School Bond Issue
Rides On Landslide;
Of Public Opinion
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VOTERS TURN OUT EARLY AND VOTE FOR
$50,000 INDEBTEDNESS THAT SEWARD BE:
EQUIPPED WITH AN ADEQUATE SCHCO^i
HOUSE—RATIO OF “FORS” AGAINST “NOES”
BETTER THAN BEFORE—SEWARD TAKES
PLACE IN ALASKA HISTORY AS BEING AL
MOST UNANIMOUS FOR CIVIC BETTERMENT. |
Seward created history yesterday when she went to!
the polls and practically voted unanimously for a brand
new $50,000 school house there being only six dissenting1
votes. In spite of the fact that a second vote had to be call
ed to cure technical difficulties in the first vote, the percen
tage “for was greater than ever, giving convincing evi
dence that civic coneiousness has reached a supreme level
in this city.
The total vote of those on the tax roll was 126 and out
of that number only six voted “No”, or in other words the
vote stood 120 for and six against. On the first vote there
were lo7 for and 18 against. Some of the dissenters on the
vote changed their minds and voted “Yes” this time.
RESENTMENT WIDESPREAD IN
BRITISH COLUMBIA FOLLOW.
INC. PLANE PLUNGE
SEATTLE, Stept. ll, (.^—Resent
ment is reported as becoming more
widespread in British Columbia, and
especially in Victoria, because of so.
parent indifference’ of Canadian au
thorities regarding the search for the
missing B, C. Airways plane and tKo
recovery of its dead as indicated ;■
newspaper editorials in Victoria.
“Have our authorities done enough
towards recovering the bodies of
those who lost tl.'tdr lives in the
wreck?” One such article asks. It
was pointed out that three mine
sweepers, detailed by the Royal
Canadian Government, cruised the
"QtVnd CO hours, then returned to Es
quimau, just as serious uaarch for
ihe missing plane was begun by the
Cnited States Coast Guard.
The delay is inexcusable, reads the
editorial, and there has been bad
bungling somewhere. Part of the
blame seems to rest on Canadian au
thorities, who should have been far
more active where death and disaster
were concerned.
BELATED OBSEQUIES
PORTSMOUTH, England Sept. 11
(/P)—Withfull naval ceremony the
ttodies of forty.one officers and men
of the submarine l.H. H., which ’was
»unk toy the Russians in the Baltic in
June of nineteen nineteen, were
buried in the naval cemetery here to
day.
I'nere was early vindication oi the
■ fought that the balloting would be
brisk and assuring when the polls
were opened at S o’clock.
J. I’. Hannon, former city clerk,
was >worn in as judge to take the
place o! William II. Whittlesey, who
had be/sn called away. Leon Urbach
a ini J. H. Flickinger, Emilie Wey.
brecht, and Sylvia Sexton completed
the board of judges and clerks.
Within an hour there had been 30
votes cast, several hunting parties
having delayed their departure to the
wilds in order to register their ap
proval of bigger and better schools.
Toward the close of th/3 polls there
jwas a last minute rush of those anx.
ious to get on the honor roll of one
of the most unique voting results
ever staged in Alaska or any where
else.
It is a remarkable fact in connec
'ion with this ballot that although
the voters had been called out a sec.
end time, they rallied to tlte cause
j in—more unmistakable terms than
they did the first time, and had it
not been for the fact that many of
the tax payers were away on hunt
ing trips, the "yes” vote would have
btren even heavier. At that Sewanl
takes her place in Alaska history as
being almost a unit for civic better,
ment and concern for its coming
! generation.
j Tonight tlie City Council will open
the bids for school construction and
the work will doubtless be started at
once.
Can Girdle Globe In
50 Days Unhurried
NEW YORK, Sept. 11, (/P) —With,
out hurrying at all, the world can be
girdled in 50 days. Emil Fisher, a
banker in Tientsin, has done it. He
left there July 15th, spent three
weeks in the United States and four
days in Germany. Friends here have
received word of his return to Tient
sin. He used planes across Russia
from Germany.
ALL TECHNICALITIES EXHAUST
EDjYOUTHFUL MURDERER
MUST DIE OCTOBER 19
LOS ANGGELES, Sept. 11. UP)—
With the rewards announced for the
capture of William Edw. Hickman,
s'laver of 12_year old Marion Par
er of Los Angeles, officials here stal
ed that all is in readiness for the ex
ecution of Hickman on October 19.
Announcement of the reward divi
sions recalled one of the most brutal
of slayings in American history.
It was believed that every legal
tactic, except intervention by the Gov.
ernor of California, has beeen ex.
hnusted in an effort to prevent the
hanging of the self styled “Fox”, who
since his capture has been found gu
ilty of another murder. ••
MUST HAVE WITNESS
GENEVA Sept 11. CPi—Rriand says
that France can dicuss the T*resent
Rhineland evacuation question only
in the presence of her allies.
School Boy Scores
Worlds Record At
Rifle Range Shoot
CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Sept. 11, (£>)
—A new world’s record was estab
lished by Lawrence Wilkins, the 3 6
year old school boy of Norwood, O.,
when he made a possible score of
400 points, while shooting on the
short range team match, on the small
bore range in the National Rifle As
sociation meet.
Wilkins had a string of 40 consecu
tive bulls eyes on the 60 and 100
yard ranges. His mark is believed
to be a world’ record. This is the
course which is Used in firing the
International Smallbore team match,
i to be held when the American rifle
men will compete with the Interna
tional teams.
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YANKEE STADIUM, N. Y. Sept.
11. (JP)—The Yankees spilled the
Athletics twice to tak0 the Hindis,
puted possession of first place in the
American League, New York 5—7;
Philadelphia nothing—3.
Chinese Home-Seekers Pour Into
!kanchuria at Rate of 2,000 a Day
r' u m 'f c rf ns- ■ / rt
Of-'P TO P/NO WORK. ON THC PAR-MS
NEW U)KK i wo tnousand Chinese
a clay from the war-torn provinces of
Shantung and Chihli are pouring Into
Manchuria In one of the greatest mi
grations in the world’s history.
The rush of refugees from provinces
in China desolated by revolutionary
armies resembles the movement of
home-seekers into the American West
In pioneer times, according to J. P.
McKeon of Chicago, counselor to ex
porters, just returned from the
Orient.
"The ancient land." said Mr. Mc
Keon, “is rapidly becoming like a
section of the United States trans
planted In the Orient. The Japanese,
in control since the Russian Japanese
war. are developing the country ac
cording to occidental Ideas. They have
Inverted hundreds of millions of dol
lar! In American railway equipment,
manufacturing and mining macnin
ery, and agricultural Implements rite
South Manchuria railway is equal to
the >'cst American railroad Newlv
built cities resemble Seattle or Den
ver. Modern factories and industrial
planC are numerous. -Vestibule trains
flash past temples a thousand years
old at :l tractor plows furrow the farm
lands m the shadow of the monu
ments of ancient civilization. Public
schools, hotels, clubs, golf courses,
laboratories, hospitals, and agricul
tural experiment stations are every
where.
“Manchuria produces wheat, corn,
hemp, barley, oats, tobacco, sugai
beets, and soya beans. Its mountains
are rich In Iron and coal. The nat
ural resources are being rapidly de
veloped and the country has won the
name of the Carden of China'
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DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS JUDI
CIARY ADDRESS SEWARD
CHAMBER COMMERCE
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j Ever since the baleful day when
'Gifford Pinchot, now Governor of
j Pennsylvania, bestrode his hobby of
j conservation and galloped over the
ihills and dales of Alaska, this Terri
tory has had to suffer, and the only
! relief will come when Congress takes
| the lid off and permits Alaskans to
(develop their own reourees in their
iown way. Alaska should not be con.
,siden*d as a “possession” of the
j United States, but as an integral part
■thereof, and her citizens ar • as much
entitled to rights as American citi
Is'.ns as any other residents of the
! nation
■ tin well-timed :
j I'ul manner. Mayor L. V. Pay of the
I City of S-'?w;: "d set 'orth some of the
'wants of Alaska and some of her
; opportunities in an address of wel.
(come to two distinguished members
of the bar of the United States who
,were guests of the Seward Chamber
of Commerce and business men gen.
j orally at a luncheon tendered Satur
day. They wens Solicitor General
William T). Mitchell of the U. S. Ee_
ipartment of Justice, chief executive
officer of ;he Department, and Jus
iticp Edward It. Finch of the New
York Court of Appeals, the highest
icourt of that State. In response,
I both of the able jurists declared that
they had learned much on their visit
ito the Territory and upon their re.
turn to the States would be in far
I better preparedness of mind to con
sider Alaska and her problems in
jdlcatlng that they were so favorably
impressed that they would certainly
try to solve them for Alaska’s bene
fit.
:.i opening nis remarks, Mayor Ray
oa.nd attention to the fact that by
viruie of his position Solicitor Gen.
erai Mitchell is councilor for the
i Ameri.'iin Red Cross, of which John
Iiarttn Payne was an executive ur’i
I cr -;>•<! a great friend and aum' er
of Alaska He referred to the *'ft
that Judge Finch, had a clos.j friend
! on the New York bar who is a mem.
| be ■ of the Airtic Uvothe: ’< -m Gs
j spoke of the many distinguished men
i it had been a pleasure to meet on
| their visit to the Territory, a long
| procession of notables, culminating
in the memorable visit of foiiivr
President Harding.
ALWAYS ASKING
appears that Alaskans at" al
ways asking for something,” said thu
Mayor, ‘‘but in all fairnes w.3 must
admit that we have bun given pat.
ient and sympathetic he'iur.g at
j Washington. We are .<;so deep'y
I sensible of the fact that '/ w v could
I compose our own differences we
would get more action on ot.T're
! quests.
“We soma times wonder why we
are here, but when we pause tc con
sider the great possibilitfes of the
future we realize we can never leave
or would leave.
“Here in Seward, it is not hard
for us to visualize the day when a
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