The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 1

\ WEATHER FORECASTS For Bismarck and Vicinity: Un- settled tonight, probably rain. _ESTABLISHED 1873 CK TRIBUNE. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE @ 1924 FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS | POSTAL SALARY BILL VETOED TODAY I SS) FRI IP PSDP DP PPP LPP ALAA RR DPD DPD TAILOR WOULD BE HUNG FOR LEOPOLD, LOE Milwaukee Man Writes Chi- cago Police Explaining His Conditions —_, ASKS ONE Would Have Heirs Provided For—All Blame Is Placed Upon Leopold MILLION Chicago, June 7—A letter purport- ing to have been written by. Curt Geissler of Milwaukee, Wis., and offering to substitute himself on the gallows for Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, confessed kidnapers am. ‘slayers of Robert Franks, if his heirs were giver. $1,000,000, was re- ceived by Morgan Collins, tendent of police, today. It read: 2 “Chief of Police, Chicago: “I have been reading about the two boys, Loeb and Leopold, and the wealth of their parents, and I have come to the conclusion that in case of their conviction I am willing to take the place of one of the boys in case they are to be hung., “If this can be Jegally arranged and the parents of one of the boys are willing to pay my heirs $1,000,000 then I am ready to be hung any time the law is ready to call me, as there is no glory in life ahead of me. “Lam a tail years old, well, strong, honest and a good citizen. I have worked since I was 12 years old end never ha d no one. The only. crime I e ommitted was work- ing hard all my life. “Respectfully, Curt Geissler, 647 West 19th St., Milwaukee, Wis, S.—I am enclosing ny picture Kindly inform pa- Pp * for identification, rents of boys.” ADMITS LETTER A Milwaukee, Wis., June 7—Curt sler, 1 Milwauker tailor, said by Chicago pelice to have written them offering to substitute himself on the gallows jor one of the stayers of Robert Franks if his heirs were given “$1,000,000, When found at a local -tailor shop, admitted he had written the letter referred to. He refused, however, to comment on the incident but offered to explain in detail at LOEB SHIF1 Chicago, June 7 —All the blame for the murder of Rebert Franks is placed upon Nathan Leonold, Jr., by his former chum, Richard Loeb, in a confession made by the ltter to States Attorney \Crowe a week ago and made public here today. “I want to say that I offer no ex- cuse, if it was not for the sugges- tion and stimulus of Leopold the crime would not have been commit- ted,” Loeb said, in ending his con- fession. Loeb, in his confession, says that the “plan” was broached’ by Leo- pold, as a means of excitement and adventure, and to ‘obtain money. Loeb said he dictated the ransom letter and that Leopold typed it. He said that all the notes and telephone messages had been made in the rough draft several days before, so there would be no mistake in the plan. 5 DENY “BATTLE OF MILLIONS” Chicago, June 7.—Their millions will not be used to save Nathan Leo- pold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, confess- ed slayers of Robert Franks, from the gallows, a joint statement is- sued last night by the fathers of the accused youths, both Chicago mil- Nionaires, said. “Only such .defense as that to which every human being is en- titled will be provided for. their sons,” the statement said. “Assum- ing that the facts in this‘case are substantially as published, then tHe only proceeding they favor is a simple, solemn investigation under the law, touching the mental respon- \ sibility of their accused sons,” ‘ There will be no legal counsel outBide the attorneys now represent- ing the accused, with one, possible exception, the statement said,. and no large sums- will be spent for either legal or medical talent and “in no event will the families of the accused boys use moyey in any attempt to defeat justice.” The statement was signed by Na- than F. Leopold, Sr., wealthy box manufacturer, and Albert H, Loeb, vice-president of Sears Roebuck & Co. MILLERAND MAY RESIGN Indications Are French Pres- ident Will Quit (By the A. P.) Paris, June 7—Observers in par- liamentary circles today expressed the opinion that President Miller- and was preparing an early resigna- * 8 tion, -ag HE appeared to have finish- ed his consultations and now is gé- ing oyer the political situation with the members of his official house- hold. LEOPOLD AND LOEB _KNEW DISCIPLINE FRO Young Loeb Counted Geni From Earliest Years; Both Boys Facing Murder Were Remarkable Students, Win- ning Honors Without T ing By George Britt NEA Service Writer Chicago, June 7- “Until I was 8 ars old they drilled conscience in- to me, After I was 8 i tried to drill conscience out of me.” This is the autobiography a N than F, Leopold Ir., 19-year-old con- fessed slayer with Richard A. Loeb of little Robert Franks. “Babe” Leopold, the youngest and most promising child in the home of a wealthy ship owner and manu turer, was, from his first counted a genius. Parents vants bent to the assignmen helping him realize the pron becoming an honor to the name By the time he was 6 he was read ing away past the narsery type of literature and had en up the outstandingly good and decent interest of his life study of bird At 10, his collection ran into scores of specimens gathered and by himself. He collected butterfiies too, and in both fields his inter: was that of the mature scientist ra- ther than the curious boy. Authorities wrote to ask his opin- ion while-he still was wei short trousers, He was unusually sbeinnty leaping forward two or three grades a year. And his conduct was con- ventional enough then to avoid: trips to the principal's office for ¢ pline. Always Scoffer But Nathan Leopold always was aloofly superior a seoffer rather than a mixer. He not athletic. He was not early interested in girl He preferred to read voraciously in books beyond his years or to tramp the dunes and wéodlands stalking birds. He entered the University of Chi- vago at 15 and was graduated at 18. He was a shark on languages and science, a Phi Beta Kappa without trying, but not recognized as a good fellow. Susan Lurie, student friend, who is expected to he ealled to disprove any~ insanity defense, describes Leo- pold as always a bit “ritzy.” But she insists “Babe” Leopold had something to be “ritzy” about. “He is of a superior inteHect, his brain works fast, He was good compan too,” she explains, “and a_ lovely dancer. “Up until two weeks ago he was the kind of man any girl would be proud to have dropping in for tea.’ In the spring of 1922, young Leo- pold accomplished the distinguished scientific achievement of filming the rare Kirtland warbler in a nor- thern Michigan forest. He later lectured on that feat before the rhyme | American Ornithological Union in Boston and wrote upon it for scien- tifie magazines. With two others he wrote a book on the migratory habits of 237 birds in the Great Lgkes region. “Babe” Leopold always ha about as he pleased. Disicipline never was successful with him. Even in his infancy he would stamp a tiny foot and shout defiance to cor- rection of his imperious will. Loeb Spoiled Child, Too Two years ago his mother died and the boy was left even without that restraint, living ‘with his busy father and brother in a servant-fill- ed house with lavish spending and sundry automobiles. “Dickie” Loeb, the other slayer, was like Leopold in superiority of intellect, wealth and family position, but in temperament he was winsome and sunny, where his companion was cynical. He is slightly younger —just turned 18, when he graduat- ed from the University of Michigan @ year ago, When only 12 he was permitted to, leave the nursery table at home and eat with the rest of the family—a privilege withheld two years longer from the older children. He was the fondest hope. “Dickie” was a delicate child. His amusement was reading rather than outdoor sports. During the war he gave up all his spending money to send to French children. A year or two later he started going with girls to keep pace with the older boys in whose classes hé studied. The two for years have been pals, and for the past year they were in- separable. At the same time, Loeb kept up his fraternity associations, and his loyal brothers still say there x no better fraternity man in the apter. done Neighbors Worried Over “Wildness” The neighbors for two years and more have been shaking their heads | over the wildness of the two youths. They have been out at all hours with girls of all sorts and usually with liquor aplenty. There’s a sight to make even a stranger's heart ache, for Leopold and Loeb are as fine looking types of college boys as one could Bek, Leopold, short, gray-eyed, holding his head high with a sneering smile. Loeb, a bit larger, with brown eyes, more rounded features and the mel- ancholy of a lifetime in his bearing. The grandfathers of each left Ger- many in 1848, fleeing the gallows for honorable strife fér liberty. And again the names are in the shadow of the gallows—this time for what? Murder. | the train pulled out “PAMPERED GENIUSES” NEVER EARLIEST YEARS, SAYS WRITER THE PRODIGIES ‘Ten months ago the ornithological world was paying unstinted tri- hute to Nathan Leopold Jr. today held for the murder of Robert Franks. Never before had the Kirtland, But Lcopold succeeded turca. The. rarest of Ame Mom ven ate fre his h cf the m the Michi nds. or Jack pine warbler, been phote doing it, obtaining both still and moving picy song birds, which for years had“fled from conservat ion department took at the time. raphed. This photograph is an enlargement snews Nathan in the act of feeding a warbler, “I hav. than ‘Dick’ took this Loeb,” says never known a young a man of finer appearance and manners Thomas Davern, ure a few months ago in the Loch home. Chicago photographer, who “If he is guilty of the crime charged to him, there is no doubt but what he is insane.” MINE BLAST KILLS MANY Number of Dead Is Placed Between Eight and 15 Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 7—The num- ber of dead as a result of the gas plosion yesterday in the Loomis colliery of the Glenn-Alden Coal Company at Hanover township, was still undetermined early today. Es- timates varied from eight to 15, and it id a recheck of the 41 men working in the colliery at the time would be necessary to determine the exact number of fatal LET CONTRACT FOR BRIDGE The board of count commissioners has awarded contracts for construct- ing a conerete bridge in Trygg town- skip, over Apple Creek, at a cost of about $1,900, and a concrete cul- | vert between Naughton and Frances townships, at a cost of $1,003, both contracts going to C. V. Anderson of Baldwin, The commissioners tendered the American Legion use of the court room in handling bonus applications. were named. FLYNN TO BE AT CONVENTION ident of the Great North- Railroad and Ninth district governor of the Rotary clubs, will the chief speaker at the state convention of the Catholic Order of Yoresters to be held in Mandan, June 10 and 11. Mr. Flynn, former- ; of Devils Lake, is the grand chief renger of the order in North Da- kota. A class ef 30 a be initiated at the sion held the first night of the con- vention. ern be TELLS CABINET TO REMAIN Tokio, June 7.—The command of Prince Regent Hirochito that the Kiyouro cabinet remain in office un- til relieved was received by the pre- mier tonight. Members of the cabinet expressed the opinion that it would be sev- eral days before their successors The cabinet’s res nation was presented at 4 p. m. day. to- COMPANY “A” ENTRAINS FOR CAMP: GET TWO WEEKS INTENSIVE TRAINING Company “A”, North Dakota Nat- icnal Guard, got away to the annual encamptmént today with the larg- est number of men leaving Bis- marek for a guard camp since the World’ War, acording to the an- nouncement of officers of the com- peny as the men were preparing to board -the special train which took them toward Devils Lake. There were 39 regular members and 23 reserves, a total of 62 men, to whom last instructions were issu- ed last night, in addition to three efficers. The guardsmen ate an early break- fast—the bugle sounded for them at 6 a. m., today, and about 7:30 bearing the. | vw local company and the Dickinson guardsmen off for camp. At James- town the boys were to join a special train carrying several companies and proceed to Camp Grafton for the en- pment which ends June 20, but hich is to be followed by a four- day rifle shoot for expert riflemen. Capt. H. A. Brocopp, in charge of the Company “A”, declared that the nen were in for two weeks. of in- tensive training under the direction, of Regular Army officers at Camp Grafton. Another Bismarck unit, the quartermaster detachment, left earlier in the week by truck for the camp. More than 1,200 guardsmen are expected to receive training at the camp. * It SHOWERS OVER WIDE AREA AID CROPS IN WEST Showers Reported wuth of Bismarck Last rht on Soo Line RAINS | Heavy ALSO NORTH Scattered Showers Many Places Throughout Western N. D. Scattered showers ha e covered a rea of western North Dakota in the lust three da large A good rain was reported Soo line officials from Bi It was still rs Wishek to Pollock, South this today to Hankinson, marek ning from Da- kota, to telegraphic advices to the railroad. was a light rain in the Par- shal-Van Hook area on the north end of the Missouri River division of the nd advices about 11 a, m. to- it was starting to rain again. There was no rain reported between Sanish’ and Bismarck, ex- cept good showers at Baldwin and Wilton, The the morning, according weather ‘bureau reported for 24 hours ending at 7 a. m. to- showed precipitations as fol- Bismarek .05; Ellendale 0. Napoleon .20; Williston .01. Sheriff Hedstrom reported after a trip north yesterday that there had been a good rain from Wilton to cast a couple of days ago. The weather bureau received private ad- |vices of a downpour from Dawson south to around Napoleon two days ago, and scattered, but heavy show- ers have been reported in other lo- calities in Burleigh county. North- stof here, in a limited a’ \there was a near cloudburst two days ag Reports from west of the ri to the effect that there hav scattered showers in several i Uies the latter half of this week. | The weather bureau report indica- }tey probably rain tonight. The low- jest temperature reported last night in, Bismarck wasi7abowe, ‘ROBBERS BLOW MAKOTI BANK; LOOT IS SMALL Fail to Get Into Interior of Vault, and Secure But About $100 erare been coun- _,Minot, N. D., June 7.—The southwest of Minot, eariy this ng was robbed of about $150 in cash, $100,000 in pro- missory notes and an under- termined amount of valuables contained — in safe-deposit boxes, according to a telephone message to the Minot Daily News this afternoon. The notes are non-negotiable. The loss of currency and the loss ot valuables irom the safety deposit boxes said to have been fully covered by insur- ance. A resident of Makoti, re- turning to that city from the south about 3:30 o'clock today, met_a sedan automobile con- taining party of men going at . a high rate of speed and this machine is believed to have been the bandit car. Robbers blew the safe in the First National Bank of Makoti about 2:30 a. m. today, but only got through the first vault, getting away without $100 in silver, according to a dispatch to The Bismarck Tribune, They cut all telephone and telegraph wires and made a clean getaway. Makoti is in Ward county. Thursday night robbers broke into the Soo line depot at Wabek, North Dakota, a short distance from Makoti, obtained some small change, and opened a trunk in the ap dreignt house. ANOTHER N.D.: BANK OPENED First State of Hastings Re- sumes Business ——* Minneapolis, June 7.—The sixth bank to be reopened in North Da- kota through assistance of the- Ag- ricultural Credit Corporation, Min- neapolis, was reopened today when the -First State Bank of Hastings, Barnes county, resumed business. The bank closed last fall because of “frozen assets” and low reserve. The Credit Corporation aided in re- organization and loaned money di- rect to the stockholders. The bank has a capital of $15,000 and ‘deposits of $175,000. A. Eggen is. president and 0. T. Olson is cashier, Strike |¢ CONGRESS GOES AT HIGH SPEED IN LAST HOURS Reclamation Measure One of Principal Tasks as Time For Adjournment Nears FARM RELIEF MEA RE, orbeck Enough Votes Emergency ator Predicts | to Measure Pass TANGLE DEVELOPS Washington, — June '7.—A tangle developed in Congress over a proposal looking to reduction ‘of — railroad freight rates on Agricultural products, with refusal by the Senate to accept the Hoch re- solution passed by the House, designed to carry out this purpose, With only a few hours re- maining before adjournment, the Senate asked that con- ferees be appointed to smooth out differences between the Smith resolution, which it adopted, and the Hoch | sub- stitute. FARM PLAN FAILS, Washington, June 7.—(By the A. P.)—Congress yung down the stretch of its six months ssion today with some of its pet measures | ing ground in the race a, time. As the hour fixed for to- night's adjournment approach- ed, it appeared that the last stand of the farm bloc fo agricultural relief legislation was doomed to failure. MEASURE PASSED Washington, June 7—The Sen- ate today passed the House bill requiring railroads to install safety appliances on all locomo- tives. Washington, June 7 (By the A. P.)—Congress. was called--an hour earlier than usual today for the final drive toward sine die adjournment, set by resolution for 7 night. Disposal of the reclamation mea- sure embodying recommendations need by the finding com- ion of the Interior Department the principal task on the pro- of both chambers. ‘The pro- 1 was attached by the Senate as der to the deficiency bill which vas ordered into conference yester- day and action was held up in the House pending decision by confer- ees whether to recommend accept- as an amendment by that mem- o'clock to- Farm Measure Farm bloc members also were ready to make a last effort to get action on a relief measure, having centered yesterday on the Bursum bill providing a 35 cent export boun- ty on wheat and’ wheat products, which it was estimated would cost about $15,000,000. The bill had been reported by the Agricultural committees of both chambers and Senator Norbeck Re- publican, South Dakota, in announ- cing Ne planned to work for action on it in the Senate today, said enough votes for passage by the House had been assured. The motion of Senator La¥ollette, Republican, Wisconsin, for discharge of the committee on audit and con- trol from further consideration cf his resolution for continuing inves- tigation during the recess, of cam- paign contributions and expendi- tures also held privileged status to-, day, with considerable opposition in- dicated on the ground that its dis- (Continuea on page 3) LAFOLLETTE PETITIONS OUT Senator Asked to be a Candi- date for Presidency F, A, Vogel of Coleharbor, man- ager of the LaFollette presidential primary “sticker” campaign, has sent out petitions stating that an effort is being made to get one mil- lion signatures to petitions asking Senator Robert M. LaFollette be- a candidate for the Presidency. Vogel designates his organization as “La- Follette for President Committee, North Dakota’ division.” The peti- tions state that “this is a movement to present LaFollette with 1,000,000 signatures from ‘all states of the Union asking that he run for Presi- dent.” LADD NAMED ON COMMITTEE Washington, June 1.—President Cummins today appointed Senator Ladd, North Dakota; Norbeck, South Dakota; Spencer, Missouri; 'Ken- drick, Wyoming, and Adams, Colo- rado, to represent the Senate on the joint committee which will investi- gate Northern Pacific land grants. | Attorney - General Shafer, TEST CROSSING LAW OF The Great appealed to t ther Railroad has supreme court fre the oder of the state sailread com- mission ordering s paraton of rade crossing: on federal high ct No. 83 Des Lacs. ‘The is expected to test the state law xiving the railroad — commission vuthority to order separation — of xiadé crossings. SAYS BUSINESS RULE [8 GIVEN IN INDUSTRIES pro, hea Second Address, Outlin Accomplishments PROGRESS MADE,HESAYS Money “Thawed” Out of North Dakota Bank by Ad- ministration, He Asserts June 7--Attorney- r continuing: his speaking tour, r ed the con- structive. things he said the Nestos administration had accomplished, be- fore an audience here today. Mr. Shafer, who had declared the alleged short-comings of the N League administration were in the mpaign and reviewed them, launched into the record of the pr ent administration in the second part of his address, The Attorney-Gener- al said in part: “Two years State of elected, to Werner Cre which had alr and they persumed and wind up ,the the Home Building oviation, which were in a state ,of hope- less insolven: and disorder, The further advised the closing and dis- posing of the Drake Mill, soon as conditions would seem at all approp- riate. the Legislative Assembly of 1 passed laws providing for the liqu dation of the Werney Creamery, prg- viding for the liquidation’and wind- ing up of the affairs of the Home Building Association, providing for an annual mill levy to be made to meet the payment of the losses incurred by the Home Building ion, and authorizing the Mill tor Association to sell and eee of the Drake Mill. Upon the adoption of these laws, the offic proceeded to execute them as direc ed. The first two named institutions are in the course of liquidation, and in another year their affairs will be closed. the State Board of Equalization levied a tax of $54,000.00 for the purpose of meeting the first installment in the deficit of the Home Building ssociation, The Drake Mill has been closed during the pas winter, and the Board of Manage advertised the same for sale, but to date, has received no bids therefor, In the recall campaign, the Inde- pendents pledged themselves, in ca: of election, to complete the Mill and Elevator at Grand Forks, and to give that institution a full and fair busi- ness trial. Although charged with bad faith when that promise w made, and repeatedly charged with bad faith in respect thereto ever since by the candidates and ne papers of the opposition, the Indi pendents have, nevertheless, proceed- ed steadily, honestly, and in good fuith, to execute that promise, ac- cording to its letter and spi Completing Mill “Finding the Grand Forks Mill and Elevator in only a partial state of construction, and in a condition where it would soon fall to d from the dissolving processes of the elements, the Independents immed- ely after the recall election, re- vived the contracts for the comple- tion of the structure, provided the necessary funds through the sale of bonds to finance such completion, and proceeded rapidly and effectively to a eompletion thereof in the summer of 1922, So successful were they in their efforts to complete it and com- mence operating the Mill, that one (Continued on page 6) go, the Independent ged themselves, if of liquidating the the operations of y been discontinued, to liquidate affairs of —-- 2 Weather Report | For twenty-four hours ending :t noon. Temperature at 7 a. m. . Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday . Lowest last night . Precipit/iion Highest wind velocity . Weather Forecasts For Bismarck and Vicinity: tled tonight, probably rain. partly cloudy, continued cool. For North Dakota: Unsettled to- night, probably rain west and south portions; Sunday partly cloudy, con- tinued cool, ° General Weather Conditions A. well defined low pressute area is centered over Colorado this morn- ing and precipitation occurred at most places on the Missouri Valley, over the northern Rocky Mountain region and in the north Pacific Coast States, The precipitation was heavy in parts of Montana, Light, scatter- ed precipitation occurred in southern and western North Dakota. Cool weather prevails in all sections. Unset- Sunday STATE Consistent with these pledges t! COOLIDGE SAYS COUNTRY CAN'T SUPPORT DRAIN President Decides to Return Measure to Senate Where It Originated WAS ON BILL RIDER Carried Also Cable Provision Regarding Publicity of mpaign Expenditures -—Washington, June 7. — (By the A. P.)—The postal salary increase bill was vetoed by President Coolidge today with the declaration that “govern- ment extravagance must stop.” It was returned to the Sen- ate with a message objecting to the legislation because it made no provision for raising the approximately $68,000 from the postal revenues. Overwhelming majorities have been given the bill in both branches of Congress, the Senate having voted ap- proval of the conference re- port without a dissenting vote cr a roll call, and the House 862 to six. There was serious doubt, however, whether time re- tnained: to attempt repassage over the veto. The President was to return the measure to the Stnate in which it originated before the final adjourn- ment tonight, with a mesage declar- ing that it would impose an un- warranted drain upon the publie treasury, it was announced early in The measure as sent to the Presi- dent yesterday carried as n rider the Lable‘vorrtpr practices bill providing for limitation of expenditures in bi half of senatorial and house cat dates, The pos pay provisions were estimated by proponents of the legislation to entail an expenditure of $68,000,000. Postal clerks, car- riers, inspectors and supervisers and asistant postmasters would receive aises averaging about $300 each, About 25 employes in the Bis- marck postoffice would have been af- fected by the postal salary increaso bill passed by Congress. The measur ard fought during the sesion, finally was given congres- sional approval yesterday. AS it came out of conference, it is understood the bill carried a $300 a ; flat increase for clerks, ca riers, rural mail carriers and others of similar grades in the postal se . The total increase in the Bis- marck postoffice would be in excess of annually. OBJECTS TO. BEING FINED Jamestown Resident Carries $25 Case to High Court John Canham, prominent business man of Jamestown, has lived in his community over 40 years without being charged with violation of law, and he doesn’t intend to be convict- ed of it now, if he can help it, Can- ham has appealed to the supreme ccurt his fine of $25.0@ and costs alleged violation of the state ame laws. _Canham, the record shows, was fined by Judge E. G. McFarland in Jamestown, November 12, 1923, on a charge of running a bird dog dur- ing the prairie chicken season. H. A. Brown, game warden, was wit- ness. i The facts, according to Canham’s attorney, were that he was driving along the road with a dog tied to the running board of the machine. He shot prairie chickens, Unable to find one, he loosed the dog to give it a chance to find a wounded or dead bird, The dog failed. Canham was arrested, The dog, Canham maintains, was a duck retriever, and not a bird dog. He wasn’t violating the law, in his belief, and his attorney, in the brief, declared that Canham, after ing in a community for 40 years, ae not want to be held a law vio~ ator. SHAFER SPEAKS IN SLOPE TOWNS Attorney-General Gebrge Shafer, on a speaking campaign, addressed an audience in Bowman last night and spoke at Rhame this afternoon. He will at Amidon tonight, Belfield gfd Sentinel Butte Monday afternoon and night, and will:invade Dunn county, the home of his op- Ponent for the Republican nomina- tion for Attorney-General, later.