Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1928, Page 3

. HICKMAN CHANGES METIVE FOR CRIME Slayer Now Claims He Was/| Guided in Slaying by “Kind of Providence.” ANGELES, ary ment of motive: d slaying of li Marian Tarker has been i to the already | ossions pen- 7 Edward Hickman, document was scribbled v Hickman in the jresence his alienists, one 1or the and the county jail phy 14.—An in the ion ely fire from the resentatives of attornex’s office hailing | new work of Hickman' drew f Motives, po; W story Hickman's two previous Whereas he previousi: he small girl's life in t partment would be s last declaration wrote: The impulse into my he: in B state s, aid he took e fear that rched, of motive F in his 0 k ust ponpad ared of the Tment o ol directed him | this terrible ndered me 1 would . Kill my motk > stood in My w 1 the way r. And later t of this great f my own moather | he life of » when the ions of peu his resulted tr wouid he would t 1o show Hick- MCALEAR TO HEAD CAMP. | Spanish War Veterans to Install, Officess This Evening. V. 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NE *— Fhosas Duile N, Bui 57, o HOOKING Thoms, | Al on the | leave | Harry Cun-; Thomas second vice president; recretary-treasurer; whip, ex- e Miilon Lulles Priotioe The Nauonal Capital Press | THE TVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. SATURDAY. ASKS LINDY HONOR. Lesislutor Seeks Addition to Frieze in Capitol Rotunda. A portrayal of Col landing from his transatl at Le Bourget d, Pavis, frieze in the pitol rotunda v proposed in a bil b | Representative Andrew, Republican, Massachusetis. The meusure that the frieze depicted import milestonos — in American achievements and the flizht “merits commemoration among the most ible contributions of Ameri- can genius to human progress.” The last section of the frieze por- travs America’s participation in the | World War. NORTHWEST FLOOD CAUSES HUGE LOSS 'High Waters Recede Slowly in Four States—Railways at Standstill. FOUR ARE SOUGHT INWOMAN'S DEATH Dark, Hooked-Nosed Man Is Suspected as Slayer—Gang Believed Involved. Lindbergh ntic tlight on th By the Assaviated Pross CHICAGO, January 14.—A visaged man with a prominent hooked was sought as the slver o' latest murder mystery. for the man was when residents of the Fontenelle Apartment Hotel told the police he was a frequent visitor at the ment of Mrs. Betty Chambers, 2 whose body was found by a maid | anidst - pile of silken bloodstained pillows in her apartment, rdon Chambers who shared the ipartment with Mrs, Chambers for al most_a month, also was sought. hut the police said they were convineed he was not the sl Two women, so f4 a vaud a manicurist, ain woman, were volice said the 1 dark nose tod g in Chic Search ovdered ! i ‘ ¢ identified only ille singer, and friends of th b sought. Ti believed “*Marion was in the apartment shortly before or after the slaying. An unmailed letter. Chambers and addres hinted suicide e fused to end their ment, Deputy Police Commissioner Mooney sted in his belief the girl | ain by a member or members of a crin use he betray | | { | By the Asso 14— water: E. Wash. Janu: ing stream of food the melting of heavy snow <, owly filtering out of lhe four Northwestern States m'nmL holnnd several hundred 1 e in the shape washed-out _ rail- 1 inundated written by Mrs ed to Chambers, ause Chambers re apparent estrange aned | | road tracks and trestles towns, The Liaho floods parts Washington, | nd Montana, i was still blocked at small floods still lapped at the | in a number of towns, and | wzed under railroad tracis, washouts and slides. Colder weather predicted today was expected |10 aid the raging creeks and rising rivers to carry off the water. Lapwai and Kamiah, Tdaho, and Un- iontown, Pullman, Dayten, Cle Walla Walla, and Thomas, I\\'PH’ inundeted, the water the lower parts of these towns vary in_depth from 1 to 7 feet | Railroad schedules we v, 1t was predicted th railroads would be unable to o trains 1o northern Idaho for rom to 48 hours more. Highways all northern ul lest she the | DRY LAW TOSTAY. | WBRIDE DECLARES Sentiment Overwheimingly ini Favor of Prohibition, League | Superintendent Says. s many points. ses W ol over Washi and parts of Or water, with eartn ng to the ruin An fce jam near went out last n | five marooned i Yellowstone River In northern I slides wete re ton and [ . West of { Northern Pacific and_Unior traffic was reported blocked. lAKES NAMED AFTER LOST OCEAN FLYERS' | Canada Honors Memory of Own Citizens, Americans and Brit- ish Killed at Sea. Waco, Mont., which | t. left a family their dwelling on the Prohibition is h of public sentiment stay as I any 1use s an expression and likely part of the it is ‘ e is ho more than 15 ted between Lewis- |_~~nn1.4| supe Round ub ves.| | of the Washi in the University ( the Mteenth amies [ said: “We should nd other liquor In isn their red flag in deflance of the | The wets around the Con to liquor con- » trying to accom through getting tion uf the eighteenth amend- as to permit the selling of | s and beer ker said he has made nu- through and that he has in | plish, i modifi | ment s ht win The sy merous trips to va out the United St found sentiment favor of prohibitio is no indic anged Senato | | | By the Ascociated Press OTTAWA, Ontar! | The memory of « | American men their lives in s overwhelmingly adding here 10 people want of the ninety favor of the idment remaining. he nd lost British .and woman w transoceanic flight n honored by the| Canadian government in the naming of several newly discovered lakes in| northwestern Ontario for the fyers A large lake in the territory north | of the Red Loke district has been named Doran Lake in memory of | Miss Mildred Doran, who was lost in an attempted flight from the Pa cific Coast 10 Hawaii. Others for whom lakes have been named an-| nounced yesterday by the department | |of the interior. wi | Llovd W. Bert the Old Glory, it to Rome. MeBride declared Gov. enit address to th ture indicated he knew there is_a prohibition sentiment in this |country, adding that the New York governor s not going to run amuck of it any more than he has 10" Dr McBride beiittled Gov. Ritehie's at {tempts to obtain any change or modi fication of the eigh and de red a refe M nd on the question is impossible, born | due 1o u e g passed a bill | Old | that might apply | to hibition. and Capt.| He c purchaser of liquor of the|from a boutlegger as “the worst man in aun|in the world’” stating that he used {think the bootlexger was the worst, {but that noy he believes the man wi | purchases liquor from the bootlegger | 18 worse than the latte Saying that prohibition fe not per fect,” 1 speaker advocated making various viol law pertain Ing to it a felony and a law to deport aliens violating the amendment He siid he is interested in prohibi tion be se he ix in 4 in peop! und be that prohibition i« th ny men who them Ives drink will vote for prohibition, he suid, because they think it is the best thing. Smith in ork State vote in Terrance B. Tulley James V. Medcalfe. co-pilots plane Sir John Carling, lost attempt to fiy to Europe Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, 1ost with the St. Raphacl in an attempted westward crossing of the Atlanti F. F. Minchin and Leslie Ha ton, pilots of the t. Raphael. A lake also named for the plane St. Raph 'l another was named for Goe Fitchie, Ontario government i who fell near Sault Ste. Marie last year Lieyt. mil- y G.P.0. APPREMTICES GRADUATE AS PRINTERS ‘Dxucwr of New York Stock Ex- { change Addresses Class; Grad- | BOY HELD FOR STARTING COMMUNITY CENTER FIRE entice class of | Child Admits Causing Blaze While tng Office w‘:‘l Looking for Toys With Match. Six Are Dead. uates Hold Banquet. tes of the | | | | ap ield o Build yrmen printers at ¢ ninth floor of 1 B 5 G o Asao ritl ated Press ADELPHIA. Janu Loy, Willtaim a to hiving vhich cost the kirhs in the German mplendld cooperas | munity Center, on Wednesday, ton « ork. | held for “a couple of days” ut the 2 addurion | 1 of Letention o awalt the a tion of the coroner, Municipa! Court Judge William M. Lewis decided yes- terday The ted the diplon which he ti ployes for 1h produ wn_Com Wil be 8 kald to have admitte Baving kone up 1o s closet on the wec. ond floor o duok for toys, He waid bLis brother hiad given him a match, He #lruck 1t on the wall of the closet and something caught fire, He “tried to outen 1L he wald, and when he found he could not, shut the closst door nd wan chased out of the bulld ing by Misw Myrtle McMurtrle, a teiacher Vi Tressl, the sixth victim, G hospital yesterdiy The wix glils wero trapped by a wire netting on w disused ird foor Lal cony und secously burned before fire men could reseus them, MARK DRY ANNIVERSARY. Brightwood Methodists Hear War- ner and Patterson Tomorrow, i ation e cotmmit merbe e et John it st haplain of the | tives, pronounced et b mith and printer of Represen 1 1l Epseer, clane it Char % The which eimber of Ui cl died in |REAR ADMIRAL JONES | MAKES PLEA FOR NAVY | Bfl ond Commensurate With C }l'.qulpmn.! to None and Country's ¥orelgn Commerce Is Urged, | By the Asrtated Fiess, YORK, January 11 Y eecond o none and com “”“ with Amerivias Toreign |10 1o wan mide by Rear A ary 1% Junes last yight st e un- | ssl @inner of the Virginlans a1 L MHorel Vlaza Adpiral Junes. whao gt 1 1he Genevi iatent | fethodist board s, fauded the Japaneses dele. | Vmperance and public morals and Tor their sincere desive for dis | W8Ty B, Warner, educationsl secre Brmoment and the Brtsh for ther |try of the Intercolleglate Frobibition PEpnL I accepling The proposals, Ausociation A miaws neeting snd specinl weryies i honor of the cighth anniversary of adoption of the elghteenth anend W1 e conducted 1 the Bright Bodist iplse Chureh, il Jefre slrcets, tomor g at K o'clock shers who will g will be T # A i ] niral | ¥ ki addicss the Patterson of probibition, wos o naval | ST Would Refund Passport Fee. ul ndinent atinn fee ddent ¢ It Parley Participation Urged. q Jewtelation of the ¥ Wan ushed y wolidige. The £ W permit Vst terduy fixed s L Congrens Premidei | pas i alin 1he PP Coulidge of . wterdiy by | ok L Viited Blates Bty he sl 1 h ' S i ' Inter o wnd | by Two o tiong now, thr noon aronnd statement d been | | the fthe Congressio JANUARY 14, 1928 T ) (U ACES UP' Squadron, the 94tl writer, Lieut. commandes which in Tas said th HREE months later agroup of newspaper correspondents waited in a room on the ond floor of the State, War and | Navy Building at W three zlaneed imy watehes: too late for noon’« but if the statement came hoin o few minutes it would " the home editions of the i papers and a complete be written for the morning tion o make ol Hartney b hetter than any ol Himself a fizhtin fyers, he ha men at th Hartney's ¢ | battle “with was shot the writer of the respe | the famous one of the m in tie entire heir [ perie Rich win b malke wid after hande five minutes nent clerk of the following an hour later li- across the con- 1 a omntly at War D “flimsi and half clicking . " T notypes were tment ¥ DEPARTM NEWS BUREAU (Time 11 IMMEDIATI April 14, direction of the the provisions of th approved July 9, 1818, the Me Honor has been awarded in the name of Congress to the following named officer for the acts of gallantrs set after his name. Folliowing is Gen dershing’s cabled recommendation h has been approved I Tth M WAR under “You statement 1a o | technigr | Lok L courase t 3 President, un- Act of Con with “This is a p would h willin, wor of Luke on air between t d they were ¢ o machine there is oY pinion doubt Tn A sta would « 1 [ th vi t out, ank Luke, Acro Squ, For intrepi it i 1o 1spicu K | | i l i rench and Ame © shot down by Frank Lu riesy L. S, Signal Corps.) sheer dari . surj Ke's rec the histe fuil sweep of hi averaged nearly ¢ with Franc hav ber of enew rman pursued h were \ 1ae tive 9 plane ponth he spent | ereat Richthofer med victories, u triumphs £ rhaps abandor ich char as lon, 1 sides fvived: from a st him |u ilness he w had served the pa German planes wh enemy tballoon line, ingly attacked and es three German b f under h hatteries an sverely wounded, he descended to ! within 50 meters of theigsdund and | se flying at this low altitude near th wwn of Murvaux, 'nd fire 1 the enemy troops, Killing ng as m ve. For a landing a ounded on Ly the ene: o called uy to surrender o ew h pistol and defended himself & until he fell dead from a wou the chest “(Signed) Frank Luke the two b on that o |t w a su w d the G JOHN had b vice on h wus concerned, b point of ex That Luke" mer: compe the fact Allled Ay performance. s was compe thouzh s of Gerr {always eluded oW | tackers and w wi | n s alse a reward | cilfice, not 8o rare Honor' but no less | The other dec of the supreme as the Medal of honorable. On a little r tern Franc buildings. A world runs r of th 1 th ; .\ 1 wooden tary precis ever wt attent bugie call ‘hulxiH will sound some n are, stand fo waiting for that t Book tel . materiall Ky Warfare w | The story e come down e [y iy at recingle of |« noas Bluck \ stunds Grave ]4[ ad of this grave « ity com On your le litthe ull crosses which is kno Mo tly to the rear in Row 26, At the I 15 a white cross, precis panion cro in the common e mocracy of death, except that on the cross bar is FRANK LUKE, JUNIOR he hery of thin story rests under his final ton of the Wooden Ct walting theough the long years with Lis com rades for the Day of numbers of n before ends in Block A, Komagne opening w u re Which ric tale v rixht, 10 of the birth Escadrille and of its intre hich | | i | thought of | Interest than what | of him. 1t hus been | wits the outstanding | What othes Luke in of 1 this writer think wald that | figt Amerlea’s war i, Thix bus not been sakd thought of disparaging t flyers who werved their heroleally and so well nor is supported opinion, Capt. Edwiard \ Ace of Aces ut WIth 26 official victories to hix ¢ miay be granted the vight to with authority tn all tatters coning war aviation Had Frank Luke lived,” Iickenbacker, “he would me out of bisiness long Army's leading ace. 1 would had o oshow against Wi His In one of the brightest glorios of our Alr Hervi " war flyers © of niry ian u our | wir tit i « Rickenbacker, the end the very wayn Capt . have put age ax our Eener of lead o e Judgment from b in welghing o question of thin wort—a Judgment unaffected by the fact that e wis the chief factor i the flaon. He knew Luk well s not a matter of Officlal yecord, It Luky had Hived ho Would probably have beon teansterred from the 2ith o Capt, Ricken wity mind expect such disy iy ex tract Mass addition of the there's ment should fully, CORCORAN COURTS 23rd and D Sts. 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