The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1928, Page 1

L VOL XXXI NO. 4677. DAIEY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY JANUARY 4 1928. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HICKMAN ENTERS PLEA NOT GUILTY L More U. § Marines Are Ordered U, S, 0 WAGE WAR AGAINST NIC. REBELS 1 Sl;shing Drive Is to Be|. Undertaken Against | General Sandino . TWO BATTALIONS | TO BE-DISPATCHED: l * Marines Anxious to Avengel Killing of Comrades— Bluejackets Landed WASHINGTON, ing drive tino Sandino, leader, whom Jan. 4. — A to quiet Gen. Aug- Nicaraguan rebel the Washington L] Government regards as a bandit, M ] @ stork won against the one-child I ¥ tistics just published for 1925. will be started soon by the Unit- b ed States, Orders for United States Mar- ines have been/ issued for im- medinte Qispateh of one thousand additional Marines from the Unjt- ed Staaes, to augument 1,400/ *#atready off the ground in pursuit of rebels. Bluejackets Ianded - T||e~#aflneu in Nicaragua ‘will| not fore to as fr e trial of the rebels, have been called Marines trom Fufrd ity %o they cam immedie after the rebels. The Marines are reported to bé *thoroughly aroused o¥dr the slaying of their comrades in the recent guerflla warfare .conducted ¥ %y the rebels and are. eager to N clash with the enemy. % Quick Action Teken | Machinery was put in motion swiftly at the Navy Department for a more intensive campaign against Gen. Sandino after Presi- dent Coolidge had gone over with Secretary of Navy Wilbur the official reports of the clashes of last Friday and Sunday in which @ the lives of Marines were lost. One battalion of Marines has & been ordered to move from San Diggo, Cal., -to the fighting zone and another battalion has been ordered from Parris Island, South o Carolina, as quickly as trunspor- tation js provided. German Stork Defeats® System of One Child BERLIN, Jan. 4.—The German system by bringing twins, trip- Whlets and even quadruplets o 15,- 904 families, according to sta- Of the 15,741 pairs of twins, mixed twins were most frequent, with boy twins second. But the stork equalized that by bringing n!ly 50! i novels as_ well as poetry,” {DOCUMENTS & ATLANTA, Jan. 4-—To he e arrival- of Nln-»[known as the “husband of” or 'the Heyward relates. ‘PROFESSIONAL RIVALRY HELPS COUPLES TO WORK IN HARMONY Dor:thy Heyward (ép(r left) a paywright, penuaded her /| husband DuBose Heyward (lower left). a Charleston, S. C., insur- | ance agent to tiy writing fiction which resulted in “l’orgy" which | she helped him dramatize into a Broadway success. convinced his wife (center), the mother { Reche (right) the nonlhi; iof two children, she write | her first mel is in lfijflx edition. and now her novel, “Move Over,” ' ® +“So when 1 “wite of” holds no matrimonis}| married him four years iago, | problem for the DuBose and the Arthur Somers e husband, ' a former Ageat, while Mr. thor, now looks upon a wife who has acquired the writing name of E. rettit, and royalties from “first novel,” running into i's fifth edition. Upstairs in their Palm Beach home, E. Pettit is dramatizing her novel, “Move Over,” for produc- tion on Broadway. Downstairs, Reche is writing another of his numerous stories. In Henderson- ville,'N. C., Heyward, while wo k ing on “his third novel, is doing a littla converting himself. changing Dorcthy Heyward frem a playwright to a fiction writc. “l knew DuBose could w M..J TE inaur-m(u Roche, the au-) He i3 his in lestes persuaded him' to sell surance in ' _| tynewriter and;was hailed hy th gave Jver the critics. “Angel,” another success. | followed. . Then Mrs. Heyward, t who, as a student in George Ba- | ker's Harvard workshop had writ- ten a prize winning play, later i produced i New York, and her husband dramatized “Porgy” now 1one of the sucoesses of Broadway. “That a play has been possible for me is due to a kind fate that imarried me to a playwright and {Touted me, to Broadway via tho \malrlmomal shortent,” says Hey- iw:\rtl while Dorothy, who has fust isold her first short story, looks 0 writ- “We as Jack up from her present fic ing long enough to as: get along as famously Spratt and: wife.” Roche revcal« lle and Kathleen Norris long had been trying persuade Mrs. Roche she could write, as a result of the wit and satire of her letters, but it was not until last winter that she reo started., MP ore, he 2 Pettit, “because 1 wanted her to have; her own name, so that she might gtand on her own feet and not be hampered or helped by my name.” “Each of us criticizes the oth- er’s work,” Roche relates. “Mrs.! Roche can divorce her judgment from all personal attitude. T have heen writing so long 1 can be honest in my_appraisal.” are two young Roches, and Clyde. Proud in discoveriay their mother is a successful auw thor, they clippings. found one which brought him a vigorous protest. It referred to “Move Over” as the latest success of Arthur Som- ers Rd(hc- from Mexican Stuff Publi!l\ed'by i -Heatst Not Genuine, Experts Say WASHINGTON, Jan. f.—Hand- writing experts employed by ‘Wil- three girls to forty-four famil ® and boy triplets to only. lhlfly— one homes. Eighty-six sets of! * iriplets were mixed, bflnflfil the total up to 161. | Two homes received llnll of an old fashioned size w Ml? they were blessed with ' qngd' ruplets, in” one case all givls. - 4 ————e—— X Minn., Jan. 4.— CASS LAK! l‘ !hmhlnl season | L The pine cone® Is of cones: M ‘be, winnows ed for seed, which g \u ‘great! bdemlfl in States ere ntm'- f estration I8 carried on. ‘music 3 ). The muon n»ur, nervously | railway M 2 ff"' liam Randolph Hearst, newspaper ‘publisher, at the request of the ipecial Senate committee inves- tigating Mexican ‘documents, pro- mnced the documents, ‘“‘spur- ! tous.” - 1“0 report of the experts were phds today to the Senlu com- mitgee. PFlat denial that the American Embassy in ‘Mexico City ever pur- chased Mexican documents ‘‘spur-} fous”or otherwise” was made to-| Qday by James R. Sheffield, for mer ;. Amerl/ an _ Ambassaddr to ‘Mexico. beforethe Senate inves-| Mllflnx cummltu looking at -his watch, was unds: »whether to permit o ing. q’n tlnl.h. aria, or Wwhether *. with - the shrill signal -for de- oD Tost .t i ESCAPES FROM ALASKAHUBBY MADE THREATS Woman Battles Storm, Alone in Rowboat— Flight Revealed SEATTLE, Jan. 4—The story of a4 woman, battling for 14 miles n storm tossed Alaska waters, alone in a rowboat, to escape from her husband, was related. yesterday -in the Superior Court by Amwnpu for Mrs. - Bertha 'Jacobsen, - wife of Charles Jacobsen, Genmeral’ Man- ager of the muwms Comn- pany at -Sulzer, Fearful of thre: #er husband { made against fer,” the womah’s attorneys said she escaped from jthe packing. camp to Hydaburg from where she came to Seattle on a steamer a month ago. Her flight was revealed. when atto= neys sought to obtain money for her support from hef husband, pending trial of her snit for sep- .arate T ce... The hearing was continy b7 —————— MAKE. pu'wna TRIP Iuyer for B. nfanuh» NOTED CALIFORNIA LAWYER, DECEASFD LEAVES TWO CLIENTS BEQUESTS FOR iispunlousu . LOSSES 'S'UST/i NED ON A DVICE (yIVFN SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 4 ~~Two former clients, who lost money on account of the advice they received from their attor- ney, Gavin McNab, are to be re- imbursed by bequests in the will of the noted California attorney, which disposed of his estate val- ued between $600,000 and $800,- 000. Attorney McNab died last week. One of his bequests is for $35,- 000 to Mrs. Ao M, Elkins, of Palo Alto, and the-second is for $5,000 for Joseph Finmell, of San Fran- cisco, Both bequests are made to cover advices regarding 1n- | vestments. Idaho, Jan. 4.—Rob- ert "Hnmlllon, who slew three city office; last Tuesday after they had arrested him .on a charge of robbery and a hold- up, securely .bound, has been taken to Challls when an angry aoh . gathered here. Hamlilton shot and killed De- puty Sheriff Bancroft, Bill With- ington and Lem Cummings after his cabln .and get clothes. He was captured in ¥ o ol "I HARDING HAS OPERATION Justin W. Ha triet Auofluy, Arthur Somers w iequlp?ed, { Thero | Jeffrey | carry pockets full of| The other day Clyde| they, consented to let him go tol NEW AIRWAYS | ARE PROPOSED | T0 BE BUILT ‘Appropriation of Millions‘ of Dollars Is Now Requested FOUR DEPARTMENTS TO BE INTERESTED Testimony "o Col. Lind: | bufih Is Revealed— ' is Suggestions W&HIN(.TON, Jan, 4.—Plans for the construction of 4,085 miles of airway throughout' the country are provided for in the ‘:mm\? appropriation bill for 'he‘ State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments which has been reported to the House by its Appropriations Committee, Tha bill's total of $89,202,000 represents an increase of $1,600,-1 000 over last year's measure but a decrease of §170,000 under the lI:Iutlxul Bureau's estimates. In ‘addition to the funds for consteuction of new airways, the measu¥e provides for maintenance of 3,427 miles of airways already 1 | | FEDERAL SUPERVISION FIRST PHOTO OF ITALY'S PRINCE Princess Mafalda D'Assia Savofa is here shown in a charming pose with { her son, little Prince Maurice D'Assla, grandson of the King ef Italy, ! (International Ne el) | WABHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Fed-! leral lsupervision of American com ial _ayiation and means! o P! T wid - advocaled iby Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to; the House Committee. This was| revealed today with the report (of a bill to provide the Depart-| ment of Commerce with funds. Col. Lindbeggh pictured air Inavigation as on the tlu*slml(ll of a glowing future. He urged that Congress in {interest. Col. | widespread with a view that now exist but with a view {toward development we are hound Alaskan Mmes The Department of the Interio, announces through #dvance staio- ments prepared by the Alaskan branch of the Geological Survey, Lindbergh recommended|that mines in Alaska produc airways ‘“‘not only|minerals to the value of $14.4 of the conditions!000 in 1927, as against $17,664,800 in 1926. The total value of the mineral output of Alaska since 1880 is nearly $585,000,000. The figures for 1927, which are estimates and comsequently sub- Ject .to revision, are taken from the Geological Suryvey's annual re- port on the mineral resources of Alaska, now in preparation, The source of this mineral wealth | approximately as follows: Value of mineral output Alaska in 1927 and 1926: 1927 (est.) $ 6,010,000 7,280,000 820,000 495,000 legislate its (to have in navigation and in de- velopment of aircraft. “l do not think that the air- craft of today is nearly as effi- cient as it will be within a few years from now. I believe we will be able to fly and land in practically every kind of weather conditions when radio instru- ments, radio beacons and other means of combatting weather conditions are fully developed. We will eventually combat fogs.” ! 0})]([ Col. Lindbergh further !esu‘;c'o wh fied before the committee N-venb,m]:nr ly that uniform laws and regu-| 4 le lations for fliers and flying are O% very important. { Other min- A R PR | erals (lead, ) N DUDLEY ILL B o marble, tin pi (ieorge Dudley entered the St. !2&? Sum, Ann’s Hospital yesterday for| treatment for infection. O A A T ST i i Col. Lindbergh Arrives, Capital I8 of 1926 $ 6,707,000 9,489,000 430,500 459,000 *840,000 $14,445,000 $17,664,8C: General Conditions Although, as shown by the pre ceding table, the Geological Sur vey estimates that the value o Alas| mineral production wa | consfderably less In 1927 than l’l Honduras 1926, this dyocrene in value is by !1no means to be attributed solel: TEGUCALPA, Honduras, | | 4o decreased mining activity, Jan 4-—The famous Spirit of | | gongjderable part of the decreas | St. Louis ‘emerged from dark | | 5004 g directly gdue to the lov | clouds and & misty rain short- | | nejeg that prevalled during the ly before 2 olclock yesterday | |yege for many @f the metals afternoon, ‘circled *over the | |qy, according 1o the estimate Capital of Honduras, sailed to || sompiled by the Bureau of Mine: | the aviation field and landed | | rogarding the average price of the exactly in front of the hangar. | | gisterent metals during the year Col. Charles A. Lindbergh | |ype price of coppér was 13 cent- arrived from San Satvador at || o gound, “silver ‘567 cents & | 1:65 o'elock, circled the tield | | gunee ™"y 4™ load: 677 cents o three times and then landed. pound, br 0.8 cui, 5.7, and- 1.48 When he tepped from his | | conts, respectively/ lower than th machine heé was welcomed by | | ypies for the same metals du the President of Honduras ing 1926, Thess) lower price and others. alone would account for a de Col,* Lindbergh' will avold || oraqqq 1y v-lu‘w of nearly $500,000 the district in Northern Nic- i y<s’ not only Qirbetly that thes: aragus which has been the |, ‘srjces have adversely affect scens of fighting between Ma- 1} o4 4yq valug of the mineral out Tines and Rebels on his CIEht || put, but their indirect effect it to Managua tomorrow. Fears S ¥ 5 et tha v || SolinE BB 8 might'Be made the target for o - Qo 80! fiine guay and entt ltllnlfl.l n but ' rathe: It he flew over | f.n4q tg emig trenchment and ? 579,300 Productwn In 1927 Falls Short from i 1926; Output Is $14,445,000 does not signify in the least that mining in the Territory is seri- ously on the wane. In fact, there are many indications that mining operators are taking a renewed | interest In the Territory and that plans are already under way| which should materially increace the output of certain minerals in the near future. It is true that; these activities are confined |uln cipally to the la - enterpris for the small operator or prospec- tor is much less in evidence than | heretofore. This Is not at al surprising, because the current wages in the States are higher and the expenses in general' low- er than in Alaska. These condl tions thus give,little incentive for the Individual to seek his fortune | in Alaska, though there are still large areastin Alaska which have not heen adequately prospected nd in. which even a person with ittle capital may find mineral de-| rosits that will make larger re- turns for the time and effort spent in their development than ‘an be obtained under similar onditions in many parts of the itates proper. The Gold Industry The total production of gold rom Alaska in 1927 is estimated it $6,010,000. This amount cam: " South to Nicaragua KIDNAPPER AND SLAYER MAKES DEFENSE MOVE Insanity Plea Made to Both Charges Which Are Against Youth TRIAL DATE IS ON JANUARY 25 (Brief but Dramatic Hear- ing Takes Place in Los Angeles i LOS ANGELES, cal., Jan. 4.-— | Willlam E. Hickman has pleaded |not guilty to the charges of kid- (napping and muidering Marian ’l‘urker. 12-year-old chool girl, “by reason of insanity.” Hickman at first pleaded eanity to the murder lalone, but changed it cover both accusations. Acgked by the Court if he knew |the insanity pleq was an admis- ision of the killing of the girl, Hickman replied with a brief “Yea ' Judge Hardy fixed the date of lnw trial as January 25, | Hickman's attorney, _Jerome Walsh, of Kansas City, filed an” laffidavit asking delay in the plea |buit this was denied, ' ' Following making of the plea, | Walsh asked ‘for a 35-day M Ainuanae (au, { gal i five days o Judge Hardy end- in- charge later to this State. ed the argument by fixing the 1date. Brief Praceeding The brief but llmmuflc pro- ceedings established one thing. They set at rest rumors that {Hickman might seek to escape \the ‘death penalty by claiming. he was under 18 years of age. In his affidavit asking for time to, find insanity witnesses, Attor- ney Walsh declared that Hick- man, although under 21, is of age to permit hanging, “to wit, 19 years.” Although Hickman's plea leg- ully leaves only the question of |hl.« sanity for the court to de- |cide, authorities connected’ with |the case said the whole gruesome ferime will be revealed, as neces- Isary to the jury to proceed in the process of determining the young slayer's sanity. " i Attorneys pointed out that. the burden of proof in his plea of sanity, rests with the defense, as the California State law holds presumption of sanity. 60 REPORTED DEAD IN GOLD WAVEINU. S, tbout equally from lodes and pla-; ers, though the lodes appear to: have ylelded slightly more than he placers. ents a considerable change from he conditions that prevailed in 926, for in that year about 54 er cent of the gold production ame from placers and only 44 ier cent from lodes. Not only did he gold produced from lodes how an increase in relation w bat produced from placers, but (Continued on Page Seven.) This relation repre-, CHICAGO, Jlm 4.~-The glelt- er part of the nation is today coming slowly out from the am- esthetic of low temperatures which since New Year's Day ex- tended a chill as far south as the Gulf of Mexico. ik Fewer fatalities are reported than previously although sub- kero temperatures are not umn- common at this time of the year. Sixty deaths are attributed to the cold and snow from widely spread sections of the country. Lady” Ghost Plays . Role at Land Sale A\ KETTERING, Eng., Jan. 4-—, lady” ghost of ancient times fig- wred prominently in an uuctkum ale of land at Kettering. The shade coming under ‘1 ‘ammer was that of “The Wfih ady of the Falls of Harrington™ vhen part of the Harrington 'state was sold. The White Lady whose name vas associated with the auction ale was a member of the family pe who was hope by James lndhcrnulncmmthe property all these years—in faet has become a very part of M district ftself. The story is that the M Lady. a spirited, hot tempered i dividual, in a rage killed one ‘the estate gardeners with a Decause he did fot plant e flowers to her liking. The ghost of the vietim appeared, old timers say, stead the ' ghose ‘of "the Lady herself has scene for eenturies and all luck to all 'ho 0 her,