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Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-07

South San Francisco-C California
Cut Stone & Grinding Company will
construct $4,000 plant here.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-07
LIVESTOCK

LIVESTOCK
LOS ANGELES, Oct. HOGS:
100, strong; top 1925.
CATTLE: 100, active; bulk
steers no; bulk she stock 6.S5. Bulk
calves S.ll.50.
SHEEP: None; lambs ll.3O-
1850; ewes 10000.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-07

PASTURE for sale. 500 acre alfal-,
ia and 500 acres barley stubble.
Earl c. Pound, Phone IS, Braw.
ley. l7tf
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-07
Help Wanted
Caswell Coffee District,

We want man to take over dis
tributing agency for Caswen
Coffee in the Imperial Valley
District. Business established
severa. years and pays good in
come. Apply evenings to II. J.
Morgan, resident agent, 613
- Brighton Ave, FL Centre, or call
'a9'or write any time to Cochran
Bros, 1901 Griffith Ave, Los
Angeles, Calf. Ste
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-07
Situations Wanted

RELIABLE white woman wants
work by day or hour. Press Box
722. 1t6-~
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-07

FOR SALE-llorses, hogs, dairy
stock. Clark ". Adair, Seelev.
soft
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-07

FOR LEASE CHEAP-60 acres arv-.
falfa and grass, small dairy or
dry stock. miles Ell Centre. f..
A. Allen, Box 271, Heber. LEG
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-07

PIANO FOR SALE or rent. 51i
broadway. Phone 2ls. 27t}
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-07
Poultry

PCLLETS FOR SALE-Good stock.
DR.. Apples old ranch, Southeast
of Ell Centro. Mrs. Popplewell.vA
5tf
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-07
Gossipy Briefs
From GridirOns
ny United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES Captain Morley
Drurv in recent practice periods at
Southern California has hccn kick
ing goals with great regularity, r"'
moving an aftprtouchdown jiuX
that has followed tho Trojans for
several years. Coach Howard Jones
reports his team in condition for
he Oregon Aggics saturday. Don
Williams. hackficld star, is the only
injured athlete.
PALO ALTO After dcvoting the
antirc week 10 teaching his stan
ford Cardinals how to hold on 10
he ball, Coach "rop' Warner viii
eit on the sidclincs tomorrow aud
watch the result, The Cards meat
Nevada here.
OAkLAND-With moro than half
# hcr first string men still nursing
INJURIES received in the Stanford
came last Saturday, little st. Mary 5
will take the field tomorrow against
. vastly improved California var
sity.
BERKELEY-Aftcr four days 0f
intensive private practice, the Cali.
fornia Bears were ready today ~
make q gallant stand tomorrow a
gainst st, Mary 5.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-07
Livestock

FOR SALE-6 brood hogs; 2i feed
cr pigs; 20 sucking pigs; 6 milk
cows. l.. w. Knapp, Southwest
corner Writings Crossing. soft
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
Hickman Withholds
Important Facts,
Prosecutor States

LOS ANGELES, Dec. %, (P)-Dis-
trict Attorney Asa Keyes late today
declared his belief that William E.
Hickman, confessed kidnapper and
slayer of Marian Parker, had with
held important facts in his lengthy
statement concerning the death of
the school girl.
The prosecutor indicated he would
seek a new and more comprehensive
statement from Hickman which he
believed would remove certain OBJ
scurities in the story of the crime.
Elden Mcfarland, assistant United
States attorney, and a deputy United
States marshal questioned Hickman
in his cell in connection with the
alleged stealing by Hickman in Kan
sas City, Mo-, of the automobile in
which Marian Parker was taken from
her schoolroom on Dec. 15 An in
dictment charging violation of the
federal Dyer act was returned against
Hickman by the United States grand
jury several days ago.
A police shakeup, described by
headquarters men as the most drastic
of several years, was effected by
Chief Of Detectives Herman Cline
late today. Several detective captains
who had been active in leading the
police forces in the kidnapping and
murder manhunt, were removed from
headquarters posts to outlying sta
tions usually termed by members of
the force as "out in the sticks"
Chief of Detectives Cline denied
Oh ocH nj
police mistakes" made during the
Marian Parker kidnapping and mur-
der case, as rumored about headquar-
ters. He insisted the changes were
made at his instigation solely to
Improve the forces in the central
detective bureau to cope with the
unusual increase in violent crime"
Cline cited thirteen robbery reports
in the past "a hours as evidence of
the crime wave.
Captain of Detectives James Bean,
who for five years had been in
charge of investigation of all mur-
ders, suicides, traffic deaths and SIM
liar crime sthroughout the is police
divisions, was removed to command OF
the Wiltshire division detective bu-
reau, an outlying station. He had
been active at headquarters in direct
ing the Hickman manhunt. Capt. of
detectives F. R. Cato, who had been.
at headquarters directing the work
of all the robbery and burglary
squads, was sent to the detective
bureau at Sawtelle, Is miles from
the city hall and at a point termed
by the police as 'out in the sticks"
Detective Lieutenant Frank Con-
daffer, credited by his fellows as
one of the outstanding police detec-
tives, was sent from headquarters to
the detective bureau at Venice, Beach
City, also termed as Gin the sticks"
Condaffer and Capt. Alfred Staten,
also ordered out of headquarters, led
the detective force which raided the
Bellevue Arms apartment, the scene
of the schoolgirls murder, on Sun
day morning after towel from the
apartment house had been taken
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
TUCSON SHERIFF
HICKMAN
ARR. MURDERER
Mcdonald Believes Fiend
Assisted in Staying Of
Rancher.

TUCSON, Dec % P9-Sheriff Jim
Mcdonald of Pima county, tonight eX-
pressed the possibility that William E.
Hickman, confessed kidnapper and
slayer of Marian Parker, may have
been the youth who is alleged to have
been the accomplice of Mrs. Eva
Dugan, charged with the murder of
Andrew j. Mathis, eccentric rancher,
who was slain on or about the night
of January Is, last.
According to statements said to have
been made by Hickman, he was in
Phoenix few days prior to the dis
appearance of Mathis and that later
he went to Kansas City. Hickmans
description comedies somewhat with
that of the youth who is alleged to
have aided in the murder of Mathis
to obtain possession of a small amount
CT money and an automobile.
Reports state that Hickman was in
Kansas City in February. Mrs. Dugan,
now serving a three to six years SEN
tence in the state prison on a charge
of grand larceny in connection with
the theft of Mathis car, said she left
her companion in that city at that
time.
The body of Mathis was found on
the same day that Hickman, II months
after Mathis disappeared, was identi-
fled as the kidnapper of Marion
Parker. The body was found lying in
shallow grave 200 yards in front of
Mathis ranch home, three miles north
of here. Quick-Iime had been used
to decompose the body rapidly but a
cloth bound over the face and around
the throat indicated Mathis had been
gagged and then strangled to DEATH
This, Sheriff Mcdonald declared, cor
responds with the method used by
Hickman to kill the Parker child.
Although a warrant charging Mrs
Dugan with the Staying Of Mathis was
issued shortly after the rancher dis
appeared, along with one charging
grand larceny, the murder charge was
not pressed because of lack of evi-
dence. Now, with the finding of the
body, she will be returned here early
in January to face the murder charge
She was arrested after nation
wide search, at White Plains, N. Y
where she was working in a hospital
under the name of Mrs. Davis" When
returned here, she refused' to tell the
authorities who her companion was
the names "Kid" and Jack"
Mrs G. F. Mitchell, neighbor OF
Mathis, and the only person who saw
the youth with Mrs. Dugan, is to be
questioned tomorrow, to see if she can
identify Hickman's picture as that OF
the youth who was with Mrs. Dugan
Mrs. Mitchell rode to Tucson in Mathis
car with Mrs. Dugan and the youth
the latter driving, the day they fled,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
|. v. ". STRIKE
IN COLORADO is
COMING TO LIFE
Discovery of Attempt to
Poison Drinking Water of
Miners Inflames

DENVER, Dec. % tP)-The Industrial
Workers of the World strike in Colo
radios coal fields, dormant for the
last month, suddenly has shown signs
of renewed life.
Discovery of an attempt to poison
drinking water used by the miners at
the Columbine mine, where on No
yember 81 six strikers were killed in
a fight with state police, followed the
announcement from Trinidad, southern
headquarters of the strike, that citi-
zenS' vigilance committee had raided
the hall used by the L. W. w. strike
leaders and had boarded it up.
Adjuutant General Paul P. Newton
today informed Governor Adams that
an attempt had been made last Fri
day to poison the drinking water used
by miners at the Columbine mine and
that a chemical analysis of the water
revealed the presence of enough
poison to kill the entire underground
crew. as a result, of this discovery ma
tional guardsmen today patrolled all
wells and water reservoirs at the mines
in the northern Colorado fields, while
others sought the identity of those re-
sponsible for the poison plot.
At Trinidad, 110 persons, all admit
ting membership in the I. w. w. and
the fact they were striking miners
were held in the Las Animas county
Jail as result of two raids conducted
on their headquarters. Sunday night
Chief of Police E. A. Cleary, three
deputies and Acting Mayor James Es-
pey were held hostage for nearly three
hours by I. W. W. hangers-on at the
strike headquarters when they sought
to enforce a health department ordin-
ance banning the use of the hall as
sleeping rooms by the strikers.
Last nights raid was participated in
by nearly 500 citizens of Trinidad, to
whom police commissions had been is
sued following the issuance of call
through newspapers for volunteers to
assist in the closing of the hall. The
raiders arrested Al persons. Monday
65 inmates of the hall were arrested
by Sheriff j. j. Marty and crew OF
(Continued on Page Eighty
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29

NEW YORK, Dec. % R-WhiIe
five deStrOyers cOmbed the area
near Sable Island, N. S., where the
missing American plane Dawn is
believed to have appealed for aid
on Sunday night, hope for safety
of Mrs. Frances Wilson GraysOn,
and her three companions flick
cred unsteadily tonight.
Fresh reports of the Dawn, too
definite to be ignored but too
vague to be OF any certain value,
kept the searchers on the alert,
but Lieut.. Com. Charles f. ROsen-
dahl, in command of the navy
dirigible Los Angeles, which COW
cred $4,000 square miles Of ocean
in a futile search for the fliers,
held virtually no hope that the
amphibian plane was aflOat.
He considered that the filters, who
left Roosevelt field, N. Y. last
Friday for HarbOr Grace, N. F.,
had but one chance in thousand
of remaining aflOat from the time
their plane may have struck the
water until the search by air and
sea had gotten under way on
Monday. If the Dawn struck the
water at night, he believed it was
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
Will f u. S. DESTROYERS COMB
SEA, HOPE FOR DAWN FLICKERS

probably wrecked and sunk i'm
mediately.
Meanwhile, a growing list of
runOrs came from Newfoundland
OutpOStS to spur on the searcherS.
The Rev. Edward Bishop, an
American clergyman at Pouch
Cove, 20 miles north of st. Johns,
4 N. F., revealed today that he had
heard an airplane motor Sunday
noon. Another report was that
Western Union Telegraph COM
pany at Hearts Content, N. F., had
intercepted code message, Where
are we? Can you locate us?"
This message was said to have
been signed "WHY" or "WPU."
The call letters of the Dawn were
"WMU."
Using Sable Island as a focal
point, the two navy deStrOyers,
Mahan and Sturtevant, and the
coast guard deStrOyerS Shaw,
DOwnes and Monaghan steamed in
a semi-circIe with 75-miIe radius,
continuing the search for Mrs.
GraysOn and her companions,
Fred KOehler, motor expert; Brice
GOldsbOrOugh, navigator, and
Lieut.. Oskar Omdal, pilot.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
F|E.ND ADM IS
FEAR CAUSED
TERRIBLE ACT
In Second Confession Kid
naper, Murderer Analy-
ses C0mplexes.
DENIES INSANITY
Asserts Mental State Close
" Borders On Being
Crazy.


LOS ANGELES, Dec. .28 R-The
Examiner tomorrow will print ver-
batin copy OF a supplemental con-
fession given to its representative
today by William E. Hickman, adj
mitted kidnapper and slayer OF
Marian Parker.
The new confession was written by
Hickman personally. IN its relation
of his story of the kidnapping and
killing of the child it is virtually
Identical in sequence and statement
with that obtained by District Attor-
ney Asa Keyes on the train which
brought the prisoner back from
Oregon. The details of the confess
sion obtained by the Examiner in
dicate that Hickman'S original con-
fession was revealed to the public
by Keyes in practically all its es-
sentia1 details, with the exception
Of an elaboration OF his motives,
given today.
Today'S confession makes no mem
ton of any death struggles by the
girl while Hickman strangled her,
as reported to have been contained
in his original statement. 1t en-
phaSizes as his motive for the murder
his allegedly enforced need of pro-
tecting his own safety by doing away
with the child Describing the murder
Hickman wrote:
IT placed the towel gently about
her neck and explained it would rest
her head, I did not give her a
seconds chance to. doubt, but with
a desperate tug at the towel drew
it tightly around her throat and
without any sound she was strangled
to death in two or three minutes
I united her from the chair and
laid her on the floor"
Hickman then described the placing
of the body in the bathtub and its
disrnemberment with pocket knife
as previously published. Writing OF
his motives for the murder Hickman
said:
I'm the first place I feared that
my apartment might be searched on
Saturday and the girl would be found,
The search was spreading over the
city and 1 expected that the Bellevue
apartments would be searched any
time. 1 was afraid to leave her there
or take her out. My instinct to
protect myself and avoid suspicion
or arrest at this dangerous time
caused me to use this terrible cau-
ton. In killing the girl and hiding
parts of the body hoped to avoid
notice if searched. 1t would also be
possible to safely transfer the suit
case without suspicion and make it
possible for me to secure the ransom
without danger of being stopped and
caught before reaching the place OF
meeting. considered the ransom!
or this means of securing college
expense more important than the life
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
MOTLEY CREW SHARE. IN REFUNDS
OF TAXES MADE BY TREASURER

roads, in the canal zone and in
distant China, like the wealthy
families and big business COR
pOratiOnS of Americas Iarges3
cities had convinced the treasury
they had paid in toe n1ucn in
taxes and were entitled to some
money back.
Secretary Dwight F. Davis and
Attorney General Sargent, men,
bers of President COOIidge's cab
met, received awards of $7.93 and
S6.S5. respectively, while Chief
Justice Taft benefited to the
extent of 1852.
The RockefelIers, the Wander
bits. the Belmonts. the AstOrs,
and a host of other prominent
families as usual we're included in
the list as were the names of a
number of those prominent i'll
politics, among whom were Will
liam Gibbs McAdOO, with an
award of S19.62, and former Gov
ernOr LOWden of Illinois, with
$lSO.Ol.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
E.RFGlE !
MAKES MORE
HISTORY.
Aviator Averages More
Than 100 Miles An Hour
in 675 Mi. Trip.
STIRRED
Guatemalans Extend Off
ciaI Welcome to Youthful
Aviator.

GUATEMALA CITY, Dec. % [R-
Guatemala is the first of the Central
American republics to greet the good
will ambassador from the United
States, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh.
Lindbergh today flew over the noun
tains which separate Mexico City from
Guatemala City, the first to make the
flight between these two points. He
came winging his way between the
ponderous mass of two volcanoes, Fuego
and Aqua (fire and water), and was
over the flying field soon after noon.
He had left Mexico City at 6:35 a. m.
Central standard time).
Although he arrived over the field
shortly after noon, Colonel Lindbergh
did not land until 1:4O p. m. Central
standard tine).
No event has SO stirred the people
of Guatemala, and thousands were at
the flying field to give suitable greet
ing to the youth who has stirred the
pulses OF the world. They began to
arrive early in the day and were still
moving in the direction of the field
when Lindbergh landed.
The lone eagle evidently was bent
on speed; he made the aerial voyage
in much faster time than he had an
ticipated. The enthusiastic Guate-
malans had bedecked their automo-
bileS with bunting; others carried ban
ners with appropriate inscriptions of
welcome, and everywhere. was to be
seen the stars and stripes with the
national colors of the country.
First to extend the hand of fellow
ship to the intrepid airman, was Col
onel Francisco Amado, speaking for
the Guatemalan army. Government
followed with their welcome,
and Arthur GeisSler, the American
after warm greeting, be-
thought himself of the anxious mother,
who had parted with her son at VAL
buena flying field few hours before
and was herself on the way back to her
homeland He sent her a telegram
"Your son has again achieved, glory
in making the first nonstop flight
from Mexico City to Guatemala. Cor
dial fluctuations"
President Chacon went to the flying
field and received the youthful aviator
with every manifestation or cordiality.
He was accompanied by several min
sters, generals and high officials of
the government. The president had
nigh words of praise for the daring
feat.
The extraordinary speed with which
Lindbergh flew from Mexico City to
City, distance Of about
SIS miles, averaging in the neighbor-
hood of 100 miles an hour, was be-
yond even the flier's most sanguine ex-
pectations. He had figured on nine
hours at the maximum, but hoped he
would make better time.
Taking off from the Mexican capital
at 6:35 in the morning, when there
was just enough light to show him the
way across the flying field, Lindbergh
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29

from her disenlboWelled body. Capt.
Staten had been virtual chief of po-
lice from midnight to a. M, in
flying squadron, for the past ten
years.
An announcement that District
Attorney Asa Keyes and County Au-
topsy Surgeon H. F. Wagner would
confer this evening on their opin-
ions as to the cause of Marian
Parker's death, was made by Wag-
ner. He expressed surprise at the
Interpretation Keyes had placed on
Wagner's statement of last night. in
this the surgeon expressed his be-
lief the girl died of fright and ex-
hauStion as Hickman put the towel
about her neck to strangle her.
"There was no comfort whatever
to the defense in my statement" said
Wagner He explained that he had
whatever that would lessen the. guilt
of the girls kidnapper and smur-
derer. Wagner said he only reported
on the pathological showings, and
that Hickman alone was responsible
because the chlld'S death occurred
during the commission of felony
by him.
KeyeS had replied to Wagner's
statement with the report that the
report meant nothing to him, that
he was convinced the girl had been
choked to death, and that he would
demand the death penalty for the
confessed kidnaper-
Hickman will be arraigned on the
charges of kidnapping and murder at
CContinued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29

WASHINGTON. Dec. 28 P-
Chief Justice Taft and Harry
Lauder, Frank .. LOwden and
the duke of Marlborough; Kene-
saw M, Lands and Smedley
Butler, all rubbed figurative
shoulders today in the list of
those sharing in a tax refund
disbursed by the treasury to
24O,0OO taxpayers.
The rebates total $lO3,858,687
and they constitute reimburse
ments for federal taxes Illegally
collected during the current and
previous fiscal years.
The refunds cover wide range,
the largest being an award OF
|. SI,1lS,692 to the estate of Will
liam L. Harkness, New York city,
and the smallest, one cent, to the
Beneficial Loan society, also of
New York. Scores of rebates
were under one dollar.
The list of names, covering
1913 long typewriter pages, dis
closed that taxpayers at the cross
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
HALIS
IMPEACHMENT
IN OKLAHOMA
Senators Are Barred From
Chamber in Capitol by
BayOnets.
WARNING GIVEN
Senate Told Troops Will Be
Used to Break Up Meet
ing Outside.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Dec. %
P)-Under orders to "disperse the mob
national guardsmen late today barred
members Of Oklahoma's self-convened
senate from the senate chamber in the
capitol and prevented meeting for
the announced purpose of considering
the Impeachment of Governor Henry
S. Johnston.
The senators left the building unde-
TERED, however, announcing they would
return to a downtown hotel where in
formal sessions were held earlier in
the day.
They were warned that troops would
be used to break up any attempted
meetings outside the capitol in the
event the sheriff of Oklahoma county
was unable to do SO. R
Backed by a district court injunction
restraining the senators from attempt
ing to hold a court of impeachment,
Governor Johnston placed national
guardsmen on duty at the capitol this
morning with command to enforce
the court order.
When the group of senators, num-
bering about &c. reached the capitol
late today from their hotel headquar-
terS, they found soldiers stationed in
front of the roped off entrance to the
senate chamber.
The house chamber also was barred.
A court order to halt from guard
lieutenant greeted the legislators when
they arrived at the rotunda on the
fourth floor of the capitol, where
onYool0 n
few weeks ago when they attempted to
cot1vene in their chamber and were
tur1ld away.
II have orders to disperse the mob" )"
the officer announced.
Commands were barked out by the
guard officers and several squads
marched in to reinforce the detail al
ready on duty, numbering less than a
dozen.
Adjutant General Charles F. Bar
rett took charge of the situation then
and read the Injunction issued by the
district court forbidding the senators
to meet.
Senator MacQ. Williamson, acting
president of the senate group, asked
if force would be used to prevent one
or more members from entering the
senate chamber. Governor Barrett as
sllred him that any force necessary
would be employed.
The adjutant general, in reply to
another question by Senator William
son, said he would use troops to break
up meetings outside the capitol if the
Oklahoma county sheriff was unable
to enforce the Injunction.
Informed by Senator Williamson
that Judge Clark, who issued the in
junction, had later said the order di-
recting the sheriff to enforce it was
invalid, General Barrett said his or
ders from the governor had not been
modified
The senators then filed out of the
capitol
Todays action was the second vic
tory for the national guard in a little
more than two weeks. Called out De-
cember IL by Governor Johnston, they
prevented the house of representatives
from meeting at the capitol. That
body, however, met secretly early the
next day in hotel room and voted
impeachment charges against the gov
ernor, Chief Justice Fred P. Branson
of the supreme court and Harry B.
Cordell, president of the state board OF
agriculture.
The state supreme court had de-
clared that the legislature had no in
herent right to convene itself.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29

Copper steady; electrolytic,
spot and futures, lao 1sc;
lead steady; spot, 6.5Oc.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29

Thursday and Friday
mostly fair; not much
change in temperature.