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The 24-Hour Daily WIFT legal execution of the confessed kidnaper after all the forms of law have been complied with, will be the best Way to protect society against another such deed. Kidnaping should be a capital offence everywhere. Ali Around the A STKICTLY PERSONAL RAGIC news of the day is to some extent to keep from those celebrating Christmas in the sanctity of their homes the ghastly details sought by the more morbid. In newspaperdom it is as necessary to know what to leave out as it is necessary to know what to publish. EL PASO HERALD rrartetnark Registered HOME EDITION WEATHER FORECAST.

El Paso and vicinity, partly cloudy; New Mexico, fair; Arizona, fair; west Texas, partly cloudy. IN CITY 5 Else where MEMRF.R ASSOCIATED PRESS FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR Telegraphic Dally Over Four Leased Wires EL PASO. TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 23. 1927 Associated Press (Night and Day) United Service SPECIAL MONTHLY RATES 108 COLUMNS, 12 PAGES HICKMAN TELLS LONG CHASE Sees Death Penalty For Son HICKMAN FAMILY Trademark registered.

Including the phraaea. EL PASOAN DEVELOPED WINK WHEN OIL BOOM OPENED UP Lack Of Pipeline Facilities Has Retarded Growth Somewhat, But Town Has All Earmarks Of Growing Steadily; Big Firms Operating. By H. S. HUNTER (Assistant to the Editor) Texas, Dec.

the Winkler county oil field became a likelihood with the coming-in of the discovery well, P. E. Gardner hopped a train at El Paso and hustled over here. He, with several associates, W. E.

Candler, E. G. Langley and John T. Cross, started the town of Wink. Since last March, Wink has grown out of nothing on the desert into a typical boom oil town of 3000 to 3500 population with all kinds of stores, hotels, flop-houses, domino parlors and soft drink stands, a school, a chamber of commerce, a post office and crowds of people milling about the streets.

Since March, 1200 lots have been sold for business or residential purposes, 250 buildings have been erected, little shacks and tents have sprung up on the outskirts, and $500,000 spent in the building program. All this has happened and much more, and yet the field itself has not boomed. There may be 30 oil wells completed on the pool by the time this is printed, but no large number drilling at race as has happened when a field was receiving what the oil men call The development of the Winkler field has been rather slow, owing to lack of pipeline facilities and the depressed price of oil. But Wink has grown rapidly enough as it is. With what the town would have done in the matter of growth is hard to conjecture.

One firm in the lumber business reports having st $45,000 worth of lumber in November, all of it for use right here in putting up store buildings and bunk houses and family shelters of the variegated kinds to be seen hereabouts. Pecos Valley Power Light Co. and the Texas Electric Service Co. are in here with electric power for town use and well operations. It is unusual to find two big power concerns in the same field in this pail of Texas.

The Pecos Valley people are installing a plant here. The other has its transmission line into the field. v- Four pipelines are under construction or just finished. The Atlantic Oil Co. is running a 10-inch line to Midland.

Roxana Oil which is a subsidiary of the Dutch Shell interests, has just finished running a line to Monahans. Magnolia Petroleum Co. has a line building, and Humble Oil 3000. Eighteen miles north of Pyote, on Texas Pacific railroad. Reached by road now in rough condition, but soon to be replaced with graded, caliche-surfaced highway.

Town is surrounded by oil company camps, with wells producing or drilling in Winkler county field. Has several supply houses, drilling contracting firms, school, natural gas, electric lights and power, and good water supply. Claims will have 10,000 population by next June 1. Father Says He Envies Slain Dad homas hickman, father of William Edward Hickman, Friday said that he would do anything in his power to relieve the suffering of the Parker family. knows that the Parkers have suffered in this terrible deed, but the father of the dead girl has not suffered as much as the father of the kidnaper who brought all this grief to the Parker he said.

wish that I could change places with Mr. Parker and do his suffering for him. But I have suffered not only the loss of my boy, but the disgrace that he has brought upon me. Parker at least hasn't suffered Hickman's father said in El Paso Friday. AUNT HET By ROBERT QULLLEN.

no trick to keep a man faithful happy if a woman will just let him think boss pet him when he has babyish CoDrrtsht. Publish era Syndicate. Refining Co. is carrying a line to Monahans also. American Petroleum has completed its pipeline to Pyote, 18 miles south, and has it in operation.

if Pride of this pool is the Roxana well, No. 1C Hendrick, which tests 1000 barrels an hour but is pinched in to yield much less. This is the most important of the numerous wells on Hendrick land, the royalties from which are helping swell the fortune of former county judge T. G. Hendrick of Odessa, who served the public 20 years at small salary until the wells began coming in on his Winkler county ranch.

As stated in the Odessa article, judge Hendrick has sold enough property to make him more than a millionaire, and has his oil income besides. At the fime this Wink article was written, the Independent Oil Gas No. 1 Hendrick, Sec. 34, Blk. B-5, had just some in big, flowing 330 barels for the first hour.

It was then pinched. These two large wells, the Roxana and Independent Hendrick operations, are regarded as locating the center of the pool for they have brought in the best production. Roxana has an 80-acre lease where its No. 1C well was drilled. Roxana stopped drilling when it reached the top of the pay, which was 2885 feet.

So, although it brought in a potential well (if it held up to the first run, which is not likely) a still larger flow could be expected by drilling deeper into the pay. Independent Oil Gas in its No. 1 Hendrick reached the pay at 2878 feet and stopped after drilling another foot. Its depth is 2879. Both companies followed the practice when conditions are as at present, drilling just to the top of the pay and stopping there.

It is practically certain that when pipeline or storage facilities and a higher price offer encouragement for greater production, these wells can be drilled down into the pay and be much larger producers than they already are. Humble Oil Refining No. 4 Hendrick, Sec. 34, has not only come in but has joined the gusher class. It flowed 2420 barrels through a one-inch choke in 13 hours.

Its total depth is 2890 feet, and production is from somewhere between 2860 and 2880. It is hard to tell just where the oil is coming from. The well is a heavy gasser and has been ever since the drill passed 2500 feet, In the week in which this was written, five new locations were made, and one well abandoned as a dry hole. By reason of increase in pipeline capacity and, too, because of the new wells brought in, production for this field was running about 12,000 barrels a day above its previous records. Thai is, its daily average production for the week was 52,510 barrels as compared with 40,950 previously.

Each of the big companies operating in this field has wells going down, repeating in its core tests practically the experience of preceding wells which have been drilled (Continued on page 11) column 3) JIRED and heartsick after a night in which there was no sleep, and in which there came visions of his baby boy hanging from a tree top while the ghost of little Marian Parker pointed an accusing finger at the dangling form, Thomas Hickman, father of the Los Angeles kidnaper, laid off from his job at the S. P. shops and went home for some rest I just make the grade. I half-way do my work after reading that the elder Hickman, who was found in El Paso by a Herald reporter Thursday, told other members of his crane engine crcw. on home.

Bill, we know been through hell. Go home and get all the rest you need. Try to get this thing off your mind and then your job will be waiting for you when you feel a kindly superintendent told the father. Bar! company was blamed by the father for the downfall of his son, whose crime in the kidnaping and murder of the little Parker girl has aroused the civilized world. far as I knew, William had never had a criminal thought.

I see in his confession that he had been holding up and robbing people before the little girl was killed. Just goes to show that one crime will lead to Mr. Hickman said. The father will not go to the aid of his son, nor will he send any money for his defence, he told a Herald reporter Friday. want justice done.

I am sure the courts could judge the case better than I could. If I were a millionaire, I might he able to help him iu a trial, provided he gave me his word of honor that he had nothing to do with the actual murder of the girl. if he committed that murder. I want to see him punished by law. no doubt that he will be given the death penalty.

All I could hope for in such a case would be electrocution. It is more humane than the father said. Mr. Hickman will not lose his job at the Southern Pacific shops because of the disgrace that the boy has brought on the family. went in and told the superintendent everything.

He was more than decent toward me. He realized that I have he said. Other men at the shops were anxious to and do the work until Mr. Hickman can recover from the shock. been through one member of crew said.

a good man and a good workman. We sympathize with On the day before it was broadcast around the world that his son had been identified as the kidnaper, Mr. Hickman had several times remarked to other shop workers that (Continued on page 5, column 5) News From The Classified Columns Looking to El Paso from Kingston, Anne L. Toland writes asking the whereabouts of Peter Paul Toland. two Las Cruces auctioneers and sales managers offer to go any place for a reasonable commission.

Whether looking for a job or looking for lost tools, the practicality of notifying the public through newspapers is seen as witnessed by the usual want ads and the unusual notice by a man who has lost his kit of typewriter repair tools and offers a reward. sold before Christmas, will sacrifice phonograph for tells a beautiful story of the Yuletidc in one line of business prose. Hundreds of interesting news will be found dally on the classified advertising pages. Scoops and Charity (An Editorial.) The fundamental purpose of a newspaper is to furnish the public with full and accurate news, especially when there is some subject in which interest is intense, such as the Los Angeles tragedy. In addition, a real newspaper is glad to help in worthy philanthropy, such as the Goodfellow Fund which will make Christmas a season of joy to hundreds of families and little children.

The Herald has attained both of these objects. Thursday The Herald staff put in a lot of time, assisted by others, preparing for redistribution of Christmas baskets, made possible by the generosity of El Pasoans through the Goodfellow Fund. This work did not interfere with giving the public of El Paso the only real news of the day ahead of any other newspaper. In an exclusive story, known in the newspaper vernacular as a The Herald, in an extra, informed the public that the father of Edward Hickman is a resident and taxpayer in the city of El Paso. This scoop made by a Herald reporter gave an interesting interview with the father of The Herald scored again, being the only El Paso newspaper to give the public the news of arrest in its home edition, the only El Paso paper which went into the homes Thursday containing an account of arrest, the biggest story of the day.

There has been no story in years in which the interest of the public of El Paso, in fact over the nation, was so keen and intense. This story was given to the public of El Paso by The Herald exclusively, despite the fact that hundreds of baskets and hundreds of dollars worth of clothing is being prepared by members of the staff to go to poverty-stricken homes. Not only did the home edition of The Herald give a complete account of the Hickman case to the public of El Paso, but extras which followed told of his of his father, a resident of El Paso, asking that be punished according to the laws of Then again, not second-hand news, was given the public of El Paso in extra telling that had implicated a man and a woman in his crime. Incidentally, speaking of The Herald on Monday the only El Paso paper to print pictures of Marfan Parker, her twin sister, her mother and father. And.

at the same time The Herald takes care of its task of giving El poverty-stricken families and hundreds of poor kids a real Christmas, made possible through the generosity of the citizens of the Gateway City cooperating with The Herald. MURDER SUSPECT DENIES POISONING 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL pENDLETON, Dec. 23 two brief interviews with newspapermen, William Edward Hickman who yesterday reached the end of the trail at Echo, Oregon, reiterated today details of the iddnaping of 12-year-old Marian Parker in Los Angeles and his subsequent flight. guilty of ly know that I am not murder and I am perfec said the 19 year old prisoner, as chief of police Gurdane abruptly ended recital of the events which Jed to the brutal murder of the little girl and his capture yesterday after an exciting chase along the Columbia river highway. Hickman was retelling portions of the confession be made just after his arrest and described taking Marian to a theater at Alhambra Thursday night of last week, when he was stopped.

said the chief. assertion that two alleged accomplices, named as Andrew Cramer and June Dunning had a part in the crime and that Cramer was guilty of the actual murder, started a coast wide search for these two, but neither had been found today. Police have expressed disbelief in this portion of story, pointing out that he is accomplished Letters written by Marian to her were penned in the apartment he occupied In Los Angeles, the confessed kidnaper declared, on Thursday night. A picture of driving through the streets of Los Angeles with newsboys crying extras about the naping while he had Marian with him in hs car, was given by Hickman today. were driving out in Hollywood Friday night when my car was stopped by a traffic light.

Marian was beside me and the newsboys waved their papers close bj us. Marian seemed to be amused by this. got along very well together. It was not my intention that she should be harmed. In fact 1 loved her.

I still love Hickman was quizzed about an apparent inconsistency in his confession of yesterday in which he stated that he and his confederate first planned to kidnap the little daughter of Mr. Hovis, chief teller of the bank at which Hickman had been employed. Reminded that Hovis had no such child, Hickman had a ready reply. saw a woman calling on Mr. Hovis at the bank and she had with her a little girl.

1 supposed that this girl was his child. To prove that I was planning this kidnaping 1 will say that on the Monday night before I took Marian from school 1 went out to Mr. house in Pasadena and waited there In my car to look over the ground. Mr. Hovis came to the house while I was there and he can confirm that he saw my car there that night.

I heard a voice in the house. We decided not to take this child because we believed her too young. I was afraid she would die of Asked If he had admitted that Marian was poisoned before she was put to death, he denied this. I never said Hickman replied. only reference I made to poison or anaesthetic was in telling of the drugstore holdups which were committed before the ing.

She was not It was reported today that a prominent physician had spent an hour observing Hickman late yesterday and that- he expressed the opinion that the youth is insane. The identity of the physician was not divulged. Beseiged by clamorous newspapermen and residents of Pendleton for opportunity to interview and see the prisoner, chief of police Gurdane was obliged to yield from his earlier (Continued on page 5, column 3) Officer Who Aided In Capture Of Fox Describes Actions By BUCK LEUW ELLEN State Traffic Officer Who Helped Arrest Hickman (Written for the United Press) Pendleton, Dec. of police Tom Gurdane and myself got a tip from Portland yesterday that William E. Hickman might be headed this way on the Columbia river highway.

We went down the old Oregon trail and stopped by the side of the road about 23 miles below Pendleton. We saw a Hudson coming fast. 1 turned my car around and overtook him and blew my siren. He gradually slowed up and finally came to a stop. The chief kept him covered with his gua and opened the door and I covered him also.

As the chief opened the door on his side, Hickman dropped a 45 automatic onto the floor of the car. We then made him put up his hands and get out of the car. We found a sawed-off shotgun handy. There were two bums with him who he said he had picked up on the road. We are holding them for investigation.

We stopped the car, which came along about that time and we proceeded to Pendleton where we placed him under a heavy guard. He made no effort to escape and joked with us about the ghastly crime. He seemed very anxious to know whether they hang men or put them to death with the electric chair in California. He said he had treated the girl like a brother while she was with him and that it was his partner with whom he had been staging several holdups that butchered the little girl and put her in the suitcase. He said the father of the little girl was a friend of his and when he said this he showed the only emotion that he had at any time since he was picked up.

Tears came to his eyes at this time. We searched suit case and found some bloody clothes and two more guns, making four guns in his possession at this time with plenty of ammunition. We also found in the suit case four hundred dollars of the money which the little father had given to Hickman. He said he had spent a hundred dollars of the money. They were the original $20 bills and we identified him by the numbers on the bills.

After we had disarmed Hickman he shook like a leaf and said that he would have shot us if he had a chance. After we had him in jail he made a complete confession. He denied killing the girl himself, but frankly admitted kidnaping her. In regard to the reward, I could certainly use some money but I believe that some of this money had been put up by people who need it just as bad as I do. I do not wish to accept anything from anyone who through sympathy donated money which they could not afford to give.

oday ddest ews XTEW YORK, Dec. 23 IN Bellevue hearse was borrowed today by two young men and a girl who used it for an early morning joy drive to the suburbs. The driver left it in front of the institution to get a body and it was gone when he returned. Several hours later the hearse was found abandoned in Queens. The woman and men were seen leaving it.

FEARED SUICIDE EMBERS of the Hickman family shown herewith. Upper left, Thomas Hickman, father of the accused youth; upper right, Mrs. Thomas Hickman and her two children, stepmother and half-brother and half-sister of William Edward Hickman; lower right, young Hickman as he appeared when a model Sunday school scholar; lower left, the three brothers of the youth now accused of one of the most atrocious crimes in history. miss the new story of the LOST ADAMS written by an El Pasoan who knew two of the famous supposed partners which starts in the WEEK-END HERALD Herald Carrier Boys Will Collect Tomorrow HE fourth Saturday of every month has been designated as the day on which all Herald carriers will call on subscribers to collect the amount due them. It will be greatly appreciated If subscribers will cooperate with the carriers and be prepared to pay subscription accounts promptly, as carriers are required to pay for their papers on the first day of the month.

Tomorrow Is the fourth Saturday of the month and carriers will collect 60c for the month of December. CHRISTMAS CAROLS by Candlelight Chrisu.ias Eve 7:30 ST. CHURCH Montana and Campbell All are welcome. Pendleton, Dec. 23 In his guarded cell at the jail, where he slept solidly through the night following his capture yesterday, William E.

Hickman, Los Angeles kidnaper, stirred on his cot at dawn and asked his guard the time. Told it was 6:30 a. he turned and fell back into a sound sleep. Outside the streets were quiet, a feathery snowfall had whitened sidewalks and pavements, few persons were abroad, and cries alone broke the stillness. In the jail corridor half a dozen men lounged.

guards were frightened In the early morning hours when one of them reported that he had watched the prisoner for two solid hours without observing a movement or even hearing a breath. Fearing he might possibly have taken some concealed drug, they roused him enough to determine he was alive. Then they combed through his mass of hair to make sure that he had secreted no pill there. A Diamond Hand a head for thrift I Better See Us NOW! Flcischer Alberts Jewelers. The end is here One more advanced Think what you'd like And take a chance mother daughter son all ree Decorations Children THE POPULAR Dry Goods Co.

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