The Montgomery Advertiser
- ALEXANDER CHECKS YANKS IN CRITICAL STAGE OF CONFLICT
- SCHOOL BOND ISSUE ELECTION POLLS TO OPEN AT 8 O'CLOCK
- FRENCH VETERANS OPPOSE PAYMENTS TO UNITED STATES
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page led with the Associated Press account of the deciding seventh game of the 1926 World Series. In it, the veteran Grover Cleveland Alexander came out of the bullpen to strike out Tony Lazzeri with the bases loaded, and St. Louis held on to beat the Yankees 3 to 2. Closer to home, the paper set out the city's vote that day on a one-million-dollar school bond for a new high school building and listed every polling place. Beneath it ran a short Jacksonville report of a young wife who stabbed her husband. From Paris came word that leaders of French war veterans had warned Premier Poincaré they would fight ratification of the war-debt agreements with Washington and London.
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ALEXANDER CHECKS YANKS IN CRITICAL STAGE OF CONFLICT
Veteran Hurler Fans Lazzerri With Bases Full; Frenzied Crowd Breaks Into Uproar as Hopes Fade
FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP FLAG FOR ST. LOUIS IN 40 YEARS
Official Credit For Victory Goes to Haines; Defeat Heartbreaking For Hoyt
By ALAN J. GOULD
NEW YORK, Oct. 10. - (AP) - The giant, weather-beaten figure of Grover Cleveland Alexander came back in all its ancient pitching mastery today to check the Yankees for the third time and clinch the first world's baseball championship that St. Louis has known in 40 years.
Through the haze of this crucial test, the seventh and deciding game of the 1926 diamond classic, the Yankee defense cracked to yield the Cardinals their winning margin of 3 to 2, but it was Alexander the Great who saved the day with as dramatic and exciting a finish as any championship conflict has ever witnessed.
The bases were full, two were out and only one Yankee run was needed to tie the game in the seventh inning when Alexander came to the rescue of the tottering Cardinal righthander, Jesse Haines, whose finger was split from throwing his knuckleball and whose control was ebbing fast. It was a situation calculated to test the stoutest heart and the most seasoned skill, with $50,000 and a world's championship hanging in the balance, but Alexander was equal to it. Facing Tony Lazzeri, a rookie almost young enough to be his son, the great veteran hitched his trousers, called on the power of a right arm that has carried him through sixteen major league campaigns and struck out his man to retire the side as the crowd broke into a frenzied uproar.
Alexander Subdues Yanks
Safely past this crisis, the most dramatic moment of the game, Alexander easily subdued the Yanks in the closing two innings, yielding only a pass to Babe Ruth in the ninth, as he completed one of the greatest pitching exploits in world's series history.
Twice before Alexander had stopped the American league champions, going the full route to gain victories that pulled the fighting Cardinals each time back to even terms. It was only yesterday that his masterful box work led the National leaguers to the triumph that forced the series to the limit, yet he was ready again today, as strong and effective as ever to cap the climax of his heroic role.
Not since the famous right arm of (Continued on Page Five)
SCHOOL BOND ISSUE ELECTION POLLS TO OPEN AT 8 O'CLOCK
Montgomery Voters Will Decide Question of Authorizing Million Dollar Improvement Expenditure
QUESTION IS CLEAR CUT YES OR NO PROPOSITION
Construction of New High School Building Rests With Non-Partisan Electorate
Montgomery voters will walk up to the polls today and decide whether a new high school building shall be erected and the city school system's facilities shall be expanded, or instruction continued in the present limited facilities.
The question for the city electorate to decide is "Shall the City of Montgomery issue school improvement bonds to the amount of one million dollars?" The answer will be recorded when returns from the election are filed after six o'clock tonight.
Funds derived from the sale of these bonds, if authorized, will be used for the construction of new high school building and provide additional equipment for other schools of the city to meet the growing demands upon educational facilities.
During the campaign which came to a close Sunday night, or as a matter of fact, on Saturday night, the city board of education attempted to present the needs of the schools to the voters and taxpayers of the city clearly and impartially.
No electioneering can be done today, except in violation of the law. The question is squarely up to the voters for a non-partisan decision. The issue is clearly stated on the ballot. The answer is "yes" or "no". There is no middle ground. One million dollars worth of school improvement bonds will be issued or none will be issued, according to the wish of Montgomery's electorate.
The polling places will be opened at 8 o'clock this morning and remain open until 6 o'clock this afternoon. Following are the polling places:
Ward 1, box 1-West End fire station.
Ward 1, box 2-United Battery company, 509 Bibb street.
Ward 2, box 1; ward 2, box 2-Five Points fire station.
Ward 3, box 1-County jail.
Ward 3, box 2-Court house.
Ward 4, box 1; ward 4, box 2-McGough Motor company, Dexter avenue.
Ward 5, box 1; ward 5, box 2-Hardaway-Covington Cotton company, Lawrence and Monroe streets.
Ward 6-Hobbie-Flowers Motor company, Madison avenue.
Ward 7, box 1-Independent Ice company, Highland avenue.
Ward 7, box 2-W. T. Dean's store, 901 South Decatur street.
WIFE KILLS HUSBAND
Tried To Salvage Happiness Out Of Two Wreckages Police Told
JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Oct. 10 - (AP) - Mrs. Hugh Jackson, 22 killed her husband in their downtown apartment early today, "trying to salvage a little happiness out of the wreckage of two lives."
The woman told police she stabbed Jackson with a butcher knife when he forced his way into the kitchen, brandishing a revolver and threatening her life. They had been married five years. Their lives had been happy until about three months ago when Jackson met a woman who diverted his attentions, Mrs. Jackson said. Her husband was a violinist. Duval county authorities held Mrs. Jackson without bond.
DEATH CLAIMS EDITOR
Ralph Stout, of Kansas City Star
FRENCH VETERANS OPPOSE PAYMENTS TO UNITED STATES
Representatives of Ex-Service Men Threaten Government Overthrow if Agreement With America Ratified
PARIS, Oct. 10. - (AP) - The representatives of 400,000 French war veterans informed Premier Poincare today that these ex-soldiers stubbornly would oppose ratification of the Washington and London debt agreements in their present form, even though such action might bring about the downfall of the government.
M. Poincare assured them that France would undertake payments only within her capacity to pay and to a degree that would not disrupt exchange.
The delegation was headed by President Rossignol, of the National Union of Combatants who presented a resolution adopted by the regional heads of the organization. This resolution set forth that the ex-soldiers considered seven billion francs an impossible sum to pay the United States and thought the total should be scaled down.
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The Washington and London debt deals the veterans opposed
The "Washington and London debt agreements" in the Paris dispatch were France's settlements with its two wartime creditors. The American one was the Mellon-Bérenger Agreement, signed on April 29, 1926. The British one was the Caillaux-Churchill agreement on French war debts to Great Britain. The Mellon-Bérenger accord greatly reduced what France owed and set relatively easy payment terms, yet most French people felt the United States should waive its war-debt claims altogether. France also wanted its payments to Washington linked to German reparations, as the British settlement's payments were, but the United States would not accept the link. Veterans were among the most visible opponents, and 20,000 of them demonstrated in Paris against the agreement. Poincaré's promise that France would pay only "within her capacity to pay" echoed the American Debt Commission, which said the settlement substantially represented France's capacity to pay. The figures of 400,000 veterans and seven billion francs come from the AP dispatch and the veterans' resolution it reports.
Three years to a narrow ratification
The veterans' warning came at the start of a long delay. Successive French governments put off ratification because most of the public wanted the debts waived. Poincaré, the premier who received the delegation in this dispatch, later threw all his effort into getting the bill through parliament in 1929, reckoning that a ratified agreement would make his own position much stronger. The Chamber of Deputies approved the American agreement on July 21, 1929, only after an all-night session and by 300 votes to 292, and then ratified the Caillaux-Churchill agreement with Britain. The eight-vote margin suggests that the opposition voiced by veterans in 1926 was still strong in parliament three years later. The Great Depression began soon afterward, and in the end little of the debt was repaid.
Alexander's relief appearance without a day's rest
Alexander was 39 and in his sixteenth major league season, the "sixteen major league campaigns" Gould mentions, and the Cardinals had claimed him on waivers from the Chicago Cubs during the 1926 season. He won Game 2 to even the Series, and in Game 6 he pitched a complete-game eight-hitter, holding the Yankees to two runs. Without a single day of rest after that start, manager Rogers Hornsby called him from the bullpen in Game 7 with the bases loaded, two out and Lazzeri at the plate. The Hall of Fame's account adds a detail the AP lead passes over. Before striking out, Lazzeri hit a drive down the left-field line that missed being a grand slam by the slimmest of margins. Alexander later said that less than a foot had made the difference between a hero and a bum.
A Series that ended on a caught stealing
Gould's lead mentions only that Alexander walked Babe Ruth in the ninth, and the rest of the story continued on page five. The Series in fact ended with that runner. Ruth took off for second base on the very first pitch to Bob Meusel and was thrown out, and 1926 remains the only World Series to end on a caught stealing. The Cardinals won the Series, played from October 2 to 10, four games to three. It was their first World Series appearance and their first National League pennant. The AP called it the first world's championship St. Louis had known in 40 years, a phrasing that assumes an earlier St. Louis title. A modern reference account instead describes 1926 as the first professional sports championship ever won by a St. Louis-based team, so the two statements count earlier titles differently.
Montgomery's "Million Dollar School"
The vote came while Sidney Lanier High School was badly overcrowded. The original Lanier building could hold 600 students, but by the early 1920s enrollment was almost twice that number, and the Board of Education saw the need for a new building large enough for the bigger student body. A new Lanier opened for classes in September 1929, just a few weeks before the stock market crash, and it was dubbed "The Million Dollar School" because of its approximate cost, the same sum put to voters in this election. The histories consulted here do not record the October 1926 vote count, so the link between this ballot and the building rests on the matching purpose and amount. The new school served white students only. From 1929 Lanier was the only all-white high school in Montgomery, so the expanded "city school system" the article describes did not open this building to Black students.
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ALEXANDER CHECKS YANKS IN CRITICAL STAGE OF CONFLICT
ALEXANDER CHECKS YANKS IN CRITICAL STAGE OF CONFLICT Veteran Hurler Fans Lazzerri With Bases Full; Frenzied Crowd Breaks Into Uproar as Hopes Fade FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP FLAG FOR ST. LOUIS IN 40 YEARS Official Credit For Victory Goes to Haines; Defeat Heartbreaking For Hoyt By ALAN J. GOULD NEW YORK, Oct. 10. - (AP) - The giant, weather-beaten figure of Grover Cleveland Alexander came back in all its ancient pitching mastery today to check the Yankees for the third time and clinch the first world's baseball championship that St. Louis has known in 40 years. Through the haze of this crucial test, the seventh and deciding game of the 1926 diamond classic, the Yankee defense cracked to yield the Cardinals their winning margin of 3 to 2, but it was Alexander the Great who saved the day with as dramatic and exciting a finish as any championship conflict has ever witnessed. The bases were full, two were out and only one Yankee run was needed to tie the game in the seventh inning when Alexander came to the rescue of the tottering Cardinal righthander, Jesse Haines, whose finger was split from throwing his knuckleball and whose control was ebbing fast. It was a situation calculated to test the stoutest heart and the most seasoned skill, with $ 50, 000 and a world's championship hanging in the balance, but Alexander was equal to it. Facing Tony Lazzeri, a rookie almost young enough to be his son, the great veteran hitched his trousers, called on the power of a right arm that has carried him through sixteen major league campaigns and struck out his man to retire the side as the crowd broke into a frenzied uproar. Alexander Subdues Yanks Safely past this crisis, the most dramatic moment of the game, Alexander easily subdued the Yanks in the closing two innings, yielding only a pass to Babe Ruth in the ninth, as he completed one of the greatest pitching exploits in world's series history. Twice before Alexander had stopped the American league champions, going the full route to gain victories that pulled the fighting Cardinals each time back to even terms. It was only yesterday that his masterful box work led the National leaguers to the triumph that forced the series to the limit, yet he was ready again today, as strong and effective as ever to cap the climax of his heroic role. Not since the famous right arm of (Continued on Page Five)
SCHOOL BOND ISSUE ELECTION POLLS TO OPEN AT 8 O'CLOCK
SCHOOL BOND ISSUE ELECTION POLLS TO OPEN AT 8 O'CLOCK Montgomery Voters Will Decide Question of Authorizing Million Dollar Improvement Expenditure QUESTION IS CLEAR CUT YES OR NO PROPOSITION Construction of New High School Building Rests With NonPartisan Electorate Montgomery voters will walk up to the polls today and decide whether a new high school building shall be erected and the city school system's facilities shall be expanded, or instruction continued in the present limited facilities. The question for the city electorate to decide is " Shall the City of Montgomery issue school improvement bonds to the amount of one million dollars? " The answer will be recorded when returns from the election are filed after six o'clock tonight. Funds derived from the sale of these bonds, if authorized, will be used for the construction of new high school building and provide additional equipment for other schools of the city to meet the growing demands upon educational facilities. During the campaign which came to a close Sunday night, or as a matter of fact, on Saturday night, the city board of education attempted to present the needs of the schools to the voters and taxpayers of the city clearly and impartially. No electioneering can be done today, except in violation of the law. The question is squarely up to the voters for a non-partisan decision. The issue is clearly stated on the ballot. The answer is " yes " or " no ". There is no middle ground. One million dollars worth of school improvement bonds will be issued or none will be issued, according to the wish of Montgomery's electorate. The polling places will be opened at 8 o'clock this morning and remain open until 6 o'clock this afternoon. Following are the polling places: Ward 1, box 1-West End fire station. Ward 1, box 2-United Battery company, 509 Bibb street. Ward 2, box 1; ward 2, box 2-Five Points fire station. Ward 3, box 1-County jail. Ward 3, box 2-Court house. Ward 4, box 1; ward 4, box 2-McGough Motor company, Dexter avenue. Ward 5, box 1; ward 5, box 2-Hardaway-Covington Cotton company, Lawrence and Monroe streets. Ward 6-Hobbie-Flowers Motor company, Madison avenue. Ward 7, box 1-Independent Ice company, Highland avenue. Ward 7, box 2-W. T. Dean's store, 901 South Decatur street. WIFE KILLS HUSBAND Tried To Salvage Happiness Out Of Two Wreckages Police Told JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Oct. 10 - (AP) - Mrs. Hugh Jackson, 22 killed her husband in their downtown apartment early today, " trying to salvage a little happiness out of the wreckage of two lives. " The woman told police she stabbed Jackson with a butcher knife when he forced his way into the kitchen, brandishing a revolver and threatening her life. They had been married five years. Their lives had been happy until about three months ago when Jackson met a woman who diverted his attentions, Mrs. Jackson said. Her husband was a violinst. Duval county authorities held Mrs. Jackson without bond. DEATH CLAIMS EDITOR Ralph Stout, of Kansas City Star
FRENCH VETERANS OPPOSE PAYMENTS TO UNITED STATES
FRENCH VETERANS OPPOSE PAYMENTS TO UNITED STATES Representatives of Ex-Serivce Men Threaten Government Overthrow if Agreement With America Ratified PARIS, Oct. 10. - (AP) - The representatives of 400, 000 French war veterans informed Premier Poincare today that these ex-soldiers stubbornly would oppose ratification of the Washington and London debt agreements in their present form, even though such action might bring about the downfall of the government. M. Poincare assured them that France would undertake payments only within her capacity to pay and to a degree that would not disrupt exchange. The delegation was headed by President Rossignol, of the National Union of Combatants who presented a resolution adopted by the regional heads of the organization. This resolution set forth that the ex-soldiers considered seven billion francs an impossible sum to pay the United States and thought the total should be scaled down. " Great Britain and America [?]
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