WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1927
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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
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.'"",,'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.
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"Seven Miles Out"
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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
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Al Af X Hi kSm: 'm -Tr:.-! ; men dress
Men's Diamond
Set Scart Pins
92S to 25d: ;
rPdyrkenti ft 16
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CUFFUNKS
Sterling Silver French
s Enamel Solid gold and
gold set with diamonds
tUO to flOO a pair.
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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.
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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
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Shall steal our pleas
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The memory of
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And half our
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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
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