THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1927
Capitol Tbeatr
Singer's musical comedy com
pany trill stage many features
cnrmmas Ye (tonight). A yari-
ety of Taoderllle features are on
the bill at the BUgh'a Capitol. The
stock compny will, keep the crowd
In the right ktsd of spirit on
Christmas eye. Dolores ILowell,
whose talents has been greatly
appreciated by the Salem theater
fansr -will present "Prisoners Med
ley. Of coarse there Is pathos fn it
but a little pathos now and then
does yon aom good. Bozo Is there
again with "Blots the Dutchman"
In parody on "Let the' Rest of the
World Go By." Bono's nose Is go
ing to be the same color Christ
mas eve as it always is (no change.
Mitzi LaMarr will be seen in sac
a lirely sketchxople will hare to
hold their seats-On the screen the
Capitol will present "Poor! Girls"
a drama of the vlrid night life of
New Vork. .
- coroaado Beach, one of the
world's playgrounds for the weal
thy, was used as the location for
the making, of the exterior scenes.
while an an usually large building
program was. Instituted at the
First National Studios to proTide
the settings representing portions
of New Ygrk.
F anchon . andT Marco "HI-Hat-
ters" idea accompanies tils pic
ture on the bill.
. ' " Jiisinore Theater .
k Colleen' Moore, viracioua First
National star, comes to the Elsin
ore theater tonight and Sunday in
her latest John McCormlck comedy-drama,
"Her wud Oat."
An all-star cast supports Miss
Moore la this picture. Marshall
Neilan, famous director, . who
made some or the star's ouutand
.rfng hits, directed "Her Wild Oat."
adding innumerable comedy touch
es for her for which he is so re
nowned." '-A
"Her "Wild Oat" shows Miss
Moore as a little lunch wagon
owner who takes her - life's say
ings and spends every cent on one
week of luxury and thrills at an
exclusiye . seacoast resort. Her
' hoped-for splash In society Is only
i ripple, however, and she la per
suaded by a newspaper reporter
friend to obtain recognition by
Impersonating a duchess. After
Motion picture patrons are di
vided Into! little armies and fac
tions, as any exhibitor will affirm.
The western star brings out his
luiiowers i one nignt. the ex-
Shakespearean actors entertlns a
different crowd the following
night, and Poll van na has her In
nings the next.
When three different groups go
to see a single picture it mean
that the picture has an appeal to
three groups. That is the' case with
"Babe Comes Home." the First
National Pictures', baseball pro
duction now showing at the Elsi-
nore theater. It stars Babe Ruth
and features Anna Q. Nilsson and
Louise Fazenda last time matinee
today. : '
Babe Ruth and baseball attract
vu iimowjng; a second group
never misses a picture In which
Miss Nilsson appears, and a third
belongs to i loulse Fazenda. Of
course, there are others outside
this classification, chief among
whom may; be named the discern
ing picture shoppers and those who
hare a habit of attending on cer
tain niglis.
While baseball furnishes a
thrilling and colorful background
for the plot of "Babe Comes
Home," two unusual love stories,
much comedy and some tense dra
matic action vie with' it in appeal.
Consequently all three groups of
spectators at the filsinore theater
a day of worried glory the pseudo
duchess is exposed; and Colleeen'sget their fill of the sore of enter
troubles begin all over again. tainment they like best.
LAD HOLDS FIRST ALIBI I
YARN TRUE TO FACTS
cake of soap had been partly used
and that the cleaning powder had
been used copiously .The cleans
ers were found in the bathroom tt
tlie apartment by Detective Walsh.
r SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. . 3.
CAP) Possible corroboration of
.William Edward Hickman's story
that he had an accomplice in the
kidnaping and murder of Marian
Parker, In Los Angeles, was seen
tonight in a report that a stranger
answering the description Hick
man gave of "Andrew Cramer"
had called at the Herald hotel here
Jast Tuesday bight asking for "the
man' in $02." : !
Hickman, who stayed at the ho
tel Monday night, and fled Tues
day morning when he read In
newspapers that he had been Iden
tified as . the kidnaper, occupied
room 402. He stated that, Ii and
"Andrew Cramer," named as the
aetnal slayer, had agreed to meet
at the Herald hotel here.
The new Information was fur
nished by W. F. Smith, proprietor
or the hotel, who said the strang
er visited the registration desk
when Smith was in charge. Smith
told htm there was no man in room
502.
"Sure there Is," said the stran
ger. Asked the man's name, he
said he knew only his Christian
came, which was George. Falling
Jio get information, the inquirer
left hurriedly. Smith surmised last
night after reading Hickman's des
cription of his confederate that
possibly the confederate, if he had
one, naa arrived late at the ren
dezvous and had made' a mistake
regarding the floor on which
Hickman stayed.
TODAY
BIG XMAS EVE SHOW
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A FARCE COMEDY
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Golden Gate Trio
RcseLuJ Cliorcs
Flat Denial Made
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23.
(AP) Andrew Oliver Cramer,
convicted bootlegger, from his ceil
in the Lincoln Heights Jail here
today, threw a bomb which of
ficers said shattered the "confes
sion" of William Edward Hick
man at Pendleton, Ore., that he
was aided in the kidnaping of
Marian Parker and that Andrew
Cramer was her slayer. Cramer
admitted having known Hickman.
Herman Cline, chief of Los An
geles detectives, who is now on his
way to Pendleton, has declared his
belief that Hickman was both the
kidnaper and slayer of the little
school girl, had not been' shaken
by Hickman's confession.
Cramer, 'who has been a prison
er here since last August, told de
tectives that he was acquainted
with a June Dunning. .This was
the name given by Hickman when
he: told Pendleton officers that
Andrew Cramer -d' aided him in
the crime.! He said he picked up
Cramer and June Dunning In San
Diego last; Thanksgiving Day and
gave them an automobile jride to
Los Angeles. r
Movements Traced
San . Diego authorities said to
day they bad information that An
drew- Cramer and June Dunning
had been in San Diego last Sep
tember or October In Sacra
mento, the state criminal identi
fication bureau revealed that an
"Andrew Oliver Kramer" and a
man apparently his brother,
known as "Frank Andrew Kram
er" had criminal records on file.
Aliases were on file for both men.
Both have long criminal records
against their names, most of them
originating in Los Angeles county
Frank Cramer, to police as the
brother of the Andrew in jail
here, also is a prisoner. Ha Is
serving a term for robbery.
' Conflicting stories were , told
police and newspaper men by the
brothers concerning" their ac
quaintances who might throw ad
ditional light oiuthe abduction and
murder of the daughter of Perry
M. Parker," bank official.
' Rose Dunning Xamed
Andrew toid officers that his
brother had "kept company" wltlH
Rose Hurst, alias Rose Cramer,
whose true name he said was Rose
Dunning, j June Dunning. Andrew
said, was a sister of Rose. Both
women, I be said, ran rooming
houses in Los Angeles. Police late
today were seeking them. -
Frank. 1 from his "tell in the
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count Jail, told police that, ne
ihad.never; heard of June Dunning
and that the only sister Kose naa
was Mabet Dunning,- Rose, Frank
said, is bis wife. - Mabel died nine
months ago, be said.
When Andrew Cramer told of
ficer that he knew Hickman, be
said that It might have been last
June when he met him. ; He re
fused to say under what circum
stances. f :-! jutt;f r
"I dottH know why he pick on
ma " Anrirw : said when he ad
mitted that he knew Hickman. "I
Is impossible for me ta kave been
I a on tfcftt , killing as I wa right
there all the time. It's almost too
I ridiculous to talk aboat. .. t
Contradictions Multiply .
Another contradiction of Hick
man's Implication of a man and j
woman accomplices : was seen by)
officers in the story of Edward j
Steltreid,' fellow: tenant of Hick
man's at the Bellevue Arms apart
ment. "Steizreid described In de
tail the movements -of two men!,
who eHed a third,' declared to
have been recognized by him as
similar In appearance to the kid
naper, In carrying a suitcase and
several , bundles, ' from the ' aide
door of the apartment house at
1 1 o'clock Saturday night. The
police pointed out that this wi
several hours after Hickman had
delivered the slain girl's torso to
her father.
.Detail Belated I
Stelzreid said he and his wife
returned to the house at that late
hour after visiting a friend. He
related seeing a man seated in a
small coupe with : lights burning
and motor running at the aide
door curb. When he and his wife
were about to enter a second al
leged accomplice - and the youth
known in- the house as Evans,
came out, brushing them closely
In the narrow entry way and car
rying the suitcase and . bundles.
Stelzreid said he looked ont
through the door and saw the man
open the coupe door to allow the
placing of the bundles Inside.
Later, when Hickman's photo
graph was published, be said he
recalled tbei Saturday night meet
ing and reported it to the' police,
An additional bit' of -evidence
of the presence in Hickman's
apartment of the slain girl was un
covered by an investigating de
fective. A hair found 'on the
dresser was declared by Police
Chemist Welch to have been iden
tical with that of Marian's.
One youth for whom detectives
renewed their search for question
ing was named as Horace W. Tay
lor, powerfully built man of 22
years. The police had reports that
be accompanied Hickman here
from IJansas City. They attended
high school together and were re
ported to have left :he midwest
city at about the same time. Tay
lor was reported to. have .told ac
quaintances he came west to visit
an uncle here, but the latter said
be had not seen the youth since
a year ago.
Taylor was said to have spent a
few weeks - in a Missouri asylum
last January and February.
Cleaning? Materials Found
In the inspection of the apart
ment today by the police chemist.
resulting in the discovery of the
hair believed to have believed to
have been Marian's, Welch also
found that ten bars of soan were
found to have been used partly.
although Hickman had occupied
the apartment only two weeks.
Two cans of cleansing Dowder.
both of which tad been used co
piously were found in the bath
room of the apartment.
Previously, Welch had deter
mined that a few stains found in
the bathroom were blood spots and
were fresh apparently having
been made Saturday, the day fixed
as the time of the slaying of Mar
ian"
The police chemist's findings.
coupled with other clues found in
the room blood stained towels:
missing parts of newspapers
which had been, wrapped around
parts of the small girl's body; im
provised gloves, made perhaps to
keep the girl from leaving finger
prints in the apartment; the pres
ence of a huge butcher knife in
the apartment permitted, "the po
lice to reconstruct what they be
lieved to have been the details of
the murder. . -
PjoJire Weave Story
Here is the description of the
crime as reconstructed bv the of
ficers if it were the work of Hick
man alone:
Hickman lured Marian Parker
to the apartment through the same
ruse by which he had obtained her
release from school-the plea that
her father had been injured and
was carried there. When she reach
ed the room he fed her and told
her if she made no outcry she
would not be harmed. He bound
and gagged her - and gave her-an
anaesthetic . or something similar
to make certain she would be there
upon his return On one of the
occasions when he returned to the
apartment be found her in a con
dition that would require a physi
cian to revive her or else he found
her dead. (A new analysis of the
girl's lungs' bas been ordered to
determine whether there might
not have been some slip in the
first conclusion that no anaesthet
ics were used.) With her death,
the man was confronted by the
necessity of getting rid of the
body. In order to carry it from
the apartment, he dismembered it
and wrapped the pieces in news
papers to make convenient bund
lea. This was done in the bathtub
and afterward he scrubbed it thor
oughly, missing only a few small
stains. Then he carried out the
bundles representing the parts of
Marian's body. .
LINDBERGH'S FETE
TO END ON
Reception In. Afternoon To
Be Only Purely, Yankee
Affair of Stay
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 23.
(AP) Colonel Lindbergh's en
tertainment as Mexico's guest will
officially end Monday afternoon
with the first, last and only purely
American function he has known
here a reception at the Ameri
can colony to 'meet the flier and
his mother.
All Tuesday Lindbergh will t2
left absolutely tree to prepare his
plane, the spirit of St. Louis, for
his Central American fl'ght and
to study map3. He will hop off
for Guatemala Wednesday morn
ing.
The aviator informed the cor
respondents that he might fly to
Porto Rico, but emphasized that
for the present no definite plans
had been made for such a visit-
whether it would be before his
flight to Havana or later.
Wednesday morning will see
him on his way to Guatemala City
which he expects to reach in nine
hours or less. From there he will
fly to the capitals of the following
countries In the order named:
British Honduras, Salvador, Hon
duras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and
Panama. The Panama-Havana
flight, he added, might not be a
non-stop affair, as he sees no reas
on for it. if he makes a stop on
this flight he has not yet picked
his landing place.
Mrs. Lindbergh will probably
fly back to the United States in
the tri-motor-d Ford plane in
which she winged her way from
Detroit to Mexico City.
John W. Davis Presides
At Jackson Day Dinner
WASHINGTON. Dec. 23 (AP)
John W. Davis, the democratic
standard bearer in 1924, will pre
side over the Jackson day dinner
here January 12, the first national
get-together of democratic leaders
since 1920.
As toastmaeter at this revival
of the party's pre-convention ral
lies, Mr. Davis will call on all of
those whose names have been put
forward for the nomination at the
1928 convention.
All other leaders of the party
have been Invited to gather at the
banquet table to hear the call to
arms of the presidential campaign
ana me views or tne party's po
tential nominees.
CHIME DOESNTPAf
UNI DECLARES
Solemn Warning Issued To
AII Young Men Through
out United States
PENDLETON, Ore., Dec. 24
(AP) Warning to the young men
of America to avoid ways of crime
was given by William E. Hick
man, in a signed statement given
out at the city jail here early this
morning. The statement, as he
dictated it to the city attorney, C.
Z. Randall, follows:
"This affair has gained nation
wide publicity and the great re
ward and search by the people of
the west coast show opposition of
America's crimes and everything
should be done to prevent anyone
from interfering in any way with
the liberty ana life of American
citizenship.
"Young men and college stu
dents should consider the Parker
case as a typical crime of the
worst that can happen when a
young man gradually loses interest
in family, friends and his own
honesty.
- "The young men of thi3 coun
try can see that I can pass as an
ordinary young man as far as out
ward appearances go.
"Crime in its simplest definition
is to have . money without work
and enjoy the same place in so
ciety as other people ' and still
show no hottest effort or intention
to go right.
"Young men, when crime bas
once overcome your will power to
be honest and straight you are a
menace to society. Take my ex
ample to illustrate this. See bow
I tried to get what every young
man wants, but In becoming a
criminal to do so, I put my own
life in a mess and the way out is
dark.
"I hope I can do some good by
giving you this warning. Think
ft over, see my mistake. Be hon
est and upright. Respect the law.
If you do these things you'll be
happier in the end and you will
have gained much more from life.
(Signed) "W. Edward Hickman."
n i . a m i s a in. tomorrow
fWlWIU '
on Southern Pacific train number
itah Tnrr rill board the Port
land limited, leaving an hour later
ms DanillarAfl '
tUI A CUU1V W .
There will begin a questioning
designed to break down Hickman's
story shifting the blame for the
mni- anA mutilation of the lit
tle girl onto the shoulders of an-
other. . - - . . -. !
FLYER" FORCED TO LAND
Tex Rankin Comes Down Near
Bend, on "Way to Frisco
BEND, Dec 23. (AP) Tex
Rankin, veteran Portland air man,
flying to San Francisco .with
photographs of the Vapture of,
William E. Hickman at Pendle
ton, was forced down to land here
tonight when he encountered a
heavy snowstorm over the Cas
cades. He will leave Bend for the
south tomorrow morning. :
OREGON I
Hickman To Get Third
Degree From 'Officers
PORTLAND. Dec. 23. (AP)
William Edward Hickman, cap
tured kidnaper and alleged slayer
of Marian Parker of Los Angeles, i
tomorrow will meet face to face in j
Pendleton the men who directed)
the hunt which finally led to his
arrest, and the man who will pros-
ecute him before the bar of justice
for his crime. The men are Chief
of Police Davis and Chief of Detec
tives Cline of Los Angeles, and
Asa M. Keyes, district attorney of
Los Angeles county.
The party left San Francisco at
7:40 a. m. today and will reach
m. 1.".WT li
TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 27
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