FRINK PRICE OF SITKA IS
ELECTED A. N. B.
PRESIDENT
(Juneau Empire, Dec. 4, 1925.)
Frank Price of Sitka, was elected
president of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood for the next year at
the convention in Hydaburg whiih
closed November 22, after being
in session since November 16, one
week. Price defeated Eli Kabnook,
of Angoon, by a vote of 28 1o 18.
Katnook was supported by both
W. L. Paul and Louis Paul, each
addressing the convention on be
half of the candidates they favored.
Price made his own talk for him
self.
The election of officers and other
matters of the convention were
told of today by C. W. Hakesworth,
assistant superintendent of schools
of the Bureau of Education in
Southeastern Alaska who attended
it. He returned to Juneau Wednes
day on the mission boat Princeton.
Other officers elected to1 the
Brotherhood to serve next year
were: Sam Davis, of Kasaan, vice
president; Gideon Duncan, of Hyda
bt.rg, secretary and William Lewis,
of Wrangell, treasurer.
It was voted that the .next meet
ing will be held in Klukwan, in
November, 1926.
The keynote of the convention
was improvement arid progress in
education, health and thrift, Mr.
Hawkesworth said. The convention
was held during National Education
Week, and this movement was very
strongly stressed.
Jonathan H. Wagner, superin
tendent of the Bureau of Education
school in Alaska, who left on the
Victoria for Seattle, attended the
convention and addressed the In
dians on Educational work. Mr.
Hawkesworth talked to them on
thrift.
As a part of the improvement
of facilities for education, the
necessity of an industrial school
for the Indians was emphasized,
Hawkesworth said. The convention
delegates he said expressed them
selves as being pleased with the
work of the Bureau of Education
in this district and gave it loyal
support. As a part of their in*
terests the delegates vsited the
school at Hydaburg.
"Work”, ts the slogan adopted,
the idea being emphasized that the
“man who works is the man who
wins.”
The members of the convention
objected to an editorial comment
in the Empire of November 10
which stated that the Indians had
organized a “secret fraternal or
ganization,” Mr. Ilawkesworth said.
They declared positively, he said,
that neither the convention session
nor the meetings of the various
lodges are in any way secret or
closed to the public.
Mr. Hawkesvvorth said he did
not know what resolutions were
passed at the convention. He said
he knew one resolution had been
passed regarding the fisheries but
does not know its contents except
that it favors abolition of fish
traps.
The sum of .$386 was raised
ait the convention for the Haines
Orphanage and was carried there
and presented by Rev David Wag
goner? Presbyterian missionary who
made the trip from Hydaburg on
the new mission vessel Princeton.
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