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FlfflEXJIITIi: . FOR MIL- CARRIER " ' . ; -5 - -J " - .- ft . t - . - '-. V - - - Eligible List For Salem Post ; office Sought; Serve; Wider Territory A Dbg Adventure , Tim OREGON STATESMAN. SALE2J, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1927 CITIES' GROWTH SHOWN FORU.S XEVf YORK TO PASS SIX MIL. . ilOS MARK IN 1028 Announcement that a civil ser- Vie examination to establish an. eligible list from which selections. may be made to . fill - vacancies . whth may occur in the positions t rjostol flee clerk or carrier at the Salem ' postof flee, , recalls the fat that the service I soon to be iserased to Include carrier de livery in West Salem., . The an- Beancement follows; - "The United States Civil Ser- Ytc Commission announce . a Post Office Clerk-Carrier, exami nation lor the purpose of estab lishing ; an eligible register from which selections max -be make to - tui vacancies as they may occur la the position of CLERK , or CARRIER, Post Office Service, .at Ealem, Oregon. Applications will M.recerrM 6r; the Secretary. 1 iiWTenin u Civil Service Dis trict, Room 207,Po9t- Office Ballding. Seattle. Washington, up te the' elose of ; business oa Feb- nary 8, 1929. The date of ex asamation will be shown on the admission cards furnished arjnll- unirauiuw - icmce is., paid at thrate of 45c per hoar; for the first year at full time, salary is $0.700.. All citizens of the United States who meet the requirement, bath men and women, may enter "examination; appointing ;ot-fleers.-. however. - have the legal o speciiy'tne jcx dMir.rf X tequesting certification of elt giajes. Age limits are 18 to 45 years on the date of examination. AS limits do not apply to ner- . entitled to. preferences on ae- - j service. For. further information and application blank, apply to Mr. of V. S. Civil Serrice Examiners, at. Salem, fire eon Tary. Eleventh U. S. Civil Ser vice District, 207 Post Office Building. : Seattle, Washington." 'S3 l'ortlaod not Estimated ta Statis tics as Compiled by . ' ; - Census Experts i! Jack, a foxhound belonging to V.. O. Cranford. of Waynesboro, Misa was chasm a fo 1 Thn fce disappeared. Nine day. later, a howl was heard in the vicinity of the : hunt. Investiga tion discovered ! Jack .at the bot- torn of a welL He was lonMm. 1 '-but fat and sleet It was found that the fox had jumped Into the .well, too, so- Jack had : plenty .of fresh ineat during his incarcera' tion,;; : " ,.-..- .r Si L GIVES PLAY CHRISTMAS EXERCISES HEfJD . AT SPRING VAIXEY , CUNE RELATES INSIDE STORY OF TOX' HUNT ' (CootiBtted from pag 1) aikdi killer had driven. They were no4 clear enough to classify and so. to match them against our rec ords, we possibly might have had t go through fivery one of the Howards of . 2J)0,000 fingerprint cards in our files. - t -Wires Kansas City" "I -combed my memory for the Basses of any men who were like ly to have committed the crime -tad on information on three of these I telegraphed Chief of De tectives W. E. O'Connor of Kan sas, City. . i Monday night. December 19. OXonnor called me by long dis-1 e telephone to- report on these three men. J ust as he was about ts hang; up at his end he added tfcat they recently had had anoih , ec inquiry from Los Anseles about imiiam E. Hickman, on proba tion from the Los Angeles court, bat that he could not be located In Kassas City and must be in Los Aagelea. C v":. "Immedlately ' there flashed In t my mind that the Hickman finger print card might'be worth Investigating. I. had;it located In cr files and turned over to our fiager print expert. Lieutenant II. a. ariow. in two : minutes Bar low had matched them with the prists taken from the automobile steering wheel and one of the ran soo letters written to Marian Par ker's father, and we knew for the first time the name of the man w wanted, William Edward Hick- in-- . ,v v :v - Confession Related r .- " - Now, as to the confession and the manner in which I got it from the prisoner. ' ' ,v-,':: - '"After we left Pendleton. Ore., ca the train last Sunday morning, X tsok Hickman alone Into a com- yiuuciitiW our private car ana for five hours I ; questioned and cross questioned ? him. No body else was with us. v -Finany,' he said that he was going to adopt the Leopold and Losb , program, referring to that Chicago case In which the two yovng killers" of ' Bobby Franks paded guilty." : "V - "1 told him that in that event it would be better for Mm to write at his, statement, so that the jise considering his case would have all the detail before him. "Hickman said h would do this U I would promiee that ; a copy of his confession would be placed la the judge's hand . I assured his that It wouli, so he told me tej whole story then, much as it ha been printed la the' papers. 7riiee TThoIe Etery . "The following morning. Uon Ciy. I took writing material Into H!;kman' compartment and we sit down together, while he wrote statement, .19 pages la long fcA3d, of confession, and six sages outlining hi motive. - Then I called ia Chief of Po- Ile Da-rl of Los Angeles and Dis trict Attorney Asa Xeye of Los Arseles county who . were, also aieard the train, and the state-j xs.ta.t was signed asd wltsessed In tf sIicatsw I turned tis original or-! tr to tte district attorney and kept SfKlNQ VALLEt, Dec. 27 special.) A very Interesting program was given by the ' pupils or me Spring Valley school Friday afternoon when they presented their Christmas exercises. ; The program was giwn as play en U tied "The Cowboy's Christ play entitled,' "The Cowboy' Christmas" in three acts. Act. I- A typical cowboy scene at a ranch house.: Miss Patience interests the boys in making them selves presentable. - ; . ; Act. II. Alkali Ike writes his mother. The letter falls into other hands, and money Is sent to her on which to cornel west and surprise Ike. Mrs. Seymour, Wilson gave sev eral selections 5 on" the new Gal bran sen piano--recently purchased by the community club. Act. III. -Alkali Ike's mother arrives and attends the program given , by Miss : Patience at the school house. ' 1 !: Song School "Santa is Com lng." " ; ; . ; ; Recitation Ella Belle Sohn. Recitation Marjorie Matthews. Recitation- James Smith. V Recitation Dorothy Eberly. , SongGladys Crawford;; Recitation Marvin Cook. Recitation Olive Stratton. : Recitation Elaine Sohn. " Recitation James Cook, i Recitation Ha : Anne Stratton. - Recitation Ha Marie Versteeg! ReeiUtlon Louis Jakubec Candle Drill Thelma Dowdy, Eldon Cook, Caroline Jakubec, Ar thur Tuncen, Ha Smith. Marvin Cook. Doris Windsor, Julian Strat ton, Theodora Shafer. James Cook. Characters of play: Alkairs mother. Alvera Leopold: Alkali Ike, . Lorine WalUng; - Rawhide, Laura Cook: 1 Snowball. Edgar - -. -r . Smith; Curly, Vernon Windsor; Bridget,' -' 1 Josephone , Jakubec; Shorty. Edward Shubert; Mciun- nis. Albert Oeorse; Jisa Patience, Eula Smith; iMahaney, Leland George. - - - i ' I After the program Eula Smith, Edward Schubert; Vernon Windsor and Albert George-distributed the presents and candy to the audi ence. -:; 1 Mr. and Mr, Frank Kleper and two daughters Edouise and Loisal Matthews of Talbot, spent Christ mas eve with Mr. and Mrs. J-P. Sohn and family. ' - " - - I Mr.nd Mrs. Alfred Ynngen and daughter Evelyn, and . son wonn spent Christmas aa the guests of Mr nd Mrs. Chris yungen ana family. : ' Mr. Belle simkins nas as ner t Mr andMrs. Ercel T. K1TX- wood of. Seattle, wn. . r ; i Yvonne Thompson of , Oregon City and Inrine Branch of Pratum were visitors at the Spring Valley chbol Monday. -4 ''M Mr. and Mrs. ' H. N. " Alderman entertalaed fa their gnesta on riiriatmaa day Mr. and Mrs. Ploas- t Holdredce of Amity, Mr. and Mr. TEL J GUlon, Charle Gillon of Rlm. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. steven- and daughters Rutht and Shir ts r RaienvHeichtcMr. ana urs. - - . E. Fag Sterenson ana aaugaier Mabel of Salam and Mr.-ana mts. Carl Alderman and small son Jun- tnr. Mis Evangeline Jennings oi Laramie. Wyoming, Is spending the holiday hers with her mother, lira.- Mary Jennings and Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Wilson and family. Miss Jennings is -state nutrition specialist for Wyoming. Eh, tis Ited here two year ago. ' Mr. and Mrs. Charles Teeple ana son Howard metered, to Portland WASHINGTON. Dec. 27 AP) Sizing up the growth of 255 cities credited with populations of 30,000 or more, census bureau expert hare figured, among other things that by the middle of next year New York will have more than , 000, 000 inhabitants and Clereland will move Into the 1,000,000 class before the 1930 enumeration. . f Computations have been made a of July 1, 1927 and are based, in most, cases, on the assumption that the annual Increase of popu I Latlon since the 1920 census has been the same as the average an nual growth between 1910 and 1920. Estimates were not made for 23 cities. r ? - . The four cities In the million class showed no change In rela tive rank from estimates of a year ago. New York, nearly twice as large, as any ; other city . In the United States, is credited with f growth between July 1, 19 2 and uiy xr ix oi tttt.suv, ormgmg Its total to 5,970,809. .Estimates for its boroughs are: The Bronx 926.100; v Brooklyn V 2.274.400; ManhatUn 1.814,600; Queens 809400. and Richmond 146,800. - Chicago, second - city, had a growth of 2.000 less than New York; and Is estimated at 3,102. 800, Philadelphia, third -largest city, ,1s credited with 27.900 In crease, and a total of 2,035,900. Detroit, last of Ihe "big four,- in creased 44500 to 1.334.500. In the half-to-one-mOllon class. Cleveland leads with 972.500, fol lowed by SU Louia 839.200; Bal timore 819.000; Boston 793,100; Pittsburgh 565,500; Los Angeles not estimated (576.673 in 1920); San Francisco 676.000; Buffalo 550,000; Washington 540,000. and Milwaukee 536.400. There are no changes In rela tive position in the 400,000 class; Newark ; 466,700; Minneapolis 447.000; New Orleans '424,400 and Cincinnati 412,200. - The 300,000 class gained Toledo and : found Seattle advancing to second place; Kansas City, Mo. 388,100; Seattle 375,300; Indina apolis 374,300; Rochester 324, 500; Jersey City 321,500; Louis ville 320,100 and Toledo 305,400 Portland, Ore., was not esti mated. by my mother tells me to plead not guilty. I will refuse to do it, he said. tI ald I'm going to plead guilty and t mean IL.Tha officers have my story all down la writ ing, anyway and I signed It, Hickman Pictured as Lad With Wish to be Preacher told everything Z know. I can't see where that Kansas City lawyer will.be much help now.! . Hickman said . he anticipated "fair treatmeat in Los Angeles- the home of hi crime. V "But all I expected to have was the public ' defender, he continu ed; "I don't want my trial -to be too speedy. All X ask for Is fair Report that the youth had been! intimidated or beaten into con teaslon were denied by him. 1 "Everybody treated . me square ly,! he said. "I havf no cause to complain.. : . He ' reiterated a previously pressed desire to meet Perry M. Parker, the father of his small victim, face to face.- i -flf Mr. Parker wants to see me and talk with me. I'll see him and talk with, him. he said. " I hare nothing to hide. I will tell him ev erything -ta detail just as I told it in my confession. r : ; -EXCUSES NEEDED - ' A parson in a little - Colorado town was having . hi daily chave at the hand of an old colored barber.' The negro had been good and drunk the night before, and the parson knew It, but hated to have any other barber touh his face. .After two or three minor LOS ANGELES, , Dec. 27. (AP) He wanted to be a. minis ter, to play a trombone and to see drama on the stage. Instead. William Edward Hick man 1 -the -confessed perpetrator of an atrocious crime the slav ing of -little Marian Parker that brought down" upon him hatred and Inflicted tragedy on a happy home. - - ... ML 4 . a ice youm - amoiuon to he a minister and his desire to learn to play a stolen 8350 trombone -both are detailed in his conversations with Los Angeles officials' and newspaper reporters while enroute here from: Pendleton;- Ore. the place of his capture. After he had been visited by a minister in the Pendleton Jail, ac cording to officers, he later tore up the religious pamphlet, which the clergyman left,' It was a piece of acting, he said.-. - . i Last summer, he related, while engaged In a series of holdups, he drove up to a music store in San Francisco and selected a trom bone, priced 8850. ; He told - a: clerk to come with him to get his fathers check and safely out of the store, pressed a pistol to the clerk's side and told him to return to the store. His ambition to play the trombone waned. Later I broke np the trombone "What do ; you think you de serve? was the reporter answer. "Well, X don't know." he said "I sort of was hoping I 'might get life. Either that "or the other. That all ITcan get Arent you afraid 6f life long year-: with thoughts about that little girl and how she died?" he was asked. No, the answer came quickly, "Thoughts would not bother me, I never think about such things. If I were free. I'd soon forget it," Hickman , said he- never - read much. "t like to go to picture shows. he, said. "Saw one almost every day; Like to see pictures "with pretty women In them. Like to look at ; pretty r women. ' Also I like plays, dramas,7 and used to go and see them all the time." ( Hickman -use -perfume. - His overcoat, despite .thousands of miles of open road driving, still smells of perfume. Dicn. isa airoer at laiir tnnv a generous slice out' of the pleach-3uat KOt mad and crushed it then er's eajv -whereupon ; the latter could contain himself no longer. Yoa see, John,, that's : what comes of drinking too much whis key." - Yassah, dat's a fac sah. I'se heerd drinkin makes de 'skin powf ul tendah." v - threw it away In Elysian park." Elysian park is the spot where he also threw away parts of the slain girl's body. "Say, Cap, what do you think 111 get? he : asked a reporter, glancing quickly from beneath his bushy eyebrows. - BUDGET QUESTIONED I SCHEDULE, CLAIMED to the attorns,, general for his opinion. -J'J- :-";-f- This ease ls the school district of The Dalles, ia which a budget was voted upon and carried in October, 1837. This budget was prepared- by the school board and budget committee tor the school year 1128-1929 and was so adrer tised In the notices of election. The representatives of the Un ion Pacific company maintain that a budget for the school year 1928 1929 could not be voted at so earl a date and claim that this budget should ' have been advertised tor the school year 1927-1928. The thing that makes this Hit fereace In opinion of importance is the fact that, at the beginning of : the fiscal year for school dis tricts in June, 1927, The Dalles school district had on hand an ua expended balance of several thous and dollars. : ' If the budget voted on In Octob er was for the school year 19J7- 1828. the ' Union Pacific represen tatives . maintain this balance should have appeared among the estimated receipts. On the other hand if the budg et voted upon in October was for the school year 1928-1929. the estimated "probable unexpended balance at the end of the current year, would have been as of June, 1929, The school board and budg. at committee of The Dalles estim ated mat there would be no un expended balance in June, 192$ and, therefore. Included no item under this heading in. their budg. etv.- .'.' DELAY BOARD MEET SCHOOL DIRECTORS TO COX. SIDEIt ATHLETIC FIELD Te absence from the city of number of school board members made necessary postponement of the regular board meeting to Sat urday evening. Chairman H. H. Olinger announced last night. One of the matters to be dis cussed at the meeting will be the possibility of Improving the high school' athletic field and repair ing the grand stand so that It might be used for the football sea son next year. The board, also is expected to take action on a re quest from students to publish an annual this school year. VP The legal department of the union I'acmc rauroaa nas raiseo a question as to the legality .of the school budgets of certain Ore gon school districts along the Co lumbia river. In order to clear up at least some of the points at issue, State Superintendent C. A. Howard has submitted one of the typical cases i ANNUAL JANUARY SALE NOW ON 10 TO 50 REDUCTIONS ON HOME FURNISHINGS : (Contract Goods Excepted) Scjilcate myself. Later the dtrlet attorney made ths confes-'sunday where tey were Christmas a;a putuc. . .. guests of Mr, and: Mrs. . cnarier "Ilickxaan made his confession relt. Mrs. Tfeple and Howard ar Riraout any promise cf inraun- rpendisar the hcliiey with Mrv J'r." - Tesla at their country feoms. LITTLE GIRL'S DEATH RESULT OF BREAKDOWN (Cob tinned from pf 1) her he would kill her if not ran a h a nnv . - buuibu. ioereiore, ; wnen ne' ap plied the towel about her neck she realized what was about tc happen and her neart stopped as the result of fright and exhaus tion. : - : No Poisons Found Hicuman stated she did; not struggle." ; Wagner's statement continued, "in his first reported confession. Immediately after he found she was dead, he.dismem erea ner. xne cnemists report that no poisons - or anaesthetic? cqald be found in -the organs submitted." Hickman's return to Los Ange les by train from Oregon, and hit speedy race from . the ; railroad yards to the county jail on the twelfth., floor of the hall of jus tice, was without any great dem onstration on the part of the thousands of spectators who gath ered o watch his arrival. Man acled to two", detectives, he w whisked In an automobile between ines of police which held back the curious crowd, and into a waiting hall of Justice elevator. i i f - Winded By Ron - Panting from his forced run for me jau ana earety, Hickman an Swered the questions of the book ing officer in gasps and then war ed to cell : number 1, where ' a special a;uard was to be maintained constantly to prevent any attempt at suicide .or escape. An hour and half later the con fesaed ? kidnaper-murderer briefly faced the bar of Justice, where f milling crowd gathered in such proportions that the district attor ney had airncuity making his entry... . t , : -"i J' :: ::j . Although whitened of face and with dark eyes flashing here 'and there, never looking directly upon the courtroom crowd, ' Hickman outwardly did not appear nervous. The clearness, and precision with which he ' answered the . court 'r questions as to his name brought an audible gasp from the spectat ors. t y'l '"'..i' -.' - -'-' if- i vVV-First Delay' MAd . On the motion of District Attor ne yAsa Keyes that Hickman's ar raignment be put over until Thurs day, to glre a defending attorney from Kansas City time to arrive here, the court readily ordered the delay. . ' ' . "1 - . . ' The youthful murderer was re turned to- his cell where he threw himself - upon his cot and slept soundly for nearly aa hour. : He was awakened to he informed that he was to be taken to the identifi cation bureau in the Jail for fin gerprinting, : . Then he collapsed,' and was In a complete faint for several minute. When he was rertved he showed little effect as he wa escorted to the Identification bureau. -, Members .of the district attor ney's office tonight said' they would ' not , be surprised if ' Hick man pleaded NOT guilty when ar- ralzned Thursday. Hickman denied - however, that he would do so. ' . Attorney Not Heeded : "Erca If that lawyer engast?i KAFOURY BROS. TWO STORES SALEM PQJITLAND Amazing Year . End Reductions In All B epariments A Genuine Year End Reduction Begins Wednesday at 9 In thia year-end volume campaiTi every department in our main floor and in our down stairs store offer attractive re ductions of wanted merchandise. 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