PINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
HEADQUARTERS U. S. SIGNAL CORPS
COMMUNICATION FACILITIES I N
ALASKA PROPER
COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
• •• '• - ' + . • ‘ ' ' * t' t- V 4'. " '-•H • :♦ •* .
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 280.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
■K —
Young Bank Clerk
Named by Police
As Killer Marian
WILLIAM EDWARD HICKMAN FIRED FROM BANK
WHEN DETECTED FORGING SIGNATURES—
REVENGE WAS THE MOTIVE, SAY POLICE
REWARD FOR KIDNAPPER AND BRUTE
SLAYER TOTALS $100,000 —FORMER CLERK
' POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED AS THE MAN BY
MANY CLUES ASIDE FROM FINGERPRINTS.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20. (/P)—All agencies of the
law in metropolitan Los Angeles were unleashed and set
upon the trail of one mere boy, seemingly mild mannered
and a former bank clerk, who has been named by the po
ll lice as the kidnapper who murdered and mutilated Marian
Parker, then bartered the body to the father for $1,500.
The intensified search was given an imputus by the
price of $100,000 set on his head and got under way after
the police announced William Edward Hickman, a former
employee of the Los Angeles First Trust Savings Bank,
had been positively identified, through finger prints, pho
tographs as the slayer of the daughter of Perry Parker,
officer of the bank.
OF OSS
TO LAI
WAS BUT FEW HOURS OFF FROM
WORLD’S RECORD; HIGH
WINDS CAUSE
4
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20. (/Pj— |
After remaining in the air 49 hours;
and 27 minutes in an attempt to
break the world’s record the “Spirit
k of California” is still in the air this
morning but faced the prospects of
being forced down by the rapidly '
diminishing supply of gasoline.
The radio message said less than j
150 gallons of the original supply of j
1,422 gallons remained in the tanks, j
The average hourly consumption [
has been 30 gallons against preflight
jP hopes of 24. High winds forced the
greater gasoline consumption.
FREE ENTRY IS UPHELD
TOR WHALE TANKAGE
I
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (/p)—An.
investigation conducted by the Cus
toms Service of the Department of
the Treasury, into the uses of whale
tanking, imported at Atlantic and.
Gulf ports, has led to the conclusion
that its chief use is for fertilizers
and it is admissible duty free, the
Commissioner of Customs, E. W.
Gamp, states. Only a small quantity
* Mr. Camp said in a letter -to the Col
lector of Customs at New Orleans,
is used for animal and poultry feeds.
MAKES KNOWN FINDS
Chief of detectives Herman Cline
j made public his finds in his inves
| tigation after police visited the Hick
i man home in Alhambra, Calf. They
i learned the young man had not been
there for some days and that his
mother lives in Kansas City.
ARRESTED FOR FORGERY
Motives for the kidnapping and
slaying were supplied in the police
hypothesis; Hickman, two years ago,
was given a job in the bank where
he worked as a clerk until six mou
ths ago when he was arrested on the
charge of forgery admitting having
traced signatures from checks en
trusted to his care. The youth con
fessed and was paroled to his moth
ed. The police believe Hickman got
an erroneous impression of Parker
who opposed his application for pa
role and had urged a prison sentence.
MOTIVE WAS REVENGE
Cline said the motive was revenge
alter having chased thousands of
false clues and the police have sat
isfied themselves Hickman was the
man wanted. Finger prints taken
from the ransom notes and from the
wheel, of the killer’s abandoned au
tomobile, were found to correspond
with those taken by the police when
he wms “mugged” for forgery.
photograph indentified
j Hitman’s photograph in the police
i gallery was shown to Parker and '
I Miss Neona Britten, teacher at Mar
ion’s school. Miss Britten said the |
( photo was of the man who came and
tricked the school authorities into
delivering the little girl into his
hands. As a further connecting link
the police dscovered the killer’s auto
mobile was one which had been stol
en from Dr. Herbert Mantz, in Kan
sas City. Dr. Mantz’s Kansas City
home is near that of the Hickmans.
FIT SI6NS LIFE
STILL APPARJUUT IN
SUNKEN SUBMARINE
'flagship flacon compelled
TO SEEK PROTECTION FROM
HIGH SEAS
PROVINCETOWN, Dec. 20. (£>)—
| Faint signs of life are still apparent
on the sunken submarine S-4 this
morning but the tappings heard car.
ried no code message indicating the
men were too weak to rap out order
ly messages in code as on previous
days.
RESCUE WORK ABANDONED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (>P)—The
i flagship Flacon, directing rescue
operations at the scene of the wreck.
I ed submarine, was forced into the
| protection of the harbor at Province
| town by the fiigh seas, the navy de
1 partment has been advised.
!
ARRIVES SAFE ST. LOUIS
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20. (£>)—Mrs.
Lindbergh arrived safely at 4:40
yesterday afternoon on the first lap
of an air journey to Mexico City to
join her son, Col. Ciias. A. Lindbergh.
The trip from Detroit was made in
five hours and 45 minutes flying
time. She was welcomed by a party
of St. Louisans.
CHOOSE BEST FARM GIRL
BERLIN, Dec. 20. (/P)—1The latest
the age of 18, Miss Thelma Me Kin
ney, of Haskell, has been declared
Oklahoma’s outstanding farm girl
by State Club leaders at the Oklaho
ma A. and M. College.
HATGH-PUINELL ACT i
FOR ALASKA PROPOSED i
TO HOUSE, REP. VESTAL
!
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (£>)—Ex- j
tension of the federal agricultural as
sistance and cooperative enterprises,
granted under the Hateh-Purnell and
Smith Lever Acts to Alaska, was pro
posed in a bill introduced in the
House by Representative Vestal, Re
publican from Indiana.
SITS KITES FIELD BE
U. S. A. BID PRODUCER
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 20. (£>)—!*
Dr. Emil C. Ott, oil geologist,
is credited with the following predic
tion regarding the Yates oil field in
the Pecos county of West Texas: <
“The Yates field from all its sands <
will produce more oil per acre than ]
any field that has ever been dis- !
covered in the U. S. A.” l
TWO CHILDREN BOHN
TO DEATH PORTLAND.
OVER-HEATED STOVE.
PORTLAND, Dec. 20." (/p)—Sleep- j
ng in a bedroom, while their parents |
were out of the house making ar
rangements for a trip during the
Christmas holidays, the two small
children of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hoke,
lost their lives w'hen the house was
destroyed by fire at Marcola. An j
I overheated stove is believed to have
j started the fire.
REMUS MURDER CASE
COES TO THE JURY;
DEFENDANT IS ENTITLED TO
VERDICT NOT GUILTY,
GROUNDS INSANITY
CINCINNATI, Dec. 20. (JP)—1The
George Remus murder case went to
the jury at 12:49 this afternoon.
Judge Shook, reading his opinion
j said the "court feels that in view of
i the state of record advanced in de
nial of unlawful killing the court is
\ brought to the inevitable conclusion
that the defendant is entitled to a
verdict of not guilty solely on the
grounds for insanity.”
STANDARD OIL FORMS
TRUST. ENTER MEXICO.
TO ACQUIRE HOLDINGS
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 20. (/P)—El
Universal says that a great petrol
eum trust, headed by the Standard
Oil Co., of Indiana, is being formed
in Mexico with the holdings of the
Huasteca Petroleum Co., East Coast
& Gulf Oil Co., and the Transconti
nental Petroleum Co.
The Standard Oil of Indiana will
acquire the Mexican holdings of the
Standard Oil of New Jersey.
The trust negotiations will be com.
cluded in New York, when C. H.
Lieb, general manager of the Trans
continental Co., who now is in Mexi
co City returns with concessions for
the release of lands, for which he j
has applied to the Department of In-|
dustry and Commerce.
ALAMEDA TOMORROW EVE
The S. S. Alameda, of the A. S. SJ
Co., is due to arrive in port tomorrow
evening, according to the local office.1
rhe steamer was expected to arrive'
it Cordova at 1 o'clock today.
GERMAN CRIME STATISTICS
HASKELL, Okla., Dec. 26. (/P)—At
'rime statistics in Germany reveal a
lecided increase compared with the
ire-war period. The peak seems to
lave been reached in the immediate
>ost-war and inflation period.
TREMENDOUS OVATION
SHEETS LINDBERGH
AT PICNIC GROUNDS
FORMAL CEREMONIES EXPECTED
TO SLACKEN MIDDLE OF
THIS WEEK
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 20. (;p)-Col.
Chas. A. Lindbergh, honer guest of
Mexico City, attended the municipal
council picnic on the outskirts of the
city. Colonel Lindbergh received a
tremendous ovation as he made his
way thru the great crowd to the pic
nic grounds where after formal cere
monies an elaborate luncheon was
served.
The official program is expected to
slacken about the middle of this
week to afford Colonel Lindbergh an
opportunity to devote himself to his
plans for the Central American tour
he will undertake shortly after
Christmas.
COCKSURE METHOD
OF DRVS WILL LEAD
DEFEAT, CONTINUED
YOUNGER GENERATION
MAY
ELECT WET CONGRESS AS
SERTS CHURCHMAN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (/p)—
Stanley High, secretary of the Meth
odist Episcopal Board of Foreign
Missions, told the Antl-Saioon Leag
ue Convention that unless the Drys
eliminated the cocksure method they
have been practicing they will alien
ate the younger generation to such
an extent that it will elect a Wet
Congress.
He warned the Drys that an hon
est Wet in Congress is preferable to
a dishonest Dry and that prohibition"
cannot last on the basis of political
expediency.
Pussyfoot’ Johnson denounced
the intemperance of London^ Paris
and Munich and of America’s vaca
tioning there.
PRINCE DEERS LINDS
AS SON TIKES IIOWS
BERLIN, Dec. 20. (£>)—On the day
on which his son, Prince Emmanuel,
took the monastic vows in the Swabi
an abbey of Neresheim as Brother
Emeran of the Benedictines, the
Prince of Thurn and Taxis deeded the
cloister, church and all the vast do
main of Neresheim to the Order of
the Benedictines, which up to then,
had occupied the premises merely as
tenant The value of the deeded pro
perty is estimated at over 8,000,000
marks. In return the Prince of Thurn
and Taxis was proclaimed patron of
the abbey, which was founded by a
bishop of Augsburg in 1905.