HOPE FADES OF SAVINGS S-4 CREW AS SEA BALKS DIVERS; LAST FAINT CONFUSED TAPPINGS RECORDED AT 6 P.M.; STORM WARNING DASHES PROSPECTS OF ANY AID TODAY; EARLIER MESSAGE CLEAR

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REMUS ACQUITTED AS INSANE SLAYER; Jurors Say They Would Have Freed Him Absolutely, Had Judge's Charge Permitted. THOUGHT HIM PERSECUTED Remus Shouts Thanks for 'Justice' as Crowd Cheers -- Will Ask Freedom as Sane Now. REMUS ACQUITTED AS INSANE SLAYER

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G B Shaw champions cause of aged London postman who stole 10 shillings and lost pension

Shaw Champions Cause of an Old Postman Who Stole Ten Shillings and Lost Pension

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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 20. -- I have had the honor today of taking President Calles for his first aeroplane flight.  

Lindbergh Tells Difficulties Of Central American Flights; He Emphasizes That a Forced Landing May Be Necessary When He Is Flying Through Mountainous Regions of Uncharted and Unfamiliar Countries.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. -- Hope for the rescue of the six men in the torpedo compartment of the sunken submarine S-4, in the opinion of the Navy Department, hung on the weather tonight, and the latest weather report for Cape Cod was very discouraging.  

NAVY COUNTS ON MEN IN S-4 GETTING AIR; Department Bases Hope of Rescue on Supplying of Oxygen to Them.

Accused by R H Murray of complicity in forged Mexican documents, at Sen com hearing on Hearst expose; libel suit by Murray against N Y Times; deportation from Mexico explained

BRINGS TIMES MAN INTO FABRICATIONS OF MEXICAN PAPERS; Robert Murray, Suitor for Libel, Accuses Joseph De Courcy, Ousted Correspondent WHOM MEXICO EXPELLED Tells Senate Committee That De Courcy Forged Document to Show Murray Was Paid. SAYS TIMES SOUGHT PROOF For Use in Libel Defense and Sent Money to Its Correspondent to Get It -- De Courcy Will Answer Him. BRINGS TIMES MAN IN MEXICAN INQUIRY

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Files with Col Lindbergh; welcomes him at military college

COL. LINDBERGH GIVES MEXICO'S PRESIDENT HIS FIRST AIR RIDE; Calles Delighted as He Looks Down on His Capital and Sees Own Palace.

Coolidge Halts Knife Gifts; Clears Up 'Whittling' Reports

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EX-BANK MESSENGER POSITIVELY NAMED LOS ANGELES KILLER; Revenge Act Laid to Youth of 19 for Discharge Over Forgery in Parker's Institution.

Continued Gales Predicted By Federal Weather Bureau

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LAKE HAS RESCUE PLAN.; Would Cover Sea Over Wreck With Oil to Enable Divers to Work.

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BORING DEVICE FOR S-4.; Destroyer Carries Apparatus From Boston to Scene of Disaster.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. -- Fighting for life with the five other men imprisoned in the sunken S-4, Lieutenant Graham Newell Fitch of Washington received and acknowledged today a message of hope and cheer from his mother and wife.  

Message Tells Lieutenant Fitch Family Prays; Faint Acknowledgment Tapped From the S-4

PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Dec. 20 (AP). -- Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby, in charge of salvaging the S-4, does not believe that sounds detected at 6 o'clock tonight by the oscillator of the submarine S-8 came from the six men imprisoned in the torpedo room of the S-4.  

December 21, 1927

Headlines from December 21, 1927

HOPE FADES OF SAVINGS S-4 CREW AS SEA BALKS DIVERS; LAST FAINT CONFUSED TAPPINGS RECORDED AT 6 P.M.; STORM WARNING DASHES PROSPECTS OF ANY AID TODAY; EARLIER MESSAGE CLEAR

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REMUS ACQUITTED AS INSANE SLAYER; Jurors Say They Would Have Freed Him Absolutely, Had Judge's Charge Permitted. THOUGHT HIM PERSECUTED Remus Shouts Thanks for 'Justice' as Crowd Cheers -- Will Ask Freedom as Sane Now. REMUS ACQUITTED AS INSANE SLAYER

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