Show TWO START LIFE TERMS I Boys' Boys Rouged Cheeks Show Prison Pallor DUBUQUE Ia la Jan 20 f AP AP- AP I Two boys under 20 whose makeup of ot rouged d cheeks painted lips Ups and pencilled eyebrows has given way to tho the pallor that follows two months in j Jail IJ began serving lifo sentences today for tor slaying the grandmother of one of or them L Leonard onard Cota 18 of Altoona Wis and Howard Kramer 19 19 of or Malta Mont yesterday esterday were sentenced sentenced sen sOn to lire life Im Imprisonment for killing Cotas Cota's maternal grandmother er Mrs Elizabeth McKitrick of fingle Iowa treatments treatments treatments treat treat- It U was the bo boys boys' s beauty ments that aroused the of or St. St Louis detectives and led lcd to their arrest six dars days after the they thea had bound and gagged Cotas Cota's grandmother grandmother grandmother grand grand- mother and left her to die on the kitchen floor of her ZWingle home while they looted th tho house Tho The youths found more than OOOO in cash and an an equal amount in in se sc- sc nearly all of or which was re re- re covered The b boys s in telling why th they y committed committed com corn the robbery and murder said they wanted the money to finance their training to become opera sing sing- ers era With the thc ex of of afew f tears ars arsby by Kramer tho the two youths were unshaken during the tho entire court proceedings No members of th the bo boys boys' s families were in court I Kramer Kramer Kra Kra- ramer ra- ra mer has lIas refused to communicate with his relatives since his arrest and they have made no effort to talk to him In sentencing them Judge D. D E E. E Maguire said he ho was giving them the punishment which ho he b believed would be imposed by a Dubuque county jury Dubuque county Juries do not return hanging verdicts al although though h capital punishment for first d degree ree is permissible in the state stale |