Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1927, Page 1

/ WEATHER. 10 8 Weather Partly cloudy temperature abou! row fair: not muc Ature. terday. Burean Forecast.) tonight; minimum t 33 degrees. Tomor- ch change in temper- Tempetature—Highest, 40, at noon today: iowest, 34, at 8 p.m Full report on page 5. yes- Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 30,549. post ot $4 RESCUE WORK RESUMED, THOUGH . Wa SIGNAL TAPPING BY TRAPPED MEN ENDS Three Naval Vessels Anchor Together at Scene of Wreck as First of Divers Returns to Work Below. HOPES THAT SIX LIVE Entered as second class matter D. shington. 'Says He Grew Tire | By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, December 21.—Ben nett J. Doty of Biloxi, Miss., who de- serted from France's Foreign Legion because of homesickness, was back in America with his parents today. American intervention, after his de- sertion, saved him first from execu- tion and then from serving eight years in a penal fortress. Doty, who enlisted in the legion as Gilbert Clare, fought against the Druses in the Syrian desert and*w: twice cited for bravery hefore he de- serted, arrived on the Majestic. He VIRTUALLY ABANDONED| Floodlights Will Tllumine Water | « aa Effort Is Made to Tap Hole in Hull of Submarine and Attach Airline—Sea Is Calm as Open-r ‘tions Start Again. | By the Associated Press. PROVINCETOWN, Mass, Decem- ber 21—Diving operations were re- sumed at 12:30 o'clock today in an attémpt to rescue the six men imprisoned in the wreck of the | sunken - submarine S-4. The first man to go down was James Ingram. who was the first to be lowered when the S-51 was sunk off Block Island two years ago. he sea was so calm the diver was lowered directly over the side of the miine sweeper Falcon, the flagship of the salvage fleet. The diving platiorm had been rigged, but was not found necessary. Comdr. * Edward ~ Ellsberg, who had charge. of S-51 salvage work, was at the telephone on the deck, maintaining communications with the diver. R. C. (Tug)y Wilson. who was the second diver to go down to the S-51, was in his diving suit ready to make the deseent as soon as Angram came up. Because of the time con- sumed in lowering and raising the diver, made necessary by the chang- ing pressure at various levels, no report on Ingram’s findings was available at 2 o'clock. The mine sweepers Falcon and Lark ‘and the submarine tender Bushnell are moored s_l‘c:xethu;abovc s A o ot dive had stodied “but it was now in the harbor. Pontooris Hoisted Aboard. the same time two of the three ‘that had been in the harbor Monday were hoisted aboard lighter Century, which to_be preparing to go scene of the disaster. ffom the torpedo room of the 8-4, in which six men are im , had been heard since & ] night when seven faint "were detected by the oscillator the submarine £-8, a sister ship the §-4. . Although the S-8 signaled at hourly intervals throughout the night. no an- ‘wwer came back from below. And the best minds among the Navy sub- men, after most careful calcu- lations, determined that the siX men could not live more than a few hours jnto this day without oxygen. Just before 10 o'clock this morning the 88 pulled up anchor and went away from the spot where she had been endeavoring to communicate with the 84. The Falcon came and | took anchorage and the S-8 wig- wagged for permission to charge her batteries. This was given from the Faleon. Hope Virtually Abandoned. The S-8 had been under orders to| rematn in position as long ax there Was any hope of communicating with per sister ship. Her action in mov-| ing away was interpreted as meaning that there was no longer possibility that life remained on board the S-4, and that no more =ignals might be Jooked for. Two other submarines, the £-5 and the S-3, were at anchor in the inner harbor. »« mile and u hall from the scene of the disaster. ‘When The Associated Press hoat pulled alongside of the Falcon, diver Tom Eadie, wig-wagged that an at- tempt would be made to send a diver | over as soon as the Falcon was lined | up with the submarine tender Bush- | nell and the minesweeper Lark. The | aince | | saia was met by his parents. “Why did you desert?” ked Doty. tired of hearing so much " he replied “and wanted to t where I could hear some Enxlish ship report- 1gain He said that he “walked out” from the ion with an Englishman and' two Germans with Joppa, an English mandate, as their first destination. Fought Band of Bedouins. “We met a band of Bedouins, in telling of the flight. Englishman with us had a rifle. fought them with that. We killed two and wounded six. By the time the fight was over we were near a village. T don’t remember the name, it was one of those unpronouncable names. There the gendarmes picked us up and we knew it was all up with us.” p The former legionnaire said he did not know who it was who interceded for him. “‘Some people say it was so-and-so,” he remarked, “and others say so-and- so. but I don't know who it was." Some one said that one of Doty's former generals in the 30th Division of the A. E. F., in which Doty served during the war, had been influential in his behalf. “Maybe it was Gen. Gatley.” Doty Doty “Th We | WASHINGTON, DOTY. ARRIVING IN NEW YORK, DESCRIBES FLIGH FROM LEGION d of Hearing French: vesponded ‘He s a redheaded tobacco-chewing soldier and an Indian fighter | "“He said that he had no intention of | becoming a newspaper reporter, s was reported after he signed a con | tract with a magazine for the stors | of his adventures. ' | Picked Easy Name. | “I like sleeping too well for that.’ said, “Reporters have to stay up night.” id you enlist in the Foreign "he was asked. he sald, “I just walked in and said T wanted to join up. An of- ficer sald, ‘With pleasure.’ 1 gave the name of Gilbert Clare because it's easy to pronounce in French. No one enlisting in the Legion ever gives a name that’s hard to pronounce in French It causes too much trouble and misunderstanding.” “Can you speak French? he a | | a report- asked “I puess I've got_ the lingo by this time " he said. “It's not polished French. s emphatie.” Doty 5 ague about what the fighting in Syria in which he took part with the Legion was all abont “There was some discussion between the French and the Druses” he said, “and the Druses jumped up and came at the French. The Druses are sup posed to be Mohammedans, but they | aren’t. They worship a golden calf. T'd like to know more about them. | I'm going to read up and’ see if 1 can't learn something.” During the interview Doty inter- spersed remarks to friends, several about an ‘“old duffer brother” who had not come on to New York with his parents. “Heard the old hard-boiled has fallen for a girl,” he said. “Well, that's news. Imagine him falling. Asked if he himself had not “fallen” for anv girl during his travels, Doty grinned and replied, “No, no, not me, er SODES RECVERED M EXPLOSN Rescue Workers Locate Seven After Gas Blast in llinois Shaft. B30 § SpET—— | By the Associated Press. JOHNSON CITY, JiL, December 21, ~The bodies ‘seven miners. killed vessel | last night in an explosion of gas in the Steritz Coal Mine, near here, were brought to the surface today after all- night work by three mine rescue teams. Those killed were Willlam Jones, David Anderson, Charles Wyatt. Fred Cagle, George Grubbs, G. Garroia und Almus Lavender. The explosion occurred without warning and killed the miners instant- ly. They were working about a mile and 4 yuarter from the bottom of the shaft and a half mile from 13 others, who escaped without injury by ¢limbing a ladder in an emergency airshaft. Fire which followed the explosion prevented escape by the elevator in the main shaft. Officers of the Cosgrove-Meehan Coal Co. of Chicago, which operates the mine, known as Franco No. 1, believed the explosion was caused by a spark from an electric motor used to oper- ate a coal hoist from the entry where the seven miners were at work. Lav ender was the motorman. 411 seven wore safety lamps. GET DRAFT OF PROPOSED TREATY TO OUTLAW WAR Senate Foreign Relations Body Re- ceives Data Concerning Re- lations With France. By the Associated Press. A tentative draft of a treaty to re- place the arbitration agreement with France and based on the Briand pro- posal to gutlaw war between France nd America was laid before the Sen- hy Secretary Kellogg. | "The discussion between the Secretary | when he sugzested that the total and the committee was of an informal jnaiure and continued for more than an hour. Neither Secretary Kellogg nor Chairman Borah had any state- ment to make after ward. Mr. Kellogg said he was “just dis- cussing the Root treaties.” The ten tative French treaty prepared for sub- mission to the French government has been described as a combination of th Root and Briand arbitration treaties, with a preamble of general statement against war. te foreign relations committee today | CONGRESS REGESS - WILL START TODAY Both Houses to Adjourn Ses- I sions Until January 4; Tax Heads Program. | ¥ G The ‘Christmas’ recess, of Congress ‘starts with adjournment of the House and Senate today and continues until January 4. ‘When the legislative wheels are set in motion again on that date the Sen- ute, which thus far has had to de. vote most of its time to organization and disposing of the Vare and Smith cases, will delve into a program of | | important legislation that will eccupy |its attention for at least five months. The tax reduction bill, already passed by the House. will be taken in the finance committee immedi after the holidavs and the §$100. 000,000 public building bill for the country at large will be ready for Senate consideration. It passed the House a few days ago. | The return of alien prope control for the Mississippi farm relief and the Boulder | | flood Valley. Dam mand considerable time of the legis. lators after the holiday recess. . BIG INTERNATIONAL LOAN | FORESEEN BY BERENGER | [rnrmer French Envoy to Washing- ton So Interprets 8. Parker Gil- bert’s View on Reparations. By the Associated Press, 4 PARIS, December 21.—A vast In- | ternational loan for the proportional | benefit of nations which themselves {have repaired their war damages is the eventual solution of the repara- tions problem, Senator Henry Ber- | enger. former Ambassador to Wash- ington. writes in a review of the situation. The co-author of the Mellon-Ber- enger debt agreement savs that this is “what Parker Gilbert, ugent- |general for reparations. had In mind | | German reparations be fixed. | AT Bombing Plane Repaired. | ABERDEEN. Md.. December 21 (#) —The Sikorsky bombing plan n, which was forced down hery nday by motor trouble. left at 12: p:m. today for Bolling Feld. Washing- ton, repairs having been completed Besides the pilots, Leigh Wade and Henry G. White, the plane carried three mechanicians and a passenger. minesweeper Mallard, which had | taken® part in previous rations, was not in the line Eadie, who was the first diver o go down 1o S-4 last Sunday. said the rescuers would attempt 1o tap a hole in the hull of the submarine at the torpedo room and attach an airline. This will require the use of under- water floodlights such as were used jn the E-51 salvaging operations, 3t will be necessary 1o weld the tap- | ng _machine to the hull. The | mmachine is so constructed that when | the hull is punctured and the drill| withdrawn a valve automatically is closed. The air line is then screwed on and alr forced in Fleet Is Reinforced. The salvage fleet was reinforced early today by the arrival of the der- Tiek lighter Colossus In tow of the tug Tesolute and the naval tug Mohave e lighter carries a larger crane than the lighter Century, which arrived Ve rday. "g:!.h of them remained at anchor n Provincetown Harbor. where the ‘hree big pontoons brought here from Brooklyn Navy Yard to aid in rais- the :'n.‘v.] tug Wandank. The Coast Guard destroyer Pauiding. which rammed and sank the S-4 last Saturday. and later reached the inner harbor, was deserted today by the Coast Guard destroyer Tucker. which had been acting as her convoy. The Paulding was preparing to leave for Boston under her own power. 7t was shortly after 6 o'clock yes- terday morning that three taps ac- knowledged that a_message which the ~(Continued on Page 3, Couumn 2) 8«4 were moored beside lhel Doty’s Own Story of His L French Foreign Legion A dramatic narrative writ can boy, whose desertion fro | {# madethim an international figh He describes the hunger to enlist in the legion, whose discipline are traditional. He tells of his training a i legionnaires must endure. He gives a vivid account and his subsequent arrest and his fight for life and freedom real facts of the legion's iron rule and the hardships all tribesmen in which he won the Croix de Guerre. i He tells of his desertion, his capture, h in French military prisons, his final liberation and discharge. ‘ Doty’s Story Starts on Thursday The Evening Star ife in the ten by Bennet J. Doty, Ameri- m the French Foreign Legion ure. for adventure which led him bravery, dangers and merciless t Sidi-Bel-Abbes and discloses of fighting with savage Syrian life s trial, h D. C, WEDNESDAY, 1 OKLAHOMA COURT BARS LEGISLATURE Battled Bedouins Before Capture: 1 |N PERMANENTWRIT Vague About Fight. Special Impeachment Session Against Governor Is De- clared lllegal. MEMBERS UNDECIDED ON THEIR NEXT STEP Consultations Being Held by Leg- ators Now in State Capital Following Blow. By the Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY, December 21.— of the Oklahoma Legisia were permanently enjoined by fhe Oklahoma County District urt from holding a special session. The court ruled that the self-con- vened session of the Legislature is il legal, that its members cannot meet and that they cannot continue with, impeachment proceedings against any State officer. The injunction also pro- hibits further investigation of State officers. The permanent injunction was fs- sued to Gov. Henry S. Johnston and his attorney. Warren K. Snyder. who filed the suit as governor and tex- payer, respectively. Judge T G. Chambers, one of three district judges who sat in the injunc- tion hearing, today told counsel for Gov, Johnston he was “getting awfully tired" of issuing injunctions against the legislators and then failing to have the court’s orders enforced. ke com- plained that plaintiffs in the actions had failed to prosecute violations of the court’s temporary injunction and asserted that unless the plaintifis “showed good faith” he would dis- miss the suit. The House investigating committee probably will ask the Senate Caurt of Impeachment to issue a writ of certiorari to the District Court, de- manding that the records of the in: junction case be brought 1o the Sen ate Court “or review, it was >ald by H. Tom Kight, chairman of the com- mittee. Mr. Kight said. however, he could make no definite announcement untii after he had conferred with other House leaders. . MAGRIER VWS REATE WRANELE House Probers Split as to Whether Admiral’s Criti- cisms Are Constructive. By the Associated Pregs. A short but heated discussion de- valoped between members of the Houxe naval committee today as to whether Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder had proved his charges against the Navy Department of overorganization and waste in the administration of its activities While the admiral, who was relieved of his command of the Philadelphia Navy Yard after publication of the charges, sat quietly in the witness chair, several committee members rgued that he had failed to make » case and others contended that there had been merit in much he had said. Statement Challenged. Just as the meeting came to a close Acting Chairman Britten start&d (o say somerhing. “I don’t know whether I should say this with the admiral present,” he | sald, “Do you wish me to leave?” inquired Magruder. Mr. Britten hesitated and then, as several committee members urged him to continue, he said: “The admiral has not offered one conatructive thought in e days.” “I don't agree with that,” interposed Representative McClintie, rDemocrat. Oklahoma. *You and only one or two other members have had a chance to question him." % “I don't agree with that. either.” put in Representative Andrew publican, Massachusetts. Ly § think we should have that statement 8o out in the press.” Representative Vinson of Georgia, the ranking Democratic member, then cut off the discussion by declaring that the committee should diseuss such matter In executive session. Magruder in Exchange. Just before the tilt, Mr. Vinson had questioned Magruder's views of how he thought economies could be effect- “It is primarily a guess on your part and it is not backed up with 2" he asked. ,"" replied Magruder, ut a statement of my views backed up by personal experience and sound judgment.” Britten interrupted to say that em- phasis should be placed on the words “sound judgment.” “And to whom applied,” retorted | Magruder. Declaring that there were too many officers of his rank in the service, Admiral Magruder told the committee that Congress should find a place on the retired list for about one of every six admirals now on the active list. He said the | resent total of 57 officers of this rank should be cut to 45. Asked About Destroyers. The disciplined naval . eritic was asked concerning his argument yes- terday in favor of using destroyers and a transport In the Central Ameri: can fleet instead of old crulsers, and at one point in his reply Acting Chair- man Britten broke in “You are evad- inz the point entively when you switch from this special service squadron to a possible war in the Canal Zone. “I think not.” replied Magruder. “I think it would be cheaper to send men from the Uanal Zone when they are needed thin to have them cruis ing around all the time.” The admiral agreed that destroyers and a tender should be used in Cen tral America, as these ships would he needed in war and the old cruisers would not. He added it was sound policy to use ships in peace that would be needed in war. Radio Prodflyns—Page 32 10- | YE( om Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers. every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers * re printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,150 * P) Means Associated Press. | [ | AM eCRETARY & e b RN KNOW € REAL AMERICAN THAT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AND 1S FoRY MERICA IS E 2EN \Egm KIDWELL UPHOLDS COERCION CHARGE Severe Grilling Fails to Alter | Main Contention Against | U. S. Attorney. Under the persistent hammering of James J. O'Leary, assistant United States attorney, Juror Edward I. Kid- well, jr.. today remained practically unshaken in his reiteration that an | officer of t“4e court had forced him to swear to afidavits which he knew to contain false statements and which were designed for use in the criminal | contempt proceedings against Harry F. Sinclair, William J. Burns and their four associates. While the juror contradicted him- self on several occasions during the | merciless cross-examination he did not alter the main fact of his testi- mony yesterday in substantiating the charges .of tion made against the assistant Upited States attorney by George P. Hoover of counsel for| Sinclarr. | | That the court is determined to sift the charges to the bottom was | indicated at the outset of proceed- | ings when Justice Krederick L. Sid- dons declared ‘the charges of intimi- dation must first be cleared before any other phase of the contempt case czn be taken up. O'Leary's persistent questioning of the witness brought forth from Daniel Thew Wright, counsel for Henry Mason Day, one of the six rvespondents, another protest that the govern- ment attorney was browbeating the witness. The court, however, paid no heed to this incident. Denies Giving Names. Kidwell denied emphatically during one part of the examination that he had ever mentioned to Mr. O'Leary that-“oil people” of Harry F. Sinclair | were trying to approach him while acting as a juror. He insisted fre- quently that O'Leary had put names | in various affidavits he had mata that Kidwell had not mentioned to him. In most cases Kidwell denied he was trying to give information to Mr. O'Leary and insisted that it was given in response to questions put to him | by the assistant attorney. | Kidwell began to show signs of irri- tation under the strain of O'Leary’s persistent hammering and frequently answered vexedly to questions, in a loud tone, The juror was asked to identify his three affidavits, in one of which he was quoted as having said he believed “oil people” were trying to .see if ne was “the kind of a man who would take a bribe.” The witness insisted emphatically that O'Leary had written “oil peo- ple” Into the affidavit and declared he had characterized it only as a general impression that some one was trying | to find out if he would accept a bribe. | | Repeats Denial of Talking. | Kidwell 1s under u separate citation | of contempt growing out of the af- fdavits filed by Don King. a reporter, | and Jay Ray Akers. who swore they had discussed the Teapot Dome trial with him. He took this occasion on the stand in answer to questions by O'Leary to deny that he had talked about the ofl case while acting as a juror. He declared King und Akers had tried to get him to talk about the trial at the near beer saloon mentioned in their afidavit. but that he had re- tused. It is charged in the afidavit that Kidwell had expressed an opinion about an automobile “a block long as a possible result of services as an oil_trial juror. The juror further denied on the stand that he had said Frank J O'Reilly, a Burns detective, was the man who had approached him in the Court House grounds ~He charged the prosecutor had told him he need not ‘swear positively on the stand that the man was O'Reilly. Many of the statements concerning O'Reilly alleged to have been made by Kidwell were. in fact. made by | the prosecutor, Kidwell. testified. Statement Made Freely. Much of the examination today dealt with a statement dictated by Kidwel on December 9, In the [nited States attorney's offfce. This was not. how ever, one of the two affidavits con- cerning which Mr. Hoover had | charged Kidwell had heen Intimidated. Kidwell was forced to admit on the stand that he had made this state- ment “of his own free will.” He ad- mitted further that prior to Decem- her 9 Col. James 8. Easby-Smith, and his own attorney, S. McComas Hawken, had visited him at his home. He testified that he had told Col. Fasby-Smith that he was going to the United States attorney's office the next day to make a statement about things which had occutred. Col. Basby-Smith is one of the three attorneys appointed by Justice Sid- dons to aid the court in its investiga- tion of the contempt charges Rrowing out of the Teapot Dome mistrial. Upon being questioned hy the Gov- “(Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) | Blanton’s Charge Of Money Wasting Proves Boomerang A figurative stone cast at the Re- publicans yesterday by Representa- tive Blanton of Texas rebounded to send one in his own direction. Serving motice that he was op- posed to the alien property bill be- cause it would waste the taxpayers' money. the Texan brought upon himself the charge that he had not bheen overly compunctious in the pst. tepresentative Treadway, Repub- lican, Massachusetts, recited an in- stance in which Mr. Blanton had axtended his remarks in the Con- sressional Record over 87 pages..at a cost to the Treasury. Mr. Tread- way said, of $4.670. Mr. Blanton retorted that the ex- tension had covered an investiga- tion affecting the welfare of wat veterans which stood as a “record of infamy” for those involved. He added that he had spent $1,100 out of his own pocket for copies of the Record carrying it. G/BSON FLES BILL ONDIPLOMAMILLS Asks License of Board of Ed- ucation in Granting of Degrees. Chairman Gibson of the special sub- committee of the House District com- mitteer which is making an investiga- |tion of municipal affairs in the Dis- trict today introduced a diploma mill | measure in the House. It prohibits any institution previous- |1y or hereafter incorporated to have the power to confer any ‘degree in the District or elsewhere, or any in- stitution incorporated outside of the District, or any ‘individuals or partner- ships, conferring any degree except by license from the Board of Education. It specifically prohibits the Board of Education from granting any such license until satisfactory evidence has been established on four points. Good Standing Vital. First, that in the case of an in- dividual or any Incorporated group of individuals, he or a majority of them or a majority of the trustees of an incorporated institution, direcwors or managers, are persons of good repute and qualified to conduct an institution of learning, Second. that any such degree shall be awarded only after such period of residence and such quantity and char- acter of work as Is usuaily required by reputable institutions awarding such degrees. Third, that applicanis for degrees possess the usual high school qualifi- catlon at the time of their candidacy Fourth, that considering the num- ber and character of the courses of- fered, the faculty is of reasonable number and properly qualified and that the institution has suitable class- rooms, laboratory and library equip- ment. A license once issued may be revoked by the Board of Education for non-compliance with the provis- ions of existing law as amended by the Gibson hill A penalty of $2.000 or imprisonment for nat more (han 2 years, or both, is provided for any one convicted of a misdemeanor under this act. The bill requires a fee pavable to the recorder of deeds for filing the ificate of incorporation of $25. . rs Leave Chile. SANTIAGO. Chile. December 21 (#).—Diendonne (‘ostes and Joseph Le Brix, French fivers en route to the United States, hopped off at 5:85 this morning for La Paz, 100 miles away. They ach La Paz about 7 p.m. French Flye: hope to 7 REED WITHDRAWS FROM SENATE RACE Missourian Clears Way for Those Urging His Nomina- tion for Presidency. By the Assaciated Press. Clearing the way to those who are seeking for him the Democratic presi- dential nomination, Senator Reed of | Missouri has decided that he will not again run for the Senate. The Senator's position, set forth in a statement by Samuel W. Fordyce, | chairman of the Missouri Democratic | State committee, makes it clear that while he himseif is not seeking the {nomination, he Is aware that his | friends are doing so in his behalf. Chairman Fordyce issued his state- ment after a conference with the Senator, and declared he made it public_“because of persistent rumors, | started presumably by certain metro- | politan newspapers, that Senator Reed i= not seeking the nomination for President.” | Religious Issue Called Dead. TWO CENTS. FRIEND OF HICKMAN TRAILED AS HELPER IN MURDER OF GIRL | Couple Tell of Watching Two Men Place Bundles in Auto. ACCUSED KNOWN TO THEM UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME Suspect Freed When Fingerprints Fail to Tally—Thousands of Police Continue Hunt. | Br the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES. December 21. Further substantiation of the theory that William Edward Hickman had an accomplice in the kidnaping and slaying of 12-year.old Marian Parker was disclosed with announcement by police today that two persons had seen Hickman and another man carry several bundles from the Bellevue Arms Apartments, where Hickman lived, and place them ir a coupe. The information was given by & m .. and his wite who know Hickman as Donald Evans, the name he used at the apartment house. The police did not reveal the names of the in- formants. Seen Saturday Night. The couple, who reported seeing Hickman and the other man, live at the apartment house where the kid- naper is believed by police to have slain the schoolgirl and dismembered her body. They were returning to their rooms at about 6 o'clock Satur- day evening two hours before a mask- ed man, riding in a stolen automobile, brought back the torn and lifeless boc of little Marian to her distracted father for $1,500 ransom. The woman said she remarked to her husband “Why, that's young Donald Evans, | ism't i7" Her husband answered in the affirm- ative and the wife amusedly remarked that it seemed that Hickman and his friend were going on a party, as they were carrying several packages, de- scribed as heavily wrapped and “about the length of a wine bottle.” ‘They also were carrying a suitcase. The unidentified companion of Hick- man held open the door of the auto- mobile while Hickman placed the bun- dles inside. No more was seen by the man and his wife. as they thought | nothing of the matter. To Seek Another. After hearing the story ef the couple Chief of Detectives Herman Cline immediately ordered officers to continue their investigation on the theory that Hickman was aided by at least one other person in his revolting Obgerving that great pressure had | crim | been exerted to persuade Senator Reed to file for renomination to the Senate before expiration of the time Hmit in Missouri in June, next year, Fordyce said he could say, however, that Reed | “will not under any circumstances” again become a Senate candidate. Another statement concerning Democratic presidential possibilities | was before the public today, coming |from Norman E. Mack. Democratic | national -~ committeeman from New | York, in support of Gov. Smith, and declaring “dead forever” the ‘‘so-catled | religious issue.” | 1t is far more important,” Mack said, “that the religious Issue, which was excluded by the framers of the Constitution. shall be permanently | excluded than that a President shail be chosen from either of the parties. Church and state never have been related in American politics; religious affiliations of candidates are not is- sues in State campaigns, and there an be no reason for raising such an issue in a national contest." | Pins Hopes to Smith. | Mack declared Gov. Smith was the | only man who could carry New York State for the Democrats. Friends of Senator Reed, Fordyce said in his statement, would do every- thing possible to “acquaint the people with Senator Reed's record and (o ex- plain the reasons for our firm con- | viction that he can be nominated and will be elected.” Of partisan Democrats and independ- ent voters who helieve in the “funda- | mental principles on which the Demo- | cratic party was founded.” Fordyce | said, Reed's friends asked who be- sides Reed had a chance to carry the solid South and Missouri, and as good a chance to carry the doubtful States of West Virginia, Kentucky. Indlana, | Oklahoma and Kansas. | “What other Democrat,” another question asks, “appeals so strongly to the Northwestern States lying be- tween the Pacific and the Great Lakes?" PIRATES ARE ACTIVE. LONDON, December 21 (#).—The British admiralty stated today that pirates have again become active on the Yangtze River in the neighbor- hood of Shashi, in the Province of Hupeh, resulting in quick retaliation by British gunboats. A pirate tug was captured but the crew escaped inland. A convoy of lighters also was attacked by pirates from the riverbank and the conveying gunboats replied with t*eir full arma- ment. There are four British vessels | now on the pirate patrol. s Wyoming Justice Dies. CHEYENNE., Wyo. (#).—Charles Nelson Potter, 77 vears old, chief jus- | tice of the Wyoming Supreme Court for 12 years, and a justice of the Su- preme Court for the last 33 years, died here today. Pullman Car, Wedged High in Mountains, Serves As Home for Two Moslem Priests By the Associated Press. VLADIKAVKAZ, Caucasus, Decem- ber 21.—A first class Pullman car in an almost inaccessible spot in the snow-clad Caucasus Mountains has been discovered by a group of tourlsts. Serving as a home for two Moslem priests, the car rests 5,000 feet above sea level and 200 miles from the nea est native village. The Pullman was jammed between two rocks In a desolate place which the tourists reached after five days' horseack riding. The dwellers m the vifJtors with a show of resent- ment, and difficulty was found in learning from them how the car got there. The car was sald to h: belonged to an armed train of Gen. Deniken's staff, derailed in 1918 by a gang of mounted plunderers, headed by a fa- natic mullah, who commandeered the car after slayfng soldiers who had rid- den in it. ‘The comfortable “sleeper” seems to have pleased the mullah, who made it his headquarters.: It was hitched to a team of 75 oxen and dragged up the mmllntlh“lli| v,\rht e it has remained as a sort of holy home, atly venerat- ed by the Caucasigh Fountatneers. n . .. A youth who gave his name as Sid- ney Farkas, arrested today and held on the possibility that he might Hickman, was released later when his finger prints failed to tally with those of the man wanted. The youth was taken between Santa Monica Hills suburbs. The officers said that the general description and his likeness to the | was striking. Trail Picked Up. The cold trail of the fugitive who dashed through downtown strects early vesterday and escaped from & pursuing citizen, who later identified him as Hickman, was picked up by police today. New information was that the blue auto in which the man outdistanced a filling station attendant seeking to collect $1.03 for gasoline had been stolen from Edward S. Scheller, and late last night figured in a crash on the South Side. ‘When the man believed to be Hick- man escaped from the filling station attendant, Jack Wood, at Second and . a block and a half from central police station. Wood reported the affair, identified Hickman's photo- graph and scores of detectives were sent out to run him down. From then until the accident and theft report today, mo trace of the vouth and the big blue automobile had been found. Youth's Past Probed. While a cloud of clues and false leads today eened the hiding place of Hickman. bits of evidence were be- ing fitted together by police to solve the puzzle of his past. This evidence pictured a youthful “Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde'—one a neat, orderly boy who attended church and Sunday school, and never staved out late at night. the other, “the Fox,” who for weeks planned the car- rying out of a cool, cunning and dia- bolical murder plot for revenge. The latter picture showed him for three weeks preceding the kidnaping, staging a series of drugstore robberies to obtain a stock of anesthetics and sleeping potions. In one of these rob- beries. he is declared to have placed & pistol in the druggist's ribs and forced the frightened man to give minute instructions as to the use of the anesthetics. Druggists in the three hold-ups posi- tively identified Hickman as the rab- ber from photographs. Another part of the same picture was a cool and daring youth, who on Monday morning, with thousands of officers combing Los Angeles and the vicinity, drove an automobile over county roads with no effort of com: cealment. into custory and Beverly he answered of Hickman hunted man Seen in Suburb. At that time he was seen driving a small car through Culver City, a sub- urb. He hailed a motor cycle agent to whom he was known and told him he would be in the next day to buy machine. He failed to keep that ap- pointment. Although the 8,000 police who had been set on the trail were unable 10 run him to earth, they definitely lo- cated his lair which he had o during the days that little n was kidnaped and until Sunday, sev- eral hours after the child’s dismem- bered body had been exchanged for her father’s $1,600 ransom money. What was thought to be a hot lead. resulting in a posse being organized in Redlands. Calif.. turned out to be a youthful escape from a detention home in San Bernardino. near there. Another angle of the police case col- lapsed last night when Milton Jakow- '\ a friend of Hickman, was re- leased after having been held in jail as a suspected accomplice. Jakowsky, said to be native of Kansas, was arrested when a neigh- bor_of Perry Parker. father of the (Continued don Page E,_C:wlllnfif!-