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BARROW LEADS FI6HT TO SAVE YOiINOJSLAYER Slated to Make Dramatic Plea for McWilliams Before High Court. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 16. The Illinois supreme court gave Russell McWilliams, 17, Rockford, slayer of a street car motorman, his last chance today to escape death by electrocution. Hearings were set on the appeal of the youth’s case. Clarence Darrow, veteran criminal attorney, was in Springfield, ready “to argue all week. If necessary,” against the extremity of the punishment ordered for McWilliams. Darrow arrived here Monday and secluded himself. He had stricken all other engagements from his calendar this week to appear in the McWilliams case as a volunteer. McWilliams is in the state prison at Joliet, in a narrow cell, whose iron cot stands between walls on which hang photographs of his mother and of an unidentified wornman who has been his benefactress. Once before, Darrow pleaded for the youth’s life, but the state board of pardons and parole recommended that McWilliams pay the extreme penalty, and Governor Louis L. Emmerson concurred. Darrow’s chief weapon before the prison board was the argument that McWiliams was too young. Before the supreme court, reversible errors in the trial are cited. Stress also is expected to be laid on the undisputed fact that McWilliams had no robbery motive. He was working steadily and had collected his wages on the Saturday that he drank a bottle of gin and tried to hold up William Sayles, street car motorman. NEW COOLIDGE YARN GOES CAPITAL ROUNDS Cal Hasn't Been Reading Papers Lately, Question Indicates. By United Pruts WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—They’re telling this one now about Calvin Coolidge. Postmaster-General Walter Brown, one of the administration’s inner circle on things political, went to Northampton recently for a conference with the former President. During the conversation, which supposedly dealt with the approaching national campaign, Coolidge interjected casually: “By the way, Mr. Brown, where are the Republican and Democratic parties going to hold their conventions this year?” Chicago, as most every one knows, was chosen by both parties a good while ago. SEEKS TO DISSOLVE MANDATE PETITION Probate Judge Chambers Fights Will Case Action. Motion to dissolve a petition for a writ of mandate seeking a change of venue in the will case of Mrs. Ida McClintock, was filed before the state supreme court today by attorneys for Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers. Chambers filed the petition after Margaret Hannahan, legatee in the estate, sought to remove Chambers from jurisdiction by transferring the case to an adjoining county court. Chambers previously denied the petition after placing the estate in the hands of the Union Trust Company as special administrator and George Buskirk, administrator. Chambers’ motion today avers the supreme court is without jurisdiction to act on the probate court ruling. WIZARD AT ARITHMETIC Polish Calculator Reaches U. S. for Demonstrations. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Dr. Salli Finkelstein, Warsaw’s lightning calculator who claims to have displaced a score of men and adding machines on one job, plans to demonstrate at Yale, Harvard and California universities, he said here. The Polish mathematician arrived in New York Monday.

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BORAH'S BOOST LED HOOVER TO NAMECARDOZO Convinces President That Nation Needs New York Man on High Bench. BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Although President Herbert Hoover sought the advice of all factions in the senate before appointing Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo to the supreme court, it was learned today that Senator William E. Borah of Idaho had a large part in convincing the President that the New York jurist should be named. After conferring with Majority Leader James E. Watson of Indiana and Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania, both of whom said Cardozo’s nomination would be emiently satisfactory, Hoover called Borah to the White House late Sunday evening. Borah Called In The President previously had expressed his recognition of Cardozo’s ability, but he feared that nomination of a third New Yorker might raise objections in the senate. The President’s choice Sunday had narrowed to Senators Thomas F. Walsh (Dem., Mont.) and Joseph T. Robinson (Dem., Ark.), Newton D. Baker of Ohio, Cardozo, Judge William S. Kenyon of lowa, Judge Orie L. Phillips of New Mexico and Judge James of California. The first four are Democrats and the last three Republicans. Borah, however, told Hoover that a man of Cardozo’s ability transcended geographical and political lines, and that such objections could hold against him no more than they could have held against John Marshall. Expect Early Confirmation Chief Justice Hughes of New York, the senator continued, was a nation-wide character, while Justice Harlan Stone, the other New York man on the bench, was satisfactory to all sections. “The people of Idaho,” Borah is reported to have said, “would prefer to have their laws interpreted by a Cardozo to any man from their own state. Prompt confirmation of the nomination is expected, as no opposition has been voiced from any senatorial group. REED LANDIS INJURED Nose Dives Down Capitol Steps, Fractures Both Ankles. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 16. Major Reed Landis, World war flying ace and chairman of the Illinois Aeronautics Association, nose dived down a flight of slippery stairs at the state capitol building Monday. He cracked up one floor down with both ankles fractured. Major Landis is the son of Kenesaw M. Landis, baseball commissioner. NEGRO HELD AS KILLER Charles Jones Slashed Mother-in-Law in Family Row, Police Charge. Mrs. Margaret Caldwell, 68, Negro, 1337 South Pershing avenue, is dead today and her son-in-law, Charles Jones, 33, Negro, 1339 Pershing avenue, is held on a first degree murder charge. She was slashed on the left side of the neck. The victim is said to have intervened when Jones quarreled with his wife.

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