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Washington Oel . ->> - A despatch
j patch received 1. • •>>' the State
department si • < ». ml t o A n rican
citizens were k'ilnd :u the Tam;*co
Oil Fields y •^••r.kty. The Ame. c ns
killed wave .\rihur l. .Mos! y and
tave K. Sa!i* No d ‘ads o»* the killing
were giwn in the despatch.
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TEACHERS SCARCE
The teacher shortage remains a
menace to the public schools according
1 to preliminary reports made public to
day by the National Education Assoc
iation. Replies to questionnaires sent
out by the Association have come from
all sections of the United States.
These reports show that in places
where teacher’s salaries have been in
creased one hundred per cent or more
the situation is nearly always satis
factory. But such places are compai>
atively few, and in localities where
salaries have been increased fifty per
cent or less the teacher shortage is
commonly greater than a year ago.
Rural communities are hardest hit.
Signed reports from superintendents
of many counties indicate that a third
of their rural schools cannot open for
want of teachers. Tens of thousands
of schools will be in charge of teachers
who have had no professional training
and whose acadamic preparation bare
ly exceeds that of the children they
teach. *
Relief fron^ this situation, which ;
imperils the stability of American ru
ral life will be sought from the next
session of Congress. Renew’d! etforts
will be made to obtain the passage of
the Smith-T owner Bill, which creates j
a department of education with a sec- j
rotary in the President’s cabinet and
provides federal aid of $100,000,000
for education.
The situation in Alaska is not so
serious as in the nation at large. There
is but one school which is closed for j
lack of a teacher. Transportation dif- j
ficulties rather than inability to se
cure a competent teacher is the oc
casion for this, however. The salaries
of teachers in Alaska have been raised
from fifteen to fifty per cent during
the past two years, salaries paid in the
Territory now being no higher than in
the average town in the northern*or
w . 'western states.
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NOTICE
City tuxes are now due and may be
paid at the office of H. Dougherty,
City Treasurer.
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ubeetyToax refcxmxg
\Y1l.L be xecessary
Refunding of the Liberty Loan at
muumty wiii probably be necessary,
a e:>Hmg to the .muonal Bank 0:.
V em.nerce in Aow York. In the trur
t, }.t issue of its magazine. Commerce*
.dumbly, the bank points out that this
i-* indicated by the relatively early
period within which the bulk of our.
p.iolic degt falls due, together with
tie* demand for tax reduction and the
*;i, .lanty.as to payment of the ad
vances made to the allied govern
ments.
-The policy which has been follow
vd in American war loan financing it
will make necessary large refunding
operations,” the bank states, “b rom
the Treasury point of view 'this may
have its advantages, for it may be pos
sible to issue some of the refunding
loans at lower interest rates. In so far
a> lower rates can be secured the pol
icy will have justified itselt. In any
event the factory control over* debt
payment during that period.”
la discussing the relation of taxa
tion to d»*bt reduction, the bank says:
*‘lt should be observed that the
marked trend of American fiscal pol
icy toward direct forms of taxation
w'lhin the past decade reduced the
probability of rapid debt payment. Af
ter the Civil War, while a high tariff
was incidently piling up huge surplus
es were endured; now that he burden
in the main direct, it can hardly be ex
pected that collection of revenue be
yond the ordinary needs of govern
ment will go unchallenged, or that the
payment of a debt which can be pos
poned will be generally regarded as
1 one of the ordinary needs of govern
ment.”
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WASHINGTON, Oct., 2G— How
many persons discovered America be
fore Christopher Columbus?
The latest addition to the line of
claimants is Jon Skolp, a Norwegian
explorer. Solus Larsen, a Danisn
scientist who has recently made a re
port founded on researches of*archives
of the middle ages, has completed a
work which he says proves that Skoip
the Norwegian, “rediscovered Amer
ica” in 1476, 16 years ahead of Colum
bus and twenty years before John Ca
bot reached the Strait of Hudson. •
Larsen uses the term “rediscovered’’
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considering that the original discover
er was Leiv Erickson the Norseman in
the year 1000. Larsen’s researches de
velop, be sey&, that about 1475 tee
King of Portugal sent a message to
the King ci Denmark and Norway
Christian i, i< questing him to fit out
an expedition and attempt o find a sea
passage o A*ia— in reality a North
west pas. age An old document to tV.v
effect was found in the Danish state
archives. The expedition was headed
by the Norwegian-German privateer,
captain Didrik Pining and piloted by
i the Norwegian pilot Jon Skolp, bp
j whom credit is given for having reach*
} ed as far as Labrador and found part
! of the actual entrance to the North
{west passage. •
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WASHINGTON, Oct., 26— A com
| avllte • of the American Lotion today
i formally'submitted to President Wil
| son a demand for the dismissal of As
i sisurnt Secieiary of Labor Post. The
I committee srnd in its review' of the
I demand that the depoi tati >ns ord red
I by the government through the% De
! pai-tment of Justic showed that the
| department of Labor had cancelled be
I tween January first and June fifteen
th a total of two hundred and fifteen
thousand deportation warrants for ra
| dicais? and alien subjects and had o -
jdc n «i the deportation of only'five
nuiui’ed and thirty cases.
In an old Spanish geographical work
on America, first published in 1552 by
Franc esco Lopez de Gomara, a priest
of Sevilla, it is mentioned that Labra
dor was reached for the first time by
I Norn vgian sailors, piloted by John
ocolvus. (Jon Skolp). This inform a
tion v as first made public by the Nor
wcgiti n professor of histoiy Gusta v
Storm in 1386. But at that time this
part of the history of the discoveries
was still in its infancy, and isolated
at is was then, the information nutui -
ally had to be used with great cau
tion. Later on new* material was found
pointing in the same diction. One
of the sources was a famous globe1,
dating from 1537 and made by the
Dutch physician and mathematician/
Gemma Frisius, who points out thai
North America was reached in 1476
>/ .Johannes Scolvus.
Johannes Scolvus is a name un
Known in Norwegian history. Dr. Lar
sen connects it with the Norwegian
surname Skolp, which means a man
from the shores or fishing places ol
northern Norway. His deed became
iamous in liis own times, but on ac
count of various conditions not trac
eable now, it was veiled in obscurity
and forgotven. The account of his voy
age undoubtedly has been of signifi
cance to other expeditions, Norwegian,
..s vveii as English and Portuguese. Dr.
Fridtjof Nansen in one of his scientif
ic works has proved that even 100
years later English erplorers were
iamiliar with the expedition of Johan
nes Skolp, namely when preparing for
martin Frobisher's travel to Green
land in 1576.
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WEATHER REPORT
SE^VARD 46 Raining Calm.
Anchorage 30 Cloudy Calm.
Matanuska 50 Cloudy East.
Chickaloori 34 Cloudy Calm.
Wasilla 44 Cloudy East. %
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Talkeetna 40 Cloudy East
Goldcreek 36 Cloudy Calm.
Hurricane 32 Clear Calm. >.
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Summit *30 Cloudy Cabfh.
‘ Healy 36 Cloudy North.
* Nenana 36 Cloudy East.
Fairbanks 38 Cloudy Calm.
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OIL IN PLENTY
EDMONTON, Alta, Oct., 25—
When the problem of the seperation of
oil from oil sands lying to the north of
j Edmonton has been solved, oil in suf
j ficient quantities to supply the world
; for 600 years will be released, accord
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ing to the opinion expressed by Dr.
H. N. Tory, principal of the University
of Alberta, in the course of an address
before the Calgary board of trade re
cntly. The oil fields north of Edmon
ton, the president of tj^e university be
lieves, contain the greatest body of oil
to be found in the world.
NOTICE OF MEETING
The women of Seward are invited
to be the guests of the Women’s Club
of Seward at an open meeting and tea
to be given tomorrow afternoon at ;»
o’clock at the home of Mrs. Erich Lu
cas. A short business session of the
club member» will precede this meet
ing beginning promptly at 2 o’clock.
A#t three a program will be given con
sisting of music by Mts. McNecr and
Mrs. Brook, followed by a talk by Mrs.
Don Carlos on her personal experience
in the reconstruction work among the'
disabled soldiers of the American Ar
my. Tea will be served at four. The
hostesses will be Mrs. C. E. Orlandc r,
Mrs. Gustav Borgen, Mrs. W. A. Perry
Mrs. Ralph Reed) and Mrs. Erich Lu
cas. *
This tea has been planned especial
ly in honor of the five new members
of the club and is to be the first of a
series to be given throughout the wir
ier season.
The annual meeting of the Trustees
>f the Methodist Church was held a£
the close of the services Sunday even
ing. Reports of the various committees
were read and approved. To make the
board of trustees complete Mr. C. E.
Oriander was elected to take the place
of Frank L. Ballaine who has been
long absent from the city.
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ONE MILLION WEDDINGS
CHICAGO, Oct, 26— Roger Miller
of Georgia told the delegates last
night at a meeting of the National As
sociation of Commercial Secretaries
that there had been one million marr
iages in this country last year 6nd
that only seventy thousand new homes
had been built. He further stated that
the United States was the only civil
ized nation in the world tc^day that
ignored the serious problem of housing
its citizens.
NOTICE OF~MEETING of Seward
Oil and Gas Association and import
ant meeting of the Oil and Gas Assoc
iation will be held tonight at" the City
Hall at 8 P. M. To determine what
further development of the Oil and
Gas may be attempted at this time and
to hear reports and transact business
of the Association.
The question of raising money for a
prospect drill hole is also to come up
W this meeting and all members are
requested to be present.
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Boast Seward bat Never Knock.
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NSW YORK, Oct., 26— George
Carpentier, champion pugilist ofFran
ce and Europe has been matched to
fight Jack Dempsey champion of this
country for the heavy weight champ
ionship o-f the world. The contract will
be formally signed tomorrow.
Under the terms of the contract
the two heavy weighty will fight be
tween February 1st. and July 1st of
next year and the conditions stipulate,
that the encounter will be confined to
ten or fifteen#rounds. *
LONDON, Oct., 26— The most un
ique office building in London, for
more than a quarter of a century the
business headquarters and home of
the h te Lord William Waldorf Astor,
ifc to be sold. Built at a cost of mojre
than $1,000,000 th^s office-palace oc
cupied one df the most commanding
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positions on the famous embankment.
Architects have called it the most
original structure of its find in the
world, in that it combine* many of the
inspiiations of the old world with all
the modern devices of present day
business. It is constructed! of gray
stone, in Tudor style* and never has
any building offered such discourage
ment to burglars. A strong, though
artistic iron railing surrouding the
house, all the many windows have iron
bars and entrance can only be obtained
through a massive gateway of bronze.
Aliove jt all is a little gilt galleon,
/n full sail, an exact model of the car
avel in which Columbus crossed the
seas, a happy reminder, as someone
has pointed out “of the American
made wealth which made the splend
id building possible.”
When one enters the office he is
confronted by a magnificent carved
staircase which occupies the greater
portion of the center of the house. Oak
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beams, mahogany pannelling, marble
floors abound throughout and many
inlaid tables and cabinets and a pon
derous fourposter bed with Gobelin
hangings.
Although used as both a residence
and office, several enthusiasts are
urging that it be purchased by the
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City of London as a permanent.home
for the London City Museum, so well
could it be adapted to public use.
The first Lord Astor spent much of
his time in the building, managing his 1
American properties from here and di
recting his newspaper The Pall Mall
of business to be transacted, became
lees and the present Lord Astor hav
ing no use for the building it is to be
sold but will always be a monument
to the memory and personality of the
late William Waldorf Astor.
NOTICE
Come One — Come All
To The
MASQUERADE
/Ball and Dance on
HOL.LOWEEN
NIGHT
At ODD FELCOWS/Hall
Good Music and Refresh*
ments. PRIZES
Ladies Artistic
Gents Comedian
No Men Allowed in
Ladies Costume.
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FLASHES
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FLOUR TAKES DROP
WHEAT PRICE RISES
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct., 26— Flour
dropped another forty cents a barrel
here today and the dealers predicted
that the bottom had been reached for
the present. The new price makes
flour $3.53 per sack.
CHICAGO, Oct., 2G— Wheat prices
suddenly ascended nearly eleven cents
per bushel here today due to the re
cent falling off of offerings caused by
the farmers strike in the South West.
Many of the farmers are pledged to
hold their wheat until three dollars a •
bushel is obtained. Todays advance on
the price of wheat is the first notic
able effect of the strike.
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IRISH PEOPLE STIRRED
BELFAST, Oct., ,26— Rioting in
connection with the death of Lord
Mayor McSwinney yesterday and the •
death if Joseph Murphy last nightvhas
been reported from Belfast, Dublin,
Cork and Galaway. Numbers were kill
ed and injured.
DUBLIN, Oct., 26— Eight residents .
of Cork vere arrested last night as
they were about to sail for England.
Under the outer garments that each
man wore was a uniform of the Irish
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Republican Army. It is believed by the
authorities making the arrest that the
party was bound for London at which
place they were going to avenge the
death of McSwiney.
FRENCH NEWSPAPERS .
SYMPATHIZE
PARIS, Oct., 26— Although declar
ing that France must not interfere
with the policy of the,English govern
ment toward Ireland the French pa
pers today when commenting upon
the death of Lord Mayor McSwiney
^paid" tribute to his courage and declar
ed that he had died for an ideal.
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BUENOS AIRES, Oct, 26— Re
ligious services for Lord Mayor Mc
Swiney were held here yesterday.
ARMED GUARDS SENT'
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SPOKANE, Oct, 26— Armed
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guards were today sent to guard the
line of the Spokane International Rail
way on the Canadian Boundary line in
order to protect the property of the
company and thd trainmen from the
armed bootleggers who are importing
large quantities of JUquor. The train
men who have been attempting to
step the practice of patting liquor in
cars on the Canadian side and then op*
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ettning on the American side end re
moving it have been threatened by the
bootleggers. _
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