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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1924)
Hope for Doomed Seen in Loeb-Leopold Decision Wave.:ir\ CLAUDS’ DOBBS *n& THOMAS FORAN. If ee/our. -LOtm^E. THOMAS W WALTER KRAVSER: . .""•-J1 Fire persons, all of them young, have turned their eyes and their hopes toward Chicago and Judge Carerly, of the Cook County Criminal Court, following his declaration that youths eo young as Nathan V. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, twenty each, Bhould not be put to death for their confessed murder of little Bobby Franks. They are Walter Krauser and his companion, Edward Grant, both in the Cook County Jail and sentenced to death for the murder of a Chicago policeman during a holdup; Claude Dobbs, of Baltimore, and Thomas Foran, Philadelphia, both penniless boys who killed during a holdup; Edgar Perrygo, son of a poor truck farmer near Washington, D. C., now under death sentence, and Louise Thomas, poor mulatto girl, aged nineteen, who is sentenced t o death for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman. When MacMil lan Was Ice Bound in Frozen North Winter came but spring was far behind. When it finally did come, the members of the MacMillan crew had shovel and hack their ship out of the Ice and snow hummock which had covered it. The expedition Iras re >uned safely to Wiscasset, Me., after being locked In the Ice for a year in North Greenland. MacMillan’s Ship Ready for Dash to U. S. After Escaping Ice Here la the Bowdoln ready for the home dash on July 31 of this year. In Refuge Harbor, Smith Sound ] Worth Greenland, Where, with the M acMillan North Greenland expeditio n she was looked in the loe fcj Ml day a She had to make her way thr ough the lee around the epen atrip a hown in the picture, J e GERMAN ROYALTY GATHERS FOR WEDDING.1 It, tssgx/Tg&ixg f ~~ Ji For the first time since 1914, members of the various branches of the German royal family, in full regalia, gathered at the ancient Castle Salem, in Hesse, to attend the wedding of Prince Wolfgang von Hessen, nephew of the former Kaiser, to the Princess Marie Alexandra von Baden, daughter of Prince Max von Baden. The former Kaiser strongly opposed the union, as Prince Max was Chancellor of the German Empire In 1918, and made public the Kaiser’s abdication before it had been officially signed, compelling Wilhelm to flee into Holland. THEY'VE BEEN PAIS FOR MANY YEARS Here is "Steve," Jersey City (N. J.) oldest horse, with Andrew florin, his keeper, and "Snookum," his stable mate. “Steve” has just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, and has been with Horin for twenty five years. LOVE FOR MINISTER TURNS TO ASHES. This photograph of Mrs. Elsie Sweetln. of Ina, HI., was taken m her cell at Salem, 111., where she was taken for safe keeping after confessing she murdered her husband, Wllford Sweetln, with arsenic at the same time Rev. Lawrence M. Hight killed his wife by the sams means, so they might be free to love each other. Her love for the pastor-murderer has turned to ashes since she found he was not the superman she deemed him. She divides her time in her cell between reading and weeping. New Drive on Cigaret Memorial to Famed Foe Chicago.—Loaders of the National Antl-Clgarette League are planning a “memorial” to their late president, Lucy Page Gaston, in the form of a strenuous nationwide renewal of their fight against the cigarette. An nouncing the preliminaries of the call to battle, the nation was warned that "If the overwhelming Increase in the use of cigarettes is not Im mediately checked the welfare of the w4iole nation will be seriously Im paired.’’ Vote Against Bobbing Her Six-Fooft Hair L Mrs. James Wire, of Kountze, Tex, has hair six feet long. Sho wanted to know If she should bob it and keep pace with the modern flapper. So a local newspaper canvassed its read ers on the question, and by a vote of six to one it was decided that she should keep her long tresses. Captures English Beauty Contest A beauty contest was held recently at Folkstone, Eng., In which men, married couples, engaged couples and families were awarded prizes in their various classes. Basil Scott was awarded a prize as the most beautiful man entered in the competition. Law of U. S. May Separate Family * Mrs. Ann* Picardl, 17 years old. Is fighting hard to save her hus band, Antonio Plcardl, from de portation on charges that ha Il legally entered the United States by deserting as a seaman. They are living In New York. Charles M- Courtney Is the new commander of the Department of Nebraska, American Legion, and Mrs. C. B. McGlasson, Is the new presi dent of the Nebraska American Le gion Auxiliary. They will be in of fice when Omaha Is host to the na tional convention of the Legion in 1925.