Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1927, Page 1

. veais Hickman as a double murderer. | Rain tonight an mornin today: lowest, 40, Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Kntered as secor post office HICKMAN ADMITS ANOTHER MURDER ON COAST IN 1326 o. = 30.557. WEATHER. 8 Weather Burean Foreeast ) 1 : colder tomorrow. Temperatgre—Highest, 51, at noon Washington, GUATEMALANS' ENTHUSIASM GRATIFIES COL. LINDBERGH d possibly tomorrow at 3 am. today. [ ¢ Foening St WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION . ar. “From 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 are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,601 nd class matter D C. ) ey D. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1927 —-FORTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. Flyer, Impressed by Will Pass Over Cra Journey ]S Emled. New Confession Names a Youthful Accomplice. Who Confesses. DRUGGIST SHOT DOWN | AS TWO ROBBED STORE Wife of Victim Identifies Slayer. Prisoner Blames Parker Death on “Crime Complex.” Nota—Certain details of the Hichman confession which have todav been made Dublie are omittad from the report as printad in The Star This policy wll be continued on the hasis thai with the eriminal in the hands of justice. the obligations «f a famils Dewspaper are fally discharged when 1t onnts the Jemiti te news and omits the revolting incidents to an unspeakable crime i Ry the Associated Press. LOS ANGEL December Confession to two murders in addition to other crimes (oday found William | Ydward Hickman linked with Welby | Hunt. Athambra, Calif.. youth. in the | slaving of & druggist in a hold-up a ! vear ago. Hickman, 19-year-old fox. who ad mitted kidnaping and murdering Marian Parker, weakened before re. Ieptless questioning and late last night confessed he shot and killed | Ivy Thoms, Rosehill. Calif.. druggist. ' at his store. in December, 19 | Hunt. implicated by Hickman in the | hooting of Thoms, was arrested and | made a confession which corroborated *hat of Hickman. Hunt denied that he | fired the shot which killed Thoms as the vouths attempted to rob his store. Father a Suicide. | Digging into the records of the Hunt | fami the vpolice discovered that | Hunt's grandfather. A. R. Driskell. a merchant of Alhambra, supposedly had | committed suicide some time ago by, jumping from the Pasadena Bridge- » high strueture from which many per- sons have made leaps | The newest confession not only re- | but aleo as leading a Jekyll and Hyde | existence. Hickman was regularly em- | ployed s a messenger by the Los| Angeles First tional Trust & Sav-| ings Bank. of which Perry M. Parker. father of Marian. is an offcer. He| worked at the bank for a period of & | southeast, | By the Ausociated Press. RY COL. CHAR A. LINDBERGH. | | Special Dispateh to The Star and the New York Times. ¥ GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, De- | cember 28, —1 left Mexico City in the | clear atmosphere .f early morning at | 5 o'clock and headed almost due | following an airline to juatemala City. The flight was | smooth all the way, and 1 made the | distance. which is about 675 miles by | this route. in seven hours and five ' minutes’ Aving time, landing at Guate- | mala City at 1 Guatemala time. | Mhe enthusiasm of the welcome here | = tly impressed me. In faet. for a ! moment when landing it seemed that (he crowd might endanger itseif. The first time 1 “dragged” the field—which I have always done on unknown fields —thousands of spectators apparently thought I meant to land. They broke through the cordon of soldiers and swarmed over the field i Crowd Swarms Around Plane. When I did land after dragging the field once more. the crowd had been pushed back. but evidently it broke | threugh immediataly. They were all around the plane the moment after| it taxied up in front of the hanga It was some time before a space could be cleared to put the plane into the | hangar. No damage was done to it howev i Realizing that Guatemala City has WASHINGTON, LINDBERGH PLANS AVANA-ST. LOUIS NON-STOP FLIGHT Flying Colonel Indicates Pur- pose in Telegram to Caro- lina Friends. Volcanoes, Says He ters Before Present a population of only 125.000. such a rowd seemed havdly to he expected. and 1 deeply apprecia of the greeting. The flight itself was unusually interesting point of the scenery above which T} flew. which was quite new to me = Unfortunatel; the land could not always be seen. |GUATEMALANS SHOWER After leaving the hospitable capital | of Mexico, 1 flew south to the volcano, Popocatepetl. The Mexican fiyers who | LONE EAGLE WITH HONORS had escorted me turned back after. teaching the mountains. Soon after i clearing Mexico City low-lying fog | Aviator to Resume Tour of Central and clouds began to appear. covering | . much of the land. though at the alti America Tomorrow—Route tude at which T flew it was clear. Gi iven. Lowlands \Were Covered. These paiches of fog continued al- most the entire distance to Guatemala City, so that the land ible only | ASHEVILLE, N. .. December 20 — intermittently. Some: of thene [0 |Col. Lindbergh hax not change as were as much as 30 miles long o direst: from. Eliv y They Iny chiefly over the lowiands, {MAN® to fiv direct from Havana tc specially toward the Gulf, which was 'St Louis when his present tour j« over not once visible. 1 saw the Pacitic Ocean at one time, some 50 miies 10 a cablegram received here, reply ing to one from the city inviting him distant. Mountain peak volcanoes, which | to visit Asheville, the fver expressed seem verv numerous in this region. | his regrets, and added that he would nnm u;nall\"vlmbfm with & mist cover- | gy girect to St. Louis from my last &1t ‘Voichmons, both 1n_ Mesjéo ‘and | 1ODDINE place outside the United natemala. were smoking—that is, State there was a slight vapor 8r steam risi from t| Bs the Associated Pres FETED IN GUATEMALA. Lindbergh Welcomed to Capital City BRONINCUTIING CENLLICSIM NAMED T0 SENATE New Mexico Independent Re- | publican Will Succeed A. A. Jones, Who Died Last Week. | | N. Mex., December Cutting, Republican, | publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican, today was appointed by Gov. | R. C. Dillon to fill the unexpired term | of the late United States Senator | A. A. Jones, Democrat, who died last week in Washington. Regarded as an independent Re- | publican, Senator Cutting has not. | by Great Crowd. GUATEMALA CITY, December 29 (#).—The ecapital of the “Land of the Eagle” today entertained lits adopted son, the Lone Eagle, who Guatemala {Tol. Charlea A. Lindbergh completed the first and longest leg of his Central American flight over a hazardous, | mountainous country in less time than CONTROLS CANTON City Is Turned Over to Mod- | The spirit of St. Louis performed P < | magnificently on the trip of about 75 erate Nationalist Leader |mies from Mexico city, Without Incident. said. Seven hours and five minutes after he left Mexico City. he landed at Atrora Field here at 140 pm. (Cen tral time). Lindbergh had estimated that (he fight might take nine hours and the | crowds were still wending their wa | toward the field when the plane appeared hetween the peaks of the xtinet voleanos Fuega and Agua ;mre and water). By the Amsocyfted Press. CANTON. December The troops of Gen. Li Chai-Sum arrived in Can. ton this morning and took over con. trol of the city from Gen. Li Fuk-Lam without incident. The troops of Gen. Li Chai-Sum, who was in control of Canton until a coup d'etat on November 17, begun patroiling the entire city. Gen. LI Fuk-Lam's troops withdréw Resumes Tour Tomorrow. as a d upon Guate. Guatemala accepted him friend and the city confe him the title “adopted son o mala Cit When Lindbergh arrived he re- {came here on a mission of good will. | Lindbergh | MELLON PROPOSES DELAY IN PASSAGE OF REVENUE BILL Secretary Urges Tax Slash Limit of $225,000,000 as Safe Figure. IVIEWS ARE CONTAINED IN LETTE™ TO SMOOT |U. 8. Will Be in Better Position Later to Proceed Toward Reduction, He Says. | Secretarv of |today advised 4 the Treasnr: ate finance committee, predic unless the two Houses of Congr lagree to limit tax reduction to | igure recommended by the Preside |10 Congress—$225.000,000— estimat receipts will not be adequa |the estimated expenditures as sub- {mitted in the budget. passed by the Hon ~SUBMARINE EXPERT" IS GUEST ' OF NAVY MEN SALVAGING $-4 | | Gursge Kosper, Cillid 0o Siom iy Mk | miral, Admits He Offered “Services” | Just For Fun. clated Pre sible.”” Shambaugh hegan, “I have are doinz wonderful work. Why, do vou realize those divers have to go 100 feet before they begin to w Gosh, 1 think I'd be doing pretiy good if T just got down 100 feet, with all those welghts and heavy shoes. to say nothing of getting up again p Shambaugh arrived vard Tuesday It was too late to catch a destrover which had just steamed out of the harbor, so the naval tuz Mohave was used “Did they knao you ard”” he waw asked. ‘Oh no, 1 had a long telegram from keeper of Lafayette, Ind., was speed- |ing home todny after an amazing | und of adventure, in the course of {which he inspected salvage opera- | tions at the scene of the S-4 disaster, | at Provincetown: was dined by Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby. whisked e s Massachusetts Bay in a de. | stroyer and finally sent to his hotel {here in an admiral’s private car | Charles Shambaugh was introduced | to newspaper men by a captain in full| |uniform at the Charlestown Navy yard. at the navy at the navy December 29.—A garage been watching them all day, and they | L oon, In maki a letter to S | Smoot, chairman of the committee, | the Secretary also declared that later Ithe Government would be in a better |position to proceed with a |knowledze as to revenues HISTORIANS HIT Smoot Asks Questions. Secretary Mellon also made pu a letrer from Senator Smoot in which the enator outlined his position and asked the Secretary several questions as to the possibility of postponing tax |legislation until after March 15, the Demands fo. Alteration of | Truth Held Harmful to | i { a’le for the next income tax pay- Love of Country. ‘ms‘::rpmr)' Mellon said in reply that oniy after that date, “will we be in S a position to know with reasonabie i an Historical Associa. |definiteness the income for the cal- tion. whose membership comprises |<Ndar year 1927, on which we may moat of the college and professional | 13, fOF tax receipts during the first { half of th 3 3 . 1929 historians of the United States, today | " Senator St evomining the wide went on record against what were a | differences in tae proposed tax cut. characierized as wide-spread efforts to | asked Seeretary Mellon force the falsification of history in| 1 should like to inguire whether public schoois in the interests of a anv additional information has been perverted patriotism Scusr ) Wk T The development of genuine, intel- ligent patriotism, the association stated. demands that the truth of his- | tory shail be taught, even though it may include unpleasant facts. At- | meet expenditures. | ny ey origk ! till consider tha “Do they take into account probabie | expenditures called for by new legis- about two years. ending six months | #azo. when he was discharged after | however. ‘been strictly a party man, Reporters summoned to meet “a ilian expert” found themselves con- * asked Senator Smoot. | to Honam lsland. in the river opposite | As they appear to be based om an ved a message of felic | Canton. President ¢ Admiral Brumby. You see, when I tempts to foster national! boastfulness, | resident ¢ | becoming involved in a forgery case. | Hunt aiso ix believed 10 have been em- | pioyed by the bank, and to still be on the pay roll of the institntion. The record of Hickman's outlawry shows that he coptinu ork at the hank for about six . nd being case given | probation for the latter offense He‘ “was 18 years old in December, 1926. Suicide Note Studied. An alleged suicide note left by Hunt's | grandfather entered the new angle| of the case when police announced it would be examined in an effort to de- termine whether it was real or forged. | The elder Hunt had been ruted as a | man of some means, and just hefore | his desth was said to have trans- | ferred a large sum of money to the | bank where his son was employed Police declared Hickman's latest | wronfession was written by him in re- turn for kindness bestowed upon him by_jall officials here Throughout yesterday Hickman was treated the same as any other prisoner. Jie was given reading material and | was asked frequently concerning his weifare. Occasionally one of the fajl | officiale would ask Hickman: t “Hickman, have you ever killed any | one elne?” During the Jate hours of the night the question brought an answer Hickman was standing with hix arms resting azainst the bars of hix . eye and with a faint smile turned away. The jaller repeated the ques. tion. and added Hickman, you are going 1o die Retier let us know. Have vou ever killed sny one else?’ “Sure,” He Replied. Hickman, arcording 1o the officers furned suddenly and bluried out R ] having given support to Congressman Jobn Morrow, Democrat, and other Demoeratic candidates in previous campaigns. He wan treasurer for the Progressive party State central com mittee from 912 to 2914, wo ¥ Senator Cutting wis born in Oak-| dale, Y.. Jupe 23. 1888 and is li graduate of Harvard University. He' has been a resident of New Mexico since 1910 i During the World War he was | commissioned a captain and made | assistant military attache at the American embassy in London. He| was awarded the British Military | Cross for his services. On bis return | to this Siale he became active in the organization of tbe American Legion. Although he has been active in New Mexico politics. he never has held a elective office, aithough he has served | 4% a member of two State boards. He ix an accomplished linguist, speaking four languages snd reading three others. His paper is the only dally pub- lished in the New Mexico capital. The | term of the late Senator Jones would | bave expired in March, 1929. i MEXICAN SENATORS FAVOR NEW OIL BILL ‘htilhlon Expect to Formally Ap- le : prove Calles’ Revision Measure Today. By the Associated Proes | MEXICO CITY, December 29 —The {2,000 and 3,000 persons, including ut | sutomobile olidge and others from the President of Salvador and Chai-Sum to contral in Canton rep- | ministry of war of Salvador resents the fourth~change in the con-| “Hello, Guatemula,” Lindbergh sald trol of the Important Southern city | as he stepped {rom the plane.. “Won- within the last few months. which | derful, what a joy." he added. bave been marked by much fghung |- Fipdhergh expects (0. resume. his and bloodshed. American tour . tomorrow Li Chai-Sum, who represents a more | morning. Several hours after his ar- moderate Nationalist growp than his ! rival, he returned to the flying fleld Dredecessors. was in control of the | and inspected the Spirit of St. Louis. city until he feft it last month in or. | He found it to be in perfect condition der to go to Shanghai for a conter. | for the continuation of his flight to ence of Nationalist leaders. While | Belize, British Honduras. He will he was gone Gen. Chung Fak-Wel, a { land there if the Athletic Fleld is in subordinate, staged a coup d'etat and | sultable condition. otherwise he sx- seized control of the city himself. | pects to continue on to San Salvador Early in December the Communists [ Should he land at Helize, which is in Canton drove out Chank Fak-Wei | without a fiying field. he Intends to after much Aghting and took over the | Ay to San Salvador January 1, re reina of government. The Communist | maining there (wo daya rule. however. wax shortlived xince | i g Chang Fak-Wel reconsolidated his Gets Cordial Greeting. forces and drove the Communists out| Eathusiastie Guatemalans welcome after ruthless slaughter. Between | him here. Bunting covered their and the Stars nnd Striy; . least 11 Russian; were estimated to | were displaved along with ’hi- na have been killed ring the crushing | tiom % of the count every - of the Communist revolt. where throughout the eity, 4 Meanwhile n. 14 al-8um had| The airman wuas greeted first heen marching from Swatow. where Col. Francisco Am: he had gathered his army. to recap- | the Guatemalan Army ture Canton. { him for the honor accorded the ¢ Gen. Li Fuk-Lam Is a subordinate try and ‘city by a visit from of Chang Fak -Wel. itl‘unnml aviator of all time: government officials greet MINISTERS RESI |and then Arthur Geissler Amevican e — | Minster. Gelasler remembered the Dr. C. C. Wu and Dr. Sun Fo Quit | anxious mother who had seen her son ! ) L P v Posts tw Nationalist Government, | \2%® Mexico City and was on her way back to Detroit. He sent her a tele- TANGHAT, December 29 (®).—Dr. | §7am. reading Wu, minister of forelgn affairs | The return of the troops of Gen. 4 by speaking for who thanked him next, “Your son has again achieved glory in the Nanking Nationalist govern.|!n muking the first non-stop fight et and Dr Eson Ko minigter of | from Mexico City to Guatemala finance, have resighed President Chacon went (o the flying LY PeRD eld to recelve the fiyer. The people DOr. € C. Wu, who Ix the son of | B¢ 5 i W Tinggang. A former Chiness | 4claimed him ns ‘A herald of peuce Minister at Washington, was educated “m\!'nu.fluc" m.;'| I'i».h:;:: .qld,\ i in the United States. He returned tof o km y Hall. Mayor Angel % tur ra welcomed Lindbergh China fn 1904 and entered the public Liyy iy medal and telling him read about the wreck 1 sent Admiral Brumby a telegram. telling him that 1 was interested and wanted a confer ence with him.” Received Telegram. fronted by n middle-aged man. soberly dressed. with well-worn but polished shoes, a leather coat, a suit of plain mixture, a plain white shirt and sober tie. He clutched a zray cap jn ner- | | vous bands. gl 7DId he tell you to come?” T “Well, Tl tell you, I don't remem- This Is an Expert. ber the words. but it was a long tele- “This Is the expert. gentlemen, o T A gram and it came direct from Prov said the captain. “He will tell you o i {observations and conclusions.’ | “The Navy is doing everything pos- FRENCHAPPROVE RETURNS T0 WIE, " N DEBTREPORT IVEN U AS DD Accounts Vof U. S. Taking Husband Quits Struggle to | Initiative in Reduction Support Two Families, [ Move Well Received. Woman Tells Court. Informing the District Supreme | Court that her husband, Jacob Shoo- | By Cauie go The Star o o Daily ws Copyrigh PARIS. December 20.—Washington | after attempting to support her and dispatches forecasting American ini- | another wife and family liviog in tiative in a move for a revision down- | the latter thought dead at the ward and a general settlement of war | (ime of his second marrisge, gave up debts and reparations have been well | the struggle and deserted her. Mra | recetved here onin Shoofal, 1007 K street. today So (ar as France I8 concerned, the applisd for an annuiment of the intupate relationship of war debts and | martiage in 1919 vepnrations ix not a “plea” or a “view- | Shooful, the second wife tells the but & fuct, [court, was under the impression that ance, although she has not ratl- | his original wife apd ehildren had arrogance and indiscriminate worship nf national heroes, the resolutions stated, only serve to promote a harm- ful pseudo-patriotism instead of real wve of country. Truth Held Necessary. “Genuine and intelligent patriotism. no less than the requirements of hon- vy~ | estv and sound scholarship, demand that text-book writers and teachers should strive to present a truthful pic- | ture of the past and present, with due regard to the different purposes and possibilities of elementary, sec- ondary and advanced instruction,” the resalution states. i Criticism of nistory text books |should therefore be based not upon grounds of patriotism, but enly upon &rounds of faithfulness to fact as de- |termined by specialists and tested by a consideration of the evidence. The cultivation in pupils of a scientific emper in history and the related so- cial sciences, of a spirit of inquiry and willingness to face unpleasant facts are far more important objectives than the teaching of special interpre. tations of particular events.' Diplomacy Charge Noted. ! The new “open diplomacy™ as replaced the old-fashioned secret which {fal, now a resident of New York CRtY. |diplomacy in international relations |bil! whi is a breeder of misunderstandings and war. Henry K. Norton of lrv- | ington. Y. told the American Political Science Association. Under the former system. he said, trained diplomats with the interests of their countries at heart got be- hind closed doors, stater their po- |estimate of the taxable income of cor- porations and individuals for the year 1827, 1 assume it would be impossibie | to secure more | l;h!ch wouid be the fifteenth of March, 1928, i “If more accurate estimates couid ibo made at that time.” continued the | Senator. “what would be the effect of not passing the bill until after March 157 Would it make the administra- tion of the law more d Government or materially | ience the taxpayer? | making these inquiri what course uld be pursued in | order to comply with the requirements jof the law asked by the Congress, which requires a yearly balancing of the budger.” Senator Smoot’s letter was dated | this morning and was understood to ihave been written following an ex- ;:ewivd conference vesterday between | the Senator and the Secretary of the Treasury. Mellon Replies. Secretary Mellon answered the Sen. jator’s questions as follows: “In reply. 1 wish to state that the budget message which the Pre dent transmitted 1o Congress. the sur- | plus for the fiscal year 1929 is estis | mated at $252540.255. The revenue it for the inconven- My object s is 1o ascertain w | December 1 X reduce internal revenue receipts by | $590.000.000. This is $35.000.000 excess of the estimated surplus ard | $85,000.000 in excess of the Rgures set by the Treasury as e maximum possidle tax reduction. |” “The disregard of offcial estimates, sitions and then proceeded to bar [and adoption of & bill which failed to |3ain until they reached a satistactory | rovide revenne adequate to meet | sonclusion {oxpenditures ax presented n the | Now, he said, the diplomat ma. | budget, has created a new and serious neuvers with one ear to the tele | situation He asked for paper and pencll and g, 10 jagt night unanimously passed [3ervice. playing a prominent part in | e wan the 0t | fled the American debt agreement. ix | been Killed n Russia during the | [ROREES WO 5 o inel - T have hegan writing. When he implicated Hunt, officers arrested the youth, who confessed | after 8 severe grilling As Hickman wrote the new con. | feasion, officers had him initial each sheet at the top Newspaper fles revealed that Thoms wss whot when » police officer. J. W. | Oliver, entered the wiore during he | noldup, Oliver opened fire. The holdup mmen spEwered with their rustols, Thoms was shot in the chewt wa Ofiver in the rignt hand. Thoms fwd the dsy sfter Christmsy Vind Sear on Hunt. One of 1he KoMvp men was seen 10 nger s the officer fired and war iRed 1o the walting sutomobite by e other ‘The police derisred they cound B scar om Hunt. which sp Loty had been cavsed by a butiet Tomt insimed Bt wer not s bullel | D “he new confessior o presence s Lnd ientiuz. Awler Frank ’ ity and 8 reporier The police workes st bigh speed in | rder 16 check Wickmon's latest sd. | i Auy for wreig i yidneping charges. District Atorney Keyes st the 1ext of Hickman» e ksdnaping murder 5 mutils ot Marian Varker would be made e after the arraignment nether Bickman would plead gui wade in | o Kogens | Dewar 8| was Aechsred us he by insistently declared since | ‘Mcxica‘n Paper Involves l.:l;dbergh 4 i [n Fakc Story on Natlonal “Fools' Day" . wurned here (rom Oregon. re some prosecoting officiels. The cxtion of whether the Kiduaping ond rder confession copteined the full reinle of the erime 680 Brose 1o Loy Je the @ietrict aitorney, who hav » aunesd hie intention 1o (urther ques o fickman ex 1o some of the ob o ure points. Grandmother Quirsed, Mre Carvie M Briskell grandmolh ©of Hunt also W brought 10 head ers thie morning fol pertioning Hiekman and Hunt made thel ane with her in Alshsme & few ke afier the shooling Hhe denieq by Mickaman that she had , ) aetivitien en 10 Hickman's cell (or n look ontnued on Page 8, Column ! S eourt | Trom operating after 12 o'clock Natur efore 1aking bim snio ourt | % o ment on the murder |3sy nikht {ihere aie onfension | in principle the Calles bill reforming articles 14 and 15 of the ol lawns | which have been the source of friction | between the United States and Mexico. The Senate will discusa the bill 1o Bay. when It in expected (o be definite. Iy passed, the wenators generally ex- pressing thelr intention to approve the amendmen The Chamber of Deputies passed the | bill Tuesday night RUSH FOR AUTO TAGS | IS STARTED TODAY The laxtminute rush for 1925 tomobile license tags started today nt the District Bullding. Wade M, | Coombx wuperintendent of licenses, wald he expected at least 5000 motor It 10 procure the new tage todsy, an inereass of 2000 over any previou Jally distribution since issuunce of the tagr wis started December | ALl sutomobiles not equipped with 1925 license pla will be prohibited My, Commbe e approximately 17,000 motor have not yet procured the 1y 1w more dnys re 1o do s wfter the District Bullding this i ter thist ints who new tagn Lemain for {clome of {afternoon the By the Asocisten Press MEXICO CITY. December 29 —Phe appesl of Col. Chavies A Lindbergh 0 1he besutitul senoritas of Mexico wiss the basis of a honx by K1 Univer Grafico on Mexico's Fools day The paper printed o “news item’ snying that “Senorita Angellnas Ruiz [ Cabetlero. well known to the nlgh life of Mexico City” was found shot 1o Avinth in an wutomoblle near Valbuens Nying Beld carlv yesterday e yewapuper offered Lan eaplang [ | #ign minister of the H {n | the toreign powers. nation’'s guest honor. ’ When Lindbargh passed through the of the lenders In the coup detut At| oy on hin way to the various func. Canton in March, 1926, and again | o0, iy hin honor wdn lined the with Chiang played s prominent part| i eais 1o give him un ovation in the setting up of the Nanking Na. | tionalist government an distinet from | MRS, LINDBERGH RETUR) that at Hankow early in 1927 i = JKver wince then he has played prominent part in the fore reln tions of the Nallonalixts, supplanting Kugene Chen, tormer for nkow govern as the lending spokesman for arionalists in their relations with s, lang Kal-Shek, he waws one | Flyer's Mother in Oklshoma on Way to Detroit. Ok, geline 1, Detrolt from Mexico Hathox Kleld here at K the wec- ey, Sho Ikht ent oy returning 1o Clty, landed at 115 am, ond leg of expects (o reuc LINDBERGH TOUR Dr_Wu has been an opponent of the Communisis for some time and only recently blamed Boviel Russin for the Canton Communist which haw fust been crushea ruthless wlaughter. Dr. Wu alko re- cently urged the American authorities to bur any loan by Americans 1o Japan on the security of the Houth Manchurian Rallway,” declaring Jnpan wan uNing the rullway as instrument of imperialinn Dr. Kun Fo alwo fn American edn cuted, having been a student at the University of California and Columbia University D Bun's father wan Sun Yat Sen teader of the Itepublican movement In Chinn He returned to Ching in 1917 and took pari In the organization of the Nest military government at Can ton under his father duy's Jon Detroit SHORTENEI v ton Avintor Desires to Be In Havan Congres By the Associatea Col. Lindbergh's desite 1o vialt Houth aw well ax Central American countrien on hix present trip was ex pressed (o officialy of the American legation nt Guntemala City yesterdiy on his wevival there, but with the added statement gements made for his trip ducing the Pan-American made it Imporsible, “1 whould fike (0 American countiies an officla ment quoting | have made Huvana for the 1% fean confer ence, where | can meet all Houth Teun delegates, it s impassible Apprecinted Reception, 1 certainly appreciated the enthis antic Jgreeting at the feld in Guate maka City wid was ot one thne afvald that 1 inlght bit some of the people when they rushed toward the plane ' Lindbergh told Amervican legation o for Congress Routh viste all 0 this tour Htate Dey “hut_ us [ “rragedy e wenorit hud ommitted sulcide in dv spondency over Lindbergh's departure or was shot to deuth by a jealous man who accompanied her because she in wisted on going to the fyi feld 1o wive (he fyer a largs houguet of flowers er the newspaper announced (hil e story wisn a was intend ed o bk Joke aper called at tention tn the fact (it It was “the Auy of the nnocents” when in Mexteo fokew wve plaved as on Apell KFools dap b dhe Unbtod platen, 4 he landing Nold” he added, I wood condition and 1 wint to oo Vilate Guatemilan officials,” The depir tment message udided thnt Lindbergh planned (o leave Guatenali City Friday morniug for Heligs, Beit 1sh Honduins, where he will make i B 1f o Hands suitnbile condithons (Continued on Puge ¥, Column 3) ¢ makihg payments regularly under it | World War, and o informed her be. Iy as if it hud been vatitied. and | (ore their marriage doubtless will continue to do an! Nothing was heard of the Russian \ am Germany paya reparations, | family untll December, 1922, when the Hut there is not a political party nor :'h:'l'"| l.:‘:-"g.':'\»"-;“( m-"m;.. \\:(.‘m» a werlous statesman in France who|Srel &n atvertacment fn o Jewish ; aper inquiring for bher father She I conaider it possible for France | FRRNL (I ted Trom the Teat at continue payments to the United | the family and was {n fgnorance of States in case Germany defaults. |I|‘V~IV‘ :\lwr(h uu' 'shmr':u saw ! advertisement and brought the gi Yiews Difter. (0 the home of his American wite. Freneh opinie ms unal conxider war debts the same as ordi Then, fn 1923, a friend of Shoofal's returning from a vacatlon trip_tn . . Jorsints in | KONRINOV, Russia, met the first wite x:-l-;;::"':l:'*"":"‘m B to|&nd other children and brought the T ontribution | "OWA (0 Washington. - Shoofal then at- L tempted to support bath tamilies, Mrs. 10 feels that fshootal declares and finally deserted German veparations for the vec her wtruction of the devastated aveas in| The American Mrx Shoofal and her | France and Belglum s a far more hushand have ooe child, now T years | wacred debt than the war debiy of the Ql-:“"“flll.nr:;.n-.‘-m-um by {allies to the 1 Htates, | * wan ihinks that the American polic has | heen to urge continual reparations re ' ductions upon France while making only slight concessions on war debin, Loa Pray for Treaty Revision. Be Cable 1o The Stae New Ty, » Copyr ) VIENNA, Decomber W ; (he reason why, when 8 3 y i “1':‘.:4: et enerat for | lan aKitation for revision of the teaty Leparations, in his latest veport vecom. | 0f Trianon te beink given the tone e aation of e vewaru. (00 & vellgloys crunude " for next e ent. Fronch spokoamen fume I'.‘ul‘n‘\.::\ Ilw wague for 'eaceful o et "t et alvondy | ReVIun® ls requeated hat ali Bun |'.' Lean ived by tha reparations warlans dueing church sevvices offer me been flaed by, ihe o silent pravets for Lord Rothermer s *VISION action which Lo Jand Capltal Value, $10,000,000,000, e has been leading in Ming | Rothern nd and America Nohody In: France serfoualy belleves | 200 o (hat Germany can pay $31,000,000.000. | b9 Shieare Danty or cent on $33,000,000.000 and at this Vate Gormany might continue paying | Torever | he capital value of the flnumn‘ Outlined for Chicago veparations debt under the Dawes plan ——e vonsldering 6 per cent Interes and 1Ry the Associated Press per éent amortization i 10000000 | CHICAGO, December 8 - 000, Everybody b France koows (s oy Sapen wiv' and nearly everyhody in Krance x| o ! CAP apeedwAy, conatrueted on the heglnning (o doubt whether Gevmany egnIng peineiple of the double deck stvest can pay even this much, hut theve in 2 A Hem disposttion 1o mke o move [1as hean antlined for Chicage by Mayor Thompson cancessians o Germany without eor vesponding concessions in the matter [ Pho plan cally for “subwav' tracks of war debis ol 0 the sidewalks of (he lower sivent lovel The center af the SOt open to the sky. would b wad oy '“i\\j&‘&" Wt bgitie. On ke \ A combi Nibway and wmotor Radio Progepms - Page 30 vho} aantsin et e 3 Double=Deck Street With Auto Speedwa the temper {people back home and strives not for A satisfactory settlement but a popu- lar one—even when he knows per footly_well that _the publi Wontinued on Pag Mellon Denies Hat Is in Ring: Says Reports Are False Socretary of (he Treasury Mellon today Matly declared he was not candidate for Vresident and not intend to be The statement from the Secve fary came as a denial of reports from Pittsburgh that he was serioualy considering the watter and that a campaign was being organized there in his behalf The Secretary sald he had called by longdistance telephone \ - Mellon, hin nephew, at Pittsburgh, who had denied the repart tha (here was a campaixn on toot | Mtsbugh. The veport, Mr. W Lo Mellon said, evidently must have originated in Washington I Necretary Mellon, furthenmore, Would not indicate it he has a chalce amonk the candidates fur (e namination y by Mayor Thompson [ upper leve! would be stoves, sidewalks, and. on either atde of the opening Above the speedway, lanss for slow. WMOVINE Mator traftie, Cross streets would be carvied aver the opencut spesdways by bridges, With ramps connecting the twa levels. Stovea could have show windows and antvances an bath levels 1t the plan tn accepted. preliuy Inary work coult be stavted at once T cust af conatruction would be Lapiead over & period o 30 Yeuis i {83 the director ..:t he sees n > of messsge Sec Dudget es: | penditure fnew legt | retuen ot {relief, purchase |ankle in Washing | Navy. {and "B wrojects, e evasioned be der Dam and & Reviews Bxtimates. Ne Secrotary said he had reviewed mates of rolaile revenve and was satistied that it they h on the side of tderality 1 the gross income of corporations npRred With 1996, shou'd | Al Qff 10 per cont, revenue feom th S A ax rwduction L the Secretary painted out. would | slon Do Rss to the taxpayer or | Incanvenience cithes them or the Gove [ernment tram wn o admbisteat fafter March 13 the Secretary sawd, AN IENIS on Tt date necessarily I have o be made on the dass The Present tevenue act of 18 Lustirents could be made laten, ATy enplained, show'd Qun Sress devide to cut Aareh 1y pay jroe 1t the March ™ EIGHT-STORY BUILDING COLLAPSES IN BLAZE BY the Asmoclated Bresa, i NEW YORK. December ¥ | Bremen narvowty [y & $500.000 the Rutler Rrothers Department Store m lwer Broadway. The eixht fows of the buiting crashed to the celiar whent ‘white hot stvel WIANS Save Way Just a3 hosemen were eatering fram the stevet A Wi Dast fllowed the car e Of the flows, hlowing wanboy Qovers In the strvet inta themr and shatiortng every window th { l havst e o Bl Deedt abeut L9 e - Mty exaped death te- Dlae which resed Ing The Rames frved tack e