Show l WAS WASHINGTON mm LITTLE 4 lJ VO ll STILL BEING H BROUGHT IN VINDICATING STANI STANDBY DY BY RODNEY Y DUTCHER EA Service Ice Writer WASHINGTON Jan 6 Final returns from the November elec elec- election elec- elec election election tion have not yet et dribbled in In far away Alaska land of o the sourdough and the malamute Nome has still to receive the bal bal- ballots bal ballots lots from the country's wildest anti most remote sections Soine Some da day they will all aU b be in brought broucht In ht by boat or sled dog The main business election ot of a territorial delegate to congress has hall hallI I been decided long lone since But Dut there thero is enough enouch romance in the tho situation lis to incite Robert W V Service to Imagine a time ot or suspense when those votes might decide a pro pro- prohibition prohibition prohibition referendum or something and to write such tuch verse erse as Oh how did they vote at Bristol Bay And Sound on election day I Did Russian Ilus ian Mission vote yes or nay And what did the lower Yukon I say The poem might be ba In print for I months before Alaska knew the result of the th poll In the present case Bristol Bay Kotzebue Sound Russian Mission and ind the tl lower Yukon region probably probably ably will wUl boost the huge JUge majority I plied piled by Dan Pan Sutherland elected to his hi fourth term as a delegate to Washington i Sutherlands Sutherland's election on by y a I 2 toI to I vote ote was Alaska's I overwhelming I n Indication of Ills his vigorous fight f r e against a two judges and a States State attorney tint first lr t I for appointment by the department of or justice while chile Harry HarryM I M Daugherty was attorney gen gen- general general cral cen-cral eral These Thes gentlemen are ar Judge Jud-c Thomas Reed of ot Juneau JUdge El- El Elmer El Elmer mer Ritchie of Valdez and anti U S Attorney A G Shoup Their terms term expired In 1925 InS President Coolidge reappointed them on n recommendation recommendation recommendation dation of ot tho the department of o jus jus- justice justice tice lee and Sutherland promptly got busy to prevent confirmation by tb senate senat The Th late lata Senator Cummins Cummin then chairman of the tin judiciary commit tee lee asked Mr Coolidge to with with- It withdraw withdraw 11 draw IV the tho names which Ir lie Ie did But Hut Rend Reed and Shoup still sUIi hold office and Sutherland who ho made his opposition to them th nithe the principal Issue of his Alaskan doubtless wonders wonder when other appointments will be b made The three federal officials ha hac have c been charged charted with corrupt practices practices tices Uces by John W Franc Irane Republican Republican can national committeeman front from fromi Alaska and one oue of or the th chief ob oh- oh ob jr to them Is I that they ar aI i to the tir packing and canning interests I a t bas holS ha born ben alleged that Reid nerl with Shoup to prevent Fran from being belne seated on the tho theP theli P an rules of time tK lu-tK tl bp r nt forbid fJ to mi mir m In 1011 It On One chap chai against Reed need Is Is that he lie sent three men to jail for tor 90 0 days das for con con- contempt contempt con contempt tempt of court merely because he believed their alibi was w false These men on ti lilal for trap trap- trap robbing on complaint of the Die can can- can fling g camP companies were 1 both of that chargo and n iI per per- perjury perjury perjury jury charge te brought against them tho Hitch Ie said raid to have lae ben been b en a fug fug fug- live tive from justice In Utah many years back hack is accused o ot of becoming vindictively abusive on the bench and scandals are ar charged against hi his court Under these th three ree men Suther Suther- Sutherland Sutherland Sutherland land and his friends say roy the ad- ad administration administration ad administration ministration of o justice Justic and en- en enforcement enforcement en enforcement of ot law lav along the Alas Mask Mask- an Alast an coast has become becom demoralized Copyright 1927 NEA Service e Inc |