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. Uho Weather ' Highest temperature yesterday.-.36 Lowest temperature last night 31 Forecast fpr southwest Oregon: Rain tonight or Thursday, warmer tonight. Always Home Stores and Local .' 4 Industries' itOl BUS1 DOU gIAS -CO Lf NT - Consolidation of The Evening Newt and The Roseburg Review ' An Independent Newspaper, Published for the Best Interest of the People VOL. XXVIII NO. 207 Or ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1927. VOL. XVIII NO. 281 OF THE EVENING NEWS Rose fl V Jiiii v v fin ini Today The Lost Submarine. Any Bull Fight Heaven. Canaries Will Sing. What Schwab Will See. By Arthur .Brisbane ! (Copyright 1927 by Star Company) The United States subma rine S-4, rising off the Massa chusetts coast on Saturday af ternoon, was instantly ram med and sunk by the destroy er Paulding No. 17. The short length of periscope bringing submarine dangerously near the surface before making a ' survey of surface conditions 1 possibly may be one explana tion. Carelessness in periscope use might be another. In any case our submarine service necessarily dangerous in war, seems to be unneces sarily dangerous in peace. Could not a submarine in peace time send to the surface before rising a . harmless de tonation bomb to explode and spread a warning cloud of smoke at the surface just ahead of the submarine's .ap pearance? Lindbergh saw two ' Mexi can bull fights on Sunday. A - savage bull is chosen, of a race bred fo fighting. It is tor mented with numerous small wounds until infuriated " and then killed by a skillful butch" er who is the nation's hero in Mexico and Spain. ' Horses are disemboweled, an occasional man killed. Wo men1 look on and sigh for the great bull killer. So it has gone since the small waisted bull fighters of Crete escaped be tween the bull's horns. Bull killers and spectators believe when their bull fight days are over they are taken up to a heaven in which they associate, through eternity, on intimate terms with the Ruler of the Universe. They must have a poor opinion of His taste. T The . International Canary Roller association are holding a singing competition in Mil waukee. Birds winning will be exhibited. Music is very old. Birds were singing and whist ling on earth millions of years before men came, with their grand opera and , marvelous musical machinery, i What taught birds to sing) How does evolution account for it? It was not part of the survival of the fittest, for a singing bird must attract the attention of its enemies. Be fore they had ever heard mu sic, the females could not know enough to insist on a mu sical mate.' Be that as it may, teach your children singing and playing. Include some musical instru ments in your Christmas gift collection. First corne the mu sic machines that delight all the family. But do not forget this statement by Henry Ford, who plays the fiddle : "Every child should be taught to play some instrument for himself, and not live and die a mere listener." Schwab, wise man, says he would not change anything, not even one minute in his past life. He wants to live twenty years more and he will to see wonderful changes coming. He will go to Europe by air plane and see ever;' rich man's front yard an air terminal. He will see school children study geography from the air. See passenger transportation at 200 miles an hour on the (conudued on page 4.) AImIhIiy RESCUE OF SUB AFTER STORMS No Sounds Heard From Torpedo Room and All Believed Dead. DIVER GOING DOWN Will Attempt to Attach Air Line in Hopes That Some of Crew May Still Be Alive. (Anorlatml Preen Leaied Wire) PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Dec. 21 Admiral Frank H. Brumby, In charge of salvage operations on the sunken submarine S-4 an nounced late today that the wreck had been lost, because a line at tached, to It was torn away in the recent gale. Two divers who were lowered today failed to find the vessel tip to 4:16 o'clock. Two motor sailers .grappled for the mlKaing submarine alt day without success. Diving operations were being continued late today. At 1 p. m. diver William Wick wlrf submerged empty-handed with orders to find tho S-4. Commander Edward Ellsberg was at the telephone. The diver remained down for 63 minutes, nnd told Commander EllHberg that it was Impossible td see more than four feet. He covered fifty feet but did not see the wreck. At 3:20 James Ingram, tho first diver to reach the S-51 two years ago went down. He was still under water at 5:15. The missing line was attached to the submarine last Sunday af ternoon by Diver Carr. When the mine sweeper Falcon left for Bos ton early Monday the line was transferred to n buoy. Commander Ellsberg said the line probably snapped at the point whero It was attached to the submarine by the heavy seas of Monday and Tues day. BOSTON", Dec. 21. No signs of life were found in the torpedo room of the submarine S-4 by James Ingram, the first diver to go down today, Rear Admiral Prank H. Brumby reported in a radio mes sage to Rear Admiral Philip An drews, commandant of the first naval district. PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Dec. 21. The naval vessels which are endeavoring to salvage the sunken submarine S-4 were preparing to day to resume operations suspend ed two days - ago because of- a northwest gale. At 10 o'clock the mine sweeper Falcon, flagship of the salvage fleet, was making fast staying lines over the position of the wreck. No Hounds from the torpedo room of the S-4 in which six men are imprisoned, had been heard since six o'clock last night when seven faint taps were detected by the oscillator of the submarine S-8, sister ship of the S-4. Although the S-8 signaled at hourly inter vals throughout the night no an swer came back from below. Just before 10 o'clock this morn ing the S-8 pulled up anchor and left from the spot where she had been endeavoring to communicate with the S-4. The Falcon came and took anchorage and the S-S wig wagged for permission to charge her batteries. This was given from the Falcon. . The S-8 had been under orders to remain In position as long as there was any hope of communi cating with her sister ship. Her action In moving away was Inter preted as meaning that there was no longer possibility that life re mained in the S-4 and that no more signals might be looked for. Two other submarines, the S-5 and the S-3, were at anchor in the inner harbor, a mile . and a half from the scene of the disaster. When the Associated Press boat pulled ftloncs.de of the Falcon, Diver Tom Eadle wigwagged that an attempt would be made to send a diver over as soon as the Fal con was lined up with the subma rine tender Bashnell and the mine sweeper Lark. The mine sweeper Mallard, which had token pfrt In previous operations, was not In the line. Eadle, who was the first diver i to go down to the S-4 last Sunday, said the rescuers would attempt to (Continued on page 8.) CREW Bennett Doty Arrives Back in U. S. After Being Saved From an Execution for Deserting Legion fAeaool&ttM) I'rc-M r.eawd V'ii) NEW YORK, Dec. 21. Bennott J. Doty, of Biloxi, Mississippi, who deserted from France's for eign legion because of homesick ness, was back in America with his parents today. American Intervention after his desertion saved him' from the exe cution and then from serving eight years in a pennl fortress. Doty, who enlisted In the, legion as Gilbert Clare, fought against the Druses in the Syrian dosert and was twice cited for bravery be- KILLED WOMAN 10 BROKE UP HE Stops Auto and Pursues Woman Firing Four Shots in Body. TRIED TO SUICIDE Man Who Killed Woman May Recover Wound His Love Had Been ., . ..;V,K. Scorned- : a , ;,j ; (Auoctated Preu Leased Wire) i i , .BURLINGTON, N. J., Dec. 21. A desire for revenge on the woman he accused of breaking up his home and then spurning his , attentions was the cause assigned by police today for' the slaying of Mrs. Isa helle James Shedaker, wealthy widow, by Frederick Pianl, as she was fleeing from an automobile screaming. Plan! was In St. tfrnncla hos tal, Trenton, today, with a bullet wound in his mouth, self-inflicted after he had fired four bullets into the woman's head and body last night. He Is expected to recover. In a letter addressed to "any one" which was found by police In Plant's room at a hotel here, to gether with another letter to bis wife from whom he had been es tranged, Pianl, Detective Parker asilrl nrciifiPil Mm Kliodnker nf breaking up his home, trying to per suade him to elope with her and (Continued on page 3.) I THE HOME fore he deserted,, arrived on the Majestic. Ah the liner docked parents, Mr, and Mra. Lemuel Doty, were per mitted to cross the ganagplank and erpft tlmlr nnn nn hnnnl Fnth-r 'ami inn titavalv Brinnk- hnn.lu m.f the mother threw her arms about her boy's neck and kissed him. "Why did you desert," ship re porters asked Doty. . "I got tired of hearing so much French," he replied, "and wanted to get where I could hear some English again." BODIES OF SEVEN MINERS RECOVERED . ( AmoctntM Pretw !, Wlrl JOHNSTON CITY, 111., Dec. 21 The bodies of seven mln- ers, killed last night In an. explosion of gas In the Ster- itz - coal mine near here, were brought to the surface today after all night work by three mine rescue teams. Those killed wore William Jones, David Anderson, Charles Wyatt, Fred Cagle, George Grubbs, O. Garrota and AlmuB Lavender, - COOLIDGESONG WILL BE SUNG fAwvwMttt Prw lyal Wire) NEW YORK, Deo. 21. A song entitled "Calvin Coolldge" -will be sung (or the first time in public by Samuel C. Coleman, an assis tnnt United States attorney, at a meeting ot the young republican club tomorrow night. The clnb is wlthholdlng tho name ot tne -writer. Tne time is the same as "Lord Jeffrey. Am- herst," famous college song of the 'president's alma mater. ; 0 ! FIVE CO-EDS ARE HURT IN CRASH (Aiwoclatpd Prom LciiM'il Wire) PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 21. Plvo ,(I1(, , Chicago .null ho ca.. ro Un verslty of - Washington coodf,!B()lv() woril fl.om me ..,nil ieurn what visiting in Portland during the tQ (0 . Sn5 a! murder evtry day Oh, what an ow- telephone pole. MaK mMy ,,, Miss Dlna Idgnell, 20, driver, 1 1 nav0 thought to myaulf whut and Silvia Samby were taken to a should be done to a maa who would hospital. Miss Lignell said she do such a thing. It .v.is :i crime struck the post when she swerved that caUHod every mother and faih to avoid hitting an automobile er in the countrv tu lie nl'mid And which failed to give right of way. ; to think thoy bellove my l.oy Jll Miss Lignell Buffered body it. bruises and cuts on tho head. Miss ; "Edward never would do a thing Samby' received sprains and .llko that for revenue I lon't be bruises. Florence Dlx, Orcina Daw- jlieve he did It at all. llu'. If he did son and Allen Willard suffered .ho wasn't right. Ho didn't liuve shock but recovered readily. ' (Continued on page 3.1 UNKNOWN SOLDIER iliiP mmm -"" , ' I - II ' ' o '1 S0N.0IDNT DO IT, CRIES OF Hickman's Grey-Haired Mother Near Collapse . .as Hunt Goes On. CRIME IS REVOLTING Mrs. Eva Hickman Says If Her Boy Did It He Should Be Given Worse Pun- ishment Possible. i (Auoolatifl FreM TflicJ Wire) : KANSAS CITY, Dec. 21. Con tending that her son "could not posBlbly do such a thing," Mrs. Mrs. Eva Hickman, mother "f tho youth Bought as the kidnaper and slayer of Marian Parker, today was reported near collapse at her home here. 1 .' Visitors to the apartment whore Mrs. Hickman and her 17 year old dnughter,. Mary,- live, found the mother chiefly concerned about her Kon's neglect in writing her. v "Why hasn't lie let me know whero he 1b," sho units nl friends, why uoean t lie wy Jio dlitn t do ! it?" ! )to tho former claj-mi.vei nf Wtl- i Sum Edward ' HIcKmni, ' debater. ischolar of high rank mid a leader In high school actKltiua, the mot'i' or presonf.s his record up ;o his graduation In 102d to support her contention. She believe: ho stlil may be in Chicago whuro buo liiHt heurd from him in Ocroher. t . Reads About .Murder , "Perhaps he doe no' know thc-y are looking for him," she told newspaper men. "It may bo toe MOTHER BUT , OFFICERS S HALT AUTO STAGE TO MAKE SEARCH FOR! SUSPECT Acting on a "tip" from Medford thnt William Ed ward Hickman the ; fiend murderer was a passenger on a northbound auto stage from' California, Sheriff Percy Webb and deputies stopped the stage shortly be fore noon this morning and made a search for the sus pect. Two men answering in a measure the general de scription of the wanted man were on the stage, but the resemblance was not suffic ient to cause the officers to hold either of them. The lo cal officers are maintaining a very careful lookout for the suspect and are acting upon any rumors which may come to them with any ap parent degree of authenti city. A close check is being kept on nil stages and auto mobiles from California in an effort to prevent the wanted man From escaping through this state. OR. ML .HYDE LIFE Attended Church and Sun day School. While Plan ning Crime. ' ROBBED DRUGGISTS Secured Anaesthetics to Pre pare for Murder of Girl In Apartment After Delivery of Body. (AuoriatNl I'rm Iaacd Wire) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21. While a cloud of clueB and false leads to day effectively screened the hid I hi; place of William E. Hickman, accused slayor of little Marian Parker, bits of evidence were be inK fitted togethor by the police to solve the nuzzle of his past. ' This evidence, as presented by the police, pictures a youthful "Dr. .lekyll and Mr. Hydo,,f on tho one hand a nont, orderly boy who at tended church and Sunday school nnd never stayed out Into at night; on tho other "tho Vox" who for weeks planned the carrying out. of a cool, cunning and diabolical mur der Uot for rovenao. Drugstore Robberies The latter picture showed him for throe weckH preceding the kid naping, -staging; a series of drug store robberies to obtain a stock of nnaosthotlcR and Bleeping potions. In one of these robberies he Is de clared to have placed a pistol In the druggist's ribs and forced the frightened man to give minute In structions as to the ase of anaes thetics. Drugg.lstx In the ' three-holdups, yesterday Identified Hickman posi tively as the robber. Although thoy were unable to run to earth tho man whom they nccuso of being "the Fox" In tho atrocious murder case, the police yesterday -definitely located his lair which he had occupied during the days that little Marian was kid naped and until Sunday morning, several hours after the child's dis membered body had been exchang ed for her father's $1,600. Find Bloody Towel Hy finger print and photograph Identification the police have de termined that during those days, Hickman occupied an apartment under the name of Donald Evans. Led by an Identification mark found on a towel left with the body of the slain child, a hundred pollco officers descended upon the apartment house Sunday. According to the landlady, Mrs. Ethel Droderick, soon after the raid Hickman strolled by hor In a hallway dropped a casual remark and left the building. Hs did not i (Continued on page 6.) HICKMAN LIVED i COLD TRAIL OF MONSTER UP BY THE POLICE Car Driven by Hickman Found Abandoned Today Sweetie of Mend Says He "Was Nice Boy" Police Make a Thorough Investigation of Every Tip. , . . (Associated Press Leased Wire.) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21. When Dick Foell,. who re sembles William E. Hickman, accused killer of Marian Parker,' was arrested at Sixth and Hill streets at noon today, a crowd at tempted to storm the comer and a riot call was flashed to cen tral station. .. i Foell was released after brief questioning. Officers said he bore a striking resemblance to Hickman, but was much taller than the hunted man. ' -, When the patrolman grabbed Foell by the shoulders tho latter remonstrated and hundreds of persons believing the slay er had been arrested, closed in menacingly. . Several carloads of detectives formed a ring around Foell an dhe was escorted out of the danger 2one. ; Hickman In Crash ; ; LOS ANGELES, Calif., Deo. 21. The cold trail of tho fugitive who dashed throueh downtown streets early i yoBterday ; nnd : es caped from a pursuing clttwn who Inter Identified him ns William 19. Hickman, accused flayer - of Ma rian Porker, was picked up by po lice today. The new Information was that the blue Cadillac In which tho man outdistanced a till ing station attendant seeking to colleot $1 03 for gnRollne, had been stolen from Edward S. Shelter and late last .night figured In a crash at Vernon nnd Main streets on the south Bide. When tho man bollovcd to be Hickman escaped from tho attend ant, Jack Wood, at . Second and Broadway, n block and a hnlf from central pollco station. Wood re ported tho ' affair. Identified the nhologrnph and scores of detec tives were sent out to run him down. From then until tho accident and theft report' today, tho youth and tho big blue automobile an narently had vanished Into thin air. . o Cadlllao Is Abandoned Tho Cadillac, nbandoned, was found at 10 o'clock this morning on West Sixth stroet. Finger print experts were rushed to the car In an effort to'dntermlno whether Its driver yesterday nctually was Hlckriinn. Scheller reported his car stolen from a point near Sixth and Alva r'ndn fttroetB not far from Wood's ganollnn atation. where the Cadil lac nnpenred just before dawn Tnesdav. After tho five nations of fuel had been nut Into tho car. the driver reni'osled to renlsco one of his headlight bulbs. While the at tendant was Inside the stntton tho blir rnr wns driven hurriedly away and Wood took up chase In an other machine. Tho two enrs dashed eastward toward tho down town district nnd nwune up Prnnd way. At Second street tho Cadillac outdistanced tho other car and Wood went on to the nollce station to renort. not knowing- until shown the nhntngrnph that the man was Hickman. Crashes Into Car Shortlv after fl o'clock la"t nlrht. oeenrdlng to the police toilav, the Cadutnc d-lvn hv a vonth re millng Hlckmin. crashed Into ennther rnr. Tho nnme of the driver" of the othor machine was not d''le-ed. Ho told nollce that the ' driver nf the blue couno rked nn rervipsniv. turned and drv awnv at breakneck sneed. pw Irnnetns wan elven the drive fr te nlleged Vldnaner kill er pm mtit'tator nf the little "hnrd Mrl when detectives tontc thn intent develonments to Indl rn flic HlVman was probably within rllv. Tins Are Confusing Meanwhile a confusing mass of tins, rennets nnd rumors delueed deteeHve lteadn'i'rters concerning noHHlMe ocrnmhMre the slever mav hnve hsd. Despite the reiter ated betlnf of Hermn IT. Cllno. chief nf detective, that the sinver worked nine. Informstlon which mnv lnventlrntors believe could not he nut Hehtlv aside was In the bands nf pollen thnt a man had been ween sdt!ng Hickman In carrvlng bundles from the apart ment bouse where the accused man 'Ived, up to the tlmo of the mii'dor. Ollne, backing np his belief that It was a "one man Job," declared PICKED in Crash Last Night and all other .suspects In the case, two s: of whom still were held this morn. Ing, had been exonerated. The two men - held are Earl Smith, Raid to have been a friend of the Parker family, and George Bornaraan, boUeved-to, be mentally deranged. Tho latter bs arrested after, he had appealed to sovernl broadcasting statlono for permis sion to talk over the radio concern" . tug the kidnaping and murder, j Another Suipect Chsisd ''While the great man hunt went on relentlessly, a report thnt . a man strikingly resembling Hick- . man was chased by the clerk of a downtown hotel caused dispatch ' of scores of detectives to comb -tho business district without sue- ,, cess. . i . . Shortly after 10 a. m., a secret tip from the foothills northeast ot Pasadena resulted In the sheriff's ofrice rushing three deputies In a fast car to a canyon midway be-, tween Duarte and Monrovia, whore; Hickman Is said to have once owned a mountain cabin. . 8aen With Bundles - LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21. Furth er substantiation ot one ot . the early theories advanced by the po llco Investigating the Marian Park er murder was disclosed early to day when officers said two persons, whose names they refused to re veal, had seen William Edward Hickman and another man carry Bevernl bundles from the Bollovue Arms Apartments and put thorn In to a Chrysler coupe. Tho Information of the two per- . sons, a man and Ills wife, who knew Hlckmnn s Donald EvanB, Ktrengthoned tho theory that Hick man had an aide In tho plot ot which ho Is accused. Tho couple who saw Hickman (Continued on page 4.). QurWgat.KerMan Well IT WAS WARMER LAST NIOHT! Hut ONLY ONE DEGREE! Instead of the thermometer registering the usual 30, It step ped up a notch and clicked oft 31. The Office Cat considers this a great victory That Is He said yester day that It'd be warmer and IT WAS! Let him tell It la his own words: Warmer "Well ya see. I went agln Pro- phet Push's prediction, takln the bull by the horns and sayin' that lt d be warmer and 1 was VINDI CATED by one degree. Now comes Prophet Pugli a day late and says. 'Warmer tonight,' and I agree with him." ItAIN TONIOHT Yop. that's what they say MIT THEY'LL HAFTA SHOW. US! , . i - j.f f
