The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-25
SUTHERLAND IS | LEADING HERE, | TEN PRECINCTS
Rustgard, Lathrop, Noland, Winn, Gardner, Wicker
 sham, Caswell Lead


 Juneau and Gastlneau Channel Republicans in the biennial pri- mary election yesterday returned pluralities for Delegate Dan Suth- erland and Attorney General John Rustgard for renominations, Capt. A. E. Lathrop for National Com mitteeman, and Judge James Wickersham and w. H. Caswell for Delegates to the Republican National Convention.
 c. T. Gardner was given a large plurality for the Senatorial nom- ination. LeRoy Noland and Gro yer c. Vim received even larger pluralities for nominations as rep resentatives, and P. c. Mccormack and W. l.. Paul got small plurali- ties.
 Local Vote Light
 The Juneau city vote proper was several hundred under it's poten- tial strength, totaling 729 in the Republican primary out of po- tential 1250. A large part of the shortage was in Precinct Number 2 where only 164 G. o. P. ballots were marked off. This was light CT than was cast in the recent city election after an inactive three day campaign.
 Delegate Sutherland carried pre- cincts number two and three and lost the hill ward to Senator Bart ley Howard. his opponent. The former r<carried ss-se'.s- 39S votes to 311 for Howard. The latter won the first precinct 227 to 20f, carried Sheep Creek and tied Sutherland at Salmon Creek.
 Attorney General John Rust gard, ran far ahead of both Suth- erland and Judge Wickersham, re- ceivilng 49S votes in Juneau alone, 100 more than was cast for Suth- erland and Ill more than Wicker sham. Much of the Howard vote was given to him and leading To- cal supporters of Senator How ard also supported MT. Rustgard.
 w. H. Caswell and Judge Wick ersham ran neck and neck for high honors locally for delegates to the Republican National Con- vention. The latter led with 3S7 votes, Caswell trailing closely with 360.
 LeRoy Noland, running on the anti-Indian ticket, made the most remarkable race of the day both in the city proper and on Gas tineau Channel He received 485 votes in Juneau's three precincts and a total of GOT on the Chan nel carrying every precinct. He was high in Juneau number one with 323. His Senatorial running mate, c. T. Gardner was second in the same precinct with 2S5. Mo- lands total Juneau vote was 1855, and Gardner's 419.
 Grover c. Vim, supported by both factions locally, was second to Noland in the Legislative race. In the city vote he got Al and for the entire Channel district, he piled up a vote of 571.
 Vote Badly Split The seven remaining candidates for House nominations split the vote badly, no one of them re- ceiving a majority. P. c. McCor- mack ran third with 273 votes and w. L. Paul came under the wire in fourth place with 268. Other candidates received: Darwen 266. Gildea 246, Johnson 200, Olts 176 and Wacker 130 votes.
 Gardner was leading in the Channel vote with total of 509, Benjamin second with 240 and Hunt last with 104 votes. Noland led in the ten Channel precincts with 607. Vim second with 571, Paul third with 361, and McCor- mack fourth with $50 votes. Delegate Sutherland beat How ard out in the same precincts 535 to 376. Attorney General John Rustgard, who received the high est Channel vote of any candi- date, swamped Waller 666 to POP.
 Capt. Lathrop's Channel vote was 366, Aldrich 301 and Albrecht 196. Judge Wickersham received 531 and MT. Caswell AT votes on the Channel for delegates to the Republican National Convention. Dr. w. H. Chase, Wickersham's running mate, was third with 294. Gus Gelles fourth with 1S3 and l.. K. Pratt last with 126 votes.
 Precinct No.
 Howard 227, Sutherland 204: Rustgard 290, Waller 120; Al brecht 72. Aldrich 113. Lathrop