The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL XXXI‘, NO. 4668. JUNEAU ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS RAMBLING CONFESSION MADE BY HICKMAN; MURDER IS DENIED MOTHER OF U. S. AIRMAN IN MEX, CITY Li ndbergh Delayed Greeting Mother by Enthusiatic Crowd in , Dec. 23.—Mr Lindbergh, and her| Col. Charles A. Lind-{ reunited after they| in the air when| Lindbergh flew forth to greet! her late yesterday. So great was' the enthusiasm of the Mexicans| that for an hour they balked his attempts to land, forcing him to take off three times to escape the crowd and he did not see his mother until both had driven to the Mexican Emb: Although a teetotaler, Lindbergh has had several can- tinas and barrooms named after him. Many Mexicans of the work- ing classes who have never be- fore tasted cocktails are con- suming “Lindbergh cocktails,” a wierdly compounded drink in lit- tle grogshops. SUNKEN SUB REMAINS ON OGEAN FLOOR famous son, bergh, are failed to meet Col. 5 Not Be Ralsed in All Prob- ability Until Next Spring PROVINCETOW The sunken submarine S will not be raised until next Spring in all probability, officers of the fleet of naval vessels as sembled here said. The salvage vessel officers an- nounced definitely that no at. tempt would be made now after a of activity during which 10 divers descended to the subma- rine and Commander Edward Ellsberg, in charge of the divinz operations, nearly lost his life when he became hogged in the mud on the ocean floor. The bodies of the men in the steel prison will not be removed. —————e—— Holds British Responsible in Canton Executions MOSCOW, Dec. 23. — Execu- tions of Soviet representatives; and citizens in Canton cannot| be left unpunished, Soviet Com- missar Tchitchein asserted. He| said he holds the British Govern- ment responsible fot the acts of| violence and declared that while the Soviet Government is unalter- ably determined to pursue the policy of peace proclaimed in the disarmament pronouncement at Geneva, the Soviet Govern- ment nevertheless is prepared for the warst knd will not be caugh:,j Unawares. Tchitcherin said the Soviet Government reserves the right to take all measures imperative in connection with the *“sanguinary outrages” in South China. N, Mass.,, Dec. {Four Killed Trying ONGRESSWOMAN HlRES DAUGHTER This Intimate photo shows Mrs, John W. Langley, Con- gresswoman from Kentueky (right) at her desk in the House Office building at Washington with her | l as her secretary. Home Dream Gone - o e Undertaker : At Funeral | Drops Dead ‘ DRAMMEN, Wis,, Dec. —Just as the funeral ser ices for Mrs. A. F. Johnson were concluded yesterday afternoon at the Norwegian Lutheran Church, Fred An- derson, undertaker in charge, dropped dead in the church aisle. MRS. GRAYSUN | PLANS FLIGHT NEW YORK, Dec| 23.—Mrs.| Frances Wilson Grayson hopes " |to make herself a Christmas pres-| ’lent and will start on her long- {projected trans - Atlantic flight | with Oskar Omdal, Lieutenant in the Norewgian Army, as pilot. Mis. Grayson plans to take-off tat dusk tonight in her Sikorsky amphibian plane for Harbor | { | Grace and there await favorable! weather conditions for the flight| |GRAND LARCENY CASE : IN DISTRICT COURT to Croydon, England. SEWARD, Alaska, Dec. """Tu'l The case of (h(’ United States; mail and passenger steamer Starrivs. Joe Brown, charged with lar- has returned here after delivering/ceny from a dwelling, opened in Christmas trees and presents to/the U. 8. District Court this} isolated communities 'along the morning. J. H. Hart is counsell Aleutian Islands. |for the defense and U. S. Dis-| The Starr delivered more than|trict Attorney Justin W. Hard- 100 trees and 300 sacks of hoti- ing and Assistant U. S. District day mail. 23 053RS T ¢ Helen Menken, slender, titlan-hairel stage star, has geen granted a dl vorce from Humphrey Bogart 1 Chicago. £he wanted a home bul it seems that Mr. Bogart though{ & home would interfere with hii artistic success so now their ro: mance s on the rocks. (Unternational Newsreel) Christmas Trees Are Delivered by Stnri |sent the prosecution. ; Brown is charged with steal- ing from one Vito Bardi, the lost To Beat Qut Trainarticles, said to be two watches. A jury was impaneled this morning and the remaining jur-| ors on the regular panel were excused until Tuesday morning| at 10 o'clock, January 3, 1928. The members of the jury on the Brown case are: J. P. Mor- gan, Henry A. Jenkins, George/ Danner, M. 8. Wilson, Mrs. L. Gardner, Inez Peterson, Mrs. W.: E. Britt, Mike Juras, Ted Keaton | J. Monagle, J. Langseth, Mrs, H. COLUMBUS, Ohjo, Dec. 23— Three men and one woman were killed when an automobile was hit by a train this forenoon. All those killed were from Columbus. They had passed around two| other machines waiting for a train to go by, The driver of the auto bhecame excited and dr down the right of way and hit by the train. FINDERS NOT FRENCH LAW DECIDES PARIS, Dec. 23—An artist's . right to tear up his pictures, dump them in a garbage can and have them forgotten is now establishcd in law. Andre Camoin, artist, has won & suit to require the return or de- ruction of four pictures he rew away in 1914. Francis Car- €0, novelist, bought the pictures ‘of two art dealers. Fach of the three were ordered to pay 5000 | francs damages for injured feai- . ings and hurt pride and the pic- " tures were ordered returned tp artist was ehnlnl out his before |R. Shepard. —— .- — KEEPERS AIR ROUTES SHOW PROFIT LONDON, Dec. 23—Fitty-two thousand passengers were carried and 2,600,000 miles flown without a amgie aceident causing injury to travelers, says the Imperial Airways report for a year. The year's business resulted/in a net profit of $567,305, as against losses rag picker found them and sold them with other junk. Eventually the pictures were displayed at the “Flea Fair” where second hand goods and artictes of high and|of $102,075 in 1926 and $76,085 low art are sold. One dealer|1925. Traffic on the company's bought them and sold them to an-| Buropean routes has increased by other, who passed them on ta|26 per cent. Carco. The slashes had been re- paired and Carco got & good pricé for them when he sold his art collection at auction two years The passing of a un(enu on ago. Charles Sinclair, convicted De- The court upheld Camoin’s con:|cember 14 last on a charge of tention that he alone owned his|viclation of the liquor laws, has artistic productions until he. dis-|{been postponed uptil Wednesday, posed of them and that although|December 28, it was announced “finders are keépers” in a general!in the U. 8. District.Court Mg’ _mhqmammn sentence was first set _this_ morning by " §to a helght daughter, Mrs. Katherine Bentley Attorney George W. Folta repre- AS SECRETARY (eft), who will act Mrs. Gould Engaged { JML GUARDS |Father Appeals to Son To Tell Truth, Whether ARE WORRIED | {OVER HIGKMAN‘ | &ised from Sleep to See If Alive — Wants Publicity PENDLETO Ore., Dec. 23 William Edward Hickman slejt| soundly until 6 o'clock this mon- ing when he awoke and asked the guard what time it was, then he fell back to sleep again. The guards were frightened ia the ‘early morning hours when one | of them reported he had watched | (Continued on Page 'k’wo.) —— POLICE START| SEARCHING FOR ANDREW GRAMER — ———— " d Mrs. Laura Gould, divoreed wife or George J. Gould, Jr, will marry Roy Royston, English musical com= edy actor, in London scon after Christmas. (uternational Ilustrated News) Dog Finds Playmate; It’s a Switch Engine BOZEMAN, Mont., Dec. 23—- Bruno, fleet yellow stag hmm'i,' has adopted a railroad locomo- tive. r The dog always may be found close to switch engine No. 911, He never rides, but runs beside the locomotive, averaging some 0 miles a day. He eats with the engine crew, and when it works overtime he puts in extra houvs, too. At night he sleeps in the roundhouse beside his mogul idol. Bruno turned up at the round- house three years ago, and hasn't missed a' day since. Scampering up and down the Bozeman yards daily, he has worn a ,path along the right of way. Trainmen soy he knows the switchmen's sigials and that, hearing the release of locomotive airbrakes, he starts ahead or backward before the n- gine gets under way, Seek Allege? ST&]yer of Girl as Chan&ed, Hick- rhan’s Confession LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 23 Despite the opinion. of many Los Angeles Police officers that An- drew Cramer, named by Hickman as an accomplice and aettnl slay- er of Marian Parker, was a fig- ment of the imagination, a far PR, round-up immediately begun for every ' man named Cramer _|the Guilty or Not of Deed (L PASO, Texas, Dec. Paso Herald has been Thomas Hickman, aged ars, father of William Kdw lll kman, to telegraph the follow- ing message to his son: “My Son-—If you are guilty crime for which you are charged, may God forgive your Soul and may you be punished ac The asked 15 Bl by “This terrible crime, which is hard for me to believe yoa committed, is without doubt the most hideous and most brutal murder I ever heard of. “It is hard for me to helievo my " cording to the law of mankinl, | son could he guilty of such thing f “If you are guilty, 1 hope will be punished with death. “If you are innocent, I sacrifice all 1 have to help out “Let Paso honor, anguish, if the crime, “If you you and you wil yon El n m me know through the Herald, on your word son to his fathe you are implicated God forgive upon your then mercy are, have soul. “Your father, mother Ibrothm'u and sisters.” and your Hickman Is Indicted by Grand Jury | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. | 23—William Edward Hick- man has been indicted by the County Grand Jury as the kidnapper and murderer of Marian Parker. The indict- | ment was returned before Su- perior Judge Hardy late yes- terday afternoon who immedi- | ately issued a bench warrant on the charges. The court | ordered that the accused | youth be held without bail. PARKER NOT FILLED WTH- l whose record is open to suspi- cion. Officers who' doubted the story of Cramer in the case, based thei theory in part on the character of Hickman as it was known to them at the time he was arrested here last summer on the forgery charges. e | Colorful Walls Help Cure Sick, Artist Says Dec. 23—Instead of being an uninspiring gray or white, walls of the Passavant Memorial Hospital planned here will be gayly decorated in color with landscapes and the like. Gay walls are a great aid in curing the sick, asserts Robert Montaigne St. Hubert, young French artist, who will decorare the rooms in fresco. M. St. Hubert did the walls of the American Memoria 1Hospiial at Rheims. As a war veteran he spent 11 months in various hos- pitals, conceived then the idea of splashing hospital walls with col ors and bright scenes. The Passavant Hospital will be the first in America to try the colorful wall scheme. —————— THREE RATILES AND TIGER BRING BOWS FROM ACTORS CHICAGO, BERLIN, Dec. 23»The tired business man here is a distrac- tion richer, and rid of an exerticn into the bargain. A" wooden rat. tle, given him at the box office by an ingenious management ab- solves him of hand-clapping at the Haller Revue. He may also dispense with keeping time with his feet. It is much more intrigu- ing to rattle to the tune. Everybody's doing it—from or- chestra to the gallery gods in the Admiralspalast. The clacking ac- companies the music to the ex- tent of almost drowning it. The stars and the chorus bow in ap- preciation to the rattled applause. iquarters. ANY REVENGE Father of Slain Gir] Wants Hickman Punished, But Not Death LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 23— An. atmosphere of profound reliet seemed to have settled over the household of Perry Parker, fath- er of the murdered Marian. There was no gloating, no evi dence any of which was for re venge against Hickman as Park er granted the ASsociated Press the first interview accorded by any member of the family since a few hours after the girl was stolen from the school, “I feel a sense of deep, sincere thankfulness that this man has been captured,” said Parker, “and that mothers will no longer need fear he may carry off their chil- dren; but I do not wish that ne be put to death, or anything like hat. Of course, he should be punished. “Yes, punished. I guess he should be I'm very glad to talk to you but remember, I don’t care to have anything printed in the newspapers, obviously calculated to engender sympathy for us, no sob stuff, you understand.” Death Rate in Industry Shows Great Decrease NEW YORK; Dec. 23. — The general death rate of the in- dustrial population in the United States and Canada during 1927 will be the lowest ever recorded the Metropolitan Life Insurance Comp any officials announced. Although the year shows in- creases in drownings, automo- bile fatalities and homlicides, the company officials said there is marked . progress shown in the reduction of deaths from influ- enza, pneumonia and tuberculosis - Skeleton of Trapper Found in Cabin FQRT SMITE, ~. W. T, Dec. 23. -—Dlsconu. in a lonely north- land cabin, of the skeleton of Walter Lunnan, well known northern trapper, is reported hy Corporal Walters upon his return to the l?luu(l.l’ullce Head- — . LONDON, Dec. 23-—Built for the purpose of attacking enemy homb- TURIN, Italy, nato Donati world's altity Iy Deec. 23.—Ite-| od; broke the tecord by flying 92 Lmllu an w ing planes, am all-metal fightiag machine | by the Air Minfe- itry will n a speed of 175 ’i an altitude of IMRS. HICKMAN COLLAPSES IN HOME IN K. C. trated — Slayer Her Favorite Son KANSAS CITY, Dec. 23--M¢s |Evn Hickman, mother of Willlam Hickman, received the news of her son’s confession in connection with the kidnapping of Marlan Parker, 12 year old Los Angeles girl, in a stunned, tearless, be- wilderment. A5 Mrstaddliekman,. who had a0t slept sitice her favorite son was :onnected with the crime, itting with her 17 year old laughter Mary, in their rooms on he third floor of the old-fashion- ed house in the suburbs, a resi- dential district, when men arrived yesterday afternoon with the information, Mother Told of News walked into the Hickman was One reporter ‘oom where Mrs. sitting. She asked: “Oh, have you thing?” heard some- “Yes, they have found Edward piue. i connected. | doned has confessed to the part kidnapping,” said the re- “but he said the actual was done by and he in the porter, killing else.” Bows Her Head The mother bowed her head. She clasped her hands so tight- ly her knuckles showed white. Her eyes stared piercingly into blank wall for She sat that a minutes. she sald: “This is all so been puzzling over it. It looks like I haven’t a frierd in the world, They are hounding my boy to death just because they have a clue.” Then the woman broke into « dry, convulsive sobbing, climaxul in complete collapse. It was an hour before she was able to dis- cuss the case again. way ther muddled. T've WAS IN ASYLUM LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. 23— Mrs. Hickman was an inmate nof the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases for two months in 1913 it was learned from records at the institution today. She was confined in the asylum at the re- quest of her husband who feared waa | perhaps three ! | blame for | “partner,” Mother of Kidnapper Pros-; PRICE TEN CENTS CONFESSES TO STEALING GIRL, NOT OF MURDER William Hickenan, Artestal in Oregon, Names Accomplices DECLARES MAN NAMED CRAMER KlLLED GIRL |Woman Also Mentnoned as Accomplice—Was in Seattle PENDLETON, Ore.,, Dec. Captured in a break neck with Police officers on the Co- lumbia River Highway, and brought here and lodged in Jai), Willlam Edward Hickman, told a broken story of the kidnapping of Marian Parker, and at ths same time endeavored to shift the mutilation of the the shoulders of his a man he named as Andrew Cramer. The highlights confession follows: Hickman had no knowledge of the slaying of the girl until her dismembered body was delivered to his apartment last Saturday night. Flees to San Francisco He revealed that he fled to San Francisco after the murder ‘where he had an appointment to meet Cramer on Sunday. gp #aid he held up many drug tores, taking money and chloro- i form, 23— raca girl upon of Hickman's Woman Is Named newspaper- | | someone she would take her life in a t:’ of depression. { house to I e i He named June Dunning, as a woman friend oif Cramer as an- other accomplice. He said he started on his hold- up career to acquire money for a college education. Kidnapping Idea He blamed Cramer for the kil- napping idea. He decided on the daughter of Parker after considering kidnap- ping a child of Hayes, chief tall- er, in the same bank of which He aban- the latter kidnapping be- cause the child was too young. Watched Parker House Hickman watched the Parker learn the habits of Marian and then hit upon the idea of taking her from her schosl under pretext her father was in- Jured. Hjckman took the girl to a movie show the same night an. then turned her over to Crames (Continued on Page Seven.) * | Crime Provides For First | Degree Murder LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 23—The District Attorney's | office pointed out that W. E. Hickman's confession he par- ticipated in the kidnapping, | which led to the murder, makes him liable to answer to | the charge of first degree murder under the California | law which it is declared pro- vides that any one or all of several persons engaging in | | an unlawful act which results in the killing of a human be- | | ing, shall be equally guilty of | | murder. i | — i ! | | PROSPECTOR’S GARB TRIBUTE TO MOTHER CLARKSTON, Wash., Dec, 28-- Because a German mother wished for a daughter 75 years ago, the body " of Albert Hestor, veteran prospector, lies buried here in feminine apparel. Throughout his life Hesto?, who died lately in a lonely cabin on the Grand Ronde river, in south- ern Washington, dressed in wo- men's ciothes and wore his hair long, out of love for his mother and in respect to her memory. She started him out in life dress- ed as a girl becausp she was dis- appointed that he was a boy, and after her death he kept up the masquerade. When he United States he wore girl's at- tire. Well educated, he taught school in a middle western state before he came, 40 years ago, to the Pacific northwest to live the life of a recluse as a prospector in Washington, Oregon and Idah~. In the little homestead cabin he built was a complete feminine wardrobe. He was skilled with a needle and had a sewing machina, on which he made all the gar ments which cloaked the fiction of his mother's desire. He wors his hair in a hnvy braid ‘m the back. R When his body was taken to grave it was elad im a had made for'the