Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1928, Page 4

ORYSSE TISSED INHOLSTON ARENA Mack, Smith Sponsor, Opcnsiv Question as Others Try to Dodge It. By the Associated Press HOUSTON, Tex.. June 32.—The pro- | hibition question has been thrown| squarely into the Democratic national | convention here even before the opening | ©f the headguarters of Alfred E. Smith. | Although all along it has been a| smrouldering issue, brought at times to | SHTHSTANPEE served to center attention on the ques- tion at & time when the Smith men par- ticularly were hoping to aveid any open rift on the subject Tt was one of Smith’s foremost sup- porters, Norman E. Mack. national com n from New York, who inad opened up anew the prohibi tion ussion. Less than a week in advance of the gathering of the national Democracy he issued A statement in . 5 Which he declared that Gov. Smith was apposed {0 prohibition and stood for Party Leaders Force Ad- lemperance. | no English. Her folks have | her much of that fatal exchange of shots in the misty darkness of the ptember morning, nearly two years ago, for which her boy is behind the bars. She loved “Nick” and he loved her. During these last hours when the hope has burned low in the gunman’s heart he talked often and sincerely of his mother. His voice broke when he men- tioned her name When she was admitted tunda, shortly before 4 p.m. to the ro. vesterday, not told | 29, 1998. But at that moment Sammy didn't look like a “poor boob. man has been transformed shadow of death it was that boy of 20, with the mind of a child of 1 o He walked erect, with shoulders | squared and .bead held back —like a | soldier. When hz first came to the Dis- | trict Jall, the guards say, he was hard. But he hi been hard for some months now. He has been gentle and soft-voiced, He has craved sympathy— | like a wipped dog. | The hardened guards have been put- | ting_their arms around him and doing lurl him every little favor that was pos- sible. 1 Most Trying Visitor. He stepped ‘ mother, | Mrs. Moreno has been the most try- | ing of all the visitors for officials at the jail. She is hysterical in her grief and {more than once her frenzied cries have im‘hned through the building, unnerving every one. Just a few minutes before she was | admitted to see her boy for the last |time she had collapsed in the waiting | room and was taken across the street to | Gallinger Hospital to be revived for the ordeal that awaited her. Moreno patted his mother on cheek. He patted his little back. The mother's sobs filled the room | The sister started-to wail. But it didn't | unnerve Moreno. Over and over again he kissed the lit- tle girl. Over and over again he kissed his mother. 3 They were led out on the arms of s0- | elal workers | __The great iron gate closed behind Sammy.” The friendly guards whom he had described gratefully in a letter 1 any by the into the arms of his the T Moreno | er on the mest _tragie afternoon In the history of the District Jail was at an end. All night the /condemned men clung t & hope that was like a wisp of straw tossed on the waves of the sea of despair that washed around them. Eagies and - Moreno, especially, thought that an affidavit filed by Attor- ney Louis Tanenbaum, before Justice Hitz in the District Supreme Court iate last night, in_a plea for stay of sen tence, might succeed. It was the state- ment of a Maryland roadhouse keeper that John Palls McCabe had told him a few weeks ago that he knew that it was Proctor alone who shot Busci. But the plea was refused. Tanen- baum had not expected it to succeed. He had made it largely because Eagles | wanted him to. Tison regulations were waived for the benefit of the three boys last l‘nxh'.r Remain Up Late. Eagles and Moreno, close together as | death approached, remained up until a late hour, talking with newspaper men and with their spiritual advisers. Proctor, with [ar less hope in his heart than the others, went to bed about 10:30. All three said tha‘ they were at peace and all three insisted that they were innocent. They entered their last day on earth convinced in their hearts that they were the innocent victims of a vengeful so- {clety. _Far easier than any jury to {convince of a murderver's innocence is | the murderer himself. He wants to be {convinced and no mass of facis is |strong enough to dam the flood of | yearning for innocence in the minds of ‘men so close to death. | Eagles was apparenily as cheerful as | ever as morning approached. Jokes and ismiles were a part ot his life. Around | his neck, suspended by a white cord, (ESTIMATES SHOW DROP OF $2,000,000 BB ST | District Department l Sumbit Total of $46,000,000 in Budget Report. The estimates of the department heads of the District government for the 1929-1930 fiscal year total approx- | imately $46,000,000, or about $2,000.000 | under those submitted last year, ac- | cording to a preliminary tabulation to- day by Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and ‘oudget officer. The reduction is due | chiefly to the estimates of the Board of Education, which are about $1.600.000 under those for the 1923-1929 fiscal year. Donovan will complete his tabulation this afternoon and put the estimates in proper form for submission to the trade bodies and the Citizens' Advisory Coun- cil. It has been the policy of the Com- missioners for the last several refer the estimates to these organiza- tions for consideration. The Commissioners plan to resume their consideration of the estimates next week, with a view to having the | tentative budget in shape for transmis- sion to the Budget Bureau July 15, the date fixed by Budget Director Lord. MAIL PILOT KILLED. she ki that she would n e her | written two days 2go to Maj. Peak as|was a liitle golden cylinder, a Jewish T o X0 gt “full of mirth." supported the slender |religious article given him by Rabpi Flane Runs Into Severe Wind- Opinion. T D boy again for a long, long time. She journment of State Conven- This was accepted in some quarters as an expression of the governor's own Views and. while Mack denied this, ex- plaining that he voiced only his own opinion. headway with full prospect that they would increase in intensity as conven- | tion time approached The governor got into the controversy during the day, deglaring in New York City. 1 response 10 & question. that his belief that there should be amendment of the present prohibition provisions had not changed. This was seized upon v the drys. who already are arriving here in force, 10 demand an ultra-dry plank in the party platform and to o pose the nomination of any wet candi d‘:’mle turn of pre-conventicn events appeared to give some concern to the Smith supporters, they still ex- pressed full confidence that their fa- vorite would be nominated early in the balleting. In contrast with their con- fidence, Smith opponents clung to the hope they could prevent his nomination. To win, it will be necessary for Smith to muster 7331-3 of the 1.100 cenvention votes. The New ‘.'oruk; exziu- tive's managers are assuring incoming supporters that he has more than 650 votes definitely lined up and that the necessary remainder will be obtained early in the balloting. which is expected to begin Thursday, two days after the convention meets. Reed Due Tonight. The driving force of the Smith oppo- | sition is cxx{pfcud to be furnished with ' the arrival here tonight of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. He is com- to press his own candidacy for the Democratic nomination and has served notice that he intends to fight to the finish. 5 One of the foremost questions going the rounds of hotel lobbies and other ther is where [ tion to Halt Revolt.” the discussions had gathered | | Special Dispateh to The Star | ROANOKE, Va. June 22—With a ! vociferous minority threatening to get out of hand, the Democratic State con- vention came to an abrupt end late | yesterday in time to prevent a stam- pede for Gov. Alfred C. 8mith of New York. As a result, the delegates left for Houston this morning uninstructed and not bound by the unit rule, unless self-imposed. Party leaders alarmed at the growing | demonstration for Smith arranged for an adjournment immediately after the | {adoption of the State platferm. With | | the votes in favor of the platform echo- {ing from the steel girders of the large convention hail, the motion to adjourn {was put and carried. and the opening strains of “The Star Spangled Banner” | were heard before the dazed Smith ad- herents knew what was in the air | ‘With it apparent that they were sit- ting over a powder magazine, party | leaders moved through the convention | program with celerity. Frequently | lshnuu for Smith would interrupt speak- | ers for several minutes. Even the anti-| saloon leaders, who talked bravely of | a finish fight in the morning, realized | that an overt act would lead to a| stampede and wisely avoided the issue. | Glass Reads Platform. i The party platform was read in a | busky voice by United States Senator | | Carter Glass. It attacked the Repub- | ! lican party without mincing words, | | but disappointed the drys by & law en- | forcement plank which does not spe- | | cifically bind the party nominee, and likewise aroused the ire of the wets by | the omission of a religious freedom dec- laration, which was lifted almost bodily | from the 1924 platform. | the delegation well in hand at Houston and will bring the unit rule into effect when it is wnsmm advisable; always | t n light of & Above: Crowd waiting outside the District Jail-today as the three murderers Out of Police Below, Moreno (upper inset) n Lee W. K. Busch went nd Ni the three executed men: holas Lee Eagles (lower inset).-Star Staff to the chair. John Proctor (center figure), Samuel Photos. TRIO OF SLAYE RS PAY DEATH PENALTY FOR BUSCH MURDER __(Continued from First Page.) | the execution and his removal from the | chamber Fathers Sullivan ‘and Nestor(| gave absolution (the clergymen, who remained with them " | until the end. Eagles Warns Reporters. " Just a few minutes before the death ‘ather Sullivan followed Dr. Howard?marcn started the five newspaper men to the witness box. and after the form: pronouncement of Moreno's death sa to the witnesses, ly and died liks a saint,” al | selected as official witnesses were ad- id | mitted to the death block. They were “He left his cell calm- | invited by Eagies to enter his cell, where |he shook hands and bade each one I of the men and ing to Houston shows the anti- ith wing holding & bare majority. Smash Harmony Slate. ‘The third district caucus caused the biggest excitement of the entire con- . Scores of Richmond delegates arrived early yesterday morning to find ray T. The dove of peace, hatched the night before, was not only killed but was cleanly plucked. As a result six of the {old members of the third district com- | | ‘There have been indicatiéns. how-|mittee were dropped. only one being ever. that this course will not be fol-{retgined. Not only were Saunders and iowed. A definite decision awaits the ' Alex H. Eands thrown out but Motor arrival of the Missourian and confer- | Vehicle Commissioner James M. Hayes, ences immediately will begin with his was ousted from a position he political lieutenants and his leading in several States. ! was denied a seat on the committee. e idea of those opposing Smith | Outside of the third district upheaval i# mot s0 much to form =2 coalition there was little of the unexpecetd in the Hir., | gxeld for more than a dozen years. Mills | Proctor on Stretcher. | farewell. Another short pause and the shuffie of feet was heard in the rotunda. Four blue-uniformed guards appeared CAITY- but rejected the offer. ing a stretcher on which lay the un-| “I don't want nothing to make me conscious body of Proctor, the pallor of | feel good;” he said. death already on his face. He was car- As the newspaper men left, Eagles ried slowly to the chair, with Rev.|came to the door of, his cell and said: George W. Dow, his spiritual advisor, | “Good-by, boys. Be good; keep on following him and chanting the final|the straight and narrow He then prayer for the dying {turned and went to the barred window ‘Three stalwart guards lifted the Nmp;of his little cell, where he stood look- body into the chair, and as Proctor’s ing out. As the witnesses left he be- head lolled on one shoulder the head- |gan to sing softly. piece and mask were quickly adjusted. | Moreno was noncommittal. He shook Owing to Proctor's condition nearly | hands with the witnesses. When asked two minutes were required to make the “f he had anything more to say he necessary adjustments. The current|shook his head and replied, “Nothing noc;g !hroullé his b:dly ‘;t‘ przclse;y;mare" 30 a.m. and was shut off 45 seconds | BEoth men expressed thanks for the lt;llerrd I;‘:)l; m:t refi)t:;cd;he l'r\\'mly-'cnurlosy shown lphem by the jail officials & E roctor was and for t e o oy iy he medical attention of Dr. Society had exacted its toll of three | lives for one. Across the prison cards | | of the three men a prison clerk wrote the closing record: “Discharged by elec- trocution.” T'm all right, don't worry about me.' He was asked il he wanted a stimu- Last Stay Try Falls, Attorney Tannenbaum, representing Eagles, after a fruitless attempt to get Asked how he felt: Eagles replied: | iant to brace him for the final ordeal, | is old and feeble. She thought she might dle before she could come to him again. “Told Her of Life in Pen. He had told her that he had been sentenced to imprisonment for life at| the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta and was to be taken out that night. In a few days she will receive a let- ter under an Atlanta postmark. which Nick's brother Arthur will read to her, telling her that he was taken sick on his arrival there and died The arrangement of (his subterfuge was the actor-murderer's last “frame- it She entered the room with Arthur Eagles and his wife Viola, who is Proc- tor's sister. With them came the old lady's 3-year-old grandson. All after- noon the little fellow had been playing about the waiting room. He had en- deared himself. rdy, chestnut-head- ed toddler that he is—to the guards and trusties. They had sent around to a corner store and bought him a blackberry ple. His face was stained with the blackberry juice as he danced into the room. The family party was halted by Maj Peak near the pfano in the center of the rotunda. | Eagles Embraces Mother. | The neavy iron gate swung open walked Nicholas Lee Eagies for these last torturing minutes of liberty with those' who had loved him. He | walked erect, with head thrown back, the shadow of a grotesque smile on his face. He shook his brother's hand and | threw his arms around his mother. | She threw her arms around him. Her | thin, worn hand patted his back. The 'little boy played at their feet. l Poor old emigrant mother-—she looked ! 50 tired, so utterly, hopelessly weary. | The hardened observers turned their | faces away. Mother and son spoke to |each other in Yiddish. Their voices | were loud, but none could understand | what passed between them. She bore | up bravely. So did Eagles. At last she ibegan to sob tremulously. She was | afraid she never would see her boy | again. Overhead throi rotunda was & A)llch with ashen clouds. Eagles looked up and then buried his head in his mother’s | | breast. Her sobs grew more tremulous. | Tighter and tighter they clasped each | other. ! Gets Blackberry Kiss, * | After two or three minutes a guard | notified them that it was time to part. | She was close to collapse as she was | led out on the arm of her elder son. | The condemned man kissed his little | { nephew. The child ran after them. his | | mouth still purple with blackberry stains. “Nick" turned his back resolutely on his departing relatives and walked to- ward the bars. He seemed to stagger a little. He held up his head and was | biting his lips. The gate swung open before him. He | paused for a second and then walked through. The door rattied shut behind {him. The key was turned. Nicholas Lee Eagles never would come through those bars again except to die. A few moments later reporters found him chatting with the guards and smil- |ing. He confirmed the report which the skylight of the f sky covered | | somebody. | & stay of execution from Justice William | had been circulating through the pris- as to hold out a block of votes suffi- cient to prevent his aftaining a two- thirds majority. If they are success- ful ip doing this, they feel that the convention eveniually and on a com- parstively early ballot will begin to turn 1o some other candidate. The candidates and leaders actually Smith have vigorous support . from the dry organizations of the coun- try, spokermen for whom are maj out a program of rallies for Sunday and Monday in an effort to influence the delegates against the nomination of a candidate whom they regard as wet. Apnother candidate besides Reed will reach Housion today. He is Gearge of | 1 Georgia. who has the indorsement of his State organization and is expected to draw some strength from Florids, Alsbama and perhaps South Carolina and some other Southern States. George vill open headquarters at the Rice Hotel, where Smith, Reed and Cordeli Hull of Tennessee already have their main convention offices. convention. As predicted, Gov. Byrd Less Than Score Attend. | s selected, to Suocaed S O Mre, | The executions were witnessed by less Robert C. Watts of Lynchburg succeeds | than a score of persons. There were Mrs. Beverley B. Munford of Richmond | five official witnesses, one reporter from | s national committeewoman, in- ' each of the five local news ‘ papers. A cumbent declined re-election. | half dozen guards were in (he cham- ! Eight Delegates at Large. | ber, three of them being detailed to | The electors at large number eight. | 310 ;“:'h.'::.. o g T | ith one-half vole each, @ Bedes - |nard. superintendent of Disirict. penal ; ¢ mid the Siate chals . the con- | Institutions, sat in the witness box. ::::lan -] mmf“ m":fl“ "Lee Trin- | The attormeys and spiritual advisers of { Kle, G. Walter Mapp, defeated guberna- | t:: :::::; condemued men completed | torial candidate of four vears ago: W.| "oy long corridor was bare except T eed of Richmond and Mrs, B. O |for the chair and the witness box, [JWatts of Lynchburg, The electors a%|which was set up at one side facing |large are James H, Price | the chair. The box was formed by & | 2nd Aubrey Ev:(!mlduflfla"c;""“;'h'fl‘:fvvooarn rail, draped with white cloth, = 5‘r§|hll:‘l:d Rlchnr: 0"“’( s 1 nn%hcnnulned 2? :n:k:t i:md;“ chairs, « { e men spent their last hours this gates to Houston, was added C. M. 8elf | p5rping” in “much the same fashion they died—Eagles voluble, inclined to of Henrico. { make light of his desperate situation; {“The aiternates are Louis P. Powell | H. M. Ratcliffe and Mrs. Edith M. Bol- | Gor8 JOC O, 5 GEPERe Bhusbions ready to answer questions, but some- ton. With the exception of Crane, these ( delegates are listed in the anti-Smith | Hitz at his home last night, was at the | g all day that Betty Proctor, John | | courthouse this morning with what he | proctor's youngest sister. was his wife. | sald was a different proposition than | They had been married secretly in 1924, the one submitted to the justice then. |he said. when both were playing in the | The lawyer interviewed Justice Bailey, same burlesque company in New York who declined to act without consulta- | City. tion with Justice Hitz. - Tannenbaum 4 waited until 10 minutes before 10, when he left for the jail. He declined to | make public either of the propositions | by which he hoped to delay the execu- | { tions. Justice Hitz did not reach the | courthouse until 10 o'clock. | A crowd of several hundred thronged { the sidewalk in front of the jail while the executions were in progress Guards held back these morbidly curious people from the jail grounds. Outside the jal' a dog started howl- | ing when the current was turned on o | end Eagles' life. The howling con- { Unued curiously for the full two min- | utes ! Just Engles’ nearer Moreno Sees Family. The Moreno family were notified that their turn had come to bid their boy farewell. | The mother. the aunt and two lit- tle sisters were admitted to the rotunda. Everybody says the chestnut-eved, | asthenic Sam Moreno was a moron. | Eagles always insisted that the 20-year- | old boy didn’t know what he was doing |but followed blindly his heroes. The | guards aiways have called him “the | | poor boob,” and they have been very | kind to him. His idol was Eagles. He was “tough” | because Eagles was “tough.” He car- | rled a gun because Eagles carried a gun. | He shot because “Eagles would think | him yellow" if he didn't Even in the shadow of death he still | Only yesterday outside brother, the jail door stood Arthur Eagles—far collapse than the condemned man himself. There, too, waited Mo- | little fellow as he came to them again. | Proctors Arrive. | Then came the Proctors—mother, sweetheart, two sisters and little nephew. They were all villains—these three murderers who shot down in cold blood the tather of a family. Eagle's crime |record was long and lurid. Moreno would have done anything Eagles told him to do—however dastardly and cruel. But there are those who sav that John Proctor was the worst of all. They ac- cuse him of being the ringleader. What Eagles has said of him in the past few months is unprintable. Even the forgiving Moreno has hated him. | The guards didn't like him. “A spoiled child,” his brother said of him. But all these murderers were likable fellows in their way—and Proctor, superficially at least, was the most likable of all. He was a handsome boy who talked with a soft, engaging South- ern drawl. Showed Iron Nerve. Fagles and Moreno sald he was yel- low, He was far from yellow yester- day afternoon during the greatest or- deal of his life—greater even than his march to the electric chair this morn- | ing. Like Moreno, he fell into his mother's arms. Their iips came together. | Rosenbloom, his spiritual adviser. Moreno was calm. He smiled occa- | sionally, the cement filling in one of his lower front tecth showing rather | grotesquely. Sam thought he was inno- {cent. He was the easiest of all to con- | vince of his own innocence, having very { Httle mind with which to resist the con- | viction, | But Proctor—he whom the others in- sist was the master of the gang, despite his youth— talking to himselfl as he fell into a troubled sleep. | Were Hold-Up Men. The crime for which the three men | | died today was committed September 26. 1926. The three men were engaged in hi-jacking and hold-ups. Eagles was | the oldest of the trio. He was 30 years |old when the crime was committed. | | the two others were mere youths, Proc- | jtor 17 years old and Moreno 18. | They had staged two hold-ups on the Baltimore pike the night of the | slaying, and had abandoned their car | when it broke down near the District | | line. They walked across town to the | vicinity of Grant Circle, Petworth, and | were using a taxicab telephone nd | to call for a cab when Policeman | { Busch, accompanied by Paliceman | Frank I Ach, of the tenth precinct ap- proached. t The policemen became suspicious of jthe trio, having had a police lookout | for them. The three men told the po- storm and Crashes. EMPORIA, Kans, June 22 (#).— Wayne Neville of Dallas, Tex., pilot on the Chicago-Dallas air mail rouie, was killed at 4 am. todsy when his plane ran into & severe windstorm and crashed near Lebo, Kans., 20 miles east of here. Neville left Kansas southbound air mail 3am. ‘The storm which he encountered tore down wires in this section and did con- siderable property damage. R. L. Doble, another pilot of the Na- tional Air Transport, Inc., left Kansas City at 9:30 am. to pick up the mail from the wrecked plane and carry it on to Dallas. City with shortly the after asked to be led to tne car, and the trio started down the street, with the offi- cers at their heels. At New Hampshire avenue and Up- shur street the trio suddenly began shooting at the policemen, woun: both at the first volley. Busch an Ach returned the fire from the pave- ment, shooting Proctor in the stomach and Moreno in the leg. Busch died two days later. Before he died he identified For | licemen their car had broken down | Eagles and Moreno, Proctor being in & three full minutes the frantic embrace | about three blocks away. The officers Baitimore Hospital at the, time. continued. She was sobbing hysterically. pulled a white handkerchief from his hip pocket and wiped the tears from her eyes. His sweetheart, Mrs. Lela | Johnson, clung to him. He disengaged one arm from around his mother and placed it around her. Considerably lonfer time was allowed | Proctor with his folks than had been | given to any of the others—probably Secause they behaved less hysterically. | - Finally, they were t8ld it was time go. ~Then came the weeping and to walling. | Maj. Peak supported himself on the | plano. Hardened guards turned their faces away and were sobbing. Boy Chins Himself. The little boy, who had been playing about the rotunda, chinned himself on | a horizontal bar. | A guard patted his head. Mrs. Proctor and Mrs. Johnson were led out on the arm of Rev. W. Dow. superintendent of ‘Bpiscopal City Missions, who has been spiritual ad- visor to the condemned youth. Betty P r and Mrs. Viola Eagles, the two sisters, them. “The way of the transgressor is hard,” said a grissled doorman, who has witnessed - the . preliminaries to many executions, as he turned *his face away and unlocked the door of the rotunda to allow them to come out A moment later he was ashamed of imself. time_for the director to veli | ‘cut’ on all this,” he said with a forced smile. “It's terrible.” ‘The iron door closed behind John | Proctor. { A few minutes later he was sitting on | table reading a long letter from a Joking With Guards. Eaglés and Moreno were joking with | the guards. | Outside the jail were a crowd. of nearly & hundred of the morbidly curious. 1 Guards chased them back to the| came on. one by on It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow. He | Edmenston Homo of Misi O% & Co., Inc. inal Foot Form Boets i for Everybody, and the Famous Physical Culture Style-Plus Comfort Shoes for Women 1l THE BIGGEST FEAST m OF SHOE VALUES | THIS SEASON BIRL SENDS FLOWERS |25 oo e FOR PROCTOR CASKET Leiia In closing, he urged Virginians to outh’s Sist { work for a national platform that “will ¥ s Sister Spend Execution | ot . "in " alleglance to the Consti- | | dress. He sounded a call for return to { ‘he fundamentals of Jeffersonian democ- {racy and for a united front against and graft end corruption in public office. Johnson, Sweetheart, | what stolid and reserved: Proctor un- Yeno's aunt. the only member of the | looked up to Eagles nint and delivered a vigorous keynote ad- | nerved, and finally In & state of com- plete collapse in his cell | The three men awoke early. ‘Their | Jast meal was served in their cells and | was identical for the three, consisting of | taken from the jail aboul 45 minutes shredded wheat, ham and eggs, French | after their death. Eagles was taken to | toast, French fried potaloes, currant | Danzansky's undertaking establishment, jelly and chocolate layer cake. Proctor | 3501 Fourteenth street, where funeral did not eat at all, and the two others | services were conducted this afternoon Moreno family present. Bodies Removed. The bodies of the executed men were | him in the hearing of reporters “Sammy, some folks say that the might get you off if T would sign a con- fession saying that you and Proctor | didn’t fire at Busch Then 1 would dle | |alone. Do you want me to do that,| | Sammy2>" | “No," said Moreno. This was just a moment before | | morning the spectacled gunman said to | The Timely Clearance Sale of Physical Culture and Foot Form Footwear All the odds and ends and broken lines of the most desir- able shoes the woman of today can wear. The selling has been sensa- tional from the opening day of the sale. W T No Branch Stores CARL M. BETZ, Mgr. 612 13th Street STEP-INS ONE STRAPS TWO STRAPS THREE STRAPS OXFORDS West Side Bet. F & G Sta. Wbe Foening Htar ate sparingly. | at 2 o'clock by Rabbl Rosemblum. Ar- | Eagles remarked: Hour Downtown Va, toda Miss Johnson left her home, st 2008 ¥ streel. early this morning, in com- pany with the youth's sister, Betty, o mourning clothes They were “some- where downtown the time of the executior Later they Miss son'’s home, had n and to drive to Joplin vinere they main for the funera, John- prepared will re- who hour she had t i Proct Johnson had erself d the door she Johnny gone he had she Dping new hours o Johnson's denied tna ened commit miicide Bhe seid Ml »o intention of kill When the girl asked anxiously yet?” When toid went back to her tazc of aper accounis of the r cousin Has Two Get Certificates BSpecial Diepaien ‘o The Bles ARDMORE, Md . June 22 —Doroth, Morsland and Bunell Woodell were pre- sented certificales a' closing exercises of Ardmere School by the principal Miss Hattie Shockley. Mrs G. P. Bick~ for¢ of Berwyn prominent in Ameri- esnization work in he Pederation of I‘.fw.r.s Qube, geve # falk on ‘hat m\ apd music and prayer com- the pROETAL. ’ Proctor Weakens. The three men then were permitted to bid farewell to their fellow prison- ers Moreno was deply affected and was on the point of tears. Proctor, near { tution and regard for law enforcement.” Delegations Seated. | The eighth Virginta district will be | represented at Houston by 8. C. Brittle, Judge Robingon Moncure, Carl H Nolting and Daniel L. Porter. ‘The | alternates will be 8. W. Brooks, W. Hill Brown, J1.. Whit D. Peyton and James | collapse, said little. He talked with his Ashby. ‘State Senztor Frank 1. Ball of | guard, Walter Malone. During his con- Alexandria will be the elector from lhelvrrnl!on he remarked that his sweet- district heart, Mrs W. T. Oliver, Charles Pickett, John'mit suicide If he were executed. Mo- Mackull and Harry Leigh were members | reno, overhearing the remark, showed of the delegation seated from Providence | the only trace of vehemence he dis- cistrict, Fairfax County played during the morning. ‘“Ihat’s u . | lot_of boloney,” he sald. loudly. MANASSAS JURY CALLED Proctor weakened rapldly, finally col- FOR MRS. GLOTH’S TRIAL | tapying in Malone's arms. Just before [losing consciousness he gasped, T the fatal shot.” Those were his last words. Though efforts were made to revive him in the hope he might make of 60 Be 4 last-moment confession, he falled to recover Prince William County | "Dr. George H. Nixon of Gallinger | Hospitel, scting jall physician, wor 1 Proctor for some Lime, L M abundoned his efforts. Al 9:30 a.m. he made his last effort to restore the youth to conseiousness, slapping his arm and calling: “Johnn, Johnny, it's t) doctor. 1Is there anytning you want?" Proctor mosned feebly, but did not move Eagles and Moreno were permitted to stand outside the cell block for the condemned, against the bars separating the cell corridor from the rotunda Here they atood for nearly two hours talking with guards, newspaper men and their attorneys, Neither had anything further (o add about which they had been condemned to death. At 9:45 the rotunda was cleared and the twa men were taken back into thelr cells, where they were Joined by Panel to Drawn From for Case. ally Apecial Dispateh to The Blar CLARENDON, Va, June 22.~A fury of citizens of Prince William County 1o it in the case of Mra. Marjorie C. Gloth, indicted on a charge of shooting | her hushand, Commonwealth’s Atlorney | William C. Gloth, last Murch, has been | decided on by Judge Howard W, Smith f the Circuil Court of Arlington unty. |, The decision of Judge { based on a motion by defense. which asked that & jury from | some county other than Arlington be designated for the trisl, which opens | Thutsday. | Willlam W. Dunean, county elerk, has " been instrucied to summon A persons from Manassas for possible jury duty, Esgles had a gay word for each. | Leila Johnson, would com- | the erime for | | rangements have been made for his burial in the Anacostia Jewish Ceme- | tery. | Proctor's by A J Schippert, undertaker, 2008 Pennsyl- nia avénue. The funeral will take place in Joplin, Va., at 2 o'clock Sun- day afternoon. It was expected’ the body would leave this afternoon Moreno's body was conveyed to the | W. Warren Taltavull funeral parlors, ! 3619 Fourtcenth street. There it was {snid that no arrangements were known to have been made, for his burial. | Women Who Suffer. | Yesterday afternobn it was the women | and children who, suffered | | The great rotunida of the jail, sur- | rounded on all sides by tier on tier of | barred cells, became for a half hour | the stage for a scene out of purgatory. | | The three gray old mothers clasped | in thely arms for the last time the three | boys who were to die in the morning | It was a frightful ordeal for the boys. It was w still greater ordeal for | the mothers—and the wunts and sisters | [and little nephews and nieces who | {understood only vaguely what the { Another Hour Gone. “It must be close to 10 o'clock now." “Later than that. It's close to 11, sald somebody, heedlessly consulting a | wateh | The gunman shuddered. One of his last 24 hours gone! The gate swung open for “Sammy." The “poar boob" stepped out lnto the !arms of his mother body was taken now. mesning was By o specisl arrangement the con- | demned men were released from their | | cells, one at a time, for the last fare- | | wells. Then the family groups were | admitied Eagles' Mother First. First came poor old mother of Eagles She has been the most pathetic figure of all to those who have watched al the jail for the past few days | Bhe 15 aamall, worn, gray-haired | | Jewish woman; who seems in her late sixties. Hour after hour she sat on the hard bench in (he waitink roem, tremulously weeping, She understands i ) Buy your Eme mer long., Many still in service after 20 years. EMERSON FANS Ask Your Dealer Doubleday-Hill Eleetric Co. of the South Wholesale Distributors THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 Il STREET, N. W, Enjoy it all sum- e AVERTSENENS B i RECEIVED HERE Petwcrth Pharmacy—Ga. 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