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The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
SUNKEN SUB REMAINS ON
 OCEAN FLOOR
Not Be Raised in All Prob ability Until Next
 Spring

PROVINCETOWN, Mass, Dec. 23-The sunken submarine S-4 will not be raised until next Spring in all probability. officers of the fleet of naval vessels as. sembled here said.
 The salvage vessel officers an nounced definitely that no at tempt would be made now after a day of activity during which 10 divers descended to the subma- rine and Commander Edward Ellsberg, in charge of the diving operations. nearly lost his life when he became begged in the mud on the ocean floor.
 The bodies of the men in the steel prison will not be removed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
C0NFESszS TO
 STEALING GIRL,
 NOT OF MURDER
William Hickman, Arrested in Oregon, Names
 Accomplices
DECLARES MAN NAMED
 CRAMER KILLED GIRL
Woman Also Mentioned as Accomplice-Was
 in Seattle

PENDLETON, Ore. Dec. 23- Captured in break neck race with Police officers on the Co., lumbia River Highway, and brought here and lodged in jail. William Edward Hickman, told broken story of the kidnapping of Marian Parker, and at the same time endeavored to shift blame for the mutilation of the girl upon the shoulders of his partner" man he named as Andrew Cramer.
 The highlights of Hickman's confession follows:
 Hickman had no knowledge of the staying of the girl until her dismembered body was delivered to his apartment last Saturday night.
 FIees to San Francisco
 He revealed that he fled to San Francisco after the murder where he had an appointment to meet Cramer on Sunday.
 He said he held mp many drug stores, taking money and chloro- form.
 Woman Is Named
 He named June Cunning, as woman friend of Cramer as all. other accomnlioa
 He said he started on his hold up career to acquire money for a college education.
 Kidnapping Idea
 He blamed Cramer for the kill. mapping idea.
 He decided on the daughter Of Parker after considering kidna3. ping a child of Hayes, chief tell CT, in the same bank of which Parker is connected He aban- doned the latter kidnapping be- cause the child was too young.
 Watched Parker House
 Hickman watched the Parker house to learn the habits of Marian and then hit upon the idea of taking her from her school under pretext her father was in- jured.
 Hickman took the girl to a movie show the same night an.i then turned her over to Cramcs
 (Continued on Page Seyen.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
MRS. CRIMSON
 PLANS FLIGHT

NEW YORK, Dec 23.-Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson hopes to make herself a Christmas pres ent and will start on her long projected trans Atlantic flight with Oskar Omdal, Lieutenant in the Norwegian Army, as pilot.
 Mrs. Grayson plans to take-off at dusk tonight in her Sikorsky amphibian plane for Harbor Grace and there await favorable weather conditions for the flight to Croydon, England.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
PROSPECTOR'S CARE
 TRIBUTE TO MOTHER

United States he wore girls at tire. We'll educated. he taught school in middle western state before he came. 40 years ago. to the Pacific northwest to live the life of recluse as prospector in Washington. Oregon and ldaho.
 In the little homestead cabin he built was complete feminine wardrobe. He was skilled with 8 needle and had a sewing machine. on which he made all the gar ments which cloaked the fiction of his mothers desire. He wore his hair in heavy braid down the back.
 When his body was taken to the grave 1t was clad in . gown he had made for the 11rpose.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
MRS. HICKMAN
 COLLAPSES IN
 HOME IN K. 6,
Mother of Kidnapper Pros trated = Slayer Her
 Favorite Son

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 23-Mfs. Eva Hickman, mother of William Hickman, received the news of her sons confession in connection with the kidnapping of Marian Parker. 12 year old Los Angeles girl. in stunned, fearless, be- wilderment.
 MrssAssIgickman. who had siot slept since her favorite son was connected with the crime, was fitting with her IT year old laughter Mary, in their rooms on the third floor of the old-fashion- ed house in the suburbs. resi- dential district, when newspaper men arrived yesterday afternoon with the information.
 Mother Told of News
 One reporter walked into the 'oom where Mrs. Hickman wa5 sitting. She asked:
 "Oh, have you heard some thing?"
 "Yes, they have found Edward and he has confessed to the part in the Kidnapping" said the re- porter, but he said the actual killing was done by someone else"
 Bows Her Head
 The mother bowed her head.
 She clasped her hands so tight ly her knuckles showed white.
 Her eyes stared piercingly into a blank wall for perhaps three minutes. She sat that way ther she said:
 This is all so muddled. I've been puzzling over it. It looks like I haven't friend in the world. They are bounding my boy to death just because they have clue"
 Then the woman broke into a dry, convulsive sobbing, climaxei in complete collapse. It was an hour before she was able to dis cuss the case again.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
Four Killed Trying
 To Beat Out Train

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Dec. 23.-- Three men and one woman were killed when an automobile was hit by train this forenoon. All those killed were from Columbus. They had passed around two other machines waiting for q train to go by. The driver Of the auto became excited and dr)ye down the right of way and was hit by the train.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
Death Rate in Industry SholUs
 Creat Decrease

NEW YORK, Dec. 23. The general death rate of the in dustrial population in the United States and Canada during 1927 will be the lowest ever recorded, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Comp any officials announced. Although the year shows in- creases in drownings, automo- bile fatalities and homicides, the company officials said there is marked progress shown in the reduction of deaths from infiu- enza, pneumonia and tuberculosis
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
CONFESSION MADE
 BY HICKMAN; MURDER IS DENIED
Appeals to Son To Tell Truth. Whether
 Guilty or Not of Deed

son could he guilty of such ! thing.
 "If you are guilty, l hope you will be punished with death.
 ''lf you are innocent, 1 will sacrifice all l have to help yon out.
 Let me know through the Fl Paso Herald, on your word ol honor. as son to his father, in anguish. if you are implicated m the crime.
 "lf you are. then God forgive you and have mercy upon your soul.
 Your father, mother and your brothers and sisters"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
SENTENCE POSTPONED

The passing of sentence on Charles Sinclair. convicted De cember IA last on a charge of violation of the liquor laws. has been postponed until Wednesday. December 2s, 1t was announced in the U. s. District. Court today The sentence was first set to be given this morning by Judge Thomas M. Reed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23

FL PASO, Texas, Dee. 23-The El Paso Herald has been asked by Thomas Hickman. aged i5 years, father of William Edward Hickman. to telegraph the follow ing message to his son:
 My Son-If you are guilty os the crime for which you are charged, may God forgive your Soul and may you be punished according to the law of mankin l.
 This terrible crime. which t is hard for me to believe yod committed, is without doubt the most hideous and most brutal murder I ever heard of.
 Ii is hard for me to believe my
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
Hickman Is
 Indicted by Grand Jury

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 23-William Edward Hick- man has been indicted by the County Grand Jury as the kidnapper and murderer of Marian Parker. The indict- ment was returned before Su- perior Judge Hardy late yes terday afternoon who immedi- ately issued a bench warrant on the charges. The court ordered that the accused youth be held without bail.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
Christmas Trees Are
 Delivered by Starr

SEWARD, Alaska. Dec. 23-The mail and passenger steamer Starr has returned here after delivering isolated communities along the Aleutian Islands.
 The Starr delivered more than 100 trees and 300 sacks of holi- day mail.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
Crime Prouides For First
 Degree Murder


 LOS ANGELES, Cal. Dec. 23-The District Attorneys office pointed out that w. E. Hickman's confession he par ticipated in the Kidnapping, which led to the murder. makes him liable to answer to the charge Of first degree murder under the California law which it Is declared pro- vides that any one or all of several persons engaging in an unlawful act which results in the killing of a human be- ing, shall be equally guilty of murder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
WAS IN ASYLUM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. 23-- Mrs. Hickman was an inmate of the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases for two months in 1913 it was learned from records at the institution today. She was confined in the asylum at the re- quest of her husband who feared she would take her life in a 1t of depression.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
Undertaken At Funeral Drops Dead

DRAMMEN, Wis, Dec. 2S. Just as the funeral serv- ices for Mrs. A. F. Johnson were concluded yesterday afternoon at the Norwegian Lutheran Church, Fred An derson, undertaken in charge, dropped dead in the church aisle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
JAIL GUARDS
 ARE WORRIED
 OVER HICKMAN
Aroused from Sleep to See If Alive Wants
 Publicity

PfNDLETON, Ore. Dec. 2s-- William Edward Hickman slert soundly until 6 o'clock this moir- ing when he awoke and asked the guard what time it was. then he fell back to sleep again.
 The guards were frightened il the early morning hours when one of them reported he had watched
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
Skeleton of Trapper
 Is Found in Cabin

FORT SMITH, N. w. T., Dec. 23.-Discovery, in a lonely north land cabin, of the skeleton of Walter Lunnan, well known northern trapper, is reported by Corporal Walters upon his return to the Mounted Police Head quarters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23
Italian Aviator Has
 Broken Altitude Record

TURIN, Italy. Dec. 23.-Re- nato Donati today broke the worlds altitude record by flying to height Of 5s.7s2 feet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23

LONDON, Dec. 23--Built for the purpose of attacking enemy bomb ing planes. an all-metal fighting machine tested by the Air Minis- try will majntain a speed of 175 miles an hour at an altitude of 15,000 feet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-23

tcontinued on Page Two.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-20

doubled. Only action by the broad masses of work
ers in strikes and demonstrations Of all kinds can
save them The battle is to them not only from
execution but also from possible life Imprisonment
in the event capitalists unable to go through
with the execution Let not the tragedy of the
Mooney Billings case be repeated. Sacco and Van
'etti must not only be saved from execution but
actually freed from prison altogether. The great
demonstrations all over the world in the few days
preceding the recent date set for the execution I'M
dou5tedy saved Sacco and Vanzetti, for the time
at least, from the electric chair Still greater demon
STATIONS will force open the prison doors for them
Let August 22nd be day of gigantic strikes and
mass demonstrations. This is the argument that
will have effect with the capitalists Sacco and
VanZett must be freed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-20
BY HENRY GEORGE WEISS.

There were no banners waving in the breeze
On that day,
No glittering squadrons that the gray sky Sees
Nor laughing columns proudly at their ease
But grimed with clay
The trembling soldiers line the crumbing walls
No trumpet sounds advance; bugle calls
With pealing note to stir their martial pride
They crouch in filth and stencil with death outside
And thing of many things. how long ago
And years and years. it seems, since they were So
And wonder if the rats will gnaw their bones!
There was that chap who died last night-his groans
Were awful sounds to hear; his flesh so torn
By shrapnel shell and they attack that morn!
Perhaps they, too, in torture the sod
Will writhe in agony and call on God
AS he did call. They threw him in ho.e
With just muttered prayer for his poor soul;
And then great shell tore him out again
To lie in sinking rot upon the plain
Perhaps with twisted limbs and blinded eyes
They will again behold sunrise
Or else shorn of the visage of man.
thing of horror for the crowd to scan
They may be doomed to walk adown the years
And find Gethesemane in useless tears.
Perhaps--ah cheerfuller thot-perhaps thru hell
They may come safe, the victors of Chapee,
And add lustre to their and NAME
Each soldiers glory and his countrys fame.
But bark! there is pause there comes lull
The barrage is lifted and clear and full
The whistle sounds. Scattered are thots and gone
They rise to its appea. 1t is the dawn!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-20

FHE United States is the land of the labor frame
up. Here the capitalists notorious for
sorting to the most unscrupuous methods when
they want to get rid of nconvenient leaders of the
workingclass Time and again when they have had
in their clutches fighters of the workers they have
cast aside celd-bloodedy even the most elementary
forms of legaIism, in order to railroad their victims
to the penitentiary or the gallows The Sacco-Van-
zettic case, which has shocked 5iIe world for the
calloused disregard even of capitalist pretenses of
justice, is only Of long lire of such outrages.
Until the advent of the saceo-v anzetti case the
worst of this kind of attack upon the workers
the case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings These
two fighters have been in jail for years, wasting
the best years of their lives Time and again it has
Aeen demonstrated that they innocent. Many
witnesses have testified that they themselves were
guilty of perjury Many jurors have signed petitions
for their release. But all to avail. Year after
year passes and they remain in Jail. Enormous pro-
test movements, eliminating in national
strike, did not save them from capitalist revenge
Their incarceration is of the blacklist phases in
American history.
But if possible, the Sacco-V anzetti case is still
more infamous Here are two workers, manfestly
being punished solely of their radical opinions, be-
cause they dared to speak out bravely to the work
ers They are being made example of in order to
errify the workers As for the crime they
charged with, this was manifestly not their doing,
no more than the mountaineering in the San
Francisco preparedness parade the act of Mooney
and Billings. Nevertheless the capitalists, through
&heir agents, a cynically biased judge, the usual
raft of perjurers etc. go straight ahead with their
plan of Furnishing these fighters
In both these cases the labor Leaders of the Comp
IRIS stripe have played sorry role. They have acted
RS real eutenants of the capitalists In the Mooney
Billings they cooperaed directly with the prose
tutors to put comrades in jail and to keep them
there In the Sacco-Vanzeth case, although their
methods have been somewhat indirect, they
have no less certainly worked out to help the en-
ployers They have done practically nothing to re-
lease these two workers At best their support of
the defense has been mere lip service. In situa-
ton demanding the widespread mobilization of the
workngcass in mass demonstration, they have done
nothing than to barely let it be known that
they not in favor of executing Sacco and Van
zett- Now. when the capitalists find it exceedingly
difficult in the face of the unparalleled world pro-
test 10 actually electrocute the two prisoners and
when sAev may easily change their tactics by send
Ing shen 20 ia! for life sentences the trade union
brcaucrat. letting it be known that they are
not demanding absolute freedom for Sacco and Van
zcsti but viii be satisfied il their sentences com
nsufed to life Imprisonment.
The fight for Sacco and Vanzett zauet be re
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-20

By VIM. z. FOSTER

(secretary Trade Union Education League)
Evening star., 1927-04-11
CHINESE FEAR HIDDEN MOTIVE
IN MASSING OF FOREIGN FORCES
Suspicion Over Number of Troops Voiced
By Observation-Disclosures in Marking
Incident Doubted.

| though they admit some southern
soldiers took part in the attacks and
lootinE.
Analysis weakens the charge that
the attacks were premeditated with
the intention of a general massacre
Of foreigners, because there was
nothing to prevent the accomplish -
ment had that been the purpose. 1t
is apparent the killings were done
by a few bad characters whom | am
unable to identify as regular south
ern troops. | am unable to confirm
the charge of assault of white Wom-
en-, several reported cases proving
incorrect; but women were treated
roughly and subjected to indignity.
Nevertheless, the Marking incident
brought a decided change in Ameri-
can missionary sentiment, which pre-
viously had been one of sympathy
for the Chinese National movement.
The missionary points out that the
Cantonese often have professed
friendship and denied hostility, but
nevertheless the missionaries have
been driven out everywhere the Can
tonese come and their homes and
missions have been looted
The belief grows here that mis-
sion work may be suspended for sew
eral years. The workers are prepar-
ing to go home, except enough to
keep up the offices and organization
at Shanghai and a few other places.
Turning to the increasingly evident
Continued on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star., 1927-04-11
BY THOMAS r. MuLARD.

SHANGHAI, April 11-China's 8
situation is like three strips of
scenery moving in the same direction
at different speeds. The near strip,
the panorama of current events,
passes swiftly. The next strip is
composed of the immediate interests
of the Chinese and the foreigners
here. The farther strip sketches the
ultimate political objectives of the
governments concerned, which are
vaguely drawn and often camou-
fiaged. The total effect of the kalei-
doscope is difficult to gauge correctly.
Further light is shed on the Nam
king outrages as the evidence accu-
mulates and is sifted, and doubt
grows as to whether the facts justify
the assertion that the attacks were
ordered by Cantonese officers, al
Evening star., 1927-04-11

the Nelc York World. presents herelrifh
he first Of series Of 1ceeL{y rerie1rs Of
ne, situation in china on Thomas T.
Hr. NjIlard. 7rhose articles nre being
cdbted from Shanghai. is perhaps ne
foremost authorj;v todav on Far Eastern
6FG3rS. He has spent 20 years in china
as Journalist and student Of pubic
affairs. His deUOfioa 10 fairness and
accuracy is 'ceH hnOien. He ,ciH 'rrite
these articles objecfiuelV md trifhOWt
partisanShip acifh the sole object of oiu.
ing a truthfht picture
His recietcS 'rjU be published in The
Star on Monday evenings
Evening star., 1927-04-11
LABOR LOSES CASE
IN SUPREME COURT
Injunction of Indiana Stone
Firms Is Upheld by
Tribunal.

The Supreme Court today sustained
the Bedford and other stone companies
of Indiana in their injunction case
ton of North America and certain
stone cutters unions, in which unlaw-
full restraint of trade was charged.
Justice Brandeis and Justice Holmes
dissented on the ground that the acts
of the union were permitted by law.
Issue in Appeal.
The right of organized labor to re-
fuse to handle material which had
been shipped in interstate commerce
was the issue in the appeal OF the
limestone companies.
Twenty-four Indiana limestone pro.
ducing companies, claiming that 70
per cent of their product entered inter
state commerce, complained that their
business was being materially injured
by orders of the union directing
strikes against their product. AS most
Of the stonecutters throughout the
United States are members of the
union the effect of the order was
alleged by the producers to be an un-
lawful interference with and restric-
ton of interstate commerce.
The union denied that any strike
order had been issued, and stated that
after the Indiana companies had lock-
ed out it's members, it had retaliated
by enforcing a rule requiring all mem
bers to refrain from working on ma
terial which had been partly finished
bv non-union men. The union declar-
ed it's members were free to handle
the rough products of the Indiana
companies, and denied that there had
been any listing of the Indiana COM
panies as unfair.
Side of Union.
The union also insisted that it had
attempted to enter into no agreements
with competitors to restrict the use
Of the products Of the Indiana COM
panies. and argued that if the enforce
ment of the rule concerning the hand
ling of the products had had the effect
Of reducing the volume of their bust
ness outside Indiana, the stone had
ceased to be a part of interstate com
merce before their members refused
to handle it. The union contended that
under these circumstances there was
no violation of the Sherman antitrust
law.
The Federal District Court for In
diana found that there had been no
violation of Federal law and denied
an injunction or damages. That ac-
ton was affirmed by the Circuit Court
of Appeals
The complaining companies claimed
that the union by its orders was at
tempting to force the unionization of
their shops and was incidentally aid
ing competing companies which en-
ployed members Of the union, includ-
ing manufacturers Of artificial stone.
The success Of the union in effecting
these objects was dependent, the In
diana companies asserted, upon direct
restraint of interstate commerce.
Evening star., 1927-04-11
GOVERNOR STUDIES CASE.

BOSTON, April II LP).-The Sacco-
Fanzetti case was squarely before
Gov. Alyan r. Fuller today.
The defense comittee, which, in
seven years of unsuccessful effort to
obtain Vindication for the convicted
slayers and admitted radicals. has ex-
pended hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars and aroused international interest
in their fate, announced that there
would be no further recourse to the
State courts.
The committee based it's newest
hope on proposal that the governor
name a committee of impartial citi-
zens to conduct Il thorough investiga-
ton, so that the public may know
the truth of this case in and out of
court from the beginning"
Gov. Fuller had started to study a
flood of protests that have come in
from this and other countries, but it
was indicated he would make no COM
ment until he had scrutinized all the
evidence in the case. A request for
the trial transcript has already been
sent from his office.
Evening star., 1927-04-11
u. S. FOREIGN LOANS
EXCEED PAYMENTS
Debt Settlement Declared Impossi-
BILE While Bankers Con-
tinue Practice.

NEW YORK, April 11.-While
American bankers continue to make
loans to debtor nations of the United
States war debts to this country can
never be really settled, the Foreign
Policy Association says in report
made public today.
The ultimate result, the report says
is a switching of debts from the
American Government to the Ameri
can bankers. In four years American
private bankers have lent far more
than has been received in war debt
payments, the report says, adding
that debtors will be able to meet
annual obligations so long as these
loans continue.
Sufficient income above that neces
sary for ordinary requirements must
be raised by taxation if the problem
is to be solved, the report states
Debtors must also export goods OF
services, or both, above the amount OF
imports. But to maintain this balance
for foreign nations, the statement
I says, the United States must inlpori
more than it exports.
The association sees little hope oi
this being accomplished.