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Show THE youths enter: plea op guilty CAMPAIGN CHIEF JR. AND LEOPOLD. RICHARD LOEB, ENTER PLEA WITH A WHISPER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILL RECEIVE NOTICE OF NOMIN- Demands That Ex. treme Penalty Be Imposed; Evidence to Be Submitted to Court West Virginia Man Will Also Head Democratic National Committee, Chicago, Clarence Darrow, chief counsel for the defense of Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, conold Robert fessed slayers of Franks Monday entered a plea of guilty in behalf of the defendants. This move by Darrow, a complete surprise to everyone, was made before Judge John R. Caverly as- preliminary motions of the defense were called. Young Leopold was called to the bench and himself pleaded guilty. Loeb followed him and did likewise. "Is is your understanding that if you plead guilty to murder in this court,, the court may sentence you to death or to the penitentiary for the period of your natural life, or for a period of not less- than fourteen years?" Judge Caverly asked. "I understand," Leopold answered, his lips quivering, his eyes dropping to the floor. Loeb an"Yea, I understand," swered, looking directly at the judge. "With this understanding, do you,, still wish to plead guilty?" the judge asked. "I do," Leopold answered. "I do," Loeb replied. Darrow advised the court that before the sentenced he boys are wishes to present evidence to the court and the sentencing of the young college graduates probably will be delayed for several days. State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe, who was in court in person with a large staff of assistants, was taken completely by surprise, but did not contest the action. Late in the afternoon Sheriff extra announced that Hoffman guards had been assigned to the cells of Leopold and Loeb, to preclude an "Extra guaras attempted suicide. will be stationed at their cells night and day," he said. New York, Clem Shaver of West Virigina, the man who did more than any other to bring about the nomination of John W. Davis, has been of the as chairman decided upon Democratic national committee and Davis' campaign manager, the United Press was informed by a reliable source Friday last. national The new Democratic chairman is rather an inconspicuous figure in the national political world, having devoted all of his time to the Democratic party in West Virginia. He has been credited with being the head of the West Virginia Democracy. After Shaver is a retired lawyer. retirement he devoted his time to hobbies, including stock raising and fox hunting. He is rather close mouthed, but political wisdom has caused his elevation to the high place in party started the first Shaver ranks. "Davis for president" clubs in West Virginia last February. Shaver's appointment finally was decided upon at a conference between Davis, George Brennan, Illinois leader; Tom Taggart of Indiana and Shaver at Davis headquarters here. All the Democratic chieftfeins appeared highly satisfied. It was decided to open a branch headquarters soon in Chicago. The nominee has left for a vacation in Maine and while there probably will announce appointment of an to aid in the executive committee campaign. Governor Al Smith of New York will make several speeches in support of the Davis candidacy, it was announced and probably will do some work in Chicago. State's Attorney i 14-ye- - - Dempsey In Smashup Los Angeles, Cal., Jack Demp-sey'- s famous right arm, the one that so heavily" to his has contributed world heavyweight pugilistic crown, is out of commission following an automobile accident, according to atThe fighter's tending physicians. list of injuries, received in the automobile smashup, at San Juan Capis-tranhere include: dissmith of located right elbow; strained ligaments in the neck; Abrasions on the right knee; Cut on the scalp. Dempsey will be confined to his room for several days, the physician said. The that he escaped champion admits death "by a miracle," when his heavy sedan, carrying himself and two or three friends was sideswiped by a who kept going speeding motorist, after he had tilted the Dempsey car from the highway into the ditch. "It was winner's- luck, that's all," DempThe sey remarked. party in the wrecked automobile including a man and a woman who gave their names as "Mr. and Mrs. Lee," were taken to the Santa Ana hospital and later came on to Los Angeles. S, NEPHI, UTAH Oi SHAVER WILL BE NATHAN TIMES-NEW- P ORGANIZE ITALIAN RESIDENTS LEGION; FEDERALS OCCUPY ADVANCED POSTS ATION AUGUST 11th Decide Twenty Thousand Rebels Are Pre. pared For Expected Attack of Brazilian Forces; Many Are Under Arrest New York Leaders APARTMENT WRECK WYOMING MINE COSTS EIGHT LIVES CASHIER SLAIN TWO FIREMEN AND SIX NEGROES FRIEND WHEN MEET DEATH AT MYSTER- IOUS EXPLOSION ABSCONDER SHOOTS HE ATTEMPTED TO REACH CACHE OF FOOD Kansas City Building Collapses After Payroll of Mine Company Is Recovered When Main is Taken; Unsolved Catastrophe; Twenty. Airplanes Are Used in Eight Persons Are Search Missing Kansas City, Mo. Two fireman were dead and twenty-eigh- t are missing following an explosion and fire in an apartment building in a negro district All of the missing are behere. lieved to have perished. Officials said the apartment had but one narrow exit and the explosion which wrecked the building is believed to have cut off all chance of escape. brick The structure was enveloped by fire immediately after the blast. Firemen were trapped under a falling wall. Police were unable to determine occurred or what where the blast caused it. Claims that it was a gas explosion were improved when the mains were found intact. It apparently originated in one of the shops on the first floor. The floor in the hallway leading to the one exit was blown away by the Terrified occupants first explosion. who made their way to the hall were compelled to turn back and the windows offered their only chance of escape. Floors in the apartment gave way, hurling occupants to the midst of the blaze. half a block from People living the building were thrown from their beds by the force of the explosion. Several thousand negroes gathered around the ruins watching firemen search for additional bodies. Police had difficulty in keeping the crowds and six tenants two-stor- y Man Arrested For Old Crime Tacoma, Wash. Dave Steele, for twenty years a reputable citizen of Nesika Lewis county, is on his way in charge of a back to Kentucky deputy sheriff to answer to a charge of murder alleged to have been committed twenty-twIt is years ago. said that a drunken man, walking along the West Virginia side of a fork of the Big Sandy river, was shooting into the Steele home on the Kentucky side and that Dave Steele shot across the river and killed him. Steele was recognized here six weeks ago by a depufy sheriff from Pike to return another county, Ky., here prisoner charged with murder, and his arrest and extradition followed. Rock Sprinsg, Wyo. Clyde N. y Fisher, cashier of the Coal company here, who disappeared July fifteenth at the same time that the semimonthly payroll of the company vanished, was shot and fatally wounded the following day by J. Walker, mine foreman and friend of Fisher. Fisher was making for a cache of in the food, water and blankets two miles from a coal mountains camp, where he had previously workHe died a ed, when he was shot. few hours later in a local hospital. The entire payroll of the company totaling more than $0000, was found near Fishers cache. Two airplanes, which joined in the search for Fisher, following his disappearance, returned without finding any trace of him. in the left The planes here Kenox of Superintendent morning, the coal company being in one and a deputy sheriff in the other. Pilots manned the from a flying circus planes. authorities Later Rock Springs telegraphed to division headquarters of the air mail service at Omaha, asking permission to obtain another the air mail field at plane from Cheyenne to search for Fisher. Fisher was believed to have fled toward the southwest in an automo-mile- . He was said to have been armed with a rifle and ammunition, of the coal according to officials company. Gunn-Queal- Arkansas Judge Wounded Dcrmot Ark. County Judge Harry E. Cook, was shot and seriously wounded here during an altercation with J. R. Parker, an attorney. Witnesses said the two men became InFifty Seven Go Down In Ship Fifty-seve- n Tokio, persons were volved in an argument over a politidrowned July 11 when the Nippon cal advertisement Inserted in a local Yusen Kaisha freighter Matsuyama The atnewspaper by Judge Cook. Maru foundered off Goto Island, near torney was not seriously hurt. ParkKyushu, the Kobe office of the line er was arrested and admitted to bail. The liner had been overreported. due several days. This report was Brick Plant Has Riot the first news of her fate, as she till. A number of persons Peoria, farried no wireless. The ship car- are reportde to have been injured in ried down with her all her officers s riot of workers at the plants of the and crew except one fireman, who Peoria Brick and Tile company in was picked up by a trawler and Wesley City, near here. s The She carried no brought to Kobe. have been on strike since passengers. December. Flames Trap Children Merrer, Pa., Five children were bu rned tt death in a farm house near here while the mother looked on. The dead, ranging in age from nine months to nine years were children of Mr. and Mrs. Ned Nedsrelen, livlake. The bodie ing near Sandy were taken from the ruins. They had huddled together In a corner, driven back from escaping through the windows by the smoke and flames. Raises Tax on Luxuries Both houses-- of the imdiet have perial passed the government bill raising the tariff on about 250 articles classed as luxuries to an ad valorem duty of 100 per cent. Is expected to Trade with America be very slightly affected owing to the fact that most of Japan's purchases in the United States are of staples articles rurh as cotton, iron A bill for $266,- and machinery. 000,000 was also passed. More Water For Salt Lake With formal ceremony Monday morning Mayor C. Clarence Neslen, commissioner of waterworks, threw the electric switch which officially placed in operation Salt Lake City's new $00,000 pumping plant at Sixtieth South street and Highland This plant is designed to in drive. crease the city's daily water supply 8.000,000 gallons by approximately through exchange of Utah lake water from the city's cat:al to farmers under the Tanner, Green and Upper canals. Salt Lake, brick-maker- Labor Insurance Bill Defeated The McDonald govern London, ment was defeated in the house of commons by a vote of 171 to 149 of the unemduring consideration The vote ployment insurance bill. was on an amendment offered uy liberal and conservative members, which was carried despite labor opThe government's1 reverposition. sal was not considered imnortant and 'here was no question of the prime minister's resigning. From All Parts of f UTAH t Salt Lake, "Figuring on a basis of the number of water connections in the city, the population of Salt Lake City is nearer 141,700 than the 128,564 estimated by the federal census bureau," declared Mayor C. commissioner oi Clarence Neslen, waterworks, in discussing the population figures just announced by the federal bureau. Salt Lake, John A. Israelson, postmaster of Hyrum, was reelected president of the Utah branch of the National league of third and fourth class postmasters at the annual convention held in the federal building. The Jordan Fur and Salt Lake, Reclamation company of Nevada has-suethe Utah-IdahSugar company for damages of $50,000 for the alleged pollution of 3000 acres of land in Salt Lake and Davis counties. The suit has been transferred from the court. Third district Pulp from, sugar beets ground at the West Jordan factory is said to have caused the land to dry up. Salt Lake, A commercial junket through Eastern Idaho has been given indorsement of the board of governors of the chamber of commerce. A crop survey of Idaho and Utah will be prepared by the industrial o Bullet Riddle Guard Four bandits shot and Chicago, killed Patrolman Frank C. McGlynn, The 28, in a payroll holdup here. bandits then escaped with $600 carried by D. T. Healy, a messenger for Limestone the Stearns company. Some time before the robbery the bandits entered the company offices and tied up the five office employees. Then they cut the telephone wires and went into the yard to wait foij the messenger and McGlynn, who was detailed to guard the money. Without warning, the bandits opened fire on McGlynn and Healy as they entered the yard. McGlynn was riddled with bullets'. Healy was un- back. hurt and surrendered the money. The building was new. Suicide Rate Without Change The average suicide New York, rate of eighty American cities for the year 1923 remained at 15.2 per 100,000 of population, the 1922 figure, the Spectator, an insurance jourThe paper pointed nal, announced. out that this reflected a nationwide San Diego, according to prosperity. the statistics, continued to have the highest proportion of suicides among the cities considered, the rate there The Pacific coast genbeing 50.5. years, had a erally, as in former high rate, the journal said, while in cities of the lake region the rate wasr low. Suicides were reported as in the coal and particularly few steel districts. J Buenos Aires, The officially heralded, decisive action by which the Brazilian government expects to put an end to the Sao Paulo rebellion, well prepared, will find the rebels dispatches according to uncensored reaching Buenos Aires from near the scene of the struggle. 20,000 With approximately and munitioned men the rebels are said to be awaiting with confidence an attack by the federal forces. It is asserted that the rebels hold all the strategic points in and about the city of Sao Paulo and also have artillery placed on what are known as the English bluffs, which command the roads leading to the city and from which the Portuguese a century ago used to watch for hostile Indians. The correspondent of Le Nacion at Rio Janeiro sends the following offiPlans for the trip are? cial communication i in connection department. outlined President Frank B. by being with the revolutionary situation: of the chamber. "The federal forces', commanded by Cook, Logan, Ema Virchow, 14 years of General Potyguara now occupy further advanced positions. Airplane age lies in a serious condition in the reconnaissances have been made for Cache County hospital as the result inflicted by operations that are now proceeding. of wounds accidentally Miss Virchow, "Our aviators made several flights an automatic pistol. of Dr. W. B. An over Sao Paulo. airplane be- who is an employee longing to the woman aviator Anesia Jones of Logan, was wounded in the Pinheiro Machada, which was being abdomen while examining an autowas destroyed matic pistol belonging to the phyused by the rebels, She was alone in the and a rebel lieutenant and five sold- sician's son. iers were made prisoner at Ribeiro house at the time but managed to telephone the hospital before she Preto while attempting to flee." The Italian residents of Sao Paulo collapsed. have organized a military legion, Ogden, Jv C. (Jack) Littlefield which has been incorporated into the who has been deputy collector of inrebel forces defending the city, ac- ternal revenue in Ogden for the last cording to a dispatch to La Prenza. three years, has resigned his position and left for Denver, Colo., to accept examiner for Several a position as claims Montevideo, Uruguay, 11 of the U. S. veterans' prominent Brazilians opposed to the district No. have been arrested in bureau. government Santa Maria and Pelotas, in the I'rovo, On a charge of having sevstate of Rio Grande, according to eral barrels of hard cider in his posadvices received from the Brazilian session, Milton Brown of American frontier. The advices add that the Fork wa8 fined $."0 in Judge J. 15. beRio Grande newspapers are not Tucker's court. According to the ing permitted to reproduce news or evidence. Brown had the cider for comment of the foreign newspapers vinegar but had no vinegar permit. revolt. . regarding the a Salt Iake Acting upon report from Commissioner A. F. Barnes of Wheeler Joins La Folletta of public safety Political confusion the department Washington, Salt Lake City effect that the has been converted into chaos by the firemen who demanded the removal action of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Chief W. II. By water as head of of Montana in accepting the nominthe fire department refused to appear ation for vice president on the inbefore him for a hearing the city dependent ticket with Senator Robert commission denied the petition of the M. La Follette of Wisconsin. Wheelmen that the chief be removed er's action, coming in the midst of Ninety two fireman are expected to sitan already complicated political band in their resignations. uation, has completely upset the calIn culations of party managers. Ogden, Sale of the defunct American Packing and Provision company all three camps, Republican, Democratic and Independent, claims were here to a local syndicate which has since the receiver's made but privately leaders admitted been pending sale several weeks ago was confirmed they were at sea.. No unbiased poliUnited States district court tical observer was willing to hazard In the outcome of the here by Federal a prediction on the Judge Tillman 1). November elections. That Wheeler Johnson. will add material strength to the Salt Lake, Noble Warrum, former ticket was conceded independent nor postmaster here, has been tendered Neither Republican freely. the of the Mexican gen. Democratic managers have yet been eral secretaryship claims commission. It was learnwill able to determine which party Mr. Warrum has aned recently. suffer more from the presence of nounced will accept the offer. he that the third ticket in the field, but has Wheeler's unexpected Salt Lake, Brigadier General Ulys"Step ses Grant MeAIexander now stationed their worries. at Fort Itouglas, Utah, has been selected for promotion to the rank of Dam Wina Additional Backing to fill the vacancy major general Long Beach, Cal., Immediate deaused by the retirement on July 20 Boulder dam of the provelopment Grote Hutcheson. Major General under federal of ject, keeping control In the grade The vacancy resulting supervision, suordination of power to of brigadier general will be filled by rlomestic water requirements and the the Colonel Edwin E. promotion of building of the proposed "high" dam Booth. were to in preferenee the "low" dam advocated by speakers' at a meeting I'rovo, According to the last na. of the southern California district of tlonnl survey of building by 8. W. Data Straus &, Co. of San Francisco, Provo the Boulder Dam association. decrease of leads all Utah and Idaho cities of less showing the startling than 2 1,000 population in the amount California river stream flows of was presented by Clyde issued for the Seavey, of building permits month of June, It also leads elpvcn member of the state railroad comThe rapid diminishing of California cities and four In Wash. mission. levels was adIngton. underground water vanced as an argument for immediate Salt Ijike, There will be no autoconstruction of the dam as a mean mobile races following the state, fair of insuring future water supplies. to ! held October 1 to 7, It was nn. nounced nt the enplto. The board Greek Cabinet Resigns was Informed by the Milton Caateel The Greek government attractions that H would be nmthla-tLondon, beennse It stage the contests following defeat in the national assembly has resigned according to a bank had refused financial nsfstane Central News dispatch from Athens. In carrying on this year's activities. well-arme- Man Shot at Own Request Slowly dying from an incurable malay, Jim Zoznowski, Polish writer, repeatedly begged friends and attendants at the sanitorium at Ville-pul- f to put an end to his sufferings. Wednesday his fiancee, Mile. Stanls-lowUnicus-ka- , visited him and was of his so overcome at the sight agony she could not resist his pitiShe shot him in the able pleadings. head and he is not expected to recover. Following the shooting Mile. Unicuska collapsed and officers sent to arrest her left her in the care of She had been a the sanitorium. constant visitor to her fiance's sickroom. Zoznowski, who is 35 years Warsaw for old, came here from French medical advice. surgeons Fast Fruit Train Los Angeles, Details of a new operated on him twice, but were unfast freight schedule for citrus fruits able to give relef. hours from designed to clip forty-fiv- e to Chicago have the present run Writers to Cover Murder Trial been received by California citrus Feature writers and Chicago, The new growers. arrangement magazine correspondents who have made at a conference between traffic requested seats at the Leopold-Loe- b officials of the California Fruitgrow- trial opening 4 will here August ers' exchange, the California Citrus have to take their chances with the transcontinental general public, Chief Justice John R. league and three railroads, will take effect soon. No cards Caverly has announced. or passes1 will be issued, he ruled, Sessions Called declaring that extension of such priColumbia, S. C, Election of of vilege is unlawful in a public court. ficers, decision as to the next con Provision will be made in the court vention city and consideration of chambers for appxoximately sixteen were the con- newspaper reporters, committee reports, although an cluding task of the sixth annual re- anteroom is being fitted out to acunion of the Rainbow (12nd) divi- commodate LIO correspondents nnd sion association. telegraph operator. - KTi BRAZILIANS WAIT Faris, a o Tokio Tokio, Poisoned Her Sixth Husband Mount Gilead, Ohio, A charge of first degree murder i.t to be placed Yeoman, 40, against Mrs. Elnora following an alleged confession that she fed poison tablets to Lewis Yeoman, her sixth husband. Mrs. Yeoman's1 sixth husband died June 28. Later his body was exhumed and an of the stomach showed analysis s All of Mrs. traces of poison. husbands were divorced except Yeoman and Charles McLaughlin, her first, who died a natural death. Yeo-man- d to-th- Ship Has Heavy Bend New York, The Italian steamship "Duilio" sailed for Naples, after officials of the line hail filed a $7000 bond with the customs authorities an aftermath of a narcotic raid made on the ship several days ago by federal Captain Francesco Schaif agents'. fino, commander of the ship, charged that he and his officers were abused by the police following the raid and hamcterized the action of the as "without reason" and Inspiration to Genius Khiikespcnre nnd Moliere were Indebted for home of their plots to the great Italian lovellst of the Sixteenth century, whose "Thirteen Pleasant Nights" Is still a storehouse for writers of the present time. Sirs-1'tirol- Result of Belief It matters nil In the world what a man does really believe and so hold a to bring It vitally home to bis aoul. What he believes mold Mm In spirit 4Dd Id life. Harvey V. KlttbeL |