Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-06-24 | Page 1 | Women Mayors Existed in Asia 5000 Years Ago

Women Mayors Existed in hi Asia I I Years Ago I IBy By Associated Press PHILADELPHIA Juno 3 23 23 Tr of of Pe prehistoric rc t. tablets is ish VI h In thc the oL it rt museum here has that nt there thero were women mayors in Asia sla Minor years ago aso That prototypes prototypes pro pro- of ot newspaper men at that remote time truo true to more modern traditions of ot the profession occasionally occasionally occasionally occa occa- become involved in litigations Hons of ot the tho present da day libel suit character but generally generall were released on ball bail is also indicated in the newl newly deciphered writings The translations which concern n. n nonce once powerful well organized government and a people of ot which nearly all trace has been lost through long forgotten centuries have havo Just been completed by Dr A. A 13 ll Sace of ot Oxford university famous fa famous ta- ta oriental scholar lie copied tho tablets hero here two years ago aso and took tho the copies caples to gs Egypt pt where he was finally able to master their time shrouded messages The tablets were the work of ot Hittites or whoso whose national boun boundaries arles fifty centuries ago UIO extended from tram tho the Mediterranean nean to the Black sea and from tho the headwaters of ot tho the Euphrates into what Is now Persia Each province provI province ince was subdivided d Into cities clues and amI I these were supervised by a 3 mayor maor and a whose powers power the tablets indicate wore ore In one instance it a appeared the woman mayor maor had an official status Independent of or the tho malo male head of oC tho municipal govern govern- men ment t. t