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SUB PRISONERS STILL LIVE; TAP SIGNALS TO RESCUING CREW; GALE HAMPERS AID Rolling Seas, Lashed by Bitter Forty-Mile Wind, Make Task Almost Impossible; Pontoons Rushed to Scene. DIVERS FAIL TO WIN THROUGH Effort tp Get Oxygen Down to Ocean Floor Trap Defeated; Names of Six Survivors Are Given Out by Admiral. BY OTIS PEABODY SWIFT United Press Staff Correspondent PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Dec. 20.—Officers and men of navy, coast guard and privately owned ships, spurred by definite knowledge that there still was life aboard the sunken submarine S-4 this morning, fought on today in ( heir disheartening battle against the sea. faint tappings picked up by delicate instruments aboard the submarine S-8 this morning told those on the salvage fleet that one or more of the imprisoned men still lived. \ But as the morning wore on, the signals grew more and more faint as if made by a man whose strength was failing—and they contained no coherent message. The gloating sea, breaking over the rescue ships under the whip of a forty-mile wind, defeated efforts to send down divers in the hope of getting oxygen and food containers through the torpedo tubes into the compartment where Lieut. Graham Fitch and his five comrades were trapped, sole survivors of the crew of forty.

Coast guardsmen said this afternoon the seas were running higher today than any day since Saturday when the S-4 went down. Waves Break High They broke eight, nine and ten feet high in a constant swell. Spray rose high from them, drenching men In small boats, wetting down the decks of ships and frequently freezing into ice. • By noon there were upward of twenty-five ships, most of them Navy or coast guard vessels, but a few privately owned, concentrating all their men and power in the effort to save the men aboard the S-4. But the weather and the sea proved mighty enemies. The wind, though not as violent as yesterday, approached gale force. The seas tumbled and tossed. The temperature was around the freezing point. Ice formed in the rigging of the salvage ships. Men suffered extremely from the cold. Sky Is Threatening The sky was overcast with high clouds floating, dark and threaten-' ingly on the wind. The Falcon, from which the divers must go down, was unable to hold its position long enough to permit the men to go oversides. Divers were willing to try, but officers said it would be suicide for any man to attempt the descent. Word was sent ashore, however, that the moment conditions made it anything less than certain death for a man to descend, divers • mid take up their work immediately. The divers’ first work will be to attempt Introduction of oxygen into the torpedo room, through the torpedo tubes. .If oxygen tan be given the men inside, they might hold out for days. There has been considerable discussion as to why the six men trapped in the torpedo- room have not utilized the torpedo tubes to shoot each other to the surface. Submarine experts point out numerous lives have been saved in this manner, although they say it is possible the S-4 lies with its nose buried in mud, preventing such method. The Navy tug Sagamore arrived from Brooklyn with three pontoons yesterday, but anchored in the harbor here for the night. The luka was expected at any time with two more and the seaplane tender Wright was en route from Norfolk with three. The Wright was delayed by storms and the luka lost one of her pontoons when it broke the tow line. It required eight pontoons to raise the S-51. Fear Delay With Pontoons With the sea running as it is and storm warnings out for a gale expected along the coast, navy men feared it would take considerable time to get the pontoons in place and fill them with air. Even if the luka and Wright were here, it might be late today before the work started.

One plan being considered was to sink several pontoons by the nose of the sunken submarine and try to lift her bow above the surface, leaving the stem resting on bottom. Then the men could lie cut free. The stout bravery of the Imprisoned men was shown by their last messages. It was they who suggested putting oxygen containers through the torpedo tubes. The message was picked up yesterday by the S-3, another submarine with the rescue fleet, through her oscillator, a drum-like device which records vibrations sent through the water when the hull of the submarine is pounded. "Oxygen bottles empty,” the tapping hammer spelled out. “Can you send down a .couple? It may be possible to place oxygen bottles, soda lime and emergency rations in a torpedo tube.” "What is being done to save us?”

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another anxious message said. “Everything possible,” the S-3 tapped back. The six men trapped in the torpedo chamber named by Rear Admiral R. F. Brumby in a radio message early today was: Lieut. Graham N. Fitch, Washington, D. C. Joseph L. Stevens, Providence, R. I. Roger I. Short, Boonville, Mo. Russell A. Crabb, San Diego, Cal. Frank Snizek, Ridgefield, N. J. Beltner. The latter name was believed to have been garbled and it was thought the man meant might be George Pelnar of Omaha. That, however, was purely supposition.

SEAMEN KILLED BY BLAST ON VESSEL

Bn United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec. 20.—A gas tank on the United States naval aircraft carrier Langley exploded while the ship was docked at the naval yards here today. Four men were reported killed and many injured. The explosion occurred shortly beBRYSON CONFIRMED Updike Loses Long Fight on Postmaster. The long fight of Congressman Ralph E. Updike to prevent the reappointment of Postmaster Robert H. Bryson of Indianapolis came to naught today. A Washington dispatch announced that the United States Senate finally has /confirmed Bryson’s reappointment by President Coolidge. The nomination by the President has been before the Senate in two previous sessions, but Updike, insisting that he had the right to name a postmaster, managed to block its confirmation. Updike’s fight resulted only in prolonging Bryson’s term two years. The appointment for four years is effective from jjo&ay. He has been serving under his old commission, no successor having been named. OFFER TO MARRY HOAX Advertised for SIO,OOO Husband to Win Sailor Sweetheart. Bu United Press DOYIESTOWN, Pa., Dec. 20. Mary Graser, 18, who last week offered to marry any one who would present her with SIO,OOO, admitted today that the offer was designed to get her boy friend, a sailor, to return to her. “I went to Brooklyn to meet him and get married some time ago, bu* he didn’t show up, so I came bacu. and advertised for a husband,” she said. “I got letters from more than thirty-five men but I wouldn’t marry any of them.”

SOME place in the city of Indianapolis “Hell Bent” Harry is wandering, separated from his faithful Genevieve. And Genevieve is all upset. For, you see, Harry is one of those big, honest men from the wide spaces of the West, and she is sure he hasn’t deserted her for another lady kme. Genevieve, full name Genevieve Harris, 18, told her story to police

REMUS DEATH CASE IS GIVEN TO JURY

Hoosier on S-4 By Times Special SHELBURN, Ind.-, Dec. 20. This little mining town today is anxiously awaiting news of the men who are imprisoned in the sunken United States naval submarine S-4, off Provincetown, Mass., for one of the crew, Elmer Lyford Cash, is a Shelburn boy, and only recently was married to Miss Violet Stephenson of this town. She is now here with her mother, having returned a few months ago from the East, after her husband was assigned to the S-4 as chief radio operator. The sailor’s sister, Miss Goldie Cash, also lives here, and has returned from Terre Haute, where she is a student in Indiana State Normal, witii her mother, Mrs. Cordelia Cash, while awaiting news of her brother’s fate. A sister-in-law, Mrs. Howard Bolin, lies at Terre Haute. Cash has been in the Navy fourteen years, and until his enlistment had made his home here.

KIDWELL TELLS OF ‘SHADOWING’ No. S Head—See Puzzle Saw Agents Near Him, Juror Explains on Stand. Bn United Praia WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 —Edward J. Kidwell, Jr., juror in the FallSinclair oil trial, testified in the Sin-clair-Burns contempt case today that Bums Detective John Kline was once within one foot of him in a soft drink saloon. Kidwell said Daniel Merritt, another of the detectives, who shadowed the jurors for Harry F. Sinclair, multimillionaire defendant in the oil trial, was within three feet of him on another occasion. Kidwell said he saw Merritt get on the same street car with him, just after the tiial session recessed. The Government introduced this evidence believing it would clinch its case charging contempt of court through the Burns espionage upon the jurors. The prosecution contended its case was proved if any Juror was aware of the shadowing.

lore 10 a. m., while the carrier was berthed at the naval air station pier at North Island. A sheet of flame rose as the blast shook the vessel. The explosion was heard and felt along the entire water front. Smoke curling up from the vessel indicated that fire had broken out on board. A request for aid, telephoned to San Diego from naval authorities, was followed with the announcement that at least four men were killed. The bodies of two men were blown from the ship into the bay, reports from the water said. Naval tugs and commercial shore boats put out immediately to give assistance. Efforts were started immediately to drag the bay for the bodies of those blown overboard. INDIANA EXPORTS CLIMB State Now Ranks Sixteenth in United States Automobile Lead. By Times Sveidal WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Indiana exported merchandise valued at $19,911,292 during the second quarter of 1927, Department of Commerce reports revealed today. This was an increase of $2,992,005 over the same period in 1926. It placed the State sixteenth in the United States in export trade. • Automobiles, with a value of $5,065,959, ranked highest in value among commodities sent from the State to foreign markets. 50 QUARTS DESTROYED i U. S. Agents Pour Out Confiscated Christmas Cheer. Fifty quarts of potential Christmas cheer in the form of contraband “hootch” confiscated by Federal dry agents gurgled merrily down the sewer at the Federal Bldg, today. The liquor was‘destroyed by Federal Agents Harry L. Bendel and Ray Trueblood ,at the direction of Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell.

WHERE, OH WHERE IS HELL BENT’ HARRY? FAITHFUL GENEVIEVE WAITS

today and asked them to find Harry, full name (Hell Bent) Harry Cody, 25, whose home town Is Cheyenne, Wyo. “Hell Bent,” she said, is a grandson of the late illustrious Col. William Cody, of the long, white beard, who was known as “Buffalo Bill,” and thrilled thousands of youngsters with his Wild West show.

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Gates to Acquittal of ExBootleg King Are Closed by Judge. BY PAUL W. WHITE Ualted Press Staff Correspondent COURTROOM. CINCINNATI, Oec.’ 20.—The case for and against George Remus, who for more than five weeks has been on trial charged with the murder of his wife/ was given to the jury at 12:49 p. m. today. The gates to freedom for Remus by an absolute verdict of not guilty were closed by Judge Chester R. Shook, who announced just before he charged the jury that he had ruled against such a finding. The only verdict favorable to Remus, who has been on trial more than five weeks on a charge of wife murder, is that of “not guilty on the sole ground of insanity.” Such a verdict would mean transfer of Remus before the probate court, where the former bootleg multimillionaire would have to establish that he now is sane before he could hope to be a free man. Judge Issues Ruling After . reviewing the arguments put forward by both State and defense, Judge Shook ruled:. “The court feels that in’ view of the State of the record there can be absolutely no claim in reason, logic or law successfully advanced in denial of an unlawful killing. The court, upon careful consideration, is brought to the inevitable conclusion that the defendant is entitled to a vesdict of not guilty solely on the ground of insanity. “The court feels that the defendant has advanced a legal defense and has presented evidence in support of it. The court feels that he is not usurping any function of the jury, nor that he is refusing any constitutional right accorded the defendant whether by the national or State constitutions.” Five Verdicts Possible Under the Judge’s charge five verdicts are possible. They are: Guilty of murder, first degree, carrying a sentence of death in the electric chair. Guilty of murder, first degree, with recommendation of mercy, carrying a sentence of life impisonment without hope of pardon. Guilty of murder, second degree, carrying a sentence of life imprisonment with eligibility of parole beginning after the tenth year. Guilty of manslaughter, carrying a sentence of from one to twenty years of imprisonment. Not guilty on the sole ground of insanity. ELDER WELCOMED HOME Girl Flier and Haldeman Are Given Ovation at Anniston, Ala. ANNISTON, Ala., Dec. 20.—Ruth Elder and Capt. George Haldeman. co-pilots of the trans-Atlantic airplane, American Girl, flew here today from Atlanta for a “home town’’ welcome to Miss Elder. More than 20,000 persons were at the airport when their plane arrived. Mayor Sidney J. Reeves and Charles Layaen, chairman of the “Ruth Elder day” committee, headed the we! comers.

SET JURY DRAWING New Panel Will Appear Before Collins Jan. 2. Criminal Judge James A. Collins today set Monday, Dec. 26, as the date for drawing six grand and twelve petit jurors on the order sent by the court to Marion County Clerk George A. Hutsell Monday. Names will be drawn by the jury commissioners at Hutsell’s office on that date. They will serve on the new panel and appear before Collins for examination on Jan. 2, the court ordered. YULE MAIL js~ HEAVY Postoffice Handles 11,250 More Packages. Parcel post packages mailed at the Indianapolis posfoffice Monday totaled 11,2’50 more than the 260,370 packages mailed Monday, Dec. 20, 1926. Nearly 1,100,000 pieces of mail were handled at the postofflee Monday. Christmas greeting cards are being mailed rather slowly this year, Bryson said. He urged that they be mailed at once.

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“Hell Bent” and she have known each other several years, and recently have been touring the rodeo shows over the country. They are engaged to* be married, JUST last month '“Hell Bent” won first place in a steer riding contest at Florence. Ariz., and she showed ’em all her heels in the trick riding contest and pranced off with first money.

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Mrs. Perry M. Parker of Los Angeles is shown with her daughter Marion (left), who was kidnaped and slain by a revengeful maniac, and Marion's twin sister (right) Marjorie.

HUNT FOR KILLER OF GIRL EXTENDS TO MID-WEST

By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 20. Search for "The Fox.” revenge slayer—positively identified, according to police, as Edward Hickman, 17 —extended half way across the continent today, but Los Angeles detectives were confident the sir ccted slayer of Marion Parker w still within the city limits. Rewards of SIOO,OOO are offered for capture of the killer. Hickman was seen today in a garage in the business district, it was reported to Chief of Detectives Herman Cline. Police in Kansas City, Hickman's home, predicted, however, that he would attempt to join relatives there ar in Arkansas or Oklahoma and precautions werf taken to capture him if he appeared. Hickman was born in 1910, accordig to police records here. His mother in Kansas City told police there today, however, that he is 19 years old.

‘TERRIBLE MISTAKE,’ SAYS BOY’S MOTHER

Bn United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 20. Mrs. Eva Hickman today defended her son, Edward, sought for the murder of Marion Parker. “It’s a terrible mistake,” Mrs. Hickman said. “My boy could never have done a thing like that.” Police, however, kept watch for the youth, convinced that he would return to his home here or try to join relatives in Arkansas or Oklahoma. The Hickman family, police said, is an ordinary, respectable middle class group. Mrs. Eva Hickman, the boy’s mother, was questioned briefly today. She was not,told her son was suspected of the slaying, but police said she seemed to realize that he faced serious charges. Mrs. Hickman’s husband deserted her eleven years ago, leaving her with the task of rearing five children, all of whom have worked their way through high school. Left Home In October Mrs. Hickman told police she hadn’t seen Edward since he left here early in October. “I received a letter from him Oct. 13, from Chicago,” she said. “Ho wrote that he was employed as usher in a Chicago theater.” The mother said her son was not a “bad boy.” She said he had al-

But then disaster fell. A couple of those bad dime novel cowboys, probably descendants of Jesse James, walked, or, rather rode, off with their Buick automobile, and complete cowboy and girl paraphernalia at Del Rio, Texas. They had both been in Indianapolis before, she said, and last fall she “hurdled” horses at the State Fair here. So they picked

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Pictures of Hickman taken last summer were identified by five persons today as portraits of “The Fox.” Among those clinching identification was the school teacher who permitted Marion to leave school at noon last Thursday, when “The Fox” reported the child’s father had been injured in an automobile accident. The report that Hickman had been seen in a garage in the heart of the downtown district came from Jack Ward, a garage attendant. Ward identified Hickman from a photograph as the youth who appeared at the garage and asked for five gallons of gasoline. The youth was driving a blue coupe, according to Ward and after obtaining gasoline, requested a head light bulb. When Ward went inside the station to get the bulb, the youth started his engine and drove away. Detectives said finger print records

ways attended Sunday school and church in Kansas City. She said he was 19 years of age. Los Angeles police records gave his age as 17. The Hickman family moved to Kansas City from Arkansas about seven years ago. Police said they were staisfied Hickman had returned here after leaving Chicago and that he stole Dr. Herbert L. Mantz’s automobile in November. The stolen car has been identified as the one from which the mangled body of Marion Parker was thrown. Details of the automobile theft, officers said, indicated Hickman was a cool and deliberate type, probably with previous criminal experience. A police photograph revealed him as having curly black hair and a square set jaw. Hickman was well known to some members of the Kansas City police, who said he was an unusually intelligent youth during his high school days, not at all of the “sheik” type. , * Relatives reported he had not been here since October, but a friend of the youth was said to have reported seeing him here in November. This was only a short time before the autf mobile of Dr. Herbert L. Mantz—believed to have b- - l the one used by the kidnaper of Marian —was stolen.

Indianapolis us a nice place to winter while they awaited the opening of the rodeo season at Ft. Worth, Texas, in the spring. Free rides from kind-hearted motorists brought them to Indianapolis Monday. He left her to borrow some money from a friend. She began search for work and they were to meet at the Traction Terminal at 11 p. m.

as well as rogues’ gallery photographs had led to positive identification of Hickman as “The Fox.” Hickman, formerly an employe of the bank of which Parker is an executive, was convicted of forgery last summer, tut was paroled over protest of Parser. Revenge was iaid by police to have been the*, motive for his attack on Marion. Hickman was known among his friends as unusually Intelligent and as highly nervous—a description which tended to increase police confidence that he was the slayer. The lull strength of the police force—weary from long search for the slayer—was called back on duty today to assist in the capture of Hickman.

PAST RECORD TRAPS KILLER No. 3 Head—See Puzzle Fingerprints Definitely Mark Slayer to Police. Bn United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 20. Careful planning and skillful execution of one of California’s most horrible crimes could not cover up the damaging evidence of the past life in the “Rogue’s gallery”—and today, police of all California are looking for a 17-year-old boy—they know he is “The Fox.” Fingerprints and records taken of Edward Hickman, at the time of his conviction for forgery in June, enabled police to link him in the weirdly cunning kidnaping and slaying of Marian Parker, 12, Chief of Police Herman Cline announced today. L. H. Barlow, police finger print expert, found evidence indicating Hickman wrote the sneeering deatl\ notes that were sent to Marian’s father, Perry Parger, executive of the bank in which Hickman formerly worked. A picture of Hickman, taken at the time of the forgery, was identified today as that of the driver of the kidnaper’s car by five persons. Survives 14 Bone Breaks Bu Times Special GARY, Ind., Dec. 20.—William Gilbert, 6, has just returned to his home here after spenidng six weeks in a hospital as the result of suffering fourteen bone fractures when he was struck by an auto.

ALAS, “Hell Bent” Harry came not to the meeting place. Genevieve walked the streets all night and told her story at police headquarters this morning. “I know Harry couldn’t have deserted me,” she said. “Why I've known him for a long time. He never did anyone a dirty trick like that. He left me without a cent. Something must have happened to him.”

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Youth Resembling Killer Is Released After Short Grilling. SHOUTS OF LYNCH HIM’ Rioting Climax of Unrest During Day in Search for ‘The Fox.’ By United Press ' LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2Q.— Rioting broke out at detective headquarters here today when a man strongly resembling Edward Hickman, sought as the slayer of Marion Parker, was taken into central police station for investigation. A milling and frenzied crowd rushed the doors of the police station as the suspect was taken in. There were shouts of “Lynch him!” and it was with difficulty that police reserves held the mob at hay. Detectives announced a few minutes later that the man wag hot Hickman, though his resemblance to the hunted slayer suspect was remarkable. The suspect established his identity as Albert Landerberg, 25, and quickly proved that he was innocent of any connection with the crime. He was released at once. Police used drawn revolvers to keep the crowd back from the handcuffed man as he was led into headquarters while a squad formed a wedge and drove a way through the throng. University Student Held The rioting at the Jail broke out a few minutes after police had arrested Milton Jackowsky, university student, as a material witness in the Parker murder. The student formerly ljve<| near the Parker home, and it was believed he might have given information to “The Fox” regarding the family. The incident at the jail was typical of the actions of overwrought Los Angeles today. From announcement early this morning of the identification of Hickman, the convicted forger who was paroled over the protest of Perry Parker, father of the girl, his employer, the city had been overwrought. Even last night, a threatening crowd gathered at a suburban jail where a suspect was reported held. Crowd Is Unruly From dawn today, armed police paced outside the jail to prevent trouble. The crowd grew unruly, however, when Landerberg was taken inside. The incident led police to consider still greater precautions if Hickman hmiself were arrested here. Detectives said, following Jackowsky’s arrest that he had been seen loitering in the vicintiy of the Parker home for several days before the tragedy. Reports that Hickman had been arrested circulated throughout the morning, but except for the short time when they thought they might have him In custody, police met all such reports with flat denials. No attempt had been made, so far as was known, to carry out "The Fox’s” threat to kidnap Marjorie Parker, twin sister of Marion. The Parker home still was guarded, however. A towel gave police the first clew to “The Fox.” Records in the identification bureau revealed that a single thumb print in blood found on the towei was similar to Hickman’s. Later Hickman’s fingerprints were found to be identical with those on the automobile used by “The Fox,’ when he returned Marion’s body to her father. BEEKEEPERS CONVENE Incumbent Officers of State Group to Be Re-Elected. Incumbent officers of the Indiana State Beekeepers’ Association will be relected, the report of the nominating committee to the members who have assembled here from throughout the State showed. The officers are: Clay Dunkin. Parker, president; Herbert ij. Link, La Porte, vice president, and C. O. Yost, Indianapolis, secretary and treasurer. The two-day sessions are held in the Senate chamber at the Statehouse. A prefcram for the year’s activities will be approved before adjournment Wednesday. LOOTHOTEL SUPPLIES Ma tresses and Tables Are Taken From Oneida, Police Learn. Fifteen matresses and four tables valued at SIOO were stolen from the supply room at the Oneida Hotel, 218 S. Illinois St., the management told police today. ’ ih

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