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Show mm aM0); FORTY-SECON- I f7 YEAR, NO. 178, D r n P oo -- mm ' fnnp IU oo - -- MER APF a ;" : i UII UUU 1. "weU-Know- .V L. F. Rains of Salt Lake, vice president and assistant general manager of the Columbia Steel torporation, has been namefacting general manager of tne company, following the resignation of D. II. Botchford. ' It will be recaUed that Mr. Botch-fcrresignation .was announced in the Evening Herald two days before that information was printed by any paper in Utah. by Dr. George W. Middleton, noted physician, author and poet of Salt Lake City. Dr. Middleton spoke at the weekly luncheon meeting of the club at the Hotel Roberts today. Dr. Garn. Clark presided at the meeting, and Mrs Clark gave a She number of vocal selections. was accompanied on the piano by Members of the Lloyd Williams. Provo City commission, Mayor-eleAlma Van Wagenen, Dr. Stanley Clark, and other friends c.' Dr. Middleton were guests of th! jlub. d' ct FilL Vacancy-- Mr.: Rains will fill the vacancy n caused. ...)y ; Mr. Botchf ord"s until & permanent successor Is appointed, it is understood. announced His:. appointment, from San Francisco, was confirmed In Salt Lake, by W. W. Armstrong, director of the Calumbia Steel corp- aflnn Mr Rain lii in San Fran WH1 Christmas Bssketo The members of the club unanimously voted to extend a helping hand to th worthy poor of the city by each contributing a Christmas basket, which will be prepared under the direction of the community welfare department of the Utah stake Relief Society. This action . Besig-natio- I ARF '. i - v t 2 s v i I. S-- 4 HlHi . i 5 ; PROVTNCETOWN. Mass., Dec. The navy fought stub-Wnl-y on today in its efforts to aise the sunken submarine 4 and fleaoe from' their tomb Its 40 of and men. Imprisoned, drowned or suffocated within the hull. Divers Invade Deep At daybreak after a few hours' espite, the 12 divers aboard the nine sweeper Falcon reported - at heir stations and, one after another, took their turna In going down o the spot 100 feet below the wa-.- tf rest.,. surface, where the v.;. v 2 ,::'...;::::':( Air pumps continued through th ' I of stream fresh a nornlng forcing Or through the small opening in the listening tube of the subma " ' I rine, which leads into the torpedo room where six men are believed to have died of suffocation. Tests of the air taken out showed it was foul and poisonous. None could live in it long. Efforts were also directed towards surveying the ship wIOT'the idea of raising it with pontoons. William Wickwfre, diver, who war ..r ., jk 3 the first to descend when operationr This is Marion Parker, little Los Angeles girl who was found murdered were resumed yesterday, spent ar the-S- -4 After jshe had been kidnaped. Diseovery-o- f ajew-da- ya her body-w- as When he came up James Inmade by her father, who had Just paid ransom money for her safe release. The crime has stirred Los Angeles as has no murder in many gram descended to make measureyears. The above picture was taken a few days before the girl was ments for use in attaching chains ' to the sunken ship. The chains , kidnaped. would be attached to pontoons for use In raising it. : Operations were favored by clear,, calm weather and rising tempera 22 (UP) -- S-- rs -- S-- 4 . ''" '1 tisco, following ,ttendancerthe7W letter from Mrs. Electa Dixon, Important session of the company president of the Utah Stake Relief directors. In which she "expressed the Mr. Rains has been manager of Society, appreciation of the efforts the Utah properties of the steel society's forth by the Kiwanis club in company since the erection of the put Christmas assisUng to exlend-Jthago.-Prilion ton plant Into the homes and lives of to that" time Mr. Rains was con- spirit of this communnected with the Utah Coal and the entire citizenry Coke company, which merged with ity.In introducing Dr. "Middleton to the Columbia Steel upon its entry the local clubmen, Dr Clark char-field. teteheUtah industrial acterized him as The OTTveirWendell More Merger Reports Holmes of Utah, and the wonder Caterpiller Traction, a new name ful, address which W8.S made the In the frequent reports of Columbia more tures. Interesting by the" use Of illus- tra?A71 otwAa l5l thnaA nrnpnt tn numerous rumors, according ?o beeve WUbur Answers Criticism traveler had word received from San Francisco, not been over.rated by the chair-whic- h WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UP) declares: Answering criticisms directed at the man of the meeting. "While denials have been made, Navy source of Dr. Middle-repordepartment, Secretary of Many of Navy Wilbur declared today h persist that Caterpillar information given in his feels confident that naval officers la to acquire a controlling ture C4ine to him ftrst-hansince Lindy's Mother Expected In Educational Campaign On in charge have developed all safe i interest in tne coiumma steel corp. ne na8 traveled extensively, into the " ' Mexico City Today, ty appliances for submarines, prac-pcration. As a result, caterpillar highways and byways that led him Pear Disease Conducted ' tical and consistent with the mill-tarhas been an' active stock in local into so many historic paths travel-a- d But May Delay uses of this type of vessel. trading In recent weeks, although by thA "Father of Our Country." n Utah County "I do not mind the criticisms of in the last few days there have Sketches Ancestry the department," he said in an exbeen stop-los- s He began his lecture by giving orders, forcing the MEXICO CITT, Dec. 22. (UP) clusive Interview with the United an Interesting sketch ; Erics down to 56 the ances- Heavy fog that had. persisted since A campaign of education in the Press, setting forth his views on ; "Coupled with the report that the try of the first president, and 9 at over the dawn, hung capital matter of treating pear tree's the controversy arising from, sinkE. , we or late the of mmseii. wasmmrton toia oi Wiggington Mrs. family 0.clock today Evangeline He added", however, ing of the Creed, former president of the Co- his early life, his love affairsthej. h .waglying from the egainst "fire blight" Is being con- he feels everything has been done lumbia Steel is desirous of selling hardships of his military life and United gtates in ducted towns and the various d chrigtmag to that could be done. - bis stock in the company so as to Charles A. fruitgrowing areas with her county Wilbur said he could not discuss .J life. is of the distribution estate, ' adjust . , Lindbergh. to with splendid success, according specific charges of alleged lack of tie report that Caterpillar Trac-tit- n In addition to giving a splendid was hoped that like most fogs W. F. Smith, assistant county agri- precaution in the S-- 4 case, as these to review of the life of Washington, atItthis time Is looking for a concern of the year blown matters had not been determined, manufacture ail of products and it Dr. Middleton interwove into his from the gulf of Mexico by strong cultural agent, who is conducting but would wait upon the report of is. said that Columbia Steel is a story incidents of the lives of other ' would have the mist winds the north campaign. the board of inquiry. logical project in that connection. great men ; of the Revolutionary dissipated by noon. Heavy Loss Caused the conclusion of his Through the combination it is said period. Xt as event that it lasted, In the This disease U causing a heavy that Caterpillar Traction in its talk he was given an ovation by some do, throughout the day, Mrs. annual loss to peara present. T lnlHorcrVi woo PTTMtffl program of expansion would facili-tat- e those throughout Jit wnii in Kiwanian L. L Bunnell sent in a delivery on orders and at the the nation, according' to Mr. Smith. was-d- ue to she where Tamplco. to was the he effect that as me time provide for a larger out- report on "a plan which he hoped halt briefly, until the weather clear- In California,. however,, the disease ' -- ' puC thus increasing its own for- working ed. has "been treated with sufficient tunes and directly increasing Co-- " would prove feasible to give to the of and an ice skatProvo success to demonstrate that by the girls lumbia Steel's revenue, which in- "joys BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Dec. 22 "cooperative effort of the growers rink. Jacob Coleman reported cidentally would mean more em- ing as soon as Ford it can be eliminated. However, it is snow (UP) The huge that sufficient two of the the at plants ployees falls the Kiwanis .club will sponsor plane carrying Charles Lindbergh's quite impossible to expect results latter concern. Mrs. Anna Scott Wllkins, wife of another big. Kiwanis coasting day, mother to Mexico City to spend by treating the trees of one orchard Wllklns, died Wednesday at, which time the uhderprivlliged Christmas with himTleft the army and. allowing the disease " to , run John 'A. 1108 children of the city and others will flying field at 8:23 o'clock this rampant in an one, Mr. night at the family residence, adjoining Second Iorth street, after a be taken to the coasting hill for a morning. ' Smith points out. The germs from West illness. CrosSes Boundary Line genuine day of pleasure. the infested orchard are carried to long She was born In Provo, March 2, Mrs. Lindbergh, who left Detroit nfarby trees by insects, and unless and had resided here throughthe growers are Willing to cooper- 1855, Monday crossed the Mexican-Ameout her life. .She Was a zealous lean boundary, line a few minutes &t in the matter of stamping out member of the' L. D. S church, par-Murmurings for an Ice skating lalor and swung toward Tampico Uih disease it will be quite lmioa-in to rink in Provo oiV.lo ta Vinna tn ro loa rtaori In thta ' ticularly in the Relief Society, nn (h. mav loot Vnn f U i;U which she was a teacher for many large proportions, and the Union he was field The local declares, heavy but state, vears. She., was a counselor In the Pacific Athletic club has decided The annual Christmas party of the big plane made a good take- - j Trees Valued Highly Relief Society, and also In the Prito take a hand in the effort to At last night's meeting of the " ' ; secure a site for this popular thr Sunday school of the Communi- off. Clouds were hanging low overmary. i ty, Church; will be held in Meno head, and the wind had died out! growers of Pleasant Grove it was Her husband, and the following winter sport shown that in California each pear children survive: Trope Hall, corner of Second North Only a slight fog existed. A. O. Rust, president of the Eugene Wllklns, .. u . fw, t. and University avenue, Friday evecr.jo , KIUU Lake Shore; Mrs. C. H. . Bishop, a : club, announces that the organn a a 7:30 iinus aiseasea iree December o'clock. at grower 23, Mrs. ning, Maggie Watkina and ization is seeking suggestions for III immediately feels that he. should Helper; The program will be in charge Mrs. J. W. Clark. Salt Lake. Two a suitable place for a rink. This spend sufficient time to admin- brothers and three risters also surseems to be the principal prob-- i of Mrs. A. R. Knapp and will con- Utah Cloudy ister proper treatment. vive, as follows: Howard and An- lem of the devotees of the sport. I sist of an entertainment by the and unsettled lW I "Thn educational movi the school to drew Scott of Provo: Mrs. Mary of smaller chlldren-- ot and it and Friin progress in this county deals Harding, Mrs. Abbid Tavlor and the residents of Provo know of gether with a Christmas tree and s much of fire blight; Its Identi- Mrs. Frahcelle S6renson,: all of ProSnnta Claus, attended by the usual day some locations which would be tempfication,- difficulties encountered vo. Eighteen grandchildren and 12 fertivities. change suitable for the project erature. in procuring sufficient cooperation great grandchildren also survive. Any suggestions should be givto carry on the work, various methDEFICIENCY BILL SIGNED . Maximum temp. Funeral, services will be field Frien to Mr. Rust, or to Dell Webb ods of control, such as modifying day at 2 o'clock in the Pioneer Vvednesday . . .3! WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UP) of the cit recreation department I which plants to cooperate in any President Coolidge today signed the Minimum iemp. growth of freest winter control, ward chapel The body, may be summer control, insect control, rer viewed at the residence prior to project of this type, If a feasible ' deficiency bill carrying emergency (Vednesday 2 bhv Goldest day this winter: pair work, scarifying, toots, disin- the services. Interment will be In appropriation of $203,000,000 for . plan can be found. , ' December 17, 10 degrees below Kro fectant, wood preservative, etc - the Provo City cemetery. jvarious government activities. ft -- ... ng. hour-survey- ing five-yea- -- - THOUGHT FOGMAYHALT , that-the-net- MRS. LINDBERGH ISDISCUSSED ts d, 1 tf 7--8. S-- DEAIHCALLS MS. ' - havft-grow- ' Party and Program Arranged By Church , r- I I .'' ', i f 1. 1 . The Weather ui, im -- to-nl- ot- -- w:th-sign- , ' - i'i - 1 PENDLETON, Dec. 22 (UD-Edw- ard Hickman Los Angeles kidnaper-murdere- r, arrested late today is now in the Umatilla county jail, the sheriffs office announced. He was arrested at Echo by Chief of Police Guerdane and Traffic Officer Llewelyn, who brought him here. Officers found fourteen hundred dollars in the tell-tal- e gold ' certificates in his pockets. 1MB, II I i PORTLAND, Cre, Dec ' 2. PENDLETON, Oregon, Dec. 22. Held in the Umatilla (Special) His car wobbling, from county jail following his arrest at Echo today, Edward Hick- side to side, William E. Hickman, man, Los Angeles kidnaper and alleged murderer, hysterically searched far by police all over the denied killing little Marion Parker, country, as the brutal murderer of cirl victim. "I didn't kill her! I didn't kill her! cried the youth who Marion Parker, drove right i..to thl has been the object of an intensive search this weeka search arms of Chief of Police Tom Guermore grim, more determined than any man hunt ever staged dane of Pendleton and state traffit Sergeant Buck Llewelyn today. A m the West. Over and over the 17 year old criminal repeated his one few jn'iles west of Echo, Oregon, Hickman was driving the green statement and only one "I didn't kill her!" of Aside from his denial of the murder charge, young Hick Hudson coach, a description man would say nothimr. Fourteen hundred dollar of the tell which was broadcast all over the United States. The officers alegoid certificates were found in his pocketsand his ident him no opportunity to escape gave and ity was declared absolutely certain. , immediately placed the exhausted ChlfLi Ponce Guerdane and Traffic Officer Llewelyn kidnaper in custody. He held a . weriTEhe capTorgfngrTTTcmar Echo, a few miles from here, as he was driving east in a ers seat of his automobile but had no chance to Into play. Treen Hudson sedan, supposedly the car stolen from Los The officera bring it Immediately rushed Argeies in which he made his escape from the scene of the Hickman to the Pendleton police station where he admitted his identgruesome cnmeT- "Fear of a "necktie party" in the Oregon town,' annual ity. Several of the $20 gold certifiWere found upon his person. jcene of the We3t's greatest wild west show and roundup, cates Marlon Parker, all aur-he sheriff of Umatilla county to set a heavy guard , "I kidnaped right, aU right'' he said after being around the county jail, pending Hickman's removal to a more thoroughly quizzed by the officers. closely-guarde- d locality. Feeling against Hickman has runTTB'uTrdjHfi't' km her .The capture high here, as it has throughout the United States, and lynch- came at the end of 18 active hours ing is by no means a threat. Sullen crowds eath- - for police of the northwest Hick- v far-dista- nt man was firBt known to be In Ore- at 8 p. m. Wednesday, when ; . . ycuth is regarded as extreme. Jtfmea Nelson and Irvin Mowrey re- The total rewards offered for the capture of Hickman ported to police that they had have reached almost to the $100,000 mark. from Lamolnes. Calif., with a Angles police have declared that Hickman is certain fyouth they thought was Hickman. , drove the green coach in which .; ly guilty both of the kidnaping and of the murder of the 12- - He was later captured, and carried .he year-ol- d bankers daughter, whose horribly mutilated body a .45 calibrr automatic at hand. was'retumed to her hopefui Father immediately after he had Portland officers immediately get busy. Nelson and Mowrey had ;jaiOI50uloflThp Foy,' for Hickman at Sixth and Main Fingerprints, photographs, identifications of a number left streets In the afterlloon and did oi people all have pointed definitely and conclusively to not of their host pierce the young Edward Hickman as "The Fox," who was unquestion-abl- f until several Identity hours f later. Before the kidnaper and supposk dly the slayer of the girl. midnight reports came from Seattle Kevenge upon the girl s father, because oMhe latter's of a $20 gold certifieateone of 75 of Marefusal to recommend Hickman's parole after his conviction given tho itidnapcr-Slay- er of forgery at the bank where' Hickman was emplayed, is rion Parker, 12, by her father t Los Pirry .MWarkcr assigned as the motive for the most gruesome crime ever when the mutilated body Anegesl of his daughter was returned to him. perpetrated in this section of the country. Lbs Angeles officers are expected to arrive in Pendleton) Then came a report from Kent, by airplane in the near future, when arrangements will be Wash., that another bill had been there by a man who drove made for his safe return to the city where he- - is charged passed a green coach auto, Fred King, at" " : wun er"edoiseu3s-41kkmaiiaBttt- r ,?on rid-H- en los ' hisaw&ter&HHh muraer. , tendant at the checkerboard, 'With feeling against him so high, this will be a tre station, Sandy and Columbia fjll-in- ig hp.licyc4r- - p Boulevards repented lateTln the morning that he had served gasoEdward Hickman was seen in line and oil to man in a green coach who drove away east on tho Seattle last night. ' Columbia .highway, One Innocent Victi-mAs soon as the word came from While the active manhunt for King all lines of communication Hickman shifted today from South broadcast the. kidnaper's descrii-ticthat of bis car and his probern California to Washington, an able direction. As early as "noon, investigation was started into the captain of detectives John T. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 22 death of Ralph McCoy 18, believed Moore predicted his capture within (UP) Local detectives were pre- Innocent victim of the search. 24 hours. Less than two hours, thereafter, paring today for an airplane dash Although a suicide report was Into the Northwest with the receipt signed after McCoy's body had been a flash: came by Union Pacific iiuacel Telegraph wireato: the local offoJindJiangmg.bya-8car- f of word that a in the city jail here, authorities fice that Hickman was caught at were not satisfied with the explan- 1:30 p. m. At 2:30 p. m. Hickman as giving a detailed, confession ation, and ordered an inquiry. McCoy, who bore a slight resem of his crime to pendleton police. He freely confessed the kidnapblance to Hickmaa, ,was arrested last night after an alleged attempt ing of Marion Parker in the presence of Pendleton newspaper men, to hold up a clothing store. A mob attempted to take McCoy but denied murdering the girl. He SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 22 (U from the squad of police depending made no explanation of his posP). While the hunt for William him but reserves arrived in time session of $1400 in gold certificates, Edward Hickman. Los Angeles to save him from the fury of the numbered as those Parker gave Was at Its kidnaper; height last mob. .His clothing was torn to tho deliverer" of his daughter's night a man walked Into . the body. " . shreds., here Waldorf hotel and registerHanging Is Suspected ed as "William E. Hickman." BANDITS LOSE .BATTLE Three hours after be was placed The clerk called police and in 2 a"cell in in the his Jail city body minutes eleht armed patrolmen TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 22 (UP) was found hanging by ascarf. Sixty were .conducted to Hickman's One bandit was killed and another in other the had Jail room where they had a good prisoners lty was wounded early today access to his cell, and the possibil- whencritically laugh. Hickman was a little over to stage a they attempted was advanced that: the other robbery in the Wlnthrop hotel. six feet tall, 42 years old and his ity hair well, he didn't have much. prisoners, believing he was HickPolice officera had ben tipped off man, had hanged him. that the. robbery was planned, . menrioua task, it. h WILKINS SCENE OF MAN Ice Skaters Of City Eager For Rink This Year 1 Bjr Oregon Officers attSS25i!m,"!i imnm ' Fresh Air Pumped Into Torpedo Room, But All Men Are Believed Dead; Condi-tion- s Become Excellent. , barker Uirl aught I fF(IS TO RAISE .-- ' H oo ipy '-"- " the George Washington, and other historic points of interest, oo 1 . Life orGeorgs Washington n Is Theme Of Salt Laker at Meeting Of tice President Named Acting Provo Kiwanis Club. Manager of Corporation; Members of the Provo Kiwanis Confirmed; Appointment club were taken on a delightful trip 'Merger Reports Heard. to home of a oa oo AT r (l UJ 1 mt0 rf'MmJewJ chad i CLUB SESSION b v jj p oo oo Ho MIDDLE!! IS IftrLHIft fcUUI ' - ipso f FROVO, UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927. - "HUNT CHANGES inan-ider.tifi-edsl 'Hickman' Found With Ease, But Not Right Mart - n, . |