The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 24, 1928, Page 2

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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24 JALE OF COATS Presenting New Winter We are able to offer for tomorrc Modéls'in & S“peéf‘al‘ Sale w, a choice group of the newest styled winter coats due to a fortunate speeial purchase. This is a new shipment that has just arrived and has not been shown in Juneau before. All fur trimmed. Tan, Ul Grar Brown, Red or All sizes 16 to 4?'. “Always the New Things First” B. M. Behre Juneaw’s Leading fectly competent exercise the privilege of franchise, but that un- der the present system of one- man domination, they are being bunked into voting by mass. Their leader, he declared, has [told them for years that he would Iput fish traps out of business. Yot January he published in the \ i1 Iast ndian or ation’s own paper;, a bill drafted by Judge Wickersham introduction in Congress giv- ling the canneries the right to tieleh 'Therd’ tor tour year periods and the further right of renewal; that that leader had never criti- 1 such a proposal; and that he been informed that he had taken it to Washington to it introduced. “The question he added, “what is the Dele- inz to do about it?” He declared that the Imdlan leader misleading the Indians and a false issue for his own personal benefit, Democratic Nominee An-|for swers Sutherland and Argues for Self- Government had (Continuea from Page One) eyon the fishesies indus! jected it - because were all-powerful” here, ad read| frem the record of the M Marine and Fisheries Comm hearings on the White Bill to sub. stantiate his charge. Two Kinds Of Government He declared that the Territory has the choleg of two kinds of Government—Homdé Rule, sclf ad-' fal ministration and gov. ent from|cap of Washington by bureaus There | fairs.” Io never was a Terrltory of the Unit.|erland’s question ad States so bureau-ridden as Alas. |attitude on alleged vies conditions ka 18 today, so fettered by re.|in Ketchikan He had sald at serves cach of which had to be ad.!that time that he wa§ a member minigtered by a separate bureau of the Legislative brahch of the entity. | Government He belleved then, “The Democratic Party in its{and belleves now, that Ketchikan National and Territorial platforms|and other Alaska towns ar apa. Ppledges itselt to give Alaska Home | ble of administering their own Rule. I have taken an oath to|municipal affai “And if I am support thoso platforms and I be-|elected Delegate, I'll bo too much lieve in Home Rule. The Republi-|occupied with that office to have can Party’s National platformtime to attend to pollce court af- merely promises a continuance of|fairs in Jjuneau,” he asserted to the present Administration’s Alas-|the accompaniment of applause. kan policy of rule by bureaus, and Need Right Man the party’'s candidate for Delegate It the people of Alaska want ig pledged to support that plat-|Home Rule, they need a man at| term,” We dointed out { Washington who believes in i, Clter Fisherier Cace They need someone to fight for it, He declared that his ntfand Delegate Sutherland cannot| did not want Alaska to have Homelbe depended upon to do it, he as- Rule, clting the case of the fisher.|serted in conclusion. iés industry to prove his conten.| On several occasions, when Mr. “tion. He quoted from speeches|Grigsby mentioned the namo of made by him to the effect that he|Gov. Alfred mith, the audlence was not fm favor of giving the|applauded heartily. When hel {Territory a tull form of Territorial| concluded, he received generous Government. Mr. Grigghy alsolapplause. | enumerated a number of inhibi.} Other Talks Brief tions contdined in the anic act The talks by Mr. Walker, to illustrate the meaning of the|Shattuck, Mr. Ream and Mr. An. phrase “full Territorial govern-|derson were brief. Mr. Shattuck ment.” x said he offered his record as a He declared that the Bureau ofjcitizen and business man of Ju- Fisherles was the most extremc instance of govérnment by bureau and cited the U. S. Bureau of Pub. lie Roads as the exemplification ‘of the better type and more serv. iceable bureaus. * Would Remove Inhibitions He declared he favored remov. ing every inhibition contained in the organic act. Specifically an- swerlng Sutherland's question if| he favored county government for Alaska; he declared he favored the passage of a law by Congress to give the Legislature the power to create counties when Alaskans de- sired them. And he asserted that|elected to the Legislature. | Delegate Sutherland in eight years| Mr. Anderson urged more ade. in office, had never lifted hisfquate support for prospectors. . hand to extend the powers of the|There is room and opportunity in 1 Legislature. Scutheastern Alaska for ten such le digressed briefly to deal with|mines as the Alaska Juncau, which, e yoting of 8, and declared [he asserted, has made Juneau the . there are a. mumber of highly | most prosperous town in the Ter. ligent Indians who are per.!ritory. was rreating Capable o/ movernment concluding. he affirmed his onviction that Alaskans ars cing their own af. a decent people, running odt own af- directly answered Suth. about his own TS, Mr. local support. The party had a definite and progressive pro- | gram while the opposition ticket s without a program of any' It elected, he said, the| Democratic nominees could be de-! pended on to carry out their plat- form pledges. He, Ream, and Mr. Walker, stressed the state. ment that the opposition was a hand-picked, oné-man ticket, domi. nated by W. L. Paul, owing its| s support and therefore under obli-' 118 no Indian fssue. neau for 31 years as the basis for, | he said,| ) nemination entirely to him and his | gation to follow his leadership if|§ g g . "‘rn E o) n €“0’.‘,‘ Dcparbnent Store e e cited ‘the decline in popula-|to govern themselves and declared tion in other towns and distrigts|that he would, however, not seek as evidence that a. change in, pol-|to.take away any power that tite fcy is needed. - He touched briefly| Federal officials possessed, It on the fisheries and declared, that{ was the duty of the people of the Territorfal Legislature should | Alaska to assume the dutles with have the power of administering ! which they are charged in connee. them. v y ;tlon with the administration of Ream On Palitics tlocal government, he asserted, add. The most. vital issue in the First ing “men have reached the mmsa Division today is whether the. pep- degraded stage when they refuse ple will maintain in power a wolf- to shoulder their responstbilitics.” Jsh political manipulator whoso Fipds Humor In Tilt only object ig to build up a stromg| He found a cause for merriment machine for his own personal, po- in the statement credited to Dele- litical benelit, declared Mr. }lm’m.!mto Sutherland that Mr. Grigsby It can be settled at this election;knew better than to meet him on once for all; it it isn't it will e the street and accuse him of cow. an issue in the next election and'ardice (lylng). He pointed out on and on until it is settled, ‘he[that both parties were short of added. campaign funds: and suggested thit He declared his belief luJ.l?elthn two candidates postpone their right and ability, of Alaskafis .to. meeting until the close of the cam. | sovern themselves, to jadminister paign at Ketchikan. There, he the gamo, fisherfes and: timbet re-[sald, they could be matched for a sources of the Territory. He sald|go in a local hall and the pro. |if the Democratic party wero re-fceeds would easily defray all cami. turned to power Alaskans would|palgn expenses. His solution was | be given that authority. P) l.greeled with a great deal of laugh- | Oh Moving the Capital ter and applpuse. Y Mr. WalKer: paid his opponent a fine compliment, saying he was a splendid. man. “I think it .is fortunate that you have two such \ candidates to chcose from as Mr. on FOR OAKLAND Benjamin and myselt,” he declared i o humorously. There were some| L. W: Perkins, Lleutehant ditferences, he sald. The ticket|Commander, who has been in on which Mr. Benjamin is running|{command of the cutter Unalga, has no platform and no program,{and recently transferred to the he said. In fact, Mr. Paul has|eutter; Northland. at Oakland, ac- only recently told the people ‘of{companied by his wife, left on Juneau that.he was only fooling|the Northwestern today, when he tried to move the capital{ <Lt Com. Perkins and his wife in 1927 and promised them not to|have both, been popular during do it again. That, Mr. Walker their regidence in Juneau and a sald, was about the extent of the|large. number of Juneau friends program offered. were. at the wharf to bid them He said he was orposed to the Ba0dbye. Many ot the members manner in-which the Pisherigs are|0f the crew of the Unalga were administered. Mo declared. thena|2180 at the dock to bid farewell He defended |t their former commander. them as being.misled, and declared eventually ‘they: would see it for themselves. He pointed out- that the Indlan vete had.cost him his elpction in 1924, hut expressed con- fldence they would prove them- selves intelligent and worthy citi- zeéns in the end. He upheld the right of Alaskang PERKINS AND WIFE STOCK' QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Alas- ka Juneau mine stock is today (quoted at 93, Bethlehem Steel 68%. Ohile Copper 60, Chrysler 133%, Pittsburgh Coa 49% and |Stewart-Warner 110%. i i i MOOSE HALL ' WEDNESDAY NIGHT Seandinavian- Auieticar LINDSETI'S ACCORDIAN ORCHESTRA | Eowbady Wl Adwissign—Gentlemen $1.00 2 1928 GRAF ZEPPELIN READY TOMAKE | WESTERN TRIP Is Inflated to Capacity and| Fueled—Hydrogen Gas Used | LAKEHURST, Oct. 24 (iraf Zeppelin, inflated ity fueled, in for the return flight Atlantic Oce: to awaiting orders of Dr who is ccming — The to capac- readiness across the Germany, | Hugo Eck- from Chi- 1 ind is ener cago Hyrogen gas is used | LAKEHURST, Oct. 24 von Schiller, navigator of the Zeppelin, announced this forenoon that the Graf Zeppelin will leave for the Middle West if weather permi He Zeppelin will over | Hans | ght ts the fly The dirigible Los Angeles will | foilow the Graf Zeppelin into the! a training filght B — PARIS—Circular smartly belcw ed hipline are a rccent manifes- tation of Paris influence. - Bern- ard et Cie use such a silhouette for an afternoon dress of black satin. It bhas a simple. surplice bodice and tight ves buttoned at the hand. There is a puff and of satin at the side skirt — - '$1,000,000 M kirts which + low swath- "PHONE ROW PLUNGES TOWN BACK 40 YEARS 1., Oct toting I rmed driving after docto station agent deliver person—a without iication, he HERRICK Hou 24 ket fathers the g tele- city of telephonie doing busi- best style of ives kets; a long ends in back of the ’ emorial situation in . wweral weeks cment among of the local company. The ex switchboard was and it to assess each holder in town $10 each rural shareholder pay for a new board farmers agreed but townspeople objected ervice was cut off, When service was re- sumed, the old switchboard continued to do duty. the for a disa ireholders hone out was pro- ¥ The the and AND WHERE — D. M. Bothwell, ft for Seward on, the Yukon. Bishop J. R. Crimont, of the Catholic Church, left for Cordova on the Yukon. 7 Lieut. E. L. Cummings and kbride returned on the Yukon from their honeythoon south B: C. Delzelle, local merchan- dise broker, arvived on the Yu- kon ‘aftér a ‘short trip to Seattle. W. @. Strench, Immigration Inspector, arrived from Ketchi- kan on the Yukon. Fred Handy, of the Prohibition force, arirved on the Yukon from| Ketchikan, J. H. Wheeler, druggist, who operates stores in Petersburg and ‘Wrangell, arrived in Juneau the Yukon. —_——— Old papers tor saie at the Smbire. | o lodal broker, | Latest portrait of John .| Raskob, Democratic ‘national | chairman, who, with his wife, has set aside $1,000,000 to found the Bill Raskob Founda- tion for Needy Children, The iction is in commemoration of |nis son, William F, Raskob, 2d, | |‘ecently killed in.arf autotnobile iccident, (International Newsreel) ——a el NEW LINE of Christmas Greeting Cards. OB ladv. Winter & Pond Studio. —————— Holiday greeungs for bisiness uses. See samples at Emmrg. 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