “gentleman ranker”
for in the armies of the world there
has always been a sprinkling of men
of genius, birth, and fortune—lured to
the company of more humble souls by
the magic of soldier life.
And perhaps no mediaeval men-at
arms or proud battalion of a pagan
emperor ever boasted a more talented
or pedigreed arrar of rear-rank bucks
than does the present day army of
Uncle Sam.
As witness the latest doughboy ex
traordinary, Private Kristain Brandt,
U. S. A.—direct descendant of fierce
Vikings, his father a major-general in
the Norwegian army, himself once a
distinguished cadet in the West Point
of his own country and liter an Arc
tic explorer, big game hunter, and ra
dio engineer. Brandt has just been
discovered among the soldier students
of the Army Signal School at Fort
Mammouth, N. J.
A mapped-out military career prov
ing too tame, this intrepid young globe
girdler had followed frozen trails in
the South Polar regions and adventur
ed within the Arctic Circle, with many
thrills between the two, before the
new and fascinating science of radio
intrigued his eager interest.
It was while hunting whales in the
Antarctic that his knowledge of radio
first proved its worth to the expedi
tion. Facing possible death from
starvation, Brandt, after all other ways
of communication had failed to bring
relief, built his own radio station and
brought the party in touch with out
posts of civilization. Later this same
station received recognition in the net
of the International Radio Union, and
since has become known as the larg
est floating station in the world.
Although an explorer, whale hunter,
and radio engineer, Brandt naturally
had to be first a soldier, his family
having been connected with the Nor
wegian army for more than three hun
dred years. His father, Major-Gen.
F. O. Brandt, now commanding the
First Division, Norwegian Army, with
visions of his own stars on his son’s I
shoulders, sent him to the Military !
Academy whle he was yet a boy.
But young Brandt elft it all and
joined an exploring expedition into the
Far North. That was in 1920. Short
ly after passing Spitzbergen, the party
got caught in the ice. Yet they did
set up a chain of food depots before
returning, and for this Roal Amundsen j
the loPar Flyer of 1925, who used at
least one of them, had cause to be
thankful.
Back in Norway again Brandt now
became interested in radio for the
first time. This marked a turning
point in an adventurous career. It
was his Antarctic experiences, howev
er, that whetted his appetite to learn
more of the new science and he final
ly decided to come to America for ad
vanced radio training.
For ten months after his arrival in
the United States he worked in the
laboratories of the Radio Corporation I
of America, at New Brunswick, N. J. „
This position he later resigned to en
ter the U. S. Army Signal Corps. His
commanding officer at Fort Moun
mouth today said Brandt is showing
himself no less a student than he was
an explorer.
In comparing life in the armies of
Norway and America he finds cause
to regret that the American dough
boy does not receive the gratitude of
the Norwegian soldier, who is invari
ably supplied with complimentary
tickets to the best theatres and car
ries passes for the trolley cars, rail
roads and the steamship lines of the
country. Yet the American army man
has educational advantages far in ad
vance of those of any other soldier of
the world, Private Brandt believes.
Women of Morocco are permitted to
leave home along only on Friday after
noons and then only to visit the ceme
tery, from which men are barred on
that day.
Miss Sarah F. Niven received the
highest award of the medical faculty
at Glasgow University this year, the
first time this honor has ever been
won by a woman student.
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ibND.iflW000 4 UNP£*W000,.N.^Y.
Hudson Maxim, high explosive ex
pert and prominent inventor, who re
cently sailed for England to get a
“civilized mans’ drink.” He will cele
brate his thirtieth wedding anniver
sary in England where he was mar
ried, and will try to consume satisfy
ing quantities of good beer and stout
of which he admits his fondness.
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All baseball equipment, such as bats,
balls, gloves and uniforms, which has
been heretofore stored in the fire hall,
was moved this afternoon to the S. A.
C. building where it will be safely stor
ed until the spring work-out.
Fine leather writing companions at
$2.50 and up—Alaska Shop. tff.
Fine men’s purses and key cases
—Alaska Shop. tf
Ladies’ hand tooled leather purses
and bags—Alaska Shop. tf.
Large assortment or line box sta
tionary—Alaska Shop. tf
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
LOST—Keys, finder return to John
Mattich at the Palace.
FOR SALE—Household furniture con
sisting of beds, chairs, rockers,
rugs, and miscellaneous articles.
Call at Gateway office for appoint
ment. _ tf
FOR SALE—One Edison phonograph
with about 125 records, Machine
cost $200, records §100; all for
§75 cash. tf
FOR SALE—Lang furnace for $25
cash; see Fred Miller. tf
LOST—Lunch of keys; return to
“Bill” Dewitt and receive $5 re
ward.—The Seattle House. tf.
Write that Story Now
We offer a $250 GREBE RADIO SET,
complete, with batteries, tubes, loud
speaker and all accessories, as the firse
prize in our big
Alaska Story Contest
10U can do better than a writer who
has never seen Alaska. Write to the
Pathfinder or look in its columns for
complete information.
Pathfinder
of Alaska
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off) Bacon, and one dozen large (£1 A A
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