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Seward daily gateway., 1926-08-28

Mayor Ray requested The Gateway to publish the follow ing provisions of the law relative to school boards and stated he considered comment unnecessary:
 Section 30 Chapter 97 Session Laws of Alaska 1923 requires the Treasurer of school board in Alaska before entering upon the duties of his office give bond to the city in such the Council may direct and subject it's (Councs approval such bond to be filed with the City Clerk
 Section B of the law reads as follows Report to Council The School Board shall whenever required by the city council but not oftener than each month transmit to the council detailed report and statement of the moneys expended and for what and to whom paid
 Section 34 reads Record of the Board The clerk of the school board shall keep in permanent form the min utes of the meetings and record of all the proceedings the board The treasurer of the school board shall keep accurate and full of all the moneys received and expended by him. and shall preserve the proper vouchers for all expenditures All the records and files of the school board shall be open to inspection by the public at all sOnable times"
 Section 1871 of the Compiled Laws of the Territory of Alaska 1913 is folows Every person has right to inspect any public writing record in said District and every public officer having the custody thereof is bound to permit such inspection and to give demand and on payment of the legal fees therefor certified copy of such writing record and such copy shall in all be evidence of the ginal."
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ALASKA EN ROUTE
 NORTH WITH LARGE
 NUMBER O|V BOARD
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY LINER HAS 21o RESERV-
 ATIONS

SEATTLE, Aug. 2S. (P)-The s. s. Alaska of the A. s. s. Co. sailed at g o'clock this morning with 219 reserva- tions among whom were the following for Seward:
 Martin Peterson, Miss E. Hoffman, and sister, w. A. Little, E. o. Mcleod F. c. Irons, Miss E. E. Evans, Miss Gertrude Watson, E. Gillis, Mrs. Geo. Hill, Mrs T. K. Walden, Mrs. Alma N. Bixby, Mrs. A. D. Williams, C.. T. Din fly, E. M. Keys, Wm. Whipple, Geo. Moore, H. F. Noble and wife, w. A. Sanders, c. D. Roxer, D. H. Baxter, M. B. Saver, Dr. H. West, J. A. Gala ghey, Miss R. Wilson, V. R. Fuller, Miss H. Brosset, Miss M. Milton, Ethell Hyde, Blanche Dyer, Miss H. B. Baker, Mrs. Geo. Preston, and five children, B. Champenes, M. Waldson, c. N. Nessley, J. Hannula, A. Lempin- en, Miss M. Richardson, Miss M. Ham lin, Mrs. H. D. Wandling, two children Mary and Harlik, Earl Grant and wife, Wm. Bennett, Richard Linder, A. K. Anderson, Mrs. L. Gibson, Mrs. C.. Hockling, two sons, Harold M. Smith, Mrs. M. Badler, Mrs. c. F. Hunkley, Minnie Rausch, H. Burg and wife, and -four steerage.
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MRS. CARSON, N. r, SW|MS CHANNEL IN
 SECOND BEST TIME
SWIMS THE TURBULENT ENGLISH CHANNEL IN, IS HOURS AND 28 MINUTES; FINISHED STRONG AND IN GOOD HEALTH
WEARS OUT HER RAINIER
Born in Denmark Where Learned to Swim Like a Duck-Her Babies Were Inspiration to Success.

DOVER, Aug. 2S. (P)-Mrs. Clem- ington Carson of New York, mother of two children, swan the English Chan nel from Grisnez to Dover in 15 hours and 2S minutes, the second best time man or woman ever made, and is the second woman to do it. She started swimming 19 strokes to the minute and covered four miles in the first two hours, and was in good spirits after swimming all night. She break lasted on cocoa, loaf sugar and choc- olate, and chatted with her husband and trainer Frank Perks, Englishman, who started with her, but quit a half a mile from England and after being IA hours in the water. She landed on the beach near Shakespeare cliff, where Tiraboschi finished in 1923 A huge throng greeted her.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 2S. P-Mrs. Carson was born in Denmark, her maiden name being Amelia Gade. The king of Denmark decorated her, as a girl, for swimming feats She came here where she was an instructor in the naval reservists. She has swam around Manhattan island and from Albany to New York. She married after trying the English channel in 1923. She said when she sailed in June, "The babies have given me a great ambition to succeed"
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AV|ATORS ATTACK
 GUN RUNNING SHIP
FORMER PLIERS IN U. s. SERV. ICE NOW MAJORS NICAR-
 AGUAN CoNsTABULARY

MANAGUA NICARAGUA, Aug. 28. (P)-Captain J. c. Rutledge and J. L.. Clay, former American aviators, now majors in the Nicaraguan constabu- airplane attacks on a gun running yes sel flying the American flag. One bomb exploded near the ship, the crew of which turned a machine gun on the plane, which left when it ran out of ammunition. Last night they found the ship again and dropped nine bombs without scoring a hit.
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HARTLEY CONTINUES
 INVESTIGATE TIMBER
 TRANSACTION, STATE
G OVER RNOR OF WASHINGTON WILL PRESENT FULL RE.
 PORT, LEGISLATURE

SEATTLE, Aug. 2S. (P)-Governor Hartley over the radio last night said he will continue his investigation on the sale of state timber, so that he can make as full a report as is pos- sible to the next session of legisla- ture. This fight is against the system of which Clark Savidge, land commis- sioner, gave the best evidence, when he said that he could be wealthy in 90 days if he chose to be dishonest.
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Board Makes Statement

The Seward School Board desires to state that the Commissioner of Education L. D. Henderson, has fur nished the school board with large record book and d rected that full report of the of the school be kept in this record The accounts for the last school being placed in this record and as completed detailed report of receipts and expenses for the school the Town of Seward
 SEWARD SCHOOL BOARD
 WAYNE BLUE, Chairman
 CURTIS R. MORFORD, Clerk
 Schools How Financed and Maintained Chapter 97, Article V, Section 29, Session Laws of 1923 begins as follows:
 Every city shall constitute school district and it shall be the duty of the council to provide the with suitable school houses and to provide the necessary funds to maintain public schools therein but such schools when established shall be under the supervision and control school board of three members"
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the machine struck with it's tail up. Schultz cut his straps and went to the aid of Rodgers, though himself badly bruised and gashed by the debris. Sailors rushed into the water and failed at first to extricate Rodgers who said, Easy boys, I'm fast some where. Go easy" His left leg was pinned and tools were used to pry the plane apart to release him. He died in the hospital yard. The planef was bound for the Philadelphia navy sta tion from Washington and was about to land. The nature of Rodgers in- juries are unreported beyond broken leg.
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DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN
 CLOSES, SECOND TIME

DALLAS, The second primary cam paign for the Democratic Gubernator- ial nomination closed today. Ma" Ferguson attacked the Klan and Moody. Fergusonism was Moody's fa- vorite attack which resulted in a 12,- 900 lead over Ferguson in the July primary.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-08-28

At two well-attended meetings of Anchorage citizens a Marquam for delegate club was formulated, August 25, the administration of which is vested in an executive committee of five consisting of the following:
 Dr. J. H. Romig, president.
 J. E. Chovin, president.
 James R. Campbell, treasurer.
 Thomas c. Price was selected to act as secretary, and the following com mittees were appointed:
 Finance-A. A. Shonbeck, c. M. Eckmann, H. I. Staser.
 Publicity-William Murry, William Peltier, W. A. Sherman.
 Membership-A. H. Mcdonald, Gus Gelles, Ray c. Larson, J. J. Courtnay, Captain A. E. Lathrop, Sam Tansy, Robert L. Weaver, Chas. Cameron, R. B. Mcdonald, J. A. Magill, w. B. Dean, J. w. Blase, A. D. Balderston, o. E. Hillman, Fred Schodde, H. c. Bennett, Fred Parsons, Jas. Morgan. Oscar Nord, w. H. Rager.
 A general discussion was entered into and it was decided that the pub lie should be advised as to the purpose
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NJ RESUMPTION OF
 SERVICES MEXICO
CATHOLIC EPISC PATE AN. NOUNCES "WITH GODS AID CATHOLICS WILL NOT YIELD
 TO THREATS"

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2S. (P)-Until the religious laws are amended or re- pealed, and whether this takes months or years to attain, there will be no re- sumption of services in the republic, the Catholic Episcopate announced, and added, "but with Gods aid Cath olics will not yield to threats"
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C0MDR. J. RODGERS KILLED WHEN LANDING AIRPLANE

ATTEMPTED FLIGHT TO HAWAII LAST SUMMER; SAMUEL SCHULTZ, MECHANICIAN, IS CRITl- CALLY INJURED; BUT CUTS SELF LOOSE FROM STRAPS AND GOES TO ASSISTANCE OF HIS CHIEF
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MANY DIE JAPAN FLOODS

TOKYO, Aug. 2S. (P-The Hako- date reported many are dead, as the result of 2500 houses being inundated, and thousands of acres of rice des- troyed by floods followed by rains.
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COMMANDER DIED IN NAVY YARD EN ROUTE ID HOSPITAL
Sailors Forced Use Tools to Extradite Rodgers Whose Left Leg Was Pinned "Pm Fast Somewhere Go Easy" :" Rorgers Said

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28. Commander John Rodgers who attempted to fly Hawaii last summer was killed and Samuel Schultz his mechanician critically n- jured when they in land plane and descending rap
 river and 100 feet from the navy yard, the nose tlted and the machine fell into three and onehaf feet of water Both strapped to the seats of the fuse
 lage which into the mud The propeller broke and
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ANCHORAGE CITIZENS ORGANIZE MARQUAM
 F0R DELEGATE CLUB

IN THE ANCHORAGE
  TIMES GIVES REASONS FOR OR. GANIZATION -PROMINENT CIT HENS TAKE LEAD IN MOVE- MENT TO ELECT INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE-PUBL MEETING IS PLANNED FOR NEAR FUTURE
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TROOPS KILL SIX; MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2S. (P)-Shout- ing, "Long live religion" IS persons footed the town of Amecameca in Mexico valley. Federal troops pursu- ing them, killed six, captured one, but Il escaped.
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PoLA coLLAPsEs ON TRAIN

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 2S. P)-Pola Negri, collapsed on a train en route to New York, when shown a newspap- CT picture of Valentines body repos- ing in the bier.
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HANGED FOR CONSPIRACY

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 2S. lR- Djavid, Nazim, Nail, and Hilmi were hanged for conspiracy against Renal.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
STEER TRACK STAR
HONORED BY SCHOOL

AUSTIN. Jan. 5.-CP)-Piciure
of Jim Reese, of Comanche. captain
of the 1925 Southwest Conference
championship Texas University track
and field team and winner of the 1925
national collegiate one mile champion
ship. adorns the cover of the program
for the Texas University relay games
Of March 26 recently mailed hundreds
Of universities, academies, colleges
and high schools. Reese in winning
the national championship at Chicago
last June ran the mile in 4 :1S 40.
He is generally conceded to be the
greatest track athlete yet produced by
Texas Unive- ity. Reese is now
teaching and coaching at Electra High
School.
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LAST TWO POLO
SQUADS HERE
FOR MEET
Houston, Dallas Clubs Ar.
rive-First Games
Sunday.

Polo squads representing the Hous-
ton Riding and Polo Club and this
Dallas Polo Association arrived Fri-
day to compete in San Antonio's midi
winter tournament that starts Sum
day. completing the field Of seventeen
teams.
Colonel James s. Mckinley. Eighth
Corps Area polo representative, re-
porttd the tournament "all set" Fra
day. The start will be made Sunday
with two matches on Hartford Field.
Eighth Corps Headquarters first
playing Fort Reno. Okla. at . O'clock
and the. Austin Polo Club battling
Fort Mcintosh at 4 o'clock.
Three, four and five practica
matches are being played every day
preliminary to the tournament. One
of the Friday afternoon features is a
meeting before the Headquarters firsts
and the San Antonio Polo Club At
Breckenridge Park.
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BABE ruth REDUCES l28
POUNDS; GETS BACK log

onto his big body. From Saturday
night to Monday. for instance. Ruth
put on eight and quarter pounds.
The comparative chart showing
Babes measurements when he started
and when he wound up the strenuous
training today reveal some remarkable
changes in Babes contour. In ~
days, he has reduced his waistlinc
from ~ IL to 30 81 inches.
Only two parts of Babes body have
been built up. His bicepS. which
measured II IA inches. is now more
powerful mt 10 IL inches. His fore
arms. which measured l. inches, have
added half inch TO their girth. This
muscular development will tune up
1abe's homc-run hitting apparatus IT,
its old-timc pitch, Artie McGoyerh
SAYS.
Babe is now down to PA pounds
and intends TO take only enough ex-
ercise to keep him ut that figure I'M
Ill he goes South. February 3.
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AFTER GRID
GAME WITH ALABAMA

AUSTIN, Jan. 15.-CP)- l.. Theo-
dore Belmont. Texas University ath.
letic director. is endeavoring to sched.
ule a football game with the Ala
bama University Crimson Tide. con.
querors of Washington University in
New Years great intersectional clash
at PASADENA. to be played in Dallas
during the State Fair next fall.
Wallace Wade, Alabama athletic di.
rector and football coach, has writ
ten he cannot make a final answer
until he has completed his 1927 South.
ern Conference schedule.
The 1927 Texas University should
have one of the most powerful teams
in the history of the Southwest Con
ternce. as such stars as Leo Baldwin.
Johnny Estes. Joe King. "Ox" Hig-
gins. "Potty" Mccullough and
"Pottsy" Allen will be playing their
third and last year.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
CHAMP LEAVES
FOR FLORIDA
TOEXH|b|T

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 15.-Jack
Dempsey left for Florida this morn
ing. where he will appear in at least
two exhibition matches. one at Miami
and the other at Palm Beach.
The Miami exhibition is scheduled
to be held January 81, while the other
will take place few days later. His
opponents will be Jack Lee. sparring
partner, and Cowboy Warner, West
ern heavyweight. 90.
Dempsey announced his willingness
to sign for fight with Harry Wills,
ten rounds to a decision. September
6. Labor Day, in Los Angeles. if, with
in ten days, Floyd Fitzsimmons. East
ern promoter, who has been dealing
with him, does not produce satisfac-
tory guarantees for the proposed bout
Fitzsimmons has been sponsoring.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
MARCH I NEW DATE
FOR MOTOR RACES

March Z has been set ms the date
for the next automobile racing meet
in San Antonio, ]. W. Draper OF tho
San Antonio Automobile Racing As
sociation. announced today.
The date originally was February
-. but this conflictcd with racing ut
Douglas. Ariz.. in which most Of the
drivers entered here will compete.
Time trials for the local meet will
be held the afternoon before the
races.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
By DAN PARKER



NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Speaking
of big turnovers, Babe Ruth in the
past 90 days has taken off rs pounds
of flesh and rcgained 1906 pounds. for
a net profit Of ~ pounds. The profit,
of course. in this case is a loss.
Attic McGovern. who has been
melting the sluggish suet off Ruth
big frame. has kept an interesting
chart Of Babes battle against blubber
1t reveals that fighting Babes fat
is a problem something like climbing
Il creased pole. First you climb up
eight feet and then slide back seven.
Then you repeat the process until you
reach the top Of the pole.
Babes chart shows that he lost on
an average Of six pounds n day and
regained five of them overnight. On
SUNDAYS and holidays. Babe remained
idle. Then the fat fairly raced back
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
BAYLOR CLEARS
$4,000 IN
FIVE YEARS

WACO. Jan. 1J.-CP-A story
printed in the Daily Lariat, Baylor
University student publication. quotes
Coach Frank Bridges rs saying that
the department of athletics at Bay
lor has cleared $130,000 during the
past five years. None of the profit
has been turned into improvement OF
athletics at Baylor. according 10
Bridges. but has been applied on the
university debt.
Coach Bridges has proposed a plan
to engage an instructor and require
three hours physical education each
week. He bases his plan on use of
some of the funds in the athletic
department.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
CLEVELAND IN LEAD.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. Jan. 15.-UP
The Cleveland Rosenblums were
again in first place in the American
Basket Ball League today. as the re
suit of the defeat last night of Wash
lngton Palace Club by the Fort
Wayne X. of c. The Fort Wayne
cagers until this week had won only
one of their seven games. Wednesday
night they defeated Chicago, prevent
ing them from going into the lead
when Detroit won from Cleveland.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
GRANGE GIVEN
Bic WELCOME:
ON COAST
By MAXWELL STILES
Universal Service Staff Correspondent

Universal service starr Correspondent.
LOS ANGELES. Jan. Is. - One
Harold Grange, the modern Frank
Merriwcll of the gridiron, came TO Los
Angeles today prepared to learn how
the California cash registers compare
with those of New York, Florida and
the Middle West. He came with
goods to sell, and from the reccp-
tons which he received ut the South
ern Pacific depot and in the ball
room of the Biltmore Hotel. one would
say offhand that the public is well
prepared TO buy.
The deal will be closed in the Los
Angeles Coliseum Saturday afternoon
when Mr.. Grange, who used TO sell
ice. accepts from the local public Il
certain amount of cold cash in re-
turn for the goods he has TO offer
an exhibition of his prowess at car
rying football through and around
eleven men stationed at various points
along his route of travel.
BEARS VS.. TIGERS.
The transaction will go down on the
books as a football game between
the Chicago Bears, with this Harold
Grange as their leader, and the Los
Angeles Tigers, captained by George
Wilson of Washington, as great a
football player as this coast has ever
produced.
These men, Grange and Wilson. re-
garded as the greatest halfbacks Of
recent years in American football, arc
to fight n sridiron battle Of the cen
fury on Saturday. 1t is a personal
duel that can only be likened TO a
great championship fight. Just as
surely as Carpenter fought Dempsey
for the heavyweight championship ot
the world, George Wilson is to fight
"Red" Grange for the worlds loot.
ball championship. There are times
when team championships are sec.
Ondary TO individual honors and this
is one Of them.
GRANGE VS.. WILSON.
Wilson has looked forward to this
game for three years. just as eagerly
| as Carpenter dreamed of the day
when he should meet the heavyweight
champion of the world. Now that il
is near he is determined to outplay
Grange. who occupies the same pedns.
tai on the gridiron that Dempsey holds
in pugilism.
Grange. on the other hand. has
accepted the challenge. He is "keyed
up" for this encounter. He does NOT
intend 10 be licked by this man from
Washington.
1t is battle to the finish and the
victor will be accepted as the bet.
ter man. Both Grange and Wilson
are eager TO have it said of him that
he is the better of the two.
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college Basket Ball.

Lawrence: Kansas 2s Grinnell 20.
Grand Forks. n. D.: North Da-
kota II: Dcs Moincs u.
Springfield. Ohio: Springfield
Eagles f6; New York Nationals 20
professionally.
Clinton: Mississippi Asgies IS;
Mississippi College %.
Charlottesville, Ind. ; Franklin 80 1;
Wabash 80.
Knoxville Tennessee 81; Marys-
willie College ~.
Georgetown: Southwestern 81; ST.
Edwards 20.
San Francisco: Southeastern Col.
lege, Durant, Okla. 81; San Francisco
Young Mems Institute, 10.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
OBERLANDER ACCEPTS
OHIO COACHING lob

HANOVER. n. H.. Jan. 15.--L4,)--
Andrew (Swede) Oberlander of Ever
cit, Mass. star Dartmouth player and
All-Amcrican half back. will become
assistant football coach at the Ohio
Site University next fall
He has wired his acceptance Of ah
offer from the athletic board of the
university.
The appointment carries with it the
position Of assistant professor Of
physical education, an all year post.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
STAR TENNIS TEAM
PAIRED FOR LIFE

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 15--CE)
Miss Charlotte Hosmer of San Fran
cisco. and Alfred II. Chaplin of
Springfield. Mass. have been partners
in tennis matches for some time. play
ing in many parts of the country.
Next Monday. the couple announced
Yesterday. they will begin playing
doubles for life. They plan a tennis
honeymoon which will be spent on
the courts of Jamaica and Florida.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
MASSEY, cOMPSTON
PLAY WALKER, l0OS

2; wINTERHAVEN. Fla. Jan. 10
7R)-Arnaud Massey. French open
champion, and his British partner,
Archie Compston. runner.up in the
British open last year. will meet
Cyril Walker, 1924 open champion,
and Eddie Loos. Lakeland profession
al. here Sunday.
The match, &c holes. will be thu
foreigners third engagement in Flor
ida. They defeated Bobby Jones and
Watts Gum at st. Augustine. JanG-
airy 3. aud Jim Barnes and Johnnie
Farrell ut Tampa last Sunday.
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NURSES TEAM PLANS
SACRED HEART GIRLS

Sacred Heart Athletic Club girls
will meet the p. and S. Hospital
nurses team in n basket ball game at
Sacred Heart court at 8 o'clock Thurs
day night. The Sacred Heart junior
boys will play the Central Baptists in
preliminary game at Z o'clock.