Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1924, Page 4

COOLIDGE CONFERS WITH BUTLER HERE Many G. 0. P. Problems to Be Discussed During Week by President and Leaders. LIANG SHIH-YI IS CALLER Former Premier of China on First Visit to D. C.—Veterans’ Official Received. Some of the more important de- tails of the Republican national cumpaizn will be discussed at length by President Coolidge with various party during the present week. The first of these was held today at the White House with Wil liam M. Butler of Massachusetts, chairman of the Republican national committee. who returned to the Washington headquarters today tor a short stay sides leaders me to of these major points :tion of the the Presi- the pert campaizn plan, ke up campaign, various other principally individual wiil of dent phases he some he contests States. Mr. Butler House before but he was with a short time. He with the President later this after- noon and probably tomorrow morn- nz. He made it plain that his object i coming to Washington at this time primarily for the purpose of discussing plans with the Presi- dent. went to the White 9 o'clock this morning. the President only will confer again Many Problems to Meet. This the first time Mr. Butler has had an opportunity to confer at any length with the President since the Cleveland convention and there are naturally many subjects to taken up with him and important de- cisions be made. Mr. Butler said also that he wants to discuss with the President certain matters col cerning the speech of acceptance President Coolid, will make on August 14. at Continental Memorial Hall, when a committee cails form- ally 'to notify him of his nomination. Among others who discussed poli- tics with the President today were L. M. Robbins, prominent in the par- ty's councils of California, and Sen- ator Harreld of Oklahoma. Liang Shih Yi. former premier of the Republic of China, who is visit- ing this country, called on President Coolidge at the Executive Office to- day. He was introduced by Mr. Yung Kwai. charge d' affaires of the Chinese Embassy. The former pre- mier said on behalf of the people of China he wished to thank the Presi- dent for the action of the United States in remitting the Boxer W indemnities. This the first visit that this Statesman has made to Washington and during his short stay Mr. Yung Kwai will show him the city is Leader. today was as- Seex Veeterans' Presideent Coolidg. sured by Frank J. Irwin of New York, national commander of Disabled American Veterans, that that a: clation intends to continue its atti- tude of co-operation and consructive eriticism regarding the functioning of the Veterans' Bureau until the vast problems before that bureau have been solved. Mr. Irwin said afterward that the President mani- fested great interest in the disabled veterans and showed plainly that he is desirous of doing cverything possi- ble help them and to have the Veterans' Bureau function properly “The Rged-Johnson bill,” Mr. Ir- iwin said, “which became 'a law on June 30.'last, is the most equitable bit of lezislition affecting the dis- abled men that Congress has enacted gince the Armistice, and we feel its provisions will simplify the adminis- tration of the Veterans' Bureau. {There are several points that are not satisfactory and we adopted the recommendation at a_national con- vention at Salt Lake City last month that will be pressed as soon as Con- gress convenes next December.” Commander Irwin is the first non- commissioned officer to head any of the four recognized national farmer gervice organizations of the World ‘War, having been sergeant in the 27th Division (New awarded the distinguished service cross for gallantry in storming_ the Hindenberg lines in October, 1918, VETERAN CLERGYMAN DIES AT TAKOMA PARK Bev. William Ostrander Succumbs t> Heart Attack After Operation. William Ostrander, 76 old, a pioneer clergyman of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, and for several vears pastor of the M Street Seventh Day Adventist Church, died at the Washington Sanitarium, Makoma Park, Md., Saturday. Rev. Mr. Ostrander had undergone &n operation about three weeks ago &nd was thought to be improving. He Wwas taken with a heart attack, how- ever. and died within about a half an our. Funeral services will be conducted in the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Takoma Park, tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Glenwood Cemetery 5 Rev. Mr. Ostrander slergy of the church about 40 years ago. For a number of years he was a traveling evangel- 18t in that section of the West which s then building up. Later he was dent of the Colorado conference f the church at Denver. Subsequent- . he served in pastorates at Grand pids and Saginaw, Mich.; Des Moines, and at other places. % He assumed dutics as pastor of the # Street Church about five years ago and after giving up the pastorate he @ontinued active in the affairs of the dhurch. “He was a veteran of the Civil War. was born in Oakland County, Mich. e celebrated his golden wedding an- Rev. vears entered _the in the West be | York) and being | Thrown on (Continued from First Page.) “Yes, sir.” came the response. The same question was asked of Loeb and the answer was identical. Boys Neatly Clad. Both boys were neatly olad, fresh- ly shaved and wore correctly fash- foned bow ties. Aside from their first greeting to counsel and their initial glances about the crowded space before the bench, they gave little evidence of curiosity in the proceedings. Both sat quietly In front of guards who brought them into court Jacob Loeb, wealthy uncle of Kich- ard and former president of the Chicago Board of Kducation, and Allen Loeb. younger brother of one of the defendants, entered the court- room with the defense counsel. Nathan Leopold, sr. father of the second principal, and KForeman Leo- pold, & brother, were at the counsel table. | Several score newspaper men and a dozen attorneys were in court when [lhe case was called, but the spac | reserved for spectators only partly filled. Elaborate police pre- cautions were responsible for this condition Crowd Gathers Outside. was | Outside the biz, grim stone build- ing hundreds of curious gathered in {a compact mass about the entrance Three policemen on guard there were kept busy pushing the crowd back | and clearing a space about the doors |s0 that those who had business within might enter. Persons summoned for jury duty in the various branches of the court, members of the county grand jury, | witnesses summoned to testify in some of the constant grind of cases in Cook County's justice mill, court attaches, attorneys and newspaper men were passed as they presented | credentials. A favored few also |had passes as spectators at the | Franks case | Once within the portals, another set of guards examined credentials | before admitting any one to ele- | vators or stairways. The elevators were all stopped at the fifth floor, & story below Judge Caverly's court- room Many Cameras in Court. Again guards examined cards as persons bound for that court passed up the stairway and the process was [repeated for the fourth time at the | entrance of the courtroom | Cameras were everywhere when court opened and Judge Caverly start- ed prcceedings with a warning that {all in court, save attorneys, must |be scated and that while time ex- posures might be taken, flashlights would not be tolerated Then he called the case and the defendants were brought in to the accompaniment of clicking of cameras and of interest which lasted throughout the proceedings. Attorney Darrow started his ad- dress to the court in a low voice which scarcely carried twenty feet. Many Sieeplems Nights. At the outset he told the court | that he and his associate, Benjamin Bachrach, had spent many sleepless nights and busy days on the case and that they had taken fully into account not only their duties to thelr clients, but also the feelings of the three families involved in the “weird, uncanny and terrible crime,” and the wide public interest in it. He disclaimed any intention to ask for a change of venue, pointed out that a long time would be consumed in selecting a jury and said that as lawyers of many years' experience they recognized that little good might be accomplished by making the dilatory motions usual in such cases. On Merey of Court. He then asked permission of the court to offer evidence to the mental capacity of Leopold and Loeb and the degree of their responsibility, adding: “With that presented, we throw ourselves upon the mercy of this court.” The youthful defendants were at once called to the bar of the court to affirm this plea. “Let the record show that both de- fendants affirmed the plea of guilty to kidnaping and murder. after being warned by the court of the conse- quences,” said Judge Coverly. Attorney Bachrach then suggested that the proceedings would be short- ened if State’s Attorney Crowe, in- stead of summoning witnesses, would make a statement of the facts relied upon by the prosecution. “I can assure him there would be no dispute of those facts by the de- fense,” sald Mr. Bachrach, but the State declined to agree. Mr. Bachrach next suggested that a joint conference be held between the alienists of the State and defense. Would Ask for Jury. “Are these boys pleading guilty as sane or insane persons?’ interrupted | coutd THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C Loeb and Leopold “Guilty”; Mercy of Court “If the Natter. as it sane were the State’s attorney the State will ask for a jury, can demonstrate that they are and knew exactly what they doing.” Mr. Bachrach said that the object of the conference would be to iron the differences which “invariabdy ac- company presentation of expert tes- timony as to insanity in cases.” He argued that the result would be a coherent statement for the court's corsideration “instead of wide publication of atroclous details in hewspapers and their’ consequent effect upon poorly balanced minds generally.” criminal Unexpected By Judge. Judge Caverly said that the court had no po.r to force such a pro- cedure up: . the Stites and left the proposal 1u the State’s attorney, who again stated that the prosecution could prove that the defendants were thoroughly sane. A discussion of time of hearing fol- lowed. Both sides were ready to go ahead at once, but Judge Caverly said Wednesday was the earliest date at which he could hear testimony. That date was agreed upon with the under- standing that' witnesses might have been summoned for the expected opening of the trial August 4 and who present who not would be excused until next week “You have unloaded a big respon sibility upon me.” said Judge Caverly to Mr. Darrow after court adjourned. “It was totally unexpected.” Boys Return Laughing. The defendants returned to the cells in the county jail laughing and talking light-heartedly, but apparent- ly carefully refraining from all dis- cussion of the case. ‘They made light of the suggestion that they had been nervous during the proceedings, but admitted they were “glad the first day was over.” They manifested great interest in what the newspapers would print and pressed their yuards for “all edi- tions.” “The proclamation of an got a six-inch headline, laughing heartily “Ask us about anything selves,” Loeb said later queries armistice said Loeb, but in reply our- to Question Reporters. ‘““Then the pair turned upon the reporters with an avalanche of ques- tions about the details of their stories “How many the building?’ “I'll bet we're page.” Locb said patiently “I wish they'd bring the papers up.” Several times before the interview was ended had commanded by his “shut up.” peoples were outside the pair asked, all over the Then he added front im- Loeb been abruptly companion to Sons of Millionaires. Nathan Leopold, jr, and Richard Loeb, confessed slayers of 1l4-year- ©0ld Robert Franks, are both minors, sons of millionaires, and graduate students distinguished by their.at- tainments. At the time of the slay- ing Leopold was 20 and Loeb 19 Probably none of Leopold's ac- quaintances, save Loeb, connected the slaying on May 21, which, according to the boyvs' confession, was meditated. with the precoclous nithologist who had engaged the con- fidence of the little Kirtland warbler. a bird so shy s to have been sup- posed extinct, so successfully that it perched on his shoulder and ate from his hand while a thousand feet moving picture film were unrolled According to Loeb, thouxh this de- tail Leopold disputed, it was the sam: hand that struck Robert Franks from behind with a chisel after strangling him pre- or- Came from Germany. The grandfathers of both Nathan and Richard were among those who, like Carl Schurz, came to this coun- try from Germany because of the failure of the revolution of 134S. The Leopold family has been in Chicago since 1867. Albert Loeb, father of Richard, was born in Chicago in 1565, Nathan Leopold, sr. whose fortune grew as tfie city grew, was formerly engaged in lake transportation and is now a paper manufacturer. Albert Loeb, son of a small shoe merchant, taught evening school, practiced law, and eventually became vice president of the Sears-Roebuck Mail Order Company, of which Julius Rosenwald is president. His brother, Jacob Loeb, was president of the Chicago Board of Education from 1916 until STUDEBAKER Just Drive It; That's All Wednesday, | | State to of | Lefts &rief, it ix said, over the death at right. 1919. His who was tive wife, Richard’s mother, Anna Bohnen, has been ac- welfare work Both of Hebrew F in th. Both Temple, mil them families worship at of which the late Hirsch was pastor family of the boys' victim, Franks, is of Hebrew de though not holding the Jewish faith Robert failed to reach home after school May 21. The next day a let- ter and messages by telephone called upon his father, Jacob Franks, presi- |dent of the Rockford Watch Com- pany, a neighbor of Loeb and Leopold, for $10000 rapsom. The messages ted that the boy had been kid- naped but was safe. The father vir- tually decided to comply with in- structions, but permitted his lawyer and a relative to go to the morgue to see the body of a boy found in & culvert. The body was identified as Robert's. An autopsy showed that 1he had been before the letter demanding ransom was written Sever were examined, but not until a pair of glasses found | near the culvert were traced through prescrfption to young Nathan as either he or Richard suspected Sinai Rabbi G Like the Robert cent, ain witnesses Held for Three Days. The two boys were taken into cus- tody and werg held in hotels and in the State's attorney’s office for three Their adrottness and assur- Med thelr examiners until rned that their attempted alibi was refuted by the testimony of + chauffeur that the car the boys said they had used was undergoing re- pairs at the time. Then Loeb began to confess and Leopold, learning of his aia likewise According to the confession they planned both slaying and kidnaping the alty for murder, death the name in Nlinois as penalty for kidnaping though the victim They are reported by the have said tney did it for money and for adventure. Although counscl for one of the other suspects complained that harsh measures were used by detectives in the case of his client, who neverthe- less did confess, State’s Attor- ney Robert E. Crowe asserted that the utmost consideration was extend- ed to Nathan and Richard and that he permitted them to talk with their relatives, though not with counsel. ction extreme | being the extreme for ransom, even survives not Clue From Glasses. While the pair of eyeglasses found near the body was the principal clue {upon which the boys were located | vet after their confession there were | many angles that kept the case prom- linently before the public. Young Franks attended Harvard School, an exclusive educational stitution near his home, and for a time three of its teachers were held | under suspicion. They maintained | their innocence, but it was not until Leopold and Loeb confessed that they were released in- Letter Went to New York. After the confessions it developed that the final letter sent to the elder Franks. giving him details as to the exact manner in which he was to de- liver the $10.000 ransom to themi, had been placed aboard a Michigan Cen- tral train and had traveled Rudolph Shonfeld, former policem; t December of his only chil to get into better quarters. Father’s Suicide Follows Death of Child. who killed himxelf today in Helen, shown time-table rtack of a Pullman car through Detroit, Buffalo and on to New York before it was found. It was the first slip-up of the mur- derers when they failed to communi- cate with Franks by telephone in time for him to catch this train he caught it, the orders were to ride a few miles until a certain building was reached, then throw the money from the train. He failed to get the message in time. Later the police began a search for the typewriter upon which the ram- som letters had been written. Loeb pointed out to a spot in the lagoon in Jackson Park, where he said Leo- pold had thrown the typewriter. A diver dug it up after three days of searching. Virtually every bit of the confes- sions of the boys was checked up and corroborative evidence was obtained. RADIO PERMIT DENIED. Judges Refuse to Have Murder Trial Broadoeast. (Copyright. 1924, by Consolidated Press Asso- ciation.) CHICAGO, July 21.—Courts are one domain that radio is likely never to enter. The decisive answer of judges to the proposal of a local powerful broad- casting station to carry the Leopold- Loeb murder trial to the four corners of this country seems to justify that conclusion. The closed sanctity of the courtroom in which Killers are called to answer for their crimes, jurists say, must never be violated. Radio would turn the grim battle for life of the two youthful slayers of 14-year-old Robert Franks into a great entertaining show. This imagi- nary spectacle itself has brought de- nunciation from Chicago judges. Space for Only 200. To “listen in” on the murder trial of the century; what could be more thrill- ing? Nothing could better satisfy morbid curiosity, nothing sppeal more to the deep-seated interest in any kind of a fight for life. So argued those proposing that radio be called in to broadcast this court battle. Only 200 persons are going to be able to crowd into the courtroom itself when the trial is under way—the rest will be clamoring for some way of listening in. Radio was the solution proposed for the problem. Here, however, those who are to control the courts asserted them- selves. They showed that the Ilinois Supreme Court in &n important crim- inal case had reversed a conviction of a trial court on the ground that ‘no court should permit the conver- sion of a trial into a show.” ‘This particular decision resulted from the permission the judge gave the =peo- tators sitting on the rostrum, and to photographers who took pictures of the defendant in the presence of the jury. Trial Neot Show. “A trial” the Supreme Court advis- ed. “is not to be regarded as an en- tertainment, or in any sense as a fes- tive occasion. The court should not permit the oconversion of the court- room into a picture gallery or the trial into a show." (larence Darrow, attorney for the defense in the Loeb-Leopold trial, in- dicated that he would object to broad- | casting the trial because it would, in his opinion, prejudice the case against the boys. District Attorney Robert E. Crowe, the prosecutor, takes & con- trary view. “I do not see that such publicity can be in any way harmful,” sald Mr. Crowe today. “On the other hand, 1 believe it can be made of the utmost benefit. provided that it be handled properly, and provided parents would regulate their children's conduct in connection with hearing the trial.” But the judges have said no, and in the radio fans will be denied a new thrill. It's a Wise Move— It MONDAY, JULY 21, Had | 1924 SMALLPOX SPREAD ALARMS OFFICIALS Co-Operation Vital to Check Serious Epidemic, Warns Dr. Leake. Medical Alvianal science must solicit in- co-overation if the present | outbreak of smallpox In various parts Stutiy Le checked, Dr. | J. P. Leakc, chief of the infectious dipease laboratory of the Public| Health Service, said today | The auprehension felt by Health | Service officials has been heightened, he said, because of the seeming in- difference of people to vaccination and the taking of treatment for mild cases. The present outbreak of a virulent form of smallpox, he declar- ed, probably is a development from the mild form which has been mani- fest in the country sinoe 1896, Science is practically able to pre- vent smallpox through vaccination, but can do comparatively little after the disease has been contracted. The Health Service is attempting to sup- ply all physicians with the latest in- formation” concerning the diagnosis of smallpox, in which much new data have been secured Physicians also are disseminate information that the method of makinz a large scar the patient through vaccination no longer necessary. “A little sanitary dimple,” Dr. Leake said today, “is the only mark | that should remain.” Attacks of smallpox, Dr. Leake said, begin with headaches, accom- panied with a slight attack of grippe, followed by red spots appearing all over the body. 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