Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1942, Page 3

Slayers of Loveless Given Life in Prison Atter Pleading Guilty Youth of Defendants Considered by Court In Fixing Sentence By CARTER BROOKE JONES, Star Staft Correspondent. LEESBURG, Va., Feb. 7.— Prison for the rest of their lives stretched ahead tonight for two 16-year-old boys, Herbert Bucke Porter, Brentwood, Md. and Paul Bernard Hoback, Blue- field, W. Va., confessed killers of Ward Loveless, Wasnington at- torney and Loudoun County land owner, whom they shot to death when he caught them robbing his country home near here. The two heard the sentence after & brief trial before Judge J. R. H. Alexander in a crowded Circuit Court room here this afternoon. Life imprisonment was the court’s judgment after Commonwealth’s Attorney Charles F. Harrison had demanded the electric chair and State Senator Aubrey Weaver of Front Royal, chief defense counsel, had urged a more lenient punish- ment in view of the defendants’ youth. Two heartbroken mothers ran for- ward when sentence was pronounced and clasped their sons, sobbing con- vulsively. The two fathers stood close by, trying to control them- gelves and comfort the mothers. Hoback Breaks Down. Hoback, called by officers who in- vestigated the crime the more “hard-boiled” of the pair, broke down. He was tryving to hold back the tears as he left his mother and | started out, handcuffed to his com- panion. Porter was pale but he kept his face impassive as his mother | vember 24. THE SUNDAY §TAR, WASMfiGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 8§, 1942, LIFE TERMS GIVEN YOUTHS FOR LOVELESS MURDER — State Trooper E. D. Helm left) is shown escorting Herbert Bucke Porter (center) and Paul Bernard Hoback from the Leesburg (Va.) Jail en rout to the Circuit Court room. Shortly after this picture was made, Judge J. R. H, Alexander sentenced the youths to life imprisonment for the murder of Ward Loveless last No- —Star Staff Photo. Brazil Calls for gave him a final tearful kiss. The boys had pleaded guilty to | murder. The brief hearing, without | a jury, was only to determine the | degree of guilt and the punishment. But the prosecutor called enough witnesses to establish what he called, in his summation, one of the | most cruel crimes in the annuals of | Loudoun County. The defense of- | fered no testimony, but Mr. Weaver | made a brief plea to the court. “At the outset,” said Judge Alex- ander, when it came time to pro- nounce sentence, “I want to say that I don't believe that the ends of justice require the imposing of the death penalty on two 16-year-old boys. They have not reached the maturity of age which gives them any adequate understanding of the | consequences of their acts.” The judge added that the electric chair not only would be too severe, | but might create a revulsion which | would defeat the ends of justice. Then he told the boys to stand, and he carried out the formality of ask- | ing each if there was any reason why sentence should not be pro- nounced. “No,” they said. in low tones. Crime Dencunced. Each ‘of them, said Judge Alex- | ander, would be taken to the State | Penitentiary at Richmond for the | term of his natural life. The Commonwealth’s attorney was bitter in his denunciation of the crime and of the youths who ad- | mitted it. Mr. Loveless, he said, was | a man who by his own efforts had amassed property and comfort, was a valuable citizen, a heavy taxpayer. “And due to these young men,” Mr. Harrison added, “his life was taken from him in the very home he loved and had dreamed of. No more brutal act could have been | visited on any man.” “ And, the prosecutor said, the act | “merits nothing less than death.” | This, he said. was not an ordi- | nary killing on the spur of the mo- ment, but “a thoroughly considered | plan” to rob and kill Mr. Loveless. | Mr. Harrison pointed out that Ho- back formerly had worked for the lawyer-landowner and knew he often | carried considerable sums of money. | Mr. Weaver, in his address to the | court, denied that the evidence | showed a premeditated plan to kill | Mr. Loveless. It did disclose a| plot to rob his house, the attorney | conceded. 3 Attorney Cites Youth. Speaking of the defendants’ youth, Mr. Weaver pointed out that legally they would not even be old enough to make a contract. “They would have you believe that these boys are experienced as criminals, and yet they didn’t have sense enough to change the license tag on Mr. Loveless' automobile.” It was the car in which they es- caped that led to their capture near Cumberland, Ky., a few days after a servant found the body of Mr. Loveless on November 24 stuffed in a closet off his breakfast room. In| the car were the slain man’s watch, his wallet, a pair of antique pistols | and a brief case taken from his home. The wallet, ironically enough, had contained nothing but a check. which the boys were afraid to try to cash. Mr. Weaver reminded the court | that under State law there was a | wide scope of possible punishment, ranging from 20 years to the death penalty the prosecutor had urged. Mr, Harrison sought to bring out in his evidence that the boys, in their confessions to officers, had tried to mitigate their crime by falsely making it appear that they left Mr. Loveless alive after forcing him to walk into the closet. Could Not Have Walked. Dr. Richard M. Rosenberg, Dis- trict of Columbia deputy coroner, who performed an autopsy, testified FLOOR-DEMONSTRATORS FLUID HEAT OIL BURNERS And Heating Boilers New Guarantee Small Monthly Payments n Be Arranged On display at 139 12th St. N.E. L. P. Steuart & Bro,, By BLAIR BOLLES. The United States Government | vesterday was strongly urged, in the interest of Allied victory and the | | practical working of the good-neigh- | | deeply concerned with the success of bor policy, to grant Brazil the as- | surances of economic help that would encourage the South Ameri- can country to solve our wartime military and civilian rubber prob- lem by tapping the 20.000,000 wild hevea rubber trees in the Amazon jungle. Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau, lunching with Dr. Souza Costa, visiting Brazilian Finance Minister, heard that Brazil could build in a few months the roads needed to make the trees, deep in the wilds, economically useful, pro- | vided the country was convinced the | United States would guarantee to buy Brazilian rubber not only now but also after the war at a satis- factory price. The proposal has disturbing impli- cations for the English and Dutch, long the masters of the rubber world. Brazil is understood also to be | asking for technical assistance in e: panding the Brizilian rubber manu- facturing facilities, which are rep- | resented now by a few tire-making industries. The scheme brought here by Dr. Costa raises problems of shipping, which he plans to discuss | with American officials during his proposed two-week stay in the United States. May Seek Lease-Lend Funds. Brazil seeks no loan, it is under- stood, but it is expected that Dr. Costa will press for some lease-lend assistance in connection with the proposed road building to the rub- ber trees and the expansion of the Brazilian rubber industry. He in- tends also to explore with American Agriculture Department and War Production Board the part Brazilian cotton can play in the conduct of the war against the Axis. A general Latin-American hope that the United States will abandon the plan recently announced by Federal Loan Administrator Jones for a Government-sponsored syn- thetic rubber program was a factor in Dr. Costa’s visit to the United States. The mature Brazilian trees, if they can be reached, would pro- that, in his opinion, judging from the position in which the body was found and the nature of the wounds. Mr. Loveless could not have walked | into the closet, but had been placed there. All the bullets the physician added, had entered through the back. According to the boys’ confession, as described by State Tgooper E. D. Helm, Mr. Loveless nding the youths ransacking his house, strug- gled with Hoback and overpowered him and Hoback’'s gun “went off,” the bullet creasing his forehead, and then Porter “began firing” at the lawyer. The defense conceded that bullets from Porter’s revolver had caused Mr. Loveless' death, but contended Porter thought Hoback was shot and he would be next. Porter, it was brought out, refused |to sign a pen-and-ink statement | taken down by Prosecutor Harrison |in a Bristol hotel because it des- cribed him as the one who started the shooting. A statement from Hoback, similar in most details, was introduced in evidence. Mrs. Albert Carr, Mr. Loveless’ daughter, was the only member of her family present. She identified her father’s watch, brief case and other articles found in the car when it was recovered. She wept while hearing other witnesses testify. 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Rubber is one of the chief eco- nomic foundations of two United States allies, Great Britain and the Netherlands, whose rubber planta- tions are in Malaya and the Dutch ‘ | Indies. and the United States takes | more than half their production xn‘ normal times. Our purchases from the Far Entt | have averaged about 600,000 long tons of crude rubber, but the rubber‘ growers have been able to profit only by a strict production and price agreement since the cultivated Far Eastern trees produce far be- yond the world's needs. Rubber was as high as 45 cents a pound in New York in 1926. It fell to 12 cents by 1935. In 1940 it was 19 cents. Now it has been frozen at 21.1 cents. The entrance of the Brazilian trees into this highly competitive market, with an American promise to buy, would be calculated to damage the Indies and the Malay economies. However, Dr. Costa is in a posi- tion to point out to the United States the merits of having a source of rubber that is always available no matter what military and eco- nomic disturbances shake Asia and Europe. The Agriculture Depart- ment, in fact, has been following a policy of experimenting in grow- ing cultivated rubber groves in 12 countries of South and Central America during the past two years. Accessibility Promised. Dr. Costa is said to be pointing out that the newly planted trees will not produce for 7 or 10 years— a fact well recognized by this Gov- ernment, which also has considered the Brazilian jungle trees useless | on the ground that they are in-| accessible. Now Brazil brings plans | to demonstrate they can be reached within a short time and that their | product soon could be on the way to the United States. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard reported that by 1947 the United States might be able to obtain all its rubber needs from the recent plantings in Latin America, in Brazil as well as Costa Rica, Domin- ican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua. This fact alone would cause a revolution in the rubber market and the economy of the colonial Far AND INSPECTED CAMERAS FIRST LINE FAMOUS NAMES . ..~ HIGH GRADE PRECISION QUALITY BARGAINS MOVIE CAMERAS! Mod, K, 16 MM Eastman $59.50 MM Eastman wnh case $32.50 H. Sportster 8 MM. P 2.5, Tayior Rooso Motk 'S MM Keystone P 3.5, $14:50 STILL CAMERAS National Graflex. Ser. II P 35 $49.50 Retina II P 2, lens, 35 MM. coupled range finder $89.50 Bantam Special F 2. lens— goupled range finder”, 50 Perfect 55, Eormica sene Aad : Superikonta B. F Tessar $125.00 Trade-ins Aeflp(cl CAPITAL CAMERA SXCNANGE 58 Zeiss | cent of our rubber imports until the | war made the supply uncertain. 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