The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1927, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1873 The Steering Gear Broke WILL STAND BY CONFESSION, HE TELLS POLICE Says Advice of Kansas City Attorney, Hired by Mother, Will Make No Difference GIRL DIED OF FRIGHT Autopsy Surgeon Says Mar- ian’s Heart Stopped When She Became Scared Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 28.—(”) —William Edward Hickman, con- fessed kidnaper and slayer of Mar- ian Parker, Los Angeles school girl, wants speedy justice. “But not too speedy,” the youth hastened to add to his statement made to newspaper reporters in his cell inthe county jail. He explained that he had thought he was to be rushed right through a trial yester- day when he arrived at the county jail_here. i Hickman declared he had no in- tention of pleading not guilty to the cd s of murder and ki ing of { which he has been ind “vil lead guilty and stand by my con- Jession regardless of what this Kansas City attorney engaged by my mother advises me to do,” he said, ao Arraignment Postponed Soon after his arrival at the jail, | Hickman was taken into court for } arraignment on the murder and kid- naping charges. On motion of District Attorney Asa Keyes, who told the court he had been advised that an attorney, retained by Hick- man’s mother in Kansas City to de- fend him, was en route here, the arraignment was postponed until Thursday. ‘ ‘Despite Hickman’s denial, em- hurt, The mishap occurred near Dallas, Te: ct OF SANISH IS PROBED BY This car tried to cross a tavine without using the bridge, after the car’s steering gear went askew. After about 40 feet of somersaulting fancy tumbling the car landed in a creek, but the four passengers weren't ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP AND — SLAY MRS. ALICE HOLST HARDICK THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE a SHERIFF bers of the district attorney's office declared they would not be surprised if the accused slayer of the girl plead not guilty when the time/, came for’ his arraignment. : Although Hickman’s confession, arade ‘to: ‘Los Angeles officials 1: turning him to Los Angeles from Pendleton, Ore., where he had been captured, said he killed the girl by ion, County Autopsy Sur- geon A. F. Wagner declared that his examination of the body indicated that the death of the girl was not due primarily to this cause. ‘The belief was expressed by Dr. Wagner, 2 nex! neighbor to the Parker girl’s family, that she died of fright and exhaustion. He said she was of a nervous temper- ament and that the body indicated that she had not eaten since the time of her kidnaping and probably had not slept. May Have Died of Fright “When her captor applied the towel about her neck, she realized what was about to happen and her assassins hired by fri Peight and ped as. the result. of| slain man, is the belief of the Moun- urgeon sai lieved. He said| trail county sheriff, he said today. Sueno mse Pe bere” of Zontaaion Two men, came to her home 4 and seized her when she opened a Eigen tedinnotg oH door leading into a shed, stuffed a e ted. mien ge pee mani Roope @ coat i over her put r an au- acts tthe tale he somes he er jail res ce! a ee One of the men proposed that she Prem ne crowd back at the hall|Pe bound and left in the house, and te Statice, but the spectators for|that the dwelling be set afire, but the most part showed only curiosity. that it rome be ‘When returned to his cell after ridge ‘this brief appearance in court, Hick-| man fell into a sound sleep. He was sleey when a deputy sheriff came to take him to the identifi- cation bureau. As the officer. shook him to waken him, he started up, ai tly fied, then fainted. It was a few minutes before he was revived. Temperature at 7 a. m. .. Hig! nda: Girl Who Was Acquitted Last Summer of Murdering Wil- liam Nu‘:s Claims She Was Seized at Her Home by Two Men, Who Threatened to Throw Her Off the Sanish Bridge NEW MAN Paroled Convict, ae i D., Dee. eat at- mpt to kidnap irs. Alice Catherine Holst ‘Wardle of Sanish, who last summer was acquitted of a charge of murdering William Nafus in that village, todaycis under further investigation by Sheriff S. A. Warren of Stanley. That the kidnaping was an unsuc- cessful attempt to keep the girl in custody while they threatened to throw her off a high bridge in San- ish into the Missouri river, y ends of the here today before ment of the kidnapi daughter of terda! ing’! swore out and ill. McClellan rted. rietine ioernty SH sperately, Mrs, his foose from the man who was sitting | Temtent se from the man who was in the back seat of thelr automobile |P2bend in with her, and she fled to the down town section of » Where she told of the attempt which had been to. her life. : his three.days of investi- riff Warren has interro- gated a number of friends of Nafus, and gave the principal grilling to 6 Indians, who, . however, were not retained in’ custod: nearly ig! jcNary-Haugen Precipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind velocity .., For Bismarck and vicinity: Pe it and bably local snow. Colder, For North: Dakota: snow. Colder tonight. Mi erate cold wave east and north por- tions. Colder Thursday. : WEATHER CONDITIONS A low ure sree, with _cen- ters over: Minnesota over Wash- extends from the Mississ ‘westward to the f the : forded. other comm IS UNDER WAY IN CALIFORNIA naper of 11-year-old Oak- land Girl, Hunted Oakland, Calif., Dec. 28.—(?)—A new’ man hunt, with the alleged kidnaper of an 11-year-old girl as quarry, spurred police into activity of 12-year-old Marian of HUNT Alleged. ‘Kid- the California public had relaxed from the excite- and murder ‘ker in Los Aifhe missing girl is Evelyn Smith e missing gir! vel mith, hie ind Mrs. Frank M, Smith of Oakland. Mrs. Smith yes- warrant charg- obert E. McClelland, 27, a pa- roled convict, with having stolen the gist from home on the pretense that jis mother, described as a weatlhy Pasadena woman, would adopt her and furnish. employment for her father, who has been out of work ’s mother, the wife of a Pasadena gardener, denied that she is wealthy, and said sh nothing of her,son’s plan to take the Smith girl. Mrs, Jessie McClelland, the ex-convict’s wife and mother she knew Same _ Protection Given by Tariff New York, Dec, 28—(P)—Amer- ican farmers, in seeking aid through the M i, only ask rotection af- through existing tariff schemes, United tes Senator Gerald Am er ica’s Ambassador of of | intentions by taking a BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1927 SEARCH CONTINUED FOR LOST PLANE AND FL Hickman Declares Emphatically He Plans to Plead Guilty Lindbergh Hops Off for Guatemala City Goodwill Leaves Valbuena Flying Field at Mexico City at Dawn Today — Mother Also Starts Return Trip to Detroit New York, Dec. 28.—(AP)— The New York Times today re- ceived a wireless message say- | ing that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh had arrived safely in Guatemala City. .Valbuena Flying Field, Mexico City, Dec. -28—(#)—Just as dawn ora the flying field, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh hopped off at 6335 a. m. today for Guatemala City, | k Guatemala, the first stop of hi Central American good will flight. The take off was made in almost perfect weather conditions. There was no wind and the slight veil of mist near the ground was ~ not enough to interfere with visibility. The filyer’s mother, who had not seen her famous son take-off on his New York-to-Paris or Washington- Mexico City flights, was at the field to bid him goodbye on this his lat- est venture. Mother Leaves, Too A few minutes later at 6:56 a. m., Mrs. Lindbergh hopped off in the Ford plane which is to-carry her back to her Detroit class roonn The; plane took off perfectly and im- mediately headed east toward Tam- pico, accompanied by two army planes. Lindbergh sta; the Spirit of St. Louis across the field the moment there was sufficient light to see the ground. He glided into! the air after running half the length of the field. The plane described a great curve to the south and then turned east into the sunrise. It turned again: toward the south and soon me | a black speck against the rosy hor- izon. Then, with an escort of Mex- ican army planes, it was soon lost to sight. Lindbergh and his mother said/ farewell to each other privately a the American embassy before com- (Continued on page two) PERSISTENT SUITOR NOW HELD IN JAIL Arrested at Owatonna After Forcing .Girl to Accompany ’ Him at Point of Gun Manly, Towa, Dec. 28.—()—An! abortive elopement which caused YER x RADIO MESSAGE WAY HAVE BEEN SENT BY ‘DAWN | Those Play-fellows, Calles and Lindy SORLIE NAMES COMMITTEE T0 = Dirigible Los Angeles Returns Without Having Found 4 Trace of Plane New York, Dec, 28.—(?)—Hopes for the safety of Mrs, Frances Wil- son Grayson and her three male eompanions in the Dawn centered today in the possibility that the plane might be down in some isolat- rr ape not far from Harbor Grace, This possibility rested upon # radio Prccer agit which ry b operator at Heart’s miles from Harbor Greet, ma Pa intercepted Monday afternoon and upon the claims of various persons in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia that they heard the motor of a plane at different times between Strtaad morning and late Sunday nig! When the Dawn left Roosevelt Field Friday afternoon, with Mrs. Grayson, Oskar Omdal, pilot, Brice Goldsborough, navigator and radio operator, and Fred Koehler, expert, on board, it was peli. ore fly direct to Harbor Grace, arriving - about 7 o'clock Saturday morn- Then, as soon as the weather ie et ‘first ihe peiyot iop-off on a transat Night Croydon, England. as! aR The giant navy atigile ie lant na\ - geles today rested in gti eee Lakehurst, N. J., after a up and down the course the Dawn was intment of Ju Chatting, dining and flying together have made fast friends of President Calles of Mexico and Ambassador Lindy. You see them here watching a festival which Mexico City school children staged in Lindy’s honor. MORGAN, FARRELL AND TAYLOR DIVIDE AUTHORITY HELD BY LATE JUDGE GARY HEY! HEY! HEY! 'J, Pierpont Morgan Named . Chairman of Board of U. S. Basketball: Coaches! || steel Corporation — Farrell Do you want your basketball Becomes Chief Executive 2 Bi ik Fy 4 games voperted:. The poor} Officer, With Taylor as score sheets, blank score sheets, Chairman of Finance Com- and instractions on how to re- port your mes. Upon re- mittee quest accompanied by your bas- ketball schedule, the Sports Ed- itor will mail these score sheets to you. The Bismarck Tribune wants to give a complete coverage of all games played in The Mis- souri Slope will cooperate with basketball coach, manager or official scorer in seeing that committee to represent North Da- the suggestion of Stewart Gilman, REPRESENT N. D. Judge A. M. Christianson of M. ‘ota in a new di: t of the Missi mayor of Sioux City, Ia., whose idea Bismarck Is Selected As 1 A. rett, Devils Lake and G. B. Metsz- sippi Valley association has been ai G Sorlie. is to improve navigation facilities One of Three on,~ Bismarck; James Bar- gar, Sr., Williston, as members of a nounced here by Governor A. G. The appointments were made at the Missouri river with a view to reducing freight costs. In a letter to Governor Sorlie, Mayor Gilman pointed out that the dire ississippi Valley association had approved a plan to create a new district to include Sioux City and northwestern Iowa, the Dakotas and Montana. Gilman, who was appointed a member of the executive committee representing the new district, said in his letter: “When I was first interested in the waterways movement some 20 years ago, your state and your sis- ter states, whose capitals are all lo- cated on the banks of this river, took an active part in the movement and they should again take up the bur- len, New York, Dec. 28.—(P)—A triumvirate composed of representa- tives of finance, business and steel, today. divided the authority which once reposed in the hands of the late Elbert H. we 4 as chairman of the United States Steel corporation. J. Pierpont Morgan, international Means Big Saving “To give you a concrete example of river navigation, before this barge line put into operation our sugar.was bought from Cuba or the San Francisco refineries at inted. banker, was elected: by the board of| believed to have followed after it about the same price. The service agro ms ne eetreee sched: electors yesterday as chairman;| W8S Sighted over Cape Cod, three of the barge line resulted in a cut|] ule today so we can mai James A. Farrell, president of hours after the start. The Los Ai went as far as of about 10 cents per-hundredweight on sugar from New Orleans so that the San Francisco refineries, in or- der to meet this, made a cut on their sugar of 10 cents per hundred- weight. This means that the people in the territory of Sioux City and our wholesalers — and candymakers alone have saved $100,000 a year or more on this one commodity. The extension of the barge service to Kansas City would mean a further reduction in price and same thing would follow on the extension of the river service farther north. “With 40,000,000 tons of freight going out. 40,000,000 tons com- ing into the territory between Kan- sas City and Yankton, the people of this section are bearing a transpor- tation cost of $80,000,000 annually at the lowest computation, which is a charge our fellow citizens on the two coasts do not have to bear. “It is not a solution of the farm roblem and is not offered as such, ut it is a pmactical business-like corporation, becomes its chief ex- etutive officer, and Myron C. T: lor, attorney and corporation execu- tive, was named chairman of the finance committee. All three posts had been held by Mr. Gary. By amendment of the corpora- tion’s by-laws, the bosrd of directors has enabled Mr. Morgan to accept the chairmanship of the directorate without becoming involved in rou- tine. duties of the office. It is un- derstood he stipulated this before agreeing to accept the post. Farrell Directly in Charge Mr. Farrell, who has been acting as. chief executive officer since the death of Mr. Gary, becomes directly regponsible for the management of | the corporation, under direction of the finance committee, headed by Mr. Taylor, who will have charge of the per poeatsl 8 finances, r. gan, Since 1891, has de- voted his principal energies to the bankiyg firm of J. P. Morgan and you your score sheets yess main basketball season be- gins. MISS FILLER’S LEFT ARM MAY BE AMPUTATED Doctor Believes Girl Shot by Her Lover Will Live Unless Poisoning Develops Harvey, N. D., Dec. 28.—(P— Amputation of the left arm of Miss Emerald Ban about 12 from Sable Island, whence bod ewe the news that a message, signed with the call letters of the Dawn but rendered nea unintelligible by interference and static, was re- ceived Sunday night,--.reporting “something wrong.” The news ' came from the government wireless station, operated by the Marconi company. The dirigible covered a strip 40 miles in width, and found the visi- bility excell but he Smathers? = saw no sign of Destroyers Continue Search Five des! today took up the search in a semi-circle with its center at Sable Island and a radius of 75 miles. The destroyer yester- day followed the coast between Cape Cod and Sable Island, with no Betar success than the Los An- geles. The radio message re; police. of two states to conduct an intensive search for the principals | —a persistent but unjvelcome suitor and a recalcitrant patty of the sec- ond part—was ended today, with the two principals separated by distant cities. The elopn-ent which, accord- ing “to. the girl’s story, really amounted to a kidnaping, ended here last night, 24 hours after it began. The persistent suitor, Joey Ren- nells, 22, who is alleged to have urged Pauline Thompson, 20, to ac- company him by displaying a revol- ver nd declaring he had killed her brother-in-law, is now in the county jail at Northwood. Refuses to Marry Miss Thompson, who declared she finally squelched Rennell’s marital “shoot me or ing, but marry you” attitude, as they were 8 ing in the youth’s car towards some Cana- dian Gretna Green, arrived in Des Moi iy Soda ' ‘Rennells F convinced of the hopelessness of his suit after they had traveled Iowa and reached Ow: tonna, Minn. atternoon paper that her disappear” r r disa} erratic mployes the hotel nad she made’ the ae about the couple’s detention by noti- fying town officers. The young woman was inclined to let the mat- » until informed that Ren- imed that the; g rs of Delta iden jubilee din- were en-fof imed: “Ii at Heart’s Content was published by the Western Union Telegraph com- pany. A from Electrician Stentaford, at Heart’s Content, said that Telecrapher Hillyard, while listening on his radio set Monday afternoon, picked up a code mes sagé signed either “WHU” or “WPA,” the second letter being vir- ‘the signals, Hillyard aaid, signals, Hil were the dp od he ever heard. He believed they came from nearby. “Where are we? Can you locate us?” was the message which Hill- yard reported receiving, repeated at intervals of three or four minutes id} for nearly half an hour. described compahy, founded by his fs recent years, however, he relieving himself of responsibili of his own firm and turning them over to his younger partners in or- der to devote more time to recrea. tion. His father was one of the chief factors in the formation of the steel: corporation. He was elected to the board of the steel Eemporadon in 1909 to suc- ceed H. H. Rogers. Is Experienced Mr. Farrell, born in New Haven, Conn., February 16, 1863, started work at 15. In a wire mill in New nes, he heeame oe Tecan i r went to Pittsburgh, where his} was bs pany rise in steel circles was rapid. His| excellent ae on ea election as president of the United} Heart’s Content is on the oppo- States Steel corporation in 1911) site shore of the Avalon Peninsula took him from the presidency of the] from Harbor Grace, on the shore of United States Steel Products Ex-| Trinity bay, and about 25 miles dis- tant. sokh coms ny, which he had headed 8 Hearin; Mr. Taylor, head of the finance Py fons g Pig that « committee, is a direct descendant of| couple walking on the barrens colonial - He is known chiefly} Heart’s Content claim for his connection with the textile industry, but in recent years has turned his attention principally to financial affairs. He is a director of the First. National bank and matter which can. be proved by the cold logic of facts. “I think you understand that un- der the rules of the interstate com- merce commission, the joint rail and water rates must be so arranged that the cities that are not on the river receive the same benefit as those located on its banks. . Seer ag ag Help very cil in your state should be definitely and devotedly pledged to help you in carrying out this program. e extension of the barger service to Kansas City and every mile it is extended north means more for your state. There are untold possibilities in connection with the development of the enor- ae wealth located in North Da- ota. “The ssuggestion you made with reference to the creation of a great reservoir in North Dakota is one which should be considered and stud- ied by engineers, and your state’s connection with the great organiza- tion ee the songs. 8 neces- you afe properly repre- somes. Latha bl acters * greatly si Possi- bilities of Tegislative action by the United States government along the lines you have st ited.” Lillian Filler, aged 16, who was shot early Monday by William Rath, 21, after she had rejected his attentions, appears necessary, attaches of a jo- cal hospital, where she is rec g | treatment today. Rath, who mortally wounded him- self with a shot gun a short time after shooting the girl, is to be buried this afternoon near his home a short distance from Anamoose. From the outset the attending physician has despaired of saving the girl’s left arm, although he be- lieves that her life is safe unless blood poisoning develops asa result; of the numerous small shots which entered her body. Two Volleys Strike Girl Rath fired ot gun at her three times, two discharges striking Miss Filler, one in the left Arm between the. shoulder and elbow. and the other in the right hand. She fell to the ground, and, after asking her if she was dead and receiving no reply, he drove away in his automobile and shot himself in the front yard of his home. “ motive for the shooting is said to have been Rath’s infuriation ‘over the fact that the girl had’ told him she did not longer care for his Giiman men- reservoir which companionship. affiliated with numerous industrials tions is one on which a report re-| Miss Filler’s home is about 17| and veer concerns, cently was made by State ineer | miles southwest of Harvey,.a short} The chairmanship of the steel Robert E. Kennedy. It would be|distance from where the shooting| corporation is the first office in a formed by dammi the Missouri | occurred. ue large business enterprise Mr. Mor-| it river at the Great Bend, just west —$_=—_$——$——— gan has accepted so far as financial Miegally Collected cacee scold geo ee is a direc- only one other large company, Taxes to Be Refunded) the Pullman company. Washi: Dec, 28.—()—Re- tely 240,000 persons was (Mercur; 2) ge aport to congress today by Sec- read! ? BISMARCK Cloudy, ‘2; "roads " Mello: Cloud—Cloudy, 85; roads bad.|* "The treamury de ¥ Raining, 32 "roads fair. covered, 121 tajtmestewn—Snowing, 20;* roads|one cent into the millions of dollars. Hibbing—Snowing, 26; roads fair. Minot—Partly cloudy, $3; roads! pesto Coney, 22 35; roads: *Grookston-—Misty 25; stock di crema in the financial district a Pt