TOLD "LIES" ABOUT ALASKA
Cordova Chamber of Commerce Sends Off Hot Telegram.
CORDOVA, Alaska, Feb. 6. (/P)— The chamber of commerce here today in a telegram to Senator Cummins branded as "deliberate falsehoods" charges made Wednesday against two Alaska officials.
Judge Elmer K. Ritchie of Valdez and Marshal Harvey Sullivan, Fairbanks, were charged before a senate subcommittee with derelictions In office.
Ritchie and Sullivan the past four years have performed duties of respective offices with credit to themselves and honor to their official,"
telegram said. "We respectfully request their confirmation at the hands The telegram declared that a letter from D. W. Flanigan, prohibition
agent, stating that a bootleg ring existed in this district, was "malicious and without foundation."
The chamber said it was informed that Dr. Clarence True Wilson, a minister who said immoral conditions existed in the north, "has never been in Alaska."