The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1928, Page 1

» THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4684, JUN “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EAU, ALASKA, “THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Pl RICE TEN CENTS ' WILL DIE TONIGHT IN ELECTRIC CHAIR; WOMAN’S EXECUTION STAY VACATED FALGON JOSLIN ALASKA PIONEER, DIES AT SEATTLE Builder of Alaska Railroad| § and Leader in Civic Af- fairs Passes Away SEATTLE, Jan. 12—Falcon Jos- | lin, pioneer Alaskan miner, build er of the Tanana Valiey Railr prominent in ‘Alaska affai H {he Seattle Chamber of Com- merce, died here this morning of kidney trouble. He was active until taken sick yesterday, al- though he had not been in the best of health for some time. He| made a (rip to Fairbanks last summer and disposed of some! Alaska quartz properties in whi«'h: he was interested. Before coming to the 1807, Mfr. Joslin had been inent as a lawyer and a man of, affairs in Seattle. He was boen | in Tennessee ahout 65 years ago and began pradticing law in Se- attle just before the fire in 188).¢ In 1892 he was elecyed to the Cily | Council of Seattle on the Demo- cratic ticket and ' was chosen aj member of the commission that| rewrote and simplified the City | charter, * He was one of the lead- ers_of that body and made and | woh the fight for a single legh Jative body. 7 Early Dawsonite,: He went to Dawson in 1807 aml _‘“became interested in mining. Iie,‘ received a special license ip mi 5 Wthes daw. o dhatett And in the practice until the pMvi 8O was withdrawn from Americans. | He was one of the first®to go from Dawson to Fairbahks, where | he became active in mining and | North in | prom- | W | ROMANCE ENDS IN WEDDING Mrs. Katherine L. Mellen of Boston, Mass,, widow ot Charles S. Mellen, irail magnate, 18 now the bride of Henry D. Brown of New York. The | bride and groom f.gured in a sujt for divorce which Mr. Mellen brought Bine years ago wlen she wrote notes signed “Kitten” to Brown. (nternational Newsreel) ‘the promoter and manager of the Tanana Valley Railroad. Mr. Joslin was one of the de- velopers of the Chilkat Oil Coni- pany in association with the late 3 BODIES OF has made his home in Seattle but | * widow and several children, Mis. . considered George C. Hazelet. He sold nis interests in that several yeais| ago. % Home in Seattle For the last several years hel retained his interest in Alaska | affairs. He was a staunch advc- cate of local seif-government for| the Territory. He was active Iu the Arctic Club of Seattle, and | its first president. Mr. Joslin is survived by nls| Joslin, formerly Miss Price, was| a member of a prominent Seatt.e family. He was well to do and has left his family; in good cir- cumstances. May Serve Reindeer Meat Navy's Mess WASHINGTCN, Jap. 12—Alas- kan reindeer must be tried out.in the mess at the Bremertom Navy Yard to see if it can win a place in the navy's rationf and menu. Commissioner of. Education Ti- gert has given this information to the House subcommittee which the Interior Depart- ment’s appropriation of that 1,565 pounds of ‘the meat be sent for test meals for sailors. He de- elared’ that - if the experiment proved successful, it might pro- vide a market for some of the 631,000 of Alnlh reindeer. { 12—Fifteen 'additional SUNKEN CRAFT ARE RECOVERED PROVINCETOWN, Mass., lmdles ;l men who died in the sunken sub- marine S-4 have been recovered |by divers, bringing ' the total bodies hrought to the surface 32. Six .ot the eight remaining, not recovered, are known to be in thé! FLIER WEIN airtight torpedo room leaving only two unaccounted for Ll;dy Georgina, Film-Bound, Insures Feet wam{, Jan. 12—The smail.| :est,dand amon® the most valuahle feet in English society have turn- ed towards: Hollywood. ' They be- long to Lady« Geprgina Sholto| Douglas, who hefore sailing on the Majestic had her feet and legs insured for $100,000, She. wears 2% shoes,” which she hal to hve made. . She has Dbeen divorced four times. ‘One of her husbands was Prince Burhaneddin, son of Abdul amid, former sultan of Turkey, g he Inherited $40,000,000 from her grandfather, George Dorrepal, an East Indian merchant. Lady Douglas has had ‘no i experi- ence. " Doty Release Leaves - Two Yanks Serving in Fre rench Fi orezgn Legion wmore uuuthn- 4n the United | States than those of all thé Amer- ican loys who died“in the war | SIDIBELABBES; Algeria, Jan | it the famous French milltary 12--Only two Americans rema'n| .. Doty .served brilliantly in ‘h the French Foreign Legion Syria, but it was his dbsenlun Bennett J. Doty of Bilexi, Efl. who _enlisted, as Gilbert Ul ol By oAk -rwma ‘(Associated Press ‘M' Writer) Meniphis, Tenn.;was re-| o return home to the Ami during the wor i Jeg- his’ subsequent trial and sentence; turn U and fipally his drmuc release | FeC ¢ | clared FIGHT STARTS ' ON CONVENTION CITY FOR DEM. Cleveland Drops Out of Race—San Francisco May Be Selected BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, Jan. 12. — Houston, Texas, was late this. after- noon selected for the 1928 Democratic National Conven- tion. ~ The selection was made on the fifth ballot with San Francisco runmer-up. ‘The victor was the last min- ute entry in .the list of half a dozen cities but led from the first ballot. The official count was Hcuston 54, San Francisco 48, Detroit 1. The sub-committee fixed Tuesday, June 26, as the date for the convention, just two weeks after the Repub- lican Convention opens in Kansas City. This alrplane view of Havana, Cuba, | WASHINGTON, Jan. 12--Cleve- land appeared today to be ou 4 |the picture for the next I)vmy fential palace where President €oolldge will be & | guest during his presence at the Pan-American Con- jkess in January. Left inset: Rear Admiral Henry (Y Wlley, who will command the fleet of battleships escorting’the chief executive to Havana. Right inset: | Col, Nobile A. Judah, ambassador to Cuba, who will | be President Coolidge's guide and host during his nuy I in the Cuban capital, (International Newsreel) shows the pre SMITH SENDS BRIEF LETTER; READ TONIGHT Sentiment for San Francisco 15 e running strong as the sub-com: {mittee of the Pemocratic National Messnge from Governor Be | Committee examined the bids tor| ~ Presented at Jackson Day Dinner cratic National convention, leav. !ing the race largely to San Frau | ¢isco and Detroit. The Ohio city has been f:wm'ed by a number of the supporters o. jGov. A, E. Smith but W. B. Gongy- we, County Chairman at Cleve- land, said the fund to be made a definite offer to the Democratis National Committee has not been raised. the National Convention. Supporters of the Pacific Coast city are so confident that they de-| it is all over, but those Detroit and other cities to concede defeat and| 12 to WASHINGTON, Jan. Gov. A. E. Smith has nt Clemn urging Shaver, of the Democratic Nation- rik i | | declined Navy Has 20 {they said they will continue th. Year Building | tight. i | Program | | REINDEERR ROUND-UP A SUCCESS «IForty Thousand Are Corral at Akiak—Fu- ture Plans Revealed AKIAK, Alaska, Jan. 12—The! greatest round-up in the world, in| the Kuskokwim, has been a com- plete success and 40,000 reindeer have been worked through ti large corral, supervised by Bu» eau of Education officials. ] The Eskimo herds have been combined into the Kuskokwim Reindeer Company, consisting of | 15,000 reindeer of Lapp owners | and 25,000 reindeer of the Pio- neer Reindeer company. The combined forces plan io ipstall their, own meat cannery on the Kuskokwim River and, the trade will be supplied with fresh reindeer meat from the . power cold storage barges which th2 company will put on the river. WASHINGTON. Secretary of Navy Curtis D, Wilbur disclosed befors the House Naval Committee that { the Navy Department has drafted a comprehensive 20- | | ‘'vear building program of | which the $750,000,000 pro- gram, submitted yesterday, is | only a part. Jan. 12 IS AT NOME Uses Cabin Plane on Flight —Makes Delivery of U. S. Mail NOME, Alaska, Jan. 12—Noel| Wein, flying a Stinson Detroiter cabin plane, arrived here yestes- day from Fairbanks with a big first ‘class mail consignment, af- ter making stops at Ulato, Ruby and Unalakleet to deliver mail. Mail at Unalakleet will go over- land ' to Point Barrow and other| Arctic points by dogteam. Wein expects to leave for Fair- banks on Saturday with four pas-| sengers. Who Wrote Mexican 5 . Documents? Senator iThief Reproves Reed' Haa Suspicions \Victim for Hiding {al Committee, a brief ]r‘lul to be read at the Jackson Day dinner tonight. Gov. Smith declined the invitation to attend. William McAdoo said he has not pledged himself to refrain from commenting on the Presidentiil candidacy of Gov. Smith in an dress at the Jackson Day dinner tonight. SLAIN WOMAN » HAD DAUGHTER New Discovery Is Made in Murder of Wealthy L. A. Woman LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 12— ’lhe discovery of an unsigned will ot Mrs. Amelia Appleby, wealthy vietim of the recent “sack mur- der,” leaving her antire fortunc to a daughter Margaret, has stari. e the sheriff’s office on a new angle of investigation into the slaying of the woman. e unsigned will was found fia a packet of deeds, notes and oth: er personal papers of the mur- dered woman. This was the first intimation recefved by the officers that Mrs. Appleby had a daughter. The .unsigned document Was drawn. up by an attorney in Chi- cago‘in 1926 and provided that in the évent of the death of Mra. Appleby, her estate, now estimat- ed between $125,000 and $250,000, should go tg her daughter Mar- Good-Will Tour 1‘ NflT wunRIED - ABOUT 13TH BALBOA Wil ‘Start on Trip 6 Hr— vana Tomorrow—Dis- tinguished Party Zona, Jan. | lellwr;.',h tely decided to ex- | tend his tour of good-will nml i | fly, 10 Venezuala.. landing closa | | to Caracas. 'Thélr he will go | to St. Thomas, ene of the | Virgin Islands, and Porto | Rico, Haiti and Santo Domin- | go. | Col. Lindbergh | his plane checked | overhauled. P | I WASHINGTON, Jan. 12--Wi Havana as his destination, Pres dent Coolidge will leave Washin ton tomorrow for a six day trip! | which will take him into territory | | which he has not penetrated since| | having | | but not | is SUDDEN MOVE i CHANGES PLAN OF EXECUTION * New York >S-urp;1;eme Judge Issued Stay of Execu- tion Last nght GRANTED MRS. SNYDER 11 HOURS’ RESPITE Late Today, Stay Order Is Vacated — Two Will Die at 11 Tonight BULLETIN—NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Late this after- noon Supreme Court Justice Levy vacated the stay of execution which he granted Mrs. Snyder last night. Im vacating the stay, Justice Levy said his chief concern was for Mrs, Snyder’s dangh- ter Lorraine and added that desnite the Attorney Gen- eral’s assertions to the dom- trary, the Court had a right to crder the stay. worsdsmmo%i Jan. 12.—The arden’s t Sing lh' Priso nnmo:o:d ‘ccutmn will take plmo 11 o'clock tonight w nothing has lgfm::d NEW YORK, Jan. 12, — Ruth Snyder, whose executior |the nurd-r ot her béen granted a stay until o'clock tomorrow morning by |préme Court Justice Aaro | Levy. | The stay was granted pending hearing of the suit brought by he Prudential Life Insurance ‘ompany. to avoid payment 1$97,000 on the life of Snyder, slain man. | The application to the Su-. PRESIDENT - IS UPHELD SHIP ISSUE [Foemer Chatrindn Shipping Board Says Merchant Fleet Sale Proper WASH!N(:TON, Jan. 12—Presi dent Coolidge was today told Edward N. Hurley, former Chai man- of ‘the Shipping, Board, that in his opinion the people of the United States were in complete accord with his policy seeking the sale of the government's mer- chant ghips and opposing con- struction of additional vessels. Hurley said the best way ‘o the government to create a funi out of which loans could be made to shippers at a small rate of in- terest to help maintain trans- oceanic merchant lines, Runs Through Snow In His Bare Feet to Summon Authorities MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, Jaa. 12—Leaping ' from the same bed in which Williath Martin, aged 35, had been shot to death early yes- terday, Ray Leadbetter, rancher, ran half a mile througi the suow in his bare feet to summon the handle the situation would be for| {he ‘entered the White House. Accompanied by Mrs. Coolidgo,! Secretary of State Kellogg and a party of distingnished Americans, the President will leave here .aa; a special train which will zo through Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and the full length of Florida. President Coolidge will make |the opening address at the Sixth | Pan-American Congress, conven- ;iuu in Havana. —— e - EARLE NELSON - T0 BE HANGED WINNIPEG, Jan. 12—FEarle Nel- son, the “dark strangler,”. who will be hanged tomorrow, will ba the thirteenth person to die on the Provincial jail scaffold here. Coincident with hanging on Fri- day the 13th, all hope for a stay | jof execution vanished when the ! Dominion Cabinet announced at Ottawa it had decided to take no )aullon in the case. Five Thousand Families Need Aid, London Flood | LONDON, Jan. 12—The Daily | Mail, after making an Investiga- {tion of the flood disaster caused | by the Thames River, estimated ithat at least 5000 families need |help. To date $140,000 is tha | sum ‘subseribed for relief. Wedding Ring (ENEVA, Jan. 12—-A woman WABH.INOTON. Jan, 12-—Search|garét, and In case ‘the latter was to determine the authors of the|not allve should go to C. Richard Mexican ‘documents published in|Betts, Grace Alma Belts, and Jean the Hedrst newdpapers is prom- whose handbag ‘was stolen in 2ljsed the Senate by the Special In- train at Basle received the fol-|vestigating Committee which has Betts, the three children of C. R. Betts, Chicago attorney, who was also named guardian of Mrs. Ap- lowing note from the thief: “Madame—1 stole your handbag and, on. opening it found 120 francs, your car ticket and your wedding ring. . 1 was overcome hy reniorse, as this was my first theft, ‘and -intended at first to re- ‘wnwnu by post, but T euun who carries her wed- in a bag instead of on . which is the correct | not respect hersell top-nhh}ou!dfl- figmmfln goods. pleby’s daughter in the event of the mother’s death. Mabel Taliaferro Is 'Suliu 'l'lnrd Divorce BRID(‘EPORT (‘unn, Jan, 12— Mabel Taliaferro, former motioa picture ‘star, now engaged in the. ‘atrical work in New York City yesterday filed a petition for di-} Superior Court hera inst her husband, Joseph P. en of Hollywood, charging t fs her third venture and she has heen {submitted a repori that the docu- | ments a “apurfous and fraudal- ent.” * Miguel ‘Avila, Mexican born son of a’ Mexican father and Italian mother, has been put under suspi- cian of complicity in the manu- lhctuu of the papers by Senator jJames A, Reed and asked furthor lume for the committee- to seelk i thevauthors of the documents. ————— I MANAGUA," mruu Jan. 12 —Five rebels. w killed in an M Ci between a mm?} eriter sheriff to catch the slayer. Last night, Joseph Malloy, trap- per, was in"Jjail on a charge of murdering Martin. Malloy, it is believed, becumm Jealous of the place taken by ‘Martin in Leadbetter’s friendship. \. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 12 He gave himself up to the sheritf |p, A)es Hrdlicka, curator of phys- and contessed he fired two whots | ;. anthropology at the National into ‘Martin’s head. He """"’"‘Museum in Washington, D, C, 0 WU 00 {uokive: {believes the white race should | continue to hold Its own with a1 F‘l lflc“ Show GM tullner races. Advance W’mm Slle “If some ecataclysm oF general ‘ppldemlt should Dbefall it,” he ‘'WINNIPEG, Jan. 13—Fox pricos said, “it would go the way of all (at the Winnipeg fun auction show-|races so afflicted and sink to a ed improvement of 10 to 15 per secondary position. But, unless cent ‘over ‘the last sale, Hnl!'mh\ should oceur, the white race, blacks ranged from $150 to $200.|despite the howls of those who Black mpnyod skins renged from predict that the rising tide of $90.25. Black sold at 390 color will sweep all before it, wi W*mmmwnmmu’-mmwmm"' | The great advance of evolution White Race to Remain |p|ome Court was an unexpected move on the part of Mrs. Snyder's uuurneyn as it had been an- Knmmcesl that a writ of habeas. corpus would be sought in th 'Federal Court. The application is safd to have been made in be- balf of Lorraine Snyder, who has been made defendant in the in- suralice company’s suit, on the greund that the execution of her jmother would destroy the evi- |dence of the defense. WHY STAY G NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—8u- | preme Court Justice Levy today told why he granted the stay - of execution in the case of Mrs, l\Snydar, as follows: { "It may be well after the oral argument that there is a lack of merit in the application but no one may gainsay that at least this infant, Lorraine Snyder, daughter of Mrs. Snyder, is en- lmled to an opportunity to be heard. This must of necessity oceur in the briet time obviously and neither the State nor any person should be aggrieved by = the delay, possibly for one day. “Lorraine becomes the bemé- {ficiary to the insurance totalling $95,000 in event of the mother's | death.” for Gra; Samuel "filllur. ltt’orny tor Gray, announced he will apply {for a writ of habeas corpus in behalt of Gray who is sentenced to in the electrie chair to- %‘L ~ (Continued on Page M) Dominant, Says Savan in the future, Dr. Hrdllah Iuenod will: be in mentality. Man’s Mind to Develop “It is by this advance that began to differ from other tures’ in the past,” he said. that line he has all the before him. There is no of the mind not capable of further’ development and goes on there will be progress in all these fs