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The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24
YOUNG CANADIAN HAS AWFUL
 EXPERIENCE IN ALASKA

Cordova, Dec. 21, (R-After ly- ing more than a month alone in a cabin in the wilds of Interior AL aska with one leg burned of nearly to the knee and the other foot bad ly burned, Nick Raworth. young Canadian war veteran was taken to the Kennecott hospital Saturday. November third. Raworth was oper- 'ating . trap line on the Gulkana river and was attacked by bear.
 His dog fought nobly to save his master but lost his own life in the attempt. The bear then turned on Raworth knocking him unconscious. What happsAed lext Raworth does not remember. hut Y evidently Y aaaa ssasss(l a@re. but the sAssk and toss or blood carried him into . state of coma. When he .next became conscious one leg was burned on to the knee and the other foot was badly injured and he was suffering intense agony. He crawled fifteen miles to one of his cabins where he lay week after week scarcely able to secure food and water. He was found in this condition this week by an In. dian who packed him by dog team to Copper Center thirty miles away. Raworth was then taken to Chitina where he was placed aboard the c. K. s& IN. w. Railroad train and was taken to the kennecott hospital whore It is as yet undetermined as to whether he has a fighting chance to live.
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24
PuRNEI4L, KING OF HOUSE
 OF DAVID" PASSED ON

Benton Harbor. Mich. Dec. 20. R-Benjamin Purnell King of the House of David. Is dead. He died last Friday morning and today the fourth day after death his body Is still lying In the bed where he died. A colony of officials believing in the teachings of Purnedl that the faith ful. could not die, have refrained from snmmoning the undertaken, and made no announcement of the leaders death. Under the State law the body must be moved with in seventy-two hours.
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24
HICKMAN IS UNDER ARREST

could not be heard. The guards feared that he might have taken some concealed way of destroying himself. They reused him enough to determine that he was still alive and then combed through his mass Of hair to see that he had not secreted pill or drug there
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24
TO EXTEND AGRICULTURAL
 AID TO ALASKA, IS EFFORT

Washington, Dec. 20, (P,-The extension of Federal Agricultural assistanse and cooperative enter prise granted under the Hatch-Pur- nell and Smith-Lever Acts to AL aska. is proposed in a bill introduce ed in the House yesterday by Rep resentative Vasel, Republican, of Indiana.
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24
STEAMER STARR WAS
 SANTA CLAUS BOAT

Seward. Des. 23. (R)-The mail and passenger steamer Starr return ed to Seward after delivering Xmas trees and presents to isolated com munities along the Aleutian Islands. The Starr delivered more than one hundrd trees and three hundred sacks of holiday mail.
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24
HICKMAN SAYS DID NOT KILL
 MARION; ADMITS GOT MONEY

Pendleton. Dec. 24. (P)-Captur- ed in a breakneck race with police officers on the Columbia River Highway. William Edward Hick- man told the story of the kidnap- ping of Marian Parker, and at the same time tried to shift the blame for the murder of the girl upon the shoulders of 'his part her." man he named as Andrew Cramer.
 The high lights of his confession are as follows:
 Hickman said he had no knowl- edge of the staying until the dis membered body of the little girl was delivered at his apartment Saturday night. He revealed that he fled to San Francisco after he learned of the murder. where he said he had an appointment to meet Cramer Sunday.
 He said he held up many drug stores taking money and chloro- form. June Cunning, woman friend of Cramer's. Hickman nam ed as another accomplice. He said he started on his ,holdup career to acquire enough money for a col lege education. He blamed Cramer for the Kidnapping idea. He said they decided upon the daughter of Parker after considering kidnapp- ing the child of one Haves the chief teller in the same bank, but aban- doned the idea of the Hayes child because it was too young.
 Hickman said he watched the Parker home to learn the habits of the girl. and then hit upon the idea of taking her from school on the pretext that her father was injured. He said he took the girl to the nov ies the same night. and after the show he turned her over to Cramer. He said he saw Marian again Fri day night. He made an appoint ment to turn the girl over to her father Friday. but he saw that her fathers car was followed by another car filled with detectives.
 After the frustrated attempt to collect the ransom on Friday. Hick- man said he turned the girl over to Cramer again Friday night. and he saw her no more until her dis membered body was brought to, his apartment Saturday evening by Cramer, in a suitcase.
 He said he then telephoned to the girls father to make another He received the ransom money on the second ap- pointment and then lied from Los Angeles to San Francisco. then to Seattle, where he doubled to make Portland, and then Eastern Oregon where he was captured.
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24

Los Angeles, Dec. 23. (R)- Hickman was today indicted by the County Grand Jury. Judge Hardy immediately issued Bench War rant on the charges set forth in the indictment. The Court order ed the accused youth to be held without bail.
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24

Pendleton., Dec. 22. R-When lodged in the Pendleton jail Hick- man laughed hysterically at the ac-
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The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24

El Paso. Dec. 22, (P-Thomas Hickman. the father of the murder CT. William Edward Hickman. was today discovered working in a rail- road shop near here. He broke down and wept when he admitted he was the father of the murderer. He sobbed as he told how he had last seen his son at Kansas City, in October. 1926. His son was then working in grocery store.
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24

Pendleton. Dec. g. tR-Hick- man declared in his confession that he wanted money with which to go to college and he thought that kid mapping was an easy way to get it.
 Following the news report on Hickman's flight in the Associated Press. Hickman set out west from here, and at sharp turn in the highway east of Echo. he stopped to light his pipe. When Chief of Po- lice Tom Gurdane noticed a green car approaching with switched plates. Gurdane and State Officer Buck Lieuallen hailed the driver and then gave chase. Halting the car when the officers drew along side a gun was on the seat between Hickman's legs. When he alighted from the car a sawed o6 shot gun dropped to the floor of the car. He was brought to Pendleton and was searched. The police found the money which Perry Parker had given him for the ransom of his child. A large crowd was milling around the. police station moved by curiosity rather than malice. the police said.
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24

Sacramento. Dec. 22, (R-Extra- dltion papers whereby Governor Young Of California seeks the re- turn of Hickman. are being rushed here by airplane.
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24

Kansas City. Dec. P, (R-Mrs. Eva Hickman, mother of William. who was taken by the police at Echo. Oregon today, collapsed when she vas told that her son had been arrested. She said: "It can't be true. If they've caught the slayer, 1t can't be my son Edward"
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24

RUBscRIRn FOR THE NuooE1
The Nome nugget., 1927-12-24
|. b, BARN DANCE SATURDAY DEC. 3l

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Evening star., 1927-12-02
Baltimore Markets
BALTIMORE. December (speciaD.

BALTIMORE, December 2 (SpeciaD.
White potatoes, 100 pounds. 1.50a
LIS; barrel, 1.25a2.75; sweet potatoes,
barrel, 1.25a1.75; yams, barrel, 2.OOa
3. 90; beans, bushel, 75a1.25; beets, 200
a3.00; brussels sprouts. quart, 1Oa1S;
cabbage, 100, 2.00a4. 90; caulifiower,
crate, 1.50a2.25; carrots, 2.00a3.00;
celery, crate, 1.25a2.00; kale, bushel,
15a25; lettuce, crate, 4.50a5.00; onions,
100 pounds, 1.OOa1.75; peppers, crate.
1.25a250: pumpkins, 100, 10.00a20.00;
basket. 35a40; spinach, bushel, 30a65;
cabbage, bushel. 15a25' tomatoes,
crate, 3.OOa5.5O.
Apples, basket, 35a75; barrel, 2.50a
600; cranberries, box, 3.25a4.00; grape
fruit. box, 3.50a4.50; oranges. box, 400
ASSOC; pears. bushel, 50a1.00.
Hay and Grain Prices.
Wheat-No. 2 red Winter, export.
1881; No. red Winter, export, no
quotation; No. red Winter, garlicky,
domestic, 1884; No. 8 red Winter,
garlicky, domestic, no quotation.
Corn-No. 2 yellow, domestic, 1.02;
cob corn, old, 400. 500 per barrel,
nominal.
Oats-No. 2 white, domestic. 61a
61s; No. 3 white, domestic, 60a60h.
Rye-Nearby, 90a1.00.
Hay-Receipts, 21 tons. New hay
is arriving in only limited quantity.
1t is, therefore, not being officially
graded and sells strictly on it's merits,
within range of 14.00a17.00 ton, tim
othy and clover grades.
Straw-No. wheat, 1000a14.00 per
ton; No. 2 oat, 13.00a14.00.
Dairy Farm Products.
Live poultry-Turkeys, pound, 40a42;
old, 35a36; poor and crooked breasts,
25; Spring chickens, 23a25; Leghorns,
20a22; poor and thin, 16a1S; old hens,
2Oa24; Leghorns, 15a17; roosters, 14a
is: ducks, 22a25; small and poor. 16a
IS; geese, 18a23; pigeons. pair. 20a30;
guinea fowls, each, 40aS5.
Dressed poultry-Turkeys, pound,
38a42; old Toms, 35a36: poor and
crooked breasts. 25; young chickens.
24a26; old, 22a25; old roosters, 15a16;
ducks. 25a28; geese. 20a25.
Eggs-Receipts. 1878 cases; native
and nearby current receipts in free
cases, dozen, 4S; strictly fresh.
dozen, 45.
Butter-Good to fancy. creamery.
pound, 46a52; prints. 52a54; blocks,
51a53; ladies', 37a3S; rolls. 34aS6; store
packed, 33; process butter, 41a42; dairy
prints, 34a36.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
EDSON WILL QUIT RAIL
HEAD POST, PAPER SAYS

KANSAS CITY, December 2 R.-
The Kansas City Star says j. A. Ed
son will retire as president of the
Kansas City Southern Railroad at the
end of this month. The resignation,
which the Star said was confirmed
from New York. will end a 22-year
tenure in that office.
Pending action by the directors, prob
ably Wednesday. the Star said, Mr.. Ed
son, who is 73 years old. and A. M
Calhoun, vice president and assistant
to Mr.. Edison, declined to discuss a
probable successor or his retirement
to a less exacting. advisory post with
the railroad.
Mr.. Edison came to Kansas City in
1899 as general manager for the re-
ceivers of the Pittsburgh & Gulf Rail-
road. In 1902 Mr.. Edison went to Den
yer as general manager of the Denver
& Rio Grande, returning to Kansas
City as president of the Kansas City
Southern in 1905.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
Money! to Loan

Secured by first deed OF trust on real estate
Prevailing interest and commission.
.1oeanh Waller 42O Wash. L. q Trust
D~oSk.' - w INV Hlhg. 9th a = NV
Evening star., 1927-12-02
COTTON IS STEADY
IN TODAY'S TRADING
Early Advance Meets Reac.
tions, but Prices Hold
Above Previous Close.
Bv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Fress
NEW YORK, December 2.-The cot
ton market opened steady today at an
advance of to IL points on continued
covering and trade buying, but SEEM
ed to meet slightly increased offer.
ings around the 1919 cent level for
March offerings. which supplied the
immediate demand, and there were re.
actions of or points from the best
Selling was in comparatively small
volume, however, and the market was
quiet at the end of the first hour,
prices holding fairly steady around
1915 for March or about3 to points
above yesterdays closing quotations.
A private report estimating the
crop at 1875 900 bales was without
apparent effect on the early market.
Private cables said trade calling and
continental buying had absorbed liqui-
dation and hedge selling in the Liver
pool market and also an increase cloth
turnover for India, but that prices
were unsatisfactory.
Evening star., 1927-12-02

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Evening star., 1927-12-02
POTATO MARKET DULL.

CHICAGO, December 2 (B.-Pota.
toes-Receipts. SO cars; on track, 33S;
total United States shipments, sos
cars; demand and movement slow,
market dull: few sales reported: Wis
consin sacked round whites, 1.50a165:
Minnesota, North Dakota sacked
round whites and Red River Ohios,
lao; Idaho sacked russets, No. /,
1.50a1.65; partly graded, 1.25a1.45.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
COPPER ADVANCED.

NEW YORK, December R).-
Copper Exporters. Inc, has advanced
tile price of copper to 14.25 cents a
pbund, C. 1. f. Hamburg, Havre and
london. from 1415 cents. Good for
efgn sales are reported, and demand
in the domestic market is more active
at 13% to IA cents a pound, delivered.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
COTTON GOODS DULL.

NEW YORK, December 3 (SpeciaD.
Cotton goods markets were dull and
unchanged today. Print cloths were
quoted at SC for 64x60s and at &c for
6Sx72s. Raw silks were up points
in a strong market.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & co.,
Nominal Selling checks
NEW YORK, December

NEW YORK, December @.-
Foreign exchanges firm; quotations
lin cents): Great Britain, demand,
4S75s: cables. .4SSH; 60-day bills on
banks, 4S35s; France, demand.
1898 1916; cables, 3.93 GIG; Italy, de.
mand, 5.43; cables. 5.43A.
Demand: Belgium, 13.97k; Germany,
23.S8%; Holland, 40.3S1a; Norway,
26.61 Sweden, 26.9S: Denmark, 1851:
Switzerland, 19.2Sk; Spain, 1852;
Greece, 1929; Poland. 11.25; Czecho.
slovakia. 2.96; Jugoslavia, 1.76; Austria.
14.12: Rumania, so; Argentina, 1882;
Brazil. 11.97; Japan, 1885; Shanghai,
63.87h; Montreal, 100.O9as.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
PRICES ON PARIS B0URsE.

PARIS. December 2 R.-Prices
were irregular on the Bourse today.
Three per cent rentes. 81 francs IS
centlmes; exchange on London. 124
francs centimes; per cent loan. rs
francs 35 centimes. The dollar was
quoted at 25 francs 40A centimes.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
PAIGE SHIPMENTS HEAVY.

NEW YORK. December 2 Cpl
by Paige Detroit Motor Car
CD. i'm November were largest for any
November in the company's history,
REACHING 2,401 cars, against 1,410 in
0Seber and 927 in November last
e r..
Evening star., 1927-12-02
RUBBER DECLINES.

NEW YORK, December (SpeciaD.
Crude rubber, smoked ribbed sheets,
declined "a at today's noon quotation
of 40 This compares with 35B a
month ago and SO year ago.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30
PALACE-"A Little Journey"

This week, beginning this afternoon.
at Ioew's Palace, will be offered
Metro Goldwyn- Mayors perturbation
of Rachel Crothers' play. "A Little
Journey" with Claire Windsor, VIII
liam Haines. Harry Carey and Claire
Mcdowell featured, together with Sid
Hall and his Melody Masters, IL stars
of syncopated harmony, with AL and
Jack Rand in band-leader antics, at
the head of the stage offerings in Il
program of music and dance surprises;
Lillian Bernard and Flo Henrie, the
female Van and Schenck," in song in
terpretations, and Yurieya and Svo-
boda, premier dancers of the San
Carlo Opera Co. and late of the I'm
perial Ballet, Moscow.
Robert z. Leonard directed the
screen production OF "A Little Jour
ney," which takes place on an over
land limited between New York and
San Francisco and during which a
penniless but adventurous young
man accomplishes. iii five short days,
the complete romantic conquest of a
beautiful young girl who is bound for
San Francisco to meet her millionaire
fiance.
"A Little Journey" is described as
a "smile-a minute Pullman toyride.
William Haines, recently seen in The
Quarterback" Harry Carey, who has
forsaken Western drama. and Claire
Mcdowell have important roles.
The other attractions will include
the Palace magazine. Dick Liebert's
Organlogue, Topics of the Day, an
Aesop's Fable and a specially staged
orchestral overture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30
coexe Mom 7AE SCARLET
LETTER H. Columbia
Baudine S Rise

TWELVE years ago William Bau
dine packed his other suit case
and decided to seek fame and fortune
In California.
He returned to New York recently
with quite a bit of each, to film
Thomas Meighan's new picture, THE
Canadian"
When Baudine first went away, two
reelers and considerable worry about
the price of the next meal were in
order for many persons now famous
in the motion picture world. The
word Studio" was an euphonious
title for any structure where a motion
picture could be made.
Most of Baudine's picture expert
ence up to the time of his departure
had been at the old Biograph plant
on Fourteenth street, d. w. Griffith s
headquarters, and Baudine had vague
hopes of following in I'D. WIS" foot
steps.
Baudine attended Morris High
School. He needed job and asked
an uncle, property man at the Bio
graph Studio, to help him. Bill was
soon installed as assistant to Robert
Harron, the prop boy, and anything
that Haron didn't do, Bill did.
BY 1914, Baudine had reached the
position of assistant director and
begun to look around for new fields to
conquer. California was the great
lure of the picture business at that
time.
Since then Baudine has made two
hundred and fifty pictures. Immedi-
ately preceding The Canadian" he
directed Hold That Lion" for
Douglas Mae can and "Sparrows'
for Mary Pickford.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30
Rialto Springs Surprise

DATRONS Of the big motion picture
theater may look forward to a
real surprise some of these nights.
The Talmadge sisters, Gloria Swan
son, Mary Pickford and a hundred
more celebrated stars Of the screen
who are as well known by appear
ance as they are unknown by the
sound of their voices may suddenly
speak to the so-caNed visible audi
ence." as the radio announcer calls
them.
Arrangements are being made by
a number of producers with the DE
Forest Phonofilm Co. to register
the stars in question.
The ''phcnofllm" is a talking
movie" A well known character is
pictured on the screen. He or she
walks to the center, looks out at the
audience, smiles and then begins to
talk The lips move and the words
are formed They are projected with
the exact intonation of the speaker.
The picture is actually talking with
the voice of the subject. That is what
the phonofilm does, and that Is what
it is planned TO do with lot of fin
stars. This comes next to being q
personal appearance, and the same
personal appearance" may be made
In New York, Chicago. San Francisco
Miami and the smallest town in the
United States and all at the same time
This remarkable invention will be
| presented for the first time to Wash
| ington theatergoers beginning Satur
day, when the Club Alabam," a re
vue. will be offered at the RialtC
| Theater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30

A double feature bill with contribu-
tions by the Metropolitan Symphony
is announced for this week, begin
ming this afternoon, at Crandall' s
Metropolitan Theater.
The chief screen offering will be
First Nationals production of THE
Lady in Ermine" starring Corinne
Griffith, supported by Einar Hansen
and Francis X. Bushman. The comedy
picture will be Harry Langdon's three
reeler, Saturday Afternoon" released
through Pathe. The Metropolitan
World Survey, short reels and or
chestral accompaniment will be other
attractions.
THE Lady in Ermine" is screen
version of the operetta by Rudolph
Schanzer and Ernest Welisch, which
had an American version by Sigmund
Romberg. The action takes place dur
ing the Austrian invasion of Italy, in
1910, and has as it's pivotal characters
young countess whose husband has
just marched away to war and the
commanding general of the Austrian
invaders, impersonated by Mr.. Bush
man. In the ancestral dining hall of
the countess palace hangs an oil
painting of her grandmother, in con
nection with which a romantic legend
Is narrated Events so shape them
selves that the Countess Mariana is
called upon to duplicate the sacrifice
undergone by her grandmother, and
from this episode the drama derives