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Show BOY'S FATE IS , DISPUTE TOPIC! OMAHA. Neb., Dr.c. 23 i;.ri The I fight to secute possession of Hubert Hu-bert Niccola, 12-year-old Idaho boy killer, will he continued despite Gov. R. H. Hartley's emphatic refusal re-fusal to release him, Rev. E. J-Flanagan, J-Flanagan, head of Father Flanagan's Flana-gan's home for boys here, announced announc-ed today. Governor Hartley's action has made Hubert a political fooball and the governor "stooped into the ! gutter of ward politics" when he j asserted in a statement that Father l Flanagan was motivated merely by thoughts of publicity in making his fight for the boy, thd priest asserted assert-ed in a statement issued todate.. ' The ultimate fate of Hubert, the statement continues, rests "solely with the people of the stale of Washington, who are franchised to vote." Governor Hartley was challenged to name the sociology experts who had told him that Hubert is a born criminal and beyond saving. "I bitterly resent," the statement read, "the accusations made and the . inferences cast by Governor Hartley that my purpose and the purpose of the home in trying to obtain Hubert's release was for the miinncA nf ohtainiiiiT nation-wide publicity. Father Flanagan's home doesn't need publicity. "I was surprised that such attacks at-tacks would come from the executive ex-ecutive mansion of the fine state of Washington. To me it sounds like the political mutterings of a whipped political boss. "Governor Hartley should be ashamed to attack as "emotional" the altitude of parents and humanitarians humani-tarians who interested themselves in attempting to get a fair deal for Hubert. I am proud of the newspapers news-papers he labeled as 'sensational' which carried the terrible truth about the great slate of Washington Washing-ton convicting a mere baby of first degree murder and sentencing him to life imprisonment. These newspapers news-papers ore not sensational - they ate human they see the light." |