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Evening star., 1927-11-30
M u S l C.
JOSEF H0FMANN's RECITAL.

Director of the Curtis Institute of
Music and an inventor of note. josef
Hofmann still holds his foremost
laurels as very remarkable and in
fiiyidual pianist He made his first
local appearance of the season at
Polls Theater yesterday afternoon be-
fore a large audience which received
his efforts with a steadily mounting
enthusiasm that grew almost exuber-
ant by the time he reached the end
of his program and played two encores
with dash and brilliance-Mendels-
sohn's "Spinning Song" and Chopin's
'Polonaise MiIitaire.'
Mr. Hofmann is undoubtedly a
ma ster of every phase of piano tech
niaue. His runs and trills with the
right hand are maryelous and his left
is equally beautifully Also, he has that
intangible asset of the real artist--a
distinctive tone quality from his touch
on the KEYS that stands as his alone
and would be recognizable anywhere
at any time. He gave his entire pro-
gram without notes.
The program was opened with
"Chromatic Phantasy and Fugue" by
Bach. an exacting work executed with
amazing ease. If there were those
who felt it's soul had been stored in
q refrigerator and not much thawed
out by the time it reached the audi
ence, there were others who seemed
enthusiastic over its performance.
The Beethoven Sonata in A Major,
opus 101," followed. What fingers in
the memory of this Interpretation
with one hearer is the exquisiteness
of almost vocal polyphonic effect
achieved in the singing melodies Of
the third and the first part of the
fourth movement.
Quite the event of the afternoon
was the playing of Chopin's Twenty
four Preludes.' Mr.. Hofmann made
1t a. stupendous achievement. The
sketching of the varied moods and
tempos of these preludes gave almost
a musical analogy to a beautiful scenic
picture where nature in many moods
is depicted on the screen. The hearer
could hardly help building pictures
mentally as Mr.. Hofmann played.
And some of the tempos he took!
IN the last group were Mendelssohn
and Debussy with moments of fasci-
mating beauty in Interpretation and
the List "Campanella," which. of
course, Mr.. Hofmann played superbly.
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Evening star., 1927-11-30
Man Who Waged Long Fight on Unions,
Poor and Ill, to Get Annuity of $4,000

rendered in 1912 in favor of Loewe.
The decision of the Supreme Court
in the famous case established as
law that the United lIatters of Amer
lea We're a combination in restraint
of trade or commerce under the
Sherman act. and that the individual
members of the union could be held
for three. times the loss inflicted, plus
costs and counsel fees.
The long expensive fight, however.
had left ID. +. Loewe & Co.. established
in 1873. in hard straits, and in April,
1926, the company went into bank.
ruptcy. Three business competitors
constituted themselves creditors
committee and raised 100000 to bring
about a settlement of 40 cents on the
dollar.
National organizations are to join
the movement to insure Loewe a
$4,000 annuity, it was said.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
Rich Tin Mines Found.

That the Marranboy tin field near
Darwin. Australia. equals any in the
world for magnitude and consistency,
is the report of experts with expert
ence in deep English tin mines. For
many years only small rich pockets in
the field had been gouged out, but re-
Gently the company took out 1000 tons
in face which averaged 2 per. cent
and despite heavy costs and anti
quated machinery, is showing hand.
some profit.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
Rv the Assnciatcti Press

By the Associated Press
DANBURY. Conn, November go
Broken i'm health and fortunes, and
facing total blindness, the man who
won the celebrated Danbury hatters'
case II years ago at the cost of his
personal fortune. is To have an annuity
of S.. 900 year. Action to provide
for the few years remaining to
Dietrich f. Loewe. now "a years old.
was taken by the Manufacturers
Association of Connecticut at it's meet
ing at Bristol on Monday, it has be-
come known.
For IS years Loewe fought the labor
unions and their boycott from July.
1902. when his employees struck to
enforce their demand for a union
shop. to January. 1915, when the
Federal Supreme Court put an end to
the years of litigation by affirming a
District Court judgment of $252.130,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21
FORMER BANK
IS
BEING SOUGHT
Oft-Spoken Sunday School
Boy Accused Of Killing L.
"A. Girl.
FOX is TRACED
Accused Urged Police to
Search His Apartment
Last Sunday.

LOS ANGELES, Dec 20 0F0 - The
Identification of William Edward HiCk-
man, suspected kidnapper slayer of
Marian Parker as the youth who re-
Gently robbed drug stores of cash,
drugs and anaesthetics in a series sof
petty holdups, and in one holdup
forced the giving of information as to
the use Of the drugs, was one of the
outstanding developments in the mur-
der case announced by the police to-
night.
The druggist holdup victim positively
identified Hickman's photograph as
that of the armed robber who obtain
cash and drugs from his store.
Three druggists declared the bandit
who robbed them on different nights
late last month and early this month,
had fled in Chrysler coupe similar
to the asserted mlCder car.
The janitor of the apartment house
in which Hickman lived last week gave
detectives information indicating the
girl was slain on Friday night, "a hours
before her dismembered torso was de-
livered to her father, Perry Parker, for
a ransom of $500. THE janitor de-
clared he saw the youth carry several
packages out to his automobile on that
night, and that the next day he OBJ
served him cleaning the car seat with a
wet cloth.
A formal charge of kidnapping and
murder was placed against Hickman
late today
shirt with the initials H. B. c.,
the mate to which and similarly
Iinitialed was wrapped about the girls
torso, was found in Hickman'S apart
ment
Revelations we're made that Sunday
morning, when police swooped down
and searched the apartment house,
Hickman, known there as Donald
Evans, sat up in bed telling them to
go ahead, IT hope you find the fiend
His work had been done with such
thoroughness and expedition that
cursory survey revealed nothing sus-
| ipicious.
FIickman-the soft-spoken Sunday
school boy who suddenly became 'the
fox" that is accused of killing little
Marian Parker laid his plans Within
human foresight and deliberation, the
police learned today.
The officers declared that for the
three weeks just preceding the kid
naping of the little school girl, Hick-
man waged a campaign of drug store
robberies that amassed for him a good
ly stock of anaesthetics and seeping
potions.
In one of those robberies, he is said
to have forced the drug clerk at gun
point to instruct him in the details of
administerin gthe anaesthetics he was
stealing.
CONTINUED on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21
IS PEDDLER
Of DOCUMENTS,
SAYS SREPORTER.
Senate Committee Told of
Documents Made Up
In Mexico City

WASHINGTON Dec. 20 R)-NTiguel
Avila, procurer of the documents pub
lished in the Hearst papers puVporting
to show creation of a $1,215,00O Mexi-
can fund for four United States SEN
ators, was pictured today to the spe-
cial senate investigating committee by
Robert H. Murray, a former news
paperman in Mexico, as a profession
al peddler of Mexican documents
Murray said Avila had told him that
he had offered to sell to the Chicago
Tribune last spring a document which
had been ''nade up" by Joseph w. De
Courcey, former correspondent in Mex
leo City for the New York Times, who
was deported from Mexico some months
ago.
Murray, who served for years In
Mexico City as correspondent for the
New York World, made it clear that
he and De Courcey were unfriendly
The document which he said Avila had
advised him De Courcey had s'nnade
up" included, he testified, the name
of Murray as a paid publicity man OF
the Mexican government.
The committee heard Murray, who
is now New York representative of the
Bank of Mexico, after he had vol
unfairly informed Senators johnson
republican, California, and Robinson
Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21
Youngsters Cheer At
Sight OF Snow Where
Winter Seldom Comes

y Douglas people hugged their Y.
=. stoves yesterday and commented H
y on the inch of snow which greet x.
y ed the dawn, the first snow of the y.
+ season and, in Douglas, probably y
y. the last. 1t had all melted off y
81 before noon much to the chagrin y.
y of the small boys who had y
.* thrilled to something very strange 4.
* to most of them. -
y While the snow and the chill y
y. breeze lent wintry air to the Y.
y city the thermometer readings +.
y. made by Jack OConnor for the 4
y day were 80 for the morning, 81 y.
4. at noon and 33 at o'clock in the *
* evening, showing that it was not 4:
y. below freezing at any time. +
N There was a thick coating of y
* snow on all the surrounding hills y
* all day and the sun peeked out *
:T only at intervals, but there is r
y. little encouragement for the small y
* boys. There will probably be no y
4: more snow and it is likely that y
X today will witness the return Of =
y hot sun, balIny breezes and the y
Il resumption of ordinary Arizona 4
y weather. y
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21
100000 D E A D
OR ALIVE WORTH
OF BOY SUSPECT

Los ANGELES, Dec. 20 Up
A boy worth more than 100000
dead or alive, to the authorities,
together with conspicuous big
blue automobile late today ap-
parently had vanished from the
face of the earth.
William E. Hickman, accused
abductor and slayer of Marian
Parker, driving alone in his car,
believed to have been stolen,
dashed through the heart of the
city in carly morning darkness
and since then has successfully
defied every effort Of more than
1000 police officers and hundreds
of thousands of civilian eyes
familiar with his published and
pIacarded photographs.
Behind him, too, there piled up
slowly bits of evidence to rlveS
more firmly the chain of testf-
mory being forged by the police
to brand him kidnapper, slayer
and mutiIatOr of the little school
girl.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21
Ren1us Is Acquitted
OF Numbering Wife
By Cincinnati Jury

CINCINNATI, Dec. 20 (P)-George
Remus, who forsook a legal practice in
Chicago to become the operator of one
of the most extensive bootlegging bust
nesses in tile United States, late today
was found not guilty by a jury here
of the murder of his estranged wife,
-Imogene Holmes Remus. The verdict
was based solely on the ground of
insanity.
Nineteen minutes of deliberation
Isufficed for the two women and 10
men of the jury to do all they possibly
could towards freeing the former
'king of bootleggers," two days less
than ii weeks after he shot and killed
his wife, while she was en- route to
court to divorce him.
Under the charge as given to the
jury by Judge Chester r. Shook, Remus
was denied a verdict of outright ac-
quittal and his case automatically was
certified to the probate court for a
sanity hearing.
Within 80 minutes after the &C
NU1UUtS1, Gl1C pdPC1o WCAN 4CVAA NSAOAC
Judge William H. LuederS, but he de-
clined to act until tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile Remus was forced to re-
main in jail because the law permitted
no bail for a person held for sanity
test and also because he was under a
conviction for contempt of court for
an outburst in which he verbally at
tackled the prosecutors staff in the
closing day of his five weeks and two
days long trial
In his Jail quarters, however, Renlus
was host to a merry anti-Christmas
party There rushed at least four of
the jurors and there was q constant
stream of well-wishers hurrying to
congratulate the man whose life had
been in jeopardy only few minutes
| before.
"You know what 7 said in the jury
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21
COL. L|NDBERGH
TAKES GALES FOR
AIRPLANE TRIP
Mexican President Ex-
pressed Himself as De-
lighted With Flight

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 20, R)-PreS-
ident Gales of Mexico was in good
humor and smiling when he stepped
out of a big commercial plane at.
Valbuena field this morning. He had
just taken an air trip with Colonel
Lindbergh, premier flying man of the
United States.
This was the first flight the pres
ident of the Mexican republic had
ever made and he appeared very
proud of it. For 20 minutes or more
Lindbergh scared with him above
the city, not too high to be out of
range, and when the president re-.
turned he commented with surprise
on the easy motion of the machine
-"even better than riding on a train. :"
General Alvaro Obregon, presi-
Dental candidate, and next to Gales
considered the most influential man
in Mexico, also went up with the
American aviator, and not to be OUT
done, the American ambassador,
Dwight w. Morrow, insisted that he
should share in the most notable SER
les of brief air expeditions ever wit
messed here.
A Fairchild commercial plane, ar
irving unexpectedly from Tampico at
an early hour, gave Lindbergh and
his passengers the opportunity they
were waiting for. Lindbergh had new
er before seen the plane, but that
made no. difference-he jumped
aboard and handled it with the same
skill he DISPLAYED over Paris when
he tried out the French military
planes or any other machine profer-
red him.
First of all today, a party compos-
ed Of General Jose Aware, chief OF
the presidential staff, Humberto OBJ
regon, son of the general and Col
onel Lindbergh as pilot went up and
remained for 10 minutes lowering over
the field where several hundred per-
sons had gathered with a band OF
music. The crowds increased rapidly,
and all eyes watched the plane
anxiously.
Then President Gales entered the
enclosed cockpit. For 20 minutes
Iindbergh demonstrated to the Mex
lean Cl11Cl now d. DAct1AC oAAOuA0 Ny
manipulated on straight flights He
attempted no fancy work, and avoid
ed anything that might in any way
ieopardize the safety of his passen-
gers.
When the plane landed gracefully
President Gales stepped lightly from
it. with a broad smile
cone doesn't feel any movement" !"
he said as though wondering at the
smoothness of the flight. cit is even
better than riding on a train. Colonel
Lindbergh handled the machine ad-
mirably, and it is useless to ask about
his ability"
General Obregon with the American
military attache, Colonel "A. j. Nc
Nab, were the next pair to go along.
Like their predecessors, they were
pleased, General Obregon
saying: "I felt absolutely safe. Who
wouldn't, with such fine pilotP"
The ambassador went up at 11:30.
Although Morrow had flown sever
al times before, he regarded his air
cornradeship with Colonel Lindbergh
today as one of the most memorable
experiences of his life.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21
ENDURANCE FLIGHT RECORD
FAIL SFOR LACK OF GASOLINE

AS early as 3 o'clock this morn
ing it became apparent to Lieuten-
ant Pond and Captain KingsfOrd
that their fourth heroic attempt
was doomed to failure. Although
the plane behaved splendidiy and
the "taiI fIutter" which had spell
ed disaster to their earlier efforts
mad been overcome, the 1922 gal
Ions of gasoline in the tanks,
weighing Approximately 5000
pounds in itself, was inadequate,
under weather conditions as tney
found them. For many hours they
piled the air lanes above northern
California with the engine dhrot
tied down to save gas, but the
choppy weather they encountered
the first night had taken too high
toll.
Both men looked tired and worn
when they finally guided -Aie
"Spirit Of California" back to
Mills field, but "we'lI do it next
tine," was the greeting they gave
their fellow fliers who rushed to
Ine COCKPIT dICcr tne FdHUAAS'
They staggered as they climbed out
onto the field and their first re-
quest was for coffee. They had
been without the warming liquid
since yesterday, when vacuum
bottle broke. Their remaining
sandwiches had become n1ouldy
and all the food they had in the
last IL hours of the flight was
some sour milk.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21

room,' Robert E. Hosford, painting
contractor, juror No. IL, remarked to-
a cheering group gathered about
Remus in the Jail.
"I said let's go out and give him his
Christmas present. Let's nuke him
happy one Christmas. He wasn't
last
Hosford told newspapermen that if
the court had permitted the jury
would have returned a verdict free
ing Remus outright.
"We thought Remus had been greaE-
ly wronged, and that persecution had
lasted long enough" said Hosford.
To Remus, Hosford and Mrs. Ruth
Cross, the % year old baby of the
jury, said:s =.
eve were with you from the start"
RemuS, who set up a defense of
'transitory maniacal insanity" with
himself as chief counsel, received the
verdict with a wild shout: ST wanted
American justice, and thank you
folks"
Tears were streaming down his face
as he left the court room where cheers
still we're echoing and was hurried the
short distance down a corridor equally
alive with cheers to the elevator which
took him to the Jail two floors above.
"I was prevented this morning say
ing what I thought about the judge
not including a verdict of straight
acquittal," he shouted to friends and
neWspapermen through the steel
barred elevator door, "but now I can
say it. That was the first time such
/ a charge ever was made in an Ameri-
can court of law. But for that am
sure right now 7 would be a free man. "
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21
FlEND SLAYER SUSPECTS MOTHER
WOULD DISOWN HIM IF GUILTY

editor of the Centralian, the school
annual, and business manager Of
the student newspaper
Under his picture in the annual
of 1926 were the words:
"An excellent scholastic stand
ing, an unequalIed record of ex-
tracurricuIar activities and high
standard of ideals will fix his
memory in the annals of Central"
Otto #. Dubach, principal Of
Central high school, was shocked.
He and other faculty members
joined in praising Hickman's
record at the school and declared
he had displayed no evidence OF
morbidity. =
A change in the young mans mental
attitude, however, was noted about a
year ago by Lieut.. Col Charles E. Ed
wards, former chief of police, to whom
Hickman was paroled after being in
volved in forgery while employed at
the Los Angeles bank of which Marian
Parker's father was an officer.
The boy, Colonel Edwards said to-
day, had been lively and enthusiastic,
but became moroSe and seemed to
avoid companionship. After the
change, added Colonel Edwards, he was
restless and wanted to be on the CO.
Mrs. Hickman expressed the belief
her son was in Chicago, where he
went last october and obtained job
as usher in theatre. She said she
had heard from him but once since
(Continued on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20 slP)--
Lack of fuel today defeated the
attempt Of Lieutenant George r.
Pond, naval aviator, and Captain
William KingSf0rd- Smith, Austria
Han flier, to set a new worlds
record for endurance flight in the
airpIane Southern Cross, rechrist-
ened spirit of California" When
only four gallons of gasoline re-
manned in the huge tanks of the
ship, they brought her to land, with
less than three hours to go for
record.
The flight, which began at 8.23
o'clock Sunday morning, ended at
$3.50 a. M, today, after 49 hours
and ~ minutes of flying.
UnfavOrabIe weather conditions
Sunday night, which forced the
aviators to ascend to high attitudes
where gasoline consumption is
greater, nullified their efforts to
OutIast the German filters who es-
tabIished the record of So hours,
22 minutes and 81 seconds, several
months ago.
Two records are claimed by the
filters of the "Spirit of California"
as result of their sky trip. One
is the worlds endurance flight
for this type of plane, three
mOtOred FOkker, and the other is
that for continuous radio broad
casting from a plane. This record
they claim to have eclipsed by
many hours.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21

e KANSAS CITY, Dec. 20 (P-- "A
little gray haired mother tonight
stood firm in her belief and trust
in her son, William Edward Hick
man, who was graduated with
honors from high school here in
1926, and who is sought as the
fiend who mutilated and slew IL
year old Marian Parker in Los
Angeles.
Z The mother, Mrs. Eva Hickman,
who has three other sons and a
daughter, seemed bewildered and
dazed by the charge against her
son.
sT know my boy could not be
guilty of such an unspeakable
thing" sObbed Mrs. Hickman.
High school officials and friends,
like the mother, expressed amaze
ment and unbelief that such a
crime could be laid to the door of
Hickman.
The mother said she could only
believe it from her boys own lips.
"But if he should tell me SO him
SELF" said Mrs. Hickman, making
an effort to hold back her tears,
81 would disOwn him.
"This was the act of a fiend.
My boy was good, clean boy.
There is mistake somewhere"
The mother referred with pride
to the record of her son in Central
high school, where he was vice.
president of the senior class, presi-
dent of several clubs, literary
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21
FAINT RAY Of
HOP. HURR|ES
RESCUE WORK
Rescuers Pin Hope On Pos
sibility of Getting Air to
Victims.
NEED MIRACLE.
Admiral Concludes Nothing
Less Will Save Entombed
Sailors.

PROVINCETOWN, Mass, Dec. 20
P)-The stiffness of the grave reigned
tonight in the depths of Province
town harbOr where lies the shattered
hulk of the u. S. S. S-4 and her
crew of two score.
Not since an hour before noon had
the rescue fleet above, grinly holding
at anchor against seemingly inter-
minable gale, been able to catch the
fafnteSt echo Of the tapping which
for 60 hours signalled the pathetic
watch of six men trapped in the
forward torpedo room.
About Ii a. m. the microphones
Of the S-8, sister ship of the stricken
submersible, recorded the barest whis-
pers of sound through the double
barrier of steel hull and sea. While
conveying no intelligibIe message they
wefe interpreted as indicating that
the dying men were making a last
desperate attempt to do something
for themselves.
Then the stiffness of the grave came
over the dark hulk lying PROSTATE
on the ocean floor.
While the hearts of naval officers
directing the rescue rose in their
throats, the faint ray OF hope re-
manning was enough to keep them
feverisflly preparing for the moment
when the seas might quiet enough
to permit the resumption Of diving.
1t was pointed out that life might
linger in the black gaseous chamber
for many hours after the men had
grown too weak to respond to signals
and had lapsed into lnconsciousness.
After seven hours OF sending
oscillating signals which officers be-
lieved must have reverberated loudly
in the forward chamber of the S-4,
the S-8 at 6:2O O'clock this morning
obtained a faint message of tIlree
taps interpreted by some as an
acknowledgement
"Your wife and your mother are
praying for you" the S-8 was trying
to tell Lieut.. Graham Newell Fitch
one of the six men. Whether he
received the message was not known
although two hours later the S-8
heard faltering tapping, as though
someone in the torpor of suffocation
were helplessly trying to tap a code
message.
Officers pinned their hopes on the
possibility Of getting air to the men
before death might end their valiant
struggle.
CONTINUED on Page Three
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21

SENATOR JONES DIES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 R--Sen-
ator Andrieus A. Jones, democrat,
New Mexico, died at his apartment
here late tonight of angina pectorls.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21
FIEND MURDER SUSPECT Is IDENTIFIED
Stiffness of Grave Enshrouds Sunken Sub S.
Here Is Description Of Murder
Suspect Of Marian Parker, Il

LOS ANGELES CF-The following is the description of
the kidnapping and murder of
12-year-old Parker
is old;
nches weight $50 pounds slender build features ordinary
piercing
right to left described slightly
employed in
neatly be well
his fedora his
brownisgey which
cloth low tone
apparently excited
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-21

Copper steady; electrolyticI
spot futures, 14.12c;
lead S spot, 6.50c.