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WHTHAN TOFGHT OUSTERASWARDEN Will Go to Darrow in Effort to Get “Fair Hearing” in Case. By the Ascociated Press. CHICAGO. May 28.—John L. Whit- man, deposed as warden of Joliet and Stateville prisons on recommendation of the Will County grand jury, which investigated prison conditions follow- ing the slaying of a deputy warden by convicts. hopes for a public hearing in his case. Having been replaced at Gov. Small's order hy Elmer Green, for merly State superintendent of prisons, Whitman today issued a statement | saying he “would weicome an oppor- tunity to submit my case to some court where the rules of justice pre-| vail." “With that in mind it is my inten- | tion to lay my case hefore Attorney | Clarence Darrow of Chicago. in the hope of facing a fair, impartial, open. public hearing in my case. I do no believe the grand jury hearing was a fair one.” | Whitman's statement declared the Jury's vecommendation that he be re- noved was hased in part on unreliable testimony; denied the claim that he was not a rigid disciplinarian, and as- serted that many of the grand jury witnesses were schooled in their tes- timony. Nathan Leopold. slayer of Bobby Franks, and a witness to the slaying of Deputy Warden Peter Klein by reven convicts on May 5 at Stateville Prison, was called as a witness at the coroner’s inquest today into the death of Klein. George D. Thompson Returns. George Dixon Thompson. a_ pianist of the vounger group in Washington. who has just returned from a year's atudy with the great Europ gogue and piani Vienna, Austri appearance in rec 2 back to Washingion at the Hamline M. E. Church tonight at 8:15 o’'clock. The program is given under the aus bullding fund Caracul lambs are killed when they | are only a few davs old, before the curl of their fur loosens, in order to | | THE EVENING STAR:= WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY Cow and Tiny Calf [COUNT MOY MARRIES Safe in Plunge of |DAUGHTER OF BANKER Auto With 5 Men Special Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va., May 28.—A <cow and tiny calf, on their way to, the butcher’s yesterday in a truck with five men and a quantity of freight, were unhurt when the truck toppled over a brink on Lee Highway, near Sperryville, and rolled down a bank, turning over several times. 3 Thomas Judd of Luray was seri- ously injured and is in a hospital. Two of the other men were bruised. ey ensgaate s Civil Service Examination Ordered for Vacancy Here. The Civil Service Commission has announced an open competitive exa ination for laborer in the postal serv. ice. this cit Vacancies in the position of substi tute laborer at 55 cents an hour for actual service will be filled from this examination. Vacancies in the posi- tion of regular lahorer at $1,500 & ar are usually filled by promotion of substitutes in the order of original appointment. : T Phe duties are to pile ‘and truck mail, hang racks. tie out cases, make minor separations of made-up malls. operate canceling machines, cancel stamps on parcel post packages and other related work as required. Men only will be admitted to this examina- tion. Full information and application blanks may be obtained from the office of the secretary, 1723 F street. Since 1883 While one of the oldest cleaners in Washington. our methods are most modern. We have just installed & Wonderful new eleaning system. HALDEMAN Cleaners and Dyers 1733 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. | Phone Franklin 822 I 0ld European Families Joined by New York Ceremony—Groom’s Union to Dancer Annulled. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 28.—Count Hugo Charles Moy, sclon of a Bavarian family of diplomats and bankers, was on his honeymoon today in Atlantic City with his second countess, the former Miss Pamela Speyer, daughter of Sir Edgar Speyer. The countess’ father, a banker, de- scendant of an old German-Jewish family, came to New York to live after his British citizenship was re- voked during the war. The ceremony was performed yesterday in the rec- tory of the Roman Catholic St. Pat- k’s Cathedral by Mgr. Michael J. The bride and her mother, daughter of the late Count Ferdinand an old alians. The bride vears old. Count Moy, who is to a German dancer, Lina Amsel. This marriage was annulled, because. it was said, the dancer had a former husband living. The count came to the United States two years ago to study banking. Count Carl Moy, his fathe: Bavarian minister at variou pean countries. The family, originating in France in the ‘eleventh century, was a Euro- emigrated to Bavaria in the eighteenth | Count Moy, with his bride, shortly for Munich, where he will engage in banking. IRISH GROUP TO MEET. ‘With two prominent Irish Republi- cans as speakers, the Kevin-Barry Council of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Re- public will hold a mass meeting Sun- day night at 1006 E street northwest. All local Irish and ‘others interested in the Republicans have been invited to attend. The speakers will be Gen. Frank Atken, chief of staff of the Republi- can army, and Joseph O'Doherty, Re- publican’ member of the Dail in Ire- land. Both of these men are now In New York. They will tell the Wash- ington audience about present condi- tions in Treland. The following comm! is arrang- ing the meeting: Mrs. Kathr MAY phy. 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