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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1927)
WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1927 The Oregon Statesman Iaaa4 Daily Except Monday by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANT 15 South Commercial Street. Sales. Ortro R. J. Heodrieka Irl S. HeSaurrr -Ralpa O. Cartie -Vctor D. CerUoa Boiejla Bunch - - lltuftr Haaaanf Editor City Editor 8 parte Editor Society Editor Ralph H. Kleteiar, Advartisias Ifaaater Uoyd . Btiffler - - Buperintendeat W. H. Headeraon, Oirealatioa alaneger E. A. Rhotaa Liveatoek Editor W. C Coaaar - - Poultry Xditoc MEltBEB Of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Astoeiatad free is exclaaiely entitled to tba uae for poolieaUon of all diepatcnea credited to it or sot otherwise credited in this papar and aleo the local aevi published herein. BUSINESS OmCES: Member Selae tad Oregon V aw i paper Pae'fie Coaat Rapreaentatirea Doty m Stypea, In;., Portland. Security Bid.; San rraneiaeo, Sbaroa Hidg.; Loe Aafelea, Chamber of Commerce Bldr. Toosaaa F. Clark Ot New Tork. 12S-186 W. Slat St.; Chicago. Marquette Bids. Baaiaew Office 21 or 588 Society Xditor .106 TELEPHONES Nawa Dep(.23 or 108 Job Department Circulation Office -88J Ss Cntered at tha Poet Office in Salem, Onpi. aa eeeJd-elaaa matter. December-21, 1037 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Naza reth, into Judaet, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because be was of the house and lineage of David: ) to be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife., being; great with child. Luke 2:4-5. SHEWING SALEM'S GROWTH There are a good many people in Salem who remember the fight made by The Statesman for a government rjost office building. That was only a little while ago. Thomas H. Tongue was m congress. The idea of a government nost office building in Salem was hooted at by many. They said it was not needed; the town -was too small. Congressman Tongue secured the appropriation. There was a bitter fight against the removal of the postoffice. It was then on the east side of North Commercial street, between Court and Chemeketa. It had been moved to that location, after a hot fight, from the corner of Commercial and Trade, where the W. C. T. U. is now. Well, the postoffice building was secured, and the location agreed ttpon. There has been one addition. There will have to be others. There are now 75 employees ; 63 regular and 12 substitutes, for the holiday rush. There is not room enough for them to work comfortably and accommodate the great crowds. Another clerk is soon to be added. Others will have to be. West Salem is to come into the free city delivery system Jan. 1st,-making another employee. The above is a fair indication of Salem's growth. There two or three employees in the eighties, at the Trade i .4. .i e- a i , i .'"",,'wwai bucci ivK.ai.ijii, aim xuur or nve in me otner j Cation, fin Nt-trf Vi PAmmorcial Look forward another quarter of a century, and visualize j the postoffice business of Salem. The growth of Salem is j going to be cumulative. This city and section are just get- ting started in rapid growth. j . , STRANGER THAN FICTION (An Associated Press dispatch of yesterday from Kansas City, Mo., reads as follows :) This is the record at Central high school here of William Edward Hickman, identified as the kidnaper and slayer of Marian Parker in Los Angeles: Vice president senior class, 1926. President, Central Webster club. President, Central chapter, National Honor society. Member negative debate team. 1925. Member student council, 1924, 1925, 1926. Businessmariager Central Luminary (weekly newspaper). Literary editor Centralian (school annual). President Central Classics club, 1925. Junior aide Central Thucydides club, 1923. i Senior ballot : "Best boy orator." What a fall! Trii ia rfTTv u l i. it.. T7 t. call a case chf y ucwme f,-euc boy e'fg:kn apparently normal and promising ,cmBirnavut to be an arch fiend. Lower. than the lower ttRials to fne extent that he has a higher intelligence than they havef Is it insanity? Perhaps not, unless the claim ' be conceded, made m some quarters, that all men are more or less insane; or carry the seeds of insanity. The great saving thing in recrarrf to such rasps is th sonap k of digustthat such case sweeps over the rest of humanity. & , j.fi.s v - i. j js pamy Douna up in tne iact tnat an buhin-i eaai norr, - joes not cur jn more than one or two ill" eiSte U 0t a hundred millions, or out of the whole ROAD BUILDING PROGRAMS f 1 he American Road Builders' association has declared from its headquarters in Washington, D. C., that the United -States government should bear a reasonable portion of con struction costs on necessarily expensive highways in the federal aid system. At the present time the government is required to limit its aid to 50 per cent of the total cost, not in excess of $15,- 000 per mile. "This allowance is entirely inadequate where topographical or drainage conditions are unfavorable to cheap construction," it was stated. "The federal aid law . should be revised tc permit the bureau of roads to share equality with the states the expense of construction under these conditions. "There are certain'eections of the United States where the fTOStWKfiojfvitally needed highways may not be carried out under the $15,000 limitation. One of the most important stretches of highway in the United States, the Durango Silverton, a forest road in Colorado, cost more than $17,000 per mile for grading alone. The completion of this road took nine years, but it now serves aa an entrance to the fertile San Juan basin and the famous Mesa Verde National fTheSS clause forbidding, the bureau of public roads to bearJnGre saxi $15,000 of the cost of road construction is"Tmr7r!lfederal government should bear 50 per cent of the costs whertfaffic- or topographical conditions make the $15,000 limiUtionPpUcable." The' American Road Burrs', association is to hold a convention and road' shoiy Cleveland, Ohio, starting Janu ary' 9th, in which more thbt5f000 people will participate Arr indication of the- gtpwirj mrerest in good roaas in ths country. , , .:i , - - - At thtjneeting their win be a special session of highway fM, iU of Pan-Anv2an countries ior tne purpose oi ais- cu;?: ...j roadljuilding methods of North and South America. jTwer.ty-two'nationa" hXre been Invited to the Pan-American sessions of the road congress. Mexico! and Cuba have al ready accepted, with five delegates named. " Hans for the future construction of an International high way between North and South America were actively taken up three years ago by the American Road Builders organi zation while in convention at Chicago. Since that time a highway has been put under way from Laredo, Texas, to Mexico City, and is partially completed. At the meeting one year later, Senor F. BL Arosemena, delegate from Pana ma, announced that only the lack of a bridge across the Panama canal was delaying completion of the road across Panama. The great highway, when completed, will connect north ern Canada with nations of South America. The Cleveland meeting will outline feasible routes and essential prelimin ary work in connection with the construction of the road. It is perhaps all right for the city council to provide a hearing for the people who want to protest against a loca tion for the incinerator any location. But it can not be more than a gesture ; an idle gesture. We must have an in cinerator. Later we must have a sewage disposal system. They must be located some where. And the place to locate them is where they obviously ought to be located, at some point north of the city. There is no better place than the one in mind, at the old Oregon Electric gravel pit. The postoffice employees must reflect that they are glad Christmas comes only once year. Some of them, even that that is one too many. HICKMAN HOME TOWN AMAZED AT CRIMES (Continued from pace 1) had displayed no evidence of mor bidity. - Police Chief Suspicions A change in tne young man's mental attitude, however, was noted about a year ago by Lieu tenan Colonel Charles E. Edwards, former chief of police, to whom Hickman was paroled after being involved in forgery while employed at the Los Angeles bank of which Marian Parker's father was an of ficer. The boy. Colonel Edwards said today, had been lively and en thusiastic, but became morose and seemed to avoid companionship. After the change, added Colonel Edwards, he was restless and wanted to be on the go. Mrs. Hickman expressed the be lief her son was in Chicago, where he went last October and obtained a job as usher in a theater. ' She said she had heard from him but once since then. "If he haT left Chicago, he would have told me," she said. The mother also did not believe reports that her son was seen here the week of November 12, when the motor car used by the Los An geles slayer was stolen from Dr, Herbert L. Mantz here. Would Have Come Home "If he came here in November, as they say," said the mother. "fce would have come home." Dr. Mantz was unable to identl iy a pnotograpn oi mckman as that of the man who took his car at the point of a gun. Dr. Mantz said the man would not permit him to get a good view of his face. Hickman was a popular member of a Sunday school class here and played on the class basketball team. W. Warren Humphrey, teacher of the class, said Hickman "was a very bright boy, a good student and very popular." "It seems almost impossible, that a boy of his type could have a queer quirk in his make up," said Humphrey. "He appeared normal in every way." Mrs. Hickman lives here with her daughter, Mary Hickman, 17, in two rooms at a residence. They gave up 'the home they owned when the other children left home, Mrs. Hickman said. Mrs. Hick man said her husband deserted her and the children vln Hartford, Ark., eleven years ago and that she later divorced him. The fam ily moved to Kansas City seven years ago from the Arkansas town where Edward was born February 1, 1908. Mother Near Collapse Mrs. Hickman tonight was near the point of prostration. "Oh, why haven't I heard from him? Why hasn't he let me know where he is? Why doesn't he say he didn't do It? I can't stand thif awful suspense much longer." shr sobbed. But perhaps he doesn't know they are looking for him," she continued, with the confidence born okmother love. "If he's in Chicago maybe he doesn't know about it yet. It may be too, that he has heard about it and is hid ing in Chicago until he can get word to me and learn what to do." More than a score of lawyers called on Mrs. Hickman today to offer their services in case the boy was captured and several persons visited the mother to express their opinions of what should be done with the youth, in the event he i3 caught. Most of the day Mrs. Hickman and Mary sat alone in their rooms and late tonight they were still sitting in almost the same posi tions, sobbing wearily and wonder ing about the 19 year old son and brother, charged with one of the most cruel murders on record, and sought in one of the nation's greatest manhunts. Bits For Breakfast -o 1 "Seven Miles Out" m S Ella McMunn's new book will be off the press this forenoon, and copies will be on sale at Patton's book store in the afternoon, at 50c each. This notice is given prominence because there is al ready a waiting list of buyers. S All right; let the ' protestants against the location of the incin erator any location have their talkfest. Then locat it where it belongs. W Here is a pointer: The Inciner ator will likely be located at the Oregon Electric gravel pit, or left whern the citr dums Is now. or very near that point. Which do you prefer? V s s The work of Dad Watson, the originator of the old time dance movement in this part of the coun try, is unique. And It Is a good movement. The benefits it Is bringing show the value of a good example. Dad Watson's old time dances In Portland fill the big hall in the building of the Odd Fellows there every Friday evening. This has been going on, there, for two years. Result, nearly all dances in Portland are aid. time dances now. The same thing is happen ing in Salem, where Dad Watson carries on. an old time dance each Wednesday evening, and expects to continue, with perhaps a vaca tion after the holidays, for a few weeks. Here is another" result: Dad Watson does not give return checks. There is no chance for the members of the rough-neck el ement to go out and dissipate and return in a maudlin There is no drinking at old time dances. And the Salem city conn cil has passed an ordinance against return checks. It is a law of this city. And county commissioners are doing the same thing, all oyer this section. They are refusing tiprmltn to dance managers who give return checks. The road houses are going out of business j the ones which cater to the high rolling element. There can. be decency in dancing. The fact Is, as Dad Watson has demonstrated. nearly every one who dances wants decent dancing. No onej who has any of the Instincts of a gentleman or a lady wants to be disturbed by roistering hoodlums. So Did Watson has done a lot of good with his propaganda for de cent dancing: for the old time dances. be held In tha ikk. - .. hall in Portland today. Cl' Seattle and San Francisco ara each to get a share of the trans port business between our to,., " "'"vpinea and Portland Is out In the cold. San FranciscoThe granite ra wall built at great expen80 by th Santa Fe railroad company JL serve as a buttress for the rt-.-i situu ui uina uaetn settled ir me Day last nigbt. i into TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (From columns of the man. Dec. 20, 1902.) States Portland Twelve saloons were refused a license for 1903 by the council yesterday afternoon. The fourth annual meeting of condition, the Oregon Historical society will it SPECIAL! Service Trays, Art Taperty, Glass Covered 11x17. Floor 2nd - 1 WATCH THIS SPACE DAILY! Vi n it W Filzgerald-Sherwin ; Motor Co. Corner Liberty & Chemeketa Telephone 1132 MAK3 A FINE WSlrU GlFTI r -M akVarE i i ri ; h. i K-i it. ri . 11 How happy she will be when you drive up In the car. What a fine looking car. Then von ten ner now mue you raid Complete Joy; Ford Touring . Willys-Knight Touring Willys-Knight Sedan . ...13; . JtiOii .. Fitzgerald-Sherwin j Motor Co. Corner Liberty & Chemeketa , Telephone 1 1 .12 "The House of Courtf-uus . Service" A C( J30C J ro: If .V The Burnett Jewelry Store is open every evening this wee till 9M,C kc ana every reader of this newspaper is invited to open an account take all the gifts needed to make sure of a merry Chrtstmas and Pay Us as You Are Paid next year. SpPPfi t , ;3lLjLUL M' , Banjo Gods, Cuckoo Clocks and ell - yT-L rffeeTSSW jdF&SSfSt the new art clocks, $12.50 to 45. Take X D ' ; m ' Al Af X Hi kSm: 'm -Tr:.-! ; men dress Men's Diamond Set Scart Pins 92S to 25d: ; rPdyrkenti ft 16 fS a week. ' CUFFUNKS Sterling Silver French s Enamel Solid gold and gold set with diamonds tUO to flOO a pair. r: " ' Pdy'in . Nineteen Twenty Eight A MEN'S STRAP WATCHES Benrus, Brunvll, Btdova, Elgin, Hamilton,' Illinois, Walt ham, ITavannesall the best makes are here Priced from $19.75 to S8S.. Tahe any StraP Watch for a dollar faymentPay the bal ance a dollar or so a week in Nineteen Twenty Eight I LADIES' BRACELET WATCHES Benrus, Brunvil, Bulova, Elgin, Wal' tkam, Hamilton, Tavannes and other finest makes Priced from 119 JO to $50. Take any watch for . a dollarPay the balance next year, a dollar or so a week. Diamond Set Bracelet Watches from $50 to $7S0. Terms Five dollars down, payments SI to SIS a week. CLOCKS Scores of styles to choose among $9JO$ to $40 jo. Pay $1 down Pay a dollar a week next year. MEN'S DRESS WATCHES Elgins, Hamiltons, How ards, Illinois, Walt hams. At the cash prices $14.95 to $100 and on the Bur nett Budget Plan Take any watch for a dollar. Pay next year a dollar or so a week.- , f Dresser Sets Pearloid inlaid with semi-precious stones. Pijced from $6 35 to $100. 'fay a dol lar or so a week. Others of ster UngsUver,' priced from $50 to $100. Payments ft tof2 a week. "The surest wav to have t . - j - - - - w . vtr ri.wn fr v r.t.. IM4.K4.. 7. f. r. .vt.uwujf cmc not one. rrancis. a mere, n fin prt 1110 rinnni Wm.j.'i . Jewelry Store is based not on what a man Y A ZTZ "ZZ"iJ7. .fne rne" . sessions" but on character. On his vs Th7,aeSndl Asking for Credit at a Burnett Jevtlry Store is as easy as asking for a dish of ice cream at, a soda fountain. And you'll -likely, get tie credit, . In less time than it takes to: get tke cream t M M -11-11 457 State St., Salem When Time steals our awav Shall steal our pleas ures. too: The memory of Gift mill Mtnv And half our renew t Tom Ifoort. wko youth the Joys SILVER SETS Community Plate G or ham, Holmes and Edwards, and Rog ers Silver all at the lowest cash Prices Take any set for a dol lar Pay the' balance a dollar a week in the vedr Nineteen Twenty tight f 1 I 11 tL 4 I Yj
