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The Washington times., 1927-12-23

him at Seattle, that he made the
mistake Of running directly into the
hands Of vigilant Oregon authorities.
These things were disclosed today
following the youths arrest on the
Columbia River Highway, % miles
west of Pendleton, by Chief of Po-
lice Tom Gurdane and State Traffic
Officer "Buck" Lieuallin.
In a talk with City Attorney c.
=. Randall, of Pendleton, young
Hickman told of his adventures.
incidentally he verified the fact
that he had ridden with two COM
panions into Portland early We'd
nesday morning.
Hickman admitted that he dropped
Marian Parker's mutilated body at
the feet of her father after collect
Ing the 81 500 ransom offered for
her safe return.
II placed the package gently on
the curb and / didn't throw IL as
they said," he made haste to explain.
Then, he said, he went to the
Leighton Restaurant in Los Ange-
les to eat and it was there that he
passed the first $40 bill of the ran.
som roll.
/, ''I'll bet you'd be surprised if you
knew who l am he said he told
hte curb and i don't throw it as
money.
Thereafter, he told Darnell, he
was in the Bellevue Apartments
when detectives searched that house.
Once, he declared. he even talked
with one of the inspectors.
Sunday, according to his story,
Hickman left for San Francisco.
Three times he was stopped by of.
ficers but, after brief examinations
he was allowed to go on.
At San Francisco, he said, he was
to meet Andy Kramer, whom he
charges with having murdered and
butchered the Parker girl.
They were to meet, he continued,
at the Herald Hotel. Kramer did
not appear, he said. and Tuesday
he drove north again.
Hickman said he went to an
automobile club at Seattle and asked
the road to Spokane. They told
him he might catch a train, but
that one of the passes was too deep
with snow to allow automobile
driving. 1t was this information
that decided the hunted youth to
double back. He drove straight
into the path Of those looking for
him.
The Washington times., 1927-12-23
HICKMAN CRAZY
FOR PUBLICITY
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Jesse James eff the map"
The letters which he wrote to
Parker. were described boastfully
by Hickman as "great masterpieces
Of literature"
1t was Gods. vengeance and not
mans cunning that resulted in his
capture, ''The Fox" believes.
Speaking of this. Hickman called
attention 10 the fact that, in his
notes, he had advised Parker to
Ask God, not man." IL he wished
help.
The prisoner began to tell Jokes.
''If they put rope around my
neck, it's apt to kill me-" he said,
laughingIy. He then told one of the
proverbial "Scotchman" stories.
There was a Scotchman who
went to a dentist office to have
tooth pulled" the now subdued
Fox" told his mixed audience. He
asked how much 1t would cost and
was told that he would have to pay
So. "We1l, how much viii II cost to
loosen it," the Scotchman asked.
Hickman's listeners did not laugh
at the attempts at humor. They
only sat and watched the boy. and
no more than boy is he with frank
glances of curiosity.
1t seems to be the same feeling
of curiosity which is most marked
in PendletOn.
The Washington times., 1927-12-23

up the dead thing which once had
been his living child.
The Washington times., 1927-12-23

being branded as the arch-kidnaper
and fiendish murderer of a de-
fenseless little girl was one of the
most dramatic inquisitions ever
recorded in the history of civiliza-
ton.
Sixteen good men, tried and true,
steeled their nerves as they heard
a grief-stricken father. Perry M.
Parker, live again the torturous
moment when he stopped to pick
The Washington times., 1927-12-23
Hickman Eats Hearty
Breakfast After
Sound Sleep
BY international News Service

PENDLETON, Ore, Dec. 23.-
Sleeping the youthful sound re-
pose of exhaustion, William Ed
ward Hickman, The Fox" had
to be awakened for breakfast by
officers today.
The kindly but stern men who
are guarding the boy prisoner
waited until $40 a. m. before
they awakened Hickman.
Then they brought him a break.
fast Of egg sandwiches and coffee.
I'm sure hungry" he said, as
he waded into the morning repast.
The Washington times., 1927-12-23
Grand Jury Indicts
Hickman Quickly AS
ExtraditiOn Is Rushed
By ARTHUR L. MAREK
international News Service

LOS ANGELES. Dec. 2s.-"Thank
God, he's caught"
The words of bereaved and tor.
mented father re-echoed here today
to ease the hearts and minds of a
distraught city as the machinery
OF the law was set into motion to
bring William Edward Hickman,
indicted kidnaper-murderer of little
Marion Parker, to a speedy justice.
Within eight hours after the word
was flashed back here that Hick-
man had been captured at Echo.
The Washington times., 1927-12-23
INRS.L|NDBERGH.
SERENADED
By International News ssrvlc,

by International News Service
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 2S.-Mexico.
officially and privately, got down to.
day to the joyful business of show.
ing Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh
houors due to the mother of the
young American who has captivated
Mexican hearts ever since he ar
The Washington times., 1927-12-23
II Was Gentle With
Body" Says "Fo1''
by International News Service

PENDLETON, Ore, Dec 23.-It comparatively easy
jaunt northward from California for William Edward Hick
man, confessed kdnaper of 12yearold Marian Parker
But it when he turned back, bit Of advice given
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-22

Brooklyn's latest recruit to the seven
arts, can whistle in two tones stimuli
taneously. On Sunday he made his
debut as WEAF performer.
Columbia Counts Noses.-The re-
cent census taken at Nick Buffers
schools at the up-to-date plant on
Morningside Heights places the total
at 1929, the largest student body on
this hemisphere. Unfortunately, the
counting of noses disclosed more than
a few which bore mute testimony be-
traying their semitic origin. And
silk-stockinged Columbians are COM
paratively humble. Now Princeton
there's place, small and fairly ex-
elusive.
And Severest Critic.-The DAILY
WORKER Palm For Conspicuous
Service goes to Irving Berlin's press
agent, the guy who is responsible for
the yarn about Berlin's barber pal.
Proletarian Puzzle.-Should it be
"poor but honest" or honest there
fore poor?
The winner of this absorbing con-
test is privileged to purchase the col
lected masterpieces of Arthur Bris-
bane, editor and realty expert.
A Suggestion.-The Rand School
might do well to inaugurate a new
course for right-wing "labor leaders"
Socialism AS A Paying PROPOSE
ton"
Ecclesiastical Note.-The' high-hat,
higksalaried liberal rabbis who loudly
voice the fact that Jesus was one Of
our boys are among the first to rush
to the defense Of their christian fell
low craftsmen, assailed by Sinclair
Lewis.
Amt dope peddling solidarity
grand?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-22
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WHITE COLLAR SLAVES.

National Industrial Conference
1920.
This organization that has always hostile labor
the white collar
of the remaining illusions
that these workers better off economically than the factory workers
The bulk of the clerical workers salaries S1516bO ts
experienced pt get as high 22 S1e9 for file clerks $500
for general clerks; $20-22 for stenographers.
white collar
exploited than the the strata" of
paravy wepad workers For routine clerical jobs from
Sc to $40 less week than doing the work Not that the
such high clerical jobs which predominant
the by the Conference Board somewhat less than @
dollars which the
Conference Board has figured for factory workers.
The Conference Board always gives the cheerful side of labor Stats
tics but idea from these of the extent
potaton of American whiear workers There three million
office workers the United Sabou 80 of all gnuy employed
workers negligible percentage of them organized One of the great
organization
plotted, underpad workers.
CY OGDEN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-22
MAKING LABOR HISTORY SAFE FOR LIBERALS

Short History Of the American Movement by Mary Beard
The American
kind VIGOROUSLY foreign to the its officials their
the militant members of the labor has really heroic
Mary Charles Beard with the
sou humo and penetration which often characteristic of research
down for the conservative of the
L. the tn Of passing Sam Go%pes she says
1T giant machine which and his councillors bqueathed
in such fields as BANKING CREDIT SUR TyEsTETs n
tina of h nation"
This why
doubt pos
acton on the Of the automobile WORKERS after had
Steel packing metal mine lumber textile boot and SHOE telegraph
could be organized the a Of officials Weren't busy operating
Mrs Boards little book published by the Worker Educational Bureau
which has many occasions received the official blessings of the F.
seg Pemans History of Trade Unonsm the United States and
BEEN probably will be for many years to come fact
ing attempt to prove that there can Joint on the part
the workers and farmers of the United States free themselves from
the @ move IS history
L. is fairly reflection Of her attitude toward the whole history Of
labor in the United States
that the American workers fundamentally heart
entanging political
s % a ne a. f OF maray SObgh 70 %n O ne puOn
therefore the
association
pie Labor leaders joined the
Matthew wo of the vicepreden acting president
Rockefeller, etc.
A L..
enthusiastically
proud a
policies
"the rise of the Secretary of Labor W. Wilson,
positive influence in the
In another portion of the book Mrs Beard doesn't fail to mention thai
through
Of
bic aliens United 1872
A. F
the Communists and other radicals the labor dscamna
the organized labor sympathy revolutionary
activities"
Mrs Beard has performed genuine th
labor
SENDER GARLN II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-22
My Country IT'S Of Thee
By NAT KAPLAN.

And Then Jump!-A wag on the
editorial staff of the republican
Brooklyn Standard Union suggests
that Mr.. Coolidge, who is looking for
a vacation site that is thigh, healthy
and accessible" try the Woolworth
tower.
Pardon My Glove.-Big business is
responsible for ring decadence,
More than one pugilist has been
spoiled for his trade by an over
jealous press agent. Then along
came the plastic surgeons.
Now pugilistic headliner, accepted
by the haut monde, becomes as care
full and self-conscious as an old time
virgin at an old-time National Winter
Garden performance.
Attention u. S. Chamber OF Com
merce.-One hundred years ago, on
March rs, 1927, Ludwig Won Beeth-
oven died in Vienna. The centennial
Of this event will be celebrated all
over the world. Real 100 per cent
Americans will look askance at this
tribute, this attempt to demonstrate
that music transcends national
tongues and barriers. Worse than
that, the masters atonal and polytonal
departures anticipated the advent Of
our ultra-moderns.
Sweet Spirits OF Nitre!-"Is The
Tabloid Press a Public Nuisance ?"
The subject of the March 10 radio de-
bate between Herr Professor Oswald
Garrison Willard and Martin Wey-
rauch, assistant managing editor Of
the Graphic.
The winner will be the tabloids' cir
culation departments.
Opportunity.-By far the most inn
portant musical note of the year
transcending even the production of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-22
SEND IN YOUR LETTERS

The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters
from its readers stating their views the issues
fronting the labor movement. 1t is hope to de-
velop Letter Box" department that will be Of wide
interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER family
Send in your letter today to "The Letter Box" The
DAILY WORKER, 33 First street, New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-22

EDITORS NOTE-The DAILY
WORKER does not take any res
possibility for the vie1os set forth
beIolC. We think that the tOriter
has covered tremendous range
Of speculation II, some 100 tOords
aud that tho questions he raises
might 1VeIL make epen holder COM
rades quail. We feel about his
article much as BukhGTin did
about Trie11t's speech on the in
te1nGtionaI situation at the last
session of the enlarged e1ecGtive
Of the Communist International
Bukharin said:
ION the 1Ohole, however, my I'M
preston of the speech tOGs not I'M
favorable. Courade Treino pom
ders deeply about these questions,
he is not always right, but IN these
days eUen to ponder is q Virtue."
By HARBOR ALLEN.
T SAID in a review of En- 10 Bas-
/ she's fervent Negro play, Earth,
(now at the Sind Street Theatre):
'What is proletarian play? Is it
Karl Marx manifesto recited by a
chorus in overalls, with two inter-
missions, on a Russian setting?" l
have had replies, some of them hot.
In due time there will be printed a
symposium in this column on the
question.
So far as know there has been no
proletarian play yet written in Eng
fish. Some plays have elements, hints
of what a proletarian play will con-
tain.
The five playwrights in the New
Playwrights Theatre are leased by
the question. They are willing to
discuss it, argue it. In some of their
work they come close to writing
working class drama. But two
or three of them, the older ones, shy
away from it. They are terrified
by propaganda" Propaganda isn't
art"
John Howard Lawson believes there
is altogether too much sloppy talk"
about proletarian art. Maybe he is
right. More than one fine movement
has been talked to death. He says
further that there is no working class
audience for the English theatre.
And maybe there too, for the time
being, he is right. AS soon as there
is a working class audience, as soon
as it makes its wants felt, there will
be working class plays. 1t is an old
revolutionary maxim that the artist
trails social upheavals; he can only
reflect them, give them some elo-
quence; he cannot create them.
The Jewish population Of New
York has made the biggest steps to-
ward proletarian drama, mainly be-
cause among them the left-wirig is
most articulate, probably most intel
ligent and organized. Yet "Her
Crime" by Comrade Olgin, remains
an idea rather than a play; and ex-
cept for one or two scenes, a few
characters, and an atmosphere,
"Shop" is a stale melodrama. What
else has America to offer?
Still, the workers drama is coming
What it will sound like, nobody can
say for sure. But suspect it will
have many of the virtues of Mr.. Bas-
she's Earth" Earth" is a fierce,
hot study of religious frenzy. It's
people are peasants. They talk with
the ringing simplicity of peasants.
Their emotions run untrammeled, a
burning torrent. Deborah, the Negro
mother, never reasons things out. She
feels.
Without building up a honeycomb
of naturalization around her, she
goes straight to the crux of the reli-
gious fraud. If God is the God he is
supposed to be, she says, he will be
square, he won't cheat, he won't steal,
he won't go back on his bargains.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-22
seise Spanish Ship.

KEY WEST, Fla, March 21.-The
Spanish schooner Coral with twenty
aliens and a crew of four on board
was seized by Coast Guard Patrol
Boat 27S at Loggerhead Key, twenty
miles north Of Key West, today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-22

Opportunity.-By far the most inn
portant musical note Of the year
transcending even the production Of
The Kings Henchman-E Eddie Mayo,
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-11
GRAPEFRUIT GROWERS BUY
SITE FOR PACKING HOUSE

the second quality. "Imperial
Valley Queen" will be used as
a special label. Each grapefruit
packed will bear on its skin a
mark identifying the fruit with
the valley.
All fruit packed by the asso-
citation this year will be market
ed by the California Fruit
Growers Exchange, non-profit
growers organization of over
1000 growers. Over 200 pack
ing houses are operated and
more than Is per cent of all the
citrus fruit raised in California
handled by this organization. In
the estimation of the directors,
this connection assures the asso-
citation members of a return for
their fruit which will be consist
ent with prevailing market
prices.
Plans were made for a meet
ing of all grapefruit growers of
the valley to be held October
90 at 1880 p. m. at the court
house. Further detail of the
program, to which all growers
are invited, will be announced
in later issue of the Press.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-11
MOVIE OWNERS OBJECT TO
OUTSIDERS SHOWING FILMS

auspices of the federal trade
commission. with request that
it be included in the program
the conference expects to evolve
for government of the movie in
duStrv.
While the exhibitors met in
the bar association headquarters
during the morning, the larger
producers met in the offices of
Will II. Hays, head of the mo-
tion picture distributors and
exhibitors association and dis.
eussed their problems. No an
nouncement of what was accom-
plished at this meeting was
made.
This afternoon session of
the general conference will be
held.
A resolution was presented
approving the attitude of the
federal trade commission in the
ease against the Lasky company,
motion picture producers, in
volving "bloek booking" but
it was sent back to the resolu-
tions committee headed by Har-
ry Suttman, for revision.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-11
BIDS FOR new
HIGHWAY WORK
ARE CONSIDERED
BY United Press Leased Wire

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Oct. IL
Hids for state highway construction
projects totaling $302,7ll.45 were
rnder consideration by the division
OF highways here today. Engineers
estimates on the proposed work To-
waited in thre ecounties, totalled ap-
proximately 1888 900.
A low bid of $1S2, ,544 80 was sub
mitted by Steel Finley of Santa
Ana for paving 9.29 miles from
Cherry avenue TO San Bernardino
against an engineer estimate OF
1925, 1880. r. Johnson, Glendale,
was low bidder for construction of
bridges over Warm Creek, Mission
storm drain and Santa Ana river,
San Bernardino county. His figure
was $73.277.25 against an estimate
of $4,000.
Richard r. Bishop of Long Beach
offered a low bid of $25, 5,032.50 a
gainst an estimate of $23, 154.5O for
widening of two Orange County
bridges, one south of Tustin, the
other over Also creek.
Noble. Brothers of San Jose were
low bidders for two concrete bridges
in Colusa county, over Stone corral
and Funk slough. Their bid was
$21 $500 against the engineers es-
innate of 24,359.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-11
STATE OFFICERS
TAKE CHARGE OF
IMPERIAL BANK

No new development had marked
the closing of the Farmers and Mer-
chants Bank of Imperial up to noon
today. The audit of the banks fin
ances was being continued under the
supervision of state officials and it
was expected that a complete report
on the condition would be available
within few days. A liquidator
will be appointed as soon as the
audit is completed.
While numerous persons through
out the valley have money invested
in the bank, the majority viewed
its closing optimisticallv and with a
belief that though their money may
be tied up for a time it is not lost
entirely.
The officials in charge of the
bank at the present time continued
to remain silent as to the reason
for closing but it is intimated that
" frozen securities is the reason.
John McFall, chief of the south
ern division of the state banking
department, is in charge of the
bank. r. L. Angel and r. f.
O'Brien, others members of the
state banking department, are in the
valley with him to assist in clearing
up the situation.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-11
Fair Secretary
To Talk Here

Harry f. Niven, secretary of the
Brawley Chamber of Commerce and
the Imperial Valley Mid-Winter
Fair, will be the speaker at the
weekly luncheon meeting of the
members of the FL Centre Chamber
of Commerce at the Barbara Worth
hotel tomorrow noon. Niven is rec,
Ggnized as Il good talker and his
address should prove interesting to
the chamber members.
The general meeting which was
to have been held here this week
has been put over for one week. Ar
rangements have been made to open
that gathering with dinner at the
Barbara Worth hotel at o'clock
in the evening and all persons in
terested in the welfare of the valley
are urged to be present.
The meeting will be conducted
along booster lines and all persons
having suggestions to make relative
to needed improvements in the val
ley will be heard on their respective
subjects.
The regular weekly meeting of
the board of directors of the cham.
ber will be held in the rooms on
Main street at 1880 o'clock tonight
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-11
CHAMBER WILL.
HELP TO SOLVE
RADIO TROUBLE

Following many complaints from
local radio enthusiasts, the FL Cen-
trO Chamber of Commerce has under
taken to conduct survey for the
purpose of ascertaining the cause of
interference in local radio apparatus
and to the end that the survey may
be as successful as ossible, it ask s
the cooperation of all radio fans.
An expert radio engineer has been
engaged by the chamber to study
the local situation and his work will
be greatly facilitated if radio own
crs will give the following informa-
ton, sending it by mail to the see
rctary of the FL Centre Chamber
of Commerce:
Name, address, when interference
starts, when it stops and if water
pipe is used for ground.
Particularly during reception of
the world s series last week, local
radio owners were up in arms be
cause of the interference which
spoiled the reception. On number
less occasions reception has been
clear and distinct only to become
almost obiiteratcd by some unknown
cansc.
The chamber of commerce empha-
sizes the necessity of cooperation
on the part of all having radio out
fits it the trouble is to he dscov-
cred and corrected.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-11
Driver of Auto
Faces Murder If
Injured Boy Dies
by United Press Leased Wire

SANTA ANA, Oct. 1l-COmplaint
charging murder will be issued a.
gainst Wilford Claire, 35, San Di-
ego bond broker, if Gordon Web
ster, II, Modesto, dies of a skull
fracture received III the crash of
Claire's automobile, officials said
here today.
The youth is reported near death
in a local hospital, while in another
institution the San Diego man is
recovering from minor injuries re-
ceived when the Claire machine was
wrecked near Capistrano beach last
night. A third occupant, Harry
Haas, Is, also of Modesto, escaped
almost unhurt.
Young Haas, it was said, told
motorcycle patrolmen that the au'
tomobile in which they were riding
on a hunting trip was wrecked in a
collision with Claire s ear near FL
Toro. Claire, ne said, Offered them
ride saying he would buy them
another car in San Diego.
The youth continued that Claire
speeded his car at approximately 20
miles per hour and that, as they
crossed a railroad track, the machine
went out of his control, and hurtlel
into a ditch, pinning Webster be
reath it.
Physicians at the Santa Ana hos
pital pronounced Claire intoxicated
and officers reported that liquor was
found in his machine.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-11
SINCLAIR FALL
TO STAND TRIAL
FOR CONSPIRACY
Government to Prosecute
Pair Flayed by Decision
OF Supreme Court.
BY HERBERT LITTLE
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.-Found
by the United States supreme court
to have conspired to defraud the
government in the Teapot Dome
lease, Harry F. Sinclair and Albert
3. Fall will go on trial here Mon
day on criminal Indictment coy
ering the same transaction.
The supreme courts verdict, de,
nouncing former secretary of the
interior Fall a 'faithless servant
and annulling the lease, cannot be
placed before the jury which is to
decide the guilt or innocence of
the two.
Former Senator Atlee Pomerne
government special oil prosecutor,
expressed satisfaction at the court s
unanimous decision cancelling the
Teapot Dome lease. He said Justice
Butler who read the decision sex
pressed my sentiments.
Pomerne and his associate, Owen
J. Roberts, are prepared to start
their case in the district of Colum-
bia supreme court, although their
witnesses, H. M. Blackmer and
James f. O'Neil, wealthy oil men
still are in Europe with no apparent
intention of returning. Blackmer
has been subpoenaed.