Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1924, Page 2

DISORDER QUIETED TROLPSBOHONE Hlinois Governor Calls Militia ““After Sheriff Evades 5 Would-BeLynchers. 3:’0UNG WOMAN KILLED Xu Klux Klan Organizer Pleads for Suspects and Quiets Crowd With Prayer. By the Assoctated Press. MOUND CITY, I, July 23.—With quiet restored after a hectic day and dight of threatened mob ¥Fule, and With three egzo.suspects. in the slay- ing of Daify Wilson, 18; of Villa Ridge, reporfed safe tn some distant fail, a Cairo National Guard unit pre- pared to return home today. ‘The troops were ordered out last night by Gov. Len Small when a triple lynching seemed imminent. The Cairo compa comprising about 90 men, arrived at 1380 a.m:, but the mob had dispersed- upon finally be- coming convinced -that the negroes np longer were in. the county jafl here. Officers today were still in doubt as th whether any of the three negroes in custody participated in the hdldup of the Wilson country stere, in which the young woman was siain, and her father, J. C. Wilson, severely beaten. Yes, 1 believe he is the negro, but Ican't swear to it.” said Wilson when he viewed Ike BYown of Memphis, Tenn., suspected of having fired the fatal shot. 5 Railroad officfals foday sald two negroes answering the description of Brown and his companion, arrived at MNounds on a northbound freight train at 1 a.m. yesterday, some two Bours after the shootin, ‘This would tend to establish- an--alibi, it was declared. . The bloodhounds had just taken a seemingly hot trajl x sterday morn- ing. but were oalled- off when the sheriff's posse learned two negroes had been arrested at Mounds. The third negro, Brought here and later transferred for gafekeeping, was ar- rested at Calro. Two negro suspects also were arrested at Tamms, Ill, &nd two at Humboldt, Tenn. Although between 2,000 and 3.000 persons gathered he: last night, only 400 or 500 appeared to take part in the demonstration. Only after some of the leaders were persuaded to go through the jail was the crowd convinced the negroes were gone. H. F. Moreland. a Ku Klux Klan or- ganizer, who helped quell an earlier mob at Mounds, was active last night in restoring order. The crime for which the negroes were held occurred early Tuesday morning at Villa Ridge. Two negroes called at the home of 1. C. Wilson late Monday night stating they wished to make several small_pur- chases at his grocery store. While in the store Wilson was attacked by the negroes, one of whom held a revolver. His daughter, hearing =ounds of the struggle, rushed to her father's assistance and was Kkilled by a bullet from the negro's revol- ver. The negroes escaped with a few pennies contained in a bas. Suspects Not Identified. News of the shooting spread rapid- ly and a posse of several hundred men led by Sierift Hudson scoured the countryside for hours. Although aided by bloodhounds, -the. -search proved fruitless. The two Memphis negroes were arrested by Illinois Central agents at Mounds, TIl, and were immediately taken to Villa Ridge for identification. Wilson, who had been severely beaten, was unable then to identify the negroes. Both negroes denied the crime. A mob formed in Villa Ridge and the sheriff, fearing trouble, took the negroes to the Mounds jail, where another crowd quickly gathered and threats were voiced to lynch them.. When trouble was imminent, H-¥. Moreland, a Ku Klux Klan organizer - and special deputy sheriff, offered-an eloguent lea for the negroes' lives, concluded y a prayer, during which the crowd stood respectfully with bared bowed heads. E With the crowd quieted tempor- arily the two. megroes were quickly brought here. The crowd followed in_automobiles. The sheriff deputized a score of men and an armed guard was placed in the jail with orders to shoot if an attempt was made on the negroes’ ves. V. S. WORK ABSORBS PRESIDENT’S TIME (Continued from First Page.) tribution to the campaign. As a mat- ter of fact, it is the only political speech for which he is echeduled at this time. It may be October before he speaks again, except for occasional short addresses by radio. I There is no disposition on the part 6f Chairman Butler or other leaders of the party to urge a more strenuous campaign program upon the President. They are more than willing to consent o his wishes for as much seclusion in the White House as possible, and they believe Mr. Coolidge is a far more gffective candidate sticking to the work of government here in Wash- ington than he would be flying from place to place about the country, toallk!nl Ppolitics and thinking politics inly. Various state leaders are not of a mind on this subject, however. They naturally are desirous of having a visit from the presidential nominee. There are factional differences in many States that mako the outlook it dublous. and- the_local leaders eve a visit from Mr. Cool would do much good. e + The President ‘has no intention, however, of: going in fer- that form pf campaigning: S (Copyright, 1924.) Test Shenandoah : To See if Craft * Can Go to Pacific Plans for a flight by the Navy -dirigible Shenandoah to the Pa- cific Coast in October are being “held in abeyance here pending de- -~ terminatiod of the condition of the ship to be developed by an over- J hauling at her Lakehurst, N. J., hangar. ! Real Admiral William A. Mof- fett, chief of naval aeronautics, ‘“sald today the future-operations of the ship could “not be foretold with any degree-of certainty. The gas celis already are about three years old and many vital parts of the gigantic craft were installed some time before the ship was commissioned, making the ques- tion of age and durability one of chief consideration in planning for ruxxre Tove"t“m'n l < series of exhaustive- ts individual structural nn.rl-u;:w ?: I being made, and will .bs continued up to the time the Shenandoah is completely overhaule: and in- spected in September: Until then, Admiral Moffett said, aeronautical ~engineers will be unable to detgr- -~mine definitely whether the trip to the Pacific Coast will be made. U Admira] Moffett declared also fu..t lcalll;derllio; ol{l a_ flight to “Honolulu from a Pacific. st base.. | Swas still P tERtEtve S [a] Tige, Wandering White House Cat, Again Missing, This Time President " Is Diszir-eued, But Mansion Attaches Say “Let Him Go.” Declare Feline ‘Ornery’ In Spite of Dignity That Was Offered. Tige, President Coolidge's‘own pet cat, is missing again. This gray- striped wanderer of the White House has been gone for more than a month now and the Executive is greatly distressed. He is now be- ginning to fear that he will never return. During his life of ease and comfort at the White House, Tige frequently strayed off, but generally only for a night or so, although several months ago his little journey into the world consumed nearly a week. He usually looked a little worse for wear when he returned from these mysterious absences, but he mnever failed to jump right back into the graces of the President, and in a day or 8o afterwards was the same proud sleek and affectionate Tige. But he has been away so long now the President is about ready to abandon all hope for his return. If he does come “back, there'll probably be no fatted calf. Others about the White House, some of whom have engaged In the long systematic search that has been carried on with the hope that Tige or some clue as to his whereabouts would be found, gave up home some time ago. If it were not for tl President’'s unmistakable fondness for this‘cat, they wouldn't care if he ever returned. They contend that a wandering cat is no good, anyhow. And Tige, they say, left such a com- fortable and distingulshed home that he deserves .no pity. Tige was not of the aristocracy. According to the viewpoint of fan- ciers he lacked good breeding. He was born with a good disposition and good looks, but poor blood. They then point with pride to Blackie, the other White House cat, who has princely manners and who behaves like a saint. Moreover, Blackie is far prettier and more 'affectionate, they contend. To sum it al up, Blackie, in thefr estimation, actually looks the part of a White House cat— B DAY AT PARK FOR DD ORPHANS Elks Provide Mirth and Dain- _ties for Inmates of Fif- teen Institutions. Turned loose in Glen Echo Park, with the free use of all its diversified amusements, and with all the sand- wiches, ice cream that their little “tummies” possibly hold, more than 1,000 mates of fifteen of the District's orphanages had the “time of their lives” today as guests of - the Washington Lodge, B. P. O. E. The outing was the twentieth - annuai which the “Big Bills” of Washington have given the orphans. Sixteen gayly festooned and flag- bedecked cars of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, each marked “spectal,” carried the orphans to the amusement park. Some of the children boarded the cars near the orphanages, while others met the “specials” at Eleventh and F streets shortly after 10 o'clock. Lunch in Shade of Trees. Soon after the arrival of the cara- van of cars at Glen Echo, lunch was served to the carefree, happy chil- dren in fhe shade of a grove of trees. The Elks' Band doubled up with the clown band in furnishing the music for the picnic. Al of the amusement devices were opened after the luncheon and the children took possession of them for the afternoon. Some idea of the appetites of the youngsters was furnished after the luncheon by William G. Neumeyer, chief of the commissary, Thése are the figures of the amount of food consumed, according to Mr. Neumeyer's audited bill of fare: Three thousand five hundred ham, tongue and cheese sandwiches, 3,000 eggs, 2,000 dishes of ice cream with as many pieces of cake, 1,000 boxes of candy and 500 gallons of lemonade. All of the food was served under the most sanitary conditions, and if any of the children complain of a stom- ach ache tomorrow the “Big Bills” will blame it on the amount consumed and not the condition. Many Toys Presented. Besldes the large quantity of food, the children also received toys of every conceivable type. Flags, whis- tles,” horns, tin crickets, rubber balls, base balls and bats, dolls, - beads, watches and other playthings of this variety were distributed to the youngsters. The girls in_their ,teens’ were glven vanity cases and’ week end outfits. The toy distribution was under the direction of Samuel Rich- ards. Inmates of the orphanages which went on the outing included those at the German Orphan Asylum, Wash- ington City, St. John's Baptist Home, Gospel Mission, St. Vincent's, Home Industrial, Alexandria, Washington Home for Children, the Emergency Home, the Foster Home, the Bruen Home, St. Rose's and St. Joseph's, Dr. Tracy M. Payfair of the Wash- ington Lodge, B. P. O. E. was in charge of the outing, His lieuten- ants included Harry G. Given, P. J. Foley, G. D. Kehoe, G. C. Rogler, U. Boyd, G. Beckman, James A. War. Arthur Reimer, G. E. King, A. D. Brown, A. Zimmerman and R. T. Hoy. Fred Mersheimer was chairman bf the transportation committee. James A. Balderson, exalted ruler of the Elks, also was at the park to wel- come the children. Thigh Muscle Cut Out to Put in Face So Man Can Smil_e Part of a muscle that for 38 years has been helping Lester Dickins of 902 D street southeast to walk, hereafter will help him to smile, as the result of a skillful operation performed yesterday by. surgeons at Casualty Hospital. Dickins has had difficulty looking pleasant ever since a heavy chain on a dredging barge broke his cheekbone and left a depression in his face. So Dr. Archibald L. Miller of the hospital staff cut a “piece of muscle from Dickins' thigh and grafted it onto his cheek, covering the new cheek up with sewn pieces of skin. - A few .weeks hence, hospital authorities® believe, Dickins will have not omly cause, but ability, . to smile. And hé will be “walk thé same 83 ever, - y i SAME OLD a President’s pet. Besides, Blackie never strays away. He not only ap- pears proud of his home and its sur- roundings, but he looks with disdain and disgust upon those common things bevond the bounds of the White House grounds. Just Naturally Plebeian. Not so with his low-bred friend Tige. "He was naturally piebelan and democratic. He liked company. The pats of a President were all right in. their way, but they ‘didn’t always provide the thrill that a fellow like Tige craved. And, it iwargued in his Dbehalf, he couldn’t be blamed for sickening at the continued associa- tion with such a listless, colorless and well behaved man-cat as Blackle. It is_not known just how the tramp Tige ever became a White House cat, in_the first place. No one recalls how or when he first appeared on the scenem It was soon after Mr. Coolidge moved into the White House, and all any one knows of the event was that Tige just came. That's all, He wandered into._the grounds and refused to leave. Of course he had to be fed, and he just stayed on. He had attractive ways and quickly won his way with the police about the grounds, then the kitchen em- ployes, then'the upstairs attendants and then the President himself. The President liked to have Tige about Eim to stroke every now and then, or to. Often in the evenings as at talking to members of his family or friends he would sit with Tige nestled up in his lap. He en- joyed it and so did Tige. But even th got on Tige's nerves and he began running about at night, ige hated the publicity at first. But after several all-night parties away from home he became hardened, and probably if he should by any means read all this it is doubtful it he would bat an eye. He most likely would give a long bored yawn and mumble something t> the effect that {:l»ws must be dull ‘at the White ou DAWES PLAN HELD SURE OF ADOPTION, DESPITE DEADLOCK (Continued from First Page.) trustee and also by five members of the Dawes committee,”who would be called in. Then the question of sanc- tion would be put to the reparation commission and if there was a unanimous vote in favor of sanction all the allies would join in imposing them. The hitch in the Kellogg plan comes in the possibility of the repa- ration commission’s vote not being unanimous. In that event the ques- tion would then arise as to whether the nations voting in favor of sanc- tions would take them, or whether they would be held back by the na- tions which had voted against the taking of penalties. Fear Independent Action. Thé only problem-from the finan- clers standpoint is that if any na- tion” voté@ " In "thé reparation com- mission for taking sanctions it might be difficult to restrain independent action on the part of that nation. As long as this is possible, it was sald, the financiers consider that the basis for credit is not sound. At the close of yesterday after- noon’s conversations between finan- cial experts and -the bankers the French delegates - -reiterated. that France was irrevocably committed to the Versailles treaty and the inter- pretation regarding separate action. In American circles it _is taken that the Kellogs proposal precludes sepa- rate action by France. The American bankers' attitude was laid before the allied finance ministers and their expert consult- ants by Thomas Lamont of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. In behalf of American investors the conferees were_asked to remember that Ger- many has a bad reputation in Amer- ica with respect to her debts and that therefore a German loan could not be made an attractive investment if there remained the posstbility that, with the Dawes plan operating, any nation could by separate action jeopardize the whole scheme and nul- lify the loan's security. French Raise Iusue. Mr. Kellogg’s oportunity came yes- terday afternoon, when the French ideas of security were found to be out of harmony with the guarantees required by American financiers who are expected to take up a consider- able portion of the £40,000,000 loan to Germany. ‘When it was finally determined at the meeting of the allied finance ministers with the American and British bankers that the safeguards unanimously agreed to by the com- mittee on sanctions and defaults re- specting the German loan were con- sidered insuficient by the financiers, Premier Theunis of Belgium is under- stood to have “advanced the first alternative. - F 8 M. Theunis proposed, that a Ger- man default, which the first report stated might be adjudged by the repa- ration commission, could be declared by fhat commission only after con- sultation . with five members of the Dawes committee, who would act in an advisory capacity. This is under- stood to have proved wholly unsatis- factory to the American bankers. Then it was that Ambassador Kel- logg's alternative proposal was brought forward. . While the implication is that Mr. Kellogg's proposal s abhorrent to France, French spokesmen advance the view that France's real salvation rests in unamimous action by the allies'in enforcing the Dawes report, and that it is hardly conceivable that a situation could arise in which France would desire to invoke sep- arate sgnctions. It is pointed out that the present French government opposes separate sanctions. ‘While it would seem that this view by France has brought her very near to unanimous accord, upon which the hopes of the present conference are based, it is learned that France feels unable to commit herseif by protocol to a position precluding separat Suon ¥ e Wife-Slayer Dies in Chair. TRENTON, N.' J, July 23.—Aaton Staub, 80 years old, of Patterson, was executed in the electric chair at the State prison here last might (o(’thq - June murder of his wils. . SHAVER, IN CAPITAL STARTS ORGANIZING New Democratic Head Con- fers With Hull and Other Leaders. Clem Shaver, new chairman of the Democratic national committee, who arrived yesterday, today is working on organization plans for the com- ing compaign at national headquar- ters here He was in conference with the retiring chairman, Cordell Hull, who will leave Washington for a rest before going to Tennessee, his home state, to work for the election of the Davis-Bryan ticket. Visited by Democrats. Mr. Shaver is settling into the harness preparatory to the active work which must soon follow. A num- ber of prominent Democrats called on him at headquarters today, includ- ing Daniel C. Roper, one of the Dis- trict’s delegates to the national eon- vention and a McAdoo lfeutenant dur- ing the preconvention campaign. Rob- ert N. Harper one of the original Davis men in the District, was an- other caller, Mr. Harper sald that the plans of the Davis for President Club, headed by Carter B. Keene, are’ pro- gressing rapidly. The club will main- tain a radio receiving set in its head- quarters, in the Ebbitt Hotel, he said, 0 that the Davis and Bryan speeches of accéptance may be heard there, and other speeches during the cam- paign. Mr. Shaver's journey from Clarks- burg, W. Va., to the Capital was begun Monday night by automobile. About 20 miles outside of Clarksburg, however, the motor broke down, and the chairman was forced to walk four or five miles before he was able fo to gét transportation, and he finally wound up by coming into Washington on a train. Some of the Republican_politicians here seem to take Mr. Shavers mishaps as an augury of what is to come in the campaign. Butler Goes to Chicago. While Mr. Shaver was making his entrance into Washington, Chairman William M. Butler of the Republican national committee was shaking the dust of the Capital from his feet. He left here yesterday afternoon for Chicago, where he will be for some time, supervising the arrangements for the campalign in the West, which it is well recognized will be of vital importance to the fate of the Re- publican ticket—or, to put it the other way round, to the Democratic and the La Follette tickets. The Republicans, the Domocrats and the La Follette group are relying largely upon their vice presidential nominees to take important parts in the campaign through the Western states. Mr. Butler will discuss, in Chicago, the part that Gen. Charles G. Dawes will play in that campaign. Gov. Bryan of Nebraska is supposed to ‘be ‘the leaven in the Demo- cratic loaf to take the curse of Wall street off that party's national ticket, and to win votes in the pro- gressive West. But while President Coolidge will not invade the West in person, contenting himself, perhaps, with a dozen speeches over the radio, delivered here in Washington, John W. Davis may well seek to overcome criticisms leveled at him by Senator Wheeler—La Follette's running mate —and others on the ground that he is a conservative and allied with the so-called interests. Wheeler to Campaign. Senator Wheeler, culled from the ranks of the Democrats, also will be the active campaigner for the inde- pendent Progressive ticket. The La Follette supporters were particularly anxious to get a vice presidential nominee who could make an active campaign, and they believe that in Wheeler they have made such a se- lection. Some of the Republican_leaders in the Northwest, now in Washington, believe that the nomination of Wheeler on the La Follette' ticket is going to be of assistance to the Republicans in that section of the country. They see him taking pro- gressive votes in the Western Stafes from the Democratic candidates, which the Davis-Bryan combination otherwise might have received. These westerners are not fooling them- selves in regard to the strength of La Follette in Wisconsin, the Da- kotas and Minnesota, however. But neither do they see the Democrats having much of a chance in some of the other Western States in view of the Wheeler nomination and his assaults upon the Democratic ticket. Rely on Dissatisfaction. One factor which some of the Re- publicans are relying upon to ald them in the coming campaign is a strong disinclination on the part of the voters to have the election thrown into the House of Representatives. They paint to the unpopularity of Congress—both Senate and House— with the people out in the States. They do not believe that the people will be willing to have the election of a President handed over to the House. Rather, they believe, the voters will prefer to cast their ballots for President Coolidge. Of course, the Republicans are not giving this as their only reason why the voters should stand by the Republican ticket. But they are saying that it will have its effect when the showdown comes in_November. Senator Wheeler expects to take the stump late in August, in Boston, and from then on, to conduct a speech- making campaign of growing inten- sity. Formation of definite campaign plans _awaits the selection of the committee which will direct all phases of the fight for votes. To what ex- tent Senator La Follette and his running mate should make a personal appeal for support, meanwhile, has Dbeen the subject of discussion at in- formal conferences. Goes East Tomorrow. The tentative plan, which the cam- paign committee s expected to ap- prove and chart in more definite form, calls for Senator Wheeler to lead off the fight. He leaves tomor- row for a three weeks' rest at a Cape Cod resort and probably will re- turn to Washington for further con- ferences with Senator La Follette be- fore delivering his first speech in Massachusetts, his native state. Later the Montana Senator will swing westward through industrial states of the east and middle west to the Pacific Coast. Before election day he expects to invade a number of states in the west and southwest and one or two in the south. “Barnstorming” will be no new ex- perience to Senator Wheeler. During his campaign for the Senate in Mon- tana two years ago he got a taste of four or five speeches a day, topped off with a night address of an hour or_so: Just how extemsively Senator La Follette will campaign will not be determined for several weeks. He expects to use the radio at intervals and has expressed himself in favor of & two-speech-a-day stumping tour. Some of his friends, however, have advised him, in view of his recent illness, to go slow on such a program and to content himself with a dozen or so important speeches. At any rate, La Follette will do no extensive speechmaking until Sep- tember. Like his running mate, he is looking forward to a whirlwind finish. 3 ———— Rivera Back From Morocco. MADRID, July 23.—Premier Primo Rivera returned here yesterday from his Moroccan tour. After a meeting of the military directorate he planned to leave for San Sebastian to confer with King- Alfonso; ALIENISTS STILL HOLD BALANCE OF FATE FOR LOEB AND LEOPOLD Darrow Expects Experts to Prove Boy Slayers Had ; Lack of Emotion Bordering on Insanity. By Consolidated Press. CHICAGO, July 23.—Psychiatrists Still hold the balance in the bitter fight opening today to save the necks of Chicago’s precocious young “thrii! killers,” Nathan Leopold, jr, and Richard Loeb, sons of Chicago mil- lionaires. Surrender by the defense in the first round of the battle, it is now evident, does not mean that the slayers will Bo to the gallows, even should Chief Justice Caverly so sentence them. Their attorneys threw the boys on the “mercy of the court,” and look for mercy. To them life imprison- ment would be graelously acceptable, but hanging is to be fought to the last ditch. Lines Drawn For Fight. The determination of the state to demand the death penalty has drawn the lines for a memorable court bat- tle. “But instead of a jury of twelve, Judge Caverly sits alone to pass judgment for the murder, on May 21, of 14-year-old Robert Franks, son of another millionaire neighbor, Jacob Franks. Here the psychiatrists enter. They are the pivotal point of the defense, For two months numbers of them have been unraveling the minds of the Loeb-Leopold combination — the pair whose pampered, tutored life left them university graduates at 18 and murderers at 19. Prying into these minds revealed an irresponsibility, a lack of emotional development that borders on insanity, the defense psy- chiatrists are counfed on to tell the court. Wil Aswert Samity. Alienists for the State are pre- pared to testify that the youths are as completely sane as they appeared in the court. Jail life seems to have removed none of their suavity, rufied their composure nor dulled interest in_their own plight. Leopold is no longer so eager to display his su- perior mental ability, but both he and Loeb take great delight in noting the amount of newspaper display the pair receive. There is ample precedent to indi- cate that after all the arguing and presentation of evidence, which is ex- pected to occupy at least three weeks, Judge Caverly, on his own responsibility, might impose the death sentence. Five times within recent years local judges have sent slayers to the gallows after a plea of guilty, the last occasion only a few weeks ago, when Robert Scott of Detroit was sentenced without a trial to hang. May Appeal Case. Should Loeb and Leopold be or- dered to the gallows after the final show of their psychiatrists and at- torneys, Attorney Darrow has inti- mated that the legal battle would g0 at once to the State Supreme Court. Each step of the way is being bul- warked for possible openings that might be used in the case of a death penalty. While the state is building what it believes to be an impenetra- ble argument for hanging, the de- fense is just as carefully laying the ground for legal saving maneuvers should such be the outcome of the present flurry. ‘The object of the defense is for the killers to emerge alive but impris- oned—the goal of the prosecutor to see them hanged. Tt is for imprison- ment that the millions of the parents are available to be spent. They ask only that their boys' lives be spared. Outlook Not Bright. Yet whatever the outcome, the fu- ture is none too bright for the two young men. The mental powers so early displayed that marked these youths as intellectual supermen when barely beyond adolescence are doomed either to extinction or to a confinement that will of necessity dull all of their brilliance. A few weeks will mark the end of the first stage of the battle to save the two lives demanded in payment for that of Robert Franks. The other stages of the fight might extend over a period of years if hanging should be the sentence. Boy Slayers Calm as State Demand They Die on Gallows (Continued from First Page.) luncheon. They laughed audibly as they started back to their cells. The_ courtroom of Chief Justice John R. Caverly was the center of in- terest in Chicago today. Long before the defendants came into court the big building which houses the com- munity's trial courts was the mecca for hundreds. g Only a fraction of these could gain place in the courtroom and only those who had business with the courts could pass the outer doors of the building, but scores of curious jam- med the sidewalks. “The court fans” had no chance to- day. Police guards at the building's portals, at the elevators and again at the door of Judge Caverly's court- room kept them back. Stay on Sidewalk. But still the morbidly curious held their places on the sidewalk. They could not hope to see the two youths who had startled the country with an atrocious crime and then added to the Sensation by pleading guilty. That Was precluded by the fact that the two former students were brought from the county Jail through a corri- dor connecting the jail and court building, thence by an elevator to the “bull pen,” where they were kept un- til the court was ready to open. a The outside crowd, therefore, ha to be satisfied with watching for other characters of the drama. They Iboked for Mr.and Mrs. Jacob Franks, parents of the 14-year-old youth whom Leopold and Loeb slew; for Clarence 8. Darrow and Benjamin Bachrach, counsel for the defendants; for Robert Crowe, lslales attorney, his four assistants. Ay looked. too, for Nathan Leo- pold, sr., father of the youth whose attainments have earned the title fmaster mind criminal.” They sought a glimpse of Jacob Loeb, uncle of the Other defendant and former presi- dent of Chicago's Board of Education. "And, above all, they sought to iden- tify Judge Caverly, on whose shoul- ders has been thrust the burden of determining whether two young men shall die for a horrible crime or ex- piate their sins to soclety by passing their future behind prison doors. Quiet in Court. the sixth floor of the court hu?lrt‘flng. where Judge Caverly holds court, there was an almost startling Qquiet. Those privileged to enter the Foom passed quickly and quietly be- Yond the outer guard to_places with- in a big, sunlit room. There was a subdued hum in the room, which rose to a murmer and then to an open clatter of tongues as the room filied. A half hour before the time set for opening the trial not half the seats reserved for spectators were occu- pled, and only State’s Attorney Crowe of all the chief figures had appeared. But there were newspaper men of every degree in plenty. Telegraph operators, writers and camera men, male and female, hurried into their reserved places. A pair of carpenters shattered the atmosphere as they in- stalled a shelf for an additional elec- ric fan. % U Nathan Leopold, jr. and Richard Loeb came into court for the final act in the big criminal drama at 10:03 a.m., court opening promptly at 10 am. Leopold appeared uncon- cerned; Loeb was pale, and an almost startled expression wideneq his eyes and dropped his jaw as he passed to his chair. 5 A safe containing exhibits which the State will offer “for the informa- tion of the court” was wheeled into the room. Atop it were a number of boards, the bloodstained flooring of the automobile in which young Franks was killed. What remained of the boy's clothing, a belt and a few other bits of equally gruesome evidence, were in the case as well as all the other material evidence col- lected by police. Wil Demand Hansing. Attorneys Darrow and Bachrach came into the room 10 minutes before the hour set for opening. The State's attorneys were also on hand, and Mr. Crowe let it be known that he would conclude his opening statement with a demand for the death penalty. The State's first witnesses were on hand with the experts retained by the de- fense, who sat where they could ob- serve the actions of the defendants. ‘With Mr. Darrow came Jacob Loeb, uncle of Richard; Allan Loeb, a brother, and Nathan Leopold, sr. “Find seats, everybody,” said the clerk. ‘The defendants were summoned at once, and came in to an accompani- ment of craning necks and a stir that made the court repeat the clerk's first warning to “fn@ seats.” Judge Caverly announced that proper legal formality had not been complied with Monday when the boys changed their pleas to “guilty.” He summoned them to the bar and in long legal phraseology asked them again separately if they realized the consequences of their action. “1 do, your honor,” said Leopold, and Loeb replied in like manger. The boys listened to the judge's reading intently and answered in a clear firm voice. Leopold looked about occasionally, but most of the time eyes upon the judge. tatuelike, his eyes .tn|ht ahead, and bore an expres- sion of concentrated attention. After judge's statement the defendants eturned to their seats and conferred smilingly with their attorneys. “The bailiffs will not permit any one else to enter,” said Judge Caverly. “The State Is Teady to proceed with the murder hearing but asks a con- tinuance on the separate hearing,” said Mr. Crowe. “Object,” said Mr. Bachrach. “This is not a real trial and there should be no separation of the two cases. “If this is not a trial what is it commented Crowe. A wrangle finally brought an agree- ment to proceed with the murder in- dictment while keeping the other charge “on call from day to day.” Mr. Crowe_then started his opening statement. He dwelt upon the iden- tity and upbringing of the defendants. Mania for Gambling. “They behaved in accord with standards of their socia} sets, except that they developed a mania for gambling for high stakes,” said Mr. Crowe. “The evidence will show that from this they retrograded to the point where they could commit a cold- blooded murder.” Mr. Crowe said that the crime was planned and schemed for months. He say they threw a compact bundle of newspapers from a train to learn where it would land so they might in- struct the father of their victim how to throw ransom money to them. Mr. Crowe told of Loeb's registering at the Morrison Hotel under tn assumed name and how the suit case left in the room coptained books from the niversity of Chicago library is: to_Richard Loeb. veiseun He then described how the boys rented the automobile in which the crime was committed. Leopold ap- plied for the car under the name “Morton D. Ballard,” the same as that used Ly Loeb when he registered at the hotel. Selection of Vietim. Mr. Crowe said Leopold and Loeb had discussed the feasibility of kid- naping different boys, “among them William Deutsch, grandson of the head of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and the son of a prominent Chicago attorney.” He read “a model letter,” which he said was drafted by Leopold and Loeb in their study of means and methods. It was practically iden- tical with the missive which reached Jacob Franks the day after his son was killed. A follow-up letter was read, designed to instruct the recipi- ent on how to throw ransom money from a train. “After you pass a large red brick factory, count five as rapidly as possible and then throw the package east as far as you can,” said the letter. Mr. Crowe said that the evidemce would show that Leopold and Loeb decided to murder their victim first and demand ransom afterward. He said they got ether from Leo- pold’s ornithological equipment, a gag, some tape, ropes, a chisel and acid to disfigure their victim. Selection of Vietim. Mr. Crowe told how “these instru- ments of death” wers transferred from their own car to the rented ma- chine. “Then they went to the Harvard Sehool,” he said, “talked with some of the boys and instructors and de- cided to do away with Johnny Levin- son.” He said that fortunately for Levin- son, he went home by an unexpected route. “But there was another boy there, a boy who only the day before had played tennis with Loeb in the lat- ter's yard,” Mr. Crowe said. “‘Come in, Bobby, we'll ride you home,’ said Loeb, *‘No, 1 prefer to walk,’ said Bobby. ‘Come on, I want to talk about your tennis racquet.’ said Loeb, and Bobby went to his death. Murder of Franks. “They turned the corner and at once the poor little innocent boy was struck on the head and while still gasping for breath, Leopold reached over from the back seat, seized him by the throat and squeezed the last life from his fragile -body. Mr. Crowe then described the trip to the railroad culvert and told how the murderers removed shoes, stock- ings and trousers from their victim, completing the undressing after they reached the culvert. “Leopold took the body and forced its face downward into the drain,” he said, adding that efforts to erase the features with acid failed because of water in the culvert. Destroying of Evidence. The methods by which Loeb and Leopold tried to destrov all traces of the crime were described. He said that the belt buckel, tie clasp and shoes were separated from the rest of the clothing. The cloth garments were burned in the Loeb home furnace. A blood-stained robe was reserved lest its odor saturate the house. The metal objects were buried, the robe saturated with gaso- line and taken to a lonely spot on the lake shore, where it was set fire. “The next day they tried to wash blood from the hired car,” said Mr. Crowe. “Your honor will be shown that car_and the partially erased stains.” He told how the ransom let- ter was mailed and the first tele- hone message sent to Mrs. Jacob g‘nnku. reassuring her: “Your son has been kidnaped. He i3 safe; don't worry. Details later.” Letter to Franks. Mr. Crowe said Loeb started the second letter to Mr. Franks, and the latter was then told by telephone to en a taxieab and drive to a cer- tain drug store and await instruc- tion: “But.” said Mr. Crowe, “Mr. Franks had just learned of the find- ing of his boy's body and he did not §0. Headlines in newspapers in- formed also these criminal-conspira- tors of that fact and they abandoned their plan to collect the $10,000 ran- som.” The police efforts to solve the mystery were detailed, the tracing of the spectacles, found near the body, back to Leopold, and the damaging admissions made in the first question- Ing of the defendants as suspects. e said that Leopold had given an opinion, based on his visits to the vicinity of the culvert on bird trips, that no one could find the culvert in the dark even by accident. One Week Albi. Mr. Crowe then described the “one week alibi” which the murderers con- cocted. It included a fake trip to study a species of gull and a “joy ride’” with whisky, gin and “‘pick-up” girls as accompaniments. Next was related the tracing of the spectacles to Leopold, how he had acknowledged the close resemblance of the glasses found at the culvert to those he had worn. Finally he had acknowledged their probable ownership and tried to explain their “losg.” “He purposely tripped to demon- strate that the spectacles would fall from his pocket,” said Mr. Crowe. “But the glasses remained in the pocket of the coat. Finally he was asked to put the coat on the floor, pick it up by the tails and the glasses fell out. How Glasses Were Lost. “The evidence will show that the glasses were lost just that way. Leopold washed the blood from his hands, asked Dick Loeb to pass him his coat and in the darkness Loeb picked it up by the tails and the Blasses slipped ou Mr. Crowe's recital of the investi- gation went into details of the treat- ment of the boys, including how parents and other members of the families were allowed to talk with them, send them fresh clothing and pay_for meals. We learned from reporters of the Chicago Daily News that Leopold had a portable Underwood typewriter that had been used in preparing university work with four other students,” said Mr. Crowe. He described Leopold's vain_at- tempt to fasten ownership on Leon Mandell, 2d, a fellow student, then in Europe. ’ Breakdown of Loeb. The -State’s attorney told how Sven Englund, Leopold’s family chauffeur, shattered the alibi by revealing that the automobile supposed to have been used on the “joy ride” was in the Leopold_garage. Then Mr. Crowe told of Dick Loeb's breakdown. “He asked me why he was being held” said Mr. Crowe. “I told him | it was because the State’s attorney | was fastening a “web around Leopold and when that was done Loeb would be in the case because he had said he was with Leopold throughout May 21.” “Loeb was told what circumstances were known, and he exclaimed: My God! Give me a glass of water “He was given the wa said: ‘Now I'll tell you trut! “Then Leopold was informed that Dick was talking. “‘My God, no!" he efaculated. ‘Dick Loeb “will “stick until hell freezes r and then e absolute Each Accuses Other. “But he was convinced and started his _story. “Each accused the other of being the actual murderer and sought to save his own neck.” In bitter terms the State’s attorney denounced the defendants' efforts to fasten suspicion on others. “To show the abandoned and ma- lignant heart in the body of Dick Loeb, note, please, your honor, that he told newspaper reporters he knew Robert Franks and added: Slander of Dead. “If any one was going to ki any one. he is just the ‘cockey 1:‘}:5 of a kid one would pick. “And even then the boy was cold in death. “And in the name of fatherhood and motherhood and childhood of the State we demand the death penalty for both these cold-blooded murder- ers.” ‘Then Mr. Darrow arose. “‘Cold-blooded and vicious' are terms in the litany of all state's at- torneys and nothing else,” he said. “The state’s attorney knows that this was not the most atrocious crime ever committed in this country.” Objection by Crowe. Mr. Crowe objected that it was not time to argue, but to make a state- ment only Mr. Darrow agreed with the court that he would not go beyond objec- tilons and his opening statement at this stage. “I was outraged, your honor, that the State’s attorney should have started to stir up fresh anger and hatreq in this community,” said Mr. Darrow. “We object that all the evidence which the State offers is incompetent and meant only for an appeal to passions and prejudices. This is a hearing, and we ask that it be confined to procedure proper to such a stage of any criminal case.” Edwin M. Gresham, uncle of Robert Franks, took the stand and told of identifying the body of his nephew. He was not cross examined. Jacob Franks, father of the mur- dered boy, controlled his emotions well as he described the last time he had seen his son leave home for school. He gulped a bit as he told of recognizing in a body at an under- taker's the corpse of his own son. He identified a pair of brown can- vas tennis slippers as worn by the boy, with tan stockings. A" blue necktie, with _ white stripes was recognized as “my boy's,” as was a school pin. He identified, too, the “ransom letters,” sent by Loeb and Leopold and signed “George Johnson.” The letter was read into the record. 1t called for $10,000. of which $8,000 was to be in 50-doliar bills, and the rest_in twenties, i “This is a strictly commercial un- dertaking,” said the letter. “Should you carry out these instructions we can assure you your son will be safely returned within six hours.” Court recessed until 2 p.m. ADMITS KILLING CHILD. American Given Five Years Penal Servitude. LONDON, July 23.—Charles Wel- ford Travis, an American student from New York, found guilty of man- slaughter in connection with the death of his infant son, was sen- tenced today to five years penal serv- itude. He declared that he tried to prevent the child’s incessant crying by holding its nose and windpipe and in so doing had strangled it. Swat the Fly For assistance in the campaign against the fly, The Star has for distribution a quantity of wire-handle fy swatters. Ask for One at the STAR OFFICE or Any of Its Branch Offices STEWARD WRONG, SAYS BOARD HEAD Congress Alone Has Power to Change Compensation Levels, Bailey Asserts. - Chairman Bailey of the Personnel Reclassification Board today struck back at critics of reclassification in a statement in which he declared that a higher general level could not have been awarded by any classifying agency under the present law. Mr. Bailey's statem nt was pro- voked partly by attacks made upon the Personnel Classification Board and upon the result of reclassification by Luther Steward, president of the Na- tional Federation of Federal Em- ployés. “I have no idea entering in argument with Mr. Steward Mr. Bailey, “concerning the demerits of pending legislation abolish the classification board.” ‘Wants Fair Understanding. Mr. Steward and his organiaztion have been making a drive for actment of legisaltion now pe before the Senate to abo board and turn its activ to the Civil Service Comn “My interest in the government servi continued Mr. Bailey, * my desire that government empl should have a fair understan the classi tion situa to say that Mr. Steward is mistaken if he thinks the classification could within any rea terpretation of fixed by Congress in th act increase, in an by allocations it compensation of ployves as of July 1 “In th act C compensation kinds of position itself all authori levels. o any said erits or to ding the jes over ssion. rved to these. Puts It Up to Congress. “No classifying agency tofore, ahd no classifying ag hereafter be able materially crease through gi ailoca compensation of ¢ until Congress c pensation levels. “Mr. Steward's ‘about all the scaling down of sali aries was visited upon the rank an$ file, is therefore a criticism of Cone gress, and his a that anothe Classifying agen bstit present one would b and in the absence of congressior action to materially increase compensation of empl is misleading. ssification act provides remedy for inequitable compensa levels by imposing upon the classif ing agency the duty of studying rate of compensation provided in the act and of recommending to C gress from time to time such cha as may be needed.” Class specifications for the various grades which the board has written are expected to be issued by the end of this week. It is belicved they will give much needed information to administrative officers and em- ployes. “LAIRD OF SKYE” TELLS HIS STORY TO COURT Case Continued for Week to Allow Probation Officers to In- vestigate Claims. statement, ti yes q Norman Alexander Russell Mac- Leod, who told the police and others that he was the “Laird of Skye” in Scotland, was defendant in the United States branch of Police Court today, before Judge John P. McMa- hon, charged with failure to pay a board bill at the Arlington Hotel and carrying concealed weapons. The evidence was taken and the court continued the case over until next week to enable the probation officials to investigate statements made by the defendant. Judge McMahon cross- examined the defendant for half an hour, going into the details of the man’s past history Headquarters Detective Edward Kelly, who arrested the man in the office of the hotel 1d the court that MacLeod had been annoying a Young woman, daughter of a retired admiral of the Navy. propo: g mar- riage. He had become quainted with the you woman through a real estate deal, MacLeod having pro- posed to purchase a property under the woman's control for $85.000. Detective Kelly said that the annoy- ance had reached such a state that a member of President Coolidge’'s cabinet had taken the matter up with the police for the woman. The cabinet member sought an interview with MacLeod, Kelly said, and it was then that MacLeod left town and went to Alexandria, Va. MacLeod said that when he came to Washington it was to purchase the real estate controlled by the wor located at New Hampshire aven and P street northwest. He saic would pay her $26,000 cash and t balance in a few da: It developed that the woman & MacLeod different times §1,000 and some ances- tral jewelry. The defendant testi- fied that he went to Chicago and while there he heard that the woman had gone to Bar Harbor, Me, and that he went there, where he met her again. URGES WAR ON FLIES. Health Officer Calls on Residents to Prevent Germ Spreading. With the fly population at its height, Health Officer William C. Fowler today once more appealed to Washington householders to make war on these germ carriers. Every fily knocked off the screen today will mean hundreds less to be annoyed by during the remainder of the Sum- mer, the health officer said. He advised householders to be par- ticularly careful in covering food- stuffs to prevent flies from infecting them. Although flies are not as nu- merous as they were vears ago, when stables existed in all sections of the city, Dr. Fowler urged every one to continue the educational campaign agalnst the pests. e La F ;l-lette Banner Across Street Is Blocked by D. C, The Commissioners will not be able to grant a permit for the stringing of a La Follette-Wheeler banner across G street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, as requested by the local La Fol- lette for President Club, Engineer Commissioner Bell stated today. 1t was explained at the Distrid® Building that the Commissioners have pursued a general policy of not permitting streamers across streets from building to building since 1912, when one of them fell A few months ago a similar ap- plication was rejected. This latest request was made by Western Starr, president of the local la Follette club. Mr. Starr said the club planned to display on the banner portraits of Senators lLa Follette and Wheeler with appro- priate slogans.