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Jewish author published a novel in which, this terrible story is but thinly veil- ed, tinder the title ',Compul- sion:" -Leopold wishes he had not done so; for;...ittSt,,,yelten he. is working to bring abut his parole the now nearly-forgotten horror story is revived. ""If ; obtain a parole," he says, wistfully, "I have an offer to work with .a church Organize- lion in ,PUeetetRie.e. . My de, sire is to devote the rest of my life to others es further -expia- tion for my crime." This • ani,azing man recently finished-his autobiography,. Of it he saye:. "My book describes my activities, my thoughts: and - my feelings about the world, the prison and my- self." .- That book should be worth. reading, TOUGH TO BEATI—Wilt (The Silf) Chamberlaite ievenefoot Phila- delphian, makes Kansas basketball fans happy by outleaping two Northwestern Univetsity players to grcelo off a rebound. THE END—Grimly humorous is location of this "Dead End" sign on a street beside a cemetery. Indeed, for some it will be "the last stop". Killer Now A Champion Scholar An American View Of Canada's-Policy Canadian foreign policy has established itself in the eyes of the East, West, and neutral worlds as one of refreshing. sanity. In the long era of Liberal gov- ernments and now in the new Conservative administration' a wise policy of inflexible devotion to Western unity has been paired with a flexible attitude toward Communist moves. The last fortnight witnessed a further buttressing of this- double-barreled policy. External Affairs Minister Sid- ney Smith, testifying before a parliamentary committee, stated: "It is not the view of the Cana- dian Government that we should always say 'no' or 'nyet' to a Russian proposal." He professed distress at Washington's seem- ingly automatic rejection of a recent• Soviet proposal for a top- level meeting of the big powers. He believed, he said, that fric- tion between the Soviet Union and the West could be lessened by patient negotiation. Now, this attitude by itself would be classified in some quar- ters as dealing from weakness — admitting that since the Soviets have proved their technological strength the West must sue •for terms. But there can be no question of this when. Mr. Smith says at the same time: "-No one should think of letting down his guard . . .; no prudent man can deny the need for defense insurance ... Coexistence cannot be used as a cover for subversion on the part of the U.S.S.R." Further assurance of this de- termination to maintain Cana! dian strength came from Defense Minister George Pearkes just two days later. He -told the House of Commons that it was absolutely essential to maintain current defense spending as a precaution against a sudden and devasting world war. Mr. Smith said he was urging Canadians to "keep our powder dry and put the hand out." Mr. Pearkes merely showed the other barrel that might. possibly use the powder if Moscow overplayed its position, .e „Washington might well remem- ber the days when it was like- wise urged to speak softly and carry a big stick. — From The Christian. Science Monitor. There was even more excite- ment than usual as the big field lined up for the start of the Cambridgeshire, Eor everyone In the betting world knew that the greatest gambler of all time, Charlie Hannam, was in deep water and had chosen the big handicap as his last despair- ing "get - me - out - of trouble" wager, He owed the ring $180,000. And he had plunged desperately on Gordon Richards' mount, Domaha, to win him $200,000. As they streaked up the straight, three horses forged to the front, flashing past the post together. Domalia was one of them, and with no photo-finish In those days, 1938, a good Many punters thought Gordon's mount had won. But the judge placed him third ;and gave the race to HelIeniqua, - Hannam was finished. He vanished from the racing world forever after a battle with the bookies that had lasted 40 years, ever since, as a humble book- maker himself, he suddenly realized that his lightning-quick brain could make him more money backing horses. His yearly betting turnover was more than $10,000,000. Some- times, for weeks on end, he would gamble $5,000 on every race. "There's no such thing as luck in steady betting so long as a man can judge which race will give him a change and can calculate correctly the odds against him," he said. "Yet Hannam's gambling was not confined to racing," says Meyrick Good in "The Lure of the Turf", a well illustrated and fascinating book covering over 50 years of racing activity. "He loved a game of billiards and thought nothing of backing him- self for $1,500 or $3,000. The more at stake the better he would play. There was one oc- casion when he lost $50,000 on a game of darts in a Liverpool hotel." Meyrick Good nominates the late Joe Owers, of Sutton, as the most astute gambling char- acter he ever met. He had to borrow $500 to get to Monte Carlo for the first time. But after that he went there year after year and never brought back less• than $30,000 with him. He, too, had a wonderful brain for figures and he soon dis- covered a secret that made him thousands. He noticed that the croupier in Trente et Quarante always showed' the last card, after cutting them, before plac- ing it back in the pack. Owers Weiler wagered until the turned up card had been dealt. Then. he memorized the rest of the pack and placed `This bets accordingly.h Unwisely, after a few drinks, he disclosed his secret to a party of Greeks who formed a syndie mite and reaped a rich harvest until the Casino officials dis- .covered the flaw. After that the cut card ceased to be shown. Once Owers was "caught" for $500 by a man. He got his own back, however. He bet him the same sum that he ceuld esti- mate more accurately than. the other the. weight .of a huge sal- mon that was laid out in their hotel for supper. ' He won getting the weight right to within a pound — which was hardly surprising since he had already got the chef to put the fish on the scales for him! Though not much good at golf, he could never resist gambling — and usually losing — thou- sands of dollars at the game. His most freakish match was when 'fie contracted to drink a whisky at every ter It's reported that he reached the fourteenth green, where he had dtiven his ball Into a banker. He went in after it -- and stayed there! "When a jockey wins the Der- by he looks for a present of at least $3,000 or ten per cent of the stakes," says Meyrick Good. Then he cites the case of poor W. Bullock, who won the Turf's Blue Riband, and the Oaks as well, on Signorinetta, in 1909,, for the Chevalier Glielstrelli. All he received from, the grateful owner was a glass of sherry! On the subject of the Epsom classic, the author recalls hew St Arrant won in a raging thun- derstorm, with lightning hashing over the fatnees , PPWee. ."-Pee colt, owned V Mr, Leopold de Rothschild, got away like a bul- let and never faltered until the pest was reached. Most people thought he had won because he was scared, out of his wits by the storm. But his trainer, Alfred Hayhoe, could have refuted that theory, In order that his horse would riot be put off by the storm, he'd taken the precaution before the "off" of stuffing its ears with cotton wooP. His greatest thrill,,says Mer- rick Good, during a career on the Turf lasting sixty years, was when he was asked by the late Lord Derby, in 1921, to go to his private box at Ashtree and "call" the race for a distinguished guest: King George V. The ex- periment was 'such a success he was asked to repeat it three more times. When Master Robertk won, in 1924, the King, who had backed the winner, shook Mr. Good warmly by the hand and told him how much the race had thrilled him. 'King George liked to have an occasioal wager of five or ten pounds," he says. And he acids: "His Majesty believed in moderation in all things, es- pecially in smoking. "Just after Master Robert had passed the ' winning post, the King took out a gold cigarette case . . . I thought he was going to ask me to smoke, but instead he "took a cigarette from the case and broke it in half. One half he put in his holder, the other he put back carefully into his case. And I didn't get my cigarette after all." Meyrick Good, who has seen fifty-eight Derbys, tells in his book many such lively stories of the leading Turf personalities he has known. Nat Leopold and Dick Loeb were the sons of Chicago mil- lionaires. They had everything: vast wealth, good looks, brains, charm. There were no follies marked up against them by the begin- ning of May, 1924. On the con- trary, they were both under- graduates with fine scholastic records. Then' one May morning a car sped through the city and out into the., countryside. Smiling Nat and gay Dick were taking fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks for a nice drive. Or so the boy believed—flat- tered, no doubt, by the apparent friendship of these two older youths. But at eighteen Nat Leopold and. Dick Loeb were already satiated with the good things of life. They lacked, they told one another, the final, the ultimate, thrill; the committing of a per- fect _crime. The smiling, happy fourteen- year-old was their chosen vic- tim. They stopped the car at a lonely spot, battered little Bob- by Franks' head in and thrust his body into a culvert. Then the killers experienced a violent reaction. Not from pity or regret—but fear of the consequences. Was this "the perfect mire der"? Doubt seized them. They panicked. They made all the mistakes of amateurs in crime. The boy's body was found. The chisel which inflicted the fatal blows was found. The perpe- trators of the murder were traced and arrested. Court photographs taken dur- ing the early hearing of their trial show two handsome, im- maculately-dressed youths seat- ed on either side of a sad-faced counsel; Clarence Darrow, the most famous barrister of his' day. Both youths are grinning broadly. The good fairy who had been so lavish with gifts at their birth had apparently omitted to give either of them any sense of decency or justice. Chicago demanded death for both killers. The whole of the United States endorsed that demand. For' a crime so heinous only the electric chair was suf- eiclent penalty. The vast wealth of the. Leop- o14 and Loeb families was mobilized for the defence. But there was no defence, advised Clarence Darrow. Both must plead guilty if he was to han- dle the case. The last chance Was to be his plea in mitigation. Darrow defended many Mur- derers, and made some of the greatest defence speeches in the annals of the American Bap, This was his greatest triumph, for in the faee Of sizelfrig public fury against his clients, he -Saved them froth the eieetrtc chair. Each received instead a ninety, nine-year sentence of imprison rrient. Richard LOA- is now dead, He was murdered in prison by tellOw convicts -in 1936. But 'Nathaniel LeOPOld is still living. He is now fifty two years old, To day, the gilded youth of 1924 1 a tedVe-feeed ethielae., He 'Le short arid stocky. The dark hair is - receding fethei his brow, :eyes are bleat, ,large Reid Itithirietie over the regitlee tektites of the ciliate handsome youth there broods Art eitpreetion of —ttbiclitig gad-, ness butiiig kris great speech: in TRANSPLANTED? — Strongly re- sembling the Eiffel Tower, this new TV station in Tokyo, Ja- pan, s ho w n here in artist's sketch, will be the second high- est structure in the world when it is completed in December, 1958. It Will rise 1,982 feet, almost 100 feet taller than the Paris landmark and second only to New York's Empire S t a to Building, 1,472 feet high. mitigation at ,the trial, Clarence Darrow claimed that, both men would be /it for parole at fifty. By then, 'he told the judge and. jury, both would have become, as it were, new men, no longer a danger to society, redeemed by long years of punishment and the self-searching of their own hearts. • Has ,it gone like that with Nathan Leopold? Recently he applied for parole, and this is what he said: "I can look into my own heart and soul and know positively that I could and would become a useful, de- cent, law-abiding citizen... . . How to prove that to others is another matter." It is improbable that Nathan Leopold will ever be given the opportunity to prove. his worth as a free man. But he has al- ready proved his worth as a man while still serving his sen- tence in Illinois State Peniten- tiary, in Joliet. It is ,a record without parallel in prison history. What Nathan Leopold. has achieved in thirty-three years as a prisoner it is given to few men to achieve in a long life- time of freedom. He has made himself one of the greatest all- round scholars in the world. He "knows thoroughly no few- er than twenty-eight languages, including that ancient Greek in which, as an undergraduate be- fore the crime, he shone above his class, Useless 'knowledge in his posi- tion, you protest? Not at all. With the sanction of, the gov- ernor Leopold set up as prison schoolmaster. Among the pri- soners serving long sentences for every kind of major ghee there are many clever men and some brilliant ones. Leopold offered a course first , of all in ancient Greek, and rapidly his class-room filled with enthusiastic students. One idea led to another. There were other men of learn- ing who also helped by teach- ing. But why courses only for men "inside"? Leopold explain- ed a new idea to the governor, That was in 1933, when Leop- old had been in prison for nine years. The first prison-ren cor- respondence school ever was the outcome. It succeeded from the first, led by Leopold and staff- ed by graduate prisoners as teachers, Strangely enough, examina- tion results showed a higher score for prisoner students than for students working as free men. Sean a "pass" from LeOp- old's jo liet Correspondence School counted for higher edu- cational purposes. Some univer- sities even accepted it, You might think that enough for one man doing a life stretch. But it is only part of the. Leop- old story. He worked for three aiid a half years as a laboratory as- sistant when the director of the lab. Wes seeking the Wee for 'Malaria. He mastered the tech- indelities of that work, He also offered hirriself for guinea-pig experiments. Shifted to the radiological laboratory Leopold studied that science for fourteen years and became a self-made tadielogist 'exPett, Assigned to reorganize the prison library after„ a fire, this astonishing' Mail di the job se thoroughly that he was Made ciistddiati of the, books. Itis probably true to 4k'y that .teopold'haS Wieeked out his own redemption; that to-day,at fifty-two, hi crime has, for hiin WARNING TO EARTHMEN — The Areericari AseeeIatiOri of Motor Vehicle Administrators made a satellite-inspired plea foe Safe driving during the Christmas holidays. The Association peopos,, ed the foul safety maxims, sketched above, in weithirig "earth- Merl otopellintj four-wheeled vehiCles"' that their tars beet- etiOUgh horsepower to "Icitith theni a tareet the heitt World." LAO a Navy "Writhing office in Log Angeles Walked e brisk young man who wanted to enlist. An Official 'asked his "lathe. "Tonsilitis Je.cksotiei e he re- plied, The official didn't believe him. The man insisted that his first taint Was Tonsilitis, He was telling the truth. The' Whole Jacksone family had been named after illeeteee. The man had a sitter heeled' Meningitis, while the first three' names of hit three brothers were` Laryngitis; Appendicitis -and Petie tehitie. - Eatliefe and mothers of 1951 rarely give their Children quaint. tiarhek a registrar.: of 13iiiiislaid recently. But a glatiCe through the "registers, at Somerset Flouter London, will 'reveal hundreds of curious names. Yeti Can find eidditiee— 11 e Noah Ark Smith, Men 'Friday