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Show I MOTHER'S PLEA BRINGS ACTION Attorney General Dagherty Will Study Cases of War Convicts WASFTrS'GTOX, April (By the Associated Press) Bhcoked somewhat some-what by failure to see President n.ir-ding, n.ir-ding, the 'children's crusade,' which inarle(i the Capitol .17 strong today on behalf of 114 war law violators now serving prleon terms, Krt littio encouragement from Attorney General Daugherty bb t" recommendation for executive clemency, f " II i.kssdN's LEARNED There was some talk that Mrs. Kate mrharu 'H.irf .i tin other leaders In B tho American Civil Liberties union, the organization having In h.irge tho wives, mothers and children of the H prisoners they have come 11 the way to Washington to release from pris-on. pris-on. would attend the president's churoh tomorrow with their charges In the hope he would hear their ap- a rayo f hope for at least one moth-H moth-H er and her son loomed when Mr. B Daugherty was reached almost lnune- dlately after having the White House. V The attorney general, after listening to the appeal made by Mrs. O'Hare, fl announced he was "opposed to s geh- ral amnesty' but would take up each B case "Individually when aoplicatlon la 1 made, and given careful consideration "vv in any action that he might take, HH , M-.r Daugherty added, ho would glvo great weight to tho question of wheth I er the prisoner was sufficient lm- j pressed by his punishment and with the laws of the land he had violated. MOTHER'S APPEAL HEARD At this point, Mrs. W. B. Hough, of Roekford. Ill . a frail little woman, poorly but neatly clad, timidly stejped closer to the attorney generals' desk ! . and told of her two M.n. one who had gone overseas and fought for his Hfll country, "and thank God, he came back safely." and ihc other. Clyde Hough, who Is n rlng a term for violation of the espionage act for fa 1 1 -I . Ing to register in the draft. After serving his term, tho mother told Mr 1 Daugherty. Clyde was met at the door I and re-arrested for violating a law that "had not been In existence' win n hei boy was sent to Jail the first time. "Both on your account and on his account, of the government." Mr Daugherty said, i will take that mat-ter mat-ter up as soon as his papers reach me J and give it careful consideration.' |