▼OL. VII. NO. LI
TAKOTNA^ ALASKA SArl l KI>A Y, DECEMBEK 24, 1927
PRICE 25 CENTS
Kidnapped,
“Murdered
STRANGLING OF YOUNG LOS AN
GELEStHRL TRACED TO TWO
FIENDS; ONE ARRESTED.
PENDLETON, Dec. 22.-rWilliam
Edward Hickman, alleged kidnapper
.. and slayer of* Marion Parker, was
capfcdred afc1 Soho,' Ore#, diis after
noon^ Hickman is now in .the Uma
• tilla county jail. According to the. ar
resting officers, Hickman admitted
kidnapping the child, but denied kill
ing his-Tittle victim.
The fugitive was taken without a
struggle. The arrest was made by
• Chief of Police Tom Mnrdane, Traffic
Sergeant1 Buck, Lieuullen.
A large mob immediately gathered
outsidevithe jail and threats of vio
lence «*ear*-heard.
“Some fiend killed Marioii,”-.Hick
man told the arresting officers. VI
know who it was,” he. added, but he
refused to name the person. The
capturC'vwas effected after Hickman
had fled from Los Angeles to Seattle,
then southward to Columbia river
highway in Oregon, and then east
' .ward to Pendleton.
PENDLETON,' Dec. 22.—-Hickman
declared the mUfder was done by An
drew Cramer, hi**1 partner in the
crime, and that be had no part in the
killing .and that he di# not know that
she had beert sldintfTrtil the body was
delivered to him in his Bellevue
apartment o*. Saturday night. He
*.aid he did nh* kftdhr where the girl
was ikept aft*# h»t»irned her over to
his partner Tbueiday night after tak
ug .her to tlrir»»»ow. He narrated
:.*-t “Mariam uAd*f-W«re good friends
ar*t: w iiau —
were together, 4nd FreWly liked her.
t aio .'S<Br*y thai^hev-was killed.”
Hickman itf Seattle last night
night .'.spent.^fcTO^Ait <dla$20 bill he
*nok Jrcwi vtHb1 girl's -father in Los
.ngeles. ;6e haSi thereat on-his per
il.
^ATTLE<;'<Dee. 22.—Police say
• t William.' EdVafd Hickman, sus
t. i of -kiifnapping and murdering
. ».Id “Mation Tarker, daughter
; !-m'-THrfker; Los Angeles banker,
e.j .the night iri'Seattle last night.
A mar. of - *Hickman’s description
Trade a puflthaSe ht Shical hardware
store and paid* for ’the articles with a
$20 b’ll bearing serial number on bills
-pud by tlto&tfflier oftHfe giti for her
return, but •Ofnly to be direected to
the mutilated bbdy of the child.
LOS'ANGELES, Dec. 22.--Chief of
Detectives Olirie declares he is con
fident the irufftktvho in Seattle passed
one of the *$2tr> gold certificates given
as part ransom for Marion Parker is
William EdilAwi Hickman, her ac
cused slayer.
PENDLEtttR A Dec. 22.—In his
confession police Hickman
stated that Mattox!Parker was killed
Friday and that ."toe deed was the
work of a ’fi6rid Whom" his confession
did not identify.'yTlit >young girl was
strapgled ty a'-wrirein the hands of
the murdeter, he asserted. Hickman
declared hte wanted money to go to
college on and thought kidnapping
-was the only way of doing so.
LOS ANGELES, Dee. 528.—Search
is being made throughout Los An
geles today for June Deniing, pur
ported accomplice of William Edward
fictuuari .accused of kidnapping .and
Mother of
Lindbergh
MAKES AVIATION HISTORY IN
FLIGHT FROM DETROIT TO
MEXICO CITY.
SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 21.—Mrs
Evangeeline Lindbergh, mother e
Charles Lindbergh, alighted at Kel
Field, here, where her noted son a.
quired his flying skill, this afternoon
en route to Mexico City, where she i
| to spend the Christmas holidays wit'
I him. She is flying from Detroit.
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VAL BURNA FLYING FIELD
Dec. 2..—The Lone Eagle’s moth
made aviation history today herse '
when, following the overhead trail
of her illustrious son, Mrs. Evan
geline Lindbergh landed at Valburna
Flying Field this afternoon. She was
the first woman ever to fly from the
United States to Mexico City.
Flying his ‘Spirit of St. Louis,
Lindbergh went out to meet his
mother, and as the big Ford machine
swept over the field Mrs. Lindbergh
carried in each hand the flags of
Mexico and the United States.
MEXICAN BANDITS GET BIG
RANSOM, BUT FAIL TO RE
LEASE THEIR U. S. VICTIM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Urgent
representations have 'been made to
the Mexican -government by Ambassa
dor Morrow in- connection with the
seizure by bandits of Lyman F. Bar
ber, American mining engineer Yrom
Los Angeles, who tS- h'eSd at: Noxtepec,
although six thousand-hpasos ransom
have been paid by Jus family for his
release.
FORBES RELEASED
FROM LEAVENWORTH
LEAVENWORTH. —Charles W.
Forbes, former director of the "United
States Veteran Bureau, completed his
service of a two years’ sentence’ in
the federal penitentiary and was re
leased at midnight. He was met by a
friend, John Rodgers, and the two left
immediately for St.'Louis.
Forbes announced that his'vmost im
portant mission in life will be to “cor
rect the erroneous impression the
nubile has been given of President
Harding.”
At the Takotna Roadhouse, last
Saturday evening, Peter Jensen acted
as host at a pleasant dinner given to
a few of his friends. Those seated
were: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lowrie,
Mrs. Clara Taulman, Miss Virginia
Strand, Chris Nelson, Harry Menzoff,
Claud Nyberg, D. W. Peck, A. X.
Grant.
Chester Brink left last Sunday
morning for Opliix, headed for the
Twitchell reindeer camp. Mrs. Brink,
driving her own string of nine, ac
nnpar.ied Mr. Brink as far as Ophir,
burning here on Tuesday.
T’re'ghter Joe Ferris, hauling up
’■ ria -os, has made three sound trips
?v!, Crath during the past six days.
Miss Virginia Strand «nd Harry
Menzoff drove to McGrath last Mon
day, returning on Tuesday.
slaying Marion Parker. The search
Was not" lessened by the police, de
spite -the officers’ belief that:a pair
existed only 'in the mind of; the self
c.oi&iNtii-iifZil&f&i
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I rp OO EACH and every one
| JL of its many friends
i and to all of its patrons
4 and readers, The' Kusko
Times extends a Merry,
* Joyfnl Christmas
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Tod Morgan
Saves Title
JOE GLICK DISQUALIFIED WHEN
HE DELIVERS FOUL IN THE
FOURTEENTH ROUND.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Smashed to
he canvas three times for long
counts, groggy, and bleeding .from
from cuts on the eye, nose and lips,
Tod Morgan, game little junior light
weight champion from Seattle, stuck
to his guns last night to save his title
on a foul in the fourteenth round
from Joe Glick, vicious body puncher
from Brooklyn. Click was disquali
fied when his right smashed into Mor
gan’s groin after two minutes and
nine seconds of fighting in the four
teenth, the next to the last rofind.
Telegraphic Ticks.
SEATTLE, Dec. 23.—The removal
of the head office of the White Past
& Yukon Route from Chicago to Se
attle and Vancouver, to he effective
January 1, was announced today by
Wheeler, general manager of the
company. The latter has aLso been
elected vice president of the corpora
tion, succeeding F. C. Elliott.
raar
61!<ai i Lb, uec. i'J.—Mrs.
garet Castberg Denny, wife of Moore
W. Denny, mother of a pioneer fam
ily, and Mrs. Beatrice Barelay Perry,
wife of Dr. Roland W. Perry, prom
inent professionally .and socially, have
been granted divorces, each on the
ground of cruelty and indifference on
the part of their husband.
SEATTLE, Dec. 19.—Police Ser
geant .M. Spence and Patrolman
Thomas Feck, discharged by Chief
Searing on the ground that they were
parties in a bootlegging joint, were
ordered reinstated by the civil service
commission. The trial jury in their
cases, disagreed.
NEW‘Ti)RK, Dec. 19.—Henry L.
Stimson, recently appointed governor
general of-the Philippines, expects to
assume.his duties the last of January,
he said today.
CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—Robbers last
njght held up the business office of
the University of -Chicago and fled
with $22,818.S1 of the University’s
payrolL
SEATTLE, -®ec. 19.—Dr. Lewis
Slocum, for many years personal phy
sician and traveling companion of
Maud Adams, faraoue actress, died
last night in the peorhouse here.
SAN DIEGO, DecJi?0.—James Ray
nor Allsworth, one of the chief petty
officers of the naval airplane Lang
ley, was killed in a tank explosion on
t.;at vessel, today.
DEATH OF SENATOR
JONES, NEW MEXICO
WASHINGTON, Dec,"21.—Senator
Andrieus A. Jones, Democrat, of New
‘Mexico, died last night1 from angina
, pectoris,
Executions
At Canton
19 RUSSIANS EXECUTED IN CAN
TON STREETS AS WARNING
- Aft! A INST COMMUNISM.
TjONDON, Dec. 21.—South C'lina is
being pift*sre*l of communism by fire j
and sword bs a result of events this!
week in Canton and Shanghai. in-:
eluding'*he corrvl(rhf' •*** a nee <>i'
diplomatic relations between nation
alist China and soviet Russia. Bol
shevik diplomacy has suffered a most
severe setback, observers here say.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 20.—Nineteen
Russians weife executed in the streets
.f CaCnton yesterday as a‘ worning
o those who turn to communism, ad
vices from Hongkong stated today.
Registration of all soviet subjects
by December 23 has been ordered by
he Nankink nationalist government
chose who do not register will be e:.
pelled.
HONGKONG, Dec. 21.—One hu
ured thousand Chinese, fleeing in ter
ror growing out of the Canton au
thorities’ campaign against commun
ism, arrived here today.
THAT MEXICAN SLUSH FUND.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Western
Union files presented today to the
Senate committee investigating the
Hearst Mexican slush fund document,
showed no record of the number or
messages or money transfers sup
posed to have ' taken place between
Washington and IA**ue«»~City.
RUBY-OPHIR WAIL CAR
RIER HAD TOUGH TRI.
John .Krieger, who was a late la
Saturday arrival, reports that Chari
Ross, the Ruby-Ophir mail carrk
had a hard time on hit last trip c.
Ophir.
Mail Carrier Ross, when .first seen
by Mt. Rrieger, hail arri\ ed at a j
point on the Ophir-Cripple' trail about
22 miles from Ophir.
The heavy fall of snow of several
preceding-days had obliterated ar.y
such thing as a trait* hVw' the mail
carrier, though snowshoeing, was
making no headway, getting no
where. He had left Ruby whh fifteen
dogs, three of which were left at
Poormau. while two others had been
left dead on the trail from the Cavi
son roadhouse.
Mr. Krieger snowshoeci *• ck to his
own hear! quarters on Esperanto
creek, about three miles distant, and
returned immediately with three of
his own dogs and small sled, iitd also
food for man and dogs. The mail
carrier, on the trip front ' Carlson’s,
had siwashed two nights-am1 food I
applies were exhausted.
After the rest, during whi t man
and dogs partook of food-, * another
start was made, the trip bblrti con
tinued with Mr. Krueger's three .logs
in the lear and the smaller sled being
; ed. Only fear miles were i*' *de
.hat day; and .then another nig$n of
washing. Another day of strehuous
work and Ophir was ewfif nally
reached.
Del Thompson* from his Spruce
•reek headquarters, was a yesterday
arrival for a visit over the Christni:
season.
Bertha Albi returned Wednesday
from a -three-day at -McGrath.
Suits Against
Skinner-Eddy
COURT AUDITOR MAKES REPORT
RECOMMENDING RECOVERY
OF $1*400,0000.
SEATTLE, Dec. 22.—Harold Pres
ton, court auditor and special master
in chancery, appointed by Federal
Judge Netterer to hear evidence and
report his findings and conclu ions of
law in suits totaling millions oi' dol
lars brought by the government
against the Skinner & Eddy corpora
tion, filed his report with the court
today. Ilis findings are distinctly
favorable to the government, recom
mending that the sum of $1,400,000 be
awarded.
The recommendations of the special
master in chancery are very likely to
be accepted by the court.
The litigation is the outgrowth of
the shipbuilding activities and Ship
ping Board contracts let during the
war to Skinner & Eddy, out of which
the firm is credited with having
made over $30,000,000.
COOLIDGE SIGNS DEFICIENCY
APPROPRIATIONS BILL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Presi
dent Coolidge today signed' the defi
ciency appropriations bill, ' c .rrying
$200,000,000 for various government
activities, including funds to initiate
the five-year public buildings pro
gram.
O’MALLEY ANNOUNCES
Nr.v, SALMON RinES
SEATTLE. — Drastic regulations
designed to avert the threatened ex
tinction of salmon in Southeasterr
Alaska were announced yesterday In
Henry O’Malloy, commissfo'der of fish
eries.
The feature of the n nv regulations
is an order closing all bays, estuaries
and passages in Southeastern AlaSks
to fish traps
In addition, regulations will be offi
cially announced from Washington
that will effect a reduction in the
length and depth of purSe sei' t- -. The
maximum Lengths will be reducer
from 250 to 200 fathoms, while the
depth, now 300 fathoms, will be re
duced to 250 fathoms, and the most
of the seines increased 3 1-2 inches.
A spring opening date, before
which all salmon fishing will be. nfo
limited, wilt also be set. The Unitec
States Bureau of Fisheries will retain
its authority to order at any time
immediate cessation of fishing in any
area, O'Malley said.
The new regulations vci- an
nounced after a meeting ' between
O'Malley and representatkes of the
Southeastern Alaska group *of ihe
Association of PPacific Fisheries.
#
Sam Hounan, after an absence of
about eight weeks, spent in the Fair
banks hospital for medical treatment,
returned to O yesterday, greatly
improved in health. . Mr. Hounan
fame over with Pilot Noel Wien in
his Stimson plane, the ship formerly
used by Commander Wilkins in his
trips to the Arctic region'-which Mr.
Wien acquired some weeks ago. The
trip over from Fairbanks was made
by way of Ruby.
Mail Carrier Peter Snow, from
Flat, bringing the outgoing mail, ar
rived yesterday and continued t<r Mev
iJrath today