Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1924, Page 1

' The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper.~ | Che Casper Daily Critume MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1924. EE EE i} The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. ‘Warmer tonight in east and south, portions and in south portion Sun- day. deal tl EDITION Publication Office Tribune Bldg, 216 E. ILUME VIII. NUMBER 188. 15 of Circulation Delivered by Carrier 75 cents a month Member of Audit Bureau : On Streets or at Newstands, 5 conts cond St. MILLIONAIRES’ SONS CONFESS BRI TAX BILL WILL BE | SIGNED, IS BELIEF FOLLIES BEAUTY EXPECTED TO DROP CHARGE AGAINST COMEDIAN FRANK TINNEY L DOUBT. OF ACCEPTANCE. 1S WIPED OUT SAID Deductions on i Paid This Year Now Held Assured. BY DAVID LAWRENCE * (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune) WASHINGTON, May 31. —President Coolidge will sign the tax bill which has been passed by- both houses \of congress. There no long- er is any uncertainty about that. On June 15—when the next payment on taxes is due—every- body will be permitted to deduct. 25 per cent of ‘taxes due. Also all transactions since January 1, of this year will come under the pro- visions of the new law when tax- payers make out their returns ngxt March, The president will accompany the new 'tax bill with a statement point- ing out that the measure is an im- provement over the present law, in that it reduces taxes for all. On the other, hand, to be consistent, the president must express his dis- satisfaction that the bill does not accomplish what the plan of Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon or- iginally proposed. Some features of the new bill he will particularly disapprove, but again Mr. Coolidge will say what he did when he sign- ed the immigration bill, that be- cause there is no way'to disapprove a particular section without vetoing ap entire bill, he must accept the Jax? with the bad. For campaign purposes, too, Mr. Coolidge is obligated to profess gteat satisfaction over the reduc- tion in taxes which the measure grants. Tax revision the out- standing accomplishment of the legislative session this year. The Republican party must be in a posi- tion to claim credit for the revision and that’s why a statement by Mr. Cooildge pouring too much offid water on the new bill would not be politically effective. The Demo- crats are getting ready, anyhow, to claim that the bill is theirs, since its main provisions were redrafted by Senator Simmons and Represen- tative Garner. The Democrats will point out that were it not for them, the tax reduction for the greatest number of citizens would not have been so great. The president, by his statement. will pave the way for further ef- forts to yedy the tax situation and he will be in a position to vote objectionable sections next Decem- ber and {f re-elected, his recom: mendations will carry extra weight. To compute the tax reduction hich becomes effectivé immediate ly, the individual simply subtracts what he has already paid from the sum that should have been due if the’ 25 per cent decrease had been effective last March when Mr, Cool- idge asked congress to enact a joint resobwtion covering 1923 incomes. In either words, if a taxpayer owed the government $1200 in tax or- iginally, the 25 per cent réduction have made his tax bill only But since he has pald a quar- ter of his taxes in March, namely $300, that sum is to be deducted rom the revised tax total of $900. ng a balance of $600 to be paid the three remaining’ periods of e year, On June 15, pay only $200 and on September 15 ‘nother $200 and finally on Decem- ber 15, the last $200. Were it not.for the complications Produced by the belated passage of © 25 per cent reduction, this tax Vill would have been divisible into four installments of 5 each. The politicians are counting con iderably on the fact that this re- duction takes*effect during cam palgn yeas The Republicans per. haps are even more optimistic. They feel that as soon as the tax dill is signed and the country knows its payments this year and xt year aro a cloud of un 1inty will be removed from the » business and economic situa and that, in the case of bud kets for the current year, many in \viduals will find themselves with fourth of their income taxes vir- ally saved to them. This will no doubt, to expenditures of kinds, which should stimulate the whole mercantile world, therefore, he would to be, 1 By ROBERT T. SMALL. (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune.) NEW YORK, May 31.—State friends of Frank Tinney, erstwhile blackface comedian but more re cently appearing in Boys’ Scout cos- tume, came to his defense today, asserting that» his arrest was due to an historical chorus girl falling into the hands of persons seeking a Broadway sensation. The funny man’s friends are inclined to agree with him that in the end Imogene Wilson, the Follies beauty, will not appear as prosecutor. Aceording to the girl's story, the alleged beating she got last Tues- dey at the hands of the humorous man who just can't help playing Pranks, was far from being the first one. Often, she says, he had choked her and punched her before and it just made her Jove him more and more. It really is no new thing in the profession, this idea that to keep a woman's true affection you must give her black eyes as well as an occasional kind word. “Mixing the delivery,” they would call it in baseball. Miss Wilson even today is of the opinion that Frank Tinney “is the sweetest thing that ever lived.” and therefore Broadway can not figure out how she can ever bear to put her “sweetie” Gehind the cruel bars of the work house. The theatrical colony is certain she will relent— if the lawyers will let her. ‘There is a report, howeyer, that the girl is being sought to institute civil Proceedings against ‘Tinney for something: less than a million dol- lars of damage to her epidermis and the nerves thereunder. Frank has been getting “something dike $1,500-a week at the Music Box, but Miss Wilson says herself that he seldom, if ever, had any money. She thinks Mrs. Tinney must have gotten most of the salary. So it is doubtful if a verdict of even so modest a sum of, say $100,000, could be collected even if it could be obtained from an impressionable jury of men. The whole episode is one of the most amusing that New York's Great White Way has ever known. There is very little sympathy for the black and blue chorus giri be cause of her continued professions of love for the married man. Mrs. Tinney apparently is not at all cut up by the affair. She says Frank is just a “naughty boy” and the “poor girl’—perhaps she sald “poor fish"—from the Follies was fool- ish evertto believe any of the things Frank said to her. Mrs. Tinney Cid more or less play- fully throw Frank out of the Tinney Umousine the first day she read about Miss Wilson’s ‘suicide soci- able” when the girl announced she was going away from here because she had quarreled with Frank and sho knew things could never be the same again: Frank had even gone to the extent, Miss Wilson said, of swiping some of her finest and sheerest silk stockings, mere bits of hosiery fluff, and transported them illegally to his legal wife, It was too much. Life could no longer go on. Death, sweet death, was much to be preferred. So while her friends looked on in helpless sorrow, while they playe¢ funeral dirges and while telephone calls had been put in for the police and the undertakers, the beauty of the Follies—the prettiest girl on Broadway—took two iarge sugar pills and waited for the end. The police came and. brought the doctors. The undertakers followed with eager eyes. The doctors laugh- ed, the police scowled and the un- dertakers groaned in Cismay and disappointment, Mra, Tinney read all of this while Frank sat by her side. It was too mach, “Out you go,” she said. “Nix, nix,” smiled Frank. But cut he went, just the same. when a blue coat was hailed by the irate wife. Frank has an undeniablo way with women, however, for a tele- phone message brought wifey back to his arms. Miss Wilson's telephone bel! has been a ringing marathon the last 24 hours and Frank, of the honey voice, has been at the cther end of the. line, but at last reports Imo- gene was stil! obdurate. In her obduration, nevertheless, she was telling her friends all about her life with Frank and saying that no one in all the world knew him, knew his great worth, his bignens of heart, his sweetness of soul, as she knew all these “swell” traits. Sobbingly, the girl told of how Frank one day helpe(i out a poor old stage doorkeeper who had lost his wife and needed fifty dollars to bury her. Frank was touched by the old man’s plea. But he didn't have a nickel. Imogene says what did he do? “Well, you'll never believe it, but Frank's credit was fairly good. He borrowed two bits from a stage han¢. and gct inot a crap game. He never stopped shooting until his pile (Continued on Page Three) BURLINGTON TO SPEED UPTIME OF PASSENGER Hour’s Time Is Clipped From Running Time OF No. 29. Under a new schedule*which goes into effect tomorrow morning, one hour and five minutes will be clipped from the running time between Denver and Billings of Burlington Passenger train No. 29. This train will leave Denver on its former scheduled time of 6 p- m, and arrive in Casper at 6:50 a. m., leaving at 7:10 a. n. Under the old schedule it arrived here at 7:10'a. m. In prepa- ration for the heavy tourist travel expected this train will soon’ carry an observation car. At Billings it will make direct connections with Burlington and North Pacific trafns, both east and west, arriving there at 6:55 p. m. Another change in Burlington schedules makes it possible to leave Chicago at 10:30 a. m. on No. 9, make direct, connections at Omaha and, arrive in Casper at 9:55 p. m. the next night, (dur0>) 412098157 =) rE Showing the spot where the body of Robert Franks, 13-year-old Chi- cago boy, was found. Detectives are studying it for clues, ene of which the finding of spectacles, results in the arrest and confession of two millionaires’ sons who are held for the kidnaping and murder. Jacob Franks, millianaire father of slain boy is shown in inset. ATTENDANCE AT RED CROSS MEETING SHOULD BE LARGE M. A. Becklinger, secretary of the local chapter, American Red Cross, in issuing the call for the annual meeting of the chapter tonight, urges all members to attend to vote for the directors for the ensuing year. The meeting 1s scheduled for 7 o’cldck at the Townsend Hotel and the business of the meeting can be transacted in a very short time, leaving those in attendance free for other evening engagements. Svery person contributing to the Red Cross Roll Call last fall is en- titled toa vote. Eight directors are to be elected. JAP PROTEST IS DELIVERED MAN AND WIFE HELD FOR GRFE FIGHTING Albert L. Landers and his wife Myrtle Landers were arrested last night at the Hong Kong c: fighting. Both persons are ss have been drunk. When Mrs. Lan- ders was put in the woman's quart- ers at the city jail she tore up two mattresses and removed all wall decorations, BANDITS MAKE $20,000 HAUL KANSAS CITY, Kans., May 31.— Three bandits today held up Joseph N. Altringer, cashier and Avery R. Kier, paying teller of the Argentine State bank here and robbed them of $20,000 in $10 and $20 bills. The bank officials were taking the money in an automobile to pay off workers in the Argentine industrial district. pee NYE Pe LATE SPORTS \ CHICAGO, May 31.—Prep track men of the country clash today in the finals and championship rounds of the twentieth annual inter- scholastic track and field meet at Stagg Field. Duo to a congestion of events and the entry list of more than a thousand, separate races will be run in the 100-yard dash, the 220-yard dash, mile run and relay with individual prizes for the win- ners of each and othets who place in the events. ail Service Trouble Ended Heavy rains, resulting in high wa- ter and sildes, caused the v n raflroad day afternoon west made the Chi Quincy passenger from Billings three arriving in Casper ‘ nd Burlington & train No. 80 hours late in last evening. Both railroad this morning that offices announce all’ the trouble has been eliminated and that trains | port will be on time today, - to annul} The uble Burlington experienced {ts Big Horn canyon rmopolis where mourn in the outh of The jo slifies loose dirt and debris on the tracks. High water between Shoshon! and Riverton necessitated the a nuling of the Northwestern's train yester piled up considerable day. either railroad has had any re- of. any difficulties east of Casper, Secretary Hughes Receives Note Upon ‘Exclusion Today From Hands of Ambassador Hanihara WASHINGTON, May 31.—Ambassador Hanihara, acting on instructions from his government, delivered to Secretary Hughes the protest made by Tokio against the exclusion of the new immigration act. The ambassador called at the state department shortly before noon, and was received at once by Secretary Hughes. Neither he nor the secre- tary, it was said, would have any statement to make, — SUMMARY OF NIGHT NEWS TOKIO—Anti-American | senti- ment, a8 a result Of the Japanese exclusion legislation, 1s growing throughout Japan, PEKING.—China decided to recog- nize Soviet Russia. WASHINGTON.—The formal. re- port on the long inquiry conducted by the ofl committees will be sub- mitted fo the senate next week. LONDON.—The Portuguese avia- tors, attempting a filght from Lis bon to Macao, China, who crashed several weeks ago in a storm in Jodhpur, India, have purchased a new plane and left for China, a dis- patch said, CLEVELAND.—Ralph EB. Wil- ams, Portland, Ore., vice chairman of the Republican national com- mittee arrived for: the Republican national convention. Howell-Barkley Bill Reported To the Senate WASHINGTON, Howell-Barkiey bill, propowing sub stitution of national arbitration boards for the railroad. labor bo: favorably reported today enate interstate commerce May 31.—The the mittee The measure, declared by the Re- publican insurgents in both senate and house to be one of the items upon which action will be sought before adjournment has been vigor- ously opposed by the carriers, com Fair Weather Forecast for Coming Week May 31.— Weather outlook for the week be- ginning Monda Northern Rocky Mountain and Plateau regions, Pacific states: Generally fair and normal temper- atures. Southern Rocky Mountain and plateau’ regions: Generally fair except local rains in the moun- tains; temperature near normal, tesiadets tie eats Bishop’s Case Goes to Board CLEVELAND, May 31.—(By The Associated Press) — The char against Bishop William M. Brown, of uttering doctrines outside that held by the Protestant Iscopal church, was given to the trial board of the house of bishops today. Ar guments of attorneys wound up the proceedings after Bishop Brown had corrected his admission of heresy on direct examination yesterday. Inter preter Is_ Arrested As Embezzler RAMIBE, Wyo., formerly May Tom an interpreter for the Union Pacific, arrested for em: bezzling $500 from the of Harry Karros, of which he was ad- ministrator has ben sentenced from 18 to 36 months in state prison at Rawlins. Ballos managed to escape from a deputy sheriff while being brought from Casper as a fugitive from justice, was rearrested at Shoshon!, and had sawed some bars in his cell when the officer reached that place to bring him back. Other charges were ready to be preferred if Ballos had not been convicted in the Karros case. 4 31 estate President of University to Name Coolidge WASHINGTON, LeRoy Burton, pr versity of Michigan, probably will place President Coolidge in nomina tion at the Republican national con vention lection time friend of understood to have been virtu agreed upon by William M.. But in the charge of Coolidge campaign and his clates. A formal an nouncement js expected before Mr Butler Washington tomors rew for Cleveland. of Dr. Burton, a the president long is ly nt ves 39 BRUTAL CRIME KILLING OF FRANKS IS CLEARED UP Nathan E. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb Admit Kidnaping and Mirder of Chicago Boy; Spectacles Hold Clue CHICAGO, Ills., May 31.—(By The Associated Press). —State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe, after announcing to- day that Nathan E. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, sons of millionaires, had confessed the kidnaping nad slaying of Robert Franks, 14-year-old son of another millionaire, declared they said they had once considered kidnaping a son of Julius Rosenwald, interna tlonally known philanthropist. They planned kidnaping and mur- der for ransom as easily as last No- vember, Mr. Crowe asserted, and until shortly before the kidnaping had not definitely selected a victim. It was a spirit of adventure and a desire to obtairf ransom that mpted them to plan such a crime months ago, the prosecutor said they admitted. Young Leob {s a son of Albert H. Leob, vice president of Sears, Roe: buck and company, of which Mr. Rosenwald is the head. Leopold has admitted typing the letter demanding $10,000 ransom of Jacob Franks, fatner of the victim, Mr. Crowe said.. Leob, he added, first telephoned to the Franks home the night of May 21, after the boy was dead, and told the’ lad’s mother that Robert had been kidnaped but wag safe, Both prisoners have been study- ing law and told apparently frank stories until confronted with dis- crepanctes in their stories after thirty-six hours of. grilling, They finally yielded and began. making admissions but even ‘after making the confessions, Mr. Crowe declared, remained composed. Leopold, he sald, was entirely nonchalant about iit. They admitted they had taken young Franks in an automobile, struck him with a chisel and then thrust a gag in his mouth, strangl- ing him, prosecutor Crowe charged. They shifted the blame upon each other, however, when asked who struck the blow, the state's attor. néy said. Mr. Crowe declared the case would be presented to the new June grand jury, the first case to be placed in the juror’s hands. The stenog: notes of alleged conf he sald ocked up and although he said they might. be 2 public late to he every precau- tion to make the mm plete. It was Leopold's spectacles—the 1 clue in the case—found on near the culvert where y's body was thrust into a railroad culvert, that led to the arrest of Leopold and Leob, Mr. Crowe explained. Today he took the two youths from the criminal courts butlding on a search for the clothing of the boy. The clothing had been con. cealed in one place and the shoes in another, it said. A speedy trial for the two youths was indicated today by Chief Justice verly of the criminal court aking the judicial standpoint, he the were ma day, as taking “This murder {s no different trom any other murder. I shall urge that the caso go to trial as speedily as possible. Within thirty days justice should be served." In connection with Chief Justice Caverly's statement that a speedy trial for the two youths would be recommended, it was recalled that the Illinois statute makes kidnaping for ransom a crime for which capl tal punishment may be Inflicted. The statute + that any convicted of kidnaping for shall “suffer de * or ment by imprisonment in tentiary for life or for not less than flye years The kidnaping statute’ makes {t possible for the prosecutor to place the boys when indicted on trial for two capital crimes. If mur¢ prescribable the kid ransom punish the pent any term not charge still would provide the death penalty Young Loed collapsed in a faint While asleep in his Mike Her and perhaps fatally isin broke was car- men who it and Those rear of terday afternoon. was severely burnea when fire of unknown ao: out in his quarters. He ried out of the room t saw smoke coming from knew that he occupied it who witnessed the blaze thought that tt was the remult of an ev come nclusion in the mat since t an explosion The victim Iter ere was no of the accident His -hajr his head the room he was burned from wag taken to evidence “| was | water burned almost over his entire body. | saved When he was removed from|and 1s used for the’ men, Man Fatally Burned By Fire In House: for The furniture completely although It in the rear of th lestroyed t the building four-room structure tandard pool hall ping quarters b is a when {dentifled today by Mrs. Ger- trude Barish, owner of a cigar store on Wabash avenue near Fourteenth street, as having come there with Leopold on May 22—the day after the killing—and used the telephone. He was rushed to a hospital. CHICAGO, May 31.—Robert ©. Crowe, state's attorney, announced y today that Nathan E. Leopold, » and Richard Loeb, youthful members of wealthy Chicago fa- milies, and both postgraduate stu- dents at a university here, had cons fessed that they kidnapped and mur- dered 14-year-old Robert Frank son of Jacob Franks, retired mil- lonaire pawn-broker and manufac- turer. They sald they planned a kidnapping in great detail last No- vember? both through a spirit of adventure and because they wanted the $10,000 ransom they demanded, said Mr. Crowe. The youths said they determined upon no definite victim, and that the kidnapping and murder of young Franks was mere- ly incidental. The kidnapping was carried out in every detail as planned, tnclud- ing the” viettm's-death, Mr. Crowe said Leopold and? Loeb confessed. He said Leopold admitted writing a letter to the father of the Franks boy demanding $10,000 and thatthe automobile used to spirit away their victim was a rented machine. The finding of the spectaclon near the boy's body provided our only tangible clue,” sald Mr. Crowe. “It wag through them that the kid napping and slaying were traced to young Leopold, The typewriter and clothing slipped from young Franks have not been recovered, said Mr. Crowe, but he expected to have them by this afternoon.” Jacob Fr father of the slain sald it was difficult for him to conceive that the two boys—or any ther human, had kidnapped and killed the lttle fellow. He said he had just slept for the first time hours when awakened and tn- formed of the alleged confessions “It is difficult to understand,” he remarked Relatives of both youthful prison- ers refused to belleve the story of the state's attorney. “That's a le, that boy cannot be gullty,”” said Nathan Leopold, 8r. SOVIET GIVEN RECOGNITION BY CHINESE MOSCOW. Ma sociated — Press) cognized soviet cognition 1s Soviet foreign $1.—(By The A» China has re Russia and the re- unconditional, the office announced today, without giving any detailx as to the manner in which the re cognition was accorded FUNERAL SERMIGES FOR CONDUCTOR GOFF SET FOR GHEYEANE CHEYENNE, Funeral victim of Septe Wyo, M services for ay 31. W. Goff, ne Cole creek wreck last » Whose body was re covered from North Platte ver, near Glenrock, Thursday, will held in Cheye lefin . Guy the nne ements} n WAS6BHINC adopted the erence repert on the agricultural appropriation bill, carrying $61,247,098, Tho house