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‘WEATHER. . Fair tonight; eloudy, showers; tomorrow partly followed by local not much change in tem- thunder- Temperature for 24 hours Yesterday; lowest, 71 t § Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 . No. 29,319. 1S FLVERS REFUSE 70 BNE UP: ST SEEK SHFE LANDING Air Service Heads Here Re- fuse to Consider Abandon- ment of Flight. MAY ASK 750-MILE HOP TO COAST OF GREENLAND Airmen Spurn Alternate Proposal to Take on Fuel From Floating Base. By the Associated Press. REYKJAVIK, Iceland, August 8.— A conference called by Rear Admiral ‘Thomas P. Magruder on the flagship Richmond today decided to make a final effort to find a feasible landing place for the American Army world fiyers on the east coast of Greenland before reaching a final decision as to Wwhether the remainder of the flight for .the present season would have to be called off. The cruiser Raleigh of the patrol fleet has been ordered to leave to- morrow miorning to investigate the ice conditions on the Greenland coast and find a possible alternative for Angmagsalik as a landing place, the! #upply steamer Gertrud Rask being Ice bound and fogbound in that 4 wvicinity. Licut. Lowell H. Smith, the flight commander, who is assisting Lieut. | Eric H. Nelson of the alrplane New | Orleans in bringing the two flight planes ashore for overhauling. left this work to attend the conference with Capt. William C. Watts of th Raleigh and Maj. Clarence E. Crum- rine of the Army air service on the | Richmond. | The New Orleans was beached safely | this morning for the overhauling 4 process Conterence Calied. Early this morning Admiral Ma- | gruder sent for Capt. William C. Watls of the cruiser Raleigh, Lieut Smith and Maj. Clarence Ii. Crumrine | of the Army Air Service, after the receipt of further discouraging new from the Danish government's steamer Gertrud Rask, with supplies for the airmen, off the east Greenland port of Angmagzalik. The report that a safe landing place | for the flyers on the cast coast of | Greenland had been found was de-| clared to be without foundation, and | the advancing season makes further delay dangerous. The fiyers declare! they are willing to remain at Revk- ; Javik until Scptember I, but refuse to consider the possibility of fueling at sea from a cruiser. ! Supply Ship Fast in lce. reless message from the sup- | ply ship Gertrud Rask on August 5 reported her stuck fast in the heavy polar ice 15 miles from shore near Angmagsalik. Fears were expressed that unless a westerly wind scattered the ice the steamer would not be able to free herself for several weeks. The ice conditions were disclosed as worse ¢than in many vears. On August 6 a report reached Reykjavik that the Gertrud Rask had succeeded in freeing herself and reaching Angmagsalik, but this was not confirmed, and later reports have been that the ice conditions in that vicinity had not improved appreciably. AIR SERVICE FIRM. | Refuses to Abandon Flight—Con- template Long Hop. The Army Air Service has no inten- tion of abandoning the world flight, and unless the ice barrier around Angamagsalik is penetrated soon the American airmen will make a 750- mile non-stop hop direct to the south 4coast of Greenland, where there is plenty of open water, it was an- nounced from the office of Maj. Gen. Patrick, chief of the Air Service, to- day. In anticipation of such an emer- gency officers of the Air Service staft are rushing plans for the immediate preparation of a base near Cape Fare- well, the southernmost tip of Green- land. After careful figuring it was announced that such a trip is “easily within the cruising radfis’ of the Jplanes of Lieut. Lowell Smith and Lieut. Erick Nelson. May Have Floating To further safeguard the passage to Cape Farewell, it is thought that it will be possible to establish an in- termediate floaiing base midway be- tween that point and Revkjavik through the use of Navy vessels which are now in the Danish Straits to guard the aviators on the hop across that body of water. Should the planes give out of gas it will be possible for them to land on the water and re- fuel from the war craft. }* “The world flight will not be much further delayed,” the statement sald, “and within a short time the plane: will be on their way to, Greenland.” The statement in full follows: “On account of unusual ice condi- tions in the Danish Straits between Iceland and ‘Greeniand, Air Service officers making the mnecessary ar- rangements for bases on the east coast of Greenland are experiencing considerable difficulty. Throughout the entire year the east coast of Green- 1and is bordered by a belt of floe e, varying in width from 15 to 100 miles. Ice Unusually, Heavy. *This year, on account of the un- usually late Spring, this ice is pare ‘ticularly heavy and the -Danish steamer Gertrude Rask, which is ;‘_’fl" supplies and fuel for {(Cont " on Page’ 3 Entered as second class matter post office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., Worst Ice Barrier in 15 Years Threatens to End Army Flight Flyers at Reykjavik Eagerly Await Word From Setamer Seeking to Reach Portin Greenland—Work in Cold Drizzle. BY FREDERICK R. NEELY. Staft Correspondent of The Star. ON BOARD U. S. S. RICHMOND, REYKJAVIK HARBOR, Iceland, Au- Bust 7 (by Wireless).—Blocked by the worst ice barriers Greenland has seen in 15 years, the American round- the-world flyers found themselves marooned here today, face ‘to face with the possibility of having to abandon their adventure within but 6,000 miles of their goal. It is the first time since they hopped off on the first leg of their historic journey that the Americans have been so helplessly stumped. Old Boreas, grim sovereign of the Northland, seems to have them at his mercy, temporarily at least. Fought to a finish in the epochal battle across the North Pacific, he has trapped the flyers in a prison of shimmering ice in the home stretch. Deeclde Delay. Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, commander of the light cruiser squadron, held a conference with Lieut. Lowell Smith, the flight com- mander, on board the flagship Rich- mond today to discuss future plans. 1t was decided to hold the American TORNADOES KILL 5, DEVASTATE FARMS Scores Injured by Twisters in Wisconsin — Relief Work Started. By the Associated Press. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., August 8.—Re- | lief measures were under way today in three central western Wisconsin counties, struck last night by two tornadoes which took a toll of at least five dead, with a score or more injured, and caused property damage which may reach a million dollars. Many farmers were left destitufe as a result of the storms. While no definite plans had been formulated today, it was expected an appeal would be made to the -State and the people of Wisconsin for as- sistance “in rehabilitating the deyas- tated area. Restoration of wire communication in the three countles hit—Chippewa, Trempeleau ~and Jackson—was ex- pected to bring news of added casualties. Black River Falls was one of the towns hardest hit. Two persons are known to be dead there and two seriously injured. Bahy Ameng Victimsa. George Nash, 50, and Alice Garwin, 3, were killed at Black River Falls. Julius Baglien, 16, perished “near Osseo, and Richard Secora, 19, met death at his father's farm near New Auburn. Percy Walter of Bloomer, a sailor, who was visiting relatives while on furlough, was fatally injured, and he died at a Chippewa Falls hospital late last night. . The first of .the two tornadoes ap- peared early in the evening in the vicinity of Osseo,’in the upper north- cast cormer of Trempeleau, crossed over into Jackson County and swept down to Black River Falls. It appar- ently spent its force just outside that place. The entire northeast section of Black River Falls bore the brunt of the storm there, while the rest of the.city escaped with shattered win- dows and other minor damage. » Farms Lald Waste. Scores of farms lying in the path of the twister between Osseo and Black River Falls were laid waste. Homes, barns and outbuildings were reduced to splinters. The other tornado made its appear- ance near New Auburn, in Chippewa County, and swung down the coun- tryside ‘to Bloomer, continulng for about five miles beyond that place. It cut a swath nearly half a mile wide. Bloomer suffered great damage, a number of buildings being destroyed and many automobiles wrecked when picked up by the wind and hurled against buildings and trees. Ecuador Opens Swiss Legation.” BERN, August 8.—Ecuador has es- tablished a legation in Switzerland, appointing _as minister Robalino Davila, who has been granted an exequater by the Swiss government. i planes here a few more days in the hope that the Gertrude Rask, their base ship, may succeed in smashing through the ice packs that have locker her out of Angmagsallk, the next stop on the journey home. Desperate efforts are being made to get in touch with the Quest, the stanch little ship used by Shackleton on his last polar expedition. If any ship can break through the floes that have swept around the coast of Green- land, it is the Quest. But thus far the tireless wireless, calling without cessation,. has failed to get a response from the veteran little explorer, and her present location is unknown. Ship Seeks Opeming. The last heard from the Gertrude Rask she was still nosing around, 15 miles from shore, for an opening into the harbor of Angmagsalik. Her skip- [p!r has been making voyages into that port once a year for the past two dec- ades. ‘This time he arrived two weeks earlier than usual, to be there as a supply and base ship for the American fiyers when they landed. He sent word by wireless that the conditfons are the worst he has (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) War Debt Parley In Paris Broached At Allied Meeting| By the Associated Preas. LONDON, August 8.—The allied delegates to the international con- ference this afternoon, in the presence of the American repre- sentatives to the conference, dis- cussed -the feasibility of holding a conference in Paris in the future to discuss the question of inter- allied war debts. The proposed conference would be entirely separate from the other Paris pourparlers, which will concern themselves with the al- location of the reparation pay- ments. Observers at the interna- tional conference believe it will be definitely decided to hold the debt discussions in Paris at an early date. e S DISTRICT WILL GET REPORT ON PARKIN Traffic Board to Decide if Added Facilities Should Be Furnished. Theé District Commissioners are ex- pecting a report from the Traffic Board as to whether the municipality should buy ground for parking area: and automobile storage facilities and also as to what steps might be nec- essary to enforce strictly the down- town parking regulations. This was made known today by En- gineer Commissioner Bell following a board session attended by himself and Commissioner Oyster. The park- Ing situation was discussed inform- ally, but the major said no action would be taken ,toward a solution until the above-mentioned report is received. Maj. Bell said that the Commission- ers should decide promptly whether it is advisable for the city to under- take to provide parking garages or areas. He made it clear-that he has not made up his mind on. the ques- tion. He said that if the District de- cides not to buy ground for parking purposes the decision should be reached soon, so that private capital that might be considering such a move would know the status of the question. Weuld Detail Men. The parking problem in downtown Washington can be solved without new legislation by detailing sufficient men to enforce strictly the one-hour rule, in the opinion of Assistant Cor- poration - Counsel . Ringgold ‘Hart, a member of the Commissioners’ traffic board. Mr. Hart takes the position that the real evil in the parking situation is the practice of leaving cars on the busy streets all day, and he believes the breaking up of this practice s a “practical police problem.” He said he realizes it will take men, time and ~arnest effort. The motorist who leaves his car (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Dry Sleuths Are Forbidden to Use Lodge “Distress Sign” to Buy Liquor By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 8.—A “code of ethics” “for Illinols prohibition agents, which, among other things, prohibits them from-giving - the sign of distress to a lodge brother as a preliminary to pur- chasing liquor from him, have been issued by Maj. Percy Owen, prohibition director. In ‘the list of ‘“dont's” agents are asked to refrain from becom- ing’ intoxicated in obtaining evi- dence; from feigning sickness to buy from druggists; from mak- ing bootleggers,: saloon keepers. and “rum runners their associates, and cabarets . and. barrooms their lounging places off duty, and from using _evidence obtained "because ‘the- sale.was made ‘on the. grounds-4 & that the offender is an old friend of the agent, After taking two or thtee drinks of high-proof liquor, an agent is advised to' allow five to seven hourp elapse before taking another. Agents may use any disguises con- sldered necessary.” They should ,keep diaries in° which drawings :aPe to'be made of locations where violations are found. 3 Gun play is especially cautioned agminst. There are times when a display of arms is necessary, Maj. Owen maid, but nothing is to be ‘sained, in his opinion, by turning a. machine' gun on a suspected ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION AUGUST 8, 1924—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. FRIDAY, U. 3. TO TAKE PART IN CONFERENCE ON GERMAN PAYMENTS Date of Meeting of Allied Finance Ministers to Allo- cate Funds Not Set. INVOLVES COMPENSATION FOR ARMY OF OCCUPATION London Parley Will Run Into Next Week—Herriot Goes to Paris for Advice. The United States expects to par- ticipate In any meeting of allied finance ministers which may be called to consider allocation of German rep- arations payments as a result of the decislons reached at the interallied conference now in progress in Lon- | don. Following instructions from Wash- | ington, Ambassador Kellogg has s0 indicated to the London conference, which has under consideration a reso- lution for a meeting of finance minis- ters in Paris in the near future. U. S. Has Large Claims. Under the Dawes plan provision is made for the allocation of all moneys | paid in reparations by German through an agreement among the| “allied and associated powers.” The matter becomes important to the United States because this would {form the only means of obtaining payments from Germany on such! claims as may be adjudicated by the German-American Claims Commission or even of receiving reimbursement | for the cost of the army of occupa- | tion. | The provision in. the Dawes plan |has to do with allocation of money | paid on reparations accounts by Ger- | many since 1923. during which period the agreement between the United States and the allies covering Ameri- can Army cost reimbursements was! | operating. | | The State Department has not been | | fully advised as to the status in Lon- ldon of the proposal for the Paris | Ainancial meeting. The notification of 5!. desire to participate transmitted by | Ambassador Kellogg is regarded by the Department as in a measure a | routine step to protect the right of | the Washington Government should the conterence actually be called. - PARLEY TO END NEXT WEEK. { Germans Still Insist Ruhr Evacua- tion Date Be Set. | By the Associated Press. * LONDO! August 8.—Despite the rapid progress being made toward an jagreement with Germany, the inter- inational conference to arrange for | putting the Dawes reparation plan into effect is not likely to end before the middle of next week, it was llaledl by a British spokesman today. Prime Minister MacDonald has given up hope of getting further away from Downing street than his nearby official country residence at Chequers Court during the week end. The conference experts, including the Germans, got to work early to- day. One group met at 9:30 o'clock and another group an hour later to continue the task of explaining the results of the allies’ labors durlng; their preliminary conference here to the German representatives and of harmonizing the German views with the allied program for launching the Dawes plan. 1t was decided to call a session of the “big fourteen,” the leaders of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) IR COMMUNISTS URGE FILIPINOS TO FIGHT Circular. Warns “Proletariat” of Capitalists and Landlords Con- trolling Industry. By the Associated Press. MANILA, August 8.—What purports o be the attitude of the central ex- ecutive committee of the Communist Workers' party toward Philippine in- dependence is disclosed in a circular received here from the party's Chi- cago headquarters. The committee urged Filipino la- borers and tenant farmers to partici- pate in the independence movement as members of the working class, carefully avoiding making common cause with landlords and capitalists, whether native or foreign. The cir- cylar asserts that “Filipino capital- ists and landlord classes” are “even more dangerous to the Filipino pro- letariat” than “American imperialists and exploiters.” It urges that a re- lentléss war be waged by the work- ers against iandlords and capitalists. The circular urges that Filipino workers and tenant farmers organize a farmer-labor party and that the Filipino members of the workers® party be reorganized into a Filipino communist league. - It also advises the Filipino workers to' take measures to prevent' capitalists from gaining control of sugar, coal and other in- dustries or resources. Auto Kills Railroad Man. CHICAGQ, August 8—William E. Mitten of Goodland, IlL, railroad man and brother of Thomas E. Mitten, Philadelphia traction magnate, was killed in. an automobile accident in the Canadian. Rockies. Thomas es- ped without serious injury, accord- g _to information received here to- ~ KHoW WHAT'S - 9f LAFOLLETTEHITS KU KLUX BY NAME Politicians Wonder if Other Presidential Candidates Will Follow Lead. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Without qualification, Senator Rob- ert M. La Follette, candidate for the presidency on the Independent Pro- gressive ticket, today announced his opposition to the Ku Klux Klan. He predicted that the Klan could not long survive. He quoted from Abraham Lincoln and from Thomas Jefferson In support. of his opposition to any organization which preached religious and racial intolerance. One of the three principal contest- ants for the presidency has made his IPosttion on~the Klan so eléar that there can be no misunderstanding. The La Follette platform, like the Re- publican and the Democratic, makes no mention of the Klan by name. But Senator La Follette himself. as he says, without qualification or evasion,” i content to make his personal views on the Klan public. The La Follette supporters today are wondering whether the candidates of the Re- ‘Dublican party and the Democratic party will also handle the Klan ques- tion without gloves. Senator La Follette's statement was contained in a letter addressed to Robert P. Scripps of New York, news- paper publisher, and was in answer to an inquiry from Mr. Seripps as to his position on the Klan question. The Wisconsin Senator in his letter declares again that the great issue of the day is “to break the combined power of the private monopoly sys- tem over the political and economic life of the American people.” No side issue, he said, should be allowed to obscure this dominant question. For that reason, he says, he deplores the Interjection of questions involving religious opinion and “other ques- tions unrelated to the vital issue.” His letter to Mr. Scripps, under date of August 5, follows: Informs All Interested. “Your letter of August 1 received. You ask where I stand on the, Ku Klux Klan.- Similar inquirfes have come to me from others. I.take the liberty of making my answer to you public. This will inform all those interested in knowing my attitude on this question. “But first, and before all else, I am bound to say that in my view the one dominant, all-embracing issue in this campaign is to break the com- bined power of the private monopoly (Continued on Iage 2, Column 7.) AR e R HURLS STEPSON IN RIVER, ASKING TO BE HANGED Woman Tired of Child and His Father She Says, as Searchers Seek Victim’s' Body. By the Associated Press. WATERLOO, Iowa, August 8.—The body of 6-year-old Mick Maharies had not been recovered today from Cedar River, into which his stepmother, -Mrs. Marie Maharfes, says she pushed him about 10 ‘a.m. yesterday. Police and -volunteer searchers dragged the river and used bloodhounds in an effort to prove the truth of the ‘woman’s story, but except for testimony of a fisherman who saw her go to the river with the lad and return without him nothing has been developed. Mrs. Maharies maintains an attitude of in- difterence, and stolidly tells of the hatred for the lad which urged her. to kill him. She says she has no'affection for her husband, and that- the boy's presence in her home added to her-dis- satisfaction with life, causing her twice to attempt suicide by poison. When these falled she says she planned to kill the little boy, thus satiafying at once her dislike for him and, convinced.she would hang for his murder, achieve her desire for her own death. The woman's relatives say she has been il several months, and that her MAKIN' 1T 7, so HO'T . U. S. to Give Away 800-Pound Babies; Buffalo Children| Would you have a little buffalo in your home? If you haven't and wish a play- ful little pet for the youngsters, weighing 8§00 pounds or more, bearded like a patriarch and with an ingrowing disposition, write the Interior Department. You may get one. Out in Yellowstone National Park officials found the buffalo herd get- ting too large, hence the possi- bility of free buffalo for the Amer- fcan taxpayer. All you have to do is ask for it, pay the cost of catch- ing and transporting the animal, and you may have a buffalo—lord of the plains in the days when men were men and the wind blew free over the Western “pra-r-e-c.” Not so many years ago, when the buffalo facing extinction, a small herd was taken to Yellow- stone National Park and placed on the ‘high plateau_of the Lamar, in the northeastern section of the park. Under the careful protec- tlon afforded the herd, it thrived and multiplied until today it num- bers about 730. This Spring the stork came to 114 buffalo mothers in the Yellow- stone, and the feeding problem, already serious. became disastrous. So it was decided to thin out the herd—one of the largest in the was United States. But if you get a buffalo, says the Interior Depart- ment, you must care for it and not kill it except in self-defense. FASCIST HEADS NAMED. ROME, August 8.—The Fascist na- tional council has elected a new di- rectory of 21 representatives from the various districts in Italy. Eleven of the directors are members of the Chamber of Deputies. LONDON, " August 8.—The Rome correspondent of the Morning Post says the new Fascist directory in- cludes Farlnaoci and others stanch- 1y in favor of carrying out the Fas- cist program, but also such balanc- ing elements as Maraviglia and Da- vanzati. VALUABLES ARE TAKEN. 0. G. Forrer, administrative assist- ant in the narcotic field service, has appealed to the police to assist in in- vestigating taking of his wife's trav- eling bag from a Capital Traction car Tuesday afternoon. The bag con- tained wearing apparel, two $1,000 Treasury Department certificates and + Jewelry. Mrs. Forrer boarded the’ car at Union station, and when she left the car she forgot about her bag. Two hours after reaching home, at 1306 Park road, she missed the bag and started an inquiry. Herrick Coming Home. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 8.—Myron T. Her- rick, American Ambassador to France, accompanied by his” son, Parmely |Herrlck, and the latter’'s family, will sail tomorrow on the Paris for a two-month vacation trip in the United States. Cheer up, swelterers. A “year with- out a Summer” is on the way. At least- that is the. prediction of Herbert J. Browne, master of ocean meteorology, whose forecasts for the first six months of this year have proved more than 95 per cent cor- rect. And he is willing to stake his scientific- reputation that his latest prediction will come true. “Unsettled and colder,” is the prophesy for the coming year. A cold- er winter, a colder summer, with violent and sudden changes from ex- treme heat to extreme cold, from ex- treme drought to extreme rainfall. And then—in 1926-27—will come the “year without a summer,” like the memorable 1816, with frosts and ice in every month in the year. The safe- ty line of grain production, Mr. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 89,540. ORY ARRESTS DUE N ALERED PLT Warrants Received Here for Local Men Named in Tampa Indictments. Ten or fifteen persons, including Deputy United States marshals, po- lice, alleged bootleggers and others probably will be arrested here with- in the next few hours for alleged participation in a big liquor con- spiracy, in which returned recently in Rampa, Fla. Bench warrants from Florida were | Acting United | received today by States Attorney West, who turned them over to United States Marshal Snyder for execution. The names of those for whom the warrants arrived withheld by authorities the arrests until after Local Warrants Sought. It was expected local would be asked of a United States commissioner for service on those in- dicted, and the arrests would follow within a few hours. What procedure will be followed then has not been definitely determined upon, but it was understood that those arrested would be arraigned before a commissioner for a hearing, and the Government would ask they be held for removal to Florida. Removal pro- ceedings will take place before the court. The conspiracy Government to be far-reachin; involve a number of persons i ington, cities in Florida. Indictments were re- turned by a Federal grand jury late last month for 36 persons. Already authorities in Florida have taken into custody a number of southerners. The case was made by the special intelligence unit of the Treasury De- partment from a clue which de- veloped in another case here. The ramifications of the conspiracy are charged to lead from the islands off the Florida coast through a string of alleged smugglers, confidence men, paid agents of railroads, Pullman porters, Pullman conductors, police and retail dealers into Washington and New York. Much of the liquor is said by the Government to have found a market here. The exact number of Washing- tonians involved has not been re- vealed. is allezed by the and to Wash- -— ARREST 12 EMIGRANTS. Paris Police Hold Italians With False Passports for America. PARIS, August 8.—At the request of the American consul general the Paris police have arrested 12 Italians carrying. false passports. When ques- tioned the prisoners said they ob- tained the papers from an assocla- tlon at Naples for 1,250 lire each. They were assured, they said, that the documents would get them across to the United States without any troubl Swelterers, Cheer Up! One Year Without Summer Is on the Way Browne predicts, will retreat South- ward, probably as much as 280 to 300 miles and all crops will suffer. Long range weather forecasting— telling what kind of seasons we are going to have, one, two and three years ahead, is as easy as falling off a log, if you know how, says Mr. Browne. “The heat of the sun controls all weather,” he explains. “Its heat varies from year to year and can be measured by instruments perfected by scientists of the Smithsonian In- stitution. “The sun’s heat was above normaly from 1917 until March, 1922, Since then it has gradually fallen, with slight occasional variations, until, in September, 1922, it~reached the low- | T (Continued on Page 2, Column 13) & indictments were | today are being| warrants | New York City and several | TWO CENTS. DEFENSE MAY CALL LOEB'S MOTHER 0 TESTIFY AT TRIAL Youthful Slayer Has Seen Her Only Once Since He Was Incarcerated in Jail. LEOPOLD’S SUPERMAN IDEAS TOLD BY STUDENT | Regarded Himself as “Top-Notch- er,” and Companion in Crime as Wonderful Man. | B the Ausociated Press. | CHICAGO, August 5.—Mrs. Alb H. Loeb, mother of Richard Loeb, may | take the stand in an effort to gain mitigation of the penalty her son and Nathan Leopold, jr., must pay for | kidnaping and killing Robert Franks, | according to defense plans. Nathan | Leopold, sr.. millionaire box manufac- turer, also will testify, it was said. nce his incarceration in the | county jail on May 30, after he con- | fessed the crime for which Judge John R. Caver! will fix the punish- ment, Loeb has been visited only once by his mother. She has insisted ou testifying despite physicians’ warn- ings against her leaving the Loeb summer home at Charlesvoix, Mich, where she is attending her husband invalid Superman Idea Described. Harry Booth, University of Chicago student, testifying today, said that along in last March Leopold, in dis- cussing his superman idea with a group of friends, asserted that the man who would commit murder was not necessarily responsible to society Herbert J. Weber, 20-year old Har- vard University student, testified he had known Leopold three years and had discussed the Nictchian philos- ophy with him and also had discussed Leopold's theory of life with him. He said Leopold based his whole personal philosophy on the superman and at all times seriously regarded himself as a “‘top-notcher. Weber said lLeo- pold said he regarded Loeb as the “most wonderful man in the world Youth Advises Counsel. Defense examination of the college boy witnesses was guided by a small blond youth of apparently 1§ or 19, who whispered to the defense attor- neys. Nobody could identify him, and Benjamin Bachrach refused to sy who he was. Weber said he thought Leopold was highly egotistic, and said he and Leopold disagreed on the in- terpretation of Neitsche. Judge Cav- erly declared a recess until 2 p.m. Mr. Darrow said at recess that he had completed presentation of the de- fense's testimony with one possible exception, a young interne at a Chi- cago hospital Large Crowd Disappointed. Drawn by the hope of hearing oth- er girl friends of Loeb and Leopold testify, the greatest crowd of the 15 days of the hearing stormed the Criminal Court Building today. They were destined to meet dis- appointment, however, as Clarence . I Darrow, chief of defense counsel, said as he entered Judge John R. Cav- erly’s courfroom that no further girl witnesses would be called. | Judge Caverly's bundle of suggestive letters this morning was considerabls smaller than those received on pre- ceding days. Reading one from an ddress nearly 1,500 miles away, which urged him to bring the youths tly to justice, Judge Caverly said: his hearing has been conducted second to the swiftest of any in the history of the criminal court of Cook County. Some people seem to think I should hear the boys in the after- noon, render my decision at night and have them hanged next day. 1t is my duty to hear evidence in miti- gation, and 1 shall give all the time necessary to hear all such evidence. 1t is mandatory upon me." Fainting Spel Cited. Dr. Robert Bruce Armstrong. of Charlevoix, Mich., the Loeb family physician when the family is at its Summer home, testified that Loeb was in a hospital several hours after an automobile accident in 1920, and had several fainting spells the evening after he was hurt, which the doctor sald he regarded as unusual. There were no perceptible injuries, the wit- ness said, although he thought the tainting spells were attribusable to the accident. Robert E. Crowe, State’s atwrney, did not offer to cross-examine. Leonard Lewy, University of Michi- gan graduate, testified regarding Loeb's fainting spells at Ann Arbor, Mich., saying upon one occasion Loeb frothed at the mouth and was un- | conscious, although his eves were | open, for ten minutes. Lewy testified along the lines of other University of Michigan students on the stand yesterday. Cross-examination was briet. Bernard Kolb, University of Michigan graduate and now a& Chi- cago clothier, offered much the same evidence as the other youths. Tutor Noted No Change. Theodore Schimberg, student at the University of Chicago, which Loeb attended two years before going to the University of Michigan, gave sim- ilar testimony. David Max Wester, former tutor of Leopold, testified he had tutored him on the day before and the day after the murder of Bobby Franks, and that he noticed nothing unusual in his conduct. The trial will cost the prosecu- tion and defense a total near $500.000, it was estimated today. The fact that the judicial hearing to determi (Continued on Page- 2, Column 3.