Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (0.8 Weather r, continued morrow; today; lowest, 24, day. Full report on page 9. ) minimum night about 24 degrees. ‘Temperature—Highest, 33 Bureau Forecast | cold tonight and to temperature 1o at noon at 8:45 p.m: yester- Closing N. Y. Mark ets, Pages 14 and 15 ch ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star. service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circul lation, 101,639. No. 30,548. post office. Entered as second class matter Washington. AR WASHIN( TUESDAY, DE TEMBER 20, 1927 — T ONE DIES IN BLAST LANGLEY ANCHORED IN AN DIEGO BAY Explosion Amidships Believed Due to Gasoline—Fire and Smoke Envelop Ship After Accident. CREW QUENCHES FIRE WITH STEAM QUICKLY Craft Carries 38 Airplanes—Ex- plosion Is Second on Its Record. Winner of Star's Prize in Race Here Is Among Officers on Board Vessel. Ay the Associated Press N DIEGO, Calif., December Carpenter’'s Mate killed, men injured and three slightly aboard aft carrier Langley Ainswortn was four seriousiy hurt an explosion the States naval airc here today. Blast Laid to Leakage. There were unverified reports that two or three other men had been hlown overboard by the force of the blast. Names of the injured were not made kpown. The explosion is believed to have heen caused by leaking gasoline which gathered between two huge containers under the deck of the ship, each of which has a capacity of 225,000 gal- lons. Fire followed the explosion. The inl United | ORTY-SIX E PAG (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS Down through the icy, storm-tossed waters of the Atlantic, Lieut. Gra Newell Fitch of Washington, bravely fighting for life in the wrecked subma- rine S-4 off Provincetown, Mass., tod; received and acknowledged a mes: of encouragement4rom his mother and his wife. The message said: “Your wife and mother are ly praying for you. Col. and Mrs. Graham D. Fitch of 2400 Twentieth street, father and { mother of the yvoung officer, were noti- fied by the Navy Department this morning that the message at last had heen received by their son after it nad been sent repeatedly for seven hours | by the submarine S-8, which is stand- ing by giving all possible aid to the imprisoned lieutenant and the five sea- | men who were still alive with him at the last report. onstant- Hope of Rescue Renewed. | Tieut. Fitch's reply was s a | tapped out signal, “Acknowledged.” 1t is supposed that communication was | =0 difficult that nothing more could be | heard clearly by the men on the But even this brief reply was ceived with the greatest joy by Col. and_ Mrs. Fitch and Miss Hermione Fitch, the younger officer’s sister, wha ire awaiting anxiously for every bit of news at their home here. His 19-year-old bride, Mrs. Maria rrera Fitch, is in Boston, where she s been informed of the acknowledge- ment of her message. The message was sent Boston Navy Yard at th the young officer's wite. edgement was tapped out o'clock this morning. This was proof thal Lient. Fitch was alive then, and mow his family through the request of he acknowl- at 6:20 "LIEUT. FITCH GETS MESSAGE FROM HIS MOTHER AND WIFE ON PLANE CARRIER ofeccr Trapped in Submarine Acknowl- | edges Receipt of Notice—Family Here Has Renewed Hope of Rescue. are huoyed up with renewed hope that him and his five companions. The news that it was Lieut. Fitch who sent the first message from the wrecked submarine that six men were alilve inside was first given to his fam- ily here by a representative of The Star vesterday. After bearing up bravely Saturday night and Sunday Mrs. Fitch, the young officer’s mothe! had collapsed under the strain of anx- ious waiting. But the news that he till alive and able to send asking for tremendous relief to her, and y she is hoping again that he will e rescued. Ready to Go North “It is fine to know that my broihe | is making such a splendid fight for h | life und the lives of the men undex him against such terrible odds,” s Miss Fitch. “We understand that un- der his direction all six of the men have been lying flat on their backs and keeping as still as possible, that they can live as long as possible compartment prisoned.” Col. and Mrs take a train for moment that their the surfa ‘Thus far the Navy Dep advised them to remain where they are im Filch are veady ovincetown a received ing brought any 10 has rimen re, phone of the scene of the disaster. Tf there is a chance to see their hoy alive, even forea few minutes, they will hurry northward i news from the NAVY DEPARTMENT HOPES ARE WANING naval tug Koko and the fireboat Bill Kettner were rushed to the scene, but | the crew of the Langley succeeded in | extinguishing the flames before the arrival of the boats. The four seriously injured men were brought ashore and taken to the Naval Hospital, while the three men slightly hurt were treated at the North Island naval air dispensary. WASHINGTON MEN ON BOARD. ‘Winner of Race Here Two Years Ago Assigned to Ship. Rear Admiral Willam A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautic: received his first information of the explosion aboard the Langley from Associated Press bulletins read to him over the telephone by The Star. He had no comment to make other than to ask if any one was hurt. The .Langley is commanded by Comdr. J. H. Towers, commander of the Navy's NC transatiafitic fitght seaplanes of 1919. Lieut. Comdr. R. R. Paunack, until recently chief of the flight division of the Bureau of s Aeronautics, is executive officer of the shin. The Langley, experimental aircraft carrier, has a complement of about 70 planes divided into eight squadrons, all of which, however, are not based on the floating flying field at one time. There are 22 commissioned avi- ators and 12 warrant officer pilots at- tached to the vessel at present. Among these are Lieut. Thomas P. Jeter, formerly on duiy at the Bureau of Aeronautics here and winner of The Star’s prize in connection with the Curtiss Marine Trophy race held here two yvears ago. Lieut. M. F. Sel el, also a recent resident of Washington, is attached to the Lang- ley. SECOND EXPLOSION. enerator Blew Up Off Ambrose Light Last Spring. NEW YORK, December 20 (#).— The airplane carrier Langley, upon which an explosion occurred today off the Pacific Coast, was disabled by an explosion on April 29. While accompanying the United States fleet into New York harbor the «hip was put out of commission off Ambrose Light by explosion of a 200- wilowatt menerator, which carried away the main injection line, cutting ihe auxiliary exhaust and putting the steam lines out of order. The Langley was used as { fagship for Rear Admiral J. M. Reeves, commander of the air craft squadron of the battle fleet. ied tormal complement enlisted men and 125 officers. Converted in 1918, The Tangley was converied a collier to an airplane carrier in 1919 at the Norfolk Navy Yard and was one of the original electric dviven naval vessels, She was re- christened the Langley from the Jupiter in honor of Prof. Samuel P. J.angley, famous astronomer. She was originally constructed in 1911 he carried four guns and is 542 feet long The officers assigned to the Langley are Comdr. J. H. Towers, comman- ing; Lieut. Comdrs. R. K ecutive; R. P. Molten, jr.; H. R. Bo xusch, navigator; D, C. Ramsey, F. D Powers, first lieutenant; Lieuts. N. M. MacDonald, engineer officer; ) ant, R. Botta, F. C. Fake, unningham, J. W. Higley, A, linge, ldents. ( Tynch and R of 370 from orps; - Soatys of the SUDD: S Salsor O "R. E. Hubon “railg, Chief Radio Flectric vins, Chief Machinists J. E. Kem mer, J. 3. Enders and S. D. Thornton hiet Carpenter J. Sanders, Carpenter I.. V. Scott and y Clerks E. G. Uelkers and J. M. Page SHIP SINKS IN STORM. LONDO! December Vxchange Telegraph Co. today ve- ported that an unidentified steamer \went on the rocks near Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, last night. The cries of the crew could be heard #nd some of them were seen in the zging when rockets lit the scene. 20 (#).—The The ship, which was thought to be a | collier, vanished quickly. 1t is teared that all were Wieckage later drifted ashore Wyrions weathey has prevenied Atiers grem approaching the scene lite Paunack, ex- | Officials Realize Chance for Rescue Grows Smaller as Time Passes. By the Associated Pres. Gloom spread over the Navy De partment today as hope for the rescue of the imprisoned men aboard the sunken submarine S-4 gradually waned. Grim old admirals, steeled to hard- ships and dangers, stalked sternly from oftice to office engaging in whis- pered conversations with fellow offi- cers. Their knowledge of the sea and submarines gave them a full realiza- tion of the perilous plight of the en- tombed men, and they now believe that nothing short of a miracle can bring them out alive. The only hope they hold for their vescue is to supply oxygen and food through the torpedo tubes in the bow that is buried in the mud. Before this can be accomplished, divers must blow away the mud with special ap- paratus and diving has been held up by the weather conditions. Victims' Strength Ebbs. Even should the mud be removed, Navy men now doubt that the im- prisoned men would have strength enough to work the complicated ma- chinery that operates the tube doors, which are controlled from the inside. Their fears In this direction were in- creased by the faint taps that were aeard from the men early They believe that Lieut. G. has been keeping up communication by his knowledge of the Morse and In- ternational code, was almost over- come when he acknowledged receipt of the message from his mother and wife telling him that they were praying for him. It required seven hours of constant sending of the message through the powerful electrical rillating signal system and when Fitch finally ceived it, he replied only faint Sounds of the oscillator, naval officers said\ would be extremely ioud in the submarine and the men must have heen groggy and stupefied or they un- doubtedly would have answered sooner Reports told of later but meaning- less hammering from the submarine, ndicating that Fitch had become too weak to signal and another of the & men, ignorant of the code, took the task of knocking to notify rescue workers that life still within the hull. pected at least one of the imprisoned men to make a last desperate attempt at escape by crawling through the torpedo tube. Now they regard such an attempt as unlikely, and the men probably realize that such a method would be suicidal in their weakened condition and with the tube jammed in_mud. If the tube had been clear, Comdr. J. H. Hoover, experienced submarine officer, declared today that such a attempt would have had some chanc of success, although it would have heen fraught with extreme ditficulty. In order o get through the tube, he said, # man would have to crawl in the tube with the inner doors clos- |ing behind him. As the outer door | was opened, he would be compelied { 1o hold his breath while the tube filled | with water and then ke the des perate attempt to crawl 21 feet through the smooth gr ned hore of the water-filled tube | 7 1¢ he succeeded in getting out of the existed Up until today Navy men had ex-| FIGHT FOR CANTON erty Loss of $10,000,000 Already Reported. By (he Associated Press PEKING, December 20.—Out the bloody furmoil of Canton's mad week has emerged the salient that South China, or the portion calling itself Nationalist, has rup- tured relations with the Soviet as violently and completely as possible without the actual declaration of war, Indeed, it appears that if armed conflict were geographically possible, the two nations would be at each other's throats, « At least one vecognized Soviet official. Vice Consul Hassis, is defi- nitely known to have perished be- fore a Chinese firing squad at Canton From the entire Yangtze valley and to the south of it, aull Russians offi- cially connected with the Soviet are being hustled out and Soviet com- mercial places closed down. Bloodshed at Canton. At Canton, this was accomplished by revolting' bloodshed. Soviet rep- resentatives In Hankow were given barely 48 hours to leave after being rounded up early last Friday morn- ing and marched. bound, through the streets, some of them still in their night clothes. Tomorrow hae been set as the limit of departure from Shanghai. Thus death, suffering and indigni- ties have been visited upon the Rus- jans, who for the past 3 years were the accredited brains of the Na- tionalist movement. Quitting the scenes of their former triumphs, they have tasted the Chinese hatred, which they are said to have been responsible for turning against other foreigners throughout the Chinese revolution up to now. The absence of anti-for except against the Soviet, worthy. During the events of week not a_single foreign c except Russians, was reported the whole Nationalist area. non-Russians wer arr ed Hankow round-up, but they later released with apologies. 120 Foreigners Rescued. During the Communist Canton it was necessary 1o bring ap- proximately 120 Americans, British and Germans in from the outlying eas for protection by foreign sailors. The Japanese landed marines to pro- tect the Japanese hospital. No one s hurt, however The latest official foreign reports enable one to make a fairly accurate estimate of the costs of Canton’s orgy. At least 6,000 persons are believed to have perished. The Communists, who seized the city December 11, Killed 4,000, while the anti-Reds in recapturing the city two days lter killed 2,000, At least eight Russlans were exe- cuted in short order after being ignom y paraded Russian Woman Executed. gn feeling, is note- last ally, from Some the were in coup at Council Hassls was ers of the Communist ecuted on the morn- o 8) Vies the headqua party. He was 5, Colum (Continned on Pa Put On Wi H FREDERICK, 3 Because he tried make h walk home from cott Cit. gerstown, « distance of § 3 | Hockensmith of Hagerstown last night | was ordered confined in the local jail. e and his wife and two Hagers- town women motored to Baltimore | vesterday on a shopping trip, and on | the return trip their automobile side- | swiped and disabled the machine of C. 1. Heimlick of Baltimore near Elli- | cott City. Mrs. Hockensmith said she advised her husband to stop and ren- der assistance, hut their companions told him to go on. When his wife continued to admen- ish him for mot stopping he a the car and ordered her (o g l and walk, rhe said Mrs. Hockensmith proved more re urceful e hurried to a (glephone Md., Decembs 1o asked s of the accident 3 Sergt. or husband be arrested c. E. Duckworth complied with hi request, She then got a “lift” as fa as Middletown, Md., in time to atten: ber hushand's trial. Justice J. Hollin Kefauver found Hackensmith guilty on a charge of failing to stop after an accident and offer assistance, imposing a $25 fine. Although his wife had $40 in cash in her pocketbook, she refused to pay the fine, and the two other women were able to raise but $1.14 between them. Hockensmith was ordered to jail until a friend from Baltimore arrived with the money, saving him from a 25-day sentence. |7 Mrs. Hockensmith took command of | her husba utomobile and contin: uedl her trip home, where she awaited his aeturn ik that _he | Radio I’mgrams:!"age 36 food and oxygen | tol word | : where | they are being kept informed by tele- | - MAY FLARE AGAIN |Death Toll of 6,000 and Prop- | nf‘ fact | arrested at | RESCUE HALTS AS WINDS PREVENT SHIPS FROM WORK ON STORMY WATER Minesweeper Standing by Sunken Submarine in Hope of Forcing Air and Food Through Side of Vessel. some way may yet be found to rescue | MESSAGES GROW FAINT, BUT TAPPING CONTINUES Opportunity to Lower Diver Await- ed by Commander of Falcon.| Gloom Pervades Navy as Hope | for Trapped Men Fades—Death Is Believed Near. with the limited supply of air in the | By rthe Associated P "PROVINCETOWN, Mass,, 20.--Faint sounds within the De cember were heard from submarine S-4 at 11 o'clock today, but these were not signals, offi cers of the submarine S-8, sister ship ill-fate It appeared fo those on the sur the cir sunken of the craft, said, face that the survivors of S-4 were making efforts in th own behalf Capt. King said if weather moderated at low water, about 3 divers would be attempt would be to get tanks of nourishment that the which falls o'clock this afternoon, sent down and an made by them oxygen and liguid into the S-4's torpedo compart- ment through the listening gear, known as the “S-C tube.” Such procedure has never been attempted before, he said Faint Signals Are Heard. | ¥aint signs of life were apparent |on the sunken submarine ar 8:15 clock this morning. The oscillator of the S8, sister ship of the ill-fated craft, in position near the swreck, picked up at that hour signals from the submerged vessel. The tappipgs carried no code mes sage. It was believed that the six men who had been imprisoned in the torpedo room since Saturday were {00 weak to rap out on the side of the vessel the orderly messages in the in- ternational code which had been re- ceived on previous days. As the predicament of the prisoners continued to grow more desperate, their comrades on the surface were held to inaction by storm and rough water, which made diving operations difficult and dangerous. On board the minc sweeper Falcon, which is anchored near the buoy marking the position of the $-4, were the supplies of oxygen and condensed food which Rear Admiral Frank Brumby, in charge of operations, | planned to send down to the sunken vessel by means of divers as soon as that was possible. Plight Becomes Desperate. Early today the gale which swept the coast all night had moderated only slightly and a falling harometer indicated worse weather to come. The Falcon, which has been used as a base for diving operations in the salvage work, had not at that hour been able to get into position for re- newing the work. Representatives of the Press went out to the sal early today in a fishing spoke both the ¥alcon and sub- marine stationed above the sunken vessel. At that time no prepa- rations to resume diving operations had been made on board the mine sweeper, the sea being still too rough. Men on board the S8 said that through the night signals had been Jieard at various times from the S-4. 1t was hours since Lieut. Graham Newell Witch, leader of that desperate band, had tapped out the last intel- ligibla messnge to the outside world, a message that naval officers feared {0 answer. This message at 4:45 p.m. yesterday, was: “Is there any hop i YLaboriously, by hammer, the six spelled their names and for the first time it was definitely known whom the possible survivors were of the 40 men who had left on a trial cruise which ended last Saturday when the submarine was rammed by the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding. Beside Fitch they were: ¥rank Snizer, torpedo maun, Ridge- field Park, N. J Russell A. Cra alif. X Leslie Short, Booneville, Mo. Joseph L. Stevens, dence, R. 1 George Pelnar, Omaha, Nebr, Fitch gave his home at don, Conn. “The signals were picked up by S8 on its oscillator. ‘A life limit of early tomorrow morn- s fixed by Lieut. Charles B. en, Navy subr Associated age fleet boat and bb, torpedo man, San torpedo man, seaman, Provi- seaman, South New Lon- € tor of the torpedoes the men mig! live hours, If they dii not suc- ceed in doing that, the presence of an officer who would force his crew to lie Quictly on the floor of the chamber might materially prolong their chances of surviving. ‘Momsen made his caleulation before it was nascertained that ¥ h was among the six. New Difficulties Arise. New difficulties beset the work of Qivers who had hoped they might he able to introduce oxygen and food through the torpedo tubes in the bow, where is located the long narrow room which has become a veritable furiure chamber for the trapped sailors. A survey by divers revealed the new /ard in the form of mud piled deep around the prow of the boat and it was feared that with the action of a strong current {he fubes might not re “(Continued on Page 5, Column 5) far—designed to prevent HOOVE R SPURNED His Refusal of British Offer Cited to Disprove “*Whis- pering Campaign.” =~ BY G. GOULD Ll \'2'0',5. Secretary Political opponents of Herbert Hoover of the Department of | Commerce have undertaken a cam- | whispering campaign 5o | his nomina tion for President by the Republican national convention next June. | ampaign takes several direc- tions. Mr. Hoover is charged with being oo pro-British and with having sounhit British citizen: His eligi- bility for the presidency is challenged | on the zround that long residence | abroad disqualifies him under that clause of the Constitution which calls for 14 years' residence “within the United States.” He is accused also of having urged the election of a Demo- cratic Congress in war times of 1918 when he was food administrator under the Wilson administration. Mr. Hoover's boom for the Presi- dency has grown apace. The vecent Statement of President Coolidge to the Republican national committee has peen interpreted generally as taking him finally out of the race. This followed immediately by drawal of Charles Evans Hughes of New York, former Secretary of § has given more and more impetus 1o the movement to nominate the Secre- tary of Commerce as the Republican standard bearer. It is mot sirange, {herefore, that his opponents are seek ing to check his advance. Vermont Backers Stirred. campaign against | over the reached some of rock- of Mr, be whispering Mr. Hoover is spreading ountry. More recently it Vermont and has worried the Republican leaders in that ribbed Republican State, in spite the known sentiment there for Hoover, if the President cannot induced to run The whisperers suggest, and some of them repeat it as a fact, that Hoover applied for British citizenship. “This is roundly denounced as a false- hood by Mr. Hoover's friends. The Secretary himself is in the Mississippi Valley on flood relief work. This story made the rounds in a similar whisper- ing campaign in 1920, when Mr. Hoov- er was first brought forward by his friends as a candidate for the Repub- Jican nomination for President. 1t is said that the matter has heen horoughly investigated; that there are in this country authenticated and official statements from British offi- ciala declaring that no one by the name of Herbert C. Hoover ever made application for British citizenship, and further, that no one by the name of Hoover ever made such application. Toubtless these documents will be produced by Mr. Hoover's supporters of it is deemed advisable or necessary to do so. Page's Testimony ' Cited. Mr. Hoover's friends aiso rely upon {he testimony of the late Waiter H. Page, American Ambassador to Great Britaln at the time of the World War, to prove Mr. Hoover's devotion to America. Mr. Page, in a memoran- dum to President Wilson. declared that Mr. Hoover had been approached on behalf of the British government with a proposal that he become a British subject, take an fmportant executive post in that government and with a suggestion that he might be given a thle. Mr. Page said that Mr. Hoover's reply had bee ST be damned if Il give up mv American citizenship—nof on your life." Tt The me written by 3 contatned Life and Letters of Wal by Burton J. Hendric andum follows: Favored for U. S. Post. “Mr. Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, would, it opportunity should offer, | make @ useful officer in the State Department. He is probabiy the only man living who has privately (ie., without hoiding office) negotiated understandings wit’ the British, French, German, Dutch and Belgian governments. He personally knows and has had direct dealings with these governments, and his trans- actions with them have involved several hundred milion dollars. “lfe is a man of very considerable fortune—less than when the war be- zan, for his relief work has cost him much, approached on behalf The memor- with the | arme Column 7) the with- | - CHANCE FOR TH[E% A | WILLIAM E. HICKMAN, Former bank employe, named by po- lice as the kidnaper-slayer of Marian Parker in Los Angeles. TRIANGLE MEASURE READY FOR SENATE Committee Reports Bill Fa- vorably With Amendment. Vote Expected Tomorrow. Speedily following up the action of the House yesterday in passing the Pennsylvania avenue-Mall triangle pur- chase bill, the Senate public buildings and grounds committee, today ordered a favorable report on the measure and there is every prospect that it will pass the Senate tomorrow. before Con- gress adjourns for the Christmas holi- days The Senate committee inserted an amendment which does mot change any of the main features of the bill, but is interesting, in that it gives the Secretary of Treasury authority to proceed demolish existing struc- fures within the triangle as soon as the Government acguires fitles to the land. The amendment also would enable the Treasury Department to clear and giade the various squares in the tri- angle as they become the property of the Government and to take steps for planting on open spaces. The plans of the Public Buildings Commis- slon contemplate a grouping of the new Kederal Buildings in the triangle in such a way as to leave open spaces Jthat would add to the appearance of out Vote Expected Tomorrow. The Senate committee Instructed its chairn Senator Keyes of New Hampshire, to present the favorable report when the Senate convenes at noon tomorrow, and it is expected that requests will be made for con- sideration of the bill in the Senate during the afternoon. Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah, chairman of the Public Buildings Commission, was re- cently made a member also of the Senate committee on public buildings and grounds, and_joined today in the I KNEW OF TRALING KIDWELL TESTIIS Juror Admits Kn;wledge of Shadowing and Identifies Burns Men. Edward Kidwell, talkative juror in the Fall-Sinclair oil fraud case, ad- mitted in the contempt proceedings to- |day that he knew he was being shad |owed by detectives diuring the trial. His testimony was regarded as a trump card by the rnment, inasmuch as the defense had claimed that no contempt of court could have been committed so long as no actual contact with a membtr of the jury was shown. Kidwell not only declared that he was aware he was being watched, but identified two Burns' operatives. One of these, John Kline, he declared, had stood a foot away from him in the doorway of a near-beer saloon on Four-and-a-half street southwest one Sunday _ afternoon. The second, Daniel E. Merritt, he testified, had hoarded a street car after him as he was leaving the courthouse. Held as Star Witness. Kidwell had been held ba as a star witness by the Government for more than a week. Examination of Kidwell was under- taken by James J. O'Leary, Assistant | United States Attorney, who arranged it with all the theatrics of a court- | room drama. One after another, a dozen persons In the courtroom were called upon by the Government attorney to stand up and be identified by the juror. In cluded were several of the Burns operatives and two or three nersons whose names had not yet appeared during the proceedings and evidently are to be sprung on the defense as sur- e witnesses. dwell sat erect in his chair, some- what pale, and looked directly ahead as O'Leary fired a volley of questions at him. For more than a week spectators in the courtroom had been waiting for the juror to make his appearance on the witness stand. Heard Sleuths First. Government counsel had cleared the | way by bringing in all the testimony it possibly could from Burns' opera- tives, who had the juror under sur- veilance during the Teapot Dome trial. The Government sprang its frst surprise, after Kidwell had identified himself as a juror during the oil con- spiracy case, by asking if he knew a man named Raines. A man seated in the back of the courtroom stood up and Kidwell identified him as Charles Raines. A second man, a fellow employe named Charles Renwick, also stood up and was identified. The juror next was asked knew a man named Kneessi. The juror identified him as Edward L. Kneessi. Kidwell admitted being at Kne place of business at 409 Seventh street northwest, Saturday, October 29. These last three names were not known generally as men identified in any way with the contempt case. The joror's mother, Mrs. Mary B. Kidwell, next was called upon™ for identification. Kidwell testified she lived at 1637 U street, where he and his family lived also. Bdward J. Kidwell, the father of the juror, whom one of the Burns operatives testified he had approached, was called upon next to stand up. He was not in the courtroom. Bailey and Miss Bernice K. n, two_of the Teapot Dome T it he (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) ied on Page 2, Column 4. out a solution. Two resolutions that the Secretaries of Wa do all possible to settle the contro- versy over the three-year rule and get the Army mule and Navy goat back on the gridiron are hefore the House. They came from Representa- tive Fish, Republican, who represents the West Point, Y. district, and Representative Britten, Republican, who helped land the 1926 service classie for his hometown, Chicago. Mr. Wish decried the granting of West Point appointments to college foot ball stars and then permitting them (o play three more years in Army uniforms. He pointed out that would direct N it the Army cannot accept the three- year rule in effect at Annapolis and many large colleges. Mr. Britten's resolution, declaring absence of a service classic next year would impair the cordiality between the 1wo branches, insisted that West Point adopt the three-year provision Unless voluntary action is forthcom- ing, tten threatened to present West Point's attitude to the House “in its true light.” He predicted that foot ball fans would demand an equality of rules unless West Point can show in its games with other teams that it is entitled to a handicap. Mr. Britten, who is ranking Republican member of the naval committee, said he feared Capt. Harry Wilson. of this year's team has been playing for consecutive years and that a F seven for the best int s of the sport and suggestad prompt executive action to settle tile difficulty. SIISPECTED SLAYER | OF MARIAN PARKER - ESCAPES DRAGNET lYoulh Flees in Auto as 100 Police Try to Block Street. | | | | FORMER BANK EMPLOYE IS NAMED AS MURDERER | Crime Laid to Vengeance Against | Slain Girl's Father—Friend of Accused Is Held. December 20.—A ieved to be William Edward Hickman, named by police as the slay- r of Marian Parker, driving what the e think is his second stolen auto- mobile, slipped through a tremendous police dragnet this morning and scaped capture by a minuf close was tl se that a short later a report reached police \eadquarters of his arrest, but it roved mistake, and upward of | 7.000 peace officers of southern Cali- ia continued the drive. Stops at Gas Station. we dawn a blue lling station on West The driver asked for lons of gasoline, got it and reques ¢ bulb for one of his headlights. le the attendant was inside the the the car speed. Jack Woods the attendant, jumped into his auto- hile and gave chase, not for a fugitive with $100,000 on his head, but to collect §1.03 for the gasoline. Af%top speed the two cars thunder- dow h street to Broadway, main business artery of the city. Fugitive Gains. They swung into Broadway going north, with the fugitive gaining. Some ne telephoned police about the mad chase, which was headed almost directl: for the headquarters of Herman H. Cline, chief of detectives, in charge of the man hunt. The detective chief threw a squad of 100 officers into the street at a moment’s notice. Before they could reach that intersection the fugitive, without slowing down, sped east and escaped in the darkness. Later Wood said Hick: n was the fugitive, judg- ing from the photographers at police headquarte: Meanwhile a heavy guard thrown around Ceniral police ion, where a man, whose name was not divulged, but who said by Cline to have been an intermediary U tween the abductor and the Parker family, is being held. This man, an viation enthusiast, came here re- cently from Kansas City, former home of Hickman. The unnamed allegzed accomplice made one desperate bid for freedom in the jail This ‘young man, powerful in bui leaped on the guard who opened his cell door, slugged him and was at- tempting to obtain the officer's keys when the noise of the struggle brought other policemen running. It required the efforts of four of- ficers to subdue the prisoner, who was locked fin another cell, Screaming threats against the police and crying that he would take his own life. Two guards were stationed over him to prevent any attempt at suicide. Hickman Is Accused. Detectives pointed to the slayer's use of the aviation term “solo” in the ransom notes as proof that the ar- rested man might have acted at least in an advisory capacity in the penning of the death missives. Hickman, a youth, former employe of the Los Angeles First National Trust & Savings Bank, was declered by Chief of Detectives Cline today to have been “absolutely identified” as the murderer of Mari rear-oid daughter of Perry Parker, one of the bank's officers. The motive of the atrocious crime, police declared, apparently was ven- geance. Parker, an assistant cashier, was the only bank official who opposed the vouth’s plea for probation after he had pleaded guiity sometime ago to charges of forging checks. Arvest charge was responsible tor arge from the bank and had urged that Hickman should be given a prison or jail term. Hickman, however, was paroled to his mother, then living in Alhambra, fust b a street. into lled out at to] 4 th was Family Has Moved. Anouncement that Hickman had been identified both by finger print and photograph as the kidnaper and slayer of the child, was made by nrlice after it had been determined that ne was not at his Alhambra address, Nelgh- bors said the family moved a monin ago to Kansas Cit “The police photogr by Miss Neona Bri er at the Mount Vernon Junior } School, as the man who led little Marian away. Hickman's finger prints, on file with the Police Identification Bureau as a result of his previous arrest, checked with those found on the rear window of a coupe used by the slayer when he delivered the child's torso to her father and received for it $1,500, and also with prints found on ransom let- ters sent Parker, police said. xperts who examined the hand- writing on the ran com- aph was identifl ed en, a school teach- for o employ o we Z, when it had been det mined that the man was not to be found at his former Alhambra home, His description will be broadcast over the entire Nation. Chief Deputy District Attorne: Harold Davis deciared that he re. garded the evidence obtained by police as conclusive. A quiet funeral Church of Flowers, suburb, today was the fin: (\)I.'\ln an Parker. il i n memory of Marian, “a jo: chila.? doved by has schost thams and the idol of her own family, the church was banked with flowers, Only the parents and a few close relatives were present at the services. The body was cremated. Man Hunt Starts Anew. _An the A“‘-.P"f.,““:,nr, Lhn ln\v hege (Continuel on Page 3, Coluian Ry t ') rvice at the little in Glendale, a