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.EREIT INCREASE IS Prior to the organization of the Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska there were in the whole of the Territory less than 12 miles of what might be called wagon .road, with a few hundred miles of pioneer trail, mostly construct ed by expeditions under the War Department. Since the organiza tion of the above board the work accomplished includes the con struction of 1,6201/2 miles of wa gon road, 87 miles of tramroad, ll,403?i miles of sled road, 7,184 miles of permanent trail, and 712 miles of temporary, flagged trail, a total of 11,007*4 miles, according to the report of Chief of Engineer, U. S. Army, 1930. Before the construction of roads in Alaska travel was largely con fined to the open waterways in summer and to their frozen courses overland in winter. , GENUINE COOPERATION The Seward City Council and Seward Chamber of Commerce members have joined forces in supporting whole-heartedly Bill j No. 55, presented in the House by ! Seward’s own, Representative Cal j M. Brosius, in which a small ap I propriation is asked for construc tion of a road from Seward south, j following the beach, to Spruce Creek. A petition was circulated J and signed yesterday in supp rt of Representative Brosius’ mea-ur . Clyde Buskette of WaJ la is a ‘ business visitor in Seward. Howard Long, Lake Kenai ran cher, arrived in town Wednesday, j WILL GAMBLE AGAIN PROVIDENCE, R. I., April 16. (JP)—Admiral Richard Byrd, the first man to fly over the North and South poles, stated that he is planning another airplane ex pedition into the polar regions. He declined to reveal whether he would go to the Antarctic or Arc tic. / TURN FOR WORSE PASADENA, Cal., April 16. <JP)— An unfavorable turn in the con dition of Galusha Cole, 104-year old California pioneer, was re ported by his doctors. Cole fell over a doorstep a few days ago I and fractured his hip. POLITICAL BATTLE | LOS ANGELES, April 16. (/P)— : Rj chard Washburn Child, former Ambassador to Italy, and distin guished author who is now in Los Angeles, gave to the Los Angeles ’ Examiner and Universal Service, : an interview in which he declared j that an under battle is now go j ing on in which Wall Street seeks to capture both the Republican and Democratic parties. TIDES MOVE TOWER LONDON, April 16. (JP) — The Tower of London does a little jig twice a day. Scientists at the Na tional Physical laboratory have found that the whole building goes up and down with *the tides about a thousandth of an inch. Z. J. Loussac, prominent bus iness man of Anchorage who has been in the States for the last few months, was among today’s j arriva’s on the SS Yukon. Mr. j Loussac goes to Anchorage in the I morning. | - A HUGE SUM WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16. (A3)— Secretary of Treasury Mellon announced new 275 million dollar i issue of certificates of United ’ States indebtedness, bringing to-! tal of new issues of government! issues since March 15 more than | $1,800,000,000. WILL STAND BY j NEW YORK, April 16. (/p)—Ma yor James Walker reentered his offices at City Hall prepared to wage battle against those who have brought charges against his administration. While the fight promised to produce colorful de tails of his private life, as well j as his political past, Mrs. Walker announced she will return from I Florida to help the mayor conduct his campaign. I NOT MANY MORE DAYS UNTIL MO THER'S DAY. COME IN AND SEE OUR .BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT OF MOTHER’S DAY CARDS. ALASKA SHOP. Watch for the new Easie? display window at the AJaaka Shop. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO PAT SCHOOL TAX t NOTICE IS HEREBY CIVEN that the < undersigned has been duly appointed School Tax Collector for City of Seward in con formity with Chapter i!S». Alaska Session Laws, 1919. All male persona between the apes of twenty-one and fifty years, except soldiers, sailors in the U. S. Navy or Revenue Cut ter Service, volunteer firemen, raupers and insane persona, are subject to tax in sum of Five ($5.00) Dollars. Should you be living in Alaska on or prior to the firat Monday in April. 1931. said tax shall be due and payable on said first date and shall be delinquent after May lat, 1931. Should you arrive in Alaska later than firat date above mentioned, tax will be de linquent thirty (30) days after your ar rival, or within ten (10) days after notice ^ is given you. All persona, firms or corporations, em ploying labor shall furnish list of employees to collector and are authorized by law to deduct amount of tax from wage* of em ployees. Fines and imprisonment are provided for by the Act above quoted for those who fail or neglect to pay tax or furnish list of em ployees. Dated Seward, Alaska. April 9. 1931. Jennie Paulson School Tax Collector for City of Seward Publish—lrn. A 10. M 9, 3 10. Si v WT ) Ve flown with the Pathfinders of the Air says Chesterfield : SSSSfS 3l s ■mm vym wM&Wmk ■ rw&pi .J-w *- acw -moMS 01^31. Liggett Ac Mvsaj Tobacco Co. m Jet you meet me in the city’s crowded canyons Along the invisible lanes of the air, or among jostling thousands in the dry's streets . . . it's all the same to Chesterfield. For here’s a cigarette that goes everywhere, and that tastes right anywhere. Milder and better tobaccos — nothing else—that’s what you taste in Chesterfield. And, thanks to the "cross-blend,” ail of that mild, good taste and aroma is retained! For NINETEEN 7ears, our Research Department has kept intimate touch with every new development of Science that could be applied to the manufacture of cigarettes. During this period there has been no development of tested value or importance to the smoker which we have not incorporated ioto the making of Chesterfield cigarettes. 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