Show ' iVl Fifty-nint- h ' ' 'j Yeai-- j i Meeting In Salt Lake for three days are 5000 teachers of Utah One of the professors says the Utah Educational association has grown largo as to call for a division of the association activities and he advocated regional meetings instead of the gathering of the 5000 in Salt Lake He would have the northern part of the state in one group the cen- tral another and the southern counties a third and fourth conference to meet at different places The association meetings are growing in importance with the consideration of every aspect of school life including taxation On Thursday evening Ephraim Bergeson president of the Utah state farm bureau spokeon taxation declaring the state must devise new methods of taxation as too much property is escaping taxai tion Th a house of delegates of th association went on record as branding the present system of taxation ir Utah as antiquated Inadequate and unjust and called for a classification of property for taxing purposes Teachers and farmers are united In demanding1 a modification o°f the present system m&Wg&A —— "T" l11r "s'S L ' — —' jH S3 K K H MX H H 4 - STT i ik i K T I — nd school p Vp v" He Has Gained Hi$ TX MARION - ' His Wife Still Has Hopes Goal M? ' ATLANTIC HOP s tr Time Limit On His Gaj Supply Long Haj Been Passed 19 — (AP)— Flares that had burned all jnight at Croydon and other airdromes to guide Lieutenant Commander !H C MacDonald to a safe landingj were extinguished at dawn today and hope that he had survived went out of the hearts of many It was the general belief that he had become the nineteenth person to perish trying to fly the Atlantic i At the most his tiny Moth plane in which he risked his life (n an attempt to fly alone from Newfoundland could hold only eriough gasoline for 35 hours of flying and the thirty-fift- h hour passed at 8:51 a m (10:51 p m yesterday eastern standard time) Airdrome officials were decidedly pessimistic regarding the airman's fate saying that ther were! only now4-th- f § - p- iMzk v -- f m¥f$m¥) v te-Fac- eo H JL V - r' l- w - -- a : And because the teachers and farmers are organized and through at organization have become- strong two slight possibilities from the he had alighted ort some remote they will gain recognition island off the west coast of Scotlegislative body of this state land or had been picked up by a Earl I Fisher state tax com- boat unequipped with wireless ANXIOUS VIGIL missioner of Oregon speaking to the teachers said taxes have InAnother night of anxious! vigil creased 300 per cent as a result of was spent by the flier's wife and increased standards of living she still clung to the slight (— hopes v M That Is true The people are once had MacDonald been Only deman'dnig greater service from reported since he left Harbor Grace enNewfoundland public Institutions Everything at 11:51 costs of government a meastern Wednesday tering into theandtimet standard all trebled and re- JJUtcn steamship Hardenberg The has doubled rebranches of government are an of at ported sighting airplane quired to do mora for the public 7:30 p m eastern standard time Wednesday far north of MacDon-ald'- s course The position Igiven Tax levies are the direct result was 700 miles east and north of of the demands of the people Harbor Grace and the airman -had Armistice day is fast approach- then some 1200 miles to flV to ing and plans are being Mmade for reach Ireland The message came after 25 jhours its observance of complete silence and Mrs MacTo many the first: Armistice day Donald voiced its ominous import Cwas the most thrilling day in their when she remarked: "That is a long time ago' lives K$ M f£V& Mfcl) WFJs vM ?£ 'S'-:- - errs or aKCi UV iv i V x: w ' 'J-- MANHUNT - 6Nm TO moot EHD3-- prnjutToiifoRL v'' SU-i?voVr- ' v -- 3&X A " Fa" j 4 V'' - w j"- i 1 f f i ' J£r VMj7iC tzj United Press Staff Correspondent SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON Calif 19— (UP)William Edward Hiciman was hanged today at San Quentin state prison Calif omia's most notorj ious murderer in a generation stood for a moment on the gallows trap a white-face-d boy of 20 He seemed very young as the hush on the assembly of 200 witnesses! descended The trap that dropped the slayer of Marion Parker to the end of the hangman's noose was sprung at 10 :10 a m — —— DEATH HOUSE J BILL HICKMAN BREAKS AS HE W STEPSONTRAP j -- " Og-de- half-hearte- " w ? m i - private-corporation- s ic j ! GIRL'S SUICIDE IS THIRD IN FAMILY UNNOTICED PASSES MINOT S D Oct 19— (AP) — One thinsr shout thps talkinsr movies a person attending a thea- - LOS ANGELES Oct 19 — (AP) ire wnere sucn pictures aro lanow-ip- s The reported suicide by gas of may get shot and no cne may co-e- d Jewel Irwin know of It while attending the University ol Robert Lewis was shot In the leg Was Given H1CKM5JH IM HIOH 5CHO0U HICKMAN last night when a pistol uropped from C T Vaiis-hn'nnclctl Th talking picture was full of gunfire ena one extra snot more or less passea unnoticed Iwis with a bullet In hi leg lobbied from lhp thpntt-- wtithnut the audience knowinar n Iaiii Vipati s — IS CttOUfrHT BACK TO Here is a picture story of the kidnaping! and brutal murder of little Marlon Parker 10 daughter of a ros Angeles banker for which Edward Hickman was hanged at an Qaentin penitentiary California Hickman decoyed the child from school on a pretext that her father had been injured and carried her to his apartment MINING UTAH EXPERT KILLED I MANY INJURED ' j' f Motors Cars Crash Head-O- ' "rsKrAi AWAITING" n Bhttle Field Dedicated Bt President Coolidge in Memory ofCivilWarDead - M ——— -- One Mile South of By GEORGES II BEAIi (United Press Staff Correspondent) SAN PENITENQUENTIN TIARY Calif Oct 18 — (UP) — William Edward Hickman convict No 45641 broke at the gallows here today Less than a second before the trap was sprungr the slayer appeared to faint Before he could fall to his knees however the trap went out from under him and carried him to death ' on the hangman's rope When he came out of the death cell and started up the 13 steps to the gallows he was composed His face was formed in a half smile and he was reciting a prayer Ho still appeared calm as the noose was adjusted but Just after the black hood was pulled over his head his knees sagged and he started to falL Warden Holohan expressed the belief that Hickman might have fainted but added 'I never saw any condemned man go to his death so f where he wrote ransom notes to her Iatheri5ign4ng himself as "Thei Fox" Meeting the father by appointment he collected the moneiy but Instead of giving him back his child Hickman gave Mr Parker part3 of his daughter's horribly mutilated body Hickman fled fn an auto and was captured at Pendleton Oregon after the most thrilling manhunt in the history of the Pacific coast UBEN f a j CLARK AT COOLIDGE ' ECKENER PARTY Good Old American Break- 19— (AP)— Dedication of the fast Served Dirigible WASHINGTON m battlefields memorial Spotsylvania :Sandyj county well" Party Guests of the hundred and thirteen thousand lives in park memory SALT LAKE Oct — WASHINGTON Oct 19 — (AP) Five women injured in an auto- that were lost there in the civil wat today called President —The official of the nawelcome mobile accident which caused! the uuuuue mto virmia tional capital was extended today BODY 19--(- Oct UP) death of H H Redd Salt Lake expert late Thursday aftermining noon were reported In serious-- feut not critical condition by hosbitai M attendants here today Ml The injured are Mrs Redd aind children Ruth 14 Ar-Hherjthre 9 and Garda 4 All are patients in the Salt Lake countv en- eral hospital where they were re- portea to have spent a restless night They are expected 'to recover i 'j The condition of Miss Mary Valentine of Logan and that of Mrs S J Foster of Cedar ity was said to be "fair" this morning Operations were performed at the S hospital ' here to relieve their '(' suffering The accident resu ted one mile soutjh of Sandy when the Redd car crashed jhead-o- n into a larger machine driven by S J! Foster Cedar City banker and sheep man Foster himself was unhurt His wife and Miss Valentine :who is secretary of the Cedar City branch of the Utah Agricultural college were riding with him Both automobiles were wrecked ) ne : 'I''" ' t j YOUNG BOY HAS 9 GRANDPARENTS NOW ' A I GRAND ISLAND -r- (AP)-l-Charles years old and I - Neb Oct 19 Keown is only 6 has nim living although four of grandparents them are Each of his four grandparents has married after divorce and a "in-law- - s" is living His parents also have been divorced and remarried His mother is Mrs Bernyce Smith of Grand Irland and his father U Joseph Keown of La Grande Ore great-grandmoth- er SALESMAN DIES AS GANGS RENEW WAR 1 uu ''" ST LOUIS - - Oct American prosperity and stand-lard- s of living have reached levels "never bef rfre experienced by any ' people in human history" PresiCoolidge said in dedicating the ' dent battlefields v The I chief executive traced this prosperity to the union which the Civil nfar preserved and saw In to-- I day's ceremony a sign that resentPRlNGFIBLD 111 Oct 19-ment between north and south was King Turkey traditional being forgotten and "reconciliation is becoming complete" The whola piece de resistance of the Than ftsglving menu will be an nation! he said could join in cele- ex penfeive bird to serve on the me oatties fought in this oraung famll table this year Prices because "out of a common will e higher than usual the vicinity expiation our common country has Jrairte Farmer advised today been greatly blessed" due the small crop "In these advantages as it has slowly risen from its prostration the south has more than amply participated" Mr Coolidge said OGDEN "Since 1900 that progress has been most imarked In th© southern states alone the wealth the manufactures the mineral and DEAD the farm products the banking resources and the exports are of about ithe same value today that they were in the whole United States in 1900 "This day however Is not to i a local or sectional occasion" mark Was Mr Cpolidg© J onn D continued "It Is to Pict iiresque Figure Here mark a national occasion The great questions which were at Issue or Many Years onvthqse battlefields were national questiona Out of the decision to John- Dempser Murphy 74 mu- which! they were finally brought nicipal judge of Ogden from 1908 ther© has been a common advanto 191 died Thursday night at tage and a common progress which his hoijie in Harrisville He was has accrued to the whole nation bom in Marengo Iowa Septem- Had the decision been otherwise ber 26h854 He was educated at we should have all been robbed of the pujblic schools and graduated a great part of the pride which from the Iowa Wesleyan college we all feel today in our country He read law in various offices in Her achievements of the past years Iowa afid came to Ogden In 1889 would have been divested of much Surviving is a brother W R of their value and her prospect's Murph of Marengo Iowa a cou for the future would have been desin Gertrude Carr with whom he void of much of their hope" has mde his home for 30 years Congress authorized at the last and a tiiece Mrs L R Robins of session of a naBerkeley Calif He was unmarried tional military park to include the Funeiral services will be held on battlefields of Fredericksburg Saturday at 2 p m in the Spotsylvania Chancellorsville Wilchapel with the Rev derness and Salem Church Lester P Fagen officiating The body wjill be taken to Marengo for 4 Turkey Price Up This Year j KR AGE OF 19-(A- P)— - 74 Murphy j 1 BY ELEVATED MOTORWAY NEW YORK Oct Father Knickerbocker who spends more than half a billion a yearj has £©t aside $13500000 for hotter motoring in the heart pf Manhattan An elevated motorwey is to be built trom Canal street to Sevrity-sec-on- d street a distance of four and one-ha- lf miles ! JUDGE IS 19— (AP)— In an apparent renewal of gang warfare among Italians here Joseph Monti 28 a salesman was killed last' night by a man who shot him down near his home and escaped interment in an automobile The gang war has taken ten lives in the past 15 EARTH months i California at Berkeley was the third in the family within a few months It was said today1 Frank J Jrwin brother took his life by gas in Glendale last Mareh and a married sister of the girl Mrs Kathleen Hays did the same In St Louis recently police were told Hickman was dead pronounrtd by Dr Ri F Blecker physician at 10:25 a m-- 1 pr'son He had! hung at the end of the rope for exact y 15 mlnuts Wardejh JarAes Ifolohan went to the condemned cage just h fore th hands! ofi the clock In his office crept arojmd to 10 and Irformed Hickman! the liour of his execution — had arrivedHe had beer divested of his prison uniform and was clad in a civilian suiit cif bkick broadcloth vas white shirt unbuttoned at tjhe neck j AR1S U1E IINXED ! "A heavj? leather belt wat buckled around his waist Strata on ithe belt pinned his arms securely to V f his side MM : s Un-t'ernea- FAIR - an Believe Slayer Fainted just Before Death Signal M- CONDITIONS f -- bossi-bilities- as In history It will be recorded as Generally conditions at eea" had the greatest day in the affairs of been regarded as favorable for the MacDonald flight When the French nations liner Paris reached Plymouth this the captain said visibility morning everycelebrated It should be by one and in an impressive manner had been good for thirty hours but for It recalls the sacrifices of hun- that he had seen nothing of the plane Yesterday morning when dreds of thousands of young Amer- the" airman's coming was awaited icans for their : country in Ireland the weather was Unfavorr— able there n of Once a year the people Had he been forced down en the should set aside their routine by the failure of his motor duties to pay tribute to the boys Atlantic or on the wings pt the ice forming the who served America during was thought that MacDonit plane world 'war t ald would have been able to! keep afloat not more than 20 minujtes by d It should riot be a He empty gasoline tank celebration but one calling for an partly had no wireless and "in that brief enthusiastic manifestation of the span of time could only send up spirit of loyalty in this community flares in the slim hope that some vessel might come to his aid NEW YORK Oct 19— (AP) — Thursday evening 400 members of the chamber of commerce gath- Prior to Lieutenant Commander H ered at a banquet In Hotel Eige-lo- C MacDon&ld's flight eighvech perr to listen to a program in which sons lost their lives in attempts the speakers called an those pres- to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air ent to more vigorously associate They were: themselves with the work of that Captain St Roman a French officer and Commander Mounevres organization started from St Louis Senesa May Thers hearty applause to 5 1927 for Buertos Aires and never each appeal for great service and beard from again if the response is equal to the enCaptains Charles Nungesser and thusiasm the chamber of commerce Francois Coli French lost their will gain new life and new energy lives trying to fly from Faice to beginning' with its change of head- America the same month On August 31 1927 Captain Lesquarters to the mezzanine floor of the hotel lie Hamilton Colonel Frederick F Minchin and Princess Loweiistein-WertheiOgden and every other city aimtook off from" Upavon ing at bigger things must have a Kngland in the St Raphael for Otchamber of commerce to speak for tawa and disappeared it to baltle for itto1 labor for it Americans Lloyd W Bqrtaud James Hill and Phillip Pajn? perunorIrt the modern world the ished when they flew from Ojld Oron September 6 ganized forces must fall by the chard Maine Wayside for today every ambitious 1927 in an attempt to jreach body Is becoming more intensely Rome organized Captain Terry Tully and Lieutenant James Medcalf were lost after Cities are likeLondon Ontario Septemleaving They must be capable of ber 7 1927 for London England meeting competition and equipped Walter Hinchc'ilfe and to make the best possible showing theCaptain Honorable Elsie Mackay vanished after leaving England! on a Ogden would fail to take advan- trans-Atlantflight on March P IS tage of its natural opportunities if 1928 it did not get back of th© chamMrs Frances Grayson fni "The ber of commerce in a manner to Dawn" left Roosevelt field N Y inspire confidence in the future with three companions — jOskar of the community Omdal Brlce Goldsborougjh and Fred Koehler — for a flight to New The meeting of Thursday night Foundland en route across the Atshould bring about a fine demon- lantic and were lost eff New stration of renewal of allegiance Foundland of the members of the organization which speaks for Ogden's Industrial and commercial life SHOT DURING MOVIE ows ! I " y-ai- ! By GERALD P OVERTON j - TIT! With FJriest Chanting Litany of ead William Edward Hickman Takes His Last Walk Glahces For Moment at Faces of Witnesses Before Mask Is Placed arid r 'hen Crashes to His Death at End of Rope Cut Down in 15 Minutes " At - ' ' hut Whi G aioi on - "f UJm)iH — MMmW i -- c HOPES ARE FORLORN Oct-- Y ou thf ul Slayer End Written to Grim Chapter on Western Crime History TRYING SOLO J i K K 23 a LAST EDITION - — —I A "gK"') j 9 V T : OGDEF CITY XJTAH FRIDAY EVENING OCTOBER 19 1928 : Horrible Murder of Little School Girl Stands Avenged rnn nuinmn run hvihiu LONDON - ' " I - Tpdt'W : j' h " HOPE IS GONE 'Tuny I f -- ' ' -- Frank Francis 1 ' - " j'"' rtr 'l'"'- T 93 No t Xby - night and Satur- - ' ' ' Ni iKrken-dall-DaJrli- SHOCK FELT Y SEISMOGRAPH ng NEW "YORK Oct 19(AP) — The seismograph at Fordham university this morning recorded a strong j earth shock estimated at being 365 miles from New York and prpbably in the Pacific ocean off Kalmchatka- - The first shock was recorded at 5:46 a m and another kt 6:20 a m which 'con tinued Jfor several hours POINCARE WOULD END DEBT PROBLEM PARIS Oct 19 — (UP)—A surprise frnove to "revive and liquidate the whole problem of war debts and reparations was made today ' Premier Raymond Poincare held a long conference att he French ministry of finance with S Parker Gilbert of the United States agent general of reparations payments and NVinston Churchill British chancellor of the er to Dr Hugo Eckener and' four of his comrades on the trans-Atlantflight of the Graf Zeppelin The famous pilot and tcveral of his associates were guests of President and Mrs Coolidge at breakfast at the White House where they met Secretary Wilbur Secretary West Acting Secertary of Ftate J Reuben Clark and the three assistant secretaries for aeronautics Warner Davison and MacCi acken of the navy war and commerce departments respectively I escribed as "a good old American breakfast the menu consisted of imolon hot cakes maple syrup- - eggs and coffee TITOS E IN PARTY Dr Eckener was accompanied to Washington from Philadelphia by Count Alexander Von of the late Count Zeppelin Staff Captain Ernest 'A Lehmann Colon"! Emilio llerrera of the Spanish air force and Commander Charles E Rosen-daUnited States navy observer cr the Atlantic flight Plans Call for Dr Keener to leave here tomorrow afternoon for Akron Ohio home of the Good-ta- r Zeppelin company "From tlicre hjB will go to Chica?:) to to Lakchurst N J by TuesGraf day He said repairs Zfeppelln should be completed by that time in which event hj Intends tcji sail the airship to Sf Louis lalnding at East St Iouls Tuesday night Henry Ford will be invited to take this trip or one from East St Louis which is expected to extend through a section of the mld-cj- e west including visits over CM-cis- o Cleveland and Detroit RETUIINS OCTOBER 27 Dr Eckener said he would likely return the airship to Lakehurst by n Thursday for refuelling in y for the return trln to which he expects to begin by Saturday Qctober 27 ic Lranden-stein-Zeppel- in son-in-la- w hl i re-to- rn on-th- e j prep-atatio- Ger-man- CHURCH OPPOSES BAN ON HANGING e y!M--LM- jitetn 'of aid Warden llolohan heard Hickman" last and the death march started wojda uut tnrougth the door of the wooden cage where he srent two rights and a day in solitary con- finement illic tman wnlkd with a SaH - guard at either side hold ng him underf theij arm pits: Thei hangmtm and one ©f the guards of the death watch were his escort I'M The! priest preceded him reading the litany jof the saints Thej door ofj the execution chamber barely 30 feet away opened tnd the little procession filed v through ! Within wa$ a roped-of- f space and the gfalloiws platform There waited th?' prison physicians and guards assigned to the gallows - room!" i -- M- PRIEST'S FINAL PRAYER Outside the ropes stood thm offi cial wdtnefifses most of them peace omcers ana newspaper men auier Fleming mounted the thirteen steps to the tot- - of the Platform rnutmuring a final pray er lor thei repose of HKkmana " x OF PILOT LIES INVVRECK soul ? i M mm v Hickman fallowed the Driest up the stairway the two guard never releasing their firm grasj on his arms William Had Hopson The hangman took his place Crashed Into Tree With there beside the upright posts of the gallows A rope Mail Plane of hemp (already noosed dangled from the cross beam FRANKLIN Pa Oct' 19 — (UP) Hickmaii stepped upon the trap —William C Hopson missing air Down belqw him he saw the up- mall pilot who took off at Clarion turned faces or the witnesses Pa for Cleveland Ohio early: yesA MHIS'FACEPALE terday was found dead in the His faceM blanched by months of wreckage of his airplane today in Imprisonment Mas pale but there a dense woods three miles west of were isom4 t mong the spectators Polk who turned whiter still Hopson's plane struck a tree on The light f rem outfide filtered dim-l- y a hillside It was believed that ha through tie white glazed winbecame confused in a heavy rain- dows of the room that suddenly storm and tried to make a forced seemed' to grow close and etuffjs landing in the darkness The hangrnpan whose identity Realizing apparently that he was was cloaked in anonymity threw the off his course Hopson had dropped heavy noose about the youth's neck flares in an attempt to identify the and drew thi rope tight The big country ovef which he was flying knot that formed the oose setThe pilot's crushed body was tled close against his left cheek found In the seat of the wrecked A guard pn the opposite side plane stooped quickly circled Hlfkman's legs with a leather strap and pinioned them together This would prevent him from'at-temptin- g to spread his feet apart and support himself on the plank thej trap as it fell The hangman drew a mask of CHAIR around black cloth over his head shutting out for the last time the light of from his: eyes Nebraska Murderer Declares dayThe mask (was ellt at one side so that it flttedi neatly over the rope His Innocence To knot against Hickman's cheek DEATH SIGNAL GIVEN Last Breath With a swift backward step the hangman held his right hand high NEBRASKA STATE PRISON above his head It was the signal Oct 19 — (UP) — for HJckmanl Lincoln Neb to die M Frank Sharp was electrocuted here Inside a wooden booth on the wife his with for today murdering back of the platform three guards a' hammer n watched for that signal Sharp walked to the chair easily Hickso were that situated They seated himself and died with pro- man was shut off from their view fessions of Innocence upon his lips and he could not see them as he He was pronounced dead at " 6:32 entered the M room i a m ' Three strong cords were stretch' Two Juries had found Sharp guiled ona board before them The ty on circumstantial evidence and guards drew knives of razor sharpthe supreme court upheld the sec- ness across the cords and cut them ond conviction which carried with A heavy iron ball looking like It the death sentence cannon a ball of civil war days was Mrs Harriett Sharp was the vic- attached to one of three cords tim of the man who died today As the cords were cut the Iron-baShe was found dead in an abandonfell and released the trap ed car near Lincoln Her skull had It dropped through the gallows been crushed by a hammer and ex- platform and flew back against perts Identified palm-prinSharp as the mur- clamps that kept it from swinging on the back under) the body derer through t hammer handle Hickman plunged down five feet Sharp's calmness and absolute and three: inches the exact measlack of emotional show was strik- urement of h!s height ing "I am ready to go" he said The noise of th© trap reverber- "I am Innocent of any crime so I have nothing to fear" (Continucd on Pago Eight) tlree-Quarter-ij- j HAMMER SLAYER ch ''" G0ESMT0 I WASHINGTON Oct 19 — (AP) fAs William Edward Hickman prepared to mount £he gallows in San Quentin prison' today Albert Broadhurst lay delegate to" the house of deputies introduced a resolution at the general Episcopal convention here calling upon that body to oppose capital pun- ' ishment lAmid cries of "No! No!" and "Table It" the resolution was shelved Broadhurst 'a resident of Titus-villPa: suggested the Hickman c£se presented an instance of the need lor abolishing the death th - v ts - ll |